Mark Carter

Teamwork makes the dream work, the saying goes, and teams can come in varying shapes and sizes. This month, however, we’re recognizing two-person teams in AMP’s second-annual Dynamic Duos. Selected from reader nominations, Dynamic Duos recognizes those two-person teams —…

Just as The Natural State has been home to “that Arkansas wine” for going on 150 years — borrowing an old tagline from Wiederkehr Wine Cellars — that “Arkansas airline” helped lay the foundation for the growth of commuter airlines…

In this playoff age of college football, bowl games don’t carry the weight they once did. That’s not a quote from Captain Obvious, but it could be. This year, 42 were staged, two of them in a 17,000-seat soccer stadium…

The idiom, “full circle,” the internet says, probably originated with Shakespeare, which might help explain why I had to wonder about its origin. (In high school, I tended to zone out when we got around to Shakespeare, relying on my…

Editor’s Letter: A Razor’s Edge on New Year’s New Year’s Day in Arkansas will have an edge in 2022, a “Razor’s” edge, if you will — the Hogs are bowling on Jan. 1. Never mind that TCU’s opt-out of the…

Geddy Lee is a noted pro baseball fan — Tigers as a kid, then the Blue Jays once Toronto landed a team — but likely doesn’t spend much time considering the landscape of American college sports, football in particular. Or…

Had Star Wars not landed on planet Earth in 1977 and redefined the movies, the highest-grossing film in the United States that year would’ve been one that included an Arkansas setting. Yep, Smokey and the Bandit. Burt Reynolds, the Florida…

Early into March Madness, as Arkansans bathed in the afterglow of a 3 seed well-deserved and a program back on track, the simultaneous beauty and absurdity of the tournament hit home for me. The NCAA men’s basketball championship, a.k.a. March…

Bump into a Central Arkansas native of a certain age, and chances are he or she will have a Cajun’s story or two to share. Cajun’s Wharf was an iconic Little Rock spot for decades, tucked between the Junior Deputy…

My old high school buddy Aaron reminded us, in the eulogy, of something his dad would always say in place of a traditional farewell. Mr. Squyres would tell friends, family, presumably even strangers, not to bother saying goodbye. “It’s not…