No, not to its animals but rather to the folks who attend any of its shelter-sponsored events. This new animal-friendly menu garnered Brother Wolfe the Shelter of the Month award from Animal Place, one of the oldest and largest farmed animal sanctuaries in the country. Here’s the full release: Brother Wolf Animal Rescue receives honors for vegan policy Brother Wolf Animal Rescue, a […]
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‘Pop-Up Markets’ reach one-year anniversary of delivering healthy food
Volunteers from around Buncombe County will come together to celebrate the one-year anniversary of ‘Pop-Up Markets,’ an effort spearheaded by Buncombe County Health and Human Services and MANNA to provide a reliable source of healthy food to those in need.
UNCA gets high marks for its communication and marketing
UNC Asheville brought home multiple awards for communication and marketing from the annual conference for the Southeast region of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
The Biz: An antidote to scary closets
How do you market a product that's unlike anything else out there? You shoot a faux-horror commercial, of course, if, like local inventor Larry Donahue, you also happen to be a writer and filmmaker (his film, The Devil's Courthouse, played at the 2004 Asheville Film Festival). "It's been hard to get people to grasp what […]
Swapping tarmac for trails
I am a trail runner! As of recently. Very recent. Okay, just in the last few weeks, if we must be honest. Not so long ago, you would have found me plodding around my neighborhood in my slow-but-steady pace or making the occasional foray to Carrier Park or the treadmill at my local Y. But […]
Catch Blind Boys of Alabama in Franklin
The new Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts hosts the renowned gospel group on Friday.
Cultivating work
photos by Jonathan Welch It was a cold day in Staffordshire, England. The sleet was blowing horizontally across the field, and apprentice farmer Ian Robertson suddenly realized his hands were freezing and his knees were stuck to the burlap sack he’d been kneeling on. “I realized I could be doing this [sizing and bagging potatoes] […]
Cable vs. community
A bill that’s slated to be introduced during the N.C. General Assembly’s current short session is being touted as a boon to both cable-service providers and their customers. But opponents say the law could undermine funding for local access stations and local government data networks. And with the bill on the fast track, according to […]
Peaceful warriors
recent photos by Jodi Ford Looking back: Viola Jones Spells and Marvin Chambers shown today and in their yearbook photos from high school. Both were members of ASCORE who participated in sit-ins and other actions to combat segregation in Asheville. When four African-American college students walked into a Woolworth’s in Greensboro, N.C., and sat down […]
2005 Mountain Sports Festival
Biking Biking Town Mountain Hill ClimbFestival Village 5-8 p.m. Just for kids Iron Kid Challenge Festival Village 5 p.m. 7 p.m. Kid’s Climbing Competition Montford Center 7-9 p.m. Climbing Wall Festival Village 5-9 p.m. Music City/County Plaza Gamble Brothers Band5 p.m. Geoff Achison7 p.m. Jeff Coffin Mu’tet with special guest Future Man9 p.m. Sat, Apr […]
Groovin’ at the fest
The Mountain Sports Festival will be jamming all weekend long, with free live music on the main stage in Festival Village beginning Friday night (see grid for schedule). Plenty of musical pedigree will be featured in a lineup that includes Jimbo Mathus (former lead singer of the Squirrel Nut Zippers), Jeff Coffin Mu ‘Tet and […]
A step back in time
What in the world were they thinking? Full circle: The ‘modern’ 1965 makeover, left, of a neoclassical building designed by well-known architect Ronald Greene in 1922, above, left it unrecognizable.The recent renovation commissioned by Asheville Savings Bank returned the building to its former glory, below, right down to recreating the intricate cornices that had been […]
The hot sheet
The local film scene is an exotic and many-tentacled beast. After countless phone calls, e-mails and “who-else-should-we-talk-to?” queries, Xpress compiled the following informal list of local filmmakers and their current film (plus a few television) projects. Though it is doubtless incomplete, the list does give some idea of the extent and diversity of local indie-film […]
Lights, camera … not so much action
Not so long ago, Western North Carolina seemed to be on the brink of an exciting new chapter in its long history as a filmmaking destination. We’d already been attracting “pretty nice-sized movies,” as WNC Film Commissioner Mary Trimarco puts it, “every other year … since The Last of the Mohicans” — movies like Nell, […]
Warriors on the home front
“I just keep thinking how you need a village to raise a child. Well, we need a community to take care of these soldiers,” proclaims Tammy Walsh, whose husband, Sgt. Scott Nelson, is a member of Alpha Company of the 391st Engineer Battalion, a unit of the Army Reserve. The 100-plus soldiers of the Asheville-based […]
Items needed for Alpha Company, 391st Engineer Battalion
AAA batteries AA batteries C batteries D batteries 9-volt batteries Toiletries sunscreen shaving cream foot powder razors toothpaste toothbrushes deodorant baby wipes (the most-needed item of all) eye drops hand sanitizer toilet paper lip balm Recreation and Morale Boosters disposable cameras phone cards film small travel games paperback books CDs portable CD players (for injured […]
Roll over, Beethoven
A revolution in the music business may be brewing right here in the quiet neighborhood of Montford. At least that’s what the creators of JukeboxAlive — a new Asheville-based multimedia network service on the Web — have in mind. Of course, a shake-up of sorts has been under way ever since the Internet burst on […]
A matter of principle
“I guarantee, no matter how liberal or how conservative [someone is], I can find probably at least five or six issues that person will agree with us on.” — Jennifer Rudinger, executive director, ACLU of North Carolina Jennifer Rudinger is eating hot biscuits at the home of a friend in the beautiful Reems Creek Valley, […]
Message in a bottle
“I could live for probably two years on what they spent just to coax some words out of my mouth.” — Asheville activist Clare Hanrahan Local activist and writer Clare Hanrahan was out mowing her lawn in late September when ABC called, asking her to be a guest on Good Morning America the next day. […]
Candidates for Buncombe County Board of Commissioners: David Gantt
Vote for four. The candidates are Mark Crawford, Republican; David Gantt, Democrat; Mike Harrison, Republican; Mike Morgan, Republican; Carol Weir Peterson, Democrat; Bill Reynolds, Republican; Bill Stanley, Democrat; and David Young, Democrat. David Gantt Age: 48Address: 28 Troy Hill Drive, FletcherOccupation: LawyerYears in Buncombe County: 23Education: Law degree, Campbell UniversityPolitical party: DemocratPolitical experience: County commissioner […]
Candidates for Buncombe County Board of Commissioners: Mike Harrison
Vote for four. The candidates are Mark Crawford, Republican; David Gantt, Democrat; Mike Harrison, Republican; Mike Morgan, Republican; Carol Weir Peterson, Democrat; Bill Reynolds, Republican; Bill Stanley, Democrat; and David Young, Democrat. Mike Harrison Age: 58Address: 252 Martins Creek Road, BarnardsvilleOccupation: Business consultant for IBMYears in Buncombe County: 5Education: Master’s degree in science, Central Michigan […]