April Wallace
NWA Democrat-Gazette
Bentonville, AR, United States
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My Favorite Things: Artwork from China brings back memories for NWA collector
We all have something -- or somewhere -- that fires up the serotonin just by holding it or seeing it: the woods where you grew up playing hide and seek, a Barbie doll collection that dates back to the 1950s, a cabinet full of your mother's old copper cookie cutters, the room in your house that makes you feel the most peaceful. "My Favorite Things" invites Northwest Arkansans to share those… → Read More
Lunch & Learn introduces women to sisterhood of business
For Kimberly McGee of Walmart and Lela Davidson of Saatchi & Saatchi X, being a part of NextUp, an organization that advances all women in business, just makes sense. → Read More
Crystal Bridges announces 2023 exhibition schedule including Diego Rivera, Annie Leibovitz
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has announced its lineup of exhibits for 2023. → Read More
People to watch in 2023 include advocate, author, designer
Editor's Note: Every year, the Features staff suggests a few people you might want to keep your eye on in the year to come. This year, April Wallace, our Profiles editor, selected these three. → Read More
Yearend Top 10: Bentonville Film Festival ‘champions underrepresented storytellers’
Editor's Note: As we do every year, the What's Up! staff looked back to see what arts stories we published in 2022 that we expect will have a lasting impact on the culture of our community in 2023. This one was co-written by April Wallace and Monica Hooper and published July 3. → Read More
Hillary Clinton speaks on democracy at Crystal Bridges Museum
Former Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had a bit of a homecoming when she spoke as a part of events surrounding the "We the People: The Radical Notion of Democracy" exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art last week. → Read More
Christmas parades Nov. 26 in Springdale, Dec. 2 in Rogers
A year of planning goes into Christmas on the Creek in downtown Springdale. That's why it's always such a fun day. → Read More
Holiday celebrations start Nov. 18 in Fayetteville, Nov. 19 in Bentonville
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas -- all over downtown that is. Lighting ceremonies begin this weekend in downtown Bentonville and Fayetteville while Eureka Springs shops deck their windows for the holiday season. → Read More
Noy Phoumivong: Food is culture, passion, community for local chef
An informal greeting in Laotian asks "Have you eaten rice?" rather than "How are you?" → Read More
Journalists laugh at the news in Gridiron Show Nov. 5
Year after year, the organizers and performers of the Northwest Arkansas Gridiron Show come together to poke fun at the stranger-than-fiction events covered in the news. → Read More
Jordyn Wieber brings her Olympian heart to Razorbacks gymnastics
Being a gymnast was always in the cards for Jordyn Wieber. → Read More
Danyelle Musselman uses family experience to benefit the community with the Suits and Sneakers Gala 2022
Danyelle Musselman remembers exactly where she was when she got the call that her mother, Theresa Cruz, had cancer. She was 30 years old, sitting on the couch, looking out the window of her apartment in Los Angeles. → Read More
Five structures Crystal Bridges Museum consider concept of home
Architecture affects our daily lives, whether we're aware of it or not. → Read More
Gorgeous Art, Good Cause: Show and sale benefits River Valley charities
You don't have to be a seasoned art buyer, have deep pockets or come all gussied up to find your way around and make a purchase at the Art on the Border show. → Read More
Author Delia Owens shares her excitement at Bentonville Film Festival
If you haven't heard by now, "Where the Crawdads Sing," the hit debut novel by Delia Owens that sold 12 million copies in its first few years on the shelves, has been turned into a movie. It will be out in theaters July 15. → Read More
BFF Final Day: Crawdads sing in Bentonville screening
An audience at Skylight Cinema in Bentonville was the first to see footage of the "Where the Crawdads Sing" movie Sunday as one of the final in-person events of the Bentonville Film Festival. The screening was sold out. → Read More
From ‘Sesame Street’ to BFF: Sonia Manzano stops by to talk about ‘Alma’s Way’
Sonia Manzano, who portrayed Maria on "Sesame Street" for 44 years, recalls vividly what it's like to be a child. → Read More
Kim LaScola Needy: Working for diversity and equality in engineering
It happened on a carrier airplane. Kim LaScola was a high school student seated in a hammock on a plane ordinarily for paratroopers the first time that she really thought she could be an engineer. → Read More
Bentonville Film fest names jurors for 8th annual contest
The Bentonville Film Festival announced its competition jury Wednesday morning. → Read More
A mile — or many — in her shoes: Marathon another hurdle for Fort Smith runner
Not that long ago, Fort Smith resident Meredith Rice didn't even like running, let alone want to do it. But next Monday, she will run the Boston Marathon. → Read More