2018 Christmas Calendar Is your town having Christmas Open House? Is your business having photos with Santa? Know of an AMAZING Christmas light display? We want to add it to our calendar! If you know of a Christmas event, email the information to thale@aymag.com or kmcanulty@aymag.com. We will be updating this list as events…
I’m a bit puzzled whether to write this piece in the present or past tense. But being an inherent optimist, I will make a leap of faith and assume – and fervently hope – this iconic bird still exists in the wilds of Arkansas. Called “the great chieftain of the Woodpecker tribe” by John James…
By Marla Cantrell Every second counts. Step off a curb at the wrong time, and your world might end. Look down at your phone while driving, and you could cause a crash that could devastate your future. Yes, every second counts, but none more than when you suspect you’re having a stroke. In the nearly…
By Janie Jones | Photo by Jamison Mosley Some serial killers stay close to home in their comfort zone. Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis (BTK) Rader and John Wayne Gacy come to mind. But others stay on the move. Their nicknames attest to their mobility and wandering ways: the I-5 Killer, the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Killer, the…
Photography by Melissa Imagine the life-changing words, “you have cancer” and then the bleak prospect of paying for housing while you seek treatment for radiation and chemotherapy. Since most of the state’s medical facilities are in central Arkansas, that is a real challenge both financially and emotionally for patients outside the area. That is why…
By Tyler Hale It’s not every day that a world-renown musician shows up in Little Rock to play a charity gig, but this February, Chuck Leavell is making it happen. Leavell, a keyboardist who has played with the likes of the Allman Brothers Band, the Rolling Stones and many others, will be performing at the…
Story and photos By Kat Robinson Forget pumpkin spice – in Arkansas, the flavor of fall comes through in our love for the ultimate comfort pastry, the cinnamon roll. Arkansas has a long history with cinnamon rolls. The pastries, made from relatively inexpensive foodstuffs, keep a while and can be stored without refrigeration. They’re both…
By Tyler Hale | Photography by Jamison Mosley The holidays are fast approaching, and so is the eating season. Instead of having one cook in the kitchen doing all the work, put everybody in the family to work this year making part of the meal. Even kids can get in on the action! These recipes…
by Caleb Talley | Photography by Meredith Mashburn When HGTV executives went searching for their next home-makeover “it couple,” they looked to Northwest Arkansas. The region’s vibrant and growing, an appreciable admixture of the historic and the contemporary. There’s hardly a better example of small-town America. And that was exactly what the network was looking…
By Joe David Rice On average, some 60,000 vehicles pass through Conway every day on Interstate 40. If you’re one of those drivers and haven’t taken a local exit in recent years, it’s time to do so. You’ll find that this centrally-located town isn’t the sleepy little burg it was a couple of decades ago,…
