This week in print
The lowdown on headbands, short-shorts and get-fit-quick schemes
The Presidents of the United States of America still wonder about their own strange brand of success
Local author Sarah Addison Allen returns
The Galen Kipar Project explores greater depth with simpler tools
Seeing the forest for the frieze
Multimedia exhibit rethinks landscape art
Your guide to what's happening in music, theater and the arts in Asheville and Western North Carolina
The Redundant Theatre Company Theatre wants to help you
Hanna Rachel Raskin | 01/04/06
Textile artist proves eco-friendly 'can' be fashion-savvy
Alli Marshall | 01/04/06
Xpress' movie maven rates 2005's blockbusters and busts
Ken Hanke | 01/04/06
Another take on 2005's shiners and stinkers
Marcianne Miller | 01/04/06
Xpress Staff | 01/04/06
Xpress exposes the wizards behind the local arts scene
Alli Marshall | 01/04/06
The Avett Brothers inherit the outcast approach to success
Hunter Pope | 01/11/06
Mike Marshall and Chris Thile pick amongst themselves
Alli Marshall | 01/11/06
Notes on local music
none | 01/11/06
Banned from eBay, embraced by Hollywood - two local couples shoot to art stardom
Connie Bostic | 01/11/06
A career health-care worker is among the first-time actors to step out in ACT's 'Cuckoo's Nest'
Hanna Rachel Raskin | 01/18/06
Akron/Family does cave rock right
Hunter Pope | 01/18/06
Well-known watercolorist explores the darker side of cute
Connie Bostic | 01/18/06
Notes on local music
Hunter Pope | 01/18/06
Gail Godwin publishes her memoirs - and a novel that serves the same purpose
Alli Marshall | 01/25/06
Mrs. Derek Trucks goes undercover to get noticed
Kevin Ransom | 01/25/06
Notes on local music
Hunter Pope | 01/25/06
Fourth edition of performance-art festival proves fact is the new fringe
Hanna Rachel Raskin | 01/25/06
Ambition and a spiritual side make Ahleuchatistas not so different
Chris Toenes | 01/25/06
Martial-arts aficionados have their year
Hanna Rachel Raskin | 02/01/06
New work at Blue Spiral is surprisingly street
Connie Bostic | 02/01/06
Seattle songwriter went from Elvis-impersonator backup to co-billing with James Taylor
Hunter Pope | 02/01/06
Notes on local music
Hunter Pope | 02/01/06
A lack of typical technical wizardry makes Forgotten Arm an emotional knockout
Melanie M. Bianchi | 02/08/06
Notions of purity elevate jazz dance to high art
Alli Marshall | 02/08/06
Director banks on The Sound of Music's singing family to lure audiences to rural venue
Hanna Rachel Raskin | 02/08/06
Notes on local music
Hunter Pope | 02/08/06
How a big-budget musical with low-rent sensibilities stays terminally popular
Alli Marshall | 02/15/06
Former X-Ecutioner raises his art above one-upmanship
Hunter Pope | 02/15/06
Teens and vampires go together like fangs and french fries
Hanna Rachel Raskin | 02/15/06
Notes on local music
Hunter Pope | 02/15/06
Swan Lake rivals Nutcracker in its appeal for children
Hanna Rachel Raskin | 02/22/06
Pam Tillis follows Loveless, Parton and Skaggs in rooting up a purer era of country
Kevin Ransom | 02/22/06
Illustrated books leaven folk wisdom with a light touch
Connie Bostic | 02/22/06
Notes on local music
Hunter Pope | 02/22/06
Connie Bostic | 02/22/06
Artist banned in Nashville discusses her crafty expressions on racism
Connie Bostic | 03/01/06
Asheville's Greasy Beans blend pickin' with pirouettes
Alli Marshall | 03/01/06
Writer travels the world in search of soul food
Alli Marshall | 03/01/06
Souls Alike is meant for old-school Raitt-heads
Kevin Ransom | 03/01/06
Local ambient duo makes faces at rock-star posturing
Alli Marshall | 03/01/06
Notes on local music
Hunter Pope | 03/01/06
Connie Bostic | 03/01/06
Turning 40 pushes reclusive rocker to next stage of development
Hunter Pope | 03/08/06
NC Stage play shows what happens when Hollywood infiltrates small towns
Hanna Rachel Raskin | 03/08/06
Local orchestra conductor found a kindred spirit in bluegrass "violinist"
Kent Priestley | 03/08/06
Ceramics show at UNCA was built on sweat equity
Connie Bostic | 03/08/06
Notes on local music
Hunter Pope | 03/08/06
Connie Bostic | 03/08/06
Oscar plays it safe ... again
Ken Hanke | 03/08/06
Local leg of outdoor-film festival focuses on the lighter side of extreme adventure
Hanna Rachel Raskin | 03/15/06
Animal Collective gets bullish with pop music's gene pool
John Schacht | 03/15/06
Notes on local music
Hunter Pope | 03/15/06
Irish bands, the IRA and everything
Alli Marshall | 03/15/06
Shapiro and Smith give the Boss a whole new groove
Hanna Rachel Raskin | 03/22/06
Wildly divergent Australian artists are united by attitude
Alli Marshall | 03/22/06
New disc is sweet relief for Mould-o-philes
Connie Bostic | 03/22/06
Kevin Ransom | 03/22/06
Hanna Rachel Raskin | 03/22/06
Notes on local music
Connie Bostic | 03/22/06
A West Coast trend required little kneading to grow huge here
Hunter Pope | 03/22/06
Blues' great black hope benefits from genre-bending
Kent Priestley | 03/29/06
Legendary company MOMIX dances religion large
Kevin Ransom | 03/29/06
Exhibit reveals the architecture of sexual differences
Cecil Bothwell | 03/29/06
Connie Bostic | 03/29/06
Notes on local music
Connie Bostic | 03/29/06
Seinfeld and Sedaris -- separated at birth?
Hunter Pope | 03/29/06
Sex-play book shoots for kinky domesticity
Alli Marshall | 04/05/06
A pioneering band makes up and moves on
Alli Marshall | 04/05/06
Idealistic artist paints graffiti, once removed
Chris Toenes | 04/05/06
Connie Bostic | 04/05/06
Notes on local music
Connie Bostic | 04/05/06
Unlikely local athletes press the case for active geriatrics
Hunter Pope | 04/05/06
Patty Griffin makes lonesomeness lucrative
Kent Priestley | 04/12/06 | 1 Comment
Robert Randolph takes direction from friends in high places
John Schacht | 04/12/06
Notes on local music
Kevin Ransom | 04/12/06
Native son sings it like it is, for better or worse
Hunter Pope | 04/12/06
Buried Films finally unveils its ill-starred 'The Nudger
none | 04/19/06
They don't have a right to say the wrong thing
Steve Shanafelt | 04/19/06
Show in Black Mountain coyly violates borders
Alli Marshall | 04/19/06
Connie Bostic | 04/19/06
Connie Bostic | 04/19/06
Notes on local music
Steve Shanafelt | 04/19/06
Penn, Oldham reprise roles from R&B heyday
Hunter Pope | 04/19/06
'Sunny Side' plays on our undying interest in the Carter Family
John Schacht | 04/26/06
Ruby Slippers' front woman reveals her inner geek
Alli Marshall | 04/26/06
Guy Clark's link to the newly underscored Johnny Cash and Townes Van Zandt throws his own words into relief
Alli Marshall | 04/26/06
Kevin Ransom | 04/26/06
Notes on local music
Steve Shanafelt | 04/26/06
America's most beloved gospel group makes a rare church appearance
Hunter Pope | 04/26/06
A reworked classic challenges the love-story formula
Kevin Ransom | 05/03/06
Mad Tea Party grows bigger with the help of their friends
Alli Marshall | 05/03/06
Carrying on country's outlaw tradition -- his way
Alli Marshall | 05/03/06
Alli Marshall | 05/03/06
Notes on local music
Steve Shanafelt | 05/03/06
Making great entertainment out of Thomas Wolfe's miserable adolescence
Hunter Pope | 05/03/06
Joys and woes of motherhood get loving treatment at Wedge
Steve Shanafelt | 05/10/06
A Review of Stephen and Ky-Mani Marley at the Orange Peel
Connie Bostic | 05/10/06
Alli Marshall | 05/10/06
Steve Shanafelt | 05/10/06
Notes on local music
Connie Bostic | 05/10/06
'Moon Europa''s journey from scrap heap to spaceship
Hunter Pope | 05/10/06
Novel offers a prickly spin on first love
Jon Elliston | 05/17/06
Mac Arnold's music isn't for the faint of soul
Alli Marshall | 05/17/06
Penland artists turn to animals for inspiration
Kevin Ransom | 05/17/06
Connie Bostic | 05/17/06
Steve Shanafelt | 05/17/06
Notes on local music
Connie Bostic | 05/17/06
Today's new musicals gain ground at Stoneleaf
Hunter Pope | 05/17/06
Stoneleaf Theatre Festival
Alli Marshall | 05/24/06
The skinny on a band whose style is as important as its sound
Alli Marshall | 05/24/06
Festival still has its twang, eight decades on
Alli Marshall | 05/24/06
Kent Priestley | 05/24/06
Notes on local music
Steve Shanafelt | 05/24/06
New circus act confronts long-standing controversy
Hunter Pope | 05/24/06
The Rags' reunion with Abe Reid feeds nostalgia buffs and skeptics
Alli Marshall | 05/31/06
Local musician uses artful randomness to rise above almost-famousness
Alli Marshall | 05/31/06
Hunter Pope | 05/31/06
Notes on local music
Steve Shanafelt | 05/31/06
An Appalachian mystery throws itself a party
Hunter Pope | 05/31/06
Opening of Flood portends a swell of vanguard art
Kent Priestley | 06/07/06 | 1 Comment
Sept. 11 prophets release their first disc since 2001
Connie Bostic | 06/07/06
Kevin Ransom | 06/07/06
Steve Shanafelt | 06/07/06
Notes on local music
Connie Bostic | 06/07/06
How five faith-based pianists are saving classical music
Hunter Pope | 06/07/06
Father's Day show at 520 is high in humor and whimsy
Alli Marshall | 06/14/06
Seattle's Band of Horses gets a leg up from Iron & Wine
Connie Bostic | 06/14/06
Grey Eagle pauses its music roster to give comedy some play
John Schacht | 06/14/06
Hanna Rachel Raskin | 06/14/06
Connie Bostic | 06/14/06
Drinking Pele's Passion for a good cause
Steve Shanafelt | 06/14/06
Critics are grateful for the soul Osborne adds to Dead splinter band
Alli Marshall | 06/21/06
The men behind lit's fluffier reads
Kevin Ransom | 06/21/06
Old production hits a new nerve
Alli Marshall | 06/21/06
Cecil Bothwell | 06/21/06
Exploring old-time music's rebirth at the hands of punk rockers
Steve Shanafelt | 06/21/06
Shakespeare's 'Tempest' blows back into town after a two-decade absence
Kent Priestley | 06/28/06
Digital-photo show exposes the viewer's secrets
Cecil Bothwell | 06/28/06
Menage breaks the "no boys" ban
Connie Bostic | 06/28/06
Alli Marshall | 06/28/06
Despite their inherently jammy persona, Perpetual Groove is ably steering a rusting genre
Steve Shanafelt | 06/28/06
'Xpress' writer brings it on Jeopardy!
Stuart Gaines | 07/05/06
Chan Marshall steps out of the fraidy zone
Kent Priestley | 07/05/06
The OxyMorons celebrate four __________ '[adj.]' years
Kevin Ransom | 07/05/06
Steve Shanafelt | 07/05/06
Construction workers and architects get equal billing in show dedicated to artists with day jobs
Steve Shanafelt | 07/05/06
Rivalry, spontaneity buoy aging sister act
Connie Bostic | 07/12/06
Danielson takes a wild musical voyage on 'Ships
none | 07/12/06
Canadian and English groups share surprising borders with American dance
John Schacht | 07/12/06
Alli Marshall | 07/12/06
The Lee Boys were pedal steel when pedal steel wasn't cool
Steve Shanafelt | 07/12/06
Jim Henson's daughter Heather lets her puppets do the talking
Kevin Ransom | 07/19/06
Multi-venue folk-art show does little to illuminate a murky genre
Alli Marshall | 07/19/06
Daniel Pinchbeck's end-of-the-world theories feel amazingly familiar
Connie Bostic | 07/19/06
Cecil Bothwell | 07/19/06
Steve Shanafelt | 07/19/06
Tom Waits makes a rare detour to Asheville
Connie Bostic | 07/19/06
Asheville's nicest musician keeps it real
John Schacht | 07/26/06
Alli Marshall | 07/26/06
Regional shows by classic-country icons preface their joint fall album
Steve Shanafelt | 07/26/06
How the Rebelles turn politics into absurdist comedy
Kevin Ransom | 08/02/06
Local festival keeps close ties with tradition
Alli Marshall | 08/02/06
Duo combs the world for its roots
A&E Staff | 08/02/06
Alli Marshall | 08/02/06
Terpsicorps' 'The Scarlet Letter' uses ancient modalities to achieve hip apocalypse
Steve Shanafelt | 08/02/06 | 1 Comment
Asheville native's convoluted mystery is snapped up despite its heft
Alli Marshall | 08/09/06
The never-quite comebacks of John Brannen
Alli Marshall | 08/09/06
Steve Shanafelt | 08/09/06
Museum exhibit uses history, shock value and spectacular work to showcase the culture of tattooing
Steve Shanafelt | 08/09/06
The impressively connected Randall Bramblett finally steps into the spotlight
Connie Bostic | 08/16/06
Who are the Feral Chihuahuas, and why is no one talking about them?
Kevin Ransom | 08/16/06
Steve Shanafelt | 08/16/06
Steve Shanafelt | 08/16/06
Now that Goombay! is 24, the festival's penchant for featuring early-'80s bands has become retro-hip
Connie Bostic | 08/16/06
On the street with Asheville's buskers
Alli Marshall | 08/23/06
Despite decreased output, Lovett still charts high on charm
Paul Jackson, Kent Priestley | 08/23/06
Kevin Ransom | 08/23/06
Rethinking Asheville's true urban murals
Steve Shanafelt | 08/23/06
Englishman's gentle account of Cherokee life contrasts starkly with his countrymen's attitudes
Steve Shanafelt, Jonathan Welch, Zen Sutherland | 08/30/06 | 1 Comment
'Cornbread Nation' star can't quit writing songs
Kent Priestley | 08/30/06
A 60-year anniversary calls for especially festive fruit
Kevin Ransom | 08/30/06
Alli Marshall | 08/30/06
LAAFF accelerates from indie rock to indie world
Steve Shanafelt | 08/30/06
Sparklehorse emerges from creative funk with cathartic new record
Alli Marshall | 09/06/06
Artist's old-fashioned obsession with light and perception lends Warren Wilson exhibit great intensity
John Schacht | 09/06/06
Indian authors narrate their own experiences, instead of letting historians do it for them
Connie Bostic | 09/06/06
Tom Kerr | 09/06/06
Connie Bostic | 09/06/06
Novel allows a sassy Mary Magdalen to have her say
Steve Shanafelt | 09/06/06
How Rodney Crowell came of age in middle age
Alli Marshall | 09/13/06
Everything you wanted to know about the '80s-era NY music scene
Kevin Ransom | 09/13/06
Alli Marshall | 09/13/06
The truth about where those missing socks go
Steve Shanafelt | 09/13/06
Richard Buckner's latest gets quiet inspiration from NYC borough
Alli Marshall | 09/20/06
Considering the River Sculpture Festival
John Schacht | 09/20/06
Dance rock group is more than the sum of their synthesizers
Connie Bostic | 09/20/06
Alli Marshall | 09/20/06
How Dan Bern caught fire in the desert
Steve Shanafelt | 09/20/06
Drive-by Truckers can't stay away
Kevin Ransom | 09/27/06
Local band is pro-woodwind, anti-war
Stuart Gaines | 09/27/06
An insider's look at juried art exhibits
Alli Marshall | 09/27/06
Microcosm Publishing brings its zine tour to Asheville
Connie Bostic | 09/27/06
Ethan Clark | 09/27/06
HART goes 'The Full Monty
Steve Shanafelt | 09/27/06
The iconoclastic groove of David Grisman
Alli Marshall | 10/04/06
Fall fashion returns to music's roots
Kevin Ransom | 10/04/06
David LaMotte sings on the global stage
Alli Marshall, Jonathan Welch | 10/04/06
Cecil Bothwell | 10/04/06
Steve Shanafelt | 10/04/06
Connie Bostic | 10/11/06
Pixies front man goes folk
Ken Hanke | 10/11/06
Wide-ranging design show at WCU reflects collectors' vision
Kevin Ransom | 10/11/06
CX-1 and Jamaica's Overtakers push the fusion envelope
Connie Bostic | 10/11/06
Techno-visionary Laurie Anderson reflects on NASA tenure in new show
Alli Marshall | 10/11/06
Aging comic embraces -- and inspires -- low expectations
Kevin Ransom | 10/11/06
Cecil Bothwell | 10/11/06
Alli Marshall | 10/11/06
For this Irish band, tradition doesn't mean the same old thing
Steve Shanafelt | 10/11/06
Alli Marshall | 10/18/06
Okkervil River runs deeper than its alt-country cousins
Xpress Staff | 10/18/06
Amy Sedaris turns quirk into a lifestyle
John Schacht | 10/18/06
Indie rockers resist urge to rock out
Alli Marshall | 10/18/06
Ethan Clark | 10/18/06
Inside Asheville's goth nights
Steve Shanafelt | 10/18/06
The Melvins are many things, none of them pretty
Alli Marshall | 10/25/06
Asheville Lyric Opera aims high with 'The Elixir of Love
Alli Marshall | 10/25/06
Arthur Lee and Syd Barrett get a long-overdue tribute
Pete Zamplas | 10/25/06
Ethan Clark | 10/25/06
Members' outside success may alter Broken Social Scene's collective future
Steve Shanafelt | 10/25/06
Connie Bostic | 11/01/06
Blues virtuoso shifts course
John Schacht | 11/01/06
Supertalent Iris DeMent weathers political storms
Alli Marshall | 11/01/06
International Exhibition Talks About Clay and Architecture
Kevin Ransom | 11/01/06
Connie Bostic | 11/01/06
Film festival honors sensational actress
Steve Shanafelt | 11/01/06
Films in competition and other events
Ken Hanke | 11/08/06
Squeezebox Swami turns prayer into a party
Ken Hanke, Steve Shanfelt | 11/08/06
Keller Williams does it all
Alli Marshall | 11/08/06
How to get Scrabble'd in Asheville
Kevin Ransom | 11/08/06
Margaret Williams | 11/08/06 | 1 Comment
Super stylish Heap has indie-synth chops
Steve Shanafelt | 11/08/06
Timely lyrics keep new album from turning into a retro-rocket
Alli Marshall | 11/15/06
Plant in bluegrass, mandolinist says
Ethan Clark | 11/15/06
New director puts the Asheville back in the Asheville Holiday Parade
Kevin Ransom | 11/15/06
Tom Kerr | 11/15/06
Ken Hanke | 11/15/06
Local musicians log friends and listeners on their space
Steve Shanafelt | 11/15/06
Connie Bostic | 11/22/06
David Wilcox is the same as he ever was
Alli Marshall | 11/22/06
Book Works honors low-tech communication
Cecil Bothwell | 11/22/06
Asheville's all-ages scene
Connie Bostic | 11/22/06
Ethan Clark | 11/22/06
What's on at URTV
Steve Shanafelt | 11/22/06
El Vez puts Mexican spin on act
Alli Marshall | 11/29/06
Darol Anger and Scott Nygaard back Anonymous 4 at the Porter Center
Stuart Gaines | 11/29/06
Rasputina rocks out
Kevin Ransom | 11/29/06
Nature Boy keeps the classic matches coming
John Schacht | 11/29/06
Jason Bugg | 11/29/06
Steve Shanafelt | 11/29/06
Hope For Agoldensummer takes small steps toward big dreams
Ken Hanke | 11/29/06
Pierce Edens and the Dirty Work release their debut album
Alli Marshall | 12/06/06
Gilding the cubicle at A-B Tech
Jake Frankel | 12/06/06
'A Christmas Carol' from Scrooge, Marley's perspectives
Hanna Rachel Raskin | 12/06/06
Pete Zamplas | 12/06/06
'It's A Wonderful Life' like you've never heard it before
Steve Shanafelt | 12/06/06
Connie Bostic | 12/13/06
Former R.E.M. producer talks about his passion
Steve Shanafelt | 12/13/06
Painter Fleta Monaghan refuses to limit herself
Alli Marshall | 12/13/06
Traveling Bonfires lights up the holiday season
Connie Bostic | 12/13/06
Kent Priestley | 12/13/06
William Murray, Steve Shanafelt | 12/13/06
Connie Bostic | 12/20/06
Local musicians team up for Snowdown
Cara Ciliberto | 12/20/06
A Toubab Krewe Primer
Ethan Clark | 12/20/06
Seider sees it all in black and white
Kimberly Rogers | 12/20/06
Connie Bostic | 12/20/06
New Year's Eve around town
Steve Shanafelt | 12/20/06
Steve Shanafelt | 12/27/06
New Year's Eve attire
Alli Marshall | 12/27/06
Community gathers for cultural celebration
Alli Marshall, Jonathan Welch | 12/27/06
2006 local music roundup
Ethan Clark | 12/27/06
Xpress staff | 12/27/06
