For this week’s Taco Tuesday, AY About You stops by TrickDilly, Bentonville’s food truck-turned-restaurant that specializes in tricked out tacos. TrickDilly began as a food truck six years ago with just five tacos on the menu. The owner, Troy Walker, wanted to create special “tricked out” tacos that were available at affordable prices. …
Happy Friday! This week’s Made in Arkansas spotlights the farm-to-bottle creations from Pink House Alchemy in Fayetteville. Emily Lawson was working at a farmer’s market in Fayetteville when she made her first simple syrup in 2013. At the time she was a pre-med student at the University of Arkansas, but she was drawn to…
For this week’s Taco Tuesday, AY About You is featuring El Sur Street Food Co., Little Rock’s Honduran-inspired food truck. When Luis Vasquez opened El Sur food truck in April 2019, he wanted to serve traditional Honduran street food, but he wasn’t sure if people in Little Rock would be willing to give the…
Five students at Little Rock Central High School earned perfect scores on the ACT college admissions exam. The Little Rock School District announced on Monday, Nov. 9 that Alex Borengasser, Deniz Erdag, Kathleen Jackson, Samuel Lu and Joseph Park each scored a 36 on the exam. This marks the first time five students from…
Dr. Whitney Holden, an instructor at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts (ASMSA), received the Innovative STEM Teacher Award from the National Consortium of Secondary STEM Schools (NCSS). The Innovative STEM Teacher Award honors teachers who work for members of the NCSS that promote the mission of the institution and STEM…
My favorite thing this week is Aromatique! Everybody wants the smells of the holidays in their homes, and it’s definitely time to get in the spirit. In fact, my Christmas tree just went up last week! Aromatique definitely hooked me up with the best scents of the season. They sent me gingerbread potpourri, which…
For this week’s Hometown Heroes, AY About You talks to Canopy NWA, Arkansas’ only refugee resettlement agency. Nearly five years ago, a group of people came together in Northwest Arkansas to discuss how they could advocate for refugees in their community. “At the end of 2015, at the height of the media’s coverage…
When Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville closed in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic, its North Forest Trail remained open from dawn to dusk. As quarantine continued into the summer, people realized that outdoors activities, like hiking and cycling on the museum’s trails, offered a welcome relief to confinement at home. Now,…
For today’s Made in Arkansas, AY About You takes a sip of JR’s Kombucha, the probiotic tea that is served in more than 50 stores in Northwest Arkansas. Mandy Warren first tried kombucha shortly after moving to Fayetteville in 2006. In chiropractic school, she had become familiar with nutrition and how to lead a…
By Caroline O’Connor As waterfowl season approaches, migration patterns have hunters hopeful for a successful duck season in Arkansas. Due to travel restrictions in Canada, few American hunters were allowed to travel north and participate in the typical waterfowl season there. This inability to travel has left hunters eager to start their delayed seasons,…
