Here’s the info, from occupyasheville.org, about a May 1 protest of working conditions in Asheville: Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/342333302490249/ May 1st. Start at 4pm at Pack Square Park in Downtown Asheville. Join workers all over the world in celebrating May Day! Why Celebrate May Day? * Because today we live in a country where profit and property [...]
The Tuten and Penland auction house will hold its last sale this Friday in an old warehouse that the family has called home for more than 50 years. Here’s a snippet from a recent story I wrote about the auction for the Asheville Citizen-Times: The sale at the old warehouse on Craven Street near the [...]
In the Asheville online shenanigans category, file a couple of fake Twitter accounts spoofing Hot Spot convenience stores. First is was an Asheville Hot Spot account, @HotSpotAvl, and now there’s a @Hotspot_Canton account. Neither are particularly funny. Just something to keep an eye on. There’s some background here on spoofing of local Hot Spots, via [...]
Word on the street is that Hendersonville Lightning is a new hyper-local website with a weekly print component that’s set to launch tomorrow, according to the website. Hendersonville Lightning – with the tagline “the fastest name in media” -is the work of former Hendersonville Times-News executive editor Bill Moss. No more details available just yet [...]
Here’s the press release from loyal reader Chall at the awesome Magnetic Theatre: THE MAGNETIC THEATRE HOLDS AUDIENCE FOR WORLD PREMIERE OF MILF: THE MUSICAL Announcing open auditions for MILF: The Musical, a new comedic musical, book/lyrics by Lucia Del Vecchio and music by Holiday Childress, directed by Steven Samuels, starring Tracey Johnston-Crum. Rehearsals begin [...]
Mr. Frog’s Soul and Creole Kitchen is set to open on Wednesday on South Market Street, in a downtown Asheville area known as The Block. The restaurant is the work of Vijay Shastri. Read a little more background here. The opening follows the opening of a couple of new restaurants in downtown Asheville this year, [...]
Word on the street is that yet another crafter brewery is looking to open in Asheville. How much beer is too much beer for Beer City USA? There’s no limit, apparently. What’s been described to me as a regional craft brewery is looking to expand and looking specifically at sites in West Asheville. The news [...]
The news today is that all of the Grove Park Inn’s employees will have to reapply for their jobs, as required by the historic inn’s new owner. But the real question is whether male employees be allowed to have beards. The inn has apparently had the no-beard policy for years, though it did allow mustaches, [...]
Here’s the press release regarding the sale of the Grove Park Inn. More to come. KSL Capital Partners, LLC announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the historic Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa from an affiliate of Sammons Enterprises, Inc. One of the most iconic resorts in the United States, the 512-room Grove Park [...]
Here come the changes to the River Arts District. Press release here: The City of Asheville is requesting proposals from design professionals to design, permit and provide construction management services for infrastructure improvements on Craven Street. North Carolina Registered Landscape Architects and/or Civil Engineers are invited to submit proposals for the project on or before [...]
Here’s the note, from an activist working to defeat North Carolina’s proposed constitutional amendment to define marriage in the state as between one man and one woman. Asheville City Council plans to consider a resolution official opposing Amendment One, as it is known: A Message to Asheville on the Eve of a Resolution. “Why did [...]
Press release here, courtesy of loyal reader Brandy: Hi Jason, I’ve spoken to you a couple of times, you posted my studio Planet Art’s opening (thank you!), and then I’ve bumped into you at the Go Local thingy at The Hop and in Reciprocity. I am part of the Second Saturday committee for the River [...]
Press release here: The WNC Alliance’s French Broad Riverkeeper is continuing work on the French Broad River Paddle Trail, which will connect campsites along more than 140 miles of river in Western North Carolina and east Tennessee. The trail will give paddlers the option to camp along the entire course of the river. To date, [...]
Press release here: April 15 – Allan Wolf presents “The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic” Asheville poet Allan Wolf shares excerpts from his poetic novel that brings the Titanic disaster to life from 24 points of view. Presentation includes reader’s theatre by an ensemble cast, related music and more. Free and [...]
Asheville’s River Arts District is ablaze with activity, aside from the big news that New Belgium Brewing Co. plans to build its East Coast brewing operation there. There are all kinds of projects in the works. And get down there. Here’s a look: -Sternberg’s view: I interviewed Jerry Sternberg for a Citizen-Times story about New [...]
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