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They’re giving us the bird
If your only experience with chicken has been pan-fried, fricasseed, grilled or poached, you owe it to yourself to visit the Western North Carolina Nature Center.
Love on the rocks
There can be few settings more auspicious for finding love than an earth-science museum. There you are, surrounded by eligible singles, not to mention precious and semi-precious stones, pulsing crystals and magnetic ores. Put the power of nature to work for you, friend. What have you got to lose? Searching for a lover with a […]
Gone but not forgotten
When you take your wolves out for a walkie, it’s hard not to be lulled into a certain coochy-coochy-coo way of relating to them, because, let’s face it: They’re pretty darn cute. Photo By Amy Rowling But wolves are formidable predators with long, pointed teeth, so it’s important to maintain a level of vigilance and […]
Outdoor Journal
Where will you hunt today?: The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has just posted an interactive set of maps at its Web site, www.ncwildlife.org, allowing users to search for and view information about state game lands in their neck of the woods. Enter your zip code, and like magic you can find out where and […]
Critter love: It’s not easy being the alpha
Last summer the WNC Nature Center added a pair of young wolves to its menagerie. The other day, Xpress went to meet them.
To giggle, perchance to guffaw
Jimmy and Keller Anne Knight were having a burger in Myrtle Beach one day when Keller had an idea. The family that laughs together … : A Sense of Humor owners Keller Anne and Jimmy Knight with their kids, Sam and Elisabeth. Photo By Jonathan Welch “I said to him, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if […]
A spoonful of sugar
Catherine Redcloud was a sickly and stunted child, given to congestions, coughs and wheezes. She needed medicine, but medicine tasted bad. Her grandmother, a Creek Indian from the Poarch Creek Reservation in southern Alabama, knew the solution: Add a little something sweet to the elixirs to mask their bitterness. In time Redcloud got better—and bigger—but […]
Outdoor Journal
Fill ‘er up: Asheville Pizza and Brewing Company is seeking sponsors for its second annual “Night of the Ninja” 5K race. Proceeds from the event, planned for May 24, 2008, will go in part to support a local nonprofit. (Last year’s recipient was the Asheville Humane Society.) Sponsorship levels run from $100 to $2,000, if […]
The mouse that roared
The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners was humbled during its Nov. 6 meeting by a boy in a tie-dye T-shirt.
Buncombe County Commissioners
Buncombe County will consider all legal avenues as part of a push to get toxic chemicals cleaned up at the former CTS site on Mills Gap Road in Skyland, according to a motion approved at the Buncombe County Board of Comissioners’ Nov. 6 meeting. After emerging from a closed session with County Attorney Joe Connolly, […]
Outdoor Journal
Pole positions: Arden-based Diamond Brand Outdoors will offer a free beginner’s hiking course on Saturday, Nov. 17, departing at 9 a.m. from the Pisgah Forest Fish Hatchery parking lot near Brevard. Attendees will have the chance to try their hand at using trekking poles and GPS units. An intermediate-level course takes place the next day, […]
You’ve served your country, now serve yourself
Long deployments. Separation from loved ones. Punishing weather. Constant watchfulness. Bullets. Rockets. Grenades. Help for veterans: Starting Point owner Deborah Nixon- Karistinos, left, and accupuncturist Jahna Sturges inside the Merrimon Avenue spa. Photo By Kent Priestley War has never been good for soldiers’ minds or bodies, and it doesn’t look to earn a gold star […]
But seriously, folks
Dan Ettinger and Simon Goldberg experienced pretty much everything a pair of cyclists could before reaching Asheville: They tasted ocean spray on the Pacific shore, crossed a handful of mountain chains, crept across the vast prairie states and nearly died on Indiana’s secondary roads. A couple of jokers: Dan Ettinger, left, and Simon Goldberg stop […]
They’re coming to America
North Carolina is a national leader in recent immigration, especially from Latin American countries—a fact with major implications for the state’s economy. In the past decade, one in three new jobs was filled by a foreign-born worker, while a 2006 study by the University of North Carolina showed that immigrants—legal and otherwise—had an annual benefit […]
Outdoor Journal
Pedal to the medal: Mountain-bikers Kylie Krauss, Patrick Hurley, Ashlee Robison and Lexy Lewis helped propel Warren Wilson College to a fifth consecutive second-place finish in the USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships, held in Banner Elk Oct. 26 to 28. The Owls, as they’re called, took a close second to the somewhat menacingly […]
Buncombe County Commissioners meeting: Doh! Who’s gonna clean up all the trichloroethylene?
In Asheville today, all thoughts might be inclined to the City Council elections, but at the county level government marches on.
Predictions, anyone?
You’ve heard all about the candidates in the Asheville City Council race. Now decide who will win.
Critter love: Going cuckoo
Two years ago this month I saw my first cuckoo. I was sitting on the curb outside my apartment, waiting for a friend to show up, when the leaves on a catalpa tree across the road began to rustle and flutter.
Askville: Little boy blues
“You’ve got to live the blues to play the blues,” the adage goes. In other words, experience matters—especially when it involves low-down feelings, physical infirmity, hard times, brushes with no-good men or women, and sometimes even drinking Sterno. Zeppelin Murray Photo By Jonathan Welch Zeppelin Murray would seem to defy this principle. First of all, […]