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LIVE! Music: Jerron Paxton, Jontavious Willis, Robert Kimbrough Sr., Nekosee Fields Trio and Rising Stars Fife & Drum headline Arkansas Country Blues and Stringband Festival

Folklorist Rachel Reynolds and the Music Education Initiative have partnered together to bring a special weekend of music, learning and community to Fayetteville. “We’ve got several Grammy-nominated [and] Grammy Award-winning

Theater

AOP’s ‘Teen Dad’ Nov. 2-5 centers on healing in BIPOC family

Playwright Adrienne Dawes found inspiration for her play “Teen Dad” in bad theater. “The big thing of that play was that the daughter was a Democrat, and I thought, ‘man,

8 Days a Week

8 Days A Week

Oct. 26 (Thursday) Motion Is Lotion — Movement that soothes, 10 a.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org. Artist Demo — Wren of Talisman Hall, 10:30 a.m., Terra Studios in Durham.

Music

NWA Ballet Theatre brings multimedia horror story ‘Dracula’ to Eureka Springs, Springdale

For decades after Bram Stoker’s alleged fascination with an actor inspired the monster Dracula, the character itself has been reimagined time and again for the screen and stage. However, after

LIVE! In NWA

LIVE! Music: Willi Carlisle drops new song, Soccer Mommy comes to Bentonville and Pop Evil haunts the River Valley

“If we allow ourselves to sing together, there’s a release of sadness, maybe even a communal one,” says Willi Carlisle. “And so for me personally, singing — like the literal

Theater

JBU seeks humanity in ‘creepy, kooky’ ‘Addams Family Musical’ Oct. 27

“Wednesday Addams is so iconic and yet strangely nuanced — especially in this show,” says Madison Cartmill, who portrays the character this Halloween season at John Brown University. “She’s 18

8 Days a Week

8 Days A Week

Oct. 19 (Thursday) War Eagle Fair — 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 19-21; 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 22, 11037 High Sky Inn Road in Hindsville. Admission free; $5 parking. wareaglefair.com. War

Music

Sailor Moon’s Jennifer Cihi comes to BentonvilleCon Oct. 28

Not long after high school, in the early 1980s, Jennifer Cihi landed a job at Tokyo Disney. It was there that she was introduced to Japanese anime, defined as “a