Stage Preview:

Selected Shorts: Lots of Laughs (pg. 2)

Magnetic Field – Solstice (pg. 16)

NC Stage – Fight Girl Battle World (pg. 17)

Folk Art Center – Fresh Preserves (pg. 18)

Performance:

Soweto Gospel Choir (pg. 3)

2012 Diana Wortham Mainstage Dance Season (pg. 4)

2012 Performances at Diana Wortham Theatre (pg. 6)

AmiciMusic’s First Annual Winter Chamber Music Festival (pg. 7)

Asheville Lyric Opera – Così fan tutte (pg. 29)

Columnists: James Cassara – Music (pg. 8), Eddie LeShure – Jazz (pg. 10), Greg Vineyard – Fine Art (pg. 14), Joe Zinich – Beer (pg. 26), Ted Olson – Poetry (pg. 28), Marcianne Miller – Books (pg. 29), Peter Loewer – Thoreau’s Garden (pg. 30), Bill Walz – Artful Living (pg. 31), Max Hammonds, MD – Health (pg. 32).