Sidewalk ordinance gets upgrade City champions recognized The final Council meeting in an election year is bound to be a curious beast. Even as new Council members are brought in, the holiday break looms; it's also the last chance to tackle anything that has to be addressed before the end of the calendar year. And […]
Year: 2009
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Make a date for 2010 with local calendars
It's time to toss that boring calendar from '09 that you packed full of lunch dates, soccer practices and yoga classes, and to keep the date in the new decade with style. For several years, Xpress has being doing a roundup of local calendars, but never before have there been quite so many cool ones […]
After Asheville
When Ryan Ford arrived in New York City nearly four years ago, he carried only a backpack of clothes and $300 in his pocket. Ford, a painter who has shown his work widely in the WNC area, had decided to move to the Big Apple in an effort to take his art more seriously. "New […]
A banner year
No matter how you look at it, 2009 was a weird year. For some it was downright trying, while for others it ranked up there among the best 12 months ever. The latter group just happens to include a number of local musicians who — despite a dwindling recording industry — managed to put out […]
Junker’s Blues
I've spent the last year mapping the junker's geography – his haunts, her habits, my priorities. Over the course of the next year I'll be attempting to set down some lessons learned while traveling the junkscape. These lessons are based on my own and others' experiences in the field, usually the failures, as a) you […]
The news we all make
When I was in journalism school a decade ago, we scrambled to keep up with advances in our field, many of them technological: digital cameras, Web-based research and publishing, and the like. But we were still following the same underlying model that had driven our profession for more than a century: We were the experts, […]
Outdoors:A mountain holiday tradition
Some families take ski trips to Colorado or travel to Europe for the holidays, but for the Koon girls of Buncombe County, it's all about their annual Christmas camping weekend with dad. The week before Christmas, they pull out the camping gear (or, more accurately, their dad does) and head out to meet old friends […]
The Green Scene: Linking up
The World Bank might seem an unlikely institution to turn its attention to small-scale sustainability projects, and even less likely to use social-media tools to spotlight them. But such perceptions may be outdated, says Noah Wilson, a Warren Wilson College senior who got an inside look at the organization last month at an event the […]
Bread Pudding: recession-era dessert … or more
Bread pudding — that simple mixture of leftover bread or cake, eggs, milk and spices — may be one of the oldest desserts around, say food historians. In medieval times, and possibly even earlier, frugal cooks figured out that soaking stale bread in milk or custard and baking it was an easy way to make […]
Clarification
Stuart Peterson, the former gang member turned anti-gang educator featured in the article "Justice Undone?" in the Dec. 2 issue of Xpress, faced his first felony arrest and conviction as described in the article. However, while he faced a single armed-robbery charge, it came from three incidents: two ATM robberies earlier this year, as well […]
Stuart Peterson’s sentence may be too lenient. Here’s why …
A young, 20-year-old man committed "armed robbery" with a "gun" and received a three-years-and-eight-months sentence. This was premeditated. I do not know Stuart Peterson or anyone in that article ["Justice Undone?" Dec. 2 Xpress], but to me this sentence seems extremely lenient for such a crime, and that must be because it was his first […]
Cyclists who don’t follow the rules will hear my horn
I must take exception and comment on the commentary by Christopher M. Craig on finding equilibrium between bicycles and cars [Dec. 9 ]. I am one of those people who will continue to blow my horn and shout at cyclists ignoring the rules of the road that they, like other vehicles, are supposed to follow. […]
Dear Santa: Forget the toys, just keep my parents safe
I want to share the following letter from someone in our community who couldn't send it herself because her parents are unauthorized immigrants. I obtained it from El Centro Comunitario in Hendersonville. I've shortened it a bit but otherwise not changed it: "Dear Santa: I am a little girl that is 9 years old. I […]
Weekly Asheville Disclaimer Page: 12/23/09
• Briefs
• Holiday inner demons
• Toys of yester-year
• Kid care with Arnold
Invisible
Small Bites
• Mayfel's
• Hickory Tavern
• Amie's Deelishus Gluten-Free Goodies
• Grove Corner Market
What’s crazier?
Book Report: Save A Spaniel
Love dogs? Ever wonder what yours is thinking? Save A Spaniel by local author and Pulitzer Prize winner Cathy Mitchell goes a long way toward hypothesizing what goes in the minds of our canine companions.
Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler Dec. 23-29: The big holiday push
Well, here we are at the week when Hollywood decides what people are just dying to see on the biggest moviegoing day of the year: Christmas. The prophets and visionaries have declared that this year that comes down to Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, It’s Complicated, Nine, Sherlock Holmes and Up in the Air.
Find community snowstorm news on mountainx.com
Like it did to so many in Western North Carolina, last week's snowstorm caught us scrambling to get our work done, get home, stay warm and help whomever we could. And while our newspaper publishes only once a week (on Wednesdays), Xpress is trying new ways to disseminate emergency news around the clock, every day. […]
Christmas Eve Services and Events
From candlelight ceremonies to traditional services, local Churches and community centers welcome the public to share, pray and relish the spirit of the season this Christmas Eve.