Harry McDaniel’s newest sculpture comes to rest in Asheville
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Ball’s in your court
Asheville wants help with its parks and recreation master plan.
Thai Spice
Flavor: Mainstream Thai classics Ambiance: More King & I than downtown Bangkok Some towns have all the luck. When a town’s school cafeteria’s versions of Italian, Chinese and Mexican classics rivals its restaurant row for wild exoticism, despairing local eaters generally give up on quality and start saying silent prayers for quantity. Even their most […]
Expected snow brings warnings, canceled meetings
***UPDATED THURS. 12:30 P.M.*** The warnings of a winter storm (maybe up to four inches!) have been rolling in for the past two days. Now, the governor’s office in Raleigh has seen fit to advise caution in the face of a storm rolling in from the Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile, the sense of foreboding has caused the cancellation and postponement of the following meetings and events scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 17.
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Asheville City Council
With Thanksgiving looming, a short agenda for the Asheville City Council’s Nov. 20 meeting seemed par for the course. But a last-minute surprise did slide onto the evening’s agenda—a proposal to convert the city’s bus fleet to hybrid vehicles. Fair and square: The Pack Plaza renovation project got the funding it needs for completion — […]
Small Bites
Happy Birthday Kismet Cafe! The Biltmore Village coffeehouse is celebrating its fifth in an exceptionally mature way: “We’re staying open longer,” says Jen Rhea, who owns the cafe with her husband, Bob. Kismet will now open at 8:30 a.m. seven days a week, closing at 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 7 p.m. on Fridays and […]
The mouse that roared
The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners was humbled during its Nov. 6 meeting by a boy in a tie-dye T-shirt.
Scrub, scrub here, scrub, scrub there
“This is a pretty big iron,” Parks and Recreation Department employee Brandon Rogers quips while washing the giant flatiron at the intersection of Wall Street and Battery Park Avenue. “You could do 12 pairs of pants at once with it.” Looking buff: Parks and Recreation employee Brandon Rogers is charged with sprucing up Asheville’s public […]
Small Bites
An update on my recent foray into the world of recipe contests, which I described two issues ago: Reporters apparently don’t have an advantage at the Mountain State Fair cooking contests. John Lee of WLOS showed up at the Malt-o-Meal contest with a mess of jalapeño poppers and promptly joined me in losing to an […]
Garden Journal
Queen (or king) bee needed: The Asheville City Market, in connection with Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, is looking for a manager for its new producer-only destination farmers’ market in downtown Asheville. The half-time position will start this fall. Organizers say they want a diplomatic communicator who is organized, detail-oriented and an innovative thinker, with experience […]
Cinebarre and Fiddlin’ Pig
I probably shouldn’t have ordered the wings. I was so ridiculously eager to patronize Cinebarre, the brilliant new eat-in movie theater at Biltmore Square Mall, that I went there long before any critic would typically pay a visit. And, of course, all the good reasons for exercising such restraint came rushing back to me when […]
Speaking of accolades …
Who’s the greenest of them all? Warren Wilson College, says Blue Ridge Outdoors.
Welcome to “The Ellington”?
A group of investors that includes the Grove Park Inn has unveiled plans for a 23-story luxury high-rise downtown—an Art Deco structure that a modern-day Thomas Wolfe or F. Scott Fitzgerald might appreciate. While the sucker is big by Asheville standards, it’s a far cry from the rather pedestrian condos and other major downtown construction […]
Welcome to The Ellington: A new high-rise for Asheville?
Investors propose Art Deco luxury high-rise along Biltmore Avenue — where Thomas Wolfe and F. Scott Fitzgerald might even feel at home if they were still around.
Waking a landmark
The For Sale sign in the front window of the S&W Cafeteria Building in Asheville may be coming down soon—and a new floor going up. Patton Avenue’s iconic terra-cotta-roofed landmark, designed by Douglas Ellington in the 1920s, has stood dormant since the departure of Shotzy’s bar a few years back. “We kind of want to […]
Press your spaceface close to mine
Perched beside the headwaters of the ancient French Broad River, outside the tiny town of Rosman, near Brevard, there is a magic window. Peering through it, you can look back through time all the way to the beginning of things, back when the universe was new and humans weren’t here at all. Further, even, to […]
Tomato Jam Cafe
Flavor: Classic lunch-box fare Ambiance: Imagine if Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm opened a café Tomato Jam isn’t the easiest restaurant to find. When I first visited for lunch, I circled the parking lot of the Biltmore Avenue medical center where it’s located so many times I began to wonder whether the café‘s owners were in […]
Gallery Gossip
â¢*Talk about collaboration! There’s big excitement at UNCA about the enormous mural being installed in the cafeteria. Word is that at least 40 artists worked on the project over the last two years. ⢠Watch for Robert Godfrey’s new paintings, collectively called Silly Talk, to be shown locally in the spring. He hasn’t lost his […]
Cafe on the Rock
Flavor: Good ol’ Southern cooking Ambiance: Hand-shaking, knee-slapping, high-energy lunch spot I confess I had some trepidation about eating lunch in a church. Places of worship are generally good places to find inner peace, not a blue-plate special. As a child, I certainly ate my share of post-service snacks at synagogue, but lemon bars and […]
Homesick
“I grew up here: I went to private school here, I was a cheerleader, I rode in the Christmas Parade. … I’ve been really disappointed in this city, in how it’s treated me since I’ve become homeless.” — homeless woman Billie Riddell Asheville native Billie Riddell had run out of gas. She is homeless, and […]