
4 Wild Things Happening in Northwest Arkansas
Shareholders Week, the Fayetteville Tea House, contested Dickson Street student housing, and the Sassafras wine award I made bigger than it actually was.

Shareholders Week, the Fayetteville Tea House, contested Dickson Street student housing, and the Sassafras wine award I made bigger than it actually was.

NWA actually has 32 fare-free bus routes and over a million rides a year — correcting what I said about transit, plus the real state of healthcare and roads.

Wu Zhao in Bentonville, Mt. Comfort Square in west Fayetteville, and Patriot Park veteran housing — with the eligibility rule I got wrong on camera, corrected.

XNA passed 2.5 million passengers, Johnson's Warehouse District slipped to 2027, and Arkansas property crime rose 13.7% — the opposite of what I said on camera.

The $100M MLK interchange runs to mid-2028, Dad Suggests Books has a hobbit door, and Onyx now runs nine or ten NWA locations — with the Elkins advice walked back.
Mount Sequoyah is not the highest point in NWA, the steakhouse is Sestina at The Compton, and Walmart's campus is 350 acres. Five TikToks, fact-checked.
Grading TikToks about Northwest Arkansas: the Rogers Whole Foods, the Bella Vista bike park that is Arkansas's first and not America's, Onyx, and bike ratings.

Onyx is the world's best coffee shop, The Hart on Main cleared approval, and Fayetteville's $61M aquatic center now has a funding gap. Where each stands.

Five things Northwest Arkansas is genuinely world-class at — trails, jobs, travel, schools and community — with the airfare and school-funding facts corrected.

The $16.6M NWARPC transportation award: which cities got what, current regional trail mileage, and a correction about Centerton.

The most affordable places to buy in Northwest Arkansas with 2026 medians for Bella Vista, Pea Ridge, Springdale, Tontitown, Lowell and Gentry.

Bentonville's 2025 permitting change and the new Community Code — what they mean for home prices, and why the 5-10% claim does not hold up.