Thursday’s Sagittarius new moon — the last of 2012 — prepares us for Winter Solstice and the Festival Week of the New Group of World Servers. Uranus becomes stationary direct (4.37 Aries) Thursday. The New Age is right on schedule. In the sky Thursday and Friday are the Geminids meteor showers (possibly 50 an hour)…
Staff Report Fayetteville might not be one of the first places you’d think of as a high-tech hub, but it is among the fastest-growing metro areas for high-tech jobs in the country. From 2010 to 2011, the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers area saw an 8.6 percent increase in the number of high-tech jobs created, one of the top…
By Christopher Lawrence With its short bursts of slightly rude nostalgia, “A Christmas Story” just may be the perfect holiday movie. But if you see it one more time, you just may shoot your own eye out. And the next time a bell rings and an angel gets his wings, there’s a very real chance…
By Terrah Baker It’s not easy to determine what a good profit margin is for a cooperative business model, because every co-op is different, and financial circumstances change each year, said Dan Nordley, executive director and business manager for Cooperative Grocer Network. He also serves on a board in Michigan for the Seward Co-op Grocery…
By Amanda Bancroft We want to be in good standing with Mother Nature when we install floors into our earthbag home. So we chose cork flooring — the same material used in making corks for wine bottles. Ironically, neither Ryan nor I drink alcohol, but we’ll be walking on cork sometime soon! What made us…
Winter Market! The Fayetteville Farmers’ Market announced the addition of a winter market at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks. Beginning Saturday and continuing through March, the market will be open every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with your favorite market vendors offering fresh produce, meats, eggs, baked goods and fine arts and…
By Rachel Birdsell The War on Christmas has revved back up and this year, it seems to be uglier than ever. I know that some of you may deny there is a war happening. You’ll throw out your silly anecdotes about how some logical people only want to keep nativity scenes off government property, but…
By Terrah Baker At first glance, the outside of Nightbird Books hasn’t changed much since moving to its location on Dickson Street about six years ago. Take a closer look, and some significant differences begin to appear. The acronym “BHK” is missing from the turquoise sign in front of “Cafe,” and the breezeway that sits…
By Amy Alkon Two years ago, after dating a wonderful lady for a year, I married her and moved in with her. The problem is her 23-year-old son. He lives with us, has never held a job, doesn’t go to school and does nothing but eat, sleep and poop. I’ve worked since I was 14,…
By Terrah Baker As a Christian and an American, Bryce Napier has heard the story behind Christmas many times in his life. But one day he had some ideas of the familiar story in a not-so-familiar way. “I wanted to do a Christmas story that focused on the spiritual warfare that was discussed in the…