Grape News for Teachers
This week, your child’s teacher wrangled around 30 kids coming down from eclipse mania who already aren’t too thrilled to be back in the…
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Wrong Answer
Quiz Show (1994), directed by Robert Redford, earned four Oscar nominations. Critics praised it, other filmmakers admired it, I absolutely loved it — but…
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Road Less Traveled
When Terry Ruscin traveled cross-country 12 years ago from San Diego to settle in Hendersonville, he brought with him a fascination for local history…
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Dance If You Want To
Scruffy, gravel-voiced songwriter Paul Westerberg, the elder statesmen of alternative ’80s-’90s rock, once shocked his flannel-shirted discipleship by declaring that no one had ever…
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Keep It Rio-real
The Spanish idiom “Tira la casa por la ventana” means to pull out all the stops. Translated literally, though, it reads: “toss the whole…
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New Roots on the Rootabaga
Carl Sandburg was a poet of vision, and he’d likely smile approvingly at the initiative of the Flat Rock Playhouse 2016 Apprentice Company. The…
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Slice of Life
Relaxing on the breezy front porch of their soothingly Mediterranean restaurant, Chef Marc Dambax and his wife Shellie seem to embody joyful artistic expression….
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Good Food Cheap: Grandma’s Chicken Soup
When you think of El Paso Mexican Restaurant, tacos and quesadillas may immediately come to mind. And those are certainly solid choices, but you…
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Functional to Sculptural
“Back in the ’70s,” says Ann Gleason, “you had to be on a long waiting list to get into ceramics class—it was prime hippie…
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