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Pack Square Park takes shape with sod, fountain work
Pack Square Park got a green makeover today with the installation of nearly 18,000 square feet of sod. On Thursday, the park’s signature fountain will receive its crowning piece with the installation of a 20-foot-diameter brass ring.
Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler July 15-21: Pottering Around
Well, let’s see, this week there’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and then there’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. In fact, everywhere you turn, there’s Harry Potter.
Xpress-rated video: Sneak preview of July 15 edition
Here’s your video sneak preview of the July 15, 2009, edition of the Mountain Xpress. Hey, did ya hear the one about …
Urban chickens reported stolen
Someone apparently stole a flock of urban chickens living on the campus of Isaac Dickson Elementary School in Asheville, according to a school parent who has worked closely with the school and its birds.
Asheville edition of TED talks sets date, confirms three speakers
The Asheville version of an annual California-based conference known as TED will be held Aug. 30 at the Orange Peel. Three speakers have been confirmed, but there’s still time to nominate others.
UNC Asheville announces layoffs
UNCA responds to a 10 percent budget reduction throughout the UNC system.
Asheville City Council preview: July 14 meeting
A roof for the Civic Center? A city-wide composting effort? These questions and more inside.
Edgy Mama: My Shuler-inspired favorite kid movie choices
Here’s a list of some of my favorite kid movies. Some of these I saw first as a kid myself; some as an adult. But I’d watch any one of them again now — with or without my kids.
Into the Forums
What they said, videoed, animated and otherwise communicated this week on mountainx.com’s Forums.
Review of Cymbeline at Montford Park
Montford Park Players takes on Shakespeare’s strange and complicated (and obscure) Cymbeline. Tragedy? Romance? “Problem play”? Read on and find out.
Video a-go-go
Fireworks, a 48-hour Film Fest winner, hula hoops, a blacksmith musician — are some of this week’s video harvest.
Urban Outfitters announces plans to open downtown store, to a mixed reception
National retail outlet Urban Outfitters announced plans on Friday to open a retail store at the corner of Haywood and College streets.
Building demolitions on Spruce and Market streets to move forward
A downtown Asheville church’s plans to tear down two buildings it owns in the city’s historically African-American business district received the final approval Friday morning.
Woodfin pursues major expansion
Woodfin is pursuing an annexation that would bring 3,360 people — almost half the town’s current population — from the Erwin Hills and Leicester areas into the town.
Review of The Last Supper at the BeBe Theatre
Following last year’s Heathers and The Twilight Zone, Dark Horse Theatre adapts the 1995 noir comedy The Last Supper for the stage.
Death of a Salesman at SART
“He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. … A salesman is got to dream, boy.” — Willy Loman
Detroit rock by way of Nashville
Following a stop through Swannanoa, The Tips play Mo Daddy’s on Saturday with a sound like the Rolling Stones stranded in Motor City.
Sculpture to be returned to downtown Asheville on Saturday
The Energy Loop, Asheville’s first public art sculpture, is set to be returned to downtown on Saturday after sitting in storage for years.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: So many movies so little time
There are stacks of DVDs on my desk—several of them in fact. A few of them contain holdovers yet to be returned to the shelves from research needs, but the bulk of these stacks are movies I’ve purchased or been given that I intend to watch. The problem is finding—or making—the time to actually sit down and do that. I suspect that I am far from alone in this matter.