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How would ballet dancers — whose movements we expect to be grand and long and sweeping — grapple with stuff like the Lindy Hop or the Charleston, which so often incorporate wild movements of the arms and legs in minimal square footage? (The answer: beautifully!) 

Lost Forty's annual Festival of Darkness — a grand throwdown the brewery holds to celebrate the release of its seasonal Nighty Night Imperial Stout — is on this weekend, and the live music lineup is packed.

Seratones and Joshua Asante at Stickyz, Arkansas Times' Pub or Perish, Tiko Brooks at White Water Tavern and more.

Artist Tanya Hollifield worked with Central Arkansas Water and around 70 members of the community on a new mural downtown, which doubles as a public water faucet.

Plus, 10 alternatives to seeing Morgan Wallen in concert.

The clouds are clearing and there's a lot going on in Little Rock this weekend.

Woodson Lateral is one of Central Arkansas's spookiest roads. Over the years, many tales have been told about a mysterious ghost light that no one can explain. I've seen it myself.

Ranging from seven to 21 brisk minutes, Tuesday’s short films took audiences from the Andes to Seoul, making stops at a Quapaw buffalo range and a Guatemalan teen’s cartoon reality in Los Angeles. 

Thanksgiving eve concert from Harry Styles.

Tonight at Pyramid Art, Books & Custom Framing: a talk from Cuba-born theologist Miguel de la Torre.

Whether you’re in it for the close encounters with livestock, the blue ribbon quilts or the dizzying centrifugal force of the Gravitron, you’re in luck, because the state fair is back after being canceled in 2020.

Reba McEntire is coming to Simmons Bank Arena in February.

A Six Bridges Book festival preview.

Theo Witsell is an ecologist and chief of research for the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission, and Jennifer Ogle is a botany consultant and the collections manager at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s herbarium. Witsell and Ogle are co-authors of “Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Arkansas.” Catch Witsell and Ogle at Central Arkansas Library System's Six Bridges Book Festival 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 30. 

Ayana Gray is a Little Rock resident, a “lover of all things monsters and magic,” and author of the forthcoming work of fantasy, “Beasts of Prey.” Catch her at Central Arkansas Library System's Six Bridges Book Festival, 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30. 

Comedian Tig Notaro will chair the opening night of the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, which begins tonight with a screening of "Citizen Ashe."

Little Rock native and actor Ashlie Atkinson pops up in FX's new series on the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal.

In notices for a 2009 show with late Little Rock conga player Joe Cripps, Chesne was described as “like Dr. Dre meets Johnny Cash." If the through line here is extreme songcraft coupled with unpredictable performance, there are less apt comparisons.

New video from Recognizer's "This Conversation is Echolocation."

Main Street will be closed off in Argenta this weekend from Broadway to 5th Street with tents set up for outdoor dining for the final time this year.