Mark those calendars, Elvis fans — Elvis Week 2013 is set for Aug. 10-17 at Graceland in Memphis (of course). Elvis Presley, of course, died on Aug. 16, 1977 at 42-years-old. The King has been gone for almost 36 years, but his legend continues.
What’s going on at Elvis week? Quite a few things, actually. Naturally there will be Elvis impersonators all over the place and Ronnie Millsap will be on hand for the event. There will be appearances from a lot of “Elvis insiders,” including Elvis’ drummer D.J. Fontana and …

When we left off last week, Wikipedia Brown – teen detective, student of the Internet and self-confessed smarty pants – had accepted a case from Ms. West. Now, Ms. West was the sultry civics teacher that both Wikipedia and Webster – his able assistant – had in Junior High School.
It seems that someone – or something – stole Ms. West’s shoe and sent her a note saying she could have it back only if she met with its abductor. The signature on the note appeared to be a cypher to …

Welcome to yet another installment in our soon-to-be-ridiculously-famous Awesome Site of the Week series. That series, of course, serves as a guide to some of the great sites out there that you might have missed but should know about and visit often. No, we’re not talking about the ones that everyone knows — we’re talking about some of those out of the way sites that offer great content but might lack the marketing budget to take out television ads that grab your attention.
What site has earned our “certified awesome” designation …

First off, happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there. Make your kids be nice to you for a change if you, indeed, have that much authority.
Second, we’ve had a busy week (as usual) here at First Arkansas News and would have for our tens of fans to miss out on anything. To that end, we’re doing our weekly thing of posting links to everything that’s been posted in the past week for your clicking pleasure. Yes, we wrote about everything from crepe myrtle thieves in Benton to the …

Sunday is Father’s Day and we at First Arkansas News honor all the dads out there with a special installment in our Weekend OTR series.
What’s on tap? An episode of Gunsmoke — one of the most popular series back during the Golden Age of Radio. So, get ready to head out to the Old West — a time when lawlessness was almost a hobby and tough, two-fisted men were needed to keep towns safe for God-fearing folks. Awesome!
Before you listen to this gripping program, why not take a minute or …

The lucky folks over at Engadget caught up with Hyperkin this week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) and reported that the Retron 5 sounds even better than it did when we at First Arkansas News wrote about it a few weeks ago.
For those unaware of the Hyperkin Retron 5, here’s a summary. The retro console boasts five cartridge slots and will play cartridges made for nine different systems — Nintendo Game Boy Advance (GBA), Sega Genesis, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Nintendo Famicom (Japanese), Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game boy …

June is National Homeownership Month, and Credit Counseling of Arkansas (CCOA) is using this month to call attention to the opportunities consumers have to achieve sustainable homeownership through access to professional housing counseling and homebuyer education.
CCOA is a non-profit organization and HUD-approved housing counseling agency that offers services to help people get into, and stay in, affordable housing, a news release states. Although the national housing trend is improving, there are still many homeowners who are struggling to make mortgage payments. CCOA’s free foreclosure prevention counseling sessions help homeowners assess …

The Benton Police Department announced that someone — or a group of fiendish someones — destroyed nine of the new crepe myrtle trees that were added as part of the city’s revitalization project on South Street. The trees have a replacement value of $750.
Benton Police want to bring the vandals to justice and are encouraging anyone with information about the crime to come forward and rat out the ne’er-do-well(s). Want to avenge the defenseless trees? Call the Benton Police at (501)778-1171 or (501)315-TIPS.
Individuals can also send anonymous tips about the …

According to the Baptist Press, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) on Wednesday adopted a resolution expressing “opposition to and disappointment in the decision of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to change its membership policy” allowing homosexual scouts.
The vote took place on the second — and final — day of the SBC Annual Meeting in Houston. The BSA resolution at issue was adopted on May 23. The resolution states that individuals who are “avowed homosexuals” are still excluded from adult leadership positions, but that youth membership will be extended to …

It has been said that what appears in a newspaper is often determined by what the managing editor sees when he’s driving to work in the morning. While that may or may not be true, here’s something that is verifiable — here at First Arkansas News, what is sometimes covered depends on what terms pop up in our search analytics (for the record, the most popular search term over the past few weeks has related to the anticipated and snazzy retro gaming console, the Hyperkin RetroN 5 — go figure).
One …