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Some Pain, All Gain
Athletes overcome medical challenges to win CHIP SOUZA csouza@nwadg.com Sawyer Price could hear the loud pregame music pumping through Tiger Arena in Bentonville as he hurried to his car. With
Anything But A Drag
TheatreSquared comedy has serious things to say LARA JO HIGHTOWER NWA Democrat-Gazette Matthew Lopez’s “The Legend of Georgia McBride” can be deceptive. On its face, the play is a wacky
Music That Feeds The Soul
Rackensak is ‘medicine for your heart’ RACHEL FIELDS Special to The Free Weekly Anyone who has ever driven down I-49 has seen the many flashy screens and signs that lets
Five Minutes, Five Questions: Bryan Hembree, Roots Fest
BECCA MARTIN-BROWN bmartin@nwadg.com Hard as it may be to imagine, it’s been 10 years since musicians Bernice and Bryan Hembree and chef Jerrmy Gawthrop put their heads together to plan
‘Handshakes And Hope’
Springfest seeks return to simpler times on Dickson BECCA MARTIN-BROWN bmartin@nwadg.com In the 36 years since it was founded in 1983, Springfest has happened 34 times, in spite of weather
High Fashion
From bikers to brides, NWA is stylin’ LARA JO HIGHTOWER lhightower@nwadg.com Since rebooting Northwest Arkansas Fashion Week in 2017, executive director Robin Wallis Atkinson has approached each subsequent run with
‘A Bigger, Better Pie’
South By Southeast offers art and a beautiful country drive BECCA MARTIN-BROWN bmartin@nwadg.com Val Gonzalez is “a proponent of the idea that rather than each struggling for a perceived slice
Good Versus Evil
APT’s ‘Stupid Kid’ offers a lot to think about BECCA MARTIN-BROWN bmartin@nwadg.com Too bad you can’t see “Stupid Kid” without the “hard R-rated” language. But don’t let it scare you
Present-Day Prose
Theatre company modernizes The Bard JOCELYN MURPHY NWA Democrat-Gazette The bold and inventive Aquila Theatre Company that The New York Times calls a “classically trained, modernly hip troupe” returns to Fayetteville March
Popular Demand
APT announces season BECCA MARTIN-BROWN bmartin@nwadg.com Ed McClure loves a secret. Actually, when this story was written, he had eight secrets — the eight shows he was planning to announce March 1
