Press Release From Sweet Biscuit Inn: Asheville, NC – Where travelers once held photos of Flat Stanley in unusual places, photographers now shoot photos of a humble red chair. Long considered simply a place to rest one’s buttocks, the lowly wooden chair has been elevated to celebrity status, and is being welcomed at inns and […]
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A Girl and a Gun: Asheville artists display work centered on love and death
Press Release From Asheville Area Arts Council: Join local artist Taiyo la Paix as he gathers a sample of Asheville’s most talented in a provocative show about love and death, sex and violence, a girl and a gun. Opening at the Asheville Area Arts Council Gallery on Friday, December 13, a gun and a girl: […]
Ashevilleans react: Guess what? It’s snowing
Good morning, Asheville.
If you haven’t already noticed, it snowed quite a bit. Here’s what Ashevilleans have to say about today’s weather.
UNCA students will present varied research at Research and Community Engagement Symposium
Press Release From UNCA: UNC Asheville students will present more than 200 research projects at the university’s Fall Undergraduate Research and Community Engagement Symposium, 8 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Monday, Dec. 2. Also that day, UNC Asheville students will showcase their work in community service projects and internships at a celebration with community partners from 4:30-6 p.m., […]
The Asheville Holiday Parade as told by Ashevilleans
The Asheville Holiday Parade draws a crowd in downtown Asheville, winding around Biltmore, Patton and French Broad Avenues and ending on Charlotte Street.
North Carolina Writers’ Network announces creative nonfiction competition
Press Release From North Carolina Writers’ Network: NORTH CAROLINA—“I just thought we were the most privileged group of people who ever lived,” longtime columnist Rose Post once said of her years working for the Salisbury Post. “And I pinched myself all the time that I got paid for doing what I did, because I was […]
Action for Children North Carolina receives $150,000 grant from Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust
Press Release From Action for Children North Carolina RALEIGH–Action for Children North Carolina announced today that it has received a multi-year grant for $150,000 from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for general operating support of its work to improve the health, safety, education and economic security of children in North […]
NEWS DESK: The City Council report
At the Nov. 12 Asheville City Council meeting — the last meeting held before a new member (and a new mayor) are sworn in — current Mayor Terry Bellamy addressed the filled Council Chambers. "Being mayor of this city has been a blessing. It hasn't been easy — no," Bellamy said, dragging out the word […]
LGBTQ activist group Just Us For All organizes ‘Gobble Til’ You Wobble’ Thanksgiving dinner
Press Release From Just Us For All: The Asheville, NC, activist group, Just Us for All, has organized an event to give people in the community a place to eat on Thanksgiving. This holiday JUFA will bring together folks in the LGBTQ spectrum who do not have contact with their family of origin due to […]
Local writer and botanical artist Peter Loewer designs Sow True Seed’s annual catalog cover
Press Release From Sow True Seed: Sow True Seed, based in Asheville, offers exclusively open-pollinated, non-hybrid, untreated seed that remains true-to-type when saved and replanted. For their annual catalog Sow True Seed collaborates with a local artist and this year’s cover art is based on the incredible pen and ink illustrations of Peter Loewer. Peter […]
WCU names two students top presenters at Discovery Forum for innovative ideas
Press Release From Western Carolina University: CULLOWHEE – Western Carolina University students Austin Brown and Nicholas Charles Heim were recognized as having the best presentations during WCU’s second Discovery Forum, an event designed to encourage young people to share innovative ideas for making their communities better places to live, held Saturday, Nov. 9. Brown and […]
A-B Tech calls for variety of volunteers
Press Release From A-B Tech: A-B Tech Community College’s Volunteer and Intern Services Program is recruiting for the following volunteer roles on the Asheville Campus. Mentors for Fall 2014 semester for veterans enrolled at A-B Tech. Mentors meet with their mentees at least once a month in person and converse weekly by email or telephone. Orientation […]
JCC to host ‘Homo for the Holidays’ discussion and potluck on Nov. 26
From Asheville Jewish Community Center: Date: November 26, 2013 Time: 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Location: JCC (Seminar Rooms) 236 Charlotte Street Asheville, NC 28801 Our LGBTQ community collaborative event for National Coming Out Day was amazing! It was incredible seeing so many diverse LGBTQ voices and agencies represented in one room. JCC GLOW wants […]
Agriculture discussion to be held over local breakfast Tuesday morning
From BuncombeCounty.org: Buncombe County Friends of Ag Breakfast Tuesday, November 19 – 7 a.m. WNC Ag Center, Virginia Boone Building 1301 Fanning Bridge Road Come join us for the Buncombe County Friends of Ag Breakfast. Enjoy a complimentary country breakfast including local products. Guest Speaker: Cameron Farlow, Land Access Coordinator for WNC Farm Link who […]
Oakley Elementary locks down after an unidentified man makes verbal threat to students
Press Release From Buncombe County Schools: Thursday, November 14, 2013…..At approximately 12:20pm today, several students on the playground at Oakley Elementary told their teacher that a man driving by made a verbal threat to them. One student thought the man might have had a weapon. The school went into lockdown and Asheville Police Department arrived […]
‘Girls on the Run’ 5k seeks volunteers to help with set-up, food, water and more
Press Release From Girls on the Run of WNC: ASHEVILLE, NC, November 14, 2013 – Girls on the Run® of WNC seeks volunteers to help at our Fall 2013 GOTR 5K celebration on Saturday, December 7th at Fletcher Community Park. Volunteers are crucial to putting on a successful event and can help with set-up, registration, […]
Asheville City Council expresses ‘outrage and condemnation’ over state concealed handgun law
At the Nov. 12 Asheville City Council meeting — the last meeting held before new members (and a new mayor) are sworn in — concealed handgun laws and revised construction plans for a health and workforce development facility were hot topics on the agenda.
Eat like a caveman
For many locals, healthy eating means thinking back before the age of processed, imported foods and scouting out only the freshest local, organic ingredients to transfer from farm or garden to plate. One might think the concept of minimally processed, local food runs rampant throughout this environmentally conscious town — it’s Asheville, right? But some […]
For a song at commissioners Nov. 5 meeting
In an out-of-the-ordinary Nov. 5 Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting, the sound of five voices performing a cappella gospel echoed through the meeting room. As tribute to the Candler-based group’s 40th anniversary, the board proclaimed Oct. 12 as "Primitive Quartet Day" in Buncombe County. The quartet then stood in front of the chamber and […]
Cradle of Forestry is the next recipient of Oskar Blues’ fundraiser ‘Makin’ a Difference Monday’
Press Release From Cradle of Forestry in America Interpretive Association: Brevard, N.C., November 12, 2013 – Since the new brewery’s doors opened to the public in December, 2012, Oskar Blues has been giving back to the community. In addition to sponsoring many local events, on the third Monday each month, Oskar Blues donates 10 percent […]
Culinary creations put Asheville on the map once again for Carolina Rising Stars awards
Press Release From The Reynolds Group: CHARLESTON, SC (November 12, 2013) – StarChefs.com™, the award-winning online magazine for culinary insiders, announces its 2013 Carolina Rising Stars Awards honoring up-and-coming chefs and culinary professionals who represent the vanguard of the contemporary American dining scene. From Charleston to Raleigh and Asheville, the StarChefs team visited chefs and […]