The next week offers a variety of live music opportunities, from emo and power rock to swamp-grass, banjo virtuosos and more. Wednesday, Jan. 30 Twiddle, Hip Abduction at George's Majestic Lounge (Fayetteville) - $18, 8:30 p.m. Wink Burcham at Harry's Downtown (Fort Smith) - 8 p.m. Thursday, January 31 Casey Donahew at George's Majestic Lounge (Fayetteville) - $23 adv, $25 day of, 9 p.m. Cody Nielsen at West and Watson (Fayetteville) - 6 p.m. Dale Stokes at West and Watson (Fayetteville) - 9 p.m

The Arkansas Coding Academy trains students to be software developers in as little as three months. The institute will open a campus in Fayetteville this spring. Classes run May 13 through Aug. 2 and applications are being accepted now.

The partial federal government shutdown ended Friday. This week Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business and Politics , spoke with political writer John Brummett to assess what may come next in the political negotiations regarding immigration policy.

The Fort Smith Symphony has released a new recording of some of the works of Arkansas composer Florence Price. John Jeter, conductor and musical director of the Fort Smith Symphony, tells us more about the album.

Our Militant Grammarian Katherine Shurlds returns to help us understand appropriate posessive usage for group objects.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is offering free assistance to northwest Arkansas property owners and farmers with nuisance feral swine.

Although a 3-week end to the government shutdown has just begun, many furloughed workers are frustrated with the lack of income and trying to make ends meet. We speak with a furloughed worker, and with members of a local church trying to help some of those workers.

State Rep. Andy Davis is the point person in the Arkansas House for Governor Asa Hutchinson's proposal to streamline and reorganize state government agencies. This weekend, Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business and Politics spoke with Rep. Davis about the proposal and about funding for state highways.

A grant worth more than $24,000 from AT&T is supporting robotics education for students at six Washington County high schools. Nearly 50 ninth and tenth graders will learn to build robots at the NWA Fab Lab through the new program.

Next fall Kelly Hammond, an assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas, will lead an Honors College seminar titled Fascists. On Feb. 4, she'll deliver a preview lecture of the seminar at 5:15 p.m. in Room 26 of Gearhart Hall on the U of A campus. We get a preview of that lecture.