The North Carolina Senate released a state budget this week that makes government live within its means and puts more money in the pockets of taxpayers, while protecting essential public services. Among others, our budget makes three responsible, long-overdue changes. First, it reforms North Carolina’s broken education system. An educated workforce is vital to our […]
Author: Webmaster
Showing 2878-2898 of 9872 results
One cent makes sense
The North Carolina General Assembly is the best money could buy. Sorrow lies in the fact that they are for the most part a group of ideologues who believe the political-ideology rhetoric that spews from their mouths. Their pockets are full while yours are empty. They have no concern for the future of the children […]
Oppose HB 810
Our state's Republican legislature never disappoints when it comes to creating more and more bad legislation. The newest stinkeroo is House Bill 810. It has already made it out of the House Banking Committee and is headed for the Senate. Ostensibly it is an amendment to the Consumer Finance Act. What it really amounts to […]
The Profiler
The Suspect: Tiempo Libre This group calls ita concerts a “Cuban musical party.” The music is timba, a high-energy combination of Latin jazz and traditional son cubano. This three-time Grammy-nominated band has performed on NPR and Dancing with the Stars, and last month they released My Secret Radio. Can Be Found: The Orange Peel, Sunday, […]
Civic morality 101
Developer Frank Howington and his E. F. Howington Company have once again circumvented the wishes of the residents of the Kenilworth section of Asheville and the spirit of the initial City Council vote. Howington hired the Van Winkle law firm, which employs Council member Esther Manheimer. [She] had to recuse herself, thereby changing the votes […]
Please don’t trash the outdoors
For my school service project, I picked up trash around the forest. I picked up trash at campsites and on the forest roads. I found a lot of things like beer cans, milk containers, soda bottles, food wrappings, and someone even threw away a broken camp chair. I pulled a lot of trash out of […]
Weekly Picks: June 8-14, 2011
Seven things you probably didn’t think you could do this week…
Weekly Asheville Disclaimer Page: 06/08/2011
• TVs, computers banned at NC dumps, but drunken backyard blasting of TVs, computers with potato cannons still strong encouraged
• Experts: Feds’ investigation of John Edwards ‘shouldn’t’ affect son’s chances of becoming silver-tongued, lady-killing li’l dickens
• Justin Beiber shocks by changing hairstyle from ‘lipstick lesbian’ to ‘preteen on verge of androgyny’
Review of The Witches’ Quorum
I love the director and the entire cast and crew of The Witches’ Quorum — including all the designers and the handsome ticket-takers — because they stand on the winning side of what seemed an experiment in finding out how good a production you can get out of David Eshelman’s lousy script. For Quorum is, in fact, a decent evening of theater, built as if by magic on a play that seems to have nothing to recommend it but the effort that talented people expended upon it.
Little details
Hand-crafted leather bag, leather sandals, green and gold bangle.
Local Matters: Moffitt on Moffitt, West Asheville, yoga in a park and a doctor on a roof
In this edition of Local Matters—the Xpress weekly news podcast—reporter David Forbes talks about his recent interview with N.C. General Assembly representative Tim Moffitt and the recent Asheville City Council community meeting in West Asheville, and reporter Christopher George talks about a yoga-in-the-park program in Fletcher and a cancer fundraiser involving a doctor on a […]
Review of Prime Ribbing
At least for the 90 minutes of its life, this show owns the whole treasure of Broadway. The lyrics are smart and funny. One expects that. But they are also allusive, intelligent, challenging, and while one is laughing one’s head off, one is taking thought as well.
Saturday streetstyle
Three different looks captured post-brunch.
Elitist Bastards: The magic elitists have a hangover
In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther—joined by Laura Marie Miller—discuss current releases Kung Fu Panda 2, The Hangover Part II and Meek’s Cutoff.
Caught in the interstate web
Flies gathered where the doe’s eyes had been. Two days dead, she lay sprawled on the edge of the cul-de-sac's woods. Beside her lay a deer skeleton, picked clean by what passes for nature on this little parcel. Past that another deer carcass, and then another, each in a different stage of decomposition. My first […]
Opening doors
Ten years ago, my garden overflowed with tomatoes, potatoes, zucchini, eggplant, beets, carrots, spinach and Brussels sprouts. These days, my attention has turned to the perennial beds and shrubs, and my cover crop of rye has simply been pushed over a bit so I could stick a few peppers and tomato plants in the ground. […]
“Grown-ups do outrageous things?”
When she was a kid growing up in Gloucester, Mass., Lauren “Madame Onca” O’Leary’s parents threw a roast-pig-on-a-spit party featuring a belly dancer. It was the sort of moment that defines a person’s life. “There was this woman, Claude the Bod, and I was like: ‘Grown-ups dress up? Grown-ups do outrageous things? … That stuck […]
Living treasures and hospital duels
Live long enough to be honored: Three Western North Carolina centenarians were honored May 24 at a Century Club Celebration at Park Ridge Health in Hendersonville. Grace Goodell, 102, Helen Adwin, 100, and Carol Hoyt, 101, received congratulation letters on behalf of Sens. Richard Burr and Kay Hagan, as well as Rep. Heath Shuler. Chad […]
The “right to know” is a right, not a rule
Today, I am grateful for the ability to make decisions about my health, and to have access to medical services as I need them. While it’s easy to take this for granted, pending legislation — the "Women's Right To Know Act” (HB 854) currently in the North Carolina Senate, may change all this. HB 854 […]
What happened to Pack Memorial Library?
When did Pack Memorial Library become a daytime shelter for ex-cons and strung-out drug abusers? Surely, a diverse mix is wonderful and an Asheville tradition, but this is nothing like that. There is no mix of children and everyday families and business people there. All I ever see, daily, are downtrodden, strung-out and scary-looking thugs […]
School field trips — literally
Out of the whispers on a recent bus field trip, one student from Debbi Madill’s kindergarten class at Cullowhee Valley School could be heard exclaiming, “Oh, Ms. Madill, look! We’re in farm valley!” The hay, horses and tractors spotted out the windows were sure signs they were nearing their destination: Ten Acre Garden in Canton. […]