Hike of Champions
On November 5, some 2,000 spectators watched the annual Green Race, an extreme-kayaking event where the world’s top competitors navigate the famously gnarly “Narrows”…
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The Baton, Passed
After launching a months-long search for a new music director — including staging three trial concerts led by the three contenders, in the name…
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We Hear That
If it flies, swims, hops, stalks, screeches, growls, or chirps, you’ll likely find it captured at the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition in Charleston, SC, in…
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Thoughts, Prayers, and Visual Art
The Reverend Tim Jones at St. James Episcopal Church in Hendersonville recently got to combine one of his passions — poetry — with his…
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Word to the Wing
How did birding get so big with no one looking? Sure, the hobby has been around at least as long as the Audubon Society…
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Flat Rock Restaurant Honors Local Summer-Camp Culture
Campfire food, while delicious in theory, never quite works in real life. S’mores fall apart. Hot dogs come off their sticks raw or…
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The Bee’s Knees and Other Delicious Secrets
Italian restaurateur serves up a delicious slice of American history When Renzo Maietto opened his eponymous Ristorante in downtown Hendersonville four years ago, his…
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Field recorder carries his vast collection to a local stage
Lee Knight isn’t a direct heir of the late Lomaxes — John and his son Alan, whose ethnomusicology prompted the folk revival beginning in…
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A Word with the Alchemist
Some painters find a theme or medium and stick to it; others decide to widen their horizon line (to borrow a term from the…
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After-School Special
True to her middle name, Bethany Joy Adams uses a playful process to make art a happy experience for the kids at the Boys…
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