Round Again: Vinyl Night
Video games, fancy phones, Pokémon Go — all of these innovations tend to impart irritation into the generation gap. But where technology fails to…
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Brighter Days
Fourth Friday Gallery Walks in Brevard are an outdoor highlight of that city’s summer happenings that dovetail with the six-week summer music festival. This…
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Shining Traditions
For many years, Bold Life has reported on Stephen Jackson’s ATOM exhibit (the acronym somewhat incongruously stands for the Aesthetically Challenged Seasonal Ornament and…
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Brevard Sculptor Stays Close to His Roots
When Kyle Van Lusk was a small boy growing up in Little River, just east of Brevard, his parents took note of their son’s…
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One-Hundred-Fifty, Two-Hundred-Fifty …
With a name like Transylvania County, you know the backstory has to be good. The county and its beginnings are all tied up with…
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Everything That Rises
“We tried for years to sound like our favorite bluegrass bands,” says Steep Canyon Rangers banjoist/vocalist Graham Sharp. “It just always ended up sounding…
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Americana Under the Tent
Transylvania County Farmers Market is a prize plum in the area’s plethora of outdoor markets, and that’s definitely saying something in our homegrown-rich mountains….
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The Emergence of Billy Smith
Not long ago, drivers along Old Highway 64 between Pisgah Forest and Brevard may have spotted a man on foot between the two places….
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Burning Man, Quenched
Beer festivals bring to mind lazy afternoons with a cold bottle and a lawn chair. Not true at Oskar Blues Brewery’s Burning CAN festival,…
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Bounty Beyond Produce
Spring farmers markets conjure images of heaping towers of cabbage and carrots alongside cartons of hand-gathered eggs. But as the Transylvania Farmers Market in…
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