Stories by Cyd King

  • Advocates raise $127,500 to champion children

    Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families went all out for its first gala, and with good reason. This year marks the child advocacy organization's 40th year…

  • Each chef's Next Course is a win for Youth Home

    Local chefs participating in The Next Course fundraiser for Youth Home Inc. knew exactly where to hit its supporter base -- in the taste buds and the tummy. Th…

  • Mandela memories

    While in town to help commemorate the 60th anniversary of the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, former President Bill Clinton took time Sept. 2…

  • Big Apple butterfly

    The Statehouse Convention Center took on the sights and sounds of the Big Apple for the 22nd Gala for Life, the largest annual fundraiser for the University of…

  • Stepping out for kids

    People will pay big money to see their friends and others perform on a dance floor in a competitive setting. Proof: the Children's Tumor Foundation's 10th annu…

  • Honorable assembly

    The Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame is pretty self-explanatory. It's a place -- and in this case, an event -- to honor women past and present whose work and good…

  • Dinner, film fest award honor gay writer Maupin

    At age 73 and long past the age of bashfulness, Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin regaled a crowd at South on Main on Monday night, mincing no words wh…

  • Chamber chow-down

    Organizers of the 18th annual Taste of Bryant, a fundraiser for the Greater Bryant Chamber of Commerce, may have undersold it as a "taste."

  • Arkansas Beer Festival funnels money to charity

    Whether you're into the lagers, the IPAs, the pilsners, the pale ales, the kolsches, the stouts or the good ole domestics, there was something for beer drinker…

  • Anthony Marc Perrone

    Marc Perrone describes the benefits of union membership this way: "If you want to go somewhere fast, go by yourself. If you want to go long-distance, go with a…

  • Artistic geographics

    The night of July 8 was a great night to be Garbo Hearne's comrade or client.

  • Think tank

    A June 28 luncheon held during the 2017 Arkansas Healthy Child Summit provided some alarming statistics along with the chicken and rice dinner that was served:…

  • Easter Seals soiree a fundraising blast

    Some 200 people, including members and guests of the Easter Seals Arkansas Guardians board, hit the river-facing deck of the Little Rock Marriott's Grand Ballr…

  • Justice for one and all

    Just Communities of Arkansas has crossed many a barrier since its founding in 1964, yet there is still so much more to do. That was the general sentiment among…

  • A lasting legacy

    Members and guests of the Society of the Double Helix's recent black-tie gala knew University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Chancellor Dan Rahn is retiring …

  • Francis Clark Trim

    Clark Trim enjoys a good meal, and with it, fine wine.

  • Southern hospitality in force at fundraiser

    Matthew Pate and Rachel Stephens were picked as "Best Dressed" at the eighth annual Seersucker Social, a fundraiser for the Old State House Museum's school bus…

  • Mansion merriment caps Tour of Homes

    The Quapaw Quarter Association's media blitz that took place leading up to the May 13-14 Spring Tour of Homes didn't do it justice. The meticulous attention to…

  • Scottish rites

    University of Arkansas at Little Rock Chancellor Andrew Rogerson's investiture involved a great deal of pomp and circumstance, as well as a seemingly endless s…

  • Zoo to-do

    A variety of people came together in the name of the Little Rock Zoo for two days of wining, dining and animal-watching May 5-6. The events, dubbed Wild Wines,…

  • Oh what a night

    The Arkansas Arts Center celebrated its 25th Tabriz fundraiser May 6 with a New York theme, complete with a performance by members of the original cast of the …

  • Food for thought

    Table after table of tasty dishes from 35 of central Arkansas' marquee restaurants drew a record 700 people to the Jack Stephens Center the night of April 27 f…

  • S.C. Republican takes lectern in lecture series

    U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina was the keynote speaker for the Winthrop Paul Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture Series on April 20 in Fort Smith. But th…

  • Shachtman gets A for win

    Stephen Shachtman's A, beat out a similar geometrically shaped sculpture and a banana on roller skates to win the 2017 Sculpture at the River Market Public Mon…

  • Huismans get the goods for 25th Tabriz's auction

    Tabriz -- that two-night, every-other-year fundraiser for the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock -- is turning 25 this year, and organizers are taking the mil…

  • Bass pro

    For the first time in the 10-year history of the Diamond Chef culinary competition, a woman took top honors. Chef Mary Beth Ringgold became the first-ever fema…

  • Equine excitement

    The 81st running of the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park was perhaps enjoyed most from above, in the track's Jockey Club, where box holders and guests were dress…

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