Opinion

The 8th Annual Outdoor Extravaganza is coming up on Saturday, June 1 in Foreman, Arkansas. Sponsored by the Southern Sportsman Foundation and Ash Grove Cement Company, this outdoor event for kids of all ages is something you won't want to miss. Kids who like the outdoors and want to learn more all there is to do will love this event. The best news of all is, it's all free, even lunch!

The donut of my childhood dreams has finally come to Texarkana. Over a year in the making, Shipley Do-nuts is now open on Arkansas, Blvd. Be still my beating heart.

We all do it, binge watch shows these days. It's a strange way to watch a series but it works I guess. The big problem is, what to watch next?

Not just Elvis, how about Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Fats Domino, George Jones (yeah, he showed up), Conway Twitty, Louis Armstrong even Mae West performed in the Arkansas Municipal Auditorium. From ragtime to jazz, boogie-woogie to blues, country and rock-n-roll and everything in between, it all echos through these halls of time, plaster, wood and concrete, straining for re-birth

It's been over a year since ground broke on the donuts of my dreams, Shipley Do-nuts, and it looks like we're getting close. Look there, in the window, it's a "Now Hiring" sign! I grew up in Houston where Shipley began, and I love 'em! I can only hope they live up to my memories.

We haven't really been hit by much "winter weather" yet but make no mistake, it's coming, and with that, there's always a chance of losing a nip. Not funny! Let's be mindful out there as those temps begin to drop with this reminder of the story I did last January of some very unwanted consequences. It's the most horrifying story of the year in my humble opinion.

2018 was a pretty huge box office money-maker year for Hollywood, especially if you made a Marvel movie, which includes three of the top 5.

How many iterations of Santa can be done? Apparently, Hollywood isn't quite finished yet because Kurt Russell does a bang-up job of playing the big guy in this Netflix exclusive.

Troops and Packs from the Caddo Area Council have been distributing grocery sacks this week all around the Texarkana area for the 2018 "Scouting for Food Drive" to benefit Harvest Regional Food Bank right here in Texarkana.

It's an annual tradition that makes me laugh-out-loud every time I see it, the WKRP in Cincinnati "Turkey's Away" episode. They just don't make television that funny anymore.

Comic book legend and Superhero creator Stan Lee passed away today, November 12, 2018, a sad day in the comic book and superhero movie world for sure. Several years ago my wife and I were at a Comic Convention in Dallas or San Antonio or somewhere... and I dang near accidentally took him out myself. Let me tell you about the day I almost ran over Stan Lee.

Can you believe it, We're just a little over two weeks away from the 2018 Black Friday sales to get underway, Black Friday warriors are making their battle plans now to face off with other crazy shoppers on Thursday and Friday, November 22 & 23.