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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 | Greg Parlier

It may not be Superman flying forth, but what does come out of a homemade phone booth in a North Asheville neighborhood still brings a smile to people’s faces. Since February, Angie Fornof has been offering 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. “I like how happy it makes everyone who comes by,” she notes.

1 week ago | mountainx.com | Lucas Thomae

by Lucas Thomae, Carolina Public PressJune 20, 2025With less than two weeks before Yancey County officially exits its regional public library system, opponents to the change are making a last-ditch legal effort to force the county to reverse course. The two-year-long debate over the future of the library in Burnsville began with residents’ complaints over a Pride Month display in 2023.

1 week ago | mountainx.com | Gina Smith

Asheville farmer and entrepreneur Franny Tacy has long been considered a North Carolina hemp pioneer. Working from her farm in Leicester, she broke ground as the state’s first female hemp grower in 2017, then blazed a trail as one of the first women in the Southeast to operate a cannabis dispensary with the launch of Franny’s Farmacy in downtown Asheville in 2018.

1 week ago | mountainx.com | Bill Kopp

One of the most creative and prolific artists in today’s music scene, composer-musician-arranger Adrian Younge recently completed and released Something About April III. The concluding entry in a trilogy of soundtrack albums for movies that don’t exist, the record — which he created mostly on his own — seamlessly combines hip-hop textures, psychedelic soul and jazz instrumentation, all with a Brazilian feel. Younge brings these  to The Grey Eagle on Monday, June 23.