Celebrity chefs and reality TV, fringe style

The local restaurant scene, like most of Asheville culture, could use a good-natured ribbing every now and then. And who better to take up the task than the Magnetic Theatre, another group of passionate locals? When the Theatre, founded in 2009, shut down its physical location in the River Arts District last March, some worried […]

Tavern of curiositie­s

Don’t call it a dive bar. Although the Odditorium occupies the same cozy building on Haywood Road that once housed the Get Down, owners Amy Marshall and Tamy Kuper have made some major changes that distance the location from its honkey tonk reputation. “I don’t necessarily love the term ‘dive bar,’” Marshall says. “It’s supposed […]