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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Studios are places of experimentation and creation, where artists can go to practice and hone their craft and produce the work that they will then carry out into the world to be seen by patrons, critics, museum visitors and more. It’s a private space by design that is rarely seen by outsiders. To some, an…
Hot Springs is a beloved town in Arkansas for both natives and tourists. With the quaint Bathhouse Row with its restored hotels to the numerous restaurants that make up the town’s thriving culinary scene, Hot Springs is a Natural State gem. But Hot Springs also has a long history as a favorite hangout of…
Nine Arkansas artists have been chosen for the Arkansas Arts Council’s annual Individual Artist Fellowship Awards. The artists have been chosen for three categories: sculpture and installation art, dance choreography and writing of novels. The winners of this year’s fellowships include Holly Laws, Linda Nguyen Lopez and Greely Myatt for sculpture and installation art;…
Starting on October 15, you’ll no longer be able to pick up an AY About You Magazine on your weekly Kroger run. In fact, Kroger will no longer distribute any free magazines to their customers. Marketers typically place advertisements in magazines based off their overall readership, including both the magazine’s paying subscribers and casual readers…
