National Hammered Dulcimer Champion and Asheville resident Joshua Messick will be performing on Saturday, July 25, at 8pm at White Horse (105 Montreat Road) in Black Mountain. Doors will open at 7:30pm. This will be the first concert that Messick will perform with his new acoustic instrumental band Acoustic Storm. Musicians include local icons River Guerguerian on world […]
Pack’s Tavern is turning 5 and is celebrating the occasion by launching a specialty beer and expanding its menu thanks to a new wood-fired oven. The beer, Pack’s Tavern ESB, has been crafted by Pisgah Brewing Company. An English version of pale ale, this ESB (Extra Special Bitter) is brewed with toasted malt for a deep copper color […]
Asheville City Council candidate Marc Hunt will hold a Campaign Launch Celebration event on Thursday, June 18th, at 5:30 p.m. in the Boathouse at the Smoky Park Supper Club on 318 Riverside Drive. Click here to register for the event and find out more. For more about Hunt’s campaign, click here. Full release: Good Morning, Election season is arriving early […]
337 residents of the city of Asheville participated in the Citizen Survey this year and the results were just announced. The survey (also undertaken in 2008) focuses on the “livability” of Asheville and the results are covered in the following reports: The Community Livability Report covers quality of life in the city; the characteristics that make the city livable, attractive and […]
The City of Asheville’s Proposed Budget for fiscal year 2015-2016 is now available online here. It will be presented at the City Council meeting on Tuesday, May 26, 5 p.m. in the Council Chamber, 2nd floor of Asheville City Hall. There will be a public hearing at the next City Council meeting on Tuesday, June 9, […]
If the idea of dining on a three-course meal and tasting wines from the area while seated in a 1940s-era first-class dining car that’s rolling past green hills and through rugged gorges tickles your fancy, then you’re in luck. The French Broad Vignerons have announce that the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad has added two additional trips of the […]
A YouTube video posted by City Council candidate Jonathan Wainscott is sparking discussion and varied reactions on at least two social media sites: the Asheville Politics and West Asheville Exchange Facebook pages. In the YouTube video, Wainscott identifies himself as a City Council candidate, talks about New Belgium brewery from his yard in West Asheville (with the New […]
After more than two years of operating as a market and a hands-on cooking classroom, Dough has announced that it will be closing its market as of today to make way for an expanded cooking curriculum. According to owner and chef Brian Ross in a press release, this new dedication to culinary education will allow Dough […]
It’s useful and a little scary. All I had to do at SimpliCity — a new search engine launched by the City of Asheville that uses place as the center of any search — was type in my address. I could then choose from a list of questions: did I want to know about the property itself, crimes in […]
The Crest Mountain Dinner Show will kick off its Summer Concert series with FORTE: A CABARET on Wednesday, June 3, 7 p.m. at Crest Mountain Pavillion (30 Ben Lippen School Road) in Woodfin. The cabaret performance will feature a 3-piece band and four well-known WNC theatrical divas: Liz Aiello, Carol Duermit, Katherine Sandoval Taylor, and Beverly Todd. FORTE had a […]
If you work downtown you don’t always have the time or the budget to eat at one of the many eateries that are within walking distance. You set the good intention of bringing in your own lunch every day but that doesn’t always happen either. So as a downtown worker bee myself, I was happy to learn of […]
Registration for the 2015 Beer City Cup — the largest independent sanctioned adult soccer tournament in the country — will open on Monday, June 1. The tournament itself will take place on Saturday, September 5 and Sunday, September 6. The application fee is $450 in June but goes up to $550 in July. The tournament […]
The City of Asheville’s Beaucatcher Greenway project now has an informative website with maps, drawings and images providing a general overview of the project as well as going into more detail on the greenway’s various sections, trailheads and design. It also offers a projected timeline for the project as well as the history of Beaucatcher Mountain. The projected timeline for the project […]
Irish singer Karan Casey is only performing at a handful of venues on the East Coast to support her most recent CD, Two More Hours, including the Diana Wortham Theatre (2 South Pack Square) in Asheville on Friday, May 15, at 8 p.m. As a member of Solas for four and a half years and now […]
Under Hill Rose, master slide-guitarist John Emil and the 42nd Street Jazz Band are among the musicians converging at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site on Memorial Day, May 25 for the 29th annual Carl Sandburg Folk Music Festival. The site is located three miles south of Hendersonville, NC on 1800 Little River Road off of the Greenville Highway/Rt. […]
There will be a WNC Regional Air Quality Agency board meeting today at 4 p.m. at the agency’s office (49 Mt. Carmel Road) in Asheville. The public is welcome to attend. WNCRAQA BOARD OF DIRECTORS TENTATIVE AGENDA MAY 11, 2015 BOARD MEETING I. Public Comment Protocol Announcement II. Adjustment and approval of agenda III. Consent Agenda: A. […]
The Black Mountain Center for the Arts has announced that Fred Chappell, the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997–2002 (and apparent flower lover) will do a reading at 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 20 as part of this year’s Art in Bloom. The Center is located at 225 W. State St. in Black Mountain. Art in Bloom, the […]
For those of you who are already planning your summer activities, good news! Asheville’s Folk Heritage Committee has just announced the dates to two long-standing mountain summer events: the 49th season of Shindig on the Green and the 88th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival. Kicking off on Saturday, June 27, Shindig on the Green — a free […]
Today the Planned Parenthood and NARAL’s statewide tour in opposition to H.B. 465 will stop in Asheville for a rally to ask Governor McCrory to keep his promise on a bill that would make it harder for North Carolina women to obtain an abortion. The rally will take place at 5:45 p.m. at the Pack Square […]
Summer is the time to show some skin and for some of us, henna — a natural dye used to decorate the surface of the skin for up to 3 weeks — is a a less permanent and painful way to decorate that skin than a regular tattoo. Starting this week Julie Schantz, the owner/creator of […]
Last year City Council made it official when Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer proclaimed June 2-8, 2014, as Hemp History Week (see our story, “Hemp History Week seeks to alter your perceptions”). This year the 6th annual celebration will take place from June 1-7, with a second proclamation from the city planned. “We’re hoping this year will […]
