The old house with a big porch at 377 Merrimon Avenue is rather nondescript. It looks like several other houses turned into businesses on that strip of commercial thoroughfare featuring businesses such as HomeGrown, Points of Light, and BlackBird Frame & Art. Inside on the first floor, however, is a shop that caters to a … Read More
If you’ve been in Asheville for a long enough period of time, you know you can count on a few standard elements that help define the uniqueness of this little oasis in the South: Craft beer, festivals and street parties (with beer, obviously), and, of course, art. That last one is the trickiest. Asheville is … Read More
“Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.” -Faith Whittlesey This month Mercury is retrograding through Pisces beneath the current of Sun, Mars, Venus, Neptune, and Chiron also traveling through Pisces. We will all feel ourselves being swept up or down and away in the tidal … Read More
The book 50 Shades of Grey, penned by E.L James, is the fastest selling paperback of all time, surpassing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. It had conquered nearly all the bestseller lists by the summer of 2012, when word of its sensational story spread like wildfire, igniting imaginations and conversations that, heretofore, had never … Read More
“I’ve been in about every situation [in the realm of polyamorous relationships],” says the Asheville resident known as Hawker. He believes that people are either wired for poly relationships or not. And he definitely is. Hawker is one of the moderators for the WNC Poly group, which was formed in the 1990s and currently has … Read More
If you have a finger on any part of the Asheville craft scene, then you most likely have heard of the website Etsy.com, where individual artists, crafters, and finders can sell their wares. It might not sound like a “local” retail option, but, in fact, it is. We have combed through more than 15,000 locally … Read More
Chocolate has a long history with romance, love, and sex. The Aztecs believed it to be an aphrodisiac, with Montezuma supposedly drinking 50 cups of chocolate a day. (And hey, the guy did have many wives and lovers.) When Europeans returned to their homeland, they brought chocolate and its purported benefits back with them. Supposedly … Read More
I was desperately hoping that a car wasn’t parked in Chicken Alley—20 more feet, and I would finally own a piano. Instead a slim man wearing a suit swaggered up Carolina Lane demanding, “Where are you going with that piano?” My boyfriend, Adam, quickly jumped in, “Oh we found it at the corner.” “It’s my … Read More
Aries (March 21- April 19) I know January is tough on you; the social calendar seems so bleak with all the holiday parties over. What’s a social superstar to do? Well, my little babies of the universe, we’re all being asked to make profound choices this month. There’s actually a lot going on, in the … Read More
Pride is a day to celebrate your partnership, your sexuality, your gender expression, and your right to live freely as you are. Asheville Pride 2012, held Oct. 6, was a culmination of bright shining smiles and bursts of color over Pack Square and the Roger McGuire Green. “Since that first year of anxiety and doubt, … Read More