Flavius Jackson has been with the city transit system for 30 years, making him the Asheville’s longest-running bus driver. He’s retiring this month, but Jackson is already planning a cross-country drive with his wife to keep his hand in. The 62-year-old is a recognizable face on the Haywood Road bus (Route 1), which he’s driven […]
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Sugar Beet Cafe
By Jonathan Welch Flavor: American Food 101 Ambiance: Bustling diner, degreased and organic Price: $6-$9 Where: 1185 Charlotte Hwy. #B, Fairview Contact: 628-0094 Hours: Wed-Fri, 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sat-Sun, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Food writing isn’t exactly a science, but there are a few rules that seem to make the whole rigmarole work: Don’t make a […]
Towing ordinance to kick in by June
Last week, amid a full agenda, Asheville City Council passed an ordinance designed to combat predatory towing.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: A trip down (bad) Memory Lane
I admit that it’s often more fun to write a bad review, even if it’s not so much fun to sit through a bad movie.
The hard sell
The no holds barred interview with Dixie Longate of off-Broadway show Dixie’s Tupperware Party
Buncombe Commissioners
Despite difficulties, Pack Square renovations on track, conservancy officials say County manager recommends delaying decision on new office facility Commissioners change meeting place The Buncombe County commissioners probably wished they’d had some luck o’ the Irish on March 17 (St. Patrick’s Day) as they heard a report from the Pack Square Conservancy indicating that the […]
The aging ageless jardin
I turn 50 this year, and it’s time for a garden redo. Last year, my husband acknowledged his own milestone birthday by examining his somewhat balding head (I like it) and his very graying beard (I really like that). Then he made an appointment for a physical—in the 20 years we’ve been married, the first […]
The Practical Fly
Back in the late 1960s, a new trend arose in fly fishing that was known as “matching the hatch.” A hatch is the specific point where the larval form of an aquatic insect rises to the water’s surface (referred to as “emerging”), shucks its outer shell and metamorphoses into a flying insect. Check your fly: […]
Free, baby, free
The economy’s tanking, and you’re trying your best not to let your family’s finances go down the tubes, too. Just in time: Here’s a (by-no-means-complete) list of free services and activities for the younger set in and around Asheville. Activities • Let your kids run free at the N.C. Arboretum on Tuesdays, when the attraction […]
Wish those docs well
On Oct. 30, 1990, President George Bush signed a resolution designating March 30 as National Doctor’s Day. Since the days of the Hippocratic Oath, the physician has been held in high esteem as healer, trusted confidant and patient advocate. Technological breakthroughs have done much to advance the science of medicine; however, the patient-physician relationship remains […]
Summer camps
Kids used to return home from summer camp with little more than mosquito bites and bad folk songs bouncing through their heads. But the experience has grown considerably more sophisticated. Many local camps emphasize themes: writing, herbalism, stagecraft, robotics. Kids who attend the vastly eclectic array of Asheville-area programs will be chasing after insects (see […]
Buncombe Commissioners will not appeal zoning lawsuit: will restart approval process
Buncombe County will not appeal an N.C. Court of Appeals ruling that overturned its zoning and multifamily condo ordinances, the Board of Commissioners decided after a closed session today. Instead, the county will restart the zoning-approval process — and pursue a moratorium on “undesirable” property uses in the meantime.
Richmond Hill Inn owner issues statement through spokesman
Statement praises fire fighters, offers refunds to brides-to-be who booked the facility, discusses Inn’s financial state and offers assistance in fire investigation
Tailgate markets open in April
Spring’s in the air, and farmers’ tailgate markets aren’t far behind. On April 4, the Madison County Farmers Market at Mars Hill College opens, followed by the French Broad Food Co-Op’s (76 Biltmore Ave.) and the Henderson County tailgate markets (100 N. King St). On April 15, the West Asheville market warms up (behind West […]
City Council plans to take up towing ordinance on Tuesday
After years of complaints about predatory towing in town, Asheville City Council is poised to put teeth in a towing ordinance.
The Green Scene: The weatherizers
In the alternate universe of the graphic novel (and new movie) Watchmen, angst-ridden heroes clad in tights, capes and masks fret about the state of humanity and their place in a sinister world. Warren Wilson College’s young weatherization heroes evince no such sentiments, though they do sport safety masks and loads of can-do spirit. During […]
Taking your pick of local produce
I am definitely not a gardener. After years of exuberant experiments with tomato plants and rows of radishes (which, as I recall from my grade-school days, even 4-year-olds can be trusted to grow) produced nothing but heaps of weeds and a popular venue for rabbit conventions, I finally realized my future didn’t lie in farming. […]
King Cecil’s serf city
The Asheville City Council recently spent $15,000 on a survey to determine residents’ priorities for the city’s future. According to a Nov. 23, 2008, Asheville Citizen-Times article, two of the top three priorities stated were: “Get a handle on development” and “Don’t move here.” Go to the city’s Web site, search for “Asheville Citizen Survey” […]
New towing regs for Asheville, incorporation for Swannanoa on legislative agenda
Local WNC bills introduced last week in the Legislature could allow an Asheville ordinance addressing nonconsensual (predatory) towing, the incorporation of the town of Swannanoa, and an amendment to the Sullivan Act affecting Asheville’s water management.
Asheville’s Girl Scout cookie saga: How one local scout’s story went national (A Twitter Report)
National media went into a feeding frenzy over Wild Freeborn’s innovative online efforts to sell cookies. Here’s what it was like, as it unfolded, for an 8-year-old Asheville girl and her dad to be swept up in a series of New York studio appearances.
A sticky subject
Asheville is not quite as car-obsessed as Baltimore, my childhood home, where it always seemed like people were trying so hard to have the pimpest ride, right down to their eight-ball stick shift. And for whatever reason, I seem to have escaped the car obsession. I do understand why teenagers love them (escape from your […]