“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.” –John Milton Review The Cock’s Spur, by Charles F. Price (John F. Blair, Publisher, 2000, 303 pages, $19.95) The Cock’s Spur is a much bigger novel than its 300-plus pages. It’s also perhaps … Read more
The prevalent interpretation of quantum physics suggests that the universe is filled with — perhaps even made of — elemental, creative “stuff.” Processed through the filters of humanity — ego, experience, mind, physiology — this stuff becomes reality. People who channel it consciously are artists. Twenty-five-year-old Jacob Holmes is one of these people. Just ask … Read more
Words in italics are those of Michael Chorney, saxophonist and founding member of viperHouse. I drove 840 miles on Nov. 10 — from Shelby, N.C., to Rochester, N.Y.’s Water Street Music Hall — to get an injection of viperosity, as served up by the crew of the interstellar-discoball-of-funk-and-jazz mothership known as viperHouse. If cosmic grooves … Read more
“Cherokee” Joe — a man so tall the top of his cowboy hat almost blocked the view of the fire-exit sign posted over the door — stood in the dining room of the condemned house, summing things up for himself and the other residents of 135 Merrimon Ave.: “This old house ain’t much, but it’s all they got.”
A government must protect its citizens. In principle, this tenet seems simple enough. The practical application, on the other hand, is anything but. At the Nov. 28 regular Asheville City Council meeting, theory met reality in the form of a public hearing on whether to order a Merrimon Avenue boarding house vacated and closed. Multiple … Read more
Kudos to Charter Hospital’s Dr. Kim Masters A serious repercussion of Charter Hospital closing is the loss of Dr. Kim Masters, who has been Charter’s leading child psychiatrist for many years. For the last five years, Dr. Masters has served as our child’s psychiatrist during hospitalizations, and on an outpatient basis. He is one of … Read more
I must admit I was prepped for high drama when I drove Tunnel Road East last week, turning left into the living maze that the NCDOT created when it decided to straighten out the traffic coming down South Tunnel Road and into the Asheville Mall. As is the case when confronting a nest of rattlers, … Read more
