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      • Original Arkansas Bucket List
      • Appetizers
        • Faded Rose
        • Kemuri
        • Lost Forty
        • Yaya’s Euro Bistro
      • Breakfast and Brunch Bucket List
        • Petit & Keet
        • Root Cafe
      • BBQ
        • BBQ Bucket List
        • Whole Hog Cafe NLR
        • Smokin’ Buns
        • Hawgz Blues Café
        • Count Porkula
      • Catfish
        • Catfish Bucket List
        • Cathead’s Diner
        • BJ’s Market Cafe
      • Chicken Wings
        • Great American Wings
        • Sauce(d)
      • Dive Bucket List
      • Farm Fresh
        • Boulevard Bread Company
        • Local Lime
        • Root Cafe
      • Festivals Bucket List
      • Food Trucks
        • Delta Biscuit Company
        • The Lab Food Truck
        • Tacos Godoy
      • Holiday Food Bucket List
        • Burge’s Hickory Smoked Turkeys and Hams
        • Lindsey’s Hospitality House
        • Taylors’ Made Cafe
        • YGFBFKitchen
      • Pasta
        • Bruno’s Little Italy
        • Graffiti’s Italian Restaurant
        • Ristorante Capeo
      • Pies
        • Blue Cake Co. / Honey Pies
        • Charlotte’s Eats & Sweets
        • Community Bakery
        • Rosalia’s Family Bakery
      • Pizza Bucket List
        • Deluca’s Pizza
        • Old Mill Pizza
        • Pizza Cafe
        • U.S. Pizza
      • Salad Bucket List
        • Cheers in the Heights
        • Scallions
        • Taziki’s Mediterranean Café
        • ZAZA Fine Salad and Wood Oven Pizza Co.
      • Sandwich Bucket List
        • Boulevard Bread Company
        • Cross Creek Sandwich Shop
        • Gadwall’s Grill
      • Seafood
        • Boudreaux’s Grill and Bar
        • Eat My Catfish
        • Lakewood Fish & Seafood House
        • Oceans at Arthur’s
      • Soup/Chili Bucket List
        • Baja Grill
        • Cheers in the Heights
        • Scallions
      • Southern Plates Bucket List
        • Charlotte’s Eats and Sweets
        • Cotham’s in the City
        • Cypress Social
        • Maddie’s Place
      • Steak
        • Steak Bucket List
        • Bone’s Chophouse LR
        • Arthur’s Prime Steakhouse
        • Sonny Williams’ Steak Room
        • Cache Restaurant
      • Taco
        • Taco Bucket List
        • Baja Grill
        • Cantina Laredo
        • Mexico Chiquito
        • Tacos 4 Life
    • Top Five Restaurants
      • Fort Smith
      • Russellville
    • Fry Day
      • David’s Burgers
      • Doe’s Eat Place
      • Dugan’s Pub
      • The Faded Rose Restaurant
      • The Pantry
      • The Root Cafe
      • Twisted Fries
    • Recipe Monday
    • Taco Tuesday
      • Baja Grill
      • Casa Mañana
      • Heights Taco & Tamale Co.
      • Local Lime
      • Tacos 4 Life
      • Tacos El Gordo
      • Tacos Godoy
      • The Fold Botanas and Bar
    • Thirsty Thursday
      • Abbi’s Teas & Things
      • Diamond Bear Brewing Company
      • East Sixth Brewing Co.
      • Flyway Brewing
      • The Grind Coffee Bistro
      • Guillermo’s Gourmet Coffee
      • The Library Kitchen and Lounge
      • Nexus Coffee & Creative
      • Nutrition Hub
      • Post Winery
      • The Purple Cow
      • River City Coffee
  • Home/Garden
  • Arts/Culture/People
    • Intriguing Women 2020
    • Made in Arkansas
      • Aromatique
      • Fischer’s Honey Company
      • James Hayes Art Glass Company
      • Natural Way Food Group
      • Organized Chaos Collection
      • Ouachita Chocolate
      • Pink House Alchemy
      • Wicked Mix and Wicked Minis
    • Men of Distinction 2020
    • Wednesday’s Women
      • Adora Curry
      • Anna Beth Gorman
      • Ashley Childers
      • Beth Goodrich
      • Jan Lewandowski
      • Nashwa Krisht
      • Regina Taylor
      • Shalonda Michelle
      • Summer Khairi
      • Taren Robinson
  • Health
  • Travel
  • Contests/ Nominations
    • AY’s Best 2021 Nominations
    • Nominate a Wednesday’s Woman
    • Nominate AY’s 2021 Intriguing Women
    • Nominate in AY’s Readers’ Restaurant Poll 2021
  • More
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    • About Us
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    • Digital Issues
    • COVID19
    • Archive
      • Faces of Arkansas 2019
      • Best Realtors 2019
      • About You Magazine Named Platinum Media Sponsor for 68th Annual Home Show
        • 68th Annual Home Show 2020
          • All About Home
            • Arkansas Flower and Garden Show
            • Beyond Brick
            • Bosley Construction
            • Brandy Harp
            • Financial And Professional Services
            • Game Time Wraps
            • Gary Houston Electric
            • Green Living
            • Hartness Construction
            • KellCo Custom Homes Inc.
            • Outdoor Living
            • Precision Door Service of Central Arkansas
            • Richard Harp Homes
            • Staci Medlock
          • Behind The Hottest Neighborhoods
            • Bosley Construction: The Preserve at the Woodlands
            • Schrader Homes
            • KellCo Custom Homes: Stonehill (Sherwood)
            • Light Innovations: A Better Way To Light
            • Brandy Harp: Principal Broker of Jon Underhill Real Estate
            • Richard Harp Homes: Master Certified Green Professional
            • West Lake Village
            • Waterview
      • 2019 Best Healthcare Professionals
        • Northwest Arkansas
        • Northeast Arkansas
        • South Arkansas
        • Central Arkansas
      • Intriguing Women
      • Intriguing Women 2019
      • Faces of Arkansas
      • AY’s Cutest Dogs 2019
      • Runway: A Look Back
  • Food/Drink
    • Bucket Lists
      • Original Arkansas Bucket List
      • Appetizers
        • Faded Rose
        • Kemuri
        • Lost Forty
        • Yaya’s Euro Bistro
      • Breakfast and Brunch Bucket List
        • Petit & Keet
        • Root Cafe
      • BBQ
        • BBQ Bucket List
        • Whole Hog Cafe NLR
        • Smokin’ Buns
        • Hawgz Blues Café
        • Count Porkula
      • Catfish
        • Catfish Bucket List
        • Cathead’s Diner
        • BJ’s Market Cafe
      • Chicken Wings
        • Great American Wings
        • Sauce(d)
      • Dive Bucket List
      • Farm Fresh
        • Boulevard Bread Company
        • Local Lime
        • Root Cafe
      • Festivals Bucket List
      • Food Trucks
        • Delta Biscuit Company
        • The Lab Food Truck
        • Tacos Godoy
      • Holiday Food Bucket List
        • Burge’s Hickory Smoked Turkeys and Hams
        • Lindsey’s Hospitality House
        • Taylors’ Made Cafe
        • YGFBFKitchen
      • Pasta
        • Bruno’s Little Italy
        • Graffiti’s Italian Restaurant
        • Ristorante Capeo
      • Pies
        • Blue Cake Co. / Honey Pies
        • Charlotte’s Eats & Sweets
        • Community Bakery
        • Rosalia’s Family Bakery
      • Pizza Bucket List
        • Deluca’s Pizza
        • Old Mill Pizza
        • Pizza Cafe
        • U.S. Pizza
      • Salad Bucket List
        • Cheers in the Heights
        • Scallions
        • Taziki’s Mediterranean Café
        • ZAZA Fine Salad and Wood Oven Pizza Co.
      • Sandwich Bucket List
        • Boulevard Bread Company
        • Cross Creek Sandwich Shop
        • Gadwall’s Grill
      • Seafood
        • Boudreaux’s Grill and Bar
        • Eat My Catfish
        • Lakewood Fish & Seafood House
        • Oceans at Arthur’s
      • Soup/Chili Bucket List
        • Baja Grill
        • Cheers in the Heights
        • Scallions
      • Southern Plates Bucket List
        • Charlotte’s Eats and Sweets
        • Cotham’s in the City
        • Cypress Social
        • Maddie’s Place
      • Steak
        • Steak Bucket List
        • Bone’s Chophouse LR
        • Arthur’s Prime Steakhouse
        • Sonny Williams’ Steak Room
        • Cache Restaurant
      • Taco
        • Taco Bucket List
        • Baja Grill
        • Cantina Laredo
        • Mexico Chiquito
        • Tacos 4 Life
    • Top Five Restaurants
      • Fort Smith
      • Russellville
    • Fry Day
      • David’s Burgers
      • Doe’s Eat Place
      • Dugan’s Pub
      • The Faded Rose Restaurant
      • The Pantry
      • The Root Cafe
      • Twisted Fries
    • Recipe Monday
    • Taco Tuesday
      • Baja Grill
      • Casa Mañana
      • Heights Taco & Tamale Co.
      • Local Lime
      • Tacos 4 Life
      • Tacos El Gordo
      • Tacos Godoy
      • The Fold Botanas and Bar
    • Thirsty Thursday
      • Abbi’s Teas & Things
      • Diamond Bear Brewing Company
      • East Sixth Brewing Co.
      • Flyway Brewing
      • The Grind Coffee Bistro
      • Guillermo’s Gourmet Coffee
      • The Library Kitchen and Lounge
      • Nexus Coffee & Creative
      • Nutrition Hub
      • Post Winery
      • The Purple Cow
      • River City Coffee
  • Home/Garden
  • Arts/Culture/People
    • Intriguing Women 2020
    • Made in Arkansas
      • Aromatique
      • Fischer’s Honey Company
      • James Hayes Art Glass Company
      • Natural Way Food Group
      • Organized Chaos Collection
      • Ouachita Chocolate
      • Pink House Alchemy
      • Wicked Mix and Wicked Minis
    • Men of Distinction 2020
    • Wednesday’s Women
      • Adora Curry
      • Anna Beth Gorman
      • Ashley Childers
      • Beth Goodrich
      • Jan Lewandowski
      • Nashwa Krisht
      • Regina Taylor
      • Shalonda Michelle
      • Summer Khairi
      • Taren Robinson
  • Health
  • Travel
  • Contests/ Nominations
    • AY’s Best 2021 Nominations
    • Nominate a Wednesday’s Woman
    • Nominate AY’s 2021 Intriguing Women
    • Nominate in AY’s Readers’ Restaurant Poll 2021
  • More
    • Subscribe to AY Print Magazine
    • Subscribe to AY’s newsletter
    • Custom Publications
    • Men of Distinction 2020
    • Submit Your Event For Our Online Calendar
    • About Us
    • Mental Health Guide
    • Digital Issues
    • COVID19
    • Archive
      • Faces of Arkansas 2019
      • Best Realtors 2019
      • About You Magazine Named Platinum Media Sponsor for 68th Annual Home Show
        • 68th Annual Home Show 2020
          • All About Home
            • Arkansas Flower and Garden Show
            • Beyond Brick
            • Bosley Construction
            • Brandy Harp
            • Financial And Professional Services
            • Game Time Wraps
            • Gary Houston Electric
            • Green Living
            • Hartness Construction
            • KellCo Custom Homes Inc.
            • Outdoor Living
            • Precision Door Service of Central Arkansas
            • Richard Harp Homes
            • Staci Medlock
          • Behind The Hottest Neighborhoods
            • Bosley Construction: The Preserve at the Woodlands
            • Schrader Homes
            • KellCo Custom Homes: Stonehill (Sherwood)
            • Light Innovations: A Better Way To Light
            • Brandy Harp: Principal Broker of Jon Underhill Real Estate
            • Richard Harp Homes: Master Certified Green Professional
            • West Lake Village
            • Waterview
      • 2019 Best Healthcare Professionals
        • Northwest Arkansas
        • Northeast Arkansas
        • South Arkansas
        • Central Arkansas
      • Intriguing Women
      • Intriguing Women 2019
      • Faces of Arkansas
      • AY’s Cutest Dogs 2019
      • Runway: A Look Back

Category Archives: Blog

country music

Local Country Music Singer Finds His Place in Arkansas

Arts & Culture, BlogBy Lauren MclemoreSeptember 12, 2019

There’s something about the feeling of seeing all of your hard, nose-to-the-grindstone work finally come together enough to glimpse the finished product. For local country singer and performer, Donnie Lee Strickland, that shiny thing over the horizon is just the beginning, and it started with years of hard work. Before finding himself in Arkansas, Strickland…

Craig

Craig O’Neill to be Honored at Tiger Foundation’s Awards of Excellence

Arts & Culture, Blog, Latest News from AYBy Lisa FischerSeptember 12, 2019

Craig O’Neill loves to talk about his time as a Tiger – a Central High School Tiger.    Sure, you know him as the man who’s entertained hundreds of thousands of Arkansans with his radio wit and charm and his gift as a television communicator. But do you know his education origins? If you’ve followed…

weekend

Weekend Plans: Keep the Fall Fun Going with 21 Great Events

Arts & Culture, Blog, Latest News from AYBy Tyler HaleSeptember 12, 2019

Stay “in the know” about all the great events going on around Arkansas. AY’s Publisher, Heather Baker, will tell you what the hot spots are this weekend. Thursday, September 12 What: Finding Family Facts Where: CALS Fletcher Library When: 10 am Kick start your search for your family history with a helpful tutorial from CALS.…

Heather

Heather Baker and Lisa Fischer Try the Second Cake Contest Contender

Blog, FoodBy Tyler HaleSeptember 11, 2019

This month, AY Magazine is looking for the best cakes in Arkansas. And we want you to help us!  That’s right, if you know of a great cake, we want you to send it in.   This week, AY Publisher Heather Baker and AY Editor at Large Lisa Fischer try out another fabulous cake as…

diamond

Mary Beth Ringgold and Lorri Hambuchen Named 2020 Diamond Chef Co-Chairs

Blog, FoodBy Tyler HaleSeptember 11, 2019

Two of the brightest figures in Arkansas’ restaurant scene will be chairing the highlight of the culinary season next year. Restaurateur Mary Beth Ringgold and wine columnist Lorri Hambuchen will be co-chairing the 13thannual Diamond Chef Arkansas competition in 2020.   Every year, Diamond Chef Arkansas pits six Arkansas restauranteurs against each other in a…

tusk

University of Arkansas Welcomes New Live Mascot, Tusk V

Blog, SportsBy Tyler HaleSeptember 11, 2019

It’s now the season to call the hogs! With the start of the college football season, there will be crowds of passionate Razorback fans at Donald W. Reynold Razorback Stadium performing the trademark whoop for their team. But this year, they will be cheering for a new member of the Razorback team. And this member…

Hogs

Razorbacks vs. Colorado State: AY’s Game Analysis

Blog, SportsBy Mark CarterSeptember 11, 2019

Let’s be honest. The showing last week in Oxford was disappointing.   The state had waited all year on bated breath for expected signs of progress, confident its Hogs had a real shot of ending the latest SEC losing streak against Ole Miss and ready to proclaim the Chad Morris era as officially launched, last…

steak

Checking Out an Arkansas Steak Landmark: Arthur’s Prime Steakhouse

Blog, Food, Steak Bucket ListBy Tyler HaleSeptember 11, 2019

When you talk steaks in Arkansas, there’s one name that will come up no matter what. It doesn’t matter where you are in the state, from Blytheville to Texarkana, one restaurant will get named as one of the top steakhouses in the Natural State. Can you guess which one? It’s simple – Athur’s Prime Steakhouse.…

letter

Letter from the CEO: The Value of Local Magazines

Blog, Latest News from AYBy Tyler HaleSeptember 11, 2019

It’s not often that I engage in social media and complain but this is an important issue.   I like to read magazines. I pick up my local magazines at Kroger while I shop. Often times, while strolling down the aisles, I run into neighbors who are featured in the pages of the magazines and…

ACANSA

ACANSA Holding Multi-Week Visual and Performing Arts Festival

Arts & Culture, BlogBy Lauren MclemoreSeptember 10, 2019

Celebrating their sixth year as a festival and their first year as a multi-week event, the 2019 ACANSA Arts Festival of the South events will take place from Sept. 13 to Sept. 28.   A visual and performing arts festival, ACANSA is full of performances featuring world-class shows that are the product of collaborations between…

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