by - July 7, 2017 4:40 pm
Murphy Arts District (MAD) has added several artists to its September 2017 grand opening lineup, including Hunter Hayes, a five-time Grammy nominee and 2012 Country Music Association (CMA) New Artist…
by - July 6, 2017 5:59 pm
Independent film producer Johnny Remo first visited Northwest Arkansas last year, for a screening of his movie “Saved by Grace” at the Bentonville Film Festival (BFF). He decided then it…
by - July 5, 2017 5:29 pm
“Slowly, but surely” might best describe the public-private partnership between the city of Fort Smith parks department and the Friends of Recreational Trails (FORT). In July 2015, FORT — led…
by - July 5, 2017 9:07 am
The new owners of a 133-room hotel on Walton Boulevard in Bentonville have completed a $3 million renovation. Tina Archer-Cope, sales and marketing director for Hilton Garden Inn at 2204…
by - June 30, 2017 2:14 pm
The House of Songs, an artist-in-residence program based in Austin, Texas, recently purchased a historic Bentonville home in which to host international artists and musicians to collaborate with area artists….
by - June 29, 2017 12:42 pm
Airbnb stays in less-populated areas of the state outpaced urban markets last year, according to a report released June 27 by Airbnb. About 350 active rural Arkansas hosts took in…
by - June 28, 2017 11:58 am
The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Board of Directors has hired Jennifer Gerber to serve as interim executive director for the annual festival. Director Courtney Pledger left earlier this year…
by - June 27, 2017 3:57 pm
Kathleen Trotter is the new executive director for the Arts Center of the Ozarks in Springdale, the ACO board announced Tuesday (June 27). A veteran nonprofit executive, Trotter was named…
by - June 25, 2017 12:53 pm
Guests tasted, sampled and sipped some of the best food and beverages Northwest Arkansas has to offer at the third annual BITE NW Arkansas (formerly Taste of Northwest Arkansas) on…
by - June 22, 2017 11:02 am
The Community School of the Arts (CSA) plans to build a modern arts and learning facility in downtown near the planned U.S. Marshals Museum thanks to a land donation of…
by - June 21, 2017 2:30 pm
General Pallets owner Phil White cleared a preliminary hurdle with the Fort Smith Central Business Improvement District (CBID) with his planned redevelopment of the 900 block of Garrison Avenue. White…
by - June 20, 2017 6:37 am
When Kelly Grooms stepped on to the stage of the newly established Downtown Playhouse in Pocahontas, it was a place he knew well. More than a quarter century earlier, he…
by - June 19, 2017 3:33 pm
Ken Stein, president and CEO of the League of Historic American Theatres, will deliver the keynote address at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute’s Historic Theaters Conference, held Aug. 10-11 on Petit…
by - June 16, 2017 10:33 am
Greater Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce CEO & President Dana Davis will retire Aug. 15, the chamber announced Friday (June 16). Davis joined the chamber as president and CEO in…
by - June 14, 2017 6:08 pm
Fort Smith Director Kevin Settle believes the city needs to be “thinking big” when it comes to the future of Harry E. Kelley Park along the riverfront in downtown Fort…
by - June 13, 2017 5:55 pm
Fort Smith will in 2018 be home to the third Sumo Japanese Steakhouse in Arkansas, and will be built along Phoenix Avenue between Starbucks and Academy Sports, according to Haag…
by - June 13, 2017 5:13 pm
A change in “design and construction modifications” has cut $17 million from the cost to build the U.S. Marshals Museum planned to be built near the Arkansas River in downtown…
by - June 7, 2017 5:20 pm
Brick City Emporium in Fort Smith has taken top honors at the annual Ozarks regional Small Business Administration InnovateHER competition, according to an emailed newsletter from Startup Junkie Consulting in…
by - June 7, 2017 5:01 pm
Construction on TheatreSquared’s new venue will start June 23, and the professional theater company will formally launch a $34 million campaign to fund the project the same day, TheatreSquared announced…
by - June 6, 2017 4:21 pm
Nobody knows when the first human settlements were made at Old Davidsonville near the Lawrence/Randolph County lines, but the 163-acre state park has a deep and rich history that spans…
