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Your guide to what's happening in music, theater and the arts in Asheville and Western North Carolina
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Grab your Uncle Sam hat and your lawn chair, it's fireworks time
A bevy of Fourth of July options in WNC
All that glitters is not glove: Jackson's death leaves eBay in a state of shock
Erika Wennerstrom gives voice to indie-rockers Heartless Bastards
'MTN CTY JNK': A review
Marsha Barber | 01/07/04
What DrugMoney's discovery could mean for Asheville
Frank Rabey | 01/07/04
Classic theater rich with current themes
Steve Shanafelt | 01/07/04
Archivists keep the Southern-gospel dream alive
Alli Marshall | 01/07/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Tracy Rose | 01/07/04
Movies don't get any better (or worse) than they did in 2003
Steve Shanafelt | 01/07/04
Our guest reviewer shares her own picks for 2003
Ken Hanke | 01/14/04
2003: The critics' year in movies
Marci Miller | 01/14/04
Star conjurer tries to make probing questions disappear
Xpress Staff | 01/14/04
At 66, Merle Haggard is a spitfire of new country classics -- and unexpected politics
Steve Shanafelt | 01/14/04
Historical exhibit at its best when it takes itself lightly
Frank Rabey | 01/14/04
Second Fringe Festival spreads to five venues
Connie Bostic | 01/14/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Alli Marshall | 01/14/04
Food and family are the staples of the Chinese New Year
Steve Shanafelt | 01/14/04
Novel set in pool hall is almost flawless
Stuart Gaines | 01/21/04
Stomping out expectations, Mastodon roams free
Alli Marshall | 01/21/04
Allmans' former protege now favors musicianship over showmanship
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni | 01/21/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Pete Zamplas | 01/21/04
Bohemian tale is uniquely suited to Asheville audiences
Steve Shanafelt | 01/21/04
Lou Rawls, the reigning King of Smooth, headlines GPI's jazz weekend
Steve Shanafelt | 01/28/04
Reclusive singer courts attention, then slips away
Frank Rabey | 01/28/04
Local record producer nurses an incredible vision
Alli Marshall | 01/28/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Steve Shanafelt | 01/28/04
Rhubarb mini tour sets stage for the really big show
Steve Shanafelt | 01/28/04
Book about bellies combines New Age with good sense
Alli Marshall | 02/04/04
the subdudes achieve an unlikely comeback with 'Miracle Mule
Alli Marshall | 02/04/04
Well-oiled musical continues peppy, preppy, Grease-y mythologizing
Marsha Barber | 02/04/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Frank Rabey | 02/04/04
Xpress goes undercover with some of our small pond's biggest fish
Steve Shanafelt | 02/04/04
Steve Shanafelt | 02/11/04
World-saving missions must start with art
Frank Rabey | 02/11/04
Menage gives voice to blushing romance -- in lush, three-part harmony
Alli Marshall | 02/11/04
Valentine's Day reading that's guaranteed to satisfy
Frank Rabey | 02/11/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Rachelle Sorensen | 02/11/04
Filmmaker Rod Murphy is more impostor than auteur
Steve Shanafelt | 02/11/04
Local band commands a sudden army of admirers
Jay Hardwig | 02/18/04
Dance company makes an unlikely move
Tom Kerr | 02/18/04
Local painter finally fulfills a passion for abstraction
Cecil Bothwell | 02/18/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Connie Bostic | 02/18/04
Jackie Robinson's courage exacted a soul-crushing toll
Steve Shanafelt | 02/18/04
Marcianne Miller | 02/25/04
Memoir dips deep into hazing hell
Brian Sarzynski | 02/25/04
Bjoerk's beau does experimental art with heart
Alli Marshall | 02/25/04
Rollins comes off as an unlikely optimist
Martin L. Johnson | 02/25/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni | 02/25/04
Surmounting hardships great and many, South African traditionalists still raise uncanny voices for change
Steve Shanafelt | 02/25/04
Banjo player can't keep New Age out of old-time
Frank Rabey | 03/03/04
Actress' adaptation of Appalachian novel flies far
Rob Trucks | 03/03/04
Earnest duo makes no apologies
Marcianne Miller | 03/03/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Marsha Barber | 03/03/04
Folk-rock royalty talks candidly of cliches, crowds and unfunny Canadians
Steve Shanafelt | 03/03/04
Native Irishman crossed an ocean and ended up at home
Frank Rabey | 03/10/04
'Cheese'-y trio continues to dance on the edge
Alli Marshall | 03/10/04
Classic ballet's eerie premise lives on
Stuart Gaines | 03/10/04
The changing face of WNC's live-music horizon
Marcianne Miller | 03/10/04
WNC coffee houses aren't just for poets anymore
Frank Rabey | 03/10/04
The bluegrass/barbecue connection
Melanie M. Bianchi | 03/10/04
Star repairman can barely keep up with demand
Melanie M. Bianchi | 03/10/04
Star repairman can barely keep up with demand
Frank Rabey | 03/10/04
To recap: Oscar 2004 was dull, dull, dull
Alli Marshall | 03/10/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Ken Hanke | 03/10/04
At 75, Penland School still celebrates the seriousness of fine craft
Steve Shanafelt | 03/10/04
Local feminist Christians mark a decade of exploration
Alli Marshall | 03/17/04
The buoyant Duhks were hatched for stardom
Tracy Rose | 03/17/04
WCU visiting artist escapes rigid forms, stays snared in life
Marcianne Miller | 03/17/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Connie Bostic | 03/17/04
It won't happen if etown's Nick Forster has his way
Steve Shanafelt | 03/17/04
Iconic Nashville songwriter looks himself in the eye, and doesn't blink
Marsha Barber | 03/24/04
Chanter enjoys second shot at divinity
Frank Rabey | 03/24/04
Whodunit's ultimate mystery is the mother/daughter connection
Alli Marshall | 03/24/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Alli Marshall | 03/24/04
Clashing intentions yield strangely artistic harmony
Steve Shanafelt | 03/24/04
Red-string Kabbalah bracelets do not a spiritual seeker make
Connie Bostic | 03/31/04
Ailing comedy fails to strike the right tone
Alli Marshall | 03/31/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Steve Shanafelt | 03/31/04
Deathless 'Tommy' preaches the light of self-awareness
Steve Shanafelt | 03/31/04
Ken Hanke | 04/07/04
The Psychedelic Furs, fixtures of a disparaged time, have become strangely timeless
Ken Hanke | 04/07/04
The unlikely revival of Leonard Nimoy's 'Vincent
none | 04/07/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Steve Shanafelt | 04/07/04
Blues baron admits: I'm still searching
Steve Shanafelt | 04/07/04
Two-thousand-year-old play uses sex as a weapon
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni | 04/14/04
Only Eminem was allowed to influence Southern writer's latest novel
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni | 04/14/04
Austin knob-twisters still refuse to speak up
Marcianne Miller | 04/14/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni | 04/14/04
Friday at Flat Rock will be uniquely suited to Asheville audiences
Steve Shanafelt | 04/14/04
Tolerable play about teen life speaks for itself
Pete Zamplas | 04/21/04
Exhibits draw from deeply individual approaches
Steve Shanafelt | 04/21/04
Sexton lets his rough edges redeem his operatic voice
Connie Bostic | 04/21/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Marsha Barber | 04/21/04
North Carolina gospel group returns triumphantly to MerleFest
Steve Shanafelt | 04/21/04
Farmer's son Doyle Lawson invests his new release with 25 years of perfectionism
Frank Rabey | 04/28/04
Young artists' show excoriates commercial culture
Tracy Rose | 04/28/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Connie Bostic | 04/28/04
Local dancer grapples with ballet's most grueling masterpiece
Steve Shanafelt | 04/28/04
Embraced now by the festival crowd, Steve Winwood rocks on
Tracy Rose | 05/05/04
Lake Eden Arts Festival was conceived with families first in mind
Stuart Gaines | 05/05/04
Super solo 'Educated Guess' finds its target
Brian Sarzynski | 05/05/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Cecil Bothwell | 05/05/04
Former junk percussionists turn shockingly tuneful
Steve Shanafelt | 05/05/04
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni | 05/12/04
Renaissance fairs aren't just for geeks anymore
Steve Shanafelt | 05/12/04
Acclaimed Asheville folkie takes full-color approach to black-and-white world
Steve Shanafelt | 05/12/04
Scholar shares his addiction to a heavily influential monarch
Frank Rabey | 05/12/04
Puppets and politics invade Middle Eastern fairy tale
Tracy Rose | 05/12/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Abigail Batton | 05/12/04
New works show that Stevens struggled to find his place
Steve Shanafelt | 05/12/04
Storyteller let her ancestors write her first published tale
Connie Bostic | 05/19/04
Delicious cast makes 'The Food Chain' more digestible
Marcianne Miller | 05/19/04
Singer/songwriter embodies West Asheville's brash spirit
Marcianne Miller | 05/19/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Alli Marshall | 05/19/04
Henry Rollins burns with a zealot's fire for Thomas Wolfe
Steve Shanafelt | 05/19/04
How you, too, can pass for a Thomas Wolfe society member
Steve Shanafelt | 05/26/04
Drum 'n' bass DJ discusses a few of his favorite things
Carrie A.A. Frye | 05/26/04
Brevard trumpets its adorably aberrant rodents
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni | 05/26/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Marsha Barber | 05/26/04
Textually flawed photo books show what remains the same
Steve Shanafelt | 05/26/04
Artist's figures boast feet big enough to take them anywhere
Cecil Bothwell | 06/02/04
Like any family, Arrested Development has needed room to grow
Cecil Bothwell | 06/02/04
'The Big Bang' is a controlled explosion
Alli Marshall | 06/02/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Steve Shanafelt | 06/02/04
Bluff Mountain Festival headliners do it their way
Steve Shanafelt | 06/02/04
Discovering Toe River artists requires a sense of adventure
Marsha Barber | 06/09/04
Folktronica perfecter saves her sadness for her songs
Cecil Bothwell | 06/09/04
Death of an aerialist brings new attention to circus arts
Alli Marshall | 06/09/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Alli Marshall | 06/09/04
Behind Metamorphicon's mask is a swelling army of imagination
Steve Shanafelt | 06/09/04
Locals don't need film to convince them that Keel's king
Steve Shanafelt | 06/16/04
Camper Van Beethoven's new record marches merrily off to war
Will Cumberland | 06/16/04
Local baseball book scores high on visuals
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni | 06/16/04
Cowboy kitsch blooms like a desert rose in Burnsville play
Brian Sarzynski | 06/16/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Steve Shanafelt | 06/16/04
Tom Robbins parachutes into Sylva
Steve Shanafelt | 06/16/04
Harpist makes light of ancient classical instrument
Cecil Bothwell | 06/23/04
Cecil Bothwell | 06/23/04
Gallery in tucked-away Tryon remains on the cutting edge of the local art scene
Jason Lauritzen | 06/23/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Connie Bostic | 06/23/04
Artists jolt viewers into taking a new look at a threatened road
Steve Shanafelt | 06/23/04
The secret life of an Asheville doorman
Marsha Barber | 06/30/04
Novelist hopes her high-dazzle background won't blind readers to her characters
Steve Shanafelt | 06/30/04
Burlesque troupe titillates body and mind
Alli Marshall | 06/30/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Lisa Watters | 06/30/04
Hoping to help abused kids, former child star lets go of a dark secret
Steve Shanafelt | 06/30/04
Coffee-filter art creates a buzz at Semi-Public
Xpress Staff | 07/07/04
Hollywood Red puts his mojo where his mouth is
Connie Bostic | 07/07/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Steve Shanafelt | 07/07/04
Craft Fair vendors are a showcase of different movements and traditions
Steve Shanafelt | 07/07/04
Hoping to help abused kids, former child star lets go of a dark secret
Melanie M. Bianchi | 07/07/04
Getting indigenous dance moves requires moving mountains
Alli Marshall | 07/14/04
Talented band most famous as fame-seekers resurfaces, mostly intact
Alli Marshall | 07/14/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Frank Rabey | 07/14/04
Ansel Adams' photos of edgy places today put him in another tight spot
Steve Shanafelt | 07/14/04
Thanks to -- and despite -- star collaborators, Los Lobos shines on new CD
Connie Bostic | 07/21/04
Books on Southern dialect speak in distinctly different tongues
Marsha Barber | 07/21/04
Regional festival shows off puppetry for adults
Steve Shanafelt | 07/21/04
Puppetry for adults isn't exactly new
Alli Marshall | 07/28/04
Music program begun by local chef stirs up a tuneful clash of cultures
Alli Marshall | 07/28/04
The fickle final days of the Stephanie Morgan Quartet
Alli Marshall | 07/28/04
Students in WCU's first M.F.A. program will undergo hard scrutiny
Steve Shanafelt | 07/28/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Connie Bostic | 07/28/04
Novelist makes bold moves in a timely story of rape and recovery
Steve Shanafelt | 07/28/04
Nation's longest-running folk festival is sustained by crowd-pleasing, not showboating
Alli Marshall | 08/04/04
Slyly borrowed opera has returned centuries of hectic enjoyment
Hunter Pope | 08/04/04
Young Asheville filmmaker re-awakens memories of Vietnam
Cecil Bothwell | 08/04/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Cecil Bothwell | 08/04/04
High-tech dance piece introduces a new era of media arts in Asheville
Steve Shanafelt | 08/04/04
Allison Moorer explores country's dark heart, darkly
Pete Zamplas | 08/11/04
DeWayne Barton's backyard art is free to roam
Alli Marshall | 08/11/04
Local author's new mystery gives the dirt on Asheville
Connie Bostic | 08/11/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Carrie A.A. Frye | 08/11/04
Two seminal NYC bands have opposite success traversing the very mountains they built
Steve Shanafelt | 08/11/04
Progressive-hip-hop duo rocks -- and rocks the vote
Frank Rabey | 08/18/04
Hubcap artist swerves into dangerous territory
Alli Marshall | 08/18/04
Clever pair of mid-century farces still daunts directors today
Connie Bostic | 08/18/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Ken Hanke | 08/18/04
Stilt-walkers and high-steppers at Goombay! prove the kids are all right
Steve Shanafelt | 08/18/04
New theater company prepares for a unique string of shows
Alli Marshall | 08/25/04
The new Malcolm Holcombe has A-list handlers -- and a new handle on life
Alli Marshall | 08/25/04
Alcoholism never sounded so good
Marsha Barber | 08/25/04
Local arts and music news, reviews and interviews
Will Cumberland | 08/25/04
A local-is-better manifesto strongly colors annual Lexington Avenue festival
Steve Shanafelt | 08/25/04
A hot new album and a burning cause may raise local singer to local legend
Alli Marshall | 09/01/04
Marsha Barber | 09/01/04
Inspiring baby-makers is but a small part of the Rev. Al Green's mission
Marsha Barber | 09/01/04
Valuable scraps from the local-music scene
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni | 09/01/04
Beatles wannabes are here, there and everywhere -- though not necessarily all created equal
Stuart Gaines | 09/01/04
Cecil Bothwell | 09/08/04
Local painters of country and blues artists expose their own roots
Cecil Bothwell | 09/08/04
Transplanted NYC designers dress up Sept. 11 memories
Marsha Barber | 09/08/04
Valuable scraps from the local-music scene
Alli Marshall | 09/08/04 | 1 Comment
Promoting his film and CD, Brewgrass headliner enjoys a new leash on life
Stuart Gaines | 09/08/04
Literary trio explores the sinister side of hero worship
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni | 09/15/04
A century later, Chief Joseph still lives
Alli Marshall | 09/15/04
Slick double disc may finally decide fate for iconoclastic local band
Marcianne Miller | 09/15/04
Valuable scraps from the local-music scene
Hunter Pope | 09/15/04
It's the Tweedy/Stirratt bond that sustains the beleaguered Wilco
Stuart Gaines | 09/15/04
Grove Park Inn raises its glass to an ingenious drunk
Hunter Pope | 09/22/04
Flat Rock Music Festival singer says playing original songs is like standing up naked
Cecil Bothwell | 09/22/04 | 2 Comments
Pete Zamplas | 09/22/04
How Lynyrd Skynyrd saved the South -- or at least one Southern-rock writer
Pete Zamplas | 09/22/04
Valuable scraps from the local-music scene
Alli Marshall | 09/22/04
Swing-state rock campaign lands in friendly territory
Stuart Gaines | 09/22/04
Dance production flips tradition on its head
Brian Sarzynski | 09/29/04
These island artists aren't just painting pretty seascapes
Alli Marshall | 09/29/04
Asheville's most influential band is back. No, really.
Connie Bostic | 09/29/04
Valuable scraps from the local-music scene
Tom Kerr | 09/29/04
A million-dollar bonsai exhibit puts local spin on a horticultural art
Stuart Gaines | 09/29/04
Inspired live album shows how the Dickinson brothers became rock stars
Alli Marshall | 10/06/04
High-end exhibit attempts to lift Cherokee in another direction
Hunter Pope | 10/06/04
Local player manages to be both indispensable and elusive
Connie Bostic | 10/06/04
Valuable scraps from the local-music scene
Alli Marshall | 10/06/04
Top drummers and other LEAF headliners show the kids how it's done
Stuart Gaines | 10/06/04
Pete Zamplas | 10/13/04
Pete Zamplas | 10/13/04
Exhibits double-expose a powerful arts defender
Xpress Staff | 10/13/04
Struggling writers get preferential treatment in book about WNC literati
Connie Bostic | 10/13/04
Aquarium Rescue Unit reunites with its daddy after a decade apart
Alli Marshall | 10/13/04
Valuable scraps from the local-music scene
Stuart Gaines | 10/13/04
Mega-popular jam band is a model of independence
Stuart Gaines | 10/13/04
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni | 10/20/04 | 1 Comment
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni | 10/20/04
Jewelry show highlights fresh work while chronicling the aging of a popular generation
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni | 10/20/04
The country's top cloggers gather in Maggie Valley
Alli Marshall | 10/20/04
Lighter moments are the better moments in feminist play
Peter Loewer | 10/20/04
Valuable scraps from the local-music scene
Alli Marshall | 10/20/04
Coordinators of controversial McCartney Project name-drop for cherished cause
Stuart Gaines | 10/20/04
South American women singers offer a real taste of Latin music
Alli Marshall | 10/27/04
Front Gallery exhibit is a bumpy ride
Alli Marshall | 10/27/04
Found notes and photos make for a tragicomic read
Connie Bostic | 10/27/04
Valuable scraps from the local-music scene
Stuart Gaines | 10/27/04
Angels, devils and gravediggers: A critical overview of feature entries in competition
Stuart Gaines | 10/27/04
Kasey Chambers mixes forever melodies and one-night-stand lyrics on Wayward Angel
Ken Hanke | 11/03/04
Antique-quilt display reveals plenty of local color
Melanie M. Bianchi | 11/03/04
'Shakespeare Abridged' is for those who balk at the Bard
Alli Marshall | 11/03/04
Valuable scraps from the local-music scene
Alli Marshall | 11/03/04
Prison memoir reveals a place where suffering is not acknowledged, only expected
Stuart Gaines | 11/03/04
Michael Hopping | 11/10/04
Hubbard Street 2 cares nothing about famous choreographers you're supposed to love
Ken Hanke | 11/10/04
The plucky ukulele unites eccentrics of all stripes
Alli Marshall | 11/10/04
Iconic guitarists have more in common than fancy fingerwork
Alli Marshall | 11/10/04
Valuable scraps from the local-music scene
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni | 11/10/04
They live, breathe and play Southern rock -- but you're better off not labeling the ornery Drive-By Truckers
Stuart Gaines | 11/10/04
Stuart Gaines | 11/17/04
Symphony finalists show Asheville what they've got
Stuart Gaines | 11/17/04
'Asylum' exhibit expresses fondness for crazy Ashevilleans
Alli Marshall | 11/17/04
Valuable scraps from the local-music scene
Connie Bostic | 11/17/04
Peering closer at the eye in the pyramid, and other 'National Treasure' symbols
Stuart Gaines | 11/17/04
Clay show exposes an artist whose time has come
Steve Rasmussen | 11/24/04
Flashy guitar heir will offer welcome escape at Town Pump
Connie Bostic | 11/24/04
Valuable scraps from the local-music scene
Stuart Gaines | 11/24/04
Untangling Asheville's ties to the Great White Way
Stuart Gaines | 11/24/04 | 2 Comments
In fact, Trey-haters may number among Umphrey's McGee's biggest fans
Alli Marshall | 12/01/04
In its debut show A-B Tech Drama Club finds substance in humor
Stuart Gaines | 12/01/04 | 1 Comment
Valuable scraps from the local-music scene
Alli Marshall | 12/01/04
Event celebrates Beat ties to WNC
Stuart Gaines | 12/01/04
Absurdist play is still relevant after all these years
Alli Marshall | 12/08/04
Experimental percussionist combines faith in Christ with avant-garde performances
Alli Marshall | 12/08/04
A preview of Hollywood's hit-or-miss season
Stuart Gaines | 12/08/04
Valuable scraps from the local-music scene
Ken Hanke | 12/08/04
Annual Christmas Jam projected to again raise record amount again for Habitat for Humanity
Stuart Gaines | 12/08/04
Local history leaves mark on ballet company's holiday classic
Stuart Gaines | 12/15/04
Valuable scraps from the local-music scene
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni | 12/15/04
Mountain-instrument exhibit at Western piques unprecedented interest in the past
Stuart Gaines | 12/15/04
Like confetti, Dec. 31 offerings in Asheville are all over the place
Hunter Pope | 12/22/04
City New Year's party hits a new high ... sort of
Alli Marshall | 12/22/04
Holiday reads grab at the heart ... and suck the brain
Alli Marshall | 12/22/04
Valuable scraps from the local-music scene
Alli Marshall | 12/22/04
Native bluegrass band is a feast of friends (seasoned with a Grammy)
Stuart Gaines | 12/22/04
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