Walton Arts Center this week announced plans to host shows next month, with roots artist Paul Thorn coming to the venue on Dec. 3, and jazz act the Emmet Cohen Trio set to perform on Dec. 5.

Art Ventures, formerly the Fayetteville Underground, recently announced that the group will relocate to the Putman House at 20 S. Hill Street this winter.

After a brief closure to repaint the big screen, the 112 Drive-in has reopened for an extended season this year.

Movie nights at Walton Arts Center will continue through the end of November.

The Fayetteville Visitors Bureau this week announced plans for a second pop up patio lounge.

One of Fayetteville's favorite bands will reissue a spruced up version of their their debut album next month.

Click through this slideshow of lovely gifts. all found in local establishments. Please shop locally this holiday season! Contact any of these fine establishments if you prefer shopping remotely or need help with shipping or remote pick-up. Our HOMETOWN merchants are here to care for their customers. Let's care for them by shopping with our neighbors and friends. 

Shoppers discovering OhSoBoho Boutique in downtown Fort Smith probably will never suspect two facts about the smiling, confident young woman behind the counter. 

Darkened Little Theatre missed by actors and audiences, but the FSLT looks ahead to when the show will go on.

The 2020 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament was one of the first major sporting events to be canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time in the history of March Madness, which began in 1939, no champion was crowned in 2020. Like other major sports, the 2020-21 NCAA Men’s basketball season will feel different with no or very few fans in the stands and other pandemic protocols in place. Here a few college basketball podcasts for fans to get ready for this [...]

Columns share an author’s personal perspective.*****We are coming up on the fourth anniversary of the release of the Nintendo Switch.Before the system’s release in March 2017, there was real concern that Nintendo might have to exit the home console business and instead start making games for PlayStation and Xbox. The Wii U console launched in 2012 and became Nintendo’s worst selling system of all time with just 13.56 million units sold.If things had gone [...]

Writer-director-producer Alan Ball has never been one to shy away from trying to make people laugh or make them grimace or shudder or think or get caught up in emotional chaos. He also has great command of dialogue. For TV, he created and wrote “Six Feet Under” and “True Blood.” His film writing credits include “Towelhead” and “American Beauty” (for which he won an Oscar).With “Uncle Frank,” he’s conjured up all [...]

Neither “Bohemian Rhapsody” - the Freddie Mercury biopic - nor “Rocketman” - the Elton John story - had been released yet when the first press release about Johnny Flynn being cast as David Bowie in “Stardust” saw the light of day. Both of those films played around with the facts while still presenting recognizable portraits of their subjects and occurrences in their lives.“Stardust,” a film purporting to be a kind of lead-up to Bowie [...]

I’m privileged to be able to say that I saw Frank Zappa’s band, The Mothers of Invention, play three times - twice with the original lineup, at the Rhode Island Auditorium (1968) and at the Boston Globe Jazz Festival (1969), and once when Flo & Eddie were members at the Fenway Theater in Boston (1971).But I’d already been a fan before that first show. Sometime near the end of 1966, I visited Krey’s Disc Shop in Braintree, Massachusetts, to buy what would be my [...]

Thanksgiving week means a lighter TV schedule, except for many, many hours of holiday programming. In non-holiday choices, a famous horse story gets reimagined and a popular romance drama returns for season two.Dispatches: Weekly TV newsFox ordered the new series, “Game of Talents.” The unscripted variety show focuses on contestants guessing performers’ hidden talents, based only on their first impressions and clues. Wayne Brady (“Let’s Make a Deal, [...]