Entries for ' marcus coker'

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...

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...

Naomi Chambers, thirty-nine, lives in Fort Smith in a house built in 1910. There are antique metal lawn chairs on her front porch, and she sits cross-legged, in her high-waisted jeans and saddle shoes...

For the longest time, I’ve associated food trucks with greasy eats and the state fair, two things I dearly love. There’s just something about eating a deep-fried Twinkie while...

The sun shines down on the patio at Sweet Bay Coffee shop in Fort Smith. Jonathan Karrant puts down a magazine, picks up his drink, and looks across the patio at the towering trees...

Spend a few hours in the theater department at Southside High School in Fort Smith, and you’ll know what it means to reach for the stars. Students often...

Kristy Floyd, thirty-three, lives on a farm in Mulberry and can’t stop smiling when she talks about her cow Peaches. She loves...

Ozark author Gwen Ford Faukenberry lives on an unpaved road just outside the city. Hers is one of three houses set on 450 acres...