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Dickson Street in Fayetteville continues to move in the direction of both nostalgia and exciting nouveau prospect, not unlike the salad days of fine restaurants that threaded the landscape between College Avenue and the University of Arkansas in the early and mid-1990s. The Collective, a newly opened establishment from visionaries Don and William Ray of Ben’s Apartment fame, has simultaneously managed to whet the appetite of recent transplants as well as the old guard of Fayetteville.
Carlley Hurley’s talent as an artist came in handy when decorating her family’s new home.
She started painting in high school but took a break while majoring in apparel at the University of Arkansas. After college, she worked for Dillard’s in Little Rock as an assistant buyer. Her next job was for Debi Davis Interior Design, and it was there that she began painting again.
When you sit down with Ben Harris, executive director of the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, one thing becomes clear almost immediately: Ben’s love for music isn’t academic or elitist. It is unmistakably human.
“Music was always playing around my house,” he said with a smile.
