Arts and Entertainment

Talk: 9/11 memorial trees

FAYETTEVILLE — Matthew Donham, a partner at PWP Landscape Architecture in Berkley, Calif., will be in town Monday (April 23) to talk about his firm’s work with the National September…

Music: “Bound For the Blues”

FORT SMITH — Zydeco accordion maestro Chubby Carrier and famed blues guitarist Eric Sardinas will headline the 22nd Riverfront Blues Festival, slated for June 22-23 at Harry E. Kelley Park. The…

Voice: Chorale creates Light Eternal

FORT SMITH — In the vein of spring and all it promises, the 70-plus-member Fort Smith Chorale is rehearsing for its 31st annual spring concert, delightfully deemed Light Eternal. Highlighted by…

Day of Caring puts life in perspective

FORT SMITH — Perhaps a better name for the United Way of Fort Smith Area’s Day of Caring would be to call it the Widespread Day of Caring. From morning till…

25 years of Leadership Fort Smith well-represented

FORT SMITH — More than 100 Fort Smith Leadership graduates and the businesses that lend their expertise to the program gathered for a 25th class reunion Thursday night (April 19). The…

CAKE’s distinctive sound keeps AMP crowd’s attention

FAYETTEVILLE — The 2012 season of live music at the Arkansas Music Pavilion kicked off Thursday evening (April 20) with the Sacramento alternative rock band, CAKE. With no opening act, the…

First GRIT awards honor the area’s best in tourism partners

The Fort Smith Convention and Visitors Bureau announced the winners of its inaugural GRIT (Giving Recognition in Tourism) awards for tourism on Thursday (April 19) at the MovieLounge, Fort Smith’s…

Inside: Nuptials at Crystal Bridges

BENTONVILLE — Brooke Burckart wasn’t even engaged when the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opened on its famous date, Nov. 11, 2011. Her fiance, Robert Sanderson, proposed on Friday the…

AMP is landing pad for summer of fun

FAYETTEVILLE — Was there anything left to say that hadn’t been said or written about the Arkansas Music Pavilion by the day before it hosted its first show, Cake, at the…

Entrée NWA: Gabriela’s Mexican Grill

I don’t know enough about Farmington to have anything against the place. But it seems to me like a community in a state of shock. It used to be a…

Adam & Eats: La Paz

Continuing our theme of tragically under-eaten at restaurants, this week we head to a Salvadorian restaurant that has probably never even showed up on your radar, even though you’ve probably…

Alice Walton makes TIME magazine’s list of 100 influential people

TIME magazine has named Wal-Mart heiress and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art founder Alice Walton to the 2012 TIME 100, the magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential…

Big Screen Peter: The Cabin in the Woods

There's a song from a Memphis rap duo that kicks off with the line, “No one expected the unexpected.” That introductory caveat could be used for Joss Whedon and Drew…

Movies: MovieLounge opens with local horror film

FORT SMITH — Horror. It had to be said up front. Anyone wandering into Resurrection County at its MovieLounge premiere Friday night (April 20) would be horribly disappointed if…

Mary Poppins takes flight on Walton Arts Center stage

FAYETTEVILLE — Things can get more than a little crazy when Mary Poppins is around. The audience found that out Tuesday night (April 17), when the touring production of Mary…

Lions, Tigers and Bears looks back on 20

EUREKA SPRINGS — Hercules the tiger was named for the muscular macho-man of Greek mythology. Rescued from a Texas home with four other tigers, he had been kept in a cage…

Homemade hats to star in the FSLT’s ‘Titanic’

FORT SMITH — Nearly a dozen people worked for several hours creating early 1900s period hats during the Hats of the Titanic workshop held Sunday (April 15) at Clayton House. The…

Anna at the AMP: ‘Tis the season for live music

FAYETTEVILLE — The Arkansas Music Pavilion’s winged white tent looks the same, though the location has changed. And there’s nothing at all ordinary about the lineup for the AMP’s 2012…

Day of Caring rounds up volunteers

FORT SMITH — In a society replete with cause-of-the-month events and celebrations, perhaps none makes more of an impact than April as National Volunteer Month. The United Way of Fort…

History comes alive at the Fort Smith Heritage Festival

FORT SMITH — The Heritage Festival started out with a bang. The festivities began shortly after 10 a.m. (Saturday) with the very popular lawbreakers and peace-maker’s gun fights. These skits…