Eric E. Harrison

Shorty Small's has taken over the food service at Bark Bar & Grille, 1201 S. Spring St, Little Rock.

Juneteenth is now an official federal holiday, since 2021, marking the day — June 19, 1865 — that federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that, two and a half years following the signing by President Abraham Lincoln of the Emancipation Proclamation, all enslaved people in the former Confederate state were free.

In case you missed the news last week, André Poirot, executive chef at the Clinton Presidential Center and a beloved and respected figure on the Central Arkansas hotel and restaurant scene for more than two decades, died on Friday. He was 67.

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FUN Little Rock's Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 501 W. Ninth St., anchors the 17th annual Juneteenth in Da Rock street festival, all day

Aug. 10 is the deadline for Northwest Arkansas visual artists to submit works to Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center for the sixth annual “Our Art, Our Region, Our Time” group art exhibition.

Chad Bradford has been in and out of the door at what was once the Arkansas Arts Center and is now the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts for more than 15 years.

Country singer Ella Langley, extending her "Dandelion Tour" by 21 dates, headlines a concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22, at North Little Rock's Simmons Bank Arena.

When a news release arrived last week, with the subject line reading, "Flying Fish Adds Tinned Fish and Vienna Sausages for Summer 'Surf N' Turf' Special," it sounded kind of fishy.

Wing It Forward has a mid-July target to open into the former Tuesday Morning space, next door to Whole Hog Cafe, in the Riverdale Center, 2516 Cantrell Road, Little Rock.