Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is an associate editor of and contributor to Mystery and Suspense Writers (Scribner) and the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. In 2019, Corrigan was awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle.
Opera in the Ozarks board chair Alice Martinson tours the new Inspiration Point Center for the Arts, a state-of-the-art theater in Carroll County that opened last May.
Choreographer Sophia Smith discusses her ballet adaptation of Eric Whitacre's "The Sacred Veil," a choral work about love, grief and loss, coming to Eureka Springs this April.
Fayetteville's Woodland Junior High Quiz Bowl team is headed to nationals in Birmingham this June. Coach Trish McClung talks preparation, and a fundraiser trivia night is April 15.