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• Risks and rewards: Is pornography really so bad?

  Created: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 14:43

  By ROBIN SHOEMAKER With the Internet, pornography is now exceedingly accessible and mobile. It offers huge libraries of video and much of it is free.  On your computer, phone, or iPad, you can select any type of porn that you desire and skip to you...

• Chill on Voter ID law ... ‘democracy is working just fine’

  Created: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 14:40

  By HENRY D. MITCHELL  Everyone, please, just relax!  The new North Carolina Voter ID Law  simply compares to the election laws already existing in most of the  other  states. A Voter Suppression Act. Disenfranchised voters. One ...

• Advice Goddess: Another brick in the wallow

  Created: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 14:36

   I’ve missed countless opportunities because I fail to speak up in the moment. A pretty girl smiles at me on the bus. Ten minutes later, I will wish I’d stayed on the bus and struck up a conversation. The same thing happens with business opportun...

• Horoscope, October 2013

  Created: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 14:34

  By MARYANNE MORRIS Special to the Daily Planet Aries ( March 21-April 19) You will have a wonderful month, overall. Just watch out for stop signs.   Taurus (April 20-May 20)  Try your hand at gin rummy this month. It’s a great card gam...

• REVIEW: Guitar ‘legend’ Jimmie Vaughan sizzles

  Created: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 14:31

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDaily Planet.com SPINDALE — Bluesman-rocker Jimmie Vaughan and his horn-rich Tilt-a-Whirl Band entranced the crowd during a Sept. 6 concert at The Foundation Performance Arts Center at Isothermal Community College...

• REVIEW: Marty Stuart, band prove to be superlative

  Created: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 14:28

  By DAVE ROWE Special to the Daily Planet  “If you’re here to hear something sedate and well-structured, you’re in the wrong place — you’re about to hear a high-octane hillbilly band.” That’s how Marty Stuart and his three-p...

• REVIEW: Mayer Hawthorne disappoints by favoring hip hop over soul

  Created: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 14:25

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com   Mayer Hawthorne and his band The Country performed a heaping helping of hip hop and just a little bit of his crowd-pleasing retro-soul music during a 90-minute concert Sept. 20 at The Orange ...

• Ethics and the Environment is Focus of New Engaged Humanities Lecture Series

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 22:39

  “Ethics and the Environment,” a new “Engaged Humanities” lecture series begins September 19 at UNC Asheville. The lectures will explore the continuing importance of the traditional Humanities disciplines for the problems of the 21st century and wi...

• 3 mayoral hopefuls rip legislature in 1st face-off

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 22:26

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com The three candidates for the Asheville mayor’s job disagreed on a number of issues, but they concurred that the city is under attack from the state General Assembly, during their first public face-off Aug. 2...

• Iconic AC-T columnist gets the ax

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 22:19

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   Susan Reinhardt, best-selling humor writer, syndicated columnist, speaker, stand-up comic, Southern Belle and iconic thrice-weekly columnist for the Asheville Citizen-Times for 26-1/2 years, was laid o...

• ‘We just need you to come in ...’

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 22:16

  By SUSAN REINHARDT On Wednesday, Aug. 21, I was sitting at the computer, marketing my new novel, “Chimes from a Cracked Southern Belle,” when the phone rang.  I noticed the South Carolina area code, and figured it was my parents, who live in Sp...

• Mountain Moral Monday slams N.C.’s legislature

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 22:15

  From Staff Reports The Rev. William J. Barber II fired up a large crowd that showed up Aug. 4 for Mountain Moral Monday in downtown Asheville. Barber, president of the state chapter of the NAACP, was the keynote speaker and he and a host of other speake...

• Brevard named top adventure college

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 22:14

  BREVARD — Brevard College recently was named a Top Adventure College by Blue Ridge Outdoor Magazine. Brevard was named No. 1 in the small-school bracket and second overall in the magazine’s March-Madness-style competition. The magazine hosted a brac...

• Pubcycle offers chance to pedal while you drink

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 22:13

  The Amazing Pubcycle ran its first test run on downtown Asheville streets in mid-August and is now in regular operation. The rolling downtown bar departs at various times for 90-minute tours from in front of the Aloft Hotel at 51 Biltmore Avenue. The pu...

• Commissioner Mike Fryar to give back 1.7% pay hike; all the others to keep theirs

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 22:12

  From Staff Reports  Mike Fryar stood alone when he recently stated that he will turn down the 1.7 percent pay increase that the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners approved for themselves in July. Indeed, Fryar, a board member who lives in Fairv...

• Teachers stage protest against N.C. legislation

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 22:10

  From Staff Reports Dozens of Buncombe County teachers staged a protest Aug. 15 in downtown Asheville against education cuts that they claim have been made by the Republican-dominated state General Assembly and that they say will have a long-term bad impa...

• 3rd annual topless rally? Pretty much a bust

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 22:09

  From Staff Reports About a dozen women tooks off their tops, purportedly for the cause of women’s equality, while  several hundred people — mostly male spectators with cameras — observed the spectacle during the third annual GoTopless.org rall...

• Marker to honor ‘Asheville’s own’ Jimmie Rodgers

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 22:07

  Jimmie Rodgers will be honored with the dedication of a N.C. Highway Historical Marker at 2 p.m. Sept. 8 on Haywood Street at Battery Park Avenue, as part of Jimmie Rodgers Day in Asheville. Rodgers moved to Asheville in 1927 and worked as a railway brak...

• 4 reasons conservatives should embrace electric cars

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 22:05

  By DAVE ERB Special to the Daily Planet It’s an odd fact of modern American life that technologies are now assigned political views, regardless of the technologies’ merits or their practitioners’ politics.  Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) ha...

• letters to the Editor: September 2013

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 21:58

  Mumpower, Wilke touted for city mayor, police chief I was reading your paper about Mr. (Carl) Mumpower. I think that we need more people like him. He has done more than anyone in office about drugs. I sure would like t...