PBS Celebrity Chef Debuts Vegan Restaurant in Hendersonville
Laura Theodore, better known as PBS’s “Jazzy Vegetarian,” is bringing her first restaurant to downtown Hendersonville. The Jazzy Vegetarian Vegan Café, located inside Sanctuary…
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Filling a Need
Almost 200 Henderson County children have been identified by administrators at their schools as being “food insecure,” i.e., lacking consistent quality nutrition at home….
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Rhyme Schemes and Creative Detours
The approach of singer/songwriter Beth Wood encompasses more than just the rootsy end of the spectrum; one can hear rock, folk, and more. And…
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Swing State
Virginia and the Slims play a unique and often under-appreciated strain of American music. Jump blues and swing is a high-energy musical style designed…
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Ablaze with Contradictions
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was nominated this year for seven Academy Awards, and won two, for Best Actress Frances McDormand and Best Supporting…
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Friday Night Lights
There’s a stagey little archway — something like a wedding gazebo, but with a neoclassical flourish — that separates the front room of The…
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A Prodigy and a Delicacy
There are teens out there who’ve never heard of a truffle, much less have the desire to grow the fungal delicacy. They have something…
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The Sisyphean Struggle in Bronze
Sometimes the creative impulse has to bide its time. Fred McMullen waited until the last of his four children had graduated from high school…
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Brewing Ahead of the Boom
Students looking to get their feet wet within the brewing industry don’t have to venture outside the south-mountain region thanks to the Brewing, Distillation…
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Embroidering on a Theme
Since 1996, the number of North Carolina textile and apparel plants has decreased by 40 percent, per a Duke University study. Made in WNC,…
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Baseball Bat Company Branches Out
Baseball and beer go hand in hand, so it only makes sense to drink your next cold one from the barrel of a wooden…
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Advice From a Foraging Kingpin
Appropriately enough, Alan Muskat isn’t completely sure what he’s going to present when he visits the WNC Ag Center in Fletcher for the Mother…
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Art of the Horse steps up to acknowledge a banner equestrian year
Since 1947, Polk County has hosted the Block House Steeplechase — a sterling series of races first organized by legendary horseman Austin Brown. This…
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Play involves the entire community in its message
“When people sit down over a meal, conversation follows,” says Josh Bledsoe. A Communications instructor at Blue Ridge Community College, he recently volunteered at…
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The Raspberry Beret Effect
The abrupt death of Prince two years ago had fans of all ages in deep mourning. But now might be the time to break…
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Shedding Light on the Dark Corner
Dean Campbell is the world’s leading authority on the history of a region that, for more than 175 years, no visitor was actually able…
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