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Good news, baseball lovers: The 2024 Texas League season is here, and your Arkansas Travelers take the field at Dickey-Stephens Park tonight for the first time since September. If you like things that are fun, get in on this.

Recommendations to make Arkansas a more welcoming place to people of different races and backgrounds got watered down in a Natural State Advisory Council report.

Legislators took aim at corrections board members and their attorney during a lengthy and contentious meeting, which was simply another front in the ongoing battles between the governor and the Board of Corrections.

Judge says his family still plans to apply for school vouchers later.

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After five years in Arkansas, two Elite Eights, three Sweet 16s and at least two shirtless celebrations, Razorback men's basketball head coach Eric Musselman will be named the next coach at the University of Southern California, CBS Sports reports.

Student First Technologies, based in Bloomington, Indiana, won the contract to handle the finance side of school vouchers in the second year of Arkansas LEARNS. 

Good news, baseball lovers: The 2024 Texas League season is here, and your Arkansas Travelers take the field at Dickey-Stephens Park tonight for the first time since September. If you like things that are fun, get in on this.

2023's “Orpheus Descending” — his 25th studio album — was hailed as a “masterpiece, of songwriting, performances, and searing, poetic, and blunt messages” by Spin.

Kelly will discuss her new book, “Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks: The Life and Times of Lucile Morris Upton,” at noon.

Located on the third floor of Park Plaza near H&M, there'll be enough room for 11 artists. Studios range in size from 85 to 288 square feet and will be priced at $3 per square foot on a month-to-month basis.

The festival lineup includes Sean Harrison and Ozark Riviera — both of whom are based in Northwest Arkansas — as well as Blue Ridge Girls, The Well Drinkers, Bluewater Revival and Crystal Shawanda.

"Clementine saw the blackness of the moon encircled by the corona’s gossamer glow with her heart, her mind, her entire being. She saw the people around her in a different light now, too. What did they see? Could they see anything at all? Or were they blinded, confused, like the ancient Greeks, who believed the eclipse meant the sun would soon abandon the Earth, or the Chippewas, who shot flaming arrows at the sky to rekindle its celestial fire?"

The Little Rock Nine has had an immense impact, and the history is now making its way into the new Beyoncé album, "COWBOY CARTER."

This'll be Carlisle's first appearance in Little Rock since the January release of his third album, "Critterland" — a spare, open-hearted tribute to the trials of idealists, mourners, addicts, depressives and drug dealers alike.

Like to bike but don’t want to do it on your own? Dipping your toe into cycling but aren’t trying to get all hardcore about it? Pedal Party might be just the sweet spot you’ve been looking for.

“The Gloam” — Eli Cranor’s new story about a bound-for-breakup couple hawking bootleg MAGA merch in London, Arkansas, during the eclipse — debuts in the April issue of the Arkansas Times. We chatted with Cranor about his writing process, the versatility of crime fiction and how he's planning to spend the celestial holiday.

The chefs and bartenders at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts’ restaurant, Park Grill, understood the assignment. The restaurant’s new eclipse-themed menu features artfully designed food and drink specials inspired by the cosmos.

BCW (Bread Cheese Wine), chef Nathan Miller’s restaurant in downtown’s SoMa neighborhood, is making a few tweaks to its menu about six months after opening as one of the buzziest restaurants in Central Arkansas.

Korean fried chicken franchise bb.q Chicken will be opening its first Arkansas location in April in the former David’s Burgers space at 101 S. Bowman Road.

Several food trucks and the Bloodmobile donation center will be on site today at the Pulaski County Government’s first Food Truck Thursday of 2024.

After a long and well-documented odyssey, Moody Brews, the new brewery helmed by longtime Little Rock brewer Josiah Moody, is opening tonight in downtown's Pettaway neighborhood.

Starbucks employees at the Rodney Parham and Market Street store (11121 N. Rodney Parham Road) voted 12-2 to join the Starbucks Workers United, a union of more than 10,000 employees "coming together to create a better workplace for all." 

PattiCakes Bakery made an announcement on Facebook today that the bakery will not reopen following the fire in January that destroyed the company’s downtown Conway patisserie/production facility at 1137 Front St.

The Sweet Spot features wonderful ensaymada pastries, slices of cassava cake and several cookie varieties. Maybe most vibrant, though, is the use of ube, a purple yam native to the Philippines.

The effort to revive Purple Cow’s original location at 8026 Cantrell Road after it was heavily damaged by the EF-3 tornado in March of last year has encountered delays, but is “moving forward with full force,” Ken Vaughan, president of Purple Cow restaurants, said.

Camp David, the longtime downtown restaurant in Little Rock’s Holiday Inn Presidential hotel, is launching a new soul food-inspired lunch menu next week.