Dec 17, 2025 | Community Voices, Far Out Stars, Featured Businesses
There’s something quietly revolutionary about dating your own town—about choosing curiosity over routine and realizing that romance doesn’t always require a plane ticket. Sometimes, it’s waiting just down the road, disguised as a croissant, a book spine, or a...
Dec 16, 2025 | Community Voices, Far Out Stars
We are pleased to welcome Meredith Mashburn, an established and revered photographer, as a new Star Shopper contributor. We look forward to her contributions! Here’s some info about Meredith: Meredith Mashburn is an acclaimed photographer based in Northwest...
Dec 14, 2025 | Far Out Stars
You have probably heard of or already learned about this poet who recently passed. For me, sadly, they didn’t make my radar until their passing. But now that I have found them, I am obsessed. My, they are this time period’s Shakespeare, or James Baldwin, or...
Dec 11, 2025 | Far Out Stars
Stories That Stand Up, Speak Out, and Refuse to Be Silenced When I settled into my seat at the Bentonville Film Festival this year, I knew I was about to see a documentary about librarians, free speech, and book bans. What I didn’t expect was to feel the ground shift...
Nov 30, 2025 | Far Out Stars, Music
Once again, the Arkansas Bluegrass & Strings Festival in Springdale brought people together from all corners of the region: families, old-time musicians, first-time festival-goers, kids with fiddles taller than they are, and elders who’ve been carrying these tunes...
