While Rocky wouldn’t win the annual fattest cat in American title (there actually is such a contest), he’s so big that our vet likes to take him in the back to show off his hugeness.
LiveWireAsheville.com: New online clearinghouse for area performing arts
A consortium of local groups and promoters has launched a Web portal offering free space for promoting groups, artists and events
At Himalaya’s Imports
A.A. Bondy at the Grey Eagle *VIDEO*
Brian McGee of local country-punk outfit Brian McGee and the Hollow Speed interviews Fat Possum artist A.A. Bondy before his show at the Grey Eagle. Bondy opened for Elvis Perkins in Dearland on Wednesday, Nov. 4. Videographer Jesse Hamm filmed the exchange and Bondy’s performance.
Haywood St.
Xpress Q&A with Warren G *VIDEO*
Xpress correspondent Jake Frankel and Par D talk to Warren G at New York Fashions.
This weekend on a shoestring
This weekend is nothing if not eclectic in the budget entertainment department. Art openings, a choral ensemble, a coat drive (set to a reggae beat) and bands, bands, bands.
Purple reign
The reel deal on the 7th annual festival: Nov. 12 to 15
The Asheville Film Festival returns this year with a crop of short films, animation, documentaries, features and student works. That's in addition to the expected excitement of the opening and closing night films, the awards ceremony on Saturday and the free film-making workshops and talks happening all three days of the festival: from Thursday, Nov. […]
Cranky Hanke’s take on the 2009 Asheville Film Festival competition feature films
There are fewer competing features in this year's festival, largely owing to the fact that the aggressive acquisition approach of the past two years – that snagged us such titles as Blood Car, Sita Sings the Blues and Bart Got a Room – was not taken this year. The natural result of that was fewer […]
Rave on
It's too much to hope for that the film festival will score another coup like last year's closing-night feature, Slumdog Millionaire, but then again films like Slumdog just don't come along every year. What we do get this year, however, looks tasty indeed. For opening night, the festival offers Lone Scherfig's (Italian for Beginners) An […]
Want to get a distribution deal? Learn more about editing?
The Asheville Film Festival offers a bevy of free opportunities to learn more about filmmaking, from the artistic to the technical aspects. The educational sessions feature such notables as Paul Schattel of Harrow Beauty films and the accomplished documentarian Paul Bonesteel. A series of "coffee talks" are set up as experiential-based sessions on specific topics. […]
Step out on the pier, take a tour of N.C. breweries, get a look at circus life
Films with local ties include: Alison Alison examines the inner world of a pregnant, 30-something woman as she navigates the treacherous waters of self-doubt and self-destruction. Written and directed in collaboration with the cast, the movie explores a life at the point of no return — how we shape and are shaped, how the trying […]
Seen and not herd
Sid the Sloth from this summer's Ice Age 3 made his off-screen debut as a tiny figurine in McDonald's Happy Meals; now he's appearing, for a much chillier price, on seasonal hoodies. And more than three years after he zoomed out of theaters, Lightning McQueen, the star of Pixar's Cars, is still flashing his winning […]
Road warrior
When photojournalist Rob Amberg began work on his latest book, The New Road (The Center for American Places, 2009), he admits that he was "pretty decidedly against" the nine-mile section of I-26 that recently paved a swath through rural Madison County. And the photos, prose and interviews Amberg captured do detail the destruction in the […]
Spork
Last November, a buzz was in the local music scene air: Music industry veteran Bob Hinkley and his partner Kimberly Hughes were renovating a former Chevrolet dealership in Black Mountain into a new venue. One year later, their White Horse Black Mountain (the logo of which came to Hughes in a vision) has become a […]
Outside Kim’s Wigs
Barbara Kingsolver in Asheville: “I’ve never had time for writer’s block”
Asheville High auditorium was packed to the gills with book-toting fans of Barbara Kingsolver, who spoke and read from her new novel, The Lacuna, this evening at Asheville High School auditorium. “Let there be no doubt,” reported @mountainxpress via Twitter, “Asheville is a town of book lovers.”
Biltmore Ave.
Edgy Mama: Babies are cute vampires
I recently had a conversation with a friend about how much life babies suck out of their mamas. Yes, they suck vast quantities of milk, but also, they suck away our time, energy, sleep and general equilibrium.