Two new restaurants – The Asheville Public and Ruth’s Chris Steak House – are preparing to open soon, adding more choices to Asheville’s juicy restaurant scene. The Asheville Public plans to open within two weeks, according to its page on Facebook. The restaurant is opening in the River Arts District, in the space formerly occupied [...]
On the Fly is a new Asheville website that promises to be an online resource for food lover and professionals. Our objective is to bring you a closer view of our wonderful food community. Looking for a farmers market? restaurant? caterer? Our members are profiled in detail with “peak inside” videos, photos, chef bios, menu samples, [...]
The daughter of movie starlet Andie MacDowell of Asheville celebrated her coming out last weekend at Les Dal de Debutantes in Paris. By all accounts, Sarah Margaret was a stunner. From Hello! magazine: The annual ball is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a privileged flock of young ladies to don haute couture and mingle with scions [...]
From AdvantageWest’s newsletter: Coming Dec 1 & 2: Briefings on the status of broadband connectivity in the AdvantageWest region. Sessions take place in Franklin, Fletcher and Burnsville. AdvantageWest and leaders in Western North Carolina have proactively worked for more than a decade to assure affordable, high speed connectivity to homes, businesses and community anchor institutions [...]
From the Smoky Mountain News, which details the naming of Brooks Robinson as the new general manager at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino: Now 18 years later, Robinson has gone from frontline card dealer to the general manager of the $500 million a year operation of Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Resort. Robinson takes over the top position [...]
Sammie was in a festive mood over the Thanksgiving holiday, though she’s feeling a little down now. She’ll be going under the knife soon to have her girl parts removed. Sammie, it’s the best gift I can give you. Believe me.
Breaking with its standard practice of only profiling women in its pages, Verve magazine actually gives a dude his due for the first time ever in its December 2011 issue. Alex Gomes, a lawyer with the Asheville nonprofit Pisgah Legal Services, gets the distinction of adding some facial hair and testosterone to “Western North Carolina’s [...]
An interesting story here from Business Insider, which looks ahead to the development of new technology centers. It includes Henderson County in a list of 20 cities and counties in the U.S. that could be the next hotbed of innovation: We have dug deep into the U.S. Census data and discovered 20 micropolitan areas that [...]
FLS Energy has announced what I reported a couple of weeks ago – that they were moving into space on Roberts Street in Asheville’s River Arts District. FLS Energy installs solar panels, and recently made the Inc. 500 – a list of the fastest growing U.S. companies as compiled by Inc. magazine. It’s just the [...]
WLOS has hired a new reporter. His name is Mario Boone and comes from the CBS affiliate in Knoxville. More: MARIO BOONE is a North Carolina native who is happy to be working in his home state. He joins News 13 from the CBS affiliate in Knoxville, TN where he served as the Cops and [...]
Asheville Citizen-Times’answer man, reports: “I am pregnant,” said Kumarhia, who’s been with WLOS almost 10 years. “This is our first child, and I did have a rough start with the pregnancy.” Kumarhia, who is due in late January, has asthma and had some trouble with a severe attack early in the pregnancy while covering a [...]
A new networking and ideas event is scheduled to be held in Asheville in February. Ignite Asheville will join similar local nerdfests, including Hatch Asheville and TEDx Asheville. The locally produced TED event, which was just held a couple of weeks ago, is an all-volunteer effort based on the popular California conference that highlights people [...]
From Diamond Thieves Body Piercing & Tattoo comes the announcement of Asheville Tattoo Fest festival celebrating body art in Asheville. Asheville Tattoo Fest is the first tattoo convention in Asheville, North Carolina. Named the “New Freak Capital of America” by Rolling Stone, Asheville is home to 23 local shops and a huge tattoo subculture. [...]
One of Asheville’s friendliest Twitter folks, @itswendylou, had a big scare Monday morning when her car hydroplaned on Biltmore Avenue and crashed into a power pole. Nobody was injured in the wreck, and she handled the situation with grace. She also tweeted the episode: I’m fine & @verybadcat13 is here with me, but I broke [...]
Press release here: It’s the day after Thanksgiving and the family is restless. Going to the mall or the movies is an option, but “Black Friday” is hardly an escape with the crowds and parking hassles. Instead of shopping lines on Nov. 25, why not get away to ziplines instead, where soaring through [...]
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