Arts & Entertainment

Christmas comes to the Crawford County Courthouse

Visitors gathered on the historic courthouse’s main lawn to witness the official lighting ceremony and to enjoy the seventh annual Festival of Trees.

Annual pancake breakfast supports the Alma Boys and Girls Club

Santa, crafts and shopping were part of an event that helps fund after-school activities for the club.

Cancer fighting focus of Mercy Christmas event

Event proceeds will be used to purchase a new linear accelerator at the Hembree Cancer Center.

Adam & Eats: Big Jake’s

This is a place where meat fantasies come to life, and the he décor looks as if the restaurant’s namesake, the Duke, had decorated it himself.

Big Screen Peter: Hugo (3D)

The movie, though slow to begin, is an illustration of the gratitude director Martin Scorsese feels for cinema.

Scene by Carson: Holiday activities make for a busy December

Stretch this magical time and make it last by squeezing in as many holiday activities as possible in between your shopping excursions and sugar plum making.

Keep it local

The Saturday after Thanksgiving has become Small Business Saturday, but more effort is needed to support local businesses every day.

Former Darby and Kimmons students play ‘Old skool’

The fundraiser event helps fund sports programs at Darby and Kimmons and the Tru Shine mentoring program.

Big Screen Peter: J. Edgar

The effort by Eastwood and DiCaprio suffers from a level of unexplained and unexplored material.

Accounting decoded

The more you know about accounting for your business, the more you will be able to steer your company in the right direction.

Philpot’s BottomLineTips: Business succession

The hand off of a business is emotionally important and vital to the financial success of the owner or owners.

Columbus’ ships end stay in Fort Smith

Hundreds of area school children experience a living history lesson on the most accurate caravel reproductions ever built.

Holiday Market opens with a preview party

This fundraiser helps support the Junior League’s community projects, which are Done in a Day, Literacy Committee, Kids in the Kitchen, Girl’s Education and Mentoring, and Children’s Emergency Shelter.

Adam & Eats: Molly’s Eggrolls & Smoothies

It is a relatively new venture and they are still working out a few kinks, but for the most part the place rocks.

Big Screen Peter: The Rum Diary

There is nothing in the film that hints at anything resembling a functioning pulse until the movie is winding its way to a close. Other than that …

Entrepreneurs must avoid the many forms of fraud

Business fraud lurks in the corner awaiting a single moment of weakness within the business to slither in and cause havoc. 

Downtown Van Buren hosts Holiday open house

Downtown merchants decorated their doors and buildings with Christmas lights, wreaths and other décor.

Adam & Eats: Confectionately Yours

I hope you all having been flossing lately, because we’re about to drive the insulin RV down the cavity highway.

Big Screen Peter: Anonymous

What if Shakespeare wasn’t the author of all the words we associate with him? What if he was simply a pawn in a much larger game?

Riding the entrepreneurial roller coaster

The life cycle of emotions in business will reach great heights and great depths in a matter of quarters, months, weeks, days or minutes.