Is there anything calculated to set off the movie enthusiast like a remake? We just passed a week that offered us a new-and-not-improved version of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) on apparently no better excuse than changing the title to The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3. Presumably in our more frenzied time, it simply takes too long to spell out the numbers.
Might be time to catch Double Dagger at a small venue, before the Baltimore-based art-punk band blows up.
Help ArtSpace get a $10,000 Good Food Grant by going online and voting. But hurry: There’s a June 18 deadline.
Help ArtSpace get a $10,000 Good Food Grant by going online and voting. But hurry: There’s a June 18 deadline.
This band said it would cost $15 to take their photo. I told them to bill Street Style.
Asserting that the step will save county taxpayers money in a tight time, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to delay the county’s property tax revaluation to 2014. The last revaluation was done in 2006, at the height of the housing boom.
Asheville-rooted performers blew it out at this year’s Bonnaroo. Read the dispatch here and check out some sweet Bonnaroo vids.
On Monday, the URTV Board of Directors voted, with one abstention, to remove Richard Bernier from his post, in a resolution asserting that in his outspoken criticism of the station’s management he had not dealt with conflicts correctly. Bernier replied that he was trying to bring up important issues of transparency that many of the other directors had ignored.
Each week Xpress reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their entertainment suggestions.
This weekend is shaping up to be so action-packed and event-heavy that we had to add extra bonus Tuesday material. Friday starts with Downtown After 5; there’s also free reggae, free indie-jazz, free Shakespeare and free hula-hooping.
APD lawsuit settled Council urges restraint in cutting state education budget Public on budget: No comment Raising Asheville’s residential recycling charge might help plug the city’s budgetary hole in the short term, but some Council members say it’s a step in the wrong direction if the goal is to reduce how much trash ends up […]
Asheville police made 13 arrests in connection with the June 8 Phish concert, all involving drug charges. In an e-mail, police spokesperson Melissa Williams emphasized that the massive crowd (more than 10,000 people) “was mostly peaceful and caused no major problems for police.” And City Council member Carl Mumpower, who’s attended past Civic Center shows […]
An Asheville church’s plans to tear down two old buildings it owns has been delayed for 30 days in hopes of saving the structures. Brink of extinction? Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church wants to demolish two historic buildings it owns on The Block. Havens for vagrants and homeless people, the brick structures are expensive to […]
On the evening of June 8, the Enka High School gymnasium echoed with the frequent cheers and applause of more than 1,000 teachers, parents and students who gathered to protest potential state education cuts. Code red: An estimated 1,600 people attended a June 8 rally at Enka High School to protest the elimination of 80 […]
Asheville resident William Kevin Innes, regional currency officer for Liberty Services, was arrested June 2 on charges of trying to pass off the privately minted Liberty Dollars as U.S. currency. The arrest came as part of a nationwide sweep of the organization’s officials. Silver anniversary: William Kevin Innes of Liberty Services’ Asheville office in 2007. […]
Never underestimate a former first-grade teacher. On June 9, amid a global recession, Beccah Boman marched into a meeting of the Asheville Buncombe Sustainability Community Council and passed out cards calling for donations that started at $500 and ratcheted up to a cool ten grand. The council—an initiative of the Asheville Hub project—is itself strapped […]
Behind a table strewn with confiscated weapons—including assault rifles—local law-enforcement officials announced on June 11 a series of arrests and jail time that they say have decimated local Crips gangs operating out of Lee Walker Heights and Klondyke Apartments, with 24 of 37 known members behind bars and gun violence in the area down. “Swinging […]
A newly established climate research partnership partially based in Asheville will begin working on projects this fall with an urgent focus: developing accurate, long-range climate-change forecasts. The Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, announced May 27, will work as a nationwide collaboration of researchers and institutions. The institute will have a working site in Asheville […]
Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy kicked off her for re-election campaign with a June 9 party at the Grove Arcade and an energetic speech touting her accomplishments and stressing that there’s more work to be done. Bellamy’s bid: Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy officially launched her bid for a second four-year term with a June 8 event […]
At Warren Wilson College, sustainability is more than just a buzzword: It’s the guiding principle behind the annual Mountain Green Sustainability Conference, slated for Wednesday, June 24. “It’s an attempt by the college to be a catalyst for change in the region,” says Phillip Gibson, director of research and community outreach at the school’s Environmental […]
