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• Me & The Boys (plus one girl) rock Flat Rock

  Created: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:29

  The band Me & The Boys performs in a free monthly concert on the back porch of the Wrinkled Egg in Flat Rock on June 7. The family-oriented series, presented by the Flat Rock Merchants Association, is held behind the shops on Little Rainbow R...

• Fonda, other speakers calmly handle some sizzlers during Q&A

  Created: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:23

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports During a 45-minute session in which a panel of speakers  at the Time for Our Power women’s conference fielded questions for nearly 45 minutes last Saturday, most of the inquiries were addressed to actress-...

• Dreary ëLove Guruí ranks as unenlightened stinker

  Created: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:16

    Roger Ebert What is it with Mike Myers and penis jokes? Having created a classic funny scene with his not-quite-visible penis sketch in the first Austin Powers movie, he now assembles, in “T...

• Advice Goddess: Beating a debt horse

  Created: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:13

    The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon Woman urged to drop loser boyfriend My boyfriend of two years has been living with his parents for four years. He’s 49, and first said he had an apa...

• Japanís anti-ëmetaboí campaign could teach U.S. lessons on cutting obesity

  Created: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:07

  One of America’s top allies, Japan, is taking a bold step that the United States, with its increasingly flabby citizenry, seems likely to consider emulating. But should it? Specifically, the Japanese government instituted a national law ...

• Watch out for drivers using bumper stickers as territorial markers

  Created: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:04

    John North Editor & Publisher A recent study by Colorado State social psychologist William Szlemko bears out my long-held theory that people who plaster their cars with bumper-stickers have cer...

• Letter: Challenge issued to report of few ëillegalsí in N.C. college system

  Created: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:02

  Recently, it has been widely reported that there are very few illegal aliens in both the University of North Carolina system and our community colleges. The Raleigh News & Observer reports: “Community College System officials say a recent...

• Filial piety, a way of life for many cultures, making its way back for others

  Created: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 15:36

    Janese Johnson Many cultures value their elders and treat them with the respect that they deserve. Filial piety is a term used to describe the importance in many Asian cultures that the elders hol...

• Tourists bounce back to shut out Jackets 7-0

  Created: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 15:32

   AUGUSTA, Ga. — For the third consecutive night a shutout was pitched at Lake Olmstead Stadium with the Augusta GreenJackets (41-28, 2-2) falling to the Asheville Tourists (46-24, 2-2) 7-0 on Sunday. Starter Craig Clark suffered the los...

• Augusta hurler blanks Asheville ó again

  Created: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 15:32

  AUGUSTA, Ga. — For the second time in 10 days, Madison Bumgarner (7-2) shut out the Asheville Tourists in a 5-0 win for the Augusta GreenJackets last Saturday. The North Carolina native struck out 10 Tourists and pitched seven innings in the ...

• City opposition fails to block condo plan of Parkside developer

  Created: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 20:07

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports Following formal city opposition, a developer intending to build a controversial downtown condominium complex on former public parkland in downtown Asheville has changed his plans so that he can proceed without the...

• Itís just ëplaneí fun

  Created: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 20:05

  Colin Austin of the Asheville-Buncombe Aeromodelers works on a World War II-vintage P-38 Lightning glow-engine model plane during the Model Airplane Air Show on June 7 at the Buncombe County Sports Park in Enka. The participants in the radio-contr...

• Undocumented immigrants deserve respect, two speakers assert

  Created: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 20:04

  By JOHN NORTH Public pressure needs to be put on elected officials to reform laws to improve the plight of undocumented immigrants in the United States, the two keynote speakers at a program titled “Immigration: Myths and Realities” s...

• Keynote speakers field plethora of questions on immigration issues

  Created: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 12:36

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports Following a program titled “Immigration: Myths and Realities” last Wednesday night, keynote speaker Gerry Chapman fielded questions for nearly 30 minutes. The program, sponsored by the fledgling Mo...

• Beliefs termed myths in U.S. immigration stalemate

  Created: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 12:28

  Ruben Feldstein From Daily Planet Staff Reports Five short presentations were given prior to the two keynote addresses during a program titled “Immigration: Myths and Realities” last Wednesday n...

• ëSon of Rambowí proves slyly satirical

  Created: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 12:24

    Roger Ebert The two friends in “Son of Rambow” hang out in a backyard shack that rewards close study. It’s made of rough lumber, hammered together into not-quite-parallel lines; ...

• Advice Goddess: ëI get a kick out of ... U-Haul?í

  Created: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 12:22

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon Woman urged to move out, raise standards This year, I’ve been going through the process of divorcing my husband. We’re on good terms and share joint ...

• Police Blotter: June 18, 2008

  Created: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 12:20

  Man with machete sought after robbery at pharmacy A man with a machete who robbed a Patton Avenue pharmacy Sunday and left with a bag of narcotic drugs is being sought by Asheville police. A Latino man with a foot-long machete hidden under his...

• Hurray for Minn. Indian tribe buying, restoring prairie land to natural state

  Created: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 12:13

  We were greatly heartened by an Indian tribe’s much-publicized move to buy up land to restore the prairie in Prior Lake, Minn. Most recently, the tribe, the Shakopee Mdewakanton, drew the media spotlight when it purchased a 30-acre field where co...

• Vandals sentenced to reading (gasp) poet Robert Frost

  Created: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 12:12

    John North Editor & Publisher Two hot stories from usually chilly New England recently piqued my interest — both regarding youthful disregard for the art of the English language. The...