Hungry for Change: WNC Takes Action
Volume
22
/ Issue 6
Cover Design Credit:
Alane Mason
With one in six people in WNC lack- ing consistent access to food, MANNA FoodBank and its partner agencies are uniting to host hunger-awareness events and initiatives in September for national Hunger Action Month.
arts
Steep Canyon Rangers celebrate new record and 10th anniversary of Mountain Song Festival
The band launches its ninth studio album, Radio, and performs on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 11 to 13, as part of Mountain Song Festival. That event was started by…Ron Rash’s new novel offers poetry, optimism
This sentence appears in the preface to Above the Waterfall, the newest novel by Ron Rash: “I watch last light lift off level land.” It’s just one of thousands of…Conscious party: Author David Baldacci speaks at dinner and auction to bolster local literacy
This year's fundraising dinner — prepared by Michael Marshall of the Renaissance Hotel with pours from Biltmore Wines — will enable the Literacy Council to secure volunteer tutors for some…Smart bets: Kathleen Lewis
A selection of work from the artist's Kenilworth-based company Kathleen Lewis Designs will be displayed in Woolworth Walk's front gallery for the month of September, with a free meet-and-greet reception…LAAFF builds on past challenges and successes
LAAFF returns for its 13th edition on Sunday, Sept. 6. This year bring a "pollinating the urban landscape" theme, educational workshops, a medieval castle that will host a foam swordplay…Smart bets: Hot Summer Nights
What once was an annual event is back by popular demand for the second week in a row — this time at White Horse Black Mountain on Thursday, Sept. 3,…Smart bets: Christopher Paul Stelling
New York-based singer-songwriter Christopher Paul Stelling has been having a pretty great year. His new album, Labor Against Waste, was released to much acclaim. He'll perform at The Mothlight on…Dublin-based power-pop act Pugwash finally makes its Southeast debut
Pugwash's melodic power-pop makes it to the U.S. largely on the strength of self-booking. The Dublin-based band boasts winning melodies, sharp hooks and winsome lyrics. The group makes its Southeastern…Smart bets: Dangermuffin plus Weather and Waves
West African roots band Les Amis plays a set upstairs before acoustic, electric and collaborative sets by Dangermuffin and Weather and Waves fill Isis' downstairs hall with earthy music. The…food
Small bites: Feasting for FEAST
Feasting for FEAST fundraiser will help organizers educate more local youths on the wonders of fresh, homegrown veggies. Meanwhile, Hops & Vines is offering a cider making class, and Thirsty…living
A mossier, more magical world: Local ‘mosser’ releases new book on moss gardening
Annie Martin — or Mossin’ Annie — is a Western North Carolina native, educator, landscape designer, farmer and champion — of mosses. She's designed moss gardens for the North Carolina…Pediatric palliative care enhances quality of life for patients, families
Bella Grace Yarrington, born Feb. 20 with a chromosomal abnormality, is alive and doing well at home with her parents in Weaverville after two major surgeries and pediatric palliative care…movies
Screen scene: Local film news
This week, learn about screenings of "A Walk in the Woods" at the Carolina Cinemas, "First in Forestry: Carl Schenck and the Biltmore Forest School" at the The Carolina Mountains…news
Bar none: New Leash program helps dogs and inmates heal
In the 1990s, amid stints in prison, a murder charge and assorted other legal woes, the rapper Snoop Dogg rocketed to stardom via albums like Doggy Style and Tha Doggfather…Drug epidemic: Heroin use spikes in Buncombe County
Asheville is also seeing an upsurge in heroin use and overdoses, says Asheville police department's Drug Suppression Unit. The department began tracking overdoses March 29, 2014, as they became strikingly…Gather around the table: WNC rallies for Hunger Action Month
With one in six people in Western North Carolina lacking consistent access to food, MANNA FoodBank and its partner agencies are uniting to host hunger-awareness events and initiatives in September…Small budget, big flavor: An interview with cookbook author and food activist Leanne Brown
Good food doesn't have to be expensive. That's the message of Leanne Brown's new cookbook, Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day, which is aimed at empowering people on very…opinion
Letter writer: Food-truck community opens arms
"Everyone’s been helpful, generous and very understanding. It really is a community."Letter writer: Long-term studies of GMOs needed before they can be considered safe
"Assuming that GMOs are safe is an experiment with the American people’s long-term health."Registered
Letter writer: Oil industry doesn’t fund climate groups
"Aid agencies can’t properly help people affected by climate change because, of the $1 billion spent globally every day on climate finance, only 6 percent of it goes to adaptation…Letter writer: Where do City Council candidates stand on future of lot near Basilica?
"This is not the only issue in the election, but it is an indicator of whether candidates will be responsive to residents or to the developers."Letter writer: City Council candidate Julie Mayfield is a skillful leader and mediator
"For the past decade, [Julie Mayfield] has spearheaded efforts to make Asheville a healthier, more vibrant, and more just and sustainable community for everyone.Nonviolent resistance: a revolutionary discipline
From Oak Ridge to Fort Benning to Seattle, from the ancient redwood forests to the desert lands of the Western Shoshone nation at the Nevada Test Site, citizen dissent is…Does anybody really know what year it is?
Hello, it’s me again, and I am in the midst of Y2K with the rest of you. For better or worse, it inevitably came — and, curiously enough, it didn’t…Letters to the editor
Say no to the new Home Depot I am writing with great concern regarding the proposed Home Depot on Acton Circle, in West Asheville. As a resident of the community…