At the interactive arts area: Asheville Hoops: Hula hooping for kids of all ages. Asheville Hoops hosts of the community hoop jam in Pritchard Park on Tuesdays. Stina Andersen: Weaver Woman Stina Andersen, sewing teacher, renegade seamstress and local clothing designer of ARTeries by Stina presents The Tunnel of LAAFFs! This interactive arts installation will […]
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Pisgah’s field of dreams
Ever since musicphile Jason Caughman, owner of Pisgah Brewing Company, first set up shop in Black Mountain five years ago, he has been itching to transform the empty, four-acre field behind his brewery into something special. Something like — oh, I don't know — a 2,500-capacity outdoor venue? "I'm a daydreamer, I guess," says Caughman, […]
Deciding which shows you should see, so you don’t have to
The Suspect: Stockholm Syndrome This band started in 2004 as a side project for Widespread Panic bassist Dave Schools and Jerry Joseph of the Jackmormons. The band combines blues, funk and rock, and even throws in a little reggae and steel drum music for good measure. They just released a seven-song live EP, Live at […]
Artillery
The old adage says that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure, and that’s exactly what Sharon Cobb had in mind when she opened Trash, Inc., a new creative reuse center aimed at reducing landfill clutter. From mannequin arms to architectural blueprints, Trash, Inc. specializes in cheap, reusable and salvaged art materials. Geared primarily towards […]
SoundTrack
The Hookah Bar gave Asheville a dose of dub with Time to Get Ill a few weeks ago, presenting Dallas-based D-Queue and his slammin’ beats alongside locals faves like Quetzatl and GalaxC Girl. Dr. Phonicle started the night off with a set full of reggae-infused dubstep. Although he wasn’t spinning tunes with the heavy, crashing […]
Smart bets
Pies in Disguise anniversary party There have been mutterings of a pie fest, as in "Asheville really should have one." Makes sense: There are multiple beer fests, a wine and food fest, Organic fest and plenty of music fests that wouldn't be complete without local edibles. Perhaps the Pies in Disguise one year anniversary party, […]
The Biz: Money for broadband
ERC Broadband to get $15 million in stimulus funds ERC Broadband — a local nonprofit that aims to improve and expand the technological infrastructure — will receive approximately $15 million to build and maintain over 100 miles of fiber-optic cable in five western North Carolina Counties. The money is part of a $75 million stimulus […]
Outdoors: Walking sacred paths
I walked from Asheville to Mount Pisgah and back. It was a 60-mile journey that took 52 hours. The trip started and ended at the UNCA campus where, for a year, I have glanced, almost daily, upon the distant mountain and said, “I want to walk there.” One can see Mount Pisgah from the steps […]
Goodbye August, okra, are you still around?
August is over, but it's still warm for a bit, and okra is here for at least a little while longer in many of our gardens. I don’t particularly like okra, but I eat it because I'm a good Southern girl. I grew up eating okra, even picking it from a fussy plant that requires […]
Mtn Hoppin’
Though I’ve acquired the beer snob’s palette, my drinking habits will forever remain rooted in my Rust Belt past. Where I grew up — a dying industrial town in Central New York that records more snowfall annually than Anchorage, Alaska — we don’t sip, swish, sniff or sample. We drink. The neighborhood bar, of which […]
Ready, set… pick!
Don Justus has seen people do just about anything to take home some of his apples. In his youth, ladies from a visiting church group refused brown bags, opting instead to fashion their bloomers into larger, sturdier carriers. Recently, a family who’d driven up from Columbia, S.C., donned matching rain boots, coats and hats, and […]
People in borrowed houses shouldn’t throw stones
As someone whose parents emerged from [an] underprivileged childhood — one inner city, the other rural — into the suburban middle class, I can appreciate the pride of having achieved economic prosperity, including home ownership. However, their experiences and teachings also imparted a more valuable lesson: the acknowledgment that most of us are only a […]
Thank you, Xpress, for a great article on a great man
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for the photographs and the Aug. 14 material, "A Quiet Visionary: How Julian Price Reimagined Downtown Asheville [Xpress]." I grew up with Julian as his neighbor in Greensboro. Our mothers had known each other since childhood. Julian was always gentle, gracious and honorable. He never flaunted his family's wealth. […]
Julian Price’s work provides an excellent model for sustainable development
Good reporting invites the reader to learn more, as was the case with Michael Muller's “A Quiet Visionary” [Aug. 18, Xpress]. On the home page of the Public Interest Project website I found a succinct paragraph recounting Julian Price's " desire to invest in business and real estate projects which contribute to an exciting, diverse […]
“Free-range” childhood, arrested development
As a 25-year-old who was raised in the “free-range” style, I have to voice my concerns about what Edgy Mama had to say about “free-range” parenting [“Free-range Kids, Local-style,” Aug. 18 Xpress]. It is not the idea of parenting in that way, but of schooling in that way that has me angry. My sister, the […]
Story on Pack Square Park left too many stones unturned
I am not slow to criticize the Pack Square Conservancy when I think they deserve it. However, I believe that Michael Muller's article on the cost overruns and delays of Pack Square Park ["Debacle or Sparkle," Aug. 24 Xpress] unfairly leaves out a crucial question. What impact did the two attempts to privatize portions of […]
Thanks, Xpress, for a sparkling study of a debacle
I just read your fine, comprehensive article on the sordid history of our newly renovated Pack Square Park [“Debacle or Sparkle?” Aug. 25 Xpress] and wanted to congratulate you, without the usual sarcasm of letter writers to Mountain Xpress, on a well-researched and balanced piece of work. Author [Michael] Muller kept a neutral tone and […]
Fixing sidewalks before fixing roads puts the cart before the horse
There is a need for sidewalks in Asheville and east Asheville, but not now. Priorities of having our roads fixed and our water systems repaired/fixed should come before sidewalks for a specific community. Just look at our streets in Asheville: horrible in all locations. The “goat trails” are overblown — take a lawnmower and a […]
Coup de cinema?
I have muttered and complained to my friends about Cranky Hanke's movie reviews for a long time. He really frustrates me. I recently read the letter from Hannah Clarkson (age 10)[“Young Movie Reviewer is Ready to Help,” Aug. 25 Xpress]. [She] rightly calls out Hank for not understanding the roll of a movie critic. A […]
The kids are all right
I think it is a great idea to have a kids view of G and PG rated movies. I say put Hannah Clarkson to work. I look forward to reading her reviews. — Joanne Latta Asheville
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