The Asheville version of an annual California-based conference known as TED will be held Aug. 30 at the Orange Peel. Three speakers have been confirmed, but there’s still time to nominate others.
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The Asheville version of an annual California-based conference known as TED will be held Aug. 30 at the Orange Peel. Three speakers have been confirmed, but there’s still time to nominate others.
UNCA responds to a 10 percent budget reduction throughout the UNC system.
A roof for the Civic Center? A city-wide composting effort? These questions and more inside.
What they said, videoed, animated and otherwise communicated this week on mountainx.com’s Forums.
National retail outlet Urban Outfitters announced plans on Friday to open a retail store at the corner of Haywood and College streets.
A downtown Asheville church’s plans to tear down two buildings it owns in the city’s historically African-American business district received the final approval Friday morning.
Woodfin is pursuing an annexation that would bring 3,360 people — almost half the town’s current population — from the Erwin Hills and Leicester areas into the town.
The Energy Loop, Asheville’s first public art sculpture, is set to be returned to downtown on Saturday after sitting in storage for years.
Asheville City Council is seeking federal economic stimulus funding for a number of projects. This June 2009 staff report updates the city’s efforts in three areas. First, the city is looking for grant money to create 10 handicapped accessible units in the Aston Park Towers public housing complex. Second, staff is asking for the OK […]
For years, some national-security experts have warned of the potentially catastrophic results of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the United States. The scenario is the plot anchor for Black Mountain author Bill Forstchen’s 2009 novel One Second After. (See the July 8, 2009, Xpress article “Apolalypse WNC” for a profile of that book and […]
On July 2, the North Carolina Division of Water Quality issued a water-quality certification permit for The Cliffs at High Carolina, a golf-community development located between Swannanoa and Fairview.
This is the July 3, 2008, public notice of the Cliffs at High Carolina’s request to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to impact about 6,000 linear feet of stream channel, .2 acres of wetlands and .03 acres of open water to build a golf course and residential development on 2,780 acres off Patton Cove […]
District Court Judge Gary Cash paints a frustrating picture. Of the thousands of criminal filings that came through the 28th District Court during the past year, many were the kinds of misdemeanors associated with homelessness. Think public intoxication, public urination, prostitution and aggressive panhandling. All in all, he notes, this is familiar ground for Asheville. […]
The lights go out. Your car coasts to a halt while trains and subway cars careen into crashes and airplanes plunge to earth. Forget about the Internet, or using your radio, phone, refrigerator or microwave — they're all disabled. You're suddenly off the grid, because it's fried: Everything with electronic circuitry has shut off, and […]
A Weaverville artist has begun installing hundreds of stoneware tiles in Pack Square Park, including 400 square, brown-and-blue ones created and signed by students in the Buncombe County Schools. One tile at a time: Ceramic artist Kathy Triplett is installing hundreds of handmade tiles on the stage being built in the new Pack Square Park. […]
Whether you're an Asheville developer, a homeowner or a corpse that's ready to be buried in Riverside Cemetery, the cost of living (and dying) in Asheville is going up. Bearing the brunt: Asheville City Council has raised fees for a range of city services, from water and recycling to parks. For example, the cost of […]
Asheville and environs saw increased unemployment in May, state figures show. The unemployment rate ticked up in both the Asheville metropolitan statistical area and Buncombe County. Figures released by the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina show unemployment rising from 9 percent to 9.2 percent in the Asheville metro area — a state designation that […]
The local political season officially launched at 8 a.m. on July 6 with the start of the filing period for people seeking seats on the Asheville City Council or any of a host of other local town boards. Candidates file at the Buncombe County Board of Elections, and the filing period runs through noon on […]
Over the past 27 years, MANNA FoodBank has established itself as the go-to group for food drives in Western North Carolina. Now, the nonprofit aims to change the way we look at food drives. To that end, MANNA is asking neighborhoods to get in on the action. Bank on it: MANNA Food Bank is getting […]
If you're hunting for cancer-fighting substances, there's no need to journey to the Amazon in search of some rare plant dangling in the upper reaches of the jungle canopy. The Bent Creek Institute here in Asheville and its partners at Wake Forest University have discovered a dozen plant species that are “cytotoxic to breast and/or […]
Here’s your video sneak preview of the July 8 edition of the Mountain Xpress. You might call it the doomsday edition.