Sean Clancy | Staff

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PAPER TRAILS Preparing for King Biscuit Blues Festival is made easy with a long Spotify playlist 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 year's festival starts with the Bu... October 1, 2023

Bolo Bash co-chairs bring fresh ideas to fundraiser 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 Center. The two friends -- they met whi... October 1, 2023

Color us impressed 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 never heard of. One of them was &quo... September 29, 2023

Christian Cooper, Maureen Corrigan, Monica Potts among Six Bridges Book Festival presenters 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, which begins Monday and ends Oct. 1.Fo... September 24, 2023

Little Rock’s Jennifer Maune one of three finalists on Fox's “MasterChef” 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 Grant Gillon of Altoona, Iowa, and Kenned... September 20, 2023

Racing heart meets reality on the curves at Central Arkansas Karting Complex I'm just a little nervous as I pull onto the track at Central Arkansas Karting Complex near Vilonia on a recent Friday afternoon. I'm strapped into a Sodi RT10 rental kart, and as I accelerate... September 17, 2023

OPINION | PAPER TRAILS: New York’s new poet laureate is a native Arkansan 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.Jones, who has lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., since the early ... September 17, 2023

Southwest painter Effie Anderson Smith’s impressionistic landscapes finally tour her native Arkansas During her lifetime, the impressionistic Western landscape paintings of Arkansas native Effie Anderson Smith were exhibited across the Southwest and in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York City... September 10, 2023

OPINION | PAPER TRAILS: Arkansas author releases book of short stories about life on the Delta The new book by Arkansas author Denise White Parkinson continues her mission of telling the stories of the people who lived on the lower White River in the early part of the 20th century."The Riv... September 10, 2023

Emo group Everyone Asked About You lives on in newly released 2 LP set A few years ago John Beachboard decided to sell one of his copies of the self-titled EP by Little Rock emo band Everyone Asked About You. The group, founded in 1996 by teenagers Lee Buford, Chris Shep... September 8, 2023