Building a Better Universe
Local inventors go big with geometry-influenced construction toy Lisa and Mark Burginger owe a lot to Archimedes. Besides proving a laundry list of geometrical…
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Back With Bells On
Beloved seasonal play is staged in a safe format Responding to the COVID-19 crisis, all 41 Broadway theaters in midtown Manhattan closed on March…
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Warming Hearts is Hard Work
Boutique card crafter elevated her game in 2020 In a time when best wishes are best served at a distance, greeting cards can do…
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Check This Out
Local Friends of the Library turn a problem into a page-turner This has been a year of challenges and adaptive thinking across the board,…
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Fired Up For 2021
Japanese-style pottery kiln opens at Blue Ridge Community College It looks like what might be the world’s biggest wood-fired brick oven. About as big as…
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A Pattern of Artistic Freedom
Fiber artist sews intricate wall hangings with no guide but intuition “For as long as I can remember,” says artist Meghan Pauley Nespeca, “I’ve been…
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If You Like Miniatures, This One’s For You
A side project that local artist Barbara Wilcox had originally put on the back burner quickly turned into what she now calls her “pandemic…
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“It’s Not a Performance, It’s a Ministry”
Foothills archival series highlights gospel’s role in our region This year, the Tryon Fine Arts Center launched its virtual “Illuminations Through Music and Heritage”…
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Only One Way to Play
Purveyor of boutique instruments sticks to handcrafted Eddie West knows guitars. He has to: As the owner of Area 22 Guitars in the heart…
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Bloody Madison
Stuck in the past with Ron Rash’s The World Made Straight William Faulkner once observed of the South that “the past is never dead, it…
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