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ASHEVILLE, NC—  Flood Gallery Fine Art Center is proud to present the first Asheville solo exhibition of artist Jim Buonaccorsi, entitled “No Fear of Content.”  Buonaccorsi’s work, on view August 23rd through September 27th, acts as salt in the open wound of complacency and translates life’s fears and meanings into a universal language. Essentially discrediting the idea of “art for art sake.”  Buonaccorsi’s work is saturated with historical references, and offers its viewers an opportunity to change history by not repeating it.

Buonaccorsi’s work has been included in over one hundred and thirty exhibitions, including solo exhibitions at City Gallery Chastain in Atlanta, Georgia, 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, Florida, Fugitive Art Center in Nashville, Tennessee and Marshall Arts in Memphis, Tennessee. His work has received numerous awards including the Reese Collection Annual Purchase Award at the University of Tennessee and The Martin and Doris Rosen Award at the Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. He also received a Georgia State Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant and the M.G. Michael Award for outstanding research and two Senior Faculty research grants at the University of Georgia.

Buonaccorsi is based in Farmington, Georgia with his wife and fellow artist, LeeAnn Mitchell, along with their Bull Terrier Cosimo.  Buonaccorsi received his B.A. from Rhode Island College in 1982 and his M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1984.  He is currently an Associate Professor with the University of Georgia.

“No Fear of Content” opens Saturday, August 23rd at 7pm and runs through September 27, 2008. The opening reception is free and open to the public, and will take place in the Flood Gallery located on the second floor of the Phil Mechanic Studios Building.

Asheville - Morsels Cupcakes, Asheville’s bake-to-order gourmet cupcake business, rocked the annual Mountain Farm Lavender Festival with its Lavender-Vanilla Cupcake on Saturday and Sunday.  “Most people were curious about how lavender would taste in cake,” said Nancy Corley, owner of Morsels.

The Lavender-Cream Brulée cupcake was a sellout. “ We infused the cream with Mountain Farm Lavender and it tastes fantastic. Many thanks to Jenny Kommit of Stovetrotters Restaurant for helping us develop it.”

“Mountain Farm also inspired a high bush blueberry-almond cupcake. We picked the blueberries less than 200 feet from our sales tent. That’s what I call fresh!” said Pam Hotch, Morsels Cupcakes’ festival coordinator.

“We felt fortunate to be a part of Mountain Farm’s Festival.. We like to buy local whenever possible, and Marilyn Cade’s work here makes it easy to do that.”

Every year on the last weekend in July Asheville holds it’s annual Bele Chere Festival, The biggest free music festival in the South East United States. People from all over the nation converege on Asheville, North Carolina to experience the unique city and the music.
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F.A.Q.

Where exactly is Bele Chere?
In the central downtown business area, with Pack Square roughly at the center.

When is Bele Chere?

July 25, 2008 from 12pm-to-11pm
July 26, 2008 from 10am-to-11pm
July 27, 2008 from Noon to 6 p.m.

What does the name mean?
Bele Chere really means “beautiful living” in old Scottish, not French like so many people think.

How do I get there?
You have a couple of options. You can drive to the festival or you can ride the Bele Chere Shuttle. If you drive, be aware parking is at a premium during peak times, but all the parking decks in the downtown area are open for business. The two shuttle routes - one from the east and one from the west - run approximately every 20 minutes and the cost is $3 roundtrip.

Where do I park my car?
Parking Decks are located at the Asheville Civic Center, on Wall Street on Rankin Avenue, and at the BB&T Bank. Several other lots will also be open, though most of them charge fees

A local Asheville woman, Michelle Gibson Ryans trimmed off tickets from various scratch off games and glued them back together to build herself a winning lotto ticket. The North Carolina Lottery Commission called the Asheville P.D. after she took the ticket into their office to claim the price.

Police have discovered that she formally used the name Michelle Joyce Gibson and had also been charged with murder and child abuse charges in the death of her eight year old son, though she was later acquitted. The child died from heat-stroke will locked in the car while she was at work.

And I’m not sure what kind of sentence you can get for forging a lottery ticket, I’m sure its a relatively long one.

Barack Obama has won enough delegates to secure the Democratic Nomination. Obama, the winner of the North Carolina Primary has secured enough delegates already in South Dakota, along with many national super delegates. He surpassed the 2,118 mark around nine o’ clock this afternoon. Mrs. Clinton is expected to concede shortly, though she has threatened to take her fight all the way to the convention. This could be a possibility if Obama does not offer her the Vice Presidential spot. Many believe that there is too much bad blood between the two for this to happen.

Cost increase in food, gas and labor have Asheville Public Schools hoping the state government will step in and increase money for school lunches. The state usually doesn’t offer much assistance but they are hoping for a change.

In WNC about 2,000 students eat school-provided lunch and with new health related rules the prices of school lunches are probably only going to increase.

With global warming severely dampening the harvesting of prized truffle mushrooms in Europe, where growing used to produce about a thousand tons of the delicacy in the early part of last century to about fifty tons a year currently, North Carolina farmers stand to make up some of that difference and some money to boot.

North Carolina’s truffle industry is still small, many people think it will become a booming business for the state. There are more than sixty farms that grow truffles statewide and even seedling truffles go for about twenty-five dollars each.

One of I-40 East’s lanes will be closed today until 3pm today. The closure is on the south east side of Asheville. The blockage is due to the DOP removing some trees blocking the lane.

Droves of tourists will flock to Asheville, North Carolina this summer and many business owners are worried about the Pack Square Park construction project downtown. The owners had a meeting with the organization in charge to get updated on the project’s status. They are hoping to be able to stay open despite all the construction that surrounds the area.

The owners are anxious to see what impact the project will have on their business. A six-foot fence is to be erected around the area and bother Market Street and Spruce Street will be repaved. Though the details of when have not been released. The paving could substantially reduce parking around the concerned businesses.

Adding to delays in completion is the fact that no contract for building the park’s pavilion has been obtained. And construction time for that is estimated at about 10 months.

Many Asheville Entrepreneurs owners want to work with the local chamber of commerce to work out a plan that will include marketing to boost visitors to the struggling businesses.