This week’s round-up includes breakdancers Hunab Kru, the Cole Mountain Cloggers, a training session with the Blue Ridge Rollergirls; the acobatics of the Runaway Circus and the Loose Cabooses, and of course, much more.
The fabulous horn hat
Image by Halima Flynt
Asheville in Wonderland: The denizen of Lexington Avenue
Photo by Zen Sutherland.
Review of Chipola at 35Below
Waylon Wood’s often lyrical dialogue and his understanding of, and compassion for, his characters compensate for structural deficiencies. It helps, too, that each role is perfectly cast and rendered, and that strong acting makes up for the less-believable touches.
Sunny day!
Images by Halima Flynt
SoundTrack Web Extra: Paul Cataldo
New England-born, Black Mountain-based singer/songwriter Paul Cataldo evokes a strong sense of place with Rivers, Roads & Mountains.
Dance through the decades
Tonight you can shake your stuff at the Time Machine, a new monthly dance party at the Lexington Avenue Brewery where each hour brings a new decade of music
Sundress + boots
Saddle shoes
These excellent vintage shoes came from Ragtime (20 E. Walnut St., Asheville, 225-8889).
An early spring stroll through the Asheville Botanical Gardens
Photographs of early spring wildflowers at the Asheville Botanical Gardens. Photos by Jonathan Welch
Get yer goats on
Tonight, one night only at the Fine Arts Theatre: a Mountain Goats performance film made by the very talented director Rian Johnson (and put on by our friends at Harvest Records).
No foolin’: LaZoom Tours announces a special deal for locals
It’s April Fool’s Day — but local funsters on wheels LaZoom tours aren’t joking about their April promotion
SoundTrack Web Extra: The Discordian Society
The Discordian Society’s Primordial Soup is a heady brew of styles, influences, serious musicianship and sometimes downright silly lyrics.
This weekend on a shoestring
This week’s roundup starts with Thursday, April 1, but it’s no joke. A down-right exhausting list of budget-priced shows awaits your perusal. Read on!
Just the artifacts
Walk this way by A.M. The following galleries will be participating in the art walk. Exhibits opening concurrent with the event are noted. • Aesthetic Gallery (fine art from around the world), 6 College St., Asheville, 398-0219. • A Boy & His Dog Fine Art (representing styles including abstract, bronze sculptures, contemporary realism, drawings, landscapes, nature photography, […]
Clay Date
Sure, pottery was sexy before that scene in Ghost (where overalls-wearing Demi Moore worked at her wheel while a specter of Patrick Swayze cuddled up to her). But chances are that getting frisky while surrounded by buckets of slip or, handmade, voluptuous sculptures probably weren't what American Folk Art & Framing had in mind when […]
Natural history
Though technically Blue Spiral 1 holds the receptions for its new exhibits on the first of the month, gallery director Jordan Ahlers points out that the art walk will be like a second opening night. And, with multiple shows on display throughout the sprawling three-floor gallery, a second opening night seems like a good idea. […]
Where else to (art) walk
Consider the April 2 Art Walk as a test run, a training session, a priming of the gallery crawl pump. Yes, this is the first chance of the season to tour studios, but it's hardly the last. In fact, some of the area's tours are so popular/extensive/awesome that they happen twice a year. Read on […]
Looping skillfully towards glory
When Tartufi last performed in Asheville, the duo owned The Joli Rouge for an evening — by the time the band left the stage, the two musicians had converted a number of those present to hard-core fans. Tartufi are Lynne Angel and Brian Gorman. Despite their number, the sound and presence exceeds that of many […]
A river runs through it
Director Jack Lindsay says that playwright Waylon Wood "has a lot of insight to human nature." To that, Wood says, "The characters are wise, but I don't know about me. I guess I was raised by some wise people and they figure into it." Wood's play, Chipola, runs through most of April at Asheville Community […]
Artillery
Two years ago, while browsing an estate sale in Washington, D.C., local artist Becca Johnson came across the photo album of a woman named Dell Barnhart who was born in the early 1900s. Using the information she was given about this woman, Johnson began to piece together a narrative of her life. "I had limited […]