Thanksgiving is this Thursday (like you forgot) and few shows are happening that night. Make up for it with a jam-packed Friday and Saturday. Everything’s $5 or less so you can see even more music.
Year: 2009
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Buncombe Commissioners: Zoning war winding down?
CTS cleanup controversy continues County sells Merrimon Avenue site for affordable housing complex Eight months ago, the N.C. Court of Appeals struck down Buncombe County's 2007 zoning ordinance on technical grounds, saying that the county hadn't properly notified the public and that the county Planning Board hadn't had sufficient time to consider the sweeping changes. […]
South Asheville rising
Tom Montgomery looked south and spied opportunity. By last year, 12 Bones Smokehouse, the rib shack in Asheville's River Arts District co-owned by Montgomery and Sabra Kelley, had racked up three successful years. Powered by strong demand for their smoky barbecue and a talented staff itching to do still more, they decided to launch a […]
Former Asheville firefighter gets four months for cyclist shooting
Former Asheville firefighter Charles Alexander Diez will spend four months in jail for shooting at cyclist Alan Simons last July. Diez pleaded guilty Nov. 19 to assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. On July 26, Simons was riding with his family on Tunnel Road. According to Asheville police, Diez had stopped to […]
City names economic development chief as Civic Center director
The Asheville Civic Center is getting more than just a new roof: After a five-month search, the city has appointed Economic Development Director Sam Powers as the venue's director. The Civic Center has been operating under an interim director since the departure of Sherman Bass back in June. Bass had served for about a year-and-a-half […]
Local publisher Ira Schultz dies; Stereotypd to carry on his work
Ira Schultz will be remembered by friends and colleagues for his ability to make people laugh. "He had a fabulous sense of humor," says Lin Orndorf, editor of the GLBT magazine Stereotypd. "He loved to be in the spotlight, but only if he was making people laugh." A big impression: Ira Schultz, publisher of Stereotypd […]
Buncombe County to hand off health care services to local nonprofit
Buncombe County has taken another step toward handing a local nonprofit the job of providing primary health care to indigent and uninsured children and adults. The county announced Nov. 17 that it had reached a formal agreement with Western North Carolina Community Health Services to provide basic access to health care for about 10,000 patients […]
Tuesday night fever?
The holiday season is just about here, which means all the usual cheer, gift wrapping, caroling, sugar consumption, goodwill toward men and five weeks of quality time spent with family and friends. Guest are great and all, but sometimes a pleasant Tuesday evening morphs into a painful eternity over the Scrabble board. Or maybe you— […]
It’s too easy to feel good with the Dave Rawlings Machine
From the Big Pink campfire sing-a-long of "Ruby" to the sheer solitude of "I Hear Them All," the Dave Rawlings Machine takes you from Harlem to the San Francisco Bay with an album that could only be made by traversing the highways and rooftops of America. Going big: Dave Rawlings has long sung harmony with […]
You run and you die or you stand and you fight
Our future looks grim, and it's all your fault. The media controls your mind, and they've sold you a meaningless world of corporate consumerism that is decimating the values and traditions of America. But you're too apathetic to notice. Rage against the machine: Buck, former guitarist for Th' Legendary Shack Shakers, says he's at war […]
Artillery
Emily Crabtree has splayed out her memories through visually abstract explorations of mark-making and paper-cutting for a contemplative exhibition called Fibers of Recollection. In its entirety, the show demonstrates Crabtree's varied skills: drawing, painting and mixed media sculpture. Creating the pieces over a period of months, allowed Crabtree to let the work evolve itself, rather […]
Junkers Blues
It's Fall, a transitional time for the junker. As the salad days of yard sales, warm flea market mornings and spring cleanouts lead into the hoarding, barren days of winter, the junker can go through weeks at a time without a decent "score," which leads to withdrawal, the jitters, anxiety. Which is just my schmaltzy […]
Spork
There's much to be thankful for around here, 'tis true. Having lived in drier and more stoic towns, we're grateful that there's always somewhere fun to go and something fun to do. For example, the list of new places opening up and/or getting renovated keeps getting longer. Fred's Speakeasy recently reopened after a serious remodel, […]
Chai Pani
If you've somehow managed not to get to Chai Pani yet, here's what you need to know about the supremely energetic Indian street-food eatery: The place was so popular its first week that its owners were forced to close their doors, turn customers away and spend a few days figuring out how they were going […]
The Green Scene
News from around the region lands in the Xpress inbox via various routes each week, from old-fashioned e-mail to TweetDeck (a handy tool for tracking all those 142-character tweets) to a message from a BlackBerry-toting concerned citizen. Here are a few standout tweeted tips: Appeals court overturns trout stream variance in Yancey County The North […]
Outdoors: Fontana flashback
While Western North Carolina may be a tourist destination — as well as home to quite a few transplants who now enjoy our mountains, woods and lakes — there are still a few of us with longer histories here who recall a different era. Here's what I remember: Fontana Lake in 1975. I was 15 […]
How the election saved Asheville
Within basic political reality, I couldn't be happier with the local election results and feel that if predictions hold up, Asheville/Buncombe has real cause to celebrate, for once, the wisdom of our voters. I actually erred in my endorsements of Bothwell and Smith, when shortly after I wrote, Manheimer showed up to Blue Ridge Pride […]
Act now to oppose the proposed H-bomb factory in Oak Ridge
Overcoming rain and interstate blockages, two teenagers' testimony supplemented that of 10 from WNC at the Department of Energy's Nov. 17 hearing in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The 12 opposed our government's proposed new $3.5 billion H-bomb factory. Despite Obama's avowal to phase out nuclear weapons, our militarists endorse a sustained global arms race for another […]
Beware of basing your diet on ideology
Vegetarianism vs. factory meat-farming? We have lost our instincts about what is natural to eat. No other animal has philosophical discussions about the subject. Choosing a diet based on ideology can get you in big trouble if your ideology doesn't match your biology. What do humans eat naturally? Our teeth are like chimpanzees' — chimps […]
Stupak amendment attempts to "keep women in their place"
As a result of late-night, back-room negotiations, anti-choice forces took a "win" when the House health-care bill passed the Saturday before last. Outlawing coverage for a legal medical procedure, the Stupak amendment will hurt millions of women who will pay the price for this staggering restriction on their right to choose. The Stupak amendment doesn't […]
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• Tupelo Honey
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