Day: June 12, 2014
Asheville’s 1st Q housing sales down, prices up
Asheville housing sales lagged behind last year’s pace, comparing first quarters of 2013 with 2014, according to a report released this week by RE/MAX. The RE/MAX Carolinas Lifestyle Report 2014 examined 18 housing markets in North and South Carolina, and found that one-third of the markets had experienced an upswing in unit sales activity in … Read more
David Wax Museum becomes a family band
When David Wax Museum first emerged on the national Americana scene in 2010, it felt like an exhilarating step forward for American roots music. Effortlessly blending Mexican folk elements and instruments into a mix of Appalachian old-time and modern indie rock, David Wax and Suz Slezak seemed to intuitively understand how traditional music should grow and … Read more
Former Asheville police evidence manager to be sentenced
Carolina Public Press reports: Lee Smith, the Asheville Police Department’s longtime evidence manager who resigned under a cloud of suspicion in early 2011 and last year pleaded guilty to stealing drug evidence, will be sentenced Tuesday, June 17, according to the federal prosecutor’s office in Charlotte. In an interview this week with Carolina Public Press, Buncombe … Read more
