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Day: July 20, 2010

Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler July 21-27: With a grain of Salt

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There’s nothing as exciting to look forward to this week as there was last week with Inception, though the opening of the Tilda Swinton picture I Am Love at the Carolina on Friday is good news for the art-film crowd. Reviews for both Inception and I Am Love will appear in this week’s issue of the Xpress—and, in fact, the quality of both films caused me to make the unprecedented step of having two weekly picks rather than one.

Busk Break: Isaac Alexander Johnson and Jim Barton perform “The Highway Song”

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There was something approaching a reunion of the gone-but-not-forgotten 90’s epoch Asheville band The Spoonbenders on the streets of downtown over the weekend, as Isaac Alexander Johnson and Jim Barton busked in front of the BB&T Building. Although significant cajoling couldn’t convince them to perform one of their older tunes, Barton (on acoustic bass guitar) joined in on an unrehearsed version of Johnson’s tune “The Highway Song.” Let’s have a listen.

Author hikes to save historic Shuckstack fire tower

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Would you hike the Appalachian Trail to save an old lookout tower? Author and soon-to-be Asheville resident Peter Barr would … and is. He wants to save the Shuckstack fire tower in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and as of July 9, he has raised $2,178 — almost one-third what he estimates it will take to repair and restore the structure.

In this 1951 photo, Ranger Cooley scans the 360-degree view from the Shuckstack tower.

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