In a Facebook message this weekend, photographer Jenny Bowen announced she is abandoning her bid for Asheville City Council.
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Buncombe Commissioners preview: Sept. 15 meeting
Buncombe County will once again consider a city/county 911 services agreement.
Brews News
If you missed out on Brewgrass tickets, you may have the chance to attend another locally run beer festival this spring.
Video-a-Go-Go: The local video roundup
This week: Bike jousting at LAAFF, huge caterpillers, the Blue Rags reunited and more …
Edgy Mama: Autism Society of North Carolina helps families cope
Supporting a family member with autism is a full-time, often life-long challenge.
Friends
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: The Fab Four on film
This is the week that the newly remastered, remonkeyed, repackaged and generally rejiggered Beatles box set hits record stores (and my CD player), but of course that’s not really a movie topic—or is it? In one sense, it very obviously isn’t, but in another sense modern film owes a debt to the Beatles just as much as music does.
LAAFF street style
Photos from the Xpress photo booth at this years’ Lexington Ave. Arts & Fun Festival. Brooke & Ryan Juggler with The Runaway Circus & the Loose Caboose Kim & Nathanael Sam & Aja
Asheville City Council brief: Sept. 8 meeting
Council confirms its direction for the W.C. Reid Center
Something for a rainy day: Questions for a Trinumeral ticket giveaway ***update: Tickets won!***
Win a pair of tix for the massive Trinumeral music and arts festival this weekend at Deerfields, featuring a huge lineup of world music, electronic artists and much more!
EPA adds 36 wells to CTS testing project
The Environmental Protection Agency will test approximately 36 wells as part of its continued monitoring of contamination linked to the former CTS plant on Mills Gap Road in South Asheville.
C’mon and LAAFF with us one more time
Did we immortalize you in photos or video at the Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Festival? Check here.
This weekend on a shoestring
Electronica and indie pop to country-punk and good ol’ soul. Stick to downtown Asheville or head for the Mountain State Fair — either way you can dance your booty off without coughing up more than five bucks.
“When I heard the banjo, bingo”: Steve Martin trades comedy for clawhammer
Steve Martin (yes, the comedian) comes to Brevard’s Mountain Song Festival, touring his album The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo.
Buncombe Commissioners: Changing of the guard
Frue replaces Connolly as county attorney County awards $2 million design contract for courthouse "life safety tower," the first step in $80 million expansion, renovation. Michael Frue has been Buncombe County's only full-time staff attorney since 2005. During that period he's worked on a number of controversial and high-profile cases, including the water dispute with […]
The downtown shuffle
Despite an economy in doldrums, there's been a lot of activity on the Asheville business scene. The Grove Arcade-based furniture store Four Corners Home Inc. has acquired the Mobilia furniture store. The Market Place restaurant, an Asheville institution in local food for 30 years, has been sold to a young new owner. Adorn Salon and […]
Campaign Calendar
Friday, Sept. 11: Deadline for registering to vote in the Asheville City Council primary. Saturday, Sept. 12: Get Out the Vote and Meet the Candidate event for Asheville City Council candidate Esther Manheimer, 3 to 6 p.m., Biltmore Park clubhouse, Biltmore Park. Monday, Sept. 14: League of Women Voters candidate forum for Asheville City Council, […]
MAIN hires ‘media manager’
The Mountain Area Information Network has hired a new manager, who will help integrate the Internet service provider's Web site with MAIN's low-power FM radio station, WPVM. K.P. Whaley will start as "media manager" for the Asheville-based nonprofit on Sept. 1. Whaley has been working as the news and public-affairs director for WORT-FM in Madison, […]
Asheville firefighter named NC Firefighter of the Year
Firefighter Jeremy Edmonds has been with the Asheville Fire Department since 1997, and in July, he became a captain. All fired up: Asheville Fire Department Capt. Jeremy Edmonds, recently awarded the North Carolina Firefighter of the Year award by his peers. Photo courtesy of Asheville Fire Department But an additional professional milestone came on Aug. […]
The Green Scene: Feds ineffective on Mills Gap Road contamination
Despite lying less than a half-mile from a contamination source that’s been under investigation since the 1990s, the Bradley family’s drinking well had never been tested when David Bradley noticed some folks drilling across the street from his South Asheville home on a mid-August day this year. On the move? Historical and more recent data […]
The midway escape
All the details • Friday, Sept. 11. Free admission until 6 p.m. for students grades K-12. noon Grand opening ceremonies — Entrance C 6:30 p.m. Hands on workshop: Children's soap carving by W.N.C. Woodcarvers (Expo building) 6 p.m. District junior feeder calf show (Livestock Sales Arena) 7 p.m. House Autry Mills "Make it quick and […]