“We’re not proselytizing,” insists Desirae Brown, one of The 5 Browns’ quintet of pianists who will open this year’s Brevard Music Festival. “But people ask what makes us happy, and our faith is a big thing.” The Brown siblings, ranging in age from 20 to 27, could be classical music’s answer to the Osmonds — … Read more
Earth Fare is opening a new South Asheville location at 1856 Hendersonville Road. To celebrate, the store will host a benefit party for local nonprofit Quality Forward on Tuesday, June 20, from 6 to 8 p.m. Troy Degroff, the store’s director of sales and marketing, thinks that Earth Fare and Quality Forward are “perfect partners,” … Read more
Flavor: Upscale Southern/low country cuisineAmbiance: Historic building with funky accents, comfortable spiritService: Friendly and prompt According to the long-suffering Jacob A. Melton, who visited Hot Springs in the early 1900s, his rheumatism, though not affected by his costly arsenal of medication, was cured by soaking in and imbibing the Hot Springs mineral water. In a … Read more
More Than Just Gamecocks And A Crappy Mall This is the true story of four Carolina artists, picked to live and work in a renovated 1920s Cadillac store in downtown Spartanburg and find out what happens when art stops being polite and starts getting real. While this may not be the official tagline to the … Read more
• The current exhibit at Asheville Area Arts Council’s Front Gallery features another of Skip Rohde’s wonderful satirical paintings about the Bush administration. This one has Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice in NASCAR drag. (Japan will be the theme for July at Front Gallery. Along with exhibits of work by Japanese artists, there will be tea … Read more
Sign language not required: Todd Barry Comedian Todd Barry is playing the Grey Eagle this weekend in a pretty newsy appearance: The Clingman Avenue music hall has never before hosted a comic act. But in talking with Barry, one wonders whether the best venue for his material is instead his own mind. Barry, whose dry-as-sawdust … Read more
Nothing else to do: Band of Horses The Pacific Northwest’s Blue Mountains are an appropriately impressive backdrop to catch up with Band of Horses’ front man and songwriter, Ben Bridwell. After all, Horses’ critically acclaimed debut, Everything All the Time, seems custom-built for the Northwest’s majestic scenery, boasting epic rock songs steeped in mile-high reverb. … Read more
