Academy of Country Music’s 2019 New Female Artist of the Year discusses songwriting, growing up in Arkansas and interacting with fans at Walmart in Van Buren. by Marla Cantrell | Photography by Jamison Mosley Ashley McBryde stands on stage at TempleLive in Fort Smith on a rainy Friday night in May. Her dark, curly hair dips across…
by Larissa Gudino National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C., is sponsoring Heavy Metal: Arkansas Women to Watch 2019, a traveling art exhibition that will visit eight locations in the Natural State. The Women to Watch exhibition is a biennial series designed to feature underrepresented and emerging women artists from the…
by Tracy Courage While 13 may be considered an unlucky number, Arkansas Shakespeare Theater celebrates the start of its 13th season this month with a selection of the Bard’s works that embraces the theme of “Fate and Chance.” “It wasn’t by chance that we chose this theme for our 13th anniversary,” says Rebekah Scallet, AST’s…
Sarah Woolf of Follow the Woolf has your guide to Arkansas’ music scene. This week, go see The Salty Dogs, Creekfest, The Marshall Tucker Band, and more. Around Little Rock Friday 5/24 Fourth Friday Comedy Night/ Guillermo’s Gourmet Coffee– 10700 N Rodney Parham Rd. Ste A2 / 7:30 -9:30 / $10 Cameron Fontaine host this night as some…
Memorial Day weekend is finally upon us! You might be spending part your time grillin’, but some of it will be chillin’. And we do that in front of a device. Am I right or am I right? We’ve got some suggestions for your binge watching or maybe just something to start. Let’s start with…
by Dwain Hebda | Photos by Jamison Mosley and Sage Duke A towheaded lad of about six sits straight and motionless in Cody “Coco” Mayes’ barber chair. Nothing moves but the kid’s eyes as Mayes touches up the whitewall ‘do, shaved up past the kid’s ears with a dollop of combed locks on top like a…
Arkansas Arts Center launches $128 million capital campaign to renovate and revitalize the Little Rock museum; $118 million already raised. Leaders and benefactors of the Arkansas Arts Center have announced a bold, new vision for the Little Rock museum and the launch of a $128 million capital campaign to renovate and expand the institution. Entitled…
Whoever said combining alcohol and fire was a bad idea clearly never went to the Museum of Discovery. Because that’s exactly what they’re doing next week during “Combust a Move!,” the latest installment of Science After Dark. On May 30, join museum staff and other 21-and-older science fans at the museum to explore the galleries…
The Arkansas Country Music Awards just keeps getting bigger this year. The second-annual awards ceremony has added more performers for the show this year. ACMA officials announced that Lauren Richmond, Sarah Cecil and TRIPPP will be joining the performer lineup for the awards, which is scheduled for June 3. These three musical acts will be…
This summer, enjoy the late evening sunshine and explore SoMa with your friends. Numerous SoMa businesses will be staying open late on the first Friday of each month and are inviting the community to see what makes this neighborhood so special. Summer is the perfect time to wander from shop to shop and hang out.…
