November 1, 2016 – mountainx.com

Letter writer: Pick your analogy — holocaust or animal slavery

November 1, 2016 by Letters

“I’d like to end on a less scholarly note … by quoting Edgar’s Mission Farm Sanctuary in Australia: ‘If we could live happy and healthy lives without harming others, why wouldn’t we?'”

Small bites: Black Mountain Ciderworks celebrates Guy Fawkes Day

November 1, 2016 by Thomas Calder

This week, Black Mountain Ciderworks + Meadery hosts its Guy Fawkes Celebration and Croatan release. Also, the RAD Farmers Market holds its annual fundraising dinner, Villagers offers a pickled beets workshop, Chestnut teams with the Asheville School of Wine for a dinner pairing and Lex 18 closes up shop.

Tuesday History: Politics and Asheville’s first automobile

November 1, 2016 by Thomas Calder

Local politics and automobiles are the focus of this week’s excerpt from Edwin Bedford Jeffress’ 1950 Asheville Citizen article, titled “Jeffress, Former Newspaperman Here, Describes Asheville of 1908-1911.” Click here for last week’s look at the local newspaper industry. Thanks as always to the Pack Memorial Library’s Special Collections, North Carolina Room for its assistance. Thanks to the Thomas Wolfe Memorial … Read more

Sweet Claudette schedules a pair of WNC dates to celebrate a new album

November 1, 2016 by Bill Kopp

On Whiskey Drunk on Puppy Love, the Asheville foursome has taken a giant leap forward, incorporating Stax and Motown textures into the mix, creating an album of fully realized pop perfection.

Beer today, gone tomorrow: Asheville beer happenings Nov. 1-7

November 4, 2016November 1, 2016 by Scott Douglas and Edwin Arnaudin

**UPDATED NOV. 4** Zebulon releases a pure pumpkin beer, Green Man honors Roland Knoll and the U.S. Cellular Center hosts the Asheville on Tap festival.

Miss Gay Latina Asheville returns to Diana Wortham Theatre

November 1, 2016 by Coogan Brennan

The Miss Gay Latina Asheville drag pageant began in 2008 in a West Asheville church that held 200. It outgrew that venue by its second year, and moved to its current annual home at the Diana Wortham Theatre. This year’s performance, on Saturday, Nov. 5, will be the pageant’s ninth.

Third annual African-Americans of WNC conference uncovers hidden black history

November 1, 2016 by Kari Barrows

The third annual African-Americans in WNC conference brought speakers from Asheville and beyond to UNC Asheville and the YMI Cultural Center to explore how emerging historical research can shed light on present-day African-American culture and identity in the region.

UPDATED: Spending takes off in Buncombe commissioner races; Chair candidates loan campaigns big bucks

November 2, 2016November 1, 2016 by Dan Hesse

The two candidates for Chair of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners have loaned their campaigns a combined total of $272,000. Democrat Brownie Newman loaned his campaign $42,000 and Republican Chuck Archerd loaned himself $230,000 according to the candidates’ campaign finance reports.

Smart bets: Jonathan Edwards

November 1, 2016 by Emily Glaser

The folk icon performs at The Altamont Theatre on Friday, Nov. 4.

Show review: Clan Destiny Circus at Asheville Masonic Temple