February 20, 2009

University Strives to Be a Cultural Hub in Central Arkansas

By CAROLYN MOONEY

You might not immediately think of this city of 55,000 as an arts hub.

Just a few years ago, its downtown emptied out each evening. "You could shoot a gun down the main drag and not hit anyone in either direction," one local businessman says. You couldn't get a drink at a restaurant, much less attend a live telecast of the Metropolitan Opera here at the University of Central Arkansas, or see a play at the university-sponsored Shakespeare festival, or work as an intern at Oxford

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