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• Tourism spending in Buncombe skyrockets to $2.1B over 14 years

  Created: Thursday, 03 September 2015 14:54

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com The economic impact of tourism in Buncombe County (including Asheville) — estimated at $2.1 billion in 2014— has almost doubled over the past 14 years, Stephanie Brown, executive director of the Asheville ...

• Eagles fans search for higher influence

  Created: Thursday, 03 September 2015 14:51

  BY TANK SPENCER Special to the Daily Planet   Tank Spencer is the host of a weekly sports talk show, “The Sports Tank,” on Asheville’s News Radio WWNC (570-AM) that airs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. Spencer also serves as WWNC’s news ...

• ‘Dirty Dancing’ remake ‘up in the air;’ ‘Masterminds’ release delayed, again

  Created: Thursday, 03 September 2015 14:49

  From Staff Reports    A proposed Lionsgate remake for television of the movie “Dirty Dancing” — to be filmed in the Asheville area — was abrupty canceled July 30, but the producers claim that they remain “up in the air” over the pr...

• Turnout more than triples for 6th Dirty Dancing gala

  Created: Thursday, 03 September 2015 14:45

  From Staff Reports  LAKE LURE —For many an attendee, it was, as the song goes, “The Time of My Life.” Indeed, the 6th Annual Dirty Dancing Festival — an homage Aug. 14-15 to the classic film that was partially filmed at Lake Lure — drew a...

• Letters to the editor: September 2015

  Created: Thursday, 03 September 2015 14:41

  City’s use of candidate Hunt as spokesman questioned  On July 29 and/or 30, a story broke focusing on the problem of people urinating in the city parking decks.  The story was carried on WLOS (television) and in the Asheville Citizen-Times a...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: 1st LEAF downtown fest scores hit

  Created: Thursday, 03 September 2015 14:39

  The debut of LEAF Community Arts Festival in Pack Square Park in downtown Asheville merits praise, as its attendance made it — almost — record-setting in the city’s annals. The two-day event, beginning Aug. 1, drew about 15,000 people on the openin...

• The Candid Conservative: Vigorously losing our way – Part II

  Created: Thursday, 03 September 2015 14:29

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet   “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”  — Buddha The Problem One of the first discoveries for all newly elected officials is the illusive nature of t...

• Worrying about the bombastic Trump

  Created: Thursday, 03 September 2015 14:27

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL — What did Hillary Clinton tell Donald Trump when he invited her to his wedding? She said, “I will come to the wedding if you promise to run for president.” This joke from Winston-Salem’s ...

• GOP blamed for N.C.’s slide from greatness

  Created: Thursday, 03 September 2015 14:25

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet When Volvo chose South Carolina as the site for its first U.S. assembly plant, I wondered why. I knew Gov. Pat McCrory wanted that plant for North Carolina more than he wanted a smarter lawyer. So I put my res...

• Does The Donald spell doom for the GOP?

  Created: Thursday, 03 September 2015 14:21

  By JEFF MESSER Special to the Daily Planet Jeff Messer is the host of a daily radio talk show on Asheville’s WPEK (880-AM, The Revolution) that airs from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. This column features posts from his daily blog. • The fo...

• Impact of Planned Parenthood videos?

  Created: Thursday, 03 September 2015 14:16

  By PETE KALINER Special to the Daily Planet Pete Kaliner is the host of a daily radio talk show on Asheville’s WWNC (570-AM) that airs from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. This column features posts from his daily blog. • The following was po...

• Village People strut as ‘kings of disco’

  Created: Thursday, 03 September 2015 14:12

  From ‘YMCA’ to ‘Macho Man,’ party group keeps crowd gyrating FRANKLIN — At least briefly and for one night, fans were transported musically back to the mid- to late-1970s ... a time of platform shoes...

• Hot Taylor-King tribute earns standing ‘O’

  Created: Thursday, 03 September 2015 14:09

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com HENDERSONVILLE — After the near sell-out audience cheered and gave a highly enthused standing ovation at the end of the show “A Tribute to Carole King and James Taylor,” the band performed a rousing enco...

• UNCA featured in The Princeton Review’s 'The Best 380 Colleges'

  Created: Monday, 10 August 2015 12:02

  From Staff Reports UNC Asheville is featured in the 2016 edition of The Princeton Review’s "The Best 380 Colleges." The Princeton Review selected the 380 colleges and universities primarily based on academic strength, from more than 2,000 on which dat...

• Chain store ‘invasion’ downtown spurs fight

  Created: Monday, 10 August 2015 00:30

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com An online petition launched on July 20 calls for the city of Asheville to regulate — and place a cap on — the number of national chain and formula stores in downtown. The keep-downtown-local petition was ...

• New downtown cinema aims to mix popular, obscure films

  Created: Monday, 10 August 2015 00:27

  From Staff Reports Grail Moviehouse will open in downtown Asheville in early 2016 with two new movie screens, but not necessarily showing new films. The 250-seat, 4,500-square-foot cinema will open at 45 South French Broad Avenue, which also houses the ...

• The Advice Goddess: August 2015

  Created: Monday, 10 August 2015 00:21

  Woman stops dating men, and then.... You recently printed a letter from a woman who had decided to stop dating so she could make better choices about men.  I also decided to do this, though I haven’t had her trouble in st...

• Board chief Gantt says he will not seek re-election

  Created: Monday, 10 August 2015 00:19

  From Staff Reports  Buncombe County’s top elected official, David Gantt, announced during a July 22 press conference, that he will not seek re-election. Gantt, who is chairman of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners, told about 20 fellow of...

• 16 candidates file in City Council race

  Created: Monday, 10 August 2015 00:17

  From Staff Reports   Sixteen candidates have filed to run for three seats up for election on the seven-member Asheville City Council. The relatively large field of candidates dwarfs the 2013 field, when only eight people sought four seats that wer...

• Go Topless rally planned Aug. 26 in Pritchard Park

  Created: Monday, 10 August 2015 00:16

  From Staff Reports    The annual Go Topless rally will be held at 1 p.m. Aug. 27 in downtown Asheville’s Pritchard Park. The Asheville rally is one of a series of rallies across the nation, organized by the Go Topless organization. The rall...