When Masaki Batoh gave his psychedelic music collective the name “Ghost,” he couldn’t have come up with a more appropriate moniker if he’d taken the 25 years of the group’s existance to consider the matter. Few bands manage to walk in so many worlds and carry along so many musical sensibilities. The traditional and the […]
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Ursula
Bill Thompson, owner of Satellite Gallery, deserves praise for regularly promoting solo art exhibitions in his gallery space on Broadway. Displaying one artist’s work at a time can be financially risky; typically in Asheville it’s only the noncommercial or nonprofit venues that do so. Graffiti artist Ishmael painted a gorilla directly onto the wall at […]
Junker’s Blues
When I was growing up, while other kids decided to be doctors, firemen or sports stars, I chose a different career path. At three years old, I’d tell any grownup who would listen that I was going to be a paleontologist. I was going to spend my life digging up dinosaur bones. I guess I […]
Outdoors: Women on the wall
Ten minutes into my first climb, my left hamstrings are singing and my right buttock’s cramping, but I’m not about to stop: My motto is, “I can’t leave here tonight until I clean that line.” Enter the cave: Participants at ClimbMax’s women-only night look on as Courtney Johnson navigates the cave like Spider-Woman. Photo by […]
Power from a sacred trust
With climate change hovering over us like a sword of Damocles, how we produce electricity has become critical. Burning fossil fuels is the most damaging way to get our power, since that produces CO2. And the power we use in North Carolina comes chiefly from coal, most of which comes from dynamiting mountaintops in neighboring […]
Take care of Rumbling Bald’s rareties
We appreciate Julie Tracey’s article on climbing in Hickory Nut Gorge [“Moving on Up,” Outdoors, April 22] and are generally supportive of responsible climbing. A clarification is appropriate, however, about Rumbling Bald. The majority of Rumbling Bald is private property. The Nature Conservancy purchased it in 2001, first and foremost because it is a nationally […]
The Dirt: Perennially divided
My recent article on redoing my cottage garden (“The Aging Ageless Jardin,” March 25 Xpress), prompted lots of phone calls, e-mails and texts (sorry—I don’t answer those) all delivering the same message: Please don’t destroy your cottage garden! But, they went on, if you’re so heartless as to continue with your plan, well, what are […]
Which state was that again?
On Friday, April 24, I was at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Governors’ Proclamation ceremony, representing the Carolina Mountain Club—but Gov. Bev Perdue, my governor, was not there. It was a bad call and mistake on her part. This park is not just an outdoor destination, but also an economic engine for our state. […]
This good deed goes noticed
I’m writing about a man who was walking along Biltmore Avenue by the Biltmore Fitness Center at around 3:45 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22. I was on a treadmill by the window when he came by and stopped to pick up some trash along the street. I watched as he then crossed Biltmore Avenue, deposited […]
Free speech can be tolerant
I was talking to a friend about my video project “My Marshall,” which was about to air on URTV, and how excited I was. Even though the piece was uninspiring and probably boring, that was unimportant. What was important was the chance to communicate to my friends and strangers a little of what I see […]
If at first you don’t secede
The governor of Texas recently spoke approvingly of the possibility of seceding. Frankly, my dears (and admittedly, I may be showing my Yankee roots here), if I were President Obama, and the governor clearly asserted secession or independence, I would take just the opposite tack of Republican Lincoln—if for no other reason than the element […]
Reducing flu risk can start with diet
On April 30, the World Health Organization *ratcheted up the threat alert for the swine flu epidemic to Phase 5 (out of 6). Its H1N1-type virus is nearly identical to that of the Spanish flu, which killed more than 50 million people in 1918-19. Today’s factory farms constantly expose sick, crowded, highly stressed animals to […]
Parallels
Parallel lines never cross, though they may run close together without touching. But what I truly love are the meeting points where the lines find each other: the intricate play of tree branches; the light woven in and through the fibers of a tapestry or shimmering in water. Playful circles overlap, and suddenly an integrated […]
Weekly Asheville Disclaimer Page: 05/06/09
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SoundTrack
A crowd of about 40 have come out to BoBo Gallery on this windy April evening. It is the usual eclectic scene one expects at this art gallery of a meeting place at the top of Lexington Ave. Some sip wine, others swill beer, while I snag a pint of water and duck into the […]
A family affair
[Editor’s note: The historic gathering of the Oklahoma-based Cherokee Nation and Western North Carolina’s Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians April 16 to 18 unleashed a cascading array of images, memories and deep emotions. The following text and photos aim to convey something of the essence of the event.] Click here to view slideshow Music by […]
National Parkinson’s Awareness Month
April is National Parkinson’s Awareness Month Parkinson’s disease—a central nervous system disorder—currently affects more than 1.5 million people in the U.S. Sixty thousand Americans are diagnosed every year. There is no cure. The major symptoms include tremors, rigidity, an inability to balance and slowness of motion. Medication can mask the symptoms but can’t control the […]
Graffiti is in the eye of the beholder
Doesn’t it seem like we are striving for excellence in our artistic community? What is being traded in for depth of substance? I have traveled all over this country and seen some of the best graffiti. But with a lot of the “art” communities in this town, graffiti turns into the same ol’-same ol’ clique […]
Outdoors: The Practical Fly
I was in seventh grade when I caught my first trout on a fly, using a royal coachman. Lee Wulff, the warrior god of modern fly-fishing, improved on this classic pattern, substituting hair for wings and tail (to make it more buoyant, durable and easier to see in rough water) and dubbing it the royal […]
Will MHO follow its mission?
Mountain Housing Opportunities has proposed building a three-story, 64-unit apartment complex in the middle of a single-family neighborhood in small-town Waynesville. While they have met the letter of Waynesville zoning law, they are not meeting the spirit or intent of their own mission statement, which is to “to build and improve homes, neighborhoods, communities … […]
Going green, greener, greenest
Are Asheville folks really interested in going green? In celebration of Earth Day, I attended the Leadership Asheville Forum’s “Going GREEN at Home and at Work” presentation. I listened attentively to the three male speakers and the questions that followed. One woman asked what could be done for existing structures to make them more environmentally […]