#DrinkLocal

Three women walked into a local Asheville coffee shop, ordered drinks, raved about them, photographed them…and promptly threw them away before heading to another coffee shop.

The Omni Grove Park Buffet’s Desserts Are Worth the Price of Admission

The Omni Grove Park Inn’s seafood buffet is…a seafood buffet. The dessert selection, however, is fantastic.

A man in a green sweatshirt, green hat, grey pants, and Birkenstocks writes in a notebook at a coffee shop, representing a humorous take on “wholesome masculinity.”

I’m Now the Face of “Wholesome Masculinity”

When a stranger in Battlecat calls me the meme of “wholesome masculinity,” it sparks a snarky dive into stereotypes, masculinity buzzwords, and Asheville culture.

Two men sit in a sauna, surrounded by laptops and other tech-bro devices.

Performative Tech Bro-ness at the Sauna House

A very specific (very meta) type of performative masculinity was overheard at Asheville’s Sauna House recently.

Why Don’t North Carolina Drivers Use Turn Signals? An Unscientific (but kind of scientific in the end?) Study

I’ve been noticing that North Carolina drivers don’t use turn signals, so conducted some research to prove this correct.

The Ashevilleization of Gloria

I unexpectedly loved Angel Olsen’s cover of Laura Branigan’s (cover) of Gloria.

A Trip to the Asheville Mall

Did a trip to the Asheville Mall teach me anything about our capitalistic, consumerist society? Not really. It just taught me that Old Navy remains a time capsule to the early aughts.