“As opposed to somebody who knows a lot about one thing, I know a little about a lot of things,” says National Public Radio personality Peter Sagal. That doesn’t qualify him to do anything he says, “except for hosting shows in which I talk about a lot of things.” Luckily, after being tapped as a […]

The sales clerk at J.C. Penney assumed the gold skinny jeans were for Jeff Japp’s wife. When the clerk offered to show his wife to the women’s dressing room, she was politely turned down. The clerk never suspected the shoppers were headed upstairs so Japp could try the jeans on in the men’s dressing room. […]

As we gather around the fire, the sound of the Oconaluftee River warbles in the breeze. Dressed in traditional Cherokee garb, a statuesque man gestures expansively at the park that surrounds us. “You are in our church,” he says. “It is all around us. As long as we have grass, water, sky.” His eyes fill […]

Asheville receives no shortage of media and artistic attention for our cultural oddities, art and fashion. But in A Documentary of Sorts, a new photo exhibition opening Friday, Aug. 2, at Izzy’s Coffee Den, distances itself from this type of portrayal. Asheville photographer Anthony Bellemare has instead looked to the peripheries of Asheville’s cultural stratosphere […]

The news came on Wednesday evening: Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Festival will not happen in 2013. The statement from festival director Arieh Samson and the Arts2People board of directors said that they “will use the time between now and Labor Day weekend 2014 to put on LAAFF’s revival and resume celebrating the fascinating culture […]

Do what you love, love what you do: Tim Carter has dedicated his life to music, both as a recording engineer and performer. The multi-instrumentalist and bluegrass enthusiast visits Isis Music Hall on Thursday, Aug. 1 in support of his debut solo recording, Bang Bang. Let it roll: White Horse Black Mountain celebrates the quiet […]