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AVLtoday’s 2025 holiday gift guide: 90+ finds for everyone you love
Including gifts for significant others, retirees, holiday parties, young people, and gifts that ship fast.
October 26, 2025 10:11 PM
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Emily Shea-Owen
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Small Business
The RAD artist starting a new chapter at Cheap Joe’s
Philip and Tina DeAngelo will open Asheville Art Supply in the Cheap Joe’s space following its closure.
April 25, 2025
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Grace Powers
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Food
Corner Kitchen preserves its history as it rebuilds
A fixture of the local food scene, the restaurant is preserving its history by placing time capsules in the wall as it rebuilds from Helene.
April 11, 2025
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Grace Powers
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Small Business
Period Nirvana opens in West Asheville, offering menstrual cycle care products
The new West Asheville shop is one of just a handful of physical period care shops in the world.
April 10, 2025
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Grace Powers
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Best places to read a book around Asheville
If reading is your activity of choice, try one of these Asheville spots the next time you crack open your favorite novel.
March 31, 2025
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Amelia Grooms
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Business
Asheville Tea Company brews up a comeback
Founder Jessie Dean spills the tea on the company’s recovery ahead of its Rebuild + Regrow fundraiser.
March 25, 2025
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Bethany Osborn
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Sponsored
Spring cleaning your carbon footprint
Sugar Hollow Solar’s “Spring into Solar” event is helping AVL get educated and go green.
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Travel and Outdoors
Lake Lure welcomes visitors back as recovery continues
While visitors should be mindful of ongoing recovery efforts, several local businesses and recreation areas have reopened.
March 10, 2025
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Bethany Osborn
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Live
20+ places to get your pizza fix in Asheville
Dig into Asheville’s must-try pizza shops — from late-night slices to fancy fare and everything in between.
March 7, 2025
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Molly Wilson
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Business
Broadway Street welcomes a slew of new businesses
Stoker’s Studio bike shop is the latest business coming to Broadway Street.
March 4, 2025
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Bethany Osborn
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Culture
Books written by Asheville authors
From fiction and nature guides to young adults and memoir, these are the books you have to read — or weep.
March 4, 2025
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Designs for the historic pool’s renovation have been shared, showing a ~28.4% smaller pool area — feedback on designs will be collected through Sunday, Oct. 5.
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Grace Powers
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Asheville Hockey League builds a new skate rink in the RAD
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September 23, 2025
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Culture
Honor “Resilience and Resistance” at Blue Ridge Pride 2025
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September 23, 2025
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Organizations across WNC are honoring our region’s resiliency with events marking the one year anniversary since Tropical Storm Helene.
September 22, 2025
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Grace Powers
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Do you remember the 21st night of September in Asheville?
Join us on a trip down memory lane to see what Ashevillians were up to this week throughout the years.
September 18, 2025
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Live
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Thanks to City and County engagement hubs + community workshops, there’s no need to keep your opinion to yourself.
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