The open lines comes with a mildly encouraging COVID-19 reports and news of a State Police trooper injured in a chase and more photos of armed men at Capitol today

A handful of demonstrators and a lot more cops.

He did concede Donald Trump had used "aggressive language" at rally preceding riot.

It should be simple. It probably won't be.

MIght corrupt influence result in freedom for a corrupt former state legislator, son of a former U.S. senator and nephew of the Arkansas governor.

He seems to have found a positive in the Capitol riot.

At least one former police official thinks Governor Hutchinson owes Arkansas a better explanation of what two troopers did at Capitol last week,

Another big day got coronavirus.

Sen. Kim Hammer declares political war in Trumplike terms on Facebook. Not that he endorses violence, understand.

It isn't easy to get a COVID-19 shot, unless you are the governor, an elected official in Jonesboro and some other lucky souls.

A walk in the woods in the city. 

No "porkchop" for Symone.

Here — in no particular order — are 50 Arkansas artists/musicians/podcasters who, thankfully, didn't keep quiet this bizarro year. Tell us what we missed, find something you like, throw in the artist's coffers what you can to support it, and pray like hell they'll muddle through to a time when they can perform it for you in person.

We talk with Stan Liszewski of Terminal Nation about social media dysphoria, being pissed off in 2020 and his band's new record, "Holocene Extinction."

Kay Toinette Oslin, a Grammy-winning pioneer in country music and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer, died Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. She was born May 15, 1942, in Crossett, Ark., and grew up in Memphis and Houston.

From the Arkansas Cinema Society today comes news that Kody Ford, a Fayetteville resident, UCA/University of Arkansas graduate and founder of The Idle Class magazine, will become ACS' director of statewide outreach and educational programming/NWA program director.

If you’ve let this much of December go by without making a gift-giving plan, we’ve got a few suggestions, most made in Arkansas and all made to delight the recipient.

Compassion Works For All, a Little Rock-based organization that offers therapeutic programs to incarcerated people and others, is re-airing its virtual benefit concert, 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 17.

Featuring Broadway star Laura Leigh Turner ("Mean Girls"), ASO's "Home for the Holidays" concert is free to watch, streamed live from Robinson Center Music Hall, and features ASO Concertmaster Kiril Laskarov and trumpet player Ross Ahlhorn. 

Arkansas has a queen on the RuPaul runway. Go, Team Symone!

If you’re in the spirit for a new spirit this year, don’t be afraid to give bourbon a try. Here’s a beginner’s guide to help you on your way.

We talked with Jason Aamodt of Norfork Brewing Co. about brewing, business and how a member of Southern rock outfit Black Oak Arkansas ended up as the stout’s namesake and ambassador.

If that name clangs any bells, if it whispers of any hangovers past, it’s likely because of the all-too-timely product that brought an orange wave of headlines back in April 2019: Trump Tonic. (“Trump tonic will grab you by your ‘wherever,’ ” the back of the bottle reads.)

Before the pandemic, Arkansas ranked third in the nation for food insecurity rates. Feeding America estimated that by the end of 2020, an additional 160,000 Arkansans — and 1 in 3 Arkansas children — faced hunger.

The newest addition to the Minute Man relaunch is a 25-foot mobile food truck that will be stationed where Wes Hall's original Minute Man once stood, at Fourth and Broadway.

Seven meals for under $10.

Twenty years have gone by since Diamond Bear Brewing revived the art of making beer in Arkansas. In the interim, the craft brewing industry has evolved into something of a scene, with everything from sours to saisons available pretty much whenever you want, in the taproom or in the liquor store cooler. Here we’ve aimed to help you navigate those foamy waters with a selection of a few Arkansas beers worth seeking out. 

After talking with Robinson by phone for 40 minutes about Arkansas restaurants, it became clear very quickly that she’s kind of an encyclopedia on the subject. She’s written several books about the state’s food offerings, four of which serve as travel guides about where to find the best plates or pies.

Bell arrived in Nashville to take the job as executive chef at 21c Hotel's ground floor restaurant Gray & Dudley a little over a month before dining rooms started shutting down in March.

After recent employee infections over the holidays, The Fold announced on Facebook that it would revert to takeout only for the time being. The restaurant cited the recent employee infections and the rise of COVID-19 cases everywhere.