Each week Xpress reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their entertainment suggestions.
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Of the people, for the people
The Lake Eden Arts Festival has a proud history of bringing performers from around the globe to Black Mountain’s Camp Rockmont. This season alone boasts a Cuban jam session, salsa and Aztec dances, and artists from Ireland, the Virgin Islands, Japan, Iraq, Rwanda, Bangladesh and Russia—and that’s just for starters. Found In Translation: Malian star […]
Show review: Josh Ritter at the Orange Peel
Singer/songwriter Josh Ritter brings barely controlled chaos, complex song writing skills and welcome sincerity to his stage show.
Top Drawer: Fashion news and views
Top Drawer wants to get into the minds of Asheville’s notable fashion forecasters, trendsetters and style icons. In this series, we ask boutique owners and designers what inspires them, and what tips they have to pass along. This month, Moe Erin Donnelly of Sew Moe (www.sewmoe.com) boasts about the local fashion scene, turns us on […]
Reggae performer Luciano returns to Asheville
Maybe it’s his resonate singing voice, or his military-inspired outfits, or his powerful message. However you look at reggae artist Luciano, he’s one towering performer.
Book Report: Literary happenings
Readings, writings and contests are coming up. Mark your calendar.
Top Drawer: Fashion news and views
The Asheville Area Arts Council’s Purple Ball Fashion Show: Peace, Love and Purple, held Sunday, April 20, at the Renaissance Asheville Hotel, had a threefold mission. First, the event raised funds for Western North Carolina arts programs. Second, it served as a kickoff for the Purple Ball gala to be held Saturday, June 14 (to […]
Stay tuned
If reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and self-sufficient pop composer Imogen Heap had a love child, the result might be singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson. Portrrait of the artist as a young homebody: ingrid Michaelson is chipping away at mainstream success from the comfort of her parents’ Staten Island home. Photo by Deborah Lopez Hear me out. Like […]
Thread magazine fundraiser
Help support a local, independent magazine with an insider view of the arts scene.
Register for the Asheville 48 Hour Film Project
First-come, first-served registration for the annual 48 Hour Film Project begins online on Monday, April 28.
Book Report: Local literary events
Angela Shelton returns to her hometown, Robert Morgan and Sheila Kay Adams talk about early immigrants and much more.
Lush Life trunk show
Find locally made designer fashions at BoBo Gallery.
Book Report: 6 Sick Hipsters
Is Rayo Casablanca’s debut novel the new hipster handbook? Or is it just a Pulp Fiction wannabe?
Peace, Love and Purple: Purple Ball fashion photos
Check out a photo gallery from the recent fashion show.
Pat & Alli’s Weekly Winners
Each week Xpress reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their entertainment suggestions.
Playing dirty
In the year or year-and-a-half or several years (depending on how you count it) that The Trainwreks (formerly No Good and the Trainwreks) have been playing, they’ve managed to establish their own genre, of which they are the “self-proclaimed kings”—at least according to guitarist/vocalist Micha Fishman. Some might argue that former Asheville group The Unholy […]
Top Drawer: Fashion news and views
Local visionary Rylin Mariel is hard to miss: Her brightly colored outfits, mendhi-like body paint, spiky hairstyles and fringed scarves set her apart in the best way. For years, women have asked her how she achieved her look. “I tell them that it just comes from a synthesis of the things I love most in […]
Run for the not-so-proverbial carrot
Since many of us exercise so we can eat what we want, a food-themed race seems just the thing.
Repertoire of Reprehensible Acts
Gallery show features works by noted boxcar artist.
Book Report: Area readings and events
Dot Frank and the guy behind PETA’s “I’d rather go naked than wear fur” campaign are just two of the literary luminaries making their way to WNC this week.
Great expectations
On the list of things that are less likely to happen than being struck by a meteor are: winning the lottery, discovering buried treasure and being called out of nowhere to open for a superstar like John Legend or James Blunt. Carpe diem, y’all: Knoxville’s Erick Baker knows a thing or two about striking while […]