I am against the proposed deal between the not-so-Public Interest Projects developers and the city of Asheville. The city could more wisely use the revenue generated from our just-paid-off parking decks and other parking facilities by providing sidewalks for neighborhoods and improving public transportation. Safe sidewalks for residents of Asheville should be a priority. Historically, […]
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Sidewalks are the real public interest
I would like to respond to the issue of sidewalks-versus-parking deck at 51 Biltmore Ave. … As a resident of east Asheville, I am strongly in favor of sidewalks in our community. In Haw Creek, we currently have two elementary schools that are not accessible by sidewalks to the residents who live north of Beverly […]
51 Biltmore: The cost is too high
With respect to Casey Carmichael’s letter in the Jan. 19 Mountain Xpress [“Imagine Downtown Without Public Interest Projects], I agree without reservation that Public Interests Projects has done a fine job in leading the downtown revitalization. Without their efforts, downtown would look like it did 20 or 30 years ago and growth, along with its […]
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Student counsel
Ask Christ School senior Addison Honeycutt, and he’ll tell you that healthy eating options abound at the private, all-male Episcopal school, citing the baskets of apples and extensive salad bar in the dining hall. And while most of his classmates live on the Arden campus, Honeycutt, a day student, can compare the meal offerings to […]
Locally grown N.C. organic wheat means locally grown N.C. baked goods
Carolina Farm Stewards 25th annual Sustainable Agriculture Conference focuses on the hearth and the revival of regional grain production and commerce.
John McEntire’s grows heirloom turkey wheat on his farm in Old Fort — photo by Hazen Hunter Photography
LIVE coverage of Jan. 25 Asheville City Council meeting
Asheville City Council’s Jan. 25 meeting — beginning at 5 p.m. this afternoon — includes the controversial 51 Biltmore project. Follow live Twitter coverage of the meeting from Xpress Senior News Reporter David Forbes.
Post Yo’ Bills: Capturing downtown bulletin boards
Community bulletin boards are, in their own way, a kind of ongoing communal art project composed of equal parts information, aesthetics and random chance. Often, events that would fly under our radar — particularly informal or late-breaking ones — can only be discovered through a careful reading of local corkboards.
Review of When Jekyll Met Hyde
Dr. Jekyll may be right that two souls dwell in every person, but he has missed the full import of that discovery, for Hyde is not only sexier than Jekyll, he’s smarter, too.
Review of Dogfall
The uneven production never quite gains the momentum it needs, mired in script issues and deficient direction, and in the end the punch the production hopes to delivers is largely deflated.
Local Matters: Buncombe County health, A-B Tech funding and the 2011 Poetry Prize
In this week’s Local Matters podcast, reporter David Forbes discusses the good and bad in Buncombe County’s heath statistics, reporter Jake Frankel talks about the recent Buncombe County Commission decision to put additional A-B Tech funding to a referendum and Xpress director of business development James Fisher discusses our 2011 Poetry Prize.
Cherokee mothertown, Kituwah, target of vandalism
The Cherokee mothertown, Kituwah, a tribally-owned archeological complex in Swain County, was the target of an act of vandalism late last week, according to an article posted on the TuckasegeeReader.com.
Elitist Bastards: Off-the-hook good movie reviews
In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther review newly released films The Green Hornet and The Dilemma. They also chat about classic horror flicks The Devil Commands and The Return of the Vampire (this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show double feature) and the often-overlooked screwball comedy First Love (this week’s Asheville Film Society screening), and speculate about the quality of this week’s upcoming releases The Way Back and No Strings Attached.
Three is a magic number: Jon Stickley Trio at Grey Eagle
Despite the severe winter-weather forecast, the traditional bluegrass-loving crowd was out at the Grey Eagle on a recent Saturday night for the Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice show. This crowd means higher-than-average PBR sales, enthusiastic clapping after nimble-fingered instrumental solos, an age-range from 21-85, pearl-snapped plaid shirts and the random yelling of “Son!” or “Pick […]
The profiler
The Suspect: Against Me! The band arrives in Asheville on the first week of a three-month nationwide tour. Tom Gabel started the group in 1997 in Gainesville, Fla., but the band didn’t find its following until the 2002 release of its first full-length album, Against Me! Is Reinventing Axl Rose. Spin named the band’s 2007 […]
New Moon Rising
You’ve probably never heard of Analog Moon. And with good reason. Ever since founder and frontman Todd Britton [editor’s note: Britton and the author are not related] moved to Asheville two years ago, he’s been so focused on recording their new record, Ascent and The Secret There Below, that his band has performed live only […]
Looking backward
Here’s my list of the top 10 North Carolina news stories for 2010, for you to ponder and critique. 1. The November elections. Republicans took charge of both houses of the Legislature for the first time in more than 100 years. This is easily my top story. Is this shift to Republican control permanent? Nobody […]
How sweet is it
As residents and visitors can attest, life is sweet in Western North Carolina. It’s largely thanks to the people, the vibrant arts scene and the fabulous landscape. More literally, it’s thanks to our area’s important role in the production of the natural sweeteners honey and sorghum — both of which get the spotlight in Appalachian […]
Imagine downtown without Public Interest Projects
Let’s see what Asheville would be like if Public Interest Projects never existed. Start on Haywood Street, where there would not be the Asheville Hotel, which has some of the lowest-rent apartments in downtown. That little hometown bookstore (Malaprop’s) on the first floor would also not be there. How about the first large condo project […]
Commissioners: tear down that wall!
An 80-foot retaining wall? That should have been the first red flag to the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners back before they gave approval for it [“House and (Affordable) Home,” Jan. 12 Xpress]. Or, if a developer says, "We have to scalp the mountain and move thousands of tons of dirt to build an apartment […]
An Asheville native reflects, laments
I grew up here, attended preschool at both First Presbyterian downtown and Asbury United Methodist, [and visited] the north branch of the library when it was behind First Union Bank. I frequented Beanstreets and Reader’s Corner. I’ve watched this town and all the changes it’s been through. Businesses come and go, and some preschools might […]