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4th Annual Asheville Wing War Moves to New Mountain Asheville on March 1

Asheville Wing War 2014

Planning has begun for the 4th Annual Asheville Wing War and event producer, Lush Life Productions expects it to be its biggest year yet. Tickets will be available for purchase on Thursday, January 15 at noon and will be $20 per person. The ticket price includes unlimited wings and beer as well local music.

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McKibbon Hotel Group Supports Clemson Architecture Students

MHG-Tower, LLC, a development group including McKibbon Hotel Group and Glenn Wilcox, owner of Asheville’s BB&T building, has partnered with Clemson University’s School of Architecture to support a student design studio and honor its participants. Each year Clemson’s architecture faculty seeks reality-based projects for their students. In early fall 2014, Associate Professor of Architecture Douglas Hecker reached out to McKibbon Hotel Group and the Wilcox family to engage with a prominent subject in Asheville.

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Lex 18 Brings Touch of Downton Abbey to Asheville

At Downton Abbey, every night is a dinner party. Fine china, black ties, the finest linens and silvers attended to by butlers and servants. Tinkling crystal and the most elegantly prepared meals, each need and desire anticipated and met before a word can be uttered. It is an experience that has no equal in our modern, rushed society.

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Sierra Nevada Launches 2015 With 3 All New Beers

Sierra Nevada Beer Company logo

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is debuting two year-round beers in early 2015: the intensely hop-heavy Hop Hunter IPA and thesessionable Nooner Pilsner. The brewery will also unveil its newest spring seasonal selection, Beer Camp Hoppy Lager, for a total of three brand-new beers for craft drinkers to explore.Hop Hunter IPA feature soil from wet hops steam distilled in the hop field, minutes after harvest—for the first time, drinkers can taste wet-hop character year-round.

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Local Cafe Now Serving Bone Broth

free range grass fed bone broth

There are many delicious ways to improve your health, and a great place to start, believe it or not, is with good ole fashioned bone broth. For thousands of years bone broths have provided essential minerals and nutrients to our ancestors worldwide, and they are still part of every known culinary tradition on earth. Bone broth is a flavorful liquid made by boiling the bones of just about any vertebrate you can think of, typically poultry, beef, venison, bison, lamb, or fish, in water for an extended period of time, typically anywhere from 6 to 72 hours depending upon the bones used.

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