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Review and video of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros rekindled the free-spirited essence of the ‘60s at The Orange Peel with nostalgic anthems of independence and sticks of incense. With two awesome videos!
Re-imaging ambient music for the 21st century
An interview with Sam Goldberg, playing at Harvest Records on Monday. AshevilleFM will live-stream the show.
Upcoming: Inlets, DM Stith and Silje Nes
Sebastian Krueger is buds with Sufjan Stevens-ite Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond), Beirut frontman Zach Condon and Grizzly Bear’s Dan Rossen, to name a few. His band Inlets, plays Club 828 on Sunday.
Local comics get Laugh Your Asheville Off to a good start
The Laugh Your Asheville Off stand-up comedy festival started with a local comic showcase at Fred’s Speakeasy. The multi-venue event continues throughout the weekend with an outstanding line-up of local and national comics, including Saturday night headliner Jake Johannsen, who’s performed on the Late Show with David Letterman a record 32 times. On tap for tonight: performances at Diana Wortham Theatre by Josh Gondelman and The Beards of Comedy troupe, which features rising Asheville pro-comedian Joe Zimmerman.
Elitist Bastards: Predators, Winters Bone And A Touch of Bad Taste
In this week’s podcast, Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther: Share their thoughts on newly released films A Piece of Work, Despicable Me, Winter’s Bone and Predators; say some very nice things about Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste (this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show); praise Richard Lester’s Help! in advance of next week’s Asheville Film Society screening; and consider the potential merits and problems with soon-to-be-released flicks The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Inception and Cyrus.
Dino-might!
You can play with John Payne’s dinosaurs again. Two years after the River District pioneer and sculptural innovator’s death, his metal marionettes have found a home at a new museum in Biltmore Park. Going Big: It’s the first time the late sculptor’s kinetic dinosaur sculptures have been in one place, open to the public. Photos […]
The Green Scene: Speak up for our natural heritage
[Editor’s note: This week’s Green Scene is a sort of green commentary alerting readers to the upcoming America’s Great Outdoors listening session.] Nestled in Western North Carolina lie several natural treasures that are dear to all state residents, such as the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. These forests […]
Outsider Art
Eef Barzelay was born an outsider. Sure, that might sound like the typical country music cliché, but for the 40-year-old frontman and founder of Clem Snide, it's true. Inspiration in the Wal-Mart parking lot: “I like to take things that are kind of ugly or mundane and try to make them beautiful,” says Clem Snide’s […]
From one Depression to another
The annual Swannanoa Gathering is an ideal locale for interviewing the Twilite Broadcasters. Here, on the campus of Warren Wilson College, Adam Tanner and Mark Jackson are surrounded by fellow musicians obsessed with the myriad forms of archaic Americana. A killer multi-instrumentalist and mainstay on the Western North Carolina folk scene, Tanner is scheduled to […]
The Profiler
The Suspect: Rasputina This Brooklyn cello-driven band was founded by Melora Creager in the early ‘90s, and they’ve toured with Marilyn Manson, Porno for Pyros and Bob Mould. Their music has been described as dark cabaret meets steampunk; Creager writes highly original original songs, and the band delivers unique takes on covers such as “Barracuda” […]
Priced out
Having lived here my entire life, I know firsthand that independence, pride and hard work are the cornerstones of mountain culture. I learned by example to take care of my neighbor and to stick up for the little guy; I also learned that hard work pays off. For generations, that approach enabled people to carve […]
Biodiesel in U.S. & Asheville treading on thin ice
As the country watches the oil spill in the Gulf destroy wetlands and the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people, the biodiesel industry in the U.S. is on the brink of collapse. Biodiesel is the only commercially available advanced biofuel in the U.S. It dramatically reduces carbon pollution, lessens our dependence on foreign oil […]
Awareness, fairness and open eyes
Summer is prime bike-riding season, and with more people using bicycles to get around town, there will inevitably be more incidents involving motorists and cyclists. It’s my hope that education can reduce the number of such negative interactions. Bike protectors: New bike lanes have cropped up all over Asheville, giving cyclists like Zach Morrison a […]
When your yard sale is over, or you’ve found your lost pet, take down the sign
This letter is to bring awareness to some people about what I (and I’m sure others) consider an eyesore. People, when you have a yard sale, please, please, take down your signs when it’s over! [The signs] bother me in two ways: One, they should be considered littering; and two, they’re distracting and misleading to […]
A group of committed, creative people could make a new, thriving Asheville Film Festival
The Asheville Film Festival can indeed survive with private support ["A Moving Picture", July 7, Xpress], as the Singapore International Film Festival has for 23 years. It was started by a small group of dedicated individuals who recognized that government funding would be difficult to obtain and would inevitably constrain the festival's scope. It soon […]
Eight-year-old dude wants bike lanes
The oil spill is a terrible thing. Part of the reason it happened is because of cars. Our cars do not need as much oil as we use. The city council should put a lane for bikes. The sidewalk is a lane for people; highways [are] for cars. There is no lane for bikes and […]
Attention Asheville Disclaimer (and the APD): Kava bar does not spike drinks with LSD
My wife Keely and I are co-owners and managers of the new nakamal, Vanuatu Kava Bar. Although we very much appreciate the advice your publication has printed in this past week's Disclaimer, to spike our tea with LSD, we regretfully decline. Given the expected results of kava consumption (relaxation, euphoria) we have instead taken to […]
What the hell is an “ozone warning?”
You have a TV station that reports temperature and rain, but the biggie now is called "ozone," and you don't even mention it like you do [an] allergy [alert]. The EPA website has Green /good thru yellow, orange, red and purple air-quality indexes — for what? They do not tell you what they are measuring. […]
Fight for your rights, even if it’s a losing fight
We, as a country, like to hold big business accountable. Look at the research done by the U.S. firm Vision Critical: Nearly 50 percent of Americans hold extremely negative opinions of BP because of the Gulf disaster, with a multitude of lawsuits being filed [against the company]. Lawsuits are being filed against Apple for reception […]
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