Bonnie Stiernberg

Photography courtesy of Wicked Weed Brewing For a town of fewer than 100,000 people, Asheville, North Carolina, is punching far above its weight when it comes to food and drink. It’s difficult to walk down the street without stumbling upon some award-winning eatery, and with over 50 breweries in the city, you’ll find more craft beer per capita than just about anywhere else in the country. But craft beer and fine dining not only coexisting, but working in tandem with one another — even…

On Thursday, Rolling Stone broke the news that actor and director Vincent Gallo is currently being investigated by the Screen Actors Guild after two actresses filed formal complaints about the sexually explicit and inappropriate things he said to them during the casting process for his movie The Policeman. In the film, Gallo plays Joseph James DeAngelo, better known as the Golden State Killer, a serial killer and rapist who terrorized women in California in the ’70s and ’80s before finally being…

Mid-January can be pretty miserable. All of the holiday reverie is officially in the rearview mirror, the weather sucks (even when it’s unseasonably warm, it still manages to be gray and rainy), there are resolutions to stick to, and if you’re observing Dry January, you can’t even drown your sorrows with a nice stiff drink. But if there’s one shred of good news, it’s the fact that we’ve officially made it through the music industry’s most barren release dates and exciting new albums are finally…

When we look back at the past year in movies, it’s easy to dwell on the negative. For the first time in over 60 years, the industry had to cope with two simultaneous strikes — one by the performers of the Screen Actors Guild, and the other by the scribes in the Writers Guild of America — and as a result, many major releases were pushed back into 2024, either out of necessity or concern that with striking actors refusing to promote them via typical press appearances, no one would turn out to see…

Some holidays get all the good songs. Even if you’re sick of “Thriller” and “The Monster Mash,” there are literally hundreds of spooky songs about ghosts and ghouls to choose from on Halloween. If you’re not big on flag-waving, you can still find enough songs about American identity to populate a more pensive Fourth of July playlist. And of course, there’s so much Christmas music out there that if you started listening to it today, it’d probably take you until next Christmas to get through it al…

Buck Meek didn’t initially set out to write an album of love songs. In fact, the singer/songwriter and guitarist for Big Thief didn’t have any particular concept in mind when he began writing what would eventually become his third solo album, Haunted Mountain. “I rarely can predetermine what an album or a collection of songs is about,” he tells InsideHook. “They usually start from a pretty subconscious place, I think.” This time, however, it started with a specific assignment that yielded som…

Nathan Fielder has spent a little over a decade — first on Comedy Central’s Nathan For You, then on HBO’s The Rehearsal and now on Showtime’s The Curse — reminding us not to take what we see on TV at face value. Instead of pulling the rug out from under us, the comedian loves to make his points by adding layers and layers of artifice, whether it’s in “The Anecdote,” the 2017 episode of Nathan For You where he revealed that a wild story he told on Jimmy Kimmel months prior was actually a total fa…

Everyone knows that moving is terrible. There’s a reason it consistently ranks above divorce and just below the death of a loved one in studies about the most stressful life events human beings can experience. That stress grows exponentially when you’re moving from a roommate situation to a solo living space and find yourself suddenly in desperate need of a whole bunch of furniture. You’re telling me that in addition hiring movers, packing and unpacking, I have to worry about things like what I’…

There was a scary moment during the third quarter of the Steelers-Ravens game on Sunday (Oct. 6) when quarterback Mason Rudolph was knocked unconscious after being sandwiched by a hit from behind by Brandon Carr and a helmet-to-helmet hit by Earl Thomas. Replays showed Rudolph appeared to go limp after being hit by Thomas and then hit his head a second time when he fell to the ground. Rudolph’s Steelers teammates — especially wide receiver Juju Smith-Schuster, who was seen crying — appeared p…

It’s finally fall, which means you’re now free to bust out your 12-foot Home Depot skeleton, stream your favorite scary movies and listen to “The Monster Mash” on repeat sans judgement. And of course, it means beer aisles nationwide are currently stocked to the gills with a truly spooky number of pumpkin beers. Pumpkin beer is an extremely divisive style, however. Some folks who clamor for pumpkin-spiced everything this time of year will stock up on as much of it as they can (often as early a…