The store Xai Xai on Battery Park Avenue has a “store closing” sign up in the window. The store sells clothes and assorted art items. It’s located in the Miles Building near where I wok (and work).
Harrah’s Cherokee Casino will cut about 100 jobs, according to the Asheville Citizen-Times.
And WLOS reported Sunday night that GE in Henderson County is slashing 40-some jobs.
Meantime, in a special Sunday column, Asheville Citizen-Times writer John Boyle goes out of his way to state over and over again that that the newspaper is not going out of business. That assertion comes despite the fact that the newspaper last year slashed about 80 jobs, severely cut the number of pages it prints in the daily paper, jacked up the price of a single paper from 50 cents to 75 cents, shut down its printing press and stopped delivering newspapers to certain public housing projects. I don’t link to the newspaper because it breaks links, but you can find it.
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Curras DOM is a wonderful restaurant! Exciting food, nice atmosphere, good service. As far as pricey, let’s all remember that food prices have gone way up in the past year. I had the Tres Puercos last Saturday night. It was delicious and perfectly cooked. If you haven’t been, go! If you’ve been, go again!
Since you worked there, perhaps you could tell us, are the publisher(s) and editor(s) of the Citizen-Times oblivious, unaware, ignorant or indifferent to some of the basic standards of good journalism? Are the reporters given no guidance? Why do they fill the paper with "filler," like the so-called "Staff Reports," which are verbatim press releases, and the repeated space expended on "police blotter" items? If they omitted these and used their reporters to actually cover stories, there might be room for something tor read in the paper that was not readily available elsewhere. I’m embarrassed for a reporter when he cites a Web site and when you click on it, you discover he has taken much of his story verbatim from the site. There are occasional examples of thorough reporting and good writing (John Boyle always seems to do a good job and there are others). Why aren’t the others mentored and coached?
Again, my basic question: is it ignorance or indifference to simple ways (it seems to me) to make the paper, even in its diminished form, so much better without adding costs.
I’m with Chall. I don’t do dinner at Curras due to the price, but lunch is fantastic and reasonably priced. And that avocado margarita…Mmmmm!
Curras D.O.M is the name of the restaurant. From the XPress:
“That’s why we call it D.O.M.,” Garcia says, referring to the denominacion de origen Mexico tag line that, in this case, translates roughly as “Mexican-ish.”
There you go.
Curras DOM is packed every time I’m there. They’ve also just started a series of Non-Profit Tuesdays. They donate 10% of all sales to area non-profits. AND, they have an upcoming Sunday brunch. Maybe the confusion is that they have begun to take Mondays off?
Dom Curras has some fantastic food! It’s a bit pricey for dinner, but positively a bargain at lunchtime.
Is the headline: ‘I’ll ride this dinosaur til it dies’ overly optimistic?
What kind wok do you use?
Hey, sounds like John just jinx himself. There are more cuts coming and a larger amount at that. The word on the street is 12%. The only way to save the newspaper is to layoff the publisher and his 250k salary. How many newsroom employees would that salary save? And as an added bonus the Controller goes with him and next year you get the Christmas Party back. I am sure the publisher and controller in Greenville can handle the extra work since there will only be a few people still working in Asheville.
you’d think the paper would appreciate the traffic