Entries for ' @urban magazine'

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...

The wheels of commerce are churning inside this modest space on the east side of Fort Smith. Everything seems a bit too small: the tables, the chairs where the associates sit...

When Shawn Adair entered college, he dreamed of producing music videos, which were all the rage back in the mid-1980s. But his first experience in film class was a bad one...

The pink and red of Valentine’s Day always reminds me that spring is in the air and it’s time to start spring cleaning. With this feeling, I start longing to bring an air of sunshine...

To get to know twenty-year-old Ivy Jo Young, you have to go back to the autumn of 2011. For years she’d been struggling with her weight. Even looking at her high school graduation photos...