Day: February 28, 2007
A passion for the pawn: Chess championship in Hendersonville
Think you’re the Sultan of the Stalemate? The King of Castling? The Emperor of en passant? Prepare to have your illusions shattered as the North Carolina Chess Association presents their 2007 U.S. Masters Championship.
Buncombe County Commission
Buncombe County Attorney Joe Connolly chewed on an unlit cigar and shook his head as he left the chamber following the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners’ marathon Feb. 20 session. “That’s the longest one in the time I’ve been here,” he said. A lengthy agenda coupled with massive public opposition to the board’s recent decision … Read more
Small steps to a big payoff
All business: Departing local-business promoter Jim Roberts lays out nine ways for Asheville to increase economic development. On Feb. 17, just two days after his 30th birthday, Mikal Getz hopped in his VW Jetta and motored out of Asheville, perhaps for good. “I may come back here to live in 30 years, when I retire … Read more
The Green Scene
Office Max goes “green” Office Max, one of the nation’s largest office-supply companies, announced a new environmental policy Feb. 19 in the wake of negotiations with The Dogwood Alliance, an Asheville-based nonprofit. The company has agreed to avoid purchasing from paper suppliers that log endangered areas or convert natural forests to industrial pine plantations, and … Read more
Where the stars are only outshone by the sequins
Asheville’s biggest celebrity magnet may not be the film festival or Bele Chere, but a lesser-known attraction that has more or less waltzed under the radar for the past two decades. That is, unless you’re a ballroom-dance fanatic – in which case, you’re probably all too aware of the Heritage Classic Dancesport Championships, held annually … Read more
He gets it
Harry Connick Jr., the jazz crooner better known to Generation Y as the SunCom guy, is impossible to contact. This might be because he doesn’t have “the network” (as emblematized by the other cell phone guy, the one with the nerd glasses), or because he’s so busy doing, well, everything. He just finished a run … Read more
Great White Waynesville
First, see the show info below. Dial the number. Make your reservation. I’ll wait. Haywood Arts Regional Theatre’s production of john & jen is a stunner, with actors Melodie Galloway and Mark Jones delivering nonpareil vocal performances. The show is staged in Waynesville’s Performing Arts Center in the tiny Feichter Studio, a setting that heightens … Read more
