Day: October 9, 2012
Smart Bets: Comic Expo and afterparty
Ah, the video-game cover-band scene. It’s small, but has a devoted following, and if there are Godfathers of it, it’s The Minibosses. The band plays the Comic Expo (the replacement for now-defunct Fanaticon) after-party at the Emerald Lounge, along with Metroid Metal and Danimal Cannon. Before the after-party, check out the all-day comic book and … Read more
Asana Xpress: “Letting the outside in”
This is the second in our “Asana Xpress” series highlighting poses from the sun salutation and featuring local yoga students and teachers. Everyone steps onto the yoga mat at different times in their lives, and for many reasons. Kimberly Drye walked through the doors of Asheville Yoga Center and Lighten Up Yoga in order to … Read more
Lucky, lucky us!
Kudos for your great, two-plus-page Sept. 26 spread, “Selfishness Has No Integrity Whatsoever.” Thanks for putting the spotlight on last weekend's Black Mountain Colllege Museum and Art Center's events and N.C. Stage's much-more-than-noteworthy production of R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe. Lucky, lucky us! David Novak's Broadway-worthy performance is more than … Read more
Xpress is the marketing arm for the Seven Deadly Sins
Nature offers a persisting message that nothing in life is free. There’s more than a little bit of irony in the reality [that] liberals who view themselves as paragons of nature routinely overlook that truism. Sorry, Asheville, but there’s a price attached to living off the labor of others, getting high, misusing other people as … Read more
Switch to alternative media while it still exists
I was interested to read the featured letter — to which Jeff Fobes felt it necessary to respond — "Et Tu, Xpress?" in the Oct. 3 Xpress. In that letter, Virginia Bower feels betrayed by the Xpress because it ran an ad for the Obama: 2016 documentary. Ms. Bowers' sense of betrayal stems from her … Read more
I’m taking a break from Xpress
I read and reread Jeff Fobes’ response to Virginia Bower's Oct. 3 letter, “Et tu, Xpress?” about her disgust with the Xpress for running the full-page ad for the anti-Obama film Obama: 2016. To be honest, she beat me to the punch. Yes, freedom of speech, blah blah blah. But to even slightly promote the … Read more
You got it right, Mayor Bellamy
In the Oct. 3 letter, “Another Done Deal,” Joe Cobble of Asheville quoted Mayor Terry Bellamy as having asserted, after voting against the wrong-headed plan for the McKibbon group: “I don’t like the way this deal was done. Over the years, we did not give the public enough information and voice through the decision process.” … Read more
