The look on Council member Bryan Freeborn‘s face said it all. A scant hour after it had appeared he would fend off his closest challengers and preserve the progressive voting bloc on City Council, the world turned upside down. As supporters kept their eyes glued to a computer screen showing the latest results and Freeborn’s […]
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The Green Scene
Conservation ambassadors Cody and Shalimar are gray wolves, but they don’t look gray. Cody, a 4-month-old male, is almost black, while Shalimar, a 3-month-old female, has a cream-colored coat. And while gray wolves—also called timber wolves or tundra wolves—were once native to Western North Carolina, these pups were born in a wildlife facility in Montana […]
S.E.E.ing is believing
Like ripe, red tomatoes or the Perseid meteor shower, the Southern Energy & Environment Expo is an annual August event. But year by year, both the projects and technologies it highlights and the audience it draws have shifted markedly. Not surprising, perhaps, for an event whose slogan is “S.E.E. the Future.” In a sense, the […]
The Green Scene
Greener than a yellow taxi and a blue cab put together Cutting emissions: Mayor Bellamy rode to work with Green Transit, a new transportation system started by Robert Eidus (at right). photo by Jonathan Welch To promote his new business, Robert Eidus offered to give Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy a ride to work in a […]
Balcony bidding war
An Asheville conservation group is confronting developers on their own turf—fighting money with money. Trying to draw attention to the city’s policy of selling the airspace over public rights of way, People Advocating for Real Conservancy has gotten into a bidding battle with a high-profile downtown developer. Second look: An extensive renovation of the First […]
The good kind of Anger
Scott Nygaard (left) and Darol Anger (right) are truly a dynamic duo. photo by Anne Hamersky Darol Anger is nothing if not ambitious. And adventurous. And curious. He s also fascinated with new musical paths and hybrids that just seem to demand further exploration. Hence his decision to make a record with the all-female classical […]
Asheville City Council
“I sunk to my shins in places where I used to walk on hard ground.” — Council member Robin Cape After a long and heated debate, the Asheville City Council dramatically scaled back the controversial plans for Richmond Hill Park in the wake of a state citation for failure to adequately control erosion. Approved in […]
The sound of one wheel slipping
To dream the improbable dream: Mountain unicyclists Bill Spears, left, and Adam Masters don’t care that their sport is weird. photos by Kent Priestley Riding a unicycle can be a lonely endeavor. This is partly because of the extreme concentration it requires, but mostly because it’s hard to find anyone else who does it. The […]
Buzzworm news briefs
How cool is that? The cove forest that surrounds Bat Cave is verdant and thick with rare plants like Carey’s saxifrage and broadleaf coreopsis. Natural vents wheeze air from the bowels of the earth, cool and moist. Deep underground, little-known creatures — spiders, crevice salamanders, millipedes, amphipods — skulk about, only too happy to be […]
The economics of tolerance
photo by Kent Priestley In and out: Rev. Kathryn Cartledge (shown here with her pet llama) says she lost a chaplain job at a local drug-treatment center because she is a lesbian. In the summer of 1996, the Rev. Kathryn Cartledge, an ordained United Church of Christ minister, was excited to be starting a new […]
Bryan Freeborn
Bryan Freeborn Age: 29Residence: West AshevilleOccupation: Self-employed carpenterYears in Asheville: 4Education: B.A. in history (Evergreen State College), pursuing master’s in public affairs (WCU)Political party: DemocratPolitical experience: Asheville Transit Commission, Democratic Party State Executive Committee, Young Democrats, active on environmental and transit issues, prior City Council campaign What most distinguishes you from your opponents in this […]
Not your average election
Candidate Q&A Terry Bellamy Robin Cape Joe Dunn Bryan Freeborn Holly Jones Carl Mumpower Chris Pelly Keith Thomson For even more candidate information, see Xpress’ 2005 primary guide. by Peter Gregutt Asheville’s upcoming general election could dramatically alter the orientation of city government — or leave it virtually unchanged. Depending on the outcome, there could […]
Asheville City Council
The Asheville Civic Center got a lot of attention at City Council’s mammoth seven-hour Sept. 20 work session, whether the topic was hurricane preparedness and relief or a proposal for a performing-arts center. But as has happened so often in the past, there was little sign of progress. In a special report spurred by the […]
Uprising ‘after’ arithmetic
It’s not uncommon for teens to love rock, join bands and dream of ditching school to go on tour, all the while wishing their parents were cool enough to relate. However, those family-fortified musical fantasies are likely to languish in the land of make-believe — unless said teens happen to play with the Partridges (see […]
A castle in your garden
Whether you garden for food, beauty or the connection with the wider world that you get from ripping out weeds and conspiring to bring about the early demise of tiny creatures, it’s not just about plants, is it? Perhaps you also long for a few essential things — structures large and small — that can […]
Water pressure
With two weeks remaining before the Water Agreement expires on June 30, Asheville finds itself in a bind. Convinced that the county and the local legislative delegation in Raleigh are working together to push the city to transfer its water assets to the Metropolitan Sewerage District (or perhaps a new regional water authority), Asheville faces […]
Buzzworm news briefs
No progress reported at regional water forum At last week’s public forum on regional water issues, Asheville Mayor Charles Worley and Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Chairman Nathan Ramsey took pains to downplay the animosity that has characterized the public exchanges between the two entities of late. But those protestations did little to convince those […]
Letters to the editor
Crossing the great divide Isn’t it interesting how the red and blue states showed up on our cultural map? Kerry carried the industrial North, into the upper Midwest and the West Coast — the three greatest urban centers along with the more sophisticated and progressive populations. But Bush won with the “heartland” — Southeastern and […]
Asheville Film Festival—take two
It’s the sophomore year for the Asheville Film Festival. And, once again, the greatest interest centers on the “big” films: the more mainstream offerings. That’s justified, since this year the festival has acquired some pretty heavy hitters. A-list Hollywood screenwriter Dan Harris (X-2), showing his debut directorial feature, Imaginary Heroes, opens the proceedings. An impressive […]
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Anyone expecting a Harry Potter movie from the maker of Y Tu Mama Tambien to be in the same key as the ones by Chris Columbus is in for a shock with this latest — and, as far as I’m concerned, greatest — entry in the franchise. No, the new film is not an overtly […]
Tykes on bikes
“The Mountain Sports Festival presented by RBC Centura is a chance for die-hard bikers, runners, river rats, climbers and mountain adventurers of all sorts to come together and revel in their sport,” explains Children’s Committee Chair Julie Corey. That includes young adventurers who are just beginning to discover the joys of organized outdoor activities. “Hopefully, […]