If this is your first time here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. You may also want to checkout our list of organizations and books if you want to learn more about what this site is about.Most of us who live around Fayetteville and consume a substantial amount of coffee, tea or juice (or is that just me?) go to Arsaga’s at least once a week. And for good reason. The coffee is great, and even better now that they are roasting it themselves. The atmosphere …

Recently I purchased the book The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin M. Friedman at Nightbird Books. I planned on reading it during my recovery from surgery. It has been a good read but has not quite answered the questions I had hoped it would. What I was looking for, and still am, was discussion of the title’s topic, only on a smaller scale, addressing regional concerns.

I’ve been wanting to rave in detail about Art Amiss here for a while now. And now that Miss Haley Duke (one of the Art Amiss organizers) has graciously posted a boat load of pictures, I can more easily and thoroughly rave on.
Art Amiss was started a few years ago as a one-night-only event to showcase the scads of little-known Arkansas painters, writers, fashion designers, photographers, and musicians. The event quickly blossomed into an annual gathering and then into a website, which now promulgates 131 artists and 643 …