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• UNCA chancellor to retire July 31

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 16:31

  From Staff Reports UNC Asheville Chancellor Anne Ponder announced Jan. 16 that she plans to retire from university service on July 31. By that time, she will have served in this role for nine years, longer than any UNCA chancellor since the university�...

• Getting it right: February 2014

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 16:29

  Because of a production error, an item listed in January’s Calendar of Events in the Daily Planet incorrectly listed the author and book that was to be presented. It should have said Roger Hutchison, author of “The Painting Table: A Journal of Loss a...

• Firestorm to close; reopen in new space

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 16:28

  From Staff Reports  Firestorm Café & Books recently announced that it will be closing March 1 at its 48 Commerce St. location in downtown Asheville, but plans to reopen in an as-yet undetermined location. The nearly 6-year-old collective busin...

• Odyssey school to sell Zillicoa property to UNCA

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 16:26

  From Staff Reports  Odyssey Community School on Jan. 9 announced plans to sell its 90 Zillicoa Street campus to the UNC Asheville Foundation.  So as not to disrupt the educational environment for its 120 K-12 students, Odyssey will rent the sc...

• UNCA makes Princeton Review ‘Best Value College’ list

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 16:25

  For the eighth year in a row, UNC Asheville was selected as one of the “Best Value” public colleges in the nation by The Princeton Review. Best Value Colleges: 2014 Edition, profiling the top 75 public colleges and top 75 private colleges, was publis...

• Youth Speaks founder uses poetry, rhythm to honor MLK

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 16:23

  By LESLEE KULBA and JOHN NORTH news@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  Using a blend of poetry and rhythm, Marc Bamuthi Joseph provided the keynote address during  UNC Asheville’s weeklong celebration of the life and accomplishments of Martin Lu...

• Bellamy touts MLK’s faith in talk at Mars Hill University

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 16:22

  MARS HILL — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made great strides for equality and justice because he believed in the ideals espoused in the founding documents of the United States, and he believed in the Holy Bible, according to former mayor of Asheville Terry...

• Political roundup: Newman to seek re-election to Buncombe commission

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 16:20

  Brownie Newman announced Jan. 21 that he will seek re-election to the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners. Newman, a Democrat, was elected to represent District 1 in 2012. A Newman press release, noted that he “quickly made a difference on the commi...

• Horoscope: February 2014

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 14:53

  By MARYANNE MORRIS Special to the Daily Planet   Aries (March 21-April 19) Walking on the highest mountain wouldn’t just make anyone happy. Find out what makes you happy in your day to day life.   Taurus (April 20-May 20) You might thin...

• Asheville’s Haynes, Trucks leaving Allman Brothers Band

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 14:51

  Band to break up at end of 2014; Greg Allman: ‘45 years is enough’  From Staff Reports Following Warren Haynes’ and Derek Trucks’ Jan. 8 announcement that they would be leavin...

• Rousing Sinatra salute delights

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 14:41

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com Baby, it’s cold outside, but it was comfortably warm inside — and standing-room only — at Isis Restaurant and Music Hall in West Asheville on Jan. 19 for a  rousing tribute show, “Frank Sinatra: T...

• Eagles tribute show takes it to the limit

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 14:36

  Hotel California charms audience By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com SPINDALE — The Eagles tribute band Hotel California proved, as the song claims, “You can check out anytime you like... but you can never leave,” as the ...

• Letters to the Editor: February 2014

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 14:29

  Correcting a few errors in Christmas jam review .... I am writing regarding several errors in the story on Warren Haynes’ 25th Christmas Jam. I am only going to be commenting on the two paragraphs that pertain to...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: UNCA chancellor leaves lasting legacy

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 14:27

  We will be sad to see the departure of UNC Asheville Chancellor Anne Ponder, who will leave large shoes to fill. Ponder announced to faculty and staff in mid-January her intention to step down as leader of UNCA, effective July 31, after nine years as cha...

• The Candid Conservative: ‘DADT’ repeal? It’s not a sanction of homosexuality

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 14:22

  By CARL MUMPOWER  It’s been a little over a year since the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” fiasco was put to rest in the military. It may surprise some to hear that this was a conservative outcome. Per its title, “DADT” was a childish exercise...

• N.C. civil rights pioneer left legacy

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 14:21

  By D.G. MARTIN CHAPEL HILL — When Franklin McCain died in early January, I remembered how often his acts and his words inspired me. McCain was one of the four North Carolina A&T State University students who first sat down in 1960 at the Woolworth...

• On the left: Silly geese

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 14:17

  By CECIL BOTHWELL You may recall a simple children’s game known as “Duck, Duck, Goose.”  Participating youngsters sit in a circle. The “ducker” walks the perimeter tapping players’ heads. “Duck, duck, duck ...” until finally pronoun...

• ‘C.C.’ termed a new light on Republican Raleigh

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 14:15

  BY LEE BALLARD I don’t read the Daily Planet’s “Candid Conservative” for self-improvement.  The world he wants is not mine.  When I read the column, it’s to try and put some kind of meaning into what the Republicans are doing to us in...

• Time to end inequality between men, women

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 14:13

  By NANCY HEDGE The inequality between men and women hurts our society. There was a time when the societal norm was for men to work and women to stay home and raise the children. The difference in the function of the sexes was evident. Each had a role an...

• Advice Goddess: Eat, pray, barf

  Created: Friday, 07 February 2014 14:02

  By AMY ALKON The Advice Goddess My girlfriend and I just got back from vacationing in India, where we lived in an ashram (essentially a yoga camp) and she studied yoga and meditation for a month. Since we’ve been back, she’s been wearing a sari ever...