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letters Fund bike lanes with a cyclist use-tax

Madison concrete plant a threat to quality of life

I am still shaken by what I have read of the recent incident between the local firefighter and Alan Simons. At 72-and-a-half, I occasionally take my bicycle down to the Bent Creek [Experimental Forest] or the North Carolina Arboretum for a ride (mainly, I hike). But I would never ride my bike on the Blue Ridge Parkway or any rural road that did not have a designated bike lane. Like many a local vehicle driver, I have cussed out on-road bicyclists who ride double or singly in the middle of the lane.

I have a partial solution that does not require taxing all of us for designated bike lanes on some rural roads frequented by on-road bicyclists: Why not have them pay for a yearly license tag ($15?) as a Use Tax? And have all the tax go to paving shoulders for designated bike lanes.

As an 8-year-old living in St. Paul, Minn., (this was 1945), I had to pay $5 for a tiny metal tag to put on my bicycle seat. They told us all this money went toward bike safety (we had to show yearly that we knew the “rules of road” before we bought the tag).

And maybe legislation in this direction would get under-50cc moped operators licensed, registered and insured!

— Yale W. Mooers Candler

When the strongest part of our community is threatened by a small group of people desiring to capitalize on the loss of our jobs and safety, and when an obviously compromised planning board of our county ignores the pleas of residents and analysts alike, a feeling of confused and widespread anger expands in no small supply.

The concrete plant that is being considered for Madison County has been completely exposed for what it is, and no secret remains regarding its destructive and harmful existence. Considered economically, the concrete plant will devalue all surrounding property by millions of dollars while destroying far more jobs than it will create. Considered in terms of safety, the most affected victims of the plant’s bellowing arsenic will be the daycare center and Elderberry Nursing Home located less than a quarter-mile away. Considered in terms of traffic, the concrete plant will add another 80 or so dump trucks a day to our roads. Our water supply will be tapped and its already limited use will be stressed by approximately 2,000 more gallons a day (what approximately 20 residential homes would use), while the runoff generously shared by the plant will contaminate the water of residents living only 200 feet from the proposed building site.

These ominous facts, of which there are many more, are far from being mere compro-

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• An article in last week’s Buzz news briefs mistakenly said that three candidates will emerge from the Oct. 6 Asheville City Council primary. In fact, the top six votegetters will go onto the ballot for the general election, when the final three winners will be elected.

• In the article in last week’s Food section, restaurateur Laurey Masterton’s last name was misspelled, and the tomatoes topping the wax-bean salad should have been credited to Ten Mile Farm, not Ballard Branch. mises. They are above all an act of war against a culture founded on families, security, beauty and safety.

There is an obvious reason that Buncombe County placed a moratorium on these types of industry, as concrete plants clearly belong in locations that cater to their numerous hazards and demands. It is not optional for us to come together against such a proposal — it is the minimum of what is necessary if we are to enjoy living in our county.

— Frank Lombardo Marshall

Put health and welfare first on concrete plant vote It has been said that the measure of a country can be observed by how well it cares for its citizens least able to care for themselves.

Applying this measure to our county level, this letter appeals to the Madison County Board of Commissioners and all county officials. Please consider the health and welfare of our oldest and youngest residents when you consider the application to place a concrete plant in Marshall.

That is exactly what you are being asked to consider: Should a concrete plant be allowed in close proximity to a residential area (100 feet from the property line), Elderberry Nursing home with 100 residents (less than a half-

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Why would people, especially in today’s difficult economy, object to a business coming to their town that was going to bring jobs? Why would Buncombe put a moratorium on concrete plants in its county? Because they know, and we know, that this type of industry must be located a safe distance from peoples’ living areas. They know that this type of business provides very few jobs compared to the negative impacts. They know the potential for blighting the area and thereby negatively impacting the existing job and tax base. They know it will attract more “dirty� industry and repel future “clean� industry.

I believe Madison County to be a caring, tight-knit community, a community that still understands the importance of taking care of its own. I believe the commissioners respect the generations that came before them, and are interested in protecting the future of those yet to come. ‌ Show us the true measure of your heart. Let it be known that there are still places in this country where citizen welfare is treasured before corporate or individual greed.

Thank you. — Tim Ruemler Marshall

Public option needed for at-risk and preexisting health conditions In the past two years, I have been designated as an automatic “turn down� — not eligible for an individual health-insurance policy, after my husband’s employment ended and COBRA

coverage finished. Private insurance company, after private insurance company, turned me down with my diagnosis of intestinal problems, despite the fact that two years later the problems have healed. The “at-risk pool� insurance with no-questions-asked for preexisting conditions would charge over $1,100 per month for an individual health-insurance policy.

This is not fair. Private insurance companies should not have this power. We need a solution now. We can’t afford to pay high premiums and to not have coverage due to the high cost of premiums while Congress delays action. A public option in health insurance is a necessity to allow for competition and choice. We need something done now. — Judy Mattox Leicester

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“No Change� on health care not an option Someone sent me an e-mail telling me that Rep. Heath Shuler does not intend to support health-care-reform legislation. This is very hard to understand since nearly a quarter of the people in his district do not have insurance.

Only two weeks ago, I talked to the wife of a 27-year-old who works part time as a grader (the only job he is able to find). He is uninsured and discovered that he was beginning to go blind from an early stage glaucoma. He lost one-third of the sight in his eye during the six weeks it took for him to find some way to receive the care he needed. If universal coverage had been available, he need not have lost any sight beyond the first evidence of symptoms.

Health-care reform is essential to the economic well-being and quality of life for our citizens. Those who want no change need to understand that this is not possible. “No Change� is not an option because costs are escalating ... each year. Without reform, more and more employers will be unable to provide coverage and remain profitable. Medicare will run out of funds. Insurance premiums will

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continue to rise. More and more people will become uninsured.

Health-care reform must accomplish two things: It must provide universal coverage and it must reduce the escalating costs. The public option is the only viable alternative on the table for cost reduction. The nonsense about the government dictating health care is just that: nonsense. For example, Medicare, a government program, accepts everyone who is of a certain age. Insurance companies, which are for-profit entities, dictate health care by determining who can even be insured.

I urge everyone who believes that health care reform is essential to call Shuler as well as senators Hagan and Burr and let them know that it is time to get behind health-care reform.

The failure to act responsibly at this critical time in our history is to sentence individuals to premature death and unnecessary chronic illnesses. And it represents a cowardly refusal to recognize that the economic health of this country depends on the control of runaway costs.

— Maxine Dalton Spring Creek

Put nonprofits in the health-care fix I’m for major health-insurance reform but have mixed feelings toward the “public option.” I think it’s a slippery slope toward killing competition and private insurance companies — which would leave the government plan as the only option. I say this because government decides on legislation and collects our tax dollars — and there just isn’t a level playing field. I’m not saying having a single U.S. health-care plan would be bad, I’m just not sure — and I don’t think the plan has a great chance at getting enough votes anyway.

My idea: Pass legislation now that promotes independent nonprofits to compete against private insurance companies. Nonprofits would have their greatest focus on the patient — not schemes, profits and million-dollar executive bonuses.

There are some other great ideas out there now like this nonprofit idea, including serious insurance regulations to protect patients, tort reform, portability, watchdog/consumerfeedback groups etc. So why not pass a bill that includes and initiates some of these ideas now, and then see the results.

If the system doesn’t improve, then put the public option back on the table. But once we have a government-run public option, I believe we’d always have the government-run plan. My idea just seems like a more logical solution that could be implemented quickly to help the uninsured and underinsured who are suffering now under our current unethical system. Whatever your thoughts are, let our representatives know. Maybe this will boost the level of urgency to a higher level.

— Scott Sessoms Asheville

Fiscally conservative or irresponsible?

Visiting Rep. Heath Shuler’s office, three telling statements were made by his assistant who met with us: 1) We’re fiscal conservatives and

we cannot see how to pay for universal health care. 2) Negotiating for lower drug prices would hurt the drug companies too much. 3) A government option is out of the question; it would bankrupt the health-insurance industry.

Notably missing in a 10-minute discussion was any concern for individual citizens.

I mentioned that health-care coverage for all Americans could be paid for in its entirety by negotiating prices for drugs to the 40 percent level, being paid in Europe. This savings would amount to $200 billion a year.

It is fiscally irresponsible not to decrease the overall cost of health care in America. We are currently paying for the health insurance that companies provide for their employees via the price of goods we purchase from them everyday. Let’s find a way to cover every American and in the least costly way for ourselves. Overall the economy will thrive with more dollars available to spend. Please contact Mr. Shuler, as he needs an education. Our votes do actually elect him.

— Ed Mills Fairview

Freedom before incorporation First, I would like to thank John Kelleher for this letter, “Not Buying the Swannanoa Plan,” in the Aug. 12 Xpress, which starts out, “So let me get this straight.” He did indeed get it straight.

I hope that the people of Swannanoa Valley will read and re-read that letter until they know exactly what it means.

I would like to add another meaning to his comments: Freedom! On Aug. 4, I attended the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting. A lady held up a sign that said, “Everyone gave something, and some gave everything.” I felt again the remorse that I felt 65 years ago when my brother died in the Battle of Bastogne in Belgium. In his last letter, written shortly before the battle, he wrote, “Mama, I have taken human life but I hope that God will forgive me because I did it so that the people of America can be free.”

The day after the letter came, the telegram came that said he had given everything. … I’ll remember my brother. You remember someone that you know or knew. The least that we can do to repay them is to vote “no” to the incorporation of Swannanoa Valley on Nov. 3.

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City employment seminar ignores workers’ rights

by Craig White The city of Asheville recently sponsored a seminar titled “Understanding Lawful Employment,” featuring a panel of speakers who included local business consultants and federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security. The city’s friendly Economic Development Office staffers welcomed the roughly 70 participants, mostly human-resource professionals. The Homeland Security presentation, however, was misleading and inaccurate. Even more troubling is the fact that City Council has taken such a partisan stand on a complex and controversial federal issue.

The lead presenters, Special Agent Darren Vazquetelles and Debora Fikes, are both from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They briefly talked about how employers can follow the law, which simply means filling out an I-9 form for every new employee to confirm their eligibility to work. But the bulk of their presentation was devoted to marketing two programs that employers aren’t required to participate in.

E-Verify and IMAGE are key components of

employment status changes, it can take more than a year for the correct data to be entered into the system.

• Discrimination: An independent 2007 investigation found that 47 percent of employers were inappropriately using E-Verify to screen applicants rather than to confirm new hires on their first day of work. This constitutes discrimination on the basis of race and national origin, which is illegal under the Civil Rights Act. Homeland Security has done little to address this issue since it was identified in 2002.

• Cost: The ICE agents stressed that their programs are free to employers, ignoring the costs of staff time, training and paperwork. One small business in Maryland calculated its estimated cost to participate in E-Verify at $27,000 annually.

Despite the misleading presentation, though, I’m not too concerned that E-Verify will suddenly catch on in Asheville. The audience’s questions focused on the I-9, the only form required by law, and I heard many quiet expressions of disbelief that any employer would choose to sign up for additional federal bureaucracy.

Wage theft, racial profiling, unsafe working conditions, hiring discrimination, sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, and even human trafficking all went without mention or notice.

ICE’s deter-and-detain strategy by recruiting employers as screens for identifying unauthorized immigrants. Employing both the carrot and the stick, the agents claimed that E-Verify is easy, convenient and free, and that workplaces choosing not to use it are more likely to find themselves the target of an ICE raid.

I was somewhat surprised that a seminar about employment law turned out to be an infomercial for voluntary enforcement programs, but I’m not surprised that E-Verify doesn’t live up to its billing. According to the National Immigration Law Center (www.nilc.org), key problems include: • Accuracy: The E-Verify databases are riddled with errors. While ICE claims a 0.4 percent error rate for the program, businesses that use it say differently. In 2008, Intel Corp. reported that more than 12 percent of its new workers were erroneously identified as ineligible for employment. The Social Security Administration estimates that if E-Verify were mandated for all U.S. employers, errors in the SSA database, the primary source for E-Verify, would cause 3.6 million incorrect responses a year (that’s about 11,000 errors every day).

• Outdated information: E-Verify and IMAGE are online, electronic programs, but Homeland Security uses paper records. When a person’s

But I was deeply troubled that a city-sponsored event on such a controversial topic was so one-sided. Immigration law is so complex and changes so frequently that even most immigration lawyers are reluctant to claim they fully understand it. In general, immigration-employment law falls into two main categories: enforcement (making sure employees are authorized to work in the United States) and worker-protection (ensuring that immigrant workers aren’t abused or exploited, regardless of whether they have documents).

Yet the city’s seminar addressed only enforcement, ignoring all the civil-rights and worker-protection laws that are routinely violated by some employers hiring immigrants in Western North Carolina. Wage theft, racial profiling, unsafe working conditions, hiring discrimination, sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, and even human trafficking all went without mention or notice, though all of these criminal practices are happening locally, as various nonprofit organizations can attest.

The Asheville seminar constituted an unfortunate foray by the city into a controversial federal issue. Nationwide, many people in the business, nonprofit and religious sectors favor some version of immigration reform that would

provide a clear and fair path to citizenship for people who work hard, pay taxes and follow the law. But a vocal minority has been effectively pushing an enforcement-only approach: strict laws, aggressive enforcement, border walls and prisons. Anti-immigrant groups and individuals in Asheville are promoting a sort of racial McCarthyism, encouraging people to call the Homeland Security hot line whenever they observe “illegals” — which presumably means anyone with brown skin or an accent.

By offering this seminar, which twice advertised the hot line, I fear that the city has implicitly endorsed this tactic. And while I don’t believe most Council members are prejudiced against immigrants, it does seem clear that special interests have led them to take sides on an extremely complex and controversial issue without thinking through the racial, ethical and legal implications of their position.

The seminar grew out of a City Council discussion of undocumented immigrants, the idea being that informing employers about the law is a politically neutral act. However, choosing to focus solely on enforcement while ignoring civil rights and worker protection is anything but. Instead, it aligns Asheville with people and groups who actively oppose the city’s stated values of diversity, inclusion and tolerance.

I’m encouraged, though, by the many local nonprofits, church groups and businesses — far too numerous to list here — who are welcoming our immigrant neighbors, enjoying the cultural richness they bring to our region, and engaging the immigration issue with open minds and healthy dialogue. Where the community is leading, perhaps City Council will follow. X Asheville resident Craig White works at the Center for Participatory Change and serves on the board of the Asheville-Buncombe Community Relations Council.

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by Brian Postelle In a 4-3 vote at its Aug. 25 meeting, Council approved adding four satellite locations for early voting in Buncombe County’s upcoming municipal elections. In addition to the Buncombe County Board of Elections building on College Street, which will open for one-stop voting on Oct. 15, more than two weeks ahead of the Nov. 3 general election, four other sites will also open a week before Election Day. Early voting is widely believed to increase voter turnout by giving voters greater flexibility.

A whopping 72 percent of Buncombe County’s registered voters came out for the 2008 elections, and two-thirds of those who voted cast ballots at one of Buncombe County’s 15 remote early-voting sites. Granted, the national races are credited for much of the turnout for that election, which also included state and local races, but Council members are hoping that adding new sites will bring turnout well above the meager 22 percent reached by the 2007 municipal elections. That year 1,061 early votes were cast at the Buncombe County Board of Elections. “I’ve had requests from several members of our community to add more early-voting stops,” Mayor Terry Bellamy told Council, heading up the discussion.

During public comment, several spoke in favor of bolstering early voting.

“This is the method where we reach more people,” said former state senator and Asheville native Charles Carter. “The more we open up our process to the people, the better our government will be.” Carter was one of the senators who sponsored legislation that allowed for early voting in North Carolina.

But the move doesn’t come cheap. Unlike regular polling places, which are included in the city and county budgets, new early voting locations will have to be paid out of the city’s general fund balance. According to a staff report, opening four sites a week before the general election will end up costing between $44,000 and $60,000.

The price could exceed $60,000 if polling places were open for longer hours or if primary elections were included.

Citing the current economic crisis and the $5 million hole Asheville had to patch to pass the current budget, Council member Jan Davis said he wouldn’t go along with the plan.

“I personally have a very hard time supporting that,” he said. “I think it’s not the right time.”

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qualms.

Council member Bill Russell said the fact that the election is coming up quickly makes for a logistical problem. “How do you choose a location?” he asked. “It has to be fair.”

The Board of Elections said it needed to know within the next few weeks, and the timetable was a concern for Council member Robin Cape.

Remembering an attempt to install partisan elections in 2007, she remarked, “I still have scars from that one.”

Despite mentioning that she had heard from 40 people on the issue, she said she would rather take time to discuss the details and perhaps include the plan in a future budget.

“As much as I am very supportive of voting, I would like to look into this,” she said. “I am concerned about the speed in which this is going.”

But Cape, who recently announced a write-in reelection bid, would eventually vote in support of the change.

Council member Carl Mumpower took a different tack, saying that anyone running in the upcoming election, himself included, should not vote on the issue as it constitutes a conflict of interest. (Cape and fellow Council member Kelly Miller, as well as Mayor Bellamy, are also running for re-election). City Attorney Bob Oast, however, said there was no legal conflict, and no other Council members gave the idea mileage.

Council member Brownie Newman acknowledged the financial concerns but pushed to add new sites, saying, “This is real money and I’ve struggled a lot with this issue. But this adds a lot to our elections.”

Newman’s motion to add four early-voting sites that would open one week before the general election passed 4-3, with Mumpower, Russell and Davis voting against it. Council will vote on the necessary budget amendment at their Sept.

8 meeting, and the Board of Elections will soon begin to pick the sites.

Meanwhile, Bellamy said that she wanted to reach out to the other Buncombe County municipalities with elections this November to see if any would be willing to help share the costs.

Another setback for Reid

Plans to expand and renovate the W.C. Reid recreation center — located in one of Asheville’s lowest income areas — have returned to Council’s plate several times over the past few years. An ambitious rebuild, initially estimated at $8 million in 2006, was quickly scaled back to $4 million and then again to $2 million in light of the economic downturn. Now it looks as if the city may have to go back to the drawing board with $500,000 less.

According to the city’s Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Director Roderick Simmons, the development has run out of time to receive the

$500,000 N.C. Parks and Recreation Trust Fund Grant that the city qualified for in 2006. The reason? Ground breaking on the project has not yet occurred, and the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources has determined that not enough progress has been made on the project to qualify for an extension on the grant, which expires on Sept. 30. Withdrawing the grant request now would hurt the city’s chances for a future grant a lot less than just letting the time limit expire, Simmons said, explaining that he had reached that conclusion based on advice from NCDENR officials. Simmons’ news was received with some surprise and disappointment by Council members, who had approved a construction plan only eight months previous.

But the news also exposed the underlying issue of whether the city should pursue its plan for a new building that will facilitate expanding programs at the center, or backtrack and consider only renovating the current structure.

Bellamy, who voted in January to begin the new construction, said her preference was to turn attention to the existing structure. The project could be completed with money in hand, and the city could move quickly on a project for which the surrounding community had helped to raise funds. “My concern is that the community is going to [think] we don’t view this as a priority,” Bellamy said.

She noted that the city had raised most of the money it has allocated to the project a few years back. The delays have caused the community to doubt whether the city is earnestly pursuing the project, she said. “There’s not a whole lot of confidence right now.”

Newman was puzzled by that turn. “What are we doing?” he asked. “Didn’t we just vote on this?” If Council wants to redesign the project, he said, it needs to have a bigger discussion than just deciding whether or not to back out of the grant.

And he was not sure that renovating the existing building would save any money: “We need to have a Council commitment and stick to it.”

“I do not support the motion to go back and start all over again,” Cape said, adding that Council needs to keep its eye on the ball for the project to maintain momentum. “I would like to not turn the Reid Center into another Civic Center and never get it done.”

City Manager Gary Jackson, observing that the city had already spent money on the design process, advised Council to talk with the architects before making any design changes. City staff is arranging for the architects to attend a future Council meeting.

Only Bellamy voted against the motion to terminate the grant request.

This is the second time in recent years that the city has had to back out of a PARTF grant. In 2007

Simmons recommended that council return a $248,000 grant for renovating Memorial Stadium after funding delays scaled that project back and put it behind schedule for the grant.

Drug talk dominated by racial comments

A proposal by Mumpower to allocate $1 million a year for three years to fund a pilot program and partnership to fight drug crime got no support on Council, but his statements regarding Asheville’s black community drew criticism from Bellamy.

In his presentation, Mumpower graded various parts of the community on an “A” through “F” scale on their response to drug activity.

(There were no “A’s.”) And he also made comments regarding black leaders who “publicly discourage ‘snitching’ and feed an ‘us against them’ mindset” and “ministers in black churches who routinely attack the police and ‘snitching’ while drug activity occurs in the proximity of their church.”

Mumpower went on to criticize the black community at large, calling it “largely passive” to the effects of the drug trade in which “young black men and women [are] routinely recruited [or]

“I would like to not turn the Reid Center into another Civic Center and never get it done.”

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Robin Cape

funded as dealers for Mexican distributors and white users.”

In her response, Bellamy denounced the presentation, calling it an “indictment of the black community as a whole.”

“I do want to apologize to members of the community who may have heard this presentation and are offended, as I am,” she said.

“Because it [condemns] a race of people in one fell swoop. I think an apology is in order.”

Bellamy also noted that Council has allocated more funding for law enforcement over the past few years and has reached out to community groups and neighborhoods to support partnerships for fighting drug activity, and she disagreed with Mumpower’s assertion that Raleigh is not addressing the issue.

Mumpower countered that he had no intention to apologize.

“It appears I’ve offended some people, and perhaps I’ve not been thorough,” he said.

“Because it was my goal to offend everyone who listened tonight. Because I think we all have something to be ashamed of, and I make no apologies for that.”

Despite the dead end on his drug-program proposal, Mumpower was able to get Council support for an “Adopt a Traffic Island” program, to be discussed at a future meeting. X Brian Postelle can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 153, or at bpostelle@mountainx.com.

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Rep. Heath Shuler was in Asheville on Aug. 28, fielding questions from citizens on the radio and speaking to local businesspeople. He reaffirmed his opposition to health-care-reform legislation currently before the U.S. House of Representatives but said, “We’ve got to have reform.”

The whip for the caucus of conservative Blue Dog Democrats, Shuler spoke at a lunch of the Council of Independent Business Owners and took questions from callers on Matt Mittan’s radio show on 570 AM. “It’s emotional; health care is something that we all need,” Shuler said. “I want to see a way we can do this through encouraging a better lifestyle.”

Shuler reasserted his opposition to HR 3200, the health-carereform legislation currently before the U.S. House. That bill would require all Americans to have health care, would set up a federal insurance program aimed at driving costs down by competing with private companies, would ban insurance-company practices such as denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions and would levy a surtax on households making over $350,000 a year to help pay for it all.

But Shuler said that the bill would increase the deficit too much, doesn’t do enough to reduce health-care costs and also doesn’t provide enough incentives for individuals to live healthier lifestyles.

“I’ve sat in front of the Speaker [Nancy Pelosi] and pleaded my case to her and the House leadership about prevention, wellness and disease management,” Shuler said earlier that day to 200 local business owners at the CIBO luncheon. “We can lower the health costs of this country because we’re going to be more responsible for our health care.”

However, Shuler did note that achieving a healthier lifestyle would be difficult for low-income families. He recalled taking on the “Welfare challenge”: spending no more than $1.15 on each meal for a week.

“I wouldn’t have made it without McDonald’s cheeseburgers,” he said.

Shuler touted the Asheville Project — an initiative that combines education, patient care and pharmaceutical advice to improve the health of those with chronic conditions, thus reducing overall premiums — as a model for health-care reform.

During his 2008 re-election campaign, Shuler received $130,852 in campaign contributions from the health-care industry, more than any other Democrat in the state’s delegation. But when a caller brought up those campaign contributions on Mittan’s show, Shuler denied that financial backing has affected his decision to oppose the bill.

“No one buys my vote,” he replied.

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Despite his opposition to the overall bill, Shuler told Xpress after his radio appearance that he supports a list of eight restrictions that limit health-care companies. These restrictions, called for by the White House and part of HR 3200, include prohibiting insurance companies from denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions, requiring companies to fully cover regular checkups and capping a consumer’s annual out-of-pocket expenses.

“We’ve got to reform the system,” Shuler said. “When someone changes jobs because of a down economy, they’ve got insurance, but once their COBRA [a form of temporary insurance] runs out, then they get denied. That’s wrong.”

While Shuler has spoken to business and civic groups in the area, he has pointedly declined to hold in-person, public town halls on health care, instead opting for “tele-town halls” where constituents call in questions. He defended that decision on Mittan’s show.

“A colleague of mine held a town hall meeting, answered 25 questions in three hours, [and] because they had to stop to take time out, people were yelling and screaming,” Shuler said. “In just a little over an hour, I answered 24 at my first tele-town hall.”

He called the tele-town halls “much more civil” and asserted that by using mass media, he’s reached far more people than he would with a standard public forum.

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The department’s previous policy of allowing school drop-offs increased the county’s insurance liability and violated a state law banning non-government employees from using publicly owned vehicles, an internal county audit found earlier this year.

In a July memo to County Manager Wanda Greene, Sheriff Van Duncan said he was ending what had been a routine practice.

The finding was just one of several that came out of an audit undertaken in November 2008 and issued in April 2009.

Other findings included: • Some county departments weren’t following Internal Revenue Service rules regarding the proper reporting of fringe benefits when employees are allowed to drive home county-owned vehicles.

• The county spent $224,769 on costs associated with allowing employees to take vehicles home. In some cases that money should be recouped.

• About $650 in taxpayers’ money was wasted on buying 3,250 gallons of high-grade fuel for some vehicles when the high-grade fuel wasn’t necessary.

County auditor Tim Flora’s review followed a dispute last year between Duncan and Greene over the Sheriff’s Department policy of allowing deputies to use their cars to drop off their kids at local schools.

Duncan had argued that the long-standing policy improved law-enforcement visibility in and around schools without incurring any extra liability. Duncan readily admitted that he often dropped his son off at Erwin Middle School on his way to work.

Greene argued that sheriff’s deputies should adhere to the county’s general policy barring non-employees from operating or riding in county-owned vehicles. The audit found that if the practice were to continue, it would cost the county thousands more in

liability insurance.

In his July 15 memo to Greene, Duncan said he would end the school drop-offs.

“We have decided to stop the routine practice of letting our officers transport their children to school and instead will only allow it as the policy now states in emergency situations with division head approval,” Duncan wrote.

“As I had communicated in several other emails, if our previous practice of allowing this was going to cost more money in insurance coverage, I don’t feel that the benefit outweighs the cost. We will communicate this to our staff before the start of the next school year.”

The county audit found that the planning, emergency management services, building maintenance and solid waste departments weren’t properly recording the use of take-home vehicles for tax purposes. In some cases, employees properly reported their personal use of county vehicles, but the finance department failed to correctly withhold employees’ payroll tax for Social Security and Medicare and failed to pay the employer’s matching contribution.

Expenses related to the private use of county vehicles amounted to $157,758 for public-safety vehicles and $67,011 for other county cars and trucks in the 12 months that ended November 2008. The audit recommended recouping the expenses incurred from the private use of county vehicles through a payroll deduction of $681 a year ($3 a day for 227 days), thus effectively taking away the fringe benefit. But it recommended exempting the drivers of publicsafety vehicles from the deduction.

Greene told Xpress that nearly all the issues brought forth in the audit had been addressed through policy changes.

To read the full county vehicle-use audit, as well as Duncan’s e-mail exchange with Greene, go to The Xpress Files at mountainx.com/ xpressfiles.

— Jason Sandford

Montford group declares opposition to all I-26 plans In a statement issued Aug. 26, the Montford Neighborhood Association declared that each of the current proposals for the I-26 connector poses “a major threat to the quality of life in Asheville.”

The MNA asserts that the proposed design alternatives, including leading contenders 3 and 4b, have major flaws as now configured.

It calls on local and state government to revise them significantly.

“We are very concerned that this highway project, as presented, will degrade the cultural and economic resources of this neighborhood, which may in turn threaten the vitality of downtown,” the statement reads.

The controversial road project has been in the works for two decades. Plans include widening Interstate 240, building a new bridge across the French Broad River and revising the I-26/I-40/I-240 interchange, which is known as “Malfunction Junction.”

Construction is planned to begin in 2014.

Alternative 4b, developed by the Asheville Design Center, is backed by Asheville City Council and is intended to cause the least possible disruption on the community, while also making new land available for urban development.

However, according to an MNA report, several changes made by the North Carolina Department of Transportation undermine that goal and pose significant problems for the Montford community.

“We want the community to know that the Department of Transportation has made changes to alternate 4B that we believe will have a devastating impact on the river and on the Montford neighborhood, including two large flyovers and an extensive six-lane double-decker highway immediately adjacent to the historic Riverside Cemetery,” wrote Lael Gray, coordinator for MNA’s I-26 working group, in a news release introducing the statement and an accompanying report.

“But we are equally concerned about the detrimental impacts of alternates 2, 3, and 4 on Asheville neighborhoods.”

Alternative 3, backed by the Asheville Area

Chamber of Commerce and (narrowly) by the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners would be cheaper and result in shorter driving times, proponents say. But it would destroy eight homes in the Burton Street area of West Asheville and leave the adjacent neighborhood facing a sound wall. And it would also dislocate residents of an Emma trailer park. Alternative 4b would take only two Burton Street homes.

The MNA statement and report cited the displacement and destruction of homes as a problem with Alternative 3, and they also criticized that alternative for not separating local traffic from I-26 bound vehicles and for merging many lanes of traffic “at the north end of Pearson [Drive].”

According to the MNA, the plans deviate from guidelines established in 2000 by the Community Coordinating Committee, which was made up of local residents as well as representatives of the Federal Highway Administration, the state DOT, the city of Asheville and independent engineers and consultants. The series of guidelines it devised included matching the project’s scale to the local community, reducing air pollution and separating local and interstate traffic.

“We believe that all four alternatives, as presented, require significant revisions to meet the community’s stated goals for the project,” the statement reads, encouraging the adoption of lower speeds near residential neighborhoods and a reduction in the project’s scale, among other measures.

The report also calls on the DOT to make all environmental and traffic data available in layperson’s language and asks city and county staff to conduct an extensive review before revising the proposed I-26 plans to better integrate them with “greenways, mass transit, improvement to street corridors and neighborhood connections.”

To see the MNA statement and report on the I-26 alternatives, go to The Xpress Files at mountainx.com/xpressfiles.

— David Forbes

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election09 Campaign Calendar Wednesday, Sept. 2: “Keeping it Real” campaign event for Asheville City Council candidate Cecil Bothwell, 7-9 p.m. at the Wedge Brewery, 125B Roberts St. Thursday, Sept. 3: WNC Citizens for Change forum for Asheville City Council candidates, 6:30 p.m. at Hill Street Baptist Church, 135 Hill St. Friday, Sept. 11: Deadline for registering to vote in the Asheville City Council primary.

Saturday, Sept. 12: Get Out the Vote and Meet the Candidate event for Asheville City Council candidate Esther Manheimer, 3 to 5 p.m., Columbine Road clubhouse, Biltmore Park.

Monday, Sept. 14: League of Women Voters candidate forum for Asheville City Council, 6:45 to 9:15 p.m. at YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market St. Tuesday, Sept. 15: Mountain Voices Alliance and People Advocating Real Conservancy host candidate forum for Asheville City Council from 7 to 9 p.m. at Randolph Learning Center, 90 Montford Ave. Wednesday, Sept. 16: “Keeping it Real” campaign event for Asheville City Council candidate Cecil Bothwell, 7-9 p.m. at the Wedge Brewery, 125B Roberts St. Thursday, Sept. 17: Get There Asheville City Council candidate forum on transit issues, 7

p.m. at Clingman Cafe, 242 Clingman Ave. Thursday, Sept. 17: Early voting begins for the primary election (Asheville only). For details, contact Buncombe County Election Services at 250-4200, or visit www.buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/election.

Saturday, Sept. 19: Campaign block party for Asheville City Council candidate J. Neal Jackson, 3 to 10 p.m. on Eagle Street, downtown.

Saturday, Oct. 3: Last day of early voting for the Asheville City Council and mayoral primary.

Tuesday, Oct. 6: Primary election (Asheville only).

Tuesday, Oct. 13: The Haw Creek Community Association and Evergreen Community Charter School cosponsor a forum for Asheville City Council candidates, 7 p.m. at Evergreen School, 50 Bell Road in Haw Creek.

Thursday, Oct. 15: Early voting begins for all Buncombe municipal elections.

Saturday, Oct. 31: Last day of early voting for Buncombe general election.

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

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

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An audit conducted by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting found that WCQSFM had been out of compliance with federal regulations, but it noted that the issues have now been resolved.

An Aug. 14 report by the CPB’S Inspector General, which was triggered by a citizen complaint, says the station had not been complying with regulations in the Communications Act of 1934 about providing adequate on-air notification of public meetings and about making publicly available financial information as well as documents and written procedures regarding its compliance with Equal Employment Opportunity regulations.

Compliance with the federal Communication Act is required in order to receive annual CPB funding, and stations must submit statements that they are in compliance.

The inspector’s report concludes that WCQS has come into compliance on those points since being notified, though CPB officials will have to formally confirm the findings. In addition, WCQS has submitted to the CPB a timeline of public announcements and a written plan for implementing public access to EEO and financial records.

Meanwhile, the report also found that, for an unspecified period of time prior to 2007, WCQS was without a community advisory board, a group of community members not attached to station administration that acts as a liaison between the listening public and the station. The board is required by the Communication Act, and its lack was the basis for the citizen’s complaint that led to the audit by the CPB. The audit confirmed that WCQS had claimed compliance during the time that it was operating without a community board.

“We observed that WCQS did not always have an established CAB that complied with the Act and CPB requirements,” the report reads. “During these time periods WCQS officials continued to certify to CPB the station’s compliance with Act requirements.”

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“The CAB kind of went into a dormant stage when certain people resigned,” Subkis told Xpress. “I think we have an excellent CAB now, but we were probably remiss in letting it lapse at all.”

Kimberly Bowser, administrator of corporate and public affairs at CBP’s Washington D.C. headquarters, indicated that it was unlikely any further action would be taken, since no such action was recommended in the report and WCQS now has a board in place.

“We at CPB can only read into or go by exactly what is stated in the Inspector General’s report,” she said. “Therefore, if the Inspector General thought it should be further investigated or considered, the investigator would have noted that. We can’t comment on something that is not noted in the report.”

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Peel appeal: The Orange Peel hopes that current renovations — which will increase capacity, add a small private club in its basement and include a big smoking porch on its north side — will help entice new musical acts to the popular venue. photo by Jason Sandford

Orange Peel expansion gets started The Orange Peel Social Aid and Pleasure Club in downtown Asheville, which enjoys a national reputation as a top music destination, is expanding.

On tap: a private club downstairs on the Orange Peel’s Hilliard Avenue side that will seat 75 to 150 people and serve cocktails, and a new smoking porch of at least 400 square feet on the club’s opposite north side. On the main floor, 50 to 100 removable “box seats” will be added to the left side of the stage to allow for special seating during certain shows. And the long bar on the south side of the room will be divided, with half of it staying put and the other half moving to the north side of the room.

“To stay strong, we needed to keep improving,” says Pat Whalen, the head of Public Interest Projects Inc., which owns the Orange Peel. The company specializes in downtown revitalization and breathed new life into the Orange Peel in 2002. “We want to continue to make this the best live-music venue we can make it.”

To that end, the Orange Peel applied for, and won, a $300,000 loan guarantee from the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority in March. It was time for the club to evolve, and the guarantee helped make the project a go in a tough economy, Whalen says.

Liz Whalen, the club’s marketing director, adds that it was time to invest despite the current recession.

“Asheville has a really progressive music population, and music fans that are really loyal,” she says. By bumping up the club’s

capacity from 942 to about 1,200, it can draw acts that might have previously passed up chances to play there. “The extra capacity puts us in the next tier of club size” on par with the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., and the NorVa in Norfolk, Va., she says.

The planned changes represent an investment of about $500,000 for the Orange Peel.

Work started a week ago. Sitting at the corner of Hilliard and Biltmore avenues, the club has a long history, first as a 1950s skating rink and then as a home for R&B clubs featuring disco and funk. The building later saw use as an auto parts warehouse, before lying vacant until Public Interest Projects reopened it seven years ago.

Last year Rolling Stone magazine named it one of the five best clubs in the U.S. Bob Dylan, the Beastie Boys, the Flaming Lips, Ben Harper and the Smashing Pumpkins have all played the Peel, an intimate space with a bouncy wooden floor and giant overhead fan.

The yet-to-be-named establishment in the basement will serve liquor and operate as a private membership club. Douglas Maderis of Maderis Designs has drawn up plans for the space, Liz Whalen says. Meanwhile, the porch on the north side of the Peel will help minimize the pedestrian traffic that can stack up on the sidewalk along Biltmore Avenue and generally improve safety.

All the work is scheduled to be completed

by October, she says, and none of the construction should interfere with the club’s current show schedule.

— Jason Sandford

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by Danny Bernstein Asheville attracts lots of visitors, and a few of them land in my guestroom. They’ve heard of the Blue Ridge’s beauty and ask me to show them the “mountains.” Where I take them, however, depends on how much they’re willing to walk and what shoes they’ve brought with them. If we have a full day, here’s what I typically do.

If they don’t want to walk

A drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway is always a treat. But for more than views at overlooks, I take visitors on a drive through the Pisgah National Forest on U.S. Highway 276. Starting at the forest’s southern entrance — the intersection with N.C. Highway 280, just outside Brevard — we stop at the Pisgah Ranger Station and Visitor Center to pick up a free map and check out the bookstore.

We walk across the road and up to an his-

If it’s dusk or raining, we may be lucky and see elk roaming the grassy fields of Cataloochee Valley.

toric building where they still hold services each Sunday — the English Chapel United Methodist Church, established in 1860.

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A view from the edge: The trail to Hemphill Bald borders the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and offers stunning views. photo by Danny Bernstein

Getting back on Highway 276, we stop at Looking Glass Falls, probably the most popular and photographed waterfall in Western North Carolina. Next stop, the historic Cradle of Forestry, site of the first American school of forestry: For children, there are scavenger hunts, a helicopter simulation, a locomotive to climb on and logging equipment.

Up on the Parkway, even the most blasé city guest is impressed by the view at milepost 411.8: “So this is the real Cold Mountain,” they say. Then we head six miles further south to amaze them at milepost 417 with views of Looking Glass Rock, which gets its name from the way its ice-coated rock face glistens in the winter.

If they say they’re walkers

We head out to Cataloochee Valley, the closest place from Asheville to enter the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The valley was once home to the largest community in the park, about 1,200 people. When they had to leave, several buildings were left in place.

At the information board, we pick up an autotour booklet which explains the Cataloochee’s history.

At the end of the valley road, we walk a flat mile to the Woody House, once the home of Steve Woody, the last resident to leave Cataloochee. Visitors are always surprised that they’re free to roam both floors of the open and unguarded, white frame house.

Coming back, we look into the Caldwell House and barn, the two-room Beech Grove School and Palmer Chapel.

If it’s dusk or raining, we may be lucky and see elk roaming the grassy fields of Cataloochee Valley. Common long ago in the Southern Appalachian mountains, elk were re-introduced to the Smokies in 2001. In the fall rutting season, bull elk come out to bugle, spar and strut as they attract their harem.

If they’re hikers

We walk up to Hemphill Bald, a moderate hike (9.6 miles roundtrip with a 1,900 ft. ascent). From Polls Gap, the trail follows the spine of Cataloochee Divide on the southeastern rim of the valley. It’s at the edge of the park, marked by a split-log fence.

Cataloochee Ranch, owned by the conservation-minded Alexander family, lies across the park boundary and offers log seats, a stone picnic table, and stunning southeast views into Maggie Valley and Pisgah National Forest.

If they claim they can hike like I can

I take them up Cold Mountain in the Shining Rock Wilderness (see “Chasing Cold Mountain,” Aug. 2, 2006 Xpress). Because of Charles Frazer’s best-selling book and

the movie, Cold Mountain may be the most famous peak in the Southern Appalachians. I promise my guests outstanding views. When the movie came out, the media buzz equated climbing Cold Mountain to climbing Mount Everest. It’s not.

The easiest route starts at Camp Daniel Boone on the Art Loeb Trail, but it’s steep (a 3,500-foot ascent), and wilderness-area trails aren’t blazed. Guided by the wand and sign at the Forest Service information board, we plod up to Deep Gap, then take the unmarked Cold Mountain Trail to the summit ridge.

There, the second of three rock outcrops is the place for lunch and offers the best views of the Narrows, the spine between Cold Mountain and Shining Rock. The third outcrop, with a survey marker on the ground, is the official summit.

Climbing Cold Mountain is an accomplishment visitors can take home with them. No matter how tired they get, my visitors have never been disappointed. X Hike leader and outdoors writer Danny Bernstein is the author of Hiking North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Heritage. She can be reached at danny@hikertohiker.com.

outdoorscalendar Calendar for September 2 - 10, 2009 Diamond Brand Running Groups: (pd.) Every Wednesday at 7 pm. We offer a beginner group that runs 3 miles, and intermediate that runs 6 - 7 miles. Sept. 2nd and 9th are at Fletcher Park (meet by park shelter) and Sept. 16th, 23rd and 30th are at Bent Creek (meet in parking lot by the river). For info, email smerrell@diamondbrand.com Blue Ridge Bicycle Club Encourages safe and responsible recreational bicycling in the WNC area. To find out more about the club and its ongoing advocacy efforts, or to see a complete club calendar, visit www.blueridgebicycleclub.org.

• THURSDAYS - Fletcher Blue Sky Road Ride. Departs promptly at 9:15am. Route and meeting place vary. No one will be left behind. Call or e-mail for details or if weather is questionable: 696-0877 or JohnL9@mchsi. com.

• SATURDAYS - Gary Arthur Ledges Park Road Ride.

Departs in the a.m. from Ledges Park, located 6.5 miles off UNCA exit on I-26. Ride north along the French Broad River to Marshall for coffee, then return via Ivy Hill. Email for departure time: jbyrdlaw@charter.net.

• SUNDAYS - Folk Art Center Road Ride. Departs in the p.m. from the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

This is a show-n-go ride, meaning there may not be a ride leader. Call or email for departure time: 713-8504 or billcrownover@bellsouth.net.

Blue Ridge Parkway Hikes Led by Blue Ridge Parkway rangers.

• FR (9/4), 10am - A moderate 2- to 3-mile RT hike on a high-elevation section of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail.

Starts at the Bear Pen Gap Overlook, milepost 427.6.

Bring water, wear walking shoes, and be prepared for changeable weather. Info: 298-5330, ext. 304 or 3503822, ext. 209.

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

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• SU (9/6), 8am - Chimney Tops From Newfound Gap. Info: (864) 801-1314 —- 8:30am - MST: Craggy Gardens to Bull Gap. Info: 698-7119 —- 1pm - Ox Creek Road to Rattlesnake Lodge. Info: 505-0443.

• WE (9/9), 8am - Kimsey Creek Trail/Standing Indian Circuit. Info: 369-7084 —- 8:30am - Tarnyard Gap to Allen Gap. Info: 656-2191.

Friends of Panthertown Meeting • WE (9/9), 5-7pm - Annual meeting at the Cashiers Library. Open to the public. Friends of Panthertown business will be conducted and projects will be outlined for 2009. Crystal Powell with the USDA Forest Service will present the Panthertown Trail Project. Info: 526-9938 or friends.of.panthertown@gmail.com.

Land of Sky Trout Unlimited Everyone is welcome. Membership not required. Info: 274-3471 or www.landoskytu.com.

• 2nd TUESDAYS, 6:30pm - Dinner followed by a program at 7:30pm at TGI Friday’s. Aug. 11: “N. Mills River Watershed and the Brushy Ridge Proposal,” with speaker Lori Stroup, fisheries biologist.

Pigeon Valley Bassmasters All interested anglers in the community in WNC, Upstate S.C., East Tennessee and NE Georgia are invited to attend and share fishing ideas. Invitational tournaments are held throughout the area. Info: 884-2846 or middlefork2846@ gmail.com.

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Fruit of their labors

Doctors, farmers praise the miraculous apple

by Melanie McGee Bianchi

I recently cured a possible case of walking pneumonia by downing a quarter-cup of applecider vinegar, diluted in 16 ounces of water. My husband, son and I were taking a day drive to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a trip I refused to miss because of any ailment.

So while choking down the home remedy, I kept my eyes steadily fixed on the approaching mountains.

What a vile-tasting concoction! I’ve heard people brag about liking the taste of straight apple-cider vinegar, but I don’t believe them.

They’re the same grandstanding, aggro naturalists who claim: “My kids eat raw broccoli,” or “I don’t like air-conditioning.”

Still, I can’t argue with the results. In about an hour, my aching lungs loosened, the wheeze dwindled from my inhalations, and I could breathe free air again.

Turns out, the list of maladies this wonder tonic is purported to cure is so long it actually appears alphabetized on one Web site,

It’s the start of Western North Carolina’s apple season, which is a good time to restate the importance of this canonical fruit.

Apple Cider Vinegar Benefits. Everything from asthma, eczema and insomnia to burns, hiccups and warts will respond to its application or ingestion, according to the site.

But on to some less unlovely images (and more palatable apple products): It’s the start of Western North Carolina’s apple season, which is a good time to restate the importance of this canonical fruit. Thanks to orchard-rich Henderson County — which is gearing up to host the 63rd-annual North Carolina Apple Festival over Labor Day weekend, Sept. 4-7 — North Carolina is the country’s seventh-largest apple-producing state.

Further west, in Cherokee County, Glenn Carson of Two Buddies Heirloom Apples offers a dose of nostalgia and good flavor for those who buy his young trees. Taking his cue from much earlier generations of growers, Carson grafts root stocks of almost 100 kinds of rare apples, preserving vintage and unusual varieties, including ‘Stayman Winesap’, ‘June’ and a variety native to Clay and Macon counties,

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Fruit of life: Glenn Carson named his business Two Buddies Heirloom Apples for sons Hunter and Trae. photo by tiffany Carson

‘Beechers’ (also spelled ‘Beachers’).

“There aren’t many young people carrying on this tradition now, and some of these apples are going to disappear,” says Carson. Two Buddies was recently awarded a $3,000 Agricultural Options grant for sustainable-farm expansion, administered by the North Carolina Cooperative Extension, he mentions. With the funds, he plans to build raised beds, equipped with drip irrigation. This approach will accommodate young grafts for the first two years of growth (or until they are large enough to be field planted), and, hopefully, it will help Carson dodge some pest problems and increase his yield of apple saplings.

He also hopes to pass his passion onto the next generation — particularly his young sons Hunter and Trae, who inspired the name of his business. “I’m doing this so my kids can learn it too, and continue to pass it down.”

Meanwhile, in nearby Sylva, pediatrician Carmen Nations praises apples as a “great source of fiber and vitamin C.” But they’re one of the few fruits she routinely advises parents to buy organic, due to heavy pesticide use on many conventionally grown apples. Nations is also a strong advocate of the hands-on approach: “I would suggest that families visit farmers’ markets, orchards or farms to encourage an appetite for fruits and vegetables. ... Children can help pick out the fruits and veggies they will eat at home later.”

But as far as the whole apple-a-day thing goes, she isn’t swept away by the old wives tale.

Nation says, “The adage is probably attributable to the fact that people who snack on apples are also eating other healthy foods.” X Melanie McGee Bianchi is a stay-at-home mom and freelance journalist.

Sweet!

• The North Carolina Apple Festival happens in downtown Hendersonville Friday, Sept. 4, through Monday, Sept. 7. See www.ncapplefestival.org for a schedule of activities, including orchard tours.

• According to the Henderson County branch of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension, the most widely grown regional apples are ‘Red’ and ‘Golden Delicious’, ‘Rome Beauty’ and ‘Gala’.

• For a list of “U-Pick” apple farms and cider stands, pick up a copy of Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project’s Local Food Guide at 729 Haywood Road or at various retail outlets, or visit buyappalachian.org/filter/detail/upick.

gardeningcalendar Calendar for September 2 - 10, 2009 Garden Composters • Rain Barrels (pd.) Asheville GreenWorks (Quality Forward), Asheville’s Keep America Beautiful, sells Garden Composters and Rain Barrels in the Green Goods Shop at 357 Depot Street. • 2 kinds of composters: an 11 cubic foot square stacked model for $85 and a 7 cubic foot tumbler that makes compost faster and looks cool for $175. • Rain Barrels are 65 gallons, are easy to install, and cost $135. • All are made of 100% recycled plastic. • All sales benefit plantings in Asheville and Buncombe County. For more information, call 254-1776 or stop on by 357 Depot Street or visit: www.ashevillegreenworks.org Asheville Mushroom Club Learn about all aspects of mushrooms (collecting, identifying, growing or cooking). Info: 298-9988 or www.ashevillemushroomclub.com.

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

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

• WEDNESDAYS - 7:30-11:30am - Asheville City Market South at Biltmore Park Town Square. Info: 348-0340; 4:30-6:30pm - Open June-Sept.: Tryon Tailgate Market, across the railroad tracks from the Tryon Theatre. Info: 894-8823; 1-4pm - Open JuneOct.: Valle Crucis Farmers Market behind the Mast General store. Info: 963-6511; 3-6pm - Victory Tailgate Market, 1329 Tunnel Rd., E. Asheville, past the Blue Ridge Parkway entrance. Info: 7755593; 2:30-6:30pm - Open April-Oct.: Weaverville Tailgate Market at Lake Louise. Info: 450-0708; 3:30-6:30pm - Open April-Oct.: West Asheville Tailgate Market behind the West End Bakery and Haywood Road Market. Info: 281-9099; 2:305:30pm - Open May-Oct.: Spruce Pine Farmers Tailgate Market on Pollyanna’s Porch, next to Wildflowers, on Upper Street in downtown Spruce Pine. Info: 467-2171; 2-6:30pm - Open April-Dec.: Wednesday Afternoon Downtown Tailgate Market next to the French Broad Food Co-op in downtown Asheville. Info: 683-1607.

• WEDNESDAYS - 9am-Noon & FRIDAYS - 2-6pm - Open May-Oct.: Burke County Farmers Market.

Info: 439-4460. • WEDNESDAYS & SATURDAYS - 8am-1pm - Open May-Oct.: Haywood’s Historic Farmers Market at the HART Theater and Shelton House parking lot on Pigeon St. Info: 627-3469; 8am-Noon - Open May-Oct.: Waynesville Tailgate Market. Info: 648-6323; 8am-Noon - Open MayOct.: Watauga County Farmers Market on Hwy. 105 Ext. in Boone. Info: 355-4918; WE, 1-6pm & SA, 7am-1pm - Open May-Oct.: Cashiers Tailgate Market. Info: 230-4785.

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

• FRIDAYS - 10am-2pm - Open June-Nov.: Cherokee Farmers Tailgate Market on Acquoni Road. in downtown Cherokee. Info: 554-6931; 4:30-6:30pm - Open July-Oct.: Saluda Tailgate Market in the city parking lot on the west end of town. Info: 749-9365.

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

7265; 10am-2pm - Open April-Oct.: Cedar Valley Farmers Market in downtown Murphy. Info: 3617505; 8-11:30am - Open April-Nov.: Polk Tailgate Market in front of the Polk County Courthouse. Info: 894-2281; 8am-Noon - Open June-Oct.: Franklin Tailgate Market in Macon County at West Palmer St. Info: 349-2046; 8am-Noon - Open April-early fall: Lenoir Bluegrass Farmers Market at the Hog Waller stage. Info: 292-4664; 8am-2pm - Open year-round: French Broad Food Co-op Arts & Farm Market at 90 Biltmore Ave. in downtown Asheville.

Art demos and live music. Info: 236-9367; 9amNoon - Rutherfordton Farmers Market on Main St. in downtown Rutherfordton; 8am-Noon - Open May-Oct.: Mountain Valley Farmers Market on the downtown square in Hayesville. Info: 3893022; 8:30am-1pm - Open May-Oct.: Graham County Farmers Market in the United Community Bank parking lot in Robbinsville. Info: 479-8788; 8am-Noon - Bakersville Farmers Market in the Bakersville Community Medical Clinic parking lot in Bakersville; 8:30am-12:30pm - Open April-Oct.: Yancey County Farmers Market on S. Main St. at Hwy 19E. Info: 682-0601; 9am-1pm - Open April-Nov.: Madison County Farmers & Artisans Market in the parking lot near Pittman Cafeteria up Dormitory Dr. at Mars Hill College. Info: 6809890; 9am-Noon - Open May-Oct.: Black Mountain Tailgate Market on 1st Street behind the First Baptist Church. Info: 582-5039; 9am-Noon - Open May-Oct.: Jackson County Farmers Market on Railroad Ave. at Bridge Park. Info: 507-1146; 9am-Noon - Open May-Sept.: Riceville Community Tailgate Market in the parking lot of the Riceville Community Center. Info: 298-6549; 10am-1pm - Open May-Oct.: Big Ivy Market on the grounds of the Big Ivy Community Center, 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville. Info: 626-2624; 8am-Noon Open June-Sept.: Swain County Tailgate Market in downtown Bryson City. Info: 488-3848.

• SUNDAYS, 1-5pm - Open May-Oct.: Greenlife Tailgate Market at 70 Merrimon Ave. Info: 2545440; Noon-4pm - Open April-Nov.: Sundays on the Island, cross the river at the courthouse on Main St. in Marshall; 9am-5pm - Open June-Oct.: Topton Farmers Market at the crossroads in Topton. Info: 321-9030.

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

• TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS, 7am-Noon - Open May-Oct.: Rutherford County Farmers Market on Fairgrounds Road, off Business 74 Hwy. Info: 2876080.

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

Info: 438-5252; TU 3-6pm & SA 8-11am - Open June-Sept.: Marion Tailgate Market in the W. Henderson Street city parking lot. Info: 652-2215.

• TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS & SATURDAYS, 8am2pm - Hendersonville Curb Market at Church St., directly across from the old courthouse. Info: 692-8012 or curbmarket@bellsouth.com; 7am-1pm - Open April-Dec.: Transylvania County Tailgate Market in the parking lot behind South Broad Park, next to the library in Brevard. Info: 884-9483.

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Project overview and plans at Grace Episcopal (871 Merrimon) then join us at Crest Mountain for a tour

and potluck/cookout. Call to reserve your food option (meat or veggie) Sunday September 13, 4pm Grace Episcopal, followed by Potluck at Crest Mountain at 5:45 Questions or directions: 273-7373.

NC Concealed Carry Handgun Course (pd.) For citizens who wish to carry a concealed handgun. Upon successful completion, you may apply for a carry permit at your county Sheriff’s office.

Classes held twice monthly.

Both ladies and gentlemen welcome! (828) 676-0771. www.skylandtraining.com Water Harvesting Workshop - Sept. 8 (pd.) A half-day water harvesting workshop is scheduled for Sept. 8, 2009 sponsored by NC State University Dept. of Biological & Agricultural Engineering and NC Cooperative Extension. Please forward this notice to anyone who

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might be interested in attending. Professional engineers will earn 4 professional development hours (PDHs) for successful completion of this workshop. NCSUBAE is also an approved continuing education provider for the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), and the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). Approval of PDHs is pending from the NC Board of Landscape Architects.

Sept. 8, 2009 - Asheville, NC The NC Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way Asheville, NC 28806 For more information and to register online, please visit our website at: http://www.bae. ncsu.edu/stormwater/training/waterharvesting.html For a complete list of workshops offered by NCSU-BAE, please go to: http://www.bae.ncsu. edu/training_and_credit/ workshops.php Asheville ABC Series “Assembling Ideas, Building our Futures, Connecting Communities.” Info: www. ashevilleabc.com.

• FR (9/4), 6-8pm - “Local Currency, Alternative Currency, Dual Powers.”

Held at Firestorm Cafe.

Colburn Earth Science Museum The museum has a permanent collection of gem and mineral samples from around the world. Located in Pack Place at 2 South Pack Square. Info: 254-7162 or www.colburnmuseum.org.

• TH (9/10), 2-4pm - Guided geology walk with Colburn Curator Phil Potter. Learn about the history of the building stones which compose downtown Asheville’s unique art deco architecture.

Freeskool Events & Classes A teaching and learning network by and for the community. Community members offer free classes to other community members. Info: www.freeskoolasheville.org.

• MO (9/7), 6-7pm - Belly dance class with Sparrow.

Meet at the corner of Broadway and College St., in downtown Asheville —- 7pm - Idea night & potluck at the Creative Music School, 178 Westwood Pl. Public Lectures & Events at UNCA Events are free unless otherwise noted.

• FR (9/4), 11:25am - Humanities Lectures: “From Neoclassicism to Romanticism,” with Seamus McNerney in Lipinsky Auditorium and “Poverty and Plenty,” with Dr. Shirley Browning in the Humanities Lecture Hall. Info: 251-6808.

• TH (9/10), 4-6pm Chancellor Anne Ponder and the UNCA Board of Trustees invites the public to attend the 2009 Founders Day dedication of the Steve and Frosene Zeis Science & Multimedia Building. There will tours, demonstrations and refreshments.

Slow Food Asheville Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to preserving food traditions, celebrating the pleasures of the table and embracing a slower, more harmonious rhythm of life. Info: www. slowfoodasheville.org.

• MO (9/7), 5-7:30pm - “It’s Time for Lunch.” Show your support for getting more local foods into school lunches by attending Asheville’s Eat-In at Carrier Park Picnic Shelter.

Over 200 communities are hosting Eat-Ins on Labor Day.

Social & SharedInterest Groups Amateur Pool League (pd.) All skill levels welcome.

HAVE FUN. MEET PEOPLE. PLAY POOL. Sign-up to play on a local team 828-3298197 www.BlueRidgeAPA. com ONGOING - weekly league play.

Alpha Phi Sorority Alumnae • WE (9/9), 7-9pm - Asheville-area alumnae of Alpha Phi sorority will meet at the French Broad Chocolate Lounge, 10 S. Lexington Ave. Info: 2308764.

Ardent Toastmasters Club Afraid to speak in public?

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Interested in acting? Beaucatcher Brew will offer an acting class Wednesday, Sept. 2, from 7 to 8:30

wed p.m. Taught by UNCA drama instructor Lise Kloeppel, classes will continue weekly through Dec. 2 at the Haywood Street campus of Central Methodist Church. Info: 768-2456.

An opening reception for an exhibition of glass sculptures by Toland Sand will be held Thursday,

thur Sept. 3, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Bender Gallery, 57 Haywood St., Asheville. Sand will be on hand to discuss his work. Info: 225-6625.

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Author Mindi Meltz will read from her novel Beauty on Friday, Sept. 4, at 6 p.m. at Accent on Books, 854 Merrimon Ave., Asheville. Meltz will also discuss her writing process and sign copies of her book.

Refreshments will be served. Info: 252-6255.

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Take part in the first annual Founders Day Festival on Jordan Street in downtown Brevard Saturday, Sept. 5, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. There will be exhibits on the founding families of Transylvania County, old-time crafts, food, storytelling, plus bluegrass, country and gospel music. Info: 862-8228.

sun LAAFF it up at the eighth annual Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Festival Sunday, Sept. 6, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Live music, art, street performers, crafts, kids activities and oh-so-much more. Info: www.lexfestasheville.com.

mon Head to downtown Hendersonville for the annual King Apple Parade Monday, Sept. 7, starting at 2:30 p.m. There will be floats, bands, youth groups, antique cars, fire trucks and more. Part of the 63rd annual N.C. Apple Festival, Friday, Sept. 4, through Monday, Sept. 7, in Hendersonville. For a parade map and more info, visit www.ncapplefestival.org.

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Ready to overcome your fear of public speaking and to enhance your communication and leadership skills?

This group provides a friendly environment in which to do so. Guests have no obligation to join. Info: 776-5076.

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

Asheville Civitan Club Come hear community leaders present programs.

Meetings are held at Trinity Episcopal Church, corner of Church St. and Aston St. Open to the public. RSVP for lunch: $10. Info: 348-4222 or www.ashevillecivitan.org.

• TUESDAYS, 1pm - Weekly topical speakers of community interest. Upcoming political forum for voters.

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

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

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

Asheville New Friends The club welcomes new and present singles and couples from the Asheville and surrounding communities to meet others and join interest groups. Meetings are held monthly at Groce United Methodist Church, 954 Tunnel Rd. Info on groups can be found on the Web site. For membership info: 252-2283. Info: www.main. nc.us/anf.

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7. Info: 645-7258.

Blue Ridge Toastmasters Club Meets once a week to enhance speaking skills both formal and impromptu. Part of an international proven program that takes you through the steps with fun

along the way. Network with interesting people of all ages and professions. Info: www.blueridgetm.org or 505-1375.

• MONDAYS, 12:20-1:30pm - Meeting.

Breakfast With the Elks • SU (9/6), 7am-Noon - Breakfast will be held at the Elks Lodge, 546 N. Justice St., $6/Free for children under 6. Info: 693-3424.

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

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

Friends of Asheville Transit Club Discuss transit-related issues over pints of beer. Info: 279-8349.

• 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 7:309pm - The club meets on the lower level of The Thirsty Monk, 92 Patton Ave. in Asheville. Find the group by looking for the toy buses and maps on the table.

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

Scrabble Club Come play America’s favorite word game SCRABBLE. We have all the gear, just bring your vocabulary. Info: 252-8154.

• SUNDAYS, 1-5pm - Meets at Books-A-Million in Asheville. We have all the gear. No dues the first six months. Just bring your vocabulary. Fun! Veterans for Peace Info: 626-2572 or 528-5180.

• 1st THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - Regular business meeting of the WNC Veterans for Peace Chapter 099 at Atlanta Bread Company, 633 Merrimon Ave. Free and open to the public.

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Youth OUTright A weekly discussion group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth ages 14-20. Each week a new topic and activity will be led by at least two trained facilitators. Straight allies (ages 14-20) are

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

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

Walk Wise, Drive Smart Aimed at senior citizens, but open to everyone. Walks are canceled in the event of bad weather. Info: 457-6166 or www.walk-wise.org.

• TH (9/3), 10am - Urban walk through the neighborhoods of Hyman Heights, Haywood Forest and Druid Hills. The walk will begin at the Patton Park picnic shelter.

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

• WE (9/2), 8am-1:30pm Trip for seniors to the Dillard House in Dillard, Ga. $20 members/$24 nonmembers.

To register: call or e-mail recprograms@townofwaynesville.org.

Animals Animal Compassion Network WNC’s largest nonprofit, nokill animal welfare organization. Find a new pet at their pet adoption events. Info: 274-DOGS or www.animalcompassionnetwork.org. n Volunteers needed: volunteers@animalcompassionnetwork.org.

• 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 11am-3pm - ACN cats and dogs will be available for adoption at PetSmart.

Asheville Aussie Club Social group connecting Australian Shepherd lovers and their aussies. Call for activities and meeting times: (704) 806-7300.

• BIMONTHLY - Meeting.

ChainFree Asheville A nonprofit, all-volunteer effort dedicated to improving the welfare of dogs living outdoors on chains and in pens in Asheville and Buncombe County. Info: www.chainfreeasheville.org or 450-7736.

• SUNDAYS, 11am-3pm - Come help a chained dog experience freedom. No experience necessary. We meet 4 times a month within Asheville or Buncombe County to build a fence for a chained dog.

Community Partnership for Pets This nonprofit’s primary goal is to stop the unnecessary

killing of hundreds of healthy and adoptable animals at local shelters in Henderson, Buncombe, Transylvania and Polk County. Info: 6935172 or www.communitypartnershipforpets.org.

• SA (9/5), Noon-3pm - Spray and neuter vouchers will be sold at the K-Mart entrance of the Blue Ridge Mall, Hendersonville. $20 cats/$30 dogs. Cost includes a free rabies vaccination if needed. Info: 693-5172.

First Mountain Tail Waggers Walk and Pet Fest • SA (9/5), 9:30am-3pm - Presented by the CashiersHighlands Humane Society, the walk will begin at the Highlands School on Fifth Street. $30 entry fee. The fest on Pine Street will feature crafts, competitions, demos, music, food and more. Info: www.chhumanesociety.org.

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

• SATURDAYS, 11am4pm - Adoption Days at PETsMART on Airport Road in Arden. View adoptable animals on our website: www.taagwags.org

Technology Basic Computer Classes Opportunity House in Hendersonville offers basic computer classes including: Basic Skills I, Basic Skills II, Basic Skills III, Internet I, Internet II and E-Mail.

Courses in MS Word and MS Excel can be scheduled with enough interest. $30 members/$40 nonmembers.

To register: 692-0575.

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

WNC .NET Developers Guild A developer group dedicated to promoting Microsoft .NET technology and education to the software developer community in the Asheville area.

Info: www.wncdotnet.com or 398-0694.

• 2nd TUESDAYS, 6-8:30pm - Meet at ImageSmith Communications, 19 Walden Dr., Arden. The meetings feature food, networking and a technical presentation. See website for directions and presentation details.

WNC SharePoint User Group The group aims to provide knowledge and resources

to IT professionals in the region. Monthly meetings provide members with a forum to hear top industry experts give educational presentations on Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies. Info: www. wncsug.com.

• 1st WEDNESDAYS, 68pm - Bi-monthly meetings, with guest speakers, provide knowledge and resources to SharePoint Developers, Users and Administrators in the region. Meetings in Sept. and Nov. of this year.

Business & Careers Build Your Business Without Breaking The Bank (pd.) Tuesday, September 15, 6pm-9pm. Grove Arcade Conference Room, downstairs. Hear marketing veteran Randy Robinson guide you through the secrets of “common sense marketing”. • $79.99 advanced, $99.99 at the door.

Registration/Information: (828) 423-9101 or www.

MyBusinessWithoutLimits. com Mountain BizWorks Workshops Mountain BizWorks is located at 153 S. Lexington Ave., Asheville.

• TH (9/3), 11:45am-1pm - Free lunch seminar on branding at the HomeTrust Bank in Clyde. Learn how to expand your advertising effectiveness without spending more money. Advanced registration required: 6925826 or adriana@mountainbizworks.org.

WNC Insurance Professionals • 2nd TUESDAYS, 6-8pm Meeting at Adams & Brown Insurance Agency, 2144 Hendersonville Rd., Arden.

WNCIP is the local association of NAIW. Our focus is education and professional development for anyone working in or around the insurance industry. Info: www.naiw.org.

Volunteering Ashevillage Institute (AVI) Nonprofit eco-urban education center and living laboratory for sustainable solutions. Info or to RSVP: 2258820, info@ashevillage.org or www.ashevillage.org.

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

Asheville City Schools Foundation

Seeking Academic Coaches (tutors/mentors) to support students by assisting them with a variety of tasks that support educational success. One hr/wk min., for one school year, in your choice of school or after school program. Training provided. Info: 350-6135, terri.wells@asheville.k12. nc.us or www.acsf.org.

• MONDAYS through FRIDAYS, 8:30am-4:45pm - Academic coaching in the schools or at after-school programs, once a week.

Asheville on Bikes Info: ashevilleonbikes@ gmail.com or www.ashevilleonbikes.com.

• SU (9/6), 11am-10pm - Join AoB at Arts2Peoples’ 8th LAAFF. AoB will be hosting a free bicycle corral, a multimodal transportation quiz (with prizes), and a make your own bike flag station throughout the day.

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• TU (9/8) through TH (9/10), 5-7pm & SA (9/12), Noon-2pm - The Asheville Bicycle and Pedestrian Task Force is conducting a bicycle and pedestrian count.

Help the City of Asheville establish baseline data to promote pedestrian and bicycle facilities. To sign up to work a shift: claudianix@ libertybikes.com.

Beaucatcher Brew Bringing the community to the stage. This musical folk-life play is presented

by Homeward Bound of Asheville. Info: 768-2456 or becky@hbofa.org.

• TUESDAYS, 10am - Volunteer meeting at Haywood Street Campus, Central Methodist Church, past the Rescue Mission.

Seeking story-gatherers, transcribers, office assistants, grant writers and more.

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

• WEDNESDAYS, 3-8:30pm - Community Garden Workdays. Volunteers appreciated at Pearson Drive garden located in the Montford neighborhood.

Info: 273-8151 or 257-4000 and leave a message.

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

• WEDNESDAYS, 1-4pm - Direct Assistance Day. Help sort clothing, shelve

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ECO Events The Environmental and Conservation Organization is dedicated to preserving the natural heritage of Henderson County and the mountain region as an effective voice of the environment. Located at 121 Third Ave. West, Hendersonville.

Info: 692-0385 or www. eco-wnc.org.

• FR (9/4) through MO (9/7) - Volunteers are needed to help with recycling at the Apple Festival.

Volunteers will receive a free ECO T-shirt. See Web site for details.

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

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

• THURSDAYS - Graffiti removal.

Guardian ad Litem Program Seeks Volunteers Volunteers are needed to advocate for children involved in the juvenile court process due to abuse and neglect. No experience necessary. Free training prepares volunteers to make a difference in a child’s life.

Info: 251-6130.

• MO (9/21) - Training begins. Call to register.

Hands On AshevilleBuncombe Choose the volunteer opportunity that works for you. Youth are welcome to volunteer on many projects with adult supervision. Info: www.handsonasheville.org or call 2-1-1. Visit the Web site to sign up for a project.

• FR (9/4), 11am-12:30pm - Cook and serve a lunch to the men staying at the ABCCM Veteran’s Restoration Quarters & Inn and give back to those who have served our country.

Both men and women are encouraged to participate.

• TH (9/10), 5:30-7:30pm - Cook and serve a meal for 15-25 women and children who are part of New Choices, an empowerment program for displaced homemakers in need of counseling and assistance.

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

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

Volunteers also needed to mentor during the 2009-10 school year. Info: 253-1470 or www.bbbswnc.org.

• TH (9/10), Noon - An Information Session for interested volunteers will be held at the United Way Building, S. French Broad Ave., Room 213.

OnTrack Financial Education & Counseling Formerly Consumer Credit Counseling Service of WNC. OnTrack offers services to improve personal finances.

Unless otherwise noted, all classes are free and held at 50 S. French Broad Ave., Ste. 222. Info: 255-5166 or www.ontrackwnc.org.

• OnTrack needs extra office administrative support. Volunteers are needed to assist with various office tasks. The volunteer must be available during OnTrack’s regular business hours (8am-5:30pm). Info: 210-4956 or tarag@ontractwnc.org.

Seeking Volunteers for Mill Around the Village • MONDAYS, 6pm Planning meetings for the third annual Mill Around the Village Festival in downtown Swannanoa are held at Beacon Hall in Swannanoa.

Volunteers are needed. Info: 337-4718.

Special Olympics Buncombe County Info: 250-4265 or grace. young@buncombecounty. org.

• Through MO (8/31) - Sign up to be a volunteer cheerleader for the Special Olympic events scheduled for the fall and winter. No experience is necessary.

Practice begins in Sept. Call for details and to pick up a physical and consent form.

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

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

United Way’s Day of Caring Volunteers from local businesses and individuals spend the day doing projects to help area nonprofits.

Organized by Hands On, a program of United Way that makes it easy to lend a hand and help others in our community. To sign up or for more info: 255-0696 or www.handsonasheville.org.

• TH (9/3) - Day of Caring.

Volunteer at LAAFF Lexington Ave Arts and Fun Fest (LAAFF) is a free street festival held on N. Lexington Ave. between College St. and the 240 overpass. The festival is a fundraiser for

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6. Info: 776-6248, www. arts2people.org or www. lexfestasheville.com.

• Through SU (9/6) Volunteers are needed for this year’s festival. To sign up: volunteer@lexfestasheville.com.

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Shoji Spa Discounts and Events (pd.) • Locals Discount: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. • SPArty: Wednesday evenings, 6-8 p.m. Drinks, food and music, free. 828-299-0999. www.shojiretreats.com Al-Anon Al-Anon is a support group for the family and friends of alcoholics. More than 33 groups are available in the WNC area. Info: 800-2861326 or www.wnc-alanon. org.

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

• WEDNESDAYS, 8pm - AlAnon in West Asheville: Meeting at West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Rd., across from Ingles. Separate Newcomers’ Meeting meets also at 8pm. Info: 2584799.

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

• FRIDAYS, 8pm - The Lambda (GLBT) group of Al-Anon is a gay-friendly

support group for families and friends of alcoholics, and holds their weekly candlelight meeting at All Souls Cathedral, 3 Angle St. Info: 670-6277 (until 9pm).

• FRIDAYS, 12:30-1:30pm - Discussion meeting: First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. Park in the back of lot between Church and Y. Info: 686-8131.

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

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

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

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

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

• TUESDAYS, Noon - Black Mountain Group meets at St. James Episcopal Church, 424 W. State St. Info: 2778620.

• TUESDAYS, 7pm - Discussion meeting: First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Info: 253-6624.

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

By donation. Info: 254-5613 or www.centerforsacredsexuality.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7:309:30pm - Meeting.

Brevard-Hendersonville Parkinson’s Support Group Meets at the BrevardDavidson River Presbyterian Church, 249 Main St., Brevard. Free. Info: 8624167 or 693-1604.

• TU (9/8), 9:30am - Meeting. Socializing and refreshments, followed by a talk at 10am by Dr. Anne J. Udall, executive direc-

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CarePartners Hospice Bereavement Offers one-on-one grief counseling, support groups, grief education classes, a monthly grief support newsletter and semi-annual memorial services (available to anyone who is suffering a loss through death). Located at 68 Sweeten Creek Road., Asheville. Call 251-0126 to set up an initial visit with a counselor. • WEDNESDAYS (monthly) - Suicide Loss Group meets. • TUESDAYS & WEDNESDAYS - Good Grief Support Groups meet. • WEDNESDAYS - ChildLoss Support Groups meet. • MONDAYS & TUESDAYS - Grief Education Classes.

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

Dual Recovery Group Group meets at the Black Mountain Presbyterian Church House, 117 Montreat Road. For individuals who have a chemical dependency, emotional, and/or psychiatric illness and need support. A 12step based program. Info: 357-8403. • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 8pm - Group meets.

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

Info: 337-4685 or www. thecenternc.org. • WEDNESDAYS, 7-8pm - Support group for adults at T.H.E. Center for Disordered Eating, 297 Haywood St. Free.

Essential Tremor Support Group Info: 687-2356 or bchhenze@bellsouth.net. • 1st THURSDAYS, 67pm - Meeting at Symour Auditorium, CarePartners, Sweeten Creek Rd. Events at Pardee Hospital All programs held at the Pardee Health Education Center in the Blue Ridge Mall in Hendersonville. Free, but registration and appointments required unless otherwise noted. To register or for info: www.pardeehospital. org or 692-4600.

• WE (9/2), Noon-1:30pm “Understanding Back Pain,â€? with John Hicks, M.D. Hicks will discuss the causes of back pain and preventative measures. • TH (9/3), 3-4:30pm - “Sharp as a Tack: Keeping your brain young,â€? with Lucy Butler, a speech therapist with Pardee Hospital. Butler will discuss the concept of “brain plasticityâ€? and how to use this method to help prevent cognitive decline. • 2nd TUESDAYS, 56:30pm - Support group for people with oral, neck and head cancer. Caregivers are welcome.

Food Addicts Anonymous A fellowship of men and women who are willing to recover from the disease of food addiction. Sharing experiences and hope with others allows participants to recover from the disease one day at a time. All are welcome. Info: 242-3717. • MONDAYS, Noon-1pm & FRIDAYS, 7-8pm - Meetings at Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road, Asheville.

K.A.R.E. Support Groups Kid’s Advocacy Resource Effort offers several ongoing support groups. Info: 456-8995. • WEDNESDAYS, 5:307:30pm - Single Parents Support Group. Dinner and childcare provided. At First United Methodist Church, 566 S. Haywood St., Waynesville. Call ext. 201 for more info.

Learning to Live A seminar for interested youth focusing on effective communication, healthy relationships, exploring values, STD’s and birth control.

Held at Planned Parenthood, 603 Biltmore Ave., upstairs.

RSVP: 252-7928, ext. 6243 or coryn.Harris@pphsinc. org. • TUESDAYS (9/8) through (9/29), 6:30-8pm - Learning to Live. Free food will be provided.

Living Healthy: A Chronic Disease Self-Management Program • TH (9/10) through TH (10/15), 2-4:30pm - A free 6-week self-management program for people with chronic conditions.

Learn how to manage pain, fatigue, frustration and more.

Sponsored by the Landof-Sky Regional Council; sessions will take place at Arrowhead Apts. To register: 251-7438.

NAMI Western Carolina National Alliance on Mental Illness offers support, education and advocacy for families and persons

with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression or an anxiety disorder. Meets at Mountainhouse, 225 E. Chestnut St. across from Fuddruckers. Free. Info: 687-6901 or www.namiwnc.org. • 1st SATURDAYS, 10am - NAMI Connection Support Group and Support Group for Caregivers/Family Members meet concurrently.

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

Opportunity House Events Located at 1411 Asheville Hwy. in Hendersonville. Info: 698-5517 or 692-0575. • WEDNESDAYS, 7:30-9am - Low cost medical testing with Linda Garren, RN of Hendersonville. No appointments necessary. Info: 692-0575.

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

Meetings are held at 32 Rosscraggon Road. All are welcome. Info: rchovey@ sos.spc-asheville.org. • TUESDAYS, 7-8pm - Meeting.

Overeaters Anonymous A fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. This 12-step program welcomes everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively. Meetings are one hour unless noted. • THURSDAYS, Noon - Asheville: Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Rd. (S. 25 at Yorkshire). Info: 298-1899. • SATURDAYS, 9:30am - Black Mountain: Carver Parks & Recreation Center, 101 Carver Ave. off Blue Ridge Road. Open relapse and recovery mtg. Info: 669-0986. • MONDAYS, 6:30pm - Hendersonville: Balfour United Meth. Church, 2567 Asheville Hwy. (Hwy. 25).

Open mtg. Info: 1-800-5804761. • MONDAYS, 5:15pm - Asheville: First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak

St. Beginners mtg. Info: 277-8185. • MONDAYS, 6pm - Asheville: First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Open mtg. Info: 277-8185. • TUESDAYS, 10:30amNoon - Asheville: Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. at Ottari.

Open BBSS mtg. Info: 2802213.

Pet Loss Support Group For anyone who has lost a pet or is anticipating the death of a companion animal. Free. Info: 258-3229. • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6pm - The group meets at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville, 1 Edwin Pl. Red Cross Events & Classes Red Cross holds classes in CPR/First Aid for infants, children, and adults; Babysitter Training; Pet First Aid; Bloodborne Pathogens; Swimming & Water Safety; and Lifeguarding. All classes held at chapter headquarters, 100 Edgewood Rd. To register, call 2583888, ext. 221. Info: www. redcrosswnc.org. : Bloodmobile Drive dates and locations are listed below. Appointment and ID required. • FR (9/4), 10am-2:30pm - Community Blood Drive at the Land-of-Sky Regional Council, 339 New Leicester Hwy. Free food will also be provided. Info: 251-7441.

S-Anon For those affected by someone else’s sexual behavior. Info: 545-4287 or 606-6803. • WEEKLY - Three meetings are available per week.

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

Call confidential voice mail for information: 258-5117. • WEEKLY - Three meetings are available per week.

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

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Four Seasons The prestigious Circle of Life Award was recently presented to Four Seasons of Hendersonville by the American Hospital Association. Received by only three organizations nationwide, the award recognizes quality end-of-life care providers who extend the reach of hospice and palliative care in their areas.

Chris Comeaux, president/CEO of Four Seasons, says, “The Circle of Life Award acknowledges that we are one of the best end-of-life care providers in the country.

We will continue to live up to that expectation in all our interactions with patients, families and community partners. We are entering a very challenging time in health care where there are many unknowns. Our goal is to not just preserve, but to further our mission and vision.”

Four Seasons serves patients and their families in several counties, including Henderson and Buncombe, and is always looking for volunteers. Whether providing companionship to people facing serious life-limiting illness or assisting with indirect support, volunteers are an invaluable part of the Four Seasons team.

Every volunteer is required to attend a three-hour orientation session. Those who wish to volunteer with patients and their families attend an additional 12 hours of training. In these classes, volunteers learn about pain management, family dynamics, communication skills, the dying process, spirituality, bereavement, and how to maintain a healthy personal balance while working with hospice patients and families.

The next training begins mid-September.

For more info or to register, contact Director of Volunteer Services Donna Nawrocki at 692-6178.

Nonprofits interested in being featured in Group Spotlight should e-mail mdalton@mountainx.com for submission details

SLAA is a 12-step fellowship of men and women who have a desire to stop living out a pattern of sex and love addiction.

Meetings are held in downtown Asheville. Open to all sexual orientations. Info: AshevilleSLAA@gmail.com.

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

• DAILY - Asheville meetings.

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

• THURSDAYS, 1011:30am - Living with Life Limiting Illness —- 1:303pm - Caregivers Support Group.

Transitions: Job Loss Resource & Support Group • WEDNESDAYS, 3pm - Meets at the First United Methodist Church of Hendersonville, located at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Church Street in downtown Hendersonville. Info: www.hvlfumc.org/transitions or 693-4275.

Veterans’ Advisory Consumer Council on Mental Health The Charles George VA Medical Center, 100 Tunnel Road in Asheville, has established a mental-health advisory council to gather input from Veteran consumers. The council is open to any veteran with a diagnosis, their family and VA staff. Info: raycarter2001@ yahoo.com.

• 2nd TUESDAYS, 2:304pm - The group meets at the Mental Health Clinic, Rm. 105.

Helplines For Xpress’ list of helplines, visit www.mountainx.com/events/category/ helplines.

Sports Groups & Activities APA Pool League (pd.) Amateur League, all skill levels welcome. HAVE FUN. MEET PEOPLE. PLAY POOL. Sign-up for 8-ball or 9-ball. 828-329-8197

www.BlueRidgeAPA.com ONGOING - Mon, Tue, Wed, or Thur - YOUR CHOICE! American Singles Golf Association Asheville Chapter Join the group for fellowship and fairways. Visitors are welcome at monthly meetings. Info: 298-9790 or www.singlesgolf.com/ chapter.php?chapter_number=3403.

• 2nd THURSDAYS, 5:30pm - Meeting at Lone Star Steakhouse, Airport exit.

Asheville Ski and Outing Club The year-round activity club organizes skiing, snowboarding, biking and hiking trips for its members.

Membership is open to all ages and ability. Info: www. ashevilleskiclub.com.

• 2nd THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - Meets at the Country Club of Asheville.

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

• SUNDAYS, 4pm - Doubles at Waynesville Rec Park.

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

• 1st MONDAYS, 7pm Club meeting.

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

Pickleball It’s like playing ping pong on a tennis court. For all ages. $1 per session. Paddles and balls are provided. Info: 350-2058.

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

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

• WE (9/2), 7pm - UNCA Volleyball vs. Western Carolina at the Justice Center. $5.

• WE (9/2), 7pm - UNCA Volleyball vs. Western Carolina at the Justice Center. $5.

• FR (9/4), 4pm - UNCA Men’s Soccer vs. Brevard College at Greenwood Field.

Free.

• WE (9/9), 4pm - UNCA Women’s Soccer vs.

Furman at Greenwood Field.

Free.

Kids Asheville Art Museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and

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Sun., 1-5pm. Admission: $6/$5 students and seniors/ Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Info: 253-3227 or www.ashevilleart.org.

• TU (9/8), 11:30am-1pm - Home-school program for students in grades 1 through 5. Registration required. $4.

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

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

• Through SU (9/6) Arthur’s World, the national touring exhibition based on the PBS children’s television series and popular Marc Brown books, will be on display.

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

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

Parents welcome. $10.

Events for Kids at Spellbound Spellbound Children’s Bookshop is located at 19 Wall St., in downtown Asheville. Info: 232-2228 or www.spellboundchildrensbookshop.com.

• SA (9/5), 1pm - Meet Cosmo the Dog and author Suzanne Kline. Kline will talk about and sign copies of her new book series. All ages welcome.

Flag Football Youth League • Through TH (9/3) Registration for Asheville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts’ NFL Flag Football Youth League for kids ages 6-14. $25 for Asheville residents/$30 for non-residents. Call or e-mail for registration locations: 232-4526 or kturner@ashevillenc.gov.

Spirituality 20th Of Each Month • Heal Yourself And Mother Earth (pd.) Participate in worldwide long-distance group EssenceWork TM sessions.

• Registration deadline: 15th of each month. • Private sessions, please call Lania Desmond: (828) 236-1230 or www.soulpoint.com/ essence-work.html A Labor Day Weekend Zen Celebration!

(pd.) 2 special events will commemorate the 4th anniversary of Great Tree Zen Temple: all-day sitting: September 5; Free brunch: September 6. • Rev. Munnich leads Meditation Day, cost $35. Questions?

(828) 645-2085. • For details see: www.greattreetemple.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. (828)258-3229.

Intuitive Faerie Readings (pd.) Find illumination along your life’s path through guidance from Celtic faerie guides and your own loving guardian angels and spirit guides. • Faerie workshops also available. (828) 6452674. www.davidswing. com Tuesday Afternoons • Meditation • Great Tree Zen Temple (pd.) 5:30pm, 679 Lower Flat Creek Road, Alexander.

More information: 645-2085 or www.greattreetemple. org A Course in Miracles Classes For anyone sincerely interested in joining a loving group for ACIM study and practice. The group meets at Groce United Methodist Church in East Asheville.

Info: 712-5472.

• MONDAYS, 6:30pm Study group meets.

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

Info: 713-2439.

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

by Theo Salvucci.

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

• THURSDAYS, 6:307:30pm - Meditation Circle.

Held at One World Healing Arts Institute, 2 Sulphur Springs Road, W. Asheville.

Donations accepted.

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

• SUNDAYS, 7pm Discover true fulfillment.

Silent sitting and video satsang with Western spiritual teacher Gangaji. New loca-

tion at Serventhood House, 156 East Chestnut St., near Greenlife.

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

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

Buddhist Meditation and Discussion Meets in the space above the French Broad Food Coop. Suggested donation: $8.

Info: 779-5502 or www. meditation-in-northcarolina. org.

• WE (9/2), 7:15pm “Bringing the Spiritual Path Into Daily Life.”

Celebrate Recovery Christ-centered, biblically based recovery ministry.

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

Info: 687-1111.

• THURSDAYS, 6pm-10pm - Evenings at Biltmore Baptist Church, 35 Clayton Road, Arden.

Chabad Asheville Jewish Asheville and WNC Chabad Lubavitch Center for Jewish Life. Info: www. chabadasheville.org.

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

Services, English-Hebrew prayers, sermons and stories, and timeless melodies. Educational and fun children’s program from 11am-noon. Followed by a Kiddush luncheon. All are welcome. Membership and affiliation not required.

Coalition of Earth Religions Events Info: 230-5069 or www. ceres-wnc.org.

• 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6:309pm - Pagans Night Out. Meet at the Bier Garden in downtown Asheville.

Compassionate Communication Practice Group Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate communication. Group uses a model developed by Marshall Rosenberg in his book Nonviolent Communication, A Language of Life. Free.

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

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

Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth in Bible Study • SUNDAYS (8/30 through 9/20), 6-8pm - Explore A New Earth and discuss what author Eckhart Tolle brings to the Christian conversation and what Christianity brings to what the book offers. At The Chapel Door, 32 Joe Jenkins Rd., Fairview. Free.

Everyone welcome.

Events at The Chapel Door • SUNDAYS, 6-8pm Meeting at 32 Joe Jenkins Rd. to explore Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth and discuss what Tolle brings to the Christian conversation and what Christianity brings to what the book offers. Info: 628-1882.

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

Info: 329-7145 or kimberlycroteau@yahoo. com.

Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation Technique Transcend the busy, active mind—effortlessly—for peace, bliss and full awakening of creative intelligence.

The most effective, extensively researched meditation. Revitalizes mind/body, relieves worry and anxiety, improves brain functioning.

Free. Info: 254-4350 or www.meditationasheville. org.

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

Mantras Cafe • 1st THURSDAYS, 6:308:30pm - Bring your favorite kirtan mantras, multi-cultural chants and soul-centered music. Open mike. Sign-up 6-6:30pm. At BoBo Gallery.

Free or $3 donation.

Mindfulness Meditation Class Explore the miracle of healing into life through deepened stillness and presence.

Info: 258-3241 or www. billwalz.com.

• MO (9/7) - No class on Labor Day. • MONDAYS, 7-8pm Meditation class with lesson and discussions in contemporary Zen living. At the Asheville Friends Meeting House at 227 Edgewood Ave. (off Merrimon Ave.).

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freewillastrology ARIES (March 21-April 19)

Your assignment is to get angry in the most unique, brilliant, and constructive way possible. Merely being annoyed and muttering generic curses will definitely not be sufficient.

Nor will it work for you to get consumed in knee-jerk rage or to be peeved about the same old boring targets that everyone reacts to.

What the cosmos needs from you this week, Aries, is a controlled explosion of liberated, compassionate, laser-sharp fury that will fuel your ingenious drive to change everything for the better.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Are you having intense cravings for candy?

Do you find yourself leaning in the direction of sappy emotions and syrupy words?

That’s what my astrological projections suggest. And if that’s indeed the case, I’d like to steer you in a different direction. It’s not that an extravagant involvement in chocolate and sentimentality is wrong or bad. But what you truly need, in my opinion, is a more muscular, provocative sweetness. A wilder, more vibrant sweetness. A sweetness that can smash obstacles and incite high magic.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

I won’t protest if you try to conceal yourself from bullies or gossips or critics or narcissists.

You have cosmic permission to hunker down and keep a low profile. But please don’t hide from yourself. In fact, I encourage you to make yourself extra available to yourself. Listen respectfully to the questions and comments that your shadow murmurs in your inner ear.

Be eager to tune in to the messages your body is longing to tell you. These communications might sometimes be a minor pain in the ego, but the long-term benefits to your soul could be substantial.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

I have tuned in to your yearning for resolution, O Seeker. I know that your heart fervently wants the riddles to run their course, the mysteries to be revealed, the uncertainties to be quelled. And I have ransacked my imagination in search of what consolation I might provide to appease your quest for neat, simple truths. But what I have concluded, O In-Between One, is that any solutions I might try to offer you would not only be fake, but also counterproductive. What you actually need, I suspect, are not answers to your urgent questions, but rather, better questions; more precisely formulated questions; more ruthlessly honest questions. Dig deeper, please.

Open wider. Think fatter.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

No one knew there was coal in the United States until 1790. A hunter who was wandering near Pennsylvania’s Broad Mountain stumbled upon it accidentally when his camp-

fire lit up an outcropping of pure anthracite.

That discovery was both a blessing and a curse; since then, the mining of coal has yielded abundant energy but also environmental degradation. I predict a metaphorically similar event for you in the coming days, Leo. You will inadvertently find a potentially enormous source of valuable fuel that will, like coal, present you with both rich opportunities and knotty dilemmas.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

I dare you to say yes to a possibility you’ve said no to in the past. I double dare you to try an impossible thing before lunch each day.

I triple dare you to imagine you’re a genius at inspiring people to like you and help you.

I quadruple dare you to drive overly stable people crazy for all the right reasons. I quintuple dare you to fantasize that your so-called delusions of grandeur have begun to contain more than a few grains of truth.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

I know a 19-year-old woman who has been going through an especially vivid phase of living on the edge between yes and no. She told me that yesterday morning she woke up with the feeling that in the next 12 hours she could either commit suicide or else perform some epic deed in which she surpassed all of her previous limits. She chose the latter path, completing an 18-mile bike ride that tested her endurance and drove her into the heights of exhilaration. As she pedaled, she drove herself onward with the throbbing thought that this was a perfect way to silence the self-destructive voice within her. I offer her victory to you, Libra, as being worthy of imitation.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Let’s take inventory of your harvest, Scorpio.

What blossomed for you these past months?

Which of the seeds you planted last March and April sprouted into ripe, succulent blossoms?

Which seeds grew into hard, spiky clumps?

And what about weeds, pests, and predators?

Were you tireless about keeping them away from your beauties? Finally, what did you learn about growing things that could give you a green thumb when you cultivate your seeds in the next cycle?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Before she became a rock goddess, Gwen Stefani cleaned the floors at an ice cream parlor. Prior to ascending to stardom, Ellen DeGeneres was an oyster shucker, Keanu Reeves worked a janitor, and Brad Pitt performed as a giant chicken mascot. As for me, my gig as an internationally syndicated astrologer was not my first. Among many other things, I washed enough pots and pans in cheap restaurants to fulfill my dishwashing karma for my next five incarnations. I hope these examples serve to inspire you, Sagittarius. Even during the down economy,

the next six months will provide you with ripe astrological conditions for upgrading your job.

And the coming weeks will be prime time to brainstorm about how to go about it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

I know some brave pioneers who make responsible use of psychotropic drugs as they map out the borderlands of consciousness. I’m glad they’re doing that work, but my path is different. I don’t indulge in marijuana, LSD, ayahuasca, or psilocybin. However, my many years of doing meditation, dream work, and various spiritual practices have nevertheless transformed me into a radical mystic with some of the same knowledge that the psychedelic experimenters have. Keep that disclaimer in mind as you ruminate on my advice for you, which is this: Blow your own mind, baby. Raise your expectations, supercharge your fantasy life, and make forays out into the frontiers. Get high in ways that are appropriate to your ethical code.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

I love the new neighborhood I just moved to.

It’s insanely eclectic. Modern suburban-like homes with impeccable emerald-green lawns stand right next door to bedraggled 1950sstyle ranch houses with unfinished plywood for garage doors and high brown weeds blanketing the front yards. A rusty mustard-yellow 1977 Cadillac Seville sporting a McCainPalin bumper sticker is parked on the street next to a shiny 2007 Volvo with a sticker that advises, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Aging rednecks with fishing gear scattered in the driveway live next door to hipster musicians who blast psychedelic folk songs from their garage rehearsal space. I urge you to hang out in places like this in the coming weeks: where diversity rules, where the pigeonholes are exploded, where variety is not just the spice of life but the main course.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

The month of August brought you some peculiar advances. You got a reward that didn’t mean as much to you as it might have had you received it earlier. You outgrew an enigma that had puzzled and frustrated you forever.

And you finally wriggled free of a shadowy game that you had been attached to long after it lost its power to educate you. As curious as these wistful breakthroughs have been, they are prologue to what’s headed your way.

Get ready to solve a problem you didn’t even know you loved.

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Modern-Day Meditation Class For Young Adults • TUESDAYS, 7:30-9:30pm - Class. For ages 18-35.

Safe space to let down walls, release pent up emotion, get in touch with a truer part of yourself. Free. Info: 301-7892.

Mountain Zen Practice Center Ending suffering through the practice of Conscious Compassionate Awareness.

Located at 156 E. Chestnut St. Info: 253-4621 or www. mountainzen.org. Orientation required for newcomers.

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

Mystic Gatherings Share in the community of those who are governed both by logic and observing signs around them: gut, spirit, intuition or whatever That is. Bring your stories and experiences. Gatherings are dynamic and diverse and range from topics such as changes in our society to defining moments in life and much more. Info: 206-2009.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Meeting.

Hare Krsna Love Feast • 1st & 3rd SUNDAYS, 6-8pm - Hare Krsna Love Feast. An evening of chanting the Holy Names in the association of Asheville devotees, reading Vedic scriptures and enjoying a vegetarian feast. Info: www. highthinkingsimpleliving.org or 586-3919.

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

Sojourner Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) A congregation in formation.

The goal is provide a caring, non-threatening environment for the exploration of Christian spirituality. Info: www.sojournerchurch.org.

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

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

by Bhajans (devotional singing). Free. Directions & info: 299-3246 or www.shivabalayogiguru.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Meditation. Holy Ash and meditation instructions provided.

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

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

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

Spiritual conversation and sharing, music, meditation, coffee and pastry.

Info: 254-8488 or www.

SacredNature.com/unitycafe.html.

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

Contemporary music by Lytingale and The Unitic Band. Located at 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Rd. Info: 684-3798, 891-8700 or www.unitync.net.

• WE (9/2), 7-9pm “Vedic Astrology: Steering Your Life by the Stars,” with Ryan Kurczak. Love offering. Info: www.

AshevilleVedicAstrology. com.

• SUNDAYS, 9:30am & 11am - Two Sunday Celebration Services.

Children’s nursery available during both services —11am - Children’s Sunday School (ages 4 to 18).

• WE (9/9), 7pm - Film screening: 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama, by filmmaker Rick Ray. Love Offering. Info: www.thedalailamamovie.com.

• TH (9/10), 6:30pm - “Dedication of The CommUnity Prayer Labyrinth,” with Rev. Chad and others. Prayers for personal and communal healing will be offered and 21 white doves will be released —Midnight - Unity World Day of Prayer, a 24-hour vigil.

Heal the world with prayer.

A meditation and musical service for peace will be held in Unity’s Sanctuary at 7:30pm led by Rev. Chad O’Shea and Lytingale. Love offering. Info: www.worlddayofprayer.org.

Waynesville Creative Thought Center Located at 741 S. Haywood St., Waynesville. Info: 4569697, waynesvilleCTC@ aol.com or www.mountainshops.com/ctc.

• FR (9/4), 6:30pm - People Wisdom Series: “Navigating Through the Veil of Illusion: 2012 and Beyond,” with

Nina Howard. A discussion about what is happening to our world will follow. $10 love offering.

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

• Through SU (10/4) - Drawings: Foundations of Fine Art. Aesthetic Gallery Located at 6 College St., Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., Noon-6pm. Info: 398-0219 or www.aestheticgallery. com.

• Through FR (9/11) Beyond Photography, digital painting giclees by photographer artist Ron Morecraf.

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

• Through TU (9/8) - The annual Studio Art Faculty Exhibition will be on display in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery.

Arts Council of Henderson County D. Samuel Neill Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri., 1-5pm and Sat., 1-4pm. Located at 538 N. Main St., 2nd Floor, Hendersonville. Info: 6938504 or www.acofhc.org.

• Through SA (9/19) - The juried and judged exhibition Bring Us Your Best 6 will be on display.

Asheville Art Museum The museum is in Pack Place Education, Arts and Science Center on Pack Square. Hours: Tues.-Sat. from 10am-5pm and Sun. from 1-5pm. Free the 1st Wed. of every month from 3-5pm. Info: 253-3227. $6/$5.

• Through SU (9/13) Response and Memory: The Art of Beverly Buchanan.

Asheville Gallery of Art A co-op gallery representing 28 regional artists located at 16 College St. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-5:30pm and Sun.: 1-4pm. Info: 2515796 or www.ashevillegallery-of-art.com.

• TU (9/1) through WE (9/30) - Quiet Beauty, a collection of watercolor paintings by Sandra Brugh Moore.

Beaverdam Gallery Located on Beaverdam Road, where it splits into Lynn Cove and Webb Cove Roads. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm and Sun., Noon-

5pm. Info: www.beaverdamgallery.com.

• Through SA (9/19) - Exhibit of Ben and Don Jackson’s furniture (wood and metal).

Black Mountain Center for the Arts Located in the renovated Old City Hall at 225 West State St. in Black Mountain.

Gallery Hours: Mon.-Wed. & Fri., 10am-5pm (closed Sat. during winter months).

Info: 669-0930 or www.

BlackMountainArts.org.

• Through FR (9/25) - Captured on Canvas, a solo exhibit by photographer Susan Stanton.

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

• Through SU (9/20) - Will Henry Stevens (18811949) + Tom Turner: Stevens’ never-before exhibited abstracts paired with Turner’s porcelain. Alice R. Ballard: nature-inspired ceramics. Alex Bernstein, Julyan Davis, Charles Goolsby: glass sculpture and paintings.

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

• Through SU (11/1) - New Works: Murals, a solo exhibition by Robert Crystal.

Hand In Hand Gallery Located at 2720 Greenville Hwy. (U.S. 25 South) in Flat Rock. Info: 697-7719 or www.handinhandgallery. com.

• Through SU (10/4) - Summertime Memories: W.N.C. Treasures.

Madison County Arts Council Exhibits Located at 90 S. Main St. in Marshall. Info: 649-1301.

• Through FR (10/2) Amalgam, a solo show by Chukk Bruurseema featuring works in metal, wood, digital layering, even clothing.

• Through FR (10/2) - “33” installation by Laura Kathleen Marsico. A sitespecific/site-constructed installation.

Phil Mechanic Studios Located at 109 Roberts St. on the corner of Clingman Ave. in the River Arts District. Houses Flood Gallery, Pump Gallery and Nook Gallery. Info: www. philmechanicstudios.com.

• Through SA (9/5) - Oh Kaos, a group show featuring local and national artists, will be on display at Flood Gallery. The works address the range of possibilities

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• Through MO (9/7) - The work of Merlin Strivelli will be on display at the Pump Gallery. Strivelli, who was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome as a child, recently received an “Award of Excellence” at The Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. • SA (9/4), 7-10pm - Opening reception for he used to profess, a solo exhibit by Rose Candela, at Pump Gallery. Live music

by Underhill Rose (Eleanor Underhill and Molly Rose Reed) and light refreshments. Info: www.rosecandelastudio.com.

The Bender Gallery Located at 57 Haywood St., Asheville. Hours: Mon.Thurs., 10am-5pm; Fri. & Sat., 10am-7pm; and Sun., Noon-5pm. Info: www. thebendergallery.com or 225-6625.

• TH (9/3) through SA (10/31) - Glass sculptures

by Toland Sand.

• TH (9/3), 5-8pm Opening reception for an exhibition of glass sculptures by Toland Sand. Sand will be on hand to discuss his work.

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

• Through SA (9/26) - Local Children Books: Writers and Illustrators and 40th Anniversary Retrospective, blown glass by Richard Ritter, will be on display.

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

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

• Through FR (9/25) - WNC Woodworkers, featuring the works of local and regional woodworkers.

Waynesville’s Art After Dark The Gallery Association of Waynesville regularly hosts gallery and artist studio events in the Waynesville area. Info: 452-9284 or www.waynesvillegalleryassociation.com.

• 1st FRIDAYS Participating galleries stay open until 9pm. Many galleries will also host artist receptions, provide live music and serve refreshments.

WCU Exhibits Unless otherwise noted, exhibits are held at the Fine Art Museum, Fine & Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University. Hours: Tues.-Fri., 10am-4pm & Sat., 1-4pm. Suggested donation: $5 family/$3 person. Info: 227-3591 or www.wcu.edu/fapac/galleries.

• TU (9/1) through TU (10/6) - An exhibit featuring the works of Western MFA and BFA student artists will be on display at the Atrium Sales Gallery and Cyber Coffee Cafe.

• Through FR (9/18) - New Gifts: Selections from the Collection of Professor Emeritus Perry Kelly, George Masa: A Photographic Vision of the Mountains and Dean and Nancy Cramer Lettenstrom: Delicate Balance: Painting & Drawing.

YMI Cultural Center Located at 39 South Market St., the community-based organization seeks to enhance the cultural and economic lives of people in WNC, particularly minority and low-income residents.

Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri., 10am-5pm. Info: 252-4614 or www.ymicc.org.

• Through SU (9/20) Working Process, sculptures

by Robert Winkler.

More Art Exhibits & Openings Art at the Marketplace • WE (9/9), 6:30-7:30pm The Market Place Restaurant on Wall St. presents an evening with Susanne Schuenke, an acclaimed surrealist painter. Schuenke will discuss how wide-ranging interests are synthesized in her art. Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served. $15. Reservations required: 252-4162.

Art at the N.C. Arboretum Works by members of the Asheville Quilt Guild and regional artists are on display daily in The Visitor Education Center. Info: 6652492 or www.ncarboretum. org.

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

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

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

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

Art League of Henderson County The ALHC meets and shows exhibits at the Opportunity House, 1411 Asheville Hwy. (25N) in downtown Hendersonville. Info: 6920575 or www.artleague.net.

• Through TH (9/10) Works by local guest artist Gloria Elasky will be on display in the Grace Etheredge Room at Opportunity House.

Artwork by Cyndi • Through WE (9/30) - Artwork by Cyndi Calhou will be on display at Salsa’s Restaurant in downtown Asheville and at Brixx Pizza in S. Asheville.

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

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

Center For Craft, Creativity and Design The inter-institutional Regional Center of the University of North Carolina is located at the Kellogg Conference Center, 11 Broyles Rd. in Hendersonville. Info: 8902050 or www.craftscreativitydesign.org.

• TU (9/1) through FR (12/11) - Different Tempers: Jewelry & Blacksmithing, an exhibit featuring the works of 14 nationally known metalsmiths.

First Congregational Church Located at 20 Oak St. in downtown Asheville. “An open and affirming congregation.” Info: 252-8729 or www.uccasheville.org.

• TU (9/1) through WE (9/30) - Nuestra Historias, a traveling exhibit about migrant workers in America.

Classes, Meetings & Arts-Related Events Attention Artists and Photographers! (pd.) Need your work Captured, Reproduced, or Printed? Digital Resolutions Group specializes in highquality large format digital photography, outstanding fine art reproduction and printing. (828) 670-5257 or visit www.ashevilledigital. com Laurel Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America Holds monthly meetings and smaller groups dedicated to teaching different types of needlework. The chapter is

also involved in numerous outreach projects. Guests are always welcome at meetings. Info: 654-9788 or www.egacarolinas.org.

• TH (9/3), 9:30am - Registration followed by a short business meeting and a program on decorative felted orbs by Ellen Anderson. Orbs will be created at this meeting and decorated at the Oct. meeting. At Cummings United Methodist Church in Horse Shoe.

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

• Through MO (9/14) - Application deadline.

Applications are available through the Asheville Area Arts Council, 258-0710; the Avery County Arts Council, 898-4292; the Madison County Arts Council, 6491301; or the Toe River Arts Council, 765-0520.

Soda Chicks and Chet • SA (9/5), 10am-6pm & SU (9/6), 10am-5pm - Three potters will host their seventh annual studio home sale at Fork Mountain Pottery in Bakersville.

Images of their work, and directions to the show can be found at www. sodachicks.com. Info: 688-9297.

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

• THURSDAYS, Noon3pm - Experimental Art Group. Experimental learning and sharing water-media techniques and collage. $20 for four sessions or $6/session.

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

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

• TUESDAYS (9/8 through 11/24) - Art with Lorelle Bacon. Adults 1-3pm and youth 3:305pm. All levels welcome. $15/class. Registration required.

• WEDNESDAYS (9/9 through 9/30), 9amNoon - Soft Pastels with Karen Chambers. Learn to paint skies in pastels.

Registration required. $25/class.

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

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

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

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

Opportunity House Events Located at 1411 Asheville Hwy. in Hendersonville. Info: 698-5517 or 692-0575.

• FR (9/4) & SA (9/5), 9am-5pm - Arts & Crafts Fair, featuring juried crafts and a bake sale.

Summer Jewelry Market • 1st SATURDAYS, 9am4pm - Market. On the corner of Church St. and Third Avenue in downtown Hendersonville. Featuring local jewelry artists. Info: 698-0715.

Spoken & Written Word 2009 Writer’s Workout • September And October (pd.) Announcing the September and October Writer’s Workouts, Posana Restaurant Meeting Room, Asheville. Nonfiction, fiction, poetry; 5-hour group sessions, $150. • Beginning writers, September 24 or October 1; • Intermediate, September 25 or October 2; • Advanced, September 26 or October 3. • Contact Kevin McIlvoy, (828) 3184456. • McIlvoy is a nationally recognized creative writing teacher. kmcilvoy54@ yahoo.com Attention WNC Mystery Writers WNC Mysterians Critique Group. For serious mystery/suspense/thriller writers.

Info: 712-5570 or wncmysterians.org.

• TH (9/3), 5:45pm - Meeting at the West Asheville Library on Haywood Road.

Buncombe County Public Libraries LIBRARY ABBRVIATIONS - Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations:

n BM = Black Mountain Library (105 N. Dougherty St., 250-4756) n EA = East Asheville Library (902 Tunnel Road, 250-4738) n LE = Leicester Library (1561 Alexander Road, 250-6480) n SS = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 250-6488) n SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 2506486) n WV = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 250-6482) • WE (9/2), 11am - Mother Goose Time. Babies and their parents are welcome.

WV —- 11:30am - Book Club: Persepolis, by Mary Jane Satrapi. WV —- 5pm - Library Knitters. SW —- 68pm - Library Knitters. SS. • TH (9/3), 11am - Toddler Time. Enjoy stories, songs and more. WV —- 6:30pm - Book Club: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, by Mary Ann Shafer. EA —- 7pm - Book Club: Macbeth, by William Shakespeare. BM. • FR (9/4), 4pm - Teen Advisory Group. Speak out about what you want from your library this year.

Snacks and drinks provided.

WV. • TU (9/8), 1pm - Book Club: The Rest of Her Life,

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

• FR (9/4), 6pm - Mindi Meltz, author of Beauty, will read, talk about her writing process, and sign copies of books. Refreshments will be served.

Events at Malaprop’s The bookstore and cafe at 55 Haywood St. hosts visiting authors for talks and book signings. Info: 2546734 or www.malaprops. com.

• SA (9/5), 7pm - Joann Smith Rakoff will read from her book Fortunate Age. • SU (9/6), 3pm - Robert Morgan and other authors will read from Appalachian Poetry: An Anthology of Works by 37 Poets.

• WE (9/9), 7pm - Ethan Gilsdorf will read from Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks.

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

Mostly fiction and nonfiction. Info: 658-8217.

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

Haywood County Public Library System The main branch is located at 678 S. Haywood St., Waynesville. The county system includes branches in Canton, Maggie Valley, Fines Creek and Cruso.

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

• WEDNESDAYS, 1:30pm - Ready 4 Learning. A story time designed for 4 and 5 year olds with a focus on kindergarten readiness. This story time runs Sept.-May. • WEDNESDAYS, 11am - Family story time for children of all ages. We will read books, sing songs, learn finger plays and more.

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

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

We will read books, tell stories, learn songs and finger plays, and do a simple craft.

Info: 627-0146.

• TUESDAYS, 11:15am - Family story time for

children of all ages at the Canton Branch Library.

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

Osondu Booksellers All events are held at Osondu, 184 North Main St., Waynesville, unless otherwise noted. Info: 456-8062 or www.osondubooksellers. com.

• WE (9/2), Noon-1pm - Brown bag lunch with a guest storyteller. Call for details.

• TH (9/3), Noon-1pm - Brown bag lunch with Wayne Caldwell, the author of Cataloochee.

• SA (9/5), 7-10pm - Block party. All are welcome.

• TU (9/8), 6pm - Mountain Writers Alive meeting.

• TH (9/10), Noon - Lunchtime Book Club.

Choose the first three books to read as a group —- 7pm - Andrea Adler, the author of The Science of Spiritual Marketing, will discuss “The TOA of Marketing.”

Spanish for Beginners Call International Link for details and to sign up: 2559104.

• MONDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Small group six-week Beginner Spanish classes

with a native speaker. $10 a class.

• TUESDAYS, 5-6:30pm - Intermediate Spanish classes with a native speaker. $10 a class.

Food Tenth Annual Taste of Black Mountain • TH (9/10) - The Taste of Black Mountain is sponsored by the Black Mountain/Swannanoa Chamber of Commerce.

Info: www.exploreblackmountian.com or 669-2300.

Festivals & Gatherings 47th Annual Apple Festival • FR (9/4) through MO (9/7), 9am-5pm - The festival will be held at 1411 Asheville Highway in Hendersonville. There will be live music, arts & crafts, special exhibits throughout town, a King Apple Parade, children’s activities and more. See Web site for a complete schedule: www. ncapplefestival.org.

Festivities at Pritchard Park Events are sponsored by The Friends of Pritchard Park, a partnership between the Downtown Asheville

Residential Neighbors and Asheville GreenWork.

Located at the intersection of Patton Ave., College St. and Haywood St. in downtown Asheville.

• WE (9/2), Noon-2pm - Classical music will be performed by Intermezzo.

• TH (9/3), 5-7pm - Live music with Vinyl Cushions.

• TUESDAYS, 5-7pm - Hula hooping for all ages.

• WE (9/9), Noon-2pm - The one-man band Jason Krekel will perform.

• THURSDAYS (9/10) through (9/24) - Belly dancing with Baraka Mundi.

LAAFF Lexington Ave Arts and Fun Fest (LAAFF) is a free street festival held on N. Lexington Ave. between College St. and the 240 overpass. The festival is a fundraiser for local nonprofit Arts2People.

Free and kid-friendly.

Info: 776-6248, www. arts2people.org or www. lexfestasheville.com.

• SU (9/6), 11am-9pm - Eighth annual LAAFF, a celebration of Asheville’s artistic and musical communities. Live music, local art, street performers, crafts for children and more.

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• SA (9/5), 10am-6pm - The 1st Annual Founders Day Festival will be held on Jordan Street and will feature exhibits on the founding families, old-time crafts and foods, bluegrass, country & gospel music, storytelling, old-fashioned games and more. Info: 862-8228.

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Redbone Willy’s Bluegrass and Peddler’s Festival (pd.) • Saturday, September 5, 12 NOON9pm. Rhythm, Roots and Redbone Willy’s! Local food, wine and arts. Pickin’ presented by: • Buncombe Turnpike, Mama Said, The Dollar Brothers Band and MORE! $15 in advance. www.Redbonewilly.com African Drum and History Class Learn djembe from Adama Dembele, a 33rd generation djembe player from the Ivory Coast, West Africa.

Info: (520) 243-3123.

• WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm - Drum class at Koinonia Studio, 178 Westwood Place, W. Asheville.

• TUESDAYS, 6:30-7:30pm - Drum class at Terpsicorps dance studio, 129 Roberts St., River Arts District.

African Drumming With Billy Zanski at Skinny Beats Drum Shop, 4 Eagle St., downtown Asheville.

Drums provided. No experience necessary. Suggested donation $10 per class.

Drop-ins welcome. Info: 768-2826.

• WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm - Beginners.

• SUNDAYS, 1-2pm - Intermediates —- 2-3pm - Beginners.

Bluegrass Slow Jam in Asheville • MONDAYS, 6:30-7pm - “Slow” jam for people learning bluegrass banjo, mandolin and guitar —- 78:30pm - Regular bluegrass jam. Not held when a Federal holiday falls on a Monday. At Blue Ridge Music, 828 Hendersonville Rd., Asheville. Info: 2775588.

Celo House Concert • SA (9/5), 7:30pm - Enjoy an acoustic concert by singer/songwriter Jim Glover and special guests Patrick and Cathy Sky. Held

in Celo, N.C. $15 suggested donation. Reservations are recommended: 675-1864 or millarddesign@ccvn.com.

There will be a potluck dinner at 6pm. Please bring a dish to share.

Events at Asheville School Located at 360 Asheville School Road. Info: 2546345.

• WE (9/9), 8pm - A celebration of Beethoven’s Ninth. Beethoven’s Ninth in Color, paintings by Moni Hill will be on display in the Crawford Art Gallery —9pm - An informal rendition of Beethoven’s 4th movements of Symphony No. 9 will be performed. Free and open to the public. Info: 252-7554.

• TH (9/10), 5:30pm - A celebration of Beethoven’s Ninth will continue with a discussion by Evan Bonds, the author of several books about Beethoven. Bond will discuss the relevance of Beethoven’s Ninth today —7:30pm - A reception will be held for Beethoven’s Ninth in Color in the Crawford Gallery. Free. Info: 252-7554 or moni@monihill.com.

Haywood Community Chorus Membership is open to all interested singers; no auditions are required.

Sponsored in part by The Junaluskans and the Haywood County Arts Council. Info: 452-4075 or 456-1020.

• MONDAYS, 7pm Rehearsal at First United Methodist Church, 566 S. Haywood St., Waynesville.

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

• SA (9/5), 11:30am - “Apple Festival Concert” in front of the courthouse on Main Street in Hendersonville. Music from films and Broadway shows, pop tunes and marches.

Bring a lawn chair and lunch.

Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra Info: 697-5884 or www. hendersonvillesymphony. org.

• FR (9/4) & SA (9/5), 7:30pm - “Basically Berlin...Irving that is!” will be performed at the Blue Ridge Conference Hall on the campus of Blue Ridge Community College. $30/$5 students.

Land of the Sky Men’s Harmony Chorus

Male singers invited to weekly meetings at the Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 51 Wilburn Place, W. Asheville. Info: 298-9248 or www.ashevillebarbershop. com.

• TUESDAYS, 7:30pm - Regular meeting at Emmanuel Lutheran Church.

See website for details.

Marion Labor Day Concert • MO (9/7), 6-8pm - The annual Labor Day Concert will be held at the Marion Depot. Terry McKinney and jazz man Eddie Graham will perform. Bring a chair or blanket. Info: 652-2215 or www.hometownmarion. wordpress.com.

Osondu Booksellers Musical Events All events are held at Osondu, 184 North Main St., Waynesville, unless otherwise noted. Info: 456-8062 or www.osondubooksellers. com.

• FR (9/4), 7pm - Lorraine Conard and guests will perform music in the cafe.

Shindig on the Green A celebration of traditional and old-time string bands, bluegrass, ballad singers, big circle mountain dancers and cloggers. At Martin Luther King Jr. Park in downtown Asheville.

Stage show and informal jam sessions. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Free. Info: 258-6101 ext. 345 or www. folkheritage.org.

• SATURDAYS (through 9/5), 7pm - Shindig.

St. Matthias Musical Performances These classical music concerts take place at St. Matthias Episcopal Church in Asheville, 1 Dundee St. (off South Charlotte). Info: 252-0643.

• SU (9/6), 3pm - Concert of chamber music featuring the St. Matthias String Quartet. A free-will offering will be taken for the restoration of the historic church.

Summer Music in Flat Rock Series Presented by the Flat Rock Merchants Association. The outdoor series takes place on Little Rainbow Row’s back deck (behind the colorful shops on the corner of Greenville Hwy. and West Blue Ridge Rd.). This is a casual, family-oriented, bring-your-own-lawn-chair event. Free. Info: 697-7719 or www.flatrockonline.com.

• SA (9/5), 6-8pm - Angela Easterling will perform.

Summer Tracks in Tryon A concert series held at the Rogers Park amphitheater on W. Howard St. Food and drinks will be available. Free admission, but donations

at the gate are encouraged.

Info: (800) 440-7848, 8942324 or www.firstpeaknc. com.

• FR (9/4), 7-10pm - The Work (rock, jazz, funk).

Transylvania Choral Society Events are held at the Brevard-Davidson River Presbyterian Church, 249 E. Main St. Info: 877-4073 or campbellj@citcom.net.

• TU (9/8), 7-8:45pm - Open enrollment. Everyone is welcome to join. There are no auditions.

Theater Beaucatcher Brew Acting Classes • WEDNESDAYS (9/2) through (12/2), 7-8:30pm - Beaucatcher Brew will offer free acting classes taught

by UNCA Drama Instructor Lise Kloeppel. Held at the Haywood Street Campus, Central Methodist Church.

Info: 768-2456. Open to all.

Flat Rock Playhouse The State Theater of North Carolina is on Hwy. 225, 3 miles south of Hendersonville. Info: 6930731 or www.flatrockplayhouse.org.

• Through SU (9/6) - Real Estate, a light drama about relationships and selling a house, will be performed. $30, with discounts available.

• WE (9/9) through SU (9/27) - Around the World in 80 Days, a show of danger, romance and comic surprises. $30, with discounts available.

Haywood Arts Regional Theater HART is in the Performing Arts Center at the Shelton House, 250 Pigeon St. (Hwy. 276 S.) in downtown Waynesville. Tickets & info: 456-6322.

• Through SU (9/6) - Walking Across Egypt, a comedy by Clyde Edgerton.

Sept. 3-5 at 7:30pm and Sept. 6 at 3pm. $18 adults/$15 seniors/$8 students.

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

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

• Through SA (9/5), 7:30pm - The Asheville Shakesperience, the Players’ resident repertory company, will give special performances titled The Best of The Bard.

Performances at the Parkway Playhouse The historic Parkway Playhouse is located at 202 Green Mountain Dr. (just north of the downtown square) in Burnsville. Tickets & info: 682-4285 or www. parkwayplayhouse.com.

• TH (9/3) through SA (9/12) - My River My Valley, a play about the building of a dam that will force a family to relocate. Thursdays through Saturdays. $10-$20.

Film Call for Funniest Home Short Film • Through FR (9/25) - The Asheville Intl Children’s Film Festival is looking for the funniest home short film in WNC. The film needs to be no longer than 3 min. and feature children or pets in a fun non-harmful way. The winning film will be featured in Nov. at the AICFF. Submit film as a QuickTime movie file: info@aicff.org

Dance All Ages • Dance Classes (pd.) Jazz, ballet and modern techniques. Creative and fun-filled class. Pure enjoyment of dance. • All levels.

Asheville. Starts September 2! • Mention this ad • Save 5%! Call Jill: 989-3692. www.ferndance.com Asheville Ballroom & Dance Centre • Learn to Dance! (pd.) Groups and Privates available. For more information call (828) 274-8320. www.ashevilleballroom.com. www.ferndance.com Belly Dance! • Raqs Sharqi

By Mahsati (pd.) New Schedule Begins 9/9/2009 • Essentials Belly Dance Level I: Mondays, 7:30pm-9pm. • Combining Elements Belly Dance Level II: Wednesdays, 7:30pm9pm. • Drop-ins welcome. $15/class, multi-class discounts available. 20 Commerce Street, Asheville.

(828) 318-7572. www. mahsati-janan.com Argentine Tango Dancers of all levels welcome. Info: www.tangoasheville.com.

• SATURDAYS, 7:30-10pm - Filo Milongas at 1155 Tunnel Rd. $5.

• SUNDAYS (except 1st), 7-10pm - Practica at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road.

• 1st SUNDAYS, 7-10pm Practica at the Asheville Arts Center, 308 Merrimon Ave. Ballroom Dance Classes at Reuter Family YMCA

Located at 3 Town Square Blvd. off of Long Shoals Rd. To register: Stop by the YMCA or call 651-9622.

Info: 698-5517 or dance4joy992000@yahoo.com.

• TU (9/8) - Four-week Rhumba class begins.

Beginning Scottish Country Dance Offered by the Haywood Scottish Country Dancers at the Harvest House recreation center in Asheville.

Registration required. $20/ person. To register, or for more info: 622-0071.

• FRIDAYS (through 9/4), 78:30pm - An introduction to Scottish Country Dancing.

Donation Classes at Asheville Dance Revolution • TU (9/8) - Classes start.

The following classes are offered at Asheville Dance Revolution and are sponsored by the nonprofit Cultural Development Group: Adult Jazz, Tues. 8-9:15; Boys Dance Combo, Fri. 45; and Stretch and Tone for all ages, Sat. 10-11. Located at 63 Brook St., Biltmore Village. Info: ashevilledancerevolution@gmail.com.

English Country Dance Series Dance to live music with a live caller. This style of dance may be seen in movie adaptations of Jane Austen novels. $6. Info: 230-8449.

• 1st & 3rd SUNDAYS, 3-5:30pm - Dance at the Asheville Arts Center, 308 Merrimon Ave. Wear comfortable clothes.

Morris Dancing Learn English traditional Morris dances and become a member of one of three local teams as a dancer or musician. Music instruction provided to experienced musicians. Free. Info: 9942094 or www.ashevillemorris.us.

• MONDAYS, 5:30pm - Women’s Garland practice held at Reid Center for Creative Art. Opportunity House Events Located at 1411 Asheville Hwy. in Hendersonville. Info: 698-5517 or 692-0575.

• FRIDAYS, 7:30pm - Ballroom dance class.

Couples and singles welcome. $5. Snacks and drinks provided. Info: 2540814.

Southern Lights SDC A nonprofit square-dance club. Info: 625-9969 or 698-4530.

• SA (9/5), 4pm - Round dance workshop —- 6pm Advanced squares —- 7pm - Early rounds —- 7:30pm - Plus squares. Caller: Stan Russell. At North Henderson High School on Fruitland Road, off Route 64 E.

Studio Zahiya Classes Classes are held at Studio Zahiya, 41 Carolina Lane. $12 drop-in. $40 for four classes, with other discounts available. Info: 242-7595 or LisaZahiya@ gmail.com.

• THURSDAYS, 5:306:30pm - Beginner belly dance for youth ages 12-16 —- 6:30-7:30pm - Bhangra!

East Indian high-energy dance.

• TUESDAYS, 6-7pm - Beginner belly dance —- 7:10-8:10pm - Drills and skills.

Swing Asheville Info: www.swingasheville. com, 301-7629 or dance@ swingasheville.com.

• TUESDAYS, 6-7pm - Beginner swing dance lessons in the Lindy Hop style. $10 per person per week for four weeks. No partner necessary. At Eleven on Grove, 11 Grove St. in downtown Asheville.

Tarheel Christian Singles Dance At Blue Ridge Community College. Info: 231-2831.

• FR (9/4), 7:30-11:30pm - Dance. Christian singles of all denominations are welcome. Refreshments will be provided. No smoking or alcohol allowed. $10.

UNCA Dance Events Info: 251-6140.

• WE (9/9), 1:15pm - Asheville Allemanders Square Dance Demo at the Reuter Center. Free.

Auditions & Call to Artists A-B Tech Drama Club The club sponsors and produces a variety of productions, performances, workshops and lectures.

Info: 254-1921, ext. 890 or pcarver@abtech.edu.

• TU & TH (9/8 & 10), 7pm - Open auditions for Skeered??, an evening of ghosts stories and hauntings with an Appalachian twist, will be held at the Carriage House Theatre (behind the Fernihurst mansion).

Roles available for men and women of all ages and experience.

Annual Mail Art Exhibit Call for Entries Anything Goes—Everything Shows is an uncensored free-style mail-art show held at Courtyard Gallery, 9 Walnut St., Asheville. Mail art is art that uses the postal system as a medium. Mail artists exchange ephemera in the form of illustrated letters, zines, envelopes and more. Info: 273-3332.

• FR (9/4) - Deadline for submissions. No entry fee. Mail to: Anything Goes—Everything Shows, Carlos Steward, Courtyard

Gallery, PO 9907, Asheville, NC 28815.

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

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

• Through FR (10/2) Application deadline for new exhibit. Interested artists may visit the Web site or e-mail for more info.

Asheville Ballet Info: 258-1028.

• Through TH (9/3) - Auditions for the annual Nutcracker will be held at the company’s studio at 4 Weaverville Hwy. There are roles for more than 100 dancers. All 3 year olds to adults, beginners to professionals are welcome.

Call for audition schedule details.

BookOpolis 2009 Open Call • MO (9/14) through FR (9/18) - Artists are invited to submit up to two entries of broadsides, prints, artist books. Artwork will be displayed at the discretion of the curator. $10 entry fee per piece. Info: www. ashevillebookworks.com/ BookOpolis.html.

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

• SA (9/5) - Deadline for entries into the Fall Celebration of Arts, a juried competition/invitational exhibit. Interested artists should submit 3 digital images on CD of their work with a $35 entry fee.

Tryon Fine Arts Center The gallery is at 34 Melrose Ave. in Tryon. Open Mon.Fri., 9am-Noon & 1:304pm; Sat., 9am-1pm. Info: www.tryontfac.org • TU & WE (9/1 & 2), 9:30am-3pm - Hand-delivered sculptures (limit 2 per person) will be accepted for the 12th Biennial Tryon Painters & Sculptors Juried Sculpturama show. Info: www.tryonpaintersandsculptors.com or 749-3900.

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A woman offering child-care services in Melbourne, Fla., was dismayed to learn in August that a scam pulled on her by a diaper-wearing man in his 40s was not illegal.

A man called her, on behalf of his disabled adult “brother,” who has a mental age of 5 and poor bladder control, and she began assisting him in her home during the day for $600 a week. She was later outraged to learn that the “brother” was really the caller and was actually normal (except for his perversion). However, as Brevard County Sheriff’s officials told Florida Today, since the woman consented to changing diapers and was fully paid for her services, they were unable to charge the man with a crime.

Can’t Possibly Be True

• At press time, Rhode Island legislators were scrambling to fix an oversight in state law that came to light only earlier this year.

While the state treats 16 as the age of sexual consent and the age at which most child labor laws no longer apply, the under-18 sex-worker law bans only “prostitution” and “lewd” activities, leaving girls age 16 and 17 free to work as strippers. (Nudity, by itself, is not “lewd” under constitutional law.) Other Rhode Island laws bar under-18s from, for example, serving drinks, working with power tools or buying pornography.

(The city of Providence is also now trying to fix its own ordinance in which prostitution appears to be illegal only for streetwalkers, thus legalizing the trade for those working indoors.)

• The August issue of Gourmet magazine highlighted the apparently high quality of sushi prepared and sold at a BP gas station near the intersection of Ridgeway and Poplar in Memphis, Tenn. A sushi chef works on-site and reportedly sells 300 orders a day.

• Uganda’s independent national newspaper, The Daily Monitor, reported in May the arrest of hunter Nathan Awoloi, who was accused of forcing his wife to breastfeed

his five puppies after their mothers, who were essential to his occupation, were killed.

When Awoloi was released on bond, Caroline Odoi, Ugandan coordinator for the ActionAid International anti-poverty agency, led protests demanding his re-arrest because of evidence that one of Mrs. Awoloi’s own babies, who was nursing at the same time as the puppies, died of symptoms that resembled rabies.

Police said the investigation was continuing.

Unclear on the Concept

• Admitted gang member Alex Fowler, 26, of Jasper, Texas, was arrested in July and charged with an attempted home-invasion robbery that went bad. Tough-guy Fowler, who has the words “Crip for Life” tattooed on his neck, was chased from the house by the 87-year-old female “victim” pointing a can of Raid insect repellant at him, threatening to spray.

• Hong Kong’s largest political party, the Democratic Alliance for Betterment and Progress, said it was only trying to alert vulnerable women in August when it publicized a list of shopping mall locations in which females ascending stairs or escalators are particularly susceptible to having “upskirt” photographs taken surreptitiously by cell phone cameras. A spokesman said that perverts probably already knew about the locations.

Benumbed by Taxes

• In April 2008, Jeanette Jamieson of Toccoa, Ga., finally paid off her state income tax lien (covering 1998 through 2005) of $45,000, but a year later was indicted for failing to file state tax returns for 2006 and 2007, when her income was at least $188,000. In Jamieson’s day job, she runs a tax preparation service.

Also, for the past 24 years, until defeated in 2008, she was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives.

Read News of the Weird daily with Chuck Shepherd at www.weirduniverse.net.

Send items to weirdnews@earthlink.net or PO Box 18737, Tampa FL 33679

• According to the Detroit Free Press, City Councilwoman JoAnn Watson is a fierce advocate for getting more money to the impoverished city from state and federal grants, but was herself shorting the city treasury. Municipal records revealed that somehow she managed to be billed only $68 a year in property tax for a well-kept home in a neighborhood where her neighbors’ property tax ranges from $2,000 to $6,500 annually.

She told the newspaper she never realized she was paying too little and assumed the low amount was because of “tornado damage,” even though Detroit’s last tornado was in 1997.

Good to Know

(1) Cussing Is Good for You: A study by psychology researchers at Britain’s Keele University in July showed that people who swear in response to a danger are better able to endure pain than those who use milder language. (2) Urinate in the Shower to Save the Forests: The Brazilian environmental group SOS Mata Atlantica this summer began encouraging people to urinate in the shower to save the Atlantic Rainforest (one avoided flush per day saving 1,100 gallons of water a year).

People Different From Us

Theresa Winters, 36, who lives in Luton, England, with her unemployed boyfriend, Toney Housden, is pregnant (and chainsmoking) with her 14th child (his 12th) and remains totally dependent on public assistance, which officials estimate has totaled “millions” of pounds. Social workers recently removed the kids still living with her (five were born with disabilities), and Winters defiantly told The Sun in July that, if they also take away her 14th in November, she and Housden will just keep making more until she gets one to keep. Housden said he would “love” to go to work, but only for “the right reasons” (specifically, not, he said, to earn money for family counseling because that is the government’s responsibility).

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by Anne Fitten Glenn

Preparing swine flu “survival kit” can help ease worries Pandemic flu, global climate change, hurricanes, antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections — these are some of the life-changing phenomena that haunt me as a parent.

Last week, the Buncombe County Health Center offered me one way to prepare for the coming flu season. Health officials are predicting a double-edged sword of Damocles this fall, as conditions ripen for the spread of both annual flu and H1N1 flu viruses (H1N1 is better known as swine flu).

The center suggests organizing a “flu homecare kit.” While being prepared won’t totally resolve my anxiety, it’ll give that sword hanging over my head some extra support (in the story of Damocles, the sword hangs by a single horse hair — I’d like to add several horse hairs, or at least some twine, to my sword). So, in addition to telling my kids to wash their hands 50 times a day, I decided to prepare my own flu home-care kit.

Buncombe County suggests stocking emergency supplies including soup, crackers and fever reducers. If you or your kids get a fever, the health folks want you to self-quarantine until everyone’s been fever-free for 24 hours

(without the help of fever-reducing drugs).

This means folks could end up stuck at home for a week or longer. At this point, the viruses are mild enough that health officials are recommending home treatment for most people.

I Googled “swine flu kit” and discovered a number of companies trying to cash in on flu paranoia. Most of their kits contain items such as latex gloves, face-mask respirators, goggles, shoe covers and hospital-grade hand wipes.

Some even contain full body disposable coveralls (I first read this as full body “disposal” coveralls. As in, “Bring out your dead!”) On-line kits retail from $25 to more than $100.

These kits seem over the top, even to me. I fully expect that, if one person in my family contracts the flu, we probably all will, and dressing up like a character from Scrubs while dispensing acetaminophen to the kids isn’t going to keep me healthy.

So here’s what I bought for our home flu kit: • Several boxes of tissues: Flu equals congestion. I figure noses will need blowing.

• Fever reducing-drugs for both adults and kids: chewable Motrin and Tylenol for kids.

Tylenol caplets for adults. Alternating Motrin and Tylenol seems to reduce fever well in my kids, although acetaminophen products sometimes make them vomit.

• Theraflu and Nyquil Cold & Flu for adults:

Over-the-counter decongestants don’t really work for kids, but they can help adults, especially sick adults who need to care for sick kids.

• Honey: A natural cough suppressant and good way to get a few calories into feverish children (the darker the honey, the more nutrients it contains). Don’t give honey to babies under a year old though. It can contain botulism spores that their immature immune systems can’t handle.

• Electrolyte-containing drinks: I typically avoid these, but when the kids are sick and their throats ache, Gatorade seems to go down easier than water (apple juice also works and is more gentle on tummies than other juices). You also can purchase popsicles that contain electrolytes.

These rocked after my kids’ tonsillectomies.

• Extra food: veggie bullion, pasta, crackers, apple juice. Bland, easily digested foods for both kids and adults. The Centers for Disease Control also recommends storing extra water to get through a flu outbreak. We drink filtered tap water so that’s unnecessary. However, hurricane season is upon us, and ever since the remnants of Hurricane Ivan knocked out Asheville’s water supply in 2004, I’ve kept 10-12 gallons of water in the basement.

• Below are a few other items that, while less essential than the above, may be important if we’re stuck at home for one to two weeks:

• Extra pet food: I realized that if I’m sick, I don’t want to be forced to find a respirator mask in the basement and wear it out in public to purchase cat and dog food. Nor do I want to have to open cans of tuna in order to get my cats to leave me alone.

• Extra prescription medicine: Luckily, there’s only one of these at the moment, but I plan on keeping that pill bottle at least half full.

• Books/DVDs: I always have a pile of books to read, but I’m stockpiling extra books for the kids. And while we have lots of kid-friendly DVDs, the second someone sneezes, I’m ordering the first season of True Blood for myself.

So, what have I left out? What do you feel is essential for dealing with being stuck at home with a debilitating fever?

And notice how organizing a home-care kit keeps me from dealing with some of the larger questions around the flu, like what’s going to happen if a large number of people suddenly can’t work for a few weeks? And what if the virus becomes more deadly?

As I was perusing cold meds, my girl said, “Mom, stop stressing about the swine flu.”

I said, “Just let me prepare. Because I’m a good Girl Scout.” And giving some extra support to my imaginary sword of Damocles helps me chill out. X

Anne Fitten “Edgy Mama” Glenn writes about a number of subjects, including parenting, at www.edgymama.com.

Parenting Calendar for September 2 - 10, 2009 2009 Baby And Toddler Sample Sale At i play. (pd.) Two days only! Thursday, September 3 and Friday, September 4, 11am-4pm. • Samples, overstock, bargain bin items, including: • clothes • diaper bags • toys • fleece • aqua sandals • swimsuits and more! 2000 Riverside Drive, Suite #9, Asheville, NC. • Directions: Take I-26/19-23 to Exit 24 “Elk Mountain Road/Woodfin.”

Turn West on Elk Mountain Rd, pass the school, keep going down until you get to a stop sign. Drive straight into Riverside Business Park, then turn left.” The “i play.” warehouse is last on the left. www.iplaybabywear.com Asheville Ballroom & Dance Centre (pd.) Youth and Young Adult Classes. Ages 12-21.

Meets twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting September 15 and 17, 4pm-6pm. For information/registration: Aleah: (828) 243-9678.

Asheville Ballroom & Dance Centre (pd.) New Beginner’s Youth Program. Ages 8-11 Starting September 14, 4pm. For information/registration, call (828)274-8320.

Attention Parents Of Underachieving Children • Tuesday, September 8 (pd.) Attend this one evening seminar, with Dr. Jackie Williams, Educational Specialist, and learn how biofeedback can help your child achieve their full potential through research supported educational intervention for: • Inattentiveness • Test Anxiety • Learning differences • Behavior • Self-control and more. • 7pm, 29 Ravenscroft Drive, downtown Asheville. Space limited.

Registration/Information: (828) 281-2299, ext 2. www. focuscentersofasheville.com

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Involve Your Partner In Your Child’s Birth • Empowered Birthing Classes (pd.) Increase confidence, learn hands-on tools, enjoy your birth! 828-231-9227. Classes monthly: Wednesdays, 6p.m. $175. Next begins Sept. 16. www.

AshevilleWomensWellness.com Spanish Tutoring (pd.) Children up to 12 years old. Native Speaker Tutor.

Immersion through reading, speaking, pronunciation and writing to help improve Spanish Language skills. One-One Basis. Call Ms. Morales at (828) 489-1801, www.myspanishtutor.vpweb.com Asheville Mommies Coffee Time Join other moms in the Asheville area for coffee, playtime for the kids and chatting at The Hop on Merrimon Ave. Info: julie@ashevillemommies.com.

• SA (9/5), 2:30-4:30pm - Asheville Mommies celebrate their “First Birthday Bash” at the Asheville Arts Center.

There will be food, games, family fun and prizes. Free.

Info: www.ashevillemommies.com.

Family Resource Center at Emma Registration & info: 252-4810 or www.childrenfirstbc.org.

• THURSDAYS, 5-7pm & MONDAYS, 10am-Noon (starting 9/3 & 9/14) - “Love & Logic Parenting” classes will be held at the Family Resource Center at Emma, 37 Brickyard Road. This seven-week course will review various parenting skills. Sliding fee scale; scholarships available. Registration is due by the first day/night of class.

Parenting Group: The Highly Sensitive Child A free monthly lecture by parenting author Maureen Healy on parenting the highly sensitive child, with rotating topics. Learn new skills, meet other parents and build a stronger community for highly sensitive children to thrive in. Info: www.growinghappykids.com.

• THURSDAYS (9/3 & 10), 6:30pm - Meeting at Westgate Earth Fare Sept. 3 and at Earth Fare South Sept.

10.

Parents Night Out at the YMCA of WNC Take a night off and let your kids have fun at the YMCA. Activities for ages 2-12 include swimming, arts and crafts, an inflatable obstacle course, snacks and movies.

Register at least 24 hours in advance. Fridays: $12/$24 nonmembers. Saturdays: $15/$30 nonmembers. Info: www.ymcawnc.org or 210-YMCA. • 1st SATURDAYS, 6-10pm & 3rd FRIDAYS, 6:309:30pm - Parents Night Out. Toddler Fun A free group that provides an opportunity for parents to have some structured fun with their toddlers including 45 minutes of songs, stories, finger-plays, parachute play and more. To register: 213-8098 or shantisunshine@ gmail.com.

• TUESDAYS, 9:30am-10:15am - Toddler Fun. At the Reuter YMCA in the Mission Hospitals Room. Call 2138098 to register.

Voices of Hope: A Conversation with Parents about Eating Disorders • TH (9/10), 6-8pm - THE Center for Disordered Eating hosts an educational panel discussion answering audience questions about eating disorders. At The Health Adventure, Pack Place, Asheville. Registration required: 337-4685. Adults only. $10 per person/$15 per couple (cash or check). Supper served.

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Potluck puts improved school lunches on front burner A community potluck dinner at the Carrier Park picnic shelter on Monday, Sept. 7, aims to draw attention to the need for improved school lunches. Slow Food Asheville, a local chapter of the nonprofit Slow Food USA, is sponsoring the event.

Organizer Cathy Cleary, the owner of the West End Bakery on Haywood Road in West Asheville, says the goal is to push federal lawmakers to increase funding for the National School Lunch Program by $1 per child. The program is part of the Child Nutrition Act, which Congress plans to review for reau-

thorization later this year. Petitions will be available for people to sign to encourage lawmakers to make the change, Cleary says.

School lunches “are pretty reminiscent of fast food right now,” Cleary says, noting that most of what’s served is packaged, processed foods. The federal program “does not provide enough funding to allow school lunch staff to do anything with fresh food, because they don’t have the time or resources to process anything,” she says.

Increased funding will give schools the resources to tap into the vibrant local food

Benefits Calendar for September 2 - 10, 2009

Hendersonville, #258, at the Hendersonville Elk’s Lodge, 546 N. Justice St. Christopher & Banks and C.J’s fashions, a salad buffet and dessert bar, and an auction. $20. RSVP by Sept. 7: 674-2555.

Full Moon Farm Wolfdog Rescue FMF is a wolfdog rescue organization and sanctuary south of Black Mountain. Info: 669-1818, 669-0706 or www. fullmoonfarm.org.

• WE (9/9), 6-9pm - Fifth annual silent auction to benefit the care of the 69 wolfdogs currently in residence at the sanctuary. Heavy hors d’oeuvres, cash bar and live music by Twinkle. At the White Horse, 105C Montreat Road, Black Mountain. $20.

Great Smoky Mountains Bed and Breakfast Tour • TH (9/3), 3-6pm - Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park while visiting six Waynesville inns on a self-guided tour. Reception at the end of the tour. All proceeds from the tour will go to the Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Info: 452-3089.

Labor Day 5K Run/Walk St. Jude’s Fundraiser • MO (9/7), 9-11am - At Robbinsville High School, 301 Sweetwater Road, Robbinsville. $10 registration begins at 8:30am at the track. Awards to top finishers. Melissa Day is planning event as part of her senior project on childhood cancer. Info: mday234@gmail.com.

Off the Mat, Into the World Benefit • SA (9/5) & SU (9/6) - Donation-based yoga workshops will be held throughout the weekend at Asheville Yoga Center, 239 S. Liberty St. $5 suggested donation per class.

All proceeds benefit Off the Mat, Into the World. Info: www. offthematintotheworld.org or www.youryoga.com.

Pacolet Area Conservancy

Antique Appraisal Fair Fundraiser • SA (9/5), 10am-4pm - McDowell County Historical Society will hold an Antique Appraisal Fair Fundraiser at the First Presbyterian Church in Marion. $5 per item with a limit of three. Raffle and refreshments.

Asheville Affiliates Fundraisers This group of young professionals holds fundraisers for nonprofits in Buncombe County. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres, beer, wine and a raffle. Admission is $20 with RSVP/$25 at the door. Info: www.affiliatesofasheville.com.

• TH (9/10), 6:30-9:30pm - The Fur Ball, a fundraiser for Brother Wolf Animal Rescue at Decades. Bring your dancing shoes and move to the swinging sounds of The Firecracker Jazz Band. After-party to follow.

Asheville Art Museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Admission: $6/$5 students and seniors/Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Info: 253-3227 or www.ashevilleart.org.

• TH (9/10), 6:30-9pm - A Taste of Art + Wine. Fine wines, craft beers, food from local restaurants and a silent auction.

Support the Asheville Art Museum. $30 members/$35. Call for reservations.

Denim Swap • TU (9/1) through WE (9/30) - Wink Heads and Threads will be accepting gently worn denim. Trade old blues for some that are new to you. Donated jeans will be given to ABCCM for women in need. Info: 277-4070 or 259-5300.

Fashions, Luncheon and Old Bag Auction • SA (9/12), 12:30pm - A benefit for Mainstay sponsored by the Benevolent and Patriotic Order of Does,

• Young Adults/Adults • Multicultural/Diverse Lifestyles

movement that already exists in Western North Carolina, Cleary says. The Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, the N.C. Farm to School program and Slow Food Asheville representatives will also be on hand at the “eat-in” to help educate residents.

The potluck will feature activities for children, cooking tables and speakers, including a parent who will talk about how she changed her child’s school. Go to www. slowfoodasheville.org for more information.

— Jason Sandford PAC’s mission is to protect and preserve the area’s natural resources with emphasis on the lands and waterways of particular scenic, ecological and agricultural significance in the Pacolet and Green River watersheds. The event will raise funds for PAC’s work. Info: 859-5060 or www.pacolet.org.

• FR (9/4) through SU (9/6) - September Spectacular Horse Show at Harmon Field in Tryon, featuring the Hunter Derby Challenge, a Fri. night pizza party, a horse-and-rider tag sale and silent auction. Info: www.harmonclassics.com.

Pancakes With The King • FR (9/4), 7-10am - The Kiwanis Club of Hendersonville will kick off the 63rd annual N.C. Apple Festival with a pancake breakfast at First Baptist Church in Hendersonville. An Elvis Presley impersonator will make a guest appearance. $6. Info: 693-1515.

Women Who Care Luncheon • WE (9/9), Noon - Women of all ages are invited to attend the WNC Jewish Federation’s 2nd annual Women Who Care Luncheon at the Country Club of Asheville. Featured speaker: Tara Kornblum, Director of Youth and Synagogue programming at Congregation B’nai Torah. $36. RSVP: 545-4648 or www.JewishAsheville.org.

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Getting your ducts in a row: A home audit Energy efficiency isn’t as sexy as shiny solar panels or sleek wind turbines. But it’s often the quickest, cheapest way to start reducing your carbon footprint. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, most homeowners can reduce energy costs 20 percent simply by insulating and fixing leaky ductwork.

Such tasks are part of “sealing the envelope” — reducing the ways that air (and energy) escape from a building.

Curious to learn how the experts tackle the process, I sought what’s commonly called an energy audit for my West Asheville home, a 1950 stone cottage. Several Asheville-area companies do such audits, which typically include a review of a variety of household systems that could be made more efficient or environmentally friendly. While checking out information booths at the 2009 Mountain Sports Festival, I met a few folks who belong to the BuildSmart Alliance, a coalition of businesses ranging from plumbers to solar installers. I was in luck: They were giving away free audits.

On a mid-summer day six BuildSmart guys descended on the house, and a few weeks later, Steve Linton, the audit coordinator and director of sustainable technologies for Deltec Homes, paid me a follow-up visit.

As the team got ready, BuildSmart’s Brett McCall joked that if they were cartoon characters, they’d be superheroes, swooping from the sky to “green” homes new and old. These capeless heroes poked around the moldy basement, studied the exterior walls, looked at the sky and trees to see how much sunlight hit the place (not enough for a solar system), examined the ductwork, mentioned various federal and state tax-credit programs, pointed out the inefficient rock-wool insulation used in the upstairs loft, and noted the original, metalframed casement windows.

“We try to see the house as a whole system,” said McCall, tapping on a windowpane. “I can already tell you your windows are old, they’re

single-pane and there’s obviously some air and energy leakage.” Replacing the quaint windows could be expensive, he admitted, before noting some less costly options, such as installing storm windows.

A2Z Plumbing Contractors’ George Efird pointed out that all the faucets, toilets and showerheads in my house are older, waterwasting fixtures. One showerhead alone, he calculated, sprayed 2 to 3 gallons per minute.

A low-flow fixture would reduce that figure to 0.8. “Our main mission is to reduce your water footprint,” he said, mentioning that I could capture rainwater for watering shrubbery or even for flushing toilets.

On another front, Stuart Ray of Building Environmental Solutions explained that before tightening the envelope in the basement and adjacent crawlspace, I’d need to get water to flow away from the house. Most of the moldinducing moisture, he reported, appeared to be coming from the rear of the house, where downspouts drain into old, possibly leaking ceramic pipes. Before installing a dehumidification system or getting a mold treatment, I was told first to experiment with some inexpensive measures: installing a French drain that bypasses the old pipes or building curbs to keep water from flowing off the asphalt driveway. “Try those options and see if they work, because excavating to fix the clay pipes would be the most expensive,” Stuart said.

In his follow-up, Linton took a closer look, pointing out fiberglass batting that was sagging or missing in places in the basement ceiling, the home’s subfloor. Much of the heatingand-cooling ductwork is metal, which conducts heat and cold, he explained. That’s one reason why, when the heat pump works to cool the house, the basement feels like a refrigerator while the upstairs stays toasty.

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Home-energy heroes: These BuildSmart Alliance members represent just one of the local groups that can help homeowners figure out ways to save energy and make their houses greener all around. photo by Margaret Williams

and efforts,” Linton replied. He suggested starting with projects I can do on my own and that were most affordable: Caulk cracks in the plaster ceiling and in gaps between the rock fireplace and the wood stairway, for instance.

Insulate the basement door to prevent heat (and cool air) loss through the stairwell. Tackle the bigger, more expensive projects in stages, he continued.

Still, I need to insulate the ductwork and subfloor as soon as I can, said Linton. “You’re losing a lot of heating and cooling energy through there. It’s kind of like you’re driving around with a leaking gas tank, and you’re going around town, leaking gas everywhere

you go.”

Fix that leaky tank, Linton urged.

Since the audit, I have managed to reduce water problems in the basement (no French drain needed), and my caulk gun’s ready to go when I have a few spare hours. I hope to get to the ductwork before winter sets in.

Meanwhile, at least my shady yard means the house stays cooler in the summer.

For more information, check out DOE’s “Energy Savers” Web site at www1.eere.energy.gov/ consumer/tips. X Send your environmental news to mvwilliams@ mountainx.com or call 251-1333, ext. 152.

Eco Calendar for September 2 - 10, 2009 Get The Scoop!... (pd.) on Asheville’s newest, greenest, multi-generational, collaborative Eco-Village! Project overview and plans at Grace Episcopal (871 Merrimon) then join us at Crest Mountain for a tour and potluck/ cookout. Call to reserve your food option (meat or veggie) Sunday September 13, 4pm Grace Episcopal, followed by Potluck at Crest Mountain at 5:45 Questions or directions: 273-7373.

Asheville GreenWorks Our area’s Keep America Beautiful affiliate, working to clean and green the community through environmental volunteer projects. Info: 254-1776 or info@ashevillegreenworks.org.

• TUESDAYS (through 9/22), Noon-1pm - Create a healthy body and a healthy environment at the

same time with this active community cleanup.

Starts at Pritchard Park. Cleanup supplies provided. RSVP. ECO Events The Environmental and Conservation Organization is dedicated to preserving the natural heritage of Henderson County and the mountain region as an effective voice of the environment. Located at 121 Third Ave. West, Hendersonville. Info: 692-0385 or www.eco-wnc.org.

• 2nd TUESDAYS, 4:30pm - Recycling Committee meeting.

Green Business Alliance Free for members/$5 for nonmembers. Meets at Mountain BizWorks, 153 S. Lexington Ave., Asheville. To register: jamie@mountainbizworks. org or 253-2834, ext. 11.

• TU (9/8), 6-8pm - Cindy Weeks of Mountain Housing Opportunities will present plans for the Glen Rock Depot in the River Arts District. She will focus on the green efforts and the opportunities that it holds for artists and business owners.

Wild Birds Unlimited Events Located at 1997 Hendersonville Road, Asheville.

Info: 687-9433 or www.asheville.wbu.com.

• SA (9/5), 8am - Audubon Beaver Lake Birdwalk —- 8am - Birdwalk at The Orchard, Altapass, Mitchell County. Meet at the Loops Overlook, milepost 328. Info: CrabillV@aol.com —- 2pm - Hummingbird Workshop with Simon Thompson. $10.

WNC Alliance Members of the WNC Alliance and the public are invited to be agents of change for the environment.

Info: 258-8737 or www.wnca.org.

• 1st THURSDAYS, 6:30 pm - Meeting for Buncombe County members and the public at the WNC Alliance office, 29 N. Market St., Ste. 610, Asheville. Info: 258-8737.

• 1st MONDAYS, 5pm - Meeting for Ashe, Avery and Watauga members and the public. Be agents of change for the Watauga River Watershed. Info: 963-8682.

WNC Nature Center Located at 75 Gashes Creek Rd. Hours: 10am5pm daily (closed on Wednesdays from Dec. 17-Feb. 25). Admission: $8/$6 Asheville City residents/$4 kids. Info: 298-5600 or www. wildwnc.org.

• Through WE (9/30) - Discover Life in America, a photography exhibition revealing the biological diversity in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, will be on display.

• Through MO (9/7) - The Beauty of Butterflies exhibit features native species of butterflies and moths and the plants they need for survival.

• TU (9/8), 3-8:30pm - Travel to the Cataloochee Valley for an NC Elk Experience. A presentation on elk ecology and biology will be followed by a trip to view the elk. Advanced registration required. $20/$18 members/$10 for guests who drive their own vehicles. Info: 298-5600, ext 305.

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Rabbit is one of the easiest animals to catch in the woods, but urban diners have had considerably less luck hunting the critter.

Rabbit remains frustratingly elusive on Asheville restaurant menus, despite growing demand for its famously nutritious flesh.

Everything about rabbit screams local food: Its production is well-suited to small farms. It has a legitimate claim to an authentic Appalachian heritage, with wild rabbit serving as the showpiece for centuries of mountain meals. And it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t taste quite like anything emerging from the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s franchised fast casual kitchens.

Yet only a few local eateries offer rabbit dishes with any regularity.

Still, folks who work with rabbit believe Buncombe County could be poised on the cusp of a rabbit boom, a development advanced by the recent loosening of restrictions on rabbit processing and the increasing talent quotient of local chefs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen a tremendous growth from when we first started,â&#x20AC;? says Walter Imladris, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s raised meat rabbits for seven years on his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s farm in Fairview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our customer base at first was European immigrants: We had French. We had Russians. Now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing more and more interest from local chefs.â&#x20AC;?

Imladris suspects the chefs expressing interest in his rabbit are as enthralled by the prospect of outdoing their competitors as they are eager to experiment with a new foodstuff.

While almost every area restaurant serving

entrees with double-digit price tags offers salmon and a ribeye, rabbit is â&#x20AC;&#x153;something that sets them apart.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Asheville has such a good food scene that just being really good doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t guarantee you business,â&#x20AC;? Imladris continues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buying local vegetables and hamburger is no longer enough.â&#x20AC;?

Unlike hamburger, though, rabbit is relatively pricey, with most restaurants paying more than $8 a pound for it, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fairly demanding protein to prepare. A skinned rabbit canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be shoved into an oven like a chicken, or tossed on the grill like most cuts of beef. Each of its parts must be individually addressed, from its highly prized saddle to its delicate liver. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people are afraid to figure out how to cook it,â&#x20AC;? says Jacob Sessoms, owner of Table. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The best way to make it taste good and make money off it is to break it up.â&#x20AC;?

At Table, Sessoms has served rabbit terrine with crème fraiche and watermelon mostarda; grilled rabbit legs with ricotta gnocchi; bacon and swiss-chard-stuffed and wrapped rabbit saddle with warm dandelion salad and braised rabbit legs with creamed collard greens. But his favorite preparation thus far has been Korean-barbecue style rabbit ribs served with house-made kimchi. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The most fun thing weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done is frenching out the racks,â&#x20AC;? Sessoms says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really cute.â&#x20AC;?

Sessoms can pry four entrĂŠe portions and two appetizer portions out of a single beast,

using the same economical approach that Brian Canipelli advocates over at Cucina 24. Rabbit has been among the downtown restaurant’s staples since it opened last year, with a rabbit pate surfacing on the current menu.

“I don’t want to serve New York strips,” Canipelli says. “I want to serve what’s from here. We’ve had really good success with rabbit. There are little bones to work with, for sure, but I think it’s great.”

Imladris stresses chefs must exercise a fair amount of creativity when dealing with rabbit, since none of the local producers are equipped to sell just a rabbit’s choice parts. While distributors like Sysco offer pre-packaged rabbit backs, local farmers deliver a rabbit in one piece.

“It definitely presents a challenge from the chef’s perspective, but we’re phenomenally lucky to have these chefs who are serious about buying local,” Imladris says. “To have a local food scene, you need chefs willing to work on the edge.”

As an example, Imladris cites John Stehling of Early Girl Eatery, who successfully tinkered with rabbit bellyflap.

“He came over and said, ‘You’ve got to try this’,” Imladris recalls. “They’d slacked it off and made rabbit bacon. It was out of this world.”

East Fork Farm’s Steve Robertson, who sells rabbit to Table and Zambra — and, occasionally, Savoy — keeps a waiting list of tailgate market customers who’ve apparently recovered from the Easter Bunny syndrome that struck the rabbit industry a few decades ago, when even committed carnivores pleaded the animal was “too cute” to eat. Robertson estimates he has “six or seven” customers awaiting rabbit.

“It’s delicious meat,” Robertson says.

“According to the government, it’s the healthiest meat you can eat.”

East Fork keeps just 10 breeding rabbits, providing a yearly crop of 300-400 rabbits.

Although Robertson concedes the numbers are small, Greenlife Grocery — which carries his farm’s lamb — has approached him to discuss adding his rabbit to the butcher case.

“We’re wanting to triple our numbers,” Robertson says.

Imladris Farms also has plans for expansion and is now building a new barn to house more rabbits. By next year, Imladris is hoping to produce upward of 1,000 rabbits annually.

Until this summer, most rabbit farmers kept their herds small to satisfy a state law that limited how many chickens and rabbits small farmers could process. But in July, North Carolina lifted the requirement that subjected rabbit processing to state inspection, since the policy could — in a roundabout way — effectively invite federal inspectors into the new small-animal-processing plant slated to open in Marion. While the complexities of the ruling confuse even rabbit farmers, suffice to say the state Department of Agriculture wasn’t too keen on the concept of hosting the feds at its rabbit-and-chicken facility, and so averted the situation by deregulating rabbits.

Nobody yet knows just what the change in law means. Farmers haven’t approached the federal government to ask whether it plans to introduce its own inspections, fearing the answer might be yes. Will the state’s stepping back inaugurate a new era in untrammeled rabbit farming, putting far more rabbits on the market — and on menus? Or will the Federal Department of Agriculture crack down on North Carolina’s rabbiteers, making rabbit even more of a niche crop? Local gourmands, of course, are rooting for a rabbit revival.

“I don’t know that there’s a huge demand yet, but there’s a decent demand,” Robertson says. “People’s eyes perk up when we tell them we do it.” X Contact Hanna Rachel Raskin at food@ mountainx.com.

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OKTOBERFEST: The Asheville Downtown Association is planning to mark one of the city’s newest honors with an old-style tradition, announcing an Oktoberfest celebration on Wall Street. “With Asheville’s recent recognition as ‘Beer City USA,’ the timing couldn’t be better,” organizer Adrian Vassallo says in a release. The Saturday, Oct. 10, event will feature local beer tastings; music from local gypsy-funk band The Goodies and polka kings The Stratton Mountain Boys; German food specials at Jack of the Wood, Cucina 24 and The Market Place; and a yodeling contest.

Tickets to the afternoon event, which include beer samples and a commemorative glass, are $25. To purchase tickets, visit ashevilledowntown.org.

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“It seemed like men weren’t too crazy about coming in with the old name,” Tyndall says. “We changed the name and they just run in, jumping up and down.”

Tyndall and her husband, Bill, opened the shop at 3400 Asheville Highway last December. Although Merri Tyndall had operated numerous flower and antique shops, the Sweetery marked her first foray into the restaurant business.

“We knew we were going to make a lot of changes after we’d been open awhile,” she says.

The Mountain Pie Company now offers more than a dozen varieties of homemade pies — “Today we have coconut cream, two kinds of apple, strawberry and bumbleberry,” Tyndall reported when reached by phone last month — cakes and breakfast. To inaugurate its breakfast service, which includes strawberry crepes, blueberry blintzes, pancakes and waffles, Tyndall offered a free breakfast in early August. More than 130 people took advantage of the promotion.

“It was fun,” Tyndall says. “There were four of us working, and we managed to make everyone happy.”

Tyndall plans to hold more free breakfasts and a chili cookoff later in the fall.

Mountain Pie Company is open Tues.-Fri., 7 a.m.-2 p.m., and Sat.-Sun., 9 a.m.-2 p.m. The bakery’s closed on Mondays.

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arts&entertainment LAAFFing all the way to the weird

by Alli Marshall If memory serves, my eighth birthday involved a swimming party in our backyard pond and carob cupcakes that none of my friends would eat (but decades later still laugh about). For the Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Festival’s eighth, the day-long celebration promises costumes, a parade, a couple dozen performers, jam sessions, DJs, visual art, costumed revelers, bicycle jousting, local food and beer and spontaneous creative expression (and heck, maybe a carob cupcake, too). LAAFF knows how to throw a party.

So, as downtown Asheville’s most unique shopping district gears up for its most unique festival, what sort of tricks does LAAFF have up its sleeve? For starters, a new director. In July, Frank Bloom stepped into that leadership role, and really, who better? Bloom brings a wealth of experience (he’s managed food and beverage outlets for a NASCAR track, booked shows for Emerald Lounge, run sound for both Donna The Buffalo and Acoustic Syndicate, worked as drum tech for Mickey Hart’s Global Drum Project and performs with Asheville’s Thunderdrums).

Next on the roster of important deets: Beer. LAAFF has, since the beginning, taken a local-brews-only stand. This time around, better than a selection from a single local brewery, Asheville Brewers Alliance (comprised of eight beer crafters) is involved. Wash the suds down with an array of snacks from Crepes of Wrath, Rosetta’s Kitchen, Blue Daisy Cafe, Mela Indian Restaurant and more. You’ll need the sustenance — this is a marathon day of fun.

Speaking of fun, the best way to get into the spirit of LAAFF is to come in costume.

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Sunday, Sept. 6 (11 a.m.-9 p.m. Free. www.lexfestasheville.com) wear skirts, wings and horns are perfectly acceptable accessories. Even so, why pass up a chance to spend a day in full festive regalia? Dress as your favorite alter ego and then cut loose with the newly added Big Wheels for Big Kids activity, or saddle up for a round of bike jousting. (What not to look for this year: Daredevil Michael Mooney won’t go for a third attempt at a Guinness World Record for the three-story tall bike ride. Mooney — as “Medieval Knieval” — will lead the foam armor- and banana-seat bicycle jousts.)

Don’t have a costume? Never fear: Honeypot hosts Sew Your Own Art Clothes.

OK, LAAFF is a whole lot of activity, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of chances to cool your heals and just be entertained. Sit back and take in a (mobile) show on the LaZoom bus (LEAF in Schools and Streets’ Youth at Jazz and singer/ songwriters Oso Rey and Ash Devine with Quetzal perform on the 40-minute tour loops. Tickets are $2 for kids and $3 for adults. Sketch comedy troupe The Feral Chihuahuas put on an adults-only show).

Beat the heat in one of Lexington Avenue’s shady courtyards where Celtic, bluegrass, old-time and DJ sessions take place.

There’s more, of course. LAAFF tends to morph the way organic, homegrown things do. Most of it’s mapped out (check the festival Web site for more info), but the street performers, musicians, artists and attendees who show up have a way of adding their own personal, unique and perfectly wacky touches. X

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Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the case for The Swayback Sisters, which features singer/songwriters Nikki Talley, Laura Blackley and Lyndsay Wojcik.

All three of these ladies have viable careers on their own. They also all have very different styles. Talleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brand of indie rock is acoustic-instrument fueled â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sometimes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s driving, sometimes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mellow â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and serves as the perfect backdrop for her dusky, comfortable vocals. Blackleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bands over the years have run the gamut from folk-rock to country blues, but no matter the genre, Blackleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rich and swampy vocals color the music. Her songs are a blend of folklore, family-inspired tales and love songs. Wojcik has a breezy-pretty presence, a relaxed banter with her audience and a penchant for roots and soul-tinged sounds. One thing to be said about this trio: Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a diva in the bunch. Just solid performers who know how to shine individually and blend their styles â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and their voices â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for something utterly fresh.

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have to mean a break from form. Alt-country band The Hillbillyonaire$, who claim to have started as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;three piece autoharp and dulcimer orchestra that catered to playinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for the Ladies Auxillary,â&#x20AC;? puts its own unhinged and bass-heavy spin on chestnuts like the gospel tune â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t No Grave.â&#x20AC;?

Pilgrim shares little with the Hillbillyonaire$ beyond being a trio. Fronted by poet/musician Jaye Bartell, the slow-core band crafts atmospheric notes and haunting imagery.

Themes of birds, nature and loneliness are palpable in these quiet songs.

And then there are the traditionalists (though it could be argued that, amidst the alt-ness of LAAFF, orthodoxy is new heterodoxy). Celtic band Ceol Leinn, from Hickory, plays traditional Scottish and Irish music. In kilts. With highland bagpipes, penny whistles and a marching snare. And, perhaps every bit as exciting (and immemorial) as a double dose of bagpipes is classic rock. Think: The Kinksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;You Really Got Meâ&#x20AC;? and AC/DCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dirty Deeds.â&#x20AC;? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what Hendersonville-based BlackJack brings to the stage. The departure for these rock purists is that the entire group is middle school-aged.

Find out when these bands and many others play, check the LAAFF schedule on p. 48.

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What’s happening when at LAAFF All events take place Sunday, Sept. 6.

Greenlife Electric Stage (bottom of Lexington Avenue) • The Swayback Sisters (singer/songwriter trio with Nikki Talley, Laura Blackley and Lyndsay Wojcik), 11-11:45 a.m.

• Eymarel (keyboard & drum duo), 12:05-12:50 p.m.

• Roberto Hess (spoken word), 12:55-1:05 p.m.

• U-N-I-Verse (reggae), 1:10-1:55 p.m.

• Hunab Kru (break dance), 2-2:10 p.m.

• The Poles (rock) 2:15-3 p.m.

• Hunab Kru (break dance), 3:05-3:15 p.m.

• Dehlia Low (bluegrass), 3:20-4:25 p.m.

• Parade (begins at Bobo Gallery, ends at stage), 4:15 p.m.

• Zabumba! (Carnival rhythms), 4:25-4:40 p.m.

• Mad Tea Party (vintage rock), 4:45-5:50 p.m.

• Melmacpink/Asheville Hoops (hula-hooping), 5:55- 6:05 p.m.

• The Blue Rags (roots boogie), 6:15-7:15 p.m.

• Jen and the Juice (folk rock), 7:45-9 p.m.

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Meet the freaks

New calendar chronicles some of Asheville’s wild personalities

photo by michael traister

Here’s one for the annals: The first-ever Freaks of Asheville Calendar, set to debut at LAAFF. Photographer Michael Traister (Sock Monkey Dreams, Faces of Izzy’s), known for his stunning portraiture, turns his deft lens to some of our town’s “cultural creatives,” creating portraits of some local eclectic personalities.

“Each month will feature a classic portrait of a noted Asheville ‘freak’ and tell the story behind their uniqueness,” writes Erin Scholze of Arts2People. Included in the calendar are some key milestones in local counterculture history. Partners in the endeavor include LAAFF founder Kitty Love, Mountain Xpress managing editor Jon Elliston and Asheville Fringe Festival co-organizer Jim Julien.

The project is a fundraiser for Arts2People.

Here’s to all those with an abundance of creative energy, each month of the year. Details at www. freaksofasheville. com.

Pictured here: Sister Bad Habit, aka Jim Lauzon of LaZoom Tours. — R.S.

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Mountain Xpress Walnut Stage • Ceol Leinn (traditional Celtic), 11-11:50 a.m.

• Blackjack (kid rockers), 12:10-12:45 p.m.

• Asheville Dance Revolution (kids’ dance group), 1-1:30 p.m.

• Now You See Them (folk-pop), 1:40-2:15 p.m.

• Runaway Circus and Loose Caboose (comedy, music & sideshow act), 2:25-2:55 p.m.

• Galen Kipar Project (folk blues), 3:10- 3:50 p.m.

• Taylor Martin (singer/songwriter), 4:15-5 p.m.

• The Chx (female drummers), 5:15-5:50 p.m.

• Velvet Truck Stop (rock), 6-6:35 p.m.

• Brushfire Stankgrass (psychedelic bluegrass), 6:50-7:30 p.m.

• Baraka Mundi the Bandit Queens of Bellydance, 7:45-8:15 p.m.

• Modo (jazz rock), 8:25-9 p.m.

BoBo Stage • Dip-N-Flip (DJs) 11:10-11:45 a.m.

• Lulo (free jazz), noon-12:45 p.m.

• The E.Normus Trio (jazz), 1-1:45 p.m.

• Pierce Edens (gritty rock), 2-2:45 p.m.

• The Poetix Vanguard (spoken word), 3-3:45 p.m.

• Arundas (world) 4-4:45 p.m.

• The Secret B-Sides (soul) 5-5:45 p.m.

• Pilgrim (indie-folk) 6-6:45 p.m.

• Angi West (singer/songwriter), 7-7:45 p.m.

• Dip-N-Flip (DJs), 8-9 p.m.

LaZoom Tour Bus • LEAF in Schools and Streets: Youth at Jazz (kids show), 2-2:45 p.m.

• Ash Devine (singer/songwriter), 3-3:45 p.m.

• Hillbillyonaire$ (alt-country), 4-4:45 p.m.

• Oso Rey (acoustic folk), 6-6:45 p.m.

• La Feral Zoom: Rollin’ Barks of Laughter (adults only), 7-7:45 p.m.

• Unitard, hilarious one-woman show from Kelly Barrow (adults only), 8-8:45 p.m.

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Asheville’s boogie kings bring back their special brand of rag ‘n’ roll

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Three years since their last performance together and 10 years since the release of their much celebrated album, Eat at Joe’s, local legends The Blue Rags are reuniting this weekend to revive their trademark brand of “rag ‘n’ roll” with a pair of shows at the Grey Eagle and the LAAFF festival. “We want to let people remember that we’re still alive,” says pianist and singer Jake Hollifield with a laugh. Adding to that thought, multi-instrumentalist Scott Sharpe explains that “lately, some people have passed away that we know, good friends. It’s kind of important for us all to remember that we’re all in this together and we’re all still close friends.”

For those new to town, the Blue Rags were local sensations throughout the mid- to late‘90s, building a devoted fan base and gaining national attention for their energetic live shows and unique blend of blues and ragtime.

The original group — Hollifield, Sharpe, Abe Reid (vocals, harmonica) Woody Wood (guitar) Bill Reynolds (bass) and Mike Rhodes (drums) — drew the support of venerable indie label Sup Pop and toured the country acting as cultural and musical emissaries of Asheville. Their efforts arguably helped put the town on the national musical map.

“We kind of did a campaign just to say how good it was, and I’m sure we had an effect on a small but noticeable amount of people,”

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Blue Rags, it’s been too long: Abe Reid, Woody Wood, Mike Rhodes, Jake Hollifield, Scott Sharpe and Bill Reynolds last performed together three years ago. (Reynolds will be the only absentee, as he’s on tour with Band of Horses). photo by jonathan welch

says Hollifield. “It’s the best place in the whole Southeast.” The band made a big impression on a number of folks, including Old Crow Medicine Show, which played its first show in North Carolina at Hollifield’s invitation. Other well-known fans include rising stars The Avett Brothers, who joined the Blue Rags at their 2006 Orange Peel show and have often cited them as a major influence (The Rags played the Avett’s Festival Essex at Verizon Amphitheatre that same year).

Of course, the impact of the Blue Rags would have been greater if they hadn’t fallen apart just as they were reaching the height of their popularity. Strained by the personal and business tensions that come with constant touring and sudden success, the band carried on after Reid left, but eventually informally disbanded

in 2000.

Since then, members have lent their talents to a number of quality bands such as Donna the Buffalo, Custard Pie, Hollywood Red, Crackerjack, Bayou Diesel, Kellin Watson’s band, Abe Reid and the Spikedrivers and the Screaming Js. The only original member who won’t be at the upcoming reunion shows is Reynolds, who’s staying busy playing bass with indie phenoms Band of Horses (touring in Canada that weekend). Honorary Blue Rags Brent Sevier (Cisco Playboys) will play with the band on Saturday, and Jay Sanders (Donna the Buffalo, Acoustic Syndicate) on Sunday.

Offering a new look at what many of the players have been doing since the Blue Rags stopped touring, several of the member’s new projects will be opening the night at the Grey

What they’ve been up to: New projects from the Rags • Jake Hollifield brings his patented piano boogie to Mo Daddy’s each Wednesday, along with Jason Krekel (Mad Tea Party), Mike Gray and Henry Westmoreland of Firecracker Jazz Band, J.P. Hess and the revolving cast of special guests that make up the raucous Screaming Js. www. myspace.com/screamingjaysday • Abe Reid fronts the blues-rock outfit Abe Reid and the Spikedrivers, and can be heard on occasion singing and playing his heart (and harp) out at Mo Daddy’s (sometimes with the Screamin’ Js). He’s recently played a couple of Piedmont-area shows for the Musicmaker Foundation. www.abereid.com.

• Bill Reynolds (not playing this weekend) has been tearing up the bass with the indie sensations Band of Horses. Before that, he toured with Donna the Buffalo. www.bandofhorses.com • Mike Rhodes lends his crazymad drumming skills to the zydeco band Bayou Diesel, along with stints with Americana singer Eliza Lynn and the soulful Kellin Watson. www.myspace.com/bayoudiesel • Scott Sharpe’s band, Crackerjack, revives a hop-steppin’ rockabilly-type sound, playing vintage ‘50s music a la Gene Vincent and Link Wray. He can also be heard with the honky-tonk outfit the Good Ol’ Boyz, and playing steel guitar for a variety of bands. www.myspace.com/ashevegascrackajack • Woody Wood founded the rockin’ Hollywood Red (and writes a slew of stick-in-your-head songs for the band), hosts the open mic at Tolliver’s Crossing in West Asheville every Tuesday night, plays Page’s licks with Zeppelin-tribute band Custard Pie and entertains as a solo performer. www.woodywoodmusic.com

Then and now: Members of the Blue Rags in the late ‘90s. Signed to the Sub Pop label, the band toured relentlessly and helped put Asheville on the musical map. photo by daniel coston

Eagle. “Basically it’s like we’re showing the pieces of the puzzle and then we kind of build to it, and then we can get to the main thing,” says Sharpe.

He thinks their time playing in other bands has only made the collective better. “Now we’ve got a lot more stamina. ... Before we were just this wild energy, kind of unbridled, that just went on and on and on,” he says. “But now we know how to focus it a little bit more, and know when to lay back and rest a little bit while someone else is doing something, and then get right back into trying to get in there and trying to hit it with your full throttle. So maybe it’s a wiser stamina.”

They’re planning some surprises at the upcoming shows, although in true Blue Rags fashion, Hollifield says that much of what happens will likely be a surprise even for the band members themselves. “We’ve got a couple rehearsals set up, but we can’t do too much or it’ll wear the freshness out. It’s kind of like you’ve been holding back and you rehearse and you kind of blow your wad doing that,” he says. As for special

guests, he seems just a curious as anyone as to who might show up. “Usually they just kind of come and jump up there,” says Hollifield.

Both the Grey Eagle and LAAFF venues have special significance for the band. Back when it was still in Black Mountain, the Grey Eagle was the first room they ever played. Hollifield also considers the site of LAAFF on Lexington Avenue hallowed ground, recalling playing countless “no holds barred” shows in what were then empty stores. Plus, the LAAFF date falls on his birthday. “We’re just going to have a really good party, no matter what,” he says.

As for the future of the Blue Rags, there’s no plans for touring, although Sharpe and Hollifield both seem to be in agreement that the upcoming shows likely won’t be their last.

“Every time we play these gigs we’re really excited,” says Sharpe. Adds Hollifield, “We don’t have a business plan. But we’ll always play no matter what.” X

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Searching into smaller worlds Imagine you’ve been handed a dried plant unearthed years ago — desiccated, shrivelled and beginning to decay. Your task is to draw the flower as it might have appeared while it was alive and in full bloom. Such was the undertaking of Beatriz Mendoza two years ago when she worked as a scientific illustrator for the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

Using tweezers to take apart entire plants, she would examine them closely under a microscope and carefully render them — from pistil to petal, seeds to roots. The drawings would then be labelled at great length for botanists to classify and categorize. “This is how Western science deals with the natural world,” says Mendoza. “Everything has to be recorded and catalogued in order to be understood.“ Mendoza’s experience as scientific illustrator is evidenced in her latest exhibition of drawings entitled These fragments I have shored against my ruins (the title borrowed from T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland), currently on display in the new showroom at BoBo Gallery on Lexington Avenue. Rather than recording and labelling, Mendoza artfully succeeds in capturing the fortitude and mystique of her forms with the use of graphite, etchings and charcoal. She refers to her drawings as “portraits,” stating that each is of a very specific fragment and meant to be upheld as such. For Mendoza, the act of drawing is a more intimate way of exploring the world. “When I draw I see things in a different way than by just looking at it. Drawing is my way to search into smaller worlds.”

“Burn Brought Birth” depicts dried cornhusks rendered in charcoal, spiralling around each other. The forms appear almost birdlike.

In “Sicily,” a small root is meticulously drawn on paper stained with olive oil. The artist has captured every knob and dent of the structure.

Pistil to petal, seeds to roots: Beatriz Mendoza, of The Beehive Collective, shows her latest collection of botanical drawings.

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Her sinewy quality of line is achieved by the grace of her hand (and with the help of a pencil sharpener she keeps close by while working).

Most of the forms Mendoza draws are identifiable to some degree, with the exception of “In the Silent attic” where the artist has used her lexicon of textures to create an imaginary specimen. Preferring to draw from life rather than pictures, Mendoza collects her subjects out of leaf piles or from the side of the road, opting for trampled on and rotting forms such as leaves, bark, flowers, bones, grass and twine. “In this culture we are drawn to the young, the fresh,

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“I like the texture, the way it stains, and its simplicity,” she says. She has chosen to frame the drawings in white frames and shadow, boxes which serve to enhance the organic quality of the work. In some, delicate pins hold down tiny drawings in the same way a specimen might be pinned down and splayed open for dissection.

Years ago Mendoza worked primarily in oils, producing large colorful abstract paintings, but she found the medium to be too limitless. “It felt indulgent — just an exercise in aesthetics, color and form that felt empty to me.” She decided to go back to the basics of drawing and completely abandoned oil as a medium. Gradually color is being reintroduced to her drawings in the form of teeny color charts on the corners of some of her images. It’s an example of the explosive power of color when used minimally.

Mendoza moved to Asheville last March to produce work for The Beehive Collective, an artist collective that creates copyright-free graphics for educational purposes. Based out of Maine, the collective is currently working on a large-scale narrative graphic about mountaintop-removal coal mining in Appalachia. X For more info, visit www.beatrizmendoza.com, www.beehivecollective.org or www.bobogallery. com.

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Bring along Americana singer/songwriter Dave Desmelikâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new CD, Onlooker, on your next road trip. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got the right mix of shimmery, breezing-across-the-countryside sounds and a distinctly Southern feel to keep you truckinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; as far as you need to go. His voice is calming and steady. Stuck in Piedmont traffic? You may not even mind. Desmelik will play the CD-release show at Westville Pub on Saturday, Sept. 5.

Desmelik has been making fine rootsy-music with alt-country leanings for a while now: Onlooker is his sixth CD. For a taste, listen in to WNCW 88.7 Studio B on Thursday, Sept. 3, at 11 a.m. Check out www.davedesmelik.com for more on one of WNCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite players.

Jazz-fusion group Wayfarers All celebrates its new CD at the Boiler Room on Friday, Sept. 4.

Husband-and-wife team Lee and Tom Stanford boast mastery of the violin (Lee) and MiniMoog Voyager (Tom), among other instruments.

Anthony Dorion and Dug Karq round out the group with bass and percussion, and all bring a myriad of effects to the mix. The new self-titled CD shows off their complex skills. Plenty of dynamism to be had here, and Ashevilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not home to many jazz-fusion bands so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something of a rare show. Opening for Wayfarers All are their Chicken Alley neighbors, the surf-rock band Shark Knife.

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(Although who cares about music writers, really.)

Where would Love and Curses be most appropriate? Naked housecleaning. On the record player at the speakeasy at 2 a.m. Or any time youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re full of emotion and fury and wanna shake it all out.

And soon, my friends, the venerable, whitehot, barely fathomable Ahleuchatistas will unveil its new CD Of the Body Prone (release date Sept.

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Please contact your local record store for details about how you can own some terrific local music, or get in touch with the artists directly.

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Every time a flea market enthusiast has encouraged me to go to Pickens Flea Market they’ve always started with the caveat: “You have to get there early.”

Early birding is a good idea for any flea market, but it seems dogma de rigueur for this massive tribute to individualized entrepreneurialism, located on the western outskirt of the small city of Pickens in South Carolina.

I find this a difficult directive to follow.

In flea market terms, “early” means 6 a.m.

Pickens, by any route, is a very long hour and a half from Asheville (I recommend going highway 25 to S.C. 11 and then following the signs). This means leaving the house at 4:30 a.m. One reason I have followed the slippery slope to life as a junker is a degree of laziness directly opposed to 4:30 in the morning.

But the siren call of junk and my basic journalistic responsibilities to the Mountain Xpress dictated that I hit Pickens, so off I went one recent Wednesday morning, albeit at the blasphemously late hour of 7 a.m..

That’s right, Wednesday. Until recently Pickens was a Wednesday-only flea market, giving dealers from all over the south an extra place to come, which means Pickens sees a more diverse group of sellers than other fleas.

Pickens’ vast size is owed to the fact that it’s actually two flea markets that have grown together, like Raleigh-Durham, or Time/ Warner or something. The first is Pickens Flea Market (the “old” market, mainly locals), the second is the Bargain Exchange Flea Market (the adjacent “new” market, mostly out-oftowners). But mutual expansion and small connecting outcroppings have joined them, so you can walk from the end of the “old” to the other end of the “new” and never realize you made a transition.

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than firsties to get to Pickens before the rising sun, particularly in late July. Schlepping around in the heat led to my discovery of the slimming and self-improving “Pickens Workout,” which I now bring to you — at no additional charge! Combat fundamental laziness through a system combining endurance, cardiovascular stimulation, built-in rewards programs and heat therapy. As the program’s tag line reads, “Stay Fit and Get Sh*t!”

The Pickens Workout requires good walking shoes. No thin-soled city sneakers are going to work. The walking paths of the Bargain Exchange Flea Market in particular are mined with the harshest, most jagged gravel known to man. My one previous visit I’d worn my Chucks. Never again. I might as well have been walking barefoot on broken glass.

It also requires good sun block. Walking the Western N.C. flea markets is nothing like coming down off the mountains and ending up in South Carolina — the temperature went up 20 degrees, the humidity 20 percent. I was immediately coated in a moist heat bath and could feel that bloaty water weight melting right off. And if you want to try to buy a bottle of water when you’re in the back 40, forget it. There is one guy who controls water concessions for the whole market and he drives around in a golf cart and bullies anyone cutting in on his racket.

The Pickens Workout will test your endurance. Even when you stop moving and start

digging, you are assaulted by the varied and tenacious menagerie of insects for which South Carolina is famous, all trying to help you with their own malaria- and- Lyme-disease weightreduction programs. Plus the atmosphere is decidedly rural, and several distinct olfactory species of manure accompany you on your journey around the grounds.

However, at least on this particular Wednesday, I was rewarded with a wide variety of useful goods, for both personal consumption and sustained fiscal solvency.

I got scooped on some nice LPs (guy who found them told me, “You have to get here early”) but I found great 45s and a dazzlingly stylish briefcase stereo system from the late ‘60s that looks like something James Bond would have used to spy on the villain, contact Her Majesty’s Secret Service via shortwave, address a panicked public, and provide background music for seducing a female double agent.

But even rewards have their hurdles — lugging an armful of records and this slim but dense piece of antiquated technology all the way back to my vehicle was the sort of full body no-holds-barred workout that you’d have to pay for at The Rush, but get, with benefits and for no cover charge, in Pickens, S.C. Results of the Pickens Workout may vary.

Stopping at the concession stand negates all benefits. Consult your physician before getting up at 4:30 a.m. X

smartbets Shindig on the Green

It’s your last chance to catch this beloved summer event. Bring your banjoes, your buddies and your blankets to Martin Luther King Jr. Park Saturday evening, Sept. 5, along about sundown, as they say.

It’s the final evening of this Appalachian tradition, a celebration of bluegrass and old-time music, ballad singing, storytelling, mountain dancing and more. Learn more at www.folkheritage.org.

N.C. Apple Festival

The 63rd annual N.C. Apple Festival kicks off on Main Street in downtown Hendersonville on Friday, Sept. 4. Apples are the star, but expect lots of music, arts and crafts, activities for the kids, square dancing, comedy, magic shows, fiddlers and lots more. The festival lasts through the weekend, culminating in the Kin Apple Parade on Labor Day (Sept. 7) at 2 p.m.

Apples totally rule, so don’t miss the fest.

Info at www.ncapplefestival.org.

Beethoven’s Ninth in Color

Come hear and see a celebration of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 over two evenings, beginning on Wednesday, Sept. 9 (9/9/09). Artist Moni Hill organized the event to celebrate the piece, which she’s listened to and been influenced by her whole life. An art opening at 8 p.m. Wednesday starts the festive affair, featuring nine of Hill’s quirky-colorful paintings. At 9 p.m., Piano Four-Hands performs the Symphony’s fourth movement (featuring pianos and vocals). On Thursday, Sept. 10, at 5:30 p.m., music professor Evan Bonds will discuss the relevance of the Ninth today, followed by a 7:30 p.m. reception in the art gallery. The events are free and will take place at the Asheville School’s Crawford Arts Gallery and Graham Theater. www.monihill.com.

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Saint Solitude: Between a rock and a pop place

by Lydia See There is a delicate balance between solid rock and roll and pop music, and to find a comfortable halfway point, without sacrificing quality for accessibility is a music-industry feat. Dup Crosson, aka Saint Solitude, has done just that, carving his niche with well-crafted, high quality indie-pop songs while still preserving his rock ideals.

A talented multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Crosson writes and performs songs with varied layers looped live, deftly switching between keys and guitar. He uses his guitar as a percussive instrument at times, and then utilizes an electronic bow (e-bow) to make droning, harmonizing string sounds with a bit of reverb.

The use of keys in Crosson’s songs is sometimes an addition of depth; other times it’s primary melody for the song.

At a recent Rocket Club performance, Crosson shared the show with three other dynamically different bands: Darien (a 15-year-old singer/songwriter virtuoso), BaManBia (playing their last show as Asheville’s only Afro-Asian influenced group), and Lewis (a stellar rock band that did a spectacular cover of Jeff Buckley’s “Last Goodbye”). The crowd was very receptive to the varied spectrum of musical styles — fans of one band rocked out to the groups.

This show marked Crosson’s first live performance with a full band before going on tour for three months solo, and he split his set between solo and accompanied material. The set opener, “Soft Contact,” a slight step away from his usual shoegazey style, represented more of a upbeatrock ‘60s sound. The next song, “And After,” (ordinarily low-fi) had a fuller, more explosive feel with the addition of Donnie Pratt on bass and Ian Cunningham on drums.

During the solo portion of the show, Darien contributed backing vocals for the extremely catchy “Lets Try It” (which she also sings on the version for Crosson’s forthcoming record, Journal of Retreat).

With it’s catchy singalong chorus, “So if you think we’ll get away with it/ all we’ve got to do is pray for it,” it’s hard to get it out of your head.

A highlight of the set was “So Much for the Secret,” with its droning e-bowed guitar, breakbeat percussion line created by key and guitar loops, and haunting low-toned guitar over everything. A increasingly energetic and streamlined finish represents Crosson’s ability to manufacture mature pop songs right at the edge of milking

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their catchiness, while retaining maturity in his lyrics: “The right pocket to discover and recover islands from the blue/in a cottage in the country, you learn something from your solitude/ but I hate it when I need it, so I keep a secret/ and I could never claim pure providence, this confidence.”

Saint Solitude’s recently completed record, Retreat, was crafted almost exclusively by Crosson this past January through April (with some production assistance from Andrew Schatzberg of Landslide Studios and a few musical guests). Journal is an accurate representation of Saint Solitude live: Quality, intimacy and well-arranged hooks abound. Saint Solitude will be on a solo tour across the U.S .until early October, after which a return to Asheville and an official record release by Alive and Well Records is in the works.

For more information, visit www.saintsolitude.com. X Lydia See is a freelance music writer and photographer. Contact her through http://lydiasee. wordpress.com.

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where to find the clubs • what is playing • listings for venues throughout Western North Carolina Eliza Rosbach (indie, folk) & Siren Songs

C lubland rules

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•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 Aiyanna Sezak-Blatt 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.

Blue Ridge Pride Fundraiser feat: The Boys of Summer & DJ L.T.P. & DJ Soul JA Bryd Bosco’s Sports Zone

Shag music w/ DJ ‘80s Night

SaT. 9/12

Mike’s Tavern

Funk jam featuring local artists

Severed Martyr w/ The Ivory Method & Quatre Tete (metal)

Traveling Trio (blues)

Wedge Brewing Co.

Bosco’s Sports Zone

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Kontici (exotic lounge)

Open jam w/ Mirage

Screaming Jays

Westville Pub

Courtyard Gallery

Eleven on Grove

Never Blue

Jammin’ with Funky Max

Open mic w/ Jarrett Leone

Thu., September 3

Curras Dom

Club 828

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Eleanor Underhill (singer/songwriter) Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Zydeco dance

No Tears Today (indie)

Emerald Lounge

Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

Reggae Resurrection

DJ Marley Carroll

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Razcal’s

Celtic & eclectic jam Frankie Bones

Chris Rhodes (singer/songwriter)

The Stereofidelics w/

Wilsin & Banana Da Terra 9pm

The Blue Rags

Original Line-Up & More! 9pm

Vic Chestnutt w/ tiny mtns & Pilgrim 9pm Dikki Du & The Zydeco Krewe 9pm Asheville FM Launch Party & Fundraiser Floating Action Kids Show! Farmer

Blues

Boiler Room

& more! 9pm Sun. 9/13

BoBo Gallery

Waynesville Water’n Hole

Will Hoge w/ Erick Baker 9pm

Fri. 9/11

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and

Marc Keller (variety)

Thur.

9/3

Thur.

9/10

Pick~N~Jam

Old Time Jam, 6pm

Royal Bangs w/ Memes 9pm

Fri. 9/5

Open Mic w/ David Bryan

Center

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Wed. 9/2

Fri. 9/4

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Blue Ridge Performing Arts

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Curras Dom

BoBo Gallery

Town Pump

Johnny Blackwell (folk-rock, bluegrass)

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Hip-hop open mic w/ Mak Brown

Open mic

Open Mic w/ Sven Hooson

Royal Bangs (neo-soul, tropical) w/ Memes

Blu Lounge

Hump day dance party w/ The Free Flow Band

Club 828

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

The Hookah Bar

Live music

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Open mic

Open mic

Latin dance

CD Fundraiser Party feat: Ash Devine (acoustic, singer/songwriter), Quetzal (cello & mandolin), Juan Holladay & Utah Green

Cancun Mexican Grill

Back Room

Scandals Nightclub

Mixed Bag Open Jam hosted by Michael Tao

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

Broadway’s

Wed., September 2

Garage at Biltmore

Jason 1:30pm

Groundation 9pm

Bluegrass jam night (band 8-10pm, open jam 10pm) Red Stag Grill

Anne Coombs (jazz, swing)

Live music w/ DJ Drea Back Room

Charles Wood and the Lonesome Road Band (bluegrass) Beacon Pub

No Cover

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733 Haywood Rd. • West Asheville (on the corner of Brevard & Haywood Rd.)

828-505-2129

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Mark Guest (jazz guitar) Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am Emerald Lounge

Crystal Kind (cosmic reggae) w/ Da Stateside Lion

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SHAntAvAAni World Music from Raga to Reggae All Ages - Food available BAr Opens 6 pm

~ sATurDAY 9/05 ~

CHUCK BRoDSKY’S AMAZinG SonGS - 8PM - $10 All Ages - Snacks available BAr Opens 6 pm

~ TuesDAY 9/08 ~

6:30 - iRiSH Sessions 8:30 - oPEn MiC with Parker Brooks (Sign up by 8) no Cover - All Ages - Chefs on the Go food available BAr Opens 6 pm

~ WeDnesDAY 9/09 ~

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FULL Moon FARM BEnEFit for Wolf Dogs Cheri Cagle (twinkle) sings! 6 - 9 PM - $20 All Ages - Food available - to reserve call 669-0706

828-669-0816

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Firestorm Cafe and Books

Poetry Slam Five Fifty Three

Steve Wolrab & guests (jazz, guitar) Frankie Bones

Chris Rhodes (singer/songwriter)

thurSday, SepteMber 3

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Bote

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Infusions Lounge

Live music

Irish Jam Band MOndayS!

$1.50 Beer

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8:30 pm w/ David Bryan Open SundayS nOOn- Midnight MOn. - wed. 3pM - Midnight thurS. - Sat. 3pM - 2aM

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Chaser’s Nitelife

DJ Diva & The Lee Whitaker Band Club Hairspray

Freaky Friday w/ Brandi & Shorty Curras Dom

Greg Olson & Richard Graham (world, folk) Decades Restaurant & Bar

Dancing w/ Darin Kohler & the Asheville Katz Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Michael Burgin and The Drinker’s Union w/ Loud Crowd & Oculi Temptations Martini Bar

Southern Silk Duo (jazz, blues), 7:30-10:30pm The Hookah Bar

Makia Groove (funk, reggae) Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Live music w/ singer-songwriters Town Pump

Corduroy Road Vincenzo’s Bistro

Lobster Trap

Eleven on Grove

White Horse

Hank Bones

Bobby Sullivan (piano) Shantavaani (World music)

Mela

Salsa & Mambo Dancing, 10pm-2am Dance Lessons, 10:30pm

Belly dancing

Emerald Lounge

Mike’s Tavern

Noise in Print (punk, indie) w/ Where the Buffalo Roamed & Pushy Lips

Gangafoot (Chalwa crew & friends) w/ Spontaneous Earth, Brother Justin (dub) & Moogerphonics Dub

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Feed and Seed

The Rockwoods (rock)

Ben Bjorlie (funk, jazz)

Appalachia Song

Beacon Pub

Never Blue

Sat., September 5 Club 828

“Back To Cool” w/ DJ A.D.Dict Back Room

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Mud Cutt

Singer/songwriter showcase

Stacie Boschma & Jimmi Pancakes

Blu Lounge

New French Bar Courtyard Cafe

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Music w/ Lady DJ Christian M.

Cliff and Zanti w/ DJ Nite

Lyndsay Wojcik (folk, soul)

Blue Ridge Dining Room & Wine Bar

Pisgah Brewing Company

Garage at Biltmore

Chris Rhodes (r&b, blues, pop), 5:30-10pm

Queen Anne’s Revenge (rock) Purple Onion Cafe

Caroline Aiken (folk, rock) Razcal’s

Mark Keller (singer/songwriter) Red Stag Grill

Robert Thomas (jazz standards, blues) Rocket Club

The Falconeers (experimental, electronica) Scandals Nightclub

DJ Drees & DJ Queen April (rock, pop) Soul Infusion Tea House and Bistro

Singer-songwriter showcase Town Pump

Chris O’Neil Vincenzo’s Bistro

Live music w/ Aaron Laflace (singer/songwriter) Watershed Westville Pub

THIS AREA´S ONLY SPINNING POLE

Live music

Fire & Desire (pop, contemporary)

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

DJ night

indie roCk W/ sultry voCals

Carolina Revenge

Bluegrass Jam, 9:30pm

Jack Of The Wood Pub

SundayS!

Shovelhead Saloon

Stella Blue

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

Saturday, SepteMber 5

Boiler Room

Robert Thomas (jazz standards, blues)

Bosco’s Sports Zone

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bluegrass, Americana & more

Dip & Flip (DJ Consortium)

Red Stag Grill

Garage at Biltmore

Will Hoge (rock) w/ Erick Baker

Corduroy road

BoBo Gallery

DJ Dday

Steak & Wine

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Friday, SepteMber 4

Chris Rhodes (r&b, blues, pop), 5:30-10pm

Matt Walsh (rockabilly) Shift

Singer/Songwriter

Blue Ridge Dining Room & Wine Bar

Red Room at Temptations

Wayfarers All CD release party (indie, fusion) w/ Groove Stain & Shark Knife

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

ChriS o’neill

Acoustic Swing

Matt Walsh (old-school Chicago blues) Zuma Coffee

Thursday night bluegrass jam

Steep Winding Road CD release party w/ The Neverhads

BoBo Gallery

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Boiler Room

WiLSiN (soul-punk, funk) w/ The Stereofidelics & Banana Da Terra

Burnstitch w/ Beard and Bats, Your Chance to Die & Telic (metal)

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bosco’s Sports Zone

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

Live music

Hangar

DJ Diva & The Lee Whitaker Band

The Sharkadelics (classic rock, metal)

Curras Dom

Holland’s Grille

Mark Guest & friends (jazz-guitar ensemble)

David Cody

Decades Restaurant & Bar

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

42nd Street Jazz Band

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Baltimore Annex Theatre presents BEOWULF

Chaser’s Nitelife

Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues (blues)

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

Jerusalem Garden

Eleven on Grove

Belly dancing w/ live music Mike’s Tavern

Swing dance w/ live music by Spats Mahoney & His Spit Shine Boys

Grammer School (experimental, indie)

Emerald Lounge

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Jeff Markham & The Last Call

Dashvara (funk, fusion) w/ Pseudblue & the Majestics

O’Malley’s On Main

Feed and Seed

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Summertime Whisky Band

Fiddlin’ Faye

Fri., September 4

Picnics

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Back Room

Brian Steele (guitar jazz)

Sweetwater Revolver (ambient, indie)

Pond Water Experiment (bluegrass, funk, blues)

Pisgah Brewing Company

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Blu Lounge

Brushfire Stankgrass

Bob Burnette (folk, singer/songwriter)

Dance mix w/ local DJ’s

Purple Onion Cafe

Garage at Biltmore

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Fred Whisken (jazz pianist)

The Truth Tour Gottrocks

clubdirectory Complete clubland directory: www.mountainx.com/clubland. Questions or errors? E-mail (clubland@mountainx.com).

Asheville Civic Center & Thomas Wolfe Auditorium 251-5505 The Back Room (OSO) 697-6828 Barley’s Tap Room (SH) 255-0504 Beacon Pub 686-5943 Blue Mountain Pizza (OSO) 658-8777 Blue Lounge 650-5198 Blue Ridge Performing Arts Center 693-0087 BoBo Gallery (OSO) 254-3426 Bosco’s Sports Zone 684-2646 Broadway’s (SA) 285-0400 Cancun Mexican Grill 505-3951 Chaser’s (SA) 684-3780 Club 828 252-2001 Club Hairspray (SA) 258-2027 College St. Pub (SA) 232-0809 Courtyard Gallery 273-3332 Curras Dom 253-2111

Decades Restaurant & Bar 254-0555 Diana Wortham Theater 257-4530 Dock’s Restaurant 883-4447 Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar 252-2711 Eleven on Grove 505-1612 Emerald Lounge (OSO) 232- 4372 The Encouraging Cup 329-8210 Feed & Seed + Jamas Acoustic 216-3492 Firestorm Cafe (OSO) 255-8115 Five Fifty Three 631-3810 Frankie Bones 274-7111 Fred’s Speakeasy (SA) 281-0920 French Broad Brewery Tasting Room 277-0222 The Garage 505-2663 Gottrocks 235-5519 Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern (OSO) 232-5800 Grove House Eleven on Grove 505-1612

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The Grove Park Inn 252-2711 Guadalupe Cafe 586-9877 The Handlebar (864)233-6173 The Hangar (SA) 684-1213 Havana Restaurant 252-1611 Holland’s Grille 298-8780 The Hookah Bar 252-1522 Infusions 665-2161 Iron Horse Station 622-0022 The Lobster Trap 350-0505 Mack Kell’s Pub & Grill 253-8805 Magnolia’s Raw Bar (ISS) 251-5211 Mela 225-8880 Mike’s Tavern 281-3096 Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill (SH) 258-1550 New French Bar Courtyard Cafe 225-6445 Never Blue 693-4646 O’Malley’s On Main 246--0898

The Orange Peel (OSO) 225-5851 Picnics 258-2858 Panther’s Paw 696-0810 Pisgah Brewing Co. 669-0190 Purple Onion Cafe 749-1179 Rankin Vault 254-4993 Razcal’s 277-7117 Red Stag Grill at the Grand Bohemian Hotel 505-2949 Rocket Club 505-2494 Root Bar No.1 299-7597 Ruby’s BBQ Shack (ISS) 299-3511 Sadie’s Seafood 505-3364 Scandals Nightclub 252-2838 Shovelhead Saloon (SA) 669-9541 Soul Infusion Tea House & Bistro (OSO) 586-1717 Steak & Wine 505-3362 Stella Blue 236-2424

The Still 683-5913 Switzerland Cafe 765-5289 The Red Room at Temptations (SA) 252-0775 Temptations Martini Bar (SA) 252-0775 Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub 505-2129 Town Pump (SA) 669-4808 Tressa’s Downtown Jazz & Blues (SA) 254-7072 Vaso de Vino Wine Bar & Market 687-3838 Vincenzo’s Bistro 254-4698 The Watershed 669-0777 Waynesville Water’n Hole 456-4750 Wedge Brewery 505 2792 Westville Pub (OSO) 225-9782 White Horse 669-0816 Wild Wing Cafe (SA) 253-3066 Xcapades 258-9652

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OSO: outdoor/patio smoking only • SH: smoking hours, call clubs for specfics • ISS: indoor smoking section • SA: smoking allowed Lecherous Nocturne w/ Gigan & Insidious Demise

Stereofidelics (alternative, rock)

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

DJ Spy-V

The Blue Rags (Southern rock) w/ Screaming Js, Crackerjack, Woody Wood & Abe Reid

Red Stag Grill

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Scandals Nightclub

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm Hangar

Live music Havana Restaurant

Ahora Si (salsa, jazz, tropical) Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Infusions Lounge

Live music Jack Of The Wood Pub

One Leg Up (Gypsy jazz) Jerusalem Garden

Belly dancing w/ live music Mike’s Tavern

Loose Skrews w/ King Size Killers & Restrict This Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Red Room at Temptations

Robert Thomas (jazz standards, blues) Dance party w/ DJ Stratos & drag show Shovelhead Saloon

The Two Guitars of Yasmin & Lou, 10am12:30pm Bob Zullo (guitar), 630-10:30pm Jack Of The Wood Pub

Steak & Wine

Lobster Trap

DK and the Aristakatz (jazz, pop) Stella Blue

Project Loungecore Temptations Martini Bar

Southern Silk Duo (jazz, blues), 7:30-10:30pm Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Wilsin (singer/songwriter) Town Pump

BOTE (Irish Jam) Vincenzo’s Bistro

Live music w/ Marc Keller (variety) Westville Pub

O’Malley’s On Main

White Horse

Ozric Tentacles (psychedelic) w/ The Discordian Society

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Irish session, 5pm Tom Waits time, late

Dave Desmelik Trio CD release party (Americana)

Orange Peel

Lex Fest Afterparty feat: The Asheville Horns, Josh Blake & the Big Money Band

Eric Sommer

Zealotts (alternative, rock) Empty Slate (Southern rock)

Emerald Lounge

Chuck Brodsky (Americana, acoustic, folk)

Sun., September 6 Barley’s Taproom

Picnics

Skylark (jazz)

Jason Ross Martin (singer/songwriter)

Bosco’s Sports Zone

Purple Onion Cafe

Shag music w/ DJ

Chris Rhodes Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

“Vinyl at the Vault” w/ Chris Ballard Rocket Club

Sunday jazz jam Scandals Nightclub

Dance party w/ DJ Stratos & drag show The Hookah Bar

Belly dance showcase w/ live bands Town Pump

Pickin’ at the Pump, open acoustic jam Vincenzo’s Bistro

Johnny Blackwell (variety, covers) Wedge Brewing Co.

Vollie & the Leadfoot Vipers (swing)

Mon., September 7 Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Contra dance Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bob Zullo (guitar), 630-10:30pm Guadalupe Cafe

EvEry Monday

Wacky Wing Night - 25¢ Wings & $2 Draft

WEdnEsday

Sound Extreme Karaoke 8pm Wacky Wing Night - 25¢ Wings & $2 Draft

Thursday

Live Music | $4 Kamakazees | $2.75 Import Bottles

FrIday

Sound Extreme Karaoke 8pm $5 Long Island Teas | $3.50 23oz Domestic Draught

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Chad Hallyburton (jazz guitar), 7-9pm

Emerald Lounge

Ashevegas All-Stars presents Tuesday Night Funk Jam

Hangar

Open mic night

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Mike’s Tavern

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Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

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The Oxymorons (improv comedy)

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Live music w/ Robert Greer Westville Pub

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Bluegrass & clogging

Asheville Jazz Orchestra (swing, jazz)

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Town Pump

Lobster Trap

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The Smart Brothers

Jeoffrey Weeks (piano)

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Vincenzo’s Bistro

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Marc Keller & Company (variety)

Acoustic Jambalaya

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Westville Pub

New French Bar Courtyard Cafe

Boiler Room

Open mic w/ Scott Stewart 7:30pm Apres OM, 11pm

Tomato Tuesday comedy open mic

Vortex Cabaret (variety)

O’Malley’s On Main

Bosco’s Sports Zone

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Bobby Sullivan & Kevin Bullock

Shag music w/ DJ

Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

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Razcal’s

Cancun Mexican Grill

Jazz night w/ Mike Mancuso & friends

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Temptations Martini Bar

Curras Dom

Open mic w/ Pierce Edens

Eleanor Underhill (singer/songwriter)

The Hookah Bar

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Selector Cleofus Williams & friends

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

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Jeff Michels (singer/songwriter) Barley’s Taproom

Wise Apple (bluegrass) Beacon Pub

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Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Buddy David Band Eleven on Grove

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by Cary Fridley & Down South (country, swing)

Chuck Lichtenberger presents “An Evening of Jazz” with special guests

Emerald Lounge

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Marc Keller & Company (variety)

Celtic & eclectic jam

Watershed

Frankie Bones

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Anne Coombs (jazz, swing) Scandals Nightclub

Latin dance The Hookah Bar

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Open Mic w/ David Bryan Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

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Marc Keller (variety) Waynesville Water’n Hole

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Kontici (exotic lounge) Westville Pub

Jammin’ with Funky Max White Horse

Full Moon Farm Benefit feat: Cheri Cagle (vocalist)

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Bluegrass Jam, 9:30pm Lobster Trap

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Hank Bones

Eleven on Grove

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Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Feed and Seed

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Paul’s Creek Band

Never Blue

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Singer/songwriter showcase

Ben Riva (rock ‘n’ roll)

New French Bar Courtyard Cafe

Garage at Biltmore

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Sick As Us

Pisgah Brewing Company

Gottrocks

Thunderdrums (electronica)

The Lee Boys

Purple Onion Cafe

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Aaron Burdett (acoustic, folk)

Dikki Du and the Zydeco Krewe (funk)

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Woody Wood & Rhett McGahee (acoustic Zeplin show) Beacon Pub

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Johnny Blackwell (folk-rock, bluegrass) Blue Ridge Performing Arts Center

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Mark Keller (singer/songwriter) Robert Thomas (jazz standards, blues) Scandals Nightclub

DJ Xist & DJ Emory (electronic) Soul Infusion Tea House and Bistro

Singer-songwriter showcase Town Pump

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Hudson K (indie, folk) White Horse

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Patrick Fitzsimons (ragtime, blues)

Earthtone Boiler Room

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Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Bosco’s Sports Zone

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Chaser’s Nitelife

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

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Laurel Ridge Bluegrass Band

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Decades Restaurant & Bar

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Mark Guest (jazz guitar)

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

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Hey Sugar (bluegrass, classic rock)

Razcal’s

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Holland’s Grille

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The Sharkadelics (classic rock, metal)

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Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

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Purple Onion Cafe

Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Benefit feat: The Firecracker Jazz Band

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Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

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Temptations Martini Bar

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Live music w/ singer-songwriters Town Pump

The Piedmont Boys Vaso de Vino Wine Bar & Market

Amy Burritt (singer/songwriter) Vincenzo’s Bistro

Bobby Sullivan (piano) White Horse

WSNB (“nasty blues”)

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Conciously Sedated (rock ‘n’ roll)

Amy Burritt (singer/songwriter)

Beacon Pub

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Peggy Rutusz & Daddy Long Legs (jazz)

Nikki Talley (indie/rock)

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Garage at Biltmore

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The Neverhads

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Gottrocks

Chris Rhodes (r&b, blues, pop), 5:30-10pm

Ten Toes Up

BoBo Gallery

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Drinker’s Union (rock) w/ Nights Bright Colors

Asheville FM Launch party & fundraiser feat: The Space Heaters (jazz), Floating Action, A Burning Bush & more

Boiler Room

Suharim w/ Shotgun Opera, As Sick As Us & 100 Yorktown (heavy metal)

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

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Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

Chaser’s Nitelife

Hangar

Bosco’s Sports Zone

DJ Diva & The Lee Whitaker Band

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Curras Dom

Havana Restaurant

Mark Guest & friends (jazz-guitar ensemble)

Ahora Si (salsa, jazz, tropical)

Decades Restaurant & Bar

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

42nd Street Jazz Band

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Infusions Lounge

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

Jack Of The Wood Pub

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Eleven on Grove

Drone Valley Festival feat: The Ringing Cedars, Melissa May and The Thunderchickens & Gray Young

Jerusalem Garden

Feed and Seed

West Bryan (blues)

Southwind Quartet

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Soul Finger (soul, funk)

Ten Cent Poetry w/ Chelsea Lynn La Bate & Tommy Hunt (classical folk)

O’Malley’s On Main

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Volatile Baby (country, folk) Red Room at Temptations

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Robert Thomas (jazz standards, blues) Rocket Club

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Not This Cowboy w/ Shake Azalia (hardcore, progressive) Temptations Martini Bar

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Crystal Kind (cosmic reggae) Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

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Bruno (R) 10:00 Up (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 Please call the info line for updated showtimes.

In the LoopJJJJJ

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Director: Armando Iannucci Players: Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, Chris Addison, James Gandolfini, Mimi Kennedy

Viciously Black Satire Rated NR

The Story: An insider’s look at politics — and how to create a war by careful bargaining and selective cheating.

The Lowdown: A blistering, funny political satire — perhaps the year’s funniest film to date. But be warned: It goes where other political satires fear to tread.

Although its quasi-documentary look makes Armando Iannucci’s In the Loop stylistically dissimilar, thematically it resembles nothing so much as a blend of the Coen Brothers’ Burn After Reading (2008) and Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana (2006). It boasts something of the political humor of the former (albeit in a much less benign way) and the pitch-black “we’re all basically screwed” attitude of the latter. This is not a nice movie. It cuts directly into the bone of the corruption of politics on every conceivable level. Oh, it’s very funny — there mayn’t have been a funnier screenplay this year — but the laughs are bitter ones, born of the realization that there’s nothing else you can do but laugh at the grotesque mockery of it all.

The film has received almost universal acclaim from critics (it boasts a 94 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes), and more surprisingly has played to receptive audiences who seem in tune with its dark humor. On my first viewing, it took me about 20 minutes to get into the film, since it is unclear at the beginning where the film is going. At first it seemed like a great deal of swearing — especially from Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker, a behind-the-scenes man in British politics, who seems determined to confirm the suspicion that there’s a stiff fine for any Scotsman who crafts a sentence without some variation of “f*ck” in it — to no discernible point. But the further I got into the movie, the clearer its point became — and the grimmer and funnier the film came to be.

It all starts with a magnificently ineffectual cabinet member, Simon Foster (Tom Hollander, Valkyrie), who has a spectacular knack for saying the wrong thing in public — in this case his claim that “war is unforeseeable,” which is not in keeping with Tucker’s party line. It is, however, useful to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Karen Clarke (TV actress Mimi Kennedy), who thinks his bumbling nattering makes him an ally in her opposition to an impending war. The problem

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Peter Capaldi puts Chris Addison in his place in Armando Iannucci’s biting political satire In the Loop — one of the funniest films to come along all year. is that Foster really has no clue about much of anything (though he’s very concerned that his assistant has control of the blinds in his glass office) and will soon say something else that makes him appear to be pro-war.

The complex, multilayered and many-charactered story line is all about the convoluted political jockeying and power games that go on behind the scenes. The movie exists in a world where reports are doctored to reflect not what was said but “what was intended to have been said.” It’s a world where secret committees to start a war are formed and hidden under deceptively boring names, and one where one of the biggest players, Linton Barwick (David Rasche, Burn After Reading), cavalierly dismisses information that undermines his personal agenda by saying, “We don’t need any more facts. In the land of truth, my friend, the man with one fact is king.” The film goes to some lengths to prove that in the game of politics, he’s absolutely right.

There’s scarcely a false note in the entire film as it winds its way through the machinations, blackmailings, diversions and distractions that lead to pushing a war through — a war that, according to General George Miller (James Gandolfini), is unwinnable. He puts the casualties of soldiers at the level of the soldiers available, and as he puts it, “At the end of a war you need some soldiers left, really, or else it looks like you’ve lost.” But reality doesn’t matter in In the Loop and loyalty simply doesn’t exist. It’s all politics as usual, meaning — among other things — that there are no friends and no enemies, just a series of uneasy alliances that serve the interest of the moment.

The dialogue crackles with wit and cleverly turned phrases — along with every swear word

known to humanity. The performances are all up to the dialogue. There aren’t any clunkers here, but Peter Capaldi’s splendidly ghastly political mastermind outshines them all. It’s not the kind of blistering performance that wins awards, but it really ought to. Listen to it all carefully — and be sure to stay through the credits with their off-to-the-side vignettes, including a great joke about (believe it or not) I Heart Huckabees. Not rated, but contains almost nonstop language, adult themes and sexual content.

— reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Fine Arts Theatre.

The Final Destination JJJJ

Director: David R. Ellis (Snakes on a Plane) Players: Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Nick Zano, Haley Webb, Mykelti Williamson

Creative-Death Horror Rated R

The Story: A group of people are saved from a deadly accident by the premonition of a young man, only to find Death coming to finish off those who escaped.

The Lowdown: Cheesy, schlocky, gory horror that manages to be fun by reveling in the fact that it is cheesy, schlocky, gory horror.

There is a scene early on in David R. Ellis’ The Final Destination where a neo-Nazi — who is drunkenly attempting to set a cross ablaze in the front yard of a black security guard — is set on fire. He is consequently dragged down the street by his own runaway tow truck, while the sounds of WAR’s “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” blares from the truck’s stereo.

District 9 (R) 1:45, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 Extract (R) 1:05, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 10:00 The Final Destination 3-D (R) 1:45, 4:15, 7:05, 9:35 The Final Destination 2-D (R) 2:15, 4:45, 8:00 Gamer (R) 12:50, 3:05, 7:30, 9:50 G-Force (3-D) (PG) 12:20, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2-D) (PG) 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:10, 9:30 Inglourious Basterds (R) 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:15 A Perfect Getaway (R) 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:35 Thomas and Friends: Heroes of the Rails (G) Sat-Sun only 1:00 The Ugly Truth (R) 1:00 (no 1:00 show Sat-Sun), 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 n Carolina Asheville Cinema 14 (274-9500)

(500) Days of Summer (PG-13) 12:50, 3:00, 5:20, 7:35, 9:45 All About Steve (PG-13) 11:45, 2:10, 4:30, 7:50, 10:05 District 9 (R) 12:10, 3:20, 7:25, 10:00 Extract (R) 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 The Final Destination 3-D (R) 11:50, 1:55, 4:10, 7:20, 9:30 Food, Inc. (PG) 12:30. 7:05 Gamer (R) 12:00, 2:15, 4:35, 7:55, 10:15 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (PG-13) 3:15, 9:50 Halloween II (R) 12:45, 3:10, 5:25, 7:45, 10:20 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (PG) 12:25, 3:50 The Hurt Locker (R) 11:55, 3:05, 7:20, 10:25 Inglourious Basterds (R) 12:05, 3:30, 7:00, 10:10 Julie and Julia (PG-13) 12:55, 3:45, 7:25, 10:15

The Stoning of Soraya M. (R) 12:15, 2:0, 4:50, 7:10, 9:35 Taking Woodstock (R) 7:15, 9:55 The Time Traveler’s Wife (PG-13) 12:35, 4:00, 7:40, 10:10 n Cinebarre (665-7776)

The Final Destination (2-D) (R) 11:45, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Gamer (R) 11:00, 2:05, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Halloween II (R) 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:40, 10:10 Inglourious Basterds (R) 11:30, 3:00, 7:15, 10:30 Julie and Julia (PG-13) 10:45, 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:35 n Co-ed Cinema Brevard (883-2200)

(500) Days of Summer (PG-13) 4:00, Late show Fri-Sat only 9:30 Julie & Julia (PG-13) 1:30, 7:00 n Epic of Hendersonville (693-1146) n Fine Arts Theatre

(232-1536)

Adam (PG-13) 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, Late show FriSat only 9:30 In the Loop (NR) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, Late show FriSat only 9:15 n Flatrock Cinema

(697-2463)

Julie & Julia (PG-13) 1:00 (Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon), 4:00, 7:00 n Regal Biltmore Grande Stadium 15 (684-1298) n United Artists

Beaucatcher (298-1234) All About Steve (PG-13) 1:30, 4:45, 7:40, 10:10 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (PG-13) 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Halloween II (R) 1:20, 4:00, 7:50, 10:15 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (PG) 1:15, 8:00 Julie and Julia (PG-13) 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Shorts (PG) 4:40 Taking Woodstock (R) 1:00, 4:15, 7:20, 10:05 The Time Traveler’s Wife (PG-13) 1:50, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00

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THE STONING OF SORAYA M.

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Hugh Dancy — a likable leading man who never gets the credit he should — finally lands a meatier role in this decidedly offbeat romantic comedy about the awkward relationship between a young man with Asperger’s syndrome and his upstairs neighbor (Rose Byrne, Sunshine). It’s the first directorial feature for writer/director Max Mayer, so there’s nothing to really go by there, meaning there’s a chance for a real surprise. Friday will tell. (PG-13) Early review samples: • “Playing a character who is mentally disabled can be a fast track to Oscar or to oblivion, and rare is the actor who can resist the statuette-winning Hanks-Hoffman strategy of mannered tics and mechanical talk. And when you consider that not even Sean Penn could pull it off without making our eyeballs cringe, the performance of Hugh Dancy in the charming romantic comedy Adam is all the more impressive.” (Jeanette Catsoulis, New York Times) • “Adam doesn’t go for the cheap, easy solution. In that way, the film shares something of the spirit (and realism?) of (500) Days of Summer: an acknowledgment that not every close encounter, no matter how meaningful, can last forever.” (Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer)

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In The Final Destination, we get Nick O’Bannon (TV actor Bobby Campo), your run-of-the-mill hunky twentysomething, who — through the aforementioned fit of precognition — sees disaster mere seconds away at the stock-car race he’s attending. He, his friends and a mix-matched group of survivors (thankfully, only enough to fill 90 minutes worth of carnage) manage to escape their fates. Where the film goes from here is no surprise. There’s some semblance of a plot, which involves Nick and his girlfriend (Shantel VanSanten) trying to save whoever is next on the list (Death is a stickler for formalities, you see).

But plot, characterization or production design that looks better than an afternoon special gone awry isn’t what is important to The Final Destination. No, what is important is exploding movie theaters, falling bathtubs and decapitation by Goodyear tires. While all this might sound morally repugnant or tasteless, it manages not to be — assuming one has the stomach for all this hokey gore — simply because the movie has a sense of humor about itself. It’s closer to Wile E. Coyote than it is to Eli Roth in its depictions of blood-splattered death, and becomes something more approximating deadpan splatstick. I’m not making an argument that The Final Destination is good filmmaking or all that terribly original. But it is entertaining. Rated R for strong violent/gruesome accidents, language and a scene of sexuality.

— reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carmike Cinema 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Cinebarre, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande Stadium 15.

There are at least three troubling things about the new Sandra Bullock picture, All About Steve. It hasn’t been shown to any critics. It isn’t being given any kind of push, despite the fact that her last film, The Proposal, was a hit. And it’s debatable whether stalkers are cute, funny and lovable. Other than that there seems to be every reason to look forward to this romantic comedy that has Bullock as a crosswordpuzzle writer pursuing a CNN cameraman

And with that scene we get the litmus test for whether or not this movie is for you. If the idea of a bunch of pretty TV actors you’ve never heard of (and Bubba from Forrest Gump) being shuffled off this mortal coil in all sorts of precariously messy ways — from killer pool filters to murderous escalators — sounds entertaining to you, then this movie may be for you. And if not, well, you’re classier than I am.

The Final Destination is no different than any of the previous three Final Destination films, aside from the fact that it’s being shown in 3-D

(Bradley Cooper) on the strength of one, brief date that he patently didn’t enjoy. Perhaps it’s better than the trailer looks. (PG-13)

EXTRACT

With Extract, Mike Judge has a film that’s actually making it into theaters — and the cast and the trailer (mostly) make it look pretty good.

Jason Bateman stars as the much-beleaguered owner of an extract company that’s plagued with troublesome workers, quirky workers and a hot new temp (Mila Kunis) — this last is a major problem since Bateman has marital problems and could easily succumb.

J.K. Simmons looks to be in good form, as do Clifton Collins Jr. and even Ben Affleck. The smattering of early reviews are mixed, but there aren’t enough reviews yet — and even less from serious sources — to even start to get a feel for the film. (R)

GAMER

Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor — the boys behind the Crank movies — are back with a shot at another franchise, Gamer, starring Gerard Butler (who just keeps popping up this year). Gamer has something to do with a future in which humans can control other humans in a fantasticated gaming environment, but then plot isn’t exactly the Neveldine-Taylor strong suit. These guys are more about style on top of style, speed and bad taste. And considering this is rated R for “frenetic sequences of strong brutal violence throughout, sexual content, nudity and language,” it could well be prime for them. Of course, it hasn’t been screened yet, but you expect that with this sort of thing. (R) See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

Director: Rob Zombie Players: Scout Taylor-Compton, Brad Dourif, Malcolm in a handful of theaters (Finally! The pinnacle McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tyler Mane of movie gimmicks for the apex of gimmicky Horror Rated R horror subgenres, the creative-death school of horror). All of the Final Destination movies are The Story: The sequel to Rob Zombie’s pretty much transposable, with a group of peo- Halloween reboot offers more of the same ple being saved from a dirt nap by someone’s with some odd additions to the original last-minute premonition, only to have Old Mr. series’ mythology.

Grim go after each and every one of the survivors, popping them off in elaborate freak acci- The Lowdown: Interesting, sometimes fasdents that always end in bursts of flying viscera cinating, definitely brutal in its violence, but (some well-placed corrective lenses, a pile of ultimately not all that effective.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend, Chloe Moretz, Matthew Gray Gubler Comedy/Romance A young man falls in love with a woman who doesn’t share his romantic worldview, but she can’t help but be drawn to him. A breath of spring — even in the late summer — (500) Days of Summer is a clever, funny and very perceptive comedy/romance that’s a must-see. Rated PG-13

Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller, Marlon Wayans, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dennis Quaid Big Dumb Loud Action A super covert group of hightech soldiers must stop an evil arms dealer from taking over the world. A loud, cheesy, dumb action picture that closes out the summer moviegoing season in a blaze of property damage, bad dialogue and hokey CGI. Rated PG-13

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Richard O’Barry, Louie Psihoyos, Simon Hutchins, Mandy-Rae Cruikshank, Kirk Krack Documentary A documentary film showing how the filmmakers and some other activists got the footage of what really takes place in the cove of the title. Shrewdly conceived and expertly crafted, The Cove is a documentary of rare suspense that should be seen. Rated PG-13

Scout Taylor-Compton, Brad Dourif, Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tyler Mane Horror The sequel to Rob Zombie’s Halloween reboot offers more of the same with some odd additions to the original series’ mythology. Interesting, sometimes fascinating, definitely brutal in its violence, but ultimately not all that effective. Rated R

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Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Vanessa Haywood, Mandka Gaduka, Kenneth Nkosi Science Fiction/Drama Following an accident with a mysterious liquid in the District 9 alien-internment camp, a civil servant finds his worldview altered by alarming changes. A thoughtful, surprisingly deep science-fiction film with an even more surprising emotional core. Rated R

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Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Nick Zano, Haley Webb, Mykelti Williamson Creative-Death Horror A group of people are saved from a deadly accident by the premonition of a young man, only to find Death coming to finish off those who escaped. Cheesy, schlocky, gory horror that manages to be fun by reveling in the fact that it is cheesy, schlocky, gory horror. Rated R

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(Voices) Sam Rockwell, Nicolas Cage, Jon Favreau, Penélope Cruz, Tracy Morgan Kiddie Action/Adventure A covert government task force made up of guinea pigs must go rogue in order to stop an arms dealer from taking over the world. A likable cast and some dandy use of 3-D makes for a harmlessly entertaining kiddie flick. Rated PG

Perception is an interesting thing. I spent the entire running time of Rob Zombie’s Halloween II thinking that while the film was often quite brutal, it wasn’t particularly graphic in the sense of blood and guts. I wouldn’t call it reticent, but neither did it seem to me that it lingered over the gore and pain. What it does do, which seemed unusual, is up the ferocity of the killings. In this film, Michael Myers (Tyler Mane) doesn’t merely stab his victims; he stabs them again and again — with graphic sound — as if releasing some unspeakable inner rage. That must have resonated with a number of critics in a powerful way, since many of the reviews find the movie unspeakably repellent. While I wouldn’t call Halloween II good, I can’t say I found it repellent. (Actually, I found it considerably less so than the very seriously minded The Stoning of Soraya M., which I also saw this week.)

I’m still convinced that Rob Zombie has a very good — maybe even great — film in him, but this isn’t it. It is, however, a lot more interesting than his 2007 Halloween reboot.

Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Michael Gambon, Jim Broadbent, Alan Rickman Fantasy/Adventure/Horror Harry and company move one step further toward adulthood and the inevitable confrontation that must one day take place. A surprisingly adult and even somber entry in the popular franchise that neatly builds to the two-part climax to come, while offering solid entertainment and artistry of its own. Rated PG

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Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl Postmodern Alternative-Reality Revisionist War Movie World War II action with sardonic humor and a fantasy twist about efforts to blow up a cinema filled with Nazis. Quentin Tarantino’s new film is brilliant and unabashedly (and genuinely) quirky — a truly personal work in a sea of largely impersonal movies. Rated R

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Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, Chris Addison, James Gandolfini, Mimi Kennedy Viciously Black Satire An insider’s look at politics — and how to create a war by careful bargaining and selective cheating. A blistering, funny political satire — perhaps the year’s funniest film to date. But be warned: It goes where other political satires fear to tread. Rated NR

And by more interesting, I mean it’s obviously more personal. The film is a weird amalgam of Zombie’s first two movies, House of 1000 Corpses (2003) and The Devil’s Rejects (2005), boasting the stylistic frenzy of the former and the grind-house graininess of the latter. At the time of Corpses’ release I wrote that it was “a lot like an art film, a porno loop, a gross-out horror movie and a music video. But none of these elements — intriguing though some of them are individually — ever turn into a single coherent idea.” While I’m not so sure about that final assertion anymore (the film has grown on me), the first part is true and it resurfaces here, but in grubbier terms.

What Zombie has made here is a personal take on the Carpenter original from 1978 and Rick Rosenthal’s 1981 sequel film. Actually, Rosenthal’s film is mostly addressed at the beginning of Halloween II and reduced to a single sequence — one that plays with the viewer, but in a wholly fair manner (pay attention to the use of a Top of the Pops-like clip of the Moody Blues performing “Nights in White Satin”). The

Julie & JuliA JJJJ

Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, Linda Emond Comedy/Drama/Biopic The stories of Julia Child and Julie Powell told in a series of crosscut events. A thoroughly charming and winning entertainment with great characters and acting. It may not be terribly deep, but it’s funny and invariably pleasant. Rated PG-13

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Jimmy Bennett, Jolie Vanier, Leslie Mann, John Cryer, James Spader, William H. Macy Kids Fantasy/Adventure A group of kids come upon a magical, rainbow-colored rock that grants any wish.

Mayhem ensues. A charmingly goofy kids movie that occasionally shows sparks of Robert Rodriguez’s directorial panache, but too often suffers from the constraints of the film’s lo-fi, backyard approach. Rated PG

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Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marnò, Jim Caviezel, Navid Negahban, Ali Pourtash, David Diaan Fact-Based Drama A stranded journalist is told the story of a woman stoned to death on bogus charges of adultery in a small town in Iran. A fact-based drama that has an unfortunate tendency to topple over into melodrama and propaganda — not to mention a lengthy, graphic depiction of the title event. Crudely powerful, but the crude may outstrip the power. Rated R

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Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman, Emile Hirsch, Eugene Levy, Liev Schreiber Fact-Based Comedy/Drama A young man figures a way to save the family business by arranging to have the concert that became Woodstock come to his town. A sweet, low-key, yet celebratory film about the behind-thescenes aspects of Woodstock as seen through the eyes of one young man. Rather than try to be big, the film aims at being human — and mostly succeeds. Rated R

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Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Jane McLean, Ron Livingston, Brooklynn Proulx, Arliss Howard Pseudo Sci-Fi/Romance The romantic saga of an uncontrolled time traveler and the woman who loves him. A soupy, goopy mélange of ill-conceived science fiction and uninvolving romance. Rated PG-13

sequence might even be viewed as a parody/ critique of the gross-out bits that were added to Rosenthal’s movie after the fact, especially since the lingering shots of emergency-room procedures in the sequence are the only such grotesqueries of this sort in Zombie’s film. Otherwise, Zombie uses the Michael Myers/Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton) kinship from the original (which he rethinks entirely) and ignores the rest, setting the new film at a later date.

Zombie stands much of the Carpenter-based mythology on its head. His Dr. Sam Loomis (Malcolm McDowell) is a venal, fame-obsessed character, who has used his connection to serialkilling Michael Myers as a springboard to fame (a decidedly postmodern comment on celebrity culture). There’s nothing benevolent about this Loomis, who in fact has revealed to the world — and to Laurie — that she’s really the sister of the notorious Michael in his latest money-spinning book on the subject. Michael himself has been turned into a strange, wandering figure with a family obsession that owes much to Tobe Hooper’s two Texas Chainsaw Massacre films

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— something underscored by the presence of Caroline Williams (veteran heroine of Chainsaw 2) in the cast.

This family business leads to Zombie’s weirdest embellishment — one that’s as perplexing as it is intriguing. At the beginning of the film he sets up some daffy mythology about a white horse — complete with Ma Myers (Sheri Moon Zombie, who has grown into a credible actress) visiting young Michael (newcomer Chase Vanek) in the insane asylum and giving him a plastic white horse. This is then mixed into young Michael’s dream of her coming to him all in white “like a ghost,” which is the setup for her haunting the whole film as a strangely shabby specter leading a white horse and accompanied by young Michael even in the presence of adult Michael. Got that? Well, it gets screwier because they sometimes seem to be real, but aren’t — or maybe they aren’t. It calls to mind aspects of House of 1000 Corpses and leads to some truly striking imagery, but it feels more bizarre than effective.

Otherwise, the film is pretty much what you might expect. There are the standard slasher elements combined with Zombie’s penchant for older horror pictures. There’s a nice nod (that unfortunately goes nowhere) to Erle C. Kenton’s The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), and Halloween costumes drawn from Jim Sharman’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). Zombie also evokes elements from his own work — by the end of the film, for example, Michael’s mask looks more like the human flesh from Corpses than a Halloween accoutrement. All in all, it’s an interesting work — within the confines of its genre — but it’s not a truly good one. Rated R for strong brutal bloody violence throughout, terror, disturbing graphic images, language and some crude sexual content and nudity.

— reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Cinebarre, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande Stadium 15, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7.

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Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh Players: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marnò, Jim Caviezel, Navid Negahban, Ali Pourtash, David Diaan

Fact-Based Drama

Rated R

The Story: A stranded journalist is told the story of a woman stoned to death on bogus charges of adultery in a small town in Iran.

The Lowdown: A fact-based drama that has an unfortunate tendency to topple over into melodrama and propaganda — not to mention a lengthy, graphic depiction of the title event. Crudely powerful, but the crude may outstrip the power.

I suspect that we’re supposed to be impressed by the fact that Cyrus Nowrasteh’s The Stoning of Soraya M. is based on a true story and depicts the barbaric Islamic practice of stoning a woman to death for adultery — and, in this case, ludicrously trumped-up charges of adultery.

I equally suspect that we’re meant to take the view that the film is well-intentioned and brave

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Director: Gregory Ratoff (Rose of Washington Square) Players: Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Edna Best, John Halliday, Cecil Kellaway

Romantic Drama Rated NR It’s Musical Culture 101 Hollywood-style, wrapped in a soapy tale of forbidden love — imported, like star Ingrid Bergman, from Sweden and glossied up. Today Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939) is, in fact, chiefly remembered for bringing Bergman to America and having her star in a remake of her 1936 Swedish film, Intermezzo (without a subtitle). It might also be mildly notable as being one of two 1939 movies (the other being Gone With the Wind) that put forth the somewhat untenable notion that Leslie Howard was someone women would pine after. Actually, this very glossy, very slick drama about the affair of a famous concert violinist (Howard) with his daughter’s piano for bringing this to light. Maybe so, but — apart from committing this material to film — I’m unclear as to exactly how the film is bringing anything to light. The events depicted took place in 1986 and have already been recounted in the best-selling book from 1994 on which the movie is based.

The fact that the movie doesn’t identify the era in which the story takes place makes me a little skeptical of the intent. I’m not saying that things are better now than they were 23 years ago — I claim no expertise on the topic — but deliberately sidestepping the date smells funny. It has the vague whiff of propaganda — something that is borne out by the crudeness of the characterizations, the movie’s sledgehammer subtlety and its pedigree. Let’s look at that last first. The

teacher (Bergman) is a perfectly fine weeper of its kind.

While he was one of the most outrageous character actors of all time, Gregory Ratoff was always a rather subdued director — albeit one well-liked by actors. This is perhaps his most expressive film in its long tracking shots and unbridled romanticism. There’s scarcely a composition that doesn’t strive for an aura of romance — and usually achieves it. That the film clocks in at a brisk 70 minutes is also in its favor, keeping a slight story down to a workable length. There isn’t much here in the way of surprises, but as glossy Hollywood romances go, it’s a pretty darn good one.

— reviewed by Ken Hanke The Hendersonville Film Society will show Intermezzo: A Love Story at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept.

6, in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville. (From Asheville, take I-26 to U.S. 64 West, turn right at the third light onto Thompson Street. Follow to the Lake Point Landing entrance and park in the lot on the left.) film comes from Mpower Pictures, whose other credits are the pro-life drama Bella (2006), the direct-to-video Star of Bethlehem (2007) and the right-wing comedy An American Carol (2008). Is there an agenda here? They’re entitled to one, sure. Similarly, we as the audience are entitled to know it.

Along the same lines, we’re entitled to know that a film with a nearly 20-minute-long, incredibly graphic stoning as its centerpiece was coproduced by Stephen McEveety, who produced The Passion of the Christ (2004). That should let you know the level of graphic depiction you’re in for. I can find some justification for handling the scene in this manner, since it drives home the full horror of the practice, but it comes within striking distance of torture porn. Should such

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Director: Alfred Hitchcock Players: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr

Thriller

Rated PG

Some years ago when I did a brief stint as a reviewer of movie books, I was handed a fairly weighty tome that proposed to prove that Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) was a “perfect film.” That’s a pretty large claim — especially in my mind, since I’ve always found Hitch’s much-praised 1950s output overrated — but damned if by the end of the book, I couldn’t see the writer’s point. At the very least, I’d concede that Rear Window is as close to “perfect” as a film is likely to get. This slightly claustrophobic tale — a photographer (James Stewart) confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg takes to spying on his neighbors through his apartment win-

dow — afforded Hitchcock the ideal chance to make a completely controlled film. It was similar to the confined single location of Rope (1948), but the elaborate studio set allowed for more movement and variety.

Naturally, being a Hitchcock film, our voyeuristic hero is going to see more than he should. Actually, he witnesses a murder — or what he thinks is a murder — and the more deeply he becomes involved in finding the truth, the more dangerous the game becomes.

The structure and approach to it all really is awfully close to flawless. It doesn’t hurt that the film is also very entertaining, very Hollywood glamorous and, yes, ultimately very suspenseful.

— reviewed by Ken Hanke Rear Window will be shown as part of the Wedge Brewing Company’s Outdoor Cinema series at 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, at 125-B Roberts St.

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New Wave/Punk Sci-Fi Comedy

Rated R

The cult favorite Repo Man (1984) returns for a single showing. For those of you with absolutely no familiarity with the movie (and there must still be a few), this was the groundbreaking New Wave assault on just about anything that was held sacred or even merely a scene be horrible? Yes, but this seems to wallow in unpleasantness for its own sake — and to ends I’m not wholly comfortable with. Even granting that the minute you depict something on film it gains an immediacy it can never have on the printed page, there’s more than that here, and unsettlingly so.

The story is simple — perhaps too simple.

Journalist Freidoune Sahebjam’s (Jim Caviezel in his usual dyspeptic-looking mode, but with greasy hair) car breaks down in an Iranian backwater. While his car is being repaired, a woman, Zahra (Shohreh Aghdashloo, The Lake House), dismissed by the local bigwigs as “crazy,” tells him the story of Soraya M. (Mozhan Marno, Traitor), who had been stoned to death by the villagers the day before. (In the book, it was two weeks earlier.) The bulk of the film charts the machinations of Soraya’s husband, Ali (Navid Negahban, Charlie Wilson’s War), to rid himself of his unwanted wife so that he can marry a 14-year-old. When all else fails, he trumps up charges of adultery and coerces the local authorities — an ineffectual mayor (David Diaan) and a corrupt “holy man” (Ali Pourtash) — to go along with him. From there the film works its way through to the stoning — and the ill-advised “feel good” dramatics of the return to the framing story.

The film does have a certain crude power. But that’s part of the problem with it: It’s too crude.

The bad guys are oh-so-bad that they almost become comical. The symbolism is clunky and old-fashioned (that flight-of-birds business was slightly laughable in its heavy-handedness back in 1931 in City Streets). The depiction of crowd psychology is childishly simplistic. (The lynch mob in Fritz Lang’s Fury (1936) is better defined, and they’re scarcely defined at all.) The whole thing feels ham-fisted. What’s unfortunate is that the story the movie tells deserves better than an approach that’s somewhat less subtle than an old Soviet propaganda picture.

In other respects, the film certainly has merits.

It’s beautifully photographed, for starters (even if one wonders why the village is situated in such a barren, ugly part of the area when there are boundless green fields within walking distance). Also, some of the performances are very good. As might be expected, the gifted actress Shohreh Aghdashloo is quite marvelous in the role of Zahra. However, this continues the pattern of Aghdashloo being in movies that are nowhere near as good as she is. Still, her performance alone probably makes the film worth

normal in the middle of the Reagan age, all centering around repossessing cars as a kind of metaphor for nihilistic youth. Since it hasn’t been that long ago that I reviewed this one, I’ll simply direct you to the archived online review at http://www.mountainx.com/movies/review/repo_man.

— reviewed by Ken Hanke Repo Man will be shown at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 7, at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 48 Commerce St., Asheville.

seeing. In the end, I do think the film ought to be seen — providing you have the stomach for the stoning sequence and can step back from the experience and give it the perspective the film lacks. Rated R for a disturbing sequence of cruel and brutal violence, and brief strong language.

— reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14.

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Director: Ang Lee Players: Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman, Emile Hirsch, Eugene Levy, Liev Schreiber

Fact-Based Comedy/Drama

Rated R

The Story: A young man figures a way to save the family business by arranging to have the concert that became Woodstock come to his town.

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The Lowdown: A sweet, low-key, yet celebratory film about the behind-the-scenes aspects of Woodstock as seen through the eyes of one young man. Rather than try to be big, the film aims at being human — and mostly succeeds.

Much has been written about how Taking Woodstock is too lightweight for Ang Lee to have bothered with making. I don’t know. I do know that I loved this sweet, gentle film, and prize its charms and heart far more than the debatable weightiness of his Lust, Caution (2007). At the same time, let me admit that I am in sympathy with the whole Woodstock thing — even though I wasn’t there. Indeed, Taking Woodstock is the perfect movie for someone in my position, since its protagonist — while very much on the scene and responsible for it happening where it did — never actually makes it to the show.

It should be understood from the outset that Lee’s film isn’t about the concert itself. This is not a music film. We never see the groups perform. No concert footage is interpolated into the proceedings. Occasionally, we hear bits of the performances in the background — I caught Melanie singing “Beautiful People” and Country Joe and the Fish’s “I-Feel-Like-I’mFixin’-To-Die Rag” — but that’s it. What Lee has made is a film about one person — Elliot Teichberg (Demetri Martin), a key player in the event — and his involvement in bringing Woodstock into being. Everything — including

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Director: Tom Shadyac (Evan Almighty) Players: Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Sap-Filled Biopic

Rated PG-13

For 11 years I’d managed to avoid Tom Shadyac’s Patch Adams (1998). The image of Robin Williams in a red-clown nose was — and is — like a crucifix to a vampire for me. I had heard of its legendary gooeyness, but until now, I’d never experienced it. It is safe to say that from its very opening shots — complete with Marc Shaiman’s tinkly piano musical score — I knew this was going to be bad. I actually didn’t know just how bad, though, till I slogged my way through this Hollywoodized version of the story of Hunter Adams, a doctor who brought clowning to medicine. The merits of the real Patch Adams’ approach to being a doctor to one side, this is one appalling movie — though it actually feels like two or three appalling movies.

It’s not just that Patch Adams is a shamelessly manipulative sap-a-thon, it’s that it’s one that indulges to the hilt every obnoxious, hyperactive, oh-what-I-wouldn’t-give-for-a-

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the aura of Woodstock and Elliot’s own evolution in the process — is built around that.

This isn’t a complex movie and it has a kind of shambling structure, which you’ll either find beguiling or slightly off-putting. It isn’t designed to build to a big climax. It’s more like life in that it just keeps going, assimilating the experiences into its fabric. The central situation finds Elliot — a painter and designer in New York City — returning to his parents’ rundown motel in the Catskills in order to help keep the bank from foreclosing. He sees a chance at making this work when the town of Wallkill pulls the permit out from under a rock concert — the one that happens to be, or turns into, Woodstock.

His original idea of renting his parents’ land to the concert promoters falls apart when it turns out most of the land is on the swampy side, but there’s this nearby dairy farm belonging to Max Yasgur (Eugene Levy in a surprisingly good, straight performance) that might just do. The motel, on the other hand, will still benefit as a kind of headquarters and from the obvious increase in business. At the same time, there’s the separate issue of Elliot coming to terms with being gay and coming out to his parents, which lies under the surface of much of the film. I do not, however, believe the word gay appears in the screenplay, nor is Elliot’s situation ever directly discussed, which is a refreshing approach.

There is much to admire in Lee’s film. While it captures the spirit of the time and the event — young people ready and willing to strip down in public at any time, the sense (real or illusory) of freedom and a new vision of community — Taking Woodstock can be very matter-of-fact about the purely mercenary side of things. The very hippie-esque head of the concert, Michael Lang (TV actor Jonathan Groff), may look like

tranquilizer-gun aspect of Robin Williams’ performing style — and then has the gall to ask you to admire him for it. Considering that the film appears to have made quite a tidy sum of money, it must have succeeded in that regard. I can’t imagine how, since Williams unleashed in this manner makes my skin crawl. Then again, it may be the perfect performance for this particular movie, which says a lot about the movie. Bad as the film may be (and I understand that Adams himself is not pleased with it), it’s being shown as part of a worthy cause, so it might be as well to consider it more in that light than as a movie in itself.

The film is taking the place of World Cinema this week as part of a fundraiser with members of Patch Adams’ Gesundheit!

Institute. The movie will be followed by a discussion about humanitarian clowning and a brief slide show about Ash Devine’s experiences traveling to Haiti and Peru with the real Patch Adams.

— reviewed by Ken Hanke Patch Adams will be shown at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28, at Courtyard Gallery, 9 Walnut St., in downtown Asheville. Info: 273-3332. a cross between Donovan and Marc Bolan and pepper his conversation with “groovy” and “far out,” but he’s every inch a canny businessman out to make a buck — not above bribery or avoiding a paper trail. In the end, he may have come to believe the Woodstock ideal himself, but listen to his last words on his future plans.

From our perspective, we know what will happen — and how unsustainable this ideal is, making it all bittersweet.

All the performances are solid, but special mention should be made of Liev Schreiber as Vilma, a transvestite ex-Marine whom Elliot puts in charge of security. Apart from dressing in women’s clothes and sporting blonde wigs, Schreiber does nothing to camp up his performance. It’s very straightforward — and somehow strangely moving and completely real. Elliot himself is amazed at how his father (Henry Goodman, Color Me Kubrick) and Vilma become friends and asks Vilma, “Does he know what you are?” To this Vilma merely tells Elliot, “It’s easier for people to know what I am because I know what I am.” This is the closest the movie gets to doing anything other than letting Elliot’s own sexuality just be.

This isn’t a big movie. But it is a movie with a big heart. If you hate the whole Woodstock business, are dismissive toward the 1960s and/ or are simply belligerent about baby boomers, you’re not going to like Taking Woodstock. It’s that simple. If you aren’t in those categories, I highly recommend you see it. Rated R for graphic nudity, some sexual content, drug use and language.

— reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande Stadium 15, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7.

The God’s honesT TruTh — JusT noT your God’s.

Bringing order to the Force since 2002

Briefs Through deft handling of recent interviews, Congressman Shuler skillfully angers conservatives, progressives, independents

Seems to be counting on felons, nonvoters, and minors to win next election

Lex. Ave. Bizarre Bazaar cancelled Vendors unable to adjust to early noon hours

Double Decker Coffee Co. announces expansion plans Will add seating capacity by welding motorcycle sidecar to bus roof

Joshua P. Warren returns from yet another trip to WNC Nature Center with yet more blurry photos of ‘Bigfoot’ NC marriage license fees raised $10, local woman reminds suitor during fiscally responsible rejection Charter Cable rearranges station numbers Provides brief window of mental stimulation for confused local couch potatoes

Researchers scouring media photos of Erica Franzi to see if there was ever a time in her life when Tim Peck wasn’t leering lustfully over her shoulder Sexual tension between Tea Partiers so thick you could cut it with Ayn Rand’s heart

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Education

UNCA freshman abuses newfound freedom, joins College Republicans

WesT Ridge hAll, MondAy — Pushing the boundaries of her newfound freedom, UNCA freshman Katie Jones has “quickly fallen in with the wrong crowd,” according to friends who worry the undecided major is “figuratively running amok with free-marketeer-types.”

Sarah Lender, Jones’ dorm roommate and high school friend back in their hometown of Atlanta, Ga., claims things took a sudden turn for the worse almost immediately after Lender’s liberal parents bid their daughter farewell on freshman sign-in day.

“Our parents took off, I start fishing through my suitcase for weed, and Katie’s like, ‘Check it out,’” recalls Lender. “I turn around and she’s plastering a Ronald Reagan poster against the wall of our dorm room. Then she’s like, ‘This is the hotness right here,’ and dramatically drops an Ann Coulter book on my bed.”

Some of Katie’s other old friends who also attend UNCA have noticed a change as well.

“The other day, Katie tried to talk me into going to what she called an ‘off-campus wine rager’ at the Chamber of Commerce building,” said Roby Stanson. “I’ve noticed her hands are stained with black magic marker, and I’m pretty sure she’s making Tea Party signs.”

For Katie’s professors, the situation has escalated out of control.

“Her Sarah Palin T-shirt has become a distraction in my classroom,” said Dr. Stan Kiebold, who teaches an introductory political science course. “I know it’s just a phase. And when this phase ends, I will call on her again in class.”

Vortex Roundup

SHOCK HORROR

Distant planet’s gravitational pull primary cause of local woman’s problems

Asheville brazenly left off list of ‘10 Best Places to Grow Up’

Asheville, TuesdAy — As great a place Asheville is to retire, it is a horrible place to grow up, according to a recent article in U.S. News, which failed to mention Asheville in its list of best places to grow up in America.

“If we’re going to crow every time we make a top-10 list, we should also acknowledge those heart-breaking occasions when we do not,” said one humbled Asheville parent.

The implications of the article are startling: If one considers a “place” to mean any of the 601 American municipalities that have a population exceeding 50,000, Asheville’s glaring absence from the “Top 10 Places to Grow Up” means it is among the Worst 591 Places to Grow Up in America. This fact has been lost on nobody.

“Asheville’s reeling, frankly,” said a Chamber of Commerce spokesperson. “Last year, a magazine said we were a top-20 place to get crafty and another said we’re a top-5 place to slow down and take ‘er easy. We got overconfident and complacent in our list-iness, and paid the price.

“But let’s put a happy face on it: Asheville can be a wonderful place to come if you dislike happy children.”

doWnToWn, WednesdAy — Saturn is exerting approximately 0.000000431% the gravitational pull of Brandy Callahan’s 26-inch television, but is squarely to blame for recent tumult in Callahan’s personal life.

“When Saturn’s crossing, you just expect your life to go a little crazy from time to time, obviously,” said the recent divorcee as she browsed Craigslist at Pack Memorial Library.

While times have been tough since the divorce 14 months ago, the local home-organizer-for-hire knew her spirit guides had directed her to Asheville for the right reasons.

“I know that thinking positive will attract more positive things to me,” Callahan said while nibbling on a Hydrox cookie. Her Internet hour spent, she then left the library in search of a low-to-midpower crystal to cure her headache.

The Asheville Disclaimer is parody/entertainment. editor@ashevilledisclaimer.com.

Contributing this week: Michele Scheve, Andrew Hartnagle, Tom Scheve

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NORTH ASHEVILLE Basement level of the Sherwin Williams building, approximately 6500 sqft, $3000/month. The Real Estate Center, (828) 255-4663. www.recenter.com RIVER DISTRICT 6,000 sqft shell - artists; flexible uses.

Owner will upfit for Class A office. Call G/M Property Group, 828-281-4024. jmenk@gmproperty.com

COMMERCIAL LEASES Many opportunities: Office, retail, mixed-use, all locations in and around the area including downtown. • Call the agent with her finger on the pulse! Paula Cooper, (828) 775-1485.

The Real Estate Center.

DON’T MISS THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY For street corner presence on busy Tunnel Road!

Great visibility, suitable for both commercial or business needs. Over 1000 sqft for $850/month and ask about the rent concession! Contact (828) 215-9823 for showings. Davenport Properties.

Apartments For Rent $325/MONTH CANTON; $450/MONTH CANDLER Nice, renovated 1BR apartments; minutes from downtown Asheville. No smoking; no pets.

Call (828) 337-5447.

1 FREE MONTH! (w/contract). Walk to everything downtown, live, work and play! • Studio: $545/month. • 1BR: $650/month. Water/heat included. Call 254-2029.

APM. 1 MONTH FREE RENT* Escape to the woods today!

Apartment living in a parklike setting. Convenient South Asheville. * Limited time offer.

Call (828) 274-4477. woodsedge.webs.com Woods Edge Apartments

A PROFESSIONAL HOUSEKEEPER • 7 years experience • Reliable • Honest • Great references available upon request from upscale clientele. Call Cheri Ostman: 674-2750.

SANTA FE LOOK • PLASTERING • STUCCO Interior • Exterior • “Green” • Residential • Commercial • 30 years Asheville area. Call Perry: (828) 301-2323 or 258-2443. • • See my work (click Products, Venetian Plaster Base): www.earthpaint.net

1-2BR, 1BA, HENDERSONVILLE, 2010 LAUREL PARK, coin-op laundry, $495-$695/month, 828-693-8069, www.leslieandassoc.com

3BR, 2BA, NORTH, 81 LAKESHORE, A/C, coin-op laundry, deck, $725/month, 828-253-1517, www.leslieandassoc.com

1-3BR, 1-1.5BA, SOUTH, Skyland Heights, $525$780/month, 828-253-1517, www.leslieandassoc.com 1, 2, 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS From $525$1500. • Huge selection! • Pet friendly.

(828) 251-9966.

Alpha-Real-Estate.com 1BR • WEST ASHEVILLE Available mid-September.

Charming studio, wooded surroundings. Nice kitchen, WD, storage. • Covered porches. Clawfoot tub. • Pet friendly. $635/month.

230-1845.

1BR MERRIMON AVE. • $500/month plus deposit.

389 Merrimon Ave. Walking distance to Weaver Park and UNCA. Call Cynthia, 778-4556.

1BR, 1BA, NORTH, 365 Weaverville, w/d hookups, $485/month, 828-693-8069, www.leslieandassoc.com

3BR, 2BA duplex near Haw Creek. New, modern duplex community next to Bell School, Tunnel Road, East Asheville. Rooms on one level; 1/3 acre lot. Cats or 1 small dog okay. $875/month. Park-like setting, flower beds, huge trees. Available October 1.

299-7502.

ACTON WOODS APARTMENTS • Beautiful 2BR, 2BA, loft, $850/month. • 2BR, 2BA, $750. Include gas log fireplace, water, storage.

828-253-0758. Carver Realty BEAUTIFUL KENILWORTH Top floor garage efficiency, perfect for 1 person.

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TED $450/month,Nincludes water, gas, electricity. $300 deposit. Available now. • No dogs. Call (828) 252-1125.

BEVERLY CONDOS North Asheville. 2BR, 2BA, Save money; walk to work, hospital, AB Tech. Hardwood floors. $680/month + deposit. (828) 281-3753.

BLACK MOUNTAIN • 2BR, 1BA. Heatpump, central air, W/D connection. Nice area, includes water. Only $625/month.

828-252-4334.

2BR, 1.5BA, HENDERSONVILLE, 902 Hillcrest, $595/month, 828-693-8069, www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA Main St. Weaverville. Spacious. A/C, W/D included. $595/month.

828-775-9434.

2BR, 1BA, EAST, 7 LINDSEY, A/C, W/D hookups, $595/month, 828-693-8069, www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA, EAST, 119 Liberty, a/c, w/d hookups, $625/month, 828-253-1517, www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA, EAST 7 Violet Hills, wood floors, $565/month, 828-253-1517, www.leslieandassoc.com

CENTRAL • S. French Broad Ave. 1BR, 1BA, office. $615 per month.

828-350-9400.

CUMBERLAND AVENUE CLOSE TO UNCA • Charming 1BR with Sunroom. Hardwood floors, gas heat, ceiling fans, porch. $645/month includes. hot and cold water. Year’s lease, security deposit, credit check req.

For appt: Elizabeth Graham 253-6800.

CUTE 1BR BETWEEN DOWNTOWN AND UNCA • Sunny, small 1BR, hardwood floors, ceillng fans, gas heat. $565/month including hot and cold water. Year’s lease, security dep., credit check req. No dogs, 1 cat ok with fee.

Elizabeth Graham: 253-6800.

EAST • OFF TUNNEL ROAD Available now. 1BR in quiet neighborhood. 5 minutes from hospitals, 3 minutes from Asheville Mall, on busline. New paint and carpet. Cable ready. Offstreet parking. $495/month, water included. Deposit.

713-4600.

EFFICIENCY APARTMENT • Available immediately. 289 E Chestnut ST. Ground floor units available, $450/month. No pets.

828-350-9400.

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• 5/3.5, Large Cape Cod, bsmt, $1900.

• Mobile Homes $500 - $650.

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• 3/2 Doublewide, private lot near N. Buncombe rec center, $850.

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• 3/2 Gas heat, quiet neighborhood $850.

• 2/2 Gas heat/logs, 1 car garage $850.

• 3/3 Townhome, gas logs, 1 car garage $895.

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• 3/2 Biltmore Park, 2 car garage $1550.

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• 3/2 Hardwood floors, private setting $995.

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• 3/2 Large porch, quiet clean neighborhood $895.

• 3/2 Hd, carpet, remodeled, large front porch $995.

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2BR, 2BA, CENTRAL, 484 Windswept, w/d hookups, fireplace, view, $795/month, 828-693-8069, www.leslieandassoc.com

2 BEDROOM APARTMENT Close to Greenlife/downtown.

Spacious, large windows, front porch. $750 includes water bill and shared laundry. Sorry, no dogs.

683-5233.

Rentals ATTRACTIVE, 2,000 SQ,FT. DOWNTOWN OFFICE • 55 Grove Street. Four offices, break room, large reception area. $10/ sq. ft. Practical and beautiful.

(828) 253-9451.

1-2BR, 1-2BA, ARDEN, Glen Beale, *2nd month free*, $575-$675/month, 828-253-1517, www.leslieandassoc.com

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ELEGANT QUEEN ANN VICTORIAN IN MONTFORD • Spacious 1 or 2 bedroom with forman livingroom or dining room. Porches, balconies, FP, hardwood floors. $795/month. Years lease, security deposit, credit check required. One cat okay with fiee. No dogs.

For appt: Elizabeth Graham.

253-6800.

GET QUALITY RESULTS! I received calls from a lot of high quality renters, as opposed to other publications I’ve tried. I will continue to advertise with Mountain Xpress. Patricia H. You too, can find the ideal renter, just call us!

(828) 251-1333. Mountain Xpress Classified Marketplace.

GLEN BRIDGE APARTMENTS • 1BR, 1BA. $450/month. Includes water/garbage. Small complex in Arden. Move in special with one year lease. arcagencyasheville.com.

828-350-9400.

HENDERSONVILLE • 1BR, 1BA. Walking distance to Main St. Includes water.

Only $425/month.

828-252-4334.

HENDERSONVILLE 1BR studio apartment. Walking distance to Main Street.

Includes water. Only $385/month. 828-252-4334 KENILWORTH Wonderful, large apartment close to Tunnel Road and downtown. 1BR, 1BA, WD, dishwasher, full-size kitchen, huge storage/studio area. Private yard and patio. Hi-speed DSL, cable TV, water, sewer and electric allowance included. $850/month. No smokers. 828-699-1475 NORTH ASHEVILLE APARTMENT 2BR, 1BA, heat pump with central air, dishwasher, washer/dryer connections. In nice location. $625/month. Call (828) 252-4334.

NORTH ASHEVILLE TOWNHOMES Off Merrimon. Walking distance to town. • 1BR: $495/month. • 2BR, 1BA: $525/month. • 3BR, 1BA: $625/month. Includes water. 828-252-4334.

The area’s largest selection of Rental Homes under one roof.

Tel: (828) 650-6880 Toll Free (800) 789-1135 x 6880 PO Box 580, 2602 Hendersonville Road, Arden, NC 28704

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NORTH ASHEVILLE • Farrwood Ave. 2BR, 1BA. Hardwood floors throughout, very nice unit.

Coin laundry in basement.

Covered parking for one car per unit. No pets/no smokers. $795/month.

828-350-9400.

NORTH ASHEVILLE • Lovely, quiet and spacious apartment in attached family home. Separate private entrance and driveway, 2B/1BA. Full kitchen, laundry room.

Looking for mature, established person with references to lease on a yearly basis. $675/month + utilities. First, last and security deposit required.

No pets. No smokers.

Available Sept. 1. Call Roger or Judy Miller at 828-658-0913.

NORTH FOREST APARTMENTS 2BR, 2BA. Beautiful complex, built 2002. Safe and secure.

Close to I-26/UNCA, North Asheville. • $600/month.

778-6809. www.delkandson.com NORTHSIDE • WALK TO DOWNTOWN 1BR, 1BA apartment. Great neighborhood. Offstreet parking. WD available. No pets please. $535/month, water included. • Other utilities separate. Lease, security deposit, references required. (828) 350-1400.

STUDIO - 2BR, 1BA, SOUTH • 1020 Hendersonville, A/C, storage, carport. $645$705./month.

828-693-8069. www.leslieandassoc.com

WEST ASHEVILLE • 1BR, 1BA unit available. 856 Haywood Rd. $595 per month. 828-350-9400. Pets with deposit.

Condos/ Townhomes For Rent

Mobile Homes For Rent

A BIG THANX! “Thanx Xpress! The recent rental ad attracted a steady stream of quality applicants, thanks to your quality publication.”

Mark K. • You too can find quality renters by placing an affordable ad in the pages of Mountain Xpress Classified Marketplace: 251-1333.

BEAUTIFUL WOODED SETTING Near UNCA. Super clean 2BR, 1BA. New paint, carpet, linoleum and bathroom. Deck. • No pets, please. $700/month, includes utilities, yard maintenance.

(828) 768-2191.

GAY FRIENDLY LANDLORD Has 3BR, 2BA doublewide.

2 acres in Candler. Central heat/AC. $750/month, references, credit check, 1st, last, security.

633-1851.

LARGE SINGLE WIDE 14x80 2 bedroom, 2 bath in West Asheville.

AC/heatpump, covered front porch, covered parking in a private setting and only 2 miles to downtown. Only $795/month.

(828) 275-3651.

WEST ASHEVILLE • 2BR, 2BA mobile home. In very nice park. Like new. In city and on bus line close to town. Only $615/month.

828-252-4334.

WEST ASHEVILLE • 3BR, 2BA mobile home. Like new. In city and on bus line.

Close to town. Only $625/month.

828-252-4334.

A F F OR DA BL E E N TA LS LS R EN LARGE INVENTORY OF RENTALS WITH 1 YEAR LEASES

Great Rentals in West Asheville, North Asheville, Woodfin, Black Mountain & Hendersonville NOR TH MOBILES LIKE NEW A S HEVILLE TO W NH OUSE S Off Merrimon Ave.

1 BR/1 BA ............... $495 2BR/1 BA ................ $525 3BR/1BA ................. $625 Walking distance to town, incl. water

ACCEPTING SECTION 8 NOW! In quiet, very nice park.

3BR, 2BA. ............................ $ 6 2 5 / M O NTH

2BR, 2BA. .......................... $61 5 / M O NTH

BLACK MOUNTAIN 2 BR, 1BA apartment.

Heat pump with central air, washer/dryer connections.

Also includes water.

$625/MONTH

HENDERSONVILLE 1BR, 1BA apar ment with new berber carpet. Small deck with sliding glass door. Walking distance to Main Street. Includes water.

$4 2 5 / M O NTH

CALL AAA PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC 828.252.4334 EMAIL: WNCRENTALS@YAHOO.COM

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ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN LOFT Award-winning contemporary loft with great light and finished with all high-end appointments.

Partially furnished. Texas stack gas fireplace, high ceilings with exposed beams, marble bath, bidet, custom cabinets. A great space to make your home. $1500/month 828-242-5456 or mrsmawest@yahoo.com BILTMORE COMMONS 2BR, 2BA condo. Clubhouse w/workout room, air, gas log fireplace, deck. $800/month. • No pets.

(828) 252-6664. Bass and Royster.

DOWNTOWN LUXURY CONDO • 2BR, 2BA. Two blocks from Pack Square, corner SW facing. 12’ ceiling. Eleven huge windows, exposed brick, oak floors, and gourmet kitchen. Indoor parking. $2,200/month furnished, $1950/month unfurnished.

Year lease. Bright Star Realty, 828-301-8033.

Adeed Dawisha 513 529 2332 dawisha@muohio.edu DOWNTOWN LUXURY CONDOS Brand new loft in historic 52 Biltmore Avenue Building. 1BR, 1.5BA with 250 sqft 2nd floor mezzanine. Gourmet kitchen, oak floors, exposed brick, modular lighting, large windows, W/D, concrete, granite, stone, stainless upgrades. Indoor parking. Best Downtown location; walk to anything. $1,250/month. Year lease.

828-301-8033 or 954-684-1300. Oxford Ventures EAST ASHEVILLE Available early October. 2BR, 1.5BA, 2 story townhome, like new.

All appliances, hardwood floors. • Pool. • Pets considered. Easy access to I-40. $695/month. Year lease. References. No smoking. (828) 230-3739. laurelcove@aol.com

FLETCHER TOWN HOME • 3BR, 2BA. Like new. In small, attractive development. Garage.

Minutes from great shopping. Perfect for professional or retired couple. $795/month + security deposit, credit check and references.

828-400-3580.

FLETCHER • 2BR, 1.5BA townhouse available for immediate rental. Very nice unit with one car garage.

Duplex style living, very convenient to I-26 and south Asheville shopping/restaurants. One small pet considered. $800 per month. 828-350-9400.

LUXURIOUS STUDIO CONDO Downtown Asheville, Kress building.

Fully furnished with water, trash, power and parking included for $1250/month.

Please call (828) 670-9772 or email: lisa@rodhubbardinc.com NORTH ASHEVILLE TOWNHOMES Off Merrimon. Walking distance to town. • 1BR: $495/month. • 2BR, 1BA: $525/month. • 3BR, 1BA: $625/month. Includes water. 828-252-4334 SOUTH ASHEVILLE • Condo. Like new.

Heatpump, central air, W/D connection, W/D available if needed. D/W, disposal.

Deck. Only $785/month.

828-230-6357.

WEAVERVILLE CONDO 2BR, 2BA. Like new. 1200 sq.ft. Fireplace, W/D, deck, views, smoke free. New Stock at I26. $950/month.

828-712-6873.

WEST ASHEVILLE • 1100 sq.ft. 2 BR, 1.5BA townhouse available immediately. Nice unit, very convenient to everything West Asheville has to offer.

No pets. $675/month. arcagencyasheville.com 828-350-9400.

WESTPOINTE • 3BR, 2BA $1095/ month. arcagencyasheville.com.

828-350-9400.

WINDSWEPT VIEWS • 2BR, 2BA. One lower unit for $800/month, one upper unit for $700/month, another upper end unit for $795/month. Available immediately. arcagencyasheville.com 828-350-9400.

Homes For Rent 1ST CALL US! 2, 3 and 4BR homes from $700-2500. • Pet friendly. • Huge selection! (828) 251-9966 Alpha-Real-Estate.com 205 Kennedy - Grovemont • 3BR, 1BA. Swannanoa. $650/month.

828-253-0758. Carver Realty.

2BR, 1BA • Large kitchen, dining, living room areas.

Garage. Heat pump, A/C. Sand Hill Rd area. $725/month.

828-713-7225.

3-4BR 1BA • Beautiful home, hardwood floors, newer appliances, gas heat/wood stove/central A/C. 2000+sq.ft. No pets. $1200/month. Near Enka High School.

828-670-5502.

3BR, 2.5BA, NORTH, 5 Foxwood, a/c, garage, view, $1,095/month, 828-693-8069, www.leslieandassoc.com ALL AREAS - HOUSES FOR RENT. Browse thousands of rental listings with photos and maps. Advertise your rental home for free! Visit: www.RealRentals.com (AAN CAN) APPRECIATE OUTDOORS AND WILDLIFE? • Bearwallow Mountain between Edneyville, Asheville, and Gerton. 15 minutes to Hendersonville.

2BR, 1.5BA. Garage, porch.

Beautiful views. Electric heat, fireplace, spring water, cable. Nonsmoking environment. $695/month.

615-491-2495.

ARDEN • AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 1 3BR, 1BA. Fenced back yard, quiet area. • Tons of trees! $895/month. Please call (828) 670-9772 or email lisa@rodhubbardinc.com ARDEN, OAK FOREST • 3BR, 2BA with full basement/garage. Nice area. Reduced to $1100/month. $30 application fee.

828-350-9400. arcagencyasheville.com ASHEVILLE AREA RENTALS $550$1950/month. • 1-East. • 3-West. • 3-North. • 3South. • Century 21 Mountain Lifestyles: (828) 684-2640, ext 17. For more details: www.KristieFrizsell.com BILTMORE LAKE 4BR, 2.5BA home, porch, deck, garage, walking trails, clubhouse, lake. $1950/month.

(828) 252-6664. Bass and Royster.

DUPLEX • WEAVERVILLE Near new WalMart. 2BR, 2BA. Central AC, ceiling fans. Woodfloors. WD connections. Deck w/view, parking. • Pets considered. $715/month, appliances, water, lawn care included.

(828) 273-2271.

EAST ASHEVILLE • 3BR, 2.5BA Beautiful, 3-year-old, 1,500 sq.ft. on cul-de-sac.

2-car garage, fireplace, hardwoods. Dog fence. No smoking. Deposit and references required. Cool landlord. $1,250/month.

Available Sept. 1. www.rent-this-house.com FALL FOLIAGE RENTAL • Nine weeks, 9/18-11/20.

Grove Park Inn neighborhood. 2BA, 2BA. Beautifully furnished. Quiet, sunny. $3,150.

Call 828-273-3559.

HAW CREEK • Near school. $1100/month. 3BR, 2BA, living/dining room, family room/office, 2 sets gas logs. Full basement with workshop and rec room.

Covered front porch and back deck. W/D, disposal, gas heat, window AC. 828-298-5113.

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(AAN CAN) MARS HILL • 3BR, 2BA. Family room downstairs, wonderful views. One pet considered with increased deposit. $895 per month.

828-350-9400.

NORTH ASHEVILLE • NORWOOD PARK Charming 2BR, 2BA home: garage, patio, new carpet and paint. $950/month.

(828) 252-6664. Bass and Royster.

NORTH ASHEVILLE TOWNHOMESOff Merrimon.

Walking distance to town. • 1BR: $495/month. • 2BR, 1BA: $525/month. • 3BR, 1BA: $625/month. Includes water. 828-252-4334

BILTMORE PARK. 4BR, 2.5 BA, 2,200 sqft, Rent for $2,300. Carver Realty, 828-253-0758.

BLACK MOUNTAIN • All new deluxe studio apt. in quiet mountain setting.

Deck, trails, views. $650/month. Utilities included. Available now. No pets/smoking.

828-450-5043.

2BR, 1BA • CHUNNS COVE DUPLEX $750/month. Call (828) 253-0758. Carver Realty

CANDLER • 2-3BR, 1BA. Central A/C and heat. Full basement. $900/month + security deposit. References required. 828-778-1328.

2BR, 1BA COZY COTTAGE • 1/2 block to Mission Hospital. Central heat/air.

Trash pickup and water included. Pet considered with deposit. Off street parking. $750/month + $750 deposit. Year lease.

Tom, 828-230-7296.

CLOSE TO AIRPORT/CHRIST SCHOOL • 2BR, 2BA. Beautifully furnished. Lovely, private and secure. Hardwood floors. 2300 sq.ft. Large deck, porch. Six month lease. $1950/month + deposit. 828-280-2919.

NORTH ASHEVILLE • Rancher on 1 acre. 3BR, 2BA. 1400 sq.ft. Hardwoods and tile, full basement, room to garden.

828-216-9265.

NORTH ASHEVILLE Beautiful 2BR, 1BA house with 1/2 acre fenced backyard. Full unfinished basement. Pets allowed. $1,200/month. Call Bob, (828) 259-9328.

OAKLEY 2BR,1BA Bungalow. 1,032 sq.ft.

Dining area,large porch,big yard, beautiful trees. 5 minutes from downtown. $900/month.

828-713-7768.

Help Others

jobs OFF THE HOOK! We got a great response from our ad for our Rental house in the Mountain Xpress! The phone rang off the hook! Thanks, Ander, owner, Design Painting. Get your Apartment or House rented quickly and affordably. Call (828) 251-1333.

Mountain Xpress Classified Marketplace.

REEMS CREEK, MUNDY COVE 3BR, 2BA, $900/month. Call (828) 253-0758. Carver Realty SOUTH ASHEVILLE • 4BR, 2.5BA. All brick. Closed sunporch, huge kitchen/dining area.

Fireplace. Large lot. Quiet neighborhood. Available Sept. 1. 828-277-1492.

SOUTH OAK FORREST 4 BR, 2BA $1,750. Call Carver Realty 828-253-0758.

SOUTH, DEANWOOD 3BR, 2.5BA, $1,200/month. Call (828) 253-0758. Carver Realty SWANNANOA • 3BR, 2BA. Cherry Blossom Cove, $1095/month. arcagencyasheville.com 828-350-9400.

WEAVERVILLE/BARNARDS VILLE • Available immediately. 2BR with office. Views on 1 acre. No pets considered. $850/month.

828-350-9400.

WEST ASHEVILLE • 3BR, 2.5BA Hardwoods, tile, carpet, granite. Stainless steel and ENERGY STAR appliances. W/D hookups.

Front porch and private, wooded back deck. 2-car garage. Great for family. 5 minutes from downtown Asheville. $1,650/month.

Call Lisa: 828-808-2651.

WEST BUNCOMBE • Lovely mountain and farmland views from the decks of this two bedroom , 1.5 bath house. Kitchen includes a microwave and dishwasher.

Washer and dryer hookups.

Pets negotiable. Credit report and references required. $800/month plus deposit. 231-1371.

CANDLER • 3BR, 3BA, 4700 sq.ft., 10 acres, barn, $1600/month. $30 application fee.

828-350-9400 arcagencyasheville.com

Vacation Rentals BEAUTIFUL LOG CABIN Sleeps 5, handicap accessible. Near Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC. (828) 231-4504 or 277-1492. bennie14@bellsouth.net

Roommates $375 Female Roommate Candler You: Quiet, sane, responsible, respectful, good with animals, dramafree, non-smoker Me: Busy male student rarely home with 2 cats, drug-free, respectful. Includes rent, Internet, power and water.

Quiet area in Candler.

Joseph: 242-7824 or tigerseyedowsing @yahoo.com Candler Responsible, mature roommate. Pool, large closet, 52” TV, new appliances and furniture. $400/month or $100/week. $200 dep. 828-808-6640.

Female Housemate for October 1-May 1 for a cute house in East Asheville. $450 Oct/Nov, $350 DecApril. Heather 828.719.8690.

Female preferred, to share 2BR West Asheville home, close to everything. $350/month, share utilities.

Deposit. References. • Pet considered. Call Sherri: 242-6119.

while

Helping Yourself

Roommate Wanted Share 3BR house in Montford Area. Pet and Smoking OK. $450/mo. + utilities.

828-713-7663 Steve, Seeking Mature, Happy Roommate Mountain-view 2 bd-1 bath w/ art studio cottage, walking distance to two parks. WestAVL. Susanne 828-989-8361 West Asheville. Separate entrance apt. in house. $600 includes utilities, internet, laundry, storage, garden. Sorry no pets:( 9month lease. Call 828-545-6909.

Employment

General **BODYGUARDS WANTED** FREE Training for members. No Experience OK. Excellent $$$. Full & Part Time.

Expenses Paid When you Travel. 1-615-228-1701. www.psubodyguards.com (AAN CAN)

Lovely House w/full basement workspace/storage, wireless, deck, views, hardwood floors, bright, private but very convenient.

Short term/$550 /month negotiable w/ grass cutting!

704-806-7300.

$600 WEEKLY POTENTIAL $$$ helping the government part-time. No experience, no selling. Call 1-888-213-5225. Ad Code L-5. VOID in Maryland and South Dakota. (AAN CAN)

Negotiable for Right Person Housemate for large country home. Quiet, private bedroom w/bath; washer/dryer, cable & utilities included. Work w/dogs to reduce rent.

828-779-7958.

100 WORKERS NEEDED Assemble crafts, wood items. To $480/week.

Materials provided. Free information package. 24 hours: (801) 428-4649.

Nice House in Oakley to share w/single mom. Large bedroom and bath downstairs w/private entrance. $470+utilities.

713-9298.

Private Room/Bath for Rent. $500/month includes utilities. $250 deposit. No smoking or pets. Between Airport-Brevard.

828-778-9937. Female.

BOMBARDED WITH CALLS! “We’ve literally been bombarded with calls from the employment ads we’ve placed in Mountain Xpress. It’s allowed us to carefully screen our applicants to find just the right employees that help our business grow.” Shay Amber, Manager, Pristine Clean. • What more can we say? Mountain Xpress Classifieds get results! Call 251-1333 Get results and grow your business!

RENTMATES.COM • Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of a mouse!

Visit www.rentmates.com.

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CAB DRIVERS Needed at Blue Bird; call JT 258-8331.

Drivers needed at Yellow Cab; call Buster at 253-3311.

North Asheville Roommate needed for great house w/deck, wireless, W/D, view, daylight basement for workshop/studio/storage. short term possible. $650 utilities included. (discount if you’re into mowing grass!) info 704-806-7300.

FULL TIME/PART TIME CASHIER POSITIONS • Seeking customer service oriented, consistent employees for full-time or part-time cashier positions.

Must be able to work nights and weekends. Must maintain steady pace in busy location. Skills: making change, keeping records, caring for customers. Competitive starting pay with increases at 30, 60, 90, 180, 360 days related to performance. Benefits package includes: Paid Vacation, 401K, Profit Sharing, Medical Benefits after six months employment. Equal Opportunity Employer. Apply in person at: 2580 Hendersonville Rd., Arden • 125 Leicester Hwy, Asheville • 716 E. Main St., Sylva. Apply between 9am2pm, Mon-Fri. No phone calls.

HIRE QUALITY EMPLOYEES “Our employment advertisements with the Mountain Xpress garner far more educated and qualified applicants than any other publication we have used. The difference is visible in the phone calls, applications and resumes.”

Howard Stafford, Owner, Princess Anne Hotel. • Thank you, Howard. Your business can benefit by advertising for your next employee in Mountain Xpress Classifieds. Call 251-1333.

DONATE PLASMA, EARN COMPENSATION Plasma Biological Services (828) 252-9967 interstatebloodbank.com

Please drop in to our annual

FALL JOB FAIR on

Monday, September 21, 2009 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm.

Location: 723 Fairview Road Asheville, NC 28803. 828-258-0031 Families Together Inc. (FTI) is dedicated to providing quality services to our exceptional children, families and adults.

PRODUCTION WORKERS NEEDED Recruiting “production workers” for first shift, four 10 hour days, Monday-Thursday. $9/hour. Training provided for those that qualify. • Call today: 654-0310. Apply online snelling.com/asheville/ application

FTI provides services that are: • in partnership with consumers • culturally aware • strength based • solution focused • person centered FTI is a nationally accredited agency providing mental health services in Buncombe, Madison, Yancey, Mitchell, Henderson, Rutherford, Polk, and Transylvania Counties. FTI provides a positive work environment, flexible hours, competitive pay, and an innovative culture.

Now hiring: LPC’s, LMFT’s, LCSW’s, LCAS’s, Provisional LCSW’s, and Board Eligible Counselors to provide Comprehensive Clinical Assessments, Individual and Family Therapy, and Intensive In Home Services.

Employment Opportunities • Call (828) 225-6122 or visit: biltmore.com

Skilled Labor/ Trades GUTTER INSTALLER • Immediate employment for established company. Must be experienced. Drivers License Required. Excellent pay and benefits.

828-654-0036.

Now hiring: Community Support Team Leads. Candidates will have a minimum of a Masters Degree in Human Services and one year experience working with adult population.

For more information please contact:

humanresources@familiestogether.net mountainx.com

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SPRAY FOAM INSTALLER • Requirements: 2+ years construction experience, good physical condition, ability to lift weights exceeding 50 pounds unassisted and weights exceeding 500 pounds assisted. Ability to work from ladders, scaffolding and navigate attics and crawl spaces as needed.

Candidate must have own transportation and be willing to travel overnight for out of town projects.

(828) 337-5721.

SPRAY FOAM INSTALLERS. 1+ years of experience.

Ability to drive box truck with valid license, mechanical ability, not afraid of heights, team player. $10-$14/hour based on experience.

(828) 350-1155 x303.

Salon/ Spa

LOLA SALON One full-time booth rental chair, available Sept. 1. Submit resume Tues.-Sat. at 60 Biltmore Ave. No phone calls please!

NAIL TECHNICIAN/ESTHETICIAN /MASSAGE THERAPIST • Busy downtown salon expanding. Experience preferred or double license.

Will be offering organic services. Please bring resume in person to: 82-B North Lexington Ave. No phone calls please.

Sales/ Marketing SALES PROS • Time to get paid what you are worth AND have a life. Call 1-888-700-4916.

Restaurant/ Food Medical/ Health “150 CALLS! At some Care point, I was hoping they’d stop! The best vehicle for finding quality employees, and advertising your business.” Russell, The Skyclub. Your business can benefit with low cost, efficient advertising. Call 251-1333. Mountain Xpress Marketplace Classifieds.

COCKTAIL SERVERS • EXPERIENCED Full or parttime for evenings. Great pay: $5.15-$6.50/hour plus tips. Flexible hours.

665-2161. • Apply in person: Holiday Inn Plaza, 435 Smokey Park Highway.

Infusions Lounge.

MOUNTAIN X JAMS! As a growing business that relies on the face put forward by our employees, Mountain Xpress Classifieds is where we turn to find them. The volume of high-quality applicants replying to our ads can be hard to choose from, and it is always worth our investment. Thanks Mountain X! Rebecca and Charlie, owners, Tomato Jam Cafe.

NOW HIRING • Earn $65K, $50K, $40K. (GM, CoManager, Assistant Manager). We currently have managers making this and need more for expansion. One year salaried restaurant management experience required. Fax resume to 336-431-0873.

WAITPERSON NEEDED High energy, drug free.

Apply Mike’s Main St. Grill.

645-5500.

MADISON MANOR • Is hiring a RN Supervisor for Baylor. Weekends, Friday/Saturday/Sunday.

6am-6pm. Work 36 hours, get paid for 44 hours. For more info call Laura 828689-5200 (Monday-Friday, 9am-4pm) or apply at 345 Manor Rd., Marshall, NC 28754, MADISON MANOR • Is now hiring CNA’s. Call 828-6895200 or apply at 345 Manor Rd., Marshall, NC 28754.

MEDICAL OFFICE MANAGER, FULL-TIME POSITION Well established family medicine practice seeks organized, enthusiastic manager, Job entails managing office of five doctors ad small staff, coordinating billing scheduling and day-to-day office needs. Experience with computer medical records is a plus.

Competitive salary depending on experience and excellent benefits. Fax resume to 828-252-9420.

PART TIME FEMALE CNA NEEDED For elderly couple in Grove Park area. Please submit resume to: judithmontz@hotmail.com or Bonnie (primary caregiver) 828-283-1395.

Elevator Operator - F/T Courtyard Greeter - P/T Room Attendant - F/T Front Desk Agent - F/T Reservations Sales Agent - F/T Executive Chef - F/T Host/ess - F/T Server - F/T Line Cook - F/T Banquet Server - P/T Dining Room and In Room Dining Manager - F/T Dining Room Supervisor - F/T

PSYCHIATRIC/MENTAL HEALTH NURSE PRACTITIONER Western NC Community Health Services, a Federally Qualified Health Center, seeks a full-time Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner for its busy outpatient clinic. Candidates experienced in crisis services and medication management of adults w/severe and persistent mental illness preferred.

Salary range $84K$90K, w/excellent benefits. Applicants can send resume and cover letter by email to tkennedy@wncchs.org or US mail to Director of Human Resources, PO Box 338, Asheville, NC 28802. Phone inquiries welcome at (828) 285-0622, ext.

1418. E.O. Employer; racial/ethnic minorities are encouraged to apply.

Human Services

SEPTEMBER 2 - SEPTEMBER 8, 2009 •

PARENTS NEEDED Do you believe that all youth deserve the opportunity to experience what it feels like to belong, to be happy and to look forward to the future?

• Are you willing to open your heart and your home to a child or adolescent who needs a fresh start?

• If so ... Become a treatment partner in an innovative and highly successful program for youth with behavioral issues. Therapeutic Foster

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF RUTHERFORD CO. • Is seeking a Clinical Director.

Applicants must have a Master’s Degree in counseling, social work or related field, NC licensure, clinical experience with adult and child MH population, a minimum of 5 yrs. supervisory experience.

Email resume: sholloway@fpscorp.com

Steward - F/T Lead Linen Aide - F/T Laundry Van Driver - F/T Washperson - F/T Membership Concierge - F/T Massage Therapist - P/T Spa Programmer - F/T Spa Female Concierge - F/T Spa Male Concierge - F/T Spa Executive Assistant - F/T Nail Technician - F/T Spa Shift Supervisor - F/T

For a complete list of our openings, visit our website, www.groveparkinn.com, or you may apply in person, Monday through Friday, 9:00am – 6:00pm, Saturday 8:00am-4:00pm in Human Resources at The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa, 290 Macon Avenue, Asheville, NC 28804, (828) 252-2711, ext. 2083.

EOE Drug Free Workplace.

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GOODWILL INCOME MAINTENANCE WORKER • The goal of this unit is to provide a combination Work First Program eligibility and Medicaid determination at Buncombe County Department of Social Services. The employee will be responsible for completing a family based assessment of the client and family to determine immediate needs, assessing the client’s work/educational history, barriers to employment such as transportation and/or childcare, related to program eligibility.

Employees in this unit are responsible for interviewing, completing initial Work First applications, verifying information, determining eligibility and completing scheduled reviews for financial assistance under the income maintenance program. Base salary: $30K. Please send cover letter & resume to ksampson @goodwillnwnc.org

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Haywood and Jackson County Psychiatrist Assertive Community Treatment Team: Please contact Joe Ferrara, joe.ferrara @meridianbhs.org Clinician, Haywood County Recovery Education Center Must have Master’s Degree in Human Services Field and be license-eligible. Please contact Jon Esslinger at jon.esslinger @meridianbhs.org Haywood County Therapist/Team Leader Child and Family Services.

Master’s Degree and supervisory experience.

Please contact David Hutchinson at david.hutchinson @meridianbhs.org Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) Assertive Community Treatment Team: Must have a Bachelors degree in a human services field and two years postdegree experience, or a Masters degree. Please contact Mason Youell, mason.youell @meridianbhs.org Jackson, Macon, Swain County: Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP): Child and Family Services: Must have a Bachelors degree in a human services field and two years post-graduation experience, or a Masters degree. Please contact David Hutchinson at david.hutchinson @meridianbhs.org Therapist:Child and Family Services (Macon and Jackson): Masters degree required. Please contact David Hutchinson at david.hutchinson @meridianbhs.org Cherokee, Clay, Graham County: Therapist/Team Leader: Child and Family Services: Masters degree and license eligible. Please contact David Hutchinson at david.hutchinson @meridianbhs.org • For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org

Care allows you to work from home, receive taxfree income for the services you provide and offers challenging opportunities for personal growth.

• Who is eligible? Anyone 21 years old and over, married or single, who rents or owns a home, is already licensed or just now ready for the journey, desires fulltime placements or wishes to provide respite only and has a GED or college education.

• Please Call: (828) 631-3973 extension 1464 or 1480.

QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL To manage supervised living home. Part-time hours with responsibilities to include management of household, supplies and staff schedules.

• Ideal candidate will be organized, self-motivated and work well independently. 2 years experience in a human services field is required.

Please forward resume to sjdignity@gmail.com

SEEKING OVERNIGHT COUNSELORS!! Does working at night appeal to you? Are you experienced in the human service field, or maybe recently graduated and looking to start your career? Eliada Homes needs night residential counselors (NRCs) to give competent awake coverage to our students. The NRC will continuously monitor students, doing everything possible to assure their security, health, and safety.

The NRC works with the treatment team to implement individualized care plans, aiding in the students’ successful return to the community. Major responsibilities include: performing bed/bathroom checks every 7 to 10 minutes, effectively utilizing the agency’s crisis intervention plan-including physical restraint techniques if necessary, preparing meals, executing daily cleaning, providing transportation to routine and emergency medical appointments, administering medications, and completing required documentation.

Requirements: bachelor’s degree in human services, or an AA/high school diploma/GED with at least one year of experience in the mental health field or equivalent skills. Must possess a valid NCDL and be insurable by Eliada’s carriers. Must be willing to work some weekends and holidays, as well as be able to attend monthly in-service trainings during daytime hours. This is a full-time benefitted position! All interested and qualified applicants please submit resume to eweaver@eliada.org, or fax to 828-210-0361. www.eliada.org

CERTIFIED SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELOR • To provide DWI assessments PRN. (828) 253-7066 or send resume to ashevilleinstitute @gmail.com

THE ORELENA HAWKS PUCKETT INSTITUTE Is recruiting an Early Childhood Technical Assistance Provider to work on a research-to-practice project promoting young children’s early literacy learning. The successful applicant will be responsible for providing technical assistance and training to early intervention and preschool special education practitioners at both state and local levels, assisting in literacy-based project activities, and related duties. The applicant will be expected to provide training using the professional development model used by the project.

The position requires frequent out-of-state travel.

The successful applicant must have a master’s or doctorate degree in early intervention or preschool education with expertise in early literacy or language development for children ages birth to 5 years.

Experience in professional development is preferred.

The position includes a liberal fringe benefits package, including paid health insurance and retirement. Applicants should send a letter of interest, resume, and salary history to Dr. Tracy Masiello via jobs@puckett.org, or via regular mail to 8 Elk Mountain Rd., Asheville, NC 28804.

SCHOOL SEEKING BILINGUAL PRESCHOOL TEACHERS. Preschool experience required. Must be fluent in English and Spanish. Native Spanish language speakers encouraged to apply. Send resume: laborday@bellsouth.net

FULL TIME QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL • Needed for CAP/MR/DD Agency.

Must have experience with DD population. Salary and benefits. Provide supervision in the Henderson/Buncombe County area. Fax Resume to QP Director, (910) 425-5178.

Professional/ Management Stokton Global Trading needs production managers. No sales.

This is a part-time opportunity that could be long-term (up to 24 months). Contract.

Stable income from $1,200 per month. Visit us at: stokton.org/ vacancies.html

Teaching/ Education TEACH ENGLISH ABROAD! Become TEFL certified. 4week course offered monthly in Prague. Jobs available worldwide.

Lifetime job assistance.

Tuition: 1300 Euros. teflworldwideprague.com info @teflworldwideprague.com (AAN CAN) YMCA OF WESTERN NC • Afterschool Program Opportunities $7.25 $13/hour Please visit our web site for details: www.ymcawnc.org

Career Training EARN $75 - $200/HOUR • Media Makeup Artist Training. Ad, TV, Film, Fashion. One week class.

Stable job in weak economy. Details at AwardMakeUpSchool.com 310-364-0665. (AAN CAN).

EARN YOUR MASTER’S DEGREE in Integrated Teaching Through the Arts in Asheville. Close to home and only one weekend a month. No GRE or MAT required. Lesley University is America’s top teacher of teachers. Contact Jacinta White at 888-608-8463 or at jwhite14@lesley.edu

Employment Services HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA! Fast, affordable & accredited. Free brochure.

Call now! 1-800-532-6546 Ext. 97 continentalacademy.com (AAN CAN)

UNDERCOVER SHOPPERS Get paid to shop. Retail and dining establishments need undercover clients to judge quality and customer service. Earn up to $100/day. Please call 1-800-720-0576.

Business Opportunities AMAZING OPPORTUNITY! I give out this phone number, and make money: 1-712432-0211 access code: 439281#. • Then call Maureen: (828) 779-5883.

ATTENTION SERIOUS ENTREPRENEURS Rep personal development product. • Achieve goals. • Live your dream life! • Executive income potential.

• No travel. 1-800-5702110.

BEST HOME-BASED BUSINESS EVER! It’s fun; it’s simple; it’s lucrative. To hear 3-minute message, call 1-866-257-3105, code 1.

BIZ OP • Want to purchase minerals and other oil/gas interest. Send details to: PO Box 13557, Denver, CO 80201 DYNAMIC PARTNER NEEDED • To assist growing the 13th largest online shopping portal in America. Send resume: P.O. Box 15423, Asheville NC 28813.

GREEN TECH COMPANY Seeking caring leaders to educate 4.2 billion cell phone users about the harmful effects of electromagnetic radiation (EMF). Work from home, part or full-time. Call 1888-458-1670 or email mybioprohealth @gmail.com JOB/CAREER ADVOCATE • Resume & cover letter creation, database of local and international jobs, help with online applications.

Call: 828-301-8295 or email: stured@bellsouth.net

Announcements ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS in 111 alternative newspapers like this one. Over 6 million circulation every week for $1200. No adult ads. Call Rick at 202-289-8484.

(AAN CAN) ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS in 111 alternative newspapers like this one. Over 6 million circulation every week for $1200. No adult ads. Call Mountain Xpress Classifieds at (828) 251-1333. (AAN CAN) HIGHLY QUALIFIED ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT • Seeking team environment. Selfmotivator with legal experience. Look forward to hearing from you. Kim 828-545-9340.

MILLBROOK HIGH SCHOOL REUNION Raleigh, NC 1974, 35th Class Reunion October 2nd and 3rd, 2009. For details go to: www.millbrook7475.myeve nt.com Email questions to: Millbrook1974@gmail.com PREGNANT CONSIDERING ADOPTION? • Talk with caring agency specializing in matching birthmothers with families nationwide • Living expenses paid. Call 24/7 • Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions • 1-866-413-6293. (AAN CAN) WOMEN, Earn $18k-$30k for 6 egg donations with the largest, most experienced Agency in US. Call: 800444-7119 or to apply online visit: theworldeggbank.com (AAN CAN) AMATEUR POOL LEAGUE All skill levels welcome.

HAVE FUN. MEET PEOPLE. PLAY POOL. Sign-up to play on a local team 828-329-8197 www.BlueRidgeAPA.com ONGOING – weekly league play

Classes & Workshops 2009 WRITER’S WORKOUTS Announcing the September and October Writer’s Workouts, Posana Restaurant Meeting Room, Asheville. Nonfiction, fiction, poetry; 5-hour group sessions, $150. • Beginning writers, September 24 or October 1; • Intermediate, September 25 or October 2; • Advanced, September 26 or October 3.

• Contact Kevin McIlvoy, (828) 318-4456. • McIlvoy is a nationally recognized creative writing teacher. kmcilvoy54@yahoo.com FALL JEWELRY CLASSES Beginning and Advanced Silversmithing, Lost Wax Casting, Chasing and Repousse’, more Enameling! Jewelry Gallery now open. Repairs; 30+ years of experience. Friday thru Sunday, 11am until 5 pm. Earthspeak Arts, 375 Depot St, Asheville wechurlik@earthlink.net 828-678-9038 www.earthspeakarts.com LEARN VIETNAMESE/ASIAN COOKING • Tired of the same old food? Learn to prepare healthy and nutritious food. seasiancookingeasy.com

Mind, Body, Spirit

Health & Fitness

Bodywork **ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE MASSAGE!** Perfect pressure! Caring, intuitive, professional therapist. Tranquil sanctuary just 3 blocks from Greenlife & downtown! Reasonable rates, Open Mon thru Sat., 9am to 7 p.m. by appt. only Brett Rodgers LMBT #7557. www.vitalitymassage.net (828) 255-4785.

COMPASSIONATE COUNSELING. Licensed, 25 years experience healing childhood issues, relational conflict, anxiety, depression, anger management, substance abuse. Medicaid, BC/BS. Affordable sliding fee. Guy Morganstein, LPC. 828-337-7549.

Spiritual A SPIRITUAL MENTOR Nina Anin. Wherever you are, by phone: (828) 253-7472 or email: asknina@excite.com #1 AFFORDABLE MASSAGE CENTER Best rates in town! $29/hour. Therapeutic Massage: • Deep Tissue • Swedish • Sports • Trigger Point.

Also offering: • Acupressure • Energy Work • Reflexology • Classes.

Call now for your appointment: • 10 Biltmore Plaza, 505-7088. Asheville. thecosmicgroove.com $35 MASSAGE- Say goodbye to stress for less.

Call to book a wonderful, therapeutic massage.LMT # 7113. 828-275-5497.

BEST MASSAGE IN ASHEVILLE Deep tissue, sports massage, Swedish, esalen. Available in/out. Jim Haggerty, LMBT# 7659. Call (828) 545-9700. www.jhmassage.com MASSAGE/MLD Therapeutic massage, $45/hour. Manual lymph drainage, $65/hour.

Lymphedema treatment, $45-$65/hour. 15+ years experience. 828-299-4105.

NC License #146. www.uhealth.net SHOJI SPA & LODGE • 7 DAYS A WEEK Looking for the best therapist in town—- or a cheap massage? Soak in your outdoor hot tub; experience the invigorating cold plunge; then get the massage of your life! 26 massage therapists.

299-0999. www.shojiretreats.com STAY RELAXED. Massage therapy at your home/office.

1/2 or 1-hour appointments. Call Sarah Whiteside, LMBT#4741, (828) 279-1050. sarahsgolf@charter.net

-&4-&: $20-$40* • AFFORDABLE ACUPUNCTURE *Sliding scale. South Asheville near Earth Fare. 5 Allen Avenue, Suite B. (828) 687-8747. www.livingpoints.net

Counseling Services

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INTUITIVE HEALER • Removing energy blocks that keep us from moving forward. Transforming mind and body. Stress relief.

Suzanne, 779-0077.

PSYCHIC MEDIUM ISIS intones your heart’s desire.

Love, career, problems inhibiting your dreams, or peace of mind.

1-877-777-9389 Ext 16.

RENTAL SPACE for healing workshops and classes Plenty of parking and restaurants for lunch.

Reasonable rates. Suzanne, 779-0077.

Natural Alternatives HOLISTIC IRIDOLOGY® Fascinating detailed Iris Analysis, Bio-Chemistry Analysis, Cardiovascular Screening, and Meridian Kinesiology for ‘Total Health Assessment’ with effective Natural and Holistic Therapies, BioDetoxification programs, Advanced Energy Healing.

Call Jane Smolnik, ND, Iridologist at (828) 777-JANE (5263) for appointment or visit UltimateHealing.com

Musicians’ Xchange

Musical Services AFFORDABLE RECORDING IN ASHEVILLE Special: 8 hours for $140! Awardwinning, radio-quality production. Pro tools, laidback environment. Image consulting, design and photography also at rock bottom prices.

828-413-1145.

AMR STUDIO Audio mastering, mixing and recording. • Musical, literary and instructional services. • Tunable performance room, on-site video available. Visa/MC. (828) 335-9316. amrmediastudio.com ASHEVILLE’S WHITEWATER RECORDING Full service studio services since 1987. • Mastering • Mixing and Recording. • CD/DVD duplication at the best prices.

(828) 684-8284 • whitewaterrecording.com MAKE MUSIC! GuitarPiano- Drums- BassSinging- Banjo- Mandolin lessons created for you/your child’s interest.

Experienced, enthusiastic instructor, Erik…

828-242-5032.

Equipment For Sale Fender Super Champ XD w/ Footswitch and cover $300.00 firm. Bought on 5/23/09. 5 year transferable warranty. 828-400-8781. iamexodusnow@yahoo.com Great for Beginner 4 track recording device. $50 Call 828-645-4385.

Rockin PA System Mint condition,clear sounding,all Samson,2 speakers DB500A,subwoofer DB1800A and mixing board MDR8. Includes all cables and manuals. Make offer.

828-645-4385 Washburn B-16 Banjo: I am selling my baby. She is about 6 years old. Normal wear on the head and some rusting on the brackets.

Hard shell case included. $800, obo. dbanjo@gmail.com

Musicians’ Bulletin WELCOME CELENE! After a decade at Eclipse Salon. • Organic and vegan products and color! • For an appointment, call us: 505-9490. MondaySaturday. wildflowerstudioasheville.com

Let’s wake up the world.™

Earn your Master’s Degree in Integrated Teaching Through the Arts in Asheville, close to home and only one weekend a month. No GRE or MAT required. Lesley University is America’s top teacher of teachers. Contact Jacinta White at 888-608-8463 or at jwhite14@lesley.edu

Deep River Seeks male vocalist. Working country vocal group seeks male vocalist w/great ear for harmony who also plays fiddle, mandolin or keyboards. sonicbids.com/deepriver 828-280-2173.

LOST YOUR PET? FOUND A PET? Call Asheville Humane Society, (828) 253-6807, to fill out a missing or found pet report. Visit 72 Lee’s Creek Road, Asheville. ashevillehumane.org

Drummer Experienced 48 yr. old drummer is seeking a professional paying gig.

Weddings, etc.

Call 828-743-6529.

Experienced drummer, all styles, prefer jazz.

828-877-2413

Found Pets

Experienced Vocalist specializing in high harmonies. Available for recording or live performance. Also plays banjo, keys, guitar. moonbanjo@gmail.com Free Studio Time UNCA Music Tech. student seeking band/artist for recording project. Contact Andrew at aglectio@unca.edu FREE UPRIGHT PIANO Old upright piano. Not pretty but has great sound. Must move yourself from MarsHill storage. Needs tuning.

(828)776-1666 ganfae@gmail.com

GOLDEN MIXED BREED DOG • Male. One blue eye, one brown eye. No color.

Found close to East Asheville Blue Ridge Parkway. 304-671-4114.

Pets for Adoption Adopt Gracie the Cat! Loving spayed, microchipped, indoor/outdoor 3-year-old black cat; small adoption fee. Call 828-298-6600 (East Asheville).

GET LUCKY! Lucky is a Norwegian Elkhound who is searching for a loving home. He is 8 years old and left homeless since his owner died. Brother Wolf Animal Rescue is a nonprofit dog and cat rescue group that is dedicated to helping abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. The adoption fee is $125; all animals are spayed/neutered, up to date on shots and microchipped.

Visit www.bwar.org or call 458-7778.

Lead Guitarist or Keyboards Wanted. Must sing lead as well. To form a dance band (all styles) trio.

Contact clarenichols@earthlink.net Seeking Female Vocalist for triphop/chillout project if your interested please contact james at groovysound70@yahoo.com Seeking A fixer-upper building to start a venue.

Willing to do the work in exchange for cheap rent.

Crystal, 828-691-2828.

The Hellblinki Sextet is looking for an Asheville area bassist for local, national (and possibly international!) touring. Contact Andrew at hellblinki@hellblinki.com learn more about Hellblinki: www.myspace.com/hellblin ki www.hellblinki.com

Pet Xchange

Lost Pets LEO friendly, adult male,microchipped Siamese mix cat missing from Riverside Cemetery/Montford area.

Blue eyes, black nose.

254-7458, sylvia.robin@gmail.com

LOST CAT - REWARD! Tabby, brown/gray/black, neutered male, very big, weighs 20 pounds, 4 years old, lost in Chunns Cove area. Call 828-251-1983

AMR

MEDIA SERVICES Audio and Video Recording of Musical, Instructional and Literary Sources Performance & Public Speaking Enhancement Tools

828-335-9316 • amrmediastudio.com • Visa/MC

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English Bulldog Healthy and sociable AKC reg puppy for adoption, free to pet loving home email: perezirene@live.com FIND THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE! Cats, dogs, & other small animals available for adoption at Asheville Humane Society • 72 Lee’s Creek Road • Asheville, NC • (828) 253-6807 ashevillehumane.org

Wanted: Free Upright Piano. Help! Looking for piano donation for special needs student. Plz Call (828) 337 5962.

LOST BLACK MINIATURE PINSCHER Tan markings, docked tail and ears.

Answers to Tink. Last seen on Queen Rd., Candler on Pisgah Hwy side. Michelle or Travis 828-280-7753 or 828-242-6092.

BUTTERS IS WAITING Meet Butters, a poodle mix.

Butters is available for adoption through Brother Wolf Animal Rescue. Call 458-7778 for more information or see all our adoptable friends at www.bwar.org

HELP MAX FIND HIS FOREVER HOME Max is a Dachshund who would love to be your dog. Brother Wolf Animal Rescue is a nonprofit dog and cat rescue group that is dedicated to helping abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. Adoption fee, $125; all animals are spayed/neutered, up to date on shots and microchipped.

Visit www.bwar.org or call 458-7778.

LUNA 2 year old wellbehaved Dalmatian mix.

She needs a loving family to live with. Good with kids as well as other animals including cats. danielavazpour @hotmail.com

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PORRIDGE Female/Spayed Domestic Shorthair/Mix 3 years 1 month.

I.D. #8075783 PIXIE Female/Spayed Spaniel/Mix 7 years 1 month I.D. #7986937 MISS BETTY BOBINSKI Female/Spayed Domestic Shorthair/Mix 6 months.

I.D. #8175583

7i^[l_bb[ >kcWd[ IeY_[jo 72 Lee’s Creek Rd, Asheville, NC 253-6807 • AshevilleHumane.org

Buncombe County Friends For Animals, Inc.

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Sales

Yard Sales $2 OFF • WITH THIS AD Bring your stuff • Take home the money! 6am3pm: • Friday: $5 • Saturday: $10 (Sell on Saturday, get Sunday free!) • Sunday: $5.

1500 Brevard Road • Bent Creek.

230-8585. Bent Creek Flea Market ATTENTION SHOPPERS! This Saturday, September 5, 9am-2pm Fundraising Yard Sale in the parking lot of Pet Soup Pet Services, 31 Glendale Avenue, off of Swannanoa River Rd between Biltmore and Tunnel Rds. • Tons of items to choose from, including clothing, baby items, furniture, movies, books. All money raised helps Brother Wolf care for the homeless dogs and cats in their network. Donations are greatly appreciated. Call 458-7778 for more info.

Huge Moving Sale 10-5 Thursday, Friday, Sat Sun Sept 3,4,5,6 at 33 Fowler Town Road Candler. Behind Candler Elementary 828-230-7040 Monster Yard Sale Saturday, Sept.5. 14 N.College Street Weaverville. 9am-3pm.

Proceeds Benefit Altrusa of Asheville’s Scholarship Fund.

1998 Expedition Eddie Bauer 4x4 5.4LiterV8.

166,000m miles. Excellent condition, premium sound, Leather, 3rd Row Seat, tow package: $6,500 obo. aj3483@gmail.com

TRIXIE is a Heeler mix puppy who is searching for her forever home. Brother Wolf Animal Rescue is a non-profit dog and cat rescue group that is dedicated to helping abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes.

The adoption fee is $125; all animals are spayed/neutered, up to date on shots and microchipped.

Visit www.bwar.org or call 458-7778.

Pet Services ASHEVILLE PET SITTERS Dependable, loving care while you’re away.

Reasonable rates. Call Sandy Ochsenreiter, (828) 258-0942 or 215-7232.

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LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE! End cruel and dangerous constant chaining of dogs in NC! Lobby your state reps to reintroduce legislation addressing dog chaining.

For information, contacts and downloads, visit www.crittersong.org

Vehicles For Sale

Autos 1988 Volvo 240 GL Just over 200K miles. Owned ten years. Runs great. New alternator, water pump, some minor electric issues. $750 obo. 450-4535.

1995 Corolla Manual, 4d, 160K, perfect running cond, need new paint job, $1,995.

Cindy 828-778-9779.

1995 Mercury Grand Marquis Silver, leather, all power, new tires. Needs front brake pads. $650. Call 828-768-2581.

2005 Toyota Matrix 5-sd., power steering, windows, and locks; cruise control, roof rack, front wheel drive, 81k miles, perfect mechanical condition. $7,900. 828-281-3510.

2006 Convertible Mini Cooper $21,500. Chili Red,Harman/Kardon Stereo, Leather Seats, Automatic.

Call for details.

828-782-7443.

2007 Saturn Ion-3 Coupe Quad. 52K. 5 speed. 2.4L engine, sunroof, spoiler, aluminum wheels, remote.

Asking $6600.

828-2319887 2008 GT Mustang, 10,300 miles. Take over loan approximately $23,746.

Must sell. 828-691-1664 2009 Subaru Forrester 2.5X Premier fully loaded.

Silver/Black. MP3 Plug In, Multi Disk CD player, sunroof 100K mile, 5 year warranty, all maintenance covered through 45k miles Included. 22K. $21,500.

828-318-6147 DUNE BUGGY Seeking Street legal dune buggy in good condition.

Call 275-5650.

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Trucks/Vans /SUVs 1977 VW Westfalia Amazing bus, runs great. $6500 Check out photos: http://www.thesamba.com/ vw/classifieds/detail.php?id =803952 Call Kate 828.545.9109.

1995 Chevy Blazer 4X4 $2500 Power everything.

Looks and runs great $2500 OBO 828-606-6846 or mnmluplow@hotmail.com 1995 Dodge Ram 1500 2WD, White, Regular Cab, Laramie SLT, 154,966 miles. Leave message: 828-280-2793 Cherry 1988 Chevy S10 ext. cab 4.3 Jasper engine, custom solid red paint, bed liner, hard top, papers, upgrades, extras. Asking $5300. 828-669-0989.

Motor Toyota 22RE engine for 1993 4x4 pickup.

Complete with intake, exhaust, starter and some new gaskets. $350.00 for all. 828-667-1407 call before noon.

Recreational Vehicles 2003 Salem 27’ FBSS Front bedroom, power slide out, ducted AC/furnace, all hitch accessories included. $11,500 828-606-6846 mnmluplow@hotmail.com

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Coleman Camper Pull behind pop-up camper.

Appox. 30 years old but still in great condition. New canvas! $200 Call Kate 828.545.9109.

Automotive Services WE’LL FIX IT AUTOMOTIVE • Honda and Acura repair.

Half price repair and service. ASE and factory certified. Located in the Weaverville area. Please call 828-275-6063 for appointment.

Dell Latitude D800 laptop, wireless, 1 gb ram, XP Pro, exc. cond. $285 828-274-1032.

I-MAC G 5 17 inch monitor 1.8 GHZ processor 512 KB RAM 150 GB hard drive Mac OSX version 10.5.8 Key board, mouse included $475 call: 258-8560 Larry.

Bicycles Haro Extreme X-1 26”inch customized (rock hopper) Psylo Rock Shox on front $375 OBO. 828-891-3484,

Sporting Goods For Sale

Computers Brand New Laptops/Desktops Bad credit, no credit - no problem. Small weekly payments. Order today and get free Nintendo Wii game system. Call now: 800-840-5439. (AAN CAN) Brand New Laptops/Desktops Bad credit, no credit - no problem. Small weekly payments. Order today and get free Nintendo Wii game system. Call now: 800-840-5439. (AAN CAN)

1997 GSI SeaDo with trailer. Needs battery. $800.

828-691-1664 Pilates Premier Reformer New, never used, still in box. Assembly required. $200 firm. Cash only. jcsdla@bellsouth.net Power Cage Unit with steel weights of 300 lb. Includes Bench and leg curls. New was $1100. Must sell. $650. Firm 828-691-1664

Tools & Machinery New Gas Generator Never opened. HONDA 13 H.P. 6500/8000 Porter Cable body $1250 828-299-3969.

Clothing Wedding Dress-Gloria Vanderbilt A-line cut, empire waist, chapel length train, white satin, size 6, beading detail. Beautiful. $200. Call Kate 828.545.9109.

Furniture MATTRESSES Pillow-top: queen $250, king $350 • Extra firm: queen $175, king $275 • Full: $150 • Twin: $99. New, in plastic.

828-277-2500.

Firewood All Hardwood that will fit into your patio firepit or stove. No Voodoo suprise charges. Call Lumber Jill 545-7062.

Mixed Hardwood Seasoned, delivered and stacked $75 to $120 828-668-3158

MOVING SALE 9/5: 4pm8pm, 9/6: 11am-8pm. 32” Toshiba analog TV, DVD, bed, desk, chairs, tables, lamps, steel filing cabinets, new Brother sewing machine, more. West Asheville off Leicester Hwy. Call for directions: 828-713-5275.

Adult A MAN’S DESIRE • Steamy Summer Specials! • Call for details. • Let us relax and de-stress you! • MondaySaturday, 9am-9pm.

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(Lic#08-00020912).

• (828) 989-7353.

A PERSONAL TOUCH Asheville. • Ask about our Hot Summer Specials!

Incall/outcall: 713-9901.

A WOMAN’S TOUCH Ask us about our “Summer Special”. • “We’re all about you!”. Call 275-6291.

MEET SEXY SINGLES by phone instantly! Call (828) 239-0006. Use ad code 8282. 18+

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