‘Beasts of War’: 3rd time continues the charm for Little Rock author Ayana Gray
This series comes to an end with "Beasts of War," the final novel in Little Rock author Ayana Gray's gripping, young-adult, pan-African, action-adventure-fanta…
This series comes to an end with "Beasts of War," the final novel in Little Rock author Ayana Gray's gripping, young-adult, pan-African, action-adventure-fanta…
Rapper Big Piph wasn't playing around when he called his 2021 EP "Far From Finished."
ARTIST TO WATCH The end of 2023 brought about all sorts of lists from websites and publications, including this one. There were lists of the year's best music,…
The three ghostbusters arrived a few minutes ago at the Old Mill in North Little Rock and people are already calling them. Not to bust any ghosts, but to pose …
A BLUEBIRD DEBUT Christmas came a few days early this year for Parker Francis.
Surely we can agree that the greatest Christmas gift of all is a new dirt bike?
The story of Kizer, who died by suicide in 1936 while in police custody, is the subject of "Notorious Arkansas Swindler Dr. John Kizer: Medicine and Murder," a…
Little Rock artist Jeff Horton makes energetic, line-based abstract paintings and sculptures with a distinct architectural influence, which makes sense because…
It's not a comprehensive list, but will hopefully give you some ideas to keep your book lover (or even yourself) entertained in the new year and beyond.
There is music coming from the south end of the North Park Mall on John F. Kennedy Boulevard in North Little Rock.
Let's take a look back at some notable records released this year by Arkansas musicians.
"Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story," a new documentary about the man who created Madea and became a self-made writer-director-actor-entertainment mogul with…
A 'SIMPLE' SHOW A significant anniversary in Arkansas pop culture history quietly came and went earlier this month. Any thoughts on what it could have been?
In July 1986, Greg LeMond was on his way to becoming the first American to win the Tour de France. Half a world away in Little Rock, 16-year-old Brendan Quirk,…
A new mural in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was painted by a young Arkansas artist.
The Atlanta-based Jensen, who grew up in the small town of Lewellen, Neb., worked for the Democrat-Gazette from 2005-2007. He left the glamorous world of newsp…
"Mutiny in Heaven," a new documentary from Australian director Ian White, is streaming now on Amazon Prime and tells the story of the Birthday Party in all its…
The Little Rock Folk Club will welcome singer-songwriter-guitarist David Starr for a show at Hibernia Irish Tavern, but he won't be alone. The Fayetteville nat…
Perhaps you've heard of architect Charles Eames. He and his second wife, Bernice Alexandra "Ray" Kaiser, were influential Los Angeles-based designers who creat…
Abstracts, narrative pieces, folk art, landscapes, figurative images and more make up the hundreds of artworks collected by the Pryors here and at their home i…
Carolyn Muradian's children's book, "Is Being Different a Good Thing to Be?" is a family affair.
Nestled in the shadows of the towering sandstone and shale cliffs of Big Rock Quarry, below Emerald Park and not far from the Arkansas River, the North Little …
"Masters of the Air," the WWII drama from executive producers Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, will debut on Jan. 26 on Apple TV+. The limited se…
Indie dance-pop trio Gossip is back! The band announced today that “Real Power,” its first album in more than a decade, will be available March 22. “Crazy Agai…
Dan Scheiman came to Little Rock from graduate school in 2005 to be the bird conservation director at what is now the state office of the National Audubon Soci…
"In Rextrospect" is a new exhibit of work by Rex DeLoney at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in Little Rock.
On a Friday night in late October singer-songwriter Bonnie Montgomery was onstage at the Performing Arts Theater at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little …
FELINE FACE STUDY Hey, cat people. Ever wonder what your fuzzy felines are communicating when they make faces at each other?
Courtney Head volunteers on Thursdays in the Gift Shop at CARTI Cancer Center in Little Rock. Outside the shop are green, vertical signs for the store with the…
“The three individuals being honored in 2024 are a fine mix of deserving Arkansans,” said country music journalist and historian Charles Haymes in a press rele…
A violin made by an American prisoner of war in Germany is part of the new Liberation Pavilion, which opens Friday at the National World War II Museum in New O…
It came as a bit of a shock to learn that "Fiddle & Keys" is the debut album by Little Rock musical couple Cliff and Susan Erwin Prowse. The pair have been per…
Little Rock becomes a sort of Zine Ground Zero today as not one but two events are planned to celebrate the scrappy, handmade publications.
Workers at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock were busy Wednesday morning with the final tasks of installing "Whitfield Lovell: Passages."
An Arkansas music pioneer and legend is among the 250 greatest guitarists of all time, according to Rolling Stone.
Tenderly rendered portraits drawn from vintage photographs, a reconstructed room, found objects, a multisensory installation and soil piled into a mound are ju…
Symone, winner of Season 13 of "RuPaul's Drag Race" and one of the stars of the series "Avalon TV," returns to her hometown of Conway this weekend to reconnect…
After 25 years on the air in Little Rock and a life in radio that has spanned twice that long, Corey Deitz is hanging up his mic.
The arduous task of tree planting and the migrant workers who do it is the subject of "A Thousand Pines," which will screen at 3 p.m. Saturday during the Hot S…
Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock was overrun Tuesday morning with students from Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School. Dressed in period garb, they w…
Filmland, the Arkansas Cinema Society's annual celebration of movies, filmmakers and fans, moves into a new venue and stretches across six days with films that…
The 30-year-old Royals wowed the celebrity coaches with a version of John Mayer’s “Gravity” during his blind audition Monday. All four mentors — John Legend, G…
If it's early October then that must mean that the King Biscuit Blues Festival is about to get cranking on Cherry Street in downtown Helena-West Helena. This y…
It's a sunny Monday afternoon in mid-September, and Danielle Collie and Elizabeth Machen are sitting on a bench in a shaded area in front of Baptist Medical Ce…
My friend Mark returned to Helena in the summer of 1987 after a stint in the Navy and brought with him a cassette case filled with tapes of albums by bands I'd…
This week is all about books, writers and readers as 50 authors take part in the 20th edition of Central Arkansas Library System's Six Bridges Book Festival, w…
Jennifer Maune of Little Rock has made it to the final three on the Fox cooking competition MasterChef. The lifestyle blogger and mom of six faces off against …
These low-slung, open-wheel machines are capable of hitting 55 mph, and I'm surely nearing that top speed as I rocket down the track with the first of 14 turns…
NEW YORK'S POET Arkansas native Patricia Spears Jones has been named the new State Poet of New York by the New York State Writers Institute.
During her lifetime, the impressionistic Western landscape paintings of Arkansas native Effie Anderson Smith were exhibited across the Southwest and in Washing…