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Remembering Wally Bowen: Asheville’s media MVP
By Bill Branyon | “He never — and I do mean never ever — complained of his plight. His joie de vivre remained intense, and our talks about sports, literature and politics passionate.”
Letter writer: Xpress editors and your critics: How big are your shoes?
“I want to start off by saying that I don’t read the Mountain Xpress very much. I have better things to do.”
One king to rule them all: Best Of voting has begun
Starting at noon on Tuesday, April 7, residents, visitors and the noblemen and women of Western North Carolina may cast their votes in a democratic election, naming the kings and queens of the annual Mountain Xpress Best Of Awards.
Letter writer: Mountain Xpress website suppresses free speech
“I realize that most of the Mountain Xpress readers are oblivious to the amount of censorship that occurs on the Mountain Xpress website affecting commenters of the opinion letters.”
Xpress invites Bringing It Home conference attendees to help document the day
This Wednesday’s inaugural Bringing it Home economic conference aims to break new ground, and so does Xpress with its community-based approach to covering the event via tweets by both journalists and attendees at the conference.
Local goes global: Reporter Jake Frankel departs Xpress
After a five-year run at Xpress that was filled with accomplishments and accolades, Jake Frankel will be leaving soon to accept a position as Executive Editor of The Prem Rawat Foundation, a nonprofit that works to improve lives around the world.
Twenty years ago, Mountain Xpress launched
In the Aug. 27 issue, we looked back at Mountain Xpress in the ’90s — the paper’s first years. Who produced it? Why did they do it? What difference did it make? For answers, we turned both to former staffers and to civic activists.
Happy Birthday Xpress: Seeking your views on Asheville in the ’90s
Do you remember Asheville in the the ’90s, when Mountain Xpress was launched 20 years ago this summer? When… There wasn’t a parking problem downtown? Xpress‘ weekly issues were just 24 pages? Area club listings took about one page, compared to four pages nowadays? The only place to get a bite to eat downtown after […]
Best Of WNC: The voting has begun
Walking down Haywood Road (or Biltmore) (or Lexington), you stop by your usual hangout. Nearly everyone there greets you by name, and the tourists in the corner booth ask about your latest jaunt up the Blue Ridge Parkway. Your waitress asks, “The usual?” as she sets your favorite Asheville-brewed IPA down on your table. This […]
Welcome to new ‘Mountain Xpress’ website
Let us know what you think: Send your feedback feedback@mountainx.com.
Toward a better Big Ideas timeline
In order to create a Big Ideas timeline that represents the diverse history of Asheville, Xpress invites the community to submit the big ideas that they feel have shaped the city and area we live in today.
Co-Managing Editor, A&E Editor Rebecca Sulock to leave Xpress
After five years of arts coverage, editing and leadership, Co-Managing Editor and Arts & Entertainment Editor Rebecca Sulock announced this week that she will be leaving Mountain Xpress.
Sage advice
I am disappointed and a bit puzzled about your recent format/font change for Mountain Xpress. Articles and regular features that used to be typeset in a variety of interesting fonts now have a plain, vanilla uniformity. It’s very homogenized and not very interesting. Your publication that used to be visually engaging is now pretty lifeless. […]
Xpress contributing editor Nelda Holder arrested after participating in Raleigh protest
After protesting the policies of North Carolina’s Republican legislators, freelance state government reporter and contributing editor for Xpress Nelda Holder was charged with second-degree trespassing. Consequently, she says she acknowledges the larger implications the arrest has for her as a journalist and her work for the Asheville-based publication.
From the driver’s seat: Deer and snow on Xpress route 7
Every Wednesday, local author Leland Davis delivers the latest Mountain Xpress issues to north Buncombe, Yancey and Madison counties — a run that we dub “route 7.” Here’s a recent scene, captured from the driver’s seat, so to speak.
Xpress designers win six best ad awards
With six awards, Xpress designers received statewide recognition recently when it came to their creative ad designs. The accolades came from the North Carolina Press Association’s 2012 Best Ad Contest.
Cruelty is cruelty: Foie gras production is factory farming
Local vegetarian and activist Stewart David responds to the recent news that Jonathan Ammon’s commentary “Foie Gras Ban a Waste of Energy” was one of the most-read stories of 2012 on mountainx.com.
Lord save us from crypto-fascist liberals
Over the past decade I've seen so many stupid, silly, off-the-wall letters published in Mountain Xpress that I've come to think of Letters as a slight variation of the “News of the Weird” section. But nothing — nothing — has ever come close to the lead-off Oct. 3 letter, “Et Tu, Xpress?” The writer, objecting […]
Et tu, Xpress?
I have been an ardent admirer of the Mountain Xpress since I moved to Asheville in 1993. I've submitted letters and opinion pieces, which you've graciously published. I read it religiously, as I know many folks do, from end to end: First the letters (OK, I might glance down to check out who the author […]
Thanks for welcoming visitors and giving us information we need
Thank you, thank you for keeping a frequent visitor of Asheville in the know. I'm not a "tourist." Even though I don't live in Asheville, I visit frequently enough that this feels like my second home. So, the first thing (OK, maybe the second thing, after I get my hands on a chicken sandwich from […]