Back on the Beat: Asheville Percussion Festival returns
Volume
23
/ Issue 48
Cover Design Credit:
Norn CutsonCover Photography Credit:
Taylor Clark Johnson Photography
Now in its sixth year, the Asheville Percussion Festival continues to build community through global rhythms. More free programming has been added as well. On the cover: Asheville Percussion Festival teaching artist and performer Adam Maalouf.
arts
Smart bets: Talk About Funny
The audience can pose questions to the comedians at the second dinner theater show at Up Country Brewing on Wednesday, June 28.Asheville Percussion Festival creates community around rhythm
Many of the festival’s participants come from places where the arts may be overshadowed by political controversy. This year’s lineup includes the Turkish multi-instrumentalist Omar Faruk Tekbilek and his son…Smart bets: Cindy Wilson
Cindy Wilson will celebrate the release of 'Change' with an East Coast tour, including a stop at The Mothlight on Tuesday, June 27.Paula Boggs brings her socially conscious soulgrass to Asheville
Before devoting herself full time to performing and making albums, Boggs was an Army paratrooper, a U.S. attorney, general counsel for Starbucks and a vice president at the Dell Computer…Terpsicorps presents a unifying performance in election’s wake
Compassion, and possibly shared frustration, is the basis of Together We Stand, a series of dance performances onstage at the Diana Wortham Theatre Thursday-Saturday, June 22-24.Smart bets: Hola Asheville
The family-friendly festival takes place on Saturday, June 24, from noon to 8 p.m. at Pack Square Park.New film explores the multicultural roots of traditional music and dance
The film's world premiere is set for Thursday, June 22, at Blue Ridge Community College. Subsequent screenings will take place at the Fine Arts Theatre on Thursday, June 29, and…Smart bets: Eric Gales
Local bass player Cody Wright will perform with and open for blues-rocker Eric Gales at Isis Music Hall on Friday, June 23.Theater review: ‘Seeger’ at NC Stage
Seeger celebrates a man who deserves to be remembered, and Asheville is the perfect place to do this show: The musician's half-sister Peggy Seeger, herself a celebrated folk singer, lived…food
Foreign affairs: Globetrotting beer importers visit Asheville breweries
A recent visit from international beer importers may point to new distribution possibilities for Asheville's brewing industry.Manicomio Pizza brings New York-style pies to Biltmore Avenue
The new pizza-by-the-slice restaurant is taking over the space that once housed Hannah Flanagan's Irish Pub.Small bites: Baked Pie Co. hosts grand opening
A new pie cafe hits South Asheville. Also, Urban Orchard Cider Co. will host a five-course live fire dinner, Asheville Breakfast Rotary Club and Hickory Nut Gap Farm team up…living
Watchers in the woods
Asheville, NCYoga and social activism intersect in Asheville
Yoga doesn't end when you get off the mat, say several local yoga instructors, who broaden their practice to include working for social justice.Get down on the farm with ASAP’s annual tour
Pack up your car with friends and family this Saturday and Sunday, June 24 and 25, and head out on Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project's annual Farm Tour, an opportunity to…Conscious Party: The Mane Event
WHAT: A celebration and fundraiser for Heart of Horse Sense WHEN: Saturday, June 24, 1-6 p.m. WHERE: Horse Sense of the Carolinas Farm, Marshall WHY: Saddle up for a day…movies
Screen scene: Local film news
Creation Care Alliance of WNC hosts two screenings of a new coal documentary, Transmission presents a film on transgender elder and activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and more.news
WNC hemp crop is in the ground
Procedural delays introduced by state and federal regulators nearly ran out the clock on the 2017 planting season, but growers have managed to get hemp plants and seeds in local…Asheville honors origins of LGBT rights movement
Forty-eight years ago this month, a police raid on a gay nightclub in New York and the resulting resistance sparked a human rights revolution. What became known as the Stonewall…Where the public sidewalk ends: reactions to Gideons handing out Bibles outside high school graduations
While many don't seem to object to the Gideons' handing out Bibles to graduating high school seniors outside the U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Asheville, others say the practice is…Asheville sets property tax rate, passes budget
At its June 13 meeting, Asheville City Council adopted its 2017-18 fiscal year budget, which sets a property tax rate of 42.89 cents per $100 of taxable property value and…opinion
Letter: Please share bulletin board space
"This is a heartfelt request for a more collaborative spirit that clearly sees we have to share the limited bulletin board space available to us."Letter: Votes are for favorites, not best
"If we were to vote on our favorite color, you would announce which color is 'best.'"Letter: GMO article was filled with misinformation
"Your newspaper poses as an open-minded, environmentally conscious, liberal organization — but this article clearly shows where your loyalties lie."Letter: Asheville could be home of national vegan movement
"Wouldn’t that be just the perfect new moniker of Asheville? Asheville, the kind, vegan home of preserving our Earth and humanity."