“It has come to my attention that a lot of people think that Menage has quit,” writes Mary Ellen Bush, bassist for the popular folk-rock group. Bush, whose projects of the past year also include old-time band The PitchSlickers and jazz group The Sireens, wants to dispel that myth. Menage hasn’t quit—the band will play […]

Looking for art at the edge? April is woodworking month and surprises abound. This is not your grandpa’s woodwork. Though plenty of woodworkers are, in fact, grandpas, the work they’re creating is anything but predictable. Current exhibits at Grovewood Gallery and Blue Spiral include everything from turned bowls translucent as glass to furniture that provides […]

“My job is to make it as easy as possible for people to make environmentally-responsible choices,” says Josh Dorfman, a.k.a. “The Lazy Environmentalist.” Since the 2005 launch of Dorfman’s alter-ego (a career comprising two books, an eco-furniture company, a radio show and the resource-rich Web site lazyenvironmentalist.com) Dorfman has noticed a profound impact on his […]

Two venues, two stages, 20 acts: Here’s what to know about Asheville’s first electronic music summit. Breakbeat livetronica group Pnuma trio plays Tron-A-Thon on Friday night. • The lineup is stellar. If you missed Eliot Lipp on his recent trip to town, or on his recent tour with Sound Tribe Sector 9, you can catch […]

Originally, Toronto’s Great Lake Swimmers was to be a solo project. Over the course of the past six years, however, Tony Dekker’s brainchild has morphed from country-boy-in-the-city-with-an-acoustic-guitar to a semi-collective with an alternating body of participants to a proper band incorporating a fairly solid lineup of friends and collaborators. Watery, wide-eyed wonder: Great Lake Swimmers […]