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Local food guide now available
ASAP’s 2009 Local Food Guide is now available, featuring farms, restaurants, tailgate markets, u-pick farms and more.
Earthy celebrations
In the Asheville area, Earth Day isn’t just a one-day affair. The 39-year-old tradition falls on Wednesday, April 22, this year, but related events start this weekend and continue for more than a week, promising a bounty of workshops, presentations, kids’ stuff, enviro tips and more. The big picture: Second-grader Noah Sulzman was the grand […]
The Green Scene
If you want to understand the importance of air quality, ask yourself how long you can hold your breath. That’s what environmental scientist Meng-Dawn Cheng of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory told a group of journalists gathered in Knoxville, Tenn., last month. A summer photo taken in the Shining Rock Wilderness near Asheville shows a […]
The Green Scene
These are names that only a congressional bill sponsor could love: the Tracing and Recalling Agricultural Contamination Everywhere Act, the Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act, the Food Safety and Tracking Improvement Act, and the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009. Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, a Democrat, has sponsored the latter bill, which has […]
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 […]
Local farms could be in jeopardy
I just learned about H.R. 875, a disturbing bill that has been introduced in Congress, and I want to make sure everyone knows about it. This bill is called the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009. I encourage everyone to go investigate this bill. As far as I can tell, it has very little to […]
The hard sell
The no holds barred interview with Dixie Longate of off-Broadway show Dixie’s Tupperware Party
The Green Scene
Perhaps you can’t quite picture a farmers’ market hosted by the local hospital, but to Molly Nicholie, it’s a perfectly green combination. Such a partnership is just one possibility raised by the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project’s Farm to Hospital program. The pilot project seeks to play matchmaker, linking local farmers looking to build their customer […]
More than just a festival: LEAF reaches out
LEAF International started on Jennifer Pickering‘s vacation. While staying on Bequia in the Grenadines, the executive director of the popular Black Mountain-based Lake Eden Arts Festival walked into the Caribbean island’s high school for underperforming youth and asked about its steel-drum program. The instruments, known as “pans,” are part of the island’s music tradition, but […]
The Biz: WNC business briefs
Grove Corner Market Offers Deals: Like most businesses these days, the Grove Corner Market in Asheville’s Grove Arcade is feeling the pinch—looking for some help and offering some in return. “The Grove Corner Market, in the midst of the usual winter downtown doldrums and the unique current market, is in need of some ready cash […]
The eye of the storm: Hearts With Hands
While many international aid organizations focus long-term efforts and energies on a specific population or location, Hearts With Hands’ work is determined by the disaster du jour. From hurricanes to tsunamis, the group turns its attention wherever the latest large-scale crisis has erupted. Healing touch: Dr. Maureen McLaughlin-Grant examines a patient at the Hearts With […]
Immense opportunities, overwhelming needs: Christian Friends of Korea
When the Rev. Billy Graham made his much-touted visit to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, in 1992, there wasn’t much information flowing in or out of a country devastated by war and in the grip of a dictatorship. Opening doors: Top row, left to right: the Rev. Bill Moore, the Rev. John Somerville (Montreat), Lee […]
Any reason for the season—the other new year
Once, when Asheville-based musician Andy Pond passed through customs into the Montego Bay airport, a member of the Mento band (which greets tourists) noticed his banjo case. “Going to Jamaica with a musical instrument makes people treat you differently,” Pond says. He suddenly found himself picking along with the band, welcoming fellow tourists—including the cast […]
That’s saying a lot
What can you say about 2008? Plenty. The past year provided no shortage of notable quotes, fueled by the struggles and successes that made headlines week by week in Mountain Xpress and every day at mountainx.com. Consider just a smattering of the hot topics that filled our Web and print pages: the 30th annual Bele […]
The big bang
Whether it’s champagne corks popping, fireworks exploding or midnight smooching, there are plenty of sparks to ignite your 2009. Xpress offers this roundup of festive events, ranging from the frenetic to the sublime. Your mission: Dig out your best noisemaker and silly hat and get ready to herald in the New Year. All events listed […]
Small Bites
Holiday Markets: Even Santa’s staffers are locally grown at the Asheville City Market, where Silverbelle the rein-goat is greeting holiday shoppers in search of handcrafted honeys, molasses, jams, jellies, pickles, soaps, salves and lotions. “The bustle of markets really captures the spirit of the holidays,” writes Mike McCreary, manager of the Asheville City Market, one […]
Asheville’s farmers markets
Each market has unique offerings, such as this rein-goat, which will visit Asheville City Market. photo courtesy of Honour Mann Celebrate the season and shop sustainably at holiday farmers markets. They offer goods for special meals, including meats, cheeses, cookies and cakes, as well as traditional trimmings, such as Christmas trees and wreaths. You’ll also […]
Remembrance of things past
Remember AIDS? Though supplanted in the public eye by the latest disease du jour, there was a time in the ‘80s and ‘90s when you couldn’t turn around without seeing or hearing something about AIDS—which first targeted gay men yet quickly went global. Besides sparking the fear and loathing of whole classes of people, the […]
Hands-on approach
In relationships, close quarters can build strong bonds or fierce resentments. Think of spouses co-owning a business or siblings sharing a bedroom. At the Clayspace Co-op, a working ceramics studio in Asheville’s River Arts District, the six members manage to cohabitate with relative ease. Awake at the wheel: Heather Tinnaro, the newest member of Clayspace, […]
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: The perfect Halloween double-feature, times two
Mountain Xpress movie reviewers Ken Hanke and Justin Souther each offer their suggestions for the perfect Halloween horror film double-feature.