Asheville Twestival 2009 Looking for something to do this weekend? Come out and join us this Sunday September 13th for Twestival Local! We'll be at the Asheville Pizza and Brewing Company on Coxe Avenue from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00...
wake n' bacon Maybe the single most genius product I have ever come across; an alarm clock that wakes your ass up with the real bacon. Fucking beautiful. Find out more about it here.
HOW: A frozen strip of bacon...
Matters of the Heart vs Matters of the Ass $3.50 well drinks can cultivate quite the conversation. Throw in a few ongoing relationship issues and suddenly you may find yourself ass-deep in Jack Daniels & discourse. From here forth on, we...
hippies, missing trees, & screaming. oh my. Ok. I know I live in Asheville and all - so this is bound to piss someone off. But it's just too much. Hell, these people are in the middle of the forest - that stump they're screaming at - a beaver probably...
City of Asheville to reduce stream side protections You can help prevent this; please sign this in support of the protection of our mountain streams and improving water quality with additional stream side vegetation. Read more about the issue below &...
You can help prevent this; please sign this in support of the protection of our mountain streams and improving water quality with additional stream side vegetation. Read more about the issue below & help spread the word!
The amount of failing streams in the French Broad River Watershed has increased by 75% in the last two years and the City of Asheville is proposing rules that would reduce one of the most vital protections for the river. Stream side vegetation is currently protected to prevent harmful pollution from entering the river. The proposed rules would reduce those protections and leave the French Broad River vulnerable to further water quality decline.
There is a proposal under consideration by the City of Asheville to reduce stream side protections throughout Asheville. This change refers to changes of the stormwater ordinance buffer rules. The current ordinance specifies 30ft buffers on all mapped streams and the new rule would be very convoluted and confusing. It is based on slope, disturbed area, and stream type. It would be too confusing to enforce, too confusing for many developers to understand and ultimately a reduction for the protection of our streams.
With the water quality of streams getting worse throughout the state, many other communities are increasing the stream side protections in response to this threat. Communities like Hendersonville, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Charlotte, and dozens of other NC towns have 50ft vegetative setbacks, but Asheville is considering reducing their protections down to 8 and 10ft in many circumstances. This is the wrong proposal at the wrong time. Asheville should be leading way not heading in the other direction.
You can also read more information and stay up to date at RiverLink.org
Charlie Papazian, President of the Brewers Association of America, and also known as the ‘Beer Examiner’ of The Examiner is currently running a poll through May 7th to the find the best beer city in the USA. Asheville is a strong 2nd to Portland, which all in all is pretty impressive. But I’d be severely disappointed if we didn’t pull out a win here. Go here and vote for Asheville as the Beer City, USA!
If for some reason you need more convincing about the kick-ass beers of Asheville, take the official tour itself!
Local government doing something right? The TVA, after being given a 2011 deadline to install pollution controls in a nearby coal-fired plant, had asked for even further delays to the deadline, but an Asheville Judge denied the request. Every once in a while, officials do get it right, I suppose.
A federal judge in Asheville has denied the Tennessee Valley Authority’s request to delay installing pollution controls in a coal-fired power plant near the N.C. line.
In January, Judge Lacy Thornburg ruled for North Carolina in a lawsuit that charged TVA is a public nuisance because of the pollution blowing from its plants. Thornburg set deadlines for TVA to clean up four plants closest to the N.C. border, at an estimated cost of $1 billion.
After the trial, TVA asked the judge for one- and three-year delays in installing pollution controls at its John Sevier plant near Rogersville, Tenn. The devices will capture sulfur dioxide, which produces acid rain and fine-particle pollution, and ozone-forming nitrogen oxides.
North Carolina fought the request, and Thornburg denied it Wednesday. He ruled that TVA has time to make the improvements by the original 2011 deadline.
My friend Tony Gutierrez needs a roommate, and one that doesn’t suck. Tony: Don’t pawn the metal detector man. You’ll find a roommate soon little buddy. Tough it out and keep eating those gas station hot dogs.
On February 5th we decided to take the pledge and bring the Asheville Twitter Community together to pledge support for our very own Twestival. The iPledge project was born, then on February 7th we had people pledge $5 to Charity:Water to be in our video.
In one weeks time Asheville has organized a Twestival. Venue Sponsor Windows on the Park, Beer Sponsor Bruisin’ Ales, and Event Sponsors Applied Solutions Group and Nine Mile. We have also raised almost $1500 in cash for charity:water, $2500 in auction items …. please spread/share this video.
