A slideshow look at some of work on display today, June 26, at the WNC Craft, Architecture and Design Expo at the N.C. Arboretum. The event is put on by Handmade in America and ends today. The work of local crafters and artists is displayed in 11 separate vignettes, such as kitchen, bedroom, livingroom.
Morgan Geer, formerly of Asheville and known for playing in The Merle and The Unholy Trio, currently lives in Portland. He’ll make the trip back east next month, playing a series of WNC shows throughout July.
Asheville commemorates the 1969 Stonewall riots today with a series of events. Photo by Michael Muller
The Asheville Masonic Temple is now officially the “permanent home of the indoor season of the Montford Park Players.”
Fast-paced, gripping, and filled with local lore, Lawrence Thackston’s The Devil’s Courthouse presents en engrossing Appalachian mystery.
This actually happens in Asheville’s Pritchard Park every Tuesday afternoon during the warm months.
In advance of the July 16 fashion show at The Orange Peel, PUSH interviews a local boutique owner, an apparel designer and a jeweler.
Five graffiti artists paint the inside of Ananda this Saturday; the public is invited to watch.
New York-based (but in WNC for the summer) 2/3 Goat attempts to meld pop-rock and bluegrass on Up The Mountain.
Expect a Nashville-to-Asheville rock ‘n’ roll extravaganza.
He bleached his own jeans:
In typical Agatha Christie form, The Mousetrap, the most recent production at the Brevard Little Theatre, grabs the audience immediately and keeps them guessing until the final scene.
The Death Vine by this new-to-Asheville trio is both wildly experimental and pleasantly pretty.
In this week’s podcast: Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss new films Toy Story 3, Mother And Child, Jonah Hex and The Good, the Bad, the Weird; get chatty about the merits of Brian De Palma’s classic musical horror parody The Phantom of the Paradise and the often-overlooked Francis Ford Coppola drama Tetro; and speculate on upcoming releases Grown Ups and Knight and Day.
A top-10 round up of budget-friendly performance around WNC this weekend.
"Staycation" sounded smart and savvy and almost fun when we were all faced with economic demise. Not to belittle that terrifying year: A vacation seemed like crazy-talk when banks were collapsing. But now that the dust is settling and the tourist droves are, once again, returning to Asheville's streets, it's hard not to be in […]
"We were originally planning to move to New York, but after spending some time there, we realized we'd be like a needle in a stack of needles," says Stuart Baker. So he moved his group — The Baker Family Band — to Austin, Texas. In the moment: Stuart Baker makes records to represent "our current […]
Joe Zimmerman is an accomplished poet who resides somewhere in the Biltmore Forest, without permission. He has many accolades and credentials (and resumes) and has graduated from many prestigious poetry colleges, including (but not limited to) Harvard, Oxford, and Cal Polytechnic State and San Luis Obispo Community College. In his spare time he enjoys bird […]
It's been a while since we've done a Smiley's Flea Market update. While an ordinary citizen could effectively sum up the current state of Smiley's by saying, "It's still there," we here at Junker's Blues remain so obsessed with the place that you lucky readers are going to get a two-part column about my latest […]
Patchy rain and ominous gray clouds weren't enough to dissuade an eclectic crowd from gathering at Pisgah Brewery for the silk-smooth harmonies and rhythmic grooves of local folk-rock foursome Uncle Mountain, as they opened for Now You See Them on a drowsy Friday evening. An inspiring marriage of rhythm and harmony, with an Appalachian tinge. […]
