Countdown to Bele Chere: A Top-10 pick of bands to see
Earlier this week, The City of Asheville posted the complete Bele Chere 2010 music lineup on its Web site. Of course a number of these bands have been leaking their Bele Chere performances over the last couple months. That’s given us all plenty of time to think about what group’s we’re most excited about seeing (including Ohio’s The Speedbumps, pictured here).
Another 48 hours
The 48 Hour Film Project starts up again Friday, with a pre-party tonight at the Coxe Ave. Asheville Brewing Company.
A girl & her shoes
Review of the Americana Burlesque and Sideshow fest
Onça O’Leary and her Future of Tradition Productions promised a lot from the fourth annual ABSFest this past weekend.
SoundTrack Web Extra: The Archrivals
Usually novelty albums quickly lose their appeal — this is not the case with the Archrivals’ self-titled debut effort.
Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies: The Unbearable Lightness of the A-Team
This week, Hanke and Souther: share their views on The Karate Kid, The A-Team, The Secret in Their Eyes, Please Give and Survival of the Dead; explain why The Sentinel isn’t as gory as you may have heard; make the case for the classic Howard Hawks comedy The Twentieth Century; and express a deflated optimism about soon-to-open flicks Toy Story 3 and Jonah Hex.
“The Rite of Spring and other works” by Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance
Terpsicorps presents The Rite of Spring and other works, an upcoming concert of contemporary ballet, performed Thursday, June 24 through Saturday, June 26 at Diana Wortham Theatre.
Walnut & Lexington
This weekend on a shoestring
This weekend’s top 10 includes Asheville’s Broomstars (pictured) playing at MoDaddy’s with Ween drummer Claude Coleman Jr. and his band Amandla. That’s Saturday, but Thursday and Friday bring more music, art and author events (including a muralist just published by Punk Planet).
Flooding and rebuilding
Process and form rise and converge in the cadenced paintings of Galen Frost Bernard, currently on display at BoBo Gallery in downtown Asheville. Treading the line between abstract and representational art, undulating masses of geometric shape, color and line churn into each other to create the impression of shantytowns built into precipitous environments. An Awkward […]
Taste test
"The butter is French … Not pasteurized," says Rose, the main character in Aimee Bender's new novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. "The parsley is from San Diego. The parsley farmer is a jerk." Lightness and rare beauty: Novelist Aimee Bender says the joy of finding movement in subject matter "eclipses all disappointments." At […]
Bass in yo face
Pocahaunted's new album, Make It Real, needs to be cranked the way one would a killer dub joint, say Keith Hudson's Nuh Skin Up Dub or Wackie's Natures Dub: Overdrive the bass, kill the treble. For those unfamiliar with the splendor that is mind-rattling bass, this sounds excessive, I'm sure. Basically, you want the low-end […]
Public Domain
True to its roots, The Redundant Theatre Company Theatre is launching a new show, and the thespians have no idea how the audience will respond. The audience may love it, hate it, or anything in between. And that type of reaction is what propels TRTCR to continue producing shows that some people might call weird; […]
The Profiler
The Suspect: Jazz the Ripper The six-man group formed in Asheville in 2007; its members range in age from 14 to 18 years old. This is no ordinary boy band, however; their dual-sax set up gives them a unique funky sound that gets audiences dancing. This show celebrates the release of the band's second CD. […]
The 2010-2011 Asheville-Area Eats & Drinks guide hits the streets
Xpress’ latest Eats & Drinks guide is now available across Western North Carolina and in cases mounted atop Xpress boxes throughout downtown Asheville.
Soft Opening opens for Dead Meadow at Stella Blue this Friday
L.A.-based metal band Dead Meadow makes an Asheville appearance in support of Three Kings DVD and soundtrack set, along with remixes releases.
Asheville Mural Project’s sneak-peek unveiling & fundraiser
This Saturday, June 19, Arts2People invites the community to an unveiling of the final “Chess Players” portion of the mural, destined for the Broadway/Merrimon side of the I-240 bridge. All proceeds from the event support the completion of the mural.
Outside Kress
Buncombe to Bonnaroo (ongoing coverage)
Thanks for sharing your views from ‘Roo! In this post, we have an aggregated Twitter feed and coverage from throughout the weekend.
Asheville b-boy posse Hunab Kru wowed crowds at ‘Roo. Photo by Jake Frankel.