There are many jobs that are predominantly dominated by men. Trail building is one of them, but as the trail boom intensifies across the region, one Colorado company has brought in one of the few women trail builders to work on a project at the Great Passion Play in Eureka Springs. Cat Gruener is one half of Tango Trailworks and she and her partner, Andrew Mesesan , are part of a crew assembled by Tony Boone.

Becca Martin Brown, from the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , says it is not too early (and not quite too late) to be thinking about Valentine's Day. She has some local suggestions for the holiday.

Free speech, or at least the idea of free speech, is about as American as you can get. But Mark Killenebeck, a professor of law at the University of Arkansas, says much of what we think we know about free speech might be not correct. He'll deliver a public talk about free speech at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday in Gearhart Hall Auditorium on the University of Arkansas campus. Next fall, he'll lead an Honors College Signature Seminar on the subject.

A Monday roundup includes a weekend symposium in northwest Arkansas about affordable housing, anticipation of the fiscal session in Little Rock next week, and strong economic numbers in Arkansas for January.

Developed by the Tate Modern in London, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power highlights the contribution of black artists to an important period of American art and history. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is one of only two U.S. venues to host the exhibit. The show, which features 164 works from 60 artists, is on view through April 23.

A coalition of environmental groups, led by the Watershed Conservation Resource Center , has proposed transforming a neglected park on the West Fork of the White River in South Fayetteville into an ecological preserve and whitewater park. Sixty years ago, a public water supply pump station operated on the site, drawing water from a dammed reservoir. Portions of the dam and spillway remain intact. Fayetteville's Parks and Recreation Advisory Board recently indicated support for removing the dam

Katy Henriksen, whose Of Note airs Sunday through Thursday at 9 a.m. on KUAF 2 and at 8 p.m. on 91.3, gives us a look at what's ahead on the show this week, including a look at Handel Goes Wild.

Becca Martin Brown of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette tells us about a special exhibit at Shiloh Museum of Ozark History that represents the museum's 50 years of existence with artifacts from each of those 50 years.

In this edition of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report , we hear from Doyle Yates of Coldwell Banker Harris McHaney and Faucette in Fayetteville about what to expect in the northwest Arkansas real estate market in 2018.

The Fayetteville run of Butcher Holler, Here We Come closes tonight at Backspace in Fayetteville. This morning, the play's actors give us a short performance from the play.