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Many still shocked by former director's firing
It's a grind: Police crackdown sparks calls for retooled skateboard ordinance
Asheville mobilizes to woo Google
Cross-country rider calls attention to the homeless
P&Z approves Larchmont project
Multimedia editor Jason Sandford leaving Xpress for Ashvegas
From drafts to renewables
Local musician recounts his youth in an Irish orphanage
Tireless songwriter, performer and Twitterer G.Love returns to Asheville
Ani DiFranco on raising her daughter, slowing down a bit and keeping true
Mother and son folk music collectors play Jack of the Wood
The original BMC spirit revisited in a new happening; Echo Early Music Festival reverberates
Your guide to what's happening in music, theater and the arts in Asheville and Western North Carolina
Dutch treat
Eat out to aid the environment
Happy ending to a hard time in Hot Springs
Buncombe needs Patsy Keever representing us in Raleigh
Tired of the Tea Partiers? We're brewing up a Coffee Party alternative
Recycling matters to all — and all should be doing it
Local options for disc golf are many — and there's more to come at Richmond Hill
Not sold on benefits of local banking
Xpress' electronic-music section failed to touch on TOUCH Samadhi
Why is DOT pruning roadways beyond the need to do so?
Extension grants help local farmers grow
Film screening benefits Mars Hill cycling team
• Google
• Shamanic industry
• Briefs
• Spamology
Meet Hendersonville Epicurean blogger Laura Huff
Asheville-area food and restaurant news
March madness
This week’s issue of Xpress mistakenly pegs the event, which will pay tribute to the creative legacy of Black Mountain College, to the wrong date
Feeling literary? Or like escaping the rain, drinking a jumbo-sized macchiato and listening to an astute author read to you? This evening through Sunday promise plenty of bookish opportunities.
Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club, Choke and other novels will be at Asheville High Saturday, May 8, courtesy of Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café. Tickets are $30 and go on sale tomorrow.
South Asheville continues to fill up with great restaurants—Green Tea Sushi is next.
Menya is a group of three 20-something New York University undergrads whose bubbly brand of electro-pop will boost your heart rate and drop your thoughts into the gutter quicker than you can say, well, Menya. Check them out for yourself Friday at Club 828.
Seduction Sideshow presents the Corney Island Carnival Sideshow Extravaganza on Saturday, March 20.
Folk, Gothic cabaret and dark-punk band Hellblinki teams up with puppeteer Madison J. Cripps to present The Devil Takes All, a puppet rock opera and adventure through the dubious wonders of Hellblinkland. 
Olive the otter has a new, male companion. WNC Nature Center’s video of their first encounter indicates that the two might get along swimmingly.
Alternative 4B gets tweaked but remains in the game, according to ADC report.
Sign, quoting WNC-based author John Ehle, on Patton Ave.
At about 7 a.m., Sunday, Jan. 3, Warren Wilson grad Katie Spotz left Senegal, rowing solo across the Atlantic. As of Feb. 28, she’s four-fifth’s across.
City Hall renovations! Budget deficits! Bus system reforms! Public art! Google! Planning commission controversies! All this and more, in the latest live Twitter coverage from Asheville City Council ...
Construction crews work hard replacing the Biltmore Avenue bridge that crosses the Swannonoa River, on Wednesday, March 10.
Photo by Jonathan Welch
Ami Worthan (of Mad Tea Party) stops at Hi-fi Coffee Bar’s take out window, located in the Downtown Market.
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