Woodfin is pursuing an annexation that would bring 3,360 people — almost half the town’s current population — from the Erwin Hills and Leicester areas into the town. The town’s primary reason is to keep Asheville from annexing the area first, which the city has denied is a goal. Residents of the area have objected to the move, saying they will face higher taxes without substantially more services.

National retail outlet Urban Outfitters announced plans on Friday to open a retail store at the corner of Haywood and College streets.

Following last year’s Heathers and The Twilight Zone, Dark Horse Theatre adapts the 1995 noir comedy The Last Supper for the stage.

“He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. ... A salesman is got to dream, boy.” — Willy Loman

Following a stop through Swannanoa, The Tips play Mo Daddy’s on Saturday with a sound like the Rolling Stones stranded in Motor City.

The Energy Loop, Asheville’s first public art sculpture, is set to be returned to downtown on Saturday after sitting in storage for years.

There are stacks of DVDs on my desk—several of them in fact. A few of them contain holdovers yet to be returned to the shelves from research needs, but the bulk of these stacks are movies I’ve purchased or been given that I intend to watch. The problem is finding—or making—the time to actually sit down and do that. I suspect that I am far from alone in this matter.

Sensitive, sweet and real (yet blissfully light in all the places it so easily could be dark), Gin Phillips’ The Well and The Mine moves with the ease of a beach read yet offers the pithy substance of a time-tested classic.

‘Til Beth Do Us Part, the new comedy by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, premieres at Asheville Community Theatre.

On July 2, the North Carolina Division of Water Quality issued a water-quality certification permit for The Cliffs at High Carolina, a golf-community development located between Swannanoa and Fairview.

Eclectic roots-jazz-ragtime ensemble Holy Ghost Tent Revival rolls to the Rocket Club on Thursday, July 9. They’ll play with brand-new, Asheville-based jazz band The Funk Messengers. Want to go? Xpress is giving away two spots on the list. ***Update: Tickets have been won! ***

Plenty of live music, plus bad movies, street festivals, art openings and more. It’s all $5 or cheaper.

Maybe this would be a good week to take a break from the studio steamroller and spend some time with the surprising array of movies of, let’s say, slightly more depth that are in local theaters just now.

Here’s your video sneak preview of the July 8 edition of the Mountain Xpress. You might call it the doomsday edition.