It has been a few years since the band Lost John has released new music, but that will change this week. The Fayetteville-based band's first full-length effort, Let it Be Strange will be released tomorrow on vinyl and online. The band is comprised of Eric Whithans on vocals and guitar, Meredith Kimbrough on vocals, Lee Zodrow on keyboards and vocals, Brad Haj on drums and Allison Williams on bass. They recently stopped by the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio at KUAF to give us a preview of the

Startup Weekend, an event aimed at taking entrepreneurial ideas and turning them into successful businesses, takes place April 5 through 7 in Fayetteville. In today's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report , we hear from Haley Allgood, executive director of the Startup Junkie Foundation, about the event. And we hear about a significant development at the Legacy building in downtown Fayetteville.

The city of Fayetteville is assessing the conditions of all city streets with a van specially equipped with lasers designed to take in all the cracks in the roads. We learn how the system works the data it generates will be used.

One of ten questions that will face Fayetteville voters in the upcoming special election regards putting bond money toward parks upgrades in the city. We learn more about those potential projects.

Election seasons never seem to go away as much as transition from one to the next. Angie Maxwell, director of the Diane Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society, studies how campaign seasons relate to each other. This week, she'll give a talk at the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History about how southern states and the national Republican party grew closer over a half-century.

Born in Topeka, Kan. in 1917, Gwendolyn Brooks had a career in poetry that manifested more than 50 honorary doctorates and a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Her work also captured radical events of the 1950s and the Civil Rights Movement. This is her story.

The next few days offer a wide variety of live music opportunities. Wednesday, Mar. 27 Ray Wiley Hubbard, Bonnie Montgomery at George's Majestic Lounge (Fayetteville) - $25, doors at 8:30 p.m., music at around 10 p.m. Jazz Night at West and Watson (Fayetteville) - 8 p.m. Seth Brand at Mojo's (Fayetteville) - 7 p.m. Thursday, March 28 Broncho, The Phlegms, The Good Fear at George's Majestic Lounge (Fayetteville) - $12 adv, $15 day of, 8 p.m. Seth Brand at Dickson Street Pub (Fayetteville) - 8:30

A measure to encourage independent solar energy installation and generation in Arkansas has passed the state legislature. The Solar Access Act was passed on March 12. We hear from the bill's lead sponsor and from an environmental advocate.

Governor Asa Hutchinson – who has previously spoken against school vouchers – is lending his support to legislation that would cover the cost of sending kids to private schools in central Arkansas.

With early voting beginning in a week for Fayetteville's special bond election, we look at issue three of ten. If approved by voters, issue three could help the city fund construction of a variety of trails projects.