Arts & Entertainment

Area manufacturers gather to celebrate the holidays

About 300 attend the Christmas banquet held by the Fort Smith Manufacturing Executives Association.

Centennial celebration held for Fort Smith Museum of History

Judge Isaac Parker and Marshal Bass Reeves make an appearance at an event that included a gunfight.

Paddock’s Picks

Trenches, trains and barns are the focus of Christmas books that illustrate great stories.

Adam & Eats: Tassanee’s Thai Cuisine

The quality of the food, Adam says, easily makes up for the relatively slow service.

Big Screen Peter: 127 Hours

The good news is that Peter found a movie he thinks will be a classic. The bad news: It ain’t playing in the Fort Smith area. Yet.

Jazz and Japanese performers help light up the UAFS campus

The Seasons Greeting Concert and Campus Lighting kicks off the holiday season a the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith.

Fundraiser dinner supports single parents

The Single Parent Scholarship Fund helps support parents working to raise children and obtain a college degree.

Crawford County Courthouse lights up for the Holidays

The “official” beginning of Christmas in downtown Van Buren drew the event’s largest ever crowd.

Area children have tea with Santa and Mrs. Claus

The Christmas-themed children’s event helps raise money for the Gregory Kistler Treatment Center.

Shimmering guests support St. Edward mammography program

More than 320 help raise money for a new mammography van that serves about 1,600 women a year.

Scene by Carson: To-do in December

It should be high times in the region. Not only is Santa coming to town, but so is Willie.

Adam & Eats: Penjamo

This new restaurant has decent food and the atmosphere includes flat-screen TVs and portraits of Jesus and the Virgin Mary.

Big Screen Peter: Love & Other Drugs

Possibly the only saving grace of the movie is that it doesn’t shy away from the reality of sex.

Business success also involves being thankful

Stockman encourages business owners to take time to thank those important to the business.

Parade, music part of 14th annual Paris lighting ceremony

Downtown Paris event draws hundreds to see the glow of more than 100,000 holiday lights.

Adam & Eats: Skinny’s White Spot Cafe

The folks at Skinny’s crank out good food at great prices, but they don’t much about Bob.

Big Screen Peter: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I

Overall a good movie, but Peter says the action and narrative was a bit rushed.

Small business owners shouldn’t neglect HR

Stockman says good human resources practices are the best preventive medicine for small businesses.

Junior League Charity Ball draws more than 300 supporters

The Holiday Market event helps raise funds for the League’s community projects.

Delta Sigma Theta debutantes focus on public service

The 10th annual Cotillion had more than 200 in attendance to honor the nine debutantes.

St. Bernards to expand Maternal Life360 HOME program into Greene County

Then and Now: Cooperative business model a good fit for Mitchell Johnson

Dope Medicinal Wellness opens Fayetteville clinic

Fort Smith metro job numbers up less than 1% in September report