The organizers of POPAsheville have announced that the festival won’t happen in 2010.
Downtown After Five
Festive attire at a recent Downtown After Five street party. Photos by Aiyanna Sezak-Blatt
Edgy Mama: The swine flu cometh to summer camp
Last year, visions of natural disasters, girl-eating bears and murky ponds freaked me out. This year, it’s the interloper otherwise known as the swine flu.
Video-a-Go-Go: The local video roundup
Looking for a lost turtle, Bascom Lamar Lunsford on camera, a way out of our economic mess, inside the Mellow Mushroom … and more, in this week’s review of Asheville-made or -focused videos.
Cries and whispers (and laughs): Review of Brighton Beach Memoirs
Cries and whispers (and laughs): Review of Brighton Beach Memoirs at Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre.
Asheville by way of Miami
Local (at least for the summers) artist Miguel Paredes introduces his Miami/N.Y., lush/urban, complex/stark collection of oils, acrylics, and mixed media on canvas at The Satellite Gallery.
Afterbirth of a Nation: The Feral Chihuahuas at the Asheville Arts Center
The Feral Chihuahuas: From “Gansta Rap for the Hearing Impaired” to “The Horrors of Gay Marriage,” a review of a recent performance.
Runaway bride
She was modeling the dress for a photo shoot on Walnut St. Check out the shoes in the final frame.
Free show! Blue Dragons at Pisgah Brewing Company tonight
You may have seen Mountain Xpress ad director James Fisher rocking faces off over the years with one of his many bands, including the legendary American Gothic. Catch him tonight with his new band the Blue Dragons.
Polka dots
Pack Square
image by Kathleen McCafferty
This weekend on a shoestring
Is it just me, or does a weekend that starts with a free festival seem somehow more auspicious than those weekends that don’t? (Even if you’re not a fan of this Friday’s Downtown After Five lineup, you can get your money’s worth—$0—in people-watching alone.) Beyond that, there’s free theater, a CD release and some of the area’s best-loved bands—including the reunion of Pure, on hiatus for the past 18 years. All for five bucks or less.
Hard times? Must laugh
The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, ongoing war and perhaps even more disturbingly, a national media frenzy over the untimely death of Michael Jackson — it's enough to bring anyone down. However, if laughter truly is the best medicine, Asheville is a good place to be these days. The town might not yet […]
"I have learned nothing"
"Oh my god, the guy across the street needs to put some f**in' clothes on!" Todd Snider is sitting by the front window of his house in East Nashville, Tenn., enjoying a break from touring behind his latest album, The Excitement Plan. Apparently his neighbor has decided to step outside sans shirt and pants. This […]
Junker’s Blues
For those of you who've been enjoying this column over the last couple of months, it's time to let you know that you need to take the whole thing with a large grain of salt. Illustration by Nathanael Roney Because I'm a junker, and all the junkers I've ever met are liars. Well … "liar" […]
Artillery: Learning through scissors and books
Ginger Huebner believes all children should grow up with a foundation in the arts. All her life, she's known she was meant to teach art. So it was a natural move to open Asheville's first visual arts preschool, The Roots + Wings School of Art. "Most of how we learn history is through the art […]
Spork
Yahoo, it's the middle of summer and prime Downtown After Five time. The next show in the free (free!) series kicks off Friday, July 17, with a lineup that ranges from gritty-blues-rock to local quirk-folk. Coverin' all the bases, they are. The show starts at 5:15 p.m. (though you can come right after 5, if […]
What can an artist do with $1,500?
Jennifer Callahan needed to fix the letterpress. The machine was broken, and without it, the literary and visual artist couldn't produce broadsides of her hand-bound journal, Pig. Money from a Regional Artist Project Grant helped her, and now the elegantly designed broadsides will be on display at Harvest Records in August. Visual artist Jennifer Callahan […]
Edgy Mama: My Shuler-inspired favorite kid movie choices
Here’s a list of some of my favorite kid movies. Some of these I saw first as a kid myself; some as an adult. But I’d watch any one of them again now — with or without my kids.
Review of Cymbeline at Montford Park
Montford Park Players takes on Shakespeare’s strange and complicated (and obscure) Cymbeline. Tragedy? Romance? “Problem play”? Read on and find out.
Video a-go-go
Fireworks, a 48-hour Film Fest winner, hula hoops, a blacksmith musician — are some of this week’s video harvest.