I MAY HAVE made a terrible mistake. I have come to the small town of Hardy—population 772—on a Sunday. In the rain. With my city-born and -bred 14-year-old. “I just want something to happen today,” Avery said on the 2 1/2-hour drive here from central Arkansas, and I don’t think buckets of water falling from the sky and an almost completely shuttered town qualify as “happening.”
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I HAVE ANXIOUSLY looked forward to my Saturday escape to Clarksville; my husband, Dave, has been getting on my last nerve all week. After 22 years of marriage, sometimes all I can see are the dirty clothes on the floor and unwashed dishes in the sink and those stupid water spots dotting the bathroom mirror…
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In Bywater—one of New Orleans’ oldest neighborhoods, situated just east of the French Quarter—quirkiness quite literally comes with the territory.
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From science-fiction fodder to hot-button political-military topic, the evolution of drones over the past several years has been both fascinating and fast—and here in Arkansas, no one knows this better than Robert Davis of aerial video production company Arkansas Aerials.
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THE LONDON Bach Choir’s just finished telling me I can’t always get what I want as I finally, thank goodness, get to some hills just outside Batesville. U.S. 167 North had been mind-numbingly flat for so long, the Stones were the only source of entertainment for this Boston Mountains-bred girl. I don’t know if rolling…
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A decade ago, there wasn’t much doing on this blighted stretch of Greenville Avenue. Now it’s a can’t-miss for foodies and, quite possibly, your new favorite Dallas neighborhood
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Daily, we drool over their Instagram feeds, wondering how these Arkansas photographers’ nature shots capture The Natural State so perfectly, so vibrantly, and ours … don’t. So we wanted to know: What does it take to get the shot?
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Searcy. Home of Harding University. Seat of White County, and its largest city at 24,318 souls. Home of Gov. Mike Beebe. Holder of two Arkansas superlatives: the oldest known church building still standing (Smyrna Methodist) and the oldest Arkansas courthouse still being used for its original purpose. These facts? They don’t exactly portend a people inclined to rest.
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