Asheville house concert featuring Suzzy Roche set for March 3

Asheville house concert featuring Suzzy Roche set for March 3

February 20, 2012 | Comments (0)

This sounds pretty awesome. Here’s the note from Lynne:                     Hi Jason, Wanted to let you and your readers know about a unique event coming up here at Working Girls Studio and Gallery March 3rd. Suzzy Roche, of The Roches, will be doing a book signing [...]

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AshevilleNaturalWellness.com launches web directory of complementary and integrative medicine practicioners

AshevilleNaturalWellness.com launches web directory of complementary and integrative medicine practicioners

February 20, 2012 | Comments (0)

Press release here: AshevilleNaturalWellness.com, went live on the Web Jan. 31, and, with no advertising, has followers in 30 states, as well as Germany, France and Belgium. AshevilleNaturalWellness.com, is a web-based directory of highly credentialed Asheville and regional professionals of complementary and integrative medicine. The website automatically provides anyone searching for help with a health [...]

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Efforts to boost entrepreneurs in Asheville get boost with two big upcoming events: Startup Weekend and Governor’s Entrepreneurship Summit

Efforts to boost entrepreneurs in Asheville get boost with two big upcoming events: Startup Weekend and Governor’s Entrepreneurship Summit

February 20, 2012 | Comments (0)

Asheville’s efforts to support local entrepreneurs, and draw new risk-takers to town, is getting a huge boost with two big events coming later this year. Asheville will host the N.C. Governor’s Entrepreneurship Summit this fall. This is the first time Asheville is hosting the summit, a gathering of top business leaders. Here’s the website for [...]

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New networking group for Asheville-area bloggers holding kickoff event March 6

New networking group for Asheville-area bloggers holding kickoff event March 6

February 20, 2012 | Comments (1)

There’s renewed energy for getting Asheville-area bloggers together, just like we did in the old days. It’s gonna be great. Press release: The new Asheville Blogger Society (ABS) kicks off a monthly event for bloggers on Tuesday, March 6, from 5:30 to 7:30pm, at the Asheville Brewing Company on Coxe. All Asheville bloggers are invited [...]

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New restaurant to open in downtown Asheville; Mr. Frog’s Soul and Creole coming to Market Street

New restaurant to open in downtown Asheville; Mr. Frog’s Soul and Creole coming to Market Street

February 20, 2012 | Comments (8)

There’s a new restaurant coming to downtown Asheville. It will be called Mr. Frog’s Soul and Creole, and will open at 42 S. Market St. The eatery is a project of Vijay Shastri, most well known for his work with The Flying Frog restaurant formerly at the corner of Haywood Street and Battery Park Avenue. [...]

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Fly tying contest to benefit Project Healing Waters

Fly tying contest to benefit Project Healing Waters

February 20, 2012 | Comments (0)

A great event. Press release here: What started last year as nothing more than just a glimmer in our eye has snowballed into a charity event to be reckoned with. We’ve amassed a group of the region’s best tiers including guides, shop owners and commercial tiers who will put their noses to the vise for [...]

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Nooroom to open in former Windsor Hotel site on Broadway in downtown Asheville

Nooroom to open in former Windsor Hotel site on Broadway in downtown Asheville

February 16, 2012 | Comments (2)

There’s a sign up in the old Windsor Hotel space on Broadway advertising a new store coming. It’s called Nooroom. There’s no detail on the business website. Anyone?

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Donatelli Cake Designs prepares to open on Haywood Street in downtown Asheville

Donatelli Cake Designs prepares to open on Haywood Street in downtown Asheville

February 16, 2012 | Comments (1)

Donatelli Cake Designs is preparing to open on Haywood Street in downtown Asheville. The location is next door to Sensibilities Spa, and it looks like a first-class operation. No more details yet… Donatelli Cake Designs on Facebook.

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From Asheville to Austin: Asheville to have unprecedented presence at SXSW 2012; plan is to pitch Asheville as an entrepreneurial haven

From Asheville to Austin: Asheville to have unprecedented presence at SXSW 2012; plan is to pitch Asheville as an entrepreneurial haven

February 16, 2012 | Comments (6)

Asheville will, for the first time ever, have an unprecedented presence at SXSW, one of the hottest film, music and tech conferences in the U.S. It’s the latest in a series of moves by a group of AVL movers and shakers who continue to pitch Asheville as a haven for entrepreneurs. The official Asheville contingent [...]

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Asheville-based software company launches local online ad network

Asheville-based software company launches local online ad network

February 15, 2012 | Comments (0)

Here’s the info. A little background – Ponderwell was one of the local companies bidding on a city of Asheville-funded project to create a new community-powered media site that council members eventually decided not to fund. Ponderwell is pushing forward with its vision. Info from the WNC AdGuild on fb: Ponderwell has a new project [...]

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New director announced for Asheville-Buncombe Community Relations Council

New director announced for Asheville-Buncombe Community Relations Council

February 15, 2012 | Comments (1)

Here’s the press release. This announcement notably fails to answer questions about the quiet and unexplained departure of Bob Smith, the former director of the community relations council. The other interesting element – that the group is going to do more outreach with the local Hispanic population. Press release here: The Board of the Asheville-Buncombe [...]

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Twitter account parodies Asheville mayor

Twitter account parodies Asheville mayor

February 15, 2012 | Comments (0)

A new Twitter account pokes fun at Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy. If memory serves, this isn’t the first time someone has roasted Bellamy via the popular social media outlet. And it’s certainly not the first time that public figures in Asheville have been sent up on Twitter. In the most high-profile case, Chad Nesbitt, the [...]

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Dehlia Low, one of Asheville’s best bluegrass bands, announces touring break

Dehlia Low, one of Asheville’s best bluegrass bands, announces touring break

February 15, 2012 | Comments (0)

From Dehlia Low’s page on fb: We’re writing to let you know that as 2011 was our busiest touring season so far, we’ve decided to slow down a bit. With that in mind, we’re going to take a touring hiatus at least through most of 2012. A few of us- excitedly- will be welcoming new [...]

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WLOS: High-paid executive director of performing arts center nonprofit defends pay

WLOS: High-paid executive director of performing arts center nonprofit defends pay

February 15, 2012 | Comments (3)

WLOS picked up on my post yesterday calling into question the pay of James Baudoin, the executive director of the Asheville Area Center for the Performing Arts. Despite making little progress on actually getting a new performing arts center built, Baudoin pulled down a $217,000 salary in 2009-’10, about $8,000 than the year before. He’s [...]

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First ever Asheville Improvisational Music Festival set to kick off Thursday

First ever Asheville Improvisational Music Festival set to kick off Thursday

February 15, 2012 | Comments (0)

Press release here: On February 16th – 18th, 2012, the Magnetic Field on Depot Street will host the first annual Asheville Improvisational Music Festival (AIM) featuring some of Western North Carolina’s finest experimental musicians. The series will take place over three evenings and is a celebration of the exciting and experimental improvisational music being created [...]

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Blue Ridge Roller Girls Move bouts from Civic Center to WNC Ag Center

Blue Ridge Roller Girls Move bouts from Civic Center to WNC Ag Center

February 15, 2012 | Comments (1)

Check out the Blue Ridge Roller Girls fb page for all the info on their big move.

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Curate and Warren Wilson College team up for unique foraging expedition and Nordic cooking dinner

Curate and Warren Wilson College team up for unique foraging expedition and Nordic cooking dinner

February 15, 2012 | Comments (0)

This sounds pretty great. Tickets are limited. Cost of foraging expedition is $25, with the dinner ticket coming in at $110. All the info is here for An Adventure in Cooking: The New Nordic Table on March 24. Here’s more: This spring, Asheville’s Katie Button, Executive Chef and co-owner of Cúrate bar de tapas in [...]

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Black Mountain News: Swannanoa bursting with new Mexican eats

Black Mountain News: Swannanoa bursting with new Mexican eats

February 15, 2012 | Comments (0)

Here’s part of the story from the Black Mountain News: If Swannanoa residents have been looking for something different in the local food scene, they may have noticed a few additions in the past several months with a similar theme. Three Hispanic-owned businesses opened in Swannanoa recently: Puebla is a Mexican restaurant, La Bamba Burrito [...]

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Fresh off protest at Asheville power plant, WNC Alliance riverkeeper and Appalachian Voices rep will talk coal ash tonight

Fresh off protest at Asheville power plant, WNC Alliance riverkeeper and Appalachian Voices rep will talk coal ash tonight

February 15, 2012 | Comments (0)

Here’s the press release. The talk is tonight at 6 p.m. at Posana Cafe: One of the biggest dangers to our clean water is coal pollution, including contamination of our groundwater by coal ash, the waste from burning coal for electricity. In Asheville, for example, Progress Energy’s power plant scrubbers have greatly improved the emissions [...]

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Executive director of Asheville Area Center for the Performing Arts pulls down $217,000 salary, but project makes little progress

Executive director of Asheville Area Center for the Performing Arts pulls down $217,000 salary, but project makes little progress

February 14, 2012 | Comments (4)

One of the highest paid arts professionals in Asheville got a raise in the 2009-’10 tax year, according to tax records, although the project remains far from completion. James Baudoin, executive director of the nonprofit Asheville Area Center for the Performing Arts, took home $217,903 in the year running from July 1, 2009 to June [...]

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Desert Moon Designs Studios & Gallery seeking textile and fiber artists for upcoming exhibition

Desert Moon Designs Studios & Gallery seeking textile and fiber artists for upcoming exhibition

February 14, 2012 | Comments (0)

Press release here: Call to Artists: The Cutting Edge: The Language of Textiles & Fiber Art Exhibition Dates: April 4-May 5, 2012 Applications Due: March 3, 2012 In this fast paced world, the technology of spoken and written human communication and the tools it requires are ever changing. The language of textile and fiber artists [...]

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Art by quadriplegic painter in running to become label for Biltmore wine

Art by quadriplegic painter in running to become label for Biltmore wine

February 13, 2012 | Comments (2)

This is a pretty neat story. From revpictures.wordpress.com: Marcus Thomas is an amazing local artist, a dear friend and inspiration. He is a quadriplegic–paralyzed below the neck–and uses his mouth to paint some of the most incredible artwork I have ever seen. His design “Biltmore Winter” is one of the finalists for the 2012 Christmas [...]

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Rumor control: Trader Joe’s, Costco planning Asheville stores

Rumor control: Trader Joe’s, Costco planning Asheville stores

February 13, 2012 | Comments (3)

The rumor that Trader Joe’s is planning to open an Asheville store keeps coming back round every six months or so. Here’s the latest, from a Feb. 6 post on a FB page devoted to bringing Trader Joe’s to Asheville. I heard a rumor this weekend that Trader Joe’s has chosen a location in Asheville, [...]

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Taj Mahal to headline spring 2012 LEAF

Taj Mahal to headline spring 2012 LEAF

February 13, 2012 | Comments (0)

Playing catch-up. Here’s the info: The Lake Eden Arts Festival will hold its spring edition May 10-13 in Black Mountain. Blues music legend Taj Mahal headlines, with Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 and Preservation Hall Jazz Band (pictured above). Other artists include Corey Harris & the Rasta Blues Experience, David Bromberg, the Red City Ramblers, [...]

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