June 9, 2015 – mountainx.com

Conscious Party: Floral fest fundraiser

June 10, 2015June 9, 2015 by Michael McDonald

The Black Mountain Center for the Arts hosts this ninth annual fundraiser, which features a variety of artwork specially cultivated from regional galleries for display in its Upper Gallery.

Ikebana brings mindfulness to flower arranging in WNC

August 24, 2015June 9, 2015 by Lisa

Ikebana — the Japanese art of flower arranging — engages mind and body, spirit and soul. The act becomes a meditation, with a focus on well-being.

Small Bites: Blue Ridge BBQ and Music Festival

June 9, 2015 by Gina Smith

Barbecue is in the spotlight at Tryon’s Blue Ridge BBQ and Music Festival, Happy Jack’s moves beyond breakfast, Postre Caramels launches in Asheville, Addison Farms Vineyard hosts a wine dinner under the stars and Living Web Farms offers a plant-based summer cooking workshop.

Rising Appalachia goes more global and more local

June 9, 2015 by Bill Kopp

Rising Appalachia’s eighth album, Wider Circles, has just been released, and the group (also featuring percussionist Biko Cassini and bassist/guitarist David Brown) will appear onstage in its current hometown, at New Mountain’s amphitheatre on Saturday, June 13.

Update: To the brink and back: Opioid abuse and treatment in WNC

July 8, 2015June 9, 2015 by Max Hunt

Amid escalating use and abuse of opioids nationwide, the number of local narcotics-related overdoses has increased rapidly in recent years. The drug naloxone can temporarily suspend those drugs’ effects, and the Asheville metropolitan area leads the state in confirmed cases of opioid overdose reversal, according to the N.C. Harm Reduction Coalition.

Smart bets: Matthew Frantz

June 9, 2015 by Kat McReynolds

Singer/songwriter Matthew Frantz stops in Asheville for a matinee performance at Altamont Brewing Co. on Sunday, June 14, at 4 p.m.

Letter writer: Silence Biltmore train blasts to allow neighbors to get some sleep

June 9, 2015 by Letters

“For most people living within half a mile of the Biltmore crossing, especially in older homes without triple-pane glass and air conditioning, sleeping through the [train] horn blasts is not an option.”