This year's Trinumeral Music & Arts Festival boasts a heady lineup: World beat trio Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain & Edgar Meyer headline, along with experimental jazz collective Sun Ra Arkestra, "new funk" act The New Mastersounds and Asheville's own rock/Afro-beat quintet Toubab Krewe. But, before you start comparing Trinumeral's extensive long-weekend lineup to that of […]
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Cleared for takeoff
"It's a big world out there," says Harrison Stafford, the vocalist/guitarist of roots-reggae outfit Groundation. Stafford should know: Already this year the nine-member group has toured South America and Europe and headlined Tel Aviv's Open Air Festival in July. But it's not all jet-set vacation for Stafford and company. "We call ourselves road warriors," he […]
Just the right amount of raunchy
In the name of comedy, there isn't a subject that's off-limits for Margaret Cho. Her stand-up routines plow over sensitive topics like race and sexuality, G-spots and drugs, with just the right amount of raunchiness. She also does a hilarious impersonation of her mother and her ode to being a fag hag brings me to […]
Breaking into Mountain Song
Think "bluegrass festival," and immediately the images appear: Rowdy cloggers, fiery fiddlers, hoedowns and hootenannies. That's all good, but the Mountain Song Festival — now in its fourth year at Brevard Music Center's Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, puts a refined twist on all the pickin' and grinnin.' Sharing the stage: The Steep Canyon Rangers have been gigging […]
Spork: Come celebrate Asheville FM
It started with a group of dedicated volunteers with a massive amount of radio skills, talent and tech savvy betwixt them. Add to that a generous lease of studio space from the owners of Izzy's coffeeshop in West Asheville. Mix with a heaping of organizational know-how and an eager willingness to collaborate with radio folks […]
Traffic Calming
The city gaveth, and the city must taketh away. I have been on a crusade of sorts for the last year and a half. At issue is the city's inept, ineffective and dangerous attempt at traffic calming in north Asheville, on Charlotte Street and on Macon and Kimberly avenues. In the spring of 2008, City […]
Knife & Fork
Flavor: Classic WNC field-to-table Ambiance: Subdued stylish Price: $12-$17 Where: 61 Locust, Spruce Pine Contact: (828) 765-1511 Hours: Tue-Fri, 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m., 5:30-9 p.m.; Sat, 10:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Sun, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. The hardest part of being an artist — other than the measly paychecks and constant parental griping — is surrendering control of your […]
The Dirt
Gardening has a language, and my husband and I speak it: One day, my husband walks in the door around 5 p.m. and says, "Someone cut down the Koulreuteria paniculata." (Yes, he uses the scientific Latin names for all plants.) Click the image above to view a slideshow by Margaret Williams. "What?" I exclaim. "Oh, […]
Outdoors: A cyclist’s meditation
I greet the damp morning air with a smile and a deep breath. The usual blanket of fog has slipped from the shoulders of the hill, piling low at her hips, waiting to be burned away by the summer sun. It's going to be another muggy dog day, but this early it's cool and shady. […]
Fund bike lanes with cyclist tax … not!
I was disappointed when I read the letter, "Fund bike lanes with cyclist use-tax" the first time [Aug. 26]. So when the second one came out [Sept. 2], I had to speak up. If you want to tax me for more bike lanes, I'm OK with that. But if we are going to tax bikers […]
Meatless Mondays and other planet-saving diets
As I noted in my "Greenwashed" commentary [July 1], eating a vegetarian diet one day per week reduces greenhouse gasses more than eating an all-local diet every day [of the week]. Some characterized my comments as an attack on local food. Not so: We should go out of our way to support local businesses. But […]
Four reasons why Bothwell’s should be on City Council
I am blessed to reside in Black Mountain. Asheville, however, is my home and it's where my heart will always reside, so her future is my concern. If I lived in Asheville right now, I would want: 1) reasonable limits on development and a candidate for City Council who could and would demand such; 2) […]
Switching sides: A biker apologizes
Usually, I side with the bicyclist when there's a letter to the editor about "Bikes vs. Cars," but I'm with the "car people" today. Here's why: Last week, while road biking on what's called the "Commuter's Section" of our wonderful Blue Ridge Parkway (US #74 to NC #191), I stopped at milepost 390 to eat […]
Regarding bicycle tax and road rudeness
Careless road users can cause problems, and it is difficult to enforce laws that relate to non-motorists. Enforcement of non-motorist offenses is rare; [better] enforcement … might make licensing unnecessary. … Licensing without enforcement will not change anything. Typically, privileges and rights are defined by the presence or lack of license. Cycling is currently treated […]
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Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler Sept. 8-15: The year of the nines
We’ve already had District 9, so this week we get plain old Arabic numeral 9. And nearer Christmas we’re slated to get Nine. Number nine, number nine, number nine. Mere coincidence—or something more? And if you play them backwards do you get “Paul is dead” clues? That remains to be seen (and will likely be incomprehensible except to readers of a certain age).
North Carolina woman crowned Miss Wheelchair America
The 28-year-old woman chosen as Ms. Wheelchair North Carolina in an Asheville ceremony in April was recently crowned Ms. Wheelchair America.