Real reporting: incomplete, unbalanced — but fair.
Wine and other drinking experts recommend you cozy up with a good local liquor store staff for sound advice. Popatop in Little Rock was said to be excellent for this. When we lived there years ago, She and I would ask two different clerks about, for example, which is the best non-Kahlua coffee liqueur — […]
Not to cast doubt on my communications business but here is my story. It’s anecdotal yet true: I’ve discovered craigslist. My Beloved and I have spent the summer fixing up the house we call Shady Hill, doing things we’ve meant to do for a while, some of which since we bought it in early 1999. […]
We visited family over the weekend, driving almost six hours to Warrensburg-Knob Noster, Mo. A half-dozen or so in-laws were there, for the retirement ceremony of a 25-year airman, a stepbrother-in-law. His last deployment was to Whiteman Air Force Base. The career began in fuels and ended in the branch’s financing branch, ensuring personnel and […]
This has been quite a week for culture in the Ozarks. Just a while ago KHOG interrupted ABC’s The View for a news bulletin: Was another cop shot? Last week, a couple of local stations broadcast a slain police officer’s funeral live. Today, it was to report that sources have identified the new basketball coach […]
Pinnacle Hills Promenade, the new shopping center in Rogers inspired by The Truman Show, is wonderful to mock. It features Muzak-like music via outdoor Bose speakers. It markets itself as upscale while including tenants like Payless Shoes and Dairy Queen. Sunday marked my fourth visit — and the first time My Beloved and I visited […]
(… unless the old sailor or old soldier gets insulted then you never forget that here in landlocked Arkansas it’s always half staff) Several American flags in the town of Lowell, home of the headquarters of J.B. Hunt Transport Services, have been flying half staff the last few days. Of note are two: the Northwest […]