Chamber of Commerce sets up Web site in Mandarin Chinese
In an attempt to reach a booming market, the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce has set up an economic-development Web site — in Mandarin Chinese.
Day: June 20, 2008
The water squeeze is on
Much of Western North Carolina fell under the two most severe categories of drought — exceptional and extreme — in the June 19 advisory from the U.S. Drought Monitor of North Carolina. And all 100 counties in the state fell under one of the five drought categories, with response actions strongly urged.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: The pleasures and perils of fandom
In many ways, nostalgia’s the key to the annual horror fanfest known as Monster Bash — or at least to a lot of it. But if you stop and think about it, it’s a weird kind of nostalgia once removed. It’s nostalgia for an era of horror pictures that few of us (and fewer all the time) experienced first-hand.
