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The organization aims to build a culture of peace by helping the injured heal and helping educate the public about the true costs of war.

Singer-songwriter Richard Buckner doesn't work a crowd. It's pretty much out of the question that he will shout, "put your hands in the air" at any point during his living room show in Asheville on Sunday, Aug. 24. There is also a good chance that the songs Buckner chooses to play won't sound exactly like they do on his studio recordings.

The Asheville Citizen-Times reports The Nu Wray Inn in Burnsville is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Each December Warren Haynes presents his annual Christmas Jam concerts in his hometown of Asheville, NC with the aim of raising funds for the Asheville Area Habitat For Humanity .

As the sun rose above St. Basilica of Lawrence, a crew bustled to raise small shelters in the hot parking lot across the street.

On Wednesday, the board of the Housing Authority of the City of Asheville approved a plan to overhaul current management rules, Carolina Public Press reports, though board Chair Brian Weinkler stressed that final approval of the overhaul will be voted on on a later date.

In the years since their 2009 album, Hospice , the Antlers have moved away from static, heavy sounds and stories of bone cancer and begun creating modern soul music inspired by Alice Coltrane and Miles Davis .

U.S. Cellular has named Jim Clark area sales manager for U.S. Cellular in western North Carolina.

The past couple weeks have seen the Japan Meteorological Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration release their latest datasets on global temperatures.

Town Mountain's hard drivin' bluegrass sound, tight harmonies, and stellar in-house songwriting have become the band's trademark.

The Black Arts Alliance and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People New Hanover County chapter are teaming up once again for the conclusion of the Moral Mondays Film Series with the film "Inequality For All."

Greenville hired Ken Miller on Wednesday. He will start as police chief in the South Carolina city on Sept.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. Organizers say Moogfest will return to Asheville in 2016, becoming an event that occurs every two years.

Which says less about mega-breweries than it does about one of the remarkable traits of America's small breweries: the enthusiasm for working together.

Homicide investigators in Lumberton are looking into the death of a man who was found on the front steps of his home.

Many modern country-folk acts like to craft their twang-tinged tracks from cramped Brooklyn apartments or open-mic nights on Nashville's Music Row, but Asheville, N.C., quartet River Whyless makes music straight from the hills of North Carolina.

According to the American Pet Products Association, nearly half of the 70 to 80 million household dogs in the U.S. hop in bed with their owners at night.

Maria Buchanan, David Sebren and Gina Stewart star as Fern, Wilbur the pig and a musician in Asheville Creative Arts' "Charlotte's Web."

Expansive Brooklyn-based funk band Lettuce hits the 20-year this year back and isn't slowing down.

A hat tip to Carolina Plotthound for this link of NAACP - North Carolina chapter President and leader of the "Moral Monday" protests Rev.