Becca Martin Brown, the features editor for the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , loves autumn and is ready to see off summer this wekeend with ideas about music, art and more.

At the top of our show today: slowly the number of people hospitalized in Arkansas with COVID-19 is declining, Arkansas' prison population is high, and the Name, Image and Likeness movement in college athletics is of interest in Bentonville.

Extreme weather in 2021 — a prolonged winter vortex, heavy spring rains, high summer heat and drought — is “scorching” certain hardwoods in Arkansas. Forest Specialist Chandler Barton with the Arkansas Department of Agriculture - Forestry Division discusses the scope of the phenomenon.

This week's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal includes a conversation with a democrat who wants to be Lt. Governor.

There are plenty of opportunities to see tribute acts, cover bands, nationally touring acts and original music throughout the region this weekend. Thr, Sep 16 Randy Rogers Band at George's Majestic Lounge (Fayetteville) - $25.00, 8:30 p.m. Mariachi Amistad at Walmart Museum (Bentonville) - 5 p.m. Fri, Sep 17 Full House at George's Majestic Lounge (Fayetteville) - $8.00, 6 p.m. Deepwood Mac at Prairie Street Live (Fayetteville) - $15.00, 5 p.m. Loose Change Band at Mojo's East (Fayetteville) - 7

Cop Shop is a crime thriller with roots in the grindhouse movie movement of decades ago. Courntey Lanning, a film critic with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , says there are some clever touches...and some bad, cliched elements.

Lia Uribe, associate professor in the University of Arkansas Music Department, explores the saxophone this week with music by Shelley Washington, Libby Larsen and Petronio Alvarex, and featuring saxophonists Eric Troiano and Antonio Arnedo. Troiano, a member of the U of A music faculty, will host a Faculty Recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21 in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall on the U of A campus in Fayetteville. Featured works will include music by Libby Larsen, Robert Mueller, Corey

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church pastor Clint Schnekloth, and Lisa Stuart, a trans activist with NWA Equality in Fayetteville will appear on a national panel of experts September 30th discussing spiritual violence — classified as an individual who uses spiritual or religious beliefs to hurt, scare or control others. A current example is right-wing Christian politicians in the U.S. enacting strict laws terminating LGBTQ+ civil rights. Episcopal priest Rev. Elizabeth Edman, author of Queer Virtue ,

At the top of our show today, the latest virus numbers in Arkansas, a proposal to spend millions upgrading head Start in the Cherokee Nation, and artists named for the Walton Arts Center's next visual arts exhibition.

When the pastor at Rolling Hills Baptist Church learned that members of the new First Marshallese Pentecostal Church of Fayetteville were in need to space to worship on Sundays, he opened his fellowship hall.