Asheville News

Toubab Krewe Toubab Krewe ends the year by coming full circle to celebrate New Year's Eve at home in Asheville, NC with a two night stand at the The Orange Peel , where they recorded their most recent album, fittingly titled Live at the Orange Peel .

There's no denying that this year's Asheville Film Festival was low-key and scaled back.

Girls just want to have fun Down in Eden Falls, Ga., a group of gals looks to turn their live around in the comedy 'Hallelujah Girls,' opening at 7:30 tonight at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St.

An Asheville eye doctor said Friday that he is prepared to go to court against the North Carolina Medical Board if it reprimands him for telling a patient she was fat.

Carol Motsinger * CMotsinger@CITIZEN-TIMES.com * updated November 13, 2009 9:38 am ASHEVILLE Asheville's getting a dose of Hollywood pizzazz with this weekend's seventh annual Asheville Film Festival.

A former Asheville firefighter will spend 120 days in jail for shooting at a bicyclist, narrowly missing his head with a bullet that pierced the man's helmet.

Look homeward, piglet. That's what will happen soon when sculptures of a pig and a piglet are reinstalled facing north as part of an Urban Trail station that sits just west of Vance Monument - despite the fact that their flesh-and-blood ancestors almost always moved south through that spot.

Police say an Asheville woman withdrew $2,060 from Carolina First Bank just after depositing checks drawn on a closed account.

"Lorna Blaine Halper: The Space Between" at the Asheville Art Museum opens Dec. 12, with an opening reception from 2-4 p.m. Dec.

From noon-2 p.m. Thursday, meet at City Hall in downtown Asheville to board the bus and tour the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers with RiverLink.

Police arrested a man and a woman on charges they broke into a cabinet and stole video game systems and other electronic equipment from the Walmart in east Asheville.

Police detectives took out warrants on a city man in connection with a shooting earlier this month at Pisgah View Apartments.

The eighteenth annual 'All That Jazz" weekend at The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa will bring legendary jazz artists to Asheville, North Carolina for two days of concerts and jazz themed special events.

My husband and I were in desperate need of a road trip. Didn't care much where or why, we just wanted to hit the open road and get out of St Louis for a while.

North Carolina Senate Democrats have chosen veteran Buncombe County lawmaker Martin Nesbitt as the new majority leader.

A fun and funky character-plus cafe with extraordinarily good biscuits, Tomato Jam is a great place for breakfast or lunch, with take-out meals a specialty.

The late, great Elvis Presley performed in Asheville five times during his long and colorful rock career.

Elvis has left the building, but the tickets are still there. Twenty-five years after the rock legend's death, the Asheville Civic Center is still holding thousands of unused tickets to a local show he never lived to play, Aug.

An Asheville woman was charged with breaking into a car to steal a credit card, according to warrants filed at the Buncombe Count Magistrate's Court.

Hearts With Hands is holding their third annual Harvest of the Heart program from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday.