The full-length documentary, For the Love of Music, produced and directed by local filmmaker Mark Fields, tells the story of Asheville’s own Blue Ridge Orchestra, a 60-plus member orchestra made up of volunteers dedicated to making music. Don’t miss the film’s debut screening this Thursday, May 20, at the Fine Arts Theatre.
With a low turnout (12.2 percent in Buncombe) voters spoke in today’s primary elections.
Billing the event as a “Sidewalk Summit,” East Asheville residents are holding a community meeting to make the case for pedestrian improvements in their neighborhoods. The public gathering will be held at Bell Elementary School on Monday, April 19, at 7 p.m.
Cities across the country are competing in an unofficial online poll for the title of “Most Deserving City” for Google’s proposed super-fast fiber-optic network, and two heavy-hitters have quickly emerged: Asheville and Greenville, S.C. Right now, Greenville is ahead.
If you’re feeling the hit of the hard economic situation, Xpress wants to hear from you.
Asheville Chief Financial Officer Ben Durant is resigning to take a job at Elizabeth City State University, meaning the city must now conduct a nationwide search for a new budget point person while it faces a looming $3 to 5-million deficit in the next fiscal year.
It’s Sunshine Week — the annual celebration of freedom of public information. Around the country, journalists, researchers, authors and citizens of many stripes are celebrating our collective right to know what government at all levels does. But at the local level, how much might be too much?
Pick your favorite eatery from the list of more than 20 that are participating. Then grab a table and nosh as usual: 10 percent of your bill will be donated to the Red Cross in support of ongoing relief efforts in Haiti.
See video samples and photos from the 8th annual Asheville Fringe Festival!
A review in pictures of the local rock band’s recent show.
Suttree, Pilgrim and The Awful Decade play the Grey Eagle on Friday.
The renowned painter, whose work hangs at the Asheville Art Museum, was 85.
This year, as the holiday shopping season revs into high gear, Asheville independent merchants have banned together for an Asheville Grown – Buy Local campaign to heighten consumer awareness.
The City of Asheville has released a list of bus routes altered due to road closings during Saturday’s Holiday Parade.
It’s Halloween weekend, and what better way to kick off this week’s video roundup than with a little spooky fun? or maybe ride a plastic tub around a Wal-Mart parking lot … or search for Erwin High School’s ghosts … or hear about doomed love as sung by Now You See Them and Holy Ghost Tent Revival.
Spookyblogapaloozananny is coming, and it’s time to vote for your online-media faves.
In this town, a whole lot can happen in a single day. That’s part of the premise behind the third annual Day in the Life of Asheville community photo project. Starting at noon on Friday, May 22, scores of photographers—pros and amateurs alike—will disperse to varied locales and start snapping away, capturing as many facets […]
After months of debate and $170,000 in taxpayer money, the city of Asheville on Thursday unveiled the final version of the Downtown Master Plan, intended to shape the future direction of downtown economically, culturally and architecturally.
In the fall of 2007, Asheville-based writer and photographer Marty Weil set out to document a year in the life of Asheville by taking a picture a day then posting it to a Web site (www.a-year-in-asheville.com). Along the way, he missed a few days, but when he completed the project this September, he had uploaded […]
Environmental awards have been piling up like fall leaves around here. Xpress thought you might like to know who’s been winning what, and why. Asheville’s got (compressed) gas Eight years ago this month, Mark Combs persuaded Asheville’s City Council to add natural-gas-fueled vehicles to its fleet. The public-works director argued that grants were available for […]
