by Do South | Feb 1, 2023 | Featured, Life, People
Last October as I relaxed in my comfortable theater seat, mere feet from the AACLive! stage listening to seven-time Blues Music Award-Winner Rory Block preach the blues, I considered myself a blessed man. After a two-year shutdown due to COVID, it was great to...
by Do South | Aug 1, 2022 | People
In May 1985, Alma native Doug Moore suffered a motorcycle accident that left him a paraplegic. Not content to let one day define the rest of his life, Doug launched a local wheelchair basketball league in 1986 and competed in wheelchair sports for the next thirty-five...
by Do South | Jul 1, 2022 | People
You have to believe they are magic, nothing can stand in their way … They’ll bring all their dreams alive … for you. Forgive the paraphrasing of “Magic,” one of the signature tunes in Xanadu, Olivia Newton-John’s zany 1986 disco roller skating movie musical that was...
by Do South | Jun 1, 2021 | People
[title subtitle=”WORDS Dwain Hebda IMAGE Jennifer Burchett”][/title] As an artist, Brandon Chase Goldsmith sees things other people don’t see. As a documentary film maker, he finds many of those things in the places and people right under the noses of the...
by Do South | Nov 1, 2020 | People
[title subtitle=”WORDS Dwain Hebda IMAGE Jade Graves Photography”][/title] Arkansas is a state of civic pride. People remember where they came from and speak of these places with a particular note ringing in their voices. Asked about their hometown, people...