Orange Peel marketing director Liz Whalen gives Justin Perkins and Teal Brown of Toubab Krewe a sneak peak of the venue’s new members-only liquor bar, PULP. PULP will be open for the first time during Toubab Krewe’s two-night New Year’s Eve run (Dec. 30 to 31). Video by Jake Frankel for Mountain Xpress.
It’s a light week, entertainment-wise, because most of you will be hangin with the fam, OD-ing on eggnog and watching “A Christmas Story” on repeat. But, rest assured, before anyone’s eye gets put out with a Red Ryder BB gun, there are local shows in the works. At budget prices. And yes, Virginia, even on Christmas night. (Bonus: Dawn of the Dude — pictured — plays a not-to-be-missed farewell show.)
Racial profiling — or even just the possibility of it — by those charged with upholding the law is an extremely sensitive issue, involving questions of potential prejudice, abuse of power and hidden motives. For law-enforcement personnel, trying to gauge whether illegal activity is taking place — often in stressful or ambiguous situations with the … Read more
Sidewalk ordinance gets upgrade City champions recognized The final Council meeting in an election year is bound to be a curious beast. Even as new Council members are brought in, the holiday break looms; it's also the last chance to tackle anything that has to be addressed before the end of the calendar year. And … Read more
It's time to toss that boring calendar from '09 that you packed full of lunch dates, soccer practices and yoga classes, and to keep the date in the new decade with style. For several years, Xpress has being doing a roundup of local calendars, but never before have there been quite so many cool ones … Read more
When Ryan Ford arrived in New York City nearly four years ago, he carried only a backpack of clothes and $300 in his pocket. Ford, a painter who has shown his work widely in the WNC area, had decided to move to the Big Apple in an effort to take his art more seriously. "New … Read more
No matter how you look at it, 2009 was a weird year. For some it was downright trying, while for others it ranked up there among the best 12 months ever. The latter group just happens to include a number of local musicians who — despite a dwindling recording industry — managed to put out … Read more
I've spent the last year mapping the junker's geography – his haunts, her habits, my priorities. Over the course of the next year I'll be attempting to set down some lessons learned while traveling the junkscape. These lessons are based on my own and others' experiences in the field, usually the failures, as a) you … Read more
When I was in journalism school a decade ago, we scrambled to keep up with advances in our field, many of them technological: digital cameras, Web-based research and publishing, and the like. But we were still following the same underlying model that had driven our profession for more than a century: We were the experts, … Read more
