Asheville's restaurants regularly cause a national stir: this month, they're making it clear that they're the greenest ones around. Asheville is officially America's first Green Dining Destination. Two years ago, a group of local restaurants came together through Asheville Independent Restaurants to pursue the certification, which is awarded by the Green Restaurant Association, a nonprofit … Read more
Michael Ivey’s Nov. 14 letter, “Global Warming is a False Belief,” certainly wins the prize for the most “creative” climate-change denial in a long time. In fact, his blaming the entire concept on a conspiracy by an “elitist think-tank” reads like a veritable LSD-induced revelation. As someone who also has been alive since “global warming … Read more
Toast this week to Art Fryar, who 30 years ago envisioned a nightclub that’s become an Asheville institution. “With brilliance and sheer ingenuity, Fryar and his knack for creativity contrived Scandals Nightclub in the gymnasium portion of what was originally the YWCA, built in 1924,” writes current owner Sherrie Davis, who owns the venue now … Read more
Thank you for posting the Nov. 16 Blogwire, “Reward Offered for Information Related to Fourth Red Wolf Death.” (See http://avl.mx/nh.) I fail to see the wisdom of continuing the night hunting of coyotes using spotlights that the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has allowed since August. Since then, four protected red wolves have been shot. … Read more
One was one too many! Now four radio-collared, endangered red wolves have been killed and still the nighttime hunting with spotlights in the red wolf habitat goes on. (See http://avl.mx/nh.) Why are these folks allowed to ignore the Endangered Species Act and continue killing? The red wolf recovery area/habitat should be free of hunting anything … Read more
I am outraged that yet another endangered red wolf is dead. (See http://avl.mx/nh.) Not only is there no valid reason for the coyote hunt, but many of us tried to tell Executive Director Gordon Myers and the N.C. Wildlife Commission that the hunt put red wolves in danger. In a night hunt, it is next … Read more
Well, the election is over, and we still have the same players as before. It’s time for “We the People” to do something to help break the gridlock and grease the wheels of our Congress. So here’s the plan. Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform had Republican members of both houses sign a pledge to … Read more
Now, here we have a week where what may well be my favorite movie of 2012 opens, along with a highly anticipated crime thriller starring Brad Pitt — and a horror movie sequel that I don’t think anyone was asking for. Implicit in that statement is the fact that, no, we still aren’t down for a certain movie from the Weinsteins — unless, they’re up to something really unexpected and downright strange.
