Flavor: Salvadoran cuisine, with Cuban and Spanish influences Ambiance: Bright, cheery and loud Service: Short-staffed and somewhat lacking in the basics, but pleasant It’s somewhat hard to know what to make of Tomato. The restaurant is now in its second incarnation, having recently morphed from a cocina Italiana to a cocina Latina, and it still … Read more
“Polished music don’t fit my voice,” Loretta Lynn declared in a recent phone interview. Loretta Lynn’s publicist is as dodgy as a groundhog on a garden raid. After almost a half-year’s worth of attempts to interview the comeback country queen — in April for her gig at MerleFest, and this month before her appearance at … Read more
Lifting words from Loretta Lynn’s Jack White-produced, Grammy-gilded 2004 album Van Lear Rose — on which she wrote every song — here’s a call-and-response of sorts, knitted together with Doc Watson’s Third Generation Blues. Watson recorded that 1999 album with his grandson, Richard, on guitar — and thus Van Lear Rose and Third Generation Blues … Read more
When staffers at the Health Adventure wanted to lure a more mature audience to its family-friendly halls, they decided to host a traveling exhibit steeped in 1970s nostalgia. After all, a museum can’t just tap a keg and blare loud music to win adults’ attention. Or can it? For “Retro Night,” a 21-and-over party at … Read more
The plan above was submitted by Scarpa + Pugh of Santa Monica, Calif., working with Eskew + Dumez + Ripple of New Orleans. Some years back, Western Carolina University art professor Brenda Coates had a vision — not as impressive, perhaps, as the epiphany of St. Paul on the road to Damascus, but one that … Read more
Show review Nevada with the Hellsayers at Westville Pub; Thursday, Aug. 4: Four Stars • Genre(s): Indie, Americana • Be glad you stayed home if: You frown upon Cosmic Country traversing into Radiohead or Spiritualized territory. • Defining moment: Nevada’s “Let It Shine” — the second song in the set — barreled out of the … Read more
Brunch at Table: After a successful few months of feeding downtown Asheville, Table is adding brunch to its repertoire. From 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, the restaurant will dish out such fare as Croque Monsieur and dandelion green and potato frittata, while staying true to Table’s fundamentals: seasonal, affordable and pretty … Read more
Few gardeners would turn down an invitation to curl up on a carpet of luminescent moss or refuse an opportunity to run their fingers over a miniature forest of soldierlike spores on a moss-covered log. Few would fail to admire the smooth, verdant covering on a mossy rock. Gardeners with a gentle touch have probably … Read more
It was one of the most contentious issues to confront the Asheville City Council in recent memory. It took two days to get through it, and all the city’s public viewing facilities were jammed with concerned citizens who couldn’t get into the overflowing Council chamber. There were sign-up sheets to handle the crowd of people … Read more
