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Fayetteville Roots Festival Elevates Ozark Culture

If there was one common thread about Fayetteville Roots Fest, it’s what the bands who come here to play all say.

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Fayetteville Roots Fest Amps Up Food and Free Programming

This year at Roots Fest, it’s the chefs and farmers of Arkansas who are the rock stars.

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Homegrown and Heart Strong: Northwest Arkansas’ First Sustainable Music Festival

Homegrown is the first green music festival to happen in Northwest Arkansas.

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Fayetteville to Vote on Public Library Expansion

Fayetteville voters will decide whether or not to increase property taxes to fund an expansion for the Fayetteville Public Library in a special election Tuesday, Aug. 9.

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Local Conference Seeks to Empower Creatives’ Business Skills

For many artists, musicians, creatives of any sort, there’s always been a stigma associated with their line of work: if they aren’t famous, they’re a starving artist.

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Organic and Fair Trade Clothing Guide: Local and Online Shopping Options Abound

Organic and fair trade certified apparel is now common enough that it’s possible to buy t-shirts on sale for less than $10 locally, or go online and become virtually overwhelmed with fashionable, practical options from too many companies to count.

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Local Bluegrass Fans Organize Homegrown Music Festival

When Harvest Fest, the popular bluegrass/folk music festival at Mulberry Mountain, cancelled in 2014 no one was quite as bummed as Jessica Sumner and her friend Jeremy Gunn.

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6 Must-See Shows This Summer

Fayetteville no doubt slows down to a leisurely pace in the summertime, but July and August are jam-packed with some stellar concerts coming up.

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Arkansas Nonprofit Empowers Child Soldiers in the Congo

After 96 hours of traveling through Ethiopia and Rwanda, tightly packed in various vehicles in central Africa’s humid heat, we walked across the border into the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Northwest Arkansas Women’s Shelter Faces Closure

A women’s shelter in Benton County needs $150,000 by the end of June or else it may have to shut down operations, effectively abandoning abuse survivors seeking refuge.