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Remember when those pet chimpanzees joined the Little Rock Zoo?
In 2008, the Little Rock Zoo acquired two chimpanzees raised as pets in a human home. Mikey, 6, and Louie, 5, came from a Maryland woman who had dreamed of bec…
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Subscriber ExclusiveA WORD: Arkansas, can you recognize the word hiding behind its definitions?
Let's play Obfuscation, the little game where I give you some of the definitions of a common word, and you recognize the word -- or not.
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Subscriber ExclusiveMASTER CLASS: Sequential Cable Rotation tightens midsection
This week, I'll discuss some ways the fitness industry has evolved over the past few years and highlight opportunities to capitalize on these changes.
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Subscriber ExclusiveArkansas, will you recognize the common word hiding behind its definitions?
The little game is indebted to reader David Kelley for his timely observation Nov. 13 that the answer "retire" fit all the clues but is not a noun as well as a…
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Subscriber ExclusivePump track! Undulating ribbon of asphalt in shadow of NLR’s Emerald Park challenges bicycle riders
Nestled in the shadows of the towering sandstone and shale cliffs of Big Rock Quarry, below Emerald Park and not far from the Arkansas River, the North Little …
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Subscriber ExclusiveStrength and cardio hybrid exercises put the “active” in active rest
Some of my all-time favorite exercises are not necessarily considered pure "strength" movements, but they also couldn't be classified as "cardio." This cool cl…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOLD NEWS: Death comes for Yates Standridge, once feared Human Wolf of the Ozarks
Yates Standridge was a taciturn, violent son of Newton County whose many escapes from Arkansas jails, prisons, prison farms and prison camps in the early 20th …
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | GAME ON: ‘Return to Moria’ delights ‘Lord of the Ring’ nerd despite a few ho-hum elements
'The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria'
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Subscriber ExclusiveLittle Rock grandmother writes children’s book about Down syndrome for her granddaughter
Carolyn Muradian's children's book, "Is Being Different a Good Thing to Be?" is a family affair.
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Subscriber ExclusiveWill you recognize the word hiding behind its definitions, Arkansas?
Who here knew that a verb meaning to steady or reinforce using a rope, chain, rod or wire was "guy," our Nov. 6 word?
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Subscriber ExclusiveOLD NEWS: ‘Human Wolf’ Asks for ‘Fair Play’: Yates Standridge Says His Future Holds Little Promise
In October 1913, the Arkansas Gazette published a letter from Mrs. R.H. Rosamond, widow of one of Yates Standridge's victims. Her letter described what she wit…
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Subscriber ExclusiveMASTER CLASS: Planning helps traveler roll with the punches thrown by on-the-road workouts
Work travel can throw a wrench into a regular physical activity program.
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Subscriber ExclusiveTwo very different sort-of new picture books teach kids about frogs and beavers
Reviewers usually notice only the most recent books. We participate in a group delusion that book lovers all read very, very quickly and have already been thro…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOLD NEWS: How The Human Wolf earned his name in 1908 Arkansas
Displaced and denied their favorite prey by logging, relentlessly winnowed by hunting, a few wolves still padded quietly about Arkansas in the 1920s. Loathed, …
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Subscriber ExclusiveRemember when you couldn’t park at Little Rock’s airport until dogs walked around your car?
Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport was still Little Rock National Airport, Adams Field, when explosives-sniffing dogs landed in its parking lots in 2004.
