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Asheville City Council: Transit in transition

Council approves Transit Master Plan

Brian Postelle | 1 Comment

The Green Scene

Get smart: Feds pump funding into Smart Grid

Margaret Williams

Arts & Entertainment

The reel deal on the 7th annual festival: Nov. 12 to 15

Staff

Cranky Hanke's take on the 2009 Asheville Film Festival competition feature films

Ken Hanke | 4 Comments

Rave on

Festival's opening and closing features have earned great reviews

Ken Hanke | 1 Comment

Want to get a distribution deal? Learn more about editing?

Free educational sessions, coffee talks and workshops are open to the public

Xpress staff

Step out on the pier, take a tour of N.C. breweries, get a look at circus life

Locally-made films span a bevy of unusual topics — and others tackle subjects of local intrigue

Staff

Seen and not herd

Debut kids' film fest breaks out of the commercial pack

Melanie M. Bianchi

Road warrior

Photographer Rob Amberg records how I-26 changed Madison County

Alli Marshall

Spork

Lots to celebrate in Black Mountain

Rebecca Sulock

Smart Bets

Your guide to what's happening in music, theater and the arts in Asheville and Western North Carolina

Xpress staff

Opinion / Letters

Zelda's ghost

Montford's "madwoman" deserves more recognition

Commentary by Esther Godfrey | 2 Comments

Vegetarians are too pushy about their lifestyle

Letter by Scott Smith | 26 Comments

Please bring back Hanke's reviews of the World Cinema movies

Letter by Jarrett Leone | 1 Comment

Features

Outdoors: Blog about it!

The online scoop on the great outdoors

Danny Bernstein

Asheville Disclaimer: 11/04

• Briefs
• Sci-Essence
• Not the father dance
• Prize Scam!


Election Mad Libs | Brent Brown | 1 Comment

Smokin’! | Molton

Food & Drink

Reservations for none

Asheville diners take the walk-in route

Hanna Rachel Raskin

Small Bites

Asheville-area food and restaurant news

Hanna Rachel Raskin

Movies

Breaking In

Ken Hanke | 1 Comment

Coco Before Chanel

Ken Hanke | 6 Comments

The H-Man

Ken Hanke

Michael Jackson’s This Is It

Ken Hanke

One Crazy Ride / Riding Solo to the Top of the World

Ken Hanke

Paris

Ken Hanke

Play the Game

Justin Souther

Thirst

Ken Hanke

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Ken Hanke | 9 hours, 31 minutes ago

I realize that this is a presumptuous question that supposes that the reader did fall in love with the movies in the first place. Still, I’m assuming for argument’s sake that such a condition probably has something to do with the reason you’re reading this column in the first place. The question in my mind is whether this was a cumulative thing for people or if there’s some outstanding defining moment that brought this about.

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Rebecca Sulock | 1 day, 8 hours ago

Brian McGee of local country-punk outfit Brian McGee and the Hollow Speed interviews Fat Possum artist A.A. Bondy before his show at the Grey Eagle. Bondy opened for Elvis Perkins in Dearland on Wednesday, Nov. 4. Videographer Jesse Hamm filmed the exchange and Bondy’s performance.

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Anne Fitten Glenn | 2 days, 8 hours ago

Local beer lovers, rejoice! Yes, Highland Brewing’s Cold Mountain Winter Ale is out and about.

NEWS
Jeff Fobes | 2 days, 10 hours ago

Twitter kept the news flowing as election day wore on and then as voting returns started coming in. It was an interesting collaboration among journalists, voters and bloggers. Here’s a slightly distilled version of are #avlelect tweets as they came through Xpress’ moderated feed.

A&E
Alli Marshall | 2 days, 11 hours ago

Xpress correspondent Jake Frankel and Par D talk to Warren G at New York Fashions.

NEWS
Jon Elliston | 2 days, 13 hours ago

From Halloween night to Blogapalooza to local tennis matches, food fests and art shows, here are the latest shots from our photographers

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Jon Elliston | 2 days, 17 hours ago

Mayor Bellamy wins re-election with strong margin; Manheimer, Smith and Bothwell to join City Council in race that saw 19% voter turnout

A&E
Alli Marshall | 2 days, 19 hours ago

This weekend is nothing if not eclectic in the budget entertainment department. Art openings, a choral ensemble, a coat drive (set to a reggae beat) and bands, bands, bands.

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Jon Elliston | 3 days, 6 hours ago

According to a full but unofficial tally by Buncombe Election Services, 61 percent of Swannanoa voters have said no to incorporation

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Brian Postelle | 3 days, 11 hours ago

The results from the SpookyBlogapaloozathon once again tally up the area’s best bloggers and online networkers.

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Ken Hanke | 3 days, 14 hours ago

A more than usually interesting array of movies comes our way this week—including another challenge to local moviegoers to get out and support the kind of non-mainstream film I’m always being asked about. In this case, I specifically refer to Park Chan-wook’s take on the vampire film, Thirst, which opens this Friday at the Carolina Asheville.

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Jeff Fobes | 3 days, 18 hours ago

Time-lapse video shots looking down from Craggy Gardens on oceanic clouds depict their energy and feel as they roil and flow up against the mountainsides and sometimes over the ridges. Audio track by Dep.

A&E
Jeff Fobes | 4 days, 5 hours ago

Asheville High auditorium was packed to the gills with book-toting fans of Barbara Kingsolver, who spoke and read from her new novel, The Lacuna, this evening at Asheville High School auditorium. “Let there be no doubt,” reported @mountainxpress via Twitter, “Asheville is a town of book lovers.”

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David Forbes | 4 days, 17 hours ago

While Ashevilleans are (hopefully) streaming to the polls on Nov. 3, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners plans to hold its regular meeting. It’s a relatively brief agenda, but changes to the flood ordinances and a sustainability plan for the county are both on the table.

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