Dear AR, I miss your ‘cue from the other side of the world.
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Bend the Knee to the Queen of the Inaugural Hot Springs Renaissance Faire
This first-grade teacher with the Pulaski County Special School District will be trading her dry-erase marker for a scepter when she ascends the throne to become Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth I and rule over the very first Hot Springs Renaissance Faire, Nov. 2 and 3 at the Garland County Fairgrounds.
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Welcome Mat: November 2019
TAKE YOUR TIME WITH THIS Songs for the Broken Hearted: An exhibition of the photography of Brandon Markin In the age of social media and influencers, Instagram isn’t so much a window into people’s lives as it is a full-blown immersion. Marriages, births, elation, frustration, high points, low points—we see entire lives unfold from the…
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From The Editor: The November 2019 Issue
Arkansas’ Civil War Within a Civil War
WHEN MOST PEOPLE talk about Arkansas’ role in the Civil War, they’re usually focused on the battles, such as Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, says Brian Robertson, senior archivist and manager of the Research Services Division of the Butler Center of Arkansas Studies in Little Rock. Less discussed, however, is the impressive number of Arkansans who,…
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A Writer Ventures Back to The Land That Made Her
“I have come home to rest in the valley that divides the Ozark Mountains, to put my bare feet on the knot in the wood floor where I was born. I have traveled 1,470 miles from Mexico City, where I live as an adult, to arrive in Oark, my childhood hometown.”
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For the Historic Record
In January 2008, when the old Gazette building in downtown Little Rock was getting prepped for renovation, a massive collection of photographs and negatives was discovered in the basement. Although they’re limited in the story they can tell, offering but a snapshot, a brief glimpse into the lives of people who appear within their frames, they’re still important—they’re still history.
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A Deep Dive into The King’s Arkansas Ties
Casing The Crescent Hotel
A forthcoming comic book take on the Crescent Hotel’s mysterious past has us positively spooked.
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Revisiting Donald Harington’s Stay More
A new collection of Donald Harington’s nonfiction shines much-deserved light on the Arkansawyer novelist.
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One Take: On the Road, A Study
In which we gave photographer Linda Henderson a Polaroid, eight frames of film and one take to get the shot.
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