If you’ve not had the luck to hear The Overtakers, you’ve got a few chances this week. The Jamaican roots trio is the real deal. Check them Wednesday night at the Grey Eagle, or Thursday, Friday and Saturday at LEAF in Black Mountain.
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Enchanted April at ACT
Asheville Community Theatre’s production of Enchanted April, a fanciful staging of a 1922 British novel, is well-executed and charming.
Edgy Mama: Chicken education
The lowly chicken has been big news around town lately.
Vintage jacket
Local photographer J.Jackson wears a vintage suit jacket recently purchased at Ragtime Vintage Clothing (20 E Walnut St., Asheville, 225-8889). Photos by Jonathan Welch.
Get your LEAF tickets now—until Wednesday at noon
Time is running out to get tickets for this Spring’s Lake Eden Arts Festival, one of WNC’s most-loved festivals. Sales end Wednesday at noon.
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo
Cactus, A.K.A. kid-hop artist Secret Agent 23 Skidoo puts out flyers for his May Saturday, May 16 DVD release party at The Grey Eagle. He just bought the fedora. Photo by Jonathan Welch.
This weekend on a shoestring
With a mostly cloudy weekend in the works, it’s the perfect time to make indoor plans (see the following list of shows—including a Sunday play!). But there is a little sun in the forecast, so dust off the lawn chair and break out the cooler: warm weather music series are upon us. As usual, nothing costs more than $5.
Book Report: Bound South
Susan Rebecca White’s debut novel describes Atlanta culture and society through the eyes of three very different women.
What to know when you go: The French Broad River Festival
We hit up resident festival expert (and Xpress assistant distribution manager) Jeff Tallman for all the tips on this weekend’s French Broad River Festival.
College Street
Will, an Asheville local. Photo by Jonathan Welch.
Pat & Alli’s Weekly Winners
Each week Xpress reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their entertainment suggestions.
Celebrating the active and the reflective
Poets from Western North Carolina and the world will re-converge on Asheville this weekend for Asheville Wordfest. Word up: Asheville-based poet Allan Wolf performs at the Green Door Retrospective at last year’s Wordfest. Photo special to Xpress. “At the heart of Wordfest is our desire to draw communities together at the table of poetry,” says […]
“Pass it around like cornbread and beans”
“I’ve played every watering hole and just about every crack in the sidewalk in Buncombe County and of course I don’t remember all of it,” singersongwriter Malcolm Holcombe says. For those who recall the early 1990s heyday of acoustic folk (when clubs like Be Here Now and McDibbs booked sincere songsters like David LaMotte and […]
Spork
It won’t get much hotter than this: Asheville’s Latin dance community is joining up for a massive Cinco de Mayo celebration. Come to watch and/or come to dance—each group will perform, followed by a set of music designed for dancing and mingling. Salseros 828 brings together a dozen different types of Latin music and dance […]
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Today: A photo shoot at the Enka Mill by local photographer Rene Treece.
Enka mill fashion shoot
The Enka mill (west of Asheville, N.C.) formerly produced fabric and is slated for demolition. The following photos were shot by fashion, wedding and travel photographer Rene’ Treece. Costumes are by Liz White.
“Some dude almost blackout on top of us”: Found Magazine comes back to Asheville
Davy and Peter Rothbart bring the Found Magazine Denim and Diamonds tour to the Grey Eagle on Wednesday, April 29.
Edgy Mama: Time to thank teachers
We never forget our best teachers. But do we remember to thank them for what they’ve done for us?
Cabaret Fever at the BeBe Theatre
Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre presents “Tropicana Cabaret Celebrating the Life of La Lupé,” the famous Cuban singer and dancer whose repertoire and passionate stage antics Castro considered “anti-revolutionary.”