Dinner for Six

Will Wright is owner of the Palace Hotel and a committed vinyl-phobe who has lived in Eureka Springs for the past 4 years.  How...

The Dirt on Nicky

Almost time for cucumbers The Sassafras Hill Cucumber Consortium gathered for a quick confab regarding where to plant cucumbers this season. Members sat beneath a...

The Coffee Table

Pop and the Pope After I explained to a new friend that I grew up without religion—hence it’s not really a part of my life—she asked, “So...

The Reel News

Catch of a lifetime   On Tuesday evening, April 7, 2026, 12-year-old local angler Lucas Di Giulio experienced what many fishermen spend a lifetime chasing —...

Esoteric Astrology as news for week April 22-28, 2026

Uranus Enters Gemini – Shock & Awe The big news this month is the final entrance of Uranus into the air sign of Gemini (communication,...

So Long, Old Friend

My friend Virginia. We did hard time together in the Eureka Springs city jail. She had just been sentenced to serve the jail time...

Dinner for Six

If there is a lost soul out there, they are almost assured to find Kim Hornyak – the ECHO thrift shop queen with the...

The Coffee Table

Dinner for… Fifteen? I love reading John Rankine’s Dinner for Six. And given that I no longer frequent Eureka’s living room—or any other Carroll County...

From the Back Porch

At four years old I saw my first movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, from front row center at the Rialto theater in...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Canadian Space Agency Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen and NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Chrsitina Hammock Koch, woke up last Wednesday morning and...