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TheatreSquared, theater patrons celebrate new space
Looking back at the year just past is a tradition — for everyone, not just the staff of What’s Up! We do it in print because so much more happens
Silver Dollar City investing in the future
BECCA MARTIN-BROWN bmartin@nwadg.com Looking back at the year just past is a tradition — for everyone, not just the staff of What’s Up! We do it in print because so
Beer, Hymns And Fellowship
Simple concept heals hearts, creates community LARA JO HIGHTOWER lhightower@nwadg.com The Bentonville-based group Beer and Hymns is definitely on to something. Led by Ken Weatherford, Bentonville’s First United Methodist Church’s
Keen blasts off with lunar, looney Christmas show
LAURINDA JOENKS joenks@nwadg.com Robert Earl Keen grew up in Houston. In the 1960s. His high school mascot was the Apollos. It seems fitting that Keen, at the 50th anniversary of
Holiday Art Sale goes beyond Block Avenue beginnings
BECCA MARTIN-BROWN bmartin@nwadg.com Not all artists enjoy selling their work. Juli Odum happens to be one who does. “I LOVE the sales process,” she enthuses. “Shows are a lot of
Students seek collaboration in ‘Modern Folklore’
JAMES JACKSON Special to The Free Weekly Storytelling has taken many forms as it has traveled through thousands of years of human history. Civilizations have told the story of humanity
Pop-up cocktail party benefits area nonprofits
LARA JO HIGHTOWER lhightower@nwadg.com The duo behind some of Northwest Arkansas’ most popular dining and beverage establishments have announced an exciting holiday event. Hannah Withers and Ben Gitchel — owners
The Cate Brothers
Celebrating more than 50 years of music JOCELYN MURPHY jmurphy@nwadg.com Ernie and Earl Cate are notoriously difficult to get any lengthy answers from in an interview, much less a full-on
Youngsters find magic over the rainbow
LARA JO HIGHTOWER lhightower@nwadg.com It’s a cloudy, breezy fall night in October, and something unusual is going on inside the Arts Live Theatre space: A group of 35 kids, ages
Tame To Terrifying
Tonight’s the big night for candy, chills LARA JO HIGHTOWER lhightower@nwadg.com Northwest Arkansas is rich with Halloween events all through the month of October — but sometimes it can be
