Day: June 16, 2010
Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies: The Unbearable Lightness of the A-Team
This week, Hanke and Souther: share their views on The Karate Kid, The A-Team, The Secret in Their Eyes, Please Give and Survival of the Dead; explain why The Sentinel isn’t as gory as you may have heard; make the case for the classic Howard Hawks comedy The Twentieth Century; and express a deflated optimism about soon-to-open flicks Toy Story 3 and Jonah Hex.
Asheville City Council: In the buff(er)
Asheville City Council meeting June 8, 2010 City endorses public financing for local elections Social gathering or illegal meeting? By the end of their June 8 meeting, Asheville City Council members may have grown tired of hearing the word "buffer." The city's ad hoc Watershed Committee, which had drafted a new storm-water ordinance, was divided … Read more
Not on my street
Grovemont residents' outcry concerning a planned nursing home for veterans seems to be getting results. The 100-bed facility, to be financed mostly by federal stimulus funds, is slated for construction on state property adjacent to Camp Woodson in Swannanoa; the original plan called for the entrance to be built on Woodland Drive. For the past … Read more
A breakfast brouhaha
The Council of Independent Business Owners may be one of Buncombe County's best organized, most influential groups. Formed decades ago to represent local business interests (and, some say, to counterbalance the more progressive Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce), CIBO has succeeded in getting its members deeply involved in local issues — largely by running for … Read more
