Lo-fi pioneer Bill Callahan comes to the Grey Eagle tomorrow, on the wings of his latest record, the lovely Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle. Before we knew that local group (the also lo-fi and lovely) Pilgrim would be opening for Callahan, we asked frontman Jaye Bartell to e-interview Callahan. They’ll likely speak in person soon.
A federal indictment against Asheville resident William Kevin Innes and other officials from the Liberty Dollar private currency operation alleges that they were trying to compete with — and replace — official U.S. currency while making a profit. Innes faces up to 45 years in jail if convicted on the charges.
In this indictment, Asheville resident William Kevin Innes, the regional head of the Liberty Dollar private currency operation is charged with counts of fraud and a conspiracy to circulate coins resembling official U.S. currency. Innes is charged along with Liberty Dollar creator Bernard Von NotHaus and two Liberty Dollar employees. Download a PDF of the … Read more
Last week offered us one truly wonderful film, The Brothers Bloom, one very good film, Sugar, and a lot of other things that are mostly best not spoken of. Well, those two mentioned remain in theaters this week, as, unfortunately, do all the others. But they’re joined by one truly remarkable film, Goodbye Solo (see review in Wednesday’s Xpress), that was shot in Winston-Salem and Blowing Rock, N.C., by Winston-Salem-born filmmaker Ramin Bahrani.
