It’s a plaid, plaid world While the Scots may not be renowned for their fashion sense (well, they did give us kilts, Harris tweed and the very stylish Sean Connery), revelers at the recently held Scottish Highland Games in Hendersonville proved there’s plenty to be done with plaid. This week, Top Drawer presents variations on … Read more
Competitive eaters know training the belly is the key to overindulgence. So if you’d like to gear up for tomorrow’s Thanksgiving feast, consider heading over to the Charlotte Street Grill & Pub today for its 30th anniversary celebration, where original menu items will be available at 1976 prices. When Steven Brady opened “The Pub” at … Read more
A Pug For All Seasons What’s the first word that comes to your mind when I tell you that there’s a new children’s holiday book coming out featuring a cute dog and her canine pals who help Santa save Christmas? Chances are, the word is “lame.” If it were any other book you’d be right, … Read more
They may not be old enough to vote, but the kids in Lose This Gun still have the right to rock. Now, if there was only a place … Rock ‘n’ roll has come a long way in its 50-odd years on the planet. Souls have been sold to it, cities have been built on … Read more
A zine by any other name: Lo-fi publishing has become high art. In the age of instant messaging, communicating with glue may seem downright archaic. But an exhibit at Asheville Book Works proves the zine, with its hand-pasted collages of images and text, is alive and well. Book Works owner Laurie Corral says that while … Read more
Is David Wilcox’s once-driven songwriting now set on cruise control? It was probably spring and almost certainly 1988, when I stepped up to David Wilcox after a show at Montreat College and told him, “The Nightshift Watchman is my favorite folk album.” He beamed. Maybe it was the first time anyone had told him that … Read more
DJ Supervision uses MySpace to share his sonic experiments with others. “I have about [2,500] friends on my solo page and I try to take the time to get to each of them and leave a very personal message,” explains singer-songwriter Jeff Zentner. A recent transplant to Asheville, the musician has, up until now, been … Read more
• As frequently seems to happen here, some of the most interesting recent exhibitions have been found in venues other than the galleries: Hannah Dansie’s work at the Clingman Cafe utilized vintage fabric and stitching as a surface for mysterious images, and Lou Majors showed big, colorful, abstract paintings at Ananda Hair Studio. • OK, … Read more
The red-pen special There was a time when development “master plans” submitted to the Buncombe County Planning Department received consideration whether or not they merited a first glance from the department’s staff. With a shy grin and a shrug of the shoulders, a developer could hand over a blueprint for a project that failed to … Read more
