It shouldn’t work.  Three artists with styles so distinct it seems they have nothing in common.  Yet somehow, on The Union, the new release by Leon Russell and Elton John, produced by T-Bone Burnett, it not only works, it works well.

“ALL ABOARRRRD!!” The robust call goes out every Sunday evening, immediately followed by the bellowing train whistle and the opening strains of the Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour,” ...

We live our lives on a slender slant.  Step off a curb at the wrong moment and all is lost.  Slip into a lake where you spent your summers as a child, swim out a little too far, and you may never come home again.

The lucky traveler will run out of gas within coasting distance of Pinnacle Station Local Market in Rogers.  After filling the tank, the even luckier traveler will go inside to pay.

I haunted flower stalls, finding prearranged bouquets from mismatched gardens lacking but cheap.

Willie Nelson and his band, Family, will take the stage at the Fort Smith Convention Center on December 7.  It’s the famous outlaw’s third visit to Fort Smith.

Seth Plattner belongs in New York City.  He knew it long before he moved, when he was still a boy in Fort Smith.

In what might have been another life, pop musician Sarah Silva was known across Arkansas as that very petit, flowing-haired brunette with the powerhouse voice who while performing wore jeans, a big gaudy belt buckle, and, perhaps her most signature item, an oversized black cowboy hat and boots.

In a recent interview, Eric Clapton was quoted as saying about his first studio release in five years, “This album isn’t what it was intended to be at all.  It’s actually better than it was meant to be because, in a way, I just let it happen.”

There’s a new mistress in town.  A Ballet Mistress.  With the Western Arkansas Ballet.