Asheville's population is multiplying like zombies in your favorite B movie, and I know it annoys a lot of locals and recent transplants alike. It is particularly harsh when dealing with increased traffic. I'd like to make a small suggestion — if it were implemented, it would relieve a lot of daily frustration for all […]
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Weekly Asheville Disclaimer Page: 08/12/09
• Stewart Coleman’s fake head
• Bob Barker
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YWCA after-school program
YWCA after-school program The Asheville City Schools Foundation is partnering with three after-school programs to provide trained, volunteer academic coaches to assist students academically, as well as provide a mentoring relationship. Volunteers will be matched with a student at one of the partnering sites: Delta House, Youthful Hand or YWCA. Each of these programs is […]
Keep government out of URTV
Keep government out of URTV Just a question here, folks. What in the world are the city of Asheville and Buncombe County doing authorizing funding for URTV in the first place? If URTV is funded by special charges on Charter Cable TV bills, it seems to me that 1) Charter would have more say about […]
The Dirt
When I was 25 years old, I lost a boyfriend but gained a lifelong passion. As Karel Capek writes in the essay "How a Man Becomes a Gardener," "From such beginnings the gardener yields more and more to this newly awakened passion, which is nourished by repeated success and spurred on by each new failure; […]
Bele Chere felt safer
Last year, I submitted a letter about the protesters in Pritchard Park during Bele Chere — about how I and many festival-goers felt unsafe due to the lack of control over the crowd. I was very pleased to see how the city handled things this year. I don't feel as if we should infringe on […]
Where Bele Chere missed the boat
I am a new resident to Asheville, and the 2009 Bele Chere was my first of many to come. To the organizers, I thank you for putting on a great festival with amazing musical performances. Although I thoroughly enjoyed this year's event, I was a little disappointed with a few aspects. I have come to […]
Hooray for Skinny Legs and All
I want to help spread the word about the young and amazing band Skinny Legs and All. I and many others who heard them perform on Sunday at the stage on Biltmore Avenue were awe struck with their incredible performance. These kids range in age from 14 to 19 but are as professional and well-practiced […]
Had it with Asheville Transit
For the seventh time since I have lived in Asheville, the Asheville Transit System has been unable to get me to a job, resulting in my being unemployed again. This time it was Bele Chere that did it. The first day of Bele Chere, buses seemed to be mysteriously cancelled, with no reason given. None […]
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Mumpower
Weekly Asheville Disclaimer Page: 08/05/09
• Civil servants launch summertime offensive
• Asheville Alibi
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Get thee to the Hazel Robinson amphitheatre
Never been to a Montford Park Players production? Here’s a primer, plus a review of the excellent Taming of the Shrew.
Here comes the chain again
There's something afoot at the corner of Haywood and College streets, and it's not just the massive renovation under way at the former CVS pharmacy site. After all, there are similar projects scattered around downtown Asheville. A new look: The former CVS location at the corner of Haywood and College streets (above) will get an […]
Junker’s Blues
When you're a junker, it's hard to avoid magical thinking. Success is so dependent on serendipity you start to believe it's not just random. It was, for instance, easy to feel things were "meant to be" when I found, via that magical portal of Facebook, that my friend Rabuck was heading to the Biltmore Square […]
Artillery
Flood Gallery is one of the only galleries in Asheville exhibiting work by out-of-town contemporary conceptual artists. Given its out-of-the-way location, the shows are all too often under attended, but the gallery is at least attempting to introduce new aesthetics and ideas to the artistic discourse of Asheville. "Skink," by Mike Calway-Fagen, was at one […]
Unwise cut at UNCA
The Environmental Quality Institute at UNCA is being eliminated because it "does not directly relate to the university's core mission." [according to Chancellor Anne Ponder, quoted in a recent press release] UNCA's core mission is to "Serve as the Standard of Excellence in Public Liberal Arts Undergraduate Education." Does eliminating an on-campus undergraduate research facility […]
Outdoors: The Practical Fly
About five years ago, I was doing a renovation job at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. During the four months I was there, a passionate debate was playing out in the local paper via articles, editorials and letters to the editor. Let it go: On a guided tour with Altamont Anglers, Tom Baynes caught this […]
Keep veg-diet stats in context
Stewart David's commentary ["Greenwashed," July 1 Xpress] may have been factually correct, but the conclusions of the study he cited, "Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States," were much more nuanced and balanced than Mr. David's out-of-context quotes implied. Here is an example: David: "… eating a vegetarian diet […]
Why you should vote for Shad Marsh
Back when I was poor and lived in Asheville, I'd go to Shad Marsh's house for a few beers now and then. You know what would end up happening half the time? Hell, if he wouldn't end up making dinner for me and his lovely wife, Kristen, he'd let me stay over so as not […]
NC clothesline-defense bill protects environment and property rights
I strongly support NC HB1353, the clothesline-defense bill, as absolutely essential for both property rights and the environment — in the defense against authoritarian, elitist and polluting local governments. This bill is hung up in the N.C. Senate Commerce Committee. If passed, it will prevent city, town or county governments from banning clotheslines (and infringing […]