The OMNI Center will host its first Hiroshima-Nagasaki Remembrance Day in over 3 years on August 6th. This year the traditional program of music and speakers will go along with a meal prepared by the chef team of MayDay Northwest Arkansas. The event will also be a fundraiser for the work that MayDay does feeding homeless people in our community. Pete speaks with Gladys Tiffany and Alex Trupodi.
A coalition of grassroots groups is racing to collect nearly 91,000 signatures by July 3 for two Arkansas ballot measures — one protecting direct democracy rights, one focused on public education.
The Arkansas Folklife Festival — a free, three-day celebration of the state's six cultural regions — comes to Riverfront Park in North Little Rock June 26-28, headlined by Bobby Rush and Lucinda Williams.
Padma Viswanathan, who teaches in the UofA MFA in Creative Writing and Translation, discusses her shortlisted translation of Ana Paula Maia's Brazilian novella "On Earth As It Is Beneath."