On April 23, Hope for Horses, a horse rescue and rehabilitation group, held a fundraiser at Highland Brewing Company called Hops for Horses. Hope for Horses held the event in order to qualify for a $25,000 grant from the ASPCA. In honor of Help a Horse Day 2016, the ASCPA is giving out $100,000 in […]
On April 9, the Barnes & Noble at the Asheville Mall hosted a sneak preview event for Robert Beatty’s new novel, “Serafina and the Twisted Staff”. The book is the sequel to Beatty’s best-selling “Serafina and the Black Cloak”, which is about a girl who secretly lives in the basement of the Biltmore Estate. It […]
On March 12, Pack Memorial Library displayed “Phantomythography: A Young Ghost Comes of Age,” a video installation by O.K. Keyes, an artist from South Carolina. Mechanical Eye Microcinema (MEM), a collective of experimental artists, helped to organize the event. According to the MEM website, “Phantomythography” explores the fiction of memory and identity via the lens […]
American Folk Art and Framing held a reception for their 12th Annual Miniature Show on Friday. For the show, participating artists were required to create folk art pieces with a maximum size of nine by seven inches. According to American Folk’s website, the show, which lasts from the 11th to the 25th, is designed to […]
Asheville Mardi Gras held their ninth annual Mardi Gras parade in downtown Asheville on Sunday. The parade lined up on Wall St. and began to move at 3:05 pm. According to the Asheville Mardi Gras’s website, the parade marched down Battery Park Avenue before moving through Haywood Street, finally looping back to Battery Park Avenue […]
Highland Brewing Company hosted its monthly Community Night Thursday Jan. 21, with the Colburn Earth Science Museum. According to the Highland Brewing Company’s website, Thursday’s Community Night was in celebration of the museum’s relocation to Patton Ave. as well as the museum’s rebranding. In 2016, the Colburn Earth Science Museum will be renamed as the […]
Photographer: David Jordan