Campaign Calendar

One-stop absentee voting is available now through Oct. 6. Call your Board of Elections for location/information (Buncombe County: 250-4200)—and remember that, effective this year, you may register when you vote during the one-stop period. Sept. 29: Meet Asheville City Council candidates Selina Sullivan and Bill Russell, candidates for, at a family event at Aston Park, […]

Campaign Calendar

One-stop absentee voting is available from Sept. 20 to Oct. 6. Call your Board of Elections for location/information (Buncombe County: 250-4200)—and remember that, effective this year, you may register when you vote during this period. Sept. 21: Coffee talk with Bill Russell, candidate for Asheville City Council, takes place at Atlanta Bread Company on Hendersonville […]

Campaign Calendar

Plans are underway for a pre-primary forum for Asheville City Council candidates, to be sponsored by the NAACP on Thursday, Oct. 4 (see details below). Sept. 13: “Coffee Talk with Bill Russell”—an open forum for anyone to talk with City Council candidate Russell—takes place from 3 to 4 p.m. at Atlanta Bread Company on Merrimon […]

Campaign Calendar

To be eligible to vote in the Oct. 9 primary, regular voter registration must take place by Sept. 14. Remember, however, that due to a new state law, you will still be able to register and vote at the same time during the one-stop absentee voting period, Sept. 20 through Oct. 6. For information, call […]

Campaign Calendar

North Carolina has just become the first state in the South—and one of only nine in the nation—to allow same-day voter registration. The new law will be in effect during the early voting periods for the primary and general elections this fall. At the early voting sites, voters with acceptable identification may fill out a […]

S.E.E. Expo workshops

Here’s a complete list of the workshops and other special programs at the expo. These presentations are included in the admission price (click here to download the printer-friendly .pdf schedule, “2007SEESchedule.pdf” for more details). Classrooms “A” & “B” are tents adjacent to McGough Arena. Classrooms “C” & “D” are adjacent to the Green Home Show […]

Campaign Calendar

Getting ready to vote: The first round of 2007 voting occurs Oct. 9, when primary candidates will be winnowed down for the general election on Nov. 6. In preparation for voting, remember that if you have moved since you last voted, it’s time to update your voter registration. If the move was within the same […]

Campaign Calendar: Attention, candidates­!

Mountain Xpress will highlight campaign activities here in our weekly Campaign Calendar. Candidates and organizers are invited to send us notice of events, be they debates, fund-raisers, forums or other political functions. We must receive your information by noon on the Thursday preceding our next Wednesday’s publication. For now, some key dates and info: • […]

Letter from the Editors

What kind of person can keep their finger on the pulse of WNC’s ever-evolving arts scene? The short answer: It takes a very rare breed, and Mountain Xpress has been lucky to find two of these rarities to helm our arts-and-entertainment section. Saying goodbye, at least for now, is outgoing A&E Editor Melanie McGee Bianchi, […]

Free Asheville

Sometimes the best things in life really are free. To your health: Brynne (left) and Abbey LaQueere recently found out how much fun the Health Adventure can be. You can do the same for free one day a month. See #13 for details. Don’t believe it? We’ve got 50 ways to prove you wrong. Whether […]

Department of Emergency Services Excerpts

The hard eight: Buncombe’s main hazards Buncombe County “is exposed to many hazards, all of which have the potential to disrupt the community, cause damage, and create casualties,” the emergency plan notes. Near the beginning, it identifies eight key categories of hazards. Below is a condensed version of that list, with excerpts from the EOP: […]

Buzzworm news briefs

Today Asheville, tomorrow the world: AGR-TV goes satellite Air time: AGR-TV co-anchors Eamon Martin, far left, and Anna Belle Peevey, far right, produce a new episode of the program. Pictured in the center, from left, are sytlist Denise Wolcott, producer David Connor Jones and editor Sean McNeal. photo by Jonathan Welch Quick—name an Asheville-based television […]

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Theremin 101: How to make it sing Good vibrations: Theremin master Pamelia Kurstin will lead Moog’s upcoming clinic, a rare chance to become familiar with the electronic instrument. courtesy MOOG Properly played, few instruments are as eerily haunting and ethereally beautiful as the theremin. Improperly played, few are as annoying. Of course, that’s part of […]

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Creating Lexington Park Few streets have benefited as much from downtown Asheville’s cultural and commercial renaissance as Lexington Avenue. Once seen as one of the city’s least desirable addresses, the street is now home to a number of chic boutiques and popular restaurants. There is even a growing movement to rename the area, with many […]

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Water witching reunion Say the word “dowsing” to most people, and if you aren’t met with a blank stare of incomprehension, chances are they’ll say something like, “You mean that thing where you look for water with forked stick, right?” Dowsing (or, more colorfully, “water witching”) has been used for thousands of years to aid […]

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Buncombe 1, Asheville 0 A Wake County Superior Court ruling earlier this month dismissed the city’s attempt to overturn state legislation that prohibits Asheville from charging different water rates for customers outside the city limits. But the ruling by Judge Howard E. Manning Jr. also lambastes state legislators for giving Buncombe County preferential treatment, which […]

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Put it on paper: Blue Ridge permit comments due Area residents have until midnight this Friday, Feb. 9, to go on record about air emissions at Blue Ridge Paper Products in Canton. The facility is seeking a Title V air-emissions permit as required under federal standards for major emissions sources. Formerly owned by Champion International, […]

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A different take: Human Rights Watch Film Festival A Chilean village displaced by a hydroelectric dam. An oil field’s crushing impact on a community in Azerbaijan. The scars of U.S. soldiers home from Iraq. Mass media may have made the world smaller, but somehow such human stories still fall by the wayside. The Human Rights […]

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Design Science update: Bucky would be proud Last summer, more than 30 people from this area and around the globe hunkered down at UNCA for several days in search of practical ways to enrich education, conserve energy and protect the environment. The exercise, called the Design Science Lab, took problem-solving techniques developed by the famed […]

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It’s a date: Local calendars make every day count When was the last time you got excited about a calendar? Really, truly excited? Take a minute and cast your mind back … Was it Celebrity Pugs 1999? Sashimi 2000? Bodies by Silicone 2004? It’s true that even as the personal computer takes over most every […]