BLOCK off Biltmore

Snomg! Asheville GritVegas weekend update

Our Weekend Roundup: The Asheville GritVegas Weekend Update!

Our top ways to stay warm and have fun while doing it this weekend.

Bonobos at the BLOCK off Biltmore

The Bonobo Conservation Initiative works to protect our closest relative. This Sunday (12/17), you can support the cause.

Photo: Sgt. Jose Ahiram Diaz-Ramos/PRNG-PAO (Wikimedia Commons)

Helping Puerto Rico: How to Support Relief Efforts

Want to help with hurricane recovery? Here's where to start. We'll update this, so please loop us in if you know about local relief efforts or other ways to help!

LEAF Downtown: Two Days to Turn It Up

This weekend, enjoy free music, performance, and more over two days of LEAF Downtown.

Natural Born Leaders. Credit: Grace Barron-Martinez

The Sweet Sound of Prog Hop: Natural Born Leaders Release New Video (and an Interview!)

The band that bathes together...and more from local hip-hop/rock/gumbo funk/prog hop group Natural Born Leaders, including their new video for "Time Flies By," an Asheville Grit premiere!

From Hip Hop to Spirituality: SIYAH on That's So Asheville

Ali McGhee has a conversation with Asheville hip-hop artist SIYAH on the That's So Asheville podcast.

The Firefly Gathering on the Asheville GritVegas Weekend Update!

We interviewed some of the folks behind this year's Firefly Gathering, our featured event of the GritVegas Weekend Update! Plus, your 4th of July roundup.

emersion: Interactive + Immersive Theater on the GritVegas Weekend Update

This weekend, we head to a 100-year-old house in Montford to check out an immersive theatrical performance.

Bryan Divisions and Asheville's Enlightened Hip-Hop Scene

Asheville hip-hop artist Bryan Divisions encourages you to love yourself and embrace your shadow side.

Star and Flag Design Quilt, Fred Hassebrock. Source: National Gallery of Art

Holler Brings Community Art Meet-Ups to Asheville in May

On each Monday in May, members of a new arts forum, Holler, will convene at locations around town for an hour of "flash mob-style making sessions" around specific themes. Come out; make art!

NYC People's Climate March (2014). Photo: Alejandro Alvarez

Artists in Resistance Brings Visual Artists, Musicians, and Community Together on April 5th

The Dogwood Alliance and Asheville Grit invite you to Artists in Resistance, an event that will create a forest-themed banner for the National Climate March. Artists in Resistance happens on April 5th from 4-8 p.m. at the BLOCK off Biltmore in downtown Asheville.