By Joe David Rice Most Arkansans are vaguely familiar with the state’s diamond story. They’ve read about John Wesley Huddleston, an illiterate yet charismatic hog farmer, who discovered some yellow flakes on his rural property near Murfreesboro and — thinking they might be gold nuggets — scooped them up. When he washed his find,…
It has been written that family history is “part therapy” and “part thriller,” and both aspects may be beguiling during a time of change in The Natural State like an ongoing pandemic. Has the isolation period encouraged you to work creatively on your family history during free time? Filmmaker Bronson Crabtree, 22, of Little…
Opera In The Rock is bringing its 2019 production of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly to Arkansans’ living rooms and laptops with a virtual performance starting June 12. The Little Rock-based opera company is releasing a recorded version of its Madama Butterfly performance featuring the Arkansas Repertory Theatre and Arkansas Symphony Orchestra on both Youtube…
Know a thespian or performance guru who could use a pick-me-up during the summer of social distancing? A local Arkansas theater might have you covered. ArkansasStaged is bringing the theater to Northwest Arkansas curbsides this summer with live performances of its original play, Curbside Theatre. According to Curbside Theatre’s website, “The original play…
The Great Passion Play opened last weekend in Eureka Springs after Gov. Asa Hutchinson reopened outdoor venues on May 9. Allowing for groups with more than 50 people and venues to fill up to 33 percent of their capacity, the Passion Play formulated a plan for the production’s reopening, awaited approval from the Arkansas Department…
For most teenagers, the rapidly growing social networking app TikTok is a casual source of jokes, dance videos and cooking tutorials. However, for Arkansas native Paige Mackenzie, TikTok is the hopeful beginning to her career. And as she’s grown her TikTok platform to more than six million followers and her Instagram to more than 330…
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…
