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Moogfest lineup: Tight and strategic, or lightweight and overpriced?
Jason Sandford August 6, 2012

Fans weigh in.

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Asheville News
Moogfest 2012 lineup annouced: Primus, Orbital, Santigold, more
Jason Sandford August 6, 2012

Finally! Get the scoop here.

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Asheville arts
Downtown mural depicts Chick-fil-A’s Dan Cathy as drag queen
Jason Sandford August 6, 2012

Check it out yourself at Forever Tattoo downtown on Lexington.

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Asheville food and drink
Blind Pig’s plans for the rest of 2012: Fire & Chocolate, Beatles, dinner for the end of the world
Jason Sandford August 6, 2012

The club's ambitious plans for 2012 also include a documentary film.

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Asheville events, Asheville Music
French Broad RiverFest 2012 is Aug. 11
Jason Sandford August 6, 2012

Music, beer, bellydancing, aerial arts, food trucks and the "Anything That Floats" parade.

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Asheville arts, Asheville features
American Crow Page 3
Jason Sandford August 6, 2012

The syndication of a new local graphic novel continues.

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Asheville features
Photos: Swimsuit calendar shoot for NBA cheerleaders in Asheville concludes
Jason Sandford August 6, 2012

Look for The Lady Cats 2013 calendar to be out in November, just in time for the Charlotte Bobcats season.

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Asheville events, Asheville Music
Moogfest 2012 travel planner: Where to eat, stay, play in Asheville
Jason Sandford August 5, 2012

Restaurant and hotel recommendations, as well as a late-night dining guide.

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Asheville News
Saturday night hit-and-run damages The Southern’s patio on Lexington Ave.
Jason Sandford August 5, 2012

$100 gift card to anyone with information leading to the vehicle/person behind the damage.

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Asheville News
Man arrested for last summer’s West Asheville home invasions pleads guilty
Jason Sandford August 5, 2012

McGahee’s 2011 high-profile robberies were notorious because he and two others tied up and terrorized victims.

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Asheville food and drink
Updated: Creekside Taphouse coming to old Ruby’s location in Haw Creek
Jason Sandford August 5, 2012

The new restaurant plans to open this month.

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Asheville News
Photos: Treasures of the Downtown Market
Jason Sandford August 5, 2012

From Saturday's one-year anniversary celebration. 10,000 square feet of art, clothing, housewares, furniture and more.

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Asheville News
Sitel issues memo to employees in response to Mountain Xpress story
Jason Sandford August 4, 2012

The Asheville location of Sitel, a call center operator with 600 employees, issued a memo this week in response to a Mountain Xpress story published Wednesday that detailed efforts by Sitel employees to unionize. Xpress ...

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Asheville arts
Asheville’s I-240 street art makes CNN
Jason Sandford August 4, 2012

The "Lexington Gateway" mural appears alongside art from Portugal, NYC, the Netherlands and Singapore.

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Asheville features
Photos: NBA cheerleaders zip, pose and dine in Asheville
Jason Sandford August 4, 2012

The dance team is in Western North Carolina all weekend to shoot their 2013 swimsuit calendar.

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Asheville News
Ashvegas movie review: New ‘Total Recall’ a total waste of time
Jason Sandford August 4, 2012

Remake. Reboot. Re-imagining. Whatever you call "Total Recall," just don’t call it remarkable.

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Asheville News
Photos: Charlotte Bobcats cheerleaders shoot swimsuit calendar in Asheville
Jason Sandford August 3, 2012

The ladies are having photos shot at locations around Western North Carolina.

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Asheville Music
Asheville space-rock band to release all-new original soundtrack for ‘Night of the Living Dead’
Jason Sandford August 3, 2012

Silver Machine wants to eat your brains. I mean, wants $1400 to fund a soundtrack 8 months in the making.

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Asheville News
Asheville woman alleges dehumanizing working conditions at Sitel
Jason Sandford August 3, 2012

Fight Back! magazine interviews worker involved in 'unprecedented' union attempt.

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Asheville News
Paws for a Cause: Tattoo fundraiser for the Asheville Humane Society this Sunday
Jason Sandford August 3, 2012

$40 tattoo designs at Freaks N Geeks, all proceeds benefit AHS.

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Asheville News
N.C. Entrepreneurship Summit in Asheville September 24-25
Jason Sandford August 3, 2012

Two-day conference with networking, panel discussion, learning sessions and optional tour of Mojo Coworking.

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Asheville arts, Asheville features
New local online graphic novel syndicated on Ashvegas: American Crow Pages 1 & 2
Jason Sandford August 3, 2012

From the creators of Hair and Therapy and the Comic Book Zodiac.

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Asheville business
U.S. News & World Report: Asheville part of emerging ‘do-it-yourself economy’
Jason Sandford August 3, 2012

The D.I.Y. Economy Retreat in July explored a different approach to economic development.

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Asheville events
Ashvegas weekend August 3-5: Dark Star Orchestra, Downtown Market celebration, RiverMUSIC & more
Jason Sandford August 3, 2012

Summer's winding down, but the whirlwind that's an Ashvegas weekend isn't.

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Asheville Music
CONTEST OVER Win tickets NOW to see the Kickin’ Grass Band next week
Jason Sandford August 2, 2012

Congrats to our winner, Jackson Bebber.

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Asheville News
Goombay! fundraiser Aug. 26: Arrested Development at the Orange Peel
Jason Sandford August 2, 2012

The YMI has contracted with Powerhaus Productions to bring a new vision to the Asheville event.

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Asheville News
National Night Out Crime Prevention Kick-Off set for Aug. 7
Jason Sandford August 2, 2012

The APD and Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office host a celebration with food and games.

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Asheville News
Lowdown food truck interview
Jason Sandford August 2, 2012

AshevilleNow.com interviews Lowdown owner Nate Kelly, the Asheville native behind the B.L.T.P.

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Asheville features
Echoview Hops Festival in Weaverville set for Saturday
Jason Sandford August 2, 2012

Learn all about hops.

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Asheville News
New Asheville Scene, weekly ‘culinary and culture guide,’ arrives Friday
Jason Sandford August 2, 2012

Come celebrate with a launch party open to the public from 5-8 p.m. on Aug. 17 at the Grove Arcade.

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Asheville News
Eater.com: Story behind Asheville Wendy’s change of heart with Chick-fil-A signs
Jason Sandford August 1, 2012

What was up with Wendy's messages going up and then coming down?

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Asheville features
West Asheville property owner responds to complaints, trims up lot
Jason Sandford August 1, 2012

Property owner Kevin Wei responds to neighborhood concerns.

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Asheville News
GoTopless.org vows to hold Asheville demonstration as conservatives aim to disrupt
Jason Sandford August 1, 2012

GoTopless spokesperson says Asheville conservatives are using the event as a political springboard.

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Asheville News
Photo: Merrimon Wendy’s takes a stand
Jason Sandford August 1, 2012

Confirmed by the manager of the Wendy's location: This message was up Tuesday night, but taken down this morning.

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Asheville events, Asheville features
Harvest Records to hold 8-year anniversary sale Aug. 11
Jason Sandford August 1, 2012

Free posters, raffle prizes, food trucks, ice cream and tons of CDs and LPs. Get thee to Haywood Road.

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Asheville Music
Release date set for new Avett Brothers CD, The Carpenter, recorded in Asheville
Jason Sandford August 1, 2012

Tracklist and CD cover preview here from Paste Magazine.

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Asheville Music
From RiverLink: Important info about RiverMUSIC
Jason Sandford August 1, 2012

Where to park. No dogs, no outside food/alchohol, and don't cross the tracks.

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Asheville News
822 Haywood Road in West Asheville now just an empty green space
Jason Sandford July 31, 2012

True story: West Asheville Watch reports millionaire local Powerball winners knocked it down for a new garage.

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Asheville News
Ashvegas movie review: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ is all squalor, no substance
Jason Sandford July 31, 2012

The movie offers no sympathetic characters and nothing to latch on to. As for plot, that’s suspect, too.

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Asheville features
Mayan music, dance coming to Asheville in series celebrating Maya people
Jason Sandford July 31, 2012

The first ever U.S. performance of the Mayan theater company Palenque Rojo is set for Sept. 8-9.

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Asheville features
Sand mandala timelapse video
Jason Sandford July 31, 2012

This mandala was built in Asheville over the course of five days.

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Asheville News
Photo: Flooding this morning on Biltmore Ave.
Jason Sandford July 31, 2012

Photo by zen Sutherland. Drive carefully.

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Asheville News
ChristianNews.Net: Evangelists endure vile acts, assaults at Asheville’s Bele Chere
Jason Sandford July 31, 2012

One Christian news site's take on evangelists at Bele Chere.

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Asheville Music
Brandi Carlile Bele Chere video roundup
Jason Sandford July 31, 2012

Missed Brandi at Bele Chere? Here’s four videos recorded live.

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Asheville events, Asheville features
Musical tribute to mountain moonshiner Popcorn Sutton set for Aug. 3, 4
Jason Sandford July 31, 2012

The Third Annual Popcorn Sutton Acoustic Jam is this weekend in Maggie Valley.

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Asheville business, Asheville food and drink, Asheville News
Downtown Market survives building foreclosure, celebrates with ribbon-cutting
Jason Sandford July 31, 2012

One year ago the Downtown Market building was foreclosed on.

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Asheville News
Asheville appears in Ploughshares Literary Magazine’s “Literary Boroughs” list
Jason Sandford July 30, 2012

Boston lit mag lists our resident writers, literary references, where to get published and more.

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Asheville events, Asheville Music
Beech Mountain’s Festival of Gnarnia is August 9-11
Jason Sandford July 30, 2012

In the winter, ski. In summer, rock out at a music festival with Beats Antique.

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Asheville Music
CONTEST OVER Win tickets NOW to Folk Soul Revival show Friday at the Grey Eagle
Jason Sandford July 30, 2012

Congrats to our winner, Carol Kessler.

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Asheville events
Bele Chere 2012 in pictures
Jason Sandford July 30, 2012

A few of the best shots from this year's event.

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