Friday, May 29 Mountain Sprouts Kids Climbing Competition, 5 p.m., Festival Village Saturday, May 30 Youth & Adult Climbing Competition, 10 a.m., ClimbMax Sport Rock Climbing Skills Clinic, 2 p.m., Festival Village Rock Climbing Cam-Repair Clinic, 6 p.m., Festival Village To climb with your inner child: “If you look at little kids, they almost all […]
Year: 2009
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Marking Memorial Day 2009
About 200 people, among them uniformed soldiers, patch wearing vets, boy and girl scouts and civilians, gathered at Memorial Stadium above McCormick Field for the Asheville/Buncombe Memorial Day ceremony on Monday.
Outside Green Sage
Into the Forums
Another week of red-hot discussion topics in the Mountain Xpress online forums
Asheville City Council preview: May 26 meeting
Downtown Master plan public hearing, tethered dogs, Overlook Park and the Sullivan Acts and a special work session for a budget review. What else do you need?
Edgy Mama: Fatter, but wiser
Not that I want to talk too much about the ravages of aging, but some obvious differences between us at 18 and us at 45 include more adipose tissue and less hair. And those 25,000 beers we’ve drunk over the past 30 years? Some of them stuck around to pad our middles — making us more huggable, right?
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
You bloggers are a bunch of movers and shakers. Not content to sit there gathering cobwebs, you all are getting around. Moving? Yes. Grooving? Yes.
Asheville video-blog log
For a town of its size, Asheville has a remarkably active community of video-bloggers, multimedia activists and filmmakers. Starting this week, Xpress will be taking a regular look at this wealth of content.
The Bard at a Bargain: Review of Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
A high-intensity comedic romp: The show appeals to anyone who has enough experience with Shakespeare’s work to find him profound, intimidating and more than a little annoying. Which is to say, most of us.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Movies that make you cry
Not so long ago I happened to see a letter written to a theater chain lambasting them for the practice of bringing the lights up before the credits ended. It should be noted that the customer wasn’t some diehard cineaste who just has to know who drove the honeywagon and who catered the food. No, his complaint had to do with his personal discomfort in cases where the movie had an emotional impact on him, and he liked to be able to sit in the dark to compose himself. In other words, he didn’t wish anyone to witness his shame at having been moved to tears by what he’d just seen.
Girls on the Run founder attends May 23 event
Molly Barker, Girls on the Run International founder, will kick off the 2009 New Balance Girls on the Run 5K on Saturday, May 23, in Biltmore Park. The New Balance Girls on the Run 5K is the culminating event for participants in the 14-week Girls on the Run Program and will take place at 10 a.m. on Saturday morning.
Two more Bele Chere acts announced
Dar Williams and Old 97s have both announced plans to play Bele Chere.
Show the love for Joel at Static Age on Saturday
Show support for Joel Hutcheson, owner of Static Age Records on Lexington Avenue, a bastion of local culture. He’s got to have back surgery; an all-day event Saturday dubbed Joel Fest will raise money for his medical bills. A ton of great bands are playing and there’s a bunchof awesome prizes to win in the raffle.
Downtown Association donates drums at tonight’s Pritchard Park circle
The Pritchard Park drum circle is well underway this season, but tonight’s Friday-night thundering will get an extra boost from the Asheville Downtown Association.
URTV board meeting canceled due to locked building; will be rescheduled
No one could find the right keys or door code to get into the locked Buncombe County Television offices, so Thursday’s meeting of the URTV Board of Directors was postponed. Board President Jerry Young told gathered onlookers and board members that it will be rescheduled soon.
Read the proposed new URTV bylaws, agenda for tonight’s meeting
When it meets this evening, URTV’s Board of Directors will vote on sweeping changes to the public-access channel’s bylaws. Read those new bylaws here. A two-thirds majority of the board must approve the changes — which eliminate the stations’ current membership structure and put more power in the board’s hands — before they take effect.
Book Report: A Camouflaged Fragrance of Decency
Of the 25 short stories in his book, A Camouflaged Fragrance of Decency author Tim Josephs jokes, 19 are “actually pretty good.” That, and many more upcoming author events make up this week’s Book Report.
Buncombe County budget: the public weighs in
Hard times are here. That was the feeling that pervaded the May 19 meeting of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners, as members of the public (and some of the commissioners) weighed in on the county’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year.
URTV board will meet tomorrow: sweeping changes to bylaws proposed
While it’s not announced on the public-access channel’s Web site, the URTV board of directors will meet tomorrow at 6 p.m. A number of controversial topics could be on the board’s agenda, including major changes to the current bylaws that would eliminate the current membership structure and place more power in the board’s hands.
Pickin’ and not really grinnin’
What do you think about the new state-wide smoking ban?
Come Jan. 2, 2010, smoking in bars and restaurants will be illegal throughout North Carolina, due to a bill signed into law yesterday by Gov. Beverly Perdue. What do you think about the coming smoking ban?