This weekend on a shoestring
Goombay kicks off, Greenlife celebrates five years in Asheville with food, drink and music, local bands commandeer Pritchard Park, poets recite, rockers reunite and DJs spin while shoppers scores some great sale prices. And it’s all super budget friendly.
Light and shadow: The mystery and legacy of George Masa
He lay against white sheets, a slight figure wasted by disease. Friends came to see him, sat beside him, reached out to touch his arm. They asked whether he was comfortable. Could they get him anything? But he was out of reach now. He had traveled beyond words. To take some of the earliest photos […]
"Everyone is invited to the reggae party"
Goombay fans have taken in a lot of eclectic world-beat sounds over the years, from African drums to Caribbean grooves. But here's something even the most astute world music fan might not know: The cowbell — that clunky but effective rhythm instrument — doesn't jive with the digital age. "You can take a cowbell and […]
On a wing and a Drunken Prayer
The band name Drunken Prayer doesn't actually stem from the time singer/songwriter Morgan Geer and keyboardist Audra Fleming spent holed up in a cabin in California's wine country. It's also not about dogma, though Geer used to front Asheville-based blues-rock outfit The Unholy Trio. "Religious themes work as iconic imagery on an everyday level, without […]
Artillery
If it's true that Asheville is the Paris of the South, then Marshall is more akin to a small town in the South of France, with its picturesque landscape, close-knit community,and laid-back quality of living. Over the past few years, the small historic river town of barely 900 occupants has quietly grown into a thriving […]
Sk8r
Allysa, photographed by Anthony Bellemare.
Local b-boys on the move
Prepping for move to new south Asheville studio, b-boy dance outfit Hunab Kru will hold its final weekly training session at Stephens-Lee Recreation Center Wednesday night.
Prince & The Revolution flash back
Brian J, frontman for Brooklyn-based The Pimps of Joytime, playing Asheville’s Downtown After 5 street festival.
“Real Estate” at Flat Rock Playhouse
The play features some very talented actors and an unfortunately lackluster script.
Tuesday Spork: Two cool shows at BoBo, Craggie Brewing needs mural, Prefuse 73
Some Tuesday A&E news: Australian singer/songwriter Keppie Coutts and her Berklee bud Angi West at BoBo, EAR PWR back in town, Craggie Brewing needs a mural painter and tickets on sale for Prefuse 73.
Five reasons to go see the Fiery Furnaces Tuesday night
Hint: No. 2 is the White Rabbits. No. 5 is health-care reform.
Video-a-Go-Go: The local video roundup
Drunken skateboarding, glorious Jewish food, an Eliza Lynn performance and other local-video highlights
Concord, Virginia at N.C. Stage
Based on the award-winning book of the same name, actor/author Peter Neofotis’ Concord, Virginia presents some excellent story telling, quirky characters, and a some not-for-the-easily-offended content.
This is much more common in the U.K.
Tom Stanford of Asheville’s Wayfarers All rocks a skirt and pumps. We know the Rolling Stones and U2 went in drag on occasion, but why Stanford? “It seemed like something fun to do,” he says. Wayfarers All plays a CD release show for their new, self-titled disc, at The Boiler Room (11 Grove St., Asheville, […]
Edgy Mama: Back-to-school nightmares
While us parents are wandering around humming, “School, glorious school,” our kids are caught up in a state of what I call “dreadcitement.” They’re both dreading and excited about, anxious over and anticipating the start of a new school year.
Baseball and beers…well, sortof
So there’s not any baseball at the actual event, but there are four of Asheville’s most-entertaining bands and more than 30 craft brews to enjoy this Saturday.
Lexington Ave.
Win tickets to DIG festival *** update: tickets gone ***
We’ve got three pairs of tickets to give away for the first-ever DIG (Downtown Independent Groove) festival! Come and get ‘em.
Relive Transfigurations
Check out these Xpress photo galleries and lots of photos from Lydia See.
This weekend on a shoestring
There’s plenty going on besides DIG, too. Downtown After Five returns, as does reggae band Inner Visions (pictured). Local author Charles Price reads and Hunk Clothing celebrates a month-long sale with DJs and drinks.