As we all prepare to celebrate the new year, here are the ImageAsheville photographers’ personal favorites for 2011 accompanied by their thoughts, because often the story behind the photo is as good as the photo itself . Our picks are not necessarily all from the pages of ImageAshevillle, because we don’t just do event photography! [...]
Miss your high school prom? Too nerdy to notice when it happened? Or too cool to go then? In what has become an Asheville tradition, you now get a second chance to wear polyester clothes, even leisure suits, in –gasp!– light blue, poofy skirts and get your hair did up. After the photobooth was torn [...]
Asheville Middle School held a Fall Festival with a variety of fun events to highlight the work of students so far this year. Face painting, nail coloring, palm readings, bingo, a ‘Jeopardy-type’ game, and a drumming clinic were just some of the fun events for students, parents, staff and friends.
Witches, goblins, Daleks, more witches, and superheros vie for the attention of homeowners on a tree-lined West Asheville street. Every year for a long time, Vermont Avenue has been West Asheville’s ‘go-to’ place for trick-or-treaters, rain or wind, cold or hot, the people of Vermont Ave are there year after year. This year was no [...]
The fifth-annual Ashtoberfest brought un-dead fun to nearly 3,000 attendees at a very different, and at first for some an unwelcome, venue, the Biltmore Square Mall. All doubts about the venue seemed to fade as corpses of all ages were seen shambling around the food court, the stores and shopes, and the parking lot. For [...]
The AVL/Buncombe Food Policy Council (AB-FPC) aims to create a broad action agenda to alleviate poverty, improve public health, expand local commerce, and further sustainability initiatives by addressing Food Security issues. In 1982, Food Policy Councils began and have since sprung up in communities across America. The organizers hope to base AB-FPC on successful models [...]
About 20 same-sex couples have been applying for marriage licenses at the Buncombe County Register of Deeds office this month. Today, the group turned up the heat with one of the couples, Rev. Kathryn Cartledge and partner Elizabeth Eves, refusing to leave after being denied their license. They were arrested for trespassing, but were shortly [...]
Asheville Greenworks and RiverLink sponsored a big clean-up effort as part of a state-wide Big Sweep on October 1st. Volunteers from UNCA, Warren Wilson, Haywood Community College, Mars Hill College, and others picked up roadside trash, and tackled a “dump site” under the Smoky Park Highway bridge. A 20yd dumpster was filled to overflowing just [...]
They were there before sunrise today, on a cool, foggy West Asheville morning. In the dark, problems were encountered and solutions devised. There was the power, quick, go to generators. Things not remembered, go get ‘em. Eventually, potatoes, eggs, and local meats hit the hot grill, and things were off and running. Eatbox brings a [...]
Photographer: Bill Rhodes