Each week Xpress reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their entertainment suggestions.
Friday afternoon
Austin Geisler and Emily Freeman on Patton Ave. Emily bought her knit hat at the WNC Farmer’s Market.
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Prodigies of cool: Teen sensations Skinny Legs and All. There have always been upstarts, like high school kid-turned-Rolling Stone-writer Cameron Crowe, and skatepunk-turned-bluesman Jonny Lang. Asheville’s answer to those prodigies of cool has to be Skinny Legs and All. The quintet, ages 12-17, started as a music club at Evergreen Community Charter School. But these […]
Larger than life
“Each project is like an expedition,” says Christo. “This is why it’s so exciting.” Really, every aspect of the shared life of husband and wife artist team Christo and Jeanne-Claude reads like an adventure, from their identical birthdates to their fated meeting (Christo was hired to paint a portrait of Jeanne-Claude’s mother). Artists Jeanne-Claude and […]
Better late than never
Talking to Patterson Hood, it’s easy to notice that the guitar-playing, rabble-rousing and whiskey-swilling frontman of the Drive-By Truckers isn’t quite the same person at home. Is that the sound of his daughter playing in the background? Truckers’ delight: WNCW listeners voted Brighter Than Creation’s Dark No. 4 on the station’s list of 2008’s Top […]
Asheville Lyric Opera celebrates 10 years of song
Like a first love, eight out of 10 people remember their first opera, says David Craig Starkey, director of Asheville Lyric Opera. Soprano Angela Brown performs as Verdi’s Aida. Photo by Marty Sohl / Metropolitan Opera. “It becomes personal to them,” he says. “You just never forget it. There’s something about somebody singing their love […]
Old Kentucky Homework
Six slightly scruffy boys listen as their instructor reads from Look Homeward, Angel. She stops and asks, “How is Wolfe using melodrama here?” Tentatively at first, the boys offer answers, then discuss how they use melodrama in their own writing. Janet Hurley reads to her writing students from Look Homeward, Angel. The middle-school aged group […]
Edgy Mama
I admit it. I have a cougar crush on Troy Bolton. Yes, on the romantic athlete-slash-theater geek character in the three High School Musical movies (a cougar, for those of you who don’t know, is a woman of a certain age who goes for much younger men. I’m not really a cougar, I just have […]
The Biz: WNC business briefs
Meet The Geeks Meet-Up Jan. 28: Meet the Geeks, the Asheville-based network of 500-plus IT professionals, will hold its first social event of the year Wednesday, Jan. 28. They’ll convene at Scully’s bar and eatery (13 W. Walnut St. in downtown Asheville) from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Membership in Meet the Geeks is free, and […]
SoundTrack
To get a feel for the Old Horsey Slideshow, picture the group as statues that come alive and start playing for dancing ghosts, goblins and creepy trees inside a forgotten graveyard in an old vampire movie. Their act is impressive—complete with clear, trained, just damn pretty voices singing three part harmonies, several instruments played in […]
Photos and Video Clips From the 7th Annual Asheville Fringe Festival
Peer into the strange and fantastical world of the seventh annual Asheville Fringe Festival, which was performed this weekend at the BeBe Theatre and on the LaZoom bus.
Bag one
Terri’s oversized fuzzy tote was made for her by her friend Patty, who lives in Madison County.
Frederic Kahler does patriotic
Frederic Kahler was spotted at the Orange Peel’s Inauguration Gala on January 20. He posted the following comments at the Mountain Xpress photo galleries: “Jonathan was sweet to ask for my photo! Although lots of press pics were taken of me, JW got it right. I know how to dress for an occasion. Note how […]
These boots were made for walking
Brittany, photographed outside of The Yacht Club on Patton Ave., says she found her boots online.
On the way to work, part 2
Andrew Williams on Lexington Ave. Photo by Julie Tracy.
On the way to work
Leslie Rogers on Lexington Ave. Photo by Julie Tracy.
Inauguration Celebration
The following photos are from The Orange Peel’s Inauguration Gala on Tuesday, Jan. 20: Franzi Charen and Kip Veno, owners of Hip Replacements. Funky Haray2. April Shamel. Joe Adams of local break dance troupe Hunab Kru. Joe made his own hat and scarf. Images by Jonathan Welch.
Book Report: Around Biltmore Village
Bill Alexander’s Around Biltmore Village offers a charming closer look—along with plenty of rare images and little-known facts—into the evolution of one of Asheville’s iconic areas.
Walnut St. on a snowy Tuesday
Amanda (left) and Megan, bundled up on a chilly day.
Wonderful photos from the Rwandan children’s performance in Black Mountain last weekend
Mizero Children of Rwanda performed last Saturday at White Horse/Black Mountain. Local photographer Reggie Tidwell took some fantastic photos of the performance. Check them out at his Flickr site.
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could we keep track of everything? But it’s also bad because there’s never enough space for All the Awesome Stuff Happening in Asheville every week. Velcroheads: The “how-did-they-think-of-that” choreography of performance art troupe Galumpha. The Diana Wortham Theatre, for example, has a great-looking roster of events planned for the spring. But Galumpha may take their […]