Randy Shull is giving a personal tour of his recent artworks. They're displayed around an expansive Biltmore Village warehouse gallery most artists would covet. What's remarkable, at least for an artist in an increasingly gentrified Asheville, is this gallery belongs to Shull. He's preparing these pieces for an exhibition at a much smaller space--the Tracey Morgan Gallery in South Slope. Opening reception is July 19 and the show runs through August 24. "There's this need to continue to work

It's a Tuesday night at the Battery Park Book Exchange , and three authors have shown up to this meeting of the Western North Carolina Mysterians . It's a critique group for local mystery writers and Michael Havelin , the group's founder, is in the hot seat. "So I think your prologue is too long. It's sort of like an infodump," one Mysterian tells Havelin. "And then a lot of the stuff in chapter --" "Well, you know, you say that to me every time," Havelin says. "Wait til we get to your stuff."

It's a Tuesday night at the Battery Park Book Exchange , and three authors have shown up to this meeting of the Western North Carolina Mysterians . It's a critique group for local mystery writers and Michael Havelin , the group's founder, is in the hot seat. "So I think your prologue is too long. It's sort of like an infodump," one Mysterian tells Havelin. "And then a lot of the stuff in chapter --" "Well, you know, you say that to me every time," Havelin says. "Wait til we get to your stuff."

It's a Tuesday night at the Battery Park Book Exchange , and three authors have shown up to this meeting of the Western North Carolina Mysterians . It's a critique group for local mystery writers and Michael Havelin , the group's founder, is in the hot seat. "So I think your prologue is too long. It's sort of like an infodump," one Mysterian tells Havelin. "And then a lot of the stuff in chapter --" "Well, you know, you say that to me every time," Havelin says. "Wait til we get to your stuff."

It's a Tuesday night at the Battery Park Book Exchange , and three authors have shown up to this meeting of the Western North Carolina Mysterians . It's a critique group for local mystery writers and Michael Havelin , the group's founder, is in the hot seat. "So I think your prologue is too long. It's sort of like an infodump," one Mysterian tells Havelin. "And then a lot of the stuff in chapter --" "Well, you know, you say that to me every time," Havelin says. "Wait til we get to your stuff."

Pick your favorite artworks -- music, dance, painting -- and you think they're created from a place of impassioned inspiration. Then you meet James Suttles, a native of Brevard coming from a different motivation for his low-budget horror films. "Every decision that we make, whether it's creative, whether it's casting, is all about 'How do we position this to make money?'" he said.

Pick your favorite artworks -- music, dance, painting -- and you think they're created from a place of impassioned inspiration. Then you meet James Suttles, a native of Brevard coming from a different motivation for his low-budget horror films. "Every decision that we make, whether it's creative, whether it's casting, is all about 'How do we position this to make money?'" he said.

Pick your favorite artworks -- music, dance, painting -- and you think they're created from a place of impassioned inspiration. Then you meet James Suttles, a native of Brevard coming from a different motivation for his low-budget horror films. "Every decision that we make, whether it's creative, whether it's casting, is all about 'How do we position this to make money?'" he said.

Pick your favorite artworks -- music, dance, painting -- and you think they're created from a place of impassioned inspiration. Then you meet James Suttles, a native of Brevard coming from a different motivation for his low-budget horror films. "Every decision that we make, whether it's creative, whether it's casting, is all about 'How do we position this to make money?'" he said.

If you go back far enough in Asheville to remember Biltmore Lanes and the Skateland Rollerdome and local R&B bands such as Bite Chew Spit and the Innersouls, then walking into the front gallery of the Orange Peel will feel like a nostalgia trip. A new permanent exhibition of photos, newspaper clippings and other artifacts traces the history of the building, from its groundbreaking in 1946 and its varied incarnations over the subsequent decades until its branding in 1974 as the Orange Peel,