Tonight’s packed Asheville City Council meeting agenda includes a decision about what happens to a dilapidated building in the River Arts District, the fate of food trucks in Biltmore village, the word on amending the outdoor speakers ban and much more. The meeting starts at 5 p.m. Follow along with live Twitter coverage in this post.
Year: 2013
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Asana Xpress: Embodiment of the divine
Heidi Vaught has only been teaching yoga in Asheville for a short while, but she says she's ready to bring the Anusara style (a system based on hatha yoga) to the area’s thriving yoga scene. Hailing from Louisville, Ky., she brings two new classes to the Asheville Yoga Donation Studio. “I like the idea of […]
Smart Bets: Time Brought Age
Smart Bets: Sex and How To Have It
Smart Bets: The Archrivals
Smart Bets: Steep Canyon Rangers
All that jazz: One Stop brings back the weekly Soul Jazz Jam
Clubland highlights: Old Flings, Joe Zimmerman and Musical Migrations
Check out a few standout shows from the plethora of upcoming performances.
Calendar highlights
Foreign market finds: Culinary tourism, no plane ticket required
TAP out: The Asheville Public to close
What’s in a name: Neo Cantina to become The Cantina Biltmore
Mexican favorites get reincarnated: Restaurant Puebla and La Carreta get settled in new locations
Welcome back, Restaurant Puebla. The Mexican eatery left its Swannanoa location last spring, even though some of its customers despaired. “Please don’t leave,” one Facebook user lamented. “You are the best part of Swannanoa!” Now, fans of the restaurant can get the dishes from the eponymous Puebla region of Mexico at 1056 Patton Ave., near […]
Cecilia, you’re baking my heart
Waste not, rot not: Asheville may get the service, if Compost Now comes to town
Used Cooking Oil Thefts
More fear-mongering from Xpress
On the heels of the much-maligned Lexington Avenue article, I read the Dec. 19 story, "Tomorrow Never Knows." More nonsensical fear-mongering, combined with cries for some bureaucratic government solution. Why? Has anyone on the Mountain Xpress staff even considered the obvious dollars-for-fear system that is at the heart of every emergency-response plan? Jake Frankel seems […]
Are you prepared for a nuclear accident?
I appreciate the Dec.19 article, “Tomorrow Never Knows,” for reminding us not every disaster can be predicted or prepared for. Yet, our stalwart professionals in emergency response, disaster relief and meteorology, among others, strive to protect us as much as possible. I was relieved to hear Red Cross’ Brian Scoles voice concerns of a possible […]
This is not my edible house
After reading all the recent discussion [in the Letters section] surrounding the Grove Park Inn's parking-fee institution during the gingerbread-house display, I think it's important to remind all your readers/writers of how privileged they must be that this is an issue worth considering, let alone debating. There are, after all, billions on this planet who […]
Tourists aren’t art collectors
In Kyle Sherard's Dec. 26 article, "State of the Arts: Atelier Gallery Leaves Asheville,” gallery owner Gabrielle Egan cited oversaturation of the Asheville art market and the lack of “urgency to collect artwork, because it's everywhere,” as reasons for closing. No truer assessment could be made. We concur wholeheartedly. Asheville has been touted as an […]
There’s nothing “yummy” about foie gras production
It was interesting to learn that Jonathan Ammons’ commentary, “Foie Gras Ban a Waste of Energy,” was a top-read Xpress Opinion piece of 2012 [“2012's Greatest Hits,” Dec. 26]. I’d like to think it was popular because readers found it an amusing case of someone trying to defend the indefensible. [To read the piece, visit […]