Day: July 16, 2008
Small Bites
Photo By Jonathan Welch Birdhouse Café: Mike and Sharon Malone, who’ve catered locally under the name My Thyme is Your Thyme for the last seven years, have opened a retail shop in the former Green Apple Café location at 418 McDowell St. in Asheville. Birdhouse Café and Sweet Shop is serving sandwiches, paninis and salads … Read more
Garden Journal
Save the date: Asheville-based author Cecil Bothwell will read from his new book, Garden My Heart: Organic Strategies for Backyard Sustainability, at Malaprop’s bookstore in downtown Asheville on Saturday, Aug. 2, at 7 p.m. Malaprop’s calls the book “a guide through the seasons and the weeds, with ideas about edible landscaping and vermiculture, backyard ponds … Read more
Outdoor Journal
Read all about it: Charleston, S.C.-based publisher The History Press has just released Will Leverette’s new book, Waterwise: A History of Paddling in Western North Carolina. Beautifully produced and full of fascinating information about the birth and development of whitewater paddling in the region, the book is available from local booksellers as well as online … Read more
Brain man
Depending on whom you ask, Fletcher-based neurosurgeon Michael J. Rosner is either a skull-shaving savior or a shameless opportunist who’s needlessly operating on patients desperate for a cure. Dr. Michael J. Rosner has operated on hundreds of patients to remove bits of bone at the base of the skull and along the spinal cord — … Read more
Local Flavor: Tennessee Hollow and Johnson’s Crossroad
It’s not quite the weekend, but close to it. A breezy Thursday night beckons music lovers to West Asheville’s Rocket Club. Several drinks and many songs later, patrons will trickle out into the dark street, fortified for the last workday of the week. But for now, the crowd lounges on brightly colored stools, or stands … Read more
Speak now on future stream impacts
During the Buncombe County commissioners’ Fairview forum in May, the The Cliffs at High Carolina presented a perfect opportunity for a win-win situation. The Cliffs wants to build a perfect, “green” golf course, using the name and reputation of Tiger Woods to demonstrate it. Commissioner Carol Peterson assured me that she will do everything possible … Read more
Gas prices require better solutions
As Americans face the stark reality of skyrocketing energy costs, we must look for long-term solutions rather than short-term fixes that exacerbate the problem. Recently, our Sens. Dole and Burr both supported the new Gas Price Reduction Act of 2008, which proposes to lower gas prices by increasing off-shore oil drilling and enabling fuel production … Read more
Blowing in the wind
I have heard several of the political pundits yammer about the windfall-profits tax, which ostensibly would penalize oil companies. These folks don’t seem to recall what happened the last time such a bill was passed by our federal government. Jimmy Carter’s keystone national energy policy was a similar windfall-profits tax bill. It didn’t work then, … Read more
APD joins county’s anticrime team
The Asheville Police Department is joining the Buncombe County Anti-Crime Team, Chief Bill Hogan and Sheriff Van Duncan announced July 7. In 2004, the APD pulled out of the Metropolitan Enforcement Group, a joint antidrug task force involving the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Department and other local law-enforcement agencies. At the time, APD officials said that … Read more
