By Caleb Talley | Photography by Meredith Mashburn There’s a mid-century modern slice of California paradise nestled on a hillside, where palm trees cast shade over a cool pool of sparkling blue water. It’s not Palm Springs. It’s not La Quinta or Santa Barbara, either. In fact, this oasis is more than 1,400 miles from…
By Caleb Talley | Photos Courtesy of Fort Smith RAM Visitors to the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum (RAM) in the month of September will have the opportunity to experience the place where energy and momentum meet. Sculptures created by artist Todd Gray will be on display in an exhibition titled Pop Geometry, offering the…
By Caleb Talley | Photography courtesy of the Arkansas Arts Center This Fall, the Arkansas Arts Center will welcome back one of Little Rock’s own with the presentation Independent Vision: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Martin Muller Collection. The striking vision of a master collector will be on display, beginning Sept. 28. The exhibition,…
by Caleb Talley | Photography by Jamison Mosley Joe David Rice, who spent 37 years with the state Department of Parks and Tourism, has been retired for roughly nine months now. But he’ll be the first to tell you: He’s not bored yet. Since February, Rice has served as AY’s travel editor, helping showcase much…
Downtown Little Rock Partnership (DLRP) will hold the Eighth Annual Main Street Food Truck Festival on Saturday, September 8. From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Main Street and Capitol Avenue in the heart of downtown Little Rock will play host to one of Central Arkansas’s favorite food events. Over sixty food trucks will be parked…
For as long as I can remember, I’ve gotten my hair cut in salons designed and marketed primarily towards women. That tends to happen when both your mother is a licensed cosmetologist and your grandmother owns a salon. It wasn’t until I moved to Little Rock last year that I had my first experience with an…
Monday’s won’t be so bad in Little Rock’s budding East Village. That’s because each week, Cromwell Architects Engineers will host Food Truck Mondays, featuring a number of local food trucks. The firm opened its remodeled office in The Paint Factory, in the East Village, in March of this year and continues to lead the redevelopment…
It’s probably safe to assume that everyone, including myself, has thought about traveling back in time at one point or another in their lifetime. We all have our reasons. Perhaps there is a moment in your past that you have always wanted to relive, or something you wish you would have done differently. Perhaps there…
Beer, music and tech enthusiasts will not want to miss the third annual AMP Fest featuring three bands, Dazz & Brie, Goose and The Mixtapes, more than 15 breweries and multiple technology activations on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018 from 4 to 9 pm at the Walmart AMP. A self-proclaimed “girl gang,” Dazz & Brie’s rock…
By Caleb Tally | Photography by Jamison Mosley If you haven’t heard the buzz, beekeeping is experiencing a boom in popularity across the country and in the Natural State. This labor-intensive (and sometimes painful) but extremely rewarding hobby has taken flight at a critical time. That’s because bees, nature’s most efficient pollinator, have declined rapidly…
