After serving for 24 years as Buncombe County’s District Attorney, Ron Moore lost his job to challenger Todd Williams in a landslide Democratic primary. And in the District 3 Buncombe County commissioners race, political newcomer Miranda DeBruhl defeated incumbent David King in the Republican primary. Here’s a rundown of some of the key local May 6 election results. Photo by Jesse Farthing.
Year: 2014
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Home base: Odd’s Café opens in West Asheville
There is a new home on Haywood Road. Surrounded by West Asheville’s popular restaurants, shops and music venues, Odd’s Café, which opened for business on Monday, April 28, hopes to provide a space that can be like a second home for customers.
Beer scout: As easy as ABC
Two years ago Mike Rangel, co-owner of Asheville Brewing Company, took a trip out west for the San Diego Brewing Convention. While he was there, he visited a brewpub called Pizza Port.
Pushing the envelope: Table Wine broadens its reach
Running a wine shop isn’t easy. Margins are often surprisingly tight and it can often seem impossible to compete with the prices in the big grocery chains. A number of local wine shops have closed in the last few years, but Table Wine in South Asheville seems to be thriving.
The widening gap
Newly released data pulled from Feeding America’s 2012 Map the Meal Gap study shows a 2 percent increase in food insecurity in Western North Carolina. In that year, the study found, 15.3 percent of the region’s people lacked consistent access to enough food to meet their nutritional needs, up from 14.9 percent in 2011.
The coal ash round-up: What you might have missed over the past week
Three months after the coal ash spill that dumped 70 miles worth of toxic sludge into Dan River, Duke Energy is still dealing with the backlash and trying to figure out the best way to move forward. According to a story published in the Asheville Citizen-Times on Thursday, May 1, WNC pastors signed and delivered a letter […]
Batting a thousand: Swannanoa family takes in Tourists
For the past eight years, Gary and Karen Bartlett have been hosting players from the Colorado Rockies’ Class A affiliate, and they have no intention of hanging it up anytime soon.
Small bites: Food news to go
Biscuit Head is spreading the love. Soon Ashevilleans who don’t happen to live in on the west side will no longer have to drive to Haywood Road to get their cat-head biscuit on (yep, that means biscuits as big as your kitty’s noggin). As of June 1, owners Jason and Carolyn Roy are opening a second location near Mission Hospital in the Biltmore Avenue location previously occupied by the much-loved Tomato Jam Café.
Best of WNC: The voting continues
Imagine walking into your favorite Asheville shop, restaurant or bar and seeing a certificate of honor hanging in the window, knowing that you, alongside thousands of Mountain Xpress readers, identified your go-to hangout spot — your top choice — as having the best food, product or service in town. Help Xpress reward the best that […]
Out of the city and into the woods
For the past three summers, Nicole Hinebaugh has led a group of children from Asheville’s public housing neighborhoods down the hiking trails of Western North Carolina. This year, she needs extra help from volunteers to keep the program — the Trailblazers Outdoor Adventure Club — going strong.
Smart Bets: The Dex Romweber Duo
The Dex Romweber Duo is “a creepy doll collection of surf, proto-rockabilly, garage, dark and vengeful blues, and nobody but nobody plays it like Dex,” according to a press release. Romweber, formerly of Flat Duo Jets, plays guitar while his “whip-wristed” sister, Sara Romweber (formerly of Let’s Active) finesses the drums. Together, they make music […]
State of the Arts: Show and tell
Everyone loves a great return and Friday, May 9, brings two. Jamaica People, opening in West Asheville, presents images a local photographer brought back from her trips to that Caribbean Island. And in downtown Asheville, media and design forum PechaKucha night returns after a lengthy hiatus. Not your average vacation photos Photographer Jessica Rehfield initially […]
Smart Bets: The Apache Relay
It might seem to The Apache Relay that the road to national recognition is paved with tiny, hard-won steps. Still, the Nashville-based indie-rockers play each show as if it’s an audition for world domination, and songs — dating back to the unforgettable “Lost Kid” — pair roots swagger with pop savvy. Those tiny steps are […]
Happy birthday to Moog
Tribute concert raises funds for Dr. Bob’s Sound School Synthesist Erik Norlander first met the late Robert Moog in January 1997 at the annual National Association of Music Merchants trade show in Southern California. At the time, Norlander was the synthesizer product manager for instrument company Alesis and was designing an analog polyphonic synth called […]
Quintessential soul survivor: Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires at Pisgah Brewing on Thursday, May 8
Daptone recording artist Charles Bradley is on a lengthy four-month tour. That string of shows will bring him to the Pisgah Brewing outdoor stage on Thursday, May 8.
Knotty business
Fiber Weekend at the Folk Art Center includes demonstrations, hands-on activities and a wearable art fashion show take place Saturday and Sunday, May 10 and 11.
Smart Bets: Wham City
Fresh off their Adult Swim debut, Baltimore-based arts collective Wham City — the group responsible for the viral video “Drinking out of cups,” among others — is spreading its weird and wonderful comedy across the East Coast. The show is a “75-minute multimedia performance featuring four alt-comedians offering up all-original stand-up, videos, skits and monologues,” […]
Smart Bets: Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932, the new novel by best-selling author Francine Prose, is full of the kind of characters that would be at home in a John Irving story. Weird, conflicted, flawed and pushing at the edge of believability. But Prose not only populates her fiction with adventure, artistry and Parisian scenes […]
Ramp it down
I look forward to eating ramps every year and was excited to see them today at my local market. Unfortunately, the roots were still attached to the savory bulbs. Digging them up by the roots kills the plant, which will decimate an already endangered species! Having dug them a time or two myself, I was […]
Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler May 7-13: Legends of Dorothy’s Gigolo Fever Ruin
In Theaters Here we have a week of some uncertainty and a great many last-minute changes that threw a monkey wrench or two into the whole business. You see, up until Monday at noon, we were set with a movie (and a review and the Weekly Pick) that the distributor moved (tentatively) to May 23. […]
Why I grow: Gleaning with Willie Jones
In our new section, area growers discuss their gardens and growing projects. This week Willie Jones, an AmeriCorps VISTA with Western Carolina University’s Center for Service Learning and Food Security Partnership and founder of the Jackson County Glean Team, tells us about gleaning and how it can be used to combat food insecurity.