Travel

The Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday on Monday shines a spotlight each January on Black American history and the continuing efforts to achieve racial equ…

Jostling with enthusiastic eaters at the bar, I munch on my last spider crab open-face sandwich. A tiny plate of toothpicks is all that's left of my meal.

The winter swan dives at Magness Lake are not performed by daredevil humans braving the chilly waters. The maneuvers, as much a dip as a dive, are a feeding te…

By the time I discovered the Takahik outing on Facebook, it had already maxed the 18-hiker limit.

New Year's resolutions are made to be broken. But here's one that can be fulfilled on the first day of the year, before any impulse to improve starts fading aw…

As the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts prepares to open its visually striking Little Rock complex in April, the Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis, some two hours no…

This holiday season, when even occasional Christian worshippers are likely to head to church, is an apt time to remember the vital roles that Black congregatio…

In one of William Shakespeare's indelible lines, Juliet says that "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

Two big new exhibits have opened this month at the Museum of Discovery to highlight the Little Rock attraction's ongoing recovery from the destructive flooding…

The tragic Trail of Tears weaves a spider web of routes across Arkansas, as marked by the many commemorative signs along hundreds of miles of highways across t…

The photograph just outside the National Civil Rights Museum's gallery displaying "A Better Life for Their Children" personifies the multigenerational impact o…

Stacked in boxes on tables at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center are dozens and dozens of enlarged photographs. Part of a special exhibition, they depict ordinary…

Rarely if ever does The New York Times mention an Arkansas small town — much less mention it in the same breath as a metropolis like Chicago or Seattle. But Mo…

The new state of Arkansas' first governor, James Sevier Conway, ran a low-key election campaign in 1836. He felt uncomfortable making speeches or greeting vote…

The Spa City is still some distance from filling all its outdoor walls with public art. But the proliferation is proceeding apace as Hot Springs moves to the f…