Lia Uribe, associate professor of music at the University of Arkansas, says the University of Arkansas Department of Music and University Libraries are hosting a night of jazz music to honor the late John Stubblefield. Tickets are free and will be available at the door on a first-come, first-served basis beginning one hour before the performance. Thursday, Feb. 6 Mingus Dynasty Quartet at Faulkner Performing Arts Center (Fayetteville) - free, 7:30 p.m. Ballet Memphis at Walton Arts Center

Work continues to make the Arkansas aerospace industry grow. On this week's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report with Paul Gatling, Chad Causey, the executive director of the Arkansas Aerospace & Defense Alliance, provides an update on those efforts.

Darcy Corteau is one of two receipents of the 2020 American Mosiac Journalism Prize, which is awarded for work about underrepresented or misrepresented populations. Darcy says growing up in the Northwest Arkansas Ozarks helped fuel her passion for documenting outsider communities.

This weekend, the Rogers-Lowell Chamber of Commerce will host its 98th annual Celebration of Business and Community . The keynote speaker at this year's event will be best-selling author and speaker Tommy Spaulding .

Each year, guests at the Business Forecast Luncheon learn about the economic outlook for the world, nation, state and region. Mervin Jebaraj is the director of the Center for Business and Economic Research in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, and last week he shared information about the state and regional forecast.

After being rejected by FEMA late last month, Benton County officials say they will continue to press for federal disaster aid to assist with recovery from several tornadoes that destroyed hundreds of homes, as well as urban and rural forests, resulting in one storm-related fatality.

On the one year anniversary of Reflections in Black , we go back in our archives to the first installment of the segment curated by Raven Cook. Born in Virginia nearly 150 years ago, Dr. Carter G. Woodson was a champion of chronicling and celebrating American history.

The Friends of Markham Hill , who are opposed to a proposed development on Fayetteville's Markham Hill, continued their campaign at Tuesday's City Council meeting. The developer, Specialized Real Estate Group , is planning to construct homes, a hotel, an event space and some commercial buildings on the 144-acre property, which they purchased in 2016 after the previous owner of Markham Hill declared bankruptcy.

The next several days feature not one but two Grateful Dead tributes in the region, a concert honoring Charles Mingus and his connection to Arkansas, and plenty of blues, folk and more. Wednesday, Feb. 5 Ramona and the Phantoms, charlotte bumgarner, neon glittery at Backspace (Fayetteville) - $5.00, 9 p.m. Ben Harris at Six-Twelve Coffeehouse (Fayetteville) - 6 p.m. Black Heritage Recital at Faulkner Performing Arts Center (Fayetteville) - $10 GA/ $5 students faculty staff and seniors, 7:30 p.m.

In January, the United Methodist Church announced a proposed split over the issues of same-sex marriage and the role of LGBTQ+ clergy. The protocol would result in a new, more conservative "traditionalist" denomination, and offer the mainline United Methodist a way to loosen restrictions around homoseuxuality. We hear from a representative from Central United Methodist in Fayetteville as indivdual congreations prepare for the vote in May.