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This weekend on a shoestring
Here’s your weekly roundup of what budget-friendly events (mostly music this time) are happening around the area. Know of other shows with a $5 or less cover charge? Add them in the comments section.
"Play good loud rock and say something interesting"
"You look back at what a buzz it was to plug in an electric guitar, make a lot of noise and have your friends jump along side of you," says Mexican-American musician Alejandro Escovedo. "You realize what an interesting life it's been." Escovedo's life certainly has been interesting: When San Francisco punk band The Nuns […]
Asheville’s Idol
We’re not saying 17 year-old singer Jesse Barry is or isn’t a contestant on this season’s American Idol. We’re just saying tune in to FOX this Tuesday and Wednesday.
From vampires to swans
Elizabeth Kostova, author of New York Times bestseller “The Historian,” launches her new novel, “The Swan Thieves” in Asheville tomorrow.
Zhivago
Lexington & College
Layers
Photo by Jonathan Welch
Winter flowers
Photo by Jonathan Welch
Red+green
Photo by Jonathan Welch
Book Report: High Anxiety
The latest novel by South Carolina writer Charlotte Hughes is a dizzying work of high energy, high speed, high spirited and highly entertaining hijinx.
Friday’s musical summit
Suttree, Pilgrim and The Awful Decade play the Grey Eagle on Friday.
Asheville native and Color Field artist Kenneth Noland dies
The renowned painter, whose work hangs at the Asheville Art Museum, was 85.
This weekend on a shoestring
Yes, it’s 2010. Shoestring begins its second year of budget-friendly weekend entertainment. Happily, there’s lots to choose from: Lounge singers, bluegrass, folk, rock and more.
Foresighted and farsighted
It's possible that visionary artist Gabriel Shaffer's paintings are enchanted: Images of birds reportedly fly off the wall and "I had a painting returned to me because one lady claimed it was haunted," the artist reveals. Then there's a piece called "Plantation Escape Plan," a 40 by 40-inch canvas featuring a a large and floating […]
Soundtrack
Bands must love Jack of the Wood: The downtown bar comes with a built-in crowd that often fills the venue to capacity on Friday and Saturday nights. But guaranteed crowd doesn't mean guaranteed supporters, so at a recent Honeycutters show, the relatively new country act made quick work of turning a room full of strangers […]
Perfect timing: Asheville Winter Warmer Beerfest
There are 11 more weeks of winter, a thought which could drive anyone to drink. Luckily, the end of this month brings a beer festival geared toward exactly that.
Southern writer Nicole Seitz visits WNC
The author of A Hundred Years of Happiness reads from her new book, Saving Cicadas.