When you live with trees, it’s hard to miss the seasons. As the acorns clatter down the roof, the beech leaves gather at the front door, and the dogwood berries brighten, it’s easy to see that fall has arrived. Many rituals mark the fall season: carving pumpkins, making apple butter and pressing cider. But fall […]
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Step Into Liquid
It’s ironic that the best film of the summer should come to Asheville when the leaves are starting to change. Step Into Liquid innocently claims to be a documentary on surfing, sort of Everything You Wanted to Know About Today’s Surfing in Less Than Ninety Minutes. In truth, Liquid is a spiritual experience that’s only […]
Harvest time for local wines
“The wine is made in the grapes.” — Lee Griffin, Rockhouse Vineyards At least a dozen cars and trucks of various vintages are parked on the grassy edge of a country road in Polk County. Several more are strung along the dirt tractor row that crests a knoll covered with perfectly strung vines. It’s quiet […]
The big ride
This August marks Vasiliy Lebed‘s second anniversary as a driver for the Asheville Transit System. Lebed is well-qualified for his work: After driving a tank truck in his native Ukraine, he emigrated with his family to Seattle. There he had a tractor-trailer route, but not on the interstate — it was round and round, in […]
Letters to the editor
Doc Chey’s speaks! The last week has been a trying time here in Asheville, for all of us. The events that have transpired have been relayed to our guests, the general public and the family of Doc Chey’s through the media. The quality of life and the sense of community is what makes Asheville a […]
Asheville City Council
“We want something that’s less than state code, but better than nothing at all.” — Building Safety Director Terry Summey Irony, it seems, was the order of the day. Asheville City Council members Holly Jones and Carl Mumpower traded sarcastic barbs. Building Safety Director Terry Summey assured Council, “We want something that’s less than state […]
Letters to the editor
Thank you to a generous local business I’m writing this letter to let our community know that there are some people and businesses here in Asheville that truly care and want to see and help women overcome some very serious problems that we are faced with in today’s society — such as drug and alcohol […]
There’s more in the forest than trees
What if the brain decided it was the most important organ of the body and began to mine the liver? Rain-forest activist John Seed poses that parable in order to question modern humans’ relationship with nature. “We think we are separate and that we can exploit nature as just a resource,” Seed explains. “But in […]
Real magnolias
A “good ol’ girl” is distinctly Southern, of course. What she’s not is the fragile-yet-manipulative Southern belle, the bosomy Hee-Haw bimbo with the unintelligible drawl, or the peroxide-blonde party girl in a souped-up Trans Am … or, for that matter, any of the other tiresome stereotypes that still plague Southern women today. “A Good Ol’ […]
Teen spirit, interrupted
It’s taken Alan Licht nearly 15 years to admit to digging a few Thompson Twins songs. Which makes him, I guess, a better man than I. Because my unkind ass still loathes most of those radio-ready Faux Wave bands of the ’80s, sporting their heinous haircuts sculpted into, I dunno, waterfalls, avalanches, over-groomed Pomeranians, something. […]
Berklee blues
When Susan Tedeschi graduated from high school in 1988 in blues-unlikely Norwell, Mass., she debated becoming a marine biologist. Instead, she immersed herself in studies at Boston’s pedigreed Berklee College of Music. Fifteen years later, and Tedeschi has shared stages with both Willie Nelson and Bonnie Raitt, and has garnered two Grammy nominations, including Best […]
Random acts
Of note In synch with stardom: This fall, ET’s Bar and Grill in Arden will host a local karaoke competition from which winners will travel to regionals and (if their skills impress) on to the national competition. Then it’s overseas to the Karaoke World Championship in Finland. Yes, Finland. Those interested should attend the 8 […]
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Raising soil
“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” — Mohandas Gandhi For me, the most fulfilling part of organic gardening is creating soil that can produce fruitful harvests. Although I prefer tending to digging, gardening keeps me in touch with my physical dependence on soil as the […]
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Fall: My short list
Still at it? Or if not, can I cajole you back into the garden? To be honest, if I didn’t have commitments to my CSA members and the Wednesday-night Downtown Farmers Market, I might have given in and bailed (pun not intended — or even noticed till the 10th reread!) myself this year. So if […]
Gentlemen, start your memories
Thomas Wolfe once wrote a book about his hometown — making fun of a lot of people and telling some tall tales in a language resembling English, thereby pleasing a bunch of Yankee literary types while pissing off the locals to the point that they ran him out of town. But time heals all wounds, […]
The big ride
This August marks Vasiliy Lebed‘s second anniversary as a driver for the Asheville Transit System. Lebed is well-qualified for his work: After driving a tank truck in his native Ukraine, he emigrated with his family to Seattle. There he had a tractor-trailer route, but not on the interstate — it was round and round, in […]
The option play
Only three of the 22 residents who spoke at the hearing supported the measure. It wasn’t even close. Meeting in the Council chamber immediately after the Sept. 16 work session, the Asheville City Council voted 6-1 to approve an option agreement with the Grove Park Inn governing the potential sale of publicly owned land in […]
Buzzworm news briefs
Spotlight: minority entrepreneurs Before you can move a mountain, you first need a dose of inspiration. Inspiring minority business owners — and future entrepreneurs — is one of the goals of Minority Enterprise Development Week, a national celebration that’s now in its 21st year locally. The local MED Week also seeks to highlight the vital […]
Letters to the editor
In praise of the men and women in blue Like many, one of the highlights of my week is snatching spare moments with the Mountain Xpress. Today I caught David Lynch’s commentary “Who’s Watching the Police” [Sept. 17]. I appreciated his interest, clarity and succinct communication style. I had a little harder time with the […]