When the nation’s founding fathers needed a stiff drink after a day spent dickering over articles of confederation, they had a triumvirate of alcoholic beverages from which to choose: Wine, beer and cider were all consumed by colonists with equal gusto. If anything, cider had a slight edge over its fellow tipples, with the average […]
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Rivers and Tides
The Asheville Art Museum will present Rivers and Tides Saturday, April 5, and Sunday, April, 6, at 2 p.m.
Edgy Mama: Picky, persnickety, fussy eaters
“My kids excel in a number of areas, but they are at the top of the heap when it comes to picky eating.”
Book Report: Toss the Bride
Bride aside, this isn’t chick-lit. Not strictly speaking.
Askville: Madam president
While Hillary Clinton campaigns to become America’s first female president, Suzanne DeFerie has already made history—becoming the first woman president and CEO of an Asheville-based bank. Suzanne Deferie. Photo by Jonathan Welch Before assuming her new responsibilities at Asheville Savings Bank on Jan. 1, DeFerie, 51, had paid her dues, serving 16 years as executive […]
The new perils of “screen time”
Mention kids and electronics and most parents will assure you they have stringent rules regarding “screen time.” Choosing the chalkboard over the keyboard: Two-year-old Marlise, left, of Asheville, makes art with her cousins Sasha (middle) and Lilly during a visit to Australia. Photo By Bobbi Holland However, according to Nielsen Media Research, today’s kids are […]
Delicatessen
Delicatessen, part of a series of Classic Cinema From Around the World, will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday, March 28, at Courtyard Gallery, 9 Walnut St. in downtown Asheville. Info: 273-3332.
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
Hey nonblogger: You think this stuff is easy? That maybe bloggers just casually whip out a quick entry between working, raising kids or whatever? These people sweat and toil to bring you, the reader, distractions from your job on a day to day-ish basis.
The greatest story ever retold
In 1968, then-unknown writing and composing duo Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber decided to follow up their rock-music-meets-musical-theater experiment Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with something a little bigger. Updating biblical themes was an interesting challenge, so the duo opted to take on what has been called “the greatest story ever told.” The […]
Facing the faces of Asheville
As a community activist and artist, for the last nine months I have been learning in depth about greater-Asheville residents through the Faces of Asheville Photo Documentary Project (www.FacesofAsheville.com). I have listened to the unique stories of what has brought individuals to or kept [them] in this area, making each of us an integral part […]
Free speech meets the APD
Clearly the issue all along [regarding Asheville’s “highway blogger”] wasn’t Mr. Phillip’s exercise in free speech; it was the Asheville Police Department’s blatant disregard for Mr. Phillip’s constitutional rights and their subsequent arrest of Mr. Phillips on entirely fabricated charges. And just who is accountable for this bogus arrest and these trumped up charges, now […]
City Council brouhaha: Bellamy dumped from committee chair (updated with video)
Asheville City Council members voted to remove Mayor Terry Bellamy from her lead oversight role in personnel matters at its March 11 meeting. The matter, which was added to the agenda at the beginning of the meeting, didn’t sit well with Bellamy or Council member Carl Mumpower, who called the maneuver “reprehensible.”
Mud season
Spring arrives in South Turkey Creek on the bottom of my husband’s and children’s boots. Long before I see my Spanish bluebells, I see mud. Wipe your feet: Mud is a family problem at Cinthia Milner’s Leicester home. Photo By Cinthia Milner “Mud is spring and spring is mud,” I so vividly remember my grandfather […]
Clean clear through
When elected officials conduct their business in the sunshine of public scrutiny, their constituents can have full faith and trust that the decisions made are aboveboard, well-considered and in the best interest of the general public. At the local level, maximizing the public’s access to government empowers communities and builds leaders. Over the last couple […]
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: In praise of trash
There’s a common perception that my tastes in film are strictly of the “elitist” variety. That’s an accurate picture, but it’s hardly the complete one. I have always contended that no one who truly loves movies doesn’t also love at least a certain quantity of trash.
Making Anywhere, USA
SCENE: Cell phone rings. Protagonist answers, then feels a blood rush of fear. He speaks. He listens. His knees crash into the sea of driveway pebbles. That’s our protagonist, Anthony “Chusy” Haney-Jardine, there on the ground, writhing. Lots of writhing. Keeping it in the family: Perla Haney-Jardine, daughter of director Chusy Haney-Jardine and producer Jennifer […]
Economic development: A team approach
In the past, the city’s Office of Economic Development has often been at odds with other local organizations that also seek to grow the local economy. But that’s changing, says Sam Powers, Asheville’s economic-development director. Bringing home the bacon: It takes a lot of groups to grow the area’s economy, and Asheville’s Economic Development Director, […]
Listening Party: Derek Astles, Laura Blackley and Nikki Talley
Here’s the idea: Each week, we pick three local musical acts, link to a site where you can listen to their songs for free, then ask you to spend a few moments of your time to tell us what you think about them. Some may be great, others may be middling or awful — that’s for you to decide. All we ask is that you listen with an open mind.
What kinds of stories can a photo tell?
The two-year Master of Fine Arts program in photography at Yale University is, to put it mildly, intense. Only nine students are admitted each year, and expectations for those few artists lucky enough to get into this exclusive program run very high. It’s interesting to note that four of the program’s graduates are now teaching […]
StoveTrotters
Flavor: High-end bistro Ambiance: Looks like the “after” on a kitchen makeover show The thoroughly appealing notion behind StoveTrotters, the chi-chi bistro that opened last September at the location of the former Polar Bar on the outskirts of Biltmore Village, is that its meals are meant to satisfy the palate and stimulate the mind. While […]
The secret is out
There’s been a lot of talk recently, both in local clubs and on locally oriented music sites, about which band from Asheville will be the next to step into the national spotlight. Names are thrown around, various viable reasons are given, and speculation is rampant. But, on that list of likely future headliners, one name […]