Pete Zamplas
FR Playhouse Cast is Right On with The Play That Goes Wrong
A play within a play worked wonders for Shakespeare, and it clicks with physical slapstick and belly laughs galore in the Flat Rock Playhouse’s The Play That Goes Wrong.
Local Star Brayden Corn Picked in MLB Draft
North Henderson Knight alumnus Brayden Corn has already signed with the Seattle Mariners, the MLB club that drafted him last week.
Baseball Collegian Honeycrisps are Playing Crisply
Local high school baseball players of recent stardom are shining on the division-leading Hendersonville Honeycrisps, in a summer league for collegians.
Mission Impossible Villain Esai Morales Delights Locals
Distinguished actor Esai Morales showed his jovial side in a tennis benefit in Asheville this year, sharply contrasting with his magnificently sinister Gabriel character now battling Tom Cruise on the big screen.
WNC’s Slugging Cal Raleigh is on Pace for Historic MLB Season
Area native Cal Raleigh of the Seattle Mariners is on pace to hit more major league home runs than any catcher and any switch-hitter ever, and has slugged more (33) homers than any catcher in the first half of a season.
Local Boys’ Tennis Squads Hold Court
Buncombe and Henderson county public high schools again sparkled in boys’ tennis with championships in all four conferences they compete in, and with T.C. Roberson and West Henderson each winning in three playoff rounds.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is ‘Some Kind of Wonderful’
Rachel Prather tremendously projects the emotional voice, creative intuition, old-fashioned innocence, pathos, humor, and eventual stardom of Carole King, the queen of pop songwriting, in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at the Flat Rock Playhouse.
Two Local Squads Reach Round Three in Soccer
Hendersonville Lady Bearcats and West Henderson Lady Falcons went furthest in girls state soccer playoffs, both reaching round three where they lost on the road.
Local State Champion Squads Win WNC Sports Awards
The 2025 WNC Sports Awards winners from Buncombe and Henderson county high schools include three-time reigning state baseball champion T.C. Roberson Rams and star Micah Simpson, state volleyball champion West Henderson Falcons and Emma Bryson, and Erwin football receiver and track leaper Lawson Reynolds.
Mission Inevitable: T.C. Roberson Rams Make History
T.C. Roberson Rams swept Michael Jordan’s alma mater Wilmington Laney last weekend, to become North Carolina’s first 4A public high school baseball team to win three consecutive state titles.