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.
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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. […]
"Play good loud rock and say something interesting"
"You look back at what a buzz it was to plug in an electric guitar, make a lot of noise and have your friends jump along side of you," says Mexican-American musician Alejandro Escovedo. "You realize what an interesting life it's been." Escovedo's life certainly has been interesting: When San Francisco punk band The Nuns […]
Outdoors
The big December snowstorm in Asheville left many residents without power or roads fit to drive on. And it wasn't the type of snow that's fun for a trail run, especially since simply getting to the trails can be a treacherous task. But after a few days of watching the news and waiting in vain […]
Small Bites
• Kathmandu Cafe
• The Cellar Door
• Savoy
Asheville City Council tackles a full agenda (initial Twitter coverage of Jan. 12 meeting)
Council had a full agenda, including a request by Mission Hospitals to add a five-story outpatient facility, consideration of an innovative plan to help citizens make Asheville more energy independent, a plea to run drinking-water lines to homes near the former CTS plant, and a request to amend the Glen Rock conditional use permit.
Review of SciFi-A-GoGo
Deep into its second decade, the neo-burlesque movement appears to be approaching a critical mass of performers that combine the traditional, early-twentieth century blend of comedy, music and striptease with a strong contemporary sensibility.
NEW UPDATES: Katie Spotz eight days into Atlantic rowing crossing
Eight days ago, Katie Spotz started rowing across the Atlantic. The Warren Wilson College student has taken on this gargantuan task as a way to raise money for The Blue Planet Run, a San Francisco based nonprofit funding safe drinking water projects for the billion people around the world in need. Well equipped for the […]
Top 100 movies of the decade
I’m sure this collaborative list from Justin Souther and myself (and it really is a collaboration—we’ve been batting these choices back and forth for weeks) is going to have its fair share of detractors—and that’s fine. I can already make a pretty good guess at the outrage over the omission of certain titles, and what […]
Power failure triggers Christmas morning sewage spill
The Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County announced Dec. 28 that 374,000 gallons of sewage had spilled into the French Broad River over the course of 21 hours on Dec. 25. Maintenance Division Director Ken Stines said the spill was caused by a power outage after high winds knocked out a transformer at 2 a.m. […]
How it’s done at 2-1-1: United Way’s new community-services directory
When there's an immediate emergency, most of us are primed to call 911. When there's a looming problem with emergency potential, a growing number of WNC residents call 211, the United Way's community-services help line. The help line: Above, Keith Young works the phones at the United Way's 211 line, which fielded almost 50,000 calls […]
The Green Scene: Happy New (Green) Year
Here in Western North Carolina, we're not waiting around for the fruits of the 2009 Copenhagen climate-change agreement to trickle down to us. Across our region, organizations big and small, colleges, businesses and activists have already jumped on the green bandwagon. In the Asheville area alone, there are sustainability initiatives under way at UNCA, Warren […]
Junker’s Blues
When we last left the junker, he'd just visited the condominium of a recently widowed woman. She was divesting the trappings of her culturally active life with her husband (they = the Bohemians of said fable), including hundreds of vinyl records. Most were no longer in vogue, but the junker set aside a number of […]
Junker’s Blues
In the last installment of Junker's Blues, a handshake deal for a large collection of records goes bad when the junker receives a mysterious anonymous phone call. He's told there was a misunderstanding and that the LPs had never been for sale in the first place. This leads the junker, prone to fanciful narrative flights […]
Under the Roofs of Paris (Sous les toits de Paris)
Classic Cinema From Around the World will present Under the Roofs of Paris at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 8, at Courtyard Gallery, 9 Walnut St., in downtown Asheville. Info: 273-3332.
Ten best movies of 2009 and a few others
I think it’s fair to say that 2009 was an unusual film year—if only because my number-one film has been more or less constant since June, while everything else has been in flux. On the other hand, I can’t think of a year where my 10 best list altered so much between voting for the […]
Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler Jan. 6-12: Business as usual
After last week when nothing opened, we’re looking at four new movies coming our way this week—as well as the return of World Cinema and the Hendersonville Film Society. Assuming you’re prepared to cross the frozen tundra we seem to have turned into (I think a reindeer just went by my window), that affords you six possible movies this week that weren’t here last week.