For a small Southern city, Asheville has quite a diverse collection of schools (and pre-schools) for parents to consider. In addition to your traditional public schools and classical private, college-prep institutions, there are arts- and environment-based charter schools, magnet schools, family in-home daycares and Montessori schools that stress learning and hands-on experiences as opposed to … Read more
Flavor: Mainstream Thai classics Ambiance: More King & I than downtown Bangkok Some towns have all the luck. When a town’s school cafeteria’s versions of Italian, Chinese and Mexican classics rivals its restaurant row for wild exoticism, despairing local eaters generally give up on quality and start saying silent prayers for quantity. Even their most … Read more
Everybody does it, some more than others, but it takes a certain nonchalance to do the doo in the woods. Heck, a lot of people shudder at the mere thought of having to make do with a funky public restroom. Photo By Christian Gilbert And though all of us have sometimes mimicked other animals’ behavior—flapping … Read more
‘Cue hounds in Asheville know Arden is a local porcine paradise, with Sweeten Creek Road our regional equivalent of Memphis or Kansas City. And now the current biggest name in Buncombe County barbecue is set to take up residence on the strip: 12 Bones Smokehouse is opening its second area location in a former gas … Read more
Drawing on nature: Starting early next month, Warren Wilson College will exhibit Konrad Zoll’s “Visual Notes from the Appalachian Trail,” a collection of landscape sketches and natural-history details made along the fabled hiking path. Zoll’s work will be on display from Feb. 8 to March 26 at the college’s Elizabeth Holden Gallery. An opening reception, … Read more
Just one year ago, … thoughts of having Hillary and Bill Clinton back in the White House provoked excitement, [and] Hillary was the overwhelming choice. [But] as 2007 progressed … [and] Hillary didn’t succumb to liberal pressures, the angry left embarked on a Hillary-abolishment crusade. By mid-2007, anti-Hillary liberals found their revenge: Barack Obama. Obviously, … Read more
I’m all for more democracy and dialogue. However, I might take exception to Xpress dignifying with front-page publicity the mid-19th century, gutter-level discourse that the Carolina Stompers represent [“Fighting Mad,” Dec. 5, 2007]. A friend of mine brought up an interesting point: Considering the rich, dignified and multifarious history of worthwhile activist organizations in Asheville, … Read more
Only in America would people be able to soothe their guilty consciences by the purchase of the “carbon offset.” The idea is a complete joke. If people realize that what they are doing is bad for the environment and they are concerned about it, then not polluting is the correct choice. Flying is a luxury, … Read more
Why did Mountain X‘s writer [”The Long Goodbye,” Jan. 9] attempt to intimidate Reid Thompson by publishing his official criminal background information? Who inspired Jonathan Barnard, the writer of the article surveying Reid Thompson’s battle with Greenlife Grocery, to include Mr. Thompson’s criminal-records information? I don’t see that his record is pertinent to his complaints … Read more
Carbon footprint? I am so sick of hearing this phrase lately. When did this term become a part of our language? Did I miss something? By using this term, we are agreeing with the language of the liberals who want us to believe that humans have created global warming. By even asking what our carbon … Read more
