This week’s Taco Tuesday takes AY Media Group to Tacos Godoy, a taco truck launched last year in Little Rock by Alejandro Gutierrez. “I always wanted to do a restaurant, but realized that was too expensive,” Gutierrez says. “I was about to sign a lease for my restaurant when the food truck came along.”…
For this week’s segment of Made in Arkansas, AY About You talks with professional glassblower James Hayes. Hayes grew up in Pine Bluff, where his home and studio are located now. He graduated from Hendrix College with a degree in art in 1988. Later that year, he began to take glass blowing classes at…
For this week’s Thirsty Thursday, AY About You stops by Nexus Coffee & Creative at 301 President Clinton Ave B in downtown Little Rock. Nexus Coffee grew from an idea sketched onto a napkin in 2016 into a creative community space in the heart of downtown today. “I was thinking about what Little…
For this week’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You highlights Regina Taylor, the chief community initiatives officer for the Arkansas Foodbank. Born and raised in Little Rock, Taylor always knew that she wanted to help people. “When I was in college, Hurricane Katrina happened, and it spurred me to get more involved in the…
AY About You wants to help our readers take care of themselves, stay refreshed and less stressed with our new weekly feature Wellness Wednesday. Each Wednesday, we will have an article about health and wellness to promote all around well-being. That means physically, mentally and emotionally! While most schools reopened for onsite learning in…
Happy Friday! AY About You is starting a new series that we’ll feature every Friday, called “Made in Arkansas” to highlight an Arkansas-based product, company or manufacturer. Today, we go to Fischer’s Honey Company at 2001 North Poplar Street in North Little Rock! Ann Fallon, granddaughter of founder Raymond Fischer, gave us…
This week’s Taco Tuesday takes AY About You to Little Rock’s Casa Mañana where family and authenticity reign supreme. Casa Mañana originally started in Santa Maria, Calif. by the Juarez family, who moved to Little Rock in the early 1990s, according to Ivette Juarez, daughter of the owner and founder. Juarez has worked at…
This week’s Taco Tuesday takes AY to La Hacienda Mexican Restaurant on Cantrell Road! According to Fernando Alvarez, manager and son of the owner of La Hacienda, the restaurant originally started in Hot Springs in 1985 before branching out to Little Rock in 1996. His family currently owns and operates the Hot Springs,…
Get ready to feel fancy! For this week’s Thirsty Thursday, AY About You visits Post Winery in Altus. “For 100 plus years, six generations of Post have cultivated and harvested grapes making Post Wines,” Tina Post tells AY. “The founder of our wine was Jacob Post, a German who arrived in 1872 to America.”…
A frequently tossed around word for trying to maintain mental health in these hard times is “mindfulness.” However, the broadness of this term can overwhelm people who are trying to find calm in the challenges of everyday life. What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is being fully present, and becoming more aware of who we…
