As we round one of the last of the award seasons’ bends and come down the home stretch towards the Oscars, we, unfortunately, encounter another cinematic slow season. Not to say the movies opening this week are duds or are not worth your time, but we are in between blockbusters and awards show favorites. …
by Nate Olson Since its inception in 2000, the Landers Award has become Arkansas’ premier high school football honor. Longtime KATV sports director Steve Sullivan orchestrates the event that includes a dinner for 10 finalists and their coaches and families and a 30-minute live show to announce the winner. For more than 10…
Little Rock Schools Superintendent Michael Poore revealed the next step in Hall High School’s development. Next year, Hall High will reopen as Little Rock Hall STEAM Magnet High School. A Consumer Affairs survey found that Arkansas residents spent the second-least of all states during the past holiday season. Formal arguments for President Trump’s impeachment…
Chef Rob Nelson of Tusk & Trotter and Chef Scott Rains of Table 28 are teaming up to host the first Culinary Initiative event in North Little Rock’s Argenta Arts District. Tusk & Trotter is a Bentonville-based restaurant that boasts “an atmosphere casual enough to invite families with a menu sophisticated enough to wow…
We love a party here at AY Media Group, and there’s one we want you to put on your calendars because we are all going. It’s February 13 at Cache Restaurant, and two things will happen that night. Our own Lisa Fischer, editor-at-large for AY About You will be honored, but also a light…
Former mayor of New York City and current presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg visited Little Rock yesterday. Bloomberg attended MLK Day celebrations and made attempts at convincing Arkansans to vote for him in the coming election. Thieves stole a historic schoolhouse bell from Salem’s Old Main High School. The bell was 70 years old and is…
Since 1990, the Arkansas Big Buck Classic has been celebrating hunting and conservation by recognizing the quality of Arkansas sportsmen and the whitetail deer in the state. Started in a Jacksonville indoor archery range, the Big Buck Classic only continues to grow. Only a few hundred people attend that first event, but now thousands…
Over the past six decades, the Delta Exhibition has emerged as one of the most prestigious art exhibitions in the United States. The annual art exhibition, founded in 1958, is designed to provide a snapshot of the Delta, giving a broad look at the region’s art, culture and traditions. Entries for the 62nd Delta Exhibition…
Few people – if anyone – knows Arkansas better than Joe David Rice. The former director of the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, Rice is an authority on the Natural State, from its northeast corner where he was born and raised to its southwest heel. Now, he is coming to share that hard-won…
Razorbacks football head coach Sam Pittman is continuing to build up his staff. This weekend, he named a new staff member who will head up the team’s strength and conditioning division. Jamil Walker has been named as the team’s director of strength and conditioning. Walker is coming from the University of Georgia’s football…
