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  • Food/Drink
    • Bucket Lists
      • Original Arkansas Bucket List
      • Appetizers
        • Faded Rose
        • Kemuri
        • Lost Forty
        • Yaya’s Euro Bistro
      • Breakfast and Brunch Bucket List
        • Petit & Keet
        • Root Cafe
      • BBQ
        • BBQ Bucket List
        • Whole Hog Cafe NLR
        • Smokin’ Buns
        • Hawgz Blues Café
        • Count Porkula
      • Catfish
        • Catfish Bucket List
        • Cathead’s Diner
        • BJ’s Market Cafe
      • Chicken Wings
        • Great American Wings
        • Sauce(d)
      • Dive Bucket List
      • Farm Fresh
        • Boulevard Bread Company
        • Local Lime
        • Root Cafe
      • Festivals Bucket List
      • Food Trucks
        • Delta Biscuit Company
        • The Lab Food Truck
        • Tacos Godoy
      • Holiday Food Bucket List
        • Burge’s Hickory Smoked Turkeys and Hams
        • Lindsey’s Hospitality House
        • Taylors’ Made Cafe
        • YGFBFKitchen
      • Pasta
        • Bruno’s Little Italy
        • Graffiti’s Italian Restaurant
        • Ristorante Capeo
      • Pies
        • Blue Cake Co. / Honey Pies
        • Charlotte’s Eats & Sweets
        • Community Bakery
        • Rosalia’s Family Bakery
      • Pizza Bucket List
        • Deluca’s Pizza
        • Old Mill Pizza
        • Pizza Cafe
        • U.S. Pizza
      • Salad Bucket List
        • Cheers in the Heights
        • Scallions
        • Taziki’s Mediterranean Café
        • ZAZA Fine Salad and Wood Oven Pizza Co.
      • Sandwich Bucket List
        • Boulevard Bread Company
        • Cross Creek Sandwich Shop
        • Gadwall’s Grill
      • Seafood
        • Boudreaux’s Grill and Bar
        • Eat My Catfish
        • Lakewood Fish & Seafood House
        • Oceans at Arthur’s
      • Soup/Chili Bucket List
        • Baja Grill
        • Cheers in the Heights
        • Scallions
      • Southern Plates Bucket List
        • Charlotte’s Eats and Sweets
        • Cotham’s in the City
        • Cypress Social
        • Maddie’s Place
      • Steak
        • Steak Bucket List
        • Bone’s Chophouse LR
        • Arthur’s Prime Steakhouse
        • Sonny Williams’ Steak Room
        • Cache Restaurant
      • Taco
        • Taco Bucket List
        • Baja Grill
        • Cantina Laredo
        • Mexico Chiquito
        • Tacos 4 Life
    • Top Five Restaurants
      • Fort Smith
      • Russellville
    • Fry Day
      • David’s Burgers
      • Doe’s Eat Place
      • Dugan’s Pub
      • The Faded Rose Restaurant
      • The Pantry
      • The Root Cafe
      • Twisted Fries
    • Recipe Monday
    • Taco Tuesday
      • Baja Grill
      • Casa Mañana
      • Heights Taco & Tamale Co.
      • Local Lime
      • Tacos 4 Life
      • Tacos El Gordo
      • Tacos Godoy
      • The Fold Botanas and Bar
    • Thirsty Thursday
      • Abbi’s Teas & Things
      • Diamond Bear Brewing Company
      • East Sixth Brewing Co.
      • Flyway Brewing
      • The Grind Coffee Bistro
      • Guillermo’s Gourmet Coffee
      • The Library Kitchen and Lounge
      • Nexus Coffee & Creative
      • Nutrition Hub
      • Post Winery
      • The Purple Cow
      • River City Coffee
  • Home/Garden
  • Arts/Culture/People
    • Intriguing Women 2020
    • Made in Arkansas
      • Aromatique
      • Fischer’s Honey Company
      • James Hayes Art Glass Company
      • Natural Way Food Group
      • Organized Chaos Collection
      • Ouachita Chocolate
      • Pink House Alchemy
      • Wicked Mix and Wicked Minis
    • Men of Distinction 2020
    • Wednesday’s Women
      • Adora Curry
      • Anna Beth Gorman
      • Ashley Childers
      • Beth Goodrich
      • Jan Lewandowski
      • Nashwa Krisht
      • Regina Taylor
      • Shalonda Michelle
      • Summer Khairi
      • Taren Robinson
  • Health
  • Travel
  • Contests/ Nominations
    • AY’s Best 2021 Nominations
    • Nominate a Wednesday’s Woman
    • Nominate AY’s 2021 Intriguing Women
    • Nominate in AY’s Readers’ Restaurant Poll 2021
  • More
    • Subscribe to AY Print Magazine
    • Subscribe to AY’s newsletter
    • Custom Publications
    • Men of Distinction 2020
    • Submit Your Event For Our Online Calendar
    • About Us
    • Mental Health Guide
    • Digital Issues
    • COVID19
    • Archive
      • Faces of Arkansas 2019
      • Best Realtors 2019
      • About You Magazine Named Platinum Media Sponsor for 68th Annual Home Show
        • 68th Annual Home Show 2020
          • All About Home
            • Arkansas Flower and Garden Show
            • Beyond Brick
            • Bosley Construction
            • Brandy Harp
            • Financial And Professional Services
            • Game Time Wraps
            • Gary Houston Electric
            • Green Living
            • Hartness Construction
            • KellCo Custom Homes Inc.
            • Outdoor Living
            • Precision Door Service of Central Arkansas
            • Richard Harp Homes
            • Staci Medlock
          • Behind The Hottest Neighborhoods
            • Bosley Construction: The Preserve at the Woodlands
            • Schrader Homes
            • KellCo Custom Homes: Stonehill (Sherwood)
            • Light Innovations: A Better Way To Light
            • Brandy Harp: Principal Broker of Jon Underhill Real Estate
            • Richard Harp Homes: Master Certified Green Professional
            • West Lake Village
            • Waterview
      • 2019 Best Healthcare Professionals
        • Northwest Arkansas
        • Northeast Arkansas
        • South Arkansas
        • Central Arkansas
      • Intriguing Women
      • Intriguing Women 2019
      • Faces of Arkansas
      • AY’s Cutest Dogs 2019
      • Runway: A Look Back
  • Food/Drink
    • Bucket Lists
      • Original Arkansas Bucket List
      • Appetizers
        • Faded Rose
        • Kemuri
        • Lost Forty
        • Yaya’s Euro Bistro
      • Breakfast and Brunch Bucket List
        • Petit & Keet
        • Root Cafe
      • BBQ
        • BBQ Bucket List
        • Whole Hog Cafe NLR
        • Smokin’ Buns
        • Hawgz Blues Café
        • Count Porkula
      • Catfish
        • Catfish Bucket List
        • Cathead’s Diner
        • BJ’s Market Cafe
      • Chicken Wings
        • Great American Wings
        • Sauce(d)
      • Dive Bucket List
      • Farm Fresh
        • Boulevard Bread Company
        • Local Lime
        • Root Cafe
      • Festivals Bucket List
      • Food Trucks
        • Delta Biscuit Company
        • The Lab Food Truck
        • Tacos Godoy
      • Holiday Food Bucket List
        • Burge’s Hickory Smoked Turkeys and Hams
        • Lindsey’s Hospitality House
        • Taylors’ Made Cafe
        • YGFBFKitchen
      • Pasta
        • Bruno’s Little Italy
        • Graffiti’s Italian Restaurant
        • Ristorante Capeo
      • Pies
        • Blue Cake Co. / Honey Pies
        • Charlotte’s Eats & Sweets
        • Community Bakery
        • Rosalia’s Family Bakery
      • Pizza Bucket List
        • Deluca’s Pizza
        • Old Mill Pizza
        • Pizza Cafe
        • U.S. Pizza
      • Salad Bucket List
        • Cheers in the Heights
        • Scallions
        • Taziki’s Mediterranean Café
        • ZAZA Fine Salad and Wood Oven Pizza Co.
      • Sandwich Bucket List
        • Boulevard Bread Company
        • Cross Creek Sandwich Shop
        • Gadwall’s Grill
      • Seafood
        • Boudreaux’s Grill and Bar
        • Eat My Catfish
        • Lakewood Fish & Seafood House
        • Oceans at Arthur’s
      • Soup/Chili Bucket List
        • Baja Grill
        • Cheers in the Heights
        • Scallions
      • Southern Plates Bucket List
        • Charlotte’s Eats and Sweets
        • Cotham’s in the City
        • Cypress Social
        • Maddie’s Place
      • Steak
        • Steak Bucket List
        • Bone’s Chophouse LR
        • Arthur’s Prime Steakhouse
        • Sonny Williams’ Steak Room
        • Cache Restaurant
      • Taco
        • Taco Bucket List
        • Baja Grill
        • Cantina Laredo
        • Mexico Chiquito
        • Tacos 4 Life
    • Top Five Restaurants
      • Fort Smith
      • Russellville
    • Fry Day
      • David’s Burgers
      • Doe’s Eat Place
      • Dugan’s Pub
      • The Faded Rose Restaurant
      • The Pantry
      • The Root Cafe
      • Twisted Fries
    • Recipe Monday
    • Taco Tuesday
      • Baja Grill
      • Casa Mañana
      • Heights Taco & Tamale Co.
      • Local Lime
      • Tacos 4 Life
      • Tacos El Gordo
      • Tacos Godoy
      • The Fold Botanas and Bar
    • Thirsty Thursday
      • Abbi’s Teas & Things
      • Diamond Bear Brewing Company
      • East Sixth Brewing Co.
      • Flyway Brewing
      • The Grind Coffee Bistro
      • Guillermo’s Gourmet Coffee
      • The Library Kitchen and Lounge
      • Nexus Coffee & Creative
      • Nutrition Hub
      • Post Winery
      • The Purple Cow
      • River City Coffee
  • Home/Garden
  • Arts/Culture/People
    • Intriguing Women 2020
    • Made in Arkansas
      • Aromatique
      • Fischer’s Honey Company
      • James Hayes Art Glass Company
      • Natural Way Food Group
      • Organized Chaos Collection
      • Ouachita Chocolate
      • Pink House Alchemy
      • Wicked Mix and Wicked Minis
    • Men of Distinction 2020
    • Wednesday’s Women
      • Adora Curry
      • Anna Beth Gorman
      • Ashley Childers
      • Beth Goodrich
      • Jan Lewandowski
      • Nashwa Krisht
      • Regina Taylor
      • Shalonda Michelle
      • Summer Khairi
      • Taren Robinson
  • Health
  • Travel
  • Contests/ Nominations
    • AY’s Best 2021 Nominations
    • Nominate a Wednesday’s Woman
    • Nominate AY’s 2021 Intriguing Women
    • Nominate in AY’s Readers’ Restaurant Poll 2021
  • More
    • Subscribe to AY Print Magazine
    • Subscribe to AY’s newsletter
    • Custom Publications
    • Men of Distinction 2020
    • Submit Your Event For Our Online Calendar
    • About Us
    • Mental Health Guide
    • Digital Issues
    • COVID19
    • Archive
      • Faces of Arkansas 2019
      • Best Realtors 2019
      • About You Magazine Named Platinum Media Sponsor for 68th Annual Home Show
        • 68th Annual Home Show 2020
          • All About Home
            • Arkansas Flower and Garden Show
            • Beyond Brick
            • Bosley Construction
            • Brandy Harp
            • Financial And Professional Services
            • Game Time Wraps
            • Gary Houston Electric
            • Green Living
            • Hartness Construction
            • KellCo Custom Homes Inc.
            • Outdoor Living
            • Precision Door Service of Central Arkansas
            • Richard Harp Homes
            • Staci Medlock
          • Behind The Hottest Neighborhoods
            • Bosley Construction: The Preserve at the Woodlands
            • Schrader Homes
            • KellCo Custom Homes: Stonehill (Sherwood)
            • Light Innovations: A Better Way To Light
            • Brandy Harp: Principal Broker of Jon Underhill Real Estate
            • Richard Harp Homes: Master Certified Green Professional
            • West Lake Village
            • Waterview
      • 2019 Best Healthcare Professionals
        • Northwest Arkansas
        • Northeast Arkansas
        • South Arkansas
        • Central Arkansas
      • Intriguing Women
      • Intriguing Women 2019
      • Faces of Arkansas
      • AY’s Cutest Dogs 2019
      • Runway: A Look Back

Daily Archives: June 10, 2020

Mentally Healthy

How to Stay Mentally Healthy During a Quarantine Summer

Blog, Health, Mental Health GuideBy Adeline GoodmanJune 10, 2020

As the quarantined spring turns into summer, the health of our minds – cooped up and buried in thoughts – should be of most importance. For many, mental health represents the absence of mental disorders or disabilities.   However, the World Health Organization defines it as “a state of well-being in which an individual realizes…

Taren Robinson

Not Your Everyday Event Planner: Taren Robinson Uses Her Talents and Success Follows

Arts & Culture, Blog, People, Wednesday's WomenBy Madeline BurkeJune 10, 2020

AY wants to share the stories of women here in Arkansas on Wednesdays in hopes to inspire and lift up others. Come back each week to read a new one.    Native Arkansan Taren Robinson is not your typical event planner. Today, she owns and operates a full-service event planning company, Blueprint Event Solutions. However,…

perfect meal

Looking for the Perfect Meal at Lakewood Fish & Seafood with Heather Baker and Mandy Noell

Arkansas Bucket List, Blog, FoodBy Tyler HaleJune 10, 2020

Summer is the time to relax, kick back and enjoy the finer things in life. And one of those finer things includes seafood! If you are looking for the perfect seafood joint, AY About You has your back.   As always, AY Publisher Heather Baker is on the prowl for the best restaurants in Arkansas…

What’s Happening in Arkansas: June 10

Blog, Latest News from AYBy AY StaffJune 10, 2020

Check out the latest news from around Arkansas! Every day, we’ll bring you some of the best news bits from around the Internet.   Cheesecake Factory to begin opening with ‘limited capacity’ The popular restaurant chain, which currently has opened 34 locations for dine-in services, has plans to open up to 124 (out of 294)…

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