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Five Minutes, Five Questions – Alyssa Galvan

Alyssa Galvan has a voice of someone twice her age — and the guitar chops to go with it. The Joplin, Mo., teen was kind enough to sit down with

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Community comes together: Advocates remember Black history

Antoinette Grajeda Special to The Free Weekly Growing up in southeast Fayetteville in the 1960s and ’70s, Tommie Flowers Davis felt a sense of community within her historically Black neighborhood.

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Magic In The Air: ‘Zirkus’ highlights Kids Fest at Silver Dollar City

“My mom was walking the wire still when she was 6 months pregnant with me, so circus has been a part of my life since before I was born,” says

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A Walk On The Wild Side: Dogwood Canyon adds one more majestic sight

In the middle of a 10,000-acre paradise — one that gives people a chance to discover the natural beauty of the Ozark Mountains and to interact with nature close up

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Habitat equals life: Historic Cane Hill takes a walk on wild side

Lynn Kutter and April Wallace Colorful sculptures of grasshoppers, praying mantises and caterpillars are now set against the limestone bluffs in the historic community of Cane Hill. Down the trails

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Thirty And Thriving: Jazz in Bloom celebrates music and its fans

Flowers won’t be the only thing blooming in the garden when the annual Jazz in Bloom concert starts at 6 p.m. May 15 at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks.

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ArtRageous In Eureka: Old faves, new fun come with return of May festival

Executive Director Kelly McDonough might be understating the situation when she says Eureka Springs School of the Arts “has been extremely fortunate to have come through the pandemic with great

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Mountaintop Music: Festival on The Farm combines ‘stars’ and ‘sauce’

Music and astronomy are getting together again this year. The Stars and Sauce star gazing party and music festival returns April 29-30 at the Farm in Eureka Springs. The two-day

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Meg Medina’s stories for all: Immigrant past shaped multicultural future

The pains of growing up are universal, but they can also exist as a meeting space in our global community by listening to each other’s stories. From friends moving away

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Voices Of History: Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder resonates today

When Laura Ingalls Wilder first published “Little House in the Big Woods,” things had begun to change slowly for women at the time. The 19th amendment was 12 years old,