The Classic Wineseller invites you to enjoy four consecutive Saturday evenings of live jazz. The Wineseller’s second annual Fall for Jazz series features many of western North Carolina’s top jazz performers Saturday evenings from October 12 through November 2, 2013. The series kicks off on Saturday, October 12 with EveContinue Reading
by Michael S. Harper a love supreme, a love supreme a love supreme, a love supreme Sex fingers toes in the marketplace near your father’s church in Hamlet, North Carolina— witness to this love in this calm fallow of these minds, there is no substitute for pain: genitals gone orContinue Reading
Thursday, September 5 Business After Hours Quality networking, complimentary food and beverages, live music, and a very special iPad Bundle Raffle to raise funds for a new playground in West Asheville’s Pisgah View Apartments. 5:30-7 p.m. at Charlotte Street Computers, 252 Charlotte Street in Asheville. For more information visit www.charlottestreetcomputers.comContinue Reading
In This Month’s Issue: September 2013 Performance Diana Wortham Theatre (pg3) NC Stage – Stalking the Bogeyman (pg6) HART – Ave. Q (pg6) Asheville Symphony Orchestra (pg7) Fine Art Colorfest (pg4) Henderson County Studio Tour (pg8) Folk Art Center (pg9) The Emerald Ball (pg10) Cheryl Keefer (pg11) Dominique Harder (pg11)Continue Reading
The Asheville Symphony Orchestra will open its 53rd season on September 21 – a night that will mark not only the return of the ASO to the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium stage, but also the homecoming of a special soloist whose career has taken off since his last engagement with theContinue Reading
The 33rd Annual Heritage Weekend will be held September 21-22 at the Blue Ridge Parkway’s Folk Art Center. This free festival sponsored by the Southern Highland Craft Guild features traditional music, dancing and heritage craft demonstrations. A highlight of the weekend is the 33rd Annual World Gee Haw Whimmy DiddleContinue Reading
by Bill Walz “The way to practice true Zen is… just open yourself and give up everything… This is what it means to surrender… Without losing yourself by sticking to a particular rule or understanding, keep finding yourself, moment after moment… to have complete experience or full feeling in eachContinue Reading
And Sometimes Tea Helps by Greg Vineyard My time in Asheville, including four-plus years of monthly columns for Rapid River Magazine, has marked a new creative era in my little book of life. I remember when editor Dennis Ray invited me to contribute, I thought: “Can I come up withContinue Reading
Interview with Natalie Byrnes Interviewed by Dennis Ray Rapid River Magazine: Tell us a little about your restaurant and what you have to offer. Natalie Byrnes: Our menu is primarily based on northern Italian cuisine very simply created dishes using the freshest ingredients available; we used global Italian to describeContinue Reading
