This week: Jello-O wrestling, protesting a power plant, a tense moment at URTV’s board meeting, the Faces of Asheville and more.
Year: 2009
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Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler: Cinematic Doings June 10-16
Last week offered us one truly wonderful film, The Brothers Bloom, one very good film, Sugar, and a lot of other things that are mostly best not spoken of. Well, those two mentioned remain in theaters this week, as, unfortunately, do all the others. But they’re joined by one truly remarkable film, Goodbye Solo (see review in Wednesday’s Xpress), that was shot in Winston-Salem and Blowing Rock, N.C., by Winston-Salem-born filmmaker Ramin Bahrani.
Taxes proposed to help with state budget woes
The N.C. House debates a tax increase on the wealthy and other revenue proposals today, hoping to offset some service cuts in the state.
Leopard print pocketbook
Edgy Mama: Grocery store blues
I often refer to laundry as the Sisyphean stone of parenthood. It’s the number one never-ending chore of parenting. Number two, after laundry, comes grocery shopping.
Asheville City Council preview: June 9 meeting
It’s time to speak your mind on Asheville’s annual budget. And the city settles a lawsuit from a 2006 police raid that left a man burned.
Head of Asheville Liberty Dollar operation arrested, faces 45 years in prison
Asheville resident William Kevin Innes, known for running the local branch of the Liberty Dollar alternate currency, was arrested June 2 on charges of trying to pass off coins as U.S. currency. The arrest came as part of a countrywide sweep of the organization’s officials.
City expects nearly 10,000 Phish fans, announces road closures, bus-route changes
Asheville city officials are expecting nearly 10,000 Phish fans (7,200 inside the Civic Center, 2,500 outside) to descend on downtown tomorrow for the jam supergroup’s first concert in Asheville. The city will close roads and change bus routes to deal with the masses.
Into the Forums
You’ll never guess what they’re talking about in the Mountain Xpress online forums
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
Publishing what amounts to an online diary to untold numbers of readers is inherently awkward. But maybe blogging is best when it drives us out of our comfort zones.
URTV board will vote on ousting member June 15
The URTV Board of Directors will hold a special meeting on June 15 to vote on dismissing outspoken board member Richard Bernier. The meeting will be held in URTV’s studios at 5 p.m.
Your Friday Bele Chere Update
4 more bands on the roster: Delta Moon, Fusebox Funk, Highly Kind (with Derek Trucks’ little brother) and The Family Stone (with Sly Stone’s whole family tree).
Happy Hour at the BeBe
Let’s suppose the end-of-the-workday routine of cheap pitchers and ESPN has grown a bit stale for you … Here’s my suggestion: come 7:15, grab your drinking buddy and head down to Commerce Street. Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre’s current show, The Physics of Happy Hour, will not only defy the gravity of your postmodern ennui, they’ll also wet your whistle for you.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Repeat offenders
Most of us have them. There’s even one of those endless polls you find on Facebook centered on the “five movies you’re most likely to watch over and over.” (I don’t know why Facebook is fixated on the number five, but they group everything in fives. It’s probably Satanic in some way.) And it’s considered completely normal to have such a list.
Buncombe County Schools and 2009 state budget cuts
In June 2009, Buncombe County Schools sent a letter notifying its intention of increasing class sizes and eliminating up to 110 teaching positions in the school system to deal with the state of North Carolina’s budget requirements. The state is facing a $3 billion shortfall. Click here to read the letter.
Parent-teacher rally to oppose education cuts
A rally has been planned for 6 p.m. on Monday at Enka High School in response to the possible loss of 80 Buncombe teachers.
The latest Bele Chere news
Five more bands are added to the Bele Chere roster: GFE, Laura Blackley Band, Drew Holcomb, Hot Politics and Bulls Gap.
Book Report: Bobo County
Local author Gary Allen Duke’s Bobo County is the tale of a boy and his dog, but also an account of growing up in the wild countryside of the American Southwest.
“MiniMoogseum” installed at the Orange Peel
Interactive display pays tribute to the late electronic-music guru Bob Moog, sets the stage for a permanent Moogseum in Asheville
A problem of money: Commissioners face mental-health shortfall, delay 911 agreement
At its meeting last night, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution condemning state attempts to raid local mental-health-fund balances to meet North Carolina’s own budget shortage. Such a loss would leave more mentally ill people in jails or hospitals for lack of proper treatment, county officials said.
Beastie Boys at Orange Peel — in a week?!
Eclectic punk-turned-hip hop trio the Beastie Boys will play at the Orange Peel in one week. One week! Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 4 p.m.