Under one roof: S&W Market debuts new food hall
- Volume 27
- / Issue 46
Cover Design Credit:
Scott Southwick
Cover Photography Credit:
Ellington Realty Group
Two of Asheville’s most enduring art deco architectural masterpieces — the Grove Arcade and S&W Building — are bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic as vibrant community gathering spots. Food and drink are the key ingredients, with 18 locally owned hospitality businesses soon to be open across the two buildings.
arts
Local board game designers unite
Local board game designers team up to create new adventures.Around town: New music series brings the love of vinyl to the South Slope
Lonesome Station music series partners with American Vinyl Co. for a new music series. Plus, two exhibits celebrate Juneteenth all month long; the return of the Blue Ridge Orchestra; and…
food
What’s new in food: Queens on the stage, chefs on the move and cider meets cheese
Asheville Drag Brunch is back, Session Café & Bar gets a new chef de cuisine, Steve Goff takes over the kitchen at Jargon and more local food news.Two downtown historic buildings emerge as dining destinations
As Asheville businesses begin to resurface from the crushing effects of COVID-19, the S&W Building and the Grove Arcade are being reimagined as vibrant, food-focused community gathering spots.
living
WNC health care providers work to cut opioid prescriptions
Drug abuse changed during the 13 years that Adam McIssac has been working as a drug and alcohol counselor in Asheville. At the beginning, McIssac mostly saw clients who were…
movies-reviews
New documentary dispels myths about moonshining
Local filmmaker David Weintraub examines the history of moonshine in his latest documentary, The Spirits Still Move Them.
news
Asheville Archives: City residents bemoan increasing traffic, 1925
In 1925, as more motorists flooded the roads, local residents sought solutions to the city's growing traffic problems.Q&A with Chief District Court Judge J. Calvin Hill
In June 1995, a young lawyer named J. Calvin Hill parked his car in downtown Asheville and walked toward the Buncombe County Courthouse. Hill, who had been working for several…Green in brief: Solarize reaches lowest pricing for community solar
The Solarize rate of $2.45 per watt of electricity generation is roughly 9% cheaper than the statewide average of $2.67 per watt listed by EnergySage, an industry website. The program,…Low-barrier shelter may fill temporary housing gaps
Newly formed Asheville nonprofit Accessing Needed Crisis and Critical Help Outreach and Resources is proposing a low-barrier, high-access shelter that would forego many of the usual rules for tenants. Start-up…Edwards flips on Buncombe occupancy tax reform
At a June 10 meeting of the Council of Independent Business Owners, Republican Sen. Chuck Edwards said he had “come around to the way of thinking of the folks in…Asheville budget hearing draws a crowd
As in previous years, members of the public both applauded the city for funding long-promised initiatives, such as the 2018 Transit Master Plan and increases to firefighter pay, and voiced…
opinion
Letter: Gym has offered safe, supportive environment during pandemic
"ACM has always been about more than gymnastics, and this past year, that has mattered more than ever."Letter: Asheville High School’s COVID-19 schedule
"Under the new in-class program, Angela goes to school and goes to her hub, where she stays all day. In her hub, she takes first-period art online (she has her…Letter: Charlotte Street development won’t destroy neighborhood
"The development is to be built on a main road, in the middle of a long-established commercial strip; it will not destroy some quiet neighborhood."Letter: Charlotte Street development: Your quiet street is next
"Every visionary city plan with citizen input here was created exactly to prevent this type of intrusion and destruction."Asheville needs less shouting, more listening
"Each segment of the community is yelling at the elected officials to promote its particular point of view, but there’s no structure for helping us all listen to one another…Letter: Hoping that Asheville isn’t ‘sold out’
"I love the area, and there is a great deal of room, just not necessarily 'in Asheville,' but all surrounding areas."Letter: Is Asheville ‘sold out’?
"Once a lovely, quaint town, it is overdeveloped."Bin barrister
Letter: Asheville, we need to invest in ourselves
"We need to invest in ourselves — pay living wages, build or convert affordable housing, expand public transportation, house the homeless, focus spending on the people who live here."Letter: Goodbye, once-beautiful Asheville
"We moved here 10 years ago, but between the nasty-ass tourists and the ridiculously bad crime rate per capita, we also have decided to move away."Letter: Will marketing make us ‘Myrtle Beach of the Mountains’?
"Isn’t this like telling a family of eight living in a two-room house that you’re persuading a couple of baseball teams to move in with them?"Wrap battles
Letter: Asheville is missing the Good Neighbor clause
"The debate over impact is ongoing, so maybe the question is how many are too much; the only thing going forth and multiplying harmoniously is the virus."Letter: See (the new) Rock City
"What a great opportunity for Asheville and the Chamber of Commerce to pronounce Asheville as Rock City, N.C., in competition with Rock City, Tenn."
