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Stop In For Comfort Food
I had eaten breakfast at Susan’s many times, but I’d never tried lunch there. This time I did, and here’s what I found.
Roots Festival More Than Music
The Fayetteville Roots Festival isn’t just about music any more than a person is embodied in an eye, a heart, a kidney or any other singular organ. The Roots Festival is about the full living, breathing organism that is this unique Arkansas community.
Christmas Fuller Project's Final Show
The Christmas Fuller Project is releasing a new CD titled “Roman Candle Wars” just in time for the band to end. The group’s final show will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 30 at Mama Carmen’s in Fayetteville.
A Purrfect Deal
The Fayetteville Animal Shelter hopes to continue its success finding homes for cats with a “name your price” promotion. From now to Aug. 25, cats can be adopted for a minimum $5, and they will be spayed or neutered, vaccinated and implanted with a microchip.
Get Your Glass Fuller
Fuller’s ESB is a 5.9 percent alcohol ale brewed in Chiswick, England, by Fuller Smith & Turner PLC. The lighter English beers usually fall into the categories pale ale, India pale ale or IPA, bitter and extra special bitter or ESB.
Mexico’s Mennonite Surprise
A few years ago, my girlfriend and I visited the beautiful city of Merida in the Yucatan. We were surprised to see a sentence in our guidebook warning us to be on the lookout for Mennonites pedaling queso in the mercado.
Booty Rest
My wife is co-sleeping — sharing our bed — with our two children. I understand why she sleeps with our baby, who’s breast feeding, but not why my 6-year-old daughter must sleep in our bed.
The True Believers
Facebook and Twitter are the great soapboxes of our current society. We use the free media outlets, share photos, videos, quotes, songs and sometimes scripture when we feel so inclined to back up our own beliefs or, as is more often the case, to justify them.