Swimming Through the Trends
Industrial pendant lamps have become trendy in vacation homes and rustic-décor gastropubs — thick-rimmed, steel, hanging low over kitchen islands and bars like pocket…
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Apples for Days (Even Years)
The record spring rain that prompted mudslides and evacuations in Henderson County apparently didn’t hurt the all-important apple crop at Sky Top Orchard,…
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Floating Past the Pain
As though hosting one of the country’s most scenic triathlons weren’t enough — all the top-ten lists include it — the Lake Lure…
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Surviving With Flavor
“Hard as a hickory nut” is an old-timey saying, and presumably Hickory Nut Gorge holds a fair amount of this namesake specimen. But…
Read MoreRare Oconee Bells are the true harbingers of mountain spring
Americana bigwigs Gillian Welch and David Rawlings wrote “Acony Bell,” one of their earliest songs, and titled their recording company — Acony Records —…
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Brooks Tavern: rich pub food and original ambience
It feels like an old-style bar car on an Amtrak train, minus the cigarette smoke — one long, narrow room chugging forward with…
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Stitch in Time (and Space)
Stitchery never stops. A national touring exhibit, Through the Needle’s Eye, launches this month in Brevard, pauses in town till September, then will go…
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Newman’s (By No Other Name)
A gray-and-white rescue cat called Edward greets visitors with a shy blink just inside the doors of The Orchard Inn. He wanders outside to…
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Twice the Rice
Filling a space vacated by previous Asian restaurants, Joey Nguyen, a native of New Orleans and former resident of Charlotte, had the advantage of…
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Stickin’ With The Pig
Back in June, on the eve of opening Old Etowah Smokehouse, chef Mike Moore admitted to Bold Life that “The Pig” has followed him…
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