Artist t.e. siewert always remembers her need to express an inner vision through art. siewert (using her initials and small caps as an homage to e.e. cummings, a favorite poet), spent 27 years as a Registered Nurse. Yet, it wasn’t until a fateful trip to Asheville’s River Arts District thatContinue Reading

During the holiday season we invite you to shop at Burr Studio in Waynesville to find that special gift. After more than fifteen years of doing business at our Main Street location, we are the destination for handmade and regional crafts. Everything is U.S. made by small artisans. Visit usContinue Reading

Despite the whole range of electronic devices intended for our pleasure, it is hard to beat a good bike ride in the country. Many of us remember our first bike, the first time we learned to ride without training wheels, feeling as if we could go anywhere. Freedom. Bikes areContinue Reading

Perfect for Shopping, Dining, and Live Entertainment. Tucked away in an underground cellar at 20 Church Street, just off Main Street in historic downtown Waynesville, is an unassuming retail wine and craft beer establishment known as the Classic Wineseller. For 18 years, founder and owner Richard Miller has been strategicContinue Reading

Diana Wortham Theatre is pleased to announce the highly anticipated return of New York- and London-based Aquila Theatre Company. The Mainstage Series favorite, will present a re-imagined and invigorating staging of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 8 p.m. While the classic tale of two star-crossedContinue Reading

The Green Room Café specializes in artisan crafted delicious food made fresh from local ingredients. The café features signature dinner entrees, gourmet sandwiches, homemade soups, sauces, dressings and salads, breakfast and baked treats. We also offer a full ABC bar, Fair Trade locally roasted primo espresso and coffees, and anContinue Reading

Fabulous Fakes Most highly respected schools of Art require their students to copy masterworks to further learn color, tone, figure and interpretation of a subject, forcing the students to see what is before them. The Swannanoa Valley Fine Art League annually challenges its members to create masterful works of artContinue Reading

Featuring Amy Black and Sarah Borges by James Cassara – Few recording venues are more synonymous with a specific sound than the legendary environs of Muscle Shoals Studios. Nestled in the hills of northern Alabama, situated just outside Sheffield (population 9039, 2014 Census) and the town seat of Colbert County,Continue Reading

by Bob Hayward – Astronomers at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute point out that at 11:48 p.m. EST on Monday, December 21, 2015 the Sun will be at its most southern point in the sky for the year. This is the winter solstice and marks the first moment of winter.Continue Reading