Day: September 26, 2007
Asheville Film Festival sneak-peek preview
The Asheville Film Festival has announced five more features — Art of Suicide, Her Best Move, Murder Party, Wholetrain and Year of the Fish — that will play at this year’s festival, Nov. 8 to 11. They run the gamut from horror to family film to urban drama. See for yourself: here are the online trailers.
Under One Sky
Under One Sky is a local nonprofit organization dedicated to finding permanent families for older youth in foster care. Through camp-based programming, Under One Sky’s Passages prepares these youth for adoption, teaches them life and work skills, encourages their emotional, intellectual and spiritual growth, and provides them with a consistent, safe and loving community of … Read more
Buncombe County Commissioners
Imaginineering Buncombe: Commissioners David Gantt (left) and David Young pitch ideas during a brainstorming session at last week’s retreat. In the background, Planner Cynthia Barklow takes notes. photo by jonathan welch With little fanfare, the Buncombe County commissioners voted unanimously to cancel Progress Energy’s long-term, dollar-per-year lease of river frontage in Woodfin. Approved Jan. 16, … Read more
Chain reaction
Development always seems to be controversial in Asheville, and with City Council elections looming, that goes double. One particularly hot topic is whether to allow chain stores and “big-box” retailers downtown. The anti-chain gang: City Council candidate Elaine Lite, who’s proposed banning or limiting chain stores in downtown. photos by jonathan welch Candidate Elaine Lite … Read more
Making histories
William Faulkner was undoubtedly thinking of Asheville when he penned his widely quoted aphorism about the past not being past. Thanks to a handful of wealthy investors and a frenzy of borrowing early in the last century, Asheville blossomed. Then, a busted real-estate bubble followed by the Great Depression set the blossom in amber. As … Read more
Tried and true
Few local enterprises have enjoyed the kind of widespread, ongoing support and kudzu-like growth achieved by the nonprofit Organic Growers School. The annual event’s wide-ranging classes and workshops draw enthusiastic, standing-room-only crowds. Each March, upward of 1,000 teachers and students gather for an intensive, daylong exchange of knowledge about organic agriculture. Sheep thrills: The Organic … Read more
