Entries for the 'entertainment' Category

Silence is hard to find.  Just try.  Go to a mountaintop, toss your phone, take out your earbuds.  The wind rustles through trees, water rushes down cliffs, birds call out to one another.

To prove the point, University of Arkansas – Fort Smith professor, Dr. Steve Hasarik, plans to start the digital music concert, Harpsichord 3D, on January 30 at 3:00 p.m., with four minutes and thirty-three seconds of nothing more than a man sitting at a piano, a clock above him counting down the seconds.  But after that the action begins.  Dance troupes take the stage, computer-generated images flash on screen, harpsichords play, and the audience sits in awe for more than half an hour.

The cast of "Winter's Bone," including Fayetteville native Lauren Sweetser is celebrating four Oscar nominations.  The cast of the independent film garnered four nods from the Academy including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress for Jennifer Lawrence's portrayal of Ree Dolly and Best Actor for John Hawkes role as Teardrop. 

 

His delivery is impeccable and his voice quivers with emotion.  He is a powerful singer.  He bows his head, as if a great burden is weighing him down, as if he’s had decades to reflect on a life filled with turmoil.

Kid Rock has always been an enigma.  After releasing three albums that went nowhere, he came back loud in 1998 with “Devil Without A Cause.”

Sizzling skillets of fajitas glide by atop waiters’ trays, and groups of diners laugh loudly while enjoying their .99 cent margaritas. In this same restaurant, four hosts of a new talk show sit around a wire-laden table, in a dimly lit corner booth.

Men in cowboy hats and vests, and women in long calico dresses and bonnets, are not who you’d expect when you visit a Christmas-themed attraction. However, Dry Gulch USA, in Adair, Oklahoma, has combined an old west town and old fashioned steam engines to create a holiday hit. Fifty-thousand people each year travel to the small town for this attraction.

Second Street Live! may not be able to take credit for discovering the next big thing in bluegrass music but they will be the first to bring this HOT TICKET band to Fort Smith December 15th, 2010.

Several years ago, while Richard Hodo was atop his house in Van Buren stringing Christmas lights across his steep roofline, he lost his footing.  Even as he slid, he felt a certain confidence about the outcome.

He wears large round golden bells pinned inside his coat, so you can hear him jingling as he approaches. Clad in furry red and white, his big black boots sounding against the tile floor, he enters the room and bellows, “Ho, Ho, Ho,” and the crowd goes wild.