The organizers of the Asheville Film Festival have announced that there will be a second “buzz” showing of the sold-out film Blood Car on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in Diana Wortham Theatre. Get tickets here.
The candy problem
Lots of local kids got a little bit richer last week and protected their teeth in the process.
Clubland Online: Keeping up with Asheville
Here at the Xpress we are proud to announce a new user-friendly way to keep up with Asheville’s eclectic nightlife and music scene: our newly revamped Clubland section!
Film Fest Report: Sold-out shows
Movies at the Asheville Film Festival are selling out quickly. For a list of the sold-out shows, check the official festival site, which will be updated throughout the festival.
Film Fest Report: Art of Suicide on Lexington Avenue
Atlanta filmmakers Brent Brooks and Tim Honigman, whose Art of Suicide screens in the Asheville Film Festival, were passing out fliers at Disneyland last week for the Los Angeles Film Festival when they decided they needed a new approach.
Book Report: Evolution in a Nutshell
Local author goes beyond the origin of the species.
Listening Party: King Tut, Secret Lives and STRUT
Each week, we pick three local musical acts, link to a site where you can listen to their songs for free, then ask you to spend a few moments of your time to tell us what you think about them. Some may be great, others may be middling or awful — that’s for you to decide — all we ask is that you listen with an open mind.
The best of the fest
OK, it’s time to talk movies. Oh, I know I’m usually talking movies, but it’s time to talk movies en masse, with the fifth Asheville Film Festival upon us. Road rage: Indie horror flick Blood Car makes our list of this year’s “must see” films. By the time you factor in the competition features, the […]
Lifetime Achievement Award winner Tess Harper
Tess Harper is the consummate actress—no ifs, ands or buts. She simply is. From the moment she stepped on to the screen in 1983 in Bruce Beresford’s Tender Mercies, she established this—and 24 years later she’s still proving it. Belle of the ball: 2007 Career Achievement Award winner Tess Harper will get the red-carpet treatment […]
Reign of the Rejects
Playing David to the Asheville Film Festival’s Goliath for the second year in a row is the Asheville Rejects Film Festival. Presented by Asheville’s Agency Films, consisting of filmmakers John Bennett and Shawn Lukitsch (who also put on the traveling Hobo Film Festival earlier this year), the Rejects Film Festival is a departure from the […]
Back on the block
Galactic’s sixth album, From the Corner to the Block, is an aural roadmap, one that guides you throughout various U.S. metropolises, one corner at a time. And to guide you on this tour of inner city corners, the band didn’t rely on one vocalist (in fact they split with their full-time singer in 2004), instead […]
Soul Food
“There’s a little trickle of soul music being cool again,” notes Asheville-based recording artist Jar-e. And then a sentiment that would make Groucho Marx proud: “Everyone’s going to be doing it and I’ll have to do something else.” Slim, with the tilted brim: Jar-e ponders the future of soul music … and the meaning of […]
The Long and Winding Road
Releasing 17 studio albums in as many years doesn’t leave much time for looking back. Add a slew of national tours, multiple live albums, an extensive collection of poems and paintings and the daunting task of running your own record label and it’s a wonder Ani DiFranco has had time to breathe. Revelling/Reckoning: Taking a […]
Shhhh!
Amid the swirling, clanging commercialism of Asheville’s art scene during tourist season, three young women are presenting work that invites contemplation. Nicole McConville, Alena Hennessy and Lindsay Pichaske are exhibiting their own works, and in some instances, works in which they have collaborated using shapes and ideas common to all three. Their show is called […]
The future is now
A new wave of pop music set sail from England in the early 1980s, captained by bands like New Order, the Happy Mondays and Echo & the Bunnymen. Quickly crossing the Atlantic Ocean, it hit the eastern coast of the United States about the time Sam Herring was born in the coastal town of Morehead […]
Top drawer: fashion news and views
Local designer Ashley P. got her start as a student at Warren Wilson College. The school’s dorms encourage recycling with “free” boxes where students can discard clothing they no longer want or scoop up new finds. Ashley started trawling these boxes for materials she used in her patchwork creations. She started with quilts, then moved […]
Cranky Hanke talks Southern film and more with Ray McKinnon
Randy and the Mob — a quirky southern comedy about a none-too-successful entrepreneur who gets in trouble with the mob over some loans and gets some offbeat help from his gay, identical twin brother and a strange mob “fixer” — is one of the hightlights of this year’s Asheville Film Festival. So when I had the chance to grab an interview with Ray McKinnon—who wrote and directed the film and plays the twin brothers—I didn’t hesitate to say yes.
Book Report: Book Release Party
Local poet Michael Boyko publishes his collection, The Hour Sets.
Edgy Mama: Superhero life lessons
“‘Sister said I’m not a superhero!’ That was the shout that awoke me at 5:45 a.m. the other morning. My 6-year-old son then crawled into bed with me, despondent, because his big sister just doesn’t understand his need for superpowers.” Xpress parenting columnist Anne Fitten Glenn examines her son’s obsession with cape-clad heroes.
Critter love: Going cuckoo
Two years ago this month I saw my first cuckoo. I was sitting on the curb outside my apartment, waiting for a friend to show up, when the leaves on a catalpa tree across the road began to rustle and flutter.
American Idol alum Elliot Yamin phones in
Idol‘s underdog soul singer wants to bring back R&B, help emerging bands, establish his own label and learn to play guitar. Well, maybe not all today.