AltWeeklies Wire
A Cruel Summer: Probing the Attack on Camp Summerlanenew
A four-part investigative series tells the short, hard history of a summer camp that went down in flames, fights and fear-mongering.
Mountain Xpress |
Jon Elliston |
06-20-2008 |
History
Buncombe Justice on Trialnew
AltWeeklies Award - Investigative Reporting
Mountain Xpress |
Cecil Bothwell |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
"Five Points Restaurant," "Shangri La Cafe," "Twin Cousins Kitchen"new
AltWeeklies Award - Food Writing
Mountain Xpress |
Mackensy Lunsford |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Clean Plate Clubnew
AltWeeklies Award - Food Writing
Mountain Xpress |
Melanie McGee Bianchi |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
"A Stitch in Time," "In Memory of Memories," "Kelsey's Bell"new
AltWeeklies Award - Column
Mountain Xpress |
Mark Jamison |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Practically Alive: The Art of Taxidermynew
Stuffing animals is far from a lost art at Wilderness Taxidermy & Outfitters, which mounts some 600 animals a year.
Mountain Xpress |
Kent Priestley |
02-15-2008 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Tyler Ramsey on His New Album & Career Course
Band of Horses guitarist Tyler Ramsey releases his second solo album.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
01-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Twilight of the Giants: Old-Growth Hemlocks Under Siegenew
The country's largest Eastern hemlocks -- many of them hundreds of years old -- face a "functional extinction" because of a tiny pest, the hemlock woolly adelgid. Here's the story of one man’s mission to measure and document the trees before they're gone.
Mountain Xpress |
Kent Priestley |
01-15-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Judgment Daysnew
Two new books -- The Preacher and the Presidents and The Prince of War -- find good and evil in the Rev. Billy Graham's presidential politics.
Mountain Xpress |
Seth Dowland |
10-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
Flag Fight: Asheville couple arrested for flag-desecration, allege attack by deputynew
The July 25 arrest of an Asheville couple for desecrating the flag has sparked a storm of controversy, including doubts about the constitutionality of the rarely enforced state statute.
Mountain Xpress |
David Forbes |
08-01-2007 |
Civil Liberties
Billy Graham Confidential: The Preacher & President Nixonnew
Newly released documents and tapes reveal back-room discussions about how the Rev. Billy Graham could best buoy Tricky Dick's reelection bid -- and forecast the rise of the Christian right.
Mountain Xpress |
Cecil Bothwell and Jon Elliston |
07-18-2007 |
Politics
Lily Allen Gets the Last Laughnew
Like other British women before her, the pop star uses words as a weapon.
Mountain Xpress |
Melanie McGee Bianchi |
06-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lily Allen
Wolfmother: Ahead of the Packnew
Andrew Sockdale, front man of Australian rockers Wolfmother, talks about how his band eschews 70s-era stadium-rock decadence in favor of high-profile anti-global-warming benefits.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
06-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ahead of the pack, Wolfmother
A Golden Girl Just Entering Her Primenew
In her tell-all memoir, McClanahan proves she's so much more than sex-pot Southern belle Blanche Devereaux from TV's The Golden Girls.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
06-07-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Laura Viers: No Rockstar Anticsnew
A refreshingly stable musician navigates her highs and lows.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
06-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: laura veirs
