Hunt’s, the well-known producer of ketchup and other tomato products, has picked up the song “Tomatoes,” by local stalwart songwriters Ménage for a national television advertising campaign. Sarah McDonald, who wrote the playful tune, said she recently caught the 15-second version on daytime television. “I saw it during a soap opera,” she says, offering up the caveat that she was tuned in because, “I’ve been glued to the TV trying to see it.”
Knitwear designer Kaffe Fassett comes to North Carolina with his newest book.
The second Day in the Life of Asheville photo project takes off this week, so all area photographers need to get out there and shoot our city and its residents.
New items are available at this online organic clothing shop.
The Mountain Xpress is happy to announce the winners of our ticket give away for the Broadway National Tour of Hairspray, performed at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium.
With so much happening on the local music scene, it can be hard to keep up with the newest groups, latest trends and catchiest sounds. What we need is a Listening Party. This week, we cover All Girl Staff, Hope and Anchor, and Hey Neighbor!
Though Mickey Hart was an integral part of the Grateful Dead, he always seemed less of a hippie than the rest of the jam-band pioneers in the group. Perhaps his otherworldly Vulcan looks account for the rift, or his collection of wildly printed shirts. But the more plausible reason is Hart’s decades-long flirtation with percussion […]
The Mule Skinner Grocery is a tiny hole-in-the-wall corner store, and at first, it’s an intimidating place. Three plastic lawn chairs are lined up out front, each holding someone with a story to tell and a 40-ounce beer in their hands. These are the people who you don’t read about in tourist brochures. It’s the […]
There’s a certain smugness to the portraits of communal living in Diana Leafe Christian’s latest book, Finding Community: How to join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community (New Society Publishers, 2007). But, since Christian is the editor of Communities magazine and herself a resident of Black Mountain’s Earthaven Ecovillage, she’s well versed in the perks and […]
In the few years surrounding the turn of the last millennium, there was an explosion of performance troupes across the country digging up the bones (or at least mending the wounds on the badly battered body) of old-time vaudeville and burlesque entertainment. Like any cultural explosion, though, most of these scrappy, by-the-seat-of-their-pants troupes burned out […]
There are few people who have influenced the culture of Asheville as much as Thomas Wolfe. His epic, semi-autobiographical books—particularly Look Homeward, Angel—examined the small-town culture of Asheville in obsessive detail. Back to Dixieland: Julia (Carla Pridgen) and Thomas Wolfe (Tom Dalton) in Return of an Angel. For sharing his vision of this city with […]
Marcel Duchamp, who horrified the establishment in the early 20th century by displaying a urinal as a work of art, said, “Since Courbet, it has been believed that painting is addressed to the retina. … I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.” He opened a door to new and […]
There’s a trend afoot (in the case of Payless ShoeSource it really is afoot) for discount retailers to feature lines by high-end designers. Mass manufacturing, inexpensive fabrics and less emphasis on detailing allow mall and big-box companies to sell these collections at affordable prices. Though Kmart has long carried products by celebrity designers Kathy Ireland […]
“Since having kids, I’ve embraced the shabby chic décor movement — heavy on shabby, light on chic.” Xpress parenting columnist Anne Fitten Glenn on the dirty world of post-kid home decorating.
Asheville teen multi-instrumentalist Alex Reidinger stormed Ireland last summer … and returned to tell about it.
The Mountain Xpress is looking for a few good Ashevilleans to appear in a trailer that will screen at the Asheville Film Festival, which takes place Nov. 8-11. Actually, a lot of good Ashevilleans.
If you haven’t heard the Plowshares yet, here’s why this is the perfect chance to check ‘em out.
It’s Eliza Lynn’s CD-release party and she’ll dance, sing, and pull all of her friends up on stage if she wants to.
The Garage plans grand opening.
The Asheville Film Festival has announced five more features — Art of Suicide, Her Best Move, Murder Party, Wholetrain and Year of the Fish — that will play at this year’s festival, Nov. 8 to 11. They run the gamut from horror to family film to urban drama. See for yourself: here are the online trailers.
With so much happening on the local music scene, it can be hard to keep up with the newest groups, latest trends and catchiest sounds. What we need is a Listening Party.
