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letters Has xpress lost its way? I understand the Mountain Xpress is censoring Nelda Holder because she did not avoid a conflict of interest [see avl.mx/u6 for the story]. Holder was arrested for protesting injustice. Since when is it a conflict of interest to oppose injustice? This is too much. We live at a time when our country’s constitutional protections are being weakened and dissolved, one by one. Here in North Carolina, we have elected representatives who openly disregard their constituents, having been bankrolled for their perfidy with money and privileges. In spite of this powerful steamroller that assaults the voting public, a few staunch citizens stand up peacefully to give voice to our dismay. By some chicanery of the lawmakers, these citizens are considered law breakers. Adding to the abuse of Holder by the law, our local “independent” newspaper exercises its power to further silence her. Kicking folks when they’re down we used to call it. Why silence the victim and allow the perpetrators’ voices to be heard? We who enjoy the Mountain Xpress expect its writers to offer an alternative to the canned reporting of and by the powerful. Has this local voice for the freedom of the press and the rights of the citizens lost its way? — Norma Warren Asheville
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In the June 12 Food article “To Every Restaurant: Turn, Turn Turn,” Emily Patrick reported the closing of Taqueria Gozalez, a Haywood Road Mexican eatery, grocery and de facto cultural center (one room in the building sold Mexican music on cassette and Spanishlanguage videos and books). “Despite its Haywood Road frontage, Gonzalez had all the charms of a secret spot,” Patrick writes. “There was no menu, and if you didn’t speak Spanish, you ordered by pointing. The tortillas were made to order; the tacos were flavorful; the meals were no-frills but affordable.” Two area restaurants — Asheville Sandwich Company on State Street and Nine Mile in Montford — have stakes in the now-vacant space, although details on the two new ventures aren’t available yet. Fans of Asheville Sandwich Co. and Nine Mile applauded the news of possible sibling locations. Many readers lamented the departed taqueria as emblematic of broader gentrification. Others were less sympathetic. What do you think of the changes on Haywood Road? Are new developments leaving anyone out? Check out the original story at avl.mx/ui, and let us know what you think. — Jaye Bartell
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via mountainx.com Gonzalez is a real cultural loss. If this was due to increasing rents, then we must all pause. We can easily drive out good local biz and diversity that way. — Roger Hartley With all due respect, this reporting misses the mark. The story here is that a long time familyowned business catering to an underserved community is being pushed out to make space for two restaurants serving different populations. Gentrification sucks, especially when glossed over :( — Yeppers I spoke with the owner of Taqueria Gonzalez last weekend and she said that they’re looking for another space to rent. The landlords did indeed tell her that they want to renovate the space and raise the rent. She didn’t say one bad thing about the landlords and said lots of wonderful things about her customers. There will be an announcement in La Voz when she finds a new space for her taqueria. I hope Xpress keeps up with their move! Taqueria Gonzalez was an established business with a loyal customer base in the Spanish-speaking and
English-speaking community. Their food was amazing and it was all made on-site. I hope they find a new spot soon! — lostIn No sympathy here. If you did not speak Spanish, you did not know what (or how) to order there. A couple of new and improved eateries will only improve West Asheville. — Big Al Again, with all due respect, it’s not just West Asheville experiencing urban renewal and change. The South Slope downtown and the River Arts District are seeing major changes as well. I never patronized Gonzalez, but I will certainly dine at Nine Mile and Asheville Sandwich. — Avlfoodie The South Slope is a different situation — virtually deserted except for Green Man, The Prospect, French Broad Chocolate Factory and Asheville Hardware. — indy499 Back in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, West Asheville was commonly referred to as “Little Mexico.” West Asheville had low-cost housing and a small, but thriving community of Hispanic denizens. ... There were several tiendas
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Xpress responds After I wrote about Taqueria Gonzalez last year, I couldn’t stop telling people about the fresh tortillas and the unassuming tienda setting. Many people responded with surprise that such a place had escaped their notice. Others knew it well, and regarded its fare with quiet reverence. As food writer, I hear a lot of hype. At Taqueria Gonzalez, there was no hype. Just good food — until suddenly, there wasn’t anymore. We’re still working to find out more about what exactly happened, and what’s coming next. — Emily Patrick
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Catch these outstanding performers appearing on the South Terrace of Biltmore House. along Haywood, including the one that housed Taqueria Gonzalez, which was one of the first somewhere around ‘90 or ‘91. The Hispanic community thrived so well in West Asheville that it became the epicenter for Fiesta Latina. Now all those businesses and families are gone. What happened? Well, I think it’s twofold: First the price of housing went up in West Asheville as an influx of young, mostly white, postundergraduates and families moved in looking for cheap housing and a sense of diversity. Rising housing costs forced the mostly low-wage-earning Hispanic families out of West Asheville proper. Now, with their client base drying up, and facing rising rent themselves, from landlords who see how a rundown drugstore could become Sunny Point, or an abandoned gas station could become the Universal Joint, the tiendas had no choice but to close. Now West Asheville may as well be referred to as “Little Park Slope.” It’s a shame when diversity dies because of the economics disguised as “improvements.” Ignorant statements such as “Big Al’s” only highlight the non-empathetic and childish nature of many Americans. Try living or traveling somewhere for an extended period of time where you don’t speak the native language. I bet you’d welcome a small burger joint that only speaks English, or maybe I should say ‘Merican. — Jason Williams
that the Taqueria was given a three-day eviction notice. These guys were an anchor for Haywood Road. It really disturbs me if this turns out to be true. — Marc McCloud
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Behind-the-scenes negotiations over a lawsuit, a push from Raleigh to force district-based elections for Asheville and the fate of a parks-and-recreation bill that could save city government millions — all this and more are revealed in emails between Council members, city staff and North Carolina legislators. Recently obtained by Xpress, the documents show a candid back-and-forth dialogue. “Pay fair market value” for the water system, Asheville City Manager Gary Jackson demanded in one exchange about how to settle the water-system dispute. “There was no diplomacy in this response,” Rep. Chuck McGrady tossed back. Few observers would say there’s any great love lately between the city of Asheville and the local legislative delegation. While disputes have occurred periodically in North Carolina’s long history, representatives of the two entities have warred very publicly since a GOP tide arose in 2011, turning the century-long Democrat majority into a minority. In May, in a sign of heightened disagreements, the city filed suit against Rep. Tim Moffitt-sponsored legislation that would forcibly transfer the water system to a new regional authority run by the Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County. Emails from April to early June show Moffitt and other legislators attempting to negotiate a way out of the lawsuit. The emails indicate that their bargaining chips seem to be a parks-and-recreation merger that could save Asheville millions and a forced switch to district-based elections for Council. For the latter, legislators have a draft bill, ready to go. Rep. Nathan Ramsey tells Xpress that district elections — imposed by state legislators in 2012 — “have worked in my view pretty well in the county.” But in the emails, Council member Marc Hunt dubbed the election proposal unwanted and “patently unfair.”
sHuFFling THe balloT boX On June 3, Rep. Moffitt emailed Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy, asking whether the city would reach an agreement on the water-system lawsuit by the end of that day. “Is it the intent of the City to continue with the legal action against the State and MSD?” He also noted, “Ramsey has been attempting to seek resolution and it seems to no avail. I would like to know by COB tomorrow if a resolution is possible and if not, I need to know that as well.”
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In the next paragraph, Moffitt said, “In regards to district elections and moving City elections to general election cycles — it would require all seats subject to this year’s election to be extended for an additional year. What are your thoughts, since it would apply to you?” In Council’s staggered terms, the mayor’s seat and three regular seats are up for reelection this fall. Moffitt’s district-election bill would postpone that process and keep Bellamy, Gordon smith, Manheimer and Cecil Bothwell in place until 2014. The June email is not the first time Moffitt has raised the long-rumored but rarely discussed district-election idea with Council members. He sent Bellamy a draft bill on April 4. Prepared in March and recently obtained by Xpress, the bill would switch Asheville Council elections from totally at-large to a district system that allocates representation for north, south, west, east and central Asheville, as well as a mayoral and one at-large seat. City officials would draw up the boundaries, subject to state approval. Neither Asheville officials nor residents have requested such a change, though in 2007 Council members voted to switch to partisan elections and a local group, Let Asheville Vote, successfully put a referendum on the ballot to overturn it. Residents soundly voted against the change, so Council elections remain nonpartisan. Buncombe County’s Democrat-controlled Board of Commissioners didn’t call for a new system either, but in 2011, North Carolina legislators mandated that future members be elected according to redrawn state districts that diminished Asheville’s influence. The change is credited with ensuring that the board, long dominated by Democrats, get more Republican representation, and indeed, the current board has three freshmen GOP commissioners. In any case, while the election bill wasn’t filed before the May 16 crossover deadline, Moffitt could add it as an amendment to another bill at any time before the end of the legislative session. In a June 19 phone conversation with Xpress, he said he hasn’t decided how to proceed with the bill yet, but insisted that it’s not connected to the lawsuit or any other legislation.
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baCk anD ForTH On June 5, Rep. Ramsey wrote to city leaders and senior staff that he “spoke with Asheville representative [Jack Cozart, the city’s lobbyist] this morning, looking forward to hear if the city has any desire to settle the case filed against the state.” Later the same day, Jackson replied, “Repeal the law taking city property, state pays fair market value, and structure authority with fair elected representation?” State Rep. McGrady weighed in, writing, “Usually, you’re pretty diplomatic, Gary, but clearly there was no diplomacy in this response.” He continued: “Of course, my perspective from dealing with Asheville over a lot longer time than you’ve been manager is that ‘fair elected representation’ is just another way of saying that Asheville is in charge. If you’re stating the basis for any settlement, please consider your conditions rejected.” McGrady went on to praise the city for its cooperation with a new regional airport authority that added representatives from his county — Henderson — to the board.
Council member Gordon smith took part in the exchange, too, querying Ramsey about the fate of the recreation authority bill. There appears to have been no email reply. However, Ramsey answered Jackson, bringing up the recreation authority and tying it to the water-system debate: “I have discussed with city representatives a financial benefit to the city of $7.5 million via the CRA [the recreation authority] and $1.1 million via the MSD, is that not acceptable? I have discussed with city representatives giving the city half the votes on matters concerning water, is that not acceptable?” Jackson asked whether Ramsey was speaking for himself or his whole delegation. He also requested more information about the process. Ramsey then wrote, “If the city is willing to meet with the delegation, I’d suggest you come to Raleigh … and I will work to set up that meeting.” Moffitt told Xpress that these attempts to resolve the lawsuit were Ramsey’s. He also claimed to be “very comfortable the state will prevail.” In a previous email, dated May 2, McGrady wrote: “I’m not going to oppose the [parks]
legislation, but it puts us in an interesting position. ... We’re being asked to change the law and the result will be that Asheville’s expected fiscal crisis goes away. Having passed this legislation, we then will be sued over the water system. So we could end up giving a windfall to the City and then still have the prospect of controlling water, is that what could happen, Nathan [Ramsey]?” “I have always believed a consolidated parks/ rec system would be positive for our community and for over a decade have believed that water/ sewer consolidation would benefit the City of Asheville, our smaller towns, and Buncombe County,” Ramsey replied.
PoinTs oF view The emails do not explicitly say that the state delegation will hold up the parks authority or force district elections if the water lawsuit doesn’t go away, but Manheimer has told Xpress, “We’re being told to settle the water lawsuit or else. Those appear to be the options on the table.” She explained that in conversations, Ramsey has denied that the recreation authority bill is tied to a water settlement, but “then he’ll proceed to give me a 30-minute lecture about while we should settle the water lawsuit.” But in Ramsey’s view, the email trail shows city officials saying one thing in public — that no settlement is in the cards — but another thing when they discuss terms in private, he told Xpress. “For well over two months, we have been discussing specific proposals to reach a settlement,” Ramsey said. “I’m trying to do the best I can and deal with facts. Until they [the city] can deal with facts, it’s hard to engage in discussions with people.” As for the recreation bill, its fate is in the Senate’s hands, he said. On June 18, after no action by the Senate in the prior month, the recreation bill moved through the State and Local Government Committee, with two important changes: The latest version reduces the city’s representation on the new authority board and declares that no city or town — including Asheville — can join the authority for two years. So Asheville won’t see any savings for some time.
THe unwanTeD bill Regarding the district-election proposal, Bellamy responded a day later to Moffitt’s June 3 demand. “I am one member of Council, and cannot speak for the entire Council,” she wrote. “Among our concerns is that we have yet to see concrete terms for a settlement — only that we drop the lawsuit in exchange for an uncertain promise of inclusion in the Parks Authority bill, which itself provides little certainty as to the revenue that will be generated.” The city has good reasons for continuing the lawsuit, she continued, and if Moffitt truly wanted a settlement, the state should propose one in writing “that is both reasonable and binding.” If he did so, she would bring it before the entire Council, she wrote. On June 5, Moffitt answered, “What do you mean?” Council member Hunt also replied to Moffitt’s initial query, claiming that he’d informally spo-
ken to most of Council, and the district system was a nonstarter. “Legislators that do not represent our citizens initiating dramatic changes to how Asheville elects its Council members is patently unfair and conflicts with fundamental principles of self-governance,” Hunt writes. “It is especially offensive when initiated with no advance publicity as an amendment to a larger bill in quick-turnaround fashion near the end of a legislative session.” He added that in his two years on Council, “not a single city resident beyond yourself has spoken out or approached me advocating a change to districted elections.” In responding to Xpress queries about the emails and negotiations, Ramsey defended district elections, claiming that city officials have known about the proposal for almost six months. But in her May emails with Moffitt, Bellamy claimed that city officials had not received the election bill. He subsequently re-sent the document, emphasizing that it was a “confidential draft.” In any case, Ramsey told Xpress, “District elections have worked in my view pretty well in the county.” Reached by phone on June 19, Moffitt said that he’s heard citizens ask about district elections over the years. “Council is once again trying to politicize something that should be discussed in the community. I do believe that a district or ward system does protect the diversity of a community.” Moffitt also claimed that since elected officials often favor the system that got them into power, “It falls on the state to intercede and do what’s in the best interest of the citizens.” Could the issue be taken to a referendum vote? “We’re not a referendum state,” Moffitt said. But North Carolina law does allow the changing of a city’s charter, including its election system, by referendum, according to the state statutes on local government.
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neXT Move? By the time the early June emails were circulating, the city had already released its public budget, which assumes significant savings from a consolidated recreation authority managed by Buncombe County. Those savings, up to $5 million per year, would allow the city to fund a list of key projects. But with that authority uncertain, Council has scrambled for an alternative plan and is contemplating a property tax hike (see “Budget Brandishing,” June 19 Xpress). Manheimer insisted, “Folks in the legislature are tying together the water system with parks and rec or any bill that might benefit the city.” She added, “There’s clearly not an agreement on their side about what should happen.” Moffitt said that the rec authority is “just one more step in my move to consolidate as much city and county government as possible.” Asked how far that will go, Moffitt replied, “We’ll find out. I’m looking at other areas. ... The whole way our government is set up, from the federal level down to the local level, is structurally unsound.” X
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golden nuggets local conFerence HigHligHts renewable energy economy by Jake Frankel Of the 30 utility-scale solar projects built in the Southeast last year, 21 were in North Carolina. That’s the kind of good news business leaders heard when they gathered June 19 in Asheville to celebrate the successes and discuss the challenges facing the rapidly growing renewable energy industry. The event was the “Clean Energy in the Mountains” conference, which aimed to highlight innovators and spur new partnerships and projects, said Matt Raker, VP of entrepreneurship at AdvantageWest. “Across the state, we’re seeing a great success story on clean energy … even in tough economic times,” he told the 100 or so attendees who met at The Venue downtown. In the last five years, more than 100,000 jobs have been lost in North Carolina, but one positive trend has been the renewable energy sector, which has generated more than 20,000 jobs during that time. According to a recent report by the Sierra Club, “North Carolina is becoming a clean energy powerhouse,” with the solar industry growing fast. Those 21 solar projects give North Carolina more than any other state in the U.S., the report states. What’s more, the national business group, Environmental Entrepreneurs, “ranked [the state] No. 2 for green job creation in 2012, second only to California.” Much of the growth has been aided by the cost of solar panels dropping 60 percent over the last two years, according to the Sierra Club. However, the question before Western North Carolina industry leaders at the Asheville conference was, “How do we build on that success?” noted Raker. Citing rapidly shifting local and global market places as well as outdated state regulations, Ivan Urlaub of the N.C. Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA) reported that “everything’s turning upside down and inside out” in the industry. The uncertain times call for “a very robust conversation” among business leaders, elected officials and consumers, he said. “We’ve got to work together,” Urlaub urged, saying that he hopes conference attendees will be inspired by “these golden nuggets of wisdom that everyone is sharing with each other.” Here are few highlights.
maggie ullman, city oF asHeville Asheville has reduced its carbon emissions by 17 percent in the last five years, said Maggie Ullman, the city’s sustainability program manager and a member of the NCSEA board. Noting such “leadership by example,” she
But what he’s most proud of is the company’s partnership with Green Opportunities, a local organization that trains disadvantaged residents to work in green-collar jobs, Freudenberger said. The company has hired many of the program’s graduates, he said, making a positive impact in the community.
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With the potential to decentralize the power of big traditional utility companies, as well as address climate change, solar panels are an “incredibly powerful technology,” said dave Hollister, cofounder of Sundance Power Systems. The challenge, he said, is to “broaden the bandwidth of people who have access to this technology.” It’s getting easier, as more creative financing opportunities become available for clients, he said, but too many people “don’t realize they can be using this technology.” He praised organizations that install solar panels as “heroes” for “looking at the long-term benefits, not just short-term profits.” That “is what sustainability’s all about,” Hollister said.
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reported that in recent months, staff have replaced 8,000 of the city’s 9,000 street lights with higher efficiency LED bulbs. And the city has committed to replacing 20 percent of the 500,000 gallons of diesel its fleet of vehicles uses with biodiesel. She also maintained that the city “can be a really outstanding partner” with local businesses, citing a collaborative project to open a solar-powered, electric-vehicle charging station. But there’s still room for improvement, especially in regard to the city’s fee structures and incentives, Ullman said. Current incentives — such as the $50 waiver the city offers to residents installing geothermal heat pumps — are not enough to encourage people to switch to energy-efficient systems, she maintained.
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dale Freudenberger, Fls energy FLS Energy is “creating very good sustainable jobs,” said dale Freudenberger, one of the company’s founding partners. Since opening its doors in 2006, the Ashevillebased business has grown rapidly, now employing roughly 60 people. In fact, Inc. Magazine has rated it the fastest growing company in the state for the last two years in a row. In 2012, it brought more than $80 million from outside investors into the state, Freudenberger reported. He also noted that the company strives to be a good corporate neighbor, encouraging volunteerism among staff and matching employee donations to national environmental advocacy group EarthShare, dollar for dollar.
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. views renewable energy technology “from a business standpoint,” said don schjeldahl, local site coordinator for the company. He added, “It makes common sense in terms of profit.” Sierra hired Sundance Power Systems to install more than 2,000 solar panels at its new Mills River brewery; it’s also building a system that reuses 1 million gallons of storm water a year. Construction plans also call for using highefficiency building materials, and making the most of natural lighting at the site. Schjeldahl further reported that “the culture of reusing and efficiency is very well developed at Sierra Nevada,” which has earned accolades for taking environmental steps at its mother facility in Chico, Calif. In fact, WNC’s focus on green technologies played a role in luring the business to decide to invest $107.5 million into its new brewery, he mentioned. “The depth of things happening here in sustainability made an impact,” said Schjeldahl. “It makes it easier for companies like Sierra Nevada to follow sustainable business practices because there’s incredible support.” X Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 115, or jfrankel@mountainx.com.
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will Hack For Food local tecHies and Foodies Join Forces to create altruistic apps
Hack for beef: First-place winners of the June 1 Hackathon display the cooler of beef they received for their mobile app, Farmersfeed.us, which tracks local farmers markets. From left: paul meserve, stephanie osbourn, Jeff lehmer, rebekah david, troy tolle and aaron Hubbard. The group competed against four other teams to create apps that tackle the problem of barriers to food access. photo courtesy of Hack for Food
by racHel winner What happens when you put local tech geeks and food aficionados in an A-B Tech classroom for 12 hours straight? Serious progress. That was the case, at least, when Asheville hosted a Hackathon as part of Code for America’s National Day of Civic Hacking on June 1. Code for America is an organization whose goal is to bring technology and resources together to create open data and modernize government for the 21st century. Part of a nationwide event, the Saturday Hackathon was spearheaded by two members of CfA’s Asheville chapter: GIS Analyst dave Michelson and scott Barnwell, a GIS specialist for the city’s IT department. GIS is short for geographic interpretation system, which entails the analysis of data for use or display, usually through maps. Working closely with fellow “civic hacktivist” and AshevilleBuncombe Food Policy Council representative, david Abernathy, the trio coined the event “Hack for Food,” a friendly contest to create phone apps that would break down access barriers to food and support the FPC’s action plan, recently adopted by Asheville City Council. Contrary to its name, a Hackathon actually has nothing to do with cyber espionage or sending lewd jokes from the principal’s office. Michelson explained to volunteers at A-B Tech
that the term derives from World War II, when soldiers would gather fallen war planes, break them apart with hacksaws and reconstruct them to fly back into the fray. “The idea is that you’re changing the way the government and people interact with Web technology,” says Michelson. “For technology people, there’s not always been a way to give back. … Technology has become such a significant part of people’s lives that now we can actually make a big impact. Cell phones are closing the access gap across all age groups and socioeconomic statuses.” A Friday-night party held at Mojo Coworking downtown was kicked off by a welcome from City Council member Gordon smith, drawing crowds of food activists, GIS experts, beekeepers and representatives from the Food Policy Council and nonprofit sector. Participants had 30 seconds to either discuss an issue or pitch an idea for a phone app. The following morning, four groups formed based on those pitches — with food experts providing the framework around the issues and the IT and mapping experts transforming those ideas into code. One group, Farmersfeed.us, took its idea from the list of suggestions on the Hack for Change website. Troy Tolle, the founder and chief technology officer of the Asheville-based software
company DigitalChalk, explains that their app is “a way for the public to be notified when certain vendors are at different farmers markets,” and has the potential to expand through Facebook, emails and customized notifications. The Text for Food group focused on Asheville’s transportation system in the face of changing bus routes, as well as the emergence of mobile markets to “basically push communication and pull in what it is that the community needs,” says Kathryn Brewer, a GIS manager with the Metropolitan Sewage District. The group created a text-messaging network for coordinators to manage ride requests as well as updates on mobile market routes. Another project called LandLink is “connecting people who want to grow food with available land,” says Noah Wilson, director of grants at Advantage West Whether it’s for subsistence production in an empty backyard or a retiring farmer who wants to sell land to a young buck, LandLink is a simple land-access app based on a similar model out of Portland, Ore., called Farmyard.com. Finally, Team Community Dashboard built a program to let people track the metrics and progress of the Asheville-Buncombe Food Policy Council’s initiatives. It will be a communications tool for politicians and the public. At the end of the 12 hours, each group presented their work to a panel of judges that scored them on a variety of benchmarks. The winning team, Farmersfeed.us, received 32 pounds of Warren Wilson beef and a shout-out from the USDA via Twitter. In second place, Community Dashboard received boxes of organic vegetables donated by New Sprout Farms and third-place winner LandLink members were given a pound of coffee from Counter Culture Coffee. All the groups are eligible to submit their projects to the White House as part of a national showcase in July. “The whole day exceeded everyone’s expectations,” says Barnwell, who is eager to bring
the energy from the event to their next meeting on June 20. Barnwell is particularly interested in developing the Text for Food project, citing it as an important tool for the Asheville community. “Forward momentum [on the projects] will be facilitated by [our group], but depends on continued engagement from the Hackathon volunteers,” he explains. For more information about volunteering, you can visit codeforasheville.org. X Rachel Winner is an Asheville-based freelance writer.
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wHat’s next? The Farmersfeed.us, Community Dashboard and LandLink teams are all working on submitting their projects to the national Hack for Change event to be held at the White House in July. noah wilson and walter venable of LandLink said they are supplementing their submission with infographics, video and a domain to host their work. Polished applications will be sent to the White House for the chance to receive national recognition from political and corporate leaders, and to stand as an example of the power of civic hacking.
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by Jake Frankel In a June 21 speech in Asheville, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin scalia decried judicial activism. The keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Bar Association, he also told the hundreds in attendance that their law degrees do not qualify them to determine the moral values of society. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Scalia is the longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court. He’s also built a reputation as the intellectual anchor of the court’s conservative wing. A self-described “originalist,” he’s advocated for strict interpretation of constitutional principles throughout his career. “I hate the phrase ‘living constitution,’” he told attendees at the Grove Park Inn. He lauded bygone years when “laws used to be seen as static.” For the majority of his 30-minute remarks, Scalia read excerpts from a previously published essay he penned, titled “Mullahs of the West: Judges as Moral Arbiters.” In it, he argues that society’s moral decisions and values of
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“Judges have no greater capacity than the rest of us to determine what’s moral.” — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. photo by Max Cooper what is right and wrong shouldn’t be left to a “judicial aristocracy” of unelected judges. His Harvard law degree doesn’t qualify him to decide if such contentious issues as abortion, the death penalty, assisted suicide or sexual preference are moral for others, he said. On many hard questions facing society, there’s “no scientific right-or-wrong answers,” he maintained. “Lawyers wouldn’t know those answers more than anyone else. Judges have no greater capacity than the rest of us to determine what’s moral.” Instead, he said he prefers decisions and policies to be set by elected officials who are more accountable for their actions to the voters they represent. “The people, unlike the courts, can even compromise on these issues,” he noted. The idea of a “’moderate’ judge doesn’t make sense,” he added, because their job is to strictly interpret the law. “Moderate policy makers make sense.” Although Scalia said he’s “not happy about the intrusion of politics into the [judicial] appointment process,” he said it was “preferable to a judicial aristocracy that goes unchecked.” “Politics is inherently involved in determining human rights and values,” he argued. At the end of his speech, Scalia took a few questions from the audience. One attendee seemed to stump Scalia: Regarding the justice’s criticism of unelected judges making decisions better left to policy makers, the attendee asked Scalia if he thinks elected judges — such as those serving in district and state courts — have more
authority to weigh in on such issues. “I feel better about elected judges deciding moral questions,” he responded. “In one sense, the people get what they deserve.” However, he seemed to be mulling the idea on stage as he spoke, adding: “It’s better than appointed judges doing it, but I still have a fundamental problem with it.” Another attendee asked him if the judicial branch has a responsibility to govern when the legislative and executive branches are too dysfunctional to get anything done. He dismissed the idea, arguing it’s a “very poor excuse to say, ‘Well, if we don’t do it, no one will.’” “I love gridlock,” he added. “The framers loved gridlock. They created a system of gridlock.” Scalia did not offer any hints about major rulings the Supreme Court is expected to hand down soon on affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights. He did, however, reach a verdict on Asheville, pronouncing it a “beautiful” city. This was his second visit to the area, he reported. He also expressed a special affinity for the state, noting that he owns a vacation home on the Outer Banks. X Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 115, or jfrankel@mountainx.com.
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animals asheville humane soCiety 14 Forever Friend Lane. Info: ashevillehumane.org or 761-2001.
• 2nd & 4th FRIDAYS, 11am-3pm - Pet adoptions will be held at Pet Supplies Plus, 1856 Hendersonville Road. brother wolf animal resCue A no-kill organization. Info: www. bwar.org or 505-3440. • WEDNESDAYS, SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, 10am-1pm - Outward Hounds invites the public to take adoptable dogs on local hikes. Meets at BWAR, 31 Glendale Ave. Free. free spay vouChers • The Humane Alliance offers free spay services for female felines. Pick up a Dudley Fund voucher at Humane Alliance, Pet Harmony, BWAR, Friends 2 Ferals or Asheville Humane Society. Info and appointment: humanealliance.org or 2522079. furever friends • SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, 10am5pm - Furever Friends Animal
Rescue Network and Sanctuary will host feline adoptions at Petco, 825 Brevard Road. Info: 398-4943. pet adoption fair • SA (6/29), 9am-5pm - Dogs and cats from Blue Ridge Humane Society and Charlie's Angels Animal Rescue will available for adoption at Blue Ridge Reef and Pet, 102 WNC Shopping Center Drive, Black Mountain. Adoption fees vary. Info: info@project-santa. com, blueridgehumane.org or wncanimalrescue.org. summer bird walk • SU (6/30), 9-11am - A summer bird walk will be offered at the Botanical Gardens of Asheville, 151 W.T. Weaver Blvd. Bring binoculars and a field guide. $15/$10 members. Registration required. Info: bgardens@bellsouth.net or 252-5190.
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(pd.) Inside Chocolate Gems 25 Broadway (Next to Strada) Open every day. Info: (828) 302-1988 or john@jgphoto.com http://www. jgphoto.com Photographs by John Gellman. John lives at the crossroads of eclectic documentary and fine art photography with a dash of rock ‘n roll (Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, George Harrison) thrown in. ameriCan folk art and framinG Oui-Oui Gallery is located at 64 Biltmore Ave. Mon.-Sat., 10am6pm; Sun., noon-5pm. Info: amerifolk.com or 281-2134. • Through WE (6/26) - Farm to Table, painting and pottery on the theme of "growing, preparing and serving the season’s abundant crops." • Through WE (7/17) - Begin to Burn, works by self-taught Southern artists. art at asu Exhibits take place at Appalachian State University's Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, unless otherwise noted. Tues.-Thurs. & Sat., 10am-6pm; Fri., noon-8pm. Donations accepted. Info: tcva.org or 262-7338. • Through SA (8/3) - Victor Ekpuk: Drawing Memories will be on display in Gallery B and Mayer Gallery's West Wing. • Through SA (8/3) - Negotiation of the Secret Society Cloth: An Exploration of Ukara will be on
the art of nature: Haywood County Arts Council will present its new exhibit Nature Inspired with an opening reception on Wednesday, July 3 at Gallery 86 in Waynesville. The group show features works by Dawn Behling (pictured). (pg. 17) display in Gallery A and Mayer Gallery's West Wing. • Through SA (8/3) - The BFA senior studio exhibition will be on display in the Community Gallery's East Wing. art at mars hill ColleGe Weizenblatt Gallery: Mon.-Fri., 9am-5pm. Info: mhc.edu. • Through TH (9/5) - Urban Imagery and Personal Fantasy group photography show. asheville area arts CounCil Gallery 346 Depot St. Tues.-Sat., 11am4pm. Info: ashevillearts.com or 258-0710. • Through FR (6/28) - Western Arts Agencies of North Carolina Traveling Postcard exhibition.
• WE (6/26), 5:30-6:30pm - A Grassroots Art Program subgrant workshop will assist applicants in preparing for competitive grants. New applicants encouraged to attend. • FRIDAYS, 9-11am - Artist business brainstorming sessions will feature one-on-one opportunities for artist entrepreneurs. Free or by donation. Call to confirm dates. asheville art museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Tues.-Sat., 10am5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Programs are free with admission unless otherwise noted. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Info: ashevilleart.org or 253-3227.
• Through SU (9/29) - PLAY, works from the permanent collection, will be on display in the East Wing. • Through SU (9/1) - A Sense of Balance: The Sculpture of Stoney Lamar. asheville bookworks 428 1/2 Haywood Road. Gallery hours: Mon.-Fri., 1-5pm; Sat., 1-4pm. Info: ashevillebookworks. com or 255-8444. • Through SA (6/29) - Homegrown Alphabets, a juried letterpress exhibit. asheville Gallery of art 16 College St. Mon.-Sat., 10am5:30pm; Sun., 1-4pm. Info: www. ashevillegallery-of-art.com or 2515796. • Through SU (6/30) - Artist of the month: John Anderson. Wee Ones
- New Whiskey Paintings, miniature watercolor and ink paintings. blaCk mountain Center for the arts 225 W. State St., Black Mountain. Mon.-Fri., 10am-5pm. Info: BlackMountainArts.org or 6690930. • MO (7/1) through FR (7/26) - The Arts at Black Mountain College, curated in collaboration with Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. blaCk mountain ColleGe museum + arts Center The center is located at 56 Broadway and preserves the legacy of the Black Mountain College. Tues. & Wed., noon-4pm; Thurs.Sat., 11am-5pm. Info: blackmountaincollege.org or 350-8484. • Through WE (8/21) - Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and Collaborative Design. blue spiral 1 38 Biltmore Ave. Mon.-Sat., 10am6pm, and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: bluespiral1.com or 251-0202. • Through TU (7/23) - Along the Trail, works by eight regional artists. A percentage of sales benefit the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. • Through TU (7/23) - Works by Mark Hewitt and Dana Brown. brevard fourth friday • 4th FRIDAYS, 5-9pm - Brevard's Fourth Friday Gallery Walk will feature extended gallery and business hours throughout town. Info: artsofbrevard.org or 884-2787. Castell photoGraphy 2C Wilson Alley. Wed.-Fri., noon6pm; Sat., noon-7pm, or by appointment. Info: castellphotography.com or 255-1188. • Through SA (7/27) - Figures and Space, photography by Eric Baden, Elizabeth Fritts, Roger Ricco and Lauren Semivan. Cradle of forestry events Open daily, 9am-5pm. Route 276, Pisgah National Forest. Admission: $5/children ages 15 and under free. Some programs require an additional fee. Info: cradleofforestry.org or 877-3130. • Through SA (6/29) - Our Spectacular Southern Appalachians nature photography exhibit. dusty roads • Through WE (7/31) - Dusty Roads, photography by Barbara Sammons, will be on display at the Canton Public Library, 11 Pennsylvania Ave. Info: barbarasammons.com or 648-2924. eClipse salon 16 Wall St. Tues.-Fri., 9am-6pm; Sat., 9am-5pm. Info: eclipseasheville.com or 285-0019. • Through SU (6/30) - Paintings by Matthew Zedler. firestorm Cafe & books Located at 48 Commerce St. Free, unless otherwise noted. Info: firestormcafe.com or 255-8115.
• Through SU (6/30) - Political printmaking by local activists and MFA graduates Chelsea Ragan and Adam Void.
• Through WE (7/10) - Works by Juan Benavides, Geza Brunow, Douglas Stewart and Honour Hiers Stewart.
folk art Center MP 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Open daily from 9am-6pm. Info: craftguild.org or 298-7928. • Through SU (6/30) - Works by Norma Bradley (fiber) and Rebecca Kempson (mixed media).
izzy's Coffee den 74 N. Lexington Ave. Info: 2582004. • Through TH (7/4) - Truth and Tangents, mixed media by Gin S. McGill.
folk art Game boards • Through SU (6/30) - An exhibit of hand-painted folk art game boards (checkers and tic-tac-toe) by Francine Menor will be on display at the West Asheville Library, 924 Haywood Road. Info: 250-4750. foundry 92 Charlotte St. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm. Info: digfoundry.com. • Through WE (7/31) - Dive into the Plastiquarium, works by David Edgar. Grand bohemian Gallery Located at the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Biltmore Village, 11 Boston Way. Mon.-Thur., 10am-7pm; Fri.Sat., 10am-8pm; Sun., 10am-5pm. Info: bohemianhotelasheville.com or 505-2949. • Through WE (7/31) - Lush Life: Flora and Fauna, paper paintings by Elizabeth St. Hilaire Nelson. Grovewood Gallery Located at 111 Grovewood Road. April-Dec. Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm & Sun., 11am-5pm. Info: grovewood. com or 253-7651. • Through SU (9/22) - Celebration of Color, group wood sculpture show. haen Gallery 52 Biltmore Ave. Mon., Wed., Thurs. & Fri., 10am-6pm; Tues. & Sat., 11am-6pm; Sun., noon-5pm. Info: thehaengallery.com or 2548577. • Through TH (6/30) - Inward Aspects, works by Steven Seinberg, Marci Crawford Harnden and Tim Anderson. handmade in ameriCa Located at 125 S. Lexington Ave. Info: handmadeinamerica.org or 252-0121. • Through FR (9/13) - Needled: Contemporary Needle Craft. • Through WE (7/10) - Works by Akira Satake will be on display at Beverly-Hanks, 1 Town Square Blvd., Suite 140. haywood County arts CounCil Unless otherwise noted, showings take place at HCAC's Gallery 86, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: haywoodarts.org or 452-0593. • Through SA (6/29) - Appalachia. • WE (7/3) through SA (7/27) Nature Inspired. honour stewart Gallery Grove Arcade, 1 Page Ave. Mon.Sat., 10am-6pm and by appointment. Info: honourstewartgallery. com or 232-4260.
mimi harvey • MO (7/1) through SA (8/31) - A solo show of works by Mimi Harvey will be on display at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road. Info: childrens-art-prints.com. mountain nest Gallery 133 Cherry St., Black Mountain. Open daily. Info: mtnnest.com or 669-0314. • Through SU (7/28) - Thinking Outside the Box, multimedia by campers of Camp Lakey Gap, a summer camp for individuals on the autism spectrum. n.C. arboretum Located at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way. 9am-5pm daily. Info: ncarboretum.org or 665-2492. • Through SU (9/22) - Twenty-First Century Clay, pottery by Matt Jones. on hallowed Ground • MO (7/1) through WE (7/31) - On Hallowed Ground, works by Doreyl Ammons Cain, will be on display at the Historic Jackson County Courthouse, 401 Grindstaff Cove Road, Sylva. Info: 631-4587. pastel exhibition • Through SU (8/18) - The North Carolina Statewide Pastel Exhibition, On Common Ground: Pastel Paintings from the Mountains to the Sea, will be on display at the Hickory Museum of Art, 243 Third Ave. N.E., Hickory. Info: appalachianpastelsociety.org.
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penland sCholarship auCtion • TH (7/4), 8pm - Penland School of Crafts will host silent and live auctions, to benefit its scholarship programs, at 67 Doras Trail, Penland. Free. Info: penland.org or 765-2359. push skate shop & Gallery Located at 25 Patton Ave. Mon.Thurs., 11am-6pm; Fri. & Sat., 11am-7pm; Sun., noon-6pm. Info: pushtoyproject.com or 225-5509. • Through TU (8/13) - Throw Me a Bone, a DIY Foundation skate spot fundraising exhibit. red house studios and Gallery 310 W. State St., Black Mountain. Thurs.-Sun., 11am-6pm. Info: svfalarts.org or 669-0351. • FR (6/28) through MO (7/29) America, a members exhibit. • FR (6/28), 5-7pm - Opening reception.
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6pm and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: sevensistersgallery.com or 669-5107. • Through SU (8/11) - Ceramics and paintings by Denise Riddle. the bender Gallery 12 S. Lexington Ave. Hours: Mon.Sat., 10:30am-5pm; Sun., noon5pm. Info: thebendergallery.com or 505-8341. • Through SA (8/31) - Meditations: What Lies Beneath the Surface. transylvania Community arts CounCil Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 9:30am4:30pm. Info: artsofbrevard.org or 884-2787. • Through WE (7/3) - Transylvania Art Guild summer arts showcase. • FR (6/28), 5-9pm - A reception will be held in conjunction with Brevard's gallery walk. true blue art supply 30 Haywood St. Mon.-Sat., 10am7pm; Sun., noon-5pm. Info: trueblueartsupply.com. • Through SU (6/30) - Works by Adam Strange. upstairs artspaCe 49 S. Trade St., Tryon. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-5pm. Info: upstairsartspace.org or 859-2828. • Through SA (7/13) - A juried exhibition of three-dimensional art. • Through SA (7/13) - Works by the Mountain Sculptors group. weaverville enChanted animal affaire • FR (6/28), 6-8pm - The Weaverville Enchanted Animal Affaire, which highlights arts in Weaverville, will conclude with a gala event and fundraising auction at the Weaverville Community Center at Lake Louise. $10. Info: visitweaverville.com. woolworth walk • Through FR (6/28) - A solo show of works by Ali Douglass will be on display at Woolworth Walk, 25 Haywood St. Info: woolworthwalk. com. zapow! 21 Battery Park, Suite 101. Mon., Wed. & Fri., noon-8pm. Thurs., noon-5:30pm; Sat., 11am-10pm; Sun. 1-6pm. Info: zapow.net or 575-2024. • Through WE (6/26) - Postcards from Asheville exhibit.
art/craFt Fairs asheville art in the park • SATURDAYS through (6/29), 10am-6pm - Asheville Art in the Park will feature regional artists, local food and more. Held in Pack Square Park. Free. Info: ashevilleartinthepark.com. mountain artisans summertime art and Crafts show • SA (6/29) & SU (6/30), 10am5pm - The Mountain Artisans Summertime Art and Crafts Show will feature more than 100 exhibi-
tors offering fine art, woodworking, pottery, paintings and more. Held inside at WCU's Ramsey Center. $4/children under 12 free. Info: mountainartisans.net.
Killarney St., Hendersonville. $50. Info: hendersonvillehpc.org. sChool supply drive • Through FR (7/26) - Hands On Asheville-Buncombe, the volunteer center of United Way, will hold a school supply drive to benefit local elementary and middle school students. Donated items can be dropped off at United Way’s Community Services Center, 50 S. French Broad Ave. Info: handsonasheville.org or 255-0696.
paris of the south flea market • SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, 8am3pm - The Paris of the South Flea Market will feature a "gypsy-style" market including handmade clothes, jewelry, art, food trucks and live music. Held at U.S. 70 at Lytle Cove Road. Free to attend. Info: avl.mx/s5.
shoe drive • SU (6/30), noon-3pm - A shoe drive, to benefit soles4souls, will be held at McCormick Field, 30 Buchanan Place, in advance of the Asheville Tourists game. Donors receive one baseball game ticket for each pair of shoes, sandals or boots. Info: soles4souls.org.
the little flea • SATURDAYS, 3-7pm - The Little Flea will feature produce and "hand-selected fare and wares" behind Grace Baptist Church, 718 Haywood Road. Free to attend. Info: littleflea.org.
the Cantina GivebaCk • Through SU (6/30) - The Cantina Fresh Mex and Tequila Bar, 10 Biltmore Plaza, will donate a portion of proceeds to Children first/ Cis. Restaurant prices vary. Info: childrenfirstbc.org or biltmorevillage.com/cantina.
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anythinG that floats parade • Through TH (8/8) - Registration for RiverLink's Anything That Floats Parade will be accepted through aug. 8. Info: RiverFestAVL.brownpapertickets.com. artful bra ChallenGe • Through SA (6/29) - The Artful Bra Challenge will accept submissions of decorated bras, to benefit Ladies Night Out cancer screenings, through June 29. Info: ashevilleartfulbra.com or 505-8280. asheville Community theatre Located at 35 E. Walnut St. Tickets and info: ashevilletheatre.org or 254-1320. • WE (6/26), 6-8pm - Auditions for Annie Get Your Gun. Bring 16 bars of sheet music.
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the crafts of summer: 100 artisans will share their wares at Mountain Artisans’ summertime art and craft show, held Saturday, June 29 and Sunday, Jun 30 in WCU’s Ramsey Center. Pictured: pottery by Sue Malsnee. (pg. 18) HAPPENING festival through aug 15. Info: themap.org/grants. n.C. arts CounCil Grassroots arts proGram • Through TH (8/1) - North Carolina's Arts Council's Grassroots Arts Program will accept applications from nonprofit organizations through aug 1. Info: handmadeinamerica.org or 252-0121.
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• Through FR (8/2) - Shine on Brightly seeks lidded vessels and containers for its cremation urn exhibition. Submissions accepted through aug. 2. Info: info@shineonbrightly.com.
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• Through SU (6/30) - The Writers' Workshop will accept submissions for its Hard Times Writing Contest through June 30. Info: writersw@ gmail.com or twwoa.org. JaCk of hearts • ONGOING - Jack of Hearts Pub and Restaurant seeks works by local artists. Info: marketing@laughingseed.com or (510) 856-8587.
comporium.net or 884-2787. • Through WE (9/18) - TC Arts Council will accept submissions for its collaborative exhibit through sept. 18. Works must be created
thomas wolfe memorial literary award • Through MO (7/15) - Nominations for the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award will be accepted through July 15. Info: Wolfe Award Committee, c/o WNC Historical Association, 283 Victoria Road. tuCker’s Gallery
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beneFits art exhibit and wine tastinG • WE (6/26), 5-7pm - Metro Wines, 169 Charlotte St., will host a wine tasting and art opening to benefit open hearts art Center. $5. Info: openheartsartcenter.org. daisyfest • SA (6/29), 1-11pm - "Daisyfest," to fund the medical costs of a local dog named daisy, will be held at Creekside Taphouse, 8 Beverly Road. The afternoon will include BWAR adoptions, local music, corn hole, comedy, fire spinning and more. $5 suggested donation. Info: facebook.com/daisyfest2013. danCe party fundraiser • FR (6/28), 8pm-midnight - "Move Unity Back into Community" fundraiser and dance party will feature DJ Malinalli at the Asheville Area Arts Council, 347 Depot St. $10 includes one drink ticket. Proceeds benefit the asheville-buncombe Community relations Council. Info: racheltanksley@gmail.com. daylily sale • FR (6/28), 3-8pm & SA (6/29), 9am-3pm - A daylily sale, to benefit Child abuse prevention services, inc., will be held at Cheryl and Doug Alderman's daylily garden,
located at Sharon Road, off Upper Brush Creek Road, Fairview. $2-$10 per plant. Info: childabusepreventionservices.org or 254-2000. leaf sChools and streets • WEDNESDAYS, 5-7pm - Wine tasting and jazz music, to benefit leaf schools and streets, will be held at 5 Walnut Wine Bar, 5 Walnut St. $5 suggested donation. Info: theleaf.org or Jocelyn@ theLEAF.org. one sultry niGht • SA (6/29), 7-10pm - Asheville Area Arts Council will host a lingerie fashion show, photo exhibit and live performances to benefit asheville-area women entrepreneurs, including On the Inside (custom lingerie by Elise Olson), Jesseca Bellemare Photography and Meghan Pulliam Hair and Makeup. Held at AAAC, 346 Depot St. Free. Info: ashevillearts.com or 258-0710. pork, piCkin’ and preservation • FR (6/28), 6:30pm - Pork, Pickin’ and Preservation, to benefit the hendersonville historic preservation Commission, will feature a "summer supper and evening of fun" at Killarney House, 322
free maC basiCs Classes at Charlotte street Computers (pd.) Charlotte Street Computers, 252 Charlotte Street, 9:30-10:30am weekdays. Mondays - Mac OS X Basics Level 1, Wednesdays - iPad Basics Level 1, Thursdays - iCloud, Fridays - iPad Basics Level 2, first Tuesday of each month - iPhoto, second Tuesday each month Safari, third Tuesday each month -Mac OS X Level 2, fourth Tuesday each month - iMovie. Register at www.charlottestreetcomputers. com/classes musiC lessons with moses atwood (pd.) Find your own musical style-All levels welcome. Songwriting. Voice. Guitar. Piano. Dobro. Music Theory. $30 an Hour. mosesatwood@gmail.com apple valley model railroad Club Located at the Hendersonville Depot at the corner of 7th Avenue and Maple Street. Info: avmrc.com. • Through TU (12/31) - Coming of the Railroad, a replica of the Saluda Mountain Grade. Sat., 10am-2pm & Wed., 1-3pm. asheville makerspaCe meetup • TUESDAYS, 6pm - This open group "for people who make stuff" will meet to discuss ideas and plan projects. All disciplines are welcome and all levels of experience are encouraged to join. Held at Asheville Brewing
Company, 77 Coxe Ave. Free. Info: ashevillemakerspace.org. Canary Coalition membership GatherinG • SA (6/29), 2-4pm - The Canary Coalition will host a membership gathering featuring live music, poetry and refreshments. Open to the public. Held at Community Table, 23 Central St., Sylva. Free. Info: canarycoalition.org or 6313447. Golden leaf • TH (6/27), 1-3pm - A Golden LEAF Foundation forum will be held in Tri-County Community College's McSwain Building. Info: pcabe@goldenleaf.org or (888) 684-8404. --- 5:30-7:30pm - An additional forum will be held at the Business Training Center, 45 East Ridge Road, Bryson City. Good reasons to Quit hiGh sChool and what to do instead • WE (7/3), 7-8:30pm - Author and educator Blake Boles will explain why traditional high schools "hamper innovation and self-motivation" and discuss his alternative model at Mojo Coworking, 60 N. Market St. Snacks provided. Free. Info: blakeboles.com. intenders Group and artist syrkl • SU (6/30), 3-5:30pm - "A creative expressive arts group that uses various modalities of an intention setting and art process." Group members share, support and learn from fellow artists. Free. Info and directions: ExpressiveArtsAlliance. org, oakes.khalsa@gmail.com or 777-1962. maGGie valley CribbaGe • TUESDAYS, 6:30pm - "Play cribbage and meet new friends" at Maggie Valley Inn, 70 Soco Road, Maggie Valley. Cards and boards available. All levels welcome. Free. Info: kei3ph@bellsouth.net or 9263978. youth outriGht • SU (6/30), 4-6pm - Youth OUTright will present a program for LGBTQ youth at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Meeting will feature a panel of local drag kings and
queens. Free. Info: youthoutright. org.
comedy Comedy open miC • FRIDAYS, 8pm - Hosted by Bar of Soap, 333 Merrimon Ave. Info: 255-7710 or facebook.com/comedybarofsoap. disClaimer Comedy • FRIDAYS, 8-9:30pm - Disclaimer Comedy presents weekly stand-up at Elaine's Piano Bar in the Grove Park Inn, 290 Macon Ave. Free. Info: disclaimercomedy.com. disClaimer stand-up open miC • WEDNESDAYS, 9pm - Disclaimer Stand-Up Lounge open mic is held at the Dirty South Lounge, 41 N. Lexington Ave. Free. Info: DisclaimerComedy.com. the altamont Located at 18 Church St. Info: myaltamont.com or 274-8070. • MO (7/1), 8pm - Lee Camp (stand-up comedy, activist). $12/$10 in advance.
dance beGinner swinG danCinG lessons (pd.) 4 week series starts first Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. $12/week per person. • No partner necessary. Eleven on Grove, downtown Asheville. Details: www. swingasheville.com asheville ballroom danCe Asheville Event Centre, 991 Sweeten Creek Road. Info: www. ashevilleballroom.net or 274-8320, unless otherwise noted. • THURSDAYS, 8-8:50pm - Bachata lesson. $10. • SA (6/29), 8-11pm - Saturday evening ballroom dance. Lesson at 7pm. $10 dance/$5 lesson. bromelia aerial danCe ColleCtive • SU (6/30) & MO (7/1), 7pm Bromelia Aerial Dance Collective will premier its new full-lenth show, Jump Sessions, at the Orange Peel,
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101 Biltmore Ave. Asheville band Hello Hugo will provide music. $14/$12 in advance. Info: batty4. wix.com/bromeliadance. mountain shaG Club • TUESDAYS - The Mountain Shag Club meets weekly at The Hangar at the Clarion Inn, 550 Airport Road. Free lessons from 6:30-7pm. Shag DJ from 7-10pm. $5. Info: mountainshagclub.com. terpsiCorps theatre of danCe • TH (6/27) through SA (6/29), 8pm - Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance will present Reborn to celebrate its 10th anniversary. $30/$28 seniors/$25 students. Held at Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 S. Pack Square. Info: dwtheatre.com.
eco 2013 earth first round river rendezvous • MO (7/1) through MO (7/8) The 2013 Earth First Round River Rendezvous will feature workshops on direct action, ecology, biocentrism in action and more. Held near Boone. Free. Info, schedule and directions: summerrondy2013. wordpress.com. wnCGbC networkinG extravaGanza • TH (6/27), 5-8pm - The Western North Carolina Green Building Council will host a "networking extravaganza" at Highland Brewing Company, 12 Old Charlotte Highway. $5 donation. Info: wncgbc.splashthat.com.
Festivals July 4: blaCk mountain • TH (7/4), 5pm - The Town of Black Mountain will host an evening of music, games, magic and activities for kids throughout downtown. A fireworks display begins at dusk. Info: 669-2052. July 4: brevard • TH (7/4) - The city of Brevard will host a fine arts and crafts showcase on Main Street, along with a clas-
sic car show, activities for kids and a pet show. Fireworks begin at 9:30pm at Brevard College. Most activities are free. Info and schedule: brevardnc.org or 884-2787. July 4: haywood Community band • TH (7/4), 2pm - The Haywood Community Band will perform patriotic music outside the Haywood County Courthouse, 285 N. Main St., Waynesville. Free. Info: haywoodcommunityband.org or 456-4880. July 4: hendersonville • TH (7/4) - The town of Hendersonville will offer hot dogs, drinks and ice-cream during the day. Music On Main Street will feature Tom Brown outside the Visitors Information Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville, followed by fireworks. Free. Info: historichendersonville.org or 6939708.
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July 4: red white and boom • TH (7/4), 2-11pm - Red White and Boom will feature games, food, music and fireworks at dusk. Held at Maggie Valley Festival Grounds, 3374 Soco Road, Maggie Valley. Free. Info: visitnc.com.
ain’t in it for my health • TH (6/27), 7pm - Ain’t in It for My Health, a film about Levon Helm, will be screened at the Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave. $10. Info: levonhelmfilm.com.
July 4: rutherfordton • TH (7/4) - The Town of Rutherfordton will present a July 4th soapbox derby, pie-eating contest, live music and vendors in downtown Rutherfordton, followed by fireworks. Info: Rutherfordtown. com. July 4: sunset fireworks hike • SA (7/4), 6pm - A sunset hike, hosted by the Swannanoa Valley Museum, will depart from Black Mountain Savings Bank, 200 E. State St. $35/$20 members. Info and registration: info@swannanoavalleymuseum.org or 669-9566.
July 4: kiwanis fireCraCker 5k • TH (7/4), 8am - The Kiwanis Firecracker 5K Run will depart from PNC Bank, 81 Weaver Blvd., Weaverville. $25. Info: northbuncombekiwanis.org. July 4: lake Julian • TH (7/4) - Buncombe County Parks, Greenways and Recreation will present fireworks at Lake Julian Park, 2181 Hendersonville Road, at dusk. Info: 684-0376. July 4: lonGs Chapel united methodist ChurCh • TH (7/4), 6:30-10pm - Longs Chapel United Methodist Church will host a July 4th festival with food, old-fashioned games, a view of the fireworks and live bluegrass by Chance Quien Blugrass Band at 175 Old Clyde Highway, Waynesville. Free. Info: longschapel.com or ministrydir@longschapel.com. July 4: montreat parade • TH (7/4), 10am - The Town of Montreat will host an Independence Day parade through-
brevard/transylvania County arts and Culture week • Through TH (7/4) - The Brevard/ Transylvania county arts and culture week will feature more than 65 art events, including Brevard's Fourth Friday Gallery Walk, music jams, open mic night, a live radio variety show and more. Info: brevardnc. org. red, white and blueGrass festival • SU (6/30) through TH (7/4) The 10th annual Red, White and Bluegrass Festival will feature more than 40 performers at Catawba Meadows Park in Morganton. $25$35 per day; discounted five day passes and onsite camping available. Info and tickets: redwhiteandbluegrassfestival.com.
Film 48 hour film fest • WE (6/26), 4, 7 & 10pm - A premiere screening of 48 Hour Film Fest movies will be held at Asheville Brewing Company, 675
montreat ConferenCe Center 401 Assembly Drive, Montreat. Programs are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: montreat.org or 6692911. • MO (7/1), 6:30pm - The Galileo Project, a commemoration of Galileo's first demonstration of the telescope.
government & politics henderson County advoCates for fair eleCtions • SA (6/29), 10am-4pm - Henderson County Advocates for Fair Elections will host a community conversation featuring speakers and tabling at Main and Barnwell Streets, Hendersonville. Free. Info: dancewater.blogspot.com.
kids Cradle of forestry events Open daily, 9am-5pm. Route 276, Pisgah National Forest. Admission: $5/children ages 15 and under free. Some programs require an additional fee. Info: cradleofforestry.org or 877-3130. • THURSDAYS through (8/1), 10:30am-noon & 1:30-3pm - The Woodsy Owl’s Curiosity Club for children ages 4-7 will focus on outdoor-oriented activities that explore a forest-related theme. $4. Registration required. summer sCienCe investiGation Camp • MO (7/1) through WE (7/3), 9am3pm - Great Smoky Mountains National Park will host Smokies Summer Science Investigations for youth entering grades 6-9. Activities include crayfish and sala-
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rubber ducky, you’re the one what: Fourth of July duck race, to benefit Kreative Kids Art Programs. when: Thursday, July 4, 5 p.m. where: Kings Creek at Brevard College, near the gymnasium. $5 per rubber duck. Info: duckraceforkids.org or 884-2787. why: Corralling a flock of ducks isn't easy, unless those ducks are made out of rubber. These quintessential bath toys will float down Kings Creek for an evening of friendly competition that benefits Kreative Kids Art Programs. The Transylvania Community Arts Council's annual fundraiser supports art-camp scholarships and Arts in Schools programming for students in the Transylvania County school system. But the race isn't just for kids; adults are welcome to join "hundreds of rubber feathered friends flocking together to help provide creative opportunities for youth in our community." Adopt a duck for $5 (or six ducks for $25) and race them to victory. You do not need to be present to win, but who wouldn't want to see their duck’s beak cross the finish line? Photo by Dereck McKissock of The Transylvania Times, courtesy of TC Arts Council.
mander research and exotic plants. Held at Oconaluftee Visitor Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S. 441. Free; registration required. Info: 926-6251. theater arts Camp sCholarships • First Stage Youth Theatre Summer Stage "13" drama camp will offer full and partial scholarships to its theater arts camp, to be held in Mars Hill July 8-13. Info: 689-3342.
music asheville lyriC opera • FR (6/28), 11am-12:30pm Performers from Asheville Lyric Opera's summer artists training program will perform excerpts from the company's upcoming production of Carousel in UNCA's Manheimer Room. Free. Info: ashevillelyric.org or 236-0670. blaCk mountain drum CirCle • SATURDAYS, 4pm - Steven Townsend hosts a traditional West African drumming workshop, followed by an open drum circle, at the Carver Community Center, 101 Carver Ave., Black Mountain. All skill levels welcome. Free. Info: 669-2052. brevard musiC Center festival Held in the Brevard Music Center, 349 Andante Lane, Brevard. Info and cost: brevardmusic.org or 8622105.
• Through SU (8/4) - The Brevard Music Center festival features a wide array of classical music, including symphonies, opera and chamber music. See website for schedule. buiCk maCkane band • SA (6/29), 8pm - Buick MacKane Band (rock) will perform at The Icehouse, 810 S. College St., Morganton. $5. Info: buickmackane.com. ConCerts on the Creek • FR (6/28), 7:30-9:30pm - Concerts on the Creek will feature the Buick MacKane Band (Southern rock) at Bridge Park, 76 Railroad Ave., Sylva. Free. Info: mountainlovers. com or (800) 962-1911. Groovin' on Grovemont • TU (7/2), 6pm - Groovin' on Grovemont will present Jonathan Scales Fourchestra outside the Swannanoa Library, 101 W. Charleston St. Free. Info: 250-6486. homeGrown in the park • THURSDAYS, 6:30-8:30pm Homegrown in the Park will feature local singer-songwritiers performing in Pritchard Park. Free. Info: ashevilledowntown.org. montreat ConferenCe Center 401 Assembly Drive, Montreat. Programs are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: montreat.org or 6692911. • FR (6/26), 7-8pm - A clarinet and cello concert will feature works by Hindemith, Beethoven, Bach, Crumb and Reich.
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• TH (7/4), 1-2:15pm - Music on the Porch will feature Ian Copeland and Mary Auner (clarinet and cello). A pottery auction will be held in conjunction with the concert. --- 2:304pm - Key Wilde, Susan Wilde and Ann Jones (guitar, violin). musiC at sunset • FR (6/28), 7:30pm - Transylvania County Library's Music at Sunset outdoor concert series will feature Fayssoux McLean (folk, alt-country) in the library amphitheater. Rain or shine. Free. Info: avl.mx/td. musiC on main street • FR (6/28), 7-9pm - Music On Main Street presents Asheville’s 96.5 Band (rock) outside the Visitors Information Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville. Free. Info: historichendersonville.org or 6939708. northwest boyChoir • SA (6/29), 7:30pm - The Grammynominated Northwest Boychoir will perform at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 Church St. $10/$5 students. Info: trinityasheville.org or 253-9361. old fines Creek danCe and musiC • SATURDAYS, 7-10pm - "Old Fines Creek Dance and Music" will feature music, dance, cake walks and door prizes. Held at The Old Fines Creek School, 192 Fines Creek Road, Clyde. $7/children 12 and
under free. Info: visitncsmokies. com or 736-8925.
tion: info@classicwineseller.com or 452-6000.
park rhythms • TH (6/27), 7:30pm - Park Rhythms will present Mipso (modern bluegrass) at Lake Tomahawk, 401 Laurel Circle Drive, Black Mountain. Free. Info: deanna.stone@townofblackmountain or 669-8610.
swannanoa Chamber musiC festival • SUNDAYS through (7/21), 7:30pm - The Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival will feature "world-class" musicians performing a variety of chamber music at HART, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. $20. Info: swannanoachambermusic.com.
piCkin' in lake lure • SATURDAYS through (8/31), 7pm - Pickin' in Lake Lure will feature performances by local bands followed by an open jam. Held on the Lake Lure Smokehouse deck, 2795 Memorial Highway, Lake Lure. Free. Info: 674-0677. piCkin’ in the park • FRIDAYS, 7-10:30pm - Pickin’ in the Park will feature bluegrass and old-time bands at Canton Recreational Park‚ 77 South Penland St. Free. Info: blueridgemusic.org. shindiG on the Green • SATURDAYS until (8/31), 7pm - Shindig on the Green will feature traditional music, dance and storytelling at Pack Square Park, downtown Asheville. Bring a blanket. Free; food for sale. Info: folkheritage.org. summer Jazz festival • SATURDAYS through (7/20), 7pm - The Summer Jazz Festival will feature a variety of jazz musicians and a four-course dinner. Held at the Classic Wineseller, 20 Church St., Waynesville. $40. Info and registra-
meal; $12:50/$6 concert. Info: broyhillcenter.com or 726-2407.
outdoors beautiful lake James MARINA • BOAT SLIPS available (pd.) Beat the Summer rush and
tGif: the matt stratford band • FR (6/28), 6-10:30pm - The Matt Stratford Band (variety, Top 40) will perform at Morganton's TGIF concert series. 102 E. Union St. Free. Info: downtownmorganton.com.
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top of the Grade ConCerts • 2nd & 4th FRIDAYS until (11/25), 6:30-8:30pm - Top of the Grade Concerts will feature a wide range of music, including folk, country, blues and rock. Held at McCreery Park, Saluda. Free; donations accepted. Info and schedule: judyward@charter.net or 674-5958.
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wCu summer ConCert series • TH (6/27), 7pm - WCU's summer concert series will feature The Honeycutters (country, folk) at the university's Central Plaza. Rain location: University Center. Free. Info: ledavis@wcu.edu or 227-3622.
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western piedmont symphony • TU (7/2), 7pm - The Western Piedmont Symphony will perform cinematic favorites in Caldwell Community College's J.E. Broyhill Civic Center. A buffet dinner will be served before the concert. $12/$6
houseboat slip. Great location at Canal Bridge. Security, gas sales, marine store and customer lounge. Call (828) 584-0666. www.mountainharbourmarina.com
6883 N.C. Highway 126, Nebo. Programs are free unless otherwise noted. Info: 584-7728. • SA (6/29), 10am - A ranger-led boat tour will focus on animals and scenic vistas. Registration required. --- 9am - A presentation on caddistat. A craft will follow. Ages 6 and up. Meets at Paddy’s Creek Area's East Picnic Shelter. wilderness skills • SA (6/29), 7:30pm - Blue Ridge Parkway rangers will lead a program on wilderness skills with the Linville Central Rescue K-9 Team. Held at Linville Falls Campground Amphitheater, MP 316 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Info: 765-2681.
parenting the Confident Child (pd.) Simple practical sensitive strategies to help your child or teen manage anxiety and stress, improve self-esteem, stay calm, poised, in control. Ages 9-18. Family Workshops. June 29-30 & July 20-21 & 27-28. 828-225-3786 www.formfitnessfunction/familyworkshops the kids are alriGht! (pd.) Nurture and preserve your child's natural posture and balance while rediscovering your own. Ages 0-8. Family Workshops. June 28-29 & July 19-20 & 26-27. 828-225-3786 www.formfitnessfunction/familyworkshops asheville Community yoGa Center Located at 8 Brookdale Road. Info: ashevillecommunityyoga.com. • WEDNESDAYS through (7/3), 6-7:30pm - A prenatal yoga series for pregnant women, partners, doulas, midwives and yoga teachers. $40.
public lectures blaCk mountain ColleGe museum + arts Center The center is located at 56 Broadway and preserves the legacy of the Black Mountain College.
Tues. & Wed., noon-4pm; Thurs.Sat., 11am-5pm. Info: www.blackmountaincollege.org or 350-8484. • TH (6/27), 7:30pm - "Modernist Asheville: a conversation with Jim Samsel and John Rogers" will focus on the impact of modernism on WNC. $10 suggested donation. dyinG with diGnity • FR (6/28) - George Felos will reflect on his personal and professional struggles as lead attorney for the Terry Schiavo right-to-die case. He will address "the impact of this case on our evolving, sometimes contradictory views of the dying process." $15. Info and directions: windhorsezen.org/dying-in-america. explorinG north Carolina • TH (6/27), 7pm - Tom Earnhardt, host of the TV show Exploring North Carolina, will lead a presentation on the state's ecological heritage in WCU's Mountain Heritage Center. Free. Info: 227-7129. montreat ConferenCe Center 401 Assembly Drive, Montreat. Programs are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: montreat.org or 6692911. • MO (7/1) through WE (7/3) “Mystic Chords of Memory,” a seminar about the music of Charles Ives and American holidays. $35 includes CD. • WE (7/3), 7-8pm - "All Things Water: Surface, Ground, Source
and Destination,” a geology lecture by Christopher Swezy. riverlink events Info: riverlink.org or 252-8474. • FR (6/28), 3-5pm - WWC instructor Frank Kalinowski will present "Our Evolving Constitution: The Legacies of the Past and a glimpse into the Future" at the RiverLink office, 170 Lyman St. Free; registration required. viCtorian health tourism • WE (6/26), 2-3pm - "Victorian Health Tourism in Asheville," with April Birchfield, A-B Tech social sciences instructor. Held in the college's Fernihurst building. Free. Info: abtech.edu.
seniors
free for wellness members. Info and registration: 686-3529.
Info: 258-3241. www.billwalz.com. Mondays, 7-8pm – Meditation class with lesson and discussions
spirituality open heart meditation (pd.) Experience easy, wonderful practices that opens your life to the beauty within and connects you to your heart. • Free 7pm, Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 296-0017 or 3676954 http://www.heartsanctuary. org astro-CounselinG (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229.
Gentle yoGa for every body • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 9am - A slow and gentle style of yoga, particularly well-suited for all fitness levels, will be hosted at Lakeview Senior Center, 401 Laurel Circle Drive, Black Mountain. $8 suggested donation. Info: kirklandyoga@ charter.net.
asheville Compassionate CommuniCation Center (pd.) Free practice group. Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate communication (nonviolent communication). 252-0538 or www.ashevilleccc.com. • 2nd & 4th Thursdays, 5:00-6:15
work-it CirCuit • WEDNESDAYS, 4-5pm CarePartners will offer "Work-It Circuit" fitness classes for seniors at CarePartners East Clinic, 2358 U.S. Highway 70, Swannanoa. $7/
mindfulness meditation Class (pd.) Explore the miracle of healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. With consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz.
in contemporary Zen living. At the Asheville Friends Meeting House at 227 Edgewood Ave. (off Merrimon). Donation. ChannelinG your hiGhest self (pd.) Fri-Sun 10am-4pm Communicate with your highest self and ascended beings. Info: UltimateEnergyHealing.com/channeling asheville insiGht meditation • WEDNESDAYS, 7-8:30pm & SUNDAYS, 10-11:30am - Practice Mindfulness Meditation (also called Vipassana or Insight Meditation) with a supportive group. Held at 29 Ravenscroft Drive, Suite 200. Free. Info: ashevillemeditation.com or 808-4444. awakeninG to beauty • FR (6/28), 7:30pm - "Awakening to Beauty," an evening of poetry with Kaveen Hutchison. Held at Jubilee!, 46 Wall St. $25/$18 in advance. Info: 777-0369. Christian sCienCe readinG room 2 Wall St. Info: 254-2448.
• 1st TUESDAYS, 6pm - Discussions on spiritual healing and practice. June topic: the significance of one. Cloud CottaGe 219 Old Toll Circle in Black Mountain. Info: cloudcottage.org or 669-6000. • TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS & SATURDAYS, 7:30-8am - Sitting meditation. • SA (6/29), 2-4:30pm - Judith Toy will offer a forgiveness workshop based on her book, Call to Forgiveness, Call to Love. Free. first ConGreGational ChurCh in hendersonville Fifth Avenue West at White Pine Street, Hendersonville. Info: 6928630 or www.fcchendersonville.org. • SU (6/30) 9:15am - Adult forum: "Mr. and Mrs. God." liGht Center 2196 N.C. Highway 9 S., Black Mountain. Info: www.urlight.org or 669-6845. • WEDNESDAYS, 2:30-3:30pm Prayer and meditation for United States and world conditions. Free. • ONGOING, 10am-5pm - Open meditation to music with energy balancing lights. 160-acres of meditation hiking trails. By donation. • SUNDAYS, 3-4pm - Prayer/meditation for world peace. Free. montreat ConferenCe Center 401 Assembly Drive, Montreat. Programs are free, unless otherwise
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noted. Info: montreat.org or 6692911. • WEDNESDAYS until (7/31) - The arts in worship lab will help spiritual organizations "create Sunday art for worship and develop new visions for your church." $5. mountain zen praCtiCe Center • TUESDAYS, 7pm - Conscious Compassionate Awareness meditation and group discussion guided by the teachings of Cheri Huber. First Tuesday orientation. Donations appreciated. Info: www. mountainzen.org. open disCussions on spiritual healinG • 1st TUESDAYS, 6pm - Featuring selected readings and a discussion of practical spiritual healing and practice. Held at the Christian Science Reading Room, 2 Wall St., first floor. Free. Info: 254-2448. overCominG anGer • SUNDAYS (6/30) through (7/14), 7-8:30pm - Buddhist teacher Sharon Lovich will lead a program on responding to difficult people and challenging circumstances. Includes meditation and discussion. Held at Rainbow Mountain Children's School, 574 Haywood Road. $8/$5 students and seniors. Info: meditationinasheville@gmail. com. shambhala meditation Center of asheville 19 Westwood Place. Visitors welcome; donations accepted. Info: www.asheville.shambhala.org. • THURSDAYS, 6-6:45pm Meditation followed by Dharma reading and discussion at 7pm. Meditation instruction offered. Open house first Thursdays. • SUNDAYS, 10am-noon - A public sitting will feature meditation instruction. Come for a portion or the entire time. urban dharma 29 Page Ave. See website for temple and gallery hours. Weekly programs are free with $5-$10 suggested donation. Info: udharmanc. com or 225-6422. • THURSDAYS, 7:30-8:30pm "Cultivating Abundance" will focus on the liturgy of Jambhala. • SATURDAYS, 3-4:30pm - Weekly services will alternate between "Call of Compassion” and "Boundless Protection." • TUESDAYS, 7:30-8:30pm - An introduction to meditation will feature two sessions of 20-minute meditation and a walking session. women's CirCle and movie • SA (6/29), 11-2pm - A women's circle and movie screening will be held as part of the Women's Spirituality Summer Series. Programs are substance free and for women only. Free. Info and directions: lgarrettxx@gmail.com.
Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories. Free.
spoken & written word
different strokes performinG arts ColleCtive • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (6/29), 7:30pm - Carla Pridgen's Incongruence features monologues and vignettes derived from interviews with transgender men and women. Performed at 35Below, 35 E. Walnut St. $15. Info and tickets: differentstrokesavl.com.
asheville City poets • SA (6/29), 7pm - Asheville City Poets will present public readings at Firestorm Cafe, 48 Commerce St. Info and registration: meetup. com/Asheville-City-Poets. blue ridGe books Located at 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. All programs free, unless otherwise noted. Info: blueridgebooksnc.com or 456-6000. • SU (6/29), 3pm - The Brothers Grin, Michael Beadle, William Everett and Charley Pearson will perform original poetry. bunCombe County publiC libraries library abbreviations - All programs are free unless otherwise noted. Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: n eC = Enka-Candler Library (1404 Sandhill Road, 250-4758) n ss = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 2506488) n sw = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486) n wv = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 250-6482) n Library storyline: 250-KIDS. • TH (6/27), 6pm - Book club: Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story by Leonie Swann. sw • TU (7/2), 6-8pm - Knit-n-chain. ss --- 7pm - Book club: The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bojhalian. eC --- 7pm: Book club: Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. wv • WE (7/3) through WE (7/31) Buncombe County Public Libraries will host the "Dig into Reading" summer program for kids at various libraries. Info and schedule: avl. mx/ug or 250-4721. • WE (7/3), 3pm - Book club: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann. wv --- 5pm - Knitting club: sw City liGhts bookstore Located at 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva. Events are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: www.citylightsnc.com or 586-9499. • SA (6/29), 6:30pm - Denise Kiernan will present her book The Girls of Atomic City. fountainhead bookstore Located at 408 N. Main St., Hendersonville. Free, unless otherwise noted. Info: fountainheadbookstore.com or 697-1870. • TU (7/2), 5:30pm - Mark de Castrique will present his book A Murder in Passing. malaprop's bookstore and Cafe 55 Haywood St. Info: malaprops. com or 254-6734. Events are free, unless otherwise noted. • TH (6/27), 7pm - Sheila Heti will present her book How Should a Person Be?
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flat roCk playhouse Mainstage: Highway 225, Flat Rock. Downtown location: 125 South Main St., Hendersonville. Info: www.flatrockplayhouse.org or 693-0731. • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/30) - Evita, "the story of Eva Peron, perhaps the most notorious public figure in Argentina’s history." Performed on the Mainstage. Wed.-Sat., 8pm; Thurs., Sat. & Sun., 2pm. $40/ discounts for seniors, military and students. • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (6/27) until (7/14) - The Big Bang, a "frenetic piece of entertainment that is long on shtick and historical hilarity." Performed at the downtown location. Wed.Sat., 8pm; Thurs. & Sun., 2pm. $35/$33 seniors and military/$25 students.
one sultry night: Three Asheville-based female artists and entrepreneurs will strut their stuff with a lingerie fashion show, photo exhibit, live performances and refreshments at Asheville Area Arts Council on Saturday, June 29. Must be 21 or older to attend. Photo courtesy of Jesseca Bellemare Photography. (pg. 18) • FR (6/28), 7pm - Travis Nichols will present his book The More You Ignore Me. • SA (6/29), 3pm - Margaret Couch Cogswell will present her book Book Play: Creative Adventures in Handmade Books. • SU (6/30), 3pm - James Williamson will present his book The Ravine. • MO (7/1), 7pm - Sarah Kennedy will present her novel The Altarpiece and her husband R. T. Smith will read from his novel and collection of poetry. • MO (7/1), 7pm - Bridging Differences Book Club: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson. stories on asheville's front porCh • SATURDAYS (6/29) through (7/20), 10:30-11:30am - Stories on Asheville's Front Porch will feature storytelling about travel, unforgettable people and children. Held at Rhino Courtyard, Pack Place. Free. Info: ashevillestorycircle.org or 450-5462.
sports adult kiCkball leaGue • Through MO (7/15) - Registration for Buncombe County Parks, Greenways and Recreation's adult
kickball league will be accepted through July 15. Info: jay.nelson@ buncombecounty.org or 250-4269. aQua fitness Class • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 12:1012:50pm - WCU will offer an aqua fitness class in the Reid Gymnasium pool. $35. Info: learn.wcu.edu. asheville ultimate Club • MONDAYS through (8/12), 8-10pm - The Asheville Ultimate Club will offer women's and rookie leagues at Memorial Stadium, 30 Buchanan Ave. $10. Info: ashevilleultimate.org. bunCombe County pools • MONDAYS through FRIDAYS, noon-5:45pm; SATURDAYS, 11am6:45pm; SUNDAYS, 1-6:45pm Buncombe County Pools offer daily open swim sessions. $3. Info and locations: avl.mx/tb. hoop Jam • TUESDAYS, 5:30-7:30pm - Hoop Jam invites the public to hula hoop in Pritchard Park. Hoops are available to borrow. Free. Info: ashevilledowntown.org. sunset 5k run/walk • TH (7/4), 7pm - Cherokee Runners will host the third annual Sunset 5K in Cherokee. Same-day registration available. $15/$10 fun
run. Info and registration: avl.mx/ u4 or gerrgrady@yahoo.com.
tHeater asheville Community theatre Located at 35 E. Walnut St. Tickets and info: ashevilletheatre.org or 254-1320. • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/30) - Kiss Me, Kate, a story of the "backstage and onstage antics of two feuding romantic couples during a production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew." Fri. & Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2:30pm. $15-$25. Carl sandburG home Located three miles south of Hendersonville off U.S. 25 on Little River Road. Info: 693-4178 or www. nps.gov/carl. • WEDNESDAYS through SATURDAYS, 10:15am - Apprentice actors from the Flat Rock Playhouse will perform at the park amphitheatre. Wednesdays and Fridays: The World of Carl Sandburg; Thursdays and Saturdays: Rootabaga!, based on
hendersonville little theatre 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville. Info: 692-1082 or www.hendersonvillelittletheater. org. • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/30) - The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde's comedy about Victorian marriage. Thurs.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $20/$10 under 18. montford park players Unless otherwise noted, performances are free and take place outdoors Fri.-Sun. at 7:30pm at Hazel Robinson Amphitheater in Montford. Bring folding chair and umbrella. Donations accepted. Info: montfordparkplayers.org or 254-5146. • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (until 7/20) - The Merchant of Venice, "Shakespeare's dramatic comedy of love, friendship, justice and revenge." n.C. staGe Company 15 Stage Lane. Info: ncstage.org or 239-0263. • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/30) - An original adaptation of Alice in Wonderland will be performed by N.C. Stage's Professional Youth Actor Training students. Thurs.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $10. parkway playhouse 202 Green Mountain Drive, Burnsville. Info: parkwayplayhouse. com or 682-4285. • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (6/29) until (7/13) -
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developing “right relations” through the vision Quest what: The Earth Green Medicine Lodge Vision Quest Ceremony, Monday, July 8, through Saturday, July 13, at Big Butte, in Cruso. why: Event founder and elder Zoe Allison spoke with Xpress about the ceremony:
mountain xpress: can you describe the roots of the vision quest? Zoe allison: This is a very old ceremony that was often started in a young person’s life as a way to create a direct connection to the Creator. This call to the divine beings places the quester in a natural setting, ... free from distractions. There, they join a prayer-filled space to peel away some of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual complications that many of us feel need to be addressed. ... The strength [that] questers find in this ritual [comes from] feeling the direct connection with the community that is supporting their personal work by eating and drinking for them. It sounds simple, yet this is where we find some of the most profound teachings. The support community, too, has an opportunity to ... learn traditional songs, stories and teachings. How does someone know if a quest with earth green medicine lodge is right for them? The Lodge community is a safe container for those who are ready and have introduced themselves to the community. We are not looking for numbers here; we are interested in people who want to walk their lives with integrity and better their relationship with their Creator. Elders, who have gone up on the mountain before, help guide the quester for months to ready them for the personal work they will do. To be in right relations with all the beings of this world is a worthwhile goal. photo courtesy of Zoe Allison
Peter Pan, the story of The Lost Boys who do battle with Captain Hook and his pirate crew. Score by Leonard Bernstein. Thurs.-Sat., 7:30pm. June 30 performance at 5pm. $12-$20. southern appalaChian repertory theatre Performances are held at Mars Hill College's Owen Theatre. Info: www.sartplays.org or 689-1239. • Through SU (6/30) - A Tennessee Walk. "Bobbie Coleman is a young girl of twelve when tragedies surround her close friend Willa Fay." See website for times. • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (7/4) until (7/21) - Gypsy, a musical loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of the striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee. Preview: July 3. See website for times and cost.
tHriving cHildren The Success Equation, under the umbrella of Children First/ Communities In Schools, unites the community to reduce the root causes of child poverty. These calendar listings feature community events and volunteer opportunities to help children thrive in Buncombe County. 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. • Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks men and women to be a Big to a young person from a single-parent family, age 6-14. Activities are free or low-cost, such as sports, local attractions, etc. Mentors are also needed for one hour a week in schools and after-school sites in the fall. Info sessions: June 26, July 10 and July 25 at noon. Children first/Cis • Children First/CIS seeks volunteers for its learning centers and after school program for elementary school children living in public and low-income housing. Mon.Thurs., 2:30-5:30pm. Volunteer for one hour a week and change the life of a local child. Info: childrenfirstbc.org or 768-2072. hands on ashevillebunCombe Registration required. Youth are welcome on many projects with adult supervision. Info: handsonasheville.org or call 2-1-1. Visit the website to sign up for a project. • WE (6/26), 9am-noon - Help sort and pack food at MANNA FoodBank for agencies serving hungry people in 17 WNC counties. • WE (6/26), 5:30-7pm - Volunteers are needed to create book packages for people recently placed in
For more information visit: earthgreenmedicinelodge.com or mayanrecordkeeper.com.
housing by Homeward Bound of Asheville. literaCy CounCil of bunCombe County Located at 31 College Place, Building B, Suite 221. Info: litcouncil.com or 254-3442. • Volunteers are needed to tutor low-income children reading below grade level as part of the Augustine Project program. Tutors provide one-on-one instruction to children in Buncombe County. No prior tutoring experience required. Tutors receive training based on Orton-Gillingham and Wilson Reading System, along with ongoing support from professionals. Teachers and school personnel can earn up to six CEUs. Materials provided. Info and orientation: lily@ litcouncil.com. motherlove mentor • The YWCA MotherLove program seeks volunteers to provide support and encouragement to teen mothers. A commitment of eight hours per month required. Info: 254-7206. partners unlimited • Partners Unlimited, a program for at-risk youth ages 10-18, seeks volunteer tutors and website assistance. Info: partnersunlimited@ juno.com or 281-2800.
volunteering aurora studio and Gallery • ONGOING - Aurora Studio and Gallery seeks energetic, compassionate, community-minded board candidates for "a supportive art studio for those affected by mental illness, homelessness or addiction." Info: lori_aurorastudio@ hotmail.com or www.aurorastudiogallery.com. ayusa host families • ONGOING - Ayusa seeks families interested in hosting exchange students ages 15-18. Families must pass a background check, provide room and board and a safe, supportive environment. Info: www. ayusa.org or 298-8873. downtown Clean up day • SA (7/1), 8am-5pm - The public is invited to help clean downtown in shifts. Info and registration: avl. mx/u9. hands on ashevillebunCombe Registration required. Youth are welcome on many projects with adult supervision. Info: handsonasheville.org or call 2-1-1. Visit the website to sign up for a project. • TH (6/27), 11am-12:30pm - Shake and Bake: Cook and serve a homemade lunch to the men staying at the ABCCM Veterans Restoration
Quarters and Inn. Both men and women are encouraged to participate. • TH (6/27), 4-6pm - Fair-Trade Stock-Up: 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.
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literaCy CounCil of bunCombe County Located at 31 College Place, Building B, Suite 221. Info: litcouncil.com or 254-3442. • Volunteers are needed to tutor adults in basic literacy skills including reading, writing, math and English as a second language. Tutors provide one-on-one or small group instruction in Buncombe County. No prior tutoring experience or foreign language skills required. Tutors will receive 15 hours of training and ongoing support from certified professionals. Orientation: July 17 and 18. Prospective volunteers should attend one orientation.
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pan harmonia • Pan Harmonia seeks volunteers to assist with chamber music concerts. Volunteers receive two tickets to the concert. Info: office@ pan-harmonia.org. proJeCt linus • Project Linus, a volunteer group that provides handmade blankets
members. Info: 645-8800. the rathbun Center • The Rathbun Center, a nonprofit corporation that provides free lodging for patients and their caregivers staying in Asheville for medi-
to support and register guests. Weekend shifts: noon-3pm, 3-6pm & 6-9pm. Info: rathbuncenter.org or 251-0595. water Quality monitorinG • WEDNESDAYS through (9/25), noon-3pm - WNCA invites volunteers to sample water in the French Broad River Basin. Meets at Westfeldt Park, 280 Old Fanning Bridge Road. Info: avl.mx/ue or 258-8737. Calendar deadline The deadline for free and paid listings is 5 p.m. wednesday, one week prior to publication. Questions? Call (828)251-1333, ext. 365
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Revelations from the federal trial of Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger: • While generally thought of as a sociopathic mobster, Whitey Bulger is, in fact, a greatly misunderstood murderer and extortionist.
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• Whitey was pressured out of his original gang by Sneezy and Bashful. • After giving informant Bulger numerous free passes for criminal activity, the FBI looked for him super-duper, extra hard all these years. • Bulger became partners-in-crime with Steve “The Rifleman” Flemmi after a misunderstanding led to a falling-out with his previous partner Scotty “Too Hotty” McCallister, AKA “The Boston Massager.” • Whitey Bulger was thought of as a Robin Hood figure in his Boston neighborhood, with the exception that instead of archery contests, he shot people in the head. • As a prison inmate, Bulger was dosed with LSD as part of a government program, but still never cared for the music of Strawberry Alarm Clock. • Bulger and three friends came into possession of the winning Massachusetts Lottery ticket, which had been bought at a store he owned. The four men shared a prize of around $14 million while the original ticket buyer, per the gentleman’s agreement, was allowed to remain in poverty and continue breathing. • Bulger protected his criminal enterprise by working with FBI agent John Connolly, who grew up next door to Bulger. Along with other mobsters and law enforcement officials of Irish descent, they bonded over a mutual fear of direct sunlight.
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• Having served part of his sentence at Alcatraz, he swore revenge against Nicholas Cage for the plot inconsistencies in the 1996 blockbuster “The Rock.” • One author’s claim that Bulger was a male prostitute has never been verified, although a background check into Bulger’s surname revealed it is a synonym for erection. • Bulger reluctantly turned his sights to the drug trade after his plan to control the dictionary-and-calculator trade in South Boston went belly-up. • While Whitey Bulger and his accomplices were hugely successful at extortion, loansharking, bookmaking, truck hijackings and arms trafficking, they failed repeatedly when attempting inroads into public drunkenness and indecent exposure. • Bulger, an avid book lover, was arrested while reading Proust’s What the Hell Are you Looking At, a Remembrance of Things Past? • The tip that lead to Bulger’s arrest came from a former Miss Iceland contestant winner whose talent offering was snitching. • A known health nut, Bulger only strangled women to death with help from a spotter.
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First restoration services Hosts sHoe drive First Restoration Services, a leader in disaster response, will hold a charity shoe drive at McCormick Field from noon to 3 p.m. before the June 30 Asheville Tourists game. Company reps will be collecting any new or gently worn shoes, sandals, boots or other footwear for the Soles4Souls charity. In return, anyone who donates a pair of shoes will receive a general admission ticket that can be used that day or at a future Asheville Tourists game. FRS started collecting shoes for Soles4Souls in January, with individuals dropping off their old footwear at company headquarters
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industries For tHe blind asHeville receives new contract Industries for the Blind (IFB) Asheville has started production on a $10.5-million contract with the Marine Corps to make all-purpose poncho liners for the troops. About 214,000 liners will be delivered over the next 12 months. “We are excited about this new contract for many reasons; it means our current employees have plenty of work, and we are hiring 18 new employees to help us produce the liners,” says Randy Buckner, director of operations for IFB Asheville. IFB has produced military poncho liners for the past 20 years, but this poncho liner is special. The Marines wanted a liner with a zipper that could function as a sleeping bag. They also wanted additional waterproof coating on the outside of the fabric to keep soldiers dry. In addition to working as a sleeping bag, the liners can serve as blankets or ground cover. IFB created the liners with NATICK, the organization that develops products for U.S. troops. Buckner explained that IFB developed the prototype and helped write the specifications. “One important aspect of the liner is the zipper, which is polyester,” says Buckner. “Incorporating this type of zipper allows a soldier to leave his or her bag quickly and quietly.” IFB employees must produce an average of 900 all-purpose liners per day to stay on track with their contract. According to Buckner, IFB employees are already making that happen.
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wellnesscalendar heal from emotional wounds (pd.) Learn how to channel your feelings toward personal empowerment. Develop a relationship with yourself that is nurturing, accepting and protective. FREE Orientation. Call (828) 367-8895 to register. yoGa for baCk Care (pd.) Yoga can be wonderful for reducing back pain. Workshop includes home self care instructions. Sunday 6/30 4-6p $25 1378 Hendersonville Road. Registration required, www.AshevilleHappyBody.com or 277-5741 adhd 1/2 day mindfulness retreat (pd.) 3 Local instructors teach people diagnosed with ADHD core Mind-Body practices through the use of Yoga / movement, Tai Chi & Mindfulness to regain focus. Sat. June 29 9am2pm. $45. Registration required. Visit www. ADHDasheville.com or call 828-301-1904. asheville Community yoGa Center Located at 8 Brookdale Road. Info: ashevillecommunityyoga.com. • SA (6/29), 2:30-4:30pm - A program on internal awareness for yogis will focus on bone alignment, energetic anatomy and asana enhancement. $20. ashtanGa yoGa • TUESDAYS 5:30-7pm; FRIDAYS, noon-1:30pm; SUNDAYS 9-10:30am - Apothecary, 39 S. Market St., will host Ashtanga yoga. Tuesdays: led primary series. Fridays: led primary/intermediate series. Sundays: Mysore practice. All levels welcome. $5-$15 sliding scale. Info: facebook.com/ashevilleapothecary. exCellenCe in wellness Cooperative fair • SA (6/29), noon-4pm - The Excellence in Wellness Cooperative Fair will offer a sampling of healing arts, modalities and therapies. Held at Tone Chiropractic, 15 S. Lee St. Free. Info: 676-1302. fletCher valley market • TH (6/27), 5:30pm - Fletcher Valley Market, 1151 Naples Road, Hendersonville, will present information on "the modern wheat story." Free. Info: fletchervalley.com or 209-6920. opportunity house blood tests • WEDNESDAYS, 8:30-10am - Opportunity House will offer blood profile laboratory testing at 1411 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville. $25.
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poliCe brutality survivors' Group • THURSDAYS, 11am - This group meets weekly at Firestorm Cafe, 48 Commerce St., offering community and support to survivors of police brutality. Open to all. Free. Info: 274-4576. reCovery from food addiCtion • MONDAYS, noon & FRIDAYS, 7pm - A 10-step support group for those suffering from food addition meets at Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road, second floor. Info: scmunchkin59@yahoo.com. smart reCovery • THURSDAYS, 6pm - This peer support group is dedicated to helping individuals gain independence from all types of addictive behavior (drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, etc.). Meets at Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. Info: smartrecoveryavl@gmail. com or 407-0460.
new moms support Group • THURSDAYS, 6pm - A group for new mothers (children through 5 years) who suffer from depression will focus on meeting parenting challenges while caring for self and offer solutions in a safe, healthy environment with professional support. Info and location: newmomsgroup@yahoo.com. overeaters anonymous A fellowship of individuals who are recovering from compulsive overeating. A 12-step program. • THURSDAYS, noon - Asheville: Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road. Info: 277-1975.
• SATURDAYS, 9:30am - Black Mountain: 424 W. State St. Open relapse and recovery meeting. Info: 686-8131. • MONDAYS, 6:30pm - Hendersonville: Balfour United Methodist Church, 2567 Asheville Highway. Info: 697-5437. • MONDAYS, 6pm - Asheville: First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. Info: 2524828. • TUESDAYS, 10:30am-noon - Asheville: Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. at Ottari. Info: (609) 731-0808.
trans-positive support • 2nd & LAST THURSDAYS - TransHealth Coordinators offers peer support for transgender people with HIV at WNCAP, 554 Fairview Road. 2nd Thursday support group, 1pm; Last Thursday "Lunch and Learn," noon. Info: transhealthcoordinators.org or wncap. org. more wellness events online Check out the Wellness Calendar online at mountainx.com/events for info on events happening after July 4. Calendar deadline The deadline for free and paid listings is 5 p.m. wednesday, one week prior to publication. Questions? Call (828)251-1333, ext. 365
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Herbin’ Cowboy Gaia Herbs CEO Ric Scalzo preaches potency, purity and proof
Mountain Xpress: When did you start Gaia Herbs and what led you to choose Brevard? Ric Scalzo: We founded Gaia in 1987, and it was really an extension of my medical practice at the time. It started in a very simple way with herbal elixirs, and the products grew over the years to include herbal extracts and others. It was back in ‘92 when we realized we needed to expand — we were in Massachusetts at the time. So we bought a new facility and then we outgrew [it]. In ‘96 we moved just the farm to Brevard. Then it wasn’t too long, maybe a few days or month, before we realized we needed to organize and move everything down. In ‘97, we moved the whole operation here. The real motivation for moving here was to try and contain more consistency in the supply chain of raw materials. This area is very botanically diverse. When you look at the plant life and plant species that grow in the U.S., about 80 percent of them grow right here in Western North Carolina. ... All in all, this is a really good climate, good soil, a good growing season and really good diversity for us to grow the crops that are meaningful to us.
Au NATuREL: Gaia Herbs’ CEO Ric Scalzo on his company’s 250-acre farm near Brevard, where organic herbs are grown and processed into dietary supplements. Photo by Julia Ritchey
by Julia Ritchey Gaia Herbs founder Ric Scalzo stands in front of a renovated guest house on his company’s sprawling farm in Brevard and points to a hill lined with verdant Ginkgo trees. It is on this 250-acre plot, a former cattle farm, that the Massachusettsborn CEO has built what is now the 10th-largest employer in Transylvania County and a serious player in the crowded market of dietary supplements. As he describes the layout of the farm — including the fields, a 45,000-square-foot production facility and an administrative building — Scalzo points to the grove of Ginkgo
trees. He notes that its leaves are good for memory (which could aid the beleaguered reporter whose recorder shut down midinterview). Scalzo’s pitch is canny and one that seems to be resonating in the billion-dollar natural-supplements industry — that these medicinal products aren’t just for aging baby boomers or the healthconscious, but for everyone. “In retail, we sell only into health food and grocery stores,” says Senior Product Manager John Holladay. “Gaia Herbs is currently the third-largest herbal supplement brand in the healthfood market. This market has grown by double digits for several
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consecutive years, with Gaia Herbs growing faster and gaining market share consistently.” Scalzo credits much of his company’s success to the “potency, purity and proof” mantra that dictates the way Gaia makes its 300 or so products — controlling all aspects of production from seed to bottle. The company has launched a “Meet Your Herbs” platform on its website, allowing customers to trace the history of the product by entering a unique code found on every Gaia bottle. Scalzo sat down recently with Xpress to talk about his company’s growth and evolution.
What sort of growth has your company experienced since being here? I would say, when you look at the natural products’ space, Gaia is outpacing the industry significantly. ... We’ve been fortunate enough to move through the economic ebb and flows and have a consistent, steady pace of growth ever since we moved here. We established about 90 jobs when we moved here, and today we have almost 150. We’re kind of in a growth surge right now. Last year our sales grew about 18 to 20 percent. And thus far we’re growing at a pace of about 20 percent over last year. What makes Gaia different from the other natural product lines out there? We’ve always been focused on quality. To us, quality means that we have to maintain custody from seed to shelf with the highest set of standards possible. And it does mean growing certified organic through third-party certification. It does mean producing in certified organic standards, and it does mean compliance to all the regulatory bodies that govern us. I think when you look back at companies in our space when you’re
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trying to define a distinguisher for Gaia — say, 50 years ago, one of the leading companies then was Nature’s Way. Well, they set their [branding] platform ... on the foundation of trust. In fact, they coined the term “Trust the Leaf,” and everyone trusted the leaf, and it was good at the time. Other companies have gone after the mantle of truth, belief and now proof. We jumped onto the pedestal of proof and now here we are with our traceability platform that really aims to deliver purity, potency and integrity. Our “Meet Your Herbs” platform is constructed to deliver those three angles. We’re trying to prove the purity of product; we’re trying to prove the potency. Not just by saying we have the highest concentration or we have the cleanest herbs, but “Here it is, here are the results, take a look.” That sounds expensive. It was. It cost us a crapload of money. In what ways does Gaia give back to the local community? We offer the staff and their families free organic produce twice a week during the growing season. We also offer a company-subsidized lunch program with our farm produce. We’ve delivered about 43,000 pounds of produce last year to our staff. We’re not talking about a little bag of beans here, we’re talking about 50-pound sacks of corn so they can put it up all year round and make gallons of pesto and have crates of tomatoes. Then the spill-over of that harvest — I think we’ve supplied the local soup kitchen with over 20,000 pounds of produce for providing meals for those who don’t have a healthy meal everyday. What sort of plans do you have for the future of Gaia? I would say over the course of the next year we’re going to launch about 15-20 new products that will occupy very important categories that we’re lacking. But really what my thoughts are being driven to lately is how to embody leadership and instill a type of leadership here at Gaia that emulates the leadership of nature. Nature is orchestrating this whole creation in a very spontaneous and automated perfect way. There’s a lot of lessons to be learned just by looking at nature.
Can you give an example? Everything in nature progresses and grows on the steps of rest and activity. And that fundamental principle of nature is seen in so many ways through the changing of the seasons, the cycling of night and day, the passing of the sun over the sky and how flowers move toward the sun and so forth. The cycles of rest and activity are governing principles in nature, and they can very easily be governing principles in business if you understand how to really embrace them into a business model. When you capture efficiencies, you can get to the state of really doing less and accomplishing more. Looking up satellite image directions to Gaia, I noticed your building was not a typical box but what appears to be in the very unique shape of a bird? An eagle. Yeah, that was intentional. You’ve heard of feng shui, which is a system of design from China. Well, there’s a system of design from India called Sthapatya Veda. So this building was designed according to that principle of architecture, which basically means that the building was put in an orientation on the land at the highest elevation of our property and facing due east. I wanted a picture of a bird with its wings spread out embracing, welcoming the sun/energy into the building. That’s why you see the skylight over here. In fact, that’s why you see all of the elements expressed in the primary lobby. In a company, you want all five elements of nature present in the central point of your building. That’s to harness the maximum energy of nature to bring about optimal success. X Julia Ritchey can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 122, or jritchey@ mountainx.com.
Business Calendar Asheville Business ConneCtions • 2nd TUESDAYS & 4th THURSDAYS, 11:15am Asheville Business Connections will host a lunch meeting on "power marketing" at Yao Buffet Sushi Grill, 153 Smokey Park Highway, Suite 120. Restaurant prices apply. Info: meetup.com/ ashevillebusinessconnections. Goodwill CAreer ClAsses • ONGOING - Goodwill offers entry-level computer classes. Free. Info and schedule: 298-9023. • ONGOING - Goodwill offers classes for those interested in careers in the food and hotel industries. Hands-on training includes American Hotel and Lodging Association certification. $25. Info and schedule: 298-9023. MountAin Bizworks workshops 153 S. Lexington Ave. Info: 253-2834 or mountainbizworks.org. • MONDAYS, noon & WEDNESDAYS, 4:30pm - An informational meeting about Mountain BizWorks' programs will help businesses make the first step toward accessing the organization's services. Free. Info and registration: victor@mountainbizworks.org or 253-2834. MountAin housinG opportunities self-help proGrAM • ONGOING - Families are invited to build their own homes through the Mountain Housing Opportunities Self-Help Program. No construction experience or down payment required. Affordable financing available through the USDA. Info: 254-4030, ext. 122. think B.i.G. • TH (6/27), 5-9pm - The Think B.I.G. economic forum will foster "ideas for sound economic development and job creation in Transylvania County, drawn from citizens, businesses and county officials." Sponsored by People for Clean Mountains. Held at Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard. Free. Info: info@peopleforcleanmountains.org or 577-2685. More Business events online Check out the Business Calendar online at www.mountainx.com/events for info on events happening after July 4. CAlendAr deAdline The deadline for free and paid listings is 5 p.m. wednesdAY, one week prior to publication.
Open House Interested in learning more about Gaia? How about a guided tour of the farm? The company is holding a free open house. When: Saturday, June 29, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Where: 101 Gaia Herbs Road, Brevard Info: gaiaherbs.com/go/tours or contact Beth Hampton at bfh@gaiaherbs.com.
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Openings Ben’s Tune-Up (restaurant and bar), 195 Hilliard Ave. benstuneup.com. The Cork & Cap (wine-making and brewing supply shop), 131 Third Ave. West, Hendersonville. falderalwinery.com. 693-7676. The Local Taco, 68 N. Lexington Ave. thelocaltaco.com.
Manta Ray Dive Center (scuba gear and instruction), 855 Merrimon Ave. mantaraydivecenter.com. 255-5252. (Pictured, photo courtesy of Manta Ray)
Renovations and other changes KSL Resorts sold The Grove Park Inn to Omni Hotels & Resorts. For the story, visit avl.mx/uh.
What do you know about keeping investment dollars local? Are you helping keep investment dollars in Western North Carolina? Are you exploring ways to grow our community by keeping capital right here where we live, work and play — rather than sending it all to Wall Street? If so, Mountain Xpress would like to hear from you. We’re looking for your ideas, writing, tips, knowledge and passionate interest. Contact Jeff Fobes at publisher@mountainx.com or News Editor Margaret Williams at mwilliams@mountainx.com with ideas, comments or other news.
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Diversified design Kudzu Branding & Design takes on the art of printing BROuGHT TO YOu BY MOuNTAIN BIZWORkS
by Anna Raddatz “We’re fancy now,” says Kenny Capps, co-owner of Kudzu Branding and Design in Black Mountain. “We even have bushes in front of the building and paint on the walls!” Cosmetic concerns aside, there are big changes afoot at Kudzu, Capps says. Kenny and his wife and business partner, Murphy Capps, recently expanded their full-service, creative branding agency to include retail printing. After three years in business, the couple started noticing some clear indicators that it was time to grow and diversify, Kenny says. First of all, the business was running out of room — both physically and aurally. With phone calls and print jobs happening in the same space, there was a lot of shushing going on, says Kenny. “Five of us were crammed into one large room, and we realized we needed walls,” he says. Luckily, the loft space above the office became available, and the Capps got a $50,000 loan from Mountain BizWorks to help fix it up.
BACk TO BASICS: Kenny Capps, co-owner of Black Mountain-based Kudzu Branding and Design explains that he and his wife Murphy are always looking for better ways to do business — including better ways to serve small businesses.
With a digital press, vinyl cutter, commercial sewing machine, wide-format printers, and custom sign-making brushes and tools, the Capps can produce everything from art prints to trade-show banners. In addition, keeping much of the production work in-house increases efficiency and turn-around time for clients. “If someone comes to me and wants to do business cards, I can refer them upstairs to the design side,” says Kenny.
The second indicator was demand. “We were doing some printing in-house, and then started doing a little more, but we realized we were leaving a lot of people unfulfilled,” Kenny says. Some of those unfulfilled clients were smaller businesses, whose orders were too small to be cost-effective. “We really wanted to support local small businesses, so we knew we needed to fill that gap.”
The expansion has had the added bonus of enabling the couple to focus on their respective strengths and specialties: Murphy runs branding and design while Kenny focuses on fulfillment and print jobs. This division of labor seems to suit them and their work styles, breaking some of the tension that can come with working with one’s spouse, he reports. “One of the best things in the world is to have us on different floors,” says Kenny, laughing. “We’re both very stubborn and take the business very seriously, but we want to enjoy it and each other at the same time.”
The new add-on business, Kudzu Printing Company, is the solution.
Kudzu provides branding, design, and print services to a wide variety
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of businesses. The company’s biggest client is a large regional grocery chain, but it also serves such clients as Black Mountain Pilates, the towns of Black Mountain and Weaverville, a cider company and several hair salons. The Capps are currently in talks with a local resort community that plans to do a major media campaign.
As the business grows, it’s faced with how to scale up the many processes that come with the work that they do — from job intake and fulfillment to billing and collecting. “We’re always looking for a better way to do it,” says Kenny. “And I’m not afraid to ask others how they do it. They may not tell me, because I’m a competitor, but I’m not afraid to ask!”
Kenny came to this business in a roundabout way, after a “pre-midlife crisis.” Originally from Black Mountain, he eschewed a law career in Atlanta and “went back to things that appealed to me, which included mountains.” He started doing design work for his aunt and uncle’s screenprinting business in Charlotte. When they closed shop, some of their clients followed the Capps.
This eagerness to learn is a recurring theme with Kenny, who was recently appointed president of the Asheville American Advertising Federation. When asked about future business plans, he doesn’t respond with projected growth figures. “I want people to come in and think that we make it look so easy. We want to do what we already do and do it better.”
When the couple started Kudzu in 2010, garnering trust as a new business was the biggest challenge. “When I had $1,000 in my company account, but I wanted to order $30,000 worth of supplies, the vendors were probably a little dubious,” Kenny explains. “So I had to build up trust, and luckily I had good clients who helped me out by backing me up.”
Learn more about Kudzu at kudzubranding.com (828-357-8350) and kudzuprinting.com 330-4887. X Anna Raddatz is development and communications coordinator at Mountain BizWorks, which helps small businesses start, grow and create jobs through loans, classes and coaching. For more information, call 253-2834 or visit mountainbizworks.org.
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A recent addition to the investment lineup is the Green Sage Sustainability Index, an index of 30 stocks focused on alternative energy, lighting, energy efficiency and water technologies. Krull is known for his provocative writing and talks on corporate responsibility, his dedication to doing the right thing for his clients and a belief in the importance of putting your money where your mouth is. Peter is vice chair of the Western North Carolina Alliance. He is currently accepting new clients. Neill Yelverton recently joined the team and will be working with new clients as well. Neill comes to Krull & Company with a strong environmental background and an MBA from Western Carolina University. He currently serves on the steering committee for the Western North Carolina Water Quality Collaborative. Investors who are looking to invest with a conscience should consider calling or emailing Peter or Neill for a free, no-obligation consultation.
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ASHEVILLE HOLISTIC REALTY Bending Over Backward for Our Clients
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Asheville Holistic Realty at Keller Williams takes great pride in being YOUR expert resource for real estate in and around Asheville. Whether you are buying, selling or investing, we are ready to help you achieve your goals and dreams. With an award-winning team with over 20 years of combined experience, you can count on us for clear guidance every step of the way. Our passion and love for the mountains is only exceeded by our desire to serve our clients at the highest level possible. Call us today for a FREE buyer consultation or FREE home value report and let us show you the Asheville Holistic Realty difference!
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An intricately carved and elegant bar accented by marble, brass, soft lighting, great music, and.....frosty steel? Our ICE Caves chill all your favorite vodkas and specialty liquors down to a bone chilling -5° while the Frost Rail keeps pints and cocktails icy cold.
Our attractive seal of quality, the Blue Ridge Naturally Seal, is designed to identify local crops or products (personal care, pet care, cleaning, tinctures and supplements, functional food and beverages) that meet high-quality standards. Smart customers know that products with the Blue Ridge Naturally Seal are made with ingredients that are traceable, safely made or grown, and tested, if necessary. Wildcrafted raw ingredients are sustainably sourced from southern Appalachia, and cultivated raw ingredients are grown in Western North Carolina whenever possible. The aim of Blue Ridge Naturally is to support local companies crafting high-quality natural products. The sustainable production of quality herbs in WNC is a long-held tradition because of the area’s rich variety of microclimates and soil types. The Blue Ridge Naturally Seal builds on that tradition and identifies for you potent natural products you can both trace and trust. To apply to carry the Seal or to find products or ingredients with the BRN Seal, please visit our website.
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26 Taps featuring only the best in local and regional craft beers with rotating seasonals form Asheville's best along with all your classic favorites. Creative martinis, specialty cocktails, beer flights, smooth shots and even house-made sangria. All kept icy cold on the Frost Rail. Tempting appetizers, gourmet pizzas, bountiful salads, and authentic Italian, Greek and Serbian specialties from ACROPOLIS served til close.
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BODHI OF LIFE Carrie Spencer, a massage therapist since 2005, recently reopened Bodhi of Life Therapeutic Massage and Thai Bodywork at the Heart House in West Asheville. Her love of bodywork eventually led her to Chiang Mai, Thailand, where she immersed herself in Thai culture and the study of Thai Yoga Massage. Thai massage beautifully combines yoga, massage and acupressure, connecting the body as a temple to its sacred self. It opens the body energetically and physically by working with Sen lines, body positioning, stretching, palming, traction and movement.
A True Neighborhood Joint! “This ‘neighborhood joint’ has got it going on. The atmosphere, the food, the staff are all great. Thanks for a wonderful evening.”
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Creekside Taphouse is a neighborhood joint nestled on two acres in the beautiful Haw Creek community. It offers 20 craft beers on draft, a full liquor bar and hearty pub grub, featuring authentic Carolina BBQ, award-winning wings, burgers, veggie options and plenty of shareable appetizers. Our mission is to provide a family-friendly neighborhood gathering place (yes — we’re kid and dog friendly!) with great food and friendly service. We have a large outdoor area complete with a bar, dining areas, full sand volleyball court, kids play area, horseshoes, cornhole and many other games. Oh, and a bold creek provides the perfect backdrop that completes the relaxed outdoor vibe. Jump off the beaten path and relax by the Creek!
8 Beverly Road, Asheville, NC 28805 828-575-2880 • info@creeksidetaphouse.com www.creeksidetaphouse.com
Carrie also practices therapeutic table massage. Her work includes Myofascial Release, Trigger Point Therapy, Craniosacral, Lymphatic Drainage and Reiki. Carrie works technically and intuitively based on the individual needs of her clients. She sees clients Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. To schedule an appointment, call 734-660-6193 or visit www.bodhioflife.com.
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• Physical Therapy, Injury Recovery & Rehabilitation from Orthopedic Experts with a combined 45-plus years of experience, including a Yoga Instructor. • Holistic Health Coaching — FREE talks by our Holistic Health Coach, Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. or Wednesdays at noon! • The O-Zone — 2,400 square feet of outdoor artificial turf Exercise, Tai Chi, Meditation area. Something for the Whole Family! With Parent/Baby Swim Classes, Kid-X Summer Camp, Budding Goddess Teen Yoga, and various adult and child summer programs, there is something for the whole family. Like us on Facebook to register for a fitness gift-box giveaway now through July. www.facebook.com/AshevilleFitnessCenter
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Old School Home Milk Delivery Takes Asheville
Thanks Asheville for welcoming back the tradition of home milk delivery into your life! Farm to Home Milk is about simplicity, hard work, customer happiness and local food. We bring high-quality locally produced dairy (including hand-packed butter, artisan cheese and yogurt), meats, poultry, fish, breads and more to your doorstep each week. Since beginning this venture in January we have been delivering to around 150 homes and 10 restaurants a week. It’s been fun to be welcomed with the familiar, “Hey, it’s the Milkman!” It’s been great to see how the simple act of showing up with something good to eat can make a person smile. We are now featuring 100% grass-fed cream line milk, yogurt and 100% grass-fed beef. We serve all of Asheville and the surrounding areas including Hendersonville. Sign up for service online. No signup fees or subscription required.
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Fast Lane’s mission is to encourage and promote electric cycling, increase awareness of driving’s impact on our community, and promote life-long fitness. Biking is a fun, cost-effective, environmentally friendly and healthy way to travel. For kids, bikes represent the freedom to explore. Here at Fast Lane, we want to help all age groups and fitness levels rediscover that freedom. To put it simply, electric bikes work by amplifying your pedal power, enabling you to decide how much effort you put forth. You can “dial in” your workout, and with this increased power, you can tackle Asheville’s hills with ease. We have top-of-the-line bikes in stock and ready for you to test ride in our River Arts District store.
fastlaneEbikes.com • (828) 545-7345 362 Depot St., Suite 202, Asheville, NC 28801
Carolina Partners in Mental Health Care, pllc
Patient-Focused Care to Fit Each Client’s Unique Needs.
Carolina Partners in Mental HealthCare, PLLC, has been offering quality, compassionate mental health care in N.C. for almost 20 years. At Carolina Partners, our patients’ care drives every decision we make. We understand that our clients need accessible, comfortable, safe places to seek care. We also understand that each client’s needs are unique. Carolina Partners has become the largest private mental health practice in North Carolina. We have 12 clinical offices in the Raleigh/Durham area and are now happy to announce the opening of two new clinical offices in Asheville, N.C.! At Carolina Partners, our professional associates have experience dealing with virtually every mental health care issue. We utilize a multidisciplinary approach that assures every client the absolute best treatment currently available. The Central Asheville office now offers outpatient psychology, counseling and therapy to adolescents and adults, including DBT, family therapy and marriage counseling. Amparo Penny, LPC, and Dr. Paul Fleischer, PsyD, are in network with most insurance plans and file claims for their clients. The South Asheville office now offers outpatient medication management, general psychiatry, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), a DBT group, and more. Dr.
William Simons, Dr. Ralph Jones, and Susan Hauptfleisch, MSN, PMHNP-BC, are in network with most insurance plans, including Medicare, and file claims for their clients. Both offices offer quick appointments, hassle-free claims filing (we take care of everything we possibly can for you!), and excellent customer service. Please call 1-877-876-3783 to become a new patient.
417 Biltmore Ave, Ste 4H, Asheville, NC • 1200 Ridgefield Blvd, Ste 250, Asheville, NC • 877-876-3783
www.carolinapartners.com
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Natural Bedding at Its Best
Welcome to Wine Tunnel!
FiZi Futon specializes in producing quality, handcrafted mattresses and mattress toppers made from all-natural components — cotton and wool. The wool acts as a natural fire barrier, which means we do not need to use any chemical flame retardants in our mattresses. “We started this business because we really believe these mattresses are the best thing you can possibly sleep on,” says Sean Marquis, owner of FiZi Futon. “I love working with the materials and knowing that they are safe, nontoxic and all-natural — it really is a throwback to how things were made prior to chemicals. I am very proud to be able to offer people an affordable green-bedding option.” Our mattresses are made in a home-based workshop in Black Mountain, N.C., and are designed to be fully supportive of your body, with just enough “give” for a comfortable, healthy night’s sleep. FiZi Futon: providing people with a natural, healthy, handmade alternative for their mattresses. We make all standard-size mattresses from Youth to King and take custom orders as well.
Available online or at Futon Designs • 39 Broadway • Asheville, NC 828-280-5285 • www.fizifuton.com • fizifuton@gmail.com
We are a fine wine establishment catering to all tastes and budgets with our extensive selection of wine, craft beer, local mixers and cigars. Host your social or business events in our spacious store, which features a beautiful bar and handcrafted tables. Swing by during the week for local food trucks at our storefront, and enjoy one of our indoor or outdoor tables with a glass of wine recommended by our knowledgeable staff. Expand your palate at our free wine tastings, Saturdays from 3-6 p.m., and enjoy our by-the-glass specials and free corkage any day of the week! With case discounts, free giftwrapping and an incredible palate-picked selection, we are the perfect choice for your Asheville wine needs. We are located just off Interstate 240 at 148 Tunnel Road, next to the Vitamin Shoppe and opposite the ABC store.
148 Tunnel Road, Asheville NC 28805 • 828-254-0504 thewinetunnel@gmail.com • www.winetunnelashevillenc.com
ISA’S BISTRO
There is a New Lady in Town, and the Nights Will Never Be the Same Isa’s Bistro is located in the heart of downtown Asheville at 1 Battery Park Avenue. Our 90-seat dining room is complimented by a wine-cellar event space that can accommodate from 12 to 80 guests. Isa’s also boasts a lively sidewalk patio on one of Asheville’s most interesting intersections. Isa’s combination of great food, service and wine in a comfortable, laid-back environment makes it a culinary destination for both locals and visitors. Serving lunch and dinner seven days a week, as well as Sunday brunch, Isa’s menu is specialized to celebrate the freshness of Western North Carolina’s seasonal harvest and fresh local produce. Executive Chef Duane Fernandes will bring his seasoned culinary finesse to the table, preparing cuisine that will feature full-flavored comfort food as prepared in European countries such as Italy, France and Spain. Chef Fernandes leads the culinary team at Isa’s Bistro after taking leave from the four-star Horizons restaurant at the Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa. Fernandes also previously acted as the executive chef of Gabrielle’s at the Richmond Hill Inn. Patrons of Isa’s Bistro can enjoy complimentary valet parking. Valet entrance is located at the entrance of the Haywood Park Hotel.
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The GArAGe 34 ProjeCT: An Indie Handmade Shop Let’s face it: Blueprints to open a small business in a small town are all about the same. I mean, everyone starts a small business to make a profit, right? Sure, but that’s not really the reason I opened a little gig on South Lexington, the Garage 34 Project. It’s about 800 square feet and filled to the brim with handcrafted goodness. We’re a locally grown small business that supports small indie artists. And, in the back of our space, you’ll find a community of artists teaching classes offered through the Elevate Life and Art program. We are a store dedicated to building community. So what will you find when you stop by? Local and national handcrafted wares and our newly launched Hitched Handmade (a stylish, handmade, vintage/modern wedding collection). Check us out at www.g34avl.com, www.elevatelifeandart.com and www.communityavl.com.
34 S. Lexington Ave., Asheville, NC 28801 • 828-357-4668 info@g34avl.com • www.G34avl.com
Invigor™ashe.com is a free site dedicated to an active and healthy lifestyle. In essence, Invigor™ashe is a valuable resource for compelling and engaging information to help with everyday decisions in the Asheville area. Our original and dynamic content is centered on four components of an active and healthy lifestyle: fitness, nutrition, health maintenance and physical rehabilitation. Good health is not garnered by trendy and chic initiatives; rather it is sustained by a commitment to regular exercise, balanced diets, preventative health-maintenance initiatives, and sound recovery strategies after trauma and illness. Success of a website is measured by its ability to captivate viewers with compelling information. Such success for Invigor™ashe is influenced by relevant and local content, social media, and appropriate emerging business partners … translated in our ability to help attain, sustain and restore Fitness, Nutrition and Health.
Invigor™ashe is Asheville’s dynamic resource for an active and healthy lifestyle. www.invigorashe.com
“Collected not decorated” Lets go K2'ing The Kress Building has been home to K2 Studio since 1997. Originally constructed in 1926, this architectural landmark was renovated by the owners, Rod and Kim Hubbard, during the mid-'90s. Walk inside today, and find yourself wandering through the building’s original window and door settings, suspended as if floating in air. By repurposing these memories, we pay homage to the past just as our aesthetic conveys a sense of nostalgia converging with modernity.
We’re Not Your Ordinary Salon Planet Hair may be new to Asheville, but it’s our second salon in Western North Carolina, having offered the highest quality all-organic services in Clyde since 2010. Owner Lynn Moore believes in high-integrity products that give your hair the best quality care while causing no damage to the environment. We are committed to our clients, who come from all over North Carolina to experience our ammonia-free hi-lites and color, and our Goldwell award-winning stylists who specialize in color and designer cuts. Our lovely nail tech Lynsie specializes in vegan manicures and pedicures, and we use vegan shampoos and offer Emimence and Miessence certified organic facial products, and formaldehyde-free hair straightening. We Love your Hair— We Love the Planet.
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Why shouldn’t your next addition to your home be functional and beautiful? If you seek pieces that convey simplicity of form with a sense of purpose, then visit us on the corner of College and Lexington in downtown Asheville. We pride ourselves in hand-selecting local work that inspires. With specialists in glass, lighting, ceramic, as well as textile, wood, concrete and metalwork craftsmen, and artists who work with pottery, jewelry, photography and paint — there is something for everyone. Each piece tells a story, and the stories speak for themselves.
828-250-0500
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Local Market & Cafe Livi’s Pantry is a new neighborhood market offering local, organic and specialty foods, coffee, beer and wine. With our 40-plus (and growing) local brands, you are sure to find your favorite bites for treating yourself, entertaining or crafting a custom-made gift basket for a friend. We also make fresh sandwiches, salads, muffins, hot soup and coffee, which can be enjoyed in our comfortable lounge or on the go. (Future plans include a deli counter with more fresh food options and seating.) Need a little something for your next business meeting or party? Livi’s Pantry also makes mouthwatering catering platters featuring many of our local foods. Check us out on Facebook to keep up on new products, updates and events. Your taste buds will thank you.
828-251-1958
Madison Natural Foods Madison Natural Foods is a family-owned, community-driven, natural-food store located in historic downtown Marshall. We offer a full selection of natural and organic groceries, bulk foods, local and organic produce, natural bodycare products and supplements. Because we are committed to supporting local producers, you'll also find many of your favorite local products on our shelves. We opened our doors in August of 2012. It was always a dream of ours to open a natural-food store, and after spending several years in Madison County, it became apparent to us that there was a need for one right here in the town that we had grown to love so much. So we followed our dream and set out to make healthy food more accessible to Madison County. We love good food and we love bringing good food to our community!
41 N. Merrimon Ave., #107
www.livispantry.com
101 N. Main St., Marshall, NC • 828-649-2100
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Food For People, Not For Profit “Retail food cooperatives support local communities in ways that conventional grocers just can’t. As consumer-owned businesses, food co-ops operate in the interest of their members and with guiding cooperative principles. Every day, co-ops demonstrate that it’s possible to change the way business is done.” — Robynn Shrader, CEO of the National Cooperative Grocers Association
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nany locals don’t realize that the FBFC is part of a national co-op that acts as a chain without nthe uniformity of one. It’s got the buying power to keep prices competitive, without external control. The co-op is in fact governed by a board that represents over 1,500 local owners. Managers at FBFC are bound to policies regarding staff treatment, consumer treatment, the products it carries, and how it relates to the community — not just the bottom line. And consumer owners have multiple ways to save on their grocery bills. The co-op has monthly 5-percent-off days on the fifth of every month, quarterly 10-percent-off days announced in advance, two sets of storewide specials (one for everyone and one just for owners), substantial case discounts and rebates after the end of the year.
90 Biltmore Ave., Asheville NC 28801 • 828-255-7650 • frenchbroadfood.coop mountainx.com • June 26 - July 2, 2013 39
Put your money to work here and now! Mountain BizWorks makes small business loans to local entrepreneurs in Asheville and WNC. Your investment goes into the pool of funds we use to make those loans.
• Invest as little as $1,000 • Earn up to 3% annually • Choose your term — one to 10 years “It felt good to put our money someplace where we could actually hear about what happened to it and see the good it was doing in the community.” — Katie & Steve Breckheimer, Mountain BizWorks investors Help us support local businesses and create jobs by investing today! Contact us to learn more.
828-253-2834, ext. 14 • www.mountainbizworks.org
LIGHTEN UP MERGES WITH ONE CENTER YOGA IN A NEWLY EXPANDED STUDIO SETTING Lighten Up Yoga and One Center Yoga, two longstanding women-owned businesses in downtown Asheville, have shared a yoga discipline, students and events over the years. Now, owners Lillah Schwartz and Cindy Dollar have merged their businesses. “We finally got tired of pretending to be competitors!” Cindy laughs. The newly expanded One Center Yoga remains dedicated to the practice and teaching of Iyengar, Alignment-based and therapeutic yoga for overall health, including strength and flexibility of body, clarity of mind and generosity of spirit. We call it “body-wise yoga for everyone.” This shared philosophy is reflected by One Center Yoga’s newly renovated and expanded space at 120 Coxe Ave. in downtown Asheville. The light-filled, 3,500-square-feet studio, with 20 teachers, is now one of Asheville’s largest yoga studios, offering 48 classes per week, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Thai massage and other healing arts share the space. A grand opening celebration will be scheduled toward the end of the summer. Summer Special 8 classes — $80 Expires July 15
120 COXE AVE. ASHEVILLE • (828) 225-1904 INFO@ONECENTERYOGA.COM • WWW.ONECENTERYOGA.COM
Experience the new ananda west We at ananda are dedicated to clients’ sense of self. We do this through listening, understanding and connecting with each individual's needs, desires and stories. Only then can we begin to approach them with a vision and salon experience that is supported by the beauty of our artistry and impeccable costumer service. We are also tireless in our pursuit of education and enlightenment. We will remain constant, not only in improving our skill, but also in our allowance of reflection and revision of our craft and of ourselves. Only then can we be truly bold in our recommendations and the creative power as professionals striving for excellence. Located next to the Wedge Brewery on the rear side (riverside) of the Wedge Building.
828-236-2444
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Odyssey ClayWorks My name is Gabriel Kline. I am a
I cordially invite you to visit us in person at 236 Clingman Ave., or on the web at odysseyceramicarts.com and indiegogo.com/projects/ pots-for-life.
studio potter and the director of Odyssey ClayWorks, a large educational pottery studio in the River Arts District. I’m also a semi-pro volleyball player and a new dad to my daughter, Romi. I wanted to reach out through the Mountain Xpress to call attention to a project of great importance in the River Arts District: After years of teaching there, and with the retirement of its founders, I acquired the school in January of 2013. My goal is to guide the Odyssey into becoming an artistic and educational powerhouse, with an increased presence in the local and national arts scenes. In addition to the regular series of classes and workshops that we offer, we have created a beautiful new retail gallery as well as several rental studios for professional artists. We are also designing a beautiful handmade line of pottery, designed by some of the area’s best potters and sculptors. This new and sustainable business model will allow the Odyssey to thrive in an everchanging economic situation.
LIVE MUSIC, LOCAL FOOD, LOVIN’ LIFE, LIVIN’ GOOD Introducing Brevard’s only farm to table restaurant, The Phoenix! Located in downtown, The place welcomes you in invitingly. Soft stonework lines walls of local art, and a gorgeous mural spans the wall by their music stage. A living room style seating area is found beside the main floor, which houses warm wooden tables and chairs in front of a horseshoe shaped bar. Wooden bar stools invite you to cozy up and try their housemade liquor infusions. The menu, created by New Orleans trained Chef Reynolds, is locally sourced and delicious. It begins with fresh soups and elegant salads, followed by starches and vegetables like Artichoke Provencal and other delightful dishes. Their Protein section features antibiotic/hormone free proteins prepared perfectly to please many pallets. An extensive wine list features organic wine and beer. Six nights a week this is THE place to hear live music! Find more at www.ThePhoenixBrevard.com!
14 S. Gaston St., Brevard, NC 28712 • 828-877-3232 manager@thephoenixbrevard.com • www.ThePhoenixBrevard.com
Dr. Matthew Young, DDS Dr. Matthew Young DDS has practiced in Hendersonville since 1984. He became holistic after joining the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology and served as its president from 2010-2011. Since then, his office has been involved with research projects concerning occupational and patient exposure to mercury vapor and particles when old dental amalgams are removed with a high-speed drill. Mercury amalgams are 50 percent mercury by weight and without proper filtration, a shower of vapor and particles fills up the room.
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Using a whole-office monitoring system, patients and staff can see in real time how low these readings can be kept using the
Whole-office mercury monitoring system
IAOMT-accredited safety techniques. Adding full face masks and gowns protects them from skin exposure, which is also a part of OSHA and ATSDR regulations. Young’s goal is to educate the public, and for dental schools and organizations to adopt similar protective gear in order to make going to the dentist a safe, healthy experience. His office is fluoride and latex free and uses materials that are tested to be free of BPAs.
For more information, visit www.iaomt.org and www.matthewyoungdds.net New patients can call 828-693-8416 for an appointment. mountainx.com • June 26 - July 2, 2013 41
JATI TUA
Welcome To Jati Tua! We have supplied fine antiques and home accessories for 13 years — first in Beaufort, S.C., and now here in Asheville. Most of the Dutch colonial furniture found in Jati Tua is teak dating from the early to mid-20th century and refinished by master Balinese craftsmen. Teak is widely recognized as the preeminent wood for furniture. It is a tropical hardwood that grows to more than 100 feet tall and has a circumference at breast height of greater than 20 feet. A straight tree with very few knots, teak contains a high oil content which protects it from rot and insects.
Bring Your Family to Visit Ours
Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards is a familyowned and -operated vineyard located in the heart of Henderson County. This particular piece of property has been in the Ward family since the 1800s and is now a Centennial Farm. Our goal is to create an environment of sustainability where the family can continue to participate in farming. We have carefully selected our growing locations with a lot of work, investment, trial and error — and some good luck. The elevations of our vineyards, the lower humidity and early-morning drying of the grapes on the mountain slopes make for a better growing season.
Our home accessories are all handmade by local villagers in Bali and Java. The baskets, bowls and placemats are all made in Tenganan, a village in northern Bali, and the fabric items are woven in Java then printed in Bali.
We are excited about the opportunities surrounding grape growing and viticulture. We want people to come here, experience it and learn about the farming and winemaking process. We are dog friendly and have picnic areas for your enjoyment. We also feature locally made food products, including Vineyards Edge Dairy goat cheeses, Tito’s Specialty Foods hummus and Roots and Branches artisan crackers for purchase. Throughout the summer, we will also feature live music and fun events! Visit our website or Facebook page for a listing of all current events.
33 N. Lexington Ave., Asheville, NC 28801 • 828-271-8928 jeanie@jatituaantiques.com • www.jatituaantiques.com
588 Chestnut Gap Road, Hendersonville, NC 28792 828-685-4002 • www.saintpaulmountainvineyards.com
make a dIfference by where you bank!
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Invest Intentionally! Invest Local! With a minimum deposit of $500 to open our Go Local Certificate of Deposit, you can help fund local green businesses, community economicdevelopment projects and home-ownership opportunities across Western North Carolina. Self-Help Credit Union leverages the money you deposit to create economic opportunity for all, especially through loans to women, minorities and rural residents, and to low-wealth families and communities with less access to traditional capital. Carolina Mountains Credit Union, a division of Self-Help, is a local member-owned credit union serving more than 7,600 members in WNC that provides a wide range of financial services, including checking, savings, and online and mobile banking. Among our supporters are individuals, nonprofits, religious organizations, foundations and wealth-management firms committed to socially responsible investing. We have been investing in the businesses you care about, totaling $141 million lent in Western North Carolina since 1974.
34 Wall St., aSheville, NC 28801 • 828-676-2196 jane.hatley@self-help.org • www.self-help.org
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Mark Twain had a very strict philosophy when it came to writing his American classics: “Write what you know” — a simple rule that lays the foundation for a great story. We use that rule in the kitchen: “Cook what you know” — the simple, honest flavors from the ingredient-focused cuisine that make our region of Southern Appalachia special. Seven Sows is an homage to, and our interpretation of, the flavors of the American South, with a masterful touch from our team of creative chefs. Our cuisine is expressive and bold, reflecting the foods from the memories that define us. We feature the best of hardworking farmers and the artisan producers of our state and local community. With over 57 different bourbons and whiskeys and a dedicated staff of educated servers, we make your visit with us warm, welcome and memorable. Come see the family. Welcome to Seven Sows.
77 Biltmore Ave., Suite 111, ASheville, NC 28801 iNfo@SeveNSowS.Com, (828) 255-2592
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When visiting Sound Temple Studios in West Asheville, one immediately notices the beauty of the design and the positive energy. The look and “vibe” of this world-class recording studio integrate the designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, Sacred Geometry and Feng Shui to create a one-of-a-kind space that inspires creativity. Featuring a large “live” recording room with 10-foot ceilings and five recording booths, the layout also affords great sightlines and impressive acoustics. Equipment highlights include an SSL mixer, Dynaudio Soffit monitors, Cubase, Protools, lots of “top-of-the-line” mics, mic preamps, EQs, compressors and a mint C6 Yamaha 7-foot Grand Piano. Owner/engineer/producer Robert George has worked with musicians nationwide for over 25 years, earning a reputation for turning out great recordings. After its first year, Sound Temple was voted in the top 3 studios in the Best Of WNC.
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It s a Great Time
to Be a Man Old North smells like a man. Seriously though, this store is all about men, and not just any kind of man, but the rugged gentleman — the kind you will find in the mountains chopping wood, working on a classic motorcycle or discussing the finer details of an enterprise in an executive meeting.
a small apothecary using only natural essences. Your style evolves but doesn’t turn on a dime anymore. You know exactly who you are. You care about what your dollar votes for, and you’re voting for quality. For you, rugged gentlemen of Asheville, there is Old North.
This is a great time to be a man, especially a gentleman. The return to classic, timeless style is underway. With a renewed interest in quality and craftsmanship, the modern gentleman’s style revolves around a collection of timeless basic pieces. Returning to the construction techniques of the past, when things were made to last, has changed the landscape of men’s fashion. Your jeans will endure several years of hard wear and your boots will outlive you. Your fragrance is handmade in
82 N. Lexington Ave. • 828-505-6495
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Vintage Furnishings Store in River Arts District next to Wedge Brewery Splurge by Robert Nicholas opened its doors in March to a welcoming community of curious and expectant connoisseurs — of style, vintage, design and unique custom lighting — who were quickly converted to fans. Robert and Rebecca Nicholas have been seeking rare and hand-selected vintage furnishings for more than 20 years. “The Robert Look,” a term coined by both colleagues and clients, encompasses the genre of their unique artistic finds, which are tasteful yet urbane. Splurge by Robert Nicholas has been sought by restaurateurs, hotels, retail stores, designers and savvy decorators from around the globe for distinct custom lighting, vintage furnishings and artful creations. The eye to identify and the ability to create unique and iconic designs are the foundational elements that the company has become known for. Splurge finds and creates iconic objects that transform spaces.
At Synchronicity, our programs are designed to revive the lost art of medicine. Our philosophy is that every human being, regardless of genetic predisposition, has the potential to achieve optimal health. We take full advantage of state-of-the-art technology, evidence-based research and extensive lab testing to combine the best aspects of traditional Western medical practices with “alternative or integrative” medicine in order to design a program that is customized to assist you. At Synchronicity we focus on four pillars of health as the basis for optimal health and wellness: Functional Nutrition, Functional Fitness, Hormone Optimization and the Mind/Body Connection. Each aspect is equally important in order to be fully successful in slowing, stopping and even reversing the body’s aging process. The Synchronicity programs are designed for individuals seeking to optimize their health and wellness in order to prevent disease before it begins. Our program is for those not satisfied with the status quo of “average.” We provide our clients with details regarding their medical issues, explanations of their test results and full discussions regarding treatment options, risks and alternatives. We partner with you so that you can take charge of your own health and understand that the disease process is not inevitable.
37 Paynes Way, Ste 003 • Asheville • 828-545-0707 • Tues-Sat 11-6
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Thank Dog!® Bootcamp is a one-stop fitness program that combines dog training, weight training and cardio training for dogs and their people. Owners Adinna Augur Smith, a dog trainer, and husband Adam Smith, a personal trainer, run each one-hour long bootcamp. Bootcamps provide the benefit of a cardio- and weight-training session while bonding with your dog, who is simultaneously receiving basic obedience training. Bootcamps are offered weekdays at Recreation Park (65 Gashes Creek Rd — by the Nature Center) and on Saturdays in downtown Asheville. Before starting bootcamp, you and your dog will attend a one-hour introductory obedience lesson to learn how bootcamp works and get your dog started with obedience training. A tired dog is a good dog, and a trained dog is even better! So, get your shoes on, grab a leash and come play with us. Mention that you saw us in Mountain Xpress and receive a FREE week of bootcamps.
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For more information, visit www.synchronicitywellness.org or contact us at 828-505-8087 or info@synchronicitywellness.org
When The Social opened its doors this past April, it fulfilled a long-held dream of Ryan and Clarissa Marshall. They met waiting tables six years ago and always hoped one day to have a place of their own. The Social brings their vision to life with unique pub food and a nighttime atmosphere normally found only downtown. Every night after 9 feels like a different venue with salsa dancing, ‘80s Vinyl Night, Open Mic, Get Vocal Karaoke, and local, live music. If you haven’t spent time on the occasionally overlooked east side, The Social is the perfect reason to go exploring. Check out The Social on Facebook for daily food and drink specials, like Moonshine Martini Monday and Social Tea Saturdays. www.facebook.com/thesocialasheville 828-298-8780, 1078 Tunnel Rd. Asheville, NC 28805
1078 Tunnel Rd., Asheville, NC 28805 828-298-8780 www.facebook.com/thesocialasheville
Hate to wait? Can’t get an appointment with your Doctor? Then Trillium Family Medicine may be the practice for you. Trillium Family Medicine is the office of Family Physician Dr. S. Mark McNeill MD. What makes Trillium Family Medicine different is the availability that is created by our use of the internet. Through a user-friendly secure patient portal, patients set up their own appointments online. Same-day appointments are always available. Patients securely message Dr. McNeill with their questions and can expect a timely response. This means no waiting on hold for an appointment or waiting days for a response from your doctor to a question. This streamlined communication process allows Dr. McNeill more time to spend with his patients when they are in the office.
All insurances are accepted, including Medicaid and Medicare. If you would like to learn more or become a patient, visit our website at www.trilliumfamilymedicine.com.
Manifest your ULTIMATE desires We craft ultra-premium confections for our community. A little over seven years ago, we left social work to embark on a new journey serving our community and filling our hearts. Our handcrafted flavors feature the best of local ingredients. We source our milk within 150 miles of our factory. We collaborate with local producers and farmers. We put our heart into each batch, literally. Some refer to us as the “microbrewery of ice cream”; others think we are changing lives by way of ice cream. However we arrive in your life, via pint or cone, we are overjoyed that you have made us a part of your memorable moments. Our new ice cream factory and private packaging facility is now operational, producing signature flavors for families across the southeast. We are growing, and it’s all because you, Asheville.
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Playing the goat Behold, the mighty dairy goat. This productive, charming animal provides the essentials for a wide variety of cheeses and milk and is known for its hilarious antics in the barnyard. Round Mountain Creamery in Black Mountain puts its more than 200 Alpine, LaMancha and Nubian dairy goats to good use, producing 12 different cheeses and whole goat milk. The farm bills itself as North Carolina’s only grade-A creamery and uses organic fertilizer and feed that is free of animal by-products to keep its goats healthy and productive. The goats are “gently pampered” and enjoy air conditioning while they are milked and fed. The Piedmont Dairy Goat Association wants you to come out to Round Mountain Creamery and learn more about goats up close. On Sunday, June 30, from 1-6 p.m., the creamery will open its gates for an afternoon designed to get your goat (in the best possible way). Meet the goats, try your hand at milking and taste everything from provincial olives to campfire jalapeño cheeses. Get a tour of the farm, located at 2203 Old Fort Road, Black Mountain, and learn about goats first hand for $5. Info: piedmontdairygoats.com, roundmountaincreamery.com or 713-4887.
GOATS GALORE: Meet and milk dairy goats, taste cheeses and go on a tour of Round Mountain Creamery on Dairy Goat Day this Sunday, June 30. Photo courtesy of Piedmont Dairy Goat Association.
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• 2-5pm - spruce pine farmers market, 297 Oak Ave. • 2-6pm - french broad food Co-op, 90 Biltmore Ave. • 2-6pm - montford farmers market, 36 Montford Ave. • 2:30-6:30pm - weaverville tailgate market, 60 Lakeshore Drive. • 3-6pm - opportunity house, 1411 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville.
thursdays • 8am-2pm - henderson County Curb market, 221 N. Church St., Hendersonville. • 3-6pm - flat rock tailgate market, 2720 Greenville Highway. • 3:30-6:30pm - oakley farmers market, 607 Fairview Road. • 4-6:30pm - tryon tailgate market, McCowan St. • 4-6pm - blowing rock farmers market, 132 Park Ave.
• 6am-noon - Caldwell County farmers market, 120 Hospital Ave., N.E., Lenoir. • 8am-noon - north asheville tailgate market, UNCA commuter lot C. • 8am-noon - haywood historic farmers market, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. • 8am-noon - mills river farmers market, 5046 Boylston Highway. • 8am-noon - waynesville tailgate market, 171 Legion Drive. • 8am-1pm - asheville City market, 161 South Charlotte St. • 8am-2pm - henderson County Curb market, 221 N. Church St., Hendersonville. • 8am-12:30pm - transylvania tailgate market, 190 E. Main St., Brevard. • 8:30am-12:30pm - yancey County farmers market, U.S. 19 East at S. Main Street, Burnsville. • 9am-noon - black mountain tailgate market , 130 Montreat Road.
Farm & Garden Calendar alderman daylily sale (pd.) To Benefit Child Abuse Prevention Services, Inc. June 28 and 29. $2-$10. Sharon Rd. Fairview. Follow signs on 74A. www.childabusepreventionservices.org asheville Garden Club • WE (7/3), 10am - A meeting of the Asheville Garden Club will feature a presentation on using found objects in the garden. Held at North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road. Refreshments at 9:30am. Free. Info: 2580922.
CAN’T BEET IT: Fresh beets in bold colors will join carrots and broccoli at farmers markets this week. Photo courtesy of ASAP.
Wasabi: not just in Japan Wasabi may seem like an exotic plant best suited for foreign countries, but it has found a home here in Western North Carolina. Joe Hollis of Mountain Gardens in Celo has been growing it for 25 years and calls it a “happy plant” that has “taken off” in his botanical garden. Mountain Gardens is on the edge of Pisgah National Forest and unlike most of the United States, it is an ideal environment for wasabi. The plants need a constant source of water and shady woodlands to thrive, and Hollis has found ways to provide both. In addition to several acres of Chinese herbs and medicinal plants, Hollis has created a wasabi garden out of wading pools filled with rocks and soil.
• 9am-noon - Jackson County farmers market, 76 Railroad Ave., Sylva. • 9am-noon - historic marion tailgate market, West Henderson and Logan Streets. • 9am-1pm - madison County farmers and artisans market, Mars Hill College, Highway 213 and Part Street. • 9am-2pm - leicester farmers market, 338 Leicester Highway.
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A stream of water trickles through holes on either side of the pool, keeping the plants moist while preventing soggy roots. These patches of wasabi provide seeds and leaves that can be used for an array of commercial purposes, including high-end cuisine. The leaves can be used in everything from sauces to salad dressings to sushi wraps — anything a “clever chef” can cook up, Hollis says. In fact, Mountain Gardens sells its wasabi leaves to the famed Lantern restaurant in Chapel Hill. With the right growing conditions, a patch of wasabi can be a successful plant for both home and commercial gardens. Hollis will offer a wasabi workshop on Saturday, June 29, from 1:30- 5 p.m. at Mountain Gardens near Burnsville. The class will cover the basics of site selection and preparation, with seeds and seedlings for sale. $50. Info and directions: mountaingardensherbs.com.
• noon-4pm - sundays on the island, Blanahasset Island, Marshall.
tuesdays • 8am-2pm - henderson County Curb market, 221 N. Church St., Hendersonville. • 3-6pm - historic marion tailgate market, West Henderson and Logan Streets. • 3:30-6:30pm - west asheville tailgate market, 718 Haywood Road.
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baCkyard ChiCken workshop • SA (6/29), 10am-noon - A backyard chicken workshop with "the chicken whisperer" will be held at Tractor Supply Co., 1132 Old Brevard Road. Free. Info: 670-9170. bunCombe County extension master Gardeners Programs are held at 94 Coxe Ave. unless otherwise noted. Info: 255-5522. • MONDAYS through THURSDAYS, 9:30am3:30pm; FRIDAYS, 9:30am-12:30pm - The Master Gardener Hotline will accept gardening questions via phone and in-person. Info: 255-5522 or buncombemastergardener.org. dairy Goat day • SU (6/30), 1-6pm - The Piedmont Dairy Goat Association invites the public to meet dairy goats, taste cheese, milk a goat and receive a Grade-A dairy farm tour at Round Mountain Creamery, 2203 Old Fort Road, Black Mountain. $5. Info: piedmontdairygoats.com or 713-4887. Gaia herbs open house • SA (6/29), 9am-5pm - Gaia Herbs, 101 Gaia Herbs Drive, Brevard, will host an open house featuring 90-minute general tours, a three-hour walking tour with founder Ric Scalzo and refreshments. Free. Info: gaiaherbs.com/go/tours. haywood County plant CliniC • MONDAYS through FRIDAYS, 9amnoon & 1-4pm - Haywood County Master Gardeners will host a plant clinic at 589 Raccoon Road, Suite 118, Waynesville. Questions about lawns, vegetables, flowers and trees will be answered. Info: 456-3575. hiGhlands bioloGiCal station Botanical garden: 265 N. Sixth St., Highlands. Nature center: 930 Horse Cove Road, Highlands. Free. Info: highlandsbiological.org or 526-0188. • LAST FRIDAYS through (8/30) - Volunteers are invited to help maintain the gardens. • MONDAYS through (8/26), 10:30am Tours of the botanical garden will depart from the nature center amphitheater. men's Garden Club of asheville • TU (7/2), 11:45am - The Men's Garden Club of Asheville will meet at First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St., for a program on the
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history and folklore of the nursery industry in Mitchell, Avery and Yancey counties. Lunch reservations required by June 27. For those not purchasing lunch, the meeting begins at 12:40pm. $12 for lunch/free to attend. Info: 329-8577. n.C. arboretum Located at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way. 9am-5pm daily. Info: ncarboretum.org or 665-2492. • SATURDAYS, 1pm - Interpretive guides will lead small groups through woodland trails and a variety of forest types. Topics include wildflowers, plant identification, natural history and land use. Free with $8 parking fee; donations encouraged. • SA (6/29), 1-4pm - A program on edible mushrooms of WNC will focus on identification and collection. A mushroom hike will follow the presentation. Wear sturdy shoes and bring a basket for collecting. $37/$29 members. small terrain 278 Haywood Road. Info: smallterrain.com or 216-8102. • TH (6/27), 6-8pm - A class on backyard chickens will focus on obtaining, feeding, housing and caring for flocks. $25. • TU (7/4), 2-4pm - A class on gardening with kids, geared towards adults, will discuss ways to encourage kids to explore nature and curiosity. $15. more GardeninG events online Check out the Gardening Calendar online at mountainx.com/events for info on events happening after July 4. Calendar deadline The deadline for free and paid listings is 5 p.m. wednesday, one week prior to publication. Questions? Call (828)251-1333, ext. 365
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THE MANY LIVES of HECTOR DIAZ
By EMILY PATRICK Photos by MAX COOPER Hector Diaz’s hair stands up from his head in tufts like the sticky down of a newborn chick. He’s not balding, exactly, but no one would call his a full head of hair. A few weeks ago, he bleached it blonde. He’s Puerto Rican. Blonde is not his natural hair color. Ask him why he changed his hair color, he avoids the question. Press the matter, he elaborates. “Because I’m crazy,” he says, or rather, emotes, his mouth stretching long, his hands framing his face, his speech deeply accented. “Here and there, you might see me purple. That’s the kind of personality I am.”
FIRE STARTER When Diaz was arrested on assault charges a couple of days after Christmas, he was not blonde. That’s easy to tell from the police report: “Hair color: BLK,” it reads. It continues: He stands 5 feet, 7 inches, weighs 150 pounds. He’s 54 years old and has a tattoo of a dolphin on his left elbow. It lists him as the owner of Salsa’s, although he also owns the downtown restaurants Modesto, Chorizo and Bomba. In April, a Buncombe County district judge convicted him of “assault on a female.” That female was a city parking attendant, according to the police report. He hit her on the head as she was noting the location of his car in her handheld computer, according to news reports. The judge sentenced him to probation for a year, and community service, which he performs weekly at Brother Wolf Animal
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Rescue (a task that he says makes him feel good). But he squirms at the upcoming, court-ordered psychological evaluation and anger management classes. It’s been about six weeks since Diaz was sentenced, and I’ve been following him around for three weeks or so, trying to reconcile the successful restaurant owner with the “offender,” as the police report lists him. In our time together, he’s remained in near-constant motion. Watching him is like watching an inflatable Airdancer outside a car lot. Now, at Dobrá Tea, I see him at rest for the first time. We’re sitting in the back of the shop where you’re supposed to remove your shoes and sit on floor pillows. Diaz takes off his sneakers to reveal crisp but inexpensive white cotton athletic socks. His toes point up as he reposes on one of the cushions, legs outstretched in front of him. He drinks his iced tea slowly. My glass is empty long before his. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve asked Diaz about the same topics over and over again, trying to understand his perspective. I bring the conversation back around to the parking attendant. Again, he seems remorseful, although also buoyant. “I made a mistake to react,” he says. “I’m paying for it. Oh my, I’m paying for it.” Each time I have asked the question, he mentions paying. How, I ask, how are you paying? “I’ve lost a lot of friends,” he says. He wants to move forward, he says, so he stays focused on solving problems at his restaurants. “You know how many fires we got everyday?” he asks. “This business is all about fires. Sometimes I feel like a fireman.” He faces the day-to-day conflagrations of scheduling and deliveries, as well as long-term tasks: He’s redecorating Modesto and Chorizo and launching expanded
When I get out of my car, she is already beside me. I didn’t see her walk up; she’s just there all of a sudden in weathered work boots and a cable knit sweater. Her hair is slung into a ponytail. She looks like Helen of Troy, I think, and wonder why that image comes to mind. Then I notice she’s wearing a thin headband of braided, gold-colored elastic that looks vaguely Grecian. Maybe that’s it. Her age is tough to guess. I would believe any number she would tell me. Later, she says she’s 38. For four days, Aimee has been overseeing the family’s move from a rental house to the farm, unpacking while keeping an eye on her three sons, ages 3, 7 and 9. It’s been hectic, she says, but even so, the place looks put together. The throw pillows are already arranged on the sofas. We walk up to the greenhouse, which perches on a hill behind the small residence. Aimee slowly pushes dirt from a trowel with her fingernails while we talk. “What I think is most fascinating about Hector is that everybody has their ideas about him,” she says. “It used to be frustrating, but I don’t find it frustrating anymore.” Aimee met Hector 16 years ago through a mutual friend. They connected at LEAF in 1997, dancing to Latin music. “The Latin community here, at that time, was really small,” Aimee says — her father is Latino, her mother is British. “There weren’t a lot of people who knew how to dance.” But the dancing didn’t lead to romance. At least, not right away. Aimee worked for Hector when he owned Zambra. After she took a job at Tryon Distributing, he
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“I hear a lot of people say, ‘Oh, I met this guy, he’s perfect for me,’” Aimee says. “Hector’s not perfect for me, and I’m not perfect for Hector. All the perfect people in our community, they should probably just stop reading this article, because this is not a perfect article or a perfect life.”
hours and outdoor seating at Bomba, while creating an organic farm in Leicester to provide produce for the restaurants and a home for his family of five. It’s not just business, though, that gets heated. “Me myself, I start a lot of fires,” he admits.
HUSBAND One morning, I drive to the Diaz’s Leicester farm. I have been there before with Diaz: He’s given me the grand tour. He’s pointed out the fields of lettuce, beets, squash and garlic that separate the newly built farmhouse from the road. He has shown me his dozens of chickens, running about on a grassy hillside — Rhode Island Reds and Comets, all except for one, anyway. A yellow hen has moved over from a neighbor’s house. But today, Diaz doesn’t know I’m coming. I’m there to see his wife, Aimee Diaz, about whom I know very little.
became her client. In 2000, they bonded over a wine encyclopedia; Aimee considers that their first date. They started a family together in 2004. “But you didn’t come here for a love story,” she says. And she’s right. Since 2010, Hector has been arrested three times for assault: Aimee in 2010, his adult son (Aimee’s stepson), Phoenix Wolf, in 2011, and the parking attendant in 2012, according to the Asheville Police Department. “I have five children,” Aimee says (counting her three sons and two step-children). “We’re working really hard to address his temper, and I don’t want us to take three steps back right now. I have to focus on a solution.” It’s not just her family’s happiness she’s thinking about, she explains. The Diaz’s businesses employ about 100 people. “They count on us to keep it together and work hard and to provide a place for their success,” she says. “You know that analogy with the sticks? If you have one stick, it breaks if you put pressure on it. But when you put all the sticks together, you can’t even bend them. That’s where our focus has to be as a community.” For the charges listed above, Hector has been sentenced in the most recent case. The other ones were dropped eventually. In April, Aimee did not accompany him to court for sentencing — “That was his thing,” she says — but she did iron a shirt for him that morning, and she admires the judge who sentenced him. Hector is nervous about his upcoming trip to the psychologist and his anger management course; Aimee thinks it will be good for him. “The only reason you see a man and a woman sitting on a park bench when they’re 80 is because that woman and that man dealt with the nastiest parts of each other,” she says. “That’s a choice, and it’s a strong choice, and it’s a hard choice.”
ISLANDER, DRUG DEALER, BEACH BUM, AID WORKER When I ask Aimee about Hector’s past, she mentions his “lives” as a way of describing it. “He has done it all,” she says. The chronology is challenging. It would take pages to lay it all out. This fact hasn’t been lost on Hector; he wants to write a book. Hector was born in a field near the mountain town of Cayey, Puerto Rico. His 14-year-old mother delivered him in hiding; she was worried her brothers would kill the baby because his father had come up the mountain from the city and seduced her. “My uncles were like, ‘If that guy comes up here, we’ll chop his head,’ Diaz says. “These guys were in the United States Army. They went to Korea. They went to Vietnam. Pretty tough.” His aging grandparents raised him; his mother fled to New York shortly after his birth. He spent most of his time playing sports — boxing, baseball or basketball —
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or looking for ginger root and cinnamon bark in the jungle. He made fritters and sold them outside the baseball stadium, saving toward a plane ticket to follow his mother and escape his uncles. “They hit me like a man at the age of 5 or 6,” he says. “Bam! I would fly to the other side of the room.” When he arrived in New York City at age 12, he lived with his aunt and washed dishes to make money. By the time he was 17, he was turning a fast trade in marijuana, he says, on the Lower East Side. “I had the most beautiful clothes,” he sighs. The dangers of that lifestyle sent him looking for a career change. He still has a bullet in his leg, a memento from a girlfriend. “She was jealous,” he says. Hector says he left New York after landing in court one too many times. He served probation in Miami, where he was a self-declared “beach bum” for a while. In yet another life, Hector traveled around Africa and South America with the now-defunct nonprofit Atlas, he says. The group trained him to teach food safety in impoverished areas. The people he met taught him recipes while they worked, which he lodged in his mind to use later on.
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Hector’s life in Asheville started at The Market Place restaurant. He had worked in kitchens in New York and Miami, but here, he took a job as a server instead. His position didn’t stop him from talking about recipes, recalls Mark Rosenstein, who founded the restaurant in 1979 and owned it until 2009. “He was always talking about food and food ideas, even though he was not in the kitchen,” Rosenstein says. “Specifically, we used a spice that — it kills me I’ve lost the recipe — we called cohiba spice, and it was based on coffee and chocolate.” Business was also on Hector’s mind. “We talked a lot about it,” Rosenstein says. “I think he knew from the get-go that waiting tables at The Market Place was a way station on to other things that he wanted to do.” In 1994, when much of downtown was still boarded up, Hector opened Salsa’s as a burrito counter; the dining room expansion came a few years later. Patrons waited in a line down the block to buy his food, even though there was no place to sit down and eat it. “Everybody would go in and get the food to take out and take back to their office,” says Pat Whalen, who directs Public Interest Projects, an investment group that helped Salsa’s expand in its early days. “Whatever you ordered was going to be amazing.” Occasionally, when Whalen talks about Hector, he laughs loudly — I think the term for it is a guffaw. He’s amused, surely, but maybe uncomfortable, too. His relationship with Hector has been complicated. (“We’re friends,” Hector says. “We’re not like friends-friends-friends.”) Hector also opened Zambra and a hot sauce factory on Lexington Avenue in partnership with PIP, which offers financial assistance to local entrepreneurs.
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SALSA MAn Hector doesn’t drink coffee, he says, but he moves about Mountain Foods like a person in a highly caffeinated state. He regularly comes into the wholesale produce supplier at the WnC Farmers Market like the white tornado from the Mr. Clean commercials, says Ron Ainspan, who owns the business, along with the Fresh Quarter fruit stand in the Grove Arcade and West Village Market. Hector gives Ainspan a peck on the lips. “He helped me be who I am today, and for that, I love him,” Hector says. “He gave me my first food without a penny down.” Hector’s tone changes as he takes the conversation into business matters. “Alright papa,” he says, and begins listing the items he’s come to buy: cremini and shiitake mushrooms, poblano peppers, juicing oranges — Florida-grown only, nothing from South America. Hector says he likes to keep business in the U.S. “When he comes into the warehouse, he can basically use my whole staff to get his orders,” Ainspan says with a laugh. After 20 years of business, he doesn’t mind Hector’s bustle, and anyway, he’s gotten used to it. “I think that energy is real,” he says. “I would say it’s definitely changeable, so today’s excitement might be tomorrow’s discard.” What does he mean by that? Sometimes Hector creates a bigger project than he can sustain. In the late ‘90s, Hector contracted with local pepper farmers to grow habaneros and jalapeños for Hector’s Sauces. In 2000, the Citizen-Times reported that he was buying 90,000 pounds of peppers a year. He couldn’t process all the peppers right away, and some of them required aging, so he stored them at Ainspan’s warehouse. “He’d come in and take some, but there would be a lot left over,” Ainspan says. “One time, I got a call from a customer saying that their broccoli tasted a little spicy. So I found out that somebody had racked up a pallet of hot peppers above where the broccoli was, and the peppers had been there long enough to start dripping.” Hector plans to revive the sauce company one day. He recently dug out the old logos and hung them on the wall of his business office on Wall Street. The anthropomorphic jalapeños and habaneros remind him of the work he wants to do next. He still has dried habaneros, dated 1998, in storage. They get better with age, he explains.
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OFFEndER At Mountain Foods, Hector shows off for me. He knows where all the different vegetables and herbs are kept. He poses for a cheesy picture with a stuffed honey bear. He greets the staff by name. He’s even more theatrical than usual. I ask Ainspan if Hector could be trying to manipulate me. “I don’t think Hector is faking it,” Ainspan says. “I think the energy is real.” But not everyone agrees. Pamela Irions was the victim of the december assault for which Hector was convicted. She can’t talk about the incident in the context of her job, she says. She doesn’t want to get in trouble with her employer. But she feels OK talking about it as part of her personal life.
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We stand on the sidewalk and talk while she smokes a cigarette. “It’s all a front to me,” she says. “He’s trying to put off this persona that he’s a good person. … I just don’t believe it.” Before the December incident, Irions had never heard of Hector. Now, she calls him by his first name, even though the court prohibits the two from speaking. But he remains mysterious to her. “What kind of person is he really?” she says. A group of police officers in bicycle gear walk by. They nod and smile at Irions, and she returns their greeting. She feels safe, generally, she says. She likes the interaction with the people she meets on the job, and she believes in the community’s power to balance wrong actions with right ones. “It’s kind of like karma,” she says. “He had news crews in his face and stuff. It’s like, ‘Is this not embarrassing for you?’” What seems most personal about the attack, the actual violence, she meets with detachment. “What happened that day I do not feel had anything to do with me,” she says. She’s pleased with the outcome of the trial. Plus, she has her own way of “balancing the scale.” Tourists often ask her where to eat. “I say, ‘Let me shorten your list.’”
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About 15 years ago, she was eating with friends at Salsa’s and had ordered the fish special without realizing the fish would be served whole. She sent it back to the kitchen for decapitation. “I could hear him complaining and yelling and saying, ‘Doesn’t that person know that they need the whole fish? They need to eat the whole thing!’” Mears remembers. “I was shrinking in my seat. … I could hear him whack the knife and chop the head off.” In 2006, she took a job at Salsa’s without realizing the yelling man would be her boss. When she figured it out, she says she just laughed. She began as a hostess, but after a year, she was a manager. Now, she oversees all of Hector’s businesses, looking to practical matters while he generates new ideas. “He can sometimes be scattered and all over the place with it, and I kind of try to bring it down,” she says. “That’s probably one reason why I work really well with Hector: I’m a much more grounded person, where he is inventive and way more creative and dwells in the possibility of things.”
STALWART In a photo from a 1996 edition of the Asheville CitizenTimes, Hector gazes out from the page, looking a little bemused. He’s standing in the kitchen of Salsa’s before the expansion. The camera has caught him in mid-turn. He looks fresh-faced, but a little disheveled. A photo is probably the best way to catch Hector standing still. In the moments before and after the shot was taken, he was likely bounding about the kitchen, toying with produce and talking with his hands as he does today.
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CHEF In the kitchen of Modesto, Hector puts on a show. He bounces a long, springy garlic scape, makes lewd gestures with a bamboo shoot, offers samples of guava. He seems frenzied — until he picks up a knife the size of his forearm and takes to a tiny strawberry. He turns all his energy to his task. For a moment, he’s focused, and the fruit falls in two. His operations manager, Jennifer Mears slips into the kitchen and updates him about a phone call. People ask Mears how she has endured working for Hector for almost seven years now. “They don’t know how to take a person who comes out and speaks their truth,” she explains. She always replies: “I just do it.” Then, they ask if it’s difficult. “I don’t think it’s hard working for Hector,” she says. “Some days are more stressful than others, but most days are a lot of fun.” Admittedly, though, Mears’ first run-in with Hector was a little uncomfortable.
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But despite his momentum, something about Hector is steadfast. “I wouldn’t be here without community support,” he says in the story. “My dream is to give back good quality food that makes a healthier community.” The interview is buried in Pack Library’s microfilm collection. If you want to know what it says, save yourself some the laborious task of digging it out. Just go talk to Hector; he’s still saying the same things. “It’s always been my goal to take care of this community,” he says as he drives us out to his farm one morning. I haven’t asked him about the interview. He just happened to be rambling on about something that led him to this point. “I’m about el gusto and the passion of doing something right. That’s where I eat from. That’s my thing.” As we roll through the countryside, I wonder about Hector, as I have at so many other points during our time together. Is he performing? Is he putting me on? Is he faking something? I can’t answer any of those questions. But if Hector is acting, I can tell you where to see the one-man show. It’s been running here in Asheville since 1990. “Come to me and talk to me about what’s going on,” he says. “You can opinion whatever you want, and you can say what you need to say. I’ll take it, and I’ll be better out of that.” X
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Ben’s Tune-Up opens this week with Japanese-style eats from an American kitchen Ben’s Tune-Up has forged, perhaps, the first link between ‘60s Japanese rock, crystals, taxidermy, Chia Pets and the auto-repair industry. Those elements play into the atmosphere at the restaurant, which opens this week on Hilliard Avenue. The food has its own set of idiosyncrasies. “I like to see people having a good time,” says Jonathan Robinson, one of the restaurant’s four owners. “I was always the kid who threw the parties when I was in high school.” The hybrid business (restaurant, bar, sake brewery and more) is set up for a party. In fact, it’s a party fortress. The high, cinderblock walls and metal fencing that surround the indoor/outdoor restaurant give it an industrial castle vibe. The entry opens onto a wide courtyard, where a living wall softens the space; reclaimed wood gives the old concrete and metal a warm
BeN’s tuNe-up opeNs: Tuesday, June 25 for dinner and late-night Hours: 5 p.m. to midnight daily Owners: Meg Alt, Molly Clark, Elliott Moss, Jonathan Robinson LocatIoN: 195 Hilliard Ave. to eat: Yakitori, ramen, katsudon, sashimi and other small-serving dishes that play with Japanese and American influences (beginning at a few dollars apiece) to drINk: Full bar with a selective program of wine, sake, draft and bottled beer, and $6 liquor specials for More INforMatIoN: benstuneup.com or facebook.com/ bens.tuneup or @benstuneup
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Not just for uNdergrads: Ramen has grown in popularity over the past few years with the success of David Chang’s Momofuku in New York City. Ben’s Tune-Up offers a fresh take on the dish.
feel; homemade Chia Pets gaze at one another whimsically. In the courtyard and the cozy bar/dining room inside, there’s room for 250 people to hang out and discover what the place is all about. Carpenters and co-owners Meg Alt and Molly Clark brought the building back from the brink. The build-out, which they completed mostly by hand, deserves a newspaper story of its own. “They definitely had a vision for this place, and I was lucky to meet them at the right time,” Robinson says. “We’re doing a bunch of fun shit here,” says Elliott Moss, chef and part-owner. “ I think this is uniquely Asheville. We all live here. We all love it. This is the vision we have, and hopefully everyone digs it. If they do, then we did our job.” Moss left The Admiral earlier this year to focus on Ben’s Tune-Up and his forthcoming Southern restaurant, Buxton Hill (in which he’s also partners with Robinson). He led the culinary crew at The Admiral since it opened in 2007. But now, he says, he feels like he’s a chef for the first time. In
the kitchen of Ben’s Tune-Up, he handles his ingredients reverently: the house-made ramen (and macaroni) noodles, the steaks of Japanese Amberjack flown in by Honolulu Fish Company a day or so before, even a long rectangle of American cheese, which he has made himself. “This is somewhere I would want to come hang out,” Moss says. Think of the food at Ben’s Tune-Up as sakana, Japanese pub fare, the kind found in izakayas, casual drinking establishments. Accordingly, the menu features yakitori — grilled meat skewers — sashimi and pickles. The small portions are priced a la carte at about $5 to $10 apiece, and meant to be ordered in multiples and shared. “Typically, you order yakitori, it’s just a skewer,” Moss says. “This is more of a composed dish, but an ultra-micro version. You get your stick of meat, but you get a little dab of this, a little dab of that.” Think of it as a noodle shop: heaping bowls of ramen — featuring house-made noodles and pork broth — offer a more decadent option. “If you want to get full for $10, you can get a bowl of ramen,” Moss says.
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Still to come A few projects at Ben’s Tune-Up won’t come online for a couple of months, but they’re in the works. chef’S tAble: There won’t be a menu and guests will be served from the kitchen by Moss. houSe-mAde SAke: By the end of the year. more room: A third space with frontage on Hilliard Avenue that Alt and Clark will develop over the next few months. eXPANded meNu: With lunch and brunch.
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SMALL BITES
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New taco in town The Local Taco opens on Lexington Avenue
LOCAL ENOuGH? John Ko co-owns four other Local Tacos throughout the Southeast, but he says the Asheville ingredients and culinary staff will make this one a neighborhood spot.
John Ko seems quiet — until he starts talking about margaritas. The co-owner of The Local Taco says he’s sure his restaurant will serve “the best in town” now that it’s open in the former Boca space on Lexington Avenue. Those are big words, but Ko has 25 tequilas and crates of limes to back him up. Plus, the restaurant’s patio provides a great vantage point to watch Lexington Avenue while you sip. It benefits from a new solar-powered, retractable awning. It’s a high-profile spot, and Ko, who co-owns four other Local Tacos (two in Nashville, Tenn., one in Lexington, Ky. and one in Greenville, S.C.) scoped out Asheville for 2 ½ years before settling on the location. “I wanted this town because I know the city really appreciates the local movement,” he says. “There’s all this chatter around town about how we’re trying to be this chain, conglomerate, corporate. But it’s me. It’s just me and Matthew [Miner] doing this store, and I live right around the corner now.” Miner comes to The Local Taco from The Asheville Public, which closed over the winter. That restaurant was known for its smoked items (including smoked ice cubes). Those smokey flavors will carry over onto the Local Taco’s menu.
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Miner says he’s excited about the smoked pork belly taco with its molasses and cracked pepper glaze. That taco is an Asheville exclusive, and while the menu does include some Local Taco standards (ones that are served at all five locations), the ingredients will be unique to Western North Carolina, sourced from Ashley, Beulah, Maple Leaf and Jolly farms. Ko says diners who know Miner’s style of cooking can expect to find it on the menu and, particularly, on the specials board. “He’s very chef-driven,” Ko says. “He’s going to tweak the menu, and we’re really going to push the envelope on some creative tacos.” Miner fixed up a beef tongue taco for Ko to try. “I wasn’t really gung-ho about it, but after I had it, I was like, ‘That’s really good,’” he says, adding that he leaves many of the culinary decisions up to Miner and his other business partners. “I feel like I have a pretty good palate, but I’m not a chef.” Tacos start at $3 apiece. Other menu items include quesadillas, entree-sized salads and a vegetarian plate. Local Taco will serve lunch and dinner, and in a couple of weeks, it will begin serving brunch on the weekends. Local Taco, 68 N. Lexington Ave., opens at 11 a.m. daily and closes at 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 8 p.m. on Sunday. For more information, visit thelocaltaco.com. X
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When Nick Moen goes out to eat, he notices something most diners probably overlook. “I like going to The Admiral,” he says. “It’s a great restaurant, and as soon as you walk in, you see the stacks of porcelain plates there, and I think about that every time.” Moen is a resident artist at Odyssey Clayworks in the River Arts District. He mostly makes functional pottery — plates, mugs, bowls and the like. But he noticed there’s something of a disconnect between the gallery, where he sells his wares, and the table, where they’re used. To bridge that gap, he’s teaming up with several other artists to produce tableware for a dinner at Knife & Fork, chef Nathan Allen’s acclaimed restaurant in Spruce Pine. Handmade ceramics aren’t often used in restaurants because chefs need their dishes to meet certain requirements. “A lot of chefs don’t even think that potters could make a cohesive, consistent set that could stack,” Moen says. “They need them to stack. They have to be sturdy and light for the waiters to move them. They can’t chip. They have to be white.” But at the dinner, cleverly titled Cup & Plate, the artists will work
with Allen’s requirements for plates, saucers and bowls. In turn, Allen will take inspiration from the pieces the artists create, which he won’t see until just before the dinner. “It’s also a collaboration — it’s a total art piece — between the artists, materials artists and then with Nathan [Allen] as well because he’s going to be choosing what colors go on what plates,” Moen says. “I don’t know if I like using this analogy, but it’s kind of like jazz. There’s a standard. We have limitations. He knows he has to cook something, and he gets the produce that’s there at the market, and we know we have to use porcelain. It has to be white. And that’s it. We all get to be creative and figure out what that means and what we get to play around with.” Ceramic artists Elisa Di Feo and Gwendolyn Yoppolo will create pieces for the event, and glass artist Kathryn Adams has created glassceramic wine goblets and water glasses in collaboration with Moen. After the meal, guests will be able to purchase the pieces. The dinner takes place Monday, July 1, at Knife & Fork in Spruce Pine. There will be two sittings of 30 guests. Tickets cost $70. For resrvations, call 765-1511. X
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D anc e Dance evolution Terpsicorps celebrates its 10th anniversary with Reborn Photos by Zaire Kacz
by Alli Marshall The spark for Reborn came by way of a number of sources, from a bag of pantyhose, to a photography series, to the birth of Heather Maloy’s son. But Maloy, artistic director of Asheville’s Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance, says that she doesn’t set out to collaborate with artists of various media when she’s creating a dance performance. “But if I see something that sparks an idea, it’s the same thing as when I do a full-length based on a piece of literature,” she says. Her untraditional retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter in dance, is an example. “When I’m reading something, it just takes one image within it, and I think, ‘That may be what I want to do.’”
Rebirth, reuse, recycle So about those stockings: Immediately following the 2011 Terpsicorps production Vampyre, Maloy flew to Southern California to take part in the National Choreographer’s Initiative — a program that chooses four choreographers from around the U.S. and gives them an opportunity to workshop new ideas with a group of dancers. “All I had was a garbage-bag full of burgundy panty hose, and I didn’t know what I going to do with them,” she says. Maloy and her husband had discovered the stockings, probably from the ‘80s, in an abandoned building, and she figured she could do something with them. In Southern California, she turned the pantyhose into “a giant stretchy quilt that the dancers could come in and out of. It looks like an amorphous, living thing on stage.” In Reborn, the pantyhose quilt is re-envisioned. It begins as the dress of an aging character and later morphs into a womb from which a baby is born.
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Pantyhose are not the only upcycled items in the production. As the name suggests, reuse is a theme throughout. “It was a choreographic exercise for me, that I couldn’t use anything that hadn’t already been used for something else,” says Maloy. Repurposed architectural items find their way on stage, and the rule for fabric was that it had to have been pre-used, already on hand or purchased from Goodwill. Paper gets recycled, too: Local fashion designer R. Brooke Priddy is creating costumes from the pages of romance novels scored from thrift shops, that the dancers will tear off of each other. (Counting the number of paper costumes needed for rehearsals, in addition to the staged production, Maloy halfjokes that those bodice-ripper books will account for the dance company’s largest expense.)
Outside insights The idea for the paper apparel came from The Reborn Series, a collection of images of Terpsicorps dancers by Venezuelan-born photographer Zaire Kacz. But it was the dancers, who in turn, inspired Kacz, a relatively recent transplant to Asheville. Her background was in commercial photography, wedding and portraits. While living in Miami, she focused on fashion photography. “When I moved to Asheville, I never thought I’d do fashion here, but the door opened for me,” she says. She applied her fashion photographer’s eye to her collection of fine art shots of the graceful and muscular dancers’ forms. “I told them the idea that I had and how I wanted to use the paper,” says Kacz. That material, in the photos, serves as prop, as clothing and as gesture. “When they brought what they thought, with the movement, I was totally delighted. The way they did their own interpretation was something I connected with. It was inspiring,” Kacz says. The photographer named the series “reborn” because it represents, for her a new direction and one she’d like to continue to explore in the future. Photos from The Reborn Series will be on display in the lobby of the Diana Wortham Theatre during Terpsicorps’ three-night run.
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ThE Folk SChool Since the June 2003 inception of her dance company, Maloy has shown herself to be an innovator. Terpsicorps produces first-rate shows by hiring principal dancers who are laid off over the summer by other professional companies. This year’s cast includes eight company dancers and seven apprentices. Maloy says that the slow economy has led to fewer full-time dance agencies, and many that have not shuttered have downsized. “There are great professional dancers who made the decision to only do pickup companies, because there are more and more companies like Terpsicorps out there,” she says. This could mean future winter productions by Terpsicorps, and more opportunities for Maloy to tap other local artists for collaborations. Past joint efforts include The Many Deaths of Edward Gorey, with vocals and acting by Holiday Childress and live art by Ben Betsalel; the all-male Elvis & Other Men also had vocals by Childress along with the now-defunct folk-rock quartet Menage; The Recession Blues & Other Works took cues from the economic downturn in ’09 and featured Firecracker Jazz Band; gothic Vampyre drew from the haunted tales of Mary Shelley and John Polidori and included hair styling by Adorn Salon. And there were more: Hurricane & Other Forces of Nature was inspired by a Godspeed You! Black Emperor soundtrack and weather patterns; Masque of the Red Death drew from Edgar Allan Poe and comic books.
BaBy steps Over the last decade, Maloy has surprised and enthralled audiences with her modern and edgy choreography. In fact, this year marks the local dance organization’s 10-year anniversary, a milestone which certainly informs Reborn. But an even bigger inspiration is the company’s smallest contributor: Maloy’s infant son, Zane. Choreographing the baby section of Reborn has been really fun, the artistic director says, because Zane sits in front of the room. “We copy his movements,” she explains. And, although Maloy’s life
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Dance into SuMMeR If you want more dance, it’s a good time to find it. Here are some more movement events happening in the coming weeks.
Bromelia takes to the air Bromelia Aerial Dance Collective knows how to fly. Its members will hurdle through the Orange Peel’s atmosphere (while being careful not to hit to the giant fan) in late June and early July. Asheville band Hello Hugo will provide live accompaniment and perform a few tracks of its newest album. Bromelia’s new full-length show, Jump Sessions, will “explore the ways in which pop media and the daily news influence our tendencies toward resilience, catastrophe and each other.” Bromelia will get a bird’s-eye view of the Orange Peel on Sunday, June 30 and Monday, July 1, 7 p.m. $14; $12 in advance. batty4.wix.com/bromeliadance.
Set in Motion MOTION Dance+Theatre calls itself a “choreographic laboratory” and now it’s time to don your lab coat. The company’s goal is to take ballet into the 21st century through dance that captivates as it illuminates. “I want ballet to feel important; to feel current,” says artistic director Nick Kepley. “I want people to understand that it can convey complex ideas and emotions and that it’s not just tutus and tiaras.” MOTION Dance+Theatre will bring nine dancers to Asheville from Ballet Austin, Nashville Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet and several other national dance companies. Two of the dancers will serve as both performers and choreographers to create two world premiers while they soak in Asheville’s culture and spirit. The dancers will take to the Diana Wortham Theatre stage on Friday, July 12 and Saturday, July 13, 8 p.m. $30; $25 students and seniors. motiondt.com or dwtheatre.com.
Folkmoot is a folk must For anyone who speaks Old English, Folkmoot means “meeting of the people,” and that’s exactly what this WNC tradition has done for the past 30 years. But don’t think this longstanding festival is getting stale; an entirely new set of performers swirl and twirl each season. This year’s groups include stilt walkers from France, traditional dancers from Martinique, Thailand, Japan and Slovakia, plus some lively Scottish Highland step dancers. Other highlights of this two-week festival include a parade of nations through downtown Waynesville and a candlelight closing ceremony at Lake Junaluska. More than 200 groups from 100 different countries have converged on WNC over the years and this season’s anniversary festival is sure to leave you ready for an around-the-world staycation. Wednesday, July 17 through Sunday, July 28. See the website for schedule and cost: folkmootusa.org
Be your own dance company There are plenty of opportunities to spin your partner in Western North Carolina. From contra to shag, Bavarian folk dance to ballroom, our region offers dozens of classes, workshops and clubs each week. Check out the dance category of Xpress‘ calendar in print, or visit mountainx.com/events. —Jen Nathan Orris
has changed significantly over the past year, she’s continued to cull art from personal experiences. “Usually I have the concept for my piece by December or so. I knew I wanted to so something around the life cycle, but as far as what that was, it came way more slowly,” she says. Once the program’s various influences came into focus, the choreography quickly followed. Also part of the show is a world premiere of “Yin Yang” by Christopher Bandy, who’s been part of Terpsicorps since its start. For the last three years he’s served as ballet master. “He’s a wonderful choreographer, and I knew he would be because his dancing is so theatrical and creative,” says Maloy. Bandy is collaborating with Michael Bellar (a New York-based musician and founder, composer and keyboardist of The As-Is Ensemble) who has worked with Terpsicorps many times in the past. Moving forward, both Kacz and Maloy already have new ideas; both are inspired by the rebirths of their respective artforms. “You learn things about yourself that you don’t know,” says Maloy of tapping the personal for creative insight. “I’ve choreographed pieces before that I thought were about nothing, and then I sat book and looked at them and I could totally see things I was going through at the time, expressed in the choreography. “ With Reborn, she says it’s based on her own experiences, but by touching on the many phases of being human, “I don’t want it to feel like one person’s life cycle, I want it to represent the life cycle in general,” she says. And even though the birth in Reborn is that of a child, Maloy says that regeneration could symbolize any creative process. Kacz adds, “It’s not just the story of one person, it’s the story of all of us.” X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@mountainx.com.
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arts and activism:
a potter, a sculptor, a printer The arts have long been a vehicle for progressive thinkers to communicate ideas, challenge beliefs or expose injustices. Here’s a quick look at three artists exploring this overlap between arts and activism: Letterpress printer Frank Brannon directs a printing project that uses the Cherokee language. “Like many languages around the world, the Cherokee spoken language is struggling to continue as there are fewer and fewer speakers,” Brannon says. His academic research focused on the historical 19th-century newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix, which was printed in both English and Cherokee. “As a book artist, I knew how to print books in a traditional manner with metal printing type, the way it was done before the advent of the computer,” he says. “I came to think about how we might print in Cherokee in this way to support Cherokee language revitalization.” Working with translations from the Cherokee Studies Program at Western Carolina University, Brannon aims to use these manual printing techniques to preserve the language and its original Cherokee syllables. “When I think about how history shows us that positive, nonviolent change is possible with simple acts such as walking or sitting, I recognize that there can be great power in printing our thoughts and beliefs,” Brannon says. “And that how we might choose to print them, and in what language or form, can be a part of that power.” When speaking about her work, sculptor Annie lemanski says, “Even though I’m making animals a lot of the time, it has to do with human activity. It’s about our relationship with animals and our exploitation of them.” In one piece, Lemanski created a sculpture of a lion head, exploring the issue of some African herders protecting their livestock by using pesticides on animal carcasses, to poison the lions that feed on them.
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Anne Lemanski, “Deregulator,” 2011. Copper rod, novelty money, fabric and artificial sinew, 25 x 20 x 42 inches. Museum purchase with funds provided by the Wingate Foundation. Asheville Art Museum collection.
“I’m not solely on the side of the animal or solely on the side of the human,” Lemanski says. “I’m just trying to point out things that I see happening and make people aware of it.” The piece “Deregulator” is in the Asheville Art Museum’s permanent collection. Addressing the 2008 financial crisis, Lemanski used imitation billion dollar bills to form the eagle, which Lemanski describes as “the national symbol.” The pigeons of the sculpture are then outfitted as “blue-collar mechanics and factory workers.” Of note is the smashed “Joe Pigeon” in the eagle’s left claw. In 1990, ceramic artist John Hartom started the Empty Bowls project with his wife, Lisa Blackburn. What began as a one-time project to address hunger continues today in communities around the world. Empty Bowls event attendees receive a handmade ceramic bowl and a humble meal of soup and bread. Recalling the first event, Hartom “surprised the guests by asking them to keep their bowl as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. The place went silent — bowls were clutched to chests, a tear or two appeared. Lisa and I looked at each other in disbelief at the energy generated.” This event became bigger than the pottery or the meal, and the pair was inspired to develop it as a model that could be replicated in other communities. “The name was declarative,” Hartom says. “There are empty bowls. Deal with it or not, that is up to you.” As more communities sponsored more events, the project’s goals to raise both funds and awareness also grew. “We have found the arts to be very powerful in building community and storytelling. Lisa made a great poster that simply reads: ‘It’s OK to Share — There’s Enough for Everybody.’ That sums up our belief and our message.” For more information on these projects, visit speakeasypress.com, emptybowls.net and annelemanski. com. The next Empty Bowls event in our region is scheduled for July 27 in Black Mountain. X
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HaRRy SEIDlER at BlaCk mounTaIn CollEgE muSEum + aRTS CEnTER Walter gropius, left, and Harry Seidler. gropius was the founder of the Bauhaus school and a huge influence on Seidler.
It’s likely that you haven’t heard of Harry Seidler. That is, unless you’ve studied australian architecture and the history of the Bauhausturned-Harvard/yale faculty. Seidler was also among the waves of artists and architects that made the pilgrimage to Black mountain College to study with Josef albers. Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and Collaborative Design, a new exhibition at the Black mountain College museum + arts Center, takes an evolutionary approach to explaining Seidler, his work and the artistic collaborations that shaped them. This exhibition is something of a living document, featuring a collection of photographs, notes, books, models, films, newspaper clippings, sketches and correspondences that build a longterm view of Seidler’s work and development. Rather than narrowing its focus by jumping through the years, as in a typical retrospective, it moves from person to person, cycling through decades of collaborations. Those parcels and pictures create a collaborative web between Seidler and, among others, Bauhaus founder Walter gropius, marcel Breuer, Josef albers, Pier luigi nervi, max
The Julian Rose House, design/completion 1949-1950, Wahroonga, Sydney, australia. Steel structure, timber infill. Courtesy BMCM + AC
Dupain, alexander Calder and frank Stella. These artists, architects and thinkers proved most-influential to Seidler’s personal and professional development, according to Vladimir Belogolovsky, the exhibition’s curator. many an exhibition includes such material — a letter here, and picture or postcard there — stuck between paintings in an effort to “liven up” the show and add some bit of character to the artist. But here, the show focusses on smaller items that Belogolovsky organizes to illustrate Seidler’s architectural upbringing. The imagery, in effect, supports the reservoir of primary sources. Seidler’s career was one spent purifying his architectural philosophy. “He wasn’t interested in the architectural revolution,” Belogolovsky tells Xpress. “He was about refining architecture.” Seidler’s ethic was quintessentially postmodern. With each artist and architect he encountered, studied or worked with, his own form changed. It might have meant an adjustment in material
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used, and the inclusion of a retaining wall in a property’s design. or, in the case of his work with albers, greater attention to the balance of geometrical shapes. Belogolovsky also details the events that led him from central Europe to australia. Seidler was austrian by birth, but is australian by legacy. His family sought refuge in England after fleeing nazi-controlled austria. But in 1940, at the age of 18, he was detained and sent to Canada, where he and other “enemy aliens” were held in a British internment camp. It was there, through personal study and exposure to other detainees, that he was introduced to modern architecture, the Bauhaus movement and its key players. Seidler left the internment camp in october 1941 to study at the university of manitoba in Canada. after graduating, he went to Harvard where he studied under gropius and Breuer. It was gropius who would direct him to Black
mountain College, where he studied color theory and design under albers in 1946. He initially traveled to australia in 1948 to build a home for his family, who had relocated when the war ended. Seidler used plans that he and his colleague Rolland Thompson drew up in 1947, which was originally designed for a massachusetts locale. So he adjusted the layout to accommodate the land, which they hand-picked to mimic the initial design. He didn’t change the materials though, and ended up importing many of the supplies. Even the furniture was imported from new york, Belogolovsky says. architecturally speaking, it was a near disaster. “for most architects the first work is like a manifesto,” Belogolovsky says, “and he, in a way, damaged his reputation with his very first work.” But despite the criticism from fellow architects, the work became a huge success. Commissions and design requests mounted. With this work, Seidler is credited with bringing modernist architecture to australia. Belogolovsky was first exposed to Seidler’s work and the subtly grandeur of his reputation in 2010 while giving a lecture on Spanish architecture in Sydney, australia. “I was struck by the quality, and why I had never heard of him. and I was struck by the quantity of his work in Sydney,” Belogolovksy said. “There are so many skyscrapers and buildings that you could call it Seidler City.” It was there that he met Penelope Seidler, Harry’s widow, and struck up the idea to create a traveling exhibition. The exhibition has toured in Houston, Texas and Eastern Europe so far. future stops include the university of manitoba in Winnipeg, university of Virginia in Charlottesville and then Brazil. It will return to Sydney in 2014, where it will join a citywide celebration of the now-australian architect. Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art & Collaborative Design is on view at the Black mountain College museum and arts Center at 56 Broadway. The show runs through aug. 21 and is free to members and students and $3 for the general public. X
smartbets by alli marsHall
river whyless bethesda If the name Bethesda makes you think of either Maryland or video games, the band that shares that moniker is about to change your frame of reference. The sextet from Kent, Ohio, crafts folklore-infused indie-rock informed by storytelling traditions and resonant with strings (guitar, violin, banjo) and the rich vocal of lead singer Shanna Delaney. There’s something Old-World about Bethesda’s sound (they point out that the name comes from “the sacred place in ancient times where people would flock in hopes of experiencing the healing power of the waters”), filtered through pop savvy. They take the stage at Jack of the Wood on Saturday, June 29 with Marshall Brown Band and The Restoration. 9 p.m., $7. jackofthewood.com.
moe. You know you’ve made it when your fans coin a term for themselves. For the followers of ‘90s jamband moe., it’s “moe.rons.” The group got its start in ‘89 while members were in school at SUNY-Buffalo; they released debut album Fatboy in ‘92. Now, 20-plus years later, moe. has put out a couple dozen live and studio album, mostly on the band’s Fatboy Records label. Their most recent is last year’s What Happened to the LA LAs. Moe. plays Pisgah Brewing’s outdoor stage on Friday, June 28 with Brock Butler (solo). 7:30 p.m., $20/$25/$50 VIP. pisgahbrewing.com.
Orchestral folk-pop outfit River Whyless may be local, but it’s hard to catch the band on an Asheville stage. In fact, this week’s West Asheville performance be be the band’s only show on home turf for 2013. But it promises to be a good one: The band will perform new songs they’ve written for their upcoming album. There will also be a photography show (the group put out a call to artists for a collection called “River Whyless Photo book”) featuring the works of Molly Milroy, Samantha Carter, Lauren Van Epps and Miranda Maynard. The event takes place at Isis on Saturday, June 29 with James Wallace & The Naked Light. 9 p.m., $8/$10. isisasheville.com.
tav Falco Musician/photographer/ actor/author Tav Falco has said his main artistic purpose is “to stir up the dark waters of the unconscious.” He’ll stir those waters three times this week when his tour beings him to Asheville for a two-night run and a book reading (yes, that’s right). Tav Falco’s Panther Burns (an “art damage” rock band, formed in Memphis in the late ‘70s) performs at Asheville Music Hall with The Krektones and Pleasure Chest on Wednesday, June 26 and Friday, June 27 at the Asheville Music Hall (9:30 p.m. $15/$18. ashevillemusichall.com). And earlier in the day on Thursday, he’ll read from Ghosts Behind the Sun: Splendor, Enigma & Death, Vol. 1 of the Mondo Memphis the encyclopedic history and psychogeography of the Tennessee city on which he collaborated with rock writer Erik Morse (4 p.m. Free. Battery Park Book Exchange).
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athena's Club Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7-10pm barley's taproom Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 8:30pm blaCk mountain ale house Bluegrass jam, 9pm blue mountain pizza Cafe Open mic, 7pm Club hairspray Dirty game night & dance party, 10pm Club remix Open mic variety show, 9pm Creekside taphouse Open mic, 8-11pm dirty south lounGe Disclaimer Standup Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm
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Grey eaGle musiC hall & tavern Mike Cooley (of Drive by Truckers), 9pm hanGar lounGe Old-school DJ ('70s-'90s) & open mic, 8pm hiGhland brewinG Company Free movie night, 6pm
JaCk of the wood pub Old-time jam, 5pm
Las Supper feat.
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emerald lounGe Blues jam w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm
isis restaurant & musiC hall Live music on the patio, 6pm
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lexinGton ave brewery (lab) Kyle Kinane (comedy), 8pm lobster trap Rob Parks Trio (string band), 7pm o.henry's/tuG Karaoke, 10pm odditorium The Resonant Rogues (folk, swing, Balkan), 9pm one stop deli & bar Greenhouse Lounge (electronic) w/ Nomadic, 10pm phoenix lounGe Jazz night, 8pm pisGah brewinG Company Marrietta's Palm (rock, reggae), 6pm pulp Les Femmes Mystique (burlesque, comedy, variety), 9pm tallGary's Cantina Open mic/jam, 7pm the soCial Karaoke, 9:30pm
cool as ice: Iconic rapper, producer and actor Ice Cube is almost as well known for his career in film and television as for his decades-long career as an MC. The Los Angelesbased wordsmith visits The Orange Peel on Friday, June 28 for a performance in support of his latest release, 2013’s Everythang’s Corrupt. asheville musiC hall Tav Falco (psychobilly) w/ The Krektones, 9:30pm
lexinGton ave brewery (lab) Luxury Spirit (indie rock) w/ The Beast of Riverdale, 9:30pm
tressa's downtown Jazz and blues WestSound Review (R&B, soul, dance), 8:30pm
barley's taproom Alien Music Club (jazz jam), 9pm
lobster trap Hank Bones ("man of 1,000 songs"), 7-9pm
westville pub Marcellus & Junco Partner (blues), 9:30pm
blaCk mountain ale house The Sloantones (rock, funk), 9pm
market plaCe Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet, beats), 6-9pm
blue mountain pizza Cafe Searra Gisondo (folk, jazz), 7pm
odditorium Karaoke, 8pm
white horse Whitney Moore & the People (Latin, jazz) w/ Jason DeCristofaro, 7:30pm
bywater Game night, 8pm
olive or twist Heather Masterton Jazz Quartet, 8-11pm
Club hairspray Karaoke & dance party, 10pm
one stop deli & bar Phish 'n' Chips (Phish covers), 6pm
Club metropolis DJ Garret (roots reggae, dancehall, dance party), 9pm
oranGe peel Jamey Johnson (country) w/ Amanda Watkins, 9pm
double Crown International cuts w/ DJ Flypaper, 9pm
paCk's tavern Scott Raines & Laura Michaels (acoustic rock, country), 9pm
185 kinG street Parker Smith & the Bandwith (Americana, roots), 8pm
pisGah brewinG Company Jennifer Knapp (folk), 9pm
5 walnut wine bar Jamar Woods (acoustic soul), 10pm
purple onion Cafe Beaucoup Blue (Americana, blues, folk), 7:30pm
altamont brewinG Company Hank West CD release party (jazz, ragtime), 10pm
sCandals niGhtClub Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12:30am
apotheCary Alligator Indian & Oulipo (electronic, indie) w/ Advertise (DJ set), 9pm
tallGary's Cantina Asheville music showcase, 8pm
athena's Club Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am
timo's house Blues jam, 10pm
frenCh broad brewery tastinG room Matt Walsh (blues), 6pm
trailhead restaurant and bar Kevin Scanlon's old-time jam, 6:30pm
Grey eaGle musiC hall & tavern Lake Street Dive (jazz, folk, pop), 8pm
tHursday, June 27 185 kinG street Blues jam w/ Pam Taylor, 8pm 5 walnut wine bar Hank & Krekel, 8pm altamont brewinG Company Mystic Lion (reggae, fusion), 9pm
harrah's Cherokee Live band karaoke, 8pm-midnight isis restaurant and musiC hall Lora-Faye (folk, rock) w/ Parker Smith & Bandwith, 8pm JaCk of hearts pub Old-time jam, 7pm JaCk of the wood pub Riverbank Ramblers (Americana, rock, country, bluegrass) w/ Stillwater Hobos, 7pm
town pump Oh Jeremiah (singer-songwriter), 9pm trailhead restaurant and bar Zydeco jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm
wild winG Cafe Space Capone (funk), 9:30pm yaCht Club Kamakazi karaoke (no control over song choice), 9pm
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blaCk mountain ale house The Great Smokey Mountain Bluegrass Band, 9pm
to QualiFy For a Free listing, a venue must be predominately dedicated to tHe perForming arts. bookstores and caFés witH regular open mics and musical events are also allowed / to limit conFusion, events must be submitted by tHe venue owner or a representative oF tHat venue / events must be submitted in written Form by e-mail (clubland@mountainx.com), Fax, snail mail or Hand-delivered to tHe clubland editor dane smitH at 2 wall st., room 209, asHeville, nc 28801. events submitted to otHer staFF members are not assured oF inclusion in clubland / clubs must Hold at least two events per week to QualiFy For listing space. any venue tHat is inactive in clubland For one montH will be removed / tHe clubland editor reserves tHe rigHt to edit or exclude events or venues / deadline is by noon on monday For tHat wednesday’s publication. tHis is a Firm deadline.
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bywater Grits & Soul (Americana), 9pm
lexinGton ave brewery (lab) The Travers Brothership (jam, rock) w/ Jeremy Indelicato, 9:30pm
ClassiC wineseller Gypsy Bandwagon, 7pm
lobster trap King Leo Jazz, 7pm
Club eleven on Grove Salsa night, 10pm
monte vista hotel Molly Burch (jazz), 6pm
Club hairspray Dance party, 8pm Drag show, 12:15am
o.henry's/tuG "Kings & Queens Summer Camp," 9pm
Club metropolis Singer-songwriter showcase, 9pm Club tetrus Tropical Bass (DJs Malinalli & Tropix), 10pm-2am double Crown Friday night hootenanny w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 9pm duGout Hands Down (classic rock), 9pm emerald lounGe Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands (gypsy folk, cabaret) w/ Miss Mousie & the Rigamarole & Brokedown Hustlers, 9pm frenCh broad brewery tastinG room Pierce Edens & the Dirty Work (rock, folk), 6pm Green room Cafe Buzz Beilharz (Americana), 6:30pm Grey eaGle musiC hall & tavern Las Supper ft. Big Daddy Kane (soul, R&B) w/ The Broadcast, 8pm harrah's Cherokee Event center: Gary Allan (country), 9pm Casino: Ty Bates w/ DJ Paul Gallo, 8pm-2am hiGhland brewinG Company Black Robin Hero (rock, folk), 6pm isis restaurant and musiC hall Mipso (folk) w/ David Childers & The Overmountain Men, 9pm JaCk of hearts pub The Moon & You (folk), 9pm JaCk of the wood pub The End Times Spasm Band (roots, swing), 5pm The Swayback Sisters (Americana, coun-
odditorium Art Opening: Flotsam Jetsam Debris & Detritus, 9pm one stop deli & bar Free Dead Fridays feat. members of Phuncle Sam, 5-8pm Philo (hip-hop & live accompaniment) w/ Razor & Blade, 10pm oranGe peel Ice Cube (hip-hop) w/ The Soul Rebels, 9pm paCk's tavern Lyric (funk, soul, pop), 9pm phoenix lounGe John Trufant & friends (rock, jam, jazz), 9pm pisGah brewinG Company Moe. (rock, jam), 7:30pm red staG Grill Chris Rhodes (guitar, vocals), 8-11pm root bar no. 1 Darlyne Cain (rock, acoustic), 9pm sCandals niGhtClub Masquerade Ball, 10pm straiGhtaway Cafe The Mug (blues, funk, rock), 6pm tallGary's Cantina Unit 50 (rock), 9:30pm the soCial Woody Wood (blues, rock) w/ members of Snake Oil Medicine Show, 9pm timo's house DJ Jet & guests (hip-hop), 10pm-2am town pump The Wild Rumpus (Americana, "stompgrass"), 9pm tressa's downtown Jazz and blues
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clubdirectory 185 king street 877-1850 5 walnut wine bar 253-2593 altamont brewing company 575-2400 altamont theatre 348-5327 arcade 258-1400 asheville civic center & thomas wolfe auditorium 259-5544 asheville music Hall 255-7777 asheville radio cafe 254-3636 athena’s club 252-2456 barley’s tap room 255-0504 black mountain ale House 669-9090 blue mountain pizza 658-8777 boiler room 505-1612 bobo gallery 254-3426 broadway’s 285-0400 the bywater 232-6967 club Hairspray 258-2027 club metropolis 258-2027 club remix 258-2027 the chop House 253-1852 creekside taphouse 575-2880
adam dalton distillery 367-6401 desoto lounge 986-4828 diana wortham theater 257-4530 dirty south lounge 251-1777 double crown 575-9060 dobra tea room 575-2424 eleven on grove 505-1612 emerald lounge 232- 4372 Firestorm cafe 255-8115 French broad brewery tasting room 277-0222 French broad chocolate lounge 252-4181 good stuff 649-9711 green room cafe 692-6335 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 Hangar lounge 684-1213 Harrah’s cherokee 497-7777
Daisyfest fundraiser feat: live music, raffles, comedy & more, 1-11pm double Crown Saturday shakedown w/ DJ Lil' Lorrah, 9pm duGout Fine Line (rock), 8pm emerald lounGe The Baptist Generals (indie rock) w/ Decent Lovers & Doc Aquatic, 9pm frenCh broad brewery tastinG room Buncombe Turnpike (bluegrass), 6pm Green room Cafe Terry Neal (Americana), 6:30pm Grey eaGle musiC hall & tavern Free Radio w/ Crazyhorse, Colston & Aud1o (hip-hop), 8pm harrah's Cherokee Saloon 5 w/ DJ Suave, 8pm-2am hiGhland brewinG Company Point & Shoot (alt-country, rock), 6pm isis restaurant and musiC hall River Whyless (folk rock) w/ James Wallace & the Naked Light (chamber pop, folk), 9pm JaCk of hearts pub The Archrivals (jazz, rock), 9pm JaCk of the wood pub The Moon & You (folk), 5pm Bethesda (folk rock) w/ The Restoration & The Marshall Brown Band, 9pm lexinGton ave brewery (lab) Polly Panic (chamber rock) w/ Hard Rocket, 9:30pm lobster trap
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Highland brewing company 299-3370 the Hop 254-2224 the Hop west 252-5155 Jack of Hearts pub 645-2700 Jack of the wood 252-5445 Jus one more 253-8770 lexington avenue brewery 252-0212 the lobster trap 350-0505 monte vista Hotel 669-8870 odditorium 505-8388 one stop bar deli & bar 255-7777 o.Henry’s/tug 254-1891 the orange peel 225-5851 oskar blues brewery 883-2337 pack’s tavern 225-6944 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
Trevor Storia Jazz, 7pm monte vista hotel Blue Moon (country, jazz, rock), 6pm o.henry's/tuG "Stonewall" dance party, 9pm odditorium Busman's Holiday w/ Dustin & the Furniture & The Knowing Glances (folk, acoustic), 9pm olive or twist 42nd Street Jazz Band, 8-11pm one stop deli & bar Sweetsweet Scum (rock) w/ Trevor Brown Band, 10pm oranGe peel Trial by Fire (Journey tribute), 9pm paCk's tavern DJ Moto (dance, pop), 9pm phoenix lounGe Valorie Miller (singer-songwriter), noon The Zealots (rockabilly, alternative), 9pm purple onion Cafe The Deluge (roots, rock, soul), 8pm root bar no. 1 Lea Renard & Triple Threat (blues, soul), 9pm sCandals niGhtClub Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12:30am straiGhtaway Cafe R&R Crossing, 6pm tallGary's Cantina Contagious (rock), 9:30pm the soCial Karaoke, 9:30pm
root bar no.1 299-7597 scandals nightclub 252-2838 scully’s 251-8880 smokey’s after dark 253-2155 southern appalacian brewery 684-1235 the social 298-8780 static age records 254-3232 straightaway cafe 669-8856 tallgary’s cantina 232-0809 rocky’s Hot chicken shack 575-2260 thirsty monk south 505-4564 tiger mountain thirst parlour 407-0666 timo’s House 575-2886 trailhead restaurant & bar 357-5656 treasure club 298-1400 tressa’s downtown Jazz & blues 254-7072 westville pub 225-9782 white Horse 669-0816 wild wing cafe 253-3066 wxyZ lounge 232-2838
timo's house Gene Peyroux w/ Charles Singletary (pop, country, swing), 7pm town pump Riyen Roots (roots rock), 9pm trailhead restaurant and bar Hurricane Bob (blues, rock), 9pm tressa's downtown Jazz and blues Ruby Mayfield & friends (blues, rock), 10pm westville pub The Wilhelm Brothers (folk rock), 10pm white horse Pop Ferguson (blues), 8pm wild winG Cafe Homemade Wine, 9:30pm
sunday, June 30 5 walnut wine bar The Get Right Band (blues, funk), 7-9pm altamont brewinG Company Cornhole tournament & fundraiser, 3pm altamont theater Mike Compton & Joe Newberry (country), 8pm barley's taproom Consultants of Swing (jazz), 7:30pm blaCk mountain ale house Jazz brunch w/ Mike Gray Trio, 11:30am blue mountain pizza Cafe Patrick Fitzsimons (blues), 7pm double Crown
“drunken folk”: Baptist Generals’ sophomore album was 10 years in the making, but fans and critics agree that Jackleg Devotion to the Heart‘s rougharound-the-edges take on experimental folk and indie rock was worth the decade it took to materialize, with Aquarium Drunkard calling it “somewhere between an inebriated Isaac Brock field recording and a long-lost Jeff Mangum bedroom cassette.” The Denton, Texas-based outfit plays Emerald Lounge on Saturday, June 29. Decent Lovers and Doc Aquatic open. Photo by Scogin Mayo
Dinner Menu till 10pm Late Night Menu till
12am
Thur
Tues-Sun
5pm–12am
COMING SOON
6/27 LORA-FAYE w/ Parker Smith and Bandwith • 8pm • $5
Full Bar
Fri
Soul gospel Sunday w/ DJ Sweet Daddy Swamee, 6pm Karaoke w/ KJ JD, 10pm duGout Appalachian Fire (bluegrass), 4-7pm Grove park inn Great hall Two Guitars (classical), 10am-noon harrah's Cherokee Dueling pianos, 5pm-9pm isis restaurant and musiC hall Jazz showcase, 6pm JaCk of the wood pub Irish session, 3pm Celtic Irish session, 5pm lobster trap Leo Johnson (hot club jazz), 7-9pm monte vista hotel Jared Gallamore (popular standards), 11am odditorium Nun Hex w/ Devalued, Paradox & Toxic Nostalgic (punk), 9pm one stop deli & bar
Bluegrass brunch w/ The Pond Brothers, 11am
Grey eaGle musiC hall & tavern Contra dance, 8pm
oranGe peel Bromelia Aerial Dance Collective w/ Hello Hugo, 7pm
hanGar lounGe Karaoke, 10pm
sCandals niGhtClub Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12:30am straiGhtaway Cafe Dave Desmelik (Americana), 6pm the soCial 80s Vinyl Night, 8pm
monday, July 1 altamont theater Lee Camp (comedy), 8pm apotheCary Cartoon Networking (social drawing), 7:30pm bywater Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 9pm
lobster trap Dave Desmelik (Americana), 7pm odditorium Bingo night, 9pm oranGe peel Bromelia Aerial Dance Collective w/ Hello Hugo, 7pm oskar blues brewery Old-time jam, 5-8pm phoenix lounGe Suzanne, Jerry & Kurt (of The Moon Shine Babies), 7pm
6/28 MIPSO w/ David Childers and the Overmountain Men • 9pm • $10 Sat RIVER WHYLESS w/ James Wallace 6/29 & The Naked Light • 9pm • $8/$10 Fri
7/12 THE LIZZY ROSS BAND 9pm • $8/$10 Sat 7/13 THE BILLY SEA CD RELEASE CELEBRATION Mon
8:30pm • $12/$15
7/15 NEW COUNTRY REHAB 9pm • $6/$8
Every Sunday JAZZ SHOWCASE 6pm - 11pm • $5 Every Tuesday BLUEGRASS SESSIONS 9pm - 11pm Laid Back wednesdays LIVE MUSIC ON THE PATIO 6pm - 9pm
the soCial Open mic, 8pm tiGer mountain thirst parlour Honky-tonk (classic country & rockabilly) w/ DJ Lorruh & Dave, 10pm tressa's downtown Jazz and
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blues Scary-Oke, 10pm westville pub Trivia night, 9pm
Wednesday • June 26 “Asheville’s Finest” Variety Show!
Bring ur Songs, Dance, Skits, Jokes, Jump Ropes, Burlesque acts, Hula hoops & More! $5 shot of Whiskey+Beer $1 PBR
Thursday • June 27 Asheville Rootz Collective Presents:
Higher Ground Movement w/ DJ Roots Iric Roots — Reggae, Danehall $3 selected imports & $3 shooters
Friday • June 28 Local Singer-Songwriter Showcase w/ Arjay & Andrea Lee & special guests.
Saturday • June 29 Phuncle Sam www.TheMetroSphere.com 38 N. French Broad Ave
TAVERN DOWNTOWN ON THE PARK Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 13 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard • Darts Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night
tuesday, July 2
apotheCary Human Beast (experimental) w/ Russian Tsarlag & Housefire with FuquayVarina, 9pm
blue mountain pizza Cafe Open mic, 7pm
emerald lounGe Open mic w/ Andrew Usher, 8pm Grey eaGle musiC hall & tavern Grandmothers of Invention (the music of Frank Zappa), 8pm isis restaurant and musiC hall Bluegrass sessions, 9pm JaCk of the wood pub Shake It Like a Caveman (blues, rock, garage), 10pm
Club hairspray Dirty game night & dance party, 10pm Club remix Open mic variety show, 9pm Creekside taphouse Open mic, 8-11pm dirty south lounGe Disclaimer Standup Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm double Crown Country night w/ Dr. Filth, 9pm
SAT. 6/29
DJ Moto
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blaCk mountain ale house Lyric (funk, soul, pop), 9pm bywater Game night, 8pm Club eleven on Grove Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School (live drawing), 6:30pm Club hairspray Karaoke & dance party, 10pm
odditorium Comedy night w/ Tom Peters, 9pm
isis restaurant & musiC hall Live music on the patio, 6pm
one stop deli & bar Two for Tuesday feat: Hiding Scarlet & Hudson K, 8pm
JaCk of hearts pub Alison Self & Brownbird Rudy Relic (country, blues), 8:30pm
oskar blues brewery Trivia, 6pm
JaCk of the wood pub Old-time jam, 5pm
phoenix lounGe The Anarchists' Real Book 3.0 (jazz fusion), 8pm
o.henry's/tuG Karaoke, 10pm
white horse Irish sessions, 6:30pm Open mic, 8:45pm
phoenix lounGe Jazz night, 8pm pisGah brewinG Company Toubab Krewe's Carnavalito, 9pm tallGary's Cantina Open mic/jam, 7pm the soCial Karaoke, 9:30pm
Summer is here! Relax and unwind on our patio with our great menu and daily drink specials!
(dance, pop hits)
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barley's taproom Alien Music Club (jazz jam), 9pm
emerald lounGe Dead Nite w/ Phuncle Sam, 9pm
THU. 6/27
(funk, soul, pop, blues)
apotheCary Moon Jelly (indie pop, electronic) w/ Paciens Trine & Zenas Fisk, 9pm
hanGar lounGe Old-school DJ ('70s-'90s) & open mic, 8pm
with the purchase of adult entrees
Lyric
tHursday, July 4
o.henry's/tuG Movie trivia, 10pm
TUESDAY EVENINGS IN JULY
FRI. 6/28
tressa's downtown Jazz and blues The Bill Bares Piano Trio, 8:30pm
double Crown International cuts w/ DJ Flypaper, 9pm
KIDS EAT FREE!
(acoustic rock, country)
trailhead restaurant and bar Kevin Scanlon's old-time jam, 6:30pm
lobster trap Jay Brown (Americana, folk), 7-9pm
2 PBR’s EVERY Day! 2 Local Draft Fridays…
Scott Raines & Laura Michaels
timo's house Blues jam, 10pm
emerald lounGe Blues jam w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm
westville pub Blues jam, 10pm
Each Friday a different local draft selected to put on special for $2! Promotion for a limited time, so come while the gettin’s good!
barley's taproom Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 8:30pm blaCk mountain ale house Bluegrass jam, 9pm
tressa's downtown Jazz and blues El Duende (Latin jazz), 9pm
$
athena's Club Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7-10pm
altamont brewinG Company Open mic, 8pm
LIVE MUSIC... NEVER A COVER $
wednesday, July 3
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harrah's Cherokee Live band karaoke, 8pm-midnight JaCk of hearts pub Old-time jam, 7pm JaCk of the wood pub Bluegrass jam, 7pm lexinGton ave brewery (lab) Holy Rollin' Hellfires (punk, roots) w/ Southbound Turnaround & The Go-Devils, 9:30pm lobster trap Hank Bones ("man of 1,000 songs"), 7-9pm market plaCe Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet, beats), 6-9pm odditorium "Murica Costume Party," 9pm one stop deli & bar
LATE SHOW
A Night of Hip-Hop feat.11pm $5
EARLY SHOW
paCk's tavern Stephen Poteat (funk, jam), 9pm phoenix lounGe The Get Right Band (rock, funk, jam), 9pm pisGah brewinG Company Toubab Krewe's Carnavalito feat: Sol Driven Train, The Broadcast & more, 3pm purple onion Cafe Aaron Burdett (Americana), 7:30pm sCandals niGhtClub Miss Firecracker Pageant, 10pm tallGary's Cantina Asheville music showcase, 8pm town pump Paul Edelman (Americana), 9pm
duGout Howie Johnson Band (rock, jam), 9pm emerald lounGe A Ghost Like Me (rock, live electronica) w/ Opposite Box & Old You, 9:30pm frenCh broad brewery tastinG room Dave Dribbon & the Stomping Rain (rock), 6pm Green room Cafe Eric Congdon (acoustic, American), 6:30pm JaCk of hearts pub Black Robin Hero (roots, rock), 9pm JaCk of the wood pub The Rough & Tumble (Americana, folk), 5pm The Good Old Boyz (outlaw country), 9pm
saturday, July 6 athena's Club Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am blaCk mountain ale house Pierce Edens & the Dirty Work (rock, rockabilly, folk), 7pm The Blue Rags ("rag n' roll"), 10pm ClassiC wineseller Michael Jefry Stevens, Sonny Thornton & Mike Holstein (jazz), 7pm
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Club hairspray Dance party, 8pm Drag show, 12:15am
lobster trap Mark Bumgarner (Southern Americana), 7pm
tressa's downtown Jazz and blues WestSound Review (R&B, soul, dance), 8:30pm
odditorium Shane Perlowin (of Ahleuchatistas) w/ Divine Circles & Merryl (experimental, drone), 9pm
white horse Blue Ridge Orchestra (classical), 7:30pm
one stop deli & bar Free Dead Fridays feat. members of Phuncle Sam, 5-8pm
Green room Cafe Chris Smith (singer-songwriter, Americana), 6:30pm
yaCht Club Kamakazi karaoke (no control over song choice), 9pm
oranGe peel Secret Agent 23 Skidoo (kid-hop) w/ Empire Strikes Brass, 11am
JaCk of the wood pub WED Squirrel Mountain (old-time, country), 10pm Universal Joint Benefit for Jason Hall feat. 5pm 6.26 feat. Samuel$10 Adams The Ghost of Bannockburn (Celtic rock) 21+ w/ The Westbound Rangers, 8pm
apotheCary "Toner Party" art opening, 8pm athena's Club Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am blaCk mountain ale house Hank West & the Smokin' Hots (jazz, swing), 9pm ClassiC wineseller Jay Brown (roots, blues), 7pm Club eleven on Grove DJ Jam (old-school hip-hop, R&B, funk), 9pm Club hairspray Dance party, 8pm Drag show, 12:15am Club tetrus Tropical Bass (DJs Malinalli & Tropix), 10pm-2am double Crown Friday night hootenanny w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 9pm
pisGah brewinG Company The Westbound Rangers (bluegrass, oldtime, Americana), 8pm pulp burnthesun (folk, punk), 9pm root bar no. 1 Anna Vogelzang (folk), 9pm sCandals niGhtClub Zumba, 7pm Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am
Full Bar 27 Beers On Tap
double Crown Saturday shakedown w/ DJ Lil' Lorrah, 9pm
American-Inspired Cuisine Pool | Shuffleboard | Foosball | 11’ Screen
duGout Fine Line (rock), 8pm
LATE SHOW
Friday, July 5
Saturday, February 9th
David Earl & The Plowshares $15 & The Gypsy Swingers All Ages
wall street Coffee house Open mic, 9pm
trailhead restaurant and bar Zydeco jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm
phoenix lounGe Bradford Carson Band (rock, jam), 9pm
21+
Benefit for Azalea Mountain School feat. 7pm
puppy love: Creekside Taphouse hosts Daisyfest on Saturday, June 29, an afternoon benefit to raise funds for a local Australian Cattle Dog’s surgery. The event includes music by Peace Jones, Caleb Burress, Chesterface and more, along with stand-up comedy, raffles, a cornhole tournament, silent auctions, a car show and adoptable dogs from Brother Wolf Animal Rescue. Phish 'n' Chips (Phish covers), 6pm
Campaign & Chach
Live Music • Daily Specials BREWERY NIGHT
odditorium The Hollywood Kills w/ Waking September & Andrew Scotchie & the River Rats (rock), 9pm phoenix lounGe Andrew Robinson (acoustic), noon Whitney Moore & the People (Latin fusion), 9pm root bar no. 1 Jeff Thompson (acoustic soul), 9pm
THUR MARCELLUS & JUNCO PARTNER 6.27 BLUES REVIAL • 9:30PM • $3.50 VODKA DRINKS
LASAGNA NIGHT
FRI
$
3.50 GIN & TONICS
THE WILHELM BROS. INDIE FOLK ROCK • 10PM
SAT 6.29
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$
SUN
BREAKFAST STARTING AT 10:30AM
the soCial Leigh Glass & the Hazards (rock, blues), 9:30pm
sCandals niGhtClub Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12:30am
timo's house DJ Jet & guests (hip-hop), 10pm-2am
the soCial Karaoke, 9:30pm
town pump Mightychondria (melodic rock, experimental), 9pm
town pump Tater & Traveling Family Circus (rock), 9pm
TUES
trailhead restaurant and bar Paul Cataldo (Americana, folk), 7:30pm
white horse David Lamotte (singer-songwriter), 8pm
11:30am-2am Mon-Fri / 10:30am-2am Sat-Sun
vanuatu kava bar Earth Medicine (electro-coustic, ambient, improv), 9pm
wild winG Cafe Elijah Hooker Band feat: Caleb Johnson (rock), 9:30pm
MON
Music Schedules
Wednesday, June 26th
GENIASS and MELLOW MUSHROOM PRESENTS:
GREENHOUSE LOUNGE w/ Nomadic
Thursday, June 27th
GRANDMA PRESENTS:
SOUTHBOUND TURNAROUND
lexinGton ave brewery (lab) Turchi (boogie, roots), 9:30pm
55 COLLEGE STREET - DOWNSTAIRS
TRIVIA NIGHT •
PRIZES
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BLUES JAM with Westville Allstars Shrimp ‘n Grits • $3.50 RUM DRINKS
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TAV FALCO & THE UNAPPROACHABLE PANTHER BURNS
9pm w/ The Krektones $15/$18 & Pleasure Chest All Ages
Friday, June 28th
LOCAL HIP-HOP!
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10pm
w/ Razer $5 21+ & Blade
Saturday, June 29th
Sweetsweet Scum 10pm $3 21+ w/ Trevor Brown Band
Tuesday, July 2nd
TWO FOR TUESDAY 8pm
Hiding Scarlet & Hudson K $2 - ALL AGES!
************* 7-4 & 7-5 • SIERRA NEVADA BREWING PRESENTS: The Everyone Orchestra feat. Steve Kimock, Ike Stubblefield, John Kimock, Brock Butler, Justin Perkins, Josh Phillips, Jay Sanders, & More! *************
EARLY SHOWS AT THE
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theaterlistings Friday, JUNE 28 - ThUrsday, JULy 2
Due to possible last-minute scheduling changes, moviegoers may want to confirm showtimes with theaters. n
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carMIke cIneMa 10 (298-4452)
after earth (Pg-13) 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 the Internship (Pg-13) 4:05, 9:40 Iron Man 3 2d (Pg-13) 12:40, 6:40 now you see Me (Pg-13) 12:45, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 the Purge (r) 12:30, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 star trek Into darkness (Pg-13) 12:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 this Is the end (r) 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:20 white house down (Pg-13) 12:30, 1:15, 3:30, 4:15, 6:45, 7:30, 9:45, 10:25 world war z 3d (Pg-13) 1:30, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 world war z 2d (Pg-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 n
carolIna cIneMas (274-9500)
Before Midnight (r) 11:00, 1:20, 3:45, 7:10, 9:10 the Bling ring (r) 1:45, 6:50 the east (Pg-13) 11:20, 1:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:35 the heat (r) 11:00, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 love Is all you need (r) 11:00, 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Man of steel 3d (Pg-13) 9:00 Man of steel 2d (Pg-13) 12:50, 3:35, 6:20 Monsters university 3d (g) 11:00 Monsters university 2d (g) 11:30, 1:30, 4:00, 6:00, 9:00 Much ado about nothing (Pg-13) 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Mud (Pg-13) 12 :00, 3:00, 6:15, 9:10 now you see Me (Pg-13) 11:15, 1:45, 4:35, 9:30 this Is the end (r) 2:15, 4:30, 6:45, 9:00 star trek Into darkness 2d (Pg-13) 11:00, 4:00 white house down (Pg-13) 11:15, 2:00, 4:50, 7:35, 9:00, 10:20 world war z 3d (Pg-13) 1:45, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 world war z 2d (Pg-13) 12:15, 2:45, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 n
cIneBarre (665-7776)
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co-ed cIneMa Brevard (883-2200)
Monsters university 2d (g) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 n
ePIc of hendersonvIlle (693-1146)
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fIne arts theatre (232-1536)
Before Midnight (r) 1:20, 4:20 In the house (r) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, late show Fri-sat 9:20 Much ado about nothing (Pg-13) 7:20, late show Fri-sat Fri-sat 9:40 n
movie reviews & listings by ken hanke
ashevIlle PIzza & BrewIng co. (254-1281)
flatrock cIneMa (697-2463)
the long ranger (Pg-13) Wed. 3:15, 7:00 Man of steel (Pg-13) Fri-tue 3:15, 7:00 n
regal BIltMore grande stadIuM 15 (684-1298)
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unIted artIsts Beaucatcher (298-1234)
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pickoftheweek In the house JJJJJ
Director: François ozon (Swimming Pool) Players: Fabrice luchini, ernst umhauer, Kristin scott thomas, emmanuelle seigner, bastien ughetto Mystery thrIller
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The Story: A high school literature teacher becomes obsessed with the writings of one of his students. The Lowdown: One of the best films you’ll see all year, In the House is a brilliant and entirely new kind of thriller that is both amusing and tragic. Compelling entertainment every inch of the way, it is not to be missed. High on the list of best movies of 2013 (so far) is François Ozon’s brilliant, complex, provocative, yet extremely playful In the House. I say that with no reservations and employ no qualifiers. This is quite simply a stunning work that ought to be seen by the widest possible audience. Even if you hate subtitles (yes, it’s in French), you should see this if you really care about quality film. The movie is correctly advertised as a mysterythriller — à la Hitchcock even — but Ozon’s work is hardly your average suspense thriller. Its “crimes” are more intellectual transgressions than crimes. And the film’s considerable suspense comes from a genuine sense of not knowing where it might lead next and what the ramifications might be for all concerned. It’s almost a deconstruction of a voyeurist thriller that’s voyeuristic itself — on an entirely new level. The story involves an embittered failed writer turned literature teacher, Germain (Fabrice Luchini, Potiche), who becomes intrigued when one of his students, Claude Garcia (Ernst Umhaeur), shows actual literary talent. The catch is that Claude’s writings (which we see acted out) all detail his involvement with classmate Rapha’s (Bastien Ughetto) family. In fact, Claude admits using Rapha, who means little to him, merely to obtain entrance to the family’s home. That middle-class home and family represent a kind of perfection that Claude’s own homelife — a long-departed mother, an invalid father, an undesirable neighborhood
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Fabrice Luchini and Kristin Scott Thomas in François Ozon's devilishly clever thriller In the House — a true must-see. — doesn’t provide. His use of Rapha is very calculated — arrived at by spending the previous summer observing the house from a park across the street. The family is pure bourgeoisie — the basketball-loving, businessman husband (Denis Menochet, Inglourious Basterds) and the bored wife (Roman Polanski’s real-life wife, Emmanuelle Seigner). Claude is both attracted to them and repelled by them, something that comes across in his writing. Complicating matters further, Germain quickly finds himself hooked on the story as it unfolds — each paper reads “to be continued.” To a lesser more cautious degree, so does Germain’s wife, Jeanne (Kristin Scott Thomas). In fact, she becomes increasingly concerned — and wonders if it’s the story or Claude himself her husband is attracted to — when Germain’s involvement becomes more active, helping to shape the direction of the boy’s writings. Soon the story — or Claude, who seems to be playing Germain — has moved from interest to obsession for the teacher. This is both creepy and extremely witty. Germain can in fact be seen as the audience urging the writer to provide elements that are lacking. (Or maybe he’s a movie director wanting rewrites from a screenwriter?) In essence, the film critiques itself as it goes along. Germain even makes fleeting appearances in the depictions of the story’s actions, commenting on those actions. Without giving away too many details about the constantly shifting dynamics between all the players — Germain, Claude, Jeanne, Rapha and both parents — I can say that the film provides a brilliantly complex, ever-changing portrait
of all the characters. We may never get to the bottom of how much is real and how much is a product of Claude’s imagination, but that’s hardly the film’s greater concern. The ending, which is clearly not something Claude has written, actually fulfills Germain’s belief that the best dénouements are those that surprise us, yet make us realize that it could end no other way. And the very last image is a triumph of imagery that even Hitchcock would have envied. This is simply one terrific and terrifically compelling film. It’s a funny, perceptive, provocative, twisted tale told by a master filmmaker. Rated R for sexual content and language. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Fine Arts Theatre
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Director: Jacob hatley Players: levon helm, amy helm, larry camPbell, billy bob thornton, libby titus Fagen docuMentary rated nr In Brief: Admirably tight documentary about drummer, singer, songwriter and rock legend Levon Helm. Shot in 2008, the film is more content to concentrate on the present than to load itself down with clips from the past. As a film for the faithful, it tends to assume, probably correctly, that the viewer needs only the basics of background information. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Fine Arts Theatre will screen Ain't in It for My Health Thursday, June 27, at 7 p.m.
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TV director Paul Feig got lucky with the big screen raunchy-com Bridesmaids in 2011, so now he's back with that film's breakout star, Melissa McCarthy, and another dose of R-rated laughs. This round she plays a foul-mouthed Boston cop who gets teamed with an uptight FBI agent (Sandra Bullock) in order to catch a drug lord. At least it isn't a retread of the last film's plot. That said, it is in the "not screened for critics" category. (R)
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Here's the second film this year with the White House under siege. This one has the advantage of being made by Roland Emmerich, which pretty much guarantees it'll be a lot funnier than the overbearing and bad Olympus Has Fallen. (Plus, Emmerich has experience destroying the White House.) This one has Channing Tatum taking a White House tour with his daughter when they come under attack by some paramilitary group. Who can save President Jamie Foxx? Well, let's just say it was a good thing Mr. Tatum happened to be around. This, too, has not been screened for critics, surprising no one. (PG-13)
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The Story: An operative for a highpriced security firm infiltrates an ecoterrorist cult and finds herself drawn in. The Lowdown: An interesting premise is ultimately not enough to keep this indie afloat. Some scenes, however, have a great deal of power. A mixed bag, but not without interest. I really tried to like The East. The wellintentioned film is certainly an improvement over the last collaboration between director/ co-writer Zal Batmanlij and star/co-writer Brit Marling, Sound of My Voice (2012). But then it ought to be, because it’s essentially the same movie all over again. The fact that this time it’s Brit Marling infiltrating somebody else’s cult rather than somebody infiltrating her cult makes little difference. The various components — the cult sitting around on the floor in a circle, the infiltrator being seduced by the cult, the puking scene, the cop-out ending — are little more than reshufflings. The preposterous straitjacket dinner sequence here is the silly secret handshake of Voice — only funnier. Even the dirty, tatty, filthy cult ("You smell like soap," Marling is told at one point) is just a reversal of the cleanliness-obsessed cult of the last movie. Granted, The East is better made and actually attempts to be about something. It’s also much less annoying. But it still isn’t very deep, its conclusions are trite and it all rests on Marling, who may well have the least charismatic screen presence around.
Marling stars as Sarah Moss, a one-time FBI agent now working for a security firm headed by an amusingly evil Patricia Clarkson. With no explanation, Sarah is presented as a Christianradio-listening good girl with mousey brown hair. Her boss Sharon gives her the plum assignment — and a pair of Birkenstocks for disguise — of going undercover to infiltrate an anarchist terrorist group called The East. After telling her credulous-as-hell husband (Jason Ritter) she’s going to Dubai on business, she gives herself a salon-quality blonde dye-job (why?), hops a rattler and easily hooks up with black eye-linered cult member Luca (Shiloh Fernandez, Evil Dead). Luca likes her so much he takes her to "a good place to eat" (a dumpster no less) before getting down to cult business. So there she is — lock, Birkenstocks and dye-job — in the thick of things. It’s remarkable that all of this is played with a straight face. Despite drawing the suspicion of some of the other cult members — especially the belligerent Izzy (Ellen Page) — Sarah is soon accepted. Unfortunately, Sarah finds herself buying into these ecoterrorists’ philosophy — if not their eye-for-aneye payback — and falling for the Manson-esque leader, Benji (Alexander Skarsgård). And there hangs the plot: Sarah’s transformation into unwilling ecoterrorist. The idea is a good one, but doesn’t survive the treatment, which is heavy-handed, woolly-minded and prone to clichés — especially when the film collapses in a fit of "spoiled rich kids getting back at their families" tropes. Even so, I’m not ready to write the movie off. There are good things in it. Some sequences are excellent, especially one set to a piano piece. Some things that oughtn’t work actually do — like Izzy’s big scene — even if they’re hard to believe. These things, and the slick filmmaking, make the film worth watching, even if all we really learn is that (surprise!) cults are seductive and big corporations are evil.
Apparently Marling’s fascination with cults has garnered her a cult all her own. I’ve seen the three movies she co-wrote — Another Earth (2011), Sound of My Voice and this — and they all strike me as smug, cliché-filled, vague and inert. Her acting is one-note, and in the movies where she’s surrounded by pros — Arbitrage (2012) and The Company You Keep (2013) — the pros cancel her out, making her little more than a generic pretty girl. I keep hoping that she’ll do something, either in front of or behind the camera, that will impress me, but this isn’t it — even if it is something of a step up. Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, violence, some disturbing images, sexual content and partial nudity. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas
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The Story: Middle-aged romance — and some youthful heartache — at a wedding in picturesque Italy. The Lowdown: Beautiful to look at and charming to watch, Love Is All You Need is a keeper. The romance is effective, the comedy is funny, the locales are gorgeous and there’s a deep humanity to it all. After her trip to America to make the underwhelming Oscar-bait Things We Lost in the Fire (2007), filmmaker Susanne Bier beat it back to Denmark where her later film In a Better World (2010) nabbed that Oscar — for Best Foreign Language Film. Now, Bier returns with a surprising offering — Love Is All You Need. The film is a romantic comedy with surprising depths, which sets it far, far above the usual tripe of this genre. It may look a lot like Audrey Wells’ picture postcard Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) — with its Italian scenery and its romantically rundown villa — but there’s more going on here. This, in fact, is a film of great charm and unforced beauty. And since it stars a name actor, Pierce Brosnan, and is partly in English, it ought to smooth things over with viewers who are either subtitle-phobic or skeptical of movies starring unknowns.
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specialscreenings Ain’t in it for My HeAltH JJJJ DocuMentAry rAteD nr In Brief: Admirably tight documentary about drummer, singer, songwriter and rock legend Levon Helm. Shot in 2008, the film is more content to concentrate on the present than to load itself down with clips from the past. As a film for the faithful, it tends to assume, probably correctly, that the viewer needs only the basics of background information. The Fine Arts Theatre will screen Ain't in It for My Health Thursday, June 27, at 7 p.m.
At long lAst love JJJJJ MusicAl coMeDy rAteD g In Brief: While it may fall short of being an overlooked classic, Peter Bogdanovich’s extremely ambitious 1975 musical comedy is far from being the train wreck that is casually assumed (usually by people who haven’t seen it). Bogdanovich’s idea was to craft something like an Ernst Lubitsch musical — but one packed with Cole Porter songs, so that the film sang more than it spoke. Audiences were puzzled by and unprepared for it. Worse, the cast was not made up of professional singers — and the idea that the songs were sung perfectly well “in character” seemed to occur to almost no one. Unavailable for years, the film is ripe for rediscovery. The Asheville Film Society will screen At Long Last Love Tuesday, July 2, at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.
l’eclisse JJJJ AlienAtion DrAMA rAteD nr In Brief: The final film in Michelangelo Antonioni’s “alienation trilogy,” L’eclisse (1962) is one of those art-house warhorses that everyone is supposed to know and revere. It’s also not a lot of fun and its opacity can come perilously close to feeling like an art-film parody. There’s little story — merely two people meeting and vaguely drifting into a relationship in a world where nothing seems to matter very much. Beautifully photographed but emotionally distant, it’s not for everyone. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present L'eclisse Friday, June 28, at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com
tHe otHers JJJJJ Horror rAteD Pg-13 In Brief: Alejandro Amenábar’s virtually perfect The Others (2001) remains one of the handful of truly great ghost stories to make its way to the screen. Everything about this supremely stylish and utterly creepy film beautifully contributes to an atmosphere as thick as the fog surrounding the old house. Everything works together to make the film effectively unsettling — and without a drop of blood. The performances from Nicole Kidman and Fionnula Flanagan could scarcely be better. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen The Others Thursday, June 27, at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.
sHAkesPeAre in love JJJJJ sHAggy HistoricAl roMAnce coMeDy rAteD r In Brief: As a rule, few things age less gracefully than an old Oscar winner, but this historical romp has held up as a truly pleasant diversion. It’s kind of a bittersweet romantic comedy in historical drag. The film puts forth the story of how Shakespeare’s proposed play Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter became something more substantial — with a better title and no pirates — thanks to his blossoming romance with a local actor (Gwyneth Paltrow). Its view of Shakespeare is probably not a great deal more preposterous than Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous, come to that. The Hendersonville Film Society will show Shakespeare in Love Sunday, June 30, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.
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It should be noted that Love Is All You Need has nothing to do with Lennon and McCartney. (The most played, even overplayed, song in the movie is Dean Martin’s "That’s Amore.") In fact, the title is an international affectation, after it was deemed that its Danish title, The Bald Hairdresser, lacked marquee appeal. Trine Dyrholm (A Royal Affair) plays Ida, a hairdresser who is indeed bald, thanks to chemotherapy treatments following her recent mastectomy. Just as she’s about to travel to Italy for her daughter Astrid’s (Molly Blixt Egelind) wedding, she finds her doltish husband, Leif (Kim Bodnia, In a Better World), having an affair with an overly accommodating, but not overly bright, bimbette named Thilde (Danish TV actress Christiane Schaumburg-Muller). When Leif blames Ida for his philandering (her illness was very hard on him, you see) and takes off with Thilde on his way to the wedding, Ida is understandly nonplussed. In fact, she’s so rattled she ends up in a silly "meet cute" traffic accident with Philip (Brosnan), who turns out to be the father of the groom. Naturally, they immediately dislike each other. And, yes, we all know what that means. What we don’t know is how delightfully the film will get there — nor the surprisingly deep detours along the way. I’m not saying it will take a rocket scientist to figure things out, but there is much to like — maybe even love — here. The two middleaged leads are pure delights. The little scene in which we realize Brosnan’s brusque businessman has been captivated — he quickly, without comment, steps up his pace in order to walk next to Dyrholm — is one of the sweetest and giddiest romantic moments I’ve seen in a long time. The whole film is filled with little touches like this — some charming, some poignant or both. This is definitely a movie to catch. Rated R for brief sexuality, nudity and some language. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas
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ent. At their best, they were a studio that at least took a more creative approach to family entertainment, making films that felt ahead of the competition. But now that Pixar has begun churning out sequels and prequels, diminishing returns are creeping in. The film follows the backstory of Mike (voiced by Crystal) and Sully (voiced by John Goodman), the monstrous heroes from 2001’s Monsters, Inc., showing us how they met in college. Right there, the film puts itself in a precarious spot, as we know the two will become friends and their dreams of becoming professional scarers for Monsters, Inc. will happen. The challenge for the filmmakers is to somehow make this fresh or inventive, but the best they can muster is something moderately watchable — mostly because the picture is never able to shake the inevitable outcome. Perhaps I’m being too tough on a kids’ film — I’m obviously not the target demographic. But beyond the flick’s structural flaws, the material’s just not there, especially for a studio that presents itself as above the rest. The film is little more than a G-rated version of Animal House (1978) or Revenge of the Nerds (1984), with our heroes and their dorky, outcast friends bucking against the dean (voiced by Helen Mirren) and the jocks at school. Some colorful CGI animation and sitcomlevel jokes aren’t nearly enough to make this concept engaging. This is perhaps the most worrisome aspect of Pixar’s approach, as they’ve begun to crank out movies that are just photocopies of long established, tired genres. Pixar’s slowly become the follower instead of the leader, meaning the results, while decent, are also middling. Rated G. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher
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The Story: After an outbreak of zombies crushes civilization, a U.N. investigator sets out to find a cure. The Lowdown: An occasionally entertaining take on a worn-out subgenre.
The Story: A prequel to Monsters, Inc., Aside from its sheer scope, Marc Forster’s chronicling the college years of mon- film adds little to the zombie horror canon, a sters Mike and Sully. subgenre so crowded it’s had little room for additions. Ever since Danny Boyle’s 28 Days
The Lowdown: A handsome-looking, Later... (2002) repopularized zombie movies, painless animated flick whose run-of- we’ve been deluged by the same old flesh the-mill story makes it unmemorable. munching. Coming at the tale-end of this fad, Monsters University is perhaps the niftiestlooking computer-animated feature to come along, but that’s about it. Its story has a good heart and rarely did I feel like uprooting my seat so I could throw it at the screen while listening to Billy Crystal. However, a pleasant message and a few technological achievements can’t keep the movie from being monumentally forgettable. Besides Up (2009), I’ve never been much of a Pixar adher-
World War Z has all the earmarks of a true cinematic disaster: an uneven director whose best work has been on smaller, more intimate films; a $190-million budget allocated toward an ambitious, globetrotting horror epic; and lastly, fairly extensive and time-consuming rewrites and reshoots to change the third act and the entire tone of the film. (The original ending was changed either because it was too grim or because it ended with the infinitely
goofy idea of Brad Pitt and a squadron of Russians attacking Oregon to get revenge on Matthew Fox — no, really, look it up.) In spite of these bad omens, the movie is nevertheless a solid — if none too original — take on the zombie picture. I’ve never read the film’s source material, written by Mel Brooks’ son Max, though I do understand it has little to do with the author’s faux oral history of a zombie apocalypse. Instead, Forster and the movie’s whopping four writers have taken the general idea of chronicling a worldwide outbreak of zombies and turned it into an action-horror hybrid. The film starts small, as former U.N. investigator Gerry (Brad Pitt) and his family barely escape the initial violence of this zombie epidemic. It’s not long before he’s rescued by his former boss (Fana Mokoena, Safe House) and coerced into helping suss out the origins of this contagion in hope of finding a cure. Owing to this, the film is structured as a series of set pieces, with Gerry going around the world — from South Korea to Jerusalem to Wales — while we learn more about the specifics of what’s happened. The zombies here are much like the fleetfooted ones in 28 Days Later... but portrayed more as an overwhelming, violent swarm of undead — one of the few twists in which the film adds to existing lore. Because of this, the film is light on pure horror — even lighter on gore, as evidenced by its PG-13 rating — and paced more like an action movie. Perhaps this is Forster’s fault as a director who seems
ill-equipped to handle gruesomeness. Images that should be horrific come across as poorly staged and flaccid — like pyres of burning zombie corpses. Perhaps it’s just the studiomandated, teen-friendly rating. The movie does, however, have the fortitude to establish early on that no character, even a major one, is safe from sudden death. It’s an angle that actually cranks up the film’s suspense. There’s a sense of depth to almost everyone we meet. Pitt isn’t given much to do as our hero, but he’s got enough charisma and charm to pull off this kind of summer movie uber-mensch role. Unfortunately, one of the film’s greatest failings is that it never feels like anything’s at stake. With all the work World War Z puts into world-building, there’s never a sense that this zombie outbreak is more than just a problem to be solved. To compare it to 28 Days Later... again, the sense of total despair amid the crumbling of civilization that existed in Boyle’s film just isn’t here. No one seems too worried that the world’s eroding. Maybe this wouldn’t be such a problem if the film — right down to chunks of its musical score — wasn’t so influenced by Boyle’s classic. This doesn’t keep Forster’s film from being an entertaining summer action flick, just don’t expect anything special. Rated PG-13 for intense zombie sequences, violence and disturbing images. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande
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detail oriented, have a positive attitude, are able to keep up a fast pace and have the potential and desire to advance. We offer competitive salary, health benefits, paid holiday, personal days and vacation time off as well as friendly and comfortable work environment. Please email resume and cover letter to jamesm@ afgdistribution.com or fax to 828-259-3674.
ADMINISTRATIVE/ oFFiCe Client relations manAGER OneWhoServes, Inc. is seeking a self-motivated Client Relations Manager. Must be a team player with great people skills. We value relationship, initiative, and reliability. Extreme attention to detail, professional and confident attitude, and excellent phone and customer service skills required. Position includes answering phones and providing customer service and scheduling, and administrative support to management. Friendly office and a great place to work. Benefits included. Send your resume to jobs@onewhoserves.com or fax to 828-251-1108. No phone calls please. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OPENING Small, local nonprofit organization seeking Executive Director. Must be QMRP or QDDP certified and have administrative experience with ICF/MR and Supported Living group homes for adults with IDD. Position available immediately until filled. Salary range $40,000$48,000; benefits to be determined in consultation with Board. More complete job description available upon request. Please send resume to: B>Attn: Executive Director Search, P.O. Box 25328, Asheville, NC 28813
Human serViCes ASHEVILLE ACADEMY FOR GIRLS / SOLSTICE EAST Direct Care Staff and Overnight Staff positions available. Are you interested in making a difference? Come join our team where you can have a positive, lasting impact on youth from across the country. Our programs are steadily growing and we continue to seek qualified FT, PT, and PRN applicants to join our programs. The suitable applicant is outgoing, energetic, and a responsible and positive role model. Our staff ensures the provision of physical and emotional safety of our students and residents at all times. Asheville Academy for Girls is a private therapeutic boarding school for girls ages 10-14 and Solstice East is a residential treatment center for girls ages
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AVAILABLE POSITIONS • MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HealtH Cherokee County: Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) Must have mental health degree and two years experience. For more information contact Kristy Whitaker, kristy.whitaker@meridianbhs. org Jackson County: Nurse Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) RN or LPN. Psychiatric nursing experience preferred. For more information, please contact Becky McKnight, rebekah. mcknight@meridianbhs.org Clinician Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) Part time position. Must have Master’s degree and be licensed/license-eligible. For more information, please contact Becky McKnight, rebekah. mcknight@meridianbhs.org • For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org/open-positions.html CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION EDUCATOR Great small nonprofit seeking dynamic community educator. Resume to Bill McGuire, 50 S. French Broad Avenue, Suite 152, Asheville, NC 28801 or caps@childabusepreventionservices.org Client serViCes CoorDINATOR The Mediation Center is looking for a Client Services Coordinator for the Family Visitation Program to provide services to all supervised visitation and safe exchange families. More info and application instructions at www.mediatewnc.org/jobs FamilY PreserVation serViCes oF nC is experiencing significant growth and is in need of fully licensed and provisionally licensed staff for the Asheville, Hendersonville, Polk and Rutherford offices. • For the Asheville office, please send resumes to csimpson@fpscorp.com • For the Hendersonville office, please send resumes to dreynolds@ fpscorp.com • For the Rutherford and Polk offices, please send resumes to mtambini@ fpscorp.com liBertY Corner enterPrises is seeking support team members to work in residential homes and the
community with people who have disabilities. • Applicants must have a high school diploma or equivalent, a North Carolina driver's license, proof of insurance and a reliable vehicle. Sign language skills are a plus. Pay rate based on experience. Apply in person at Liberty Corner Enterprises: 147 Coxe Avenue Asheville, NC 28801. LICENSED COUNSELOR • Co-facilitator for Men's Domestic Violence group on Saturday afternoons. Experience in domestic violence treatment, familiarity with state's 26 week Domestic Violence Abuser Program, and licensed or certified as a substance abuse counselor in North Carolina. Potential for additional contract work on a per diem basis. Send resume to: trcbruce@bellsouth.net or call Colleen Welty at 828388-0011. LICENSED THERAPIST The Asheville office of Family Preservation Services is seeking the following: Licensed or provisionally licensed therapist to work with youth and families in our School-Based Program (10 month position available); and Licensed or provisionally licensed therapist to work with youth and families in our Intensive In Home Program. Please send resumes to csimpson@fpscorp.com LICENSED THERAPIST The Asheville office of Family Preservation Services' Center for Recovery, Education, and Wellness is seeking the following: Licensed or provisionally Licensed Therapist to work on our Community Support Team; Fully licensed therapist to work with adults on our Assertive Community Treatment Team and to serve as the team lead; Fully licensed or provisionally licensed therapist to provide Outpatient Therapy to adults. Please send resumes to csimpson@ fpscorp.com SEVERAL MENTAL HEALTH POSITIONS AVAILABLE Seeking Licensed Clinicians AND Child QP for IIHS & Day Tx programs in Marion/
Asheville. Email detailed resume to afortune@caringalternative.com. www.caringalternative.com SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELOR Mountain Area Recovery Center is growing and we are seeking additional Licensed Substance Abuse Counselors to meet the needs of our patients. We have positions available in our outpatient OTP clinics located in both Asheville and Clyde, NC. Candidates will provide substance abuse services, including but not limited to, assessments/screenings, intake, client orientation, person centered planning,case management, intervention, client education, and plan and lead structured process and theme centered groups. We offer competitive pay WITH benefits…medical, dental, life, short-term disability, flexible spending account, 401K, pto, paid holidays, and a flexible work environment in this challenging, yet highly rewarding field. If you are up to the challenge, please e-mail your resume to rhonda. ingle@marc-otp.com or fax to attention: Rhonda Ingle at 828.252.9512. EOE.
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freewillastrology ARIES (MARCH 21-ApRIl 19)
“To know when to stop is of the same importance as to know when to begin,” said the painter Paul Klee. Take that to heart, Aries! You are pretty adept at getting things launched, but you’ve got more to learn about the art of stopping. Sometimes you finish prematurely. Other times you sort of disappear without officially bringing things to a close. Now would be an excellent time to refine your skills.
TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20)
“The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it’s hard to determine whether or not they are genuine.” So said Joan of Arc back in 1429, right before she helped lead French troops in the battle of Patay. JUST KIDDING! Joan of Arc never had the pleasure of surfing the Web, of course, since it didn’t exist until long after she died. But I was trying to make a point that will be useful for you to keep in mind, Taurus, which is: Be skeptical of both wild claims and mild claims. Stay alert for seemingly interesting leads that are really time-wasting half-truths. Be wary for unreliable gossip that would cause an unnecessary ruckus.
GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20)
French Impressionist painter Claude Monet loved to paint water lilies, and he did so over and over again for many years. Eventually he created about 250 canvases that portrayed these floating flowers. Should we conclude that he repeated himself too much? Should we declare that he was boringly repetitive? Or might we wonder if he kept finding new delights in his comfortable subject? Would we have enough patience to notice that each of the 250 paintings shows the water lilies in a different kind of light, depending on the weather and the season and the time of day? I vote for the latter view, and suggest that you adopt a similar approach to the familiar things in your life during the coming weeks.
lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) Gertrude Stein was an innovative writer. Many illustrious artists were her friends. But she had an overly elevated conception of her own worth. “Think of the Bible and Homer,” she said, “think of Shakespeare and think of me.” On another occasion, she proclaimed, “Einstein was the creative philosophic mind of the century, and I have been the creative literary mind of the century.” Do you know anyone like Stein, Leo? Here’s the truth, in my opinion: To some degree, we are all like Stein. Every one of us has at least one inflated idea about ourselves — a conceited self-conception that doesn’t match reality. It was my turn to confront my egotistical delusions a few weeks ago. Now would be an excellent time for you to deal with yours. Don’t be too hard on yourself, though. Just recognize the inflation, laugh about it and move on.
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CANCER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) “In order to swim one takes off all one’s clothes,” said 19th-century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. “In order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one’s inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness, etc., before one is sufficiently naked.” Your assignment in the coming week, Cancerian, is to get au naturel like that. It’s time for you to make yourself available for as much of the raw, pure, wild truth as you can stand.
ferent paths. Keep that in mind if you’re ever tempted to believe that there’s just one right way to fulfill your dreams.
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“The only thing that we learn from history,” said the German philosopher Georg Hegel, “is that we never learn anything from history.” I’m urging you to refute that statement in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. I’m pleading with you to search your memory for every possible clue that might help you be brilliant in dealing with your immediate future. What have you done in the past that you shouldn’t do now? What haven’t you done in the past that you should do now?
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VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEpT. 22)
When I close my eyes, I get a psychic vision of you as a kid playing outside on a warm summer day. You’re with friends, immersed in a game that commands your full attention. Suddenly, you hear a jingling tune wafting your way from a distance. It’s the ice cream truck. You stop what you’re doing and run inside your home to beg your mom for some money. A few minutes later, you’re in a state of bliss, communing with your Fudgsicle or ice cream cone or strawberry-lime fruit bar. I have a feeling that you will soon experience an adult version of this scene, Virgo. Metaphorically speaking, either the ice cream man or the ice cream woman will be coming to your neighborhood.
lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OCT. 22)
During the past 10 months, you have been unusually adventurous. The last time you summoned so much courage and expansiveness may have been 2001. I’m impressed! Please accept my respect and appreciation. You’ve had a sixth sense about knowing when it’s wise to push beyond your limitations and boundaries. You have also had a seventh sense about intuiting when to be crafty and cautious as you wander through the frontiers. Now here’s one of your assignments for the next 12 months: Distill all you’ve learned out there in the borderlands and decide how you will use your wisdom to build an unshakable power spot back here in the heart of the action.
SCORpIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)
Michael Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the most influential scientists in history. He produced major breakthroughs in both chemistry and physics. Have you ever used devices that run on electricity? You can thank him for playing a major role in developing that wonderful convenience. And yet unlike most scientists, he had only the most elementary grasp of mathematics. In fact, his formal education was negligible. I propose that we name him your role model of the week. He’s a striking example of the fact that you can arrive at your chosen goal by many dif-
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According to my analysis of the astrological omens, now would be a pretty good time to talk about things that are hard to talk about. I don’t necessarily mean that you’ll find it easy to do. But I suspect it would be relatively free of pain and karmic repercussions. There may even be a touch of pleasure once the catharsis kicks in. So try it if you dare, Capricorn. Summon the courage to express truths that have previously been hard to pin down. Articulate feelings that have been murky or hidden. For best results, encourage those you trust to do the same.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)
Are you familiar with Quidditch? It’s a rough sport played by wizards in the fictional world of Harry Potter. All seven books in the series mention it, so it’s an important element. Author J.K. Rowling says she dreamed up the sport after having a quarrel with her boyfriend. “In my deepest, darkest soul,” she reports, “I would quite like to see him hit by a bludger.” (In Quidditch, a bludger is a big black ball made of iron.) I bring this up, Aquarius, because I suspect that you, too, are in position to use anger in a creative and constructive way. Take advantage of your raw emotion to make a lasting improvement in your life.
pISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)
In his erotic poem “Your Sex,” Joe Bolton exults: “My heart simplified, I touch the bud of happiness — it’s in season. And whatever grief I might have felt before simply dies inside me.” You might want to write that down on a slip of paper and carry it around with you this week, Pisces. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, the bud of happiness is now in season for you. You have good reason to shed the undertones of sadness and fear you carry around with you. I’ll tell you the last lines of Bolton’s poem, because they also apply: “Sometimes I think it’s best just to take pleasure wherever we want and can. Look: the twilight is alive with wild honey.”
SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST ArtSpace Charter School is seeking a part-time Speech Language Pathologist beginning August 2013. Candidates must hold a current license and have at least one year’s experience working in a public school setting. • Please email cover letter and resume to: resumes@ artspacecharter.org Email subject heading “SLP".
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