Day: October 11, 2011
Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler Oct. 12-18: Big Year of the Footloose Mozart Attack the Block Thing
Another week, another outburst of movies, but no boxing robots this round—and judging by what folks went to see last week, it appears that boxing robots are the happening thing. Go figure. Instead, this week finds us with The Big Year, Footloose and The Thing is the realm of the wide-release, while Mozart’s Sister opens at the Fine Arts and Attack the Block finally makes it to The Carolina. And I sincerely hope they get better moviegoer support than Restless and The Whistleblower did.
*UPDATE* Obama is reportedly coming back to Asheville Monday, Oct. 17
UPDATE: The Washington Post is now reporting that President Obama is planning to kick-off a three-day bus tour of North Carolina and Virginia in Asheville, on Monday, Oct. 17, to tout his jobs plan.
Best of WNC, Volume 1 Correction
Two entries in the Best of WNC, Volume 1, contained inaccurate information. The profile for the Off-Road Assault on Mount Mitchell, the Best Bike Race in the Outdoors category, conflated the nature of the race with the similarly named but wholly different Assault on Mount Mitchell. ORAMM is a 63-mile (mostly) off-road event that begins … Read more
The new face of Laughing Seed
Laughing Seed Café has a new chef at the helm. Jason Sellers left his longtime post at the well-established vegetarian restaurant to open his new vegan eatery, Plant, and in his place he’s left some rather large kitchen clogs to fill. Stepping up to the plate is Sandy Krebs, a globe-trotting chef with a passion … Read more
Mountain “X” should change its name to Mountain “L”
If history teaches us anything, it’s that homogenous groups inevitably self-destruct. That reality applies to the success of Asheville’s liberal majority in championing a conforming City Council — a triumph likely to be repeated in the upcoming election. So much for a feigned interest in diversity. Power has always been the left’s more authentic mission. … Read more
