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“Many Faces of Chimney Rock” Photo Contest Launches September 13

The grinning faces of your children, family pet or Grady the Groundhog could win you a two-day getaway with outdoor adventures in Chimney Rock and Lake Lure. Hosted by Chimney Rock at Chimney Rock State Park, the “Many Faces of Chimney Rock” photo contest launches today with alluring prizes to capture the imagination of Park visitors and area photographers.

There’s no fee to submit your photo in the contest for a chance to win, but all photographs must be taken inside the Park between September 13 and November 30, 2013. The contest welcomes Park visitors, amateur and professional photographers to submit up to three photos per person via social media, email or postal mail. The deadline to submit online or postmark date your mailed entry is November 30, 2013.

The winning photos will be selected by a local jury of photojournalists and photographers. Winners will be announced in December, and winning photos will be featured on the Park’s website and social media. For the complete contest rules and submission guidelines, go to chimneyrockpark.com.

Exploring the Faces of Chimney Rock
To capture a winning photo that fits the theme, you’ll probably want to get

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Fall is bringing some great new beers from the local breweries, so let’s get right to them.

Asheville Brewing is adding its own touch to October’s Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit with an official festival beer getting a release next week. The new Electric Pale Ale, crafted by Asheville Brewing’s Doug Riley, will be tapped at a party 5-8 p.m. Sept. 18 at the Millroom, the new event space at 66 Asheland Ave. DJ Marley Carroll will spin music and the first 100 visitors get a free T-shirt.

Electric Pale Ale was made with El Dorado and Citra hops, which combine for an aromatic floral nose and a crisp taste. They made 30 barrels of this 5.5 percent alcohol brew, which will be sold on draft, bottles and in 12-ounce cans. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Music in Schools Foundation. Look for it Sept. 18 at the Millroom and Sept. 19 at downtown Asheville Brewing and the Merrimon Avenue mothership and later at the Mountain Oasis electro-fest Oct. 25-27.

Black Mountain mash-up

It’s always fun when two breweries get together to make a beer. Pisgah Brewing and Lookout Brewing in Black

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A quick and standard disclaimer: I limited this list to teams from the top nine conferences, i.e., the ones we covered in detail in this week’s scheduling analyses. For a list of teams from outside these leagues with notably difficult schedules (we should start calling this the Long Beach State Memorial Subdivision), see Myron Medcalf’s “Others” piece here.

10) NORTH CAROLINA

Toughest: Hall of Fame Tipoff (Nov. 23-24), at Michigan State (Dec. 4), Kentucky (Dec. 14)
Next-toughest: Texas (Dec. 18)
The rest: Oakland (Nov. 8), Holy Cross (Nov. 15), Belmont (Nov. 17), at UAB (Dec. 1), UNC Greensboro (Dec. 7), Davidson (Dec. 21), Northern Kentucky (Dec. 27), UNC Wilmington (Dec. 31)

This schedule’s overall strength hinges on the Hall of Fame Tipoff. If the Tar Heels meet Louisville in the “championship” of that two-game event at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Conn., their nonconference schedule will thus include what seem sure to be, in some order, the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 teams in the country to start the season — national title favorites (or co-favorites) all. Without that Louisville game, though, the Heels still have to go to the Breslin Center for the ACC/Big Ten Challenge; they

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2. Charleston GI presents “Perfectly Paired Dinners” with Cúrate chef Katie Button and Maverick Southern Kitchens chef Joseph Palma. The plates will be served at High Cotton for this pair and should be interesting. On one side, you will see Button’s Spanish tapas influence and on the other you will have Palma’s Southern heritage. Perhaps Button will bring some melt-in-your-mouth jamón ibérico from her Asheville restaurant. (Friday, March 7, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets: $175)

3. Charleston GI presents “Perfectly Paired Dinners” with Miller Union chef Steven Satterfield and Husk/McCrady’s chef Sean Brock. Both Satterfield and Brock have a love of all things Southern. It’s predicted that Atlanta comfort food chef Satterfield and Charleston chef Brock will concentrate on ingredients sourced south of the Mason-Dixon line. (Friday, March 7, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets: $175)

4. SCEG presents “Small Batch Bourbons + Hog Heaven Cooking Demonstration + Tasting” with chef Edward Lee. Bacon and bourbon—what else do you need? Louisville chef Lee returns to the BBT Charleston Wine + Food Festival to demonstrate Southern favorites with a Korean influenced twist. (Saturday, March 8, 2014 at 1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Tickets: $45)

5. SCEG

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“Understanding our Past, Shaping our Future” is a series of panels, each detailing a different topic relating to the Cherokee people, be it European influences, tribal games or the future of the Eastern Band.

“We want to honor that culture and understand it,” said Anna Fariello, a research associate professor with Western Carolina University’s Hunter Library who worked on the exhibit.

People can not only read the panels of information, they can also take advantage of the QR code technology incorporated into the exhibit. 

QR codes, similar to bar codes on store-bought goods, can be scanned. People must simply have a smart phone and download a QR code scanner application. The codes, when scanned, take the user to a website link where they can listen to someone tell stories about the Cherokee and even speak the native language, making it a more dimensional exhibit.

“We started out with more of a historic approach,” Fariello said. Then “we realized that maybe we can play with the language a bit.”

As for what to tackle in the Cherokee’s vast history, the group considered broad but important topics — such as family values and identity — and from there decided what

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Sorry, I couldn’t help it – I saw Hamlet at Montford Park this past weekend. 

But to be more specific, get thee to City Lights Café this Friday, Sept. 13, at 6 p.m. for “Land of the Crooked Water.” The event is the inaugural offering of the Southern Appalachian Office of the Wilderness Society’s LAND/SCAPE project.

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A look at events marking the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks:

NEW YORK CITY

In a sadly familiar ceremony, friends and relatives of World Trade Center attack victims gathered at the National Sept. 11 Memorial plaza to call out the names of the dead and read messages to lost loved ones.

A bell chimed to mark the moments when four hijacked jets crashed into the twin towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, and again to mark the moments when the two skyscrapers collapsed.

Several politicians attended, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former New York Gov. George Pataki, but none gave an address.

The ceremony also recognized victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

WASHINGTON

President Barack Obama held a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. on the White House’s South Lawn to mark the first attack in New York. He was joined by Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden. A bugler played “Taps.”

Then, the president traveled to the Pentagon Sept. 11 memorial in Arlington, Va., where victims’ families, attack survivors and military officials laid a wreath and held

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