Big Entertainment Pub Hits Streets
by March 3, 2003 12:00 am 83 views
Janie Pritchett-Clark and Jacqueline Wolven, both of Eureka Springs, began publishing an entertainment magazine in December aimed at the “O-zone,” their word for the Ozarks.
Pritchett-Clark said Big currently serves Fayetteville, Eureka Springs and Rogers, but they plan to bring Harrison, Springdale and Van Buren into the coverage area with the March issue.
Pritchett-Clark said the free publication covers everything from “banjo pickin’ to ballet.”
Big is a 22-inch-wide broadsheet that will have a poster-sized picture on the cover/back of each issue.
After publishing a December issue, the women skipped January but resumed publication in February. Pritchett-Clark said Big will be monthly from February on.
Advertising rates in Big are $500 per one-half page, with smaller fractions of a page priced accordingly. Buying an ad also gets the client the same amount of space in editorial copy, she said.
“But we retain editorial queendom over that,” Pritchett-Clark said.
Big is currently available in about 75 locations, 50 of them in Fayetteville (primarily at restaurants and bars).
Both Pritchett-Clark and Wolven have backgrounds in the publishing industry. Originally from Florida, Pritchett-Clark previously worked for Carroll County Newspapers, which owns the Eureka Springs Times-Echo and the Carroll County Star Tribune of Berryville. Wolven, who is from San Francisco, moved to Eureka Springs in September.
For more information about Big, see the publication’s Web site at