by Bruce Sales Hundreds of Asheville Residents Race to Complete Films in Just One Weekend: June 21-23 In 2001, the 48 Hour Film Project started as a local film challenge among friends. Since then, it has since evolved into a global phenomenon and the world’s largest filmmaking competition. This year,Continue Reading

In This Month’s Issue: June 2013 On the Cover: Jonas Gerard (pg 23) Performance: Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival (pg 6); Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance (pg 7); Community Choreography Projects (pg 8); Fine Art: Bender Gallery (pg 9); Arrowhead Gallery and Studios (pg 10); Claymates (pg 11); Asheville Art in theContinue Reading

by Max Hammonds, MD If you have had cancer – sounds like a bad way to begin a positive and helpful suggestion for a healthful lifestyle. The truth is: if you have had cancer, you are like everyone who has had some life-changing health problem – a heart attack, aContinue Reading

Saturday, June 1 Sean O’Neill Opening Reception From 5 to 7 p.m. at Chifferobe Home and Garden, 118 Cherry Street, Black Mountain. Call (828) 669-2743 or visit the website, www.chifferobehomeandgarden.com Haywood 2013 Graduate Show On display in the Folk Art Center’s Main Gallery through June 23. The Folk Art CenterContinue Reading

by Peter Loewer Storekeep, Cityfella, Mrs. Storekeep, and the Curmudgeon were standing around looking at the new poster display for the local newspaper out of Asheville and wondering about the future of newspapers, the US Mail, and civility in general when a Tourist walked in and, we suspect, thought heContinue Reading

CD Release Concert for Bliss of Being An album of deeply relaxing and expansive music to dive into and return rested and in tune with your natural inner alignment. Musicians on the album include Adriana Contino – cello, Bob Hinkle, Dielle Ciesco, Kate Steinbeck, and Richard Shulman on piano. CellistContinue Reading

by Melissa Reardon On June 20, 21 and 22, Community Choreography Projects shares real life stories of local people for a charitable cause. “If I were skinny I might like myself,” reads one handmade card. Another professes that someone was beaten by her husband but never told anyone. Other cardsContinue Reading

by James Cassara This has been an abundant month of music, especially in the independent realm of Kickstarter funded projects. It’s also been a particularly fruitful one, with some remarkably good discs emerging from bands with whom I was largely unfamiliar. Thus, the comments will be kept brief so asContinue Reading

Artetude Gallery will celebrate its first anniversary as a contemporary fine art gallery bringing the finest and most compelling art from local, regional and nationally recognized artists to Asheville. Founded by two physician-scientists, Margaret “Kenny” Offermann and Russell Medford, Artetude Gallery is committed to its growing family of artists andContinue Reading