Arts and Entertainment

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Night of wine and roses

FORT SMITH — It takes a lot of hard work by a lot of people for the yearly Wine & Roses Gala to fully unfold like beautiful roses arranged inside the…

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Entrée NWA: Flying Fish

BENTONVILLE — I don’t know if I can do this again. Flying Fish, you’re not the problem. I am. I look at you, and I lose self control. I lose self…

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Washington Regional sows seeds for garden party

FAYETTEVILLE — Spring just sprung, but it’s not too early to think about summer — or the Friends of Washington Regional Hospice Summer Garden Party. The affair is a highlight of the…

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Adam & Eats: Chop Sticks

On this week’s adventure, we will return to Greenwood. Two years of eating together and we’ve barely scratched the surface of this part of the area. So much to do,…

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NWA Fashion Week raises $35,000 and change

FAYETTEVILLE — For all the headache, halter tops and hairspray, organizers of the first-ever NWA Fashion Week, raised more than $35,000 for a slew of area nonprofits. The event March 5-10…

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Big Screen Peter: 21 Jump Street

21 Jump Street stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as two ne'er-do-well cops sent undercover to infiltrate an adolescent drug ring. There is plenty of ancillary action in 21 Jump…

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Cast set for Listen to Your Mother

ROGERS — When Lela Davidson first heard about Listen To Your Mother (LTYM), a national series of live readings in celebration of Mother’s Day, she knew she had to bring…

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UpStream Art timely topic as area waters rise

FAYETTEVILLE — This week’s excessive rains have caused many of the area’s municipal storm drains to overflow into parking lots, streets, lawns and the like. What those drains take back with…

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Student podcasts celebrate Civil War’s 150th

For a generation of tech-savvy kids, the art of the interview has taken new meaning. The winners of a Northwest Arkansas student Civil War sesquicentennial podcast contest have been announced…

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Elvis’ historic haircut

FORT SMITH — On Saturday (March 24), you can get an authentic G.I. buzz cut just like the one Elvis got at Fort Chaffee in 1958. Officials with the Chaffee Barbershop…

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Bringing the outside in

FORT SMITH — The Greater Fort Smith Council of Garden Clubs will conduct a standard flower show as part of the Fort Smith Lawn and Garden Show this weekend, (March 24-25)…

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Hear ye, here ye!

FORT SMITH — Did Babe Beard commit murder — or a lesser charge of manslaughter — against his nephew, Will Jones, in 1894? You can decide for yourself during a re-enactment…