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Dame’s Chicken & Waffles has opened at 147 East Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, meet Dame Moore and Randy Wadsworth; Dame and Randy, Chapel Hill. They are the founders and owners of Dame’s Chicken and Waffles. Dame’s has opened in the heart of Chapel Hill in the location that formerly housed Biski’s Restaurant, and our only question is why it has taken so long. Dame’s is a […]
June 7 – June 13 Things to Do in North Little Rock
*denotes FREE admission Wednesday, June 9 *9a – 4p | North Little Rock Welcome Center open (600 Main St.) 10a – 6p | Kayak or bike tours with Rock Town River Outfitters *10:30a – 4p | North Little Rock Heritage Center open (506 Main St.) *10:40a – 7p | Rock Region Metro streetcar rides * […]
Nationally touring Green Book exhibit makes stop at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in Little Rock
The Green Book was a guide used by African American travelers to find businesses that would be welcoming to them during the volatile Jim Crow era of segregation. The travel guide was published and distributed across the country and included listings of motels, tourist homes, restaurants, service stations, and other businesses that offered safe harbor […]
North Little Rock CVB kicks off new Argenta Plaza Summer Music Series June 19
Three weekends of music, fun and outdoor dining NORTH LITTLE ROCK (June 2, 2021) – To provide free entertainment to the local community and highlight local talent, the North Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau (North Little Rock CVB) will host a free monthly Summer Music Series June – August 2021 at Argenta Plaza at […]
June 1: A Letter From NATJA’s CEO
Greetings! This is the week when NATJA will hold its first virtual conference. Thanks to all who have registered for what is scheduled to be an informative, educational, and fun event. Our conference committee members, Suzie Dundas, Helen Hatzis, Betsi Hill, Barbara Marrett and Gustavo Rivas-Solis, who met on a weekly basis, developed a program that is sure to appeal to all. Our sincere appreciation […]
2021 June Featured Journalist of the Month: Mike Howard
A penchant for travel and languages led me on for thirty years in a variety of careers – winning hearts and minds in and out of uniform military, federal, and freelance. Now exclusively freelance. I’m fluent in German and English, with survival skills in French, Haitian Creole, Russian, Standard Arabic, Swahili, Turkish and Samoan. Lately […]
Juneteenth 2021
Juneteenth commemorates the day the enslaved people in Galveston, Texas finally received the news that they were free. The news came two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, on June 19, 1865. Flash-forward almost exactly 100 years, to Chapel Hill in 1969. That’s when Howard N. Lee was elected mayor of this town. In so […]
Argenta Community Theater reopens for its 2021-2022 season
After being closed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Argenta Community Theater (ACT) at 405 Main Street in North Little Rock recently announced that it will be reopening its doors in August 2021. ACT will kick off its 2021 season with a grand re-opening celebration on Tuesday, August 17, 2021, at 7 p.m. outdoors at Argenta Plaza (510 […]
Visitor Finds Two-Carat Diamond at Crater of Diamonds State Park
Discovery made during cross-country gemstone quest (MURFREESBORO, Ark.) – It’s thrilling when hard work pays off. For years, 26-year-old Christian Liden, of Poulsbo, Wash., has wanted to find the raw materials to make his own engagement ring. He started by panning for gold around his home state. After five years, he had accumulated enough for the […]
