The doors of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas have only been open for 3 years, but already this locale has become known all over the world as a prominent showcase for artists such as Norman Rockwell, James Turrell, and Georgia O’Keeffe. Everyone from the Huffington Post to the New York […]
Visitors to Alma, Arkansas were seeing green last weekend – literally! On Saturday, the city that bills itself as the “Spinach Capital of the World” hosted its 28th annual Spinach Festival. Yep, it was a full day dedicated to the slimy green stuff that Popeye credits for giving him strength. We went last year, as […]
“Thank you, thank you very much!” Last Saturday was a warm, beautiful day — perfect weather for enjoying the Chaffee Crossing Spring Festival and the Sixth Annual Elvis Haircut Day just outside Fort Smith, Arkansas. The what?? Yep, there’s actually a festival dedicated to celebrating the king AND the most famous haircut of the 1950s. […]
There might have been some crazy thick fog rolling into the River Valley area close to my home early this week, but there was no way I was going to let it keep me from attending the 40th annual Arkansas Governor’s Conference on Tourism — and its keynote speaker (and my old time crush!) […]
A couple of weeks ago, I spent a “whirlwind weekend of fun” at Rogers, AR. And I’ll be blogging about all the highlights in the next couple of days. But the main reason I went was to meet up with some new friends to celebrate my birthday by watching a live production of Les […]
In between our blasts of wintery weather, I recently made the drive over to one of my all-time favorite places for fried and baked and smothered and “everything-else’d” chicken – the AQ Chicken House in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Although there was a large menu of mouth-watering choices, I stuck with my usual: a special bit of […]
Over the holidays, I was excited to check out the Movie Lounge, a Fort Smith, Arkansas movie theater that bills itself as “a triple feature” of fine dining, fun, and film. I had read that Chef Blythe Beck, from the Oxygen Channel’s Naughty Kitchen TV show, had taken over cooking duties at the Lounge and […]
This past Saturday I went to the most glorious, best smelling food competition ever. The first annual Bacon Bowl was presented by Petit Jean Meats in Fayetteville, AR. And the star of the show was bacon in all sorts of different forms. This cooking competition had both entrée and dessert categories – but all dishes […]
Crater of Diamonds State Park Is Both Family- AND Dog-Friendly For 3 years, my real Dad has been talking wistfully about wanting to drive down from Kansas and try his hand at digging for diamonds here in Arkansas. It was soon after I moved to this state from Florida that he first heard about Crater […]
Although the weather is still pretty hot around here in Arkansas’ River Valley, there’s one thing I always look forward to as a sweet promise of Fall and cooler days ahead – the return of pumpkin spice flavors. And this year, that flavor seems more popular than ever. Along with the return of Braum’s pumpkin […]
