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    • Bucket Lists
      • Original Arkansas Bucket List
      • Asian Food Bucket List
        • Chi’s Asian Cafe
        • Rock N Roll Sushi
        • Three Fold
      • Appetizer Bucket List
        • Faded Rose
        • Kemuri
        • Lost Forty
        • Yaya’s Euro Bistro
      • Beer and Bar Food Bucket List
        • Flyway Brewing
        • Lost Forty – PUNCHY Arkansas Hard Seltzer
        • Table 28
      • Breakfast and Brunch Bucket List
        • Petit & Keet
        • Root Cafe
      • BBQ
        • BBQ Bucket List
        • Whole Hog Cafe NLR
        • Smokin’ Buns
        • Hawgz Blues Café
        • Count Porkula
      • Burger Bucket List
        • DeLuca’s
        • Ohio Club
      • Burritos and Enchiladas Bucket List
        • Baja Grill
        • Cantina Laredo
        • El Porton
        • Heights Taco & Tamale Co.
      • Cajun/Creole Bucket List
        • Copper Mule
        • Eat My Catfish
        • Faded Rose
        • Maddie’s Place
      • Catering Bucket List
        • DownHome Restaurant & Catering
      • Catfish Bucket List
        • Catfish Bucket List
        • Cathead’s Diner
        • BJ’s Market Cafe
      • Chicken Wings
        • Great American Wings
        • Sauce(d)
      • Coffee and Pastries Bucket List
        • Leiva’s Coffee
        • Nexus Coffee & Creative
        • THINK Coffee
      • 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
      • Fried Chicken Bucket List
        • Cache Restaurant
        • Homer’s West
        • South on Main
        • Stickyz Rock ‘N’ Roll Chicken Shack
      • Hibachi Bucket List
        • Kemuri
        • Rock N Roll Sushi
      • Holiday Food Bucket List
        • Burge’s Hickory Smoked Turkeys and Hams
        • Lindsey’s Hospitality House
        • Taylors’ Made Cafe
        • YGFBFKitchen
      • Ice Cream, Cakes and Shakes Bucket List
        • Big Orange
        • Blue Cake/Honey Pies
        • Loblolly Creamery
        • Smallcakes
      • Legendary Arkansas Eateries Bucket List
        • Ciao Baci
        • Cotham’s
        • Deluca’s
        • Doe’s
      • New in Town Bucket List
      • Pancakes and French Toast Bucket List
        • Eden Restaurant inside the Hotel Hale
        • Kemuri
        • Littlefield’s Cafe
        • The Pancake Shop
      • 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
      • Prime Cuts Bucket List
        • Allsopp & Chapple
        • Arthur’s Prime Steakhouse
        • Red Oak Steakhouse Part One
        • Red Oak Steakhouse Part Two
      • Romantic Dinner Bucket List
        • Capers
        • Mike’s Place
        • Pasta Grill
      • Salad Bucket List
        • Cheers in the Heights
        • 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
        • Baja Grill
        • Cheers in the Heights
        • 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
      • Sushi Bucket List
        • Kemuri
        • Oceans at Arthur’s
        • Rock N Roll Sushi
        • Sushi Cafe West
      • Taco
        • Taco Bucket List
        • Baja Grill
        • Cantina Laredo
        • Mexico Chiquito
        • Tacos 4 Life
    • Recipes
    • Taco Tuesday
    • Thirsty Thursday
  • Home/Garden
  • Arts/Culture/People
    • Men of Distinction 2021
    • Heather’s Favorite Things
      • Bentonville
      • Apple AirPods
      • Aromatique’s Winter Collection
      • Branson Part 1
      • Branson Part 2
      • BraveHoods
      • Buxom Full-On Plumping Lip Cream
      • Christmas List Part 1
      • Christmas List Part 2
      • CoolSculpting with Dr. Yee
      • Dragon Eggs at Kemuri
      • Dr. Bruce Sanderson, Lasercare Skin Clinic
      • Just Peachy
      • Kakki Jones, hair and makeup artist
      • Kim Hamric, stylist Dillard’s
      • OOH La La Salon
    • 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
    • Women Wednesday
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      • 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 2020
      • Intriguing Women 2018
      • Intriguing Women 2019
      • AY’s Cutest Dogs 2019
      • Men of Distinction 2020
      • Runway: A Look Back
  • Food/Drink
    • Bucket Lists
      • Original Arkansas Bucket List
      • Asian Food Bucket List
        • Chi’s Asian Cafe
        • Rock N Roll Sushi
        • Three Fold
      • Appetizer Bucket List
        • Faded Rose
        • Kemuri
        • Lost Forty
        • Yaya’s Euro Bistro
      • Beer and Bar Food Bucket List
        • Flyway Brewing
        • Lost Forty – PUNCHY Arkansas Hard Seltzer
        • Table 28
      • Breakfast and Brunch Bucket List
        • Petit & Keet
        • Root Cafe
      • BBQ
        • BBQ Bucket List
        • Whole Hog Cafe NLR
        • Smokin’ Buns
        • Hawgz Blues Café
        • Count Porkula
      • Burger Bucket List
        • DeLuca’s
        • Ohio Club
      • Burritos and Enchiladas Bucket List
        • Baja Grill
        • Cantina Laredo
        • El Porton
        • Heights Taco & Tamale Co.
      • Cajun/Creole Bucket List
        • Copper Mule
        • Eat My Catfish
        • Faded Rose
        • Maddie’s Place
      • Catering Bucket List
        • DownHome Restaurant & Catering
      • Catfish Bucket List
        • Catfish Bucket List
        • Cathead’s Diner
        • BJ’s Market Cafe
      • Chicken Wings
        • Great American Wings
        • Sauce(d)
      • Coffee and Pastries Bucket List
        • Leiva’s Coffee
        • Nexus Coffee & Creative
        • THINK Coffee
      • 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
      • Fried Chicken Bucket List
        • Cache Restaurant
        • Homer’s West
        • South on Main
        • Stickyz Rock ‘N’ Roll Chicken Shack
      • Hibachi Bucket List
        • Kemuri
        • Rock N Roll Sushi
      • Holiday Food Bucket List
        • Burge’s Hickory Smoked Turkeys and Hams
        • Lindsey’s Hospitality House
        • Taylors’ Made Cafe
        • YGFBFKitchen
      • Ice Cream, Cakes and Shakes Bucket List
        • Big Orange
        • Blue Cake/Honey Pies
        • Loblolly Creamery
        • Smallcakes
      • Legendary Arkansas Eateries Bucket List
        • Ciao Baci
        • Cotham’s
        • Deluca’s
        • Doe’s
      • New in Town Bucket List
      • Pancakes and French Toast Bucket List
        • Eden Restaurant inside the Hotel Hale
        • Kemuri
        • Littlefield’s Cafe
        • The Pancake Shop
      • 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
      • Prime Cuts Bucket List
        • Allsopp & Chapple
        • Arthur’s Prime Steakhouse
        • Red Oak Steakhouse Part One
        • Red Oak Steakhouse Part Two
      • Romantic Dinner Bucket List
        • Capers
        • Mike’s Place
        • Pasta Grill
      • Salad Bucket List
        • Cheers in the Heights
        • 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
        • Baja Grill
        • Cheers in the Heights
        • 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
      • Sushi Bucket List
        • Kemuri
        • Oceans at Arthur’s
        • Rock N Roll Sushi
        • Sushi Cafe West
      • Taco
        • Taco Bucket List
        • Baja Grill
        • Cantina Laredo
        • Mexico Chiquito
        • Tacos 4 Life
    • Recipes
    • Taco Tuesday
    • Thirsty Thursday
  • Home/Garden
  • Arts/Culture/People
    • Men of Distinction 2021
    • Heather’s Favorite Things
      • Bentonville
      • Apple AirPods
      • Aromatique’s Winter Collection
      • Branson Part 1
      • Branson Part 2
      • BraveHoods
      • Buxom Full-On Plumping Lip Cream
      • Christmas List Part 1
      • Christmas List Part 2
      • CoolSculpting with Dr. Yee
      • Dragon Eggs at Kemuri
      • Dr. Bruce Sanderson, Lasercare Skin Clinic
      • Just Peachy
      • Kakki Jones, hair and makeup artist
      • Kim Hamric, stylist Dillard’s
      • OOH La La Salon
    • 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
    • Women Wednesday
  • Health
  • Travel
  • Press Releases / Contests
    • Submit Your Event For Our Online Calendar
    • Submit an upcoming event
  • More
    • Subscribe
      • Subscribe to AY Print Magazine
      • Subscribe to AY’s newsletter
    • Nominations
      • Nominate Your Dog Photo
      • Nominate AY’s 2022 Innovative Home Awards
      • Nominate AY’s Best Realtors 2022
      • Nominate AY’s 2022 Intriguing Women
    • Contests
    • Custom Publications
    • About Us
    • Mental Health Guide
    • Digital Issues
    • Archive
      • AY’s Best of 2022
      • Faces of Arkansas 2018
      • Faces of Arkansas 2019
      • Faces of Arkansas 2020
      • 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 2020
      • Intriguing Women 2018
      • Intriguing Women 2019
      • AY’s Cutest Dogs 2019
      • Men of Distinction 2020
      • Runway: A Look Back

Author Archives: Jenny Boulden

Face Behind the Place: Alicia Watson With Vito & Vera

Food, July 2022, MagazineBy Jenny BouldenJune 29, 2022

There’s an appealing energy and authenticity to Chef Alicia Watson, owner of Little Rock culinary wellness business Vito and Vera, who in May, won the Food Network competition series, “Big Restaurant Bet.” What’s readily apparent about the charismatic Watson, whose brassy, alto speaking voice is edged with a holdover Chicago accent, is that she is…

No Need to Think Outside “The Box” for Great Burgers

Blog, Food, Latest News from AYBy Jenny BouldenJune 1, 2022

Sometimes you just crave a solid, delicious burger in a place with no pretenses. The Box, the well-established burger joint on 7th Street in Little Rock, is one such come-as-you-are spot. Inside, you’re as likely to find someone in coveralls as in a business suit. It’s one of those places that’s so well-established, it sometimes…

Food Fight: Serving Up Solutions Aims to Take a Bite Out of Hunger

Food, Health, June 2022, MagazineBy Jenny BouldenMay 31, 2022

Food Fight: Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance’s Serving Up Solutions Aims to Take a Bite Out of Hunger   When Sharon and Carl Vogelpohl accepted the roles of chairing the 15th annual Serving Up Solutions fundraiser June 16 for the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance (AHRA), they knew one thing right off. This wasn’t just something Sharon,…

Leo's Greek Castle-burger

Royal Burger at Leo’s Greek Castle Fit for a Hungry King

Blog, Food, Latest News from AYBy Jenny BouldenMay 27, 2022

When you ask the average American what kind of burgers they associate with castles, they’re probably going to tell you White Castles. A significant number of Americans inexplicably love the tiny burgers. But if you ask the same question in Central Arkansas, more than a few folks are going to say Leo’s Greek Castle. The…

The Return of Patio Season: Patio Bucket List

Arkansas Bucket List, Food, June 2022, MagazineBy Jenny BouldenMay 27, 2022

Eating Under the Sky & Sun & Moon: Arkansas Patios Bucket List Arkansans welcome the return of patio season   Leaf-speckled light dances across your table. A June breeze wafts over, bringing aromas of the brick-oven pizza being brought to a family nearby and the sounds of some girlfriends laughing over late-afternoon drinks. Somehow, cocktails taste…

Fort Smith’s Bass Reeves Joins the ‘Yellowstone’ Universe

Arts & Culture, Blog, Latest News from AYBy Jenny BouldenMay 20, 2022

A legendary Fort Smith hero is getting his own Yellowstone series. MTV Entertainment Studios announced that Bass Reeves, a previously announced limited series from Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan, would now air later this year on Paramount+ as an offshoot of 1883, the hit limited-series western sequel to Yellowstone. The show’s new title is 1883: The…

Jackrabbit Dairy Bar

Burgers Worth the Hop to Lonoke’s Iconic Jackrabbit Dairy Bar

Blog, Food, Latest News from AYBy Jenny BouldenMay 19, 2022

As we were dining on burgers and a vanilla milkshake at a picnic table outside Jackrabbit Dairy Bar in Lonoke, and checking another establishment off of AY’s Burger Bucket List, my husband evoked that other famous “Jack Rabbit” burgers and shakes restaurant, the one in John Travolta and Uma Thurman visit (and compete in the…

Two Sisters Cafe-Burger

“Oh, Brother!” Two Sisters’ Hearty Burger is Equal-Opportunity Delish

Blog, Food, Latest News from AYBy Jenny BouldenMay 18, 2022

Two Sisters Cafe Has a Top-Tier Arkansas Burger   I don’t like to concede it, but burgers are a food that have always felt more masculine than feminine to me. Sure, a good burger is equal-opportunity yummy, and women have been making delicious hamburgers forever. But how often in ads, film or TV do you…

From Good Trouble to Good Food

Arts & Culture, Food, Magazine, May 2022By Jenny BouldenMay 3, 2022

Michael McCray’s Conscientious Path From Federal Whistleblower to Film Festival Founder to Committee Leader for the James Beard Awards   In his early 20s, Michael McCray thought his career trajectory was looking great. After studying business and economics in college, the Pine Bluff native had quickly gone to work in the White House.    But…

David Alan Bubbus Jr. of David's Burgers

Face Behind the Place: David Alan Bubbus Jr. of David’s Burgers

Arkansas Bucket List, Food, Magazine, May 2022By Jenny BouldenMay 2, 2022

Face Behind the Place: David Alan Bubbus Jr. of David’s Burgers   When Alan Bubbus talks about his businesses — 10 David’s Burgers locations in Central Arkansas, plus a new restaurant concept, Jess’s Chicken, opening soon in Little Rock — he can’t help but get excited. The man not only loves his work, he knows…

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