CARE AFFAIR: When Taylor Prislovsky of Carlisle realized her grandmother, Floy, couldn't attend her Lonoke County wedding to Matthew Wallace next month, the 22-year-old took the wedding to her.
Floy -- "Mamaw" to Prislovsky -- lives at Memory Care of Little Rock at Good Shepherd, an assisted living community of residents with Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
With the blessing and assistance of the Memory Care staff and help from family members, the jeans-clad couple wed on a recent weekday in the community's courtyard with Floy present.
"It meant the world to her," Prislovsky says. "She told me, 'I'm so happy you included me in this.'"
Also included were the other Memory Care residents who tossed flower petals and joined in the punch-and-cake reception.
"It was so sweet," Prislovsky says, adding that several resident couples told them, "'We've been married so-and-so many years. We want to wish you that many happy years.'"
The newlyweds still plan to have their wedding in November.
May it be just as memorable as the one at Memory Care.
OATES NOTES: John Oates of pop duo Hall & Oates grew up in Pennsylvania and has homes in Colorado and Tennessee, but now his mind is on Arkansas.
Not only will his new album, due out in February, be called Arkansas, he recently shot a music video in Wilson.
His friend, musician David Starr, originally from Fayetteville, explains: "John wrote a song called 'Arkansas.' ... He was inspired by [Wilson], and so when they went to shoot the video, they went right back over there to do it."
Starr met Oates in Colorado, where he relocated his Starr's Guitars store that was formerly in Little Rock's River Market District. Oates produced and performed on Starr's last album.
Oates will return to Arkansas with Starr for an acoustic concert at 7 p.m. Nov. 15 at Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville (visit tinyurl.com/oatesstarr) to benefit the Frank & Barbara Broyles Foundation in support of Alzheimer's patients/caregivers.
The show will be held in Starr Theater; Starr's family members have been longtime supporters of the Waltons.
This time the Hall & Oates star will be in Starr's hall.
THRILLS, CHILLS: Bruno Mars is a hot music act, but floor ticket-holders at last Sunday's Verizon Arena concert reported feeling cold.
That's because they were seated on the fiberglass decks covering the 18-degree "stage" of Cirque du Soleil Crystal, the ice show with final performances at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. today. (visit ticketmaster.com).
It's nothing new for the arena, says marketing director Jana DeGeorge: "When we first opened with hockey, we had the ice down all of the time. We built the basketball floor ... and played all concerts on top of the ice decks."
That's pretty cool.
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