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• Washington, Crowe make ëAmerican Gangsterí great

  Created: Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:31

    Roger Ebert Apart from the detail that he was a heroin dealer, Frank Lucasí career would be an ideal case study for a business school. ìAmerican Gangsterî tells his success story. Inheriting a crime...

• Advice Goddess: Falling in love doesnít happen according to arbitrary schedules

  Created: Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:29

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon I met a guy a little over seven weeks ago. Days later, we were hanging out constantly, sharing life stories, and sleeping together. I began to ìfallî but didnít say anything abo...

• Voters replace Freeborn with Russell, reject partisan election switch

  Created: Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:28

  From Staff Reports Jan Davis   Asheville voters on Nov. 6 chose a newcomer to replace Councilman Bryan Freeborn and overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would have given political parties a great...

• Incumbents fare well in most of county; Nisbeth loses seat in Weaverville

  Created: Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:27

  From Staff Reports In most of Buncombe County, incumbents fared well in the Nov. 6 election. In Black Mountain, voters granted appointed mayor Carl Bartlett a full term and returned two sitting aldermen. Meanwhile, incumbent OíNeil Ta...

• Pack Conservancy opposes condo plan

  Created: Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:26

  From Staff Reports The nonprofit in charge of renovating Pack Square in downtown Asheville says a proposed condominium building planned for land adjoining the park would be too tall and in the wrong place. The Pack Square Conservancyís board vo...

• Letters to the Editor: Nov. 14, 2007

  Created: Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:25

  ëDonít Worry, Be Happyí termed silly slogan, but be happy anyway I never cared for the phrase ìDonít Worry, Be Happy.î You (John North) made a good argument against it (in a column headlined ìëDonít worry, be happyí ó OK, if you pref...

• Letter: Meher Baba scholar contends column oversimplifies ëavatarísí views

  Created: Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:22

  Meher Baba We enjoy the Asheville Daily Planet and saw your (John Northís) article about Meher Baba just as we were leaving for Meherabad, India, where we live every winter. We took you with us on the plane! ...

• Newly uncovered photos of Freedom Rides chronicle brutal episode of civil rights era

  Created: Tuesday, 06 November 2007 18:59

  By JIM GENARO SWANNANOA ó A newly uncovered set of photographs donated to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute chronicles the brutality of the attacks suffered by the 1961 Freedom Riders as they traveled into the deep South to test the enforcemen...

• Ashley to ashes

  Created: Tuesday, 06 November 2007 18:58

  Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the Ashley Furniture HomeStore on Patton Avenue that started about 9:30 Monday night. The Asheville Fire Department successfully kept the blaze from doing much damage to neighboring businesses, though the...

• Holiday parade forum focuses on name, floats

  Created: Tuesday, 06 November 2007 18:57

  By JIM GENARO A possible name change, recycling floats, and holding an after-party were among the suggestions citizens offered at a public meeting last Thursday about Ashevilleís annual Holiday Parade. About 20 people attended the brainstormi...

• TV writers strike offers break from idiocy

  Created: Tuesday, 06 November 2007 18:54

  The television and film writers have gone on strike ó and we say, ìHurray!î As a result of this work stoppage, televisions across our nation will be filled with re-runs, at least eventually, and Americans will likely choose to find some other wa...

• Invincible Donovan University? No place for a skeptic

  Created: Tuesday, 06 November 2007 18:52

    John North Editor & Publisher I was beginning to wonder if Iíd been going overboard in my practice of the famous Zen admonition, ìIf you see the Buddha in the road, kill him.î After all...

• Consciousness? Itís the new politics

  Created: Tuesday, 06 November 2007 18:50

  Bill Walz This column is mostly about politics. You may have noted, however, that in my columns, beneath whatever issue I am addressing, I am advocating a new consciousness brought to the political issues of the d...

• Letters to the Editor

  Created: Tuesday, 06 November 2007 18:49

  EDITORíS NOTE: The following are the texts from an Oct. 8 exchange of e-mails between Asheville City Councilman Carl Mumpower and Sonopress Chief Operating Officer Joseph M. Mann-Stadt. This exchange was sent to area news media by Mumpower. The second ...

• Advice Goddess: ëRunning out of timeí does not justify marrying a loser

  Created: Tuesday, 06 November 2007 18:45

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon Iíve always gotten terrible crushes on exciting, ambitious, bold men who never want anything to do with me. I gambled that being with a good, reliable man would cure me of my poin...

• Aycock controversy? Flawed former governor still praiseworthy

  Created: Tuesday, 06 November 2007 18:44

  by D.G. MARTIN Chapel Hill ó The North Carolina Democratic Party has sent me back to the books to study my stateís history. The history question raised among Democrats is whether the name of Charles Aycock, the Democratic governor from 1901...

• Bush legacy of ghost flights, torture shares a tie with North Carolina

  Created: Tuesday, 06 November 2007 18:42

    Janese Johnson Over the past six years we have heard a lot about private contractors being used by the United States, funded by our tax dollars, to fight ìthe war on terror.î In recent news, the...

• QBís record-breaking performance carries ASU into first place in SoCon

  Created: Tuesday, 06 November 2007 18:31

  CHARLESTON, S.C. ó Quarterback Armanti Edwards rushed for a school-record 291 yards and led No. 9 Appalachian State University into a virtual tie for first place in the wild Southern Conference with 45-24 victory at The Citadel last Saturday afternoon....

• Tusculum sinks MHC 15-12 via two late scoring passes

  Created: Tuesday, 06 November 2007 18:29

  GREENEVILLE, Tenn. ó Tusculum College scored on a 51-yard touchdown pass with 7:46 left to beat Mars Hill College 15-12 in football last Saturday afternoon. MHC (5-4, 1-4) led 10-3 in the fourth quarter, but Tusculum quarterback Corey Russell hit ...

• Catawba College clobbers BC, which suffers 9 fumbles

  Created: Tuesday, 06 November 2007 18:29

  BREVARD ó No. 13 Catawba College bombarded Brevard College 56-21 in football at Brevard High Memorial Stadium last Saturday afternoon. Catawba (9-1) scored on two 16-yard passes by Brad Roach to take a 14-0 lead in the first quarter. However,...