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• Fear of commitment? Donít promise forever if youíre not feeling it

  Created: Tuesday, 04 March 2008 17:02

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon I’m 25, and work in film and TV. Last year was my first year of consistent employment. I’m producing my first documentary, but I still have a long, brutal climb ahead. ...

• Playing ëLaylaí in Pyongyang?

  Created: Tuesday, 04 March 2008 17:01

  The New York Philharmonic last week performed in Pyongyang to much acclaim from its hosts. In the aftermath, there has been much gushing worldwide on the positives from this overture to peace between North Korea and the United States. All of t...

• William F. Buckley: A true eccentric who sparked a conservative revival

  Created: Tuesday, 04 March 2008 16:59

    John North Editor & Publisher “William F. Buckley Jr., 82, dies: Sesquipedalian spark of right,” proclaimed the headline on a front-page story in last Thursday’s edition of Th...

• Satellite shot greeted with cowboy diplomacy

  Created: Tuesday, 04 March 2008 16:58

    Mark West One of the most astonishing technological displays in some time occurred on Feb. 21, when a modified SM-3 missile was launched from a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser stationed in the Nort...

• Letís appreciate the kindness that is around each of us every day

  Created: Tuesday, 04 March 2008 16:53

  Do we take kindness for granted? It seems that kindness does not get the rec Janese Johnson ognition that it deserves — that is, until we experience an unkind action from someone else, and then we reali...

• Environmental limits predicted to slow Chinaís rapid expansion

  Created: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:33

  By JIM GENARO China has seen staggering growth since it began to privatize its economy in 1978. But that expansion eventually will be reined in by market forces and environmental limits, according to Dr. Jim Lenburg, president of the World Affair...

• The beat goes on in Cuba

  Created: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:32

  A woman plays drums known as “tumbadoras” last Sunday in Santiago, the second largest city in Cuba, on the day the Cuban parliament elected Fidel Castro’s brother Raúl Castro as his successor to the island’s preside...

• Print newspapersí future? New publisher gloomy, but sees AC-T morphing into digital info provider

  Created: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:31

  Randy Hammer By JOHN NORTH The new publisher of the Asheville Citizen-Times, Randy Hammer, offered a gloomy prediction on the future of print newspapers during Leadership Asheville Forum’s monthly Cri...

• Local dancers take prizes at international competition

  Created: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:28

  LONG BEACH, Calif. — Two Asheville, N.C., belly dancers won honors at the Belly Dancer of the Universe competition in Long Beach, Calif., last week. Lisa Zahiya won first place in the Tribal Fusion Solo category. Sami Té was the first ...

• Our Opinion: Nader, the perennial spoiler, does it again

  Created: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:25

  Well, he’s done it again. Ralph Nader, the outspoken consumer-rights activist and perennial presidential candidate, has thrown his hat into the 2008 election ring — and the outrage is already starting to fly. Apparently unconcerned by h...

• ëIt is what it is?í More mush from Rush?

  Created: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:24

    John North Editor & Publisher Mr. Rush Limbaugh The Rush Limbaugh Show 1270 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Dear Mr. Limbaugh (aka a self-described “harmless, lovable li...

• Conservatism is dead; long live conservatism?

  Created: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:22

    Selwyn Duke It seems like just yesterday that many were reading liberalism’s epitaph. After the Reagan years, Republican Revolution of 1994, retreat of the gun-control hordes after Al Gore’...

• New WCU coach asserts get-tough policy; 11 players no longer listed on Catsí roster

  Created: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:17

  Dennis Wagner CULLOWHEE — The new football coach at Western Carolina University has imposed a regime that emphasizes discipline as Dennis Wagner, a former assistant coach at Nebraska, installs a get-tough po...

• Bulldogs bag Bucs 85-73 to snap losing skid

  Created: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:11

   Bryan Smithson and Reid Augst scored 21 points each as UNC Asheville downed a stubborn Charleston Southern squad 85-73 in Big South Conference action at a sold-out Justice Center last Saturday afternoon. The win by the Bulldogs (19-8, 8-4 BS...

• Radford slams UNCA 62-53 for 4th consecutive defeat

  Created: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:10

  K.J. Garland scored 16 points for Asheville last Wednesday. RADFORD, Va. — UNC Asheville shot just 14 percent from the field in the second half and made only five field goals as the Bulldogs fell at Radford ...

• Bulldogsí Athletics Hall of Fame inducts three ó booster, cager, spiker

  Created: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:07

  Three people were inducted into UNC Asheville’s Athletics Hall of Fame in an on-campus ceremony last Wednesday night. Inducted were athletic-department contributor Dave Hart of Asheville, basketball standout Paul Allen and former volleyball p...

• ëJumperí lacks any real plot; even the CGI canít redeem it

  Created: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:07

    By JIM EMERSON In a world gone horribly wrong, where actions have no consequences, where all of humanity has become unaccountably oblivious to blatant violations of the time-space continuum, where rules e...

• Advice Goddess: Good things do not come for those who wait, so ask the girl out

  Created: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:04

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon I’m a guy and need directions! For a month, I’ve been flirting with this woman at work, and I think she’s flirting back. I now have a week’s vacation, but I...

• Police Blotter: Feb. 27, 2008

  Created: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:01

  Plea deal reached in death of woman on motorcycle Under a plea deal made with prosecutors, a Candler man will spend four months in prison for his role in the death of a woman who fell of the back of his motorcycle on Interstate 40. Conan O&rs...

• School-shooting epidemic calls us to address its roots

  Created: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:30

    Janese Johnson It is always a shock when we hear about a young person having a gun and shooting people with it. The recent Valentine’s Day tragedy at Northern Illinois University has now put...