Day: September 12, 2011
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Back in my day…
I have a friend who I sometimes think exists mostly to prove—even though he’s a few years my junior—that there are more curmudgeonly folks in the world than I. (Unfortunately, he hasn’t a name that rhymes with anything like “cranky.”) The other day he was celebrating the existence of a highly dubious article on the tanking of summer blockbusters this year (at least five of the films cited were not big-budget flops, just common garden flops). I took issue with this on the basis of factual wobbliness and the fact that a lot of the summer crap is what helps to keep the good stuff viable. The whole thing then escalated into the assertion that it wouldn’t matter to him if they never made another movie, which, of course, served to escalate the argument even more.
Supporters launch campaign to pass A-B Tech sales-tax referendum *Multimedia*
A-B Tech administrators, teachers and students joined with community leaders Sept. 12 to launch “Jobs for the Future,” a campaign on behalf of a 0.25 percent sales-tax increase to fund capital improvements at the school. Photos by Jerry Nelson
Asheville City Council preview: Food trucks, round 2
After a lengthy public debate and close vote at the last formal Asheville City Council meeting, new rules allowing food trucks downtown narrowly passed. However, since a second vote is required when a development change that passes that closely, the rules are back for another reading at the Sept. 13 meeting.
New defense-of-marriage proposal still discriminates, says Fisher
A new version of a proposed defense-of-marriage amendment to the North Carolina Constitution is slated for consideration today, Sept. 12, as the General Assembly reconvenes, but its text is judged as “no less discriminatory” by Buncombe County Democratic Rep. Susan Fisher.
In this week’s health-and-wellness review, North Carolina misses the federal deadline for figuring out what to do with individuals living in adult care homes, auditors criticize the state’s health insurance plan, and more.Local street performer trades in guitar for a day — 9/11
Asheville street performer Ralph “Whiteman” Longshore trades in his guitar for a flag for a day.
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