Looking for your favorite men’s clothing store? It’s still there, despite the construction.
Between a rack and a hard place
Cookie LaRue opens a new show this weekend. Song, dance, crafts, camp… there’s something for everyone.
Book Report: Summer Reading List
Here’s what local bookstores suggest, from beach reads to more serious subject matter.
Swing for the fences: Asheville Tourists serve up speed dating
Attention singles — you could be a hit Thursday night at McCormick Field.
From Nairobi with love
African beats meet American rock in multi-ethnic, multi-layered Extra Golden.
Women’s work
Woman inspired and powered multimedia arts project Womanity opens this weekend.
Pat & Alli’s Weekly Winners
Each week Xpress reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their entertainment suggestions.
Staying power
At a time when the life span of a mayfly exceeds that of most Hollywood marriages, even the most devoted fans can hardly expect their favorite band to make it to the leather anniversary. After all, with battling personalities, power struggles and suffocatingly close quarters, bands are like the ultimate adventures in matrimony—and perhaps even […]
The high cost of morality
It has been said that great success comes with great compromise. But how far are we willing to go to achieve our professional goals? From Shakespeare’s tragic Macbeth to Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the temptation to sacrifice morality for the sake of success continues to be a compelling theme for the stage. […]
Dead and back again
Hard work eventually pays off—that’s a mantra in the world of independent music. Bands that have been around for years still struggle just to get a few pairs of feet through a club’s doors, and a night’s hard work can often result in barely enough cash to gas up the van and trudge on to […]
Finally, a reason to go out
Remember going to a concert and having a true musical experience? Your ears rattled, your bones quivered, and while you weren’t quite sure exactly what happened, you knew that you heard—or perhaps felt—a show that can’t be easily replicated by listening to a CD or watching a music video. You’ve had one of those rare […]
In the cards
Visitors to the Homespun Museum at Grovewood Gallery this weekend will have the opportunity to tour a room that most museum patrons never see—and that many Biltmore Industries employees likely wished they hadn’t. Fruit of the loom: Grovewood Gallery presents a rare look at Asheville’s past as a high-end fabric hot spot. Biltmore Industries Homespun […]
Asheville’s newest brewery will celebrate grand opening with ‘Thunder Road’
Wedge Brewing Co., the sixth microbrewery in Buncombe County, opened last week to a thirsty horde. If you missed it, don’t worry — the Wedge is planning a Saturday, July 19, grand opening with plenty more beer and a showing of mountain-moonshining classic Thunder Road.
Edgy Mama: Summer’s here, as are the whinys
For me, summer vacation provokes equal measures of elation and despair. Elation because it’s summer — which means sunshine, homegrown tomatoes, long days at the beach and freedom from the rigors of a school schedule. Despair because it’s summer — which means sunburn, weeds galore, long days at home with the kids and freedom from the rigors of a school schedule.
Pat & Alli’s Weekly Winners
Each week Xpress reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their entertainment suggestions.
Book Report: Book-related events
It’s the right time of year for outdoor reads and hiking guides—and meeting the authors of these books. Not ready to commune with nature? Fiction selections, writers’ groups and a fairy tale ball also make this list.
Book Report: Attack of the Theater People
Comedic fiction writer Marc Acito is back from a too-long hiatus with Attack of the Theater People, the follow up to his hilarious How I Paid for College.
Reaping what they sow
“Our fans are punks and preachers,” says Plowshares front man David Earl Tomlinson. (He also says, “Listen up y’all, got something to say, a little bit of whiskey goes a mighty long way,” in his near-perfect blues rocker “Local Anesthesia.”) The point is not so much that Tomlinson can pull collaborators, friends and fans from […]
Don’t worry, be happy (here’s how)
In the new book The Geography of Bliss, journalist Eric Weiner dubs Asheville “the happiest place” in America. Not to be outdone, ABC news show 20/20 investigated happiness as well, naturally turning to an Asheville resident for an expert opinion. In an online article, “What Makes People Happy?” the TV show interviewed painter Jonas Gerard. […]
The house that Lorca built
Known for his participation in the pre-Spanish Civil War avant-garde movement, Federico Garcia Lorca was an emblematic writer, poet, painter and musician of the early 20th century. He wrote fearlessly about controversial issues such as homosexuality, the consequences of living under a dictatorship, the price of censorship and the class system defining his country. However, […]
Trying hard now
“Without perspiration,” says singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier, “you just end up with goo.” Gauthier (pronounced “go-shay”) is talking about writing lyrics, a process she has been known to agonize over. The Louisiana native, who is now based in Nashville, rewrites songs almost compulsively, reworking them as many times as she has to until she feels that […]