The Asheville Planning and Zoning Commission recently voted to recommend that Asheville City Council approve the state minimum of a 30-foot stream buffer for all developments that disturb more than an acre of land. Click here to download a PDF of the N.C. Buffer Table. Click here to download a graph showing the relationship between […]
Year: 2009
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Edgy Mama: Trade in the orange for some green this Halloween
The spine-tingling thrill of watching people wandering around dressed up as monsters and villains makes me happy. What makes me less tingly is the rampant consumerism around Halloween.
Asheville’s Haiti connection: Mission MANNA final day and return to the U.S.
One week after they departed Asheville, MissionMANNA’s medical team touches down back in Miami, on their way home. Here’s a brief report, a video, and a poem.
At BoBo Gallery
Asheville’s Haiti connection: Mission MANNA’s medical team preps for Day 6
Mission MANNA’s team is back from the mountains and about to undertake their last day of clinics.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Seeing a lot of Saw
I happened to be in the position yesterday to look in on the Saw marathon—you know, that less than stellar idea that it would be great to allow people to work their way through all five Saw movies with the big finish being the unveiling of Saw VI at midnight.
Reliving LEAF
Correspondent Jake Frankel and photographer Jonathan Welch bring you a terrific video and photos from this fall’s LEAF.
College & Haywood
Christmas Jam lineup announced
Counting Crows and Ani DiFranco top the just-released roster.
Avett Brothers to play Merle Fest
N.C.‘s Avett Brothers just announced that their only N.C. date on their 2010 tour will be at Merle Fest in Wilkesboro. Pre-sale for tickets starts today!
Asheville’s Haiti connection: Mission MANNA returns from the mountains (Day 5)
The medical team has returned from its two-day trek, reports Todd Kaderabek, Mission MANNA’s point person in Asheville. “The Asheville team is off mountain and back in Montrouis,” says Todd. “Looks like it was rough. They happened upon a rollover injury.” Thursday evening, Oct. 22: Dr. Derek Dephouse reports, “Many malnourished kids. It was Haiti […]
Hats & scarves
Group proposes Riverfront Redevelopment Commission
Goal is to recommend policies for fostering growth along river
Asheville’s Haiti connection: MissionMANNA medical team heads into the mountains
Wednesday night, Oct. 21: The Asheville Mission MANNA medical team should be camped 2,500 feet above the Caribbean by now, nestled under the same stars as you, but a world away,
Kress building
Book Report: Kibou, The Travis Waters Story of Hope
In the winter of 1998, Travis Waters and his family were confronted with a shocking reality: The pain in Travis’ right tibia wasn’t caused by physical exertion, but by a rare form of bone cancer. It’s here that Ellie Waters, Travis’ mother and faithful ally, begins her book, which chronicles Travis’ inspirational and heartbreaking story of hope against odds, and offers particular lessons for anyone who has suffered from grief or loss.
I-26 connector alternative 4B gets back to its roots
The Asheville Design Center is praising the decision by the state DOT to consider a connector that runs beneath Patton Avenue.
This weekend on a shoestring
It’s good to mix it up, try new things, right? Here’s your chance. For less than $5 cover, you can check out new art, attend a street festival, save the planet, listen to Christian thrash and then soothe your throbbing eardrums with mellow indie-pop.
Asheville City Council: Hat in Hand
Montford Commons developer asks city for $9 million loan Reid Center progesses URTV gets 90-day extension while Council explores problems When it was approved in 2007, the Montford Commons development plan earned praise for putting mixed-use development in an area of urban blight and for realizing elements of the city's Greenway Master Plan relating to […]
2009 Asheville general election voter guide
In a typical election season, the Xpress voter guide would simply feature the six Council and two mayoral candidates that are on the ballot for the Asheville general election. But things are more complicated this year. Three days after the primary's 7,113 ballots were cast, fourth-place finisher Kelly Miller bowed out of the race. Since […]
New Life Journal ends production
New Life Journal, a monthly Asheville publication that focuses on green living and natural healing, recently alerted advertisers that it was closing due to the economy. "It is with great sadness and difficulty that I write … to inform you that due to current economic circumstances I must discontinue the publication and distribution of New […]