A 65-acre development on Beaucatcher Mountain has its Kenilworth neighbors up in arms about both its potential impacts and the lack of City Council oversight. Another concern is the site’s proximity to a historic African-American cemetery. Residents were alarmed when the large-scale development was first proposed a year ago. More recently, logging trucks cutting roads […]
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Romance by the bottle
A week or so ago my girlfriend and I spent an interesting evening with friends. We were at their house, recuperating from a heavy meal, when the husband switched on the television to a program so outlandish that it nearly blew the back of my head off. I can’t recall the show’s precise title, but […]
Hannibal Rising
The Story: The tale of how young Hannibal Lecter became the serial killer/cannibal who would one day be the focus of an Oscar-winning movie. The Lowdown: A good-looking but rather suspenseless revenge story that is never scary and might have worked better on its own without any connection to the Lecter mythos.
Blog Alert: A new and improved Bird On the Moon
Although blogger Jay Joslin has had one of the more interesting local blogs, his Bird On The Moon has also suffered from a bit of an identity crisis. What, exactly, was it about? Politics? Writing? Spirituality? Personal insight? It was all of these, and none of them. It was almost like four separate, but highly interesting, blogs that all managed to have the same name.
Keep your families safe
As an odd start, I’m beginning with an apology of sorts. I am not a great orator and am often not able to get my point across. Please bear with me, and if I do not get my point across clearly, please let this letter spark your interest to further investigate the issues. Our children […]
Smiling off to war
Gut-wrenching war narratives they’re not. However, Pavel Amromin’s cherubic, puppy-faced porcelain figures say as much about the subject as Goya’s famously visceral “Executions on the Third of May” or K/Sthe Kollwitz’s tragic “Widows and Orphans.” Sure, the sculptor has (quite literally) glossed over the grimness, but with good reason—and with exquisite results. In his artist’s […]
Culture watch
Ironic Much? CityWiFi arrives in “Historic” H’ville Downtown Hendersonville, Inc.—a group that seeks to promote business and development in the town—recently announced that the so-called “Historic Downtown District” now offers free wireless Internet. The program, dubbed “CityWiFi,” was launched in late December, and is part of a growing trend in cities to provide incentives for […]
Letters to the editor
Control your own energy I attended the county commissioners’ [Jan. 16] “public hearing” — or what was set up to look like one — concerning leasing over 70 acres at the old landfill site in Woodfin to Progress Energy to build a peak-use oil-burning power plant. This land is owned by the public. Why [should] […]
It’s a good way to make money
Comfortably numb: The Machine If you ask Joe Pascarell, there’s a reason Pink Floyd music is still around today. “I might sound old saying this,” he laughs into his phone from his home in New York. “But, so much of music today is fad and fashion, rather than quality. I think if you go back […]
National Conference for Media Reform #2
Memphis, Tenn. 4:07 p.m., 1/13/07 Winning Alternatives: Independent Media Success Stories The largest early afternoon workshop was hosted by Laura Flanders, host of RadioNation on Air America. Panelists included: Ernesto Aguilar, program director of Pacifica Radio station KPFT-90.1 FM, the only publicly funded radio station in Houston; Duncan Black, who is best known under his […]
Cranky Hanke’s Worst Picks for 2006
1. Little Man. Isn’t it time legislation was passed prohibiting the Wayans Brothers from making movies? At the time of its release, I noted, “I honestly cannot think of anything worse that was made in between the time the Lumiere Brothers photographed a train pulling into a station in 1895 and today.” I stand by […]
Le Bal
It’s hard to tell if this conceptually fascinating 1983 film is much more than a curio, simply because it’s impossible to get away from the sense that a nearly two-hour film told entirely in mime and dance (not a word is spoken) is something of a stunt picture. Also, there’s the question of the music, […]
Cranky Hanke’s Worst Picks for 2006
1. Little Man. Isn’t it time legislation was passed prohibiting the Wayans Brothers from making movies? At the time of its release, I noted, “I honestly cannot think of anything worse that was made in between the time the Lumi/(R)re Brothers photographed a train pulling into a station in 1895 and today.” I stand by […]
Pushing the envelope
Asheville’s would-be drug czar: City Council member Carl Mumpower. file photo by Jonathan Welch Carl Mumpower is no stranger to the streets. The Asheville City Council’s lone Republican has made news before with his forays into the city’s housing projects and low-income neighborhoods, and what he’s seen there has prompted repeated calls for a full-court […]
Letters to the editor
Braking suggestions Thank you for this timely article [“Braking News,” Jan. 3]. The style of non-attentive (negligent/reckless) driving detailed in the Tamiko Murray column is becoming more and more prevalent. The following information may be of some use to the residents on Ms. Murray’s street, as well as to DeVonte — the injured child victimized […]
Culture watch
Asheville Betting Odds For 2007 Each new year brings its share of cultural surprises, even to those of us who make a hobby of following the big trends. Of course, that doesn’t mean that one can’t make a few insightful guesses, complete with Vegas-style odds. ⢠112 to 1: Local world-music wannabes Toubab Krewe will, […]
Tar Heeled and feathered
If you leave early and arrive late, you can drive across North Carolina in a single day. The online trip-tracker Mapquest calculates the west-to-east distance “from Murphy to Manteo” — from the mountains to the sea (or vice versa) — as 560 miles, or roughly 10 hours by car. If you took Mapquest’s route and […]
Disappearing Appalachia
Author Henry Caudill once remarked ruefully that while North Carolina has the Biltmore and West Virginia has the Greenbrier, eastern Kentucky’s most popular tourist attraction is poverty. In Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness (Riverhead Books, 2006), Erik Reece maintains that Kentucky’s coalfields primarily attract two kinds of people: well-intentioned idealists hoping to […]
Letters to the editor
How green can you get? I appreciated Rebecca Bowe’s “Green Scene” [Dec. 13] about the proposed “peak-demand” plant in Woodfin. Just looking at the artist’s rendering before I read the article, I had two thoughts. The first was: Now that’s a visionary idea for solving our oil-dependency problems. The second thought was: Damn, that site […]
Letters to the editor
Protecting children from sexual abuse After reading [your] coverage of Asheville City Council’s Nov. 21 work session [“Just the Facts,” Nov. 29], I’m grateful that light is being shed on the issue of child pornography. However, child pornography, including the estimated 100,000 child-porn Web sites, is part of a much bigger problem: the sexual abuse […]