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.
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.