The inaugural Gay 5K and Rainbow Fun Run takes place Saturday, June 18 at Carrier Park as part of Blue Ridge Pride’s Games in the Park.
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Review of Comedy of Errors and Double Falsehood
This month, Jason Williams directs a double-feature at Montford, and if anything at all unites the two plays, beyond the hardworking cast itself, it is that they are both done somewhat in the style of Bollywood.
Review of The Witches’ Quorum
I love the director and the entire cast and crew of The Witches’ Quorum — including all the designers and the handsome ticket-takers — because they stand on the winning side of what seemed an experiment in finding out how good a production you can get out of David Eshelman’s lousy script. For Quorum is, in fact, a decent evening of theater, built as if by magic on a play that seems to have nothing to recommend it but the effort that talented people expended upon it.
Review of The Glass Menagerie
Otherwise, Hans Meyer’s direction reveals an admirable clarity and restraint that allow his actors to do the work the play requires. The staging is remarkably streamlined and well-integrated, with none of the directorial caprice one sees all too often scrambling a play’s signal.
Review of Prime Ribbing
At least for the 90 minutes of its life, this show owns the whole treasure of Broadway. The lyrics are smart and funny. One expects that. But they are also allusive, intelligent, challenging, and while one is laughing one’s head off, one is taking thought as well.
Looking past the state budget: Sunshine and livermush
While the all-important, $19.7 billion state budget labored its way to final passage in the House and Senate last week, the N.C. General Assembly still pushed a number of bills along the corridors of the Statehouse toward the June 9 crossover deadline. Some lost their earlier patina; others made light of the serious business at hand.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: In Need of Another Look—or not
The other week, I had occasion to sift through just about everything I’ve written for the Xpress since 2000. This wasn’t something I undertook lightly since there are over 3000 reviews and what not to sift through, but to provide a friend with some information, there really was no other way. In the process, I kept bumping into titles that I’ve long had it in mind to revisit—some (many) to the degree that I bought the DVDs. I have, however, not actually rewatched a single one of these.
Edgy Mama: Sex education around here
Until this past school year, North Carolina’s public school “health” education curriculum promoted abstinence-only sex education. But in 2010, the Healthy Youth Act was passed into law, the goal of which is to offer a more comprehensive reproductive health and safety program to seventh- through ninth-graders.
CalCast: Community Calendar Podcast
The Mountain Xpress and AFM News Hour Community Calendar sort through hundreds of events so you don’t have to. Tune in every week to hear what’s going on in Asheville and beyond.
From Clingman’s Dome to the Outer Banks: Thru-hiker forages the Mountains-to-Sea Trail
Less than two weeks ago, long-distance hiker and Appalachian Trail veteran Heather Housekeeper, 28, began walking. Twelve days later, on May 28, she made some time to share her goals with this reporter, just before reaching camp, off Ox Creek Road near Asheville. Outside of the occasional friend tagging along for a few miles here and there, she’s doing it all alone, and not counting the random “trail magic” (assistance like snacks, shoes, a bed, etc.) that strangers have given her along the way, she’s doing the trip totally unsupported.
This weekend on a shoestring: June 2-5, 2011
This weekend offers puppets, music, theater, pets and ice cream … lots of ice cream. So leash your dog, whet your appetite and head into town for these budget-friendly happenings. And while you’re here, check out Clubland for a complete music calendar.
Green Scene: What’s new, pussycat?
Cougar brothers The WNC Nature Center’s cougar exhibit reopened last month with some new energy: two eight-month-old cubs. Born in the wild in Oregon, wildlife-agency found the then-six-week-old brothers after they had apparently been abandoned by their mother. At first, the cougars stayed at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, home of the Association of Zoos […]
Opening doors
Ten years ago, my garden overflowed with tomatoes, potatoes, zucchini, eggplant, beets, carrots, spinach and Brussels sprouts. These days, my attention has turned to the perennial beds and shrubs, and my cover crop of rye has simply been pushed over a bit so I could stick a few peppers and tomato plants in the ground. […]
Supper at the market, under the full moon
Incredible food on an inhospitable night. There's something inherently comforting, warm and joyful about passing platters of food around tables set up in the middle of a farmers market. It certainly doesn’t hurt matters when said food is cooked by The Admiral's Drew Maykuth, just over yonder working elbow-to-elbow with Suzy Phillips in Spartacus, Phillips’ souped-up food truck and home of GCQ Lebanese Street Food.
“Grown-ups do outrageous things?”
When she was a kid growing up in Gloucester, Mass., Lauren “Madame Onca” O’Leary’s parents threw a roast-pig-on-a-spit party featuring a belly dancer. It was the sort of moment that defines a person’s life. “There was this woman, Claude the Bod, and I was like: ‘Grown-ups dress up? Grown-ups do outrageous things? … That stuck […]
Spirituality informs the jazz
While the world is full of “ladies who sing with the band,” it’s a rare treat to listen to a vocalist whose tone and pitch are artfully aligned as an equal instrument with the other musicians on stage. Equally rare is a band whose members have worked together without changing personnel for nearly 20 years. […]
Bill Cunningham New York comes to Asheville
The warmly-received documentary about New York Times fashion photographer and Streetstyle blog innovator Bill Cunningham opens at Fine Arts Theatre this Friday.
Meatless burgers revisited
Another e-mail from Stewart David, one of Asheville’s most vocal vegetarians, popped up in my inbox last week. What, I wondered, had I done to disturb the meat-eschewing contingent of Asheville diners this time? Was it my description of eating beef heart? Perhaps the video where I slurped marrow out of a bone? Maybe it […]
Dread-nauts
Ask David “Dread” Hinds where his band — the legendary British reggae stalwarts Steel Pulse — rates in the pantheon of rasta and “riddim” rockers both past and present, and he hesitates for a second. But only for a second. “Where would we set ourselves … do you really want to know? I'd set ourselves […]
Beyond the green dwelling
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 2011 Building Healthy and Sustainable Communities Conference has been canceled. We can change our lifestyles; we can change how we interact with each other; we can change our future. That’s the word from Olson Huff, a local pediatrician who helped draw the health community into Mountain Green, an annual sustainability conference held […]
Review of The Family Tree
Twisted family dynamics grow tall in The Family Tree, written by Lucia Del Vecchio and directed by Steven Samuels.
The Family Tree continues at The Magnetic Field at 364 Depot St. Thursdays through Saturdays, May 19-21 and 26-28, with two shows per night, at 7:30 and 10:00. Tickets are $12-$14 with open seating.