The surf is roaring — or maybe it’s the clamor of thousands of landed buccaneers, flooding the city of many hills that, for one weekend a year, becomes Bele Chere Island. At least according to Xpress, your blanket on the sand, the sail on your skiff, the parrot on your shoulder. In other words, welcome […]
While Bele Chere officially kicks off Friday afternoon, Saturday is when the festival hits its stride. Music cranks up at noon and doesn't end until 10 p.m. (and then there are the afterparties in local venues, in case you like your Saturday to spill into Sunday). This year, from the opening notes of Leeda "Lyric" […]
OK, so you had to take your children to the Children’s Area, your mother needed to swing by the downtown Y because of her port-a-john phobia, and your significant other won’t move from the bench outside of Malaprop’s. Isn’t it time you thought about you? Use this handy guide to help you find your Bele […]
Last week may have been a little slack, but this week brings us three mainstream titles—Cowboys & Aliens (everywhere but the Beaucatcher), Crazy, Stupid, Love (everywhere but the Carmike) and The Smurfs (again, everywhere but the Carmike). Then there’s one art title—Page One: Inside the New York Times (at The Carolina)—and something or other called Assassination Games that promises the return of Jean-Claude Van Damme (also at The Carolina). People in search of something other than Bele Chere—or wanting to get out of the heat of Bele Chere—are not wanting for options.
The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners is expected July 26 to approve a large real-estate sale to Linamar Corp. as part of an economic incentives package aimed at ensuring the Canadian-based auto-parts manufacturer fulfills its plans to operate in Buncombe County.
Chicago’s Kids These Days take the place of Mambo Sauce in the Bele Chere Saturday lineup. Photo by Charles Nolis Anderson.
Her show of confrontational works addresses environmental catastrophe, among other issues. Up through July 30 inside the Phil Mechanic Studios.
Republicans have fired the first round in the latest edition of the political turf war that predictably erupts every 10 years in the wake of the U.S. census. And the proposed new congressional districts could make it very difficult for a Democrat to represent Asheville and Buncombe County in the U.S. House, says Roger Hartley, […]
You can find plenty of alt-country around Asheville. You can find some country rock and the occasional mainstream country show at the Civic Center. But good, solid, old-school country in the vein of Patsy Cline? Not so much. That is, unless you've discovered Deep River. The local band made its Asheville debut in 2007, but […]
Without further ado, here’s 10 things I give you parents permission not to waste your time worrying about…
You know how there are some days in Asheville where everything seems to happen at once, and even if you gave it your very best college try, you couldn’t possibly cram it all in to one 24-hour period of time? Well Saturday, July 16 is one of those days. Here, to make your time management next to impossible, are five events worth shoe-horning into your schedule (including The Black Rabbits, seen here, who’ll play Westville Pub).
Buncombe County’s removal of 17 newspaper boxes in front of the courthouse was illegal, attorney Amanda Martin of the N.C. Press Association maintains. “There’s absolutely a First Amendment issue here,” she asserts. “Newspapers have the right to be on public property.” County Manager Wanda Greene ordered the move late last month. “We removed them because […]
Local painter and Xpress arts writer Ursula Gullow’s exhibit, Speaking in Tongues, is up through July 30 at Atelier 24. About the title, Gullow says, “I researched what speaking in tongues is all about. Basically, it’s a nonsensical abstract language coming from a higher place. I see the creative process as that. The language is universal.”
Faced with recently passed state legislation mandating that the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners switch to district elections, the commissioners may counter by holding a referendum on the way the board is elected, Chair David Gantt tells Xpress.
Heading to the farmers market takes a little planning, but it’s more than worth it. A market-inspired meal idea after the jump
—Photos by Mackensy Lunsford
From retro cool to modern pop, Deep River plays classic country.
Editor’s note: Some names have been changed to protect people interviewed for this story and their families. For most 23-year-olds at UNCA, the recently concluded spring semester was a rite of passage, signaling the end of their college years and a big transition into the working world. But for sophomore Loida Ginocchio-Silva, it was just […]
After weeks of speculation about a pending deal with an unnamed private company, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners approved one of the largest real estate purchases in the county's history in hopes of luring new jobs to the area. The commissioners unanimously agreed to pay $7 million for the former Volvo plant in Skyland, […]
Women in several Western North Carolina counties aren't living as long as they used to. The details come in a new report, “Falling Behind: Life Expectancy in U.S. Counties from 2000 to 2007 in an International Context,” which appeared June 15 online at PopulationHealthMetrics.com. “For women, you have barely any counties [in the Deep South […]
Once every 10 years, state legislators get a chance to redraw congressional districts. After their historic gains last November, North Carolina Republicans get a go at the process for the first time in more than 100 years. And in the maps they’ve released today, July 1, many Asheville voters have been stripped out of the 11th Congressional District that Democrat Heath Shuler represents and moved to the 10th, currently represented by Republican Patrick McHenry.
