Celebrating the second LEAF Downtown festival with musical performances, festival vendors and attendees.

Celebrating the second LEAF Downtown festival with musical performances, festival vendors and attendees.
The sprawling folk-rock collective played Thomas Wolfe Auditorium last week. Photos by John Zara.
No presents from Santa this year – just a serious beat down at Hendersonville’s High Velocity Wrestling.
About 30 people gathered outside the downtown Asheville Post Office Sept. 27 to rally against possible cuts to the U.S. Postal Service and the local facility. Photo by Jonathan Welch
Photos from the opening night of the NC Mountain State Fair at the WNC Agricultural Center.
Photo by Jonathan Welch
When Manoj Lama traveled to Nepal in April on a buying trip for his downtown Asheville shop, he didn’t expect to wind up atop Gokyo Ri, a 17,575-foot Himalayan peak.
Watch a slideshow of some of LAAFF’s most stylish attendees.
Dozens of people came out in the rain for Train History Day at the Cradle of Forestry on Saturday. Visitors, ranging from ages eight to 90, blew the whistle and rang the bell of a 1915 Climax logging train.
Check out a two-minute audio slideshow to hear for yourself.
Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack packs some major heat. The revered fried chicken house re-opened to a packed house in a greatly expanded space on Patton Ave last night.Xpress has some photos of the private event.
Photos by Toby Maurer
Xpress snapped pictures of a lot of lovers at the first Big Love fest, a day of all-local festivities that we’d say was a Big Success. Also, check out the video.