Entries for ' @Urban'

Vonita Hoffer sits at a long table inside NeNe’s Restaurant in Fort Smith. The lunch crowd has dwindled, and she has some breathing room before the dinner crowd starts ambling in. It’s been a little over a year since the doors first opened...

How does your life change? Sometimes it’s as easy as finding a new friend. That’s what happened to Lisa Miller and Amy Scoggins. They met at Central Christian Church in Fort Smith, drawn to each other by a shared interest in art. Both were moms. Both were shimmering with talent...

Carter Sampson, also known as the Queen of Oklahoma, wears red cowboy boots, black vintage glasses, and is rarely seen without her acoustic guitar. Around her neck is a golden guitar pick that reads, “Okla.” The “O” is a heart...

Stacey Little lives and cooks in Prattville, Alabama, just north of Montgomery, where his family moved when he was only five. He was raised by a mother who cooked three meals a day, every day. His most vivid memories are of sitting in the kitchen...

Every year, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences hosts the Emmy® Awards in Los Angeles, an event to honor excellence in television programming. Last year, Natalie Driscoll, twenty-eight, who grew up in Fort Smith, was there as a nominee.

Born with an extravagant imagination, at nine, I believed telephone wires talked to me because they made unconventional sounds, which I interpreted as weather predictions...

The day is cool and sunny but traces of gray drift in from the north. Here, on the grounds of the Fort Smith National Cemetery, a caretaker will help as you search for a place now lost...

The world is a mysterious place. Strange lights appear in the night sky, phantom trains barrel down roads that used to be railways, flying objects hover above farmhouses...

Charlene Simon’s story begins at an uncertain time in her family’s life. It was 2007, a trying year for the nation as we faced an economy that was getting shakier by the day...