A Tuesday digest of events includes a commission designed with improving school safety in Arkansas, the end of a possible independent theater in Fayetteville, and the next step for Artists 360.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad, will speak at the Fayetteville Public Library Friday, April 27 at 7 p.m.. Earlier this spring, we reached him for a brief conversation about his career.

Although Chuck Campbell quit the 2,745-mile Tour Divide race through the Rocky Mountains, it led him to the Adventure Cycling Association and the realization that Arkansas did not have a mapped bike touring route. Campbell decided to change that and is now mapping a 1,400-mile route through the Ozarks and Ouachitas using a GPS unit. The data will go to Adventure Cycling, and the nonprofit will create a map with point-by-point directions, photos and points of interest that can be used by others

The internet has changed many things. We plan trips differently, shop differently and communicate differently. Zoe Niesel says the digital age also changes how lawyers and judges have to think about jurisdiction. She is an assistant professor of law at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, and she recently visited the University of Arkansas to deliver a talk about the internet and law.

The Fort Smith Symphony is closing out the 2017-18 season with a concert honoring Fort Smith's bicentennial and a concert that includes a world premiere of a decades-old piece.

A Monday digest of events includes storms in the Arkansas River Valley, a reaction to strikes in Syria from Senator Tom Cotton and money to repair Arkansas roads damaged by floods.

Every week in April in northwest Arkansas is busy...really busy. Somehow, Becca Martin Brown from the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette gets a week's worth of events into about a two-minute preview.

About 70 people marched Saturday along Dickson Street in Fayetteville as part of the city's second March for Science. The crowd was smaller than 2017's event, but participants remain committed to campaigning for fact-based science and supporting research.

Bentonville elementary school students who chronically disrupt classes are being temporarily sequestered in two new behavior classrooms. There, children receive behavioral therapy along with grade-level class assignments. The alternative learning environments were developed by a team of Bentonville school district experts, implementing state-of-the-art programming.

Local singer-songwriters Magnolia and John Charles, the stage names for Meredith Kimbrough and Kris Mastin respectively, will perform Saturday night at Dickson Street Pub in Fayetteville. We sit down with them prior to the show to get a preview of their music.