By Lauren McLemore For the last 19 years, Thea Foundation has advocated the importance of the arts in the development of our youth through a number of different programs — Thea Art Closet, Arts Reconstruction, student scholarships and fundraisers. Thea Foundation was named for the daughter of Linda and Paul Leopoulos, Thea Kay…
We’ve spoken before about Arkansas’ native country music artists, but Jenee Fleenor, the violin virtuoso from Springdale, Arkansas recently broke new ground at the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards. Although, it might be more appropriate to instead say she broke through a certain glass ceiling at the last CMA awards, becoming the first woman to…
By Janie Jones // Photos Courtesy of Nita Gould Eighteen-year-old Ella Barham had been missing for nine or ten hours. Search for the popular belle of the Ozarks continued well into the moonlit night, but it was two young boys out hunting who found her … or what was left of her. On a…
By Dwain Hebda // Photos By Jamison Mosley “In here, please.” The trim, soft-spoken man beckons from across the room. Outside, a cold winter’s morning needles passersby with chill and biting rain, but it’s pleasant inside the mosque at Islamic Center of Little Rock. A posted sign politely directs you to remove your shoes…
By Dustin Jayroe // Photos By Jamison Mosley A trip over to Congregation B’nai Israel in Little Rock, a Jewish temple of Reform classification, outside of worship hours is met with strict gatekeeping. The doors, locked, and a press on the doorbell prompts a distant voice to intercom an inquiry of your business here.…
By Dustin Jayroe // Photos By Jamison Mosley The clock strikes the top of the hour. Lights dim and a curtain of silence envelops the hundreds of seated attendance, each with eyes locked on a stage filled now with only silhouettes. After a few longing moments of lull pass, a single guitar riff pierces…
By Dwain Hebda // Photos By Jamison Mosley Britt Skarda shifted in his seat as the old man up front uttered a stream of prophecy. He took a long, uncomfortable breath. Unsure what had brought him out to this storefront church to begin with, he’d only become more ambivalent as the night had worn…
By Olivia Paschal / Photos By Jamison Mosley On opening weekend at the Momentary, the Bentonville contemporary art space built by the next generation of Waltons — Tom, Steuart and Olivia — the atmosphere was calm, almost peaceful. Families passed in and out, lingering at some of the art installations, rifling through the gift…
Rising country music star Matt Stell has premiered a new music video today for his song “Everywhere But On.” The song has already charted on the country radio Top 40 list – and it is still climbing. Co-written by Stell, Paul Sikes and Lance Miller, the song is featured on his Everywhere But On…
Times have been stressful lately with people being confined to their homes and largely unable to get out for entertainment. To counter this, groups and individuals have been creating new ways to keep everyone’s spirits up during these trying times. One of those groups is the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. ASO Concertmaster Andrew Irvin formulated…
