The Mob Before the Mob
Downtown gallery celebrates ten years of building a scene “Like a kid in a candy store” accurately describes Michele Sparks’ childhood — but instead…
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Revelry in Recovery
Hendersonville’s first “sober bar” will open on Grove Street The buzz is building in Hendersonville about plans to open Henderson County’s first sober bar,…
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The Birds, the Bees, and Other Backyard Friends
It’s been a few years since we were isolated at home in late spring, but the Habitat at Home photo contest, sponsored by Hendersonville…
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Fiddle Me This
Multi-generational Western North Carolinian paints pride of place “The creative process slows me down,” confides painter and musician Hannah Seng, who grew up in…
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Bright Ideas
New environmental film leads with positivity Most eco-documentaries are soul crushing. After watching gaunt polar bears eat plastic jetsam and insatiable wildfires destroy entire towns…
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The HGTV Life in Miniature
Local woman does a studs-up remodel of a vintage dollhouse As a young child, Linda Wilcox and her parents lived in a tiny, two-bedroom…
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Back to Not-So-Basics
Jesse Roque’s latest twist is a Creole-leaning French bistro Jesse Roque is no stranger to a new adventure. Since opening her flagship restaurant Never…
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Shelf Life
As part of a major refresh of Hendersonville’s Sullivan Park, a ribbon cutting in November focused on the site’s lovingly renovated Little Free Library….
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Rhapsody in Blue
Some years ago, Lori Axelrod began noticing that the colorful necklaces and earrings she’d been making for herself were attracting attention. “I knew I…
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The Colorful Cartographer
Henderson County mapmaker chronicles mountain topography in folk-art hues As far as 19th-century literature goes, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island is undeniably riveting. Complete with…
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