For the uninsured and underinsured, paying for medications can be as much of a challenge as finding an affordable health-care provider. Fortunately, a number of organizations and programs offer cheap or free drugs to those who qualify. Here's a roundup of some key local sources for discounted meds. (And if you know of one we […]
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Artillery
Redefining notions of the singular artist The drawings and paintings that comprise Lisa Nance's solo show, Hanging Caverns and Plants, are the deconstructed forms, contours and characters for which Nance is known. Using thrift-store finds and re-salvaged materials, Nance challenges traditional forms of the painting by working over popular art reproductions or constructing frames out […]
No one is invulnerable
Tough economic times can make it harder to take care of your health. But there's one key step Buncombe County residents can take that costs nothing. Young adults, in particular, may think they can handle anything, but H1N1 flu (sometimes called "swine flu") can still bring them down in a serious way. nationwide, H1N1 has […]
Brews News
Hendersonville residents rejoice: Appalachian Craft Brewery will move their production facility from Fletcher to Hendersonville and expand their operation to include a tasting room and music venue. The exact location of the brewery will be finalized soon. Husband-and-wife team Andy and Kelly Cubbin predict they'll be selling their beers from Hendersonville by mid-summer. Cold beer, […]
How AMURT trucks relief goods from Asheville to Haiti
A truck whisked away donated relief goods from Asheville last week. And another will do so again early next week. What happens to those goods? Here’s part of the story.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: A specialized list
Perhaps it’s because horror was the genre that seriously attracted me to movies in the first place, but I’ve never found them to be wholly deserving of their reputation as somehow less than films of just about any other genre.
Classical music (no tuxedo required)
Where, outside of the symphony and local radio station WCQS, music fans can listen to classical music.
Stress less in 2010
War. Economic uncertainty. Bitter cold. Unachieved goals. Welcome to 2010. The year's only just begun, but there's already plenty to be stressed out about. "At this time of year, generally people are recovering from overdosing on sugars and alcohol," says Donald Dossey, a behavioral scientist who's the founder of the Stress Management Center/Phobia Institute in […]
ASKville
These days, Asheville is a national hub for alternative medicine. That makes it hard to imagine what the local health-care landscape was like back in 1985, when Mary Cissy Majebe opened the city's first Chinese medicine and acupuncture clinic. Photo by Jonathan Welch And the ensuing two-and-a-half decades were not without their challenges: In 1990, […]
Spork
It would be Django Reinhardt's 100th birthday on Saturday, Jan. 23. To celebrate the life of the jazz great, a group of local musicians who've been supremely inspired by him are having a show. Members of the Django-esque group One Leg Up will host the event, the always ebullient Firecracker Jazz Band will perform, and […]
Junker’s Blues
"Lo, there shall come an ending!" – Stan Lee What has transpired: Having spent hours carefully sorting through a mixed bag of records and then carelessly leaving the whole batch behind to pick up the next day, the junker finds his labors benefiting another when his deal is blocked by the son-in-law of the collection's […]
Come health or high water
In 1992, while working for a suburban New York newspaper, I wrote a story about a woman who had to go deep into debt to get surgery for a thyroid condition. She's probably still paying it off. The point of the story was that 16 million Americans lacked health insurance. But Bill Clinton had just […]
Edgy Mama: Baby it’s cold outside
Arctic Asheville has taken a huge bite out of my kids’ daily outside time. Subfreezing temperatures plus school cancellations plus school, but, “It’s too cold for recess” have turned my kids into bored, hyper and annoying…little people.
This week’s food & drink news round-up (via Twitter)
In this week’s news, as reported on the “avleat” Twitter-feed: Comings and goings, raves and reviews, sweet bits, hot tips, and cooking classes for parents and children.
Review of The Big Bang at ACT
The aerobic performance of The Big Bang‘s two actors and their sheer indulgence in the silly is a wonderful prescription for the mid-winter blahs.
Has the bus come by yet? Asheville considers GPS bus tracking
On Wednesday, Jan. 13, the Asheville Transit Commission looked at a proposal to arm Asheville City buses with software that would give riders a real-time view of a bus’ position on its route.
Musician Jay Reatard found dead
Reatard recently played an Orange Peel show. This morning he was found dead in his home in Memphis.
This weekend on a shoestring
Here’s your weekly roundup of what budget-friendly events (mostly music this time) are happening around the area. Know of other shows with a $5 or less cover charge? Add them in the comments section.
Buncombe Commissioners: On a meeting and a prayer
Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Jan. 5 meeting Mills Gap residents decry inaction on CTS contamination "Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for this privilege to meet together," the Rev. Ralph Sexton Jr. of Biltmore Trinity Baptist Church intoned over a roomful of bowed heads. "We thank you for the gift you've given us […]
Tale of a takedown
"Today our right to free speech was stolen," an indignant Kathie Lack declared. She serves as chair of the Buncombe County Republican Action Club, a small activist offshoot of the local Republican Party. Whodunnit?: After a billboard sponsored by the Republican Action Club was defaced with graffiti in November 2008, then Buncombe County Republican Party […]
Despite ban, Hookah Bar still smoking
Before North Carolina's ban on smoking in bars and restaurants kicked in, the owners of the Hookah Bar in downtown Asheville made their feelings quite clear. What ban?:Several patrons at the Hookah Bar on a recent night. The owners of the bar assert they've found ways to stay open despite the state's new smoking ban. […]