Marisha Boedigheimer DiCarlo
Here's Junior League President Marisha DiCarlo walking the halls of the headquarters, the halls of the Arkansas Department of Health, the finish line of the Do…
Here's Junior League President Marisha DiCarlo walking the halls of the headquarters, the halls of the Arkansas Department of Health, the finish line of the Do…
At the end of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, where it becomes 36th Street, there's a sharp turn and a ravine to the right. It's difficult to see, but over the g…
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes held its annual spring fundraiser April 28, this time at The Church at Rock Creek in west Little Rock, and on the heels of…
A lean chicken thigh, orzo salad and fruit on a bed of kale, and behind this plate lunch, sugar cookies in the shape and paint of a rainbow and a cloud because…
I just love a good horse race. The majesty, the money, the muddying and whinnying. Er, that should be the mudslinging and whining.
Arkansas Baptist College served up a white-clothed supper and a funky soul set by the Bar-Kays ("Holy Ghost") and Lakeside ("The Fantastic Voyage") at this yea…
The preview party for the ninth Sculpture at the River Market took place April 22 under the River Market pavilions, and about 400 showed up to eat and aesthete.
Billy Corgan's vocals reverberated around North Little Rock's Verizon Arena at the Smashing Pumpkins show Saturday, the frontman doing his tenor best to fill t…
There was a rainbow in the southern sky over War Memorial Stadium about 7 p.m. April 14. This was at the 12th Ragin' Cajun crawfish boil for CARTI. Folks cooed…
The initial party for the upstart Party With a Heart got hearts racing inside the Argenta Community Theater. The brainchild of local nonprofit board member Tif…
Over lunch at Brave New Restaurant -- I, the pecan-encrusted rainbow trout filet; she, the chef's salad -- Shayla Copas tells me the second Woman of Inspiratio…
The big Fund a Cure drive (100 percent research, 100 percent tax deductible) at the first Imagine for JDRF (formerly Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund) raised $1…
You might say Jon Meacham met each 'em when he came through April 4 and 5. The author of biographies of Presidents Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson and, most r…
So many stories begin with an email and end with a keystroke. If in between a reporter finds himself on U.S. 61 headed north to Blytheville, that's unusual.
Opera in the Rock, the nonprofit determined to give the capital city a bit of professional opera on a semi-regular basis, made about $9,000 at its Fools Rush I…
Ever wonder how your iPhone works? I mean How. It. Works. The real-time voice in my ear, the live ballgame on my screen, the itty-bitty edge trimmer that makes…
It was 100 years ago when the city's first Lions Club formed in Little Rock, and almost immediately it set out to raise money for rat eradication. True story, …
Alzheimer's Arkansas celebrated three of its most pivotal caretakers -- "advocates" -- at an Easter week celebration late last month at the Clinton Presidentia…
Remember the plot of Ghostbusters II? (Oh, what? You remember it. You've seen it a bunch.) The spirit of a Carpathian warlord and a river of hot pink ectoplasm…
The House had its ringer (Cory Cooperwood), and the Senate did, too (Brandon Friedel), and together they helped stuff a sweet fundraising pot for two kids' cha…
There's this repeating charity auction item that Helaine Williams, Cary Jenkins and I have been talking about. It's a one-week stay at a villa in Costa Rica --…
The kiddos get Schoolhouse Rocks Live! through Friday at the Arkansas Arts Center Children's Theatre, but the center wisely pulled back the curtain on a school…
Paula Juels Jones fought back tears during her acceptance speech, and pitcher A.J. Burnett fought back a dart for fellow 2009 World Series starting pitcher Cli…
The American Red Cross of Greater Arkansas recognized more than a dozen Arkansans "for their lifesaving work" at a luncheon awards program presented by law fir…
Gordon Wittenberg is 94. He's a bit, a bit, younger than the historic Little Rock architecture firm that bears his name.
As Arkansas Children’s Hospital’s chief strategist, Dr. Rob Steele is the one responsible for the hospital’s plans to build its first second hospital in Spring…
Ahh, the Scottish, infectiously bold in their tartans and whisky, ritualistic yet irreverent as all get-out. This helps explain why several staff members of Ly…
A gathering of armchair art historians joined drawings curator Ann Prentice Wagner for an erudite introduction to watercolorist Charles Burchfield's Black Iron…
The main event in fundraising last year wasn't an event at all. At least, not any event like those that fill these pages.
Harding University celebrated Black History Month with, among other things, an American Studies Distinguished Lecture Series panel discussion on race.
Untapped, the city's professional tap dance company, held its second eponymous fundraiser Feb. 19 at Ron Robinson Theater. More than 100 people turned out to s…
Maddye Plascensia arrived at the photo shoot Manhattan-sensible -- a Liz Lemon-inspired shirt-sweater combo and calf-high black leather boots. In a place like …
A quartet of Arkansas "businessmen" -- including a woman and a transformative Arkansas governor -- were honored with induction into the state's Business Hall o…
Millions of people know Rebecca Wells. The Alexandria, La., native's second book, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, sold millions and was turned into a m…
"Young Paul [Bunyan] grew so big that his parents did not know what to do with him. Once, Paul rolled over so much in his sleep that he caused an earthquake. T…
When medical professionals want to evaluate your sleep, they turn to polysomnography, a big ol' Hellenic compound that means "sleep study."
Among the inexpensive or free sleep apps used for this story -- Sleep Cycle, Sleep Better, SleepBot, Sleep Talk and Go! to Sleep -- the most entertaining and r…
It was a guy's night out for sure. Cocktails in the VIP lounge. Lots of back slapping. Steaks for dinner. Jokes a-plenty. Of course, it was all for the women, …
Car dealers think a lot about saturation. Open a Ferrari dealership in Little Rock and people pump their fists. "We're finally Dallas!" Open two more and your …
The Arkansas Bar Association hosted an evening reception the first night of its midyear meeting, which takes place in January.
The 35th bonanza of bouillabaisse!
It was a cold night, and CHI St. Vincent hospital staff had trucked in golf carts to whisk dinner guests inside the Clinton Presidential Center, lest they get …
The state's ALS Association held its fundraiser kickoff luncheon Jan. 21 at the Capital Hotel. Jim Bailey, representing the presenting sponsor, Arkansas Blue C…
Whitney Patterson Where I live: the Central High School Neighborhood Historic District
Ooo, that lamestream media is up to its tricks! All the health stories this year are hatin' on sugar, the stuff of soda fountain romances and ice cream socials…
More than a hundred people turned out Tuesday to hear a nonarchitect present at the monthly lecture series sponsored by Architecture and Design Network.
Elizabeth Elango Bintliff is charismatic. She’s sharp and happy and traveled, so after a bit, when she makes a bombastic prediction, it’s all nods around the t…
It was perhaps a bit more somber, this Legacies and Lunch with David Pryor, coming as it did just days after the death of his contemporary in the U.S. Senate a…
MEMPHIS -- The night before the University of Arkansas Razorbacks sullied Kansas State University's perfect .500 season, administrators, board members and VIPs…
MEMPHIS -- Is it premature to say our Hogs own the Liberty Bowl? Um, yes. We've come through twice since 2010 and won both times, but there were those two stin…