The Asheville Citizen-Times' John Boyle continues to cover the bear beat. In a front-page story last week, "Second Goat Falls Prey to Marauding Bear in East Asheville," he writes that "for the second time in a week, an east Asheville resident has reported a bear snatching and killing a goat — just feet from the … Read more
It's time once again to put together a team and "yacht" for RiverLink's annual raft race, one of the many activities planned for RiverFest 2010. The event is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 14, from noon until 6 p.m., at French Broad River Park. The registration deadline for yachts is Wednesday, Aug. 11. Huck Finn's kind … Read more
Task Mania, the first business to graduate from A-B Tech's Business Incubator program, is moving to the Ridgefield Business Park (off Brevard Road, behind the Biltmore Square Mall). Founded in 2006 by Katrina Bragg, the company provides freelance administrative, creative and consulting services for businesses, including graphic design, data entry, copywriting, presentations, grant writing and … Read more
"Staycation" sounded smart and savvy and almost fun when we were all faced with economic demise. Not to belittle that terrifying year: A vacation seemed like crazy-talk when banks were collapsing. But now that the dust is settling and the tourist droves are, once again, returning to Asheville's streets, it's hard not to be in … Read more
At noon on June 26, Asheville residents will have a chance to symbolically join hands with folks around the globe to draw a "line in the sand" against offshore oil drilling. Help is on the way: Stewart, 9-year-old Haley, and Sherry Johnson have collected donations of supplies and cash to aid in the cleanup of … Read more
"We were originally planning to move to New York, but after spending some time there, we realized we'd be like a needle in a stack of needles," says Stuart Baker. So he moved his group — The Baker Family Band — to Austin, Texas. In the moment: Stuart Baker makes records to represent "our current … Read more
Joe Zimmerman is an accomplished poet who resides somewhere in the Biltmore Forest, without permission. He has many accolades and credentials (and resumes) and has graduated from many prestigious poetry colleges, including (but not limited to) Harvard, Oxford, and Cal Polytechnic State and San Luis Obispo Community College. In his spare time he enjoys bird … Read more
It's been a while since we've done a Smiley's Flea Market update. While an ordinary citizen could effectively sum up the current state of Smiley's by saying, "It's still there," we here at Junker's Blues remain so obsessed with the place that you lucky readers are going to get a two-part column about my latest … Read more
Patchy rain and ominous gray clouds weren't enough to dissuade an eclectic crowd from gathering at Pisgah Brewery for the silk-smooth harmonies and rhythmic grooves of local folk-rock foursome Uncle Mountain, as they opened for Now You See Them on a drowsy Friday evening. An inspiring marriage of rhythm and harmony, with an Appalachian tinge. … Read more
The recent headlines announcing the impending demise of URTV come as no surprise. The stories accompanying those headlines, however, claim the station (now an arm of the WNC Community Media Center, which manages public-access television for Asheville and Buncombe County) is failing because it lacks sufficient funding. I beg to differ. Unfortunately, URTV failed long … Read more
