Look up: Solar eclipse events around WNC (Best of WNC – Part 2)
Volume
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Scott SouthwickCover Photography Credit:
Cindy Kunst
Asheville’s Solar Eclipse Festival, on Monday, Aug. 21, is part of the Carolina Solar Eclipse Parties initiative, which includes events within the path of totality.
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Eclipse-related events around WNC
Xpress rounds up educational programs and viewing parties.Asheville’s Solar Eclipse Festival celebrates an astronomical rarity
Beyond the astronomic phenomenon, Asheville’s Solar Eclipse Festival features food vendors, the Splashville interactive fountain and solar-inspired music curated by DJ Kipper of Mix 96.5.Smart Bets: David Troy Francis
The pianist plays a concert at Brevard First United Methodist Church on Sunday, August 20, at 4 p.m. — his last local performance before moving to Mexico in September.Symbolism and color theory mark Joshua Spiceland’s latest collection
“I feel that all art is symbolic, and good art can convey both feelings and ideas,” says local artist Joshua Spiceland. “What new meaning can these objects that we see…Grady Champion and Janiva Magness headline River Valley Blues Festival
Event organizer Zuzu Welsh says that this year's festival will feature seven local acts in addition to Magness (Saturday's headliner) and Champion (Sunday's festival closer).Smart Bets: Juniper Bends Reading Series
The quarterly readings series' fall installment takes place Friday, Aug. 18, at 7 p.m. at Downtown Books & News.WRES honors its co-founder, mission and 16 years of broadcasting
One of WRES’ earliest goals was to serve “not just the black community, but the community, period, aimed at people of low wealth,” says cofounder John Hayes. The station celebrates…Renovated ACT reopens with ‘The Producers’
The landmark downtown playhouse has been given a major overhaul, which includes such upgrades as new seating, an improvement in auditorium design, and better lighting and sound.Smart Bets: Best of Enemies
Different Strokes' latest play runs Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings from Aug. 17 through Sept. 2 at the theater at Asheville High School.Conscious Party: ABSFest Speakeasy Allstars
Proceeds from the ABSFest Speakeasy Allstars' in-show raffle on Aug. 19 at The Orange Peel benefit the ACLU.Smart Bets: Hustle Souls
The Asheville band plays a free show and launches a Kickstarter campaign to fund its new album on Friday, Aug. 18, at 10 p.m. at Asheville Music Hall.food
A Southern tradition: Asheville’s love affair with pimento cheese
Although the popular cheese spread originated in New York, it has long been a staple of Southern kitchens. Asheville variations often feature unconventional additions such as as pecans and bourbon.Beer Scout: The Whale Craft Beer Collective surfaces in West Asheville
The Whale will showcase world beers alongside esoteric local offerings with a focus on educating independent beer lovers looking to expand their horizons.Small bites: The Great American Jerk Off returns
A competition at Ole Shakey's Getaway highlights locally made beef jerky. Also, MetroWine celebrates the solar eclipse, Living Web Farm offers a class on homemade sauces, Hickory Nut Gap Farm…living
Inmates grow through gardening program
Sally Reeske has been teaching horticulture at the Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women, a minimum-custody prison, for the past two years. While the vocational course through A-B Tech offers inmates…Communities along Upper French Broad work to restore water quality
In this two-part series, Xpress invites you on a guided a trip down the river as we examine the work of various communities to write the next chapter in the…movies
Screen scene: Local film news
The Haywood County Public Library begins a documentary series on inequality, Judd Apatow's Avett Brothers documentary plays one night only at the Fine Arts Theatre and more.news
Monumental change
Asheville, N.C.Internship program introduces students to the real world
The City of Asheville Youth Leadership Academy is wrapping up its 10th summer of providing meaningful summer work opportunities for local students. This year, the program expanded to serve more…West Asheville Yoga purchases One Center Yoga to become The Embodiment Center
A new yoga center will pop up in town in October. West Asheville Yoga owner Cat Matlock has bought out One Center Yoga and has plans to transform it into…Group trains bystanders to intervene in troublesome situations
About 50 people took part in a bystander intervention training session on July 30 to learn the best strategies for intervening in tense or dangerous situations. The training facilitators shared…opinion
Letter: Why is it acceptable to kill animals?
"When humans take the lives of other human beings, we are horrified. Why is it acceptable, and even photographed as cute, when human beings take the lives of animals?"Letter: Kudos to The Lost Chord band
"A packed house was ecstatic over the renditions of Asheville's very own talented musicians and equally as talented vocalists. This band truly nailed it!"Letter: Williams, a voice for Asheville’s young people
"Based on her past successes and her current platform, Dee Williams best represents the needs of young people in this election."Total eclipse of the park
Asheville, N.C.Letter: Brevard Road, an unattended speedway, part 2
"I requested [a speed test] for Brevard Road a few months ago and was shocked to learn that there are approximately 8,685 vehicles/day and that the 85th percentile was 37…Sounds messy
Asheville, N.C.Appalachian orchids: hidden gems of the mountain forests
" We are learning that many plant species in the forest, from trees to orchids, plug into the underground network of fungi for supplemental nutrition and for a means of…