Day: December 23, 2024

We tried a new restaurant — or at least new to us — almost every week in 2024 and reported back. The big picture: If you want to make it your 2025 mission to explore NWA’s food scene, start with these favorites from this year. 🍗 Blackberry Brasserie Dinner at this Rogers spot serving elevated Southern food (think pork chops) was so good we went back for brunch. And we’d go back for both again. 🍕 Flashback Pizza and Milkshakes We came for the…

As Houston rapper Trae Tha Truth exited his vehicle in a parking lot across the freeway and down the street from Minute Maid Park, he was met with a large welcome from several people suffering from homelessness who were lined up to receive free food and jackets as the city braces for rainy weather. “ABN, baby,” one person yelled as the rapper and community activist greeted him. UHD GRAD: After incarceration, addictions and cancer, 67-year-old…

Plus, President Biden commutes dozens of death row sentences to life without parole.