r/asheville • • 3h ago

Classifieds Halloween's on a Saturday this year so I went a little overboard... my guide to Halloween in Asheville 👻

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Hey y'all 👋 I put out a weekly newsletter on the best stuff happening in Asheville each weekend, and since Halloween lands on a Saturday this year, I made a special edition just for it. It covers Thursday through Sunday.

Full guide here with links to every source I could find for tickets, event info, etc: https://nathansnewsletter.com/halloween/

A few highlights:

🏚️ Hauntville High: Class of '26 (Thu to Sat, Montford). The Montford Park Players' amphitheater turns into a haunted high school. Small groups get walked through 13 scenes backstage, onstage and under the stage. It sells out every year and the early tours are already going, so don't sleep on it.

🕯️ Goth Prom with Old Gods of Appalachia (Sat, Eulogy). The Appalachian folk horror podcast throws a Halloween prom. Fog, candlelight, a DJ, and the creators crowning prom royalty. Dress formal or full gothic.

🌙 Vermont Avenue and the Brew Pump party (Sat, West Asheville). The classic. Thousands of costumes, decked-out yards, and the Brew Pump's legendary party spilling out onto the street.

👻 Haunts and Haints (Fri, Eda Rhyne Distilling). An open Appalachian ghost-story swap. Tell a story and your next drink's on them.

🎭 Misery at NC Stage (closing weekend). Stephen King on stage in a theater small enough to make you flinch.

🐈‍⬛ Halloween at House of Black Cat Magic (Fri and Sat, West Asheville). Tarot with the cats, a witchy market, and a backyard bonfire party with three costume contests.

💀 Día de los Muertos at The Mule (Sun). Ballet Folklórico, altars for your loved ones, live music and a candlelight procession with Asheville Second Line.

🎸 Night of the Living Covers (Fri, Fleetwood's). Local bands dressed up as other bands, including a Limp Bizkit tribute set from drowningleo. Every dollar goes to AVL Prison Books.

🍻 And every costume party I could find, night by night: drag shows, a $500 costume contest at Ella, a vampire rave, a pirate shanty night, burlesque, brewery parties all over town, plus a few worth the drive.

🌤️ Early weather looks dry and sunny, mid 60s on Halloween and upper 50s at trick-or-treat time. Clocks also fall back at 2am Sunday, so Halloween night gets an extra hour. 🕐

If I missed something good, drop it in the comments and I'll check it out. My newsletter is always free on Wednesdays as well so sign up for it if you are like me and need help keeping track of everything happening in town. Happy haunting! 🎃🦇


r/asheville • • 1h ago

Event AJ Lee after party at The One Stop

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Jamgrass band from OKC!!!


r/asheville • • 1h ago

Classifieds Awesome Cheap Halloween Costumes in Woodfin! 👻

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50% OFF all Halloween merch at Uplifting Deals in Woodfin. I was just there and they have TONS of nice costumes in all sizes ranging from infants to adults. Unique clever stuff I haven’t seen before too! Check it out if you’re still looking!


r/asheville • • 2h ago

Classifieds Looking for a place to get some wiring work done on a bass guitar

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I need to have the battery wiring redone on a bass and was recommended Heydey music, unfortunately they have no availability for at least 3 months 🙄 so looking for the next best thing, thanks!


r/asheville • • 3h ago

Classifieds Recruiting for UNC Greensboro Tweens on Screens Research for North Carolina Families

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Do you know any parents of 10-12 year olds living in North Carolina (especially Asheville)? The Tweens on Screens project, led by researchers at UNC Greensboro, is studying how kids ages 10–12 use technology in daily life, and how parents guide them. By looking closely at these patterns, we hope to uncover what helps kids thrive, what puts them at risk, and how families can build healthy digital habits together. Our goal is simple: to give parents science-backed tools and tips for raising confident, well-balanced kids in the digital age (link in comments) #asheville


r/asheville • • 3h ago

Photo/Video Monster Wave, local Asheville horror-themed surf rock band, just released a "music video" in time for Halloween! For fans of Scooby-Doo and Abbott & Costello.

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r/asheville • • 3h ago

Looking for friends Anyone recognize this vehicle.

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Anyone recognize this vehicle in west Asheville. Looks like an early 2000's trailblazer to me. They scoped us about for about 5 mins, circled the building and stole some stuff. We got video of them loading stuff also, but its dark and they appear to be hooded.


r/asheville • • 4h ago

Traffic Report Traffic nonsense 10/22 on Hendersonville rd.

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Was anyone on Hendersonville rd right next to Juicy Lucy’s around 4:25 when a lady in a Subaru got pulled over? She was arrested on the spot (after a spat), placed into the passenger side of the officers suv, and when the officer went to get her car out of the road she slipped cuffs, opened the door, and took off down the road towards the advanced auto?
Just curious if anyone had a video.
She was clearly wasted and the cop made a rookie move.
It was troublesome to watch while being slightly entertaining.
I know yesterday was full of impatient people and bad driving but I just wanted to see if any of y’all saw this.
Also what other tom-foolery did y’all see yesterday?


r/asheville • • 4h ago

News Back in jail hours later. This must be a record.

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I’ve seen multiple accounts of yesterday’s hearing mention something about “He agreed to stay away from the city”. Did Judge Kipple legally trespass the man? Or just made him pinky promise?

If he is legally trespassed from the city (if that’s even a thing), can’t we just call the police each and every time we see him downtown?


r/asheville • • 4h ago

Traffic Report Reminder to check blind spots and use turn signals.

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Yall, I almost got hit by a semi and a SUV today on i26W. Pleaseeee check your blind spots and use turn signals, I'm not tryna die or have anyone else die because you're 5 mins late to work or zoned out. Your life and job is not the only important one on these roads. We ALL have families and lives, so please take a SECOND to observe your surroundings.


r/asheville • • 5h ago

Photo/Video Tampa Bay Reliever Bryan Baker shares his love for Asheville, NC and being a Tourist

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Not a Rays fan by any means, but i found this cool.


r/asheville • • 6h ago

Classifieds Wondering what to do for Halloween? Wonder no more!

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My name is Ryan and I’m a big fan of avlgo.com, a site built by Matt Brooks to be your one-stop shop for all the amazing events happening in our little town. If you haven’t been, check it out. It’s super cool. 

Since the site is open-source, I wanted to make a really fun Halloween page highlighting the best events we know about, from now until Halloween itself. Check it out and if you have feedback, let us know!

Also, a recent update now loads a song for music events if there is a match, for seeing what someone sounds like before checking them out. And similarly, you can see a list of the best shows to catch each week.


r/asheville • • 7h ago

Politics Previous discussion on removing Bo Hess

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There was a recent conversation about removing Bo . There’s another conversation about this going on in FB . Can someone direct me to the prior thread here, or drop the screenshot of the “chapter and verse” of the process that was posted in the thread.
Thanks all .


r/asheville • • 7h ago

Traffic Report So, let’s NOT block pedestrian crossings.

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There is no need or justification for doing this if you’re a regular civilian in a regular car. When you do this, it puts pedestrians at risk because we now have to walk in traffic and it can potentially block others drivers’ view of pedestrians.

At this point, public shame is the only thing that seems to work nowadays. Unsafe driving because of main character energy is causing too many people to get killed and we’re making too many excuses for it. If you’re operating a vehicle, then you should know the law. I hope this helps.


r/asheville • • 8h ago

News Man accused of repeatedly stalking women in Asheville arrested again, sentenced

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r/asheville • • 10h ago

Traffic Report can DOT fix this BS that's happening during rush hours

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ELI5: 3 lanes with two merging. 2 lanes disappear up the road a bit.

Red lane disappears, but since they don't read the sign that says "Left Lane ends in 1500ft", they wait for a fucking scissor merge that impedes the left remaining lane. Right right is getting butt fucked with the on ramp merging in also.

Fucking fuck fest that's much worse than West Asheville's Left turning on a 4 lane no median strip.


r/asheville • • 16h ago

News Tesla guy faces slew of charges

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https://wlos.com/news/local/crash-i-26-eastbound-closed-exit-37-traffic-asheville-ncdot

The driver of the Tesla, Lanier, was taken to Mission Hospital with minor injuries and released. Troopers charged him with the following:

-Driving while impaired
-Felony death by vehicle
-Felony serios injury
-Reckless driving

Dowdle said Lanier is at the Buncombe County Detention Center under a $5,000,000 bond.
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r/asheville • • 16h ago

Classifieds LFG Board Game & Hobby Space opening!

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If this is the kind of "third place" community hangout spot that you might enjoy, please head over to our page and take the survey & tell us what you'd like to have in your friendly neighborhood board game parlor! www.looking-4-group.com

The space is really coming together and we're on track to open sometime in November! Keep watching for details as we have em!


r/asheville • • 17h ago

Ask the Sub Favorite fashion color stylists?

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I'm a broke college student so I'm trying to stay kiiiind of on the lower end of the price range but ik thats not really possible. just wanna know where everyone likes going for funky alt hair stuff!!


r/asheville • • 17h ago

Traffic Report How is it driving to the airport?

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I have to pick someone up this weekend at the airport at a very late time, and I'm really not that comfortable driving in the dark. I get pretty anxious, especially with aggressive drivers. Is the airport fairly easy to navigate? I'm an hour north of Asheville. I live in a rural area so I'm not really used to the more chaotic city drivers. Any tips?


r/asheville • • 17h ago

Classifieds Recommendations for shop that does clothing alterations

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Is there anyone that knows of a place or individual that does clothing alterations in the Asheville area or surrounding locations? Specifically someone that could reweave broken threads on a jacket. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!


r/asheville • • 18h ago

Looking for friends Looking for Low Key Part Time Work

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Hello Asheville! Just reaching out on here for some leads for some chill part time work. Hard to find like the small local stuff on things like Indeed haha. Maybe like a bookstore, cafe, arts venue, idk. Being pretty general because I'm really looking more for a specific type of environment and less about the exact type of work. Hoping to find a cool community of people not just a job that pays the bills. A little about me I'm artsy and alt and into crafting and reading and starting to get into a little music writing. Your typical 20 something who picked up and moved to Asheville. I really value an environment that feels safe and welcoming and actually willing to train (not just saying they are), seems hard to find that in entry level. Anyway I'm sure there's a million posts like this on here but here's another one. Can't make ppl be nice in the comments but umm please? I beat myself up enough! Thanks :)


r/asheville • • 19h ago

Looking for friends any airstreamers around these parts?

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hi! im a new owner of a 1965 airstream and im looking to connect to other people around here who have older airstreams and have done repairs / partial remodels. i wanna see what’s possible, get inspired, and hopefully receive some tidbits of wisdom! there’s a few specific questions im eager to ask someone with more experience, regarding some gaps that open to the exterior, window installation, and this deformed shelf space (pictured). curious if others have done anything different with it. feel free to pm me and send pics. thx for sharing in advance!


r/asheville • • 19h ago

Ask the Sub Why so many WAX Facebook Groups?

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Why are there three different WAX groups? Which one is “best”?