This weekend in music in the region includes a show at Stage Eighteen with Adam Torres and Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster, a show at Maxine's Taproom with The Too's, and the last shows for a while in the area with Handmade Moments, while Valentine's Day will feature a performance on Mount Sequoyah by Willie Watson and Arkansauce.

A Wednesday news roundup includes: the defeat of a bill to defund sanctuary campuses, Sen. Tom Cotton's bill to reduce green cards and a futurist is headed to Fayetteville.

More than 1.5 million cases of Chlamydia were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2015. That’s the most reported disease in the history of the CDC in a single year. The Pat Walker Health Center is tackling the issue by creating the Get Yourself Tested walk-in testing clinic.

7Hills Homeless Center staff and board are working to find a solution to a financial crisis that has put their Day Center in jeopardy. The Day Center offers the homeless in Northwest Arkansas basic needs like showers, meals and a place to send their mail.

The Arts Center of the Ozarks is putting artists with artists. The program is designed to help artists better understand some of the non-artistic facets of their work, from contracts to taxes.

A Tuesday news roundup includes: amending ethics travel rules for Arkansas lawmakers, flu on campus and poetry at the State Capitol.

A different kind of fundraiser in Bentonville next month uses peer-to-peer fundraising and...gravity.

The Siloam Springs and Northwest Arkansas mountain biking community can't wait to dig in as the city breaks ground on an improvement project at Siloam Springs Lake that includes five miles of soft surface trails, a bike park, bridge, birder blind and disk golf course.

John Brummett, political writer for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, talks to Roby Brock, from Talk Business and Politics , about tort reform and Lady Gaga. MUSIC: "Seven Minute Mind" The Bad Plus

Last week, the Jones Center in Springdale hosted Special Olympics Arkansas' annual Winter Games. The nonprofit organization provides athletic competition opportunities for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. The group's annual Polar Plunge fundraiser at Beaver Lake is Feb. 11.