The Asheville Tourists, a minor-league team in the South Atlantic League, has been sold to the DeWine family of Ohio; son Brian DeWine is moving to town with his young family.
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Managers to Asheville City Council: City’s at ‘financial crossroads’
Asheville City Council began its annual planning process Friday afternoon with a stark assessment from the city’s top management: The recession has exposed “structural weaknesses in the city’s financial foundation” that will require a long-term City Council strategy to repair.
Helping Haiti heal: Asheville’s ongoing response
Asheville-based Mission Manna has a team working in Haiti this week and is providing updates via Twitter, which are viewable in this post.
Top 100 movies of the decade
I’m sure this collaborative list from Justin Souther and myself (and it really is a collaboration—we’ve been batting these choices back and forth for weeks) is going to have its fair share of detractors—and that’s fine. I can already make a pretty good guess at the outrage over the omission of certain titles, and what […]
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Wild Ones
Those Darlins play kick-ass rock and roll. Period. With Link Wray-style guitar riffs, three-piece harmonies delivered with a Loretta Lynn "Fist City" swagger, and songs full of booze, family, sex and food, Those Darlins are plowing a row through rock 'n' roll history. Girls just wanna have fun: Those Darlins share a common last name, […]
Artillery
For those of you who just can't shake that scene from Ghost — the one where Patrick Swayze's apparition cozies up to Demi Moore while she works at her potter's wheel — Odyssey Center for Ceramic Arts (in Asheville's River Arts District) is your kind of place. The studio is offering clay "date nights" every […]
Junker’s Blues
When we last left the junker, he'd just visited the condominium of a recently widowed woman. She was divesting the trappings of her culturally active life with her husband (they = the Bohemians of said fable), including hundreds of vinyl records. Most were no longer in vogue, but the junker set aside a number of […]
Junker’s Blues
In the last installment of Junker's Blues, a handshake deal for a large collection of records goes bad when the junker receives a mysterious anonymous phone call. He's told there was a misunderstanding and that the LPs had never been for sale in the first place. This leads the junker, prone to fanciful narrative flights […]
Outdoors: Catawba Falls
I heard about Catawba Falls as soon as I started hiking in Western North Carolina — how it was so beautiful, but it was such a shame you couldn't hike there anymore. It didn't take me long, though, to realize that the access trail was privately owned, and people shouldn't have been going there in […]
Waking up to racial profiling
Regarding your Dec. 23 cover story, "The Right Profile": As a woman, I have long been frustrated at what ultimately amounts to a lack of freedom for women in our "free" country. It is difficult for me to move about alone and feel completely safe. I am amazed at those women who brave a hike […]
A safe cyclist follows vehicle rules
As someone who has spent 37 years commuting on a bicycle (ever since I rode 15 miles round-trip [each day of] my senior year of high school), I have to respond to Christopher Craig's recent uninformed, condescending and self-indulgent comments about cars sharing the road with bicyclists [Commentary, "Finding Equlibrium," Dec. 9]. Folks like Mr. […]
Thanks to an anonymous snow angel
During the recent snowstorm, my friend and I finally ventured out of the apartment to get some air, see the snow, and find out how everyone around town was fairing. Snowball fights, snow sculptures, warm food and slushy puddles abounded. After a nightcap with some newfound friends, I walked back to my place. Somewhere along […]
YWCA: Take a stand against racism with us in April
The Dec. 23 Xpress cover story, "The Right Profile," drew attention to important racial-justice issues in our community. Because the YWCA stands for the right of individuals to be treated with dignity and respect, we believe that the key to effecting real change is to engage individuals and whole communities in a conversation about these […]
Christians: Open your ears to the wailing wall
I sometimes wonder where all the Christians have gone in this country. … They seem to have all but disappeared until some election roles around the corner and then they creep out from behind the rocks and ledges of their counter-counter barracks. I am not talking about all Christians, mind you. Some are not hiding […]
Remember King’s lesson when weighing our national character
Thanks for printing the letter from Rachel Bliss, "Counting the Cost of the Afghan War in Asheville Terms." We need more community dialogue on this issue. While Rachel described the costs in dollars and lives, there are other costs that are not as quantifiable, but just as real. One of these costs is the degradation […]
Ten best movies of 2009 and a few others
I think it’s fair to say that 2009 was an unusual film year—if only because my number-one film has been more or less constant since June, while everything else has been in flux. On the other hand, I can’t think of a year where my 10 best list altered so much between voting for the […]
Monkey tail
Cyclists, take care; motorists, even more so
I drive. I bike. I walk. Bicycles are legally allowed on 99 percent of sidewalks. Pedestrians can cross streets at crosswalks against the light. Does this mean that a bike can act as a pedestrian and cross a street against a light, especially if there is no oncoming traffic? Legally, if the person is walking […]
What inspired her about what inspired Tiger Woods
Regarding your recent Xpress story about Tiger Woods and The Cliffs at High Carolina: I made this etching because, as we would drive by the "See what inspired me" billboards, my husband said that instead of the rolling mountains behind the image of Woods, he saw instead mountaintop removal and destruction. — Diane Strazzer Asheville
A hat tip to secret Santas everywhere
"Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" — or, in my case, a secret Santa. On the morning of Sunday, Dec. 20, I tried to dig out my van (which was parallel parked on Page Avenue in downtown Asheville) from the foot-and-a-half of snow chunks pushed up by the snowplow. My only snow-removal tool was […]