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Envy

Reviewed by Webmaster on May 5, 2004May 5, 2004

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The only reason to see this movie is because Christopher Walken (Catch Me If You Can, for which he should have won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar) is in it, and any time you get to see this brilliant, quirky, give-me-one-reason-I-shouldn’t-go-postal-right-now! actor do his thing is time well spent. Alas, that means you might have […]

Hail to the chief

Posted on April 28, 2004April 28, 2004 by Stuart Gaines

“It would be much simpler to go through a normal recruiting process for a department director that wouldn’t necessarily involve the public.” — Asheville City Manager Jim Westbrook, who will pick the new police chief. Asheville residents had their first and last chance to question the two finalists vying to become the city’s new police […]

Letters to the editor

Posted on April 28, 2004April 28, 2004 by Xpress readers

Upmarket or down home? Mixed-income neighborhoods can strive to be safe and clean, not gentrified. Having read Brian Sarzynski’s article “Up and coming: What price downtown Asheville?” [April 14, 2004], I’d have to agree that what most people perceive as gentrification poses a very real concern to residents of downtown neighborhoods. I’m less than thrilled […]

Glory, glory

Posted on April 28, 2004April 28, 2004 by Frank Rabey

Harry Leak’s first attempt to join The Gospel Jubilators didn’t go as planned. Not only did the a cappella group’s old codgers turn him down, but they then insisted he come listen to them practice. And lo, Leak went to the house where harmony reigned. And the rest is all amen. To be a bit […]

The bombing of Mars, and other cautionary tales

Posted on April 28, 2004April 28, 2004 by Connie Bostic

The making of art can be as much an exploration of self as it is a demonstration of skill. For All Desperate and Golden at the River District’s Wedge Gallery, curator Ryan Ford has assembled a team of seven, including himself. All are 20-somethings — some just barely so. In promoting the exhibit, Ford references […]

Cartoons

Posted on April 28, 2004April 28, 2004 by Webmaster

Ground-covering plants

Posted on April 28, 2004April 28, 2004 by Alison Arnold

Plants that creep, crawl and spread over the earth like a warm quilt are called ground cover. They are the fine linens of the landscape. Insulating in winter and sealing in the earth’s cool moisture in summer, these living blankets have an important place in the garden. Underplanting with bulbs and spring ephemerals brings ground […]

Oh, what a night

Posted on April 21, 2004April 21, 2004 by Pete Zamplas

The quintessential Friday-through-Sunday music festival traditionally peaks the second night — but organizers at the eighth edition of Flat Rock Music Festival apparently see no reason to wait that long. Sure, bluegrass’ premier elder statesman, Dr. Ralph Stanley, has respectfully been given the headlining Saturday-night slot. But the opening-night show — Friday, April 23 — […]

From Wagner to Waits

Posted on April 21, 2004April 21, 2004 by Connie Bostic

Josef Albers, teaching at Black Mountain College, emphasized to his students that to see a thing well enough to draw it they must be “fully awake.” Three current, local drawing exhibits are likely to open viewers‘ eyes, as well — to three vastly different approaches in craft and concept. Gregory Masurovsky, a student of Albers […]

Nothing too clean

Posted on April 21, 2004April 21, 2004 by Marsha Barber

Blue-eyed soul man Martin Sexton’s astounding multi-octave voice has left critics fawning since he busted out of busking the streets and subway stations of Boston, where he honed his admittedly impressive chops. Acoustic Guitar raved, “[Sexton] is a master of dynamics, reducing a room to silence with his blustering baritone, then teasing that silence with […]

Cartoons

Posted on April 21, 2004April 21, 2004 by Webmaster

Mining for carrots

Posted on April 21, 2004April 21, 2004 by Victoria Maddux

It’s hard to believe that carrots are roots. How can anything that burrows 6 to 8 inches down in the dark earth be so bright, so filled with sunlight? Ivy Rose, my gardener granddaughter, says digging up carrots is like mining for gold. I heartily agree. Organically grown carrots are an excellent investment for a […]

Asheville City Council

Posted on April 21, 2004April 21, 2004 by Brian Sarzynski

“The time limit applicable to public hearings or public comment periods on any agenda item shall be one hour … exclusive of staff presentations and any structured Council debate.” — from a newly adopted amendment to City Council rules Attendance was sparse at the April 13 formal session of the Asheville City Council — surprising […]

Letters to the editor

Posted on April 21, 2004April 21, 2004 by Xpress readers

Understanding rape Sexual violence is a complex and traumatic experience. Victims of sexual violence often experience a plethora of symptoms and emotions. In order to remotely understand the impact of sexual-violence victimization, it is crucial to understand the dynamics and trauma of this form of violence. It is imperative that we inform society that sexual […]

The Apollo Alliance

Posted on April 21, 2004April 6, 2014 by Linda Pannullo

I embrace my son (is this the last time?) as he embarks on a new high-risk assignment. It’s 2012, and the draft has been in effect for the past five years. But this time, it’s a domestic deployment. Two years of drought and devastating tornados have decimated the grain harvest; there is no surplus. Mobs […]

Fables of the reconstruction

Posted on April 20, 2004April 20, 2004 by Jason Vest

As the situation in Iraq grows ever more tenuous, the Bush administration continues to present ominous news with matter-of-fact optimism. According to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Iraqi uprisings in a half-dozen cities, accompanied by the deaths of more than 90 soldiers in the month of April alone, is something to be viewed in the […]

Up and coming

Posted on April 14, 2004April 14, 2004 by Brian Sarzynski

“What’s taking place at Twenty One Battery Park is great, but … some people can’t afford to continue to own property downtown.” — real-estate appraiser Mac Swicegood The long-abandoned former department-store building is gone, its utilitarian bulk having succumbed to the business end of a wrecking ball. In its place, a massive crane looms over […]

Letters to the editor

Posted on April 14, 2004April 14, 2004 by Xpress readers

A weed to really cluck about Corinna Wood, bless your heart — and thank goodness for chickweed. I grew up in the country, and as a boy raised seven pet ducks who regarded chickweed as the gourmet of all gourmet meals. Your readers of the garden column are now all lucky ducks thanks to your […]

Touching the Void

Reviewed by Webmaster on April 14, 2004April 14, 2004

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This is the scariest movie I’ve ever seen. There’s a reason I don’t climb mountains: They terrify me. Oh, sure, they’re picturesque in the distance — all that majesty and closer to heaven stuff. Then you get up close and personal with those pretty peaks, and they become downright lethal. The higher up you go, […]

Whole Ten Yards

Reviewed by Webmaster on April 14, 2004April 14, 2004

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It’s been a year since all the quirky killers and the neurotic dentist from The Whole Nine Yards plugged holes in a bunch of bad guys and started new lives. The film, released in 2000, was pretty funny, in a noir Coen brothers kind of way, using its Montreal location to add panache to otherwise-ordinary […]

The thrill is … hiding

Posted on April 14, 2004April 14, 2004 by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

“You really don’t want to hear me sing it a cappella,” suggests B.B. King. He’s wrong, of course — who wouldn’t relish the chance to hear one of the last great bluesmen croon just to them over the phone? “Here’s the way it went,” King finally concedes, before launching into some laid-back singing: “Pepticon sure […]

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