Home Sweet Home: UAMS Breast Center Offers Hope, Healing in Spacious New Setting “I don’t want to do this.” Most of the thoughts rolling through LeaAndrea Maxwell’s head on that day, Feb. 27, 2020, were a numbing buzz. The medical professional in front of her hadn’t stopped talking, but the words ceased to…
I Love This Bar: Beer and Bar Food Bucket List Midtown Billiards has been called many things in its mind-bending 81-year history — a dive, a joint, a tavern, an all-nighter and a few compliments not for print word-for-word. But mostly, it’s been Little Rock’s favorite late-night address, a fixture in the South Main…
The Sound of Our Town: Pine Bluff Paved by Music It’s hard to stump Jimmy Cunningham Jr. when the topic is the Arkansas Delta and especially on his beloved hometown of Pine Bluff. Cunningham, head of the Delta Rhythm & Bayous Alliance, knows this place like most people know their own heartbeat. The…
They wear your macaroni-and-string necklaces to church. They know the magic words to make a skinned knee stop stinging. Their words of caution stick in your head and their praise lifts your spirit. They greet you at the door after curfew and from the front pew on your wedding day. Your mother held you first…
Not all unhealthy mother-child relationships stem from drugs, divorce, abuse or abandonment. Sometimes it’s a parent who, although present, doesn’t want to act like one. “I view very strongly that I was not put here to be my child’s friend,” says Alicia Gammon, who is both a biological and foster mother. “I can’t…
If the hand of fate had touched Mallory Brooks on the left shoulder instead of the right, there’s no telling where the unfailingly cheery Arkansan might have wound up. It may have after all led her to the invasive and sometimes painful world of broadcast journalism that has been her stock and trade for…
By Dwain Hebda “Unfortunately, I could not sing.” So begins Kathryn Tucker’s tale of life in the arts. The veteran director and producer of film and television, who’s worked at the elbow of some of the giants of the business, found early the trailhead of her career at her hometown Arkansas Arts Center…
In times like these, what we crave most are things that time cannot change. The moments we can steal from under Father Time’s nose and, freezing all technology, we hold it in our hands, soak up and smell and taste. That unmistakable scent of a newborn; the racing pulse of first love; freedom and joy…
Arkansas’ health care landscape, like that of the industry across the country and around the world, has been fundamentally changed by COVID-19. From small-town hospitals and rural clinics to the state’s largest and most comprehensive health systems, the people, technology and systems that keep us healthy have been tested to the core by the events…
As a species, the shopping mall is in trouble. Battered by years of changing consumer behavior and strafed by the public’s fears over COVID-19, the once-gleaming beacon of social interaction and commercial enterprise is free-falling, flirting with extinction. Coresight Research predicted last summer that the U.S. would see as many as 25,000 stores…
