Slam poet brings laughter and cultural awareness to WCU

Western Carolina University’s Last Minute Productions (LMP) brought award winning slam poet, G Yamazawa, to campus on Monday, Feb. 29, where he entertained an audience of about 50 students and faculty members with his comical spoken word performance in UC Illusions. In between telling personal stories from his childhood growing up “southern Asian” with Japanese […]

Slam poet G Yamazawa is coming to WCU

Have you ever wanted to hear a spoken word artist perform poetry? Your chance is on its way! Award winning slam poet, G Yamazawa, will grace Western Carolina University with his spunk and wit on Monday, Feb. 29, in UC Illusions at 7 p.m. The G Yamazawa Slam Poet event is a part of the Coffeehouse […]

Kyree Harris puts on a show and releases new EP, “S.A.M.M.E.”

Kyree Harris debuts brand new EP. Photo from Facebook. Kyree Harris put on a show Thursday, Feb. 18, in promotion of his brand new EP, “S.A.M.M.E.” Harris approached Last Minute Productions (LMP) to ask if they would let him do a show to promote his new material. According to his bandcamp website, Harris continues to make […]

Six great concerts coming to Asheville this spring

Though it’s been hard to believe these past couple of frigid weeks, warmer days are in sight and they are bringing some great music to the mountains. Here are eight shows to consider dropping a few dollars on as we near the halfway point of the semester, in the order of their occurrence. Houndmouth @ […]

South African Apartheid exhibit offers a lesson of forgiveness

An earlier version of this story did not give credit to Hilary Lindler for providing the loan of the Amy Biehl materials and the 1994 election ballot to the exhibit. It has been corrected.  Living in a country where democracy is so often taken for granted, it’s difficult to imagine a time and place where […]

A unique twist on coffee shop music

” To the windows, to the walls. To the sweat drop downs my b***s, To all these b*****s crawl. To all skeet skeet motherf*****s, all skeet skeet god d**n” This is how Dan Henig entertained an audience of around 30 people in UC Illusions, on Feb. 9, during his coffee house concert. Henig’s music is […]