The following photos are from The Orange Peel’s Inauguration Gala on Tuesday, Jan. 20: Franzi Charen and Kip Veno, owners of Hip Replacements. Funky Haray2. April Shamel. Joe Adams of local break dance troupe Hunab Kru. Joe made his own hat and scarf. Images by Jonathan Welch.
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Book Report: Around Biltmore Village
Bill Alexander’s Around Biltmore Village offers a charming closer look—along with plenty of rare images and little-known facts—into the evolution of one of Asheville’s iconic areas.
Asheville man charged with assault and kidnapping also “person of interest” in prostitute murder
Asheville resident Lewis Kyle Wilson, charged with the brutal assault and kidnapping of a prostitute, has been dubbed a “person of interest” in a 2006 murder and several similar attacks. Search warrants reveal details about this case, while people who know him shine light on community reactions. Warning: this material is extremely graphic.
Asheville marks inauguration
Around Asheville, people took time out to watch and celebrate the inauguration of President Barack Obama, and Mountain Xpress was there.
Walnut St. on a snowy Tuesday
Amanda (left) and Megan, bundled up on a chilly day.
Get on the bus, Gus: Transit input wanted
The City of Asheville is looking for your ideas for the city’s transit system.
The Green Scene: Coal Ash — a pond farewell
If you flip on a light switch in the Asheville metropolitan area, you’re drawing power from Progress Energy’s Skyland plant.
Wonderful photos from the Rwandan children’s performance in Black Mountain last weekend
Mizero Children of Rwanda performed last Saturday at White Horse/Black Mountain. Local photographer Reggie Tidwell took some fantastic photos of the performance. Check them out at his Flickr site.
Asheville City Council
City Hall has mold problem Reid Center construction approved Council jettisons regular work sessions The W.C. Reid Center for Creative Arts will get some long-awaited upgrades, though the slumping economy means the project will have to be significantly scaled back, at least for now. Game on: The gymnasium at the W.C. Reid Center will remain […]
What’s next for the Asheville Film Festival?
Editor’s note: Mountain Xpress has a long history of involvement with the film festival; this inevitably places the paper prominently in the story. But it has also given Xpress staffers a firsthand look at the event’s inner workings over a number of years. The following story draws on both those experiences and the perspectives of […]
Sweet innovation
Organic farmers tend to be diehard traditionalists, championing agricultural practices that would be familiar to a 19th-century homesteader equipped with a mule and a wooden plow. Newfangled techniques involving chemicals, crop specialization and mechanization are considered suspect by the softly treading sustainable set, whose members thrill to rich compost and heirloom melons. Taste test: How […]
Mountain BizWorks director steps down
Greg Walker-Wilson is stepping down as chief executive officer of Mountain BizWorks, an Asheville-based nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs develop businesses and find financial support. He plans to move his family to South America later this year to enrich their life experience and extend his service work. Walker-Wilson, his wife, Susanne, and their two children, 11-year-old […]
Trees come down at Health Adventure site, rankling neighbors
First the chainlink fences and No Trespassing signs went up. Then the trees came down. Over the Jan. 10 weekend, workers cut down most of the trees on the site of the future Momentum Science and Health Adventure Park, which will be the Health Adventure’s new, expanded home. Health Adventure President and CEO Paige Johnson […]
Haw Creek Park to be named for Rory and Hazel Masters
Listen to Charlene Noblett talk about her parents, Rory and Hazel Masters, and you’re transported back in time. It was a time when there were more farms than developments; when people looked out for one another; when hard work and the community good trumped just about everything else. “They were the best parents God could […]
Police arrest “blue light bandits”
There’s perhaps nothing more unnerving than being robbed by people you thought were police officers. And for the real men and women in blue, there’s perhaps nothing more galling. On Jan. 12, local police arrested and charged 28-year-old Gregory Neal Hitch of Fletcher and 27-year-old Jason Everette Allen of Arden with approaching people, pretending to […]
UNCA’s wrapped trees, Christo-style
The husband-and-wife artistic team of Christo and Jeanne-Claude are famous for public-art installations using brightly colored materials to encase large buildings or surround islands. The two will speak at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 5, at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium as part of the Asheville Art Museum’s Distinguished Artist Series. Photo by Jason Sandford. When a […]
Burton Street neighborhood celebrates reopening of community center
The spiffed-up Burton Street Recreation Center should really just be called “home,” because that’s what it felt like as folks gathered Jan. 12 to celebrate its recent reopening. Neighbors hugged, carried in covered dishes and checked out the community center’s fresh paint and gleaming halls. Once a shabby symbol of the drug-ridden streets outside, the […]
Weekly Asheville Disclaimer Page: 01/21/09
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Welcome to A&E
could we keep track of everything? But it’s also bad because there’s never enough space for All the Awesome Stuff Happening in Asheville every week. Velcroheads: The “how-did-they-think-of-that” choreography of performance art troupe Galumpha. The Diana Wortham Theatre, for example, has a great-looking roster of events planned for the spring. But Galumpha may take their […]
Cabaret of the weird
“The Fringe Festival is an exciting, wild ride of experiences,” says festival organizer and performer Jim Julien. From abstract-movement theater to original Claymation to puppetry set to poetry, the Fringe Festival puts edgy, out-of-the ordinary and often shocking performance art in the spotlight. Now in its seventh year, the festival continues to challenge local artists […]
Family jewels
The South may rise again, but Randol Duncan—the acrid main character of The Plunder Room (Thomas Dunne Books, 2009)—will not. Randol narrates his tale from the confines of his wheelchair, a rare paraplegic hero fashioned, in many ways, in the image of his maker. “This whole country has been plundered”: John Jeter says he “was […]