There is a lot to get egg-cited about this month when the focus of the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project’s Get Local initiative turns to farm-fresh eggs. That’s because area farmers and eateries have got you covered, whether you like yours scrambled, poached, boiled or fried, or from a chicken or a duck. Mike Brown of … Read more
Vadim Bora created art even in his sleep. According to his wife, local writer Constance Richards, Bora slept with a sticky note and light-up pen beside his bed and would wake in the night to sketch an idea. When he went on vacation, he was constantly sketching. Says his son, artist Georgi Bora, the local … Read more
Over the past two years, as we all know, the entire budget/economy has been hit hard. I know that the N.C. budget needs to be cut again this year, but let’s keep it sensible, especially where it affects education. State spending on education is going down while need is going up. North Carolina is the … Read more
The sound of San Francisco is all over Vetiver. More specifically, the sound of late '60s San Francisco. Since its inception in 2004, the band has been churning out gentle, breezy folk-rock (often with hints of Gram Parsons-inspired country) that's instantly reminiscent of another era. In 2008, Vetiver even released an album of covers, Thing … Read more
All the trees on [Interstate] 40 along the sloped median strip from Exit 64 to Exit 55 are being clear-cut. Not trimmed, but totally destroyed. I do not believe road hazard — or visibility or whatever explanation the North Carolina Department of Transportation chooses to present — justifies this total destruction of the environment. Now … Read more
Environmental laws took a battering in the U.S. House last week as Republicans passed a continuing resolution … packed with provisions to roll back and de-fund a slew of federal rules aimed at controlling climate change and protecting clean air and water. Along with other provisions in the continuing resolution that passed were ones that … Read more
The Asheville-Buncombe Creative Sector Summit is one meeting creatives won’t want to skip out on this year. Its purpose? To give artists, arts administrators, musicians, designers, writers and creative entrepreneurs a forum to voice opinions and formulate initiatives concerning the development of Asheville’s creative industry. “We’re casting a very wide net,” says Graham Hackett, programs … Read more
There are almost as many examples of young prodigies who have crashed and burned, cracked up or deserted their vocation altogether — from Rimbaud to Bobby Fischer — under the strain of so singularly focusing on something at a young age. Whether Dylan LeBlanc will fall victim to this or not remains to be seen, … Read more
Ken Hanke’s quote in his review of I Am Number Four [“Cranky Hanke,” Feb. 23 Xpress] about Dianna Agron, that the actress was "an apparent graduate of the Corey Haim mouth-breathing school of acting" truly amused me. I'm a photographer from the East Coast film industry and was shooting in Wilmington, N.C., on Corey's film … Read more
Blue Ridge Rollergirls season opener Asheville's all-female, flat-track roller derby league returns with its first home game of the season: the St. Patrick's Day Slay. And the smack-down is a double-header, with The French Broads going up against the Twin City Derby Girls at 5 p.m. followed by the Blue Ridge Rollergirls All-Stars taking on … Read more
