While the LAAFF Festival scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 7 (see “LAAFF-In” elsewhere in this issue) may be the one day a year that North Lexington Avenue gets to proudly fly its freak flag, it’s also a day when the commercial thoroughfare gets to showcase its eclectic mix of small businesses. One big, happy family: The […]
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Disaster Movie
The Story: Another in a series of movies filled with random pop-culture references from the same guys who brought you Meet the Spartans. The Lowdown: A home-lobotomy kit would be more fun and possibly less detrimental.
Live Flesh
Live Flesh, part of a series of Classic Cinema From Around the World, will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, at Courtyard Gallery, 9 Walnut St. in downtown Asheville. Info: 273-3332.
Xpress-rated: Video sneak peek at Sept. 3 issue
Here’s your preview of the upcoming edition of Mountain Xpress.
Buncombe sheriff teams with ICE on identity checks
The Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office, in an effort to identify and deport illegal immigrants who commit a crime, will soon have the ability to use federal databases to check the status of everyone processed through the county jail.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Story: A couple of friends spend the summer in Barcelona where they both find romance with the same Bohemian painter. The Lowdown: A sad gracefulness marks this dramatic comedy from Woody Allen that's characterized by its humanity and compassion.
After weekend wreck, women face recovery
Friends and family are watching the recovery of Carolyn Anne Kubitschek, 21, of Asheville, and Casey Marie LeSawyer, 21, of Weaverville, after the two were injured when they were struck by a SUV driven by a UNC Chapel Hill tennis star.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: A Coen-ucopia of movie delights
I’ve always had a strange relationship with the works of Joel and Ethan Coen.
Weathering the storm
They were on full alert in the building just off City/County Plaza that houses Asheville’s Police and Fire departments. Preparing for the worst, extra staff was on board, equipment was at the ready, and the Emergency Operations Command Center had its supplemental communications systems fired up. In short, both departments were on standby for disaster. […]
Asheville’s black history honored on Burton Street
Last year, Leicester resident Valeria Watson-Doost submitted a letter to Mountain Xpress about an historic building in West Asheville’s Burton Street neighborhood that was slated for demolition (see “Wrecking Ball Swings Toward Asheville Black History,” Letters, May 15, 2007). “I did research on the building … and found out that it was built in 1924 […]
May the force be with someone else
If you live, work or spend time downtown you will notice that stories of violent acts committed in the area may be reaching all-time high. It is very alarming to hear the stories of hate crimes committed in a so-called “diverse” town. If you have not heard about someone getting assaulted or robbed downtown in […]
Presidential forums: Consider the real issues
Eventually we will have presidential candidate forums. Hopefully the network newspersons will rise above the trivial in their queries. Here are a few nontrivial questions to ask John McCain and Barack Obama. · Global climate change is a scientifically well-established fact. A key cause is our heavy use of fossil fuels, especially coal and oil. […]
Tell No One
The Story: A pediatrician whose wife was murdered eight years ago suddenly starts receiving e-mails from her when two bodies connected to her supposed murder are discovered. The Lowdown: An entertaining, slick, engaging thriller in something of the Hitchcock mode that benefits from strong characters and stylish direction.
Pineapple Express
The Story: A stoner witnesses a murder and has to go on the run with his dope dealer when the killer comes after him. The Lowdown: There are at least three or four movies in one here, making for an intriguing, but ultimately unsatisfying mix. It's worth seeing for its sheer strangeness.
Car vandals disturb The Forest
The unfortunate thieving continues at The Forest at Biltmore Park apartments in Arden. In mid-June, my car was vandalized—along with [those of] other residents’ at The Forest—and personal belongings were stolen out of the cars. On July 22, the thieves once again broke into cars by apartment buildings 7 and 8. This crime is not […]
The Mumpower metamorphasis
Like Al Gore before he found global warming, Carl Mumpower has struggled to develop a signature public persona. Remember the time when he was Asheville’s crime-fighting drug czar? Or his short-lived attempt to become its number-one patron of the arts? Or the voice of reason and moderation he once offered to City Council, before he […]
Governor wannabes meet the press
The Democratic and Republican candidates for governor of North Carolina presented themselves and their platforms to a roomful of reporters and editors from around the state on July 18 during the N.C. Press Association’s summer convention. Afterward the two answered questions, touching on various issues. Pat McCrory: The Charlotte mayor said that state government is […]
A family affair: gang/drug workshop
The answer to the problem of gangs, crime and drugs lies in the African-American community’s reclaiming its traditional family structure. That’s the message the Rev. Clarence L. James, a nationally acclaimed speaker, will bring to Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church on July 19. The author of several books about the state of black families and […]
APD joins county’s anticrime team
The Asheville Police Department is joining the Buncombe County Anti-Crime Team, Chief Bill Hogan and Sheriff Van Duncan announced July 7. In 2004, the APD pulled out of the Metropolitan Enforcement Group, a joint antidrug task force involving the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Department and other local law-enforcement agencies. At the time, APD officials said that […]
Smoked out: Camp Summerlane’s conflicted history (Part 4)
Dave Alexander, a 23-year-old cub reporter for the Asheville Times, went to work early the morning of July 12, 1963. His editors greeted him at 6:30 a.m. with an urgent tip: Something big was going down around Rosman, a town near Brevard.
The remote, sparsely populated place didn’t typically make much news, but this day would prove an exception. The state Highway Patrol had called to alert the paper that a chaotic clash was going on at the newly opened Camp Summerlane, a few miles outside Rosman. “So I jumped into my little Volkswagen, and away I went,” Alexander remembers.
Summerlane was a little more than an hour’s drive from Asheville. About 8 a.m., the reporter reached the outskirts of the camp, where he found law-enforcement officers standing watch around the perimeter. Parking his car, he walked toward them and started to ask, “What’s going on?”
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
The Story: A young girl who dreams of becoming a reporter in 1934 Cincinnati finds herself having to face up to the realities of the Great Depression. The Lowdown: A surprisingly good children's movie that raises a lot of worthy issues within its fairly simplistic confines. Entertaining, if not overly exciting, and with more going…