The winners of this year’s Great Plains Journalism Awards, sponsored by the Tulsa Press Club, were announced Friday. AY Media Group’s Dustin Jayroe won first place in the Magazine Lifestyle Writing category. This year’s Great Plains awards was the 13th-annual iteration of the competition, which represent journalism excellence in print, online, TV and magazines…
Joanna White Occupation: Executive Broker, Bailey and Company Real Estate Children: George (6) “Things are not going to be picture-perfect, and you aren’t a failure when they aren’t.” Six years ago, Joanna White entered real estate school while she was pregnant with her son. He was born 20 days after she received…
This Side of Seven: Puppy Love “I’ve got a surprise.” Our 20-year-old daughter was coming home from Fayetteville with her boyfriend, and that is how she prefaced her arrival. I mean, there are certainly more alarming things she could have said. “I have something to tell you,” or, “We need to talk,” come…
The Arkansas Italian Food and Wine Festival is back. This year’s third-annual festivities, presented by Relyance Bank, will take place at the Penick Boys & Girls Club in Little Rock. The 2022 festival will include food from many of Central Arkansas’ favorite eateries, such as The Rock Brick Oven Pizza, Raduno, Vino’s, Grafitti’s, Boulevard…
There’s a little boutique in Hot Springs that has a story to tell you. It will speak to you of that which is rare and unique, of artisans in a distant land whose work is born of love and legacy. Fame and riches, they will never know — but that is of no matter to…
The Arkansas Cinema Society has announced Filmland 2022 will return for the fifth annual celebration of Arkansas cinema this fall, from Nov. 3-6 at CALS Ron Robinson Theater in downtown Little Rock. Submissions are now open for Filmland: Arkansas, the screening series of shorts and features from Arkansas filmmakers and films. Memberships are available with…
For stop number three on the Legendary Eateries Bucket List tour, Heather Baker and KARK’s Hunter Hoagland ventured down to Hot Springs to check out Deluca’s Pizzeria. Baker, a Dame of Deluca’s herself, is no stranger to the popular eatery. “I mean, look at this spread,” Baker says, motioning to the…
Businesses About You: Sunset Lodge at Rusty Tractor Vineyards In summer 2011, Sheree and Doug Meyer, the owners of Rusty Tractor Vineyards and Sunset Lodge, planted 200 muscadines on a one-acre field. Upon seeing the ancient beauty of the vineyard in their own backyard and the bounty of fruit the muscadines produced, the pair…
It’s a big month for the folks who love catfish because it’s the last few weeks that the Big K’s Catfish Barn will be open. Is this idea new to you? It’s a Hazen restaurant that draws people from all over the country for their all-you-can-eat fried catfish and all the fixins — but for…
After a hiatus due to the pandemic, the Friends of CALS Used Books Sales are back. The Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) just announced dates for the events, which have been set for March 10-12, with July 7-9 and Nov. 17-19 tentatively scheduled. On March 11, the used books sales will take place…
