HardLox Jewish Food & Heritage Festival More than just a cleverly named festival, HardLox — now in its eighth year — is an opportunity to celebrate Jewish heritage, learn more about the traditions and sample tasty kosher snacks (potato knish, maztso ball soup, noodle kugel and babkas are on the list). There's also Israeli dancing, […]
The Best of WNC is on the way!
The Best of WNC: Round One issues hit the loading dock this afternoon. Soon, they’ll be in boxes and in your hands!
Review of A Few Good Men
The pace is so relentless, the flashbacks are so abrupt, the sly Perry Mason-esque moments of “I just have one more little question” are so predictable, and (in the current production by Flat Rock Playhouse) the actors are just so darn good-looking, that pretty soon one begins to feel that one is in fact watching a TV drama.
More Halloween events
Night of the Bass Zombies is this weekend; Halloween week brings a special tour by Better Tours of Asheville, a haunted corn maze race, trick-or-treating at a haunted museum and a CD release by Hellblinki on the LaZoom bus.
Mountain Xpress entertainment spotlight
Xpress A&E reporter Alli Marshall talks to 98.1 The River DJ Ashley Davis about what’s coming up, entertainment-wise.
Initial Christmas Jam lineup announced
So we’re barely to Halloween, but it’s never too early for Christmas Jam news, yes? The initial lineup announcement includes The Steve Miller Band, Gregg Allman, members of Widespread Panic, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Drive-By Truckers and of course, The Warren Haynes Band.
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Truth & Salvage Co. shoot a video in Asheville’s Pritchard Park
The L.A.-based band stopped through WNC on its current tour, shooting video in Fairview and, this afternoon, downtown Asheville.
Zombies invade Asheville!
Last night’s 4th annual Ashtoberfest Zombiewalk was a brain-gnawing success. More than 1,000 people showed up to shuffle and moan through the streets of downtown Asheville.
—Video by Matt Johnson
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Busk Break: Eric J. Wells Performs “Chloe’s Song”
Asheville-based singer/songwriter Eric J. Wells performs his original tune “Chloe’s Song” in front of Malaprop’s.
Dirndl skirts and lederhosen
Asheville’s Oktoberfest celebration is happening today (until 6 p.m.) on Wall St.
Busk Break: Madeleine Reidy Performs “Little Girl”
Busking accordion player Madeleine Reidy may call Upstate New York home, but her musical travels brought her through Asheville earlier this week. Here, she performs her original tune “Little Girl” near the Chocolate Fetish on Haywood Street.
Upcoming book events
With everything else in the works, don’t forget to lineup your fall and winter reading (you don’t want to be caught at the first teacher conference/doctor’s appointment/family holiday get-together/snow storm without a good book). To help you decide what to read, check out these author events.
Asheville streetstyle: thinking about autumn
Forget new York and Paris Fashion weeks, Asheville Streetstyle has your fall fashion. Here are some of our favorite cool-weather looks from the current season and years past. (Photo by Anthony Bellemare.)
Busk Break: Sid Jordan Performs “Half of Everyone You Know Is Dead”
Atlanta-based musician Sid Jordan (of Darling Trees) played an afternoon-long set on the corner of Wall Street and Battery Park earlier this month. Here’s his original tune “Half of Everyone You Know Is Dead.”
T.S. Eliot’s glasses
More Halloween events
Dance parties, Dracula, weekend-long events and the annual return of the Unknown Hinson are among your Halloween options.
Woolworth Walk
Moogfest adds local acts to its lineup
Just today, Moogfest organizers announced additions to the already jam-packed festival lineup — but this time, the newly-added acts include a handful of local electronic bands (like RBTS WIN, seen here).
Elitist Bastards: Golddigging Cemetery Men On Facebook
In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies, Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther review Let Me In, Animal Kingdom, The Social Network, Farewell, Chain Letter and Case 39. They also discuss the surreal Italian horror film Cemetery Man (also known as Dellamorte Dellamore, this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show), and classic musical comedy Gold Diggers of 1933 (next week’s Asheville Film Society screening). And to top it all off, the duo consider the potential quality of upcoming releases Secretariat, Life as We Know It, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Like Dandelion Dust and My Soul to Take.