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    Tag:  Appalachian State University

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    Screen scene: Local film news

    Posted on September 13, 2015September 9, 2015 by Edwin Arnaudin

    This week’s roundup includes a documentary series at the East Asheville Library, the annual Movies by Movers Festival at Appalachian State University, two special screenings of 20 Feet from Stardom and a workshop for local writers who want to transform prose into a working script.

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    It’s all cosmic theater: Tom Robbins in WNC

    Posted on September 15, 2014September 15, 2014 by Alli Marshall

    Photos by Alicia Funderburk, taken at Robbins’ Malaprop’s Bookstore reading and book signing on Saturday, Sept. 13. According to author Tom Robbins, he didn’t hit his stride as a novelist until Jitterbug Perfume. It was his fourth novel, published in 1984; Robbins was 52. Not that there’s a right age to hit one’s stride as […]

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    Renewable energy 101: ASU offers summer workshop series

    Renewable energy 101: ASU offers summer workshop series

    Posted on June 11, 2010June 11, 2010 by Susan Andrew

    Ever wondered what it would take to get “off the grid?” Refine your own biodiesel? Install a photovoltaic system in your home or business? The public is invited to explore these things and more at a series of renewable energy workshops at Appalachian State University this summer.

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    N.C. colleges looking good in Kiplinger’­s latest rankings

    Posted on January 7, 2009January 7, 2009 by Nelda Holder

    UNC Chapel Hill took first place for in-state public universities and Davidson College ranked fourth for private colleges in the latest Kiplinger ratings.

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    The Green Scene

    The Green Scene

    Posted on December 3, 2008March 20, 2015 by Margaret Williams

    Imagine that you’re on a coffee farm in Nicaragua. After pulping and rinsing the coffee “cherries,” the precious beans are dried, sold and shipped all around the world for roasting and brewing. It’s good, tasty stuff. Coffee from cherries: Your cup of joe begins as a little red “cherry” with two coffee beans hidden inside. […]

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