Breakfast for dinner: One of West Asheville’s most successful breakfast/lunch joints is now offering dinner. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, the Sunny Point CafZ’ and Bakery is now serving such goods as smoked duck with blackberry barbecue sauce, sesame-seared mountain trout and veggie options. Fear not, Sunny Point breakfast devotees: You can still enjoy … Read more
Flavor: MediterraneanAmbiance: Sleekly — but warmly — urbanService: Attentive, knowledgeable, professional Rezaz is one of those places that invariably pops into my head when a visitor to Asheville asks me where to go to dinner. The restaurant is exotic yet approachable, inexpensive for the quality of the food, and generally performs beautifully as a whole, … Read more
Skeletons in the jukebox “Skeletons” provides a forum for local musicians, artists, record-store owners, etc., to erase cool points by expressing their unseemly affection for an unhip album from their past. Hall and Oates’ Voices, by singer/songwriter Joel Underwood “The early ’80s in the urban South were a confusing time for a young man. How … Read more
A while back, Ani DiFranco and Utah Phillips teamed up to produce The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere — and proceeded to prove it by interweaving Phillips’ tales with dub beats, scratching and tape loops to reframe Wobbly radicalism in a newer genre. History is replete with lessons, they reminded us, forgotten at our peril — … Read more
I’m still walking the ragged trail of breadcrumbs left by Reigning Sound kingpin Greg Cartwright, playing catch up: I only recently learned the man relocated to Asheville last year. It was also last year that cerebral UK rock mag Mojo, while allotting other new albums a mere fingernail of space, gave red-carpet treatment to Reigning … Read more
With the advent of reality TV and the latest push of talent and game shows, it seems entertainment is about to meet itself coming around the corner. See, back before there was an idiot box in every living room, audiences flocked to the theater for their dose of distraction. And from the 1880s through the … Read more
All events are on the Main Stage unless otherwise noted. Friday • Ruby Mayfield (soul), Noon• Toubab Krewe (Afrobeat), 2 p.m.• Welcome & Drum Circle, 5 p.m.• Mandorico (Latin ska), 5:30 p.m.• Sandy B & the All-Stars (Motown & soul), 8 p.m.• Recorded music, 10 p.m. Saturday • Recorded music, 11:30 a.m.• Activities and entertainment … Read more
