The rest of the Best!

Volume
19
/ Issue
13

Cover Design Credit:

Carrie Lare, Photographs by Max Cooper

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  • Maximum fullness: The yoga of diabetes management

    -by Katie Souris
    I came to Asheville to kayak the region’s amazing rivers. I came so I could see the mountains from the UNCA library’s steps and look forward to being on them…
  • Career Day

    -by Molton
  • Zombies

    -by Brent Brown
  • Weekly Asheville Disclaimer Page: 10/17/12

    -by Webmaster
    • Room for rent in awesome communal house w/ awesome people!! - $650/120 S.F. (W. AVL)
  • Maximum fullness

    -by Katie Souris
    I came to Asheville to kayak the region’s amazing rivers. I came so I could see the mountains from the UNCA library’s steps and look forward to being on them…
  • Beware sensationalist tactics — wherever they appear

    -by Webmaster
    Virginia Bower’s reaction upon seeing a full-page advertisement for the documentary film 2016: Obama’s America is understandable, but ultimately misguided and potentially damaging to this publication and the Asheville community…
  • Lord save us from crypto-fascist liberals

    -by Webmaster
    Over the past decade I've seen so many stupid, silly, off-the-wall letters published in Mountain Xpress that I've come to think of Letters as a slight variation of the “News…
  • To be the best, you must compete with the best

    -by Webmaster
    For the past several weeks, the owners, staff and customers of Favilla's N.Y. Pizza have eagerly awaited the results for the Best of WNC pizza category. Admittedly, we were disappointed…
  • Asheville is lucky to have Liberty Bikes

    -by Webmaster
    I hope you might be able to help me recognize a recent exceptional experience that my friends and I from Colorado had with Liberty Bikes in Asheville. We were on…
  • Regulators! Mount up

    -by Webmaster
    As a citizen of Asheville, it concerns me greatly that the presence of Progress Energy’s coal-ash ponds has continued to go unregulated and unrecognized by our local, state and federal…
  • Attention: Asheville City Council

    -by Webmaster
    Why is it that when big business asks for something, you're always ready to give it? First, it was 51 Biltmore, then it was [approval for another] McKibbon hotel facing…
  • Elections are not for sale

    -by Webmaster
    As a voter, I am terribly dismayed by the huge amount of money coming from corporate interests to many campaigns across the country. Super PACs and corporate money are damaging…
  • I am voting for Patsy

    -by Aile Shebar
    I live in the newly carved 10th Congressional District, and I volunteered for Patsy Keever, drawn to her integrity, her vision of a kinder, better-intentioned and well-educated North Carolina, even…
  • Sliding into home

    -by Webmaster
    In September 2004, Buncombe County was declared a federal disaster area in the wake of tropical storms Frances and Ivan. Twelve landslides were reported, and two structures — a home…
  • Letters to the editor

    -by Webmaster
    Quite a slide Your “Slippery Slopes” articles [Nov. 22 Xpress] covering the concerns with the overdevelopment of our beautiful mountains hit on my growing heartbreak as I witness these rapid…