Thousands of art enthusiasts will descend on Asheville this weekend to peruse paintings, pots and mugs, drawings, clothing and sculptures offered by the array of artists, galleries and businesses in…
Lovers of art and indie business have two things to look forward to the weekend of June 8: the first-ever West Asheville Open Studios, and the perennial favorite River Arts…
Hooking up a phone call with Phonte Coleman and Nicolay Rook, the stylistic poles and primary creators of electro-R&B outfit The Foreign Exchange, takes a good deal of coordination. On…
Tucked into the southern shores of Lake Michigan, at the border of Michigan and Indiana, the region known as Michiana is home to state parks and wildlife preserves, universities and…
You probably know Silas Durocher from various high-energy roots-flavored bands. You might recognize his ubiquitous headband and acoustic guitar (the former is no longer part of the picture). What you…
"Zach is back!" reads a press release from local singer-songwriter Zach Blew, who has been living in Chicago for the past two years. But he's not only returned, he comes…
Folk rockers Wilhelm McKay takes its band name, conveniently, from the band members’ names — singer-songwriters/drummers/guitarists Chris Wilhelm and Liam McKay (who perform with cellist Cristof Ensslin). Separately, Wilhelm has…
Called "the Salvador Dali of folk music," Seattle-based musician Baby Gramps blends rags, jazz and vintage blues with originals, throat singing and palindromes. He's toured as part of the Rogues…
If indie-rock, hula-hoops, glow-sticks and sound systems don't figure into your ideal sort of festival, then the Bluff Mountain Festival might be more your speed. The annual music gathering is…
The inaugural Asheville Percussion Festival taps, slaps, kicks and rolls its way into the Odyssey School's Creative Technology and Art Center for a weekend of performance and instruction. The festival's…
This ride involves, as its vehicle, not a fairy godmother-transformed-pumpkin carriage or a magic carpet, but two pianos. David Troy Francis (Memphis-born recording artist for films like Pursuit of Happyness,…
A lawyer, an Ivy League graduate and a city chick meet on the Appalachian Trail in Beauty Beneath the Dirt, a film about unlikely hikers. A screening, held at REI,…
Want greenways? Of course you do, but some are divided as to whether or not the city should be spending money on such things right now. That's part of the…
Greg Carter’s farm isn’t typical. “If you saw my production area, you’d just see stacks of what looks like firewood around my yard,” he says. That’s because his main crop…
There’s an ironic juxtaposition of the old and new along Interstate 26 as you approach Asheville, said Bruce Nilles, the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign director. The Progress Energy plant…
Eight-year-old Cody Cuthbert sat a little taller in his hospital bed when he saw two baseball players walking down the hallway. They weren’t the usual doctors, nurses and aides he…
• Asheville police, firefighters protest 1% pay raise in three years • Gigantic US Cellular sign applied to Civic Center over layers of whitewashed, slipshod repairs • Jackson County Sheriff…
it’s a downtown institution: With 11 years under its green belt, the French Broad Food Co-Op’s Wednesday Tailgate Market features such vendors as B&L Organics, Dave’s Raw Honey, Carolina Wild…
To answer Carol Adams' question simply and succinctly: no. There is no tolerance for intolerance [“Is Tolerance One Way?” May 23 Xpress]. I defer to the late Karl Popper to…
Carol Adams' May 23 letter, “Is Tolerance One Way?” challenges "liberals and the far left" as having “no tolerance for any person, institution or voter whose positions include that marriage…
I am writing about the May 23 letter from Carol Adams, “Is Tolerance One Way?” I am still getting puzzled by the fact that the intolerant demand tolerance for their…
In your May 23 letter, “Is Tolerance one Way?” you make an argument that being against a constitutional amendment that states marriage here is between one man and one woman…
Amendment One did not pass by a “wide” margin. Only 34 percent of the registered voters in North Carolina showed up to vote on May 8. There are 750,000 more…
So far I am very impressed with the Buncombe Country Health Department's Wise Women Program. This is my third year of participation in the Wise Women Program. I've never waited…
I’m a Referral Specialist at 2-1-1, our local community service information line, and I’m excited about some of the city of Asheville’s changes to the transit program. I recently had…
The Asheville City Council may vote as early as June 12 on whether to establish a Business Improvement District in downtown Asheville. A report released by the interim BID board…
There are two visions floating around about the future of Charlotte Street. One, which I’ll call the Rose Colored Glasses vision, has a street filled with center-lane planters loaded with…
Many residents think the area across from the Basilica of St. Lawrence should be green space. A park would visually connect the Basilica, the Grove Arcade, the library and the…
My wife and I have lived in an over-55 retirement compound for several years and have had a garden there. This year, management demanded that she destroy her garden, and…
The Parkway Playhouse in Burnsville believes that a thriving community is one that is measured by its participation in the arts. As part of this belief, the Playhouse recognizes that…
I'm writing to the police officer who was at the Occupy Asheville gathering on May 26. Shortly before 2 p.m. that day, you stopped a friend of mine for bringing…
Much has been written about the Affordable Care Act (sometimes called Obamacare), but how much of it is true? To build understanding of the ACA and its implications for North…
