If you want to hear some great jug band and jazz, head over to Grey Eagle on Tuesday, Jan. 24, for Jessy Carolina at the Hot Mess, Blind Boy Chocolate and the Milk Sheiks and Big Nasty. (The Hot Mess features piano and banjo player Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton, which is where the other blind boy comes in … )
In the wake of releasing the ninth book he’s co-written with presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, local author/historian Bill Forstchen now finds himself in the throes of the Republican primary. And Gingrich’s huge win yesterday, Jan. 22, in the South Carolina primary, has brought renewed interest to the campaign.
In the Asheville news this week, over 200 marched in downtown protesting corporate personhood, the Buncombe Commissioners passed new rules on light pollution, a challenger emerged in the Register of Deeds race, and a committee looking into the former CTS site’s contamination convened in Raleigh. What’s on your minds, readers? Photo by Bill Rhodes
