The Lazy Environmentalist — aka Josh Dorfman — put Asheville in the “sustainability spotlight” with an hour-long program yesterday on the Sirius Satellite Radio network.
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Duck, cover, and pass the potato salad: Red Cross’ disaster potluck
In a recent Xpress article on Buncombe County’s emergency plans, we warned that the grave matters discussed therein were “not exactly light lunchtime topics.” Turns out we may have been wrong about that.
“Don’t Fence Me Out”: Wall Street Journal on gated communities in Asheville
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured a lengthy story on gated communities, putting Asheville-area debates in the national spotlight.
Curiously enough
“Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle Some aspects of Western North Carolina’s grand past and glorious present are known across the country and, indeed, all around this big blue marble. But we won’t bother with them. Instead, we’re here to report on what lurks out on the fringe. […]
Pumpkins smash the system: Orange Peel ticket sales delayed
According to management at the Orange Peel, would-be ticket buyers for the club’s nine-show Smashing Pumpkins “residency” swamped the ticketing service’s Web server, leading to a “major crash.”
New Segregations: A video dialogue
Decades after Asheville’s businesses and schools were officially desegregated, some local communities are still living very much separate lives. And some of those communities still go largely unseen—or unnoticed—by their neighbors. Liam Luttrell-Rowland is out to change that for the young residents of Asheville’s predominantly African-American Erskine neighborhood. He’s put their daily lives in the […]
Citizen-Times publisher faces business critics
For Jeffrey Green, who’s been publisher of the Asheville Citizen-Times only since last fall, the city’s most heated debates have offered a quick trial by fire. Talking business: CIBO member Mac Swicegood, left, shows Asheville Citizen-Times publisher Jeffrey Green some of the newspaper’s recent cartoons that have rankled the business group. photo by Jon Elliston […]
Move over, Borat: “Seth” Galifianakis is taking Wilkesboro to the world
Comedian Zach Galifianakis is a WNC native who’s tickling ribs all over the country. But his “twin brother Seth” is giving him a run for his money.
Dare to dream
Maybe home really is where the heart is—but that doesn’t mean all homes are created equal. In the course of our lives, most of us accumulate our fair share of tales of housing nightmares—and fantasies of lodgings that are grander than our current digs. Of course, the perfect home is very much in the eye […]
Buncombe zoning: Radio debate today on WWNC-570
A week before the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners holds a public hearing on plans for zoning in the county, two key players in the zoning debate will appear on local talk-show host Matt Mittan’s program.
Smells like good, clean fun: Mumpower praises fans, police at concert
City Council member Carl Mumpower issued a report this morning on drug activity he did and didn’t witness in Asheville last night.
Guess who’s at the show
As fans flood the Asheville Civic Center arena for tonight’s Widespread Panic concert, much ado is being made about one guest: City Council member Carl Mumpower.
Don’t panic — but don’t take “large bags” to Widespread show
Asheville Civic Center Director David Pisha has announced a new policy. “Backpacks and bags larger than 1 foot by 1 foot will be prohibited from Friday’s Widespread Panic concert at the facility,” according to a press release Pisha issued today.
Asheville’s words on the street
If you spent part of every day casting your eyes around Asheville, you’d see the city’s finer points.
Pirate radio: Local “pastafarian” on “The State of Things”
By now you’ve probably read the story of Bryan Killian, the North Buncombe High School student recently suspended for wearing pirate gear. But you might not have heard the story.
Woodfin power plant, local legislators’ campaign cash and more: Hear all about it
At 6 p.m. today (Friday, April 6), tune in to WCQS-88.1, Asheville’s National Public Radio affiliate, for local reporters’ takes on breaking stories.
Argh!! Suspended “pirate boy” speaks
Sixteen-year-old North Buncombe High School sophomore — aka “pirate boy” — Bryan Killian caused a stir this week by donning an eye patch. Professing devotion to “Pastafarianism,” which holds that pirates are deities, Killian has insisted his swashbuckling regalia is a testament to his religious faith, and that he should be able to wear it in school.
Mumpower on Civic Center concert: Drugs bad, Ratdog good
As he pledged to do in an e-mail dispatch last Friday, Asheville City Council member Carl Mumpower made an appearance at the Ratdog/Bob Weir concert at the Civic Center’s Thomas Wolfe Auditorium that evening. He reported afterwards that the auditorium “smelled like an Amsterdam hash bar.”
Buncombe County’s Emergency Operations Plan
Buncombe County’s Department of Emergency Services is charged with coordinating the county’s response to disasters both natural and human-made. Among the department’s duties is compiling a comprehensive emergency-operations plan—a hefty document containing a laundry list of dire threats, what’s to be done about them and who’s to do it. Xpress obtained Buncombe’s 375-page EOP as […]
Sunday Xpress: Online news roundup
A weekend roundup of key links to Asheville-area breaking news. This week: Naturopaths seek licensing; Bolton bolts from the Citizen-Times; Shuler in the “OpenCongress”; Anti-warriors get ready to rally; a very Fitzgerald anniversary.
UNCA’s “restructuring” controversy continues as long-term staffers are dismissed
UNCA students and faculty members alike are continuing protests against personnel restructuring that led to the termination of some veteran university employees, most notably student counselor Maggie Weshner.