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July 2009
The Music Issue
Sound Advice
Music
You can tell a lot about a region by its music, and you can tell even more when there’s such a diversity of styles and talent.
A Photographic Memory
Local Knowledge
“Ah, he was a dear little man,” recalled George Masa’s friend and fellow hiker, the late Asheville architect Anthony Lord.
West First Pizza
Restaurant Review
The earthy aromas of burning white oak and baking bread scent the air of West First Wood-Fired Pizza in Hendersonville. A pair of chefs slide savory pies from the oven on wood paddles.
Caribbean Queen
In Good Taste
Clad in a flowing silk batik dress, artist Rita Genet swings open the front door of Rose Hall, her palatial Neo-Georgian manor on Town Mountain in Asheville, to welcome a smiling face.


















