Mini Golf Tournament — Sponsored by the Springdale Lions Club, 8 a.m., Lokomotion. $10; kids welcome. 973-3099. Public Garden Days — With a plant sale 8 a.m.-1 p.m., children’s author Dawn Denton reading 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. & educational stations for kids from Crystal Bridges 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Compton Gardens in Bentonville. 273-9664. Spring Plant Sale [...]
View PostThe US Department of Human Services and the Affordable Care Act provided Community Clinic with a grant to help renovate and expand their health center in Springdale. Community Clinic providers integrate primary care and dental services. The clinic will receive $500,000 to renovate space and expand their family practice and dental clinics in Springdale. This [...]
View Post health careThis weekend is wildly busy with the opening of the new Hudson River school exhibit at Crystal Bridges, crafts fairs and festivals. Here’s the Reader’s Digest condensed version: Crafts Fair Weekend — At War Eagle Mill (today-Sunday), Sharp’s Show (today-Sunday), Spring Craft Extravaganza (Saturday on the Fayetteville square and Sunday at the Botanical Garden), Ozark [...]
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Happy Cuatro de Mayo! That’s the fourth of May, for those of you interested. That leads us to the fifth of May, and the more popular Cinco de Mayo. Which leads us to a full weekend of music.
View Post egyptr, keith-nicholson, moore, music, nwa music news, perpetual werewolf, saturday, werewolfTelevision viewers in the U.S. have more choices than ever, both in terms of how and where they tune in and in what they watch. In the first of a three-part insight series, Nielsen looked at viewership and advertising across five traditional primetime genres and found that dramas account for the largest share of viewership, [...]
View Post advertising, TVMichael Pollan doesn’t want people to worry about what they eat. He just wants them to make wise choices. To that end, Pollan — who will speak tonight as part of the Artosphere kickoff event at the Walton Arts Center — has come up with a few simple rules. Among them are: • Don’t eat [...]
View PostKathy and Rev. Lowell Grisham, from left, David Williams, Alzheimer’s Association Northwest Arkansas Leadership Council member, and Sandy Edwards, deputy director of museum relations at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, were among the guests at the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Gala May 1. See more on the event in this Sunday’s Our Town section.
View PostThe annual Beale Street Music Festival returns to Tom Lee Park in downtown Memphis, Tenn., starting Friday. Part of the larger Memphis In May event, the festival will include artists like Jane’s Addiction, pictured, My Morning Jacket, Florence + Machine and dozens more. Tickets range from $32.50 for a one-day ticket or $75 for a [...]
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Bret Michaels Exactly two months to the day that Bret Michaels was last in the area, he returns for a show at Neumeier’s Rib Room in Fort Smith. Michaels and his band were last here for the Kiss a Pig Gala, performing an abbreviated set to the gala crowd.
View Post band, bret michaels solo gig, bret-michaels, may-3-at-the-rib-room, music, music industry news, music-industry, neumeier, nwa music news, reminders, smithHanna’s Candle Company sold its plant at 2700 S. Armstrong Ave. in Fayetteville, but will continue manufacturing and distribution there. The sale is a strategic way to reduce the size of Hanna’s operations, according to a company news release. Hanna’s has a longterm lease with the new owners for 50 percent of the plant. The [...]
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