The subject of goodbyes oftentimes delivers me to the Grey Havens of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth. Having now outed myself as a Lord of the Rings geek, I can admit without remorse that the farewell scene from the “shores of the sea”…
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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 —…
- April 2022MagazineOpinionTransportation
Editor’s Letter: Remembering Skyways
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterJust 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…
- January 2022MagazineOpinionSports/Outdoors
Editor’s Letter: Bowl Games Evolving Before Our Very Eye$
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterIn 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…
- December 2021MagazineOpinionSports/Outdoors
Garth Brooks and Coming Full Circle in Fayetteville
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterThe 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…
- MagazineMarch 2021Opinion
Just Another Night at Cajun’s with Sam and Bob
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterBump 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…