#Red Oak Steakhouse

The Quapaw people are descended from a group of Native Americans who used to live in Arkansas, on the west bank of the Mississippi River. All other Sioux tribes save for the Quapaws were located farther south than the Quapaws. The O-Gah-Pah, which means "The Downstream People" in their language, gained their nickname. Many Native American tribes,…

For me, casino gaming is all about timing. If I walk up to the craps table and everyone looks sad and dejected, I just saunter away full of false self-confidence, pretending my hair is blowing in the casino oxygen. If the people at the table look like they're in a Saracen Casino commercial, laughing and high-fiving, I boldly enter. Unfortunately,…

The columns that protrude from the top of Saracen Casino Resort is the starting point for the construction of a hotel, casino officials say.(Pine Bluff Commercial/Byron Tate) A year ago, mask-wearing officials and dignitaries strolled through the gaming area of Saracen Casino Resort as the doors to the full-sized casino were opened for the first…

Every time my friends and I arrive at a casino in the Delta region, there's a palpable excitement. We know good things are about to happen. Parking lot high-fives are followed by hyperbolic gambling predictions. "Those pit bosses are gonna wish they'd never seen us coming," one of us will say. Never mind the fact that we're all terrible gamblers…