Pocahaunted's new album, Make It Real, needs to be cranked the way one would a killer dub joint, say Keith Hudson's Nuh Skin Up Dub or Wackie's Natures Dub: Overdrive the bass, kill the treble. For those unfamiliar with the splendor that is mind-rattling bass, this sounds excessive, I'm sure. Basically, you want the low-end […]
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The Profiler
The Suspect: Jazz the Ripper The six-man group formed in Asheville in 2007; its members range in age from 14 to 18 years old. This is no ordinary boy band, however; their dual-sax set up gives them a unique funky sound that gets audiences dancing. This show celebrates the release of the band's second CD. […]
Local flour for local WNC bakeries: Who and how this is happening
Thank you Mountain Xpress for running the article "From the Ground Up" in your June 9 issue. As project coordinator of the N.C. Organic Bread Flour Project — an effort that has for the last year-and-a-half entailed numerous baker meetings, farmer meetings and lots of e-mail communications — it is exciting to see our efforts […]
Public-access TV: Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater
Pastor Jerry Young, chairman of URTV board of directors, has sent a letter to the [Asheville] City Manager's office announcing the pending shut-down of our public-access station. This financial collision was what I and others who were paying attention had become deeply concerned about since early 2008. Numerous attempts to alert both our elected officials […]
URTV: follow the money and run it like a business
Your article on the financial condition at URTV was interesting ["Broke," June 9]. Having operated a profitable production company and served on the board of a community-access channel, I continue to be amazed at how complicated URTV has made its financial picture. The financial operation of a station the size of URTV is fairly straightforward. […]
Downtown’s berry-munching bear: Smart!
After reading about the trail the bear had taken downtown ["A Different Kind of Tourist," June 2 Xpress], it amused me how smart the creature was not only in finding his way down and back, but also in his health-conscious mindset in selecting berries to curb his appetite. — Elaine Kabat Asheville
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Volunteers needed in the Smokies!
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park needs volunteers to help staff a new visitor-contact station at Clingmans Dome when it opens on Saturday, June 19. According to one volunteer, the training is great, the atmosphere is supportive, and yes, you get to wear a uniform. “It’s a blast!” she says.
Elitist Bastards: Of Marmaduke And The Gorgon
his week, Asheville’s most elite of film reviewers: discuss Marmaduke, Splice, The Killers, Get Him to the Greek and Casino Jack and the United States of Money; exchange thoughts on the Asheville Film Society screening of Woody Allen’s Manhattan; delight in the dated effects of the Hammer horror flick The Gorgon; consider a reader question about directors whose recent work have earned them a fresh look; and consider soon-to-be-released films The A-Team, The Karate Kid and The Secret In Their Eyes.
Making the A list
From "Beer City USA" to the "Best Place to Retire," Asheville keeps racking up the ratings. Over the last decade, national media outlets have been shining a bright light on our city, and the consensus is clear: Asheville rules. Dogfriendly.com says Asheville is a top place to bring the pups. Photos by Jonathan Welch We've […]
Local brewer joins effort to protect important mountain peaks
What's Highland Brewing Company's new brew — Cattail Peak Wheat — got to do the world's smallest tarantula? The latter is the spruce-fir moss spider, lives at the mountaintop that bears the beer's name, and the company is partnering with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, both of which […]
Mystery outside the machine
If the collapse of the traditional music industry teaches us anything, it's that those artists who've operated outside its gilded palaces have had the right idea all along. Future of tradition: Roots music may form the core of Sin Ropas' musical alchemy, but this is Delta blues as seen through the lens of Luis Buñuel, […]
Artillery
Since the '70s, there's been a symbiotic relationship between skateboarders and the visual art world. The do-it-yourself ethos of the skateboarding subculture has influenced many counter cultural artists, such as Barry McGee and Shepard Fairey, who have gone on to gain popularity in the mainstream art world. Likewise, lots of notable artists — Jim Evans […]
Ending racism
Like most Americans, Asheville residents are still confused about race, with unhealed wounds and much embarrassment. But on April 30, 75 local groups addressed the issue head on by taking part in the YWCA of Asheville's Stand Against Racism. I was particularly impressed with the conversation that took place at MAHEC, where UNCA political-science professor […]
Who’s responsible for the Gulf oil? We are.
Who is responsible for the oil spill in the Gulf? BP? Halliburton? Bush? Obama? I brush my teeth with a plastic toothbrush. I scoop my peanut butter from a plastic jar. When bothered by our dependence on oil, I could have stood up, spoken out, written a letter to my congressperson or participated in a […]
How H.K. Edgerton spent Memorial Day
On Saturday morning, May 29, I would don the uniform of the Southern soldier and station myself at the corner of Main Street in the beautiful city of Black Mountain, North Carolina. I had been there for an hour or so basking in the love of those who passed by waving, blowing their car horns, […]
The Dirt: Peals of color
I love Heucheras (aka coral-bells, though they're really only part of an expansive family): their name, their many-colored cousins, their place in the garden (more shade than not, at least in the Southeast), their delicate flowers that float above the mounded foliage, their season-long endurance, and the fact that deer steer clear of them. I'm […]
Health care needs to serve the poor and disabled
"We don't take disabled people." That's what my wife was told when she called [a local medical center] to see a doctor. And that, in a word, is discrimination. But it's not just [that facility]. Every doctor in town has turned her away because she's on Medicare and under 65. She's disabled, and because of […]
Some good reasons to prohibit industrial ridge-top windmills
Dave Erb's May 26 guest commentary ["Wind Power or Hot Air?"] laid out some good reasons to prohibit industrial ridge-top windmills that will enrich a few while forever stealing our heritage of beautiful unspoiled vistas. Here are a few more reasons: 1) The enormous sums of money needed for windmills could be better spent on […]
Some small businesses, especially young ones, simply cannot offer living wages
The "Working Should Keep You Out of Poverty" response by Hatz of Americorps VISTA in the May 19 Xpress [letters to the editor] is a wonderful ideal and one every small business should strive [to provide] for their employees. The reality is many small businesses, especially if in their formative years, are not in a […]
We need most to deal with day-to-day crimes, not sensational ones
Symbolic acts are punished symbolically. The "Asheville 11" (nine of whom aren't from Asheville) were charged with rioting and damaging property to the extent of $18,000, and somehow they ended up with 112 misdemeanor charges, 33 felonies, and $65,000 bonds each. [Recently] a man with multiple prior convictions was arrested with 27 charges, including larceny, […]