Edwin Arnaudin

1 week ago | mountainx.com | Brent Brown |Greg Parlier |Edwin Arnaudin

Paved paradise Categories Humor, Opinion City shuts down unique North Asheville vending machine Since February, Angie Fornof has been selling toys, art, jewelry, candy and DVDs in the vending machine that she’s enclosed in a wooden phone booth replica outside her home on Madison Avenue. But its time on the street may be limited. Categories Arts, Visual Art Tags art vending, The Mad Phone Booth From CPP: Last-ditch legal effort tries to halt NC regional library system breakup over LGBTQ+...

1 week ago | mountainx.com | Edwin Arnaudin |Gina Smith |Christopher Arbor |Kay West

- by Thomas CalderThe gathering is a rebuke of what organizers say is the Trump administration's "authoritarian excess, corruption and attack on personal freedoms," according to a press release from Indivisible Asheville/WNC. - by Brionna DallaraAt its June 10 meeting, Asheville City Council approved next year's budget, which includes a property tax increase, raises for city employees and hiring on more firefighters.

2 weeks ago | mountainx.com | Edwin Arnaudin |Gina Smith |Christopher Arbor |Greg Parlier

- by Blue Ridge Public RadioA pioneering Medicaid program that has delivered food, housing support, and transportation to nearly 30,000 low-income North Carolinians is set to end July 1.

2 weeks ago | mountainx.com | Edwin Arnaudin

Do you miss Bele Chere but also wish it had featured more metal, country and hip-hop acts and all took place at one venue just outside downtown Asheville’s central business district? Well, the aptly named Hell Chere has you covered. Originally scheduled for January but rescheduled and rebranded due to a snowstorm, the two-day music and arts festival runs Friday-Saturday, June 13-14, at Sly Grog Lounge — itself a survivor after a 2021 fire closed the venue for nearly three years.

3 weeks ago | mountainx.com | Edwin Arnaudin

We all have two sides — maybe not to the extent of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but more like Asheville-based groove jazz trio Sugar Bomb. As a means of celebrating what bassist/guitarist Eli Kahn calls their “sensitive, composition-based” half and their “insane improvisational side,” he, Jacob Bruner (keys) and Joe Enright (drums) crafted a pair of EPs and combined them into their debut album, Sweet + Explosive.