Music, art, crafts, brews and sweets: aren’t you glad to be in Asheville? Us too. Here’s your guide to the weekend’s best on a budget.
Win a pair of passes to a Mayer Hawthorne meet & greet
LA-based blue-eyed soul singer/producer/DJ Mayer Hawthorne performs at The Orange Peel on Monday, Oct. 25.
Stripes
Frenemies like these
Watch enough movies and you get the idea that friendships between women are all camaraderie, clothes-sharing and gossip about men — interspersed with silly spats (about clothes and men) that are quickly resolved. And, if your own life doesn't come with a Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda to match your Carrie, well, what’s wrong with you? […]
Angels in Asheville
To a contemporary theater audience, a naked man on stage for 30 seconds may not be as shocking as it was when Angels in America first opened 20 years ago. Nonetheless, Tony Kushner’s “Gay Fantasia on National Themes” remains an intense – and intensely relevant – piece of theater. To open its ninth season as […]
Everyday ambience
Villages’ sprawling ambient landscapes are haunting and otherworldly, the kind of thing you’d expect to hear in a sci-fi thriller. But they come from a surprisingly natural place. “I like to walk around alone a lot and capture found sounds,” says the project’s mastermind Ross Gentry. “I lived right on Riverside [Drive, in the River […]
The Profiler
The Suspect: Dirty Dozen Brass Band Thanks in part to the success of the New Orleans Saints and the new HBO show, Treme, there has been a renewed appreciation for marching band style brass music. The DDB, along with Trombone Shorty and Allen Toussaint, joined the Dave Matthews Band live on NBC for the NFL […]
Smart Bets
East of Asheville studio tour Twice a year, artists of the Black Mountain, Swannanoa and East Asheville area open their studios to visitors. Says the website, "Everyone is welcome to visit any or all of the studios during the tour, whether they are serious art patrons or just browsers of beautiful and interesting works." Some […]
Review of Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s
I expected to see a band caught up in the exultation of finding themselves, feeding off the kinetic energy of performing music that sounded so obviously rewarding to create. Instead, they portrayed distinct disaffection that betrayed not even a simulacrum of getting carried away by performing, or even enjoying the music.
“Bob Moog Live,” world premiere and CD-release party at the LAB
Bob Moog Live is an electronic, neo-classical album featuring the “only known recording of synthesizer pioneer Bob Moog publicly performing on his famous Minimoog.” Come celebrate its release at the LAB on Sunday, Oct. 10.
Zombie Walk and Stargate Portal Opening take place on 10/10/10
This Sunday is trinumeral day: Oct. 10, 2010. With that comes two very different local events.
Dashiki
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.
The North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame inducts five writers
Among those honored in the Oct. 17 ceremony will be WNC author Robert Morgan (seen here) and frequent Asheville visitor novelist Allan Gurganus.
Pink t-shirts
Two very different (or not so different?) takes on the message tee.
Video A-Go-Go: Asheville 101, Ice Cream Breaking and Scaring Heron
In this week’s roundup: annoyed eye-rolling at the weather; smooth moves in the ice cream shop; how not to approach a Great Blue Heron; Rach-ing out; and The StereoFidelics.
Busk Break: Easy Joe Performs “Candle In The Window”
Although his background is mostly as a drummer, Asheville-based musician “Easy Joe” has been writing original songs for guitar in the last several years, and recently decided to give busking on the streets of downtown a try. Here, he performs his original tune “Candle In The Window” in front of the BB&T building.
Edgy Mama: Packing school lunches for picky eaters
Neither of my kids has ever eaten a school cafeteria meal — never, ever.
Scenes from Blue Ridge Pride
The free festival takes place today, on N. Lexington Ave., from noon-8 p.m.
New Orleans soul musician Eric Lindell comes to Asheville
The blues/soul/singer/songwriter grew up in California on country rock and funk bands (Fishbone!), but it was a move to New Orleans in the 1990s that jump-started his career. Here, he talks to Xpress about his sound, his independent label and his Saturday, Oct. 9 show at MoDaddy’s.
Busk Break: Jay Peele Performs “Design”
Even when he’s playing Merle Haggard covers on his 12-string acoustic guitar, it’s hard to miss Jay Peele’s knack for experimental sonic flourishes. Here, the recently Asheville-area arrival performs his original tune “Design” near the Vance Monument in downtown.