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Into the wild blue yonder: Air Force to train around Asheville
When you hear the thumping of military helicopters this weekend, don’t panic: It’s not a Red Dawn-style invasion — it’s Air Force training that will be going on from Saturday, April 21, through Thursday, April 26.
Racing backwards toward a bad idea
Asheville City Council has recently revived a “discussion” topic that was voted down seven years ago: building a racetrack on 51-acres of land adjoining the northern border of Westfeldt Park on Old Fanning Bridge Road, adjacent to the Asheville Regional Airport and directly in the French Broad River basin. What was a bad idea seven […]
You can dish it out, but …
I am starting to think “The Straight Dish” ought to change its name to reflect the nature of the column. Perhaps something like “The Partial Dish,” “The Opinionated Dish” or “The Straight Dis”? Mark Williams’ review of the North Star Diner [“North Star Diner: Restaurant Tackles Workaday Classics,” April 4] was so incredibly shortsighted and […]
Black Mountain College: The movie
For 24 years, Black Mountain College occupied the leading edge of American education. Now, a pair of young filmmakers has trained its lens on the experimental school and produced an hour-long documentary that debuts in Asheville this Thursday.
Shuler’s first 100 days
When Rep. Heath Shuler was sworn in back in January, it looked as though the neophyte lawmaker was destined to spend some time in the political wilderness. It didn’t help that he was returning to the city where a promising career as an NFL quarterback had quickly turned sour, making Shuler a pariah among rabid […]
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
Our VOICE, Inc., Buncombe County's rape crisis center, in partnership with the Fine Arts Theatre presents Grbavica as part of an evening of art and film to honor survivors of sexual assault and to benefit Our VOICE on Thursday, April 12. The event opens at 5:30 p.m. with the 7th Annual Survivors' Art Show in…
Asheville mayor on McCormick Heights: more than drugs
Mayor Terry Bellamy says that a handful of problems — including changing market needs and failures in promotion, management and maintenance — and not just crime led to the breakdown of the McCormick Heights housing project. Council member Carl Mumpower sees things differently.
“It’s not for you to know”
Her jingly waltz about her decaying hometown spins hollow, like a smashed-out barber-shop pole: “Thrice All American,” an ode to Tacoma, Wash., was probably the least-felt song on What It Sounds Like, the first of No Depression‘s compilation CDs. The case for Neko: In an era of newly theatrical indie rock (Arcade Fire, of Montreal, […]
The missing-thumb trick as career
Appropriately enough for a mime, Robert Post leaves his audience at a loss for words. Robert Post’s journey of 1000 miles begins with a single strange bodily contortion. “People come to the theater and say, ‘I have no idea what to call it,’” says Post, who would more accurately merit the compound title of mime-actor-puppeteer-comedian-circus […]
Prepare now
The quiet life of my 86-year-old parents was shattered when Dad fell at home on Jan. 2 and was hospitalized. Three days later, Mom went bonkers and tried to pull out Dad’s IV tubes so she could take him home, striking a nurse and screaming at the policemen. She was sent to a geriatric psychiatric […]
Going for the green
A March 15 workshop led by staffers from the Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls Inc. could point the way toward a substantive sustainability initiative for Asheville. Invited by the city’s Sustainable Energy and Environment Advisory Committee, company representatives led some 50 participants—including Mayor Terry Bellamy, City Manager Gary Jackson and many high-level city staffers—through a series of […]
Respect the block
Let’s face it: A set of wooden blocks just doesn’t have the wow factor that a flashing, singing electronic whatzit has. Customer Ciarra Taylor bonds with a decidedly low-tech,and definitely adorable, “Ugly Doll” at Enviro Depot, World’s Coolest Toys. Photo by Jonathan Welch. And that’s pretty much what the mainstream toy industry is counting on. […]
Culture Watch
Cashing In On The Down-Home Murder Ballad On Christmas Day, 1929, Stokes County tobacco farmer Charlie Lawson gunned down his wife and seven of their eight children. (The oldest, Arthur, wasn’t home.) He then killed himself, his only explanation for this horrific crime being a handwritten note found in his coat pocket: “Blame no one […]
Outdoor Journal
Going gray: This Saturday, March 24, the nonprofit Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy will host a hike up Graybeard Mountain, near Montreat, beginning at 10 a.m. The 2,500-acre conservation easement that encompasses Graybeard is replete with viewing sights to the Black and Craggy mountains, and joins a patchwork of more than more than 125,000 acres of […]
The incredible expanding town
The town of Woodfin has been perched on Asheville’s northern border since 1971, when it incorporated to avoid annexation by the city. High on the mountaintop: Reynolds Mountain, which has raised the ire of some activists, as seen from Woodfin. The developer will own and fund much of Woodfin’s new downtown. photos by Jonathan Welch […]
I’m joining Jerry’s Electric Light Orchestra
Thank you, Jerry, for your edifying and insightful article [The Gospel According to Jerry: Power to the People,” Commentary, March 7] about the Woodfin power-plant conflict and energy politics in general. I’d never realized before just how wrong people who care about the environment are! I particularly enjoyed some of the original and incontestable comments, […]
Fragmentary Nature: DJ Spooky Speaks!
Ever wonder what’s going on inside the brain of DJ Spooky (aka Paul Miller)? Xpress has the details.
Buzzworm news briefs
Today Asheville, tomorrow the world: AGR-TV goes satellite Air time: AGR-TV co-anchors Eamon Martin, far left, and Anna Belle Peevey, far right, produce a new episode of the program. Pictured in the center, from left, are sytlist Denise Wolcott, producer David Connor Jones and editor Sean McNeal. photo by Jonathan Welch Quick—name an Asheville-based television […]
When will we put safety first?
In 1998, an urgency statute titled the Natural Hazards Disclosure Act was passed in California, recognizing that existing regulatory incomformity and lack of oversight were allowing developers to construct homes, roads and other buildings in hazardous areas, substantially increasing the probability of disasters. The act defined natural-hazard areas as zones of required investigation, meaning that […]
Xpress Asks: What are your plans for the weekend?
It’s the weekend, and for most of us that means a guilt-free chance to get out an have some fun. Normally, we here in the Xpress A&E department would be busy trying to convince you to head out to a show, performer or event that we like. But, this weekend, we thought we’d switch it up a little and ask what performances you are excited about seeing before the work-week grind starts up again on Monday.