By Rachel Birdsell Last week I took some Ouija boards up to my shop in Eureka Springs to use as Halloween decorations. A couple stopped in and when the woman in the duo took one look at the boards, she turned to her male companion and said, “We can’t stay in here. They have one…
By Claire Ala An excellent playlist, windows down, music up, color changing leaves and most importantly a significant other are necessities for a destination date to the Ozark Corn Maze. The drive to neighboring Cave Springs is less than 30 minutes away from Fayetteville. The Ozark Corn Maze is enjoyable at any age, but it…
“I see this movement as a movement of movements…I think it’s really about grassroots democracy. I think it’s about people trying to create ways of expressing themselves politically because they feel that the electoral channels are closed to them.” — Professor Heather Gautney, Fordham University (via CNN) By Terrah Baker Searching through the Occupy NWA…
Dear Editor, The intent of this letter is not to argue the pros and cons of medical cannabis or to refute the myths and misgivings regarding the “weed.” It is intended to relate a personal experience that profoundly influenced my belief that cannabis is indeed beneficial in treating numerous symptoms associated with many debilitating diseases….
****Drop Quote: “The notion that it’s morally bankrupt to refrain from chasing a man is an idea out of some future gender-neutral utopia where everyone wears “Star Trek” uniforms, eats single little cubes of lunch, and grows babies in a Mason jar in their front room.” You wrote in your column, “Men, especially, are compelled…
By Joyce Hale No one likes to think they have been suckered by a snake oil sales pitch. Yet in our collective desire to avoid energy realities, too many Americans have bought into natural gasclaims that should have been questioned from the start. The industry has adopted four simple conceptsthat should be posed as questions…
By Terrah Baker In our world of hilly city streets, winding country roads and rarely earning a living next to where we actually live, we need a way to get around. Last Wednesday, companies, individuals and organizations lined up on the Fayetteville square to show off their solution to issues facing our transportation system that…
“It’s rarely discussed in the media and within our society that sexual assault in the military happens to 20 percent of women, and even more experience daily sexual and emotional harassment. I know. I was one of them.” By Terrah Baker I have a history of being truthful with The Free Weekly readers, and I…
By Terrah Baker It’s Food Insecurity Awareness month, and to celebrate Jesse Napolitano and his family are spreading awareness of their newly created independent CSA — Community Supported Agriculture. Making a full-time job of farming isn’t easy, and takes community support, which is exactly what a CSA can offer Brannon Mountain Farm. Like other CSAs,…
By Ben S. Pollock Conway is only the latest stop for the peripatetic Englishman Garry Craig Powell, but he has been teaching creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas since 2004. He walks the talk, too — his novel Stoning the Devil was released in August by the British publisher Skylight Press. Powell will…