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Healthy Peppermint Chocolates

For a happy healthy Mother’s Day, Mom will surely appreciate these sweet pieces of chocolate heaven. Creamy on the inside and crunchy on the outside, these chocolates taste decadently rich. Yet they’re healthy, raw and vegan. Store these chocolates in an air-tight container in the fridge. Ingredients 1/2 Cup Coconut Oil, melted 1/4- 1/3 Cup Cocoa Powder + more for …

Wolfgang’s New Manager

Wolfgang’s Restaurant and Wine Bistro on Main Street is one of those remarkable spots where customers return again and again. Obviously they come for the awardwinning fare, but it’s the welcoming atmosphere that makes regulars feel like family. Wolfgang’s employees feel the same way. They can’t wait to get back to work and see long-standing customers whom they’ve missed over the winter. …

Great Wines, Great Encounters

One of the most anticipated events in the Southeast returns to The Bascom this spring with Collective Spirits 2015. This year’s festival will be held May 14-16, and features more than eleven different events over the course of three days. Collective Spirits is the single largest fundraiser for The Bascom, ensuring the unique education, exhibition, and community outreach will continue …


A Colorful Partnership

A mutually beneficial partnership has existed for several years between The Bascom and the Art League of Highlands-Cashiers. The Bascom makes space available for the ALHC board meetings and its monthly programs. Both organizations have web site links to each other. Bascom eblasts include mention of ALHC for partnership programs and for ALHC programs that directly relate to current Bascom …

A Shower of Stars At PAC

Saturday, June 20: Broadway with Jeri Sager Jeri Sager is a veteran of Broadway and numerous national tours. She is best known for her portrayal of “Grizabella” in Cats. She made her Broadway debut as “Frumah-Sara”, in the 25th Anniversary Production of Fiddler on the Roof. Jeri has enjoyed critical acclaim for her portrayal of “Fantine” in Les Miserables and …

Don’t Miss Randall Atcheson

Madeline and Fred Knox have once again joined forces with The Literacy Council of Highlands to bring world-renowned musician Randall Atcheson to Highlands. Join your friends at the Highlands Performing Arts Center from 4:00 to 6:00 P.M. Saturday, June 27, to hear this Julliard School graduate as he shares his immense talent at the keyboard. Children and literacy are important …


She Felt Inspired

When you enter Cedar Chan’s realm, you cross the threshold into a magical land of fantastical figures. There you might see a backpacking raccoon with a toothy grin, a Mama opossum with clinging babies, or mischievous mice scurrying about vintage alphabet blocks. Cedar creates a dreamland of needle-felted beasties rich with primal familiarity. Though inspired by the wild creatures of …

She Felt Inspired

When you enter Cedar Chan’s realm, you cross the threshold into a magical land of fantastical figures. There you might see a backpacking raccoon with a toothy grin, a Mama opossum with clinging babies, or mischievous mice scurrying about vintage alphabet blocks. Cedar creates a dreamland of needle-felted beasties rich with primal familiarity. Though inspired by the wild creatures of …

Anything Goes This Season

The 2015 season at the H i g h l a n d s P l a y h o u s e promises to be one of the most e n t e r t a i n i n g ever, thanks to the efforts of the staff, board, and volunteers who work tirelessly through the winter months making preparations …


Plays On Demand

Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard (“Shakespeare in Love,” “Arcadia,” Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) returns to the National Theatre with his highlyanticipated new play The Hard Problem, directed by Nicholas Hytner (“Othello,” “Hamlet,” “One Man,” “Two Guvnors”). Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brain-science institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where psychology and biology …

Chamber Music Festival

Even though the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival’s performances are staged at the Highlands Performing Arts Center and the Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library, there’s such a depth of talent on hand that events can’t help but spill out into the twin communities. Everyone is invited to attend a free concert by The Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet at the Cashiers Village Green …

Welcome to Mitford

You can tell how much someone loves their town by what they have to say about it. In her “Mitford Years” series, author Jan Karon paints a glorious picture of the fictional town of Mitford, North Carolina, which some say is based on her hometown of Blowing Rock. The center of these sunny stories is Father Tim Cavanaugh, a 60-something …