The first season of the breakout HGTV show, “Fixer to Fabulous,” is coming to a close. The show features Arkansas’ latest “it” couple, Jenny and Dave Marrs, and is set in Bentonville, the city where the couple resides and has established national attention and recognition for home restorations. AY About You was fortunate to have…
As we round the bend and enter the home stretch of the holiday season, the last few weeks before Christmas, it is so easy to get caught up in the material and lose sight of the soul of what truly makes this time of year a special one. Black Friday, Cyber Monday and other blowout…
by Dustin Jayroe Last week’s opening films fared pretty well at the box office, all things considered. Frozen II remained queen at No. 1 with an $85.3 million second weekend, and our editor’s choice Knives Out opened at No. 2 with $27.1 million. Ford v Ferrari dropped to third in, coincidentally, the third week…
by Dustin Jayroe Every month, AY About You outlines the night sky in these easy to digest guides, highlighting the biggest and “brightest” celestial events to help better prepare you for stargazing activities; whether it is as simple as looking up when taking the dog outside, or as official as planning date night –…
By Dustin Jayroe I sit before you with this week’s opening movies with an unwarranted feeling of vindication. Last week I put my reputation on the line with the hot take (or is it cold) that one of the weekend’s opening flicks would dethrone Ford v Ferrari and take the top slot at the…
by Dustin Jayroe The only thing better than breakfast at your favorite eatery is one made at home, from scratch. This month, we have you covered with some delicious recipes, all centered around the first (and best) meal of the day. Check out the same cinnamon roll recipe that publisher Heather Baker made in…
by Dustin Jayroe Photos by Jamison Mosley / Video by Josh Throne, Craft SEO “I am not a baker,” AY Media Group publisher Heather Baker jokes as she removes her jewelry to prepare for an afternoon of being wrist deep in cinnamon roll dough. “Just warning ya’ll now.” The warning is appreciated, because our…
by Dustin Jayroe / Photography by Jamison Mosley There is no question to the stand-alone-ability of good breakfast food; a high stack of flapjacks topped with a pad of butter and syrup drizzling down its edges or the perfect omelet, bursting at the seams with gooey cheese, vegetables and your favorite breakfast meat requires no…
by Dustin Jayroe It is an age-old psychological dilemma — nature vs. nurture — which debates the extent to which behavior is shaped. In the context, nature stands for inherited traits and genetics, whereas nurture applies to acquired traits, learned or conditioned over time. For too long, many of the stigmas attached to mental…
by Dustin Jayroe Complications that result in death either during pregnancy, childbirth or soon after delivery are some of the most tragic instances of fatality — commonly referred to as maternal mortality. What is fortunate is that these causes of death are generally preventable; what is unfortunate is that we are not doing a very…
