The Ca$hevillains Cash Mob group is the latest savvy brainstorm to support unchained and independent business from the Asheville Grown Business Alliance, working with members of the Asheville Downtown Association and Asheville Event Planning and Staffing. Based on the idea of a flash mob, the ‘Cash Mob’ was originally started in Buffalo, New York, in [...]
Our Voice, Asheville’s rape crisis services provider, holds an annual fundraiser called “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” in which men from the community-politicians, business owners, etc.-do just that.
Poetry runs through all cultures. I was lucky enough to be witness to some of the youth poets of Western North Carolina on this sunny Saturday afternoon. Each of these students spoke with meaning and heart and idealism and intellect…all of the adjectives you can use to describe a passionate teenager. Remember that? When nothing [...]
One of the things I really love about living in Asheville is its wonderful arts community, which encompasses everything from street performance, freak festivals and circus cabaret to artisan crafts to fine arts and opera. I have never felt more immersed in a vibrant arts culture, and the great thing is that all the events [...]
Asheville Bloggers Society comes together with WNC Ad Guild at the Asheville Brewing Pizza Company.
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 [...]
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo and friends, Adam Strange and Debrissa McKinney, had big and little kids up and moving Sunday at The Hop Ice Cream Cafe on Merrimon Avenue. The party was a thank you to fans for recently voting Skidoo the number 1 hip hop band in Asheville and also a fundraiser for the [...]
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 [...]
Come on, fans of Tim ‘the toolman’ Taylor… that phrase has to have you going, what, what, WHAT? Yes, you heard that right. Asheville Greenworks has developed a gasoline-powered vacuum to use on street cleanups. A former olive barrel, converted to rain barrel is now sporting a 25cc 200-MPH leaf blower motor on it’s modified [...]
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