Sasha Vrtunski, project manager for Asheville’s Downtown Master Plan, will mix, mingle and inform at BoBo Gallery April 4 at 6:30 p.m.
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Into the Vault: What’s new in The Xpress Files
Now online: Asheville’s parking mega-study, MAIN’s Wi-Fi proposal, Tree Commission tries to save a tree, the law on development moratoriums, and more
Attention local foodies: Xpress seeks your ideas
Let us know what you like — and what you’d change — about the Mountain Xpress food feature
Document of the Day: Charles Kuralt’s FBI file
A Sunshine Week exclusive from The Xpress Files
Document of the Day: North Carolina guide to open government
A Sunshine Week exclusive from The Xpress Files
Document of the Day: Asheville “place of worship” zoning violation
A Sunshine Week exclusive from The Xpress Files
Pritchard Park’s public art unveiled
It was an event that begged for a sunny day, and the official unveiling of a sculpture by Asheville’s first Public Artist of the Year came at just the right time. On March 10, a small crowd gathered at the western corner of downtown’s Pritchard Park, a hulking mass wrapped in white sheets before them. […]
Document of the Day: Asheville race relations, 1964
A Sunshine Week exclusive from The Xpress Files
Document of the Day: State rep raps north Buncombe concrete plant
A Sunshine Week exclusive from The Xpress Files
Document of the Day: A page from Thomas Wolfe’s FBI file
A Sunshine Week exclusive from The Xpress Files
The Xpress Files
Spend 14 years in the newspaper business, as Xpress has, and the paper starts to pile up. Over time, our reporters have collected mountains of memos, reams of reports, and enough official studies to keep a paper shredder humming 24/7. And don’t even get us started about the megabytes of e-mail correspondence clogging our hard […]
Askville: The cutting edge
People often pay a pretty penny to get their hair cut at Guadalupe Chavarria‘s salons. For example, prices at Studio Chavarria, his downtown-Asheville location, run from $30 for a men’s haircut to $600 for a Japanese-style “thermal straightening,” which is mostly for women clients. Guadalupe Chavarria photo by Jonathan Welch Now, however, Chavarria is marking […]
Mountain Xpress, Smoky Mountain News win statewide journalism awards
North Carolina Press Association notes the newspapers’ achievements in print and online
Keep it on the curb
Asheville garbage and recycling delayed, but underway ***UPDATED THURS. 11:30 a.m. SEE POST BELOW***
Asheville City Council travel expenses examined
Since the beginning of 2007, Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy has taken nine trips to other cities for official business, for a total cost of $8,561, according to a summary she released last week at the request of City Council member Carl Mumpower. City staff also compiled and released the expenses for three other Council members […]
Mayor Bellamy on the road
Tallies official-travel expenses — $8,651 — at Mumpower’s request
Unleash your inner child for local education coalition
No kidding: The Asheville-Buncombe Education Coalition wants a bunch of adults to get together and act childlike. Be a kid, for a kid: In a snapshot from last year’s Playground Classic, participants compete in the Rubber Chicken Toss, one of many unconventional challenges at the fundraiser. On Thursday, Feb. 28, the coalition will stage the […]
Taxidermy inside and out
Online extra: Xpress photo gallery illuminates Franklin-based taxidermists
The Innersouls, up close and personal
This week’s cover story unearths forgotten Asheville funk. Online supplements to the story include a rare Innersouls recording and a slideshow showing members then and now.
Mardi Gras galore!
Yesterday’s Mardi Gras parade took the local celebration to new heights in Asheville. Have a look …
HATCH-ing a new Asheville festival
Asheville’s arts and culture mavens are buzzing about HATCHfest, a multifaceted festival set to make its debut here in the spring of 2009. Hatching a festival: The first annual Asheville HATCHfest is more than a year away, but plans for the mammoth arts and cultural festival are underway. Above, a scene from the recent launch […]