Dog’s shooting raises questions Animal control in Asheville is enforced unequally. A friend of mine who lived on Cranford Road was bitten by a dog that had bitten two other neighbors. The dog was impounded for 10 days and returned to the owner with instructions to keep the dog inside the fence and put up […]
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Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee may not be a great film — it certainly has its share of flaws — and yet it is such a strange brew as to be fascinating even at its worst. Its striking combination of day-glo psychedelic colors and a rich streak of morbidity is enough to keep it afloat most of the […]
Letters to the editor
Sculpture’s purpose should be honored The alarm arose in me when I drove by Asheville’s Energy Loop [sculpture] and saw the ugly orange netting around the sculpture. Dirck Cruser designed Energy Loop for Pack Square, and that is where it should stay. My hope, along with that of many other people in Asheville and visitors […]
Asheville City Council
Fresh from a weekend retreat where they outlined priorities for the coming year, Asheville City Council members bulled their way through a host of topics at the Jan. 24 formal session. Two new residential proposals — including a downtown high-rise condominium development — sailed through the approval process, greased by design details that Council found […]
Buzzworm news briefs
Left out of the lottery When the North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation instituting a state lottery with profits earmarked for education, it overlooked the 30,000 students enrolled in the state’s 100 charter schools. The formula approved for distributing the gambling money leaves the charter program high and dry. In response, educators and parents associated […]
The New World
I cannot in good conscience recommend The New World. Still, I have to admit that I admired this film more than a number I have recommended. Calling The New World a noble failure or a grand folly would be the easy way out of explaining my high regard for Terrence Malick’s film on the story […]
The Tales of Hoffman
This is the odd-film-out in the major works of Michael Powell and Emerich Pressburger — rarely spoken of in the same breath with their standard classics, The Life and Death of Col. Blimp, Stairway to Heaven, Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes, yet clearly part of the same creative impetus behind those films. Why? Well, […]
Walking the talk
“This is the most progressive City Council Asheville has ever seen.” Local media and conversations around town are abuzz with this refrain, but what exactly does “progressive” mean? The term has no universally accepted definition and is used to describe ideas ranging from liberal to radical. With this new City Council, Asheville has an incredible […]
Vox populi
A Jan. 12 public-input session gave Asheville staffers more than they’d bargained for when some 275 people turned up at the Randolph Learning Center on Montford Avenue — enough to cause a line outside the front door. The meeting, announced only a week earlier, invited city residents to share their concerns with City Council in […]
Letters to the editor
A sanctuary for change In your recent commentary by Nels Arnold [“Transformation Behind Bars,” Dec. 28], the author describes a Buddhist meditation group at Mountain View Correctional Institution. She tells how beneficial this practice has been in these inmates’ lives and then goes into direct quotes from some of the participants. I want to commend […]
Buncombe County Commission
A state-imposed deadline for ordering new voting machines was the most pressing business at the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners’ first meeting of 2006. The General Assembly has given counties until Jan. 20 to choose new machines from a list of approved models, to ensure that the equipment is up and running in time for […]
Top drawer
Saturday Night Fever (on a Wednesday) • Who he is: Robert Tate • What he’s wearing: Brown jacket (made in Belgium), butterfly-collar button-down shirt and narrow gold tie, all from Ragtime. “I was at a benefit show [there],” Robert explains. “Someone had put this outfit together and I walked in and said, ‘That’s nice.’” • […]
Talking a good fight
It’s January, and a brand-new year hovers before us, brimming with all manner of possibilities. But before we catapult into the frenzy of 2006, it’s time to take a breather and reflect on the one that just got away. What do you remember about 2005? In Asheville, civic preoccupations included the continuing tug of war […]
Brokeback Mountain
As things shook out, 2005 became particularly noteworthy as a year in which most of the better films were either political in content, or dealt with gay or GLBT issues. Of course, given the responses from some quarters, you could say that there’s no real difference between the two. There’s no question that Ang Lee’s […]
Tops and bottoms
Another year, another couple hundred movies. Overall, it wasn’t a bumper crop – but as Spencer Tracy said of the fact that there wasn’t much meat on Katharine Hepburn in Pat and Mike, what there was was “cherce.” It helped that the studios – at least Sony Classics, Focus and the Weinsteins – were generous […]
Rockin’ on Heaven’s door
What radio station does God listen to? I’m not trying to be flippant, I just want to clarify something — because depending on who you talk to, God exclusively likes somber chants, wailing guitars, raucous choirs or mellow jazz. Sometimes He only wants to hear the warm tones of an organ, and other times it’s […]
Letters to the editor
Clearing the air for democracy Steve Rasmussen’s article, “Who’s In Charge?” [Dec. 7, 2005], regarding the presumed influence CIBO has on air board appointments is Fourth Estate journalistic responsibility at its finest. I am unaware of any other local media — print or broadcast — providing such insights. In a democratic society, the Fourth Estate […]
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
It’s 1941 London. Hideous German planes drop death on the city, forcing thousands of youngsters to seek refuge in the countryside. Among them are the four Pevensie children. There’s Peter, about 15 (William Moseley), Susan, 14 (Anna Popplewell), and Edmund, 9 (Skandar Keynes). At 7, little Lucy (Georgie Henley) is the youngest, but she’s also […]
Pride of place
Tom Gallaher, president of Heritage Directions Development and preservation were key topics in Asheville’s recent City Council and mayoral races. In that spirit, Xpress spoke with heritage-development consultant and six-year Asheville resident Tom Gallaher about his adopted home and about how to evaluate and preserve a community’s heritage. Gallaher, who is president of the Heritage […]
In the zone
A proposed Weaverville shopping center that would include two “big box” stores moved one square forward when the Town Council approved the rezoning of 35 acres of residential property at its Nov. 21 formal session. Six parcels located southwest of the intersection of U.S. 19/23/70 and Weaver Boulevard were designated commercial. The rezoned land adjoins […]
Pride and Prejudice
My only qualm with Joe Wright’s version of Pride and Prejudice is almost identical to the one I had with Roman Polanski’s Oliver Twist. At the end of the day, no matter how good this film is, it’s still another version of something I remain unconvinced needed another version. Oh, it’s not that there’s no […]