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Year: 2009
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Battery Park
Macbeth at Montford Park Players
A strong close to the Players’ 37th season, running through Oct. 4.
Lincoln exhibit opens on Thursday
Emancipation exhibit on display at Pack Memorial Library through October
Board chair, executive director of Asheville Area Arts Council step down
The Asheville Area Arts Council announces the departure of its executive director and board chair.
Buncombe Commissioners brief: Sept. 15 meeting
Board votes to replace GDS for county trash pickup.
Around the World in 80 Days at Flat Rock Playhouse
A guaranteed smile-getting adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel.
Antenna
Asheville City Council: Reid’s reprieve
Support for local contractors state regulated Homeless emerge in Strategic Operating Plan update Early voting locations get funded Council appointees get new bylaws The Reid Center rebuild is still on — despite news that a grant representing a quarter of the $2 million that had already been raised is no longer available. At its Sept. […]
Dot.com moms
Kelby Carr will be the first to tell you she's not really a girly girl. "I'm not a pink-powder-puff, teddy-bear kind of chick," she says. But surfing the Web a couple of years ago, that seemed to Carr to be the general flavor of parenting blogs written by women. Power mom: Kelby Carr, one of […]
On circumcision, boobs, and chickens
Anne Fitten Glenn is a freelance journalist, busy mother of two, and blogger. (That's her on the cover of this issue of Xpress). You may know her as Edgy Mama — the name of both her blog (www.edgymama.com) and her parenting column in the Mountain Xpress, which has been a weekly feature for the past […]
Buncombe gears up flu-prevention programs; Mission limits visitors
Area hospitals are limiting visitors to help prevent the spread of the flu virus. Mission Hospital in Asheville and Pardee Hospital in Hendersonville are limiting a patient's visitors to immediate family or designated caregivers. The hospitals are asking children and teens to stay away because of the high rate of the the H1N1, or swine […]
Campaign Calendar
Wednesday, Sept. 16: "Keeping it Real" campaign event for Asheville City Council candidate Cecil Bothwell, 7 to 9 p.m. at the Wedge Brewery, 125B Roberts St. Thursday, Sept. 17: Get There Asheville City Council candidate forum on pedestrian, bike and mass transit issues, 7 p.m. at Clingman Cafe, 242 Clingman Ave. Thursday, Sept. 17: Early […]
Parking deck rates raise ire among downtown workers
The new rates for parking in downtown decks have Asheville's nighttime workers steamed. The increases took effect on Sept. 8 and have been a hot topic of discussion among employees of downtown establishments, who aren't mincing their words. A dollar don’t cut it: New collection machines mean new rates for city parking decks, leaving downtown-Asheville […]
The Green Scene
Coal Country documentary premiers in Asheville Last June, 14 activists were arrested in West Virginia for hanging a protest banner from a 22-story-high dragline used in mountaintop-removal coal mining. Among the "Dragline 14" was local filmmaker Kurt Mann, who was documenting the event for Greenpeace and the Rainforest Action Network. Owner of the Asheville-based American […]
Beer City USA’s first and most famous beer festival returns
The 3,500 beer lovers lucky enough to have tickets will descend on the 13th annual Great Smokies Craft Brewers Brewgrass Festival this Saturday, Sept. 19, at Martin Luther King Jr. Park; hopefully on foot. Here's some of what's new with our Western North Carolina breweries and what to expect from them at Brewgrass: • Asheville […]
Keeping the Sabbath holy
In a feat of rare alchemy – one often repeated throughout the band's career – Black Sabbath turned four measures and a mere six notes into one of the most recognizable phrases in rock music: the main riff of "Iron Man," from 1971's Paranoid. Hard rock, soulful swagger: Friday night headliners Clutch follow the riff […]
In shape to show
Things have changed for The Kingsbury Manx. In the past three years, the Chapel Hill foursome have all gotten married, signed to a local upstart label, dropped a rigorous touring schedule, and until recently, mostly disappeared from the public eye. The one thing that hasn't changed, though, is the band's knack for writing dreamy, Kinks-inspired […]
Junker’s Blues
One of the many ideas in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? that you won't find in its movie adaptation, Blade Runner, is the concept, the spiritual warning, the call-to-arms against the relentless, creeping presence of kipple in our lives. Illustration by Nathanael Roney. According to Dick, kipple is "useless objects" — […]
Spork
Who knows what the weather will be like by the time you're reading this, but right now there's a chill in the air. September is here and summer's on the wane. One way to know for sure? This Friday, Sept. 18, is the last Downtown After Five of the season, so you best get your […]
A plea for accountability
Congratulations to Mountain Xpress on its 15th anniversary. As an early volunteer for its predecessor, Green Line, I am grateful for Jeff Fobes' vision and leadership — and for the support that Julian Price provided when this alternative weekly was getting off the ground. Jeff's vision of "encouraging folks to get involved locally, where they […]