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Stories by Becca Martin-Brown
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette names Lisa Thompson executive editor
Lisa Thompson has been named the new executive editor of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, effective immediately.She has been filling that position since Rusty Turner’s retirement May 19....
August 3, 2023
FYI Calendar: Movie Night hosts Choctaw director Mark Williams
June 25 (Sunday)Walking Tour — Belle Grove Historic District, 4 p.m., Clayton House. Reservations at 783-3000.Squirrel Jam — Fourth Sunday Night Music, 5 p.m., Ozark Folkways in Winslow. F...
June 25, 2023
Arkansas Public Theatre announces all-hit 2024 season
For Arkansas Public Theatre, Season 38 might be subtitled “Go Big Or Go Home.”For the second time in five years, the Victory Theatre is preparing to close down for a few months. This time,...
January 20, 2023
Proudest Moments: Arts organizations rejoice in 2022 success
With the end of the year in sight, we asked some of our friends in the arts what happened in their organizations in 2022 that excited them most. These are their answers. It’s an enlightening loo...
December 25, 2022
REVIEW: TheatreSquared - When Worlds Collide
It Came From Outer Space” — surprisingly now a musical but not surprisingly on the TheatreSquared stage — is described as “in the vein of ‘Little Shop of Horrors’&r...
August 28, 2022
Clinton, Rice, Yo-Yo Ma coming to Crystal Bridges
The names Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice and Yo-Yo Ma have something new in common. They’ll all speak at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville before the end of 2022.The lectu...
August 24, 2022
FYI
TodayCB to You Mobile Art Lab — 3-6 p.m., Rogers Public Library. Hosted by Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335 or crystal-bridges.org .True Crime Club — 5:30 p.m., Bella Vista Publ...
July 28, 2022
FYI
TodayBook Lovers Club — 10 a.m., Fort Smith Main Library. Free.fortsmithlibrary.org.We’re Hooked — Knitting and crochet club, 1 p.m., Bella Vista Public Library. Free. bvpl...
July 21, 2022
My Favorite Things: Home office filled with history is favorite space for lifelong storyteller Michelle Parks
We all have something — or somewhere — that fires up the serotonin just by holding it or seeing it: the woods where you grew up playing hide and seek, a cabinet full of your mother’s...
May 8, 2022
FYI
TodayFIRST FRIDAY — Pet-a-palooza, 11 a.m.-9 p.m., on the square in Bentonville. Free. downtownbentonville.org . NATURE JOURNALING — 1 p.m., Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park. Free...
May 6, 2022
Five Minutes, Five Questions Ufologist Nick Pope
The Ozark Mountain UFO Conference, now in its 34th year, is “one of the longest running and best attended UFO conferences in the world,” organizer Forest Crawford claims. “It has alw...
April 3, 2022
FYI
TodayFIRST FRIDAY — With music, food and kids’ events, 11 a.m.-9 p.m., downtown Bentonville square.Free. downtownbentonville.org. “A SOUTHERN EXPOSURE” — 7:30 p.m. April ...
April 1, 2022
FYI: Things to Do in Northwest Arkansas this weekend
Friday“WRITING INTO YOUR FAMILY ARCHIVE” — With poet L. Renee, noon, the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow via Zoom. $35.writerscolony.org. SPRING BREAK SPECIALS — 1-4...
March 25, 2022
FYI: Things to Do in Northwest Arkansas
Editor’s Note: Please check with venues for weather cancellations. FridayTap Takeover — With Bentonville Brewing Co., 6-8 p.m., Eleven at Crystal Bridges Museum. $79. Reservations at ...
February 25, 2022
FYI
TodaySweetheart Hangar Dance — 6 p.m., including dinner, dance lessons and music, 6 p.m., $35-$65, Arkansas Air & Military Museum in Fayetteville. 521-4947.Valentine’s Day Dinner &mdas...
February 11, 2022
FYI
TodayART BY THE GLASS — Meditation Painting with Matt Miller, 6-8 p.m., Durand/Estes Rooms at Crystal Bridges Museum. $30. Reservations at 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org . “MENTAL&rdq...
January 28, 2022
FYI
HIGHLIGHTSJAN. 2DROP-IN TOUR — Collection Highlights, 11:30 a.m.; Architecture, 1 p.m., Main Lobby at Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org. WINTER BREAK WONDERS &mda...
January 2, 2022
FYI: ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ coming to WAC
TodayNoon Year’s Eve — With nostalgia-inducing games, live music, dancing, artmaking, performances in the galleries, a Coca-Cola toast and more, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. Fre...
December 31, 2021
FYI
HIGHLIGHTSDec. 19DROP-IN TOUR — Collection Highlights, 11:30 a.m., Architecture, 1 p.m. Main Lobby at Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org. DROP-IN ARTMAKING — 1-4 ...
December 19, 2021
Let’s Eat! ‘Dairy Bars’ a sweet guide to ‘neat eats, cool treats’
Garrett is on vacation, so instead of what’s new in eateries in your neighborhood, you’re getting what’s — well, not old, but let’s say venerable … and traditional...
December 3, 2021
5x5: Arts One Announces ‘Romeo + Juliet’ Auditions
Born out of the restructuring of the nonprofit entity that was the Arts Center of the Ozarks, Arts One Presents promises to create and host events on both the visual arts and performing arts sides of ...
December 3, 2021
FYI
TodayThe Holiday Art Sale — Sixteen local artists and artisans offering fine art, ceramics, jewelry, textiles & more, 5:30 p.m today; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; 12-4 p.m. Sunday, 545 W. ...
December 3, 2021
Veterans Day Salute: Army veteran leads Chaffee Crossing parade
Sgt. First Class (Ret.) Carder Ferguson never imagined himself riding in a Veterans Day parade. He’s one of those “fixers” you find behind the scenes, making sure things run smoothly.
But on Nov. 13,...
November 7, 2021
PREVIEW: Puppets Gone Wild! But love story is real in APT’s ‘Avenue Q’
Whether Princeton and Kate Monster find their happy ending on “Avenue Q” is in the hands of the puppet gods — and the wacky minds who conceived a musical tale definitely not set on the street where th...
September 3, 2021
Iconic Art Comes Home: FSRAM opens expansion with artist John Bell Jr.
If you fell in love with the iconic Fort Smith scenes by artist John Bell Jr. exhibited in 2018, the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum has exciting news. Bell’s work, collected in a new showcase titled “...
August 22, 2021
Spectre Of War
World War II is over, and Charlie Evans, a paratrooper who jumped into Normandy on D-Day, is coming home to Arkansas. It’s a sweet moment full of love and promise as he reconnects with his wife at the...
February 21, 2021
Mendelssohn To Chaplin
Music lovers fast enough to grab up the limited seats at the ArcBest Performing Arts Center will enjoy a smorgasbord next weekend presented by the Fort Smith Symphony.
“The Awesome Classix performanc...
February 21, 2021
Cycling Retreat Opens Doors — And Walls — For Arkansas Artists
Natural State Rock & Republic is a cycling retreat — it’s a hub for locals and tourists alike to explore Arkansas by bike,” begins Scotti Lechuga, who owns the historic property at 500 N. Main St....
February 19, 2021
FYI
“BUYER & CELLAR” — A one-man comedy starring Jacob Andrews, 8 p.m. today & Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; again Feb. 11-14, Arkansas Public Theatre at the Victory in Rogers. Tickets start at $15. 63...
February 5, 2021
Look To The Hills: Little Theatre brings music back to Springfield
For me, the greatest message is the spiritual message conveyed in ‘The Sound of Music,’” says Northwest Arkansas actor Jennifer Armstrong Shaver. “The message that, sometimes God leads us in ways we d...
February 5, 2021
School news: Students earn academic honors
Northwestern
Laina Suarez of Bentonville has been named to the Dean's List for Northwestern University. She is pursuing a double major in journalism and psychology.
This honor is reserved for studen...
February 4, 2021
Persistence Pays Off: Fort Smith Symphony continues live concerts
"All things considered, our 2020 concerts have been extremely successful," says John Jeter, music director of the Fort Smith Symphony. "There have been a few rescheduled concerts due to covid-19, but ...
February 1, 2021
Still Waiting To Go: Fort Smith Little Theatre continues hiatus
Fort Smith Little Theater has quietly and deliberately waited since March 2020 -- and is waiting still -- to reopen.
Ordinarily the community theater would be embarking on its new season, which runs ...
February 1, 2021
Eureka Springs artist again takes up tales of idyllic youth
It was the small-town childhood of the 1950s that exists now only in memory and perhaps existed then only when viewed through rose-colored glasses. In Zeek Taylor’s boyhood hometown of Marmaduke, Ark....
January 31, 2021
Live On Stage!
It didn’t really dawn on Jacob Andrews until last week. “I knew there hadn’t been any live shows around here for a long time,” he says. “Then I realized we were going to be the first.”
Brenda Nemec, ...
January 31, 2021
FYI: Libraries keep readers busy
Jan. 31 (Sunday)
"School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play" -- Through Feb. 14, streaming from TheatreSquared. $20-$35. theatre2.org.
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Feb. 1 (Monday)
Valentine's Day Card Craft -- Pick up ...
January 31, 2021
Still Waiting To Go: Fort Smith Little Theatre continues hiatus
While other companies in the region have scrambled to find a way to produce something akin to live theater, Fort Smith Little Theater has quietly and deliberately waited since March 2020 -- and is wai...
January 31, 2021
By The Book(s): Newton County Library connects with kids
"Newton County is 70th in Arkansas out of 75 counties in terms of population, and its terrain is mountainous, rural and isolated," begins Kenya Windel, director of the Newton County Library in Jasper....
January 31, 2021
Persistence Pays Off: Fort Smith Symphony continues live concerts
"All things considered, our 2020 concerts have been extremely successful," says John Jeter, music director of the Fort Smith Symphony. "There have been a few rescheduled concerts due to covid-19, but ...
January 31, 2021
Church notes: Bella Vista Lutheran Church has one service this Sunday
Benton County
Bella Vista Community Church, 75 E. Lancashire Blvd., offers worship at 9 a.m. Sundays (traditional) and at 11 a.m. (contemporary). We are following social distancing guidelines for a s...
January 30, 2021
FYI: Live music returns across NWA
Friday
Virtual Architecture Tour -- Frank Llloyd Wright's Bachman-Wilson House, 11:30 a.m., Crystal Bridges Museum via Zoom. Free. Register at 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
"Peace Through Music" -...
January 29, 2021
School news: Universities announce fall honor rolls
College of Charleston
Molly Drewry of Bentonville was named to the College of Charleston fall 2020 Dean's List. Drewry is majoring in music .
To qualify for the Dean's List, students must earn a GPA...
January 28, 2021
Sheltered: Pandemic inspires artists to consider isolation, refuge
"SHELTER," an exhibit by artist Byron Keith Byrd, and "domicile" by Stefani Byrd, his niece, hold a unique place in the history of Fenix Fayetteville. Together with other Fenix artists, they make up t...
January 24, 2021
FYI: Events continue online and in person
Jan. 24 (Sunday)
"School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play" -- Through Feb. 14, streaming from TheatreSquared. $20-$35. theatre2.org.
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Jan. 25 (Monday)
Make a Paper Snowflake -- All day, Fo...
January 24, 2021
Metal With A Message: Mud Lung releases self-titled first album
"I can't breathe.
"I can't breathe.
"Say his name
"feel his pain.
"Pray again.
"His name is not in vain."
-- From "Just Us" by Mud Lung
Just because music is LOUD -- and might be classified as ...
January 24, 2021
Birthday Bash Celebrates City: Museum finds new mix of live and virtual events
There's a big bash in the planning stages at the Rogers Historical Museum, and it will include the entire community. The city of Rogers turns 140 on June 6 -- it was incorporated on June 6, 1881 -- an...
January 24, 2021
Church notes: New Life Christian Church offers new classes
Carroll County
Holiday Island Community Church, 188 Stateline Drive in Holiday Island, hosts the Woodward Memorial Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 24 via the church website, www.hicchurch.com/LouisM...
January 23, 2021
FYI: Arts events this weekend
Friday
Virtual Architecture Tour -- 11:30 a.m., Crystal Bridges Museum via Zoom. Free. Register at 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
Design With Ms. Dara -- 2-D and 3-D art for ages 5-12, 2 p.m., Roge...
January 22, 2021
A slice of success: Pie was just an appetizer for Kat Robinson
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a new monthly series that will consider food — not recipes so much as the conversation about food, about chefs, about trends, about people who influence food. So if...
January 21, 2021
FYI: Art, music and more in NWA and the River Valley
Jan. 17 (Sunday)
Sunday Reset -- Consciousness and Personal Power virtual meditation with Sunny Lane, 10 a.m., The Momentary in Bentonville via Facebook or YouTube. Free. themomentary.org.
Ice Skati...
January 17, 2021
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