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The Momentary: A Big City Cultural Hub In Little Bentonville, Arkansas
In Bentonville, Arkansas, The Momentary cultural hub takes up a repurposed cheese making plant.
Credit: The Momentary
It’s always a shame when the nation’s great industrial past gets erased, when an old factory or warehouse that would make great a community space gets erased for gigantic generic condos. Well, Bentonville is doing it right. The Northwest Arkansas town has hit it big in developing an adaptive reuse project dubbed The Momentary, a satellite cultural hub of the city’s already celebrated Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
And fortunately, it smells just fine inside, considering that this is a massive former Kraft Foods cheese plant that operated from the postwar era until as recently as 2013. Having opened literally days before the pandemic broke out, The Momentary is hitting its stride now as a big city venue in a smaller-sized city. Its 63,000 square feet are impressive enough, but it’s all about its huge menu of creative ventures in music, art and food. Eat your heart out Brooklyn.
With it lying just south of the Bentonville historic district in this bike mad city, you can follow—pedal- or biped-style—a section of the Razorback Greenway to get there. The Momentary has good neighbors too: Keep going a bit further and you’ll land up at the brand new Walmart campus with ponds and landscaping that looks like something out of a European urban project; you’re also next door to the 8th Street Market, another former food processing plant turned into a food and drinks center, with culinary arts eduction, books and more.
Terrazzo floors, floor-to-ceiling windows and crafty cocktails make the Tower Bar above The Momentary a top Bentonville draw.
Credit: The Momentary
Libations And Other Liquids Top To Bottom
Let’s start at the top where the glass-enclosed Momentary Tower Bar addition will stop you in your tracks as you get off the elevator. You’d swear you’re in a mid-century space and you’ll drool how the floor-to-ceiling windows would make for the ultimate in penthouse apartments. A popular feature is the glass hole in the roof just above a glass hole on the floor that opens all the way to the factory bottom six floors down. It’s not for the vertically challenged as you sit fire pit-style on the semicircular banquette sipping craft cocktails (do try the Umami Mango with reposado tequila).
Down on the ground floor at a branch of Arkansas’s popular Onyx Coffee Lab, look out for the automated conveyor belt for delivery of your caffeine. As any self respecting hipster attracting venue would have, a Momentary Food Truck is parked outside. Local chefs also cook for the monthly Supper Club dinner series.
Credit for reimagining this Momentary village within a city—and its dramatic six-story curtain wall and glass galore—goes to the Chicago firm of Whealer Kearns Architects.
Art And Music Under Many Roofs
The Momentary’s state of the art indoor Røde House music venue is named for the high end audio maker. Its walk-up Røde Bar gives out to the plaza. Outdoors, a huge white Canopy is the stage venue for Live on the Green concerts (see schedule selections at bottom).
Music concerts inside and outside, as here at a Live on the Green show, make up a big part of The Momentary calendar.
Credit: The Momentary
There’s still time to catch the delightful exhibit Best in Show: Pets in Contemporary Photography that comes from the Fotografiska Museum New York. Celebrated photographer Elliott Erwitt is among 25 artists shown, while William Wegman appears with his famous weimaraners. A series of goofy dogs taking baths was shot by Sophie Gamand, and an amusing row of photos of dogs and owners who look like one another by Gerrard Gething. You can bring your pooch too (through April 13, 2025).
The show was curated in conjunction with the Best Friends Animal Society whose aim is to end shelter kills. The animal welfare organization’s Pet Resource Center (one of five nationwide) opened in Bentonville last year and welcomes everyone for a visit. Of course, this coffee mad town means there’s a coffee shop inside too. You might just leave with a latte and a Labrador.
All across town, Bentonville’s cultural institutions provide bilingual English/Spanish information panels. The respect extends to Indigenous cultures as well, as in The Momentary’s recent Cherokee Nation Film Showcase in the wonderfully named Fermentation Hall.
“Henry and Hope” are seen in photographer Gerrard Gethings’ series of dogs and their owners at The Momentary’s fun “Best in Show” show. Credit: Gerrard Gethings, The Momentary
Public Art Abounds
The Momentary publicly acknowledges that it lies on the site of Osage hunting grounds. A member of the Osage Nation, artist Addie Roanhorse contributed Sway, an arrow pattern design on the Tower glass and elsewhere.
Neon lives on here with Bahamian conceptual artist Tavares Strachan’s huge red Youbelonghere sculptural signage draped across the Momentary exterior. It’s a gorgeous piece in its calligraphic elegance.
Mounted outdoors, artist Leo Villareal’s homage to Buckminster Fuller, Buckyball, is made up of LED bulbs that change colors around aluminum tubing that sort of soccer ball-like make up one geodesic sphere inside another.
As part of the city’s outdoor OZ Art NWA program, the celebrated Yinka Shonibare’s fiberglass and steel Wind Sculpture (SG) VIII (2022) is a vibrant piece of African cloth that, while in fact static, seems to be caught in the wind. The Nigerian British artist’s work evokes African heritage over centuries of colonization.
With so much going on at The Momentary, you’re gonna wanna take your time.
A selection of upcoming art and music events at The Momentary includes:
-The Prison Concerts: Folsom and San Quentin feature Johnny Cash images by photographer Jim Marshall in the exhibition galleries, May 24–Oct 12.
-Live on the Green: GloRilla, June 13; Alabama Shakes, July 22; Ziggy Marley & Burning Spear, October 3.
RØDE House: The Main Squeeze, March 28; Shemekia Copeland, July 26.
FreshGrass|Bentonville: Billed as “an all-ages American and global roots music festival” will include Béla Fleck and Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal, May 16-17.
Read also this story on the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
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Darius Acuff Jr. and the fourth-seeded Arkansas Razorbacks will face Brayden Burries and the top-seeded Arizona Wildcats as the 2026 NCAA men’s basketball tournament continues with the Sweet 16 Thursday in San Jose, California.
The Razorbacks (28-8) reached the West Region semifinals by beating Hawaii and High Point. Meanwhile, the Wildcats (34-2) beat Long Island and Utah State.
Here’s how to watch the Razorbacks-Wildcats game, including time, TV schedule and streaming information:
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What time is Arkansas vs Arizona today? When is NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 game today?
- Date: Thursday, March 26
- Start time: 8:45 p.m. CT
- Where: SAP Center in San Jose, California
What channel is Arkansas vs Arizona on today? How to watch, stream NCAA Tournament Sweet 16
- TV: TBS/truTV
- How to watch online: Sling (free trial)
Arkansas vs Arizona betting odds for March Madness Sweet 16 game
Odds courtesy of BetMGM as of Thursday, March 26:
- Moneyline: ARI -375 | ARK +290
- Spread: Arizona (-8.5)
- Over/under: 165.5
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The Arkansas Razorbacks parlayed an SEC Tournament Championship into two straight wins to start their NCAA Tournament run, getting past Hawaii and High Point in impressive fashion. Now, they’ll face their toughest challenge yet, a Sweet 16 showdown with the 1-seed Arizona Wildcats.
Arizona cruised past both Long Island University and Utah State in the first two rounds, and still has just two losses on its record all season. As you’d expect, they’re favored in this SEC vs. Big 12 showdown. Let’s take a look.
Arkansas vs. Arizona Odds, Spread, and Total
Odds via Caesars Sportsbook
Spread
- Arkansas +7.5 (-110)
- Arizona -7.5 (-110)
Moneyline
- Arkansas +278
- Arizona -355
Total
- OVER 166.5 (-110)
- UNDER 166.5 (-110)
Arkansas vs. Arizona How to Watch
- Date: Thursday, March 6
- Game Time: 9:45 pm ET
- Venue: SAP Center at San Jose
- How to Watch (TV): CBS
- Arkansas Record: 28-8
- Arizona Record: 34-2
Arkansas vs. Arizona Betting Trends
- The OVER is 9-2 in Arkansas’ last 11 games
- The OVER is 5-1 in Arkansas’ last six games vs. Big 12 opponents
- Arkansas is 12-5 ATS in its last 17 games as an underdog
- Arizona is 4-1 ATS in its last five games
- The OVER is 4-2 in Arizona’s last six games
- Arizona is 5-1 ATS in its last six games vs. SEC opponents
Arkansas vs. Arizona Best Prop Bet
- Brayden Burries OVER 17.5 Points (-106) via FanDuel
Brayden Burries has a chance to have a phenomenal performance on Thursday night. Arkansas may be a strong offensive team, but its defense leaves a lot to be desired. They rank 200th in the country in defensive efficiency and are allowing 80.3 points per game this season, which ranks 325th. If Burries brings his best stuff, the Razorbacks are going to be in trouble.
Arkansas vs. Arizona Prediction and Pick
Let’s try our best not to overreact to Arkansas being in the Sweet 16. They had a relatively easy path to win the SEC Championship, squeaking by both Oklahoma and Ole Miss by just three points before beating Vanderbilt in the final, completely avoiding the Florida Gators. Then, in the NCAA Tournament, they had the easiest path to the Sweet 16, getting to face a 13-seed and a 12-seed in the first two rounds.
The Arizona Wildcats are no joke and will be by far the Razorbacks’ biggest challenge. There’s a case to be made that Arizona is the best team in the country, and they have the interior defense to completely shut down the Arkansas offense. The Razorbacks rank 50th in the country in two-point shot rate. Now, they have to face an Arizona defense that ranks second in the country in opponent two-point field goal percentage, keeping teams to shooting just 43.7% from two-point range.
Arizona also mainly shoots two-point shots, ranking third in two-point shot rate, and now they get to face an Arkansas team that ranks 278th in opponent two-point field goal percentage, allowing teams to shoot 54% from two-point range.
This is a nightmare matchup for Arkansas.
Pick: Arizona -7.5 (-110)
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LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — An Arkansas mother fighting for her life is now facing her transplant journey with renewed hope after an overwhelming surge of community support.
Just one day after sharing her story, 31-year-old Brittany Slater’s GoFundMe has skyrocketed from $4,300 to over $22,000; more than doubling her original $10,000 goal in less than 24 hours.
Slater, a mother of two, is battling both advanced kidney disease and heart failure.
She has been approved for a rare dual kidney and heart transplant, but needed financial help to cover expenses during a required 12-week recovery period away from home.
Since the story aired Tuesday afternoon, donations have poured in from 249 contributors. Among them, one person gave $2,000, three donated $1,000 each, and several others contributed hundreds more, reflecting what Slater calls an outpouring of love from both her local community and strangers.
“I was actually at the grocery store when it happened,” Slater said. “My mom called and told me to check it, and I just sat in the parking lot for about an hour crying. I was just full of joy. It was wonderful.”
The financial milestone is doing more than easing immediate concerns; it’s shifting Slater’s mindset as she prepares for the fight ahead.
“It’s making me want to push even harder, to keep fighting even harder,” she said. “If you’re going through something like this, don’t give up. Just keep going and have faith.”
The funds will help cover temporary housing near the transplant center, caregiving needs, childcare for her children, and basic living expenses like food and gas during recovery.
While insurance, including Medicare, is expected to cover much of the transplant itself, the additional costs tied to recovery created a significant burden for the family.
Slater’s mother, Carmenlita Bryant, who is also undergoing chemotherapy, started the fundraiser and said the response has brought both relief and reassurance during an already difficult time.
“It brings a lot of relief,” Bryant said. “Just knowing she’ll be away for three months and we have to figure out care for her children, this takes a huge burden off of us.”
Bryant said she never expected the level of support her daughter received, calling the response overwhelming.
“It just showed me that humanity still exists,” she said. “People who don’t even know us read her story and gave. We’re just so grateful.”
For Slater, the support goes beyond financial help; it’s a message she plans to carry with her into surgery and recovery.
“I want to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart,” she said. “Every donation, every prayer, it all means so much to me and my family.”
If you would like to support Brittany, you can access her GoFundMe here.
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