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Misfortune, often in the shape of a huge medical bill or a vehicle breakdown, remains a constant, and for those living on the edge that often means not having the money to pay the rent or mortgage.

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In this week's WNC Food Scene, we look at the new establishments participating in Asheville Restaurant Week.

Poet laureate Glenis Redmond reveals her favorite places in Asheville for performing arts, poetry, live music, and dance.

The usually hugely dependable studio will always have the odd misfire - and one in particular has really got your backs up

Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Awards $1.6 Million in Inclusive Public Art Grants

A University of Georgia senior, Liza Burke, 21, has died six weeks after she was diagnosed with a stage 4 tumor that caused a horrific brain bleed while in Mexico on Spring Break.

“Blueprint for a Stronger Democracy,” a report released in February by the Institute for Southern Studies and N.C. Voters for Clean Elections, lays out a path to make North Carolina a national leader in voter access and election administration. But many of its ideas face challenges in the state’s current political environment.

Blair Tindall, a freelance oboist and journalist who drew on both of those abilities to write “Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Mu

Voting is underway through April in the annual Mountain Xpress readers poll