Learn things about Asheville that might just keep you up at night… mostly giggling. With Halloween just around the corner, the experience you’ll have aboard the LaZoom bus will become a story all its own and one you’ll love to tell over and over again to your friends and family.Continue Reading

Bob Hayward – Astronomers at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) remind the public of the annual Orionid Meteor Shower in October. Meteors result from particles of dust causing the atmosphere to glow as the particles enter the upper atmosphere of the Earth. The Orionid (pronounced Or-e-ah-nid) meteors, or “Orionids,”Continue Reading

What’s the Buzz About Bees? Awareness Event What’s the Buzz About Bees? involves the whole Black Mountain, NC community in an effort to bring awareness to the decline of bee populations throughout the valley and the world. This is a problem that has made it very rapidly into our ownContinue Reading

‘Carroll Best’ CD Earns Prestigious Bluegrass Award Nomination by Lisa Duff Great Smoky Mountains Association’s “Carroll Best and the White Oak String Band” has been named among the best of the year by earning an award nomination in the International Bluegrass Music Association’s annual competition. GSMA’s compilation of old-time SmokyContinue Reading

Exhibition Highlights International Designer-Maker Movement by Lauren Pelletier Made in WNC is the first exhibition to examine how studios in Western North Carolina are participating in the international designer-maker movement. Curated and organized by The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design’s Assistant Director Marilyn Zapf, the show will open Friday,Continue Reading

First Place Too Many Books By Howard Paine There are too many books to read, too many words to cram into my brain causing me pain driving me irresponsible. Read three books last week and cannot remember what they were about only that I enjoyed them. I hate television, thoughContinue Reading

Debut Album by Chris Stack “You’ve been playing synthesizers since the 70s; playing piano since 2nd grade lessons in a Catholic school convent; did printed circuit design for Bob Moog in the Big Briar days; have been playing oud and other stringed and woodwind instruments in the (surprisingly large) Asheville, NCContinue Reading

Pam Siekman WNCAP is gearing up for the annual Raise Your Hand Auction & Gala with an impressive line-up of auction treasures, celebrities, fine cuisine, and much, much more! The well attended and celebrated event will be held on Saturday, September 26, 2015 at the Asheville Event Centre on SweetenContinue Reading