Red is a confidence color: Mary Jo Marshall models an outfit from Honeypot. Being a top arts town — American Style has us second behind Santa Fe — takes more than buying an easel or learning a few dance steps. The Asheville Area Arts Council is an umbrella organization for educational programs, grants, classes and […]
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The Ritz
Flavor: Home-style Southern favoritesAmbiance: Lovely historic dining room with a casual feelService: Friendly — as casual as the ambiance The roots of “the Block” – downtown Asheville’s small but vibrant center of black culture and commerce – run deep. The Block has laid witness to the ebbs and flows of the community’s pulse for more […]
Buzzworm news briefs
Left out of the lottery When the North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation instituting a state lottery with profits earmarked for education, it overlooked the 30,000 students enrolled in the state’s 100 charter schools. The formula approved for distributing the gambling money leaves the charter program high and dry. In response, educators and parents associated […]
Peaceful warriors
recent photos by Jodi Ford Looking back: Viola Jones Spells and Marvin Chambers shown today and in their yearbook photos from high school. Both were members of ASCORE who participated in sit-ins and other actions to combat segregation in Asheville. When four African-American college students walked into a Woolworth’s in Greensboro, N.C., and sat down […]
Gastro-snob manifesto
Sometimes, strange forces drive a food critic. Terry Ruscin, a former advertising executive, now makes his living from what he calls “gastro-snobbery” – and he blames what he calls his “persnickety, overly critical and downright ruthless” outlook regarding culinary matters on the position of the stars. “You see,” Ruscin recently told Xpress, “I am a […]
Quotes
The mistletoe is wilted, the cookies are crumbled, and the tinsel is gradually getting ground into the carpet. The big ball has dropped, the eggnog’s all gone (along with, hopefully, the hangovers), and all those noble resolutions you made in the first flush of Jan. 1 are already beginning to look more intimidating than inspiring. […]
The politics of coffee
“I’ve heard some complaints about TransFair, but they are definitely taking steps to protect some of these farmers and their families.” — Mountain City Coffee Roasters’ Randall Sluder On a blustery, gray winter morning in downtown Asheville’s Beanstreets Coffeehouse/Cafe, a chilly patron waiting in line shuffles one step closer to her eagerly awaited daily pick-me-up: […]
Buncombe County Commission
“It’s unconscionable.” — Assistant County Manager Jerome Jones For months, mental-health advocates have been pressuring the commissioners in Buncombe and seven other Western North Carolina counties to grant them equal representation on the new mental-health governing board. And they’ve insisted that state law backs them up. County officials, however, had argued that a state statute […]
Damn right!
“Who’s the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks? Chef! You’re damn right. Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother man? Shaq! Can ya dig it?” Well, if you can, then you’re probably a good deal younger than I am. Because that’s not how the above […]
Letters to the editor
Stuck inside of Asheville with the tow-truck blues again We turn this week’s Letters section over to an ongoing issue: downtown parking, and towing. The first letter you’ll read is at our request: Carl Mumpower, the most vocal Asheville City Council member on towing issues, weighs in on this thorny subject, which comes to a […]
Notepad
Give a bird a home Here’s a chance to get creative, help out a feathered friend — and support a worthy cause. Dirt and Sky People Gallery (51 N. Lexington Ave. in downtown Asheville) is hosting the First Annual Birdhouse Auction, slated for Friday and Saturday, March 28-29. Donated birdhouses, from simple to elaborate, are […]
At home
Who’s home? Ruth Rudisill Where’s home? The Vanderbilt Apartments How long at this abode? 32 years This month’s At Home column takes us to downtown Asheville’s venerable Vanderbilt Apartments to visit with 94-year-old Ruth Rudisill. She’s the building’s oldest resident, though you wouldn’t know it from looking at her. The charming, vital nonagenarian — who […]
Bring back the passion
In the natural evolution of a nonprofit, sometimes you need to get back to where you came from. For members of the Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County, that means letting go of a little professionalism and returning to their scrappy, volunteer roots. And it just happens that the society lost its first-ever paid […]
Heritage Week
The Thomas Wolfe Memorial, the Grove Arcade, the many notable buildings designed by Douglas Ellington (such as the S&W Cafeteria and City Hall) — these are just a few of the highlights of Asheville’s remarkable architectural legacy. The Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County is sponsoring the following events for Heritage Week, May 8-14: […]
A question of historical proportions
I want to believe that the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce can get along with its neighbors. I want to believe that the organization won’t pressure the Historic Resources Commission into accepting a not-so-historically-pleasing design for a new visitor center near the head of Montford Avenue. But then I read a subtly threatening headline in […]
Gearle power
It’s more than appropriate that Stacey Earle’s first commercial singing venture was on a record called The Hard Way. Sure, big brother Steve — who enlisted Stacey to sing harmony on the cut “Promise You Anything” — wields his fair share of power in the Nashville music world (albeit of the renegade type). But Stacey […]
Get your Irish up
While Asheville-area St. Patrick’s Day celebrations might pale in comparison to their counterparts in, say, Dublin, that’s no reason to keep your green self at home. Local clubs and other venues are offering loads o’ entertainment and drink specials to help keep your Irish up till the wee hours — and that’s particularly true of […]
A long time coming
David Crosby just might be the luckiest man alive. The legendary two-time Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductee — co-founder of both The Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash, and often called the most brilliant vocalist and lyricist of our time — survived a 20-plus-year cocaine-and-alcohol addiction so extreme that it landed him both […]
Attention kids!
We know you’d rather stay in the motel room and watch the Cartoon Network, but the adults won’t let you. And they’re probably right: It’s your summer vacation, and you came all the way here (or maybe you live here), so why not get out and do something? Here are some parent-friendly, but still potentially […]
Notepad
Bring back that sack Attention, Ingles shoppers: Quality Forward and Ingles Markets are challenging you to “Bring Back That Sack.” From now through October, for every month that shoppers return more than 5,000 plastic and paper bags than are currently collected, Ingles will donate a planter made of recycled plastic to Quality Forward. Recycling stations […]
Take it from the top
You don’t have to climb up City Hall to touch the terra-cotta tile that adorns its roof: One 50-pound piece hangs on a wall at the Asheville Art Museum, as part of “Pure and Simple: The Art and Architecture of Douglas Ellington.” Like the patina of fine Japanese porcelain, tiny veins feather the surface of […]