Interview with owner, Samuel Wood Interviewed by Dennis Ray Rise ‘n Shine is a locally owned and operated small business who use local and organic products to make a wide selection of breakfast dishes, sandwiches, fresh juices, and smoothies. Free range eggs and chicken, organic carrots, organic greens, organic milkContinue Reading
by David Simchock Are you planning a vacation in 2013? Will you be bringing your fancy digital camera along, with hopes of coming home with a few (hundred) photos that are sure to launch your career with National Geographic? Okay, maybe you don’t aspire to be a top pro photographer,Continue Reading
NC Stage welcomes two dynamic performers this January with some inspiring, heartwarming, and local stories. Barbara Bates Smith, noted for her Off-Broadway adaptation and performance of “Ivy Rowe” from Lee Smith’s Fair and Tender Ladies, will be performing her new play, “Go, Granny, Go,” the touring show highlighting the storyContinue Reading
by James Cassara By most accounts the success of 2012’s edition of MoogFest was a mixed bag. While I enjoyed those acts I saw, my perspective — as one who doesn’t have to purchase a ticket and is awarded full access to all events — is admittedly different from thatContinue Reading
by James Cassara Last month I was able to plow through a stack of discs left over from previous months. This go around I enter into the New Year with a pair of new albums, a hybrid recast of a best of, and a glorious boxed set celebrating one ofContinue Reading
Hitchcock ****1/2 Short Take: An utterly entertaining look at Alma and Alfred Hitchcock’s marriage during the production of Psycho. Reel Take: I admit that prior to seeing Hitchcock, I had reservations. From the trailers, I thought Anthony Hopkins looked possibly even creepier as Alfred Hitchcock than he did as HannibalContinue Reading
Last year, The Artist, The Descendants, Hugo and Midnight in Paris topped virtually everyone’s critical lists. For me, they topped my critical and personal top tens. This year was quite different, and ranking my critical top 10 films for the Southeast Film Critics Association ballots proved a bit of aContinue Reading
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: Les Miserables (1998) Now that the blockbuster musical version of Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel LesMiserables has hit the big screen (reviewed in this issue), it makes sense to recommend one of the non musical versions so that you can actually experience the story more or less theContinue Reading
Nature Center Welcomes 100,000th Guest The Friends of the WNC Nature Center are thrilled that the 100,000th visitor in 2012 walked through the doors at 10 a.m. on Monday, December 3, 2012. Betsy Archer and her son Milo, members of the Friends of the Nature Center, were excited to celebrateContinue Reading
