Two adventure races set to start Friday and Saturday

Both average outdoors-loving persons and workout fiends can partake in one of two adventure races, which start in Springdale next weekend. The Lewis & Clark Ozark Adventure Race will run from Saturday to Sunday, and the Lewis & Clark Urban Adventure Race will begin Saturday. Both race headquarters are at Lewis & Clark Outfitters in Springdale, which is the title sponsor, said Bruce Dunn, race director for both events. Both race courses have combinations of biking, rope courses, water elements and walking or running, and participants have to find their way through the course with plotted points on a map, he said. There was only an Urban Adventure Race until last year, when a different race was added called the Ozark Adventure Race, Dunn said.

Crafts and music combine: The Ozark Folk Festival will begin next week

The longest continuously running folk festival in the country is returning to its roots by bringing back more arts and crafts, along with its folk music lineup.

A Southern comfort: Gu-Ma’s restaurant offers family recipe meals

A family of women recently started a restaurant devoted to serving mostly Southern-style comfort food.

Pickin' pumpkins

A Springdale family-run patch thrives through rainy season, hard economic times

Avery Ferguson wants to pick a pumpkin. Riding in a small yellow wagon, the 6-year-old is wheeled out by his aunt, Deana Dickey, into a rocky, dirt-filled aisle at Dickey Farms U-Pick Pumpkin Patch. Wearing a bright orange shirt and jeans, he sits on a bed of hay in the wagon, excitedly waiting to be surrounded by many pumpkins in the Springdale patch. His aunt and her 11-year-old daughter Katie plan to help him in the search for the round orange item.

A dozen male voices : Chanticleer to sing at Walton Arts Center

An all-male, a cappella choral ensemble is touring the globe and plans to make a stop to sing in Fayetteville.

A singing family returns : The Sanders clan returns to the theater for ë Homecomingí

The Sanders family, a set of characters in a gospel-singing family, is back at the Arts Center of the Ozarks in Springdale for another musical.

Nonprofits to sponsor caregiver conference

Margaret Trumbull has taken care of her husband, Ronald, for 18 years.

A cultural explosion : Riverdance, Luna Negra Dance Theater come to WAC

Latino-choreographed performances and Irish line dancers will step into the same venue only a few days apart.

A fragile art: THREE NORTHWEST ARKANSAS GLASS BLOWERS DESCRIBE THEIR WORK

The orange flame can be mesmerizing. Whether it is from a torch or the reheating area in a machine with a round opening called a glory hole, glass blowers wear protective glasses to stare into it and use tools to create unique glass art pieces. Glass blowing is a technique in which molten glass is inflated into a bubble by blowing into the end of a connected hollow tube or steel blow pipe.

Leaping the canvas: Pea Ridge to celebrate 21st annual mule jump

A mule stands in front of a canvas topped with a horizontal pole, waiting for just the right moment before trying to leap over it.