• Lewis Buck has recently completed several long-term works: “Canvas Desert,” raw canvas on Masonite; “Echoes of the Pearl Street Rag,” a collage made of cloth used as chinking in a 100-year-old barn in Maine; and a very large painting titled, in part, “Eccentricities of the … Idiosyncratic Anthropomorphism in Llareggub.” • Noah Saterstrom, who’s […]
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The unbearable lightness of being
Before me stands a black-and-white photograph of hands. A pair of female hands rests upon a larger, rougher male hand. And nestled inside is another hand — pale, tiny, lifeless. “People think, ‘Oh, it’s so wonderful!’ when you tell them … that you work in Labor & Delivery. That’s the fun, happy place to be. […]
Eight Below
Sled dogs rule! In Eight Below, six huskies and two malamutes prove that penguins aren’t the only stars in Antarctica. This surprisingly impressive adventure tale from director Frank Marshall (Alive) escaped being Disneyfied, meaning that the animals are heroic, wondrous and believable, but not cute. “Restraint” is the operative word here — and considering how […]
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CD reviews The Greasy Beans , Busted (Double Ought): Four Stars • Genre(s): Bluegrass • You’ll like it if: You incorporate “high and lonesome” and “skin it back” into your everyday vernacular. • Defining song: “Truly True”—An updated version of a picker done wrong. Bluegrass is my friend by default. Throughout my life – via […]
The revolution will be scratched
Beck praised it. Technology and dancehall united over it. Now, DJ Rob Swift has transformed it into a sociopolitical weapon. “Two turntables and a microphone” are evolving from their infant years as dance-party entertainment into voices that condemn worldwide injustice. Their activist consultant is Rob Swift, a prodigious New York City DJ who rose to […]
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Letters to the editor
From mountains to Mammon As reported in this paper [Buzzworm: “Madison Developments,” Feb. 1], the Madison County Planning Board voted Jan. 24 to recommend the rezoning of several hundred acres in Laurel Valley, on three tracts owned by B & E Ventures, changing their designation from residential/agricultural to resort/residential and commercial/residential. Two hundred residents crammed […]
Go tell it on the mountain
The very same day that President Bush, in his State of the Union address, told us we are addicted to oil, North Carolina’s attorney general sued the Tennessee Valley Authority in U.S. District Court in Asheville, alleging that TVA is creating a “common-law public nuisance.” But there’s more to this tale than spin and political […]
Curious George
Curious George is one curiously mixed-bag movie. Visually, it’s a treat. It’s gorgeously illustrated in old-fashioned 2-D animation, faithful to the lovely drawings in the 1940s books on which the movie is based. If looks were the only critical consideration, I’d give George an A+. Curious George is a cute and inquisitive monkey (a chimpanzee, […]
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CD reviews Eliza Lynn, Frisky or Fair (Civility Records): Four Stars • Genre(s): Singer/songwriter with elements of jazz, old time and western swing. • You’ll like it if: You’re comfortable with metro jazz and rural Appalachia residing on the same album. • Defining song: “Slow Down” – Soulful to the point of tasting collards, this […]
Cartoons
Asheville City Council: All about water
In Asheville, fifth Tuesdays of the month are traditionally reserved for neighborhood gripe sessions. Instead, City Council earmarked Jan. 31 for a special water session.
Letters to the editor
Dog’s shooting raises questions Animal control in Asheville is enforced unequally. A friend of mine who lived on Cranford Road was bitten by a dog that had bitten two other neighbors. The dog was impounded for 10 days and returned to the owner with instructions to keep the dog inside the fence and put up […]
The Other Side of the Mountain
The best system in the world won’t work unless people actually use it. To wait for government to lead the way is to wait forever. Government has rarely been a great leader; we, the people, lead, and the government — sometimes, and often reluctantly — follows. This is certainly true when it comes to recycling. […]
Letters to the editor
Sculpture’s purpose should be honored The alarm arose in me when I drove by Asheville’s Energy Loop [sculpture] and saw the ugly orange netting around the sculpture. Dirck Cruser designed Energy Loop for Pack Square, and that is where it should stay. My hope, along with that of many other people in Asheville and visitors […]
You hand in your ticket and you go watch the geek
A recent article on so-called “novelty bands” [“Eccentric Like Me,” Nov. 30, 2005 Xpress] got me thinking (again) about music, art in general, and the holy fools who labor to make and to grok it. But while I was pleased to see a cover story about the emerging local music scene, I cringed at the […]
Annapolis
“Sir, no, sir!” That’s what you should shout if someone tries to convince you that Annapolis is a realistic portrait of the hallowed institution that trains Navy and Marine officers. Heck, it wasn’t even shot at Annapolis — it seems that after the Navy got hold of the script, they withdrew their cooperation and it […]
Drive-Thru America
“Medusa III,” by Molly B. Right. Anticipatory of spring, the various galleries at Blue Spiral 1 are alive with new works by a great spectrum of artists. There is real exploration going on in the work of James Daniel: It’s as if he’s decided that consummate skill as a draftsman just isn’t enough in the […]
Someday came
The vocal comparisons would inflate any musician’s head – Thom Yorke, Roy Orbison, Jeff Buckley, and even Bruce Springsteen. Lucky guy, huh? Lucky, yes. Guy, no. Industry critics are heaping praise on Brandi Carlile, a 23-year-old whose vocal swagger is on the verge of crashing into the glass ceiling of household-name rockers. A glance at […]
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Local News: Songwriters in the Round Singer/songwriters now get a chance to show off their craft away from the usual coffee-fueled venues. At 9 p.m. on Fridays, Asheville singer/songwriter/pianist Dave Turner will host “Songwriters in the Round” at the Root Bar in East Asheville. Each week, Turner will share a set with two guest songwriters. […]