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Smart Bets

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

Xpress staff | 09/03/2008

LAAFF-in

The inside scoop on Asheville's all-local street festival

Alli Marshall | 09/03/2008 | 6 Comment(s)

Queen of the road

Tift Merritt picks up the pieces

Jason Bugg | 09/03/2008

It’s the bark, not the bite

An old mountain craft becomes a green-building sensation

Rebecca Bowe | 09/03/2008

Painting with plants

Inaugural flower carpet blooms at Biltmore

Anne Fitten Glenn | 09/03/2008

Just that easy

Local musician organizes free evening of music at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, hopes others will follow

Dave Cole | 09/03/2008

SoundTrack

Alli Marshall | 09/03/2008


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Ken Hanke | 09/05 | 05:23 PM | 2 Comments

The movies used to thrive on Evil Geniuses and Criminal Masterminds, but today the only remaining vestiges are either rather drab fellows, or they’re holdovers from comic books and were created years ago. No one seems to be coming up with new ones. So let’s pause for a bit and take a look at some of the older panache-obsessed villains.


Alli Marshall | 09/04 | 12:59 PM

This week is bonus week on Book Report: Two reviews. Local author Kendall Hale published her memoir and former MIT professor Steven Pinker stops by Malaprop’s. Get reading, people.


Alli Marshall | 09/04 | 12:43 PM

Each week Xpress reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their entertainment suggestions.


Anne Fitten Glenn | 09/01 | 09:00 AM | 2 Comments

The edgy mama organizers of this year’s Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Festival have ramped up activities for the kidlings at the funky street fest.


Ken Hanke | 08/30 | 05:13 PM

There’s been a lot of talk this summer about how certain disappointing movies—namely Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Star Wars: The Clone Wars—have tainted fans’ enjoyment of the original films.


Alli Marshall | 08/29 | 09:00 AM

Trade used denim toward during this month-long event. (The used jeans benefit moms and teens in WNC’s Big Brothers and Big Sisters program.)


Alli Marshall | 08/28 | 09:00 AM

Award-winning poet Glenis Redmond returns with her third full-length collection of poetry.


Alli Marshall | 08/27 | 03:14 PM

Each week Xpress reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their entertainment suggestions.


Anne Fitten Glenn | 08/25 | 10:31 AM | 1 Comment

Here’s what happened when I dropped off my kidlings on the first day.


Ken Hanke | 08/22 | 12:57 PM | 13 Comments

Has there ever been such a marvelous title? It’s even better if you hear the announcer on the trailer intone it oh so ominously. So I settled in for the day I could take that ride on the Midnight Meat Train



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