The Blue Ridge Rollergirls’ first public bout was a smash at Carrier Park’s outdoor hockey rink.
And the winner is?
Nikki Talley wins the first season of Carolina Star.
Country music never really goes out of style
The Everybodyfields play the Grey Eagle tonight. Just so you know.
Review: SART’s Mockingbird sings
To Kill a Mockingbird, the second production in the Southern Appalachian Repertory Theater’s 2007 season, offers several strong performances in a modern theater classic.
Music hot, crowd tepid
Fourth-night Pumpkins show went unappreciated
Let’s Go Pumpkin Spotting
With the Smashing Pumpkins now smack in the middle of their nine-show residency at the Orange Peel, it’s only natural that we locals would make a game out of our brief, non-musical brushes with the band that helped define the rock sound of the 1990s. Can you blame us for wanting to hear yours?
Pat and Alli’s Weekly Winners
Wondering what to do this weekend? Xpress A&E reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL-96.5 DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their top entertainment picks for Thursday, June 28-Saturday, June 30.
Blog Alert: Raphael.Doxos.com turns bitter against Floridians?
Typically, a visit to local writer Huw Richardson’s blog Raphael.Doxos.com reveals musings on a decidedly mystical and spiritual theme. Richardson is typically a broad-minded thinker on such topics, and seems willing to accept wisdom from any number of faiths, no matter where they originate. Except, perhaps, from Florida.
Death of a sleazy man
The quintessential tale of segregationist injustice will come to the Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre stage this week. Forty-seven years after Harper Lee published her only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the racism, white privilege and strained ethics of rural Alabama circa 1935 remain as timely as the nightly news. Think Susan Smith—who murdered her children […]
Doom with a view
A sense of loss and potential loss runs deep in the lyrics of Nashville singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier, though it looks like she’s on a winning streak of late. Mercy Now (Lost Highway, 2005), her fourth album, gained high praise from reviewers across the country and found the singer lauded as “New/Emerging Artist of the Year” […]
Seacrest-free stargazing
Standing together on stage at The Orange Peel, their last round finished and their hearts bared raw before the live audience, the five surviving contestants stare out into the crowd with a unique expression of sheepish relief. They have sung their lungs out tonight, and all they can do now is wait for the final […]
How his garden’s grown
Some artists can only create if they have the finest materials—or at least the finest funds from fellowships, grants or corporate sponsors. Others will only exhibit their art in the most dedicated and pristine surroundings. “Forgiveness,” multimedia. DeWayne Barton is not among them. Once, art was not a thing apart but a part of daily […]
Culture Watch
Tom Dudley’s Walk Is Anything But Lonely “I tried to draw your sweet blue eyes, bright as the skies above/ but it’s no use, since you shook up my Etch A Sketch of Love.” How can someone listen to a song with lyrics like that and not crack a smile? Of course, that’s just a […]
Gallery Gossip
• Just a couple of days (or evenings) left to see Larry Turner’s colorful mixed-media paintings at BoBo Gallery: Think Larry Rivers meets Basquiat. • Another show closing in the next few days is that of New York artist Cory Bradley at Pump in the Phil Mechanics Building in the River District. His competent works […]
Top Drawer: fashion news and views
Halter dress with emerald-green silk from India, $90. Designer Rachel Stack has been putting in too many late nights, trying to complete her collection which she hopes to sell at that other fashion week: Bonnaroo. But while flowing skirts, halter tops and loose-fitting unisex cropped pants are perfect attire for festival fans, Stack’s creations may […]
Who’s who at the Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre
The community theater group, which boasts the title “North Carolina’s longest running Shakespeare festival,” has been humbly serving up comedies and tragedies to picnicking families for 35 years. With the addition of local celebs, they’re still going strong.
Take a gamble on the Oconaluftee
Cherokee’s way more than just the casino
First Pumpkins show was no nostalgia act
Corgan rocked the house
Missed the Pumpkins? Here’s the next best thing!
Couldn’t get tickets to the debut show of the Smashing Pumpkins’ residency at the Orange Peel? Don’t worry, because there’s always YouTube!
Carolina Star talks back!
With the finale of the locally produced singing contest Carolina Star less than two weeks away, Xpress talked to producer/sponsor/judge Kevin Geagan about the show, the judges, the performers and the whole “American Idol knock off” thing.
Breakfast the way Alice would have served it
Up before the sun (okay, before noon) and craving something more than Cheerios? Look no further.