Some of what’s going around:
-Highland Brewing’s new tasting room: Highland Brewing’s new tasting room will be open on Friday. I got a sneak peek last weekend. It’s right next to the current tasting room at Highland, which is located in the former Blue Ridge Motion Pictures space east of town. The new tasting room is spacious and features a performance stage, as well as three shipping containers that have been turned into office and storage space. It looks great.
-The Bywater opens: The Bywater, a swank new bar at 796 Riverside Dr., opened last week. It’s beautifully appointed, features tons of local beer on tap and has a ton of outside space for all kinds of fun. One cool feature: the bar’s taps are built into the wall behind the bar, and displayed in a diamond shape.
-Chad Nesbitt spoof: Somebody has created a fake Twitter account poking fun at Buncombe County Republican Party Chad Nesbitt. A recent tweet: “I did 20 push-ups today. Take that, socialist terrorists!”
-Drone Valley Fest: The Drone Valley Fest is coming up. Grammar School and Forty Furies are a couple of the bands playing this event. Looks good.
-Flood Gallery vandalism: Vandals stuck at the Flood Gallery over the weekend. Here’s part of what was posted on the Flood/Phil Mechanic’s website:
Sean ‘Jinx’ Pace, co-founder and a committed and productive member of the non-profit, Flood Gallery, housed here in the building found his UD truck and his Crane terribly vandalized this morning, no doubt by immature and ignorant thugs. Many of you know Jinx, and have even been helped by him in one way or another. If you’ve needed something moved, you’ve probably called him and he’s dropped everything to help. If you’ve had a problem with clearing dead trees, or needed a heavy sculpture handled gently, you’ve called him. His trucks have been repeatedly utilized by many of you and by the Flood Gallery and Phil Mechanic Studios as well. To come to work today and find them so violently vandalized affects not only Jinx, but the whole community. Jinx is an artist, and a community builder, Blue Ridge Biofuels and Phil Mechanic Studios are also community builders. This act of cowardly destruction is a terrible blow to all of us.
-A pink Pack Square Park: Pack Square Park will be painted pink on Oct. 7 when the Citizen-Times invites the community to create a pink ribbon in honor of October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month.