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It’s budget season, and the forecast for Asheville’s tourism recovery is mixed. During the May 28 meeting of the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority, Jennifer Kass-Green, vice president of culture...
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Things are getting juicy around here! After such a dry early spring, the rains of the past several weeks have really woken everything up. Our mountains are feeling like the...
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With a week to go before a consequential vote on Buncombe County’s fiscal year 2025-26 budget, a majority of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners was seeing red — and...
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The Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP), a nonprofit agricultural organization, reported May 7 that 86% of its certified farms reported physical damage during Tropical Storm Helene, although for most,...
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Hey there, Xpress readers! I’m Ashley English, an author and educator based here in Western North Carolina, where I’m living and learning alongside my husband, Glenn English, and our two...
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As a family medicine doctor, helping patients who struggle with insomnia can be extremely challenging. Insomnia can happen for many reasons, does not have a lot of simple treatment options...
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There’s no denying that it has been a rough year to live in Western North Carolina. I don’t know about y'all, but I’ve had just about enough as far as...
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With nearly 50 years of acting experience, Athens, Ga.-based writer/performer Stephanie Astalos-Jones has carved out a niche for herself with the one-woman show Disgruntled Fumes. “I once went to a...
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Over the course of an intensive three-month workshop, Tara McCoy (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) instructed her Mud Dauber Community Workshop students in the art of Cherokee ceramics. On Thursday,...
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The pamphlets are the size of an open hand, brightly colored and eye-catching. But whether The Red Banner, an eight-page zine published by the Student Vanguard for Liberation at UNC...
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Highland Brewing shared on its Facebook page that Oscar P. Wong, the brewery’s founder, ed away May 25. He was 84 years old. "Oscar was a brilliant engineer-turned-entrepreneur who always...
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On Jan. 1, Christopher Arbor and his friends pledged to visit one Asheville brewery each week for all of 2025 in the order that they opened, then share the experience...
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While actor Ben Mendelsohn dominates the small screen in the Disney+ series “Andor,” Asheville-based chamber music organization AmiciMusic celebrates composer siblings Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn with a series local...
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New restaurants are rolling out and several are reopening after closures after Tropical Storm Helene. Meanwhile, longtime downtown vegetarian restaurant Laughing Seed and two other local spots are shuttering. Also,...
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Everything old is new again at the NuWray Hotel. Built in 1833 on the Burnsville town square, North Carolina’s oldest continuously operating hotel celebrates the official opening of its first-floor...
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The Western North Carolina community has come a long way since the destruction caused by Tropical Storm Helene in late September. But as residents well know, the area still has...
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