A grassroots community center at Hillcrest Apartments now offers free acupuncture to the community’s low-income residents every week.
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DuPont Forest trail run offered excitement and a chance to give back
Touted as one of the area’s first trail running races, the event started 15 years ago as a fundraiser for the DuPont State Recreational Forest.
Re-introducing Asheville’s Ponkinhead Entertainment
While the do-it-yourself ethic in music is often associated with punk bands, in Asheville, there is a hip-hop label that fully embodies that spirit.
Kids contribution: Learning Community — Preservation
When Xpress asked local educators for ideas about the focus of the annual Kids Issue, two distinct ideas rose to the top: activism and a kid’s view of the world. This week we focused on activism.
Bruno Hinojosa and the work of COLA
Form the Get It! Guide: The Coalition of Latin American Organizations seeks to raise the voice of Western North Carolina’s immigrant communities.
Molton: Chicken rescue
Asheville-Buncombe League of Women Voters hosts ‘Leaders Panel’ March 26
Please join the Asheville-Buncombe League of Women Voters on March 26 for its Women Leaders Panel. The event will take place Skyland/South Buncombe Library at 260 Overlook Road. The event will begin at 6pm. The Women Leaders panel is to learn from the challenges and experiences of local women community leaders. The Panel will include: […]
Commentary: Smart Start’s first 2,000 days campaign seeks lifetime of results
Locally, Smart Start of Buncombe County is leading the First 2,000 Days campaign and engaging our community in a conversation around the importance of investing our time and resources in the county’s youngest children and their families.
Kids’ contribution: Activism means help for those who need it
A student contribution from the Kids Issue.
Kids’ contributions: I am an activist with bullying
A student contribution from the Kids Issue.
Randy Molton: The Zeugner Pool stroke
B-Corps: Business as a force for good
From The Get It! Guide: The traditional view of business is severely limiting, if not destructive. To address today’s greatest challenges, we need to harness the power of business as a force for good.
Blue Ridge Food Ventures: Adding dimension to the local food system
From the Get It! Guide: No one could have imagined that Blue Ridge Food Ventures would become one of the best-known facilities of its type in the country or remain the largest in the Southeast to this day. Since its official opening in 2005, Blue Ridge Food Ventures has helped launch more than 250 small businesses.
Just Economics changes the definition of success
From the Get It! Guide: How do we define a successful business? According to Just Economics, it’s about more than dollars and cents.
Elaine Ingham’s manifesto: Let your garden’s wisdom guide your gardening and your life
“We need to educate people to understand that plants can, indeed, take care of themselves without people getting in the way,” asserts Elaine Ingham, an iconic figure in organic farming and a world-renowned soil microbiologist who is returning to Western North Carolina for two upcoming engagements later this week.
Asheville Grown Business Alliance: Working for now and 50 years down the road
From the Get It! Guide: The Asheville Grown Business Alliance takes 2015 by storm with a focus on diversifying, learning and courageously leveraging our community’s assets to create radical resilience and prosperity for everyone.
Growing Appalachia with ASAP
From the Get It! Guide: Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project and their Appalachian Grown certification program work to strengthen community connections through local food.
Karsten Delap shares tale of ice climbing on Looking Glass Falls
“This climb pushed the line on the margins of safety that I usually keep,” writes Delap.
Commentary: Highest and best use? Or absolutely the worst use?
Editor’s note: The issues of density, zoning, Smart Growth and quality of life in the city of Asheville continue to generate interest and concern among Mountain Xpress readers. Recent letters to the editor on the topics have generated multiple comments and new letters, along with a lively thread on the Facebook group Asheville Politics, which […]
Local EDC responds to report, criticism of JDIG incentives program
The following response is from Ben Teague, executive director of the Economic Development Coalition for Asheville-Buncombe County, who has completed more than $1 billion in economic development projects in Western North Carolina over the past six years, and Andrew Tate, President & CEO of the Henderson County Partnership for Economic Development. They’re responding to the NC Justice […]
Theater review: A Chorus Line
The musical A Chorus Line ran on Broadway from 1975 to 1990 and won practically every award that existed for theater during its run. Asheville Community Theatre’s production is presented by Aloft, and runs through Sunday, March 1. It’s directed by Chanda Calentine with musical direction by Gary Mitchell and choreography by Tina Pisano-Foor. Mother-daughter […]