I AM Gathering

Asheville has always been an artist's haven. In fact there's an important art school nearby called Penland School for the Arts. This weekend The First I AM Gathering & Art-Luck was held, featuring Glossolalia's CD Release Party. I AM (stands for Intuitive Arts Multimedia) is an online gallery and artist’s community committed to a vision of the healing and awakening of human consciousness through art. We aim to help artists in a variety of mediums to realize their full creative potential by providing promotional tools, networking, e-commerce, and other technical assistance as well as by facilitating collaboration with fellow artists.

Bonfires for Peace

TOUCH Samadhi in Pritchard Park

Saturday April 15, 2006, 3pm to 10pm at Pritchard Park in Downtown Asheville, NC, Featuring members of Touch Samadhi.

Shapestatic
Kri
Oso
Medisin
Blue Spectral Monkey

Other Bonfires for Peace dates: May 6, June 10, July 1, August 5, Sept 2. For more details, email pasckie@yahoo.com or call Marta Osborne at (828) 505 0290.

The Traveling Bonfires roam the country, instigating arts and music events, bringing people together for global peace and multicultural community connected-ness.

Shimshai

Shimshai is playing at Namaste Asheville on Friday, April 28. You can hear some of his music here on CDBaby. Quite soothing.

Tranzmission

Mission Statement:
Tranzmission is dedicated to ending socially-enforced non-consensual gender tyranny.

Who We Are:
Tranzmission is a group of folks, trans, queer and othewise who meet weekly to address issues we find relevant to our lives and to have fun!!!

Join Us:
Come to our meetings on Tuesdays at 7:30pm at the ACRC - 135 Hilliard Lane Asheville, NC. Or check out our Get Involved section to see how you can help!

Tranzmission is back with a renewed website and off to a great start. It's still under construction but already has a lot of info to offer.

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WeBeHigh.com

WeBeHigh.com - Worldwide Marijuana Travel Guide With Marijuana Prices, Spots & Legalization Status

Asheville

Smoking tolerance level: 4.75

Legislation: Possession of one half ounce or less is punishable by up to 30 days in jail, most likely suspended. Possession of greater than one half ounce is punishable by 1 - 120 days in jail, with a possibility of community service or probation in lieu of jail. Possession greater than 1.5 ounces increases the penalties to 8 - 13 months in jail.

Penalties for sale, delivery or manufacture are increased if the sale occurs within 300 feet of a school zone if the offender is over 21 and if the sale was made to a minor or to a pregnant woman.

The state allows conditional release or alternative or diversion sentencing for people facing their first prosecutions. Usually, conditional release lets a person opt for probation rather than trial. After successfully completing probation, the individual's criminal record does not reflect the charge.

Law enforcement: Totally anti-drug, will throw you at the wall for a nick.

Where to buy marijuana in Ashville: Shilo area, on Shiloh Rd., and Brooklyn Rd.

We Be High in ASHEVILLE

Any Way You Like It

Any Way You Like It - Visitors tell us this is a destination that is welcoming, vibrant and natural—the kind of place you visit for a memorable, enriching experience that is unexpected and unscripted. Show us your version of one of those moments by entering the "Any Way You Like It" video contest. Who knows? Your video could turn into the next ad in our unscripted TV campaign, and you could win a free Asheville area vacation. So get out there and show us your version of an unscripted Asheville moment the way you like it. Lights! Camera! Asheville!

View some of the current print and tv ads currently running here.

#1 Asheville, North Carolina

more veggie news

Like your vegetarian fare served with fresh, clean mountain air? Then awesome little Asheville is the place for you. Nestled between two mountain ranges, Asheville is an open-minded mecca for eclectic and artistic people who are active in all creative avenues. Luckily, Asheville is as humane as it is hip, with a huge assortment of vegetarian-friendly restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries, and markets.

America's Best Vegetarian-Friendly Small Cities

1. Asheville, North Carolina
2. Eugene, Oregon
3. Salt Lake City, Utah
4. Norfolk, Virginia
5. Santa Monica, California
6. Santa Cruz, California
7. Boulder, Colorado
8. Madison, Wisconsin
9. Athens, Georgia
10.Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Veg-In-Out

New Menu

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Center of Unlimited Possibilities

The goal of C.U.P. is to enable members to achieve their highest potential on all levels of being; the physical, mental, intuitive, and spiritual. It is in this attainment that one secures the deepest and most all-embracing sense of peace and harmony with self and all of creation. We believe that at the highest level of human potential, miracles become ordinary. The center is a place of inspiration and support of evolutionary achievements. An empowered space where new boundries, paradigms, and beliefs are created. The time for a major shift has arrived and all are invited to participate.

Today C.U.P. is in the early stages of creation. We have found a central Asheville location for preliminary core member meetings to prepare for a Grand Opening in the Spring of 2006. These meetings will be every other Wednesday from 6:30-9pm starting February and onward. This is the time to get involved and assist in creating the most inspirational gathering center ever. All input will be welcome. Every Wednesday's meeting will also have an "all you can eat" vegetarian dinner.

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Croatan Event

CROATAN

April 21-23rd, 2006

Dr. Dennis McKenna will be talking about his updated research into Ayahuasca and will also be speaking at Malaprops in Asheville,NC, on the 22nd too. His main lecture will be later in the evening back at the Croatan site.

Lectures:
Dennis McKenna will be talking about his updated research into Ayahuasca
Michael Crowley
Sun Frog
Esiris Kayab Lyons
Adam Sanderson
Shad Marquitz

Music:
CX-1 Bluegrass Boys
(Members of Acoustic Syndicate and Snake Oil Medicine Show)

Caroline Pond
(Vassar Clemens, Snake Oil Medicine Show, Mad Tea Party)


Androcell live* Celestial Dragon Recordings, Arizona
Alien Blue Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, NYC
Quetzatl -live electronics Radical Turf Records, Asheville
Glossolalia *live* Intuitive Arts Multimedia
Logos - *live* Intuitive Arts Multimedia
Nod & BrainLizzard TOUCH samadhi, Asheville
Blue Spectral Monkey - Interchill, Asheville
Medisin TOUCH samadhi, Asheville
Kri - TOUCH samadhi, Asheville
Shad - TOUCH samadhi, Nashville
Iduna - TOUCH samadhi, Asheville
KT - independent
Joshu - Evoke Community, Asheville
Jeremie - Evoke Community, Asheville


Art:
artwork by Alex Grey
Eli Morgan, NYC www.psythos.com
Marisa Scirocco, NYC www.alienblue.com
Intuitive Arts Multimedia www.ICreateIam.com
Devotee Touch Samadhi
and more Asheville and East TN artists

Opening Ceremony: by Sakkred Circle

No Alcohol or Pets (no exceptions - period)
Leave No Trace event - please carpool
Rides available from airport - please contact us
Directions will be mailed with tickets
Video taping with mailed permission only
Food on site - provided by Bearly Edible

Tickets are $50 for the weekend ($3.00 S/H)
due to land impact, no day passes.
Buy @ www.harmonywerx.org

Dream Home Giveaway

This year, Home and Garden Television picked western NC's Lake Lure for their 2006 Dream Home Giveaway; which is worth more than 2 million dollars. Beautiful place with picturesque views, but some of the natives are restless.
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Asheville Webcams

This site contains many great live North Carolina webcams. You will find many for the Asheville and western NC area as well as other NC mountain, central and coastal cams. If you have a webcam link to add, send it to them.
Link - via blogasheville, which is always great fun to visit.

Asheville Fringe Festival

The Asheville Fringe Festival is ready to let it's freak flags fly again. Or so goes the blip on the article. It begins Thursday, January 26, 2006, and runs thru the weekend.

In a city like Asheville, NC, there is uber potential for a balls to the wall, kick out the jams Fringe Festival. Honestly, it hasn't picked up enough steam as I'd hoped. Perhaps they're trying to maintain too much class.

For starters, feature some great drag shows. Is the gay community even involved in it? Calling all talented heatherns, gay and straight. Somebody show them how it's done.

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Asheville Craig's List!

Looking for a job? A place to live? Or something a little more personal? Asheville is now part of the ever growing community of Craig's List.

Just what is Craigs's List? Local community classifieds and forums - a place to find jobs, housing, goods & services, social activities, a girlfriend or boyfriend, advice, community information, and just about anything else -- all for free, and in a relatively non-commercial environment.

Craig's List started in early 1995, by Craig Newmark, in San Francisco, California.

Visit Asheville Craig's List

HOWL!

A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Allen Ginsberg's book as well as the American book launch for the 2005 publication of The Baby Beat Generation (The 1970s San Francisco Renaissance)

• What: A celebration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl.”
• When: 8 p.m. today
• Where: Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 56 Broadway, Asheville, NC
• Tickets: $7, $5 center members and students
• Also: The American book launch of “Baby Beat Generation”
• More: 350-8484, bmcmac@bellsouth.net
• On the Net: Read the poem at www.pangloss.com/seidel/Ramble/howl.shtml

See link for poets that will be reading tonight and add'l info.
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Psychedelic 60s - Black Mountain Poets