This week in print
The lowdown on headbands, short-shorts and get-fit-quick schemes
The Presidents of the United States of America still wonder about their own strange brand of success
Local author Sarah Addison Allen returns
The Galen Kipar Project explores greater depth with simpler tools
Seeing the forest for the frieze
Multimedia exhibit rethinks landscape art
Your guide to what's happening in music, theater and the arts in Asheville and Western North Carolina
Each and every one of the films in question have indeed shaken a finger at the viewer — and they’ve done so without any distancing. It’s one thing to suggest that we as a people might have bungled something in the past, or that we were somehow not as attentive or aware as we might have been. It’s another thing to lecture the viewer that they’re doing the same right now.
Gari Carter’s Troubled State and D.C. Force’s Family both draw from inherited history.
Atlanta-based author Joshilyn Jackson comes to Asheville to read and discuss her newest novel.
Each week Xpress reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their entertainment suggestions.
Xpress photo gallery takes a unique view of last weekend’s Lake Eden Arts Festival
“This week, my third-grader will take end-of-grade tests for the first time. She’s nervous and I’m irritated.”
Yes, I’ve got it. Call it the movie-going malaise. The cinematic blues. The crummy picture collywobbles. Whatever you call it, it ain’t pretty.
Short though these stories by N.C. author Susan Woodring may be, Springtime on Mars proves a compelling, engaging read.
Each week Xpress reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their entertainment suggestions.
Singer/songwriter Josh Ritter brings barely controlled chaos, complex song writing skills and welcome sincerity to his stage show.
