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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
      • 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
        • 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
        • 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
    • 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: October 26, 2020

Hometown Heroes: Mark Camp, Otto the Otter and Keep Arkansas Beautiful

Blog, People, TravelBy Katie ZakrzewskiOctober 26, 2020

Mark Camp and Otto the Otter on KARK.   For this week’s Hometown Heroes, AY About You sits down with Mark Camp, Executive Director of Keep Arkansas Beautiful.   Camp first took over as the director of the Keep Arkansas Beautiful state agency in 2016. He had been in the municipal finance world his whole…

Recipe Monday: Crockpot Pinto Beans

Food, Recipe MondayBy Lisa FischerOctober 26, 2020

It’s not only soup season, but it’s definitely bean season! A pot of simmering beans with delicious cornbread (I prefer mine sweet. Don’t @ me) is how we should spend every rainy Sunday like we had yesterday. The key is letting the beans cook s l o w l y. So give it time, and…

Old Main Plaza, Senior Walk Reopen After Renovations

Blog, TravelBy Tyler HaleOctober 26, 2020

One of the most iconic sights at the University of Arkansas has been reopened following extensive renovations.   Old Main’s plaza, along with the first 50 years of Senior Walk, have been under renovation due to material deterioration. The U of A Facilities Management Department detected an “accelerated level of weakening and crumbling” of the…

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