Stories by Bobby Ampezzan

  • Fans in Memphis find kooky collection in parade

    MEMPHIS -- If Hot Springs' Bridge Street is the site of the world's shortest St. Patrick's Day parade, Beale Street on New Year's Day was the setting of the ko…

    by Bobby Ampezzan January 10, 2016

  • History drives pair to help kids

    The loudest thing ever heard on Earth was the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. They say the sound circled the globe four times and ruptured the eardrums of sailor…

    by Bobby Ampezzan December 27, 2015

  • A year of yes

    Another sesquicentennial has come and gone -- this one decidedly swifter than the one that celebrated the preservation of the Union.

    by Bobby Ampezzan December 27, 2015

  • Health center questions drink-and-run fundraiser

    A photo in the Nov. 23 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette of a beer-swigging runner sporting a Fleet Feet bib caused a minor stir inside the Arkansas Center for Health …

    by Bobby Ampezzan December 20, 2015

  • Dazzling evening

    Oh, Jerry Langley got off light.

    by Bobby Ampezzan December 20, 2015

  • Harky heralds play to help poor

    Outside the Wal-Mart on Arkansas 10 in Little Rock, four men and their music stands band together beneath a folding tent, out of the rain. With bright brass tr…

    by Bobby Ampezzan December 13, 2015

  • Woman of the Year set to fete four fine fellows

    Here's what I hear a lot: So-and-so is "worthy" of a High Profile cover. Ugh. Wince. Worthy is a fine virtue but a bedeviled editorial decision. Apply it sever…

    by Bobby Ampezzan December 13, 2015

  • Auction action sizzles

    It wasn't pouring sheets of freezing rain, like two years ago. It raised more money -- $155,765 -- than last year (about $137,000), according to development di…

    by Bobby Ampezzan December 13, 2015

  • Face time

    "In a fast-paced world of electronic communications," began the sales pitch for the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce's final 2015 Business After Hours …

    by Bobby Ampezzan December 6, 2015

  • Christoph Keller III

    "I think that we have an opportunity to do something distinctive at Trinity," the Rev. Chris Keller told the congregants gathered for coffee and doughnuts afte…

    by Bobby Ampezzan November 29, 2015

  • Fund-loving folks

    It's the busy season, the perfect time of year for the fund-loving folks at the Association of Fundraising Professionals Arkansas chapter to hold the busiest l…

    by Bobby Ampezzan November 29, 2015

  • Grand news: Murphys chairing Opus Ball again

    "It was a night to remember" is how High Progenitor Phyllis Brandon began her wrap of Opus XX, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra's 2004 fundraiser.

    by Bobby Ampezzan November 22, 2015

  • Puffing up a budget

    A nitrogen "bomb," surveillance drones -- is this the third annual Spark! or the fourth season of Homeland?

    by Bobby Ampezzan November 15, 2015

  • John Timothy Griffin

    Tim Griffin appears in the doorway of the two-story Greek Revival house he had built in 2008 from a vision in his head. It's the middle of the week, the middle…

    by Bobby Ampezzan November 8, 2015

  • Trivial matters a biggie in helping UCP budget

    A few weeks ago I found myself hunched over a napkin at Damgoode Pies in the River Market, straining to spell the name of National Public Radio's West Africa c…

    by Bobby Ampezzan November 8, 2015

  • Scaring up awareness

    Maybe the best Halloween costume party in Little Rock, certainly the best one for a cause, is the Tiny Hands Monster Bash. The frivolity benefits The Family Ho…

    by Bobby Ampezzan November 8, 2015

  • The kindest cut?

    Not long after landing my first "adult" job (read: health benefits) at the deferred age of 28, I felt a sharp discomfort on the right side of my gut. At McBurn…

    by Bobby Ampezzan November 2, 2015

  • Front and center for kids

    The first Woman of Inspiration affair didn't start off as a big Wally Allen Ballroom fundraiser. The Oct. 23 event was a luncheon, after all, and supposed to b…

    by Bobby Ampezzan November 1, 2015

  • Jay Norris Fox

    The director of the Arkansas State Golf Association ain't no duffer. He was a pro in the mid-1980s, but without the prestige of a Professional Golfers' Associa…

    by Bobby Ampezzan October 18, 2015

  • Brothers honored for new law

    The story of Woman of Inspiration, Friday's luncheon at the Little Rock Marriott ballroom downtown and inaugural fundraiser for the state's Children's Advocacy…

    by Bobby Ampezzan October 18, 2015

  • Brother Paul set to feed the throngs at Verizon

    In the parable of the loaves and fishes, Jesus Christ fed 5,000 people on a couple of fish. On Friday night, at Verizon Arena, Brother Paul Holderfield expects…

    by Bobby Ampezzan October 18, 2015

  • Single parent class acts

    The best night of stories went off at the Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Institute on the west campus of Pulaski Technical College on Oct. 6.

    by Bobby Ampezzan October 18, 2015

  • Personal Space

    Where I live: Off of Crystal Valley Drive in west Little Rock, with my husband, Derrick, and our dog, Riley.

    by Bobby Ampezzan October 17, 2015

  • An elegant whoosh

    In Little Rock, black-tie fundraisers are a regular la promenade d'elegance. Well, really more elegance than promenade. Just inside of the dinner hour and outs…

    by Bobby Ampezzan October 11, 2015

  • Gareth John Morgan

    The Gala for Life on Friday at the Statehouse Convention Center will be the brightest night of stars in the constellation social calendar. The bad news is tick…

    by Bobby Ampezzan September 27, 2015

  • Inspired inner circle

    A month out from the main event, patrons and members of first lady Susan Hutchinson's inner circle converged on the Governor's Mansion to raise a glass to this…

    by Bobby Ampezzan September 27, 2015

  • Henderson State shines as music talent supplier

    The third -- or fifth -- Kindred Spirit Award from the Muses Creative Artistry Project was given Tuesday night to Glen Jones, president of Henderson State Univ…

    by Bobby Ampezzan September 20, 2015

  • Margaret Anna Ellibee

    The president of Pulaski Technical College was once the starting center for the Iowa State University Cyclones.

    by Bobby Ampezzan September 13, 2015

  • Nonprofit network

    The area's big fundraisers met over lunch, handed out some awards and considered the future. The Arkansas Nonprofit Alliance billed the day Work That Matters, …

    by Bobby Ampezzan September 13, 2015

  • First class

    'Twas a couple of prominent businessmen -- Terry Hartwick, the North Little Rock Chamber of Commerce president, and Mitch Bettis, president of Arkansas Busines…

    by Bobby Ampezzan September 6, 2015

  • Former Hogs draw passel of fans to sports luncheon

    Shall we read Razorbacks fever into the over-capacity crowd at the second Touchdown Club luncheon on Monday? Embassy Suites' staff hurried a couple of extra ta…

    by Bobby Ampezzan September 6, 2015

  • Campus food pantries once-hungry grad's goal

    Brandon Mathews has an offering for student services director Michelle Anderson, who runs the food pantry at Pulaski Technical College: hamburger and hot dog b…

    by Bobby Ampezzan August 30, 2015

  • Women talk, men live

    The Arkansas Prostate Cancer Foundation threw another big bro-hug hoedown Aug. 20 at Temple B'Nai Israel, this one honoring University of Central Arkansas pres…

    by Bobby Ampezzan August 30, 2015

  • Lesley Ann Oslica

    CONWAY -- Home is indeed where the heart is, but Lesley Oslica has two homes. One is a spacious French country-style manse in the Wellington neighborhood on th…

    by Bobby Ampezzan August 16, 2015

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