Spotlight on Small Business

Daniel Bryant and his brother Tim are truly passionate soccer fans – so much so that they opened their Hill Station restaurant in the Heights at 4 a.m. throughout the World Cup so they could show all the games featuring…

It’s a Saturday night in Little Rock’s bustling River Market, and there are plenty of restaurants to chow down in and a couple of music clubs to get your groove on. But only one place has three entirely different experiences:…

Kevin Cottrell has been in love with music ever since he was a child. Growing up in a military family that moved from Alabama to Germany to Iowa then finally to Arkansas, he had a hard time making friends because…

Throughout his five years of renting kayaks and bicycles and leading tours for each on the Arkansas River and across Little Rock, Samuel Ellis has faced plenty of challenges. But with an indefatigable spirit and solid business sense, he’s always…

Steve and Vicki Farrell have spent 45 years making people laugh – from the cutting-edge Houston comedy scene of the late ‘70s/early ‘80s to Saturday Night Live in the mid-‘80s, off-Broadway shows and national radio exposure. But for the past…

True dog lovers wish they could bring their canine companions everywhere. Little Rock’s Bark Bar offers them the chance to enjoy creative eats and libations while their dogs enjoy their own gourmet treats and have the full run of the…

Jenanne Filat reaches out to far-flung locales across the globe to create the tailor-made, exquisitely crafted suits offered in her River Market boutique, Barakat Bespoke. It was her Palestinian emigre father’s love of downtown Little Rock that inspired her to…

Marcio Veiga spent over 30 years enjoying the scent of clean clothes, as the owner of the Max Cleaners dry cleaning business. But since 2020, he’s been enjoying tastier aromas, as the head of the popular Brazilian restaurant Cafe Bossa…

A passion for pizza has driven John Iriana his entire life. The New Hampshire native was living in Rhode Island when he worked at his first pizza joint at 15 years old, and by the time he was 23, he…

Featured photo: Professional shear sharpener Jack Wilks (left) poses next to one of his biggest clients, Alexander, of Alexander’s Salon in North Little Rock As a professional standup comic for 26 years, running with some of the most inventive and…