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.
Author: Cecil Bothwell
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Few turn out for Let Asheville Vote event—
Despite heavy advance publicity and editorial endorsement by the Asheville Citizen-Times, few attended the Let Asheville Vote rally on Monday evening.
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” […]
Masterworks
Anyone who pays much attention to cultivated plants knows that there are gardeners, and then there are gardeners. People in the former category (my crowd) tend some plants and keep their yards whacked into some semblance of order. But those other folks—the true master gardeners—go way further, creating horticultural tapestries of interleaved and interwoven grace. […]
Garden Journal
Love butterflies?: Reems Creek Nursery thinks of itself as a matchmaking service for people and lepidopterans, and to that end will be offering a free seminar, “Creating a Butterfly Garden.” You can learn why sunshine, water, certain plants and shelter all foster an environment that attracts flutterbutters. The seminar will be held at 10 a.m. […]
Biltmore Lake developer buys Haywood Park Hotel
Tony Fraga, developer of Main Street at Biltmore Lake, has purchased the Haywood Park Hotel, the Starnes Building, the Haywood Atrium and the associated parking deck from Joe Kimmel for $18.5 million. Fraga said that the Haywood Park properties would be the geographic and figurative centerpiece of his development efforts in Asheville.
Jane Fonda to keynote ‘08 women’s conference in Asheville
At a kick-off reception Monday night, organizers of the Southeastern Women’s Time for Our Power! Conference announced that Jane Fonda will be the keynote speaker at the June, 2008 event.
RiverLink takes up a challenge
One of RiverLink’s donors has offered to match 2 for 1 all donations made to the organization between now and June 30.
UNCA Graduate Center asks “What do YOU want?”
The Asheville Graduate Center is conducting a study to assess the needs of the local community for graduate classes.
Before he disappears completely
Catch Harry Merkin, if you can, before he gets out of Dodge.
A family affair
In a world where imported products often seem more the rule than the exception, a group of Madison County growers and crafters is rowing against the tide. Under the banner of Madison Family Farms, these go-local activists are marketing homegrown produce and value-added products and forging links with local institutional buyers. Getting their feet wet: […]
Connecting the dots on I-26
A June 11 presentation at the Asheville Design Center on the group’s alternative plan for the much-disputed Interstate 26 connector drew a visit from N.C. Transportation Secretary Lyndo Tippett. A host of other public officials also attended the unpublicized meeting, including state Reps. Susan Fisher and Bruce Goforth, state Sen. Tom Apodaca, Asheville Mayor Terry […]
Cold valley
The successful historical novel is a bit like a traditional patchwork quilt, composed of bits and remnants of material pieced together to create something new. Aunt Sally’s dress fabric meets Jimmy’s suit and Mama’s curtains and those matching shirts Sis made for the twins: Each piece brings its own stories, and the whole assemblage becomes […]
Garden Journal
Set your soul free: It’s time to get back to the land by way of the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association’s 12th annual Mountain Farm and Garden Tour. Twenty-five local farms in Madison, Yancey, Buncombe, Haywood and Henderson counties are participating this time around. The goal of the event is to increase awareness and support for […]
Haywood you have a lookee here?
The Haywood Road Corridor Committee will host an open house concerning rezoning along West Asheville’s main thoroughfare on Monday, June 25.
Calling all turtle spotters
The French Broad Riverkeeper and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission want help finding rare softshell turtles in the region.
NC DOT gets a local earful on I-26 Connector
On June 11, N.C. Secretary of Transportation Lyndo Tippett visited the Asheville Design Center to hear a presentation of ADC’s alternative plan for the I-26 Connector.
Student interns defend pork plant workers
More than two dozen college students staged a “high-tech protest” at the Biltmore Forest Harris-Teeter store on June 9 in support of a boycott of pork produced by Smithfield Packing, whose Tar Heel, N.C., hog slaughterhouse is the largest in the U.S.
Buncombe County Commissioners
Parents, teachers and Asheville City Schools administrators urged increased school funding during a public hearing at the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners’ June 5 meeting. The county’s draft budget for fiscal year 2008, which begins July 1, would maintain the current tax rate for the city schools. But without a tax increase, inflation and built-in […]
Missing guns, drugs and money at Buncombe Sheriff’s Department
A routine audit performed by the Buncombe County Finance Department last December during the transition from outgoing Sheriff Bobby Medford to his successor, Van Duncan, has come up short of cash, weapons and drugs seized during criminal investigations. The Asheville Citizen-Times, which obtained a copy of an internal evidence-room audit report released to the SBI […]