Matthew Leachman and Caroline Posey at the 2006 Buddy Walk Affiliated with the National Down Syndrome Society, the Western North Carolina Down Syndrome Alliance is a volunteer organization made up of families, friends and supporters of persons with Down Syndrome, serving 17 WNC counties. A few of WNCDSA’s many services include: New Parent Packets for […]
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Judgment days
Paying their respects: Billy Graham speaks at the opening of his library in Charlotte earlier this year. Three former presidents — George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton — were there to speak of their admiration for him. Photo By Cecil Bothwell In the weeks after John F. Kennedy won one of the closest […]
Naked in Marshall
Something sinister is brewing in the picturesque mountain town of Marshall, and we’re not talking about the developers who seem inexorably headed its way. Ready to party, Marshall style: Sin Ropas may just be at the forefront of Marshall’s cultural revolution. No, this is about the dark and intoxicating concoction of twisted Appalachia and psychedelic […]
Sleeping giant
Jim Augins was thinking about his yarn. In the first week of September 2004, when The Weather Channel and local newscasts were making dire predictions about the possibility that Hurricane Frances might ride the spine of the Blue Ridge north, Augins took heed.
Marijuana mellow drama
Watching the lush paradise of Asheville being impermeably paved by apostate-hippie City Council members, I sometimes believe that our only chance is to spike the Western North Carolina coffee supply with pot. In my experience, marijuana accesses the right brain’s creative, appreciation and awareness centers. It could divert developers from trying to outrun restless-leg syndrome […]
Grow up or grow out
Asheville residents are apparently adding height to the list of divisive issues we can fight about. Certainly we all have a right to our opinion on the best way for this city to grow. But one way or another, it will grow. Where each of us now lives was once virgin forest. Most of us […]
Letter from the Editors
Dear readers: If Asheville ever reaches the point where it can’t laugh at itself, then living here is going to turn into a bad joke. That’s one reason Xpress puts a premium on good local cartoonists. We had one in Ethan Clark, who recently left Asheville for his former hometown of New Orleans. For the […]
A Peace Garden thank you
To the Community of Asheville: We would like to thank all of you who attended the Pisgah View Community Peace Garden’s fundraiser benefit at Rosetta’s Kitchen on Sunday, Sept. 16. We had no idea that so much of the Asheville community supported the work we are doing. The garden has really been a positive resource […]
Height-tax for The Ellington
The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners resolution to dedicate property-tax revenue for affordable housing as would be assessed for the proposed Ellington project over the next 10 years is prematurely ahead of City Council approval and an apparent strategic ploy to influence City Council’s vote to approve The Ellington, improperly tampering with the city’s quasi-judicial […]
Municipal matters
War and peace will not be decided in Washington or Baghdad. It will be decided on Richmond Hill, North Louisiana Avenue and in many similar places. It will be decided by the willingness of municipal governments to cooperate with military activities and then by the ability of municipal officials to use those records to run […]
The other drug option
I’m writing about the letter from Radix Y. Faruq [“Taking Crime Personally,” Sept. 12]. Unfortunately, the common-sense solution to Asheville’s crime problem lies in Washington, D.C.—not Asheville or any other city or town in the United States. Since the vast majority of all of our violent crime and property crime is caused by our drug-prohibition […]
Mediocrity does not serve well
Recently, just days after chunks of ice the size of Florida in the Arctic melted, President Bush hosted a gathering of world leaders to convince other nations that setting voluntary goals will be an adequate response to global warming. This mediocrity should not be mistaken as bold leadership by a president who’s been all but […]
Impeach with compassion
The recent letter by Dr. Robert D. Phillips [“We’re All Part of This Problem,” Sept. 26] had some interesting and no doubt accurate observations about the dysfunctions of the American family and the Bush family. Surely Mr. Bush’s flaws are ours as well, in varying degrees. And yes, we are all complicit in our society […]
This country has gone to the cats
Regarding the letter [“Learning the Ways of the Wild,” Sept. 26] disputing the numbers of songbirds killed by feral and free-ranging cats (indoor cats allowed free access to the outdoors) discussed in my letter [“Revisiting Those Cats and Snakes,” Sept. 12], I would agree with the writer to the extent that there is an absence […]
Living with the law
Since 9/11 and the birth of the PATRIOT Act, elected and appointed representatives ignore, overrule and challenge federal and local laws more than ever. The PATRIOT Act at the federal level has never sparked concern with me, (federal judges not included). The real worry is with local governments. Misinterpreting the PATRIOT Act to manipulate local […]
Chained to downtown?
Candidates and elected officials who would bar chain stores from Asheville are endangering the revitalization process downtown. Local retailers would benefit from the shoppers brought to downtown by chain advertising that [local stores] cannot afford. Every successful retail project in the country has a mix of local and chain merchants; the alternative is worse. We […]
Come and knock on their door
The Mule Skinner Grocery is a tiny hole-in-the-wall corner store, and at first, it’s an intimidating place. Three plastic lawn chairs are lined up out front, each holding someone with a story to tell and a 40-ounce beer in their hands. These are the people who you don’t read about in tourist brochures. It’s the […]
Signed, sealed, delivered
Marcel Duchamp, who horrified the establishment in the early 20th century by displaying a urinal as a work of art, said, “Since Courbet, it has been believed that painting is addressed to the retina. … I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.” He opened a door to new and […]
Maples shine in fall
All summer, the five huge old maples around my home create a cool, refreshing microclimate—inside and out. Beyond this shady haven looms the baking heat. One of these maples holds my daughter’s favorite childhood entertainment, a simple swing built by her dad. Trees like this beg to be climbed, to harbor forts, to serve as […]
Insect detente now!
Maybe there’s a deeper sociological significance of grasshoppers. The other day, an ambassador of this curious segment of the insect population caught my attention, making me keenly aware of how close we are to our multilegged terrestrial neighbors. As I was backing out of my designated space at the rental I inhabit off Merrimon, my […]