Cheers to a Simpler Christmas

There’s beauty in simplicity when infusing a splash of holiday cheer throughout the house.

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Festival of Lights

Everyone – everyone – is invited to the lighting of the first candle of the Menorah at Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park in Highlands on the

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Winter Wonderland

The Village Green and surrounding shops and businesses in Cashiers will be a Glittering Wonderland throughout the grey days and dark, dark nights

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Like it or Not, Musician George Reeves

There’s never a bad seat in the house when George Reeves cranks up one of his vintage Les Pauls, Strat or Slide guitars. He covers the musical waterfront from blues to badass. He is equally skilled at driving a soulful classic home to a live audience, or laying down rock-solid tracks in a recording studio.  He began playing guitar at …

Holiday Reading at Highlands PAC

Do your best Burl Ives imitation and sing along:  “Have a Holly Jolly Christmas, It’s the best time of the year. I don’t know if there’ll be snow but have a cup of cheer.” On Thursday, December 14 at 7:00 P.M., the Highlands Cashiers Players, co-sponsored by Highlands Performing Arts Center, will present their annual Holiday Reading program at PAC. …

Through a Different Lens at The Bascom

Someone once said he collected art because it depicted moments in time you would never revisit except through the painting.   The arts enable us to imagine the unimaginable, and to connect us to the past, the present, and the future, sometimes simultaneously.  The Bascom…A Center for the Visual Arts in Highlands provides opportunities every day for you to experience …


Live via Satellite at Highlands PAC

On Saturday, November 4, and Sunday, November 5, The National Theatre of London brings its productions of “Angels in America I & II” to the Highlands Performing Arts Center. It’s America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. Andrew …

Celebrate Theater at Highlands Playhouse

As fall sets in, many of us turn our thoughts to family, food, friends, and fun.  This month at the Highlands Playhouse, we’re settling into our winter movie schedule. Movies open on Fridays and run through Tuesdays with shows at 2:00, 5:00, and 8:00 P.M. each of those days – except Sunday, which will have no 8:00 P.M. showing. We …

A Mountain Faith Christmas

Start your holiday season off with fabulous bluegrass music by The Mountain Faith Band in concert on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving at the Highlands Performing Arts Center.     Since 2000, The Mountain Faith Band has performed their unique brand of Bluegrass/Americana/Roots music to audiences from coast to coast. When their tour schedule allows, you may find the band …


Grounded in Gratitude

Whether artist or art appreciator, those who experience visual art are grateful for its impact on their lives.  Art makes the world more beautiful. It expresses complex emotions words cannot. It brightens our homes and workplaces. It defines cultures. It raises our collective consciousness. It gives us hope. One simple pictograph can illustrate a multifaceted ideal, Art inspires, sells, heals. …

This Girl’s an Animal Lover

Donna Rhodes comes from a diverse family of artists, from precision craftsmen to decorators to throwers of inspired parties.   That may explain her versatility and passion to create. She’s been a musician, playing in a Renaissance troupe, creator of fine crafts, art teacher of gifted students, and latterly a writer and humorist. She also comes from a long line …

Joyfully Ring in Highlands NC

Traditional Christmas carols intertwined with new and innovative scores of well-known holiday tunes will fill the air as the  Handbell Choir of Highlands United Methodist Church celebrate Christmas.  Known to many as The Mountain Top Ringers, these  multi-talented musicians wow the crowd each season with their holiday repertoire.   The concert is planned for  Sunday, December 10, during the morning …


Breakfast with the Jolly One

You know that Christmas is on its way when you see the scores of children in festive holiday attire headed into the Faith & Fellowship Center at Highlands United Methodist Church.   Enter through the Education building entrance at 315 Main Street or the Fellowship Center entrance on Third Street.   This much-loved tradition continues Saturday morning, December 10, beginning …

Kicking off Christmas in Cashiers

Put your thinking cap on (yes, the one with elf ears and sparkles) and consider how you can participate in the 43rd annual Cashiers Area Christmas Parade, sponsored by the Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce. It’s held Saturday, December 9, at noon, but the parade entry deadline is Friday, December 1, at 3:00 P.M. The theme is “Silver and Gold …

December’s Joy, Highlands First Presbyterian Events

Kick off the Christmas season by joining your friends at Highlands First Presbyterian Church for the annual Christmas Carol Sing led by baritone Stell Huie, with Angie Jenkins at the piano.  It will take place Saturday, December 2, at 1:00 P.M.  It’ll be reminiscent of your childhood as you sing all the old favorite carols.        Later, at …