For this week’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Brooke Moore, founder of MyVirtual.Lawyer. Moore is a single mom to three children, Parker (15), Brodie (12) and Kinlee (9), and is a native of Batesville, although she considers North Little Rock to be home. Moore has an undergraduate degree in political science,…
By Jason Pederson In Dec. 31, 1967, at the age of 29, Evel Knievel’s body was broken and battered when his motorcycle jump over the fountains at Caesars Palace ended in a crash landing. Knievel credited his helmet with saving his life. On Sept. 23, 2020, at the age of…
By Dwain Hebda // Photos by Jamison Mosley The last quarter mile to Gary Robbins’ property, folded into the foothills of Van Buren County, is a doozy. Turning off a crumbling country blacktop, the visitor stares down a remnant cowpath and hopes the GPS has its signal straight. Like its owner, the weedy trail…
James Hale has seen and done it all, and he’s up for the latest challenge, maybe his biggest one yet. By Kevin Shalin // Photos by Jamison Mosley Chef James Hale is a straight shooter. That much I gathered from our 45-minute interview. Any pretentiousness one might expect after a history that includes…
The husband-and-wife duo of Paula and Karl Lowe have helped elevate the Jonesboro food community with Roots Restaurant, a place that blends cultures and cuisines. By Kevin Shalin // Photos by Tony Milligan She’s from Ecuador. He’s from northeast Arkansas. And in the summer of 2019, Paula and Karl Lowe opened their own…
For this week’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Christy Ouei of Mule Kick. Ouei spent her early life in the Delta town of Lake Village. In 1996, she graduated with a degree in Agriculture Business at Southern Arkansas University. Ouei owned and operated a small service-station-turned-convenience-store in Taylor for 20 years,…
For this week’s segment of Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Lisa M. Smith, executive director of Community Health & Research at UAMS Northwest Regional Campus. Smith grew up in a small farm town in Colorado, where she says her upbringing instilled strong values such as resilience, respect, humility and work ethic. …
What is it like to have the country’s most beloved DJ call to ask YOU to DJ his wedding? That was the scenario for Little Rock’s Doug Kramer, a longtime radio personality, who was mixing the tunes for Arkansas’ own Bobby Bones in Nashville for his marriage Saturday night to Caitlin Parker at Bones’ property…
Hometown Heroes: Dale Dawson and Bridge2Rwanda Dale Dawson’s hard work had paid off. Born and raised in Texas, Dawson moved to Arkansas in 1985 to work for Stephens Inc. after completing his accounting degree at the University of Texas. But despite a plethora of successes, Dawson felt like something was missing. “When…
For this week’s segment of Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with LaTresha Woodruff, the public information officer for the Arkansas Division of Emergency Management (ADEM). Before going to the ADEM, Woodruff spent 10 years as the public information officer (PIO) with the Conway Police Department. “I was the department’s first…
