Day: June 19, 2010
Asheville’s First Annual Brew Off **UPDATED WITH VIDEO INTERVIEWS!
Asheville’s First Annual Brew Off — a Home Brew Competition, benefiting Just Economics. Mountain Xpress’s own Alli Marshall was a celebrity judge. The drunken event fine beer tasting was held in The Wedge parking lot from 2-4 Saturday afternoon. There’s a photo slideshow and video segment after the jump.
Photo by Zen Sutherland, http://www.flickr.com/photos/zen/
Busk Break: Mick Stone
Street magician Mick Stone wowed the crowds in the blazing hot sun on Friday, doing some very cool prestidigitation. Xpress caught a few moments of his act.
Storytelling in the Park (updated with more pictures & video)
Asheville resident Becky Lehman listens intently as Master Storyteller David Novak opens the first of a summer-long series called “Stories on Asheville’s Front Porch.” The events are free and take place every Saturday (except July 24 for Bele Chere) from 10:30 until 11:30 in Reuter Terrace in Pack Square Park. The events are free.
Review of Shakespeare’s King Lear at Montford Park
On opening night of King Lear at Montford Park, the foolish king cursed his daughter to the sputtering drone of bark being shredded, and later as he bewailed her death, fireworks boomed and crackled patriotically in the near distance. And it all made sense in a weird kind of way: for is Lear not shredding the branches of his own family tree? And is his repentance not cause for grim and sparkly celebration?
