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"The Smokehouse Players love local and this event is about as local as you can get."

There's no mistaking artwork created by Chad Maupin. Colorful, vibrant and dynamic, his designs -- which often incorporate his love of vintage comic books and classic horror movies -- leap off the page and assault your senses in the most delightful of ways. Maupin has run his own design studio, Big-Bot Design, for over a decade now and specializes in "seamlessly integrating skilled illustration with versatile graphic design." But he's been creating art for much longer than that and co-founded the funky and unique craft collective CattyWampus Co-Op. Maupin took some time out...

There's no mistaking artwork created by Chad Maupin. Colorful, vibrant and dynamic, his designs -- which often incorporate his love of vintage comic books and classic horror movies -- leap off the page and assault your senses in the most delightful of ways. Maupin has run his own design studio, Big-Bot Design, for over a decade now and specializes in "seamlessly integrating skilled illustration with versatile graphic design." But he's been creating art for much longer than that and co-founded the funky and unique craft collective CattyWampus Co-Op. Maupin took some time out of his bu...

Artistic director and TheatreSquared co-founder Bob Ford says he's always a bit emotional at the end of a production, but perhaps even more so now that the theater has made it through the long hiatus of in-person events.

We all have something -- or somewhere -- that fires up the serotonin just by holding it or seeing it: the woods where you grew up playing hide and seek, a cabinet full of your mother's old copper cookie cutters, the room in your house that makes you feel the most peaceful. In the feature "My Favorite Things," we invite Northwest Arkansans to share those special things or places that bring them joy.