Every Wednesday, AY About You will feature a woman from Arkansas who inspires and empowers other women. She might be a teacher, a mother, a scientist…any woman who can share her story and experience to lift up and support others. These stories will offer our online readers a glimpse of how they might have overcome…
Although a reopening date has not been set yet, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary are expecting to make an announcement next week. According to the public relations director of Crystal Bridges Museum, Beth Bobbitt, the museum has been working with the Arkansas Department of Health to create a reopening phased…
If you ask the Fayetteville Roots Festival, the show must go on, just not until 2021. Due to the effects of COVID-19, the famous Northwest Arkansas festival has decided to postpone until August of next year. “The music and culinary communities have been greatly impacted during this time, and our organization is no exception. We…
Every week, AY About You presents the “Tuesday Tea,” your stop for the hottest pop-culture news. What It’s Like Filming Keeping Up With The Kardashians In Quarantine (Elle) If you thought that social distancing was a plague only for us basics, think again. For the past two months, the stars of Keeping Up With the…
For our safety and that of others, we come to another weekend away from our favorite venues and entertainers, but thanks to the internet and social networking apps, we can still enjoy and support our Arkansas artists during this difficult time from the comfort of our homes. Friday 5/15 Fonky Donkey Live Stream EP Release…
The City of Little Rock has named Kathleen Caricof the 2020 Sculpture at the River Market Public Monument commission recipient. The $60,000 grant will go towards Caricof’s brushed metal sculpture titled Synergy. Synergy, as proposed by Caricof, is inspired by the energy within the West Central Community Center’s walls. “The inspiration for…
Toad Suck Daze is bringing the many wonders of The Natural State to car windows with a one-of-a-kind nature and science drive-through experience. The Conway festival is hosting its first-ever wildlife adventure on Wednesday, May 20 from 2-6 p.m. The event will take place at the University of Central Arkansas campus. The drive-through…
The Miss Arkansas Scholarship Organization announced on May 8 that its 2020 state pageant would be rescheduled to June 2021. The decision came after the Miss America Organization’s announcement of a postponed national pageant, which would have taken place in the coming winter season. The rescheduling leaves 46 eager candidates for the Miss Arkansas…
The Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron, will be saluting frontline COVID-19 workers and other essential workers on Thursday in Arkansas. The squadron will be passing through Tennessee and Arkansas in flight formations on May 14. The Arkansas flyover will take place in Little Rock, starting at 1:45 p.m. During the…
The 2020 Delta des Refuses exhibition is going digital in hopes of continuing its legacy despite COVID-19 restrictions. Delta des Refuses is an artist-organized exhibit that features artwork that is denied by the Arkansas Arts Center’s annual Delta Exhibition. For the exhibition’s fourth show, Delta des Refuses curator Rachel Trusty will continue to…
