Chris Hickey was born and raised in Houston, Texas, spending his teenage years in Camden, Ohio. He graduated from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, majoring in English. He got his start in public radio working as a board operator at WMUB in Oxford, Ohio during his summer and winter breaks from school. Since graduating, he has made Little Rock home. He joined KUAR in September 2011 as a production intern and has since enjoyed producing, anchoring and reporting for the station. He is the composer of KUAR's Week-In-Review Podcast theme music and the associate producer of Arts & Letters.
Historian Jared Phillips traces the origins of the Prairie Grove Clothesline Fair, the Cane Hill Harvest Festival plus the War Eagle Craft Fair, all born of a postwar push to keep Ozark crafts alive.
Fort Worth's Cory Cross plays Jumpsuit Jamey's Big Honky Tonk Dance in Fayetteville this weekend. He talks about writing "Quittin'" plus the new album he'll release one single at a time.
Michael Tilley on a Fort Smith board recess that skipped procedure, the city's 44 Flock cameras, a Butterfield Stagecoach monument planned for Garrison Avenue plus softer hospitality tax revenue.