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Sophia Ordaz
Sophia is an arts and culture writer based out of Central Arkansas.
Music

MULTI-DAMENTIONAL: Musician Damen Tolbert can do a little bit of everything. Now he’s raising the stakes on his upcoming album, Groove Absolute.

PHOTOS BY KODY FORD + CHERMILLA HENTHORNE Damen Tolbert is enamored by multiplicity. A musician, composer, producer, poet, and educator, the...
  • bySophia Ordaz
  • Aug 30, 2022
Music

Q&A: Laughing and crying with TAMAGOTCHI MASSACRE

photo by Payton “Pdot” Johnson The loosely-defined internet genre of hyperpop is a maximalist clash of extremes. Distorted, compressed-...
  • bySophia Ordaz
  • Feb 21, 2022
Music

Q&A: Killing your idols with Dangerous Idiots’ Aaron Sarlo

photos courtesy of Aaron Sarlo Depriving Little Rock’s Aaron Sarlo of music would be the equivalent of taking a fish out of water. Music i...
  • bySophia Ordaz
  • Feb 19, 2022
Music

Q&A: Deep Cuts with Yuni Wa

photos courtesy of Michael Sutterfield The hairpin twists and turns of life can have indelible consequences, as Princeton Von Coleman, bett...
  • bySophia Ordaz
  • Sep 24, 2021
Music

Q&A: Moving Up with Reward Center

Arkansas natives Maddie Robinson and Josh Wyatt don’t balk at reinvention. Debuting as Something Better in 2017, before transitioning for ...
  • bySophia Ordaz
  • Sep 7, 2021
Music

Q&A: Joseph Hitchcock pins his heart on his sleeve on new Paper Anthem album

photo by Jason Alderman For six years, Joseph Hitchcock has been recording and releasing pensive indie pop in the vein of Snow Patrol and Th...
  • bySophia Ordaz
  • Jul 9, 2021
Music

Alexander C-Wil reigns almighty with new EP

PHOTOS / DANIEL NANSEL Christopher Wilson’s musical upbringing is wholly Arkansan. Wilson, 21, who creates music under the moniker, Al...
  • bySophia Ordaz
  • May 6, 2021
Music

Q&A: Queen Anne’s Revenge release twin double albums

[left] Queen Anne’s Revenge charge through a jam session. [right] The cover of Nature Creature’s, Vol. 2, which was taken at ...
  • bySophia Ordaz
  • Feb 15, 2021
Music

Playing It By Ear: Central AR’s underground musicians boldly weather the pandemic

(left to right, from top) Princeaus, Benadriil, Xlue, Sista Smoke, Traptavian, Alexander C.Wil, Tobias Peoples from The Streakers, Mvk Lxvi$...
  • bySophia Ordaz
  • Dec 29, 2020
Film

Fayetteville Film Fest initiatives address racial inequities

Oscar Micheaux (above) was a pioneering director of silent films, known as the U.S.’s first Black filmmaker. The Fayetteville Film Fes...
  • bySophia Ordaz
  • Dec 15, 2020
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