Whether you have a flare for preparing authentic cajun cuisine or you simply enjoy tasting it, everyone is welcome to the annual Cajun Cook-off fundraiser this Sunday in West Asheville.
Review of Dogfall
The uneven production never quite gains the momentum it needs, mired in script issues and deficient direction, and in the end the punch the production hopes to delivers is largely deflated.
The Broadcast dreams a little dream
The soul-infused rock band plays at Jack of the Wood on Saturday. The musicians moved to Asheville from Brooklyn last year to pursue their hopes of playing music full-time.
At the Double Decker Bus
Short, boots and leather jacket, seen on Biltmore Ave.
Youth OUTright launches Campaign 8
Help the local support organization spread the word about the unique challenges faced by LGBTQ youth.
Stormy extraordinary: The Peabody Trio brings a tempest in a teapot
The Asheville Chamber Music Series continues its 58th season on Friday, Jan. 21, at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville with The Peabody Trio. The program includes four pieces of varying instrumentation from the Romantic, modern and contemporary periods.
G. Love’s Fixin’ To Die
The blues-hip-hop artist takes a more serious folk-blues turn on this Avett Brothers-produced, Echo Mountain-recorded album, due out Feb. 22. Images by Noah Abrams.
Street performer
A Sgt. Pepper-style jacket on a downtown juggler.
It’s been a long time since he did the stroll…
Robert Plant and Band of Joy might not have reinvented rock ‘n roll at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, but they put a new spin on “Rock and Roll” along with plenty of other Led Zeppelin classics and new material from Plant’s recently-release Band Of Joy album. Photo by Rich Orris.
This weekend on a shoestring
This weekend we bring you icy plunges, rowdy bands, healthy habits and the spoken word, all for less than the price of parking downtown. And while you’re here, check out Clubland for a complete list of weekend music.
Karen Abbott, author of American Rose, comes to Malaprop’s
The Friday, Jan. 21 reading event discusses the life of famed strip tease artist Gypsy Rose Lee and includes a slide show.
Winter coats
Long coats, boots and glasses on Wall Street.
Of ample hills: The 2011 Mountain Xpress Poetry Prize
Western North Carolina has long history as a mecca for the written word. From Thomas Wolfe to Wilma Dykeman, O. Henry to Charles Frazier, our mountains have been home to a diverse group of esteemed authors, many of them poets. Is it coincidence that the last three poets laureate of North Carolina — Fred Chappell, Katherine Stripling Byer and Cathy Smith Bowers — are from the mountains? And we know there are more poets in these hills.
The art of starting over
"This is kind of a phoenix act that we're pulling off," says Graham Hackett, program director for the Asheville Area Arts Council. He's talking about the opening of The ARTERY, a 1,400-square-foot multipurpose space in the River Arts District's new Pink Dog Creative studios — and with that opening, the resurrection of the local arts-promoting […]
Three is a magic number: Jon Stickley Trio at Grey Eagle
Despite the severe winter-weather forecast, the traditional bluegrass-loving crowd was out at the Grey Eagle on a recent Saturday night for the Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice show. This crowd means higher-than-average PBR sales, enthusiastic clapping after nimble-fingered instrumental solos, an age-range from 21-85, pearl-snapped plaid shirts and the random yelling of “Son!” or “Pick […]
The profiler
The Suspect: Against Me! The band arrives in Asheville on the first week of a three-month nationwide tour. Tom Gabel started the group in 1997 in Gainesville, Fla., but the band didn’t find its following until the 2002 release of its first full-length album, Against Me! Is Reinventing Axl Rose. Spin named the band’s 2007 […]
Smart Bets
Fringe Fest Now in its ninth year, the dance/music/theatre/multimedia/performance art extravaganza known as The Asheville Fringe Arts Festival covers spans four days and multiple venues. BeBe Theatre, Asheville Art Museum, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the Wedge Building all hosts events. Thursday, Jan. 20-Sunday, Jan. 23. $12/$10 for senior and students for […]
The physics of the human form
It’s fitting that Pilobolus Dance Theatre — an acclaimed contemporary dance company that takes its name from a fungus — draws inspiration from the natural world, exploring both biological themes and the physics of the human from. At times it is absolutely awe inspiring to watch the company in motion: Dancers fold themselves over and […]
New Moon Rising
You’ve probably never heard of Analog Moon. And with good reason. Ever since founder and frontman Todd Britton [editor’s note: Britton and the author are not related] moved to Asheville two years ago, he’s been so focused on recording their new record, Ascent and The Secret There Below, that his band has performed live only […]
Confidence a plenty
A little encouragement can go a long way. Take Sharon Van Etten. The Brooklyn transplant has a piercing voice that is somehow heart-wrenching and uplifting, vulnerable and empowered all at once. It's the kind of voice that is so instantly striking, one assumes she's been doing this forever. But until a few […]
Review of A Life in the Theatre
It takes superb actors to play badly on purpose without winking, and both Steve Lloyd and Casey Morris are brilliantly up to the task in David Mamet’s comedy.