North Carolina's progressive annexation laws are constantly under attack and yet they are what have allowed our cities to stay at a healthy level not found in our neighboring states. Anyone driving on White Horse Road must think Greenville, S.C., one unattractive city, and yet, due to South Carolina's archaic laws, the city has no […]
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Drive, he said
On March 7, I sent the following e-mail to each of the elected North Carolina Legislators. Only one had the courtesy to respond and she still didn't say anything. I believe there are 175 Legislators. Evidently they have forgotten November of 2010. Hopefully in 2012 more will be fired by the voters of this state: […]
SoundTrack web extra: Vertigo Jazz Project
Vertigo Jazz Project pushes the limits of jazz to the breaking point, creating a synthesis of stylized music while still staying within the limits of the most adapted music to come out of the 20th century.
Elitist Bastards: The Brides of Rango
In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther talk about current releases Rango, The Adjustment Bureau, Beastly and Take Me Home Tonight.
Clubland and movies correction
Xpress readers who checked Clubland in this week’s issue may have wondered if they just went back in time, while those who read our movie reviews may have wondered if they’d slipped into a strange dimension where Matt Damon starred in a mediocre ‘80s nostalgia flick. They didn’t; we goofed up.
We still cogitate
A couple of years ago, BB&T — the bank whose black monolith starkly dominates Asheville's skyline — dangled a generous donation in front of Western Carolina University in exchange for teaching Ayn Rand's fundamentalist capitalism. Yet Rand was also a high-profile, militant atheist who called Christianity “the kindergarten of communism." If that fact became better […]
Outdoors: Flower power
“Let a joy keep you.” — Carl Sandburg After spending hours one day last spring drawing diagrams, creating options and hashing out ideas, my head spun. I couldn’t think anymore, so I decided to take a walk. I drove to my favorite spot, Carl Sandburg's home in Flat Rock, and parked near redbud trees dressed […]
Green Thumb: There’s money in those logs
If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to grow oyster and shiitake mushrooms in a log (and perhaps make money doing it), then the final workshop in a month-long series is just right: “Does Your Forest Talk Money and More?” will be held on Saturday, March 12, at the A-B Tech Enka campus. This hands-on […]
Bizarre food?
In the coming weeks, Xpress will explore the world of offal, sample insects and strange fish parts and go on a wild-foods walk with local expert Alan Muskat. Are the foods we'll try really all that bizarre? Perhaps to cultures that can afford to be picky. But in many areas of the world, people don't […]
Egg-centric Asheville
There is a lot to get egg-cited about this month when the focus of the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project’s Get Local initiative turns to farm-fresh eggs. That’s because area farmers and eateries have got you covered, whether you like yours scrambled, poached, boiled or fried, or from a chicken or a duck. Mike Brown of […]
Finding common ground
When Park Ridge Hospital nurse Teresa Onofrio introduced herself to a small class of Spanish-speaking expecting mothers on Feb. 24, her American accent blended with a dash of Puerto Rico, where she lived for many years: “Soy enfermera en el hospital de Park Ridge.” Continuing on in Spanish, she told the women — who were […]
Cut the budget but don’t wound education in the process
Over the past two years, as we all know, the entire budget/economy has been hit hard. I know that the N.C. budget needs to be cut again this year, but let’s keep it sensible, especially where it affects education. State spending on education is going down while need is going up. North Carolina is the […]
Destroying trees along the highway is a low thing to do
All the trees on [Interstate] 40 along the sloped median strip from Exit 64 to Exit 55 are being clear-cut. Not trimmed, but totally destroyed. I do not believe road hazard — or visibility or whatever explanation the North Carolina Department of Transportation chooses to present — justifies this total destruction of the environment. Now […]
Heath Shuler deserves our thanks
Environmental laws took a battering in the U.S. House last week as Republicans passed a continuing resolution … packed with provisions to roll back and de-fund a slew of federal rules aimed at controlling climate change and protecting clean air and water. Along with other provisions in the continuing resolution that passed were ones that […]
Creatively Asheville
The Asheville-Buncombe Creative Sector Summit is one meeting creatives won’t want to skip out on this year. Its purpose? To give artists, arts administrators, musicians, designers, writers and creative entrepreneurs a forum to voice opinions and formulate initiatives concerning the development of Asheville’s creative industry. “We’re casting a very wide net,” says Graham Hackett, programs […]
Cranky Hanke cracked me up
Ken Hanke’s quote in his review of I Am Number Four [“Cranky Hanke,” Feb. 23 Xpress] about Dianna Agron, that the actress was "an apparent graduate of the Corey Haim mouth-breathing school of acting" truly amused me. I'm a photographer from the East Coast film industry and was shooting in Wilmington, N.C., on Corey's film […]
Call abortion what it is: murder
Congratulations to Rep. Heath Shuler for his courage in voting to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood, [an organization that] deals with the torture and murder of pre-born babies under the polite words “abortion” and “choice.” … What about those babies who have died by the saline-solution procedure that burned the babies’ skin off […]
The profiler
The Suspect: Say Hi The music site Consequence of Sound says “The band (Say Hi) hasn’t made a bad album,” which is impressive considering there have been seven. Even more remarkable: this Seattle-based indie band is one guy; Eric Elbongen plays all the instruments and sings all vocals in these home-recorded releases. He brings his […]
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The tagline for the current show at Semi Public Gallery? “Truth is stranger than fiction.”
Local Matters: Downtown Heroes, more expense woes for County Commission and some very strange foods
In this week’s Local Matters podcast, freelancer Christopher George talks about the Downtown Heroes celebration, Xpress news editor Margaret Williams talks to reporter Jake Frankel about this week’s Buncombe County Commission meeting, and Xpress food writer Mackensy Lunsford talks about her new project to eat some fairly strange foods in local restaurants.