Fayetteville cinephiles rejoice. The Fayetteville Film Festival returns to the historic downtown square for a weekend of films, documentaries, animated films, music videos and shorts. The Fayetteville Film Festival will be held Thursday, Oct. 3 to Saturday, Oct. 5. The lineup for this year’s event includes nearly 80 featured films, short films, animated films,…
One Arkansan singer-songwriter has gone gold. Central Arkansas native Matt Stell had his hit single “Prayed for You” certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. Stell found out the song was certified gold on Monday night while performing at Nashville’s Whiskey Jam. In order to be certified gold, a song must sell…
One of central Arkansas’ most rewarding events of the year is coming back to Cabot this month, Fine Arts for Exceptional Hearts. Organized by the nonprofit Building Bridges Developmental and Community Services, Fine Arts for Exceptional Hearts is an annual fundraiser for the organization, and one of its most important of the entire year. Building…
by Tyler Hale This Saturday, creators and engineers of all ages will descend on downtown Little Rock’s Museum of Discovery to investigate, explore, question and tinker. The Museum of Discovery is holding its annual Tinkerfest, day-long event that takes place across the entirety of the museum with more than 40 interactive events. A product of…
AY About You Magazine has your complete guide to Arkansas’ music scene. This weekend, go see the Amy LaVere album release, SeanFresh, the Freddie Mercury tribute show and more Around Little Rock Friday 9/13 Second Friday Art Night/ Downtown Little Rock/ 5-8/ Free Come enjoy the sights and sounds of Downtown as the galleries, shops, restaurants,…
There’s something about the feeling of seeing all of your hard, nose-to-the-grindstone work finally come together enough to glimpse the finished product. For local country singer and performer, Donnie Lee Strickland, that shiny thing over the horizon is just the beginning, and it started with years of hard work. Before finding himself in Arkansas, Strickland…
Craig O’Neill loves to talk about his time as a Tiger – a Central High School Tiger. Sure, you know him as the man who’s entertained hundreds of thousands of Arkansans with his radio wit and charm and his gift as a television communicator. But do you know his education origins? If you’ve followed…
Stay “in the know” about all the great events going on around Arkansas. AY’s Publisher, Heather Baker, will tell you what the hot spots are this weekend. Thursday, September 12 What: Finding Family Facts Where: CALS Fletcher Library When: 10 am Kick start your search for your family history with a helpful tutorial from CALS.…
Celebrating their sixth year as a festival and their first year as a multi-week event, the 2019 ACANSA Arts Festival of the South events will take place from Sept. 13 to Sept. 28. A visual and performing arts festival, ACANSA is full of performances featuring world-class shows that are the product of collaborations between…
Studios are places of experimentation and creation, where artists can go to practice and hone their craft and produce the work that they will then carry out into the world to be seen by patrons, critics, museum visitors and more. It’s a private space by design that is rarely seen by outsiders. To some, an…
