For the third year, Dobra Tea’s Black Mountain location will partner with local artisans and musicians to raise money for the Dr. John Wilson Community Garden.
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Carolina Mountain Cheese Fest Announces sMacDown & Other Events
PRESS RELEASE: Carolina Mountain Cheese Fest Announces sMacDown & Other Events Contact: Rachel English Brown, Media Coordinator Email: rerin.english@gmail.com Phone: 828-442-8659 Web: www.wnccheesetrail.org www.mountaincheesefest.com Invited chefs from Asheville area restaurants will compete for the title of sMacDown champion during Carolina Mountain Cheese Fest on April 24, 2016 from 12 – 4 PM at Highland Brewing […]
Asheville Art Museum Partners with the Folk Art Center and the Southern Highland Craft Guild
PRESS RELEASE: Saturday, April 23, 10:00 a.m.—12:00 p.m. In partnership with the Folk Art Center and the Southern Highland Craft Guild, the Asheville Art Museum offers an opportunity for community members to learn more about the history of the Guild as well as current work through a behind-the-scenes tour of the Folk Art […]
This Week at the Altamont Theatre
PRESS RELEASE: ALTAMONT THEATRE We have a very busy week ahead! It all begins this Tuesday with our annual event, The Passion Show, brought to us by our friends at Earth Path Education, with a live performance from Luna Ray and her band. The music continues on Wednesday evening with not one but two shows! […]
ACT stages The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Man Who Came to Dinner, a chaotic comedy about the worst house guest in the history of house guests, in onstage at Asheville Community Theatre through Sunday, April 24.
Celebrate the Resilience of Rwanda at the White Horse Black Mountain
PRESS RELEASE: Celebrate Rwandan Resilience Thursday, April 21 – 6-9:30 p.m.- Celebrate the Resilience of Rwanda. Benefit with music, food, entertainment. $25 adults/$10 children/ under 5 free FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The small central African nation of Rwanda is both a cautionary tale and a hopeful example. In the early 1990s it was the scene of […]
Wednesday Night Waltzes at the White Horse Black Mountain
PRESS RELEASE: Waltz Into Spring Wednesday, April 20 – 7 p.m.- Wednesday Night Waltzes. Live music. $8 Contra dancing is a big deal in and around Asheville, and every gathering has its own personality and culture. One thing they share, though, is that they traditionally end with a waltz. As a couples dance the waltz […]
And this year’s Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize goes to … Alli Marshall
Mountain Xpress is pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize is our very own Arts & Entertainment editor and writer, Alli Marshall. Her story, “Catching Out,” was selected by author and prize judge, Ron Rash. With over 200 stories submitted, this year’s contest also marks the highest number of […]
Asheville Art Talk: Julia Fosson of Julia Fosson Encaustic Art & Paintings
Encaustic painter Julia Fosson, whose workshop is located in the Hatchery Studios in the River Arts Districts, spent years unaware of the art form. It is a multifaceted, multilayered medium that involves beeswax, blow torches, heating guns and hot plates, along with dammar — a type of tree sap in which the beeswax is cooked.
Democracy North Carolina volunteers safeguard voters’ rights
Over 700 Democracy North Carolina volunteers fanned out across the state on March 15, primary election day. They were helping ensure that no one was illegally turned away from the polls as a result of North Carolina’s 2013 voter ID law, which took effect this year.
Asheville Art Talk: Pamella O’Connor of Hanji Home
There is a magical and surreal quality to the lamps Pamella O’Connor creates at Hanji Home, her shop and business, located at the Wedge Studios in the River Arts District.
Asheville Art Talk: Brenna McBroom of Brenna Dee Ceramics
Brenna McBroom works in a very specific and specialized form of ceramics — the crystalline glazing process. It’s one that demands a delicate balance between glaze composition, firing schedule, glaze thickness, pot shape and pedestal control.
Asheville Art Talk: Christie Calaycay of Calaycay Design
Many of Christie Calaycay’s designs incorporate patterns and structures inspired by the natural world. Her more recent projects — like her Balangay inspired necklaces and earrings — aim to explore cultures.
Salman Rushdie on literature and politics in the modern world
The job of the modern writer, Rushdie concluded in his talk, is to try and open up the universe to show people all of its possibilities, and to push boundaries, like the writers of old.
Asheville Art Talk: Phil DeAngelo’s Broken Road Studio
When you enter Broken Road Studio in the River Arts District, your focus will naturally gravitate toward the saturated colors and scenes of Phil DeAngelo’s acrylic paintings.
Asheville Art Talk: Al Murray’s Steeltoe Sunshine
Metal has always been prominent in Murray’s life. As a child growing up in Princeton, Ky., she spent her afternoons in her father’s shop, Murray Drilling. With a broom in hand and rollerblades strapped to her feet, she swept the floors at a quick pace, earning cash for gadgets and tools of her own.
Asheville Art Talk: Pysanky with Andrea Kulish
As Easter nears, Kulish will be opening up registration for her studio-based classes in pysanky, where she will lead attendees through the Ukrainian craft, just as her mother had those many years ago.