The Western Carolina Rescue Ministries plans to launch a $7 million construction project in May that will double space and services for homeless people and people battling drug and alcohol addiction.
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Resetting the Purim table
There is nothing better than a poppy-seed hamantaschen. The soft, buttery pastry, crammed with achingly-sweet, figgy poppy-seed filling, is so ridiculously delicious that it’s the highlight of a holiday on which Jews dress up in costume, exchange gifts and—according to Talmudic tradition—are commanded to get so drunk they can’t tell good from evil. They’re that […]
Book Report: The Frontier Nursing Service
This is the story of Mary Breckinridge, the intrepid health care provider who founded the The Frontier Nursing Service in rural Kentucky during the 1920s. She single-handedly lowering one of the nation’s highest maternal mortality rates to one of the country’s lowest.
APD, Henderson and Buncombe sheriffs create gang task force
The Asheville Police Department and the Henderson and Buncombe county sheriff’s offices will create a joint task force to “combat the rise of gang-related activity” in the area, according to an agreement signed Feb. 18
All Rebel Rocker: The Complete Interview with Michael Franti
Hip hop, reggae and folk musician Michael Franti on performing in Asheville, recording in Jamaica, traveling through the Middle East and holding on to hope.
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Buncombe Commissioners
County may withhold URTV funding Money may be tight, but plans for Buncombe County’s new emergency-services training facility are proceeding full speed ahead. Training provided at the facility could save lives, county officials say. At its Feb. 17 meeting, the Board of Commissioners authorized a design contract with Keith Hargrove Architects and instructed staff to […]
Whose TV?
There’s trouble at URTV. Who—and what—is responsible for that trouble? The answers depend on who you ask. Before the crowd: URTV Executive Director Pat Garlinghouse addressing a 2007 meeting of URTV producers. Photo by Jonathan Welch Launched in 2005, Asheville’s public-access channel is “a televised forum for legal, noncommercial speech; a place where you can […]
Spreading a story: Embracing Simplicity
In the personal view of the Venerable Pannavati Bhikkhuni, abbot of Hendersonville’s Embracing Simplicity Hermitage, what she has is just a story. The Venerable Pannavati Bhikkhuni, abbot of Hendersonville’s Embracing Simplicity Hermitage “When people around the world see what can be done, it encourages in a way that rhetoric cannot,” she tells Xpress. “I tell […]
WPVM dials in new interim director, temporarily tunes out nine volunteers
A new interim station manager started last week at Asheville’s low-power FM community-radio station, but the news did little to quell ongoing tensions that have roiled the station since last fall. For months, station volunteers have lobbied to have Wally Bowen, executive director of the Mountain Area Information Network, removed from direct control of the […]
CJIS puts computer power in hands of local law enforcement
Thanks to in-car computers, police officers on the streets of Asheville have an amazing array of information at their fingertips. Officers can call up the criminal history at a particular address, update a traffic-accident report from the field, look at mug shots of suspects and more. What makes all this possible is the Criminal Justice […]
Legislators paint grim picture
Expounding the state of the nation’s crippled economy to a room full of the area’s top employers and revenue generators is no picnic. But that’s what state Sen. Martin Nesbitt and Reps. Susan Fisher, Bruce Goforth, Jane Whilden and Ray Rapp did at the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual legislative luncheon on Feb. 20. […]
The Hendersonville chapter of Business & Professional Women
BPW Hendersonville officers. Standing (L-R): Tonya Holbert, treasurer; Jennifer Duran, vice president; Leanne Schuller, secretary. Seated: Kacey Case Smith, president. The Hendersonville chapter of Business & Professional Women is a group of women who are dedicated to achieving equity for women in the workplace through advocacy, education and information. BPW is a nonpartisan organization seeking […]
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After 81 Years, the Oscars become relevant
It can be argued—and it almost certainly will be—that this year’s Academy Awards were utterly predictable. The smart money had said it was going to be a Slumdog Millionaire straight ticket, and with eight Oscars—picture, director, adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing, original score, song and sound mixing—they were dead on. Certainly I can’t say it wasn’t […]
The Green Scene
Pam McCorkhill had noticed the gray dust in her neighborhood, Lake Julian Trails, since she moved there in 2006. But to the former grade-school science teacher, the sandy material was merely an annoyance that meant extra cleaning indoors and regular deck washing. “I’ve never complained about it, and [at first] I didn’t know what it […]
Welcome to A&E
A bit of Marshall trivia for you: Marc Hosler of experimental band Negativland lives in the tiny town north of Asheville. Also, Tony Torn, son of actor Rip Torn, has a venue called The FBI (the French Broad Institute of Time and the River). The French Broad Institute will show the area’s only screening of […]
Bad girls set the world into play
After returning last year from a creative stint in Brooklyn, local singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Jon Reid—aka Jar-e—has been hard at work, writing and recording a new album, lending support to Angi West on her new release and, most recently, opening for Toubab Krewe at a spate of shows north and south of the Mason-Dixon line. The […]
The rebel rocker yogi
On the back of Michael Franti’s newest record All Rebel Rockers (2008), a photograph shows three hands raised in peace, each decorated with a different religious symbol: A cross, the Star of David and a crescent moon and star, the symbol of Islam. For Franti and his band Spearhead, music has the unique power to […]
Black Mountain’s newish party place
Wanna go to an all-ages frat-type party but with better beer? First drive out toward Black Mountain (even better, catch a ride). Pass through the barbed-wire-topped gates into the warehouse complex that once housed a Drexel Heritage Furniture plant. Enter a door marked only “Unit 100,” walk down industrial steel steps, and enter a beer […]
The high price of love
“They say our love won’t pay the rent,” crooned Sonny and Cher in their 1965 hit seven-inch, “I Got You Babe.” In 1985, the average rent for low-to-moderate income families in Asheville was under $80, according to the annual report of the Housing Authority of the City of Asheville. Last year’s conference of mayors revealed […]