Jennifer Saylor

Asheville bloggers and podcasters wanted: Who wants to cover music, food and nightlife at Harrah’s Cherokee?

July 11, 2012

Hey Asheville bloggers: Harrah’s Cherokee Casino & Hotel is looking for food, music and nightlife bloggers to go on free trips to the casino, hotel and restaurants. The local company that handles marketing for Harrah’s, the multimillion-dollar casino and hotel 45 min. away in Cherokee, wants local bloggers at specialty press events for its restaurants, [...]

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Breakfast the way it used to be: Asheville’s unhip places to eat a morning meal

June 27, 2012

Cross-posted from Ashvegas. Sorry I haven’t been posting as much to BlogAsheville lately, I just become an Ashvegas.com contributor! But I’m back, and I’d love to have some help. If you’re interested in Asheville and want to contribute, just comment, or contact me at contact (at) blog asheville dot com. Nothing’s locally sourced. No huevos [...]

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New development on Amboy Road in Asheville: Public input meetings Wednesday and Friday

June 3, 2012

From the excellent West Asheville Watch community Facebook group, news about development along Amboy Road in West Asheville, along the river in a long-neglected floodplain. The developer invites the public to public input meetings on Wednesday (5:30 p.m.) and Friday (noon), and RiverLink is serving as the community liaison. This is probably just the beginning [...]

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Plan your weekend, Asheville: Memorial Day weekend event roundup

May 25, 2012

[View the story "Sound the summer starting gun: Festival and event madness begins this weekend, May 25-27" on Storify]

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The day the whole world learned who Bob Moog is: Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Asheville’s inventor genius

May 23, 2012

Today’s Google doodle on the Google homepage is an interactive synthesizer (a “Mini-Goog”) that pays tribute to an  genius of the music world: The late Bob Moog (rhymes with vogue), an adopted Ashevillean who invented the first commercially available synthesizer–and changed music forever. Above: Local mural created for Bob Moog’s birthday anniversary today, May 23 [...]

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Gel that hair & break out the rolodex: STRICTLY BUSINESS traveling boombox dance party tonight downtown, 8 p.m. – midnight

May 22, 2012

Canadian party-meisters Tom and Gary are touring North America, bringing the party spirit, dance music, boomboxes and banana costumes to party-deprived people. Tonight at Pritchard Park. 8 p.m. to midnight. Photogs and videographers, you know what to do. The theme? STRICTLY BUSINESS. “That means you MUST wear Business Attire (suits, ties, cufflinks, glasses, nice shoes, [...]

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Darkroom, new CD, circus arts: Support Asheville creativity on Kickstarter

May 22, 2012

[View the story "Asheville creativity: Kickstarter smorgasbord" on Storify] mga mapagkukunan ng

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New Belgium Asheville: Like them on new Facebook page for locals, keep up with big changes in the RAD

May 21, 2012

[View the story "New Belgium creates Asheville Facebook page: \"New Belgium is coming to Asheville, and we are really excited about it.\"" on Storify] official statement

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Plan your weekend: BlogAsheville’s event roundup for May 18-20

May 18, 2012

[View the story "Weekend event roundup! Downtown After 5 is the starting gun: Festival season is here " on Storify]

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Beer Week & spring bounty: Stars align for local foodies with great food & beer events in May

May 17, 2012

In May the stars align for local foodies: Spring’s bounty plus dinners and events for Asheville Beer Week makes the next few weeks full of excitement for those who love food, beer or both. Explore Asheville. Those of us who live here have even less excuse to stay at home. This is just a selection. [...]

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