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Grab your walking shoes, bikes and Big Wheels and come play on car-free downtown streets Sunday, September 18 from 1-5pm. Open Streets Asheville is a free, all-ages event that’s building a healthier, happier Asheville! Join us for an afternoon of free yoga, dance and gymnastics workshops; sport skill clinics; communityContinue Reading

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  Abingdon, VA – This Labor Day weekend, the sidewalks of downtown Abingdon will once again be filled with funky, fun performing artists for Main Street Busker Fest, Saturday September 3rd.  Proceeds benefit Abingdon Main Street (AMS), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting downtown Abingdon.  The fun starts at 11am with kids’Continue Reading

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Just In Time for Father’s Day Fly fishing and lures study paintings are on display at The Asheville Gallery of Art. This collection of colorful and detailed original watercolor renderings of fishing flies and lures will surely be a hit with any fisherman or outdoors person in your life. Johnnie,Continue Reading

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by Michelle Keenan & Chip Kaufmann – Brooklyn ***** Short Take: The story of a young Irish woman who moves to America in the early 1950’s. Reel Take: To describe John Crowley’s Brooklyn as a masterpiece makes it sound very grandiose, when in fact it is this film’s smallness thatContinue Reading

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at Asheville Community Theatre The New Yorker called this show “more fun than a chair-throwing episode of Jerry Springer set to music.” The New York Post added that it was “undeniable fun!” The Great American Trailer Park Musical is a wheel-spinning, mud-splattering good time of a musical that’s good-natured –Continue Reading

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by Michelle Rogers – “Rio” by Duran Duran was playing as we entered Wasabi at 6:30 on a Thursday evening. It was still quiet enough to hear the music overhead. Soon, the restaurant would fill its tables and the bustling sounds of waitstaff and happy customers would envelop the music,Continue Reading

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Rare first editions, kissy vampires, and more by Petras Barcas – Pictures of customers, a cat that hung around for 18 years, and staff Christmas parties, adorn the walls. An antique dentist’s work station serves as a planter in the corner. And the wonderful smell of old books fills everyContinue Reading