Six visual artists reflect on the bittersweet and the humorous in an engaging exhibit, up now at Blue Spiral 1.
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Local Matters: The Bele Chere hip-hop controversy, food trucks and Buncombe County Commission update
In this edition of Local Matters — the Xpress weekly news podcast — reporter David Forbes talks about the controversy over the Bele Chere committee’s reluctance to book hip-hop artist DJ Kool, and gives updates on the ongoing food truck ordinance battle. Reporter Christopher George also gives a rundown of the recent Buncombe County Commission meeting.
Elitist Bastards: Cowboys, Aliens, Smurfs and Chimpanzees
In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go to the Movies podcast, reviewers Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss: Assassination Games; Cowboys & Aliens; Crazy, Stupid, Love; Project Nim; The Smurfs and The Trip.
Camp HERO at A-B Tech gives youth an inside look at emergency responders
For a week in July at A-B Technical Community College, 13 youths investigated crime scenes, examined blood spatters, navigated their way through a smoke-filled apartment and practiced life-saving skills during the College’s Camp HERO (How Emergency Responders Operate). The camp, for ages 11 to 15, gave students an introduction into the lives and operations of firefighters, law enforcement officers and paramedics.
More than 100 West Asheville residents meet to discuss ways to reduce neighborhood crime
More than 100 West Asheville residents crowded into a meeting hall on one of the hotter evenings of the year to hear reports from the Asheville Police Department and to talk to neighbors about what many felt has bee a rash of crimes in area, including several home invasions. The Asheville Police Department provided information about crime in general in the city, updates on ongoing investigations and tips for staying safe.
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Highflier
Asheville Regional Airport Director Lew Bleiweis is prepared to waste millions of taxpayer dollars due to an illogical bias. He recently pulled the plug on a proposed joint venture with the city of Asheville that would have added an Asheville Fire Department crew to the airport’s existing response team. The agreement would have represented the […]
Thank you for making Asheville diverse and exciting
Thank you, Loida Ginocchio-Silva, for working so hard to educate yourself and for having the courage to speak up for immigrant students [“Stymied,” July 6 Xpress]. I appreciate that, in spite of bad policies that make it nearly impossible, you haven’t given up on getting your education. Stopping you from going to college wouldn’t help […]
Moroccan cherry-chicken salad
Ashley English is a local blogger (http://www.small-measure.blogspot.com) and author of the “Homemade Living” series from Lark Books (available through Malaprops on Haywood Street or through her blog). English shares her recipe for chicken salad using already-cooked rotisserie chicken for when it’s just too dang hot to cook: “One of our favorite ‘it's-far-too-ungodly-hot-to-even-look-at-the-stove’ go-to eats during […]
Champagne gazpacho with butternut puree
Like your soup a little boozy? The Magnetic Field in the River Arts District has a recipe for you. From the gin-spiked gazpacho the restaurant recently served as a brunch offering, to this Champagne-infused version, chef Liam Luttrell-Rowland makes daytime dishes that would make a teetotaler blush. The addition of the butternut puree in the […]
Tupelo Honey coleslaw
Sometimes you just want a cooling slaw, whether it’s served next to a tomato sandwich or by itself in a big bowl, served with a glass of sweet tea. Tupelo Honey’s version is an even mix of creamy and vinegary, and requires shredding and mixing skills — but absolutely no cooking. The addition of red […]
Tuna poke
Poke (pronounced “poh-kay”) is a Hawaiian comfort-food dish that traditionally involves raw tuna. It's a simple appetizer that requires a reputable seafood source and little more than good knife skills. Don't feel like handling raw fish? Heiwa regularly serves their own version of the classic cold dish on their menu, which they serve as part […]
Bring back the middle class
Thank you for publishing Martin Ramsey's wonderfully succinct and well-reasoned letter "No Borders" [July 20 Xpress]. Given the ever more polarized and vocal ravings, both locally and nationally, of the self-centered, greedy, ignorant, delusional and immature, and their championing of right wing “causes” that are utterly opposite to their own best interest (due in no […]
Small Bites: The Hop Ice Cream Cafe
The Hop Ice Cream Cafe recently debuted a new line of ice cream made with goat’s milk from local HeatherLane Farms in Woodfin. The goats are raised on pastures located less than 10 miles away from The Hop’s Merrimon Avenue spot, says Ashley Garrison, who owns the ice cream shop with her husband, Greg Garrison. […]
Small Bites: Asheville Vegfest
Asheville’s first all-vegetarian food festival, the Asheville Vegfest, takes over Battery Park Avenue on Sunday, August 7, from noon until 7 p.m. The free festival is presented by The Asheville Vegetarians and Goat Mountain Sanctuary, two local nonprofit, volunteer-based organizations. The festival will feature vegan and vegetarian food, speakers, live entertainment and kids’ events, including […]
Small Bites: The Onyx Orchard Cheese Company
• My fingers smell like Tilsit. Why? Because the stinky German cheese is available by the pound over at The Onyx Orchard Cheese Company at 89 Patton Ave. Tim Pierce, the owner, was kind enough to let me sample that cheese, as well as some Red Dragon cheddar, a manchego purple from the addition of […]
Welcome to the Smokies
I would like to comment on the July 20 Mountain Xpress article "Gay is the New Local.” Having enrolled in the sixth grade at Swannanoa Elementary in 1961, I consider myself a local, even though I lived in five states and two foreign countries before the age of 12 (Air Force brat). I know the […]
Farm fixer-upper
Old houses aren’t the only “fixer-uppers” out there. Just ask longtime Asheville musician and radio host Laura Blackley, who purchased neglected land in Candler with her partner, Cindy Jordan, in 2006. Their hope? A small family farm. “When we started, we wanted to do and grow everything, and I do mean everything,” says Blackley. But […]
On the road from Ash to Nash
Beth Revis has captured the imagination of teens across the nation with her thrilling murder mystery that takes place in a spaceship light years away from Earth. Now she has dreamed up a road trip from Asheville to Nashville with a few of her favorite young adult authors. They stop through Asheville at Malaprop’s Bookstore […]
Sustainable? Sounds like a fish story
In “Go Fish,” Mackensy Lunsford shows that it can take a good deal of effort to identify so-called environmentally friendly seafood choices [July 20 Xpress]. Yet it’s much more difficult than she noted. Scientists using DNA technology recently revealed that 20 to 25 percent of seafood products are fraudulently labeled, with the rates of fraud […]
Musical Missed Connections
Lonely Tonight OK, first impression not so great. Did you really think you’d get away with putting all your wet boxers in my dryer? I mean, how long do you think it takes a girl to smoke one cigarette? Anyway, the fact that someone had sewn your name, Harold Melkins, into every pair touched me, […]
Services or taxes – which is it?
Jeff Gerber's July 20 letter, “Study Hard, N.C. Legislature,” perfectly illustrates the conservative mindset about government revenue and spending. He says, "making cuts to the law-enforcement and judicial system is ludicrous," and "conservatives never raise taxes.” Money doesn't grow on trees; it has to come from somewhere. In the case of government-provided services such as […]