Eureka Springs

Ahead of his Sept. 5 set at the 79th Original Ozark Folk Festival in Eureka Springs, James McMurtry talks Kris Kristofferson, the touring economy, his new album, why he prefers playing with a band.

"Aria: Opera on the Edge" screens June 18 at Opera in the Ozarks' Inspiration Point Center for the Arts as part of the 2026 Bentonville Film Festival, followed by a live performance from soprano Cecilia Violetta López and tenor Ben Gulley.

Historian Kaylee Cook won an Arkansas Historical Association award for her research into how Gerald L.K. Smith's Christ of the Ozarks created lasting tensions between economics and values in Eureka Springs.

Eureka Springs artist Zeek Taylor talks about the 35th annual White Street Walk, the passing of co-founder Eleanor Lux, and what makes the annual art-and-street-party tradition endure.

Bill Ott, longtime marketing director for the Crescent and Basin Park hotels and 2022 Arkansas Tourism Hall of Fame inductee, died this week.

Opera in the Ozarks board chair Alice Martinson tours the new Inspiration Point Center for the Arts, a state-of-the-art theater in Carroll County that opened last May.

Choreographer Sophia Smith discusses her ballet adaptation of Eric Whitacre's "The Sacred Veil," a choral work about love, grief and loss, coming to Eureka Springs this April.

Married duo Destiny and Simon Marie of Honeysuckle Jam talk musical theater, jazz, stepping back into performing and finding home in Eureka Springs.

Fayetteville and Eureka Springs will celebrate Mardi Gras with parades, a pub and grub crawl and a masquerade ball. Organizer and musician Chaddy Kumpe Platt shares what to expect as Fat Tuesday approaches.

A conversation with ESSA's executive director Kelly McDonough about their upcoming fall studio stroll where guests can participate in several artist workshops and tour the camps' art spaces.