The article [“The Green Scene: Getting Off the Banks,” July 28 Xpress] could have done a better job in showing our human health linkages to the French Broad. The French Broad River is a drinking water source to over 1 million people. Not only does Western North Carolina draw water directly but so do people […]
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“The boys in the back room” aren’t doing their job
I am glad someone is doing the work to go out and find out about polluters and what exactly they’re putting into our air, water and soil [“The Green Scene: Getting Off the Banks,” July 28 Xpress]. What you pointed out should be shocking to most people — the governmental agencies that are supposed to […]
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Mountain Hopping
[Editor’s note: This week, Xpress debuts our new biweekly beer column, wherein our intrepid, brews-obsessed reporter takes on different facets of WNC’s brew culture. Mountain Hopping will be a dispatch-style exploration of the people and places behind the regional beer economy. Gonzo journalism? Maybe. But a first-person take outside the well-quaffed path. Mountain Hopping will […]
Eatin’ In Season
With the exception of one winter spent working for Sears just after high school graduation, Ray Chambers has been farming his entire life. Family Farmin’: Ray Chambers farms approximately 40 acres, many of which were farmed by his father and grandfather. Photos courtesy of ASAP “As soon as it got to be warmer weather, I […]
Into the mystic
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do,” Rumi said, and so does the life and art of River Arts District painter Spencer Herr. “Not You, Not Me, Just Us”: The artist is using human form fmore prominently in his new series, Working Man’s Mystic. Like most folk artists, Herr has had […]
Twitter-based coverage of the County Commissioners Meeting ***UPDATE***
Staff reporter Jake Frankel covered the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting live tonight via Twitter — that is, before an unspecified “catastrophic technical failure” occurred during the proceedings. Click through to get a round-up of his live Twitter feed.
Bluewater Seafood company celebrates opening day
Red snapper on ice at Blue Water Seafood’s new Charlotte Street location, open today, Monday, August 2. Slideshow after the jump. Photos by Michael Muller
Hanson’s Shout It Out tour comes to Asheville
Fans joined the band (Isaac Hanson is pictured here, center, in the white shirt) this afternoon for a mile-long walk, barefoot, to raise awareness about AIDS and poverty in Africa.
Elitist Bastards: Of Salt, The Fly and The Crying Game
In this week’s podcast, Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther: Dismiss Ramona and Beezus and noncommittally shrug off Salt; experience gross-out glee at The Fly; don’t reveal the secret of The Crying Game; and guess about the quality of soon-to-be-released flicks Dinner for Schmucks, The Kids Are Alright, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore and Charlie St. Cloud.
Asheville City Council: Two annexations begun
Some Buncombe County residents may soon be Asheville citizens: At its July 27 meeting, Asheville City Council approved beginning the process of two annexations — Coopers Hawk and Royal Pines. Council member Bill Russell voted against both annexations; Mayor Terry Bellamy joined him in voting against an annexation in the Royal Pines area, citing concerns about the size of the annexed area and about providing service. Mountain Xpress Senior News Reporter David Forbes reported on the meeting via the social-media outlet Twitter. Other discussions included incentives for a Montford development, handicapped parking downtown and domestic-partner benefits.
WCU grad earns student-achievement award
Nicole McRight, who graduated from Western Carolina University’s communication sciences and disorders program this spring, recently received a statewide award for student educational achievement. Presented by the North Carolina Speech, Hearing and Language Association, the award is given on the basis of academic excellence and merit. The student recipient must have a grade-point average of […]
Doing it for ourselves
These days we like to do it ourselves. At Country Workshops, a school for traditional woodworking in Madison County, you can do just that. Edged against a forest of tulip poplar, oak and maple, Drew and Louise Langsner’s 100-acre homestead provides respite from the busy world, and a place to experience “slow craft” at its […]
Freddy Cole: elegance at the piano
When Freddy Cole sits down at the piano, he carries listeners away with the story of his song. Whether it’s one person on his piano bench or 3,000 listeners at a festival, he’s got a tale to spin with his smoky baritone voice and deft fingers. While he never had the pop stardom of his […]
The Profiler
The Suspect: Tommy Emmanuel Born in 1955, this Australian guitarist has been playing professionally since the age of nine. As a child, he heard Chet Atkins on the radio. “Travis picking,” that is, playing bass with the thumb and melody parts with the first two or three fingers at the same time, became the basis […]
S.O.S. — misdirected by the Xpress
I fear this correspondence will reach you too late. I oriented myself with the Mountain Xpress’ Bele Chere map and traveled East (sic) in hopes of finding falafel and friends; I found myself a bit lost. So I traveled South (sic), according to the [same] map, and that is where I am now, desperately seeking […]
Outdoors: A question of interpretation
I'm a volunteer at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and I recently joined seasonal rangers for interpretive training. In National Park Service lingo, “interpretation” means enabling each visitor to personally connect with a place. We do this informally when we talk to them in the visitor center or on […]
A swat at The Human Centipede — and Ken Hanke
I feel Ken Hanke has failed his readers and, to some degree, humanity in even reviewing The Human Centipede earlier this month. This arbitrarily disturbing piece of celluloid tripe deserves no comment (yes, I'm aware of the irony as I'm writing about it now), let alone three stars. This film should never have been conceived, […]
No nukes: Asheville resident explains why she protested at Oak Ridge
Obstructing a roadway into the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant may seem like a strange pastime for a mother, grandmother, nurse and Asheville resident, but I have my reasons. The primary one is that nuclear weapons are a blight upon the earth and its people. The atomic bomb made in Oak Ridge, Tenn., was detonated over […]
The U.S. census and race: Color me confused
I recently filled out my census form [and] came across a question that I thought would be easy to figure out. Question #8 asks if the primary person filling out the form is of “Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin.” I figured, since I was born in the U.S. to Mexican-American parents that would satisfy the […]
An encounter with a baby (bear, that is)
Gardening is a wonderful experience in Western North Carolina. The mundane chore of weeding brings contentment to me. Being an active gardener, [I can be found] in the back or front yard this time of year. On June 28, I was planting a Ginkgo biloba tree [in] the backyard. This is not an easy task […]