Around the world and across time, the wedding rite has taken on well-deserved rep for being stressful, beleaguering and even brutal. It seems like there has been no shortage of those who will plan, build and jump all sorts of hurdles, just to sate their desire to be together. Fortunately, in our little neck of […]
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Asheville City Council preview: Feb. 26 meeting
At its Tuesday, Feb. 26, meeting, Council will consider an adjusted annexation map, showing outlying areas that could be brought into the city in the future.
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
This week caught a lot of us looking up, and not just in an optimistic way.
Askville: On guard
Last December, the city of Asheville announced that it had hired a ranger for Pritchard Park. The strategically sited downtown park has been the focus of disputes concerning everything from homelessness and free breakfasts to drum circles (not to mention the occasional protest-sign-wielding polar bear), and the news traveled fast. Some in the community saw […]
Asheville City Council
How much of an impact did the partisan-elections backlash have on Asheville’s City Council? Enough that when Council member Brownie Newman brought the idea of a citizens’ commission on local elections to the table during Council’s Feb. 12 meeting, he got no support from even his staunchest allies. Not even a proposal merely to hold […]
Halftime
It’s a little more than two years since Terry Bellamy moved from an Asheville City Council seat to the mayor’s chair after besting fellow Council member Joe Dunn in a run for the city’s top job. The victory made the 33-year-old Asheville native the city’s first black mayor—and the youngest mayor then serving in the […]
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
Kind of a slow week on the blog front. Maybe everyone was saving up energy for the big Valentine’s holiday.
Agent Orange drops on The Rocket Club
Skate-punk pioneers to play a gig Friday night in West Asheville.
Farewell to the Ritz
Recently, the lunch buffet at the Ritz offered the following: yams, fried fish, chicken wings, greens, mixed vegetables, green and baked beans; respectable Southern fare, as has been served there for decades. Soon, the selection in that room will feature curried goat, jerk chicken and salt fish. But Ritz owner and local attorney Gene Ellison […]
Asheville City Council preview: Feb. 12 meetting
At its meeting, Asheville City Council will hear an argument for citizen involvement in local election reform and hold several public hearings.
Blog Log: The Week in Local Blogging
Maybe it was the political weight that drove Asheville’s blog mood, but it seemed like the blog-o-verse was just plain heavy this week.
Civic Center gets new director
The city announced today that Sherman Bass, Asheville’s new Civic Center director, will take his new post in March.
The Greatest Band on Earth (Day)
Enter your band in the Earth Day Asheville music campaign and you could win $1,000 and a show at the Orange Peel, all while supporting the campaign to rid Asheville of its little litter problem.
The trouble a “B” can be
John Frank honestly didn’t think it would cause much of a stink when he reopened the Skyland Crest shopping-center location formerly housed by Rio Burrito. After purchasing the property, he decided to save some bucks by adding the letter “B” to the existing sign and dubbing the new business Brio Burrito. Name that burrito joint: […]
Hopeful signs?
Staples displayed the proposed design changes for its Merrimon Avenue façade in a Jan. 28 press conference called by company executives and Mayor Terry Bellamy. Both camps aim to settle another festering issue in the long-running and often acrimonious debate about the city’s interpretation and enforcement of the Unified Development Ordinance. Staples and Greenlife Grocery […]
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
So “Distort the Info” has been here only four months, and already she (he?) has completed the transformation into a true Ashevillean (as opposed to an Ashevillein). But c’mon, don’t be so glum … it’s not all about granola, yoga and organic jeans.
Media mashup to converge on Rocket Club this Saturday
Area bloggers have gotten together (in person) before, and it’s always revealing when it happens. But this time, other local media mainstays will join in, notably radio upstarts WPVM and Internet/media reformer Mountain Area Information Network.
More power to you
Driving out the Leicester Highway from Patton Avenue, it narrows from five lanes to two, and the strip malls and fast-food joints give way to old-school mechanics and busted-up portable signs. Later on, that same highway continues up the mountains and around sharp curves into miles of old farmland that eventually lead up to Sandy […]
Asheville City Council
Created in 2001 to encourage high-density, mixed-use development, the “urban village” zoning designation is still experiencing growing pains. In 2006, City Council raised the maximum allowable height of buildings in such districts from 80 feet to 150 feet. The change came after Biltmore Farms pleaded its case for a 12-story hotel at its Biltmore Park […]
What’s your sign?: Staples’ new proposal
At a press conference today, Staples executives presented what they called a “compromise” solution between the city of Asheville and the office-supply company regarding its Merrimon Avenue store.
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
Perhaps to stave off cabin fever now that winter has finally come to the party, some blogs took us to other locales this week.