Day: January 31, 2007
Get your whip on
For those of you who like your entertainment a little on the naughty side, The Joli Rouge is hosting Grounded: The Big Nasty Fetish Freak Show on Saturday, Feb. 3 ,starting at 11 p.m.
Asheville City Council
“I can’t move without this [money]. I will end up in a shelter.” – McCormick Heights resident Julie Brown Asheville hasn’t pulled the trigger yet on buying the troubled McCormick Heights housing project, but on Jan. 23, City Council voted 5-1 to allocate up to $120,000 to help displaced residents find new homes. In December, … Read more
Homegrown and growing
Movin’ on up: Mountain BizWorks Communications Manager Rachel Miller and CEO Greg Walker-Wilson discuss the explosive growth of the formerly named Mountain Microenterprise Fund, which,Walker-Wilson says, is no longer “micro.” photos by Jonathan Welch Walter and Wendy Harrill left stressful careers in medical technology to raise blueberries and raspberries on a farm in Fairview. And … Read more
Buzzworm news briefs
Public-transit ninja blogger strikes again A warrior against smog: Paul Van Heden of Brainshrub.com uses his blog to get more people on the bus. photo by Jonathan Welch The Internet is a slippery thing, isolating some people while inspiring unlikely connections among others. Some 2 million Chinese teenagers are addicted to it, according to a … Read more
Romeo by many other names
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? When the question is posed at an Aquila Theatre Company production, the answer is because thine name was plucked from a hat. The acclaimed New York-based theater company is now touring a star-crossed version of Romeo and Juliet in which the casting is determined by the drawing of lots: … Read more
Not just any given Sunday
Let’s face it: Sports metaphors are overused in journalism. The touchdown/field-goal/home-run cliches ring all too familiar. Rest assured that in this piece, we will not need to resort to such methods. Any time we mention football, we will actually be talking about … football. And so, speaking of football … one has to wonder, during … Read more
Smiling off to war
Gut-wrenching war narratives they’re not. However, Pavel Amromin’s cherubic, puppy-faced porcelain figures say as much about the subject as Goya’s famously visceral “Executions on the Third of May” or K/Sthe Kollwitz’s tragic “Widows and Orphans.” Sure, the sculptor has (quite literally) glossed over the grimness, but with good reason—and with exquisite results. In his artist’s … Read more
Gallery Gossip
â¢*Talk about collaboration! There’s big excitement at UNCA about the enormous mural being installed in the cafeteria. Word is that at least 40 artists worked on the project over the last two years. ⢠Watch for Robert Godfrey’s new paintings, collectively called Silly Talk, to be shown locally in the spring. He hasn’t lost his … Read more
