Bicyclists should stop being selfish This is in response to the May 10 letter, “Bicycles Deserve Some Respect.” I have much more respect for the bicycles than I do the people that ride them. … The bicyclists will get my respect when they stop bicycling on roads in inconvenient areas. I think it is great […]
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Earful
Skeletons in the jukebox “Skeletons” provides a forum for local musicians, artists, record-store owners, etc., to erase cool points by expressing their unseemly affection for an unhip album from their past. Warrant, Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich by Miles Swartz of Davenport “I was living in the golden era of the Sony Walkman and mixed […]
Let my people stay
“First of all, I thank you, my undocumented friends, for having given your best to build up the United States.” — the Rev. Russell B. Hilliard Sr. Dressed in a pair of work jeans and a gleaming white T-shirt, Luis says he’s here in North Carolina illegally, far from his home in the Mexican state […]
Look homeward, ET
It’s no news that Asheville is a tourist destination. But maybe the Chamber of Commerce and the Tourism Development Authority haven’t set their sights high enough. The truth is in there? Former Asheville resident Steven Greer, a long-time extraterrestrial enthusiast, returns next week for a presentation at UNCA. Dr. Steven Greer, a former Biltmore Forest […]
Buzzworm news briefs
Lunch with the legislators “The good news,” announced Rep. Ray Rapp (D-Madison), is the approximately $1.3 billion surplus waiting for the state legislature as its 2006 short session opens this week. “We’ve moved into a positive cash flow with the state.” Rapp was one of seven area state legislators reporting in at the 2006 Legislative […]
Deadly Passion ? Tragedy in Katmai
Though nowhere near being in the same league as Werner Herzog’s brilliant Grizzly Man, David Kaplan’s 35-minute documentary on the killing by bears of self-styled wildlife activist Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, in 2003 makes for an interesting companion piece. This third-place winner of the Twin Rivers Media Festival is an admirably straightforward […]
More powerful than a magic mushroom
They want more, they want more: Mad Tea Party. Photo by Michael Traister They’ve got Barry White’s drummer in the studio. They’ve also got Hammond B3 organ, early Pink Floyd psychedelia, and a slinky Donovan-esque groove — hardly typical fare for Asheville’s demiurgical vintage-eclectica trio Mad Tea Party. “The band has a lot of synergy […]
Stick It
As a shameless medley of Flashdance, Rocky, Busby Berkeley routines and hip-hop videos, Stick It is a glorious, over-the-top girl-power fantasy. It’s also a thrilling insider look at the obsessive world of elite gymnastics, where the training is so grueling it makes the Navy Seal regimen look like a workout for wusses. Haley Graham is […]
Astral projector
The first striking thing about 34-year-old wunderkind David McConville as he answers the door to his West Asheville studio is not so much the shaved head and black goatee but the T-shirt proclaiming, “I’m an idiot.” In fact, his nickname is “Id.” Which is funny, really, because judging by his two-page curriculum vitae (which would […]
Buzzworm news briefs
Farm women speak The Sustainable Agriculture Program at Warren Wilson College will host Cynthia Vagnetti, who will present her film, Voices of American Farm Women at the school and at Malaprop’s Bookstore and Cafe. The work is a narrative documentary of Upper Midwest farm women who are forging new local-food systems based on biodiverse farming […]
The Wild
Perhaps because I was prepared for The Wild to be a disaster of the sort associated with the Hindenburg docking in Lakehurst, N.J., and it wasn’t quite that, I’m prepared to call it, pleasantly, not too appalling. Truthfully, for all its problems — ranging from lack of originality to uneven animation to indifferent writing — […]
Public art in Asheville
To many who lived in Asheville during those days of downtown desolation, the sculpture came to represent the town’s resurrection. Every work of art has a life story, and Asheville’s Energy Loop — the city’s first public sculpture — has a fascinating one. Controversial from the beginning, its modernist style proved grating to residents used […]
Buzzworm news briefs
Campaign Calendar • Rutherford is rallying: The Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce has invited all four candidates for Congress from the 11th District (two Republicans and two Democrats) to a “Meet the Candidates” forum on Monday, April 17 April, at 6 p.m. in the County Annex Building. After speeches and rebuttals by the candidates, questions […]
Who you callin’ old?
Don’t trust anyone under 60: 82-year-old Ralph Draves with his bicycle. Photos by Kent Priestley. Jim Martin stands at the top of the cement rise, pushes off with one foot, and he’s rolling. Knees bent, he glides down a smooth six-foot ramp, banks a turn and goes for another. He reaches the bottom, wobbles a […]
A shrub with a sweet past
In one of the most unabashedly erotic passages from his Travels, the otherwise staid botanist William Bartram stumbled upon (read: stalked) a company of Cherokee maidens disporting along a stream bank, collecting strawberries. A less disciplined reader might get swept up in Bartram’s florid 18th-century descriptions of the virgins’ stained lips and “gay and libertine” […]
Take the Lead
It would be an easy thing to take apart Liz Friedlander’s Take the Lead. Yes, it’s the umpteenth retelling of one of those “teacher who made a difference” stories, designed to morally uplift viewers and leave them with a smile, a tear, a song in their hearts and, in this case, rhythm in their feet. […]
Letters to the editor
Editor’s note: We have received a number of responses to our March 22 cover [“Don’t Say the F-Word”] and feature story “Comfortably Numb“] about the F-Word Film Festival at UNCA. Please see the replies from the writer and the cover designer at the end of the following three letters. This is no time for silence […]
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
If you’ve never seen a Luis Bunuel film, it’s high time you did, and this 1972 Oscar winner is a good place to start. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is more accessible than some of Bunuel’s work and might just change your mind about the whole concept of “art films” and surrealism as something […]
ATL
There’s a lot to like about ATL — the debuting young actors are pleasant, the cursing is minimal, the violence is tempered, and best of all, the misogyny level is the lowest I’ve seen in this type of movie in ages (add a full point to the rating). But ultimately, ATL is a cliche-filled fairy […]
Somewhere over the rainbow
“If a minority student were to … ask me if they should come to UNCA … I would tell them to pack up and take their money somewhere else.” — UNCA junior Rachael Williams UNCA junior Rachael Williams was sitting in a humanities class when she heard the remark. “A nontraditional student who was right […]
Buncombe County Commission
Editor’s note: A small portion of this article, which was found to be in error, was removed on Feb. 6, 2008. In a move designed to protect viewsheds and limit erosion and runoff problems, the Buncombe County commissioners voted 3-1 to tighten regulation of big developments on steep slopes. Chairman Nathan Ramsey cast the lone […]