“You’ll buy produce from the person who grew it,” declares Adrianne Gordon, assistant market manager for the Grove Arcade. “We’re not at all flexible on that. She’s talking, of course, about the Mountain Fresh Market, a row of 12 stalls located outside the downtown shopping complex’s south entrance. “The whole idea of public markets is … Read more
Milan, Paris and New York unveiled their spring fashions sometime last autumn, when most of us were busy unearthing our wool sweaters and thermal underwear. But just because we missed the runway fervor doesn’t mean we can’t catch spring-fashion fever in real time at some of Asheville’s newer downtown boutiques. The color of chic Pink … Read more
I brave the boisterous winds of March as cheerfully as the daffodils appear to; I wield my trowel with gratitude and glee. Another spring has cycled round, and with it comes another garden season. When I first began learning how to make vegetable gardens without using pesticides, herbicides or synthetic fertilizers 20 years ago, I … Read more
What was First Lady Laura Bush thinking back in January, inviting a pack of poets to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. while her husband was plotting a war? Poets — and most other writers with a political bent — are an outspoken bunch. They have stuff to say. That’s why they write — and why they appear … Read more
Henry Rollins once threatened to kick my ass. It was a sticky Florida night in 1992. And I was 16 and dumb enough to go banging on his trailer at 2 in the morning. “Those were the years when you didn’t come knocking,” Rollins recalled when I mentioned this bygone event to him recently by … Read more
Viewing productions of Shakespeare in the past, I’ve often found myself distracted and unmoved, more occupied with decoding archaic metaphors than with lovers’ reunions or ghastly regicides. I’ve left theaters wondering whether my lack of interest in the English-speaking world’s most well-established plays was due to my own terminal shallowness — or perhaps to some … Read more
Banff Mountain documentaries are selected to impress even seasoned adventurers. But watching other people soar off mountain peaks at inhuman heights, struggle through thunderous rapids and scale deadly ice and rock doesn’t satisfy local student Joseph Moerschbaecher. “I find myself restless in my seat, wanting to go have my own adventures instead of watching other … Read more
