Category Archives: Asheville Attractions

ECO, the Environmental and Conservation Organization, is hosting its fifth annual Environmental Film Festival from 6 to 9 tonight at Hendersonville Little Theater, 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville.

The festival will feature the award-winning environmental film “YERT — Your Environmental Road Trip,” a fast-paced two-hour documentary that’s both personal and planetary.

The festival is a fundraiser and educational opportunity for all members of the community. Tickets can be purchased online at eco-wnc.org, or at the door. General admission tickets are $15, student tickets are $10 with valid ID, and youth ages 12 and younger are $7. Concessions will be available for purchase and are provided by the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hendersonville, Hendersonville Community Co-op and Jongo Java.

Call 828-692-0385 for more information.

Kat Williams at White Horse Black Mountain

Kat Williams returns to the stage of White Horse Black Mountain at 8 p.m. tonight with her “Dance ‘Til You Drop Party.”

The day she was offered a regular, paying gig, she quit her day job to be the house singer for Tressa’s in Asheville, and later Magnolias. During that time, she developed her bright stage presence, mastered a large repertoire of jazz standards, and started writing her own material.

Williams is equally at home

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I was a radio announcer for Zeb Lee at WSKY in the mid-1970s and fell in love with Asheville. I brought my children up to Asheville this past weekend, and the vibe of the city and the entire area is still wonderful. A drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway renewed my spirit and my energy. The city still is the most beautiful city in America. Asheville, your kindness to visitors is appreciated.
Warren “Rhubarb” Jones, Tallapoosa, Ga.

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His eyes are clouded, his voice grainy and his famous wavy hair has turned snow-white.

But age has not robbed Billy Graham of his power – softer now – to preach the Gospel.

As the Charlotte-born evangelist turns 95 Thursday, millions of TV watchers and churchgoers will witness what could be his final public message.

Speaking into a camera at his log cabin-like home in Montreat, Graham calls for a spiritual reawakening in America and says that the cross of Christ “demands … a new lifestyle in all of us.”

“With all my heart, I want to leave you with the truth,” the grandfatherly Graham says about God. “He loves you, willing to forgive you of all your sins.”

Graham’s new but familiar words, recorded over the last year, are featured in a DVD that’s part of a national evangelical effort called “My Hope America, with Billy Graham.” The 28-minute program, which also includes archival footage of the younger Graham, will be shown at 10 p.m. Thursday on Fox News.

In the coming days, nearly 500 local TV stations will also show the program – including Charlotte’s WBTV (channel 3), which will air it Friday

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If you stopped by Durham’s Ultimate Comics in the days leading up to Halloween, you could pick up a coloring sheet that featured a mite-like superhero decapitating a bat-like one. To the uninitiated, it probably just looked like an unusually violent picture for children to color. But to local comics insiders who recognized the characters as Ultimite, the mascot of Ultimate Comics, and Acme Bat, the mascot of Greensboro’s Acme Comics, it sent a sharper message.

Ultimate Comics runs the NC Comicon, which returns to the Durham Convention Center this weekend, Nov. 9–10. Acme Comics hosted its first Comic Book City Con (CBCC) in Greensboro two weekends ago. Was the coloring sheet a declaration of turf war against Acme, whose timing looked like an attempt to kneecap a larger, more established convention? Or was this comic book contretemps just a friendly rivalry?

It depends on whom you ask.

If Comic Book City Con represents a threat to NC Comicon, it comes at a sensitive time. After drawing 4,000 visitors last year to the Durham Convention Center and turning away even more, NC Comicon organizers Alan Gill and Eric Hoover ramped up their offerings for 2013. They reserved twice as much space in the

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Press Release

River Arts District Artists Inc.

During the nationally known Studio Stroll, more than 180 artists from the River Arts District, open their studios to the public. Art collectors and enthusiasts come from around the world to view and purchase art as they tour studios in 25 of the district’s historic industrial buildings.

Some of this year’s highlights:
Odyssey Clayworks
Wheel throwing and handbuilding demos, paint your own raku for kids 12-4 Sat Sun

Potters Mark Studio @ Cotton Mill Studios
Wheel throwing demos both Saturday and Sunday from 10am-6pm

The Hatchery
Julia Fosson Encaustic painting 11-5 Saturday Sunday

Riverside Studios
Ongoing painting, mixed media, textile and outdoor sculpture demos both Saturday and Sunday from 10am-6pm

Jonas Gerard Studio Gallery
Live painting performance both Saturday and Sunday at 2pm

The Village Potters @ Riverview Station
Wheel throwing and handbuilding demos both Saturday and Sunday from 10am-6pm

Planet Art @ 375 Depot Studios Gallery
Ongoing chair caning demos both Saturday and Sunday from 10am-6pm

Free trolleys run approximately every 15 min, bringing visitors to gallery shows, kid’s activities, and art demonstrations, such as glass blowing, wheel

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. — People who want to visit the Blue Ridge Parkway in the winter will be able to check weather forecasts made specifically for the road.

The Asheville Citizen-Times reported (http://avlne.ws/1hglvI1) the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation worked with the parkway and two other groups to set up BRPweather.com and BRPwebcams.org. They hope visitors will use the sites so they avoid being stopped by gates and signs reading “parkway closed for winter weather.”

“Weather along the parkway is a significant issue — for the visitor experience and also visitor safety,” said Carolyn Ward, CEO of the foundation, the parkway’s fundraising nonprofit. “We realized if we could install cameras and weather stations up and down the entire length of the parkway, we could create a fantastic weather tool to look at weather trends, get fantastic climate date, amazing opportunities for visitors and the traveling public, and a management tool so managers could see weather getting bad on a particular ridge and close the parkway in a much more proactive way for visitors.”

She began working on the websites about two years ago with Ray Russell, CEO of Raysweather.com and a

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Nothing says Fall like colorful leaves and seasoned woodpiles!

It’s Election Day! Hope that each of our readers is a registered voter in North Carolina and will make their wishes known today at the polls. Kudos as well to all who made use of Early Voting.

Bright blue skies and chilly temperatures let us know that fall is really here. Pumpkins have been relegated to the compost pile under mounds of raked leaves. This is great weather to be picking apples, watching formations of geese fly south or just enjoying a warm, sunny spot to relax while reading the news. Around Davidson travels today with Margo and Bill Williams in Italy, welcomes a new grandbaby for Bob and Mary Thornberry and congratulates Steve and Phyllis Justus on the marriage of their son, Luke.

Welcome to the World, Hazel Judith Haleberry (JessicaLK Photography)

CRADLE ROLL – HAZEL JUDITH HALEBERRY

Congratulations to first

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