In case you haven’t heard, the Asheville arts world is all a-twitter (sorry) about HATCHfest (www.ashevillehatchfest.org), a proposed multidisciplinary networking convention to be held next year. Arts luminaries came out of the woodwork for a Hatchfest preview party at Echo Mountain Recording Studio (14 N. French Broad Ave., Asheville), representing music, technology and literary and … Read more
Flavor: Warm and cozy continental Ambiance: Neighborhood watering hole for the hippest of neighbors I’m quite sure I’d have to surrender my alternative-press credentials if I didn’t like The Admiral. The Admiral, the snug little gastropub that suddenly materialized late last year across the street from BJ’s convenience store on Haywood Road, probably hews more … Read more
Apart from the materials they’re made of—carbon-fiber, titanium, aluminum, steel, synthetic rubber, vinyl, Teflon—today’s bicycles are strangely unchanged from those of a century ago. If you doubt it, consider the picture of the 1899 Quad Stay Eagle on this page: Didn’t someone pass you on that thing last weekend at Carrier Park? Tried and true: … Read more
Early birds get the organic worms, with a reduced registration fee for the 15th annual Organic Growers School in Flat Rock available through the end of the month. The March 8 event includes 69 different sessions on topics such as heirloom tomatoes, passive-solar greenhouse design and pastured-lamb production. In addition to the workshops, programming includes … Read more
The sociability of the long-distance runner: Interested in making your long runs in the company of others? Henderson County YMCA’s Greg Walker has organized Sunday runs at Lake Summit in Tuxedo. Join for fellowship and the support of fellow running styles: eight-minute, nine-minute and 10-minute mile pace groups are represented. Most of the running takes … Read more
In the spirit of full disclosure, I must tell you that I’ve always loved music. My mother played the piano in our home, and we who could carry a tune sang with her. I progressed from soprano to alto at about the sixth grade, to tenor for a week or two in middle school, and … Read more
Our televisions are filled with shows about psychics, prophets and mystics. Do we realize that these are about real people or think them only as fictitious stories? When will we learn to utilize the talents of these people? I am a mystic intuitive, foreseer of many future events. [I am the] inventor of glow-in-the dark … Read more
In the Jan. 30 issue, Luc Joel Levin writes from personal experience of the ecological losses being suffered in his native land due to global warming [“Footprints in the (Lack of) Snow,” Letters]. There is no doubt that global warming is occurring. Calling it climate change seems to be in vogue. Unfortunately this seems to … Read more
This letter is to the well-off looking couple driving the green SUV, whose N.C. license-plate number I recorded. I’m the owner of the red Honda Element that you rear-ended coming off I-240 West onto Merrimon Avenue at 2:11 p.m. on Saturday, Feb 2—and that you saw fit to drive past, staring, even though I pulled … Read more
There’s been some debate lately about highway blogging: It seems to crowd our sidewalks while distracting our drivers, and for this travesty, uncertain laws against these acts have been selectively enforced. “If demonstrators aren’t impeding foot or vehicle traffic or endangering anyone, then they are supposed to be left alone,” said Chief Hogan. Here are … Read more
