The One That Didn’t Get Away
Local eatery Pisgah Fish Camp, owned and operated by the Hawkins family since 1968, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. As countless other area restaurants…
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Playing With Time
The best movies are like dear friends. You visit often and ask different questions each time. Most follow the classic, linear, three-act structure taken…
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Straight from the Heart (Literally)
Five-piece bluegrass band Backline came together in 2016, playing a style of mountain music that bridges the gap between traditional and modern, between the…
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Wood Room To Go
Jamie Guay, a former resident of northern Michigan, recently opened a specialized mobile version of his popular area restaurant Flat Rock Wood Room. Guay…
Read MoreHard Times
Hendersonville is well known as “Apple Country,” and is growing to fit its title even more as it becomes one of the top places…
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Butterfly Cake and Other Reasons
The annual North Carolina Apple Festival will feature a street fair on historic Main Street in downtown Hendersonville during Labor Day weekend (Friday, Aug….
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Meet Your Capicollo
The success of any wine bar depends on an inverse ratio of spirits versus square footage. In other words, the list of drinks should…
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Jamming All Year
Most farmers markets are seasonal, but the Transylvania Farmers Market recognizes the area’s abundance of growers, producers, and artisans by happening every Saturday,…
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Making the World Right
In a world increasingly defined by fractiousness and divisiveness, the music and worldview of Western North Carolina multi-instrumentalist Andrew Reed is a welcome restorative….
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Daylight Over Deadlines
By Tay Greenleaf At first glance, Gary Cooley’s portfolio seems like it couldn’t possibly be the work of a single person. There’s a November…
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Elite with a Beat
To the untrained eye, the million-dollar-horse Chardonnay looks like he’s suddenly decided to prance in place, flexing his hock and fetlock joints with great…
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Thousands of Steps to End Hunger
A rural county known for agricultural production may seem like the last place where children would not have enough to eat. But the statewide…
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A Breed Apart
Mike Corn studied Animal Science at NC State, graduating in 1974, and he’s been working with cows ever since. The owner of Small Acres…
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Leading Ladies: The Glass Menagerie
In 1944, a melancholy, self-described “memory play” about a disaffected young man, his controlling mother Amanda, and his fragile sister Laura debuted on Broadway…
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Béla in the Blue Ridge
A 15-time Grammy Award winner, Béla Fleck is the best-known banjo player living today. Though he often works in bluegrass, Fleck has followed…
Read MoreShop Like A Chef
It’s no secret that restaurant chefs are notorious for getting up extra early to be the first shoppers at the farmers market, nabbing…
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