It’s graduation season! If you’re shopping for a graduate in the next few weeks, here are a couple of articles we found that have gift ideas for different age groups of graduates. Sometimes, all it takes is a list of suggestions to spark a great gift idea that would be perfect for the person you have in mind. Click here to see 51 different gift ideas for college graduates found on the Today.com website. Click here to see 13 gift ideas for kids who are graduating from high school, found on the U.S. News & World Report website. If you run out of time or inspiration, remember that graduates L ..read more

Editor’s note: The Jones Center is a paid sponsor in the featured section of our 2024 Northwest Arkansas Summer Camps & Activities Guide. This featured post offers additional information about The Jones Center’s summer camps and contact information. Jones Center Summer Camps About Jones Center’s summer camps: The Jones Center has created some new camp themes and brought back some of the favorites for a calendar full of fun and creative learning activities. There are full-day weeklong camps as well as half-day or full-day specialty camps. Themes include Art & Performanc ..read more

Mark your calendar, Northwest Arkansas mamas! In early May, Theatre Collective of Northwest Arkansas (TCNWA) will present a production of Love, Loss, And What I Wore by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron. This heartwarming and hilarious play follows the lives of several women and explores love, loss, and the memories woven into our clothes. The playrights, sisters Nora and Delia Ephron, also wrote blockbuster movie scripts, including “When Harry Met Sally,” “Sleepless in Seattle,” “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” “You’ve Got Mail,” and “Hanging Up.”  Love, Loss, And What I Wore i ..read more

This week we have a giveaway that’s perfect for parents who might have a little scientist in the family. We’re giving away FOUR tickets to the upcoming Doktor Kaboom Science Show on May 11, 2024 at The Jones Center. (You can see the show at 2 p.m. OR at 6 p.m. on that date.) If you win these tickets, you’ll also get free access to the public sessions of ice skating and swimming at The Jones Center on that date. There will also be a family craft time following each of the science show performances. ABOUT THE SHOW:  Doktor Kaboom! is having trouble picking his favorite science demonstratio ..read more

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 As losses go, this isn’t a big one. I shouldn’t even care. Still, I’m sad about it. It’s hard to accept that the best jeans in my closet – and possibly the world – are on their last threads. At least nothing tragic happened. By all measures, the jeans lived a good, long life. They’re dying of natural causes — namely, years of use and the friction of putting one leg in front of the other thousands of times. All those steps have led to an unfortunate hole. Why would I say goodbye to my favorite jeans over a harmless hole? Don’t some people pay ..read more

Editor’s note: Crystal Bridges is a paid sponsor in the featured section of our 2024 Northwest Arkansas Summer Camps & Activities Guide. This post offers additional information about Crystal Bridges’ summer camps and contact information. Crystal Bridges Summer Camps About Crystal Bridges summer camps: Kids’ summer camps are back! Make the most of your family’s summer break with weeklong day camps designed for kids ages 4 to 14. Choose from a full lineup of camps, each one focused on a different kind of creative fun. Explore the grounds in a camp all about art and natu ..read more

Editor’s note: Trike Theatre is a paid sponsor in the featured section of our 2024 Northwest Arkansas Summer Camps & Activities Guide. This featured post offers additional information about Trike Theatre’s summer camps and contact information. Trike Theatre Summer Camps About Trike Academy Camps: Trike Academy theatre camps are engaging learning experiences with a whole week of fun. And Trike teachers know that having fun doing theatre is the best way to learn. Trike serves kids as young ass 4 up through age 18. There are camp sessions designed to capture a wide range ..read more

We know the kids are getting impatient for school to be over and for summer to officially start. So this week, we’ve got a giveaway that will let you get a jumpstart on the summer fun. We’re giving away FOUR tickets to a show called “360 ALLSTARS” at the Walmart AMP at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. It’s a high-energy show that’s packed full of cool stunts that will blow your kids’ minds. ABOUT THE SHOW: A phenomenal physical performance exploring all forms of rotation, 360 ALLSTARS connects the street with the elite to deliver a supercharged urban circus with BMX, basketball, bre ..read more

If your kids love to be part of the action no matter what it is, we’ve got a great ticket giveaway that will let them do exactly that. In the upcoming show called “A Forest in the City“ at Walton Arts Center on May 14, 2024, your kids can join dancers on stage to create a whole new world of imagination. This week we’re giving away FOUR tickets to the show. This show is designed and recommended for kids who are 4 and up. ABOUT THE SHOW: In this interactive show, children from the audience are invited to the stage floor to create an imaginary city with two dancers from Compagnia TPO. This ..read more

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I’m lucky that my first professional writing job was in a newsroom because it taught me something important: You don’t need a perfect environment to get work done. You don’t need silence, an organized room, a particular candle, or a big chunk of time. The newsroom was loud, messy, and full of 20 or more people, with at least a half dozen conversations happening at any one time. The old-school phones sitting on each person’s desk rang all the time. We had a police scanner that jabbered and crackled day and night. And the staccato clickety-clac ..read more