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FORMAT Festival returns for second year featuring Alanis Morissette, LCD Soundsystem, Leon Bridges and more

Alanis Morissette, LCD Soundsystem and Leon Bridges are set to headline the second FORMAT Festival — “For Music + Art + Technology” — Sept. 22-24 at the Momentary contemporary art

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Playwrights bring the words, actors bring the voices to monthly workshop

You don’t have to be a published playwright to get involved in the Arkansas Playwrights Workshop — although you’ll meet plenty of them. Neither do you have to be an

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Cori Keller grew up to be Miss Arkansas; listen to a podcast with her here

It’s a safe bet that anybody who watched the Miss Arkansas Pageant June 10 remembers Cori Keller. During the onstage conversation among the five finalists, Keller, competing with the Miss

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SoNA E.D. Nicholson performs July 6 prior to departure for West Coast

It wasn’t intended as a going away party, but Riley Nicholson’s “Mindful Minimal” performance July 6 — part of the Trillium Salon Series at Crystal Bridges Museum — gives him

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NWA and River Valley celebrate Pride Month in June

Pride Month events will continue throughout June. Many events are planned for the end of June to commemorate the very first Pride Parade held in New York City on the

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Author starts True Crime Fest NWA to help solve murders

If you’ve ever had the itch to go to CrimeCon, but didn’t have the budget for the tickets or the travel, you are in luck. True Crime Fest Northwest Arkansas

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Dance, Sing, Share: Dancer helps others fight back against Parkinson’s

Allyssa Riley says she is a “rarity” in Northwest Arkansas. She is a native of Rogers — and she is perhaps the only one who teaches her particular kind of

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Visitors to Crystal Bridges invited to discuss what American flag means to them

When visitors arrive to the latest focus exhibit at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, a prompt will greet them: “What does the flag of the United States mean to

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Fire in the Hole celebrates its final season at Silver Dollar City

It is the end of two eras at Silver Dollar City — one for guests who love Fire in the Hole and one for travel writers who have worked with

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Rogers Short Film Fest March 3-5 includes mystery by Sheila Webb Pierson

It must have been a strange courtship for Sheila Webb Pierson and Jim Burroughs. They spent at least part of it writing a novel about a skull Burroughs found in