The winner’s circle

Every autumn, Western North Carolina locals do their civic duty and cast their votes for favorite businesses, services, foods, entertainers and more in 100-plus categories. We are the champions: Asheville’s stephaniesid and other Xpress reader favorites play a benefit for MANNA. “It really tells us we have great support from our fans. It shows they […]

The Green Scene

Miles to go before I hike What if you could traverse the whole French Broad River Basin—by bike, on horseback or in hiking shoes—without ever running into a four-lane road? That’s the big idea behind a fledgling regional effort to design create a system of trails linking Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Madison and Transylvania counties. Across […]