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Sen. Blanche Lincoln has proudly announced editorial endorsements from newspapers in Fort Smith, Springdale, Bentonville and Fayetteville. The newspapers, which also endorsed Rep. John Boozman in the Republican primary, lauded Lincoln for, among others, not always getting on board with the Democratic Party agenda. A little useful background. The endorsing newspapers share an important factor – control by Little Rock financier Warren Stephens, a Republican whose political outlook is often reflected on his newspapers’ opinion pages. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, contributions from Stephens and related businesses constituted the third largest single source of contributions to Lincoln from 2005-10, $47,600. Top givers: The Texas law firm, Nix Patterson and Roach, which gave $60,200 and which is believed, among other interests, to be supporting a federal magistrate in Texas, Caroline Craven, for an Arkansas federal judgeship. Her name is one of three Lincoln has sent to the White House for possible nomination. Second-biggest giver? Wal-Mart Stores. Progressive groups have reported frequently on the extensive campaign spending by wealthy families such as the Waltons and Stephenses of Arkansas on members of Congress like Lincoln who’ve advocated an end to, or drastic reduction in, the estate tax. These changes would be worth billions to the families.
‘True Blood’ author in Times
We enjoyed a Q&A in last week’s Sunday New York Times Magazine with Charlaine Harris of Magnolia, the vampire thriller author whose work is the basis for the HBO hit “True Blood.” We like her politics. Excerpt: “As a married woman with three children who lives in small-town Arkansas, how did you get so interested in bisexual vampires? “Honestly, I don’t know. Gay rights is just one of the social issues I’m interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way. I have a lot of friends who are gay, so it’s kind of a natural thought progression. “There are that many gays in rural Arkansas? “You would be surprised. …. “Have you met your Arkansas neighbor and ordained Baptist minister Mike Huckabee? “No. I’ve had the chance to, but I’ve let that pass by. That’s as much as I want to say about it.” n Submit letters to The Editor via e-mail. The address is arktimes@arktimes.com. Please include a hometown and telephone number.
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Contents GROWING SUPPORT: Garbo Hearne helps state House candidate Odies Wilson put up a sign on her property at 1001 Wright Ave. Monday after Wilson made a contribution to the Dunbar Garden Project. Hearne’s husband, Dr. Archie Hearne, owns a medical clinic at the address; the couple came up with the fund-raiser for the two-acre garden, which serves students at Gibbs Magnet Elementary and Dunbar Magnet Middle School, to encourage its focus on nutrition. The garden is trying to raise $10,000 to match a challenge grant by a private foundation, dollars that will make up for funds cut by the city. The Hearnes will exchange sign space for garden donations through May 17.
Cheaper by the dozen
Strings attached
n Donor eggs as a door prize? That was the idea of a fertilization clinic in Fairfax County, Va., which last month gave away a free cycle of in-vitro fertilization to a woman attending a British seminar organized to educate infertile women. If the winner chooses to collect her prize, she’d be implanted gratis with eggs donated by a woman from Washington, D.C., a procedure worth $23,000. The egg raffle drew instant criticism from both British and American infertility experts, who found the offer of body parts LINCOLN: His as an enticement to use the clinic’s services clinic uses eggs as to be of questionable ethics, as well as in come-on. poor taste. A director at the clinic, Genetics & IVF Institute, one of the nation’s largest infertility centers, defended the giveaway as not unusual and simply part of the clinic’s business strategy. The Arkansas connection: Infertility expert Dr. Stephen R. Lincoln, husband of Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln, is one of the clinic’s six practicing physicians.
n The Washington Post reported last week that the Walton Foundation in Bentonville was among private foundations committing $64 million to Washington, D.C., public schools for teacher pay increases and other purposes, but that a string was attached in a proposed contract. The money might not be forthcoming if there was a change in leadership. The foundations like current chancellor Michelle Rhee. The Walton Foundation plans to contribute $25 million. Arkansas understands how it works. In Little Rock, potential Walton support migrated from the Little Rock School District to the eStem charter school project when the School Board fired Superintendent Roy Brooks, who’d looked with favor on education initiatives favored by the Waltons. The University of Arkansas has instituted a number of Walton-favored programs at Fayetteville (notably a department devoted to Walton-favored education theories) since its $300 million Walton gift. In Arkansas, the formality of contracts with strings are hardly necessary.
8 The ‘greening’ of
War Memorial
A new park philosophy will guide changes to War Memorial Park, but the growth in passive green space will be negligible. Golfers must be served. — By Leslie Newell Peacock
11 Hot fun in the summertime
Our annual guide to summer includes hot music, cold water, indoor football and a sip of home brew. — Times staff
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Words n She earned kodus too: “In its January 28, 1946 issue, Time Magazine selected writer Craig Rice for a cover feature on the mystery genre. It was one of the rare allocades this now almost forgotten writer received for her amazing body of work.” n He’s Ever Lastings: An early entry for best baseball name of the new season: Lastings Milledge. And, while we’re checking the box scores ... “Yankees prank old teammate.” As if we didn’t have reason to hate them already, now they’re misusing the language. Prank is a noun, not a verb. It means “a trick of an amusing, playful or sometimes malicious nature.” As we go into extra innings, we find this in an article about the Yankees paying 4 may 6, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES
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a call on President Obama: “Baseball, as the national pastime and one of the country’s oldest organized sports, has a special place at the White House. Many presidents played the game (or rounders, in the case of the earlier presidents) and looked for any chance to connect with the voters. They also hoped that the players’ vigor, valiance and glamour rubbed off on them.” The Dickson Baseball Dictionary defines rounders as, “An ancient British commoners’ bat-and-ball game from which most American stick-and-ball
games, including baseball, are in part derived.” Valiance is a noun one doesn’t see much. People writing about courage are more likely to use valor, which is shorter and prettier. The adjective valiant is widely used, though, and valiance is apparently a back-formation from that. I see in Random House that valiant is about three centuries older than valiance. n “A heavy, plethoric man with scarlet cheeks, Kitchener, aged sixty-six, puffed painfully as he plodded methodically forward and upward.” Plethoric is another word that’s little-used these days. In the example, it apparently means that Kitchener suffered from plethora, “a morbid condition due to excess red corpuscles in the blood or increase in the quantity of blood.”
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The Observer was out having
a drink with a buddy last week at Ciao Bacci, enjoying the pleasant early evening weather and catching up, when we noticed that just on the other side of the porch sat Judge David Burnett, the now infamous gavel-slammer who presided at the West Memphis Three trial. Two young boys went to prison for life. Another, Damien Echols, was sentenced to death in the trial. The judge was hobnobbing at what appeared to be a fund-raiser for his state Senate campaign, a small event populated by a few older-than-middle-aged men, when a few unexpected guests arrived. Three members of Arkansans Take Action (ATA), a group dedicated to raising awareness for and working for the release of the three West Memphis boys, showed up in “Free the West Memphis Three” T-shirts and approached Burnett with video cameras in hand. They asked the judge if he would answer a few questions about the case. Burnett declined, looking a little flustered and uncomfortable. He told the group they did not have permission to take his picture and asked that they put down the cameras. Now, The Observer is no judge, not even a lawyer, but we’re still not sure why you need permission to take a photograph of an adult in a public place. The ATA members then retired to their table for drinks. Later, one of Burnett’s guests approached the group and thanked them for being so polite.
The Observer went to a
wedding of an old friend over the weekend, a lovely lady we’ve known for most of a decade. We can distinctly remember her saying once — or at least we think we distinctly remember it, it all runs together after awhile — that she planned never to be a Mizzus. Ah, how things change. The lost find their way home, the damned find salvation, and those who thought they were content to be unhitched forever find themselves under an arch on a fine afternoon in May, reciting their vows. The world turns for us all. We’re proud to say that one of our creations was the centerpiece of the afterceremony festivities. The Observer is a handy sort, and months ago, when our friend was planning her May 1 wedding,
she asked us to whip her up a maypole — that old pagan symbol of spring and fertility. The Observer had always heard about folks dancing around the maypole, but we’d never seen that put into practice. The Internet knows all, however, and before long we were putting together a mixed assemblage of ribbon, plywood and PVC piping painted up nice, all surmounted by a flower-bedecked wreath from which gold and pink streamers fluttered. It was pretty if we do say so ourself. We were worried for awhile that the storms last Saturday would drive us inside before we got a chance to get our maypole on. But the Good Lord, in His infinite wisdom, saw fit to give us just enough of a break in the weather to get it set up and let the dancers dance. We adjourned to the grassy courtyard of the church, where the pole stood against a patched sky. With Vivaldi’s “Spring” playing on a nearby CD player, the wedding party took their places, then smilingly revolved around and around, twisting the colors down, down, down toward the base of the pole, weaving everything together. The bride, looking on — herself just woven into the fabric of another — was pleased, and beautiful.
Currently, The Observer is
getting his car ready for the Arkansas Times’ annual Rock Candy 500, our allages pinewood derby race, which might be a memory by the time you read this (it’s on Thursday, May 6, in the River Market). As with last year, our plan is to make our racer a swoopy mess of curves and angles; probably not very fast but at least eye catching — much like The Observer, in fact. Last year, we wound up building a flat black chunk we called The Flatster. It was decidedly cool, with fully-skirted fenders and a small dome at the back for a tiny driver. Problem was, we didn’t figure in that we needed to add extra weight, so our car was seriously outclassed in the speed department. It didn’t even make it to the end of the track, in fact. It started fine, running true. But as the other cars raced for the finish, ours came to a grinding halt about three feet after the slope of the track turned to flat, forcing us to take the walk of shame over to retrieve it. Better luck next time, Wile E. Coyote.
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Travel worthwhile
A recent editorial entitled “Congo John” criticized Rep. John Boozman for his 2009 travel to 14 different countries including nations in Africa. It compared him unfavorably to me because in 2009 I had taken no international trips. In my opinion Rep. Boozman should be commended for his willingness to participate in and learn from congressionally-related international travel. There are very few challenges facing the United States and Arkansas that do not have worldwide ramifications, including public health, national security, sound immigration policy, trade, student exchanges, information technology and security, economic development, and international diplomacy. My lack of international travel was a result of family responsibilities requiring my presence at home, not a belief that travel is not important for members of Congress. U.S. Rep. Vic Snyder Little Rock
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reform – more money to the state to pay for the expansion of Medicaid and better care (or in some instances, care for the first time) for hundreds of thousands of Arkansans. He pointed out that the fears of some politicians about the burden on Arkansas to pay for the expansion are baseless. In his April 22 article, Doug Smith reminded us that all Americans are benefiting from the tax cuts and that Arkansans, because we are a poor state, are benefiting disproportionately. Poor states and poor folks should benefit from progressive social programs, and Arkansas and Arkansans do. So why are the approval ratings for Obama and Democrats, who alone are responsible for this good work, not through the roof? I do not know. I do know that for all my life I have been mystified by how demagogues have convinced the working class and middle class to take to the barricades to oppose social programs and a tax system that benefit them. We now need to restore some of Bush’s ill-advised tax cuts and probably cut spending to cut into the Republican-crafted permanent deficit. If Obama succeeds, he will not get the credit he will deserve. Pat Goss Little Rock
Fogleman defended
I do not know how you feel about your April 22 edition, leading with yet another
rehash of the West Memphis Three. Taking every (stale) thing you say in the article as true, what would you like your reader to do? It is over. Consider a new weekly recovery meeting at your headquarters to help you accept what you cannot change and free yourself to be interesting again. As an aside, injecting it into a state Supreme Court judicial race is teabagger, using your pen to unfairly jack the system, like screaming “traitor” when actually you just do not agree with an outcome. And it is on the cover. Kinda cheap. But I end with the salve of friendship, “bless your heart. I know you mean well ... .” Robert D. Trammell Little Rock I was shocked at the disgraceful and inappropriate “No” to Fogleman cover on the April 22 Arkansas Times. Apparently it was based on the conclusions of Mara Leveritt, who described convicted felon Jessie Misskelley Jr. as being a clumsy statement giver, incapable of giving a coherent account of facts. To my mind, Ms. Leveritt is the Jessie Misskelley Jr. of investigative reporting. So far her “negative evidence” against Circuit Judge John Fogleman has been rejected by the Arkansas Supreme Court. Judge Fogleman’s credentials and qualifications to serve on the Arkansas Supreme Court have been endorsed by
the Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association, which honored him as its Outstanding Trial Judge of the Year and, according to Ms. Leveritt, “almost every lawyer I know who appeared in Fogleman’s court since he was elected a circuit judge 15 years ago hold him in high regard.” He comes from a long and distinguished legal family and has distinguished himself as an experienced and exceptional lawyer and trial judge, well qualified to be elected to our Supreme Court. “YES” to Fogleman. S. Hubert Mayes Jr. Little Rock
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Thank you for the nice article about our son, MSgt. Bubba Beason, in the April 8 issue. During his year-long tour of duty in Afghanistan he will run a mile for each one killed during this war on terror. He has a deep burden for the Gold Star moms, the moms who have lost a son or daughter. Our car club, the Dixie Car Club, in Benton sent over 500 Mother’s Day cards to the men and women there so they could send them to their moms. We are so proud of him and Arkansas will be the better when he will be stationed at Little Rock Air Force Base when he returns next year. Ronald and Brenda Wood Benton
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expansion. JUDICIAL ETHICS. The state Supreme Court rejected Willard Proctor’s argument that judges couldn’t be permanently prevented from seeking judicial office on account of ethical violations, such as those that got him removed as circuit judge. Had Proctor succeeded, it would have gutted the judicial discipline process. DIRTY POLITICS. Sen. Blanche Lincoln and allies in secretive special interest groups unloaded dishonest and ugly advertising on opponent Bill Halter. The strategy seemed to reflect desperation over his rising poll numbers. BACKROOM DEALS. The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees has been talking privately about a successor for retiring UA System President Alan Sugg. G. David Gearhart, chancellor at the Fayetteville campus, is a prime candidate. (See Max Brantley’s column.) It was a bad week for …
WEATHER. A tornado took one life and caused other injuries and significant damages when it hit Scotland in Van Buren County. Violent storms touched many other parts of the state during the week. VOTING. Early voting began and light turnout seemed to confirm tepid interest in the races. CLOSURE. A Clarksville jury couldn’t reach a verdict and a mistrial was declared in the state’s second attempt to convict someone in the murder of Nona Dirksmeyer of Russellville. The defense threw suspicion on the first suspect acquitted in the case. GOING TO COURT. The state won’t budge on the Little Rock School District’s objections to segregation caused by state creation of open enrollment charter schools in Pulaski County. It sounds like a judge, not negotiations, will be required to settle the ancient desegregation lawsuit for good. 8 may 6, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES
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The greening of War Memorial Two meadows and a new No. 17.
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n For 72 years, duffers and their betters have made their way around the city’s par-65 War Memorial Golf Course. For 51 years, tennis players have served at and been served by the city courts at Walker Tennis Center in War Memorial Park. Under certain scenarios to recreate War Memorial as a green oasis in the heart of the city, the golf course and tennis courts might have been done away with. But it would take more political capital than most cities could muster to get rid of a golf course, with an ardent male constituency, that’s been around forever. Tennis courts, used by children much of the time — not so much. After several years of discussion and planning, work started in March to revivify War Memorial Park. First up:Alteration of the golf course to accommodate an expanded children’s playground, leveling of Walker Courts to create greenspace, and a new entrance. The work, parks experts say, will create a peaceful landscape better suited to today’s recreation needs, in a place central to the city that draws from neighborhoods of every economic level. It should be, ideally, a place for people to connect with nature and one another. Current thinking on the best use of public parkland is that 80 to 85 percent of the land should be dedicated to passive recreation — walking, biking, etc. — rather than sports attractions, or active recreation. Parks personnel and city directors have pondered how to make War Memorial — 200 acres in midtown occupied by a 90-acre golf course, tennis courts, a fitness center, War Memorial Stadium, the Little Rock Zoo, a playground and an archery range — more resemble that new model of passive recreation. Three years ago, consultants were hired. Forest Park in St. Louis was held up as an example. Public hearings were held. Pads were flipped, markers wielded, ideas proposed: Get rid of the golf course, or reduce it by half, and knock down the tennis courts. Tear down the stadium (an idea met with thundering silence). Close Fair Park Boulevard. Expand the Zoo into abandoned Ray Winder Field. Create extensive biking and hiking trails. Suggestions were gathered, plans were turned out, more meetings were held. A price tag of many millions was bandied about. That was 2007. Since then, the Parks and Recreation Department reissued a bond that allowed it to commit $1.2 million to War Memorial. Change has begun, though not the transforming facelift some envisioned
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at the public hearings so long ago. The Zoo, as it turns out, will not expand into the ballpark; the city is selling that portion of the park it owns to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. The golf course will remain virtually untouched, keeping 18 holes. There will not be a network of hiking/biking trails, but rather a mile-long loop that will circumscribe the finger of green, along Coleman Creek, on the west side of Fair Park. A park that was once 3 percent passive recreation will now be 9 percent passive recreation. By using its own staff, Parks Director Truman Tolefree said, the department is contributing about $3 million in labor to the War Memorial renovation. That would represent, along with total Ray Winder sale proceeds, a $5.2 million investment in the midtown park. Here’s the schedule for War Memorial Park improvements over the next year (work will cease during football season starting in September and resume in January): Landscaped entrances at Markham and Fair Park and Jonesboro and 12th Street. Semicircles of shrubbery will be planted and signage constructed at Markham and Van Buren, the most visible entrance to the park, sometime starting in May. An entry feature at Jonesboro and 12th Street will be built in 2011. Estimated cost: $130,000. Changes to the golf course. To make room for a new playground in the middle of the park and new landscaping at the entrance to the park off Markham, hole No. 17 has been removed. A new No. 14 was built, with a green on a peninsula in the lake, and No. 16 has become 17. No. 13 was shortened. Par on
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the course, once 65, will be 64. Minor changes, given that it was once suggested that the course be cut back to nine holes — and yet the golfers howled over them. Their protests weren’t met with a lot of sympathy, especially by the tennis players. Work on the course, including getting new sod established, should be complete in time for the July 4 tournament. The budget is included in the playground cost (below). East open recreation space. Walker is scheduled to be torn down in mid-May to make room for a rectangle of green between Markham and War Memorial Stadium. A meadow will replace the courts, with landscaping on the east at the entrance and a trail circling the periphery. $145,000. The tennis players did win a minor victory: Now included in the plans are two new courts to replace Walker’s six, next to the Jim Daily Fitness Center. Those courts weren’t initially included in the renovation plan and weren’t budgeted from the bond issue. Instead, they’ll be funded from the proceeds of the sale of Ray Winder Field. City Manager Bruce Moore has OK’d that expenditure, but the money is not in hand; the city and UAMS are negotiating the medical center’s offer of $1.6 million ($1.1. after demolition of the stadium). Mayor Mark Stodola vowed to a reporter last week that the city would use all the money from the sale of the ballfield to benefit War Memorial Park, though Parks isn’t counting that egg before it hatches. Jogging, walking, biking trails. In addition to the trail around the field created from Walker courts, a 15-foot-wide trail starting at the west side of the Markham Street entrance
to the park (in back of the 18th tee) will run south between Fair Park and one of the two feeders of Coleman Creek Pond, down along meadow that will be created from the former archery range and back up across Coleman Creek to the new playground. Work on the northern portion is scheduled to start in May. Estimated cost: $200,000. Children’s playground. Work on a new playground somewhat along the lines of Peabody Park — with climbing and play areas carved out of the landscape and a spray water feature — will begin next month. The park will be north of the pavilion, on former golf course space. Parking will be south of Coleman Creek; Club Road, which used to run from Fair Park to the golf course parking lot, will be closed. Estimated cost: $500,000. Restoration of Coleman Creek and pond clean-up. The pond, now drained, does not have what Assistant Park Director Mark Webre called a “full ecology.” Since the pond was enlarged in 1998, it’s gone from being 10 to 12 feet deep to 4 feet, filled in with leaves and other detritus carried from the Hillcrest neighborhood down Coleman Creek. Now, the pond will be enlarged and cleaned and the stream re-engineered for better flow. Parks has budgeted $200,000 to improve the pond and stream. Two new tennis courts. Though included on the schedule as a project that will start in May, the $175,000 budgeted to build courts is to come from the sale of Ray Winder, still under negotiation. Tolefree said construction on the courts could begin before the money was in hand, however. The city has not yet put the project out to bid. Bloch Foundation Cancer Survivors Park. This feature falls under the “This Space for Sale” category of War Memorial development. The brainchild of the City Parks Conservancy, the nonprofit organization that solicits private support for the parks, the Cancer Survivors Park comes with sculpture identical to sculpture in its 24 other parks across the country and Canada and $1 million for landscaping. The CPC and the parks department maintain that the location of War Memorial Park between St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences make it a logical spot for an area for cancer survivors and the recently diagnosed to meditate. Had the memorial not come with $1 million, “we wouldn’t have been able to do it,” Tolefree said, but he added, “It’s not about the money.” The Bloch Foundation has to approve the landscaping. The park’s design should be submitted to the foundation in June; assistant director Webre said representatives of the hospital had weighed in on the design. The park, scheduled to go up in 2011, will be located on the southwest side of the intersection of Fair Park and Club Road. South open recreation space. In 2011, work on the part of the park south of Club Road will begin with the demolition of parking area and the reconstruction of turf
area east of Coleman Creek. A roundabout will be built at what is now the intersection of Club Road and Fair Park, though funds for that are slated to come out of proceeds from the sale of Ray Winder. (Included in the playground budget.) Acquisition of new parkland. Tolefree would like to expand War Memorial south of Interstate 630, using $450,000 from the proceeds of the sale of Ray Winder. The project would be coordinated with the new children’s library the Central Arkansas Library System is building between I-630 and West Tenth and between Madison and Jonesboro Street. Also to be constructed: a roundabout entry to the playground and sculpture garden,
where Club Road is now, new parking at the sculpture garden and improved playground parking. The park fix-up will add more plants and shrubs to nurture, more grass to mow, a trail to watch after, a playground to keep up. So how much money has parks been able to set aside for the maintenance of War Memorial? “I’m glad you asked that,” Tolefree said. The answer: None of the $7 million parks bond issue that is paying for the War Memorial upgrade, the purchase of the old Western Hills golf course, renovations at Rebsamen Tennis Center and refurbishing 17 smaller parks will be set aside for maintenance.
The problem is an old one for parks, Tolefree said. As the department has added parkland and made improvements, it’s never been able to increase its budget or staff. Parks and Recreation’s 2010 budget of $12.5 million was in fact cut by $600,000 this year because of the decline in city revenues. A dedicated tax supported by City Director Brad Cazort and others could provide up to $10 million, Tolefree said, that would allow parks to create a maintenance endowment. Tall grass and withered landscaping at War Memorial Park, should that come to pass in Little Rock’s new green heart, may make that point more clearly than any city director.
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It’s our annual preview for summer, with a focus on cool things to do in Arkansas’s hot season and Lindsey Millar’s annual roundup of the best of the best entertainment scheduled for the months ahead. Plunge in.
From an icy cold river to air-conditioned football, best of summer.
cold comfort In search of the chilliest swimming in Arkansas By David Koon
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bsolutes are dangerous in the newspaper business. That’s one of the first things they teach you when you sign on, right after how to work the coffee pot. We deal in facts; lose sleep when we get it wrong; are forced to write corrections and beg forgiveness when we do. And if there is one truism in this business, it’s that the moment you say something is the first, the last, the oldest, the only, the tallest, the newest or the most expensive, somebody, somewhere is going to come out of the woodwork to prove you wrong. These are the times that try men’s souls. That’s the reason why I’m not going to say that the Spring River in Northeast Arkansas is the coldest swimming hole in the state. Fed primarily by nine-million gallon-per-hour Mammoth Spring in Fulton County and running southeast for 75 miles before emptying into the Black River, it’s surely one of the coldest, hovering at the take-your-breath-away temperature of 56 to 58 degrees year round. To put things into perspective: that’s only about 20 degrees away from taking a bottle of water out of the refrigerator and pouring it over your head. Combine that beer-chilling flow with some of the better rapids in Arkansas, rainbow trout fishing near Mammoth Spring and plenty of burbling chutes to shoot in a canoe, and it’s easy to see why the Spring River is a hot place to party during the dog day weekends, frequented by canoers and college kids. Shelly Govar runs South Fork Resort, a cabin, campground and canoe rental business on the nearby South Fork River. The majority of the float trips she books are on the Spring, and she can confirm from experience that it’s frigid, even in the hottest months of summer. “It’s not like jumping in a swimming pool. It’s like jumping into ice,” Govar said. “It takes your breath away even if it’s a hundred degrees outside.” Govar said that in the spring and early summer, the water is cold enough that she won’t float it. She said an unexpected dip in the Spring
COOL WATERS: The Spring River’s average water temperature is 56 to 58 degrees year round. on a 70 degree day can be a stunning, even painful experience. “We put people [in canoes] in it in 70 or 80 degree weather,” she said. “but it would have to be mid-80s for me to even float it because you might flip. Seventy degrees and you flip, it’s gonna be cold.” Govar said that the temperature, the class 1 through 3 rapids, and the plentiful gravel bars on the river draw in the partiers, transforming the river into a “miniature Mardi Gras” on summer weekends – especially 4th of July and Labor Day – complete with boozing, nudity and general debauchery. Some of the houses along the river throw huge shindigs. It’s definitely not for everybody. “There’s this one house over by Dead Man’s Curve [a treacherous bend of the river where many novice canoers tip] that always has a DJ on the major weekends,” Govar said. “Everybody pulls their boats up on a gravel bar and they show their boobs for beads and just get hammered. They drop rubber snakes out of the trees. It’s just crazy.”
The scene was enough that the reality television channel TruTV came to town last Labor Day and shot an episode of their show “Party Heat.” “They didn’t depict a very good picture,” Govar said. Howard Braswell runs the Spring River Canoe Club, and owns a house on Dead Man’s Curve. He said that in the summer, even the non-holiday weekends can see the river packed. “It’s a lot of college kids and high school kids on the weekends,” he said. “We try to encourage families to come during the week so they don’t get in the middle of all that.” Note: The banks of the Spring River are mostly private property, so the best way to get your feet wet there is to go through one of the many canoe and raft rental businesses in the area. There’s also a few public access points, such as Hardy Beach in Hardy, Arkansas, which is located in a public park. www.arktimes.com • may 6, 2010 11
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do it yourself: Kirk Wasson, president of the Central Arkansas Fermenters Association, sets up shop at Foam Fest in Little Rock.
make a cold one sipping homemade suds in little rock By gerard matthews
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ame any staple of old-fashioned American summer time-killing – baseball, barbecues, swimming holes – and one thing complements each perfectly: a nice, cold beer. But in an economic climate where the price of everything from movie tickets to gallons of gasoline seem to be forever on the rise, that $10 six-pack of craft brew on the cooler shelf starts to look less and less appealing. There is a simple solution for the Central Arkansas beer lover: make your own. Mike Byrum has been doing just that for the last 15 years. What started as a college scheme to score cheaper brews turned into a full-blown career. Byrum now owns Fermentables, the only homebrew store in Central Arkansas. He says once your startup costs for equipment are out of the way, you can brew beer at home for half the price of what you’ll pay at the store. “We have kits that have everything you need down to the bottle caps,” Byrum says. “So if you walk out of here with that, you’ll have everything you need to make your first
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batch of beer for about $120. And that will make five gallons of beer, which is about two cases and a six-pack.” Fermentables, located on Crutcher St. in North Little Rock, is one of the only homebrew supply stores in the state. Fayettevilians can go to The Home Brewery and a new shop just opened up in Fort Smith. So what makes a really good batch of homebrewed beer? Byrum says it comes down to patience. “It’s really just about following a recipe, really,” he says. “If you can make a pretty good pot of soup then you can probably make a pretty good batch of beer. We’ve been making beer since we came out of the caves and we’ve been slowly improving on the process. As far as procedure goes, not a whole lot has changed. The technology has improved. But honestly, it’s just enjoyable, especially when you make beer from grain. It almost has a little bit of a magical quality to it, because you’re taking water and grain and combining them together to get a really sweet liquid that you put yeast into and turn it into beer. Plus, it’s fun to drink.” And that’s what seems to draw most beer lovers to the hobby. Brad McLaurin has been brewing at home since 2003. He’s a member of the Central Arkansas Fermenters, a local homebrew club of about 50 members who get together monthly to share secrets and suds.
“I always tell everybody I get to drink my hobby,” McLaurin says. “I’m a beer lover. I had a friend that was doing it and one day I just decided, ‘Hey, I can do that.’ Now I probably brew about 150 gallons a year, if not more.” Learning how to get started from a friend also seems to be a common thread in the home-brewing community. In fact, May is Teach a Friend to Brew Month. To celebrate, Fermentables will host an open house on May 13 and CAF members will be in attendance. Little Rock, McLaurin says, is a great place to start brewing at home. “One thing that’s great about Little Rock is that our water is like a blank canvas for an artist,” he says. “You can add brewing salts to mimic the water in London or other parts of the world. I mean, beer is 95 percent water, so we’re lucky in that respect.” One of the most important things to remember, though, according to Byrum, is to just relax. “The classic book is called ‘The Joy of Homebrewing’ written by Charley Papazian. His motto is ‘Relax and have a homebrew.’ And really what you need to do when you’re brewing is kick back, relax and maybe drink a couple beers. Don’t get fanatical about it and don’t worry about it too much because chances are everything will come out pretty good.”
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The first thing you need as an Arkansas summer approaches: A swimsuit (under most circumstances). Models for the Times donned suits poolside in Pleasant Valley to show off some of the season’s top fashions, available at Advanced Sun Systems and Barbara Graves Intimate Fashions. At left: Taylor cools off in “Quint Soul,” a jungle-inspired two-piece from Advanced Sun Systems.
Below: Helen’s multicolor St. Croix monokini is by Gossip Collection, from Barbara Graves. Facing page, top left: Winki Island’s “Angel Heart” collection, modeled here by Hannah, is inspired by tattoos. The suit is available at Advanced Sunsystems. Facing page, right: This is the year for ruffles, so Hannah is in style with Seafolly’s “Frill Me” collection at Barbara Graves. Facing page, middle left: Helen’s red and pink twisted-pattern two-piece is from the “Namibia” collection at Barbara Graves. Facing page, bottom left: Raisin puts Hannah in the sun with its “That’s Hot” Collection, available at Barbara Graves. Models include Helen Daniel, Hannah Sink and Taylor Wright. Makeup was by Karina Goucher and photostyling by Michelle Miller. Brian Chilson was the photographer.
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DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH: The Arkansas Diamonds team, in black, is made up of ex-college players hoping to advance their professional football careers.
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ow long does something have to hang around before it becomes a tradition? A little longer than the Arkansas Diamonds,
perhaps. Indoor football has been a source of summer entertainment in Little Rock for 10 years, but it still doesn’t have an air of permanence about it, nor does it evoke the same sort of warm remembrance that’s palpable at games of the Arkansas Travelers, another minor-league team (baseball) that’s a just-down-the-street competitor for sports fans’ dollars. The Diamonds do have fans, obviously – somebody is paying pretty good money for those reserved, front-row seats – just not a lot of them, Fewer, in fact, than in the franchise’s early years. Technically, this is the Diamonds’ first 16 may 6, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES
year, but essentially they’re the Arkansas Twisters under a new name. The Twisters brought arena football to Little Rock in 2000, a time when the sport looked promising. Games of the Arena Football League, the sport’s major league, were shown on national television. The Twisters were members of Arena Football 2, a “developmental” league, and the fast-moving, high-offense style of play, as well as the sheer novelty of football inside, pleased Central Arkansas for a time. An on-line source says that the Twisters set the AF2 attendance record of 16,058, playing in what was then Alltel Arena (and is now Verizon Arena). But the new began to wear off, nationally and locally. AF1 went out of business, which meant that AF2, an affiliate, did also. A new league was formed, called the International Football League, consisting of 26 teams. The Diamonds are in the Lone Star division; all the teams they
play are from Texas. That might appeal to aged Arkansas Razorback fans, who can remember when the Hogs played in an otherwise all-Texas league. The Diamonds’ ownership is the same as the Twisters’ ownership last year, local businessmen Jim Smith and Jeff Everetts, who took over before the 2009 season. Troy Thompson, director of operations, says “We wanted to keep professional football in the state. We did it for the community.” Legal technicalities kept them from using the Twisters’ name, however, so fans were asked to submit nominations. “Diamonds” was an easy winner. Other things for which Arkansas is known – “Strawberries,” “Tomatoes,” “Clintons” – seemed inappropriate, and “Razorbacks,” of course, was already taken. The crowd at a March 27 game with the Abilene Ruff Riders was no recordsetter – two or three thousand, maybe, and they didn’t seem especially enthusiastic, although one couple held up a “D” and a cutout of a fence, just like football fans on TV. Arena football is designed more as an “O”-and-a-cutout-of-a fence game though, and this one was typically high-scoring. For those who’ve never been to an arena game, the ball is in the air and the end zone a lot.
The players are ex-college players you’ve never heard of but who still have hopes of playing in a higher, better-paying league. Arena football is seven men to a side. The Diamonds have an active roster of 20 and a 4-man “taxi squad” that fills in when players are injured. The players get $200 a game and a bonus if they win. Also, “We provide all the housing and meals during the season,” Thompson says. Some of the players have regular jobs. “This league is meant for guys on the verge of making it to the NFL,” Thompson says. “We have guys that have been to NFL training camps, the Canadian league, some have played overseas.” Local media devote little time and space to the Diamonds, producing another round of the old chickenand-egg sort of argument: More people would come to the games if the team got more coverage. The team would get more coverage if more people came to the games. But, a person doesn’t need the media to enjoy a long completed pass, a cold beer, violent collisions, dancing girls in shorts. The game is different from regular football in some respects, true. But to the really intense football fan, any sort of football is better than baseball.
SUMMER 2010
music, movies & more our picks for the best of summer. By lindsey millar
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ummer’s just around the corner. Sunburns and heat-inspired freak-outs are coming, but so are sno-cones, swimming pools and lots of great entertainment. Time to start marking up your calendar. The Weekend Theater closes its new season with decorated playwright David Mamet’s bleaker take on the world of Willy Loman, “Glengarry Glen Ross” (May 14). Local NPR affiliate KUAR’s annual answer to “A Prairie Home Companion,” “The Arkansas Flyer” (May 14), moves to Wildwood Park for the Arts for its fourth edition. Local singer/songwriter Amy Garland hosts, honky-tonk heroes The Salty Dogs and bluesman John Craig perform and the Invisible Radio Theater stages “old-fashioned” radio skits. A host of local acts, including Times Showcase winner Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth, Adam Faucett & the Tall Grass, Bear Colony and Frown Pow’r (May 15), unite to raise money for American Princes’ bassist Luke Hunsicker, who’s battling brain cancer. This year’s Timberwood Amphitheater Concert Series at Magic Springs (May 15-August 15) kicks off with Disney channel star Mitchel Musso (May 15) and features the likes of country crooner Pat Green (June 5), still-charting ’90s modern rock act Train (June 10), REO Speedwagon ( June 17), Ted Nugent (July 3), Arkansas-born new country star Joe Nichols (July 10), Randy Travis (July 31) and emo-pop young bucks Boys Like Girls (August 8). Spend back-to-back weekends noshing at food festivals. There’ll be blintzes, corned beef and matzo galore at the River Market Pavilion for the annual Jewish Food and Cultural Festival (May 16), as well as live performances by acts like the Meshugga Klezmer Band. The following weekend, the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church hosts the 26th annual Greek Food Festival (May 21-23), with plenty of backlava, gyros and souvlaki to go around. Local record label Thick Syrup celebrates its fourth anniversary (May 22) with a concert at White Water Tavern that features a one-night reunion of widely beloved bar rockers Smoke Up Johnny, avant-rock act Androids of Ex-Lovers and Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth. Angst-laden Canadian indie-rock band The Most Serene Republic co-headlines at Sticky Fingerz with North Carolina’s The Annuals, a hook-y six-piece that favors instrumental experimentation. Former members of Evanescence Ben Moody, John LeCompt and Rocky Gray didn’t like working with Amy Lee, but apparently really dug her look and sound, because they’ve recruited former “American Idol” contestant Carly Smithson, a Lee doppleganger, for their new band We Are the Fallen (May 25), which makes its Little Rock debut at Juanita’s. A quarter of a million folks are expected at Riverfest (May 28-30), long Arkansas’ biggest entertainment event. This year’s headliners includes the usual slate of nostalgia acts — New Jack Swing pioneers Bell Biv Devoe, Aussie yacht rockers The Little River Band and classic rock staple Steve Miller Band. But perhaps more than in years past, there are also a number of acts still very much relevant in modern music, like Southern rock stalwarts The Black
THE MOUTH OF THE SOUTH: Rapper Ludacris is one of Riverfest’s headliners. Crowes, booming-voiced rapper Ludacris, country stars Gary Allan and Blake Shelton and rising roots-tinged rock bands Cross Canadian Ragweed and Lucero. The Rep closes its season with Terrence McNally’s musical adaptation of E.L. Doctorow’s novel, “Ragtime” (May 28). As it does annually, the Hot Springs Music Festival (May 30-June 12) brings together more than 250 classical musicians from across the globe for dozens of performances in venues throughout Spa City. The Little Rock Film Festival (June 2-6) returns with five days of documentaries, features and shorts and, new this year, a $10,000 prize for the best Southern film. The lineup will
be announced on May 11. The Black Keys, Widespread Panic, Robert Randolph and Hayes Carll are among those playing at the Wakarusa music and camping festival (June 3-6), which returns to Mulberry Mountain, near Ozark, for the second year. The Eureka Springs Blues Weekend (June 3-6) returns to venues throughout the city with the likes of John P. Hammond, Magic Slim and the Teardrops and Bob Margolin. Legendary songwriter John Prine (June 4) offers hits like “Angel of Montgomery” and “Sam Stone” to a crowd at Robinson Center Music Hall that’s hopeContinued on page 18 www.arktimes.com • may 6, 2010 17
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sailing the lakes of the natural state By john tarpley
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he connotations that cling to the sport of sailing don’t quite jibe with the tones of the typical South. It can call to mind images of olive-tanned swells off Cape Cod or Martha’s Vineyard, enjoying a sun-specked ocean and mauling olden nautical terminology like “spinnaker” and “dagger board” with that grating nor’ eastern accent. Do sailboats have a place in the Deep South? After all, this is a state that loves our sports physical and fast-paced. We’re in the SEC, the roughest and mightiest of all college conferences. We provide NASCAR with a sizable chunk of its fan base. What could an unhurried, gentle pastime like sailing have to offer? Quite a lot. Sure, these sailboats coursing across the water seem serene enough from a distance, but when you’re one of the hands on board, tacking upwind at 15 knots over a bumpy, unforgiving liquid terrain, constantly rearranging your footing on a slicked, never-steady deck, grasping at sail lines, trying to remember the right way to tie a correct jack knot, all the while dodging a 300-pound steel mast that would knock you unconscious and send you off into the water if given the chance…well, it can make squaring up across from Tony Bua or being bumped by Mark Martin seem like a dawdling round of bocce ball. It’s hardly uncommon to see sailboats pluming between bass boats and pontoons through the drafts and gusts of Arkansas. From small, two-hulled catamarans to massive, 40-foot multi-sail keelboats, sailing is alive and well on our lakes thanks to the thrills and, if one chooses, relaxation it offers. With four major sailing (or “yacht”) clubs within our borders, all offering an array of weekend regattas (boat races), cruises, poker runs and, yes, margarita-fueled dock parties, there’s ample opportunity to indulge your inner Viking (or Jimmy Buffett), all the while admiring all the nautical grandeur Arkansas has to offer. The Iron Mountain Yacht Club on the rolling, 14,000-acre DeGray Lake – where I caught the sailing bug as a 14-yearold on a well-rounded Hunter 25’– presents a particularly challenging lake layout, with a number of islands dotted in the water which, in places, require constant maneuvering of jib and regular modification of strategy. For the more relaxed, the lake offers plenty of peaceful lagoons in which to anchor down and a number of great cliffs that beg for the gutsy diver.
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Continued from page 17 fully much better behaved than the last time he came to town. Down the street, at Revolution Todd Snider (June 4) employs similar humor and wit (he recorded for a time on Prine’s record label) in his folk-flecked tunes. Movies in the Park, the annual outdoor free weekly movie series, returns to the Riverfest Amphitheatre with “Back to the Future” (June 9). Other films in the series, which continues through August 4, include “Twilight” (June 4), “The Dark Knight” (June 30), “Sixteen Candles” (July 7), “Wedding 18 may 6, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES
For the especially competitive, the Greers Ferry Lake Yacht Club offers the Cleon Challenge, an allyear, standing race open to those willing to test themselves. Rounding the lake’s three major islands, the Cleon is a route mapped out especially for time trials, rife with technical zigs and zags designed to challenge the dexterity not only of a boat, but the nerves of the skipper. The club’s website reports over 100 logged times from both crews and solo attempts. The Ozarks’ premiere club, the Beaver Lake Sail Club, lies outside of Eureka Springs on Beaver Lake. It sports weekly summer events on the water including the annual Arkansas Cup tournament, the three-part Fall Series, the Summer Sailstice to celebrate the longest day of the year and – this is great – a “dive-in” movie. For the Central Arkansas resident not looking to hit the road to hit the water, the 50-year old Grande Maumelle Sailing Club is arguably the elite group for those with healthy sea legs. They offer sailing classes for kids aged 7 to 16, not to mention weekend classes for adults in early June. So there’s an option for the curious short of an investment in a boat. Sporting a huge array of boat styles and offering frequent boat races and regattas, this group caters to the experienced sailor as well while accepting those with neither boat nor equipment. While these four groups are The open sea: Take sailing lessons on Lake Maumelle. clubs that require membership fees, Arkansas lakes invite people and their sailboats to chart off into their waters. In fact, for those interested but short a few Ready To Ride The Wind? thousand bones to buy their own, Jolly Roger’s Marina on Here’s some contact information: Lake Maumelle, to name one, offers sailboat charters and Beaver Lake Sailing Club beaverlakesailclub.com Grande Maumelle Sailing Club gmsc.org rentals. Greers Ferry Lake Yacht Club gflyc.com So don’t hesitate. As an old skipper once told me, the Iron Mountain Yacht Club ironmountainyachtclub.org secret to great sailing is in simply keeping your sail towards Jolly Roger’s Marina jollyrogersmarina.com the sky, the tan on your back and the rum in your cup.
Crashers” (July 21) and “Grease” (July 28). R&B throwbacks Mint Condition share a bill with contemporary soul crooner Joe (June 10) at the Riverfest Amphitheatre. Now in its fourth year, the Arkansas Shakespeare Festival (June 16-July 3), returns to UCA’s Reynolds Performance Hall with “Comedy of Errors,” “Henry V,” “Dracula” and “Alice and Wonderland.” Opera in the Ozarks (June 18-July 17) celebrates 60 years of performances at Inspiration Point (just outside of Eureka Springs) with Bizet’s “Carmen,” Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and Puccini’s “Tosca.” And Celebrity Attractions brings a national stage production of “The Wizard of Oz” (June 21-23) to Robinson Center
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Music Hall. Before Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant (July 15) and John Bonham played together in a group called Band of Joy. Now, Plant’s resurrected the group and populated it with Nashville talents like Buddy Miller and Patty Griffin. In perhaps the summer’s most anticipated concert, he brings the reconstituted group to Robinson. Unfunny but hugely popular ventriloquist Jeff Dunham (July 18) yuks it up at Verizon Arena. Finally, expect fainting tweenage girls to pack Verizon Arena to the brim for Canadian teen idol Justin Bieber (July 29), who brings R&B crooner Sean Kingston along as an opener.
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Brad Heberlee as David Frost, Mark Irish as Jim Reston, David Sitler as Jack Brennan and Keith Langsdale as Richard Nixon confer during an interview in The Rep’s production of Frost/Nixon.
tICketS oNLINe At tHeRep.oRG oR call 501-378-0405 “Director Gilbert McCauley...delivers the play to us on a spare set, with nothing more than a table or a few chairs and several large square dividers, meant, perhaps to evoke television screens. Yet, with frequent narration, from Nixon adviser Jack Brennan (David Sitler) and Frost’s interview coach James Reston Jr. (Mark Irish), which often weaves in and out of dialogue, the pace moves along briskly.” —Lindsey Millar www.arktimes.com • MAY 6, 2010 19
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n Several appealing candidates seek the Democratic nomination for the Second District congressional seat that Vic Snyder is giving up. Most of them promise to continue the same sort of progressive representation that Snyder has provided. Only one of them has a proven progressive record, however, and that is why state SEN. JOYCE ELLIOTT is our choice. Throughout her career in state government – first in the House, then in the Senate – Elliott has been an outspoken and influential advocate for the poor, the sick, the undereducated, for minorities and for women. A former schoolteacher, she’s a stout friend of the public schools. As a black woman, she’s faced discrimination, and beaten it. She is just what the Second District needs, and the nation. It will probably come as a surprise to many, including CIRCUIT JUDGE JOHN FOGLEMAN, that the Arkansas Times is endorsing Fogleman for the Arkansas Supreme Court. Only last month, we published a cover story highly critical of Fogleman’s conduct as a prosecutor in the infamous West Memphis Three case. We still believe that certain of Fogleman’s actions in that case invite censure. But in the long years since, he has been an exemplary judge, acclaimed by the state’s leading lawyers. He possesses the trial court experience that his opponent lacks, experience crucial for anyone who’d sit on the state’s highest court. She is, on the other hand, rich in contributions from corporate interests and she pandered to the religious rightists at the Family Council in its candidate survey. Like quite a few other Arkansans, we suspect, we agonized over the U.S. Senate race before finally deciding on Lt. Gov. BILL HALTER, if only because he seems more a true Democrat than Sen. Blanche Lincoln does. She has had some good days – in the end, she voted for President Obama’s health-care bill – and some bad, as in her continued effort to eliminate the estate tax, one of the country’s few progressive taxes, paid only by the richest one percent of taxpayers, who have nothing to complain about but do so anyway. Halter is not ashamed to be seen as a friend of the worker. Lincoln reviles organized labor while snuggling up to the Chamber of Commerce, which is much too often the worker’s worst enemy. Her elitist campaign has alienated some people who might otherwise have been for her, which is probably more the fault of her campaign manager than herself, but she has to take the blame. The Times also supports WILANDRA DEAN for District 5 justice of the peace and LARRY CRANE for Pulaski County circuit and county clerk.
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CLEANUP BEGINS: A fireman with the East End Fire Department cleans off a toy fire truck salvaged from the wreckage of the East End fire station. Behind him is the real East End fire truck, trapped under fallen bricks and building debris from the station, which was damaged by a tornado Friday, April 30.
The UA’s future n The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette stirred up the higher education community last week with a report on private discussions by the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees on a successor to UA System President Alan Sugg, who is scheduled to retire in the summer of 2011. The report was that G. David Gearhart, chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, was a favorite. Not surprising. Gearhart, a UA graduate in his first year as chancellor, has won very positive reviews so far. The report also said, and my own source confirms, that the discussion about a possible rise of Gearhart to president indicated it might include a transition period in which he would continue to hold the job of chancellor at Fayetteville. Given the competition among the many campuses in the UA system, it seemed to me that it would be hard for Gearhart to be seen as a fair broker while wearing two hats. It wouldn’t be an unprecedented arrangement, however. For example, Gearhart came back to Arkansas from Penn State, where the university president presides, in residence, over the flagship campus and the rest of the multi-campus university system. I was told, too, that an interim period of dual jobholding might have been at least partially Gearhart’s idea. Though he might like to be UA System president, he reportedly feels an obligation to the Fayetteville campus and doesn’t want to leave prematurely, certainly not before he’s confident a strong successor is in the wings. (The new UA provost, Sharon Gaber, could be a candidate, for example, but she’s only been in Arkansas one year.) Then there’s the matter of the job of system president. Sugg has not made waves as president. To some, he’s often been a ceremonial leader, with the individual campuses often charting their own courses (and sometimes scrapping with each other over legislative funding for special programs). Arkansas could
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benefit from a stronger system of centralized governance, not just for the UA but for all its colleges and universities. The higher education governing body is only advisory. But the structural impediments don’t mean the right person couldn’t make the UA System presidency stronger, particularly with the backing of the UA trustees. But there are many ifs in that equation, not the least the quirks of trustees. Whatever else may happen at the next or future board meetings, Board chairman John Ed Anthony and others quickly made it clear that there was no basis for a suggestion raised by an anonymous source in the Democrat-Gazette article that the UA System office might move from Little Rock to Fayetteville if Gearhart were to be chosen. The symbolism of such an idea alarmed other campuses. The Internet, telephones and secretive politicking by trustees demonstrate, however, that it hardly matters where the System office is lodged in terms of calling shots. If anybody can, Gearhart might be the person to carry off a dual role for a limited time. He has a winning way. Would he want to try? The unexpected leak of the discussions might force the trustees to hold a national search for president. Then the question would be whether Gearhart would apply. Boards, of course, aren’t bound to consider only those who apply. It’s worth observing that the floating of Gearhart’s name hasn’t prompted nearly the unhappiness caused by an earlier effort led by lame duck-Trustee Jim Lindsey to engineer installation of his friend, business partner and then-fellow trustee Stanley Reed as the next president.
Remembering WR n Contemplating the heroics and the failures of statesmen of a bygone era and how we profited from them can be a good tonic for the despair of current events, especially if it is done in the bee-loud glade of Winthrop Rockefeller’s personal Innisfree on Petit Jean Mountain. And also if you can keep present matters from intruding too urgently on the discussions. This was the third of the annual legacy weekends at the University of Arkansas’s Rockefeller Institute on Petit Jean, where scholars, aides and disciples of the 37th governor and a few docile bystanders like me who merely chronicled the struggles of the doers gather at Rockefeller’s retreat to figure out just exactly what he wrought in four years as governor and another 16 as a private Arkansawyer. Aside from these parleys, which you expect to be favorable to the man, the judgment for some years now has been, quite a lot. Historians and political scientists rank him as one of the state’s most effective governors in spite of his own sense of cataclysmic failure when he left office in 1971. Nearly all his cherished initiatives had gone down to flaming defeat, followed by the voters’ massive repudiation of him in the 1970 election. He never mastered his anguish and died 27 months later. This weekend was devoted to Rockefeller’s contributions to social, economic and racial justice, which was the passion of his life and which is still the mission of the nonprofits that were spun off
Ernest Dumas from his estate. It was Governor Orval E. Faubus’s attempt to stop the integration of schools at Little Rock in 1957 that impelled Rockefeller into politics, for which he was one of the least suited people on the planet. Justice Robert L. Brown of the Arkansas Supreme Court, who as a young lawyer attended Rockefeller’s successor, Dale Bumpers, said historians pondering the watershed event of the 20th century in Arkansas finally concluded that it was not the election of a native as president, the integration crisis at Little Rock or the formation of the greatest retail business on earth but Winthrop Rockefeller, by which he meant Rockefeller’s election as governor or his arrival in Arkansas in 1953 in flight from a reproving family and society in New York. It changed the political culture and paved the way for three decades of moderate to liberal reform. The precise watershed moment, Justice Brown and others said, might have been the afternoon of April 7, 1968, three days after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at Memphis, when Rockefeller stood with his wife on the Capitol steps before an angry crowd of 3,000, linked arms with AfricanAmerican ministers, eulogized King and sang the civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome.” No other Southern governor,
It’s not sex, but it’s pornographic (This is an adapted and updated version of a blog rant posted Friday at arkansasnews.com. It adds new information. I wanted beloved newspaper-only readers to have the opportunity to consider it.)
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n A couple of newspaper editors thanked me for writing a column for Sunday that was about sex instead of Blanche Lincoln and Bill Halter. Their gratitude was less on account of the sex, I think, than on account of my sparing them the blather. People are sick of those two Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate. They’re sick of the nonsense. So am I. But I’m also fascinated by the wreckage. This is a nothing less than a classic case study in the decline of modern political discourse. I cannot recall a single issue that has been presented by both candidates in an intelligent, relevant and even mildly contextual discussion. Issues have been misstated and exploited to try to drive bogus wedges. These insults
to our intelligence — assuming our intelligence can be insulted — have been funded by millions of squandered special interest dollars that could have gone to feed the hungry. Instead this money has flowed to irresponsible politicians and through mysterious independent groups freed to behave as they choose by the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest affront and outrage is a TV spot from a shady right-wing national business group that attacks Halter by having caricatured Indian characters thank him for bringing jobs to India. That is because he was on the board of a company that created a lot of jobs in America and placed a small fraction of newly created ones in India. Lincoln falsely calls that out-sourcing, the far lesser of her recent misrepresentations. Some say the ad is racist. I can’t seem to
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no other white political leader in America did anything so bold or so politically heedless. He faced re-election in seven months in an electorate that was 85 percent white, Democratic and as conservative as any in the country. It was a feat so daring and unselfish that it won the admiration of even segregationist politicians like Jim Johnson. After a summer of political bumbling, he still won re-election. No Arkansas politician would ever again run a race-baiting campaign, and if the impulse hit them they retreated to subtle codes. Dorothy Stuck, who ran weekly newspapers in Poinsett County, recalled the governor’s wife, Jeanette, arriving in a rage at Marked Tree for a civic speech the evening of King’s assassination. Stuck talked her out of a stern lecture to the locals about the fruits of bigotry, knowing that it would not be well received, but told her to go back to Little Rock and tell Win that he must finally do something bold to dispel the hatred and suspicion. “What in hell did you tell Jeanette?” Rockefeller asked her soon afterward. It is safe to say that Arkansas was not quite the same after that day. Orval Faubus would run futilely three more times, each time as a reformer. Jim Johnson shunned black hands as he ran for office that year, but for the rest of his life he would rue the appearance it gave or at least the reporting of it. Saturday afternoon, a panel of people working on human rights talked thoughtfully about how organizations like theirs might further the progress that Rockefeller had so courageously started. That is when current events began to intrude.
William L. (Sonny) Walker of Atlanta, the graying former English teacher at Horace Mann High School whom Rockefeller tapped in 1969 as the first African-American to hold a cabinet position in any Southern state, said they needed only to ask themselves WWWD, what would Win do? While things are a little better than when he left Arkansas to run the southeastern federal Office of Economic Opportunity it has not come so terribly far, he said, and he ticked off some shortcomings. For example, alone among all the Southern and border states, Arkansas has never been represented in the United States Congress by an African American. The morning prints carried worse signs of failure. The state higher education agency reported that the graduation rate from college was only 38 percent, the lowest level in the South, lower even than Southern states with far high ratios of blacks in the population. That suggests that blacks in Arkansas have got the least benefit from public education. That was what Rockefeller was all about. His greatest initiative and most devastating defeat was his progressive tax program, all directed at a great leap forward in education that he was sure would transform the state and bring opportunity to the dispossessed. Walker didn’t but might have might have mentioned what had happened to Rockefeller’s cherished Republican Party, which he and Linwood Holton of Virginia tried to remake in the image of Lincoln but which vanished without a trace about the time of his death just as its successor shuffled to Appomattox to be born. Were he to return today Rockefeller’s anguish would not be assuaged.
get past its absurdity. It’s like an SNL spoof. But this race is its own satire. Under pressure from Halter and bloggers, Lincoln distanced herself from the ad, saying it wasn’t constructive, as if being constructive was her own standard. Lincoln is more personally complicit than Halter. These mailers that have come into my home from her campaign are practically pornographic in their vile absurdity. They latch on to any little thing to seek nearly to criminalize Halter, even if all he did was simply acknowledge the plain truth that Social Security needs in the long run to take in more money and pay out less. This race also makes the case that polarized partisanship isn’t necessarily our problem, but that money and personal political malfeasance are. These two are of the same party. They’d vote the same 90 percent of the time. They don’t have much real philosophical difference. So they pander to money sources, labor and corporations. To win at any cost, she is left to personalize and he to contrive, pretending that he alone, as some kind of legislating Hercules, could have amended NAFTA or TARP. Right now I think D.C. Morrison might get 8 percent by not being Lincoln or Halter.
That probably means a runoff. That would mean three weeks of hell. Then this seat will most likely go Republican in November. If Lincoln wins the primary, she’ll go to the general election as a vulnerable incumbent newly damaged as desperate, dishonest and meaner than a snake. If Halter wins, Republicans will effortlessly cast him as the candidate of national liberals who, oh, by the way, was said by a fellow Democrat back in April and May to be an out-sourcer and drug pusher and Social Security tax raiser and benefit cutter. P.S. — The blog rant has me speculating I might vote for John Boozman. I’m having a harder time typing that for newsprint. P.P.S. — I’m on record relating that I responded to a pollster weeks ago by saying that I was holding my nose to vote for Lincoln, whose Senate work is worthy of that support even as her campaign most certainly is not. But a man shouldn’t have to hold his nose so tightly to cast a simple vote. I can’t breathe. John Brummett is a columnist and reporter for Stephens Media’s Arkansas News Bureau. You can read additional Brummett columns in The Times of North Little Rock. www.arktimes.com • april 29, 2010 21
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on your mark: Cars stand ready for the beginning of a race at last year’s Rock Candy 500.
The race begins Thursday evening in the River Market. By Lindsey Millar
n The Rock Candy 500 started as a soapbox derby. We’d spend weeks crafting little wooden Bugattis, fashioning a racing suit out of old football pads and tear off down some twisty stretch of Hillcrest to a Chuck Berry soundtrack, the Times brain trust figured. But our better angels prevailed on us, with visions of blood on the pavement, to dial it back a tick. Now here we are, two years later, set to launch the second annual Rock Candy 500 pinewood derby, a race that features all of the craftsmanship and badassery of a soap-box derby, with none of the potential broken bones. The gist for those who never went through Cub Scouts: Racers begin — weeks, days, maybe even hours — before the race with a 7-inch-long rectangular block of pine wood (or, technically, any kind of wood), which they shape, using
whatever tool works, into the body of a model car or an animal or a superhero or anything else with wheels. Then they decorate, with paint or glitter or giant brand-name stickers, attach nails for axles and affix plastic wheels on the ends of the nails. On race night, gravity will guide the cars down a declining, 40-footlong three-lane track. If this is the first you’re hearing about the 500, A) you need to read the Arkansas Times more and B) it’s too late to enter. But if this year’s race is anything like last year’s, you needn’t have a car to have a good time. Last go ’round, everyone had a big time hooting it up when David Koon’s marvel of modern pinewood derby design faltered about halfway down, and it’s always fun to watch grown folks struggle to accept defeat at the hands of little kids (we’re bound to
have at least a couple Cub Scout rounders who jump from race to race, cleaning up on merit badges and trophies). Plus, we’ll have race-themed and generally good music. And we’ll be selling beer and Cokes for cheap. Most importantly, this year’s proceeds benefit the Centers for Youth and Families Boy Scout Troop 726, a troop of at-risk boys who, according to the Center for Youth and Families’ Dawn Prasifka, have “one foot in the gang and the other in Boy Scouts.” Every week, CYF picks up the 10- to 16-year-olds and takes them to a center, where they get help with homework, dinner and have Boy Scout meetings. The troop is, of course, just a small but important part of the state’s oldest continuously running nonprofit, which serves 8,000 children and families with a continuum of care that includes interven-
tion, prevention and treatment. Once again, Robert Roling of Kustoms Royale in Little Rock (and Go Fast) is generously donating some seriously badass trophies, affixed with various car parts and custom painted. Prizes will be awarded for speed, paint, design, best kid’s entry (under 14) and best of show. Times employees are eligible to enter, but may not win any prize other than speed. Good news for the field, my snake car is looking slippery fast. Grease up the wheels (graphite works best). Don your Mark Martin hat. Call your friends. Bring the kids. C’mon.
Rock Candy 500 7-9 p.m. Thursday May 6 River Market Pavilion $5 admission for non-racers
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Psychobilly himself, Rob Zombie, takes stage. He’s awesome and probably singlehandedly worth the admission price. But after looking at the photos on the Edgefest website, I remembered that getting beat up behind a port-a-john by dudes in knock-off Oakleys isn’t my digs, so I can safely say I’m staying far away.
By John Tarpley
FRID AY 5 / 7
‘SPOTLIGHT ON HOLLYWOOD’
LIL KEKE
8 p.m., Robinson Center Music Hall. $32-$72.
10 p.m., The Village. $15 adv., $25 d.o.s.
n It’s widely assumed that most orchestral music written since the advent of electric guitar languishes outside of popular culture, done in by the inaccessibility of the avant-gardists, the skronk of jazz and, God help us, the ethereal warble of new age influences. I’d disagree. Orchestral music has been, perhaps, pushed into the corner, but it thrives in the guise of film scores. This weekend, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, under the conduction of guest maestro and clarinetist Carl Topilow, tackles a handful of the greatest pieces from the silver screen, from Bernard Hermann’s dizzying arpeggios in the theme from “Psycho” to John Williams’ galactic forays into Wagnerian grandiosity from “The Empire Strikes Back.” The symphony will place its “Spotlight on Hollywood” again on Saturday, 8 p.m. Same price and place.
n Houston rappers in general are prolific. That’s just the culture of Houston rap: recording any and everything for the never ceasing — and more anonymous than not — sea of mixtapes that find themselves hustled out of the backs of cars, passed out at clubs, uploaded to Dat Piff and disseminated at will. (For a great primer, check out Vice’s “Screwed in Houston” short documentary on YouTube.) Lil’ Keke is no exception. In fact, alongside the rest of 3rd Ward, Houston’s infamous Screwed Up Click, he epitomizes the workaholic hustle that defines the city’s rap scene. This weekend, that Houston hustle brings the emcee to Little Rock alongside a flood of other rappers, including MC Mack, E-Dubb, Lil’ P Da Keepa, Doe Boi and Mista Mayhemm.
RWAKE
9 p.m., White Water Tavern. $5.
BROTHER ANDY & HIS BIG DAMN MOUTH 9 p.m., White Water Tavern. $5.
n A year after seeing one of their first shows, I’m still asking myself, “Where in the hell did these guys come from?” Sure, the three guys who make up Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth are familiar, hairy dudes about town, but in the course of weeks — and not many, at that — the outfit proved that Little Rock has the energy to turn a crew of dudes with a batch of wickedly catchy, deceptively smart songs into an overnight sensation. Despite the fact that the band didn’t have any recordings other than a precious few demos on their MySpace page, their early audiences (crowds in the true sense of the word) already knew the songs, singing along to this self-described brand of “white trash power pop” that marries the sonic tension of Black Francis or J. Mascis to the warped South of Flannery O’Connor and poetic perversities of Henry Miller. So after months of gigging and churning out a string of instant local classics (“Mona’s Song,” “Rotgut Redemption”), the trio’s finally releasing “Mystic Indian Hitmakers,” its debut album (for sale at the show for $5) — and the first of a trilogy the prolific trio plans to put out this year. Dare I say this show is not to be missed, even if you have only the slightest, tinkling interest in local music? I sure do. Folk garage trio Jonathan 24 may 6, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES
IN ANDY WE TRUST: The bearded ones release their much-anticipated album this Friday. Wilkins & The Reparations open while the heavy-drinking alt-country act of Drunken Angels bid happy trails to town with their final show.
ZZ TOP
Damn Mouth across town. This could get — wait for it — hairy. Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights, fresh off the “Kid Rock’s Chillin’ the Most” cruise (ahem), provide support.
8 p.m., Riverfest Amphitheatre. $29.50$49.50.
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n It strikes me as a bit of a shame that the iconography of ZZ Top overshadows a remarkable, decades-long streak of genredefining Texas blues rock. Sure, the threenote guitar lick from “La Grange” is just as instilled in the American consciousness as the two-note pattern from the “Jaws” theme and “Tres Hombres” will forever be one of the greatest rock albums ever, but the band will probably forever remain a caricature of dusters and furry guitars. That said, Billy Gibbons’ and Dusty Hill’s beards belong in the Smithsonian. But I digress. The long-tenured trio brings its crunchy, libidinous, smirkingly trashy act to the Riverfest Amphitheatre for what may or may not spur a raunchy-guitarrock-trio-with-big-beards battle for show supremacy with Brother Andy & His Big
1 p.m., State Fairgrounds. $35.
EDGEFEST VI
n You already know good and well whether or not you’re going to Edgefest, Little Rock’s sixth annual festival of everything raaaaaaawk. It’s a day in the scorching sun, soaking up some of the most angst-y, angry, misguided music that modern rock has to offer from the likes of the furious Godsmack, the irate Papa Roach, the enraged Five Finger Death Punch, the fuming Hellyeah, the incensed Bullet For My Valentine, the annoyed Drowning Pool, the teedoff Seether and a band called Lacuna Coil that I won’t describe because I’ve exhausted Microsoft Word’s synonym feature. You get the point. However, in the middle of this buffet of bitchery, King
n They’re Arkansas’s delegation to the international metal scene. They’re held in the highest regard by some heavy names that make heavy music with bands like Avail and Shrinebuilder. They’re one of the most celebrated underground metal acts around and, if you’ve yet to be indoctrinated to the ways of Rwake, it’s high time to find out just why these locals are demigods across the world. The band brings its prog-sludge sound to White Water, where it’ll welcome back original bassist Reid Raley (Iron Tongue, Deadbird) and, hopefully, raise some bread to keep their drummer, Jeff, out of the pokey due to a few outstanding traffic violations. So if you’re in the market for a killer metal show in a small venue, not to mention assisting in the overpopulation problems of county jails, here’s your chance. These Wolves Are Robots and Pallbearer open.
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QUAPAW TOUR OF HOMES
5:30 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. Sunday, Quapaw Quarter. $15.
n After growing up in a historical home and receiving a huge appreciation for architectural antiquities from my folks, I think it’s safe to put this in print: The Quapaw Quarter/Governor’s Mansion district contains, brick for brick, the most
MONDAY 5/10
NEIL HAMBURGER
9 p.m., Sticky Fingerz. $8 adv., $10 d.o.s.
OPEN HOUSE: The 47th annual Quapaw Tour of Homes showcases the best of the neighborhood. interesting, gorgeous houses in the state. It’s a magnificent neighborhood with eye candy for blocks. Rows and rows of brick and plaster, renovated to original glory, defiant in the downwind of the McMansion and utilitarian sprawl. Yet, like judging a book by the cover, you can’t appreciate a house just by the exterior. The 47th annual Spring Tour of Homes kicks off with the Candlelight Tour of five homes and a gala dinner dance in the garth of Trinity Cathedral on Saturday night; tickets are $100. On Sunday afternoon, tickets are $15.
n It’s true and it’s awesome: America’s Funnyman himself, Neil Hamburger, is going to bring the yuks, laffs, and guffaws to dear Little Rock. Armed with nothing but a microphone, a laser-honed wit, an armful of cocktails and buckets of charm, Mr. Hamburger takes aim at Red Hot Chili Peppers, Paris Hilton and, God help us, Heath Ledger. Fans of Dane Cook, Carlos Mencia and Jeff Dunham: Don’t even worry about researching this guy. Just come.
CAGE THE ELEPHANT 8 p.m., Revolution. $15.
n With Beck affectations, Kings of Leon twang and a twist of Happy Mondays swagger, Cage the Elephant occupies a precarious spot in the modern rock radio landscape. It’s straightforward rock from when rock was straightforward and stumbled, occasionally, into left field (Hey, ’90s!). Hardly intimidated by slide guitar, tempo changes or dropping the occasional, tasteful F-bomb here and there, the Bowling Green, Ky., five-piece
are same-y-same enough to grab ears and just different enough to keep their songs planted in them. In fact, during the writing of this paragraph, their single “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked” stuck itself something fierce in my head. Choral, experimental Portland act Morning Teleportation and driving guitar rockers from Nashville, Autovaughn, open the all-ages concert.
TUESDAY 5/11
CRACKER
8:30 p.m., Revolution. $15.
n Muddling up blues, grunge, folk and punk, Cracker remains one of the mainstays of ’90s alternative rock, traversing past its fallen, flannelled comrades and still recording and releasing albums with surprising regularity. Even though the band’s found itself gracefully growing old, the dudes haven’t traded in or watered down their signature snark and everyday irony that put them on the map with early ’90s hits like “Low” or “Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now).” In fact, judging from the positive reviews thrown towards Cracker’s newest album, its 13th, the band’s wry poppiness and sharp hooks may stick around for a while. The Californians will get a taste of Arkansas rock that doesn’t quit from opener Jim Mize.
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THURSDAY, MAY 6
n Late-night Union gets DJ sets by Michael Inscoe and Cameron Holifield, who promise R. Kelly, chillwave and “physically attractive people” on their watch, 10 p.m., free. Two bluegrass bands with backwoods pedigrees to complement screechingly fast licks, Dirtfoot and Mountain Sprout, hit the stage at Sticky’s for a night of pickin’ and grinnin’, 9:30 p.m. Onestone Productions celebrates the one-year anniversary of its weekly Thirsty Thursday party with a performance by rapper Bone, 8 p.m. At the Loony Bin, comic Kevin Bozeman takes to the stage, 8 p.m., $6. Cajun’s Wharf hosts two of the most ridiculously named acts in the state when Fjord Mustang plays for the happy hour crowd at 5:30 p.m. and Elvis T-Bus Boy rocks for the late night crowd, 8:30 p.m., $5.
FRIDAY, MAY 7
n Hillbilly/vampire/lover/rockabilly hero Unknown Hinson comes to Juanita’s with some of Arkansas’s best purveyors of hill music, The Crumbs, 10 p.m., $15 adv., $18 d.o.s. Little Rock’s 4x4 Crew headlines a Hip-Hop Showcase at Downtown Music, 8 p.m., $7. Memphis’ Ghost Town Blues Band plays at Midtown Billiards for the folks with serious drinking to take care of, 12:30 a.m. Rising country act Riverbilly heads to Revolution with Conway singer-songwriter Matthew Huff, 8:30 p.m., $10. On the lounge circuit, Jeff Coleman holds down the piano bar at Sonny Williams, 7 p.m., and the Ted Ludwig Trio plays guitar jazz at Capitol Bar & Grill, 9 p.m. Town Pump hosts local songstress Shannon Boshears, 10 p.m., $5. The Times hosts a pre-party for “Frost / Nixon” at The Rep, 7 p.m. (party), 8 p.m. (curtain, $20-$40).
SATURDAY, MAY 8
AMERICA’S FUNNYMAN: Esteemed American humorist, socialite Neil Hamburger comes to Sticky Fingerz.
n It’s all pomade and longnecks at Sticky Fingerz: rockabilly acts The Koffin Kats are joined by locals Josh the Devil & The Sinners, 9:30 p.m., $5 early admission. The Gettys, Little Rock’s permanent party band, play Revolution, 9:30 p.m., $5 early admission. Golden-eared gods Rural War Room work the turntables for a DJ set at Union that’ll have you listening to bird field recordings one minute and Ethel Merman’s disco album the next, 10 p.m., free. The Dreamland Ballroom kicks off its drive-in movie series with “Charade,” the classic, colorful, hugely entertaining Cary Grant/Audrey Hepburn thriller, 8 p.m., $5 per person, $20 per carload. In Argenta, pub troubadour Grayson Shelton provides music for the Cregeen’s crowd, 8 p.m., $5. www.arktimes.com • may 6, 2010 25
“Through Our Eyes” Photography and Art Exhibit Friday, May 21st Argenta’s Third Friday Art Walk Night • 6:30pm-8:00pm Thea Foundation • 401 Main Street, NLR Feature photographs provided by many students of PCYS Our Club sites in Higgins, Sweet Home, and the Our House Shelter including local artists, Kendall Ashley and Danette Vincent.
For more information please contact the PCYS at 501-340-8250. All proceeds from the artwork will benefit the Our Club programs of Pulaski County.
CHRISTMAS BELLES Now-May 23
The sequel to last year’s popular comedy “Dearly Beloved” brings the Futrell sisters back in a brand new hilarious comedy! Auditions for Annie - 5/10 at 6:30
Colonel Glenn & University • murrysdinnerplayhouse.com • 562-3131
Get decked! The Arkansas Times & Boswell Mourot Fine Art Welcome John McDermott Back To Little Rock! Boswell Mourot will host the McDermott exhibition Elegy and book signing event on May 14, 2010, 6-9 pm. Do not miss this very special event!
BosWeLL MouRoT FINe ART 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd. • Little Rock, AR 72207 Tel. 501.664.0030 • www.boswellmourot.com sponsored by 26 May 6, 2010 • aRKaNSaS TIMES
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May 13-22 • www.art-week.org
ArtWeek ’10 is the second annual ten-day art festival in May hosted by Little Rock and North Little Rock. More than 60 venues will host exhibits, events and performances by countless visual and performing artists. The culinary, literary and film arts will be included at restaurants, galleries, museums, businesses and public spaces as well. ArtWeek ‘10 promises to be the premier art event in Arkansas.
You’re invited!
JUNCTION BRIDGE PARTY THURS. MAY 13 • 5:30-8:30 CELEBRATE THE KICK-OFF OF ARTWEEK ’10 ON THE JUNCTION BRIDGE WITH ART AND MUSIC! REFRESHMENTS INCLUDE BEER, WINE AND FOOD FROM AREA RESTAURANTS ALL FOR A $20 WRISTBAND FEE.
RESTAURANTS INCLUDE: Boscos • Starving Artist Café • Crush Wine Bar • Cregeen’s Irish Pub • Cornerstone Pub & Grill Dizzy’s • Reno’s Argenta Café • Hunka Pie • Community Bakery • Sufficient Grounds • Union Restaurant • Argenta Market
LIVE MUSIC! Arkansas Symphony • Lealon Worrell- Guitarist • Steve Bates • And More! • Surprise Performances! SPONSORED BY:
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Young Arkansas Artists 49th Annual Exhibition AAC COMMUNITY GALLERY AT THE TERRY HOUSE 411 E 7th St.-LR Drawn to Art COMMUNITY BAKERY 1202 Main St.-LR Masks of Guerrero MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY 500 President Clinton Ave.-LR Home Plate Heroes Display THEA FOUNDATION 401 Main St.-NLR The Responsibility of Internal Forces HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM 200 E. 3rd St. - LR World of the Pharohs ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER 501 E. 9th - LR May 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21 & 22 7:30 pm 5 Women Wearing the Same Dress COMMUNITY THEATRE OF LITTLE ROCK 616 Center - LR May 14, 15, 21 & 22 7:30 pm Glengarry Glen Ross WEEKEND THEATRE 7th & Chester – LR May 14, 15 &16 7:00 pm Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER CHILDREN’S THEATRE 501 E. 9th – LR
THURSDAY, MAY 13 11:30 AM-1:30 PM Ludwik “Koz” Kozlowski, Painter STARVING ARTIST CAFÉ 411 Main St.-NLR
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ONGOING EVENTS, MAY 13-22
Exhibit: Work by John Chiaromonte & Maribeth Anders in the Trinity Gallery. “pARTy for Peg” with sculptor Alice Guffey Miller. Refreshments and live music by Mockingbird and AR Symphony violinists Meredith Hicks and Eric Hayward. Reception sponsored by the Clinton School for Public Service. HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM 200 E. 3rd St. - LR Arkansans in the Korean War- 1950 to 1953 Wine and snacks, 5 to 8pm A Novel Idea, theater troupe presents dramatic readings from the best seller World War Z by Max Brooks. Concordia Hall in the Arkansas Studies Institute ARKANSAS STUDIES INSTITUTE 401 President Clinton Ave. Poetry inspired by art. Poetry freeflow. Calling all poets! HEARNE FINE ART 1001 Wright Ave.
5:30 PM-8:30 PM Kick-Off Event JUNCTION BRIDGE LR & NLR
Art Scene Party Music, poetry, libations, models and art supplies provided. Must be 21 THE ART SCENE – TILL 12:00 806 W. Markham (State & LaHarpe)
6:30 PM-8:30 PM Live Swing Music with Hot Club Arkansas STARVING ARTIST CAFÉ 411 Main St.-NLR
Exhibit and reception CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH GALLERY 509 Scott Street
7:00 PM-9:00 PM Thursday on the Plaza LAMAN LIBRARY PLAZA 2801 Orange St.-NLR
First United Methodist Church Private Collection Exhibit 7TH STREET GALLERIES 219 West 7th
FRIDAY, MAY 14 10:00 AM-1:00 PM Overdue Brew Grand Opening and artist Selma Blackburn. LAMAN LIBRARY, 2801 Orange St. -NLR 11:30 AM-1:30 PM Collage Artist Byron Werner STARVING ARTIST CAFÉ 411 Main St.-NLR 12:00 PM-4:00 PM Artist Demo: Marlene Gremillion ARKANSAS STUDIES INSTITUTE 401 President Clinton Ave-LR
3rd Street Block Party Live music on the patios by the Dizzy 7 Live artists on the sidewalks COPPER RESTAURANT, SCOTT & 3RD DIZZY’S GYPSY GRILL, COMMERCE & 3RD Visiting Artist LULAV RESTAURANT 220 W. 6th Street
6:30 PM-10:00 PM Collaboration of the Arts Cast RIVER MARKET PAVILLION 400 President Clinton Ave-LR 6:30 PM-8:30 PM Live Music with Stephanie Fox STARVING ARTIST CAFÉ 411 Main St.-NLR
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FEATURED EVENT ARTWEEK’10 MISSION The organizers of ArtWeek ’10 are working together for two purposes: • To promote the combined downtowns of Little Rock and North Little Rock as a thriving and innovative arts community • To collaboratively promote and support the artists, performers, galleries, museums, libraries, theaters, restaurants and businesses which together make Little Rock and North Little Rock vibrant and lively cities to visit and to call home.
2ND FRIDAY ART NIGHT LITTLE ROCK 5 TILL 8
4:00 PM-9:00 PM Celebrate the arts in SOMA Artists on Main Art Garage Sale Wine & Cheese Tasting, $25 Face Painting & Blow Up Playground Green Corner Store Bernice Sculpture Garden SOUTH MAIN BETWEEN 13 AND 15TH STREETS-LR
6:00 PM-8:00 PM Larry Wade Hampton presents: ENGAGE Gallery Art Exhibit and Afro-Funk Dance HEARNE FINE ART 1001 Wright Ave., Suite C-LR 6:30 PM-8:30 PM Painter Agnleszka Olan STARVING ARTIST CAFÉ 411 Main St.-NLR 10:00 PM-12:30 AM ACAC’s Drag the River, $25 ARKANSAS QUEEN RIVERBOAT 100 Riverfront Dr-NLR
SUNDAY, MAY 16 2:00 PM KatEva Trunk Show GREG THOMPSON FINE ART 429 Main St.-NLR 5:00 PM-7:00 PM Argenta Arts District Artist Reception THEA FOUNDATION 401 Main St.-NLR 6:45 PM-7:05 PM Compline (Sung Prayers) CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 509 Scott St.-LR
MONDAY, MAY 17 12:00 PM-1:00 PM Justin McGoldrick and Bonnie Montgomery ARKANSAS STUDIES INSTITUTE 401 President Clinton Ave-LR 5:00 PM-8:00 PM Arkansas Sculptors Guild BAKER HOUSE B&B 5th & Main-NLR 5:00 PM-7:00 PM Labyrinth Walk CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 509 Scott St.-LR
SATURDAY, MAY 15
5:30 PM-8:00 PM Recycled Jewelry Workshop ARGENTA BEAD COMPANY 703 Main St.-NLR
9:00 AM-2:00 PM Art Market BERNICE SCULPTURE GARDEN South Main and Daisy Bates-LR
6:00 PM-8:00 PM Live Recording of Tales from the South STARVING ARTIST CAFÉ 411 Main St.-NLR
11:00 AM-3:00 PM Thousand Words Gallery exhibition and hourly demonstrations COX CREATIVE CENTER 120 Commerce St.-LR
6:00 PM-8:00 PM Literary Night at THEA THEA FOUNDATION 401 Main St.-NLR 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
1:00 PM-4:00 PM Hypertufa Class (Basics & Beyond) GARAGE SALE QUEEN BACKYARD 410 W 5th-NLR
Osyrus Bolly Poetry Slam Part 1 - $5.00 VINO’S BREW PUB 923 West 7th-LR
11:00 AM-12:00 PM ASO Quapaw Quartet ARKANSAS STUDIES INSTITUTE 401 President Clinton Ave-LR
11:30 AM-1:30 PM Jewelry Maker Brandy Thomason of BellaVita Jewelry STARVING ARTIST CAFÉ 411 Main St.-NLR
11:30 AM-1:30 PM Jewelry Maker Brandy Thomason of BellaVita Jewelry STARVING ARTIST CAFÉ 411 Main St.-NLR
5:00 PM-6:30 PM Earring Happy Hour ARGENTA BEAD COMPANY 703 Main St.-NLR
12:00 PM-4:00 PM Artist Demo: Kathy Bay ARKANSAS STUDIES INSTITUTE 401 President Clinton Ave-LR
5:00 PM-8:00 PM Arkansas Sculptors Guild BAKER HOUSE B&B 5th & Main-NLR
5:00 PM-8:00 PM Arkansas Sculptors Guild BAKER HOUSE B&B 5th & Main-NLR
5:00 PM-7:00 PM Labyrinth Walk CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 509 Scott St.-LR 5:00 PM-7:00 PM Bald Knob School Exhibit THEA FOUNDATION 401 Main St.-NLR 6:00 PM-8:00 PM Student Show & Sale CLAYTIME POTTERY STUDIO 417 Main St.-NLR
6:00 PM-8:00 PM Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre Street Performances ARGENTA ARTS DISTRICT Main Street-NLR
FRIDAY, MAY 21 11:30 AM-1:30 PM Collage Artist Byron Werner STARVING ARTIST CAFÉ 411 Main St.-NLR
6:30 PM-8:30 PM Collage Artist Byron Werner STARVING ARTIST CAFÉ 411 Main St.-NLR
6:30 PM-8:30 PM Book Signing with Writer Faye Jones STARVING ARTIST CAFÉ 411 Main St.-NLR Osyrus Bolly Poetry Slam Part 2 FINALS $5.00 VINO’S BREW PUB 923 West 7th-LR
ASO Rockefeller Quartet and 6:30 PM-8:30 PM Artist Kandy Jones and Painter Doug Norton STARVING ARTIST CAFÉ 411 Main St.-NLR
6:00 PM-9:00 PM Matt McLeod One-Man Show GREG THOMPSON FINE ART 429 Main St.-NLR 6:30 PM-8:30 PM Sculptor Jay King STARVING ARTIST CAFÉ 411 Main St.-NLR
SATURDAY, MAY 22 10:00 AM-2:00 PM Strawberry Foodie Fest CERTIFIED ARKANSAS FARMERS MARKET 6th & Main Sts.-NLR 11:30 AM-1:30 PM Artist Kandy Jones STARVING ARTIST CAFÉ 411 Main St.-NLR
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6:00 PM Open Mic Poetry Slam LAMAN LIBRARY ARGENTA BRANCH 506 Main St.-NLR
6:00 PM-9:00 PM Home Plate Heroes DICKEY STEPHENS PARK 400 W Broadway-NLR
Sage & Tom Holland, Flamework Demonstration ARGENTA BEAD COMPANY 703 Main St.-NLR
Bald Knob School Exhibit Meet & Greet THEA FOUNDATION 401 Main St.-NLR
5:30 PM-8:00 PM Wire Wrapped Rings ARGENTA BEAD COMPANY 703 Main St.-NLR
6:00 PM-8:00 PM How Do They Do That? ARGENTA ARTS DISTRICT-NLR
5:00 PM-8:00 PM
Ceramics Demonstration by Helena and Laura Phillips LAMAN LIBRARY ARGENTA BRANCH 506 Main St.-NLR
5:00 PM-8:00 PM Arkansas Sculptors Guild BAKER HOUSE B&B 5th & Main-NLR
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6:00 PM-8:00 PM Argenta Culinary Night Eat and Drink Sampling ARGENTA MARKET, RISTORANTE CAPEO, STARVING ARTISTS AND CRUSH WINE BAR Main Street-NLR
3RD FRIDAY ARGENTA ARTWALK ARGENTA ARTS DISTRICT NORTH LITTLE ROCK
Matt McLeod One-Man Show GREG THOMPSON FINE ART 429 Main St.-NLR
11:30 AM-1:30 PM Painter Ludwik “Koz” Kozlowski STARVING ARTIST CAFÉ 411 Main St.-NLR
5:30 PM-8:00 PM Introduction to ICE Resin ARGENTA BEAD COMPANY 703 Main St.-NLR
7:00 PM-10:00 PM Larry Wade Hampton presents: ICON Oil rendering inspired by rock-n-roll era RUMBA/REVOLUTION 300 President Clinton Ave.-LR
Arkansas Sculptors Guild BAKER HOUSE B&B 5th & Main-NLR
THURSDAY, MAY 20
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6:30 PM-8:30 PM Jewelry Maker Cindi Booth STARVING ARTIST CAFÉ 411 Main St.-NLR
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 19
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TUESDAY, MAY 18
Make Your Own Jewelry! 703 N. MAIN ST. NORTH LITTLE ROCK 501.537.0928 -/. 4(25 3!4 s !- 4/ 0-
Come for the music! Stay for the patio! New patio out back.
2:00 PM-6:00 PM Be an Artist ARGENTA ARTS DISTRICT 412 Main Street-NLR 5:00 PM-6:00 PM Foodie Art ARGENTA ARTS DISTRICT 412 Main Street-NLR
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Copper Grill 300 E. Third St
Sticky Fingerz 108 Commerce St.
Loca Luna 3701 Old Cantrell Rd.
Best Impressions 501 E. 9th ST. - AR Arts Center
Dizzy’s Gypsy Bistro 200 S. Commerce
Sufficient Grounds Union Building 124 W. Capitol Ave.
Maddie’s Place 1615 Rebsamen Park Rd.
Big Whiskey’s 224 E Markham St. Boscos 500 President Clinton Ave. Capital Hotel Bar 111 West Markham St. Community Bakery 1200 Main St.
Juanita’s 1300 Main St. Lulav Restaurant 220 W. 6th St. Prost 120 Ottenheimer Rumba 300 President Clinton Ave.
Vino’s Brew Pub 923 W. 7th St. RIVERDALE RESTAURANTS Brave New Restaurant 2300 Cottondale Lane
Pizza CafĂŠ 1517 Rebsamen Park Rd. Red Door 3701 Old Cantrell Rd. Town Pump 321 Rebsamen Park Rd.
Cajun’s Wharf 2400 Cantrell Rd.
ARGENTA RESTAURANTS Benihana 2 Riverfront Dr. Cornerstone Pub 412 Main St. Cregeen’s Pub 301 Main St. Crush Wine Bar 318 Main St. Reno’s Argenta CafÊ 312 Main St.
Ristorante Capeo 425 Main St. Riverfront Steakhouse 2 Riverfront Dr. Starving Artist Cafe 411 Main St.
Be sure to visit SHOP THE ROCK River Market
CHECK OUT THESE ARTISTS PERFORMING DURING LUNCH AND DINNER Agnieszka Olan — Painter Ann Bittick — Painter Brandy Thomason — Jewelry Designer Bre Harris — Sculptor Byron Werner — Collage Artist Caleb McNew — Painter Celia Storey — Potter Char DeMoro — Painter Dana Rogers — Jewelry Designer Daniel Bright — Multimedia Collage & Painter
Doug Norton — Painter Ed Barham — Photographer Edritzel Beavers — Painter Elena Petroukhina — Painter & Sculptor Eloise Montgomery — Painter Gabriel Solis — Painter George Wittenberg — Watercolorist Itinerant Locals — Musicians J.D. Burgess-Bogy — Poet Jason Harper — Painter Jeff Waddle — Painter & Sculptor
Jeri Warlick — Jewelry Designer John D. Wooldridge — Painter John Watson — Photographer Jon Shannon Rogers — Painter Kandy Jones — Sculptor & Jewelry Designer Katie Keck — Painter Larry Wade Hampton — Dancer and Painter Leann Smoot — Painter, Musician, Actor Ludwik “Koz� Kozlowski — Painter Mary Ann Stafford — Pastel Artist Mary Ann Tate — Jewelry Designer
Michelle Renee — Painter Peggy Robertson — Painter Poets in the Street — Poets Rachel Thompson — Painter Rhonda Reeves — Painter, Jewelry Designer & Performer Rob Walker — Painter Art Group Maumelle — Painter Theresa Cates — Painter Tom Fenix — Illustrator
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Certified Arkansas Farmers Market
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Claytime Pottery Studios
Arkansas Shakespeare Theater
Community Theatre of Little Rock
Arkansas Studies Institute
Communications Group
The ArtScene Gallery
Cox Creative
Baker House B & B
Dickey Stephens Park
Bernice Gardens
Department of Arkansas Heritage
First United Methodist Church, 7th Street Galleries Greg Thompson Fine Art Hearne Fine Art Historic Arkansas Museum Hot on the Rock Jim Elder Good Sport Fund John Rogers Design KUAR/KLRE
Museum of Discovery River Market & Pavilions River Rail Trolley System Shop the Rock SOMA District THEA Foundation Weekend Theater
Laman Library
THE 1ST ANNUAL ARTWEEK ART POSTER CONTEST! The ArtWeek Committee put out a call for an original work of art to be on the first Annual ArtWeek Poster. The competition was for an artwork that would communicate a motivating message celebrating the arts. 30 entries by students, graphic designers and fine artists competed for the $1,000 prize. The public voted at Historic Arkansas Museum and THEA during 2nd Friday Art Night and Argenta ArtWalk. Professional graphic designer Sherrie Shepherd of North Little Rock, won the competition with her whimsical depiction of a bridge covered with icons representing virtually every art form. Representing Little Rock are the State Capitol and the Little Rock and North Little Rock is represented by the Razorback Sub and Ms. Sophie, a prominent ca-
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nine resident of the Argenta Arts District (complete with her pearls!) The poster will be for sale at Argenta Bead and at Shop the Rock for $10. All funds raised from the sale of the poster will support ArtWeek. ABOUT SHERRIE SHEPHERD Sherrie Shepherd was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1958 and moved to Arkansas in 1962. Shepherd attended the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and graduated with a BA degree in Art. Shepherd is an accomplished cartoonist and illustrator and is named in “Who’s Who of American Cartoonists”. Currently, she works at the Arkansas Department of Health in Health Marketing as a graphic designer and illustrator.
Posters are for sale at Shop the Rock and Argenta Bead
MAY 13 – Junction Bridge Party Look for the Wheeled Trolleys MAY 14 – 2nd Friday Art Night Look for the Wheeled Trolleys River Rail Trolley System (Operating Daily) Enjoy Poets and Musicians on board! May 17, 18, 19 & 29
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THURSDAY, mAY 6 MUSIC
After Eden. 9 p.m., $5. Electric Cowboy, 9513 I-30. 560-6000, www.electriccowboy.com. Apt. 5, Thieves. 9 p.m. George’s Majestic Lounge, 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-527-6618, georgesmajesticlounge.com. Bone. 8 p.m. On the Rocks, 107 E. Markham. 690-9327, clubontherocks.com Carter Sampson. 9 p.m., free. Maxine’s, 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-321-0909, maxinespub.com. Chiodos, Safe to Shore. 7 p.m., $12 adv., $15 d.o.s. The Village, 3915 S. University570-0300, thevillagelive.com. Dirtfoot, Mountain Sprout. 9:30 p.m. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707, www.stickyfingerz.com. DJ Mikey Mike. 8 p.m. Counterpoint, 3605 MacArthur, NLR. 771-5515, myspace.com/bogiescounterpoint. DJs Cameron Holifield, Michael Inscoe. 10 p.m., free. Union, 3421 Old Cantrell Road. 6618311. Elvis T-Bus Boy (headliner), Fjord Mustang (happy hour). 6 p.m., 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. Cajun’s Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road. 375-5351, cajunswharf.com. First Thursday Blues with Carl Mouton and Charles Woods. 8 p.m., free. Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh. 663-4176, afterthoughtbar.com. Greg Madden. 10 p.m., $3. Town Pump, 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 663-9802. Jim Dickerson. 7 p.m. Sonny Williams’, 500 President Clinton Ave. 324-2999, www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Katmandu. 7 p.m. Casa Mexicana, 13120 Crystal Hill Blvd., NLR. 812-2074. Puddin’head. 7 p.m. Norm’s, 6416 Colonel Glenn Road. 868-9443. Some Guy Named Robb. 8 p.m. Gusano’s Conway, 2915 Dave Ward Drive, Conway. 501329-1100, gusanospizza.com. Sweetwater. 8 p.m., $5. Denton’s Trotline, 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717. The Ted Ludwig Trio. 5 p.m. Capital Bar & Grill, 111 W. Markham. 370-7013, capitalhotel.com/ CBG.
EVENTS
Hillcrest Sip & Shop. Neighborhood event on the first Thursday of each month. 5 p.m., Kavanaugh Boulevard, Hillcrest. hillcrestmerchants. com.
COMEDY
Kevin Bozeman. 8 p.m. $6. Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham. 228-5555, loonybincomedy. com.
FRIDAY, mAY 7 32 may 6, 2010 • aRKaNSaS TImES
UNKNOWN HINSON: The “hillbilly vampire” and celebrated cult public access star brings his brand of rockabilly to Juanita’s this Friday at 10 p.m.
MUSIC
1st Impressions. 9 p.m., $5. West End, 215 N. Shackelford. 224-7665, www.westendsmokehouse.com. 5th & River. 9 p.m., $5. Cornerstone Pub, 314 Main St., NLR. 374-1782, www.cstonepub.com. Arkansas Symphony Orchestra presents “Spotlight on Hollywood.” 8 p.m., $32-$72. Robinson Center Music Hall. 666-1761, arkansassymphony.org. Barrett Baber. 9 p.m., free. Grumpy’s, 1801 Green Mountain Drive. 225-3768. Big John Miller. 8 p.m. Denton’s Trotline, 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717. Boom Kinetic. 10 p.m. George’s Majestic Lounge, 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-5276618, georgesmajesticlounge.com. Brother Andy & HIs Big Damn Mouth Record Release Show with Drunken Angels, Jonathan Wilkins & The Reparations. 9 p.m. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m., $5. 2500 W. 7th. 375-8400, www.myspace.com/whitewatertavern. Brown Soul Shoes. 8 p.m. Gusano’s Conway, 2915 Dave Ward Drive, Conway. 501-329-1100, gusanospizza.com. Candye Kane. 9:30 p.m., $10. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707, www.stickyfingerz. com. Chris Henry. 9 p.m. Flying Saucer, 323 Clinton Ave. 372-7468, beerknurd.com. Did You Mean Australia, Still Reign, Pallbearer. 8 p.m. Soundstage, 1008 Oak St., Conway. www.soundstageshows.com. DJ Debbi T. 10 p.m. Counterpoint, 3605 MacArthur, NLR. 771-5515, myspace.com/bogiescounterpoint. DJ Whuteva. 10 p.m. Gusano’s, 131 President Clinton Ave. 374-1441, gusanospizza.com. Exit Strategy. 9 p.m. Reno’s Argenta Cafe, 312 Main St., NLR. 374-2900. First Class Friday. 8 p.m. Bill St., 614 President Clinton Ave. 353-1724, j-oneproductionsinc.com Ghost Town Blues Band. 12:30 a.m., $5 nonmembers. Midtown Billiards, 1316 Main St. 3729990, midtownar.com. Hip Hop Showcase with 4x4 Crew. 8 p.m., $7. Downtown Music, 211 W. Capitol. 376-1819, downtownshows.homestead.com. Jeff Coleman. 7 p.m. Sonny Williams’, 500 President Clinton Ave. 324-2999, www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Ramona & The Soul Rhythms (headliner), Carl & Mia (happy hour). 5:30 p.m., 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. Cajun’s Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road. 375-5351, cajunswharf.com. Red Eye Gravy. 9 p.m. Maxine’s, 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-321-0909, maxinespub. com. Riverbilly, Matthew Huff. 8:30 p.m., $10, $15 under 21. Revolution, 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090, www.rumbarevolution.com. Rob Moore. 8 p.m., $5. Cregeen’s, 301 Main St., NLR. 374-7468, cregeens.com. Ryan Couron. 10 p.m., $5. Fox and Hound, 2800 Lakewood Village Drive, NLR. 753-8300. Shannon Boshears. 10 p.m., $5. Town Pump, 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 663-9802. The Ted Ludwig Trio. 9 p.m. Capital Bar & Grill, 111 W. Markham. 370-7013, capitalhotel.com/ CBG. Tonya Leeks & Co. 8 p.m. Markham Street Grill, 11321 W. Markham. 224-2010. Unknown Hinson, The Crumbs. 10 p.m., $15 adv., $18 d.o.s. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 3743271, juanitas.com. 18 plus. William Staggers. 9 p.m., $7. Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh. 663-4176, afterthoughtbar.com. ZZ Top, Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights. 8 p.m., $29.50-$49.50. Riverfest Amphitheatre. 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com.
EVENTS
“Celebrate Nursing” with music by Chris Michaels and the Cranks. 7 p.m. Dickey-Stephens Park Concourse, 400 W. Broadway, NLR. 221-9986. 11th Annual Therapeutic Recreation Arts Festival. For children and adults with special needs. 10 a.m., free. Clear Channel Metroplex Event Center, 10800 Col. Glenn Road. 918-5359, CCovey@littlerock.org. Cruisin’ in the Rock. The monthly cruise-in featuring muscle cars, street rods, classic cars, trucks and motorcycles from across Central Arkansas.
UpcOMiNg EvENTS Concert tickets through Ticketmaster by phone at 975-7575 or online at www.ticketmaster.com unless otherwise noted. MAY 14-29: “Glengarry Glen Ross.” Desperate real estate salesmen hustle worthless Floridian land; tension and greed ensue. 7:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat., $14. The Weekend Theater, 7th and Chester. 374-3761, weekendtheater.org. MAY 22: The Most Serene Republic. 9:30 p.m. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 3727707, www.stickyfingerz.com. MAY 28-30: Riverfest 2010. Arkansas’s biggest music, arts and food festival. Riverfront Park, River Market District and North Shore Riverwalk. 255-3378, riverfestarkansas.com MAY 29: Andy McKee. 9 p.m., $12 adv., $15 d.o.s. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 374-3271, juanitas.com. 18 plus. JUNE 2-6: 4th Annual Little Rock Film Festival. Documentary and wide-release films at several venues, including Riverdale 10, Clinton School and the Chamber of Commerce. 960-0864, littlerockfilmfestival.org. JUNE 4: John Prine. 8 p.m., $49-$60. Robinson Center Music Hall, 7 Statehouse Plaza. 666-1761, ticketmaster.com. JULY 15: Robert Plant and Band of Joy. 8 p.m., $65-$85. Robinson Center Music Hall, 7 Statehouse Plaza. 666-1761, ticketmaster.com. JULY 29: Justin Bieber, Sean Kingston. 7 p.m., $31-$51. Verizon Arena, NLR. 800-7453000, www.ticketmaster.com. AUG. 10: Built to Spill. 8:30 p.m. The Village, 3915 S. University. 570-0300, thevillagelive.com. 6 p.m., free. River Market Pavilion. 370-3201, cruisinlittlerock.com. Goodwill Awards Luncheon. 11:30 a.m., $30. Special program honoring the successes of Goodwill volunteers and graduates featuring food, drinks and an auction. Governor’s Mansion, 1800 Center St. 372-5100, goodwillar.org. MacArthur Park 5K. A 5K race through downtown Little Rock followed by a post-race party. 7 p.m., $25 adv., $35 d.o.e. MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 503 E. 9th. 375-0121, macarthurpark5k.org.
COMEDY
Armadillo Rodeo. 7 p.m., $8. The Public Theatre, 616 Center St. 374-7529. Kevin Bozeman. 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m., $6. Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham. 228-5555, loonybincomedy.com.
SATURDAY, MAY 8 MUSIC
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra presents “Spotlight on Hollywood.” 8 p.m., $32-$72. Robinson Center Music Hall. 666-1761, arkansassymphony.org. Barrett Baber. 9 p.m. Flying Saucer, 323 Clinton Ave. 372-7468, beerknurd.com. Cloud Nine. 10 p.m., $3. Town Pump, 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 663-9802. Cody Belew & Co. 9 p.m., $7. Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh. 663-4176, afterthoughtbar.com. DJ Shaintrain. 10 p.m. Counterpoint, 3605 MacArthur, NLR. 771-5515, myspace.com/bogiescounterpoint. Edgefest VI. With Godsmack, Rob Zombie, Papa Roach, Five Finger Death Punch, Hellyeah, Bullet for my Valentine, Drowning Pool and Lacuna Coil. 1 p.m., $35. Arkansas State Fairgrounds, 2600 Howard St. 745-3000, ticketmaster.com. Grayson Shelton. 8 p.m., $5. Cregeen’s, 301 Main St., NLR. 374-7468, cregeens.com. Hip Hop Fund-raiser: Elements. Featuring graffiti artists, DJs, MCs, breakin’ and more. 2 p.m., $7 non-members, $5 members. ACAC, 900 S. Rodney Parham Road. 244-2979, myspace. com/acacarkansas. Jeff Coleman. 7 p.m. Sonny Williams’, 500 President Clinton Ave. 324-2999, www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Justin Sane (disco), g-force (lobby). 9 p.m., $10. Discovery, 1021 Jessie Road. 664-4784, latenightdisco.com.
Katmandu. 9 p.m., free. Capi’s, 11525 Cantrell Road. 225-9600. Kickback. 8 p.m. Markham Street Grill, 11321 W. Markham. 224-2010. Larry Cheshier. 9 p.m., $5. Cornerstone Pub, 314 Main St., NLR. 374-1782, www.cstonepub. com. Lil KeKe, Mista Mayhemm. 10 p.m., $15 adv., $25 d.o.s. The Village, 3915 S. University. 5700300, thevillagelive.com. Mr. Meaner. 9 p.m. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 374-3271, juanitas.com. 21 plus. Nervous Curtains, Followed by Static, Rovar 17, Cold Mold. 9 p.m. Maxine’s, 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-321-0909, maxinespub. com. NVMe Saturdays. 4 p.m., free. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce. 372-770, stickyfingerz.com. Pope County Bootleggers. 12:30 a.m., $5 nonmembers. Midtown Billiards, 1316 Main St. 3729990, midtownar.com. Romallize (headliner), Greg Madden (happy hour). 5:30 p.m., 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. Cajun’s Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road. 375-5351, cajunswharf.com. Rural War Room (DJ set). 10 p.m., free. Union, 3421 Old Cantrell Road. 661-8311. Rwake. 9 p.m. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m., $5. 2500 W. 7th. 375-8400, www.myspace.com/ whitewatertavern. Seth Freeman. 9 p.m., $5. West End, 215 N. Shackelford. 224-7665, www.westendsmokehouse.com. Superstar Saturday with DJ Hypnotik. 8 p.m. On the Rocks, 107 E. Markham. 374-7625, www. clubontherocks.com. Shannon Boshears. 8 p.m. Denton’s Trotline, 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717. The Gettys. 9:30 p.m., $5 early admission. Revolution, 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090, www. rumbarevolution.com. The Koffin Kats, Josh the Devil & the Sinners. 9:30 p.m., $5 early admission. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707, www.stickyfingerz.com. The Meek and Mighty, Maywood Park. 8 p.m. Vino’s, 923 W. Seventh St. 375-8466, vinosbrewpub.com. The Ted Ludwig Trio. 9 p.m. Capital Bar & Grill, 111 W. Markham. 370-7013, capitalhotel.com/ CBG.
EVENTS
2010 Candlelight Tour, Dinner and Dance. 5:30-10:30 p.m., $100. Tours of five historic homes in the Quapaw Quarter, gala in Garth of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. 371-0075, quapaw.com. 3rd Annual Mother’s Day High Tea and Fashion Show. Tea, music, food and fashion for Mother’s Day. 3 p.m., $50. Wildwood Park for the Arts, 20919 Denny Road. 821-7275, wildwoodpark.org. Champagne Garden Tour. A tour of gardens designed by P. Allen Smith to benefit Arkansas Festival Ballet. 4:30 p.m., $25. Marbaise home, 4 Armistead Road. 227-5320, info@arkansasdance. org. Hot Springs Cruisers’ 15th Annual Car Show. Classic, custom, antique cars and street rods, prizes and drawings. Hot Springs Municipal Airport. hscruisers.com. Mother’s Day High Tea. Afternoon tea followed by a guided tour. 3 p.m., $35. The Empress of Little Rock Bed & Breakfast, 2120 S. Louisiana. 374-7966. Thunder & Chrome Benefit Bike Show and Poker Run. Fund-raiser for Arkansans affected by Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. 10 a.m., $15/bike. The Mall at Turtle Creek, 3000 E. Highland Drive, Jonesboro. 870-926-4842, alzark. org.
COMEDY
Armadillo Rodeo. 7 p.m., $8. The Public Theatre, 616 Center St. 374-7529. Kevin Bozeman. 7 p.m., 9 p.m., 11 p.m., $6. Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham. 228-5555, loonybincomedy.com.
FILM
Dreamland Drive-In Movie Series: “Charade.” 8 p.m., $5/person, $20/car. Arkansas Flag & Banner, 800 W. 9th. 255-5700 dreamlandballroom.com.
LECTURES
Tom Dillard. Author of “Statesmen, Scoundrels, and Eccentrics: A Gallery of Amazing Arkansans” will discuss and sign his book. 2 p.m., free. Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, 118 W. Johnson Ave., Springdale. 479-750-8165, springdalear.gov/ shiloh.
SPORTS
Arkansas Diamonds vs. Omaha Beef. 7 p.m., $12-$50. Verizon Arena, NLR. 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com. Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield Cardinals. Seat cushion night. 7:10 p.m., $6-$12. Dickey-Stephens Park. travs.com.
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“Jamaica Me Crazy.” 8 p.m., $8. Revolution, 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090, www.rumbarevolution.com. John Two Hawks. 2 p.m., $10. The Auditorium, 36 S. Main St., Eureka Springs. (479) 253-7788. theaud.org. Judging the Silence, Hone, Tangled in Ruin, Rock & Johnson and more. 5 p.m., $8 adv., $12 d.o.s. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 374-3271, juanitas.com. All ages. Karaoke with DJ Mikey Mike. 8 p.m. Counterpoint, 3605 MacArthur, NLR. 771-5515, myspace. com/bogiescounterpoint. Set Your Goals, Comeback Kid, Title Fight, Murdock, Johnny Cage, Take It to Heart. 6 p.m., $12 adv., $14 d.o.s. The Village, 3915 S. University. 570-0300, thevillagelive.com. Successful Sundays with Tawanna Smith, Dell Campbell, Chris B and Changus, King Akeem, DJ Hy-C. 8 p.m. Ernie Biggs, 307 President Clinton Ave. 372-4782. Sunday Jazz Brunch with Ted Ludwig. 11 a.m. Vieux Carre, 2721 Kavanaugh. 663-4176, afterthoughtbar.com.
EVENTS
Quapaw Quarter Spring Tour. Tours of five historic homes in the Quapaw Quarter. 1-5 p.m. $15. Quapaw Quarter neighborhood. 371-0075, quapaw.com.
SPORTS
Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield Cardinals. 2:10 p.m., $6-$12. Dickey-Stephens Park. travs.com.
MONDAY, MAY 10 MUSIC
Brian & Nick. 5:30 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. Cajun’s Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road. 375-5351, cajunswharf.com. Cage the Elephant, Morning Transportation, Autovaughn. 8 p.m., $15. Revolution, 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090, www.rumbarevolution.com. All ages. Jesse Winchester. Fund-raiser for Monty Davenport Land Commissioner campaign. 8 p.m., $50 donation. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 374-3271, juanitas.com. Traditional Irish Music Session. 7 p.m., free. Khalil’s Pub & Grill, 110 S. Shackleford. 224-0244, khalilspub.com.
COMEDY
Neil Hamburger. 9 p.m., $8 adv., $10 d.o.s. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce. 372-7707, stickyfingerz.com.
LECTURES
Wes Moore. Author discusses “The Other Wes Moore,” the story of two men from Baltimore named Wes Moore, one the first African-American Rhodes Scholar, the other serving a life sentence in prison. 6 p.m., free. Sturgis Hall, Clinton School of Public Service. 683-5239, publicprograms@ clintonschool.uasys.edu.
SPORTS
Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield Cardinals. 7:10 p.m., $6-$12. Dickey-Stephens Park. travs.com.
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captured on hand-held video cameras, the show has since become an Internet phenomenon. See for yourself: Just go to YouTube, where there are dozens of clips from their previous effort in the states, a show they did for several seasons over on The Testosterone Channel (AKA Spike TV). Here, the Dudesons bring their brand of very physical comedy to that spot on the dial that used to be known for music videos before the Internet killed the video star. With “Jackass” creator Johnny Knoxville and a $6 million budget behind the new show, it’s bound to be entertaining — if you’re into watching guys who look like Spicoli from “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” get hit in the junk with heavy objects, that is. — David Koon FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS 7 p.m. Friday NBC n Hooray! Critical darling and ratings stinker “Friday Night Lights” is back, improbably, and, even though a number of the original stars have left to date New York Yankees and star in indie movies you haven’t seen, the show’s still populated by perhaps the finest group of actors as you’ll find on network TV. Especially, longtime TV vets Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler, who reside at the show’s moral center as Principal Tami Taylor and Coach
Eric Taylor, who forever solve problems for wayward students and athletes and the fictional community of Dillon, Texas, as they fight and feud (but always warmly resolve things) with each other and their teen-age daughter. Yes, they can come across as saint-ish. And, yes, “Friday Night Lights” is a soap opera (remember the murder cover-up?). But the dialogue — augmented by all kinds of great, empty space and inarticulate stumbling — and the emotion the cast delivers into what can be distilled down to a typical network TV drama, makes “FNL” seem like anything but. This penultimate season finds Coach Taylor dispatched to the new, underfunded East Dillon High team, while his wife remains principal of the coach’s old employer and new rival, Dillon High. Sparks are bound to fly. — Lindsey Millar SOUTHERN FRIED STINGS 9 p.m. Monday TruTV n If reality TV wasn’t already a vast pool of liquid pig manure baking under the summer sun, I might say the trend toward fake reality programming is a disturbing trend. It’s waaay too late to say that anything about the genre is disturbing, however. Which brings us to Southern Fried Stings, the show that
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n The aluminum fiddler and her eight square dancers poised at the south entrance to the Historic Arkansas Museum greet visitors as engagingly as Peg Smith would have. Join the party, they say — starting with the “pARTy for Peg.” The sculpture, to be dedicated Saturday at the annual Territorial Fair, adds a terrific piece of public art to Little Rock’s landscape as it celebrates the life of Smith, the late long-time commissioner and ardent supporter since the museum’s opening as the Arkansas Territorial Restoration in July 1941. Alice Guffey Miller of Monticello won the privately-funded commission for the sculpture, which features 7 1/2-foot-tall cut-out figures, kicking up their heels and posed atop pedestals inset with objects from all over Arkansas donated especially for the project. Embedded artistically are sherds of Smith’s own China, horseshoes, arrowheads, crystals, spigots, silverware, a shell with buttons punched out — all manner of things, from each of the state’s 75 counties. (Even the dancers are local; the half-inch aluminum figures were fabricated by SeaArk Boats in Monticello.) The source of the artifacts and videos documenting the donors (many of whom were children that Miller worked with through 4H clubs) will be part of the museum’s website, historicarkansas.org. The HAM will dedicate “pARTy for Peg” at 10:30 a.m., with brief remarks by first lady Ginger Beebe, Mayor Mark Stodola, architect Charles Witsell and Department of Arkansas Heritage Director Cathie Matthews. Miller’s husband, poet
Mars Hall, will read a poem he wrote for the occasion, “Peg’s Patter Call.” Fiddle playing and dancing will follow. Smith’s daughter and her husband, Laurie and Steve Fisher, will be in attendance, along with other members of the family. Peg Smith, the wife of Supreme Court Justice George Rose Smith, was the successor to founding volunteer Louise Loughborough, who in 1939 persuaded the state legislature to buy and preserve the block of territorial period structures — which appeared to most people to be nothing more than dilapidated shacks. The WPA helped build what would become known as the Arkansas Territorial Restoration. Smith, whose grandfather Fay Hempstead wrote the first Arkansas history textbook in 1889, knew that evidence of the past added character and identity to the present. With architect Ed Cromwell, she founded the Quapaw Quarter Association and until she died in 2003 she did what HAM development director Louise Terzia called the “holy work” of bringing Arkansas’s past into the present. She also helped the Territorial Restoration transition into the Historic Arkansas Museum, smoothing the way when change — which better research into the period brought to the restored structures, the grounds and their history — might have bristled. “She was a modern woman in wanting to represent [the past] accurately,” HAM director Bill Worthen said, and she was a commissioner who was always willing to listen. Continued on page 45
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55th Kiwanis Annual Pancake Festival and Silent Auction. Twelve hours of all you can eat breakfast, silent auction of certificates, golf accessories, electronics and more. 7 a.m., $5. Second Baptist Church, 222 E. 8th St. keyclub.org. Arkansas Times’ 2nd District Democratic Debate. 7 p.m. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce. 372-7707, arkansasblog.com.
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2010 Little Rock Film Festival Schedule Announcement. 6 p.m., free. Sturgis Hall, Clinton School of Public Service. 683-5239, littlerockfilmfestival.org.
LECTURES
Brent Scowcroft. National security advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, the expert of international policy speaks.
Noon, free. Sturgis Hall, Clinton School of Public Service. 683-5239, publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu.
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Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield Cardinals. 11 a.m., $6-$12. Dickey-Stephens Park. travs.com.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12 MUSIC
Big Bad Gina, Snake Eyes and the Bug Band. 9 p.m. George’s Majestic Lounge, 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-527-6618, georgesmajesticlounge.com. Jim Dickerson. 7 p.m. Sonny Williams’, 500 President Clinton Ave. 324-2999, www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Karaoke with DJ Debbi T. 10 p.m. Counterpoint, 3605 MacArthur, NLR. 771-5515, myspace. com/bogiescounterpoint. Little Rock Jazz Quintet. 8 p.m. Bill St., 614 President Clinton Ave. 353-1724. Lucious Spiller Band. 9:30 p.m., $5. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707, www.stickyfingerz.com. Lyle Dudley Band. 8 p.m., $5. Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh. 663-4176, afterthoughtbar.com. Rob & Tyndall. 5:30 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. Cajun’s Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road. 375-5351, cajunswharf.com. The Ted Ludwig Trio. 5 p.m. Capital Bar & Grill, 111 W. Markham. 370-7013, capitalhotel.com/ CBG.
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Dante. 8 p.m., $6. Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham. 228-5555, loonybincomedy.com.
THURSDAY, MAY 13 MUSIC
Christmas Fuller, Brave Soul. 9 p.m. George’s Majestic Lounge, 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-527-6618, georgesmajesticlounge.com.
DJ Mikey Mike. 8 p.m. Counterpoint, 3605 MacArthur, NLR. 771-5515, myspace.com/bogiescounterpoint. Dr. Rex Bell Jazz Trio. 8 p.m., $5. Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh. 663-4176, afterthoughtbar. com. Jim Dickerson. 7 p.m. Sonny Williams’, 500 President Clinton Ave. 324-2999, www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Joe Arata. 8 p.m. Markham Street Grill, 11321 W. Markham. 224-2010. Little Rock Jazz Quintet. 8 p.m. Ferneau, 2601 Kavanaugh. 603-9208, ferneaurestaurant.com. Roy Rivers. 8 p.m. Denton’s Trotline, 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717. Thursdays on the Plaza with Serious Young Musicians. 7 p.m., free. Laman Library Plaza, 2801 Orange St., NLR. 758-1720, laman.net. The Ted Ludwig Trio. 5 p.m. Capital Bar & Grill, 111 W. Markham. 370-7013, capitalhotel.com/ CBG. Tragikly White (headliner), Fjord Mustang (happy hour). 5:30 p.m., 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. Cajun’s Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road. 3755351, cajunswharf.com.
COMEDY
Dante. 8 p.m., $6. Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham. 228-5555, loonybincomedy.com.
BOOKS
A. Cleveland Harrison. The author discusses his memoir, “A Little Rock Boyhood: Growing Up in the Great Depression.” 6:30 p.m., free. Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 401 President Clinton Ave. 918-3056, butlercenter.org.
FILM
“The Big Lebowski.” 8 p.m., free. Juanita’s, 300 S. Main St. 374-3271, juanitas.com.
POETRY
inVerse Open Mic Poetry Night. 6 p.m., $5. ACAC, 900 S. Rodney Parham. 244-2979, www. myspace.com/acacarkansas.
SPORTS
Arkansas Travelers vs. Tulsa Drillers. 7:10 p.m., $6-$12. Dickey-Stephens Park. travs.com.
CALLS FOR ENTRIES Auditions for Murry’s Dinner Playhouse’s production of “Annie” will be held at 6:30 p.m. May 10. Child actors need prepare a 16-bar song, adults need prepare a song and a one-minute monologue. Accompanist provided. Resume and picture required. Rehearsals are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. starting July 3; production runs from July 20 to Aug. 29. For more information, call 562-3131. Registration is open for the 11th Annual Paws on the Pavement 5K run, 1-mile run/ walk, volleyball tournament, dog carnival and vendor booths. Race/walk entry fee is $20 per individual or $36 per family (limit 4) until May 10; volleyball tournament registration is $60 per team, no day-of registration. For more information, visit careforanimals.org or call 603-2273.
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GALLERIES, MUSEUMS New exhibits, upcoming events ACAC, 900 S. Rodney Parham Road: Sam King, oils and video installations, opens with reception 7-9 p.m. May 7, exhibit through May 29. Noon-4 p.m. Sat. 479-466-1235. ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “Architectural Design for Public Spaces: CALS, a Case Study,” Art of Architecture lecture by Bobby Roberts, 5:30 p.m. reception, 6 p.m. talk May 11; “World of the Pharaohs: Treasures of Egypt Revealed,” artifacts from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through July 7, $22 adults, $14 students; “Life and Living in Ancient Egypt,” lecture by “Pharaohs” curator Bill Peck, reception 6 p.m., lecture 6:30 p.m. May 6; “Capturing the Orient,” lithographs by David Roberts and works by other 19th century artists who traveled to Egypt and the surrounding region, through May 16; “Currents in Contemporary Art,” “Masterworks,” “Paul Signac Watercolors and Drawings,” ongoing. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000. COMMUNITY BAKERY, 1202 Main St.: “Drawn to Art,” show and sale of drawings in all media by nine women artists, through May 29. 11 a.m.-8 p.m. HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “Collaborations,” paintings and sculpture by Kevin Cole, Benny Andrews, Kennith Humphrey, Tonia Mitchell, Marjorie Williams-Smith, photographs by Ernest C. Withers, and other work. 372-6822. LOCAL COLOUR GALLERY, 5811 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “Bursting with Color,” wine and cheese reception for exhibit featuring work by 27 artists, 6-8 p.m. May 6. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 2650422. OLD STATE HOUSE, 300 W. Markham St.: Mark Christ, Brown Bag Lunch Lecture on the Battle of Helena, noon May 10; “Arkansas/Arkansaw: A State and Its Reputation,” the evolution of the state’s hillbilly image; “Badges, Bandits & Bars: Arkansas Law & Justice,” state’s history of crime and punishment, through March 2011. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9685. THEA FOUNDATION, 401 Main St.: “North Little Rock High School Senior Studio Art Exhibition and Sale,” through May 7. 375-9512. n Eureka Springs 83 SPRING STREET GALLERY: Rick Isaacs, Allison Cantrell, Kate Barger, open house 10 a.m.-8 p.m. May 8. EUREKA FINE ART CO., 78 Spring St.: Josh Mitchell, photography; Jimmy Leach, landscapes, David Rush, jewelry. 479-253-6595. EUREKA THYME, 19 Spring St.: Maureen Dailey, glass assemblage, reception 6-9 p.m. May 8. 479-363-9600. FUSION SQUARED, 84 Spring St.: John Rinehart, glass. 479-253-4999. IRIS AT THE BASIN, 8 Spring St.: Valerie Hubbard Damon, children’s book artist, will sign prints and cards, 1-4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. May 8. 479-363-9600. THE JEWEL BOX, 77 Spring St.: Jeff Price, glass artist. Refreshments 6-9 p.m. May 8. QUICKSILVER GALLERY, 73 Spring St.: Lyla O. Allison, Brian Watson, jewelry. 479-253-7679. ZARKS FINE DESIGN, 67 Spring St.: “12th annual Group Invitational Theme Show —
Widgets, Gizmos and Doohickies,” work by more than 30 artists, “People’s Choice Award” announced at reception 6-9 p.m. May 8. 479-2532626. n Fayetteville FAYETTEVILLE UNDERGROUND, 1 E. Center St.: “Django,” paintings by Leilani, Revolver Gallery; “We’ve Been Holding This Moment for You,” photographs by Sabine Schmidt, Hive Gallery; Ed Pennebaker, glass, E Street Gallery; Chris Mostyn, drawings, Vault Gallery, First Thursday opening 5-8 p.m. May 6. 479-387-1534. UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: “Senior Showcase Exhibition,” through May 9, reception 4-6 p.m. May 7, Fine Arts Center Gallery. n Hot Springs Hot Springs galleries along Central Avenue will be open 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. May 7 for the monthly Gallery Walk. ALISON PARSONS GALLERY, 802 Central Ave.: Paintings by Parsons. 501-625-3001. ARTISTS WORKSHOP GALLERY, 810 Central Ave.: Jean Dillon, paintings and pastels; Millie Steveken, watercolors, through May. 501-6236401. AMERICAN ART GALLERY, 724 Central Ave.: Work by Jimmy Leach, Jamie Carter, Govinder, Marlene Gremillion, Margaret Kipp and others. 501-624-0550. FINE ARTS CENTER, 610 Central Ave.: “The Families of Hot Springs,” photo history exhibit, May 6-27. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 501-624-0489. FOX PASS POTTERY, 379 Fox Pass Cut-off: Pottery by Jim and Barbara Larkin. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 501-623-9906. GALLERY 726, 726 Central Ave.: Gary Weeter, watercolors, through May. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.Sat. 501-624-7726. GALLERY CENTRAL, 800 Central Ave.: Sandy Hubler, paintings, and work by other Hot Springs artists. 501-318-4278. HOT SPRINGS CONVENTION CENTER: “Hot Springs: Baseball’s First Spring Training Town,” 24 photos from the early part of the 20th century. JUSTUS FINE ART, 827 A Central Ave.: Robyn Horn, sculptures and paintings, through May; also new work by Michael Ashley and Dolores Justus. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 501-321-2335. LINDA PALMER GALLERY, 800 B Central Ave.: Work by Linda Palmer, Doyle Young, Ellen Alderson, Peter Lippincott, Sara Tole and Jan Leek. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 501-6203063. TAYLOR’S CONTEMPORANEA, 204 Exchange St.: Work by area and regional artists. 624-0516. n Russellville RIVER VALLEY ARTS CENTER, 1001 E. B St.: James Hayes, glass, through May. 479-9682452.
MUSEUMS, ongoing ExhibitS
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Rave and Riverdale times weren’t available at press time. Visit www.arktimes.com for updates. NEW MOVIES The Art of Stealing (NR) — A documentary chronicling the liquidation of a reclusive art collector’s private museum, valued at $25 million. Market Street: 1:45, 4:00, 6:45, 9:00. The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond (R) — A group of friends vacationing at a private island discover a game that soon turns murderous. Movies 10: 1:05, 3:20, 5:35, 7:50, 10:05. Iron Man 2 (PG-13) — The libertine superhero returns, facing off with an evil Russian copycat, an old rival and the government. Breckenridge: 10:00, 10:30, 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30. Chenal 9: 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 (standard); 11:15, 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 (IMAX). Lakewood: 10:50, 1:25, 1:55, 4:05, 4:35, 7:00, 7:30, 9:45, 10:15. Riverdale: 11:00, 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40. RETURNING THIS WEEK Alice in Wonderland (PG) — Tim Burton’s 3D sequel to the Carroll classic finds Alice back in the rabbit hole as a rebellious 19-year-old. Rave: 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:20. Riverdale: 11:20, 1:45, 4:10, 6:35, 9:00. Animalopolis (NR) — A half-hour film of goofy animals being goofy in enormous 3D. Aerospace IMAX: 11:00, 7:00 Fri.; 1:00, 3:00, 7:00 Sat. Avatar (PG-13) — A paraplegic ex-Marine war veteran is sent to establish a human settlement on the distant planet of Pandora, only to find himself battling humankind alongside the planet’s indigenous race. Movies 10: 2:00, 5:30, 8:50. Rave: 1:20, 5:05, 8:30. The Back-Up Plan (PG-13) — Jennifer Lopez stars as a single woman who meets the man of her dreams hours after artificially conceiving twins. Breckenridge: 1:50, 4:50, 7:45, 10:05. Chenal 9: 1125, 1:40, 4:20, 7:40, 9:55. Lakewood: 11:00, 1:45, 4:20, 7:15, 9:55. Rave: 1:55, 4:55, 7:05, 7:55, 9:55. Riverdale: 11:35, 1:40, 3:45, 5:50, 7:55, 10:00. Book of Eli (R) — Across the wasteland of what once was America, a lone warrior (Denzel Washington) must fight to bring civilization the knowledge that could be the key to its redemption. Movies 10: 10:10. Brooklyn’s Finest (R) — Three New York City police officers at the end of their ropes find each other’s questionable intents at a crux in the Brooklyn projects. Movies 10: 1:30, 7:00. Clash of the Titans (PG-13) — Perseus, son of Zeus, leads a band of warriors into uncharted dimensions while attempting to defeat the evil Hades, God of the Underworld. Chenal 9: 11:00, 1:25, 7:15, 9:45. Lakewood: 11:05, 1:35, 4:15, 7:05, 9:50. Rave: 1:55, 4:55 (2D); 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 (3D). Riverdale: 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40. Cop Out (R) — Two New York City police officers (Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan) try to track down the gangster who stole an exceptionally rare baseball card in this send up of 1980s buddy movies. Movies 10: 4:35, 9:50. The Crazies (R) — A rural town’s water supply is mysteriously contaminated, turning the residents into psychopaths. Movies 10: 1:20, 4:05, 7:10, 9:30. Crazy Heart (R) — Seeking redemption, fallen country star Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) finds a friend and confidante in a struggling music journalist. Movies 10: 1:15, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00. Date Night (PG-13) — When a bored couple tries for a romantic evening in New York City, a case of mistaken identity sends them off into a night of danger. Breckenridge: 1:45, 4:40, 7:25, 9:35. Chenal 9: 11:20, 1:30, 4:05, 7:20, 9:50. Rave: 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 9:50. Death at a Funeral (PG-13) — A funeral for a family patriarch goes haywire, being constantly disrupted by a series of accidents, missteps, idiocy and blackmail. Rave: 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:25. Riverdale: 11:10, 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10:00.
A STARK OUTLOOK: “Iron Man,” the sequel, finds cocky genius Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) six months after he brings about an international peace treaty, becoming the most beloved man in the world. But he’s also under pressure from the government, the public and the media to share the Iron Man technology with the military. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (PG) — Greg, a 6thgrade runt, can’t stand the ceaseless bullying, wedgies and swirlies he puts up with at school, so he retreats to his journal and his imagination. Breckenridge: 10:20, 1:35, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30. Lakewood: 11:15, 1:25, 4:10, 7:20, 10:05. Rave: 1:25. The Eclipse (R) — An Irish widower finds himself falling for a horror author, all the while beginning to believe he sees ghosts. Market Street: 2:00, 4:20, 7:15, 9:20. Furry Vengeance (PG) — An Oregon real estate developer’s plans to erect a subdivision go awry when forest creatures take to action. Breckenridge: 1:25, 4:35, 7:05, 9:20. Chenal 9: 11:10, 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:20. Lakewood: 1:20, 1:30, 4:05, 7:10, 9:45. Rave: 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05. Riverdale: 11:15, 1:20, 3:20, 5:35, 7:35, 9:40. Greenberg (R) — Middle-aged and a perpetual failure, Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) ends up finding love and hope while house-sitting for his successful brother. Market Street: 2:15, 4:20, 7:15, 9:20. Hot Tub Time Machine (R) — Four best friends, bored with adult life, take a ski vacation only to find themselves transported back to 1986. Riverdale: 11:30, 1:40, 3:50, 6:00, 8:10, 10:20. How to Train Your Dragon (PG) — A timid young Viking, raised to slay dragons by his heroic father, ends up befriending one he tried to slay. Breckenridge: 10:10, 1:05, 4:05, 6:55, 9:25. Chenal 9: 11:05, 1:35, 4:15, 7:05, 9:25. Lakewood: 11:05, 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:35 (2D); 11:15 a.m. (3D). Rave: 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 8:00, 10:25. Riverdale: 11:00, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50. Kick-Ass (R) — Teen-age wannabe superheroes turn their aspirations into reality and take to the streets in spite of having absolutely no superpowers. Rave: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30. The Last Song (PG) — Miley Cyrus and Greg Kinnear star in this father/daughter tale in which an alienated teen is forced to spend a summer in Georgia with her pianist father. Breckenridge: 10:15, 1:10, 4:25, 7:20, 9:50. Rave: 1:05, 4:05. The Losers (PG-13) — After escaping an assassination attempt in the Bolivian jungle, executed by a shadowy man seemingly on their side, elite U.S. agents vie for revenge. Breckenridge: 1:20, 4:20, 7:35, 9:55. Rave: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 8:15, 10:15. Riverdale: 11:05, 1:15, 3:25, 5:35, 7:45, 9:55. Mother (R) — A mother sets out to prove her foolish co-dependent son’s innocence after
he’s accused by an incompetent police force of murdering a stranger. Market Street: 1:45, 4:15, 7:00, 9:10. A Nightmare on Elm Street (R) — Remake of the 1984 horror classic in which a murderer uses the dream world to take revenge on the children of the lynch mob that killed him. Breckenridge: 2:00, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45. Chenal 9: 11:35, 2:00, 4:30, 7:25, 10:00. Lakewood: 11:10, 1:40, 4:25, 7:25, 10:00. Rave: 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30. Riverdale: 11:20, 1:25, 3:25, 5:40, 7:45, 10:05. Oceans (G) — An ecological drama/documentary about the amazing underwater world and threats to ocean life. Rave: 11:30, 1:40, 4:20, 6:55, 9:25. Our Family Wedding (PG-13) — When a young couple returns home from college to announce their marriage plans, their parents lob hot-headed insults at each other and play tug-of-war over their children’s wedding. Chenal 9: 11:15, 1:50, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30. Rave: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15. Our Family Wedding (PG-13) — When a young couple returns home from college to announce their marriage plans, their parents lob hot-headed insults at each other and play tug-of-war over their children’s wedding. Movies 10: 1:45, 7:35. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (PG) — A dyslexic, ADHD high school student discovers he’s a descendant of Poseidon and finds himself entangled in a war of mythical proportions. Movies 10: 1:10, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45. Phish 3-D (NR) — The much-loved jam band throws its hat in the 3D game with this 140-minute concert movie filmed during a three-day festival in Indio, Calif. Rave: 7:00, 10:05. Remember Me (PG-13) — After tragedy befalls their families, two young New Yorkers find solace in each other and, eventually, begin to fall in love. Movies 10: 10:10. The Runaways (R) — The young girls of the titular band experience a quick, starry rise and faster, druggy fall from glory during the ’70s. Market Street: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:15. She’s Out of My League (R) — An average guy in a dead-end job inexplicably finds himself the object of affection for a gorgeous, successful woman. Movies 10: 4:30, 10:15. The Spy Next Door (PG) — A CIA spook retires to marry his girlfriend and must gain approval of her kids, who mistakenly download top secret documents, making the family a Russian target. Movies 10: 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:40. The Tooth Fairy (PG) — A star hockey player (Dwayne Johnson) is temporarily transformed into a full-fledged tooth fairy as penalty for discouraging a young fan. Movies 10: 1:40, 4:00, 7:20, 9:40. Why Did I Get Married Too? (PG-13) — When four couples get together for their annual vacation in the Bahamas, their rest and relaxation is interrupted by an ex-husband determined to reunite with his remarried wife. Rave: 4:25, 7:25, 10:10. Riverdale: 11:15, 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35. Wildfire: Feel the Heat (NR) — Discover how firefighters all over the planet fight the biggest, hottest fires on the planet. Aerospace IMAX: 10:00, 12:00, 2:00, 8:00 Fri.; 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 8:00 Sat. Chenal 9 IMAX Theatre: 17825 Chenal Parkway, 821-2616, www.dtmovies.com. Cinemark Movies 10: 4188 E. McCain Blvd., 9457400, www.cinemark.com. Cinematown Riverdale 10: Riverdale Shopping Center, 296-9955, www.riverdale10.com. IMAX Theater: Aerospace Education Center, 3764629, www.aerospaced.org. Market Street Cinema: 1521 Merrill Drive, 3128900, www.marketstreetcinema.net. Rave Colonel Glenn 18: 18 Colonel Glenn Plaza, 687-0499, www.ravemotionpictures.com. Regal Breckenridge Village 12: 1-430 and Rodney Parham, 224-0990, www.fandango.com. Dickinson Theaters Lakewood 8: Lakewood Village, 758-5354, www.fandango.com.
FALLS FLAT: ‘Phish 3D’ takes the bait, falls prey to the trappings of the new movie trend.
■moviereview Brain-dead and made of money ‘Phish 3D’ and the 3D problem. ■ The title of this article? That’s a lyric from “AC/DC Bag,” a goofy rollicker of a jam that opens “Phish 3D.” It’s also an apt string of words to start a discussion about why this concert movie defines what’s wrong with the onslaught of 3D. But first, a preface: I’ll confess (in print, at that). Yes, I like Phish. Quite a lot, too. Ever since I heard their 1996 album “Billy Breathes” as a high schooler in a friend’s truck, I’ve harbored a sizable soft spot for the four middle-aged stoner soundscapists, one that’s earned me a number of scoffs from the hipper-than-thous. However, while the band’s studio albums are built on taut, three-minute pop songs, the infamous live shows are unlistenable to my ears. The band, in signature fashion, will glut a gorgeous tune to bloated proportions with meandering, decadent solos that are technically astounding but usually indistinguishable from the previous one. While feverishly gilding the proverbial lily in concert, they rarely add anything of substance to the track, instead distracting and obscuring the core, the soul of the great songs themselves. For better or worse, it’s the official Phish stamp that defines them. The band’s fans love it; it’s not for me. Now, can the same things be said about this extra-dimensional “stampede” of 3D, this “juvenile abomination,” as the increasingly outspoken Roger Ebert recently branded it? Are studios beginning to obfuscate what makes movies great — the simple heart of each — for extraneous 3D technology? Much like Phish’s tendencies to drown out beautiful, small songs with technical braggadocio, “Phish 3D” — like most 3D movies — gains nothing in an extra dimension. In “Phish 3D,” the camera relies on a handful of shots, repeated ad nauseum, with mic stands and cymbals providing
the bulk of the 3D experience, which are crisply shot, but also completely unimpressive. When focused on the band, the cameras don’t hesitate to cue in on the guitar work, but, believe it or not, 3D doesn’t add much to the three inches of depth found on fingers on a flat fretboard. And when the songs fade away into tedious jamming, all the movie offers for stretches at a time are brain-numbing noodling in boring 3D. That said, the climax is fantastic: The band is joined by the unbelievable Sharon Jones and a trio of horns and sax from her band, the Dap-Kings. They blaze through four songs from “Exile on Main Street” and end with a beautiful, exuberant take on the Phish classic “Suzy Greenberg.” It’s a top form document of a band having a ball. Beyond that, it’s hard not to fall prey to the contagious excitement on screen. But the excitement caught in those moments would have been just as lively and joyous without goofing it up with a virtual depth-of-perception. The 3D didn’t add any more jubilation to what was on the screen. All it did was force my eyes to refocus with every cut, so I just covered up one of my lenses with my ticket stub and enjoyed the music. In all, the worst parts of the movie represent the worst parts of 3D at large: cheap, unnecessary artifices used to cash in on a fad. It’s a trend that threatens to become even more commonplace, aiding in further dumbing down movies into passive spectacles and siphoning studio money away from smaller, headier projects. But back to the title of this article, cribbed from a Phish lyric: That was only a snippet. In the song, they sing, with wry exuberance, “brain dead and made of money/no future at all.” Here’s to hoping the 3D trend follows the bouncing ball to that second line. — John Tarpley
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KEEPING THE ZINE ALIVE: Matthew Thompson with his daughter Emma.
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From Arizona, Matthew Thompson writes about DIY culture in Arkansas. By LesLie NeweLL Peacock
n Matthew Thompson hasn’t lived in Arkansas in 15 years, yet no one chronicles the state’s punk and DIY culture more ardently. Thompson, 38, stays connected online and has a website (flukezine.com), but his primary mode of publishing, like a lot of his editorial content, is throwback. Since 1991, he’s published — somewhat sporadically — Fluke zine, a thick pamphletsized book of interviews, essays, photos and artwork. And while he doesn’t cut and paste and rely on hook-ups at Kinko’s to publish anymore, his methods today seem like a natural evolution: He relies on friends for contributions; lays out each issue in Microsoft Word; prints, for about a dollar an issue, at a small press in Berkeley, Calif., and distributes by mail order. Thompson isn’t a Luddite; he’s just nostalgic. “I enjoy looking back in the past,”
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he said recently in a phone interview from Tempe, Ariz., where he’s working a contract job. “Not living there of course, though I did spend a lot of years living in the past.” The recent issues of Fluke (No. 7 came out last year, and No. 8 followed early this year) feature interviews with people Thompson used to run with back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, often from “Dogtown,” where, as he writes in Fluke No. 7, he learned “how to ride a bicycle, hit a baseball, catch a fish and later, pop an ollie.” There’s a long, wide-ranging interview in No. 7 with Mark Howe, who was at the vanguard of the Little Rock punk scene, toured with Econochrist and, at least at the time of the interview, was a sergeant in the U.S. Army. No. 8, released earlier this year, features an interview with Alan Short on the history of Continued on page 45 Rock Boyhood: Growing Up in the Great Depression”), 5 p.m., NB. 18 Cookie’s Bookgroup discusses “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,” 7 p.m., TBIB. 20 Robin Oliveria (“My Name is Mary Sutter”), 5 p.m., TBIB. 22 Carolyn Moore (“Supernatural”), 1 p.m., WW. 29 Allan Ward (“Golden Thunder: A Quest for the Inner Poet”), 1 p.m., WW. Area Bookstores and Libraries: BAM: Books-A-Million, 2747 Lakewood Village Drive, NLR, 771-7581 BN-LR: Barnes & Noble-Chenal, 11500 Financial Centre Parkway, 954-7648 BN-NLR: Barnes & Noble-North Little Rock, 4000 E. McCain Blvd., 771-1124 ML: Main Library, 100 Rock Street, 918-3000. NB: Nightbird Books, 205 W. Dickson Street, Fayetteville, 479-443-2080. RMBG: River Market Books and Gifts, Cox Creative Center, 120 Commerce St., 918-3093 TBIB: That Bookstore in Blytheville, 316 W. Main St., Blytheville, 870-763-3333 WW: WordsWorth Books & Co., 5920 R St., 663-9198
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The square dance theme derives from a well-known painting by Arkansas artist Louis Freund. Freund’s work was among the first to be exhibited in the museum’s Arkansas Artists Gallery, which Smith started in the 1970s. (She also started the museum store and the library.) The sculpture helps the museum “express that inside these walls history is alive and fun and changing,” Terzia said. She said it is a fitting remembrance of Smith, who was herself full of life … and “she liked a party,” Terzia added. Smith was also a great storyteller. One
of her favorites stories, Worthen said, was about a National Trust meeting in Charleston, S.C., which Smith attended years ago as one of Arkansas’s first advisors to the trust. Smith met one of the advisors, from the North, at a genteel luncheon in which the table’s centerpiece included cotton. “This,” Smith liked to recall the lady from the North saying, “I assume, is grits.” The Territorial Fair starts at 10 a.m. and runs through 4 p.m. It will feature re-enactors, the Arkansas Country Dance Society, a scavenger hunt around the “pARTy for Peg” pedestals, games and living history. n ArtWeek 10 kicks off at 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 13, with food and drink and partying on the Junction Bridge. Twelve restaurants are participating; music will be provided by the Arkansas Symphony, Lealon Worrell and Steve Bates. Wristbands will be issued at the Little Rock and North Little Rock entrances; the $20 entry will include food, wine and beer. More information about the 10-day visual and performing arts festival will be in next week’s Times. n Its grand opening won’t be until June, but Hearne Fine Art and Pyramid Framing is now open to the public at 1001 Wright Ave., across from the Sue Cowan Williams Library. Garbo and Archie Hearne built the
gallery and Dr. Hearne’s adjacent clinic space. The building also contains a Java Roasting coffee shop. On exhibit are works by a number of artists, some with Arkansas ties — including silverpoint artist Marjorie Williams-Smith, sculptor Susan Williams, Ariston Jacks and Pine Bluff-born Kevin Cole of Atlanta — and national names, including Kennith Humphrey and Ernest Withers. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. Hearne also offers a wide selection of books by African-American artists, including children’s books.
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Continued from page 44 Downtown Music and the local metal scene, and another one with Paige Hearn, who owns one of the few American companies manufacturing skate decks today (on Pike Avenue in North Little Rock) and is a font of history about the local skate scene (Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero and the dude who did the stunts in “Back to the Future” skated on his ramp in the ’80s). Thompson counts several big names as contributors. Jason White (Green Day), who co-founded the zine in 1991 with Thompson and Steve Schmidt, and decorated cartoonist Nate Powell lend a hand regularly. Thompson’s also managed to score a number of interviews with nationally regarded bands. In the last two issues alone, he’s chatted with punk god Mike Watt, the East Bay hardcore band Christ on Parade and Phoenix folk-punks Andrew Jackson Jihad. That he places those interviews next to harrowing stories from regular Arkansas folks like Tre Baker, who chronicles his battle with colon cancer in No. 8, and Shane Halverson, who offers short musings on thrash metal, Bone Thugs N Harmony and what it’s like to work n a youth residential psych facility in No. 7 and No. 8, only adds to the zine’s ramshackle charm. Don’t look for the ethos of Fluke to change. Thompson said a friend once told him that something he’d written “made her laugh, then it made her cry, then it made her laugh again.” That’s what he says he’s going for with Fluke. “I want people to feel inspired.” He doesn’t take ads, and while he says he remains fervently DIY, he thinks of the project as one produced by a community of people. Also, don’t look for Fluke to take an evolutionary leap and become a blog. Thompson says he’s appreciates the intimacy of a zine. “It’s something you can put in your back pocket and go and read it in the train bridge. You can pass it to your friends. It’s something you can touch.” Get the latest issue via flukezine.com, maxrecordings.com or lastchancerecords. com.
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Restaurant capsules Every effort is made to keep this listing of some of the state’s more notable restaurants current, but we urge readers to call ahead to check on changes on days of operation, hours and special offerings. What follows, because of space limitations, is a partial listing of restaurants reviewed by our staff. Information herein reflects the opinions of the newspaper staff and its reviewers. The newspaper accepts no advertising or other considerations in exchange for reviews, which are conducted anonymously. We invite the opinions of readers who think we are in error. Restaurants are listed in alphabetical order by city; Little Rock-area restaurants are divided by food category. Other review symbols are: B Breakfast L Lunch D Dinner $ Inexpensive (under $8/person) $$ Moderate ($8-$20/person) $$$ Expensive (over $20/person) CC Accepts credit cards
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ARKANSAS BURGER CO. Really good burgers, fries and shakes, plus salads and other entrees. 7410 Cantrell Road. Beer and wine. CC $$ 663-0600 LD Tue.-Sat. BEEF O’BRADY’S FAMILY SPORTS PUB The signature item is the wings, with a variety of sauces, plus burgers, specialty sandwiches, wraps, salads and fish dishes. 115 Audubon Drive, Maumelle. Full bar. CC $$ 803-3500 LD daily. BIG WHISKEY’S AMERICAN BAR & GRILL A modern grill pub in the River Market with all the bells and whistles — 30 flat screen TVs, boneless wings, whiskey on tap. Plus, the usual burgers, steaks, soups and salads. 225 E. Markham St. $$ CC Full bar 324-2449 LD daily. BOBBY’S COUNTRY COOKIN’ One of the better plate lunch spots in the area, with maybe the best fried chicken and pot roast around, a changing daily casserole and wonderful homemade pies. 301 N. Shackleford Road, Suite E1. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 224-9500 L Mon.-Fri. BOSCOS This River Market microbrewery does food well, too. Along with tried and true things like sandwiches, burgers, steaks and big salads, they have entrees like black bean and goat cheese tamales, open hearth pizza ovens and muffalettas. 500 President Clinton Ave. Full bar. CC $$ 907-1881 LD daily. B-SIDE The little breakfast place in the former party room of Lilly’s DimSum Then Some turns tradition on its ear, offering French toast but wrapped in bacon on a stick, a must-have dish called “biscuit mountain” and beignets with lemon
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■ dining Thai time A new restaurant in Sherwood doesn’t fill a void, but it’s worth a drive. n It’s one of the great mysteries of local food culture. Why can’t Little Rock or North Little Rock attract a real Thai restaurant? Especially considering that Northwest Arkansas boasts nearly 10. We like Bangkok Thai in the River Market, particularly the heavily garnished noodle soup, but it has a limited menu, and it’s only open for lunch. A number of restaurants, mostly pan-Asian, offer some small selection of pad Thai or drunken noodles or green curry, but our experience with pan-Asian places, here and elsewhere, has been that, at their best, they do a variety of dishes competently and nothing really well. Otherwise, for mysterious reasons, Central Arkansas’s only real Thai options are congregated in or near Jacksonville. On Main Street, there’s Thai Taste (to which we’re overdue for a visit) and, on John Harden Drive, AP’s Seafood Buffet, where you have to ask for the Thai menu and almost plead with your server to get anything more exotic than pad Thai. Now you can add Sherwood’s Chang Thai and Asian Cuisine to the list. Situated in a mini-strip mall next to a Subway in Sherwood off Highway 107 not too far north of Kiehl, the small restaurant offers a full Thai menu, but, perhaps prudently, hedges its bets with a mostly standard issue buffet that includes a few Thai items. Skip that and head straight for the menu. Better yet, skip it and head straight for the “Chef’s special” part of the menu and start off with the mieng kham ($4.50). The popular poor man’s snack in Thailand is a pinch of fresh ginger, toasted coconut, roasted cashew, shallot, lime, dried shrimp and several tiny Thai chili slices covered in a tamarind coconut sauce and served atop a Betel nut leaf (similar in appearance to a large mint leaf). In just one of the five bite-sized morsels, we got a taste experience we can’t recall ever experiencing. There’s tartness (the lime), saltiness (the dried shrimp and cashews), a piquant burst of heat (the Thai chilis) and a candy-sweetness (the sauce) that would overwhelm if not for the fresh taste that lingers from the shallot, ginger and Betel nut leaf. It covers such a broad spectrum of flavor that it works well for a palate cleanser, a before, middle and after sort of dish. Chang does other exotic fare that we haven’t yet tried, like pia sam rod ($10.99, deep fried whole fish in a sweet and spicy sauce), stir-fried squid ($8.99) and the pan-fried flat bread and green curry dip roti ($4.50), which our server told us the kitchen was out of both times we tried to
national dish: The egg wrap pad Thai (top). Green curry is at bottom. order it. And, for the less adventurous, all the standards. The egg wrap pad Thai ($8.99), served with chicken and tofu, is a heaping, tasty mound of the national dish of Thailand, served in a sort of omelet bowl that defies our understanding of egg strength. The pad kapraow ($6.99), which comes, as most entrees do, with either beef, chicken, pork or tofu, is a rice noodle dish with appealing notes of black and Thai pepper and garlic. We liked the green curry ($6.99), but could’ve done without a vegetable medley of green peas and crinkle-cut carrots that tasted like they came from the freezer. Otherwise, Chang used fresh ingredients winningly. The beef larb ($6.99), a spicy mixture of minced beef fried with hot chilis and lime dressing served on romaine lettuce, was much improved by fresh scallions, cilantro and mint. And fresh cilantro and makrud lime leaves helped the tom yum gai ($6.99), a lemongrass soup that includes chicken, mushrooms, onions and a goodly dollop of chili paste. Our servers, each visit, were incredibly friendly, if not terribly solicitous, which was occasionally an issue when we were chugging water to combat the spice. We had a few communication breakdowns, notably when we got the green curry instead of the green curry dip, but our hillbilly accent
probably didn’t help matters. Also, the kitchen hovered somewhere between not quick and slow on each visit. Both outings took us a little more than an hour and a half to get from downtown Little Rock and back during lunchtime. We’ll still be grumbling until a full blown Thai spot comes to our ‘hood. Until then, Chang’ll do just fine. We can’t wait to go back and dig deeper into the menu.
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Restaurant capsules Continued from page 47 curd. Top notch cheese grits, too. 11121 Rodney Parham CC $$ Alcohol 554-0914 B Wed-Fri Brunch Sat-Sun. BUFFALO GRILL A great crispy-off-the-griddle cheeseburger and hand-cut fries star at this family-friendly stop. Spacious deck and lots of parking in the back. 1611 Rebsamen Park Road. 1611 Rebsamen Park Road. Full bar. CC $-$$ 296-9535 LD daily. 400 N. Bowman Road. Beer and wine. CC $-$$ 224-0012 LD daily. BURGE’S TURKEYS AND HAMS Famous for its smoked turkey and hams, but also a source for good fried catfish and homemade fried pies. 5620 R St. No alcohol. CC $$ 666-1660 LD Mon.-Sat. CAPERS It’s never been better, with as good a wine list as any in the area, and a menu that covers a lot of ground — seafood, steaks, pasta — and does it all well. 14502 Cantrell Road. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 868-7600 LD Mon.-Sat. CATERING TO YOU Painstakingly prepared entrees and great appetizers in this gourmet-to-go location. 8121 Cantrell Road. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 664-0627 L Mon.-Sat. CHEERS Both locations offer good burgers and sandwiches, vegetarian offerings and salads at lunch, and fish specials and good steaks in the evening. The Heights location is intimate and the wine list is emphasized. The Maumelle location is spacious inside and on the porch. 2010 N. Van Buren, 663-5937; 1901 Club Manor, Maumelle, 851-6200. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ LD Mon.-Sat. COAST CAFE A variety of salads, smoothies, sandwiches and pizzas, and there’s breakfast and coffee, too. 400 President Clinton Ave. (in the River Market). No alcohol. CC $-$$ 371-0164 BL Mon.-Sat. COTHAM’S IN THE CITY A Capitol neighborhood version of the famous Scott country store, with the same specialties — giant hubcap hamburgers, well-fried plate lunches and monumental desserts. 1401 W. 3rd St. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 370-9177 L Mon.-Fri. CRAZEE’S COOL CAFE Good burgers, daily plate specials and bar food amid pool tables and TVs. 7626 Cantrell Road. Full bar. CC $-$$ 221-9696 LD Mon.-Sat. DAVE’S PLACE Downtown’s premier soup-and-sandwich stop at lunch, and a set dinner spot on Friday night to give a little creative outlet to chef supreme David Williams. Beef, chicken and fish are served with Continental flair. 210 Center St. CC $$ 372-3283 L Mon.-Fri., D Fri. DIXIE CAFE Abundant vegetable choices that are inexpensive, wholesome, satisfying and dependable,
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with meats and fresh rolls to match. Multiple locations, including 1301 Rebsamen Park Road. Beer and wine. CC $-$$ 663-9336 LD daily. DOWNTOWN DELI A locally owned eatery, with bigger sandwiches and lower prices than most downtown chain competitors. Also huge, loaded baked potatoes, soups and salads. 323 Center St. No alcohol. CC $ 372-3696 BL Mon.-Fri. FERNEAU Great seafood, among other things, is served at the Ice House Revival in Hillcrest. 2601 Kavanaugh. Full bar. CC $$$ 603-9208 D Tue.-Sat. FLYING SAUCER Beer, with dozens on tap, is the big draw at this popular River Market venue, but the food’s good, too. Sandwiches, including a great Reuben, salads, quesadillas and the bratwurst are dependable. 323 President Clinton Ave. Beer and wine. CC $-$$ 372-7468 LD Mon.-Sat. FORTY TWO The Clinton Presidential Center’s restaurant has Sunday brunch, and it’s a solid choice for weekday lunch as well with innovative sandwiches, soups and salads. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 537-0042. L. $$ CC Full bar. FOX AND HOUND Sports bar with bar munchies to watch games by. 2800 Lakewood Village, NLR. Full bar. CC $-$$ 753-8300 LD daily. FRONTIER GRILL The well-attended all-you-can-eat buffet includes American, Mexican and Chinese food. 2924 University Ave. No alcohol. CC $ 568-7776 LD daily. GRAMPA’S CATFISH HOUSE Delicious fried fish, hush puppies and sides. 100 Shadow Oaks, NLR, 834-5400; 9219 Stagecoach Road, 407-0000. Beer. CC $-$$ LD daily. HEAVENLY HAM Fine hams, turkeys and other specialty meats served whole, by the pound or in sandwiches. 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 225-2136 LD Mon.-Sat (until 6 p.m.). HONEYBAKED HAM CO. The trademark ham is available by the sandwich, as is great smoked turkey. There are also lots of inexpensive side items and desserts. 9112 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 227-5555 LD Mon.-Sat. THE HOUSE Delicious, gourmet burgers and sandwiches at the former location of Sufficient Grounds in Hillcrest. Cheap beer and good coffee, too, in a quiet, relaxed setting. 722 N. Palm. Beer and wine. CC $-$$ 663-4500 LD daily. JUST LIKE MOM’S Daily specials include mom’s goulash, lemon pepper chicken over rice and garlic roast beef, with generous sides of pinto beans, cornbread, potatoes. 3140 E. Kiehl Ave., NLR. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 833-0402 BLD Mon.-Fri. B Sat. KIERRE’S KOUNTRY KITCHEN Excellent home-cooking joint for huge helpings of meat loaf and chicken-fried steak, cooked-down vegetables and wonderful homemade pies
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and cakes. 6 Collins Industrial Place, NLR. No alcohol. CC $ 758-0903 BLD Tue.-Fri. BL Sat. KRAZY MIKE’S SHRIMP AND WINGS Home-style cookin’ and fried fare in Bowman Curve shopping center. 907-6453, 200 N. Bowman, Suite 9. Beer and wine CC $$ LD daily. LUBY’S CAFETERIA Generous portions of home-style food and a wider variety of meats and vegetables than most cafeterias. 12501 W. Markham St., 219-1567. No alcohol. CC $-$$ LD daily. MARKHAM STREET GRILL AND PUB The menu has something for everyone. Try the burgers, which are juicy, big and fine. 11321 W. Markham St. Full bar. CC $$ 224-2010 LD Mon.-Sat. OLD MILL BREAD AND FLOUR CO. CAFE The popular take-out bakery has an eat-in restaurant and friendly operators. It’s self-service, simple and good — 11 types of sandwiches built with a changing lineup of the bakery’s 40 different breads, along with soups, salads and cookies. Rock Creek Square, Markham and Bowman. CC $ 228-4677 BL Mon.-Sat. OYSTER BAR Gumbo, red beans and rice (all you can eat on Mondays), peel-and-eat shrimp, oysters on the half shell. Decent po’ boys. 3003 W. Markham St. Beer and wine. CC $-$$ 666-7100 LD Mon.-Sat. RESTAURANT 1620 Steaks, chops, a broad choice of fresh seafood and meal-sized salads are just a few of the choices on a broad menu at this popular and upscale West Little Rock bistro. It’s a romantic, candlelit room, elegant without being fussy or overly formal. 1620 Market St. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 221-1620 D daily. SADDLE CREEK WOODFIRED GRILL Upscale chain dining in Lakewood, with a menu full of appetizers, burgers, chicken, fish and other fare. It’s the smoke-kissed steaks, however, that make it a winner — even in Little Rock’s beefheavy restaurant market. 2703 Lakewood Village, NLR. Full bar and wine list. CC $$ 812-0883 D Mon.-Sun., L Sun. SCALLION’S Reliably good food, great desserts, pleasant atmosphere, able servers — a solid lunch and dinner spot. 5110 Kavanaugh. Full bar. CC $-$$ 666-6468 L Mon.-Sat. D Wed.-Sat. SO RESTAURANT BAR Call it a French brasserie with a sleek, but not fussy American finish — stone walls, handsome furniture and apron-clad waiters anxious to please. Good ingredients are prepared simply — everything from salads and sandwiches to steaks. The wine selection is broad and choice. It just simply feels good to eat here. And tastes good, too. 3610 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 663-1464 LD Mon.-Fri., BLD Sat.-Sun. THE SPEAKEASY The supper club serves a multinational menu of pot roast, scampi, Greek salads, cheese
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sandwiches and more and diners are entertained by jazz on Thursday nights and floor shows on the weekends. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat., B Sun. 374-2008. SPORTS PAGE Perhaps the largest, juiciest, most flavorful burger in town. Grilled turkey and hot cheese on sourdough gets praise, too. Now with lunch specials. 414 Louisiana St. Beer and wine. CC $ 372-9316. BL Mon.-Fri., open Fri. nights for music and night food service. STICKY FINGERZ ROCK ’N’ ROLL CHICKEN SHACK Fingers any way you can imagine, plus sandwiches and burgers, and a fun setting for music and happy hour gatherings. 107 Commerce St. Full bar. CC $-$$ 372-7707 LD Mon.-Sat. STOUT’S DINER Don’t let the gas station façade fool you. The dinners are ample, the hand-patted burgers could be the best in Pulaski County, and the pies are made-to-order from scratch when you tell them what you want. They do a mean breakfast, too. 26606 Highway 107 Jacksonville 983-0163 CC. No alcohol. $-$$ BL daily, D Mon-Sat. THE HOP DINER The downtown incarnation of the old dairy bar, with excellent burgers, onion rings, shakes and breakfast. Plus, daily specials, homemade pie and quiche. 201 E. Markham No alcohol. $-$$ 244-0975 BLD Mon.-Fri., LD Sat. (close at 6 p.m.). TOWN PUMP Great burgers, good chili dogs, a monstersized platter of chili cheese fries. And cold beer, of course. 1321 Rebsamen Park Road Beer and wine (liquor license pending) CC $ 663-9802 LD daily. VICTORIAN GARDEN We’ve found the fare quite tasty and somewhat daring and different with its healthy, balanced entrees and crepes. 4801 North Hills Blvd., NLR. Wine and beer. CC $$-$$$ 758-4299 L Tue.-Sat. WEST END SMOKEHOUSE AND TAVERN Its primary focus is a sports bar with 50-plus TVs, but the dinner entrees (grilled chicken, steaks and such) are plentiful and the bar food is upper quality. 215 N. Shackleford. Full bar. CC $ 224-7665 LD Mon.-Sat. YOUR MAMA’S GOOD FOOD Now in more spacious quarters, but still offering simple and satisfying cafeteria food, with burgers and more hot off the grill. Tower Building, Fourth and Center. No alcohol. CC $ 372-1811 BL Mon.-Fri. ZACK’S PLACE Expertly prepared home cooking and huge, smoky burgers. 1400 S. University Ave. Full bar. CC $$ 664-6444 LD Mon.-Sat.
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Rodney Parham Road. Beer. CC $$ 223-0888 LD daily. CHINESE PAVILION HUNAN RESTAURANT A longtime favorite in Chinese restaurant polls, it’s one of the earliest Asian eateries on the north shore. 8000 Hwy. 107, Sherwood. Beer and wine. CC $$ 835-8723 LD Tue.-Sun. FU LIN Quality in the made-to-order entrees is high, as is the quantity. 200 N. Bowman Road. Full bar. CC $$ 225-8989 LD daily. GINA’S CHINESE KITCHEN AND SUSHI BAR A broad and strong sushi menu with a manageable and delectable selection of Chinese standards. 14524 Cantrell Road. Wine and beer. $-$$ CC 868-7775 LD daily. HANAROO SUSHI BAR Under its second owner, it’s one of the few spots in downtown Little Rock to serve sushi. With an expansive menu, featuring largely Japanese fare with a bit of Korean mixed in. 205 W. Capitol Ave. Beer and wine. CC $$ 301-7900. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat. LILLY’S DIM SUM THEN SOME Delectable Asian comfort food — fried or steamed dumplings and more in a variety of presentations. Thai ginger noodles, Thai panang and pad Thai are just a few of the highlights. 11121 Rodney Parham Road. Beer and wine. CC $$ 716-2700 LD daily. MT. FUJI JAPANESE RESTAURANT The dean of Little Rock sushi bars with a fabulous lunch special. 10301 Rodney Parham Road. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 227-6498 LD daily. ROYAL BUFFET A big buffet of Chinese fare, with other Asian tastes as well. 109 E. Pershing Blvd., NLR. Beer and wine. CC $ 753-8885 LD daily. SAIGON CUISINE Traditional Vietnamese with Thai and Chinese selections. Be sure to try the authentic pho soups and spring rolls. 6805 Cantrell Road. Beer and wine. CC $$ 663-4000 L Tue.-Fri, D Tue.-Sun. VAN LANG CUISINE Terrific Vietnamese cuisine, the best in town, particularly in its presentation of the pork dishes and the assortment of rolls. Great prices, too. Massive menu, but it’s user-friendly for locals, with full English descriptions and numbers for easy ordering. 3600 S. University Ave. Beer and wine. CC $-$$ 570-7700 LD daily.
BARBECUE BARE BONES PIT BAR-B-Q A carefully controlled gas oven, with wood chips added for flavor, guarantees moist and sweet pork — both pulled from the shoulder and back ribs. The side orders, particularly the baked potato salad, are excellent. 5501 Ranch Drive, Suite 4. Beer and wine. CC $-$$ 868-7427 LD daily. BIRD DOG BARBECUE Situated way out Batesville Pike in Sherwood, Bird Dog Barbecue offers a homey atmosphere, diner-style grub and some of the best sauce around — not to mention a menu stocked with homemade burgers, appetizers, sandwiches and ‘cue. Go for the barbecue, stay for the small-community people watching. 17416 Batesville Pike, Sherwood. Full bar. CC $$ 833-3133 LD Tue.-Sat. FAMOUS DAVE’S A chain that runs gamut of ’cue and its relatives: chopped pork, beef brisket, barbeque chicken, rib tips, chicken tenders, hot link sausage, catfish fillets and hot wings. With an array of sauces purported to represent barbecue regions around the country. 225 N. Shackleford Road. Full bar. CC $$ 221-3283 LD daily. FATBOY’S KILLER BAR-B-Q This Landmark community strip-center restaurant in the far southern reaches of Pulaski County features tender ribs and pork by a contest pitmaster. Skip the regular sauce and risk the hot variety; it’s far better. 3405 Atwood Road. No alcohol. CC $ 888-4998; 10208 I-30 568-3252 LD Tue.-Sun. H.B.’S BAR B.Q. A very good barbecue place tucked away in a residential neighborhood in Southwest Little Rock. Ribs are available only one day a week (Tuesday) but you’ll like the sandwiches better anyway. Don’t forget the flaky-crusted fried pies. But it’s OK to forget your credit cards – cash is all they take. 6010 Lancaster 565-1930 No CC $-$$. No alcohol LD (until 6 p.m.) Mon.-Fri. PIG AND CHIK Well-smoked meat with a thick, sweet sauce, plus nachos, huge burgers, country vegetables and lots of other stuff. 7824 Highway 107, NLR. Beer and wine. CC $$ 834-5456 LD Mon.-Sat. SIMS BAR-B-QUE Great spare ribs, sandwiches, beef, half and whole chicken and an addictive vinegar-mustardbrown sugar sauce unique for this part of the country. Multiple locations: 2415 Broadway, 372-6868; 1307 John Barrow Road, 224-2057; 7601 Geyer Springs, 562-8844. Beer. CC $-$$ LD Mon.-Sat. WHOLE HOG CAFE The pulled pork shoulder is a classic, the back ribs are worthy of their many blue ribbons, and there’s a six-pack of sauces for all tastes. A real find is the beef brisket, cooked the way Texans like it. 2516 Cantrell Road, 664-5025. 5107 Warden Road, NLR, 753-9227. Beer and wine. CC LD Mon.-Sat.
EUROPEAN / ETHNIC ALIBABA’S MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE This eatery and grocery store offers kebabs and salads along with just about any sort of Middle Eastern fare you might want, along with what might be the best kefte kebab in Central Arkansas. Halal butcher on duty. 3400 South University. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 379-8011 LD daily. CIAO BACI The focus is on fine dining in this casually elegant Hillcrest bungalow, though tapas also are available. Many come for the comfortable lounge that serves specialty drinks until 2 a.m. nightly. 605 N. Beechwood St. Full bar. CC $$$ 603-0238 D Mon.-Sat. MIDDLE EASTERN CUISINE Gyros, falafel and souvlaki plates, as well as hummus, tabbouleh, eggplant dip and other dishes — wonderful food at wonderful prices. Halal
dishes available, too. The River Market’s Ottenheimer Hall, 400 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 372-1662 L Mon.-Sat. UNDERGROUND PUB Hearty, tasty British pub-style fare, including exceptional custom-made sausages, crunchy fish and chips, and a decent Reuben. Inviting bar with an impressive draft beer and single-malt whiskey selection. 500 President Clinton Ave. Full bar. CC $-$$ 707-2537 LD Mon.-Sat. YA YA’S EUROBISTRO The first eatery to open in the new Promenade at Chenal is a date-night affair, retranslating comfort food into beautiful cuisine. Best bet is lunch, where you can explore the menu through soup, salad or half a sandwich. 17711 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, CC, $$-$$$ 821-1144 LD daily.
ITALIAN BRUNO’S LITTLE ITALY This more-than-half-centuryold establishment balances continuity and innovation with delicious traditional and original fare. The pizza remains outstanding. Service is impeccable. 315 N. Bowman Road. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 224-4700 D Mon.-Sat. CARINO’S COUNTRY ITALIAN A homey chain joint offering irresistible Italian bread and affordable, tasty, substantial lunches and dinners. 11600 Pleasant Ridge Road, 225-3434; 4221 Warden Road, NLR, 758-8226. Full bar. CC $$ LD daily. D’CARLO PIZZERIA RISTORANTE Solid Italian standards and a few daring originals are served in a pleasant atmosphere by even more pleasant people. 12325 Stagecoach Road. Beer and wine. CC $$ 407-0400 LD Mon.-Sat. IRIANA’S Unbelievably generous thick-crust pizza with unmatched zest. Good salads, too; grinders are great, particularly the Italian sausage. 201 E. Markham St., first level. Beer and wine. CC $-$$ 374-3656 LD Mon.-Sat. PIERRE’S GOURMET PIZZA Holds its own with the good independent pizza joints in the area, and most feature meat, meat and more meat. Salads, calzones and subs, too. 4905 JFK Blvd., NLR. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 907-1929 LD Mon.-Sat. PIZZA CAFE Thin, crunchy pizza with just a dab of tomato sauce but plenty of chunks of stuff, topped with gooey cheese. Draft beer is appealing on the open-air deck — frosty and generous. 1517 Rebsamen Park Road. Beer and wine. CC $$ 664-6133 LD daily. PLAYTIME PIZZA Tons of fun isn’t rained out by lackluster eats at the new $11 million, 65,000 square foot kidtopia that recently opened near the Rave movie complex. While the buffet is only so-so, features like indoor mini-golf, laser tag, go karts, arcade games and bumper cars make it a winner for both kids and adults. 600 Colonel Glenn Plaza Loop. No alcohol. CC $$ 227-7529 D Mon.-Tue. LD Wed.-Sun. U.S. PIZZA Crispy thin-crust pizzas, frosty beers and heaping salads drowned in creamy dressing. Multiple locations: 4001 McCain Park, NLR, 753-2900; 3324 Pike Ave., NLR, 758-5997; 650 Edgewood Drive, Maumelle, 851-0880; 8403 Highway 107, Sherwood, 835-5673; 9300 N. Rodney Parham, 224-6300; 2710 Kavanaugh, 663-2198, and 5524 Kavanaugh. Beer and wine. CC $-$$ 664-7071 LD daily. VINO’S Great rock ’n’ roll club also is a fantastic pizzeria with huge calzones and always improving home-brewed beers. 923 W. Seventh St. Beer and wine. CC $-$$ 375-8466 LD daily.
MEXICAN BROWNING’S They’re still serving up old-style Tex-Mex and nostalgia at one of Little Rock’s oldest restaurants. Consistency counts for something. If the Mexican isn’t to your taste, they have American dishes too, including steaks. Catering specialties from the old Cordell’s deli can be ordered here. 5805 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar CC $-$$ 663-9956 BLD Mon.-Sat. CACTUS JACK’S This inoffensive Mexican-esque effort on McCain has everything you’ve come to expect from the average Mexican restaurant. Ample portions, if not ample seasoning. However, it’s easy on the pocketbook. 4120 E. McCain Blvd. No. 116, NLR $-$$ 945-5888 Full bar CC LD daily. COZYMEL’S A trendy Dallas-chain cantina with flaming cheese dip, cilantro pesto, mole, lamb and more. 10 Shackleford Drive. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 954-7100 LD daily. EL CHICO Hearty, standard Mex served in huge portions. 8409 Interstate 30, 562-3762, and 1315 Breckenridge Drive, 224-2550. Full bar. CC $$ 224-2550 LD daily. LA HACIENDA Creative, fresh-tasting entrees and traditional favorites, all served in a festive atmosphere. Our picks: The taco salad, nachos and maybe the best fajitas around. $2.50 Margaritas on Wednesday and Thursday. Multiple locations throughout Central Arkansas. 3024 Cantrell Road, 661-0600. Full bar. CC $-$$ LD daily. LA PALAPA Seafood is the focus at this Mexican restaurant, but the overly huge menu contains includes landbased items such as a great chile verde. Pan-fried fish topped with cheese and tomato-based sauce is a nightly special. 18321 Hwy. 10. Full bar. CC $$ 868-8822 BLD daily. LAS PALMAS “Authentic” Mexican chain with a massive menu of choices. Otter Creek Shopping Center, 455-8500, and 4154 McCain Blvd., NLR, 945-8010. Full bar. CC $-$$ LD daily. MI RANCHITO This growing Arkansas-owned chain offers great variety and super-sized meals of solid Tex-Mex, with the typical white cheese dip, only spicier, and more flavor
to the regular entree fare. 1520 Market St., 223-5414, full bar; 2110 N. Reynolds Road, 653-0032, no alcohol. CC $-$$ Both LD daily. ON THE BORDER Great Tex-Mex food, with guacamole made to order and a menu that offers some specialty chicken, shrimp and fish dishes. The salsa is so good they sell it separately. The Mercedes margarita is the best we ever had; most expensive, too. 11721 Chenal Parkway. Full bar. CC $$ 217-9275 LD daily. RIVIERA MAYA For a restaurant that touts the slogan, “Discover Real Mexican Food,” it delivers much of the same as other similarly priced restaurants. Portions on the large side, though. 801 Fair Park. Full bar CC $-$$ 663-4800 LD daily. SUPER 7 This Mexican grocery/video store/taqueria has great a daily buffet featuring a changing assortment of real Mexican cooking: Fresh tortillas pressed by hand and grilled, homemade salsas, beans as good as beans get. Plus soup every day. 1415 Barrow Road. CC $-$$ 219-2373 LD daily. TAQUERIA KARINA CAFE A real Mexican neighborhood cantina with everything from freshly baked pan dulce, to Mexican-bottled Cokes, to first-rate guacamole, to inexpensive tacos, burritos, quesadillas and a broad selection of Mexican-style seafood. 5309 W. 65th St. Beer. $ CC 562-3951 LD Thu.-Tue. TAQUERIA SAMANTHA Arguably the best among the area’s burgeoning taco truck crowd. Tacos, burritos and other authentic fare. Unbelievably cheap. Usually parked just north of the Geyer Springs and I-30 intersection Cash only $ LD daily.
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HOLLY’S COUNTRY KITCHEN Readers have highly recommended Holly’s in the home-cooking category, and $5.25 gets you a plate full of home-style food akin to Little Rock’s famed Homer’s and Kitchen Express. 120 Harkrider St., 328-9738. No alcohol. CC $-$$ L Mon.-Fri. MIKE’S PLACE Delicious New Orleans-inspired steaks and seafood, plus wood-fired pizzas, served in a soaring, beautifully restored building in downtown Conway. Membership required. 808 Front St. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 501-269-6453 LD daily. STROMBOLI’S Italian classics at this mom and pop, where as the name suggests, strombolis are a specialty. Save room for a cannoli or a cup of gelato, too. 2665 N. Donaghey Ave. No. 101. No alcohol. CC $$ 501-327-3701 LD daily. TOKYO JAPANESE RESTAURANT Besides the hibachi offerings, Tokyo also has tempura, teriyaki and a great seaweed salad. Their combination platters are a great value; besides an entree, also comes with soup, salad, harumaki (spring rolls) and vegetable tempura. No sushi, though. 716 Oak St. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 501-327-6868 LD daily.
EUREKA SPRINGS BUBBA’S Ribs are the perfect blend of crunchy, meaty and moist inside, but the pork shoulder even outshines them. Menu now includes vegetarian items. 60 Kingshighway. Beer. No CC $-$$ 253-7706 LD Mon.-Sat. DE VITO’S Crisp salads, excellent entrees, good bread and casual, friendly service. Order the magnificent smoked trout. 5 Center St. Full bar. CC $$ 479-253-6807 D Mon.-Tue., Thu.-Sun. Closed Wed. HORIZON A former New York-style deli, it now offers Italian continental cuisine, with fresh fish on weekends. The sunset view is fabulous. Mundell Road on Beaver Lake. Beer and wine. CC $$-$$$ 479-253-5525 D Mon.-Sat. SPARKY’S ROADHOUSE CAFE Burgers are the specialty, but there are plenty of creative dishes, deli sandwiches and beer choices. 41 Van Buren (Highway 62). Full bar. CC $$ 479-253-6001 LD Mon.-Sat.
FAYETTEVILLE AREA AQ CHICKEN Great chicken — pan-fried, grilled and rotisserie — at great prices. N. College St. Beer and wine. CC $-$$ 479-443-7555 LD daily. ARSAGA’S ESPRESSO CAFE A top-notch little coffeehouse with plenty of pleasing brews and a variety of baked goods. 2418 N. Gregg Ave, 479-444-6557. 401 West Mountain, 479-521-1993. 1852 Crossover, 479-5270690. 3215 N. North Hills Blvd., 479-443-5721. Law library, 479-527-0015.No alcohol. No CC $ BLD Mon.-Sat. ) COMMON GROUNDS Billing itself as a gourmet espresso bar, this Dickson Street storefront cafe also serves up some tasty dishes all day, plus a new menu of salads, sandwiches and pizzas. 412 W. Dickson St. Full bar. CC $$ 479-4423515 BLD daily. HERMAN’S RIBHOUSE Filets, not ribs, are the big seller at this classic, friendly, dumpy spot. The barbecue chicken is another winner. 2901 N. College Ave. Beer and wine. No CC $$-$$$ 479-442-9671 LD Tue.-Sat. HUGO’S You’ll find a menu full of meals and munchables, some better than others at this basement European-style bistro. The Bleu Moon Burger is a popular choice. Hugo’s is always worth a visit, even if just for a drink. 25 1/2 N. Block St. Beer and wine. CC $-$$ 479-521-7585 LD Mon.-Sat. PENGUIN ED’S BAR-B-Q Prices are magnificent and portions are generous at this barbecue spot with an interesting menu, a killer sausage sandwich, burgers, omelets and wonderful lemonade. 2773 Mission Blvd. No alcohol. No CC $-$$ 479-587-8646 BLD daily.
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CHINESE FANTASTIC CHINA 1900 N Grant St Heights 501-663-8999
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MEXICAN CASA MANANA TAQUERIA
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Voted Best Mexican 2007. Featuring authentic fare from the Puebla region of Mexico, the selections seem endless at your choice of 3 locations in the Little Rock area. You will find an array of dishes ranging from the salient Shrimp Veracruzana at La Palapa out west to great Guacamole in the River Market Taqueria. Or try tasty Tostadas that share the name of the original Cantrell location, Casa Manana.
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Look no furtherâ&#x20AC;Śvoted Best Asian again by the Arkansas Times readers. Lillyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s serves up extraordinary dishes made from the freshest, premium local and organic ingredients. Also enjoy warm and inviting ambiance as you dine on any one of the tasty house specialties. Sundays are wine day: all wine by the bottle, half off. One of central Arkansasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest Chinese buffets, we offer all your favorites with our sushi bar and Mongolian Grill included for one low price. Our dinner and all-day Sunday buffet include your lunch favorites as well as all-you-can eat crab legs, whole steamed fish, barbecue spare ribs, crispy jumbo shrimp and grilled steaks. Take-out buffet and menu available.
STEAK SONNY WILLIAMS
If you have not been to Sonny Williams lately, get there immediately and check out the martini/wine bar. Now you can enjoy 35 wines by the glass, 335 selections of wine, 6 single barrel bourbons and all different kinds of Scotch from the many regions of Scotland. Of course, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss out on the nightly entertainment by Jeff at the piano. Sonnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is a River Market mainstay and perfect for intimate private parties; free valet parking! As always, Sonny Williams has the best steaks in town along with fresh seafood and game. No Skinny Steaksâ&#x20AC;Ś Call ahead for reservations (501) 324-2999
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Featuring the Best Steaks in town with a New Orleans flair from a New Orleans native. Also featuring Seafood and Creole Specialties. As Rachel Ray says â&#x20AC;&#x153;This place is one of my best finds ever.â&#x20AC;? Back by popular demandâ&#x20AC;ŚSoft Shell Crab and New Orleans Roast Beef Po-Boys.
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Authentic North Indian Cuisine at its very best! Vegetable and Non-vegetable Buffet daily with Special. Saturday and Sunday Brunch. Mention this ad for a complimentary Indian Mango Drink.
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Beer, pizza and more! Drop in to Vinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Little Rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Original Brewpub! and enjoy great New York-style pizza (whole or by-the-slice) washed down with your choice of award-winning ales or lagers brewed right on site. Or try a huge calzone, our new Muffaletta sandwich or just a salad and a slice with our homemade root beer. The deckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always open, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to dress up and the kids are always welcome (or not). Vinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is open 7 days, lunch and dinner. You can call ahead for carry-out and even take a gal. growler of beer to-go. And guess what?? The bathrooms have just been re-done!
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You’ll get more for your money when you buy this home at 205 N. Woodrow St. Sitting on a one-third acre lot, this majestic craftsman has over 4,600 square feet spread over four levels. With four or five bedrooms and four-and one-half bathrooms, there’s room for everyone. At the front of the home is a spacious 350-square-foot covered porch that’s perfect for enjoying the evening sunsets from the swing or a friendly wave from the neighbors passing by. Once inside you’ll immediately notice the openness of the floor plan. The foyer, living room and dining room all flow together nicely, making for great entertaining space. A private study is located off the front living room. Also located on the main level is a small den and half bathroom. The kitchen features lots of cabinet space, including lighted display cabinets, tile counters and backsplash, Viking disposal, Bosch dishwasher and an antique Chambers oven. The 14’ x 12’ breakfast room is open to the kitchen and has
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two sets of double French doors that let in lots of natural light. The second floor has four large bedrooms and three bathrooms including a 625-square-foot master suite with its own fireplace. Also on this level is a 9x16 utility/craft room. Stairs from this level lead to the finished attic space, which has another 500+ square feet great for many uses (kid’s playroom, office, billiard room, guest room). The lower level has another 952 square feet and its own full bath. Accessible from the main level, it also has a separate exterior entrance making it great for a college student or as in-law quarters. Currently, it is being used as a media and game room with built-in Bose surround sound. The home has been pre-inspected by Tom Allen of Homebuyer’s Protection. With a convenient location in a beautiful, historic neighborhood, this home is a great space buy at $550,000. Visit the open house on Sunday, May 16, from 2-4 p.m. or call John Selva of Pulaski Heights Realty at 993-5442 or e-mail him at john@pulaskiheightsrealty.com to schedule your personal tour.
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LAFAYETTE SQUARE - One & two BR condos which feature open floor plans of 1,026 to 1,667 SF and are competively priced for lease and for sale. Urban upscale living has never been so accessible and affordable. Each unit has large kitchens complete with marble counters, classic hardwood cabinetry & stainless steel appliances. Washers & dryers are included in every condo. Building amenities include reserved gated parking, an exercise room & sauna, storage units and meeting/event space. Pricing starts at $145,900. Call Melissa Bond of the Charlotte John Company for sales inquires at 960-0665.
16 RESERVOIR HEIGHTS CONDO $129,900. 2BR/2BA, 1384 SF. Great open floorplan and stress free living. Condo fees includes pool access. Qualifies for $8K tax credit. Seller to pay $2500 towards closing costs and 6 months condo dues w/acceptable offer. Call John, Pulaski Heights Realty, for showing at 993-5442.
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KENWOOD ROAD - $155,500. 3BR/1BA, 1400 SF M/L. Updated kitchen & bath. Hardwoods, new roof. Tons of closet & storage space. Sep laundry. Great yard, deck, hot tub, storage bldg. Walk to school, pool, park. Minutes to UAMS. Call Tracy @ 501-680-3469
Land LOTS FOR SALE - Greenbrier. 1/3-1/2 acres starting at $23K. Trees, all utilities. Just 8 miles from Conway. 501-472-5807
Downtown 300 THIRD CONDO - Competitively priced 2BR/2BA condo with French balcony, black-out shades, limestone counters and stainless appliances. Enjoy spectacular views of the sunset. Call Eric or Cara Wilkerson of the Charlotte John Company for a private tour at 501-804-2633.
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Arkansas times presents PULASKI COUNTY Real Estate sales over $105,000 Woodbend Apartments Limited Partnership to Woodbend II LP, SW 28-3N-13W, $4,077,000. River Market Tower LLC to Leeann Harpool, Robert D. Harpool, L1701, River Market Tower HPR, $1,080,000. Formicola Family Revocable Living Trust, Thomas E. Formicola, Cynthia R. Formicola to David D. Liu, Helen Deng, 68 Chenal Cir., $941,000. Denise Rochelle Greenwood M. D. Revocab, Denice R. Greenwood to Clayton D. Borg, Laura Borg, 3724 Hill Rd., $890,000. Patrica Lopez, Louise Lopez to Teresa D. Jimenez, Ls2-3 & 14, Mann Terrace, $478,000. Gilbert D. Johnson, Marybeth W. Johnson to Merilou S. Love, L80, Robinwood, $412,000. Tracie Pugh to Roy K. Trawick, Donna M. Trawick, 111 Grenoble Cir., Maumelle, $394,000. Commissioner In Circuit to Centennial Bank, Ls1-3 & 12-14 B7, Riverside, $341,000. Carl Boshears, Opal Boshears to Ellen B. Teeter, 48 Commentry Dr., $319,000. Vicki Wilson, Fred Wilson to Anil R. Pawar, Snehalata A. Pawar, 2706 Valley Park Dr., $318,000. Woodhaven Homes, Inc. to Chad E. Branson, Andrea M. Branson, 131 Cabanel Dr., Maumelle, $303,000. Lynn Dickey Construction, Inc. to Richard C. Leger, Ashley T. Leger, 138 Beaver Creek Ln., Maumelle, $302,000. Amy N. Julian, Travis W. Julian to Tanchuc X. Bui, 3 Bristol Ct., $288,000. Mickey S. Moon, Natalie M. Moon to N. P. Dodge, Jr., National Equity, Inc., 122 Mountain Valley Dr., Maumelle, $284,000. Mickey S. Moon, Natalie M. Moon to N. P. Dodge, Jr., National Equity Inc., 122 Mountain Valley Dr., Maumelle, $284,000. Gerry L. Smedley, Debora K.
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Smedley to Justin Hall, 43 Bristol Ct., $282,000. Sixth Hole Condos At Chenal LLC to Cynthos Properties LLC, 6 Chenal Woods Dr., $280,000. Daniel L. Dickerson, Jean C. Dickerson to Bank Of New York Mellon, 39 El Dorado Dr., $272,000. Julie Loveless, Julie Wheat, Michael W. Loveless to Daniel M. Oberste, Rachael B. Oberste, 1015 N. Monroe St., $271,000. Jesus M. Huerta, Jr., Cecilia M. Huerta to William L. Jones, L2 B4, Glenn Hills, $265,000. Jeremy Tatum to Michael R. McKenna, 7032 Gap Ridge Dr., Sherwood, $263,000. N. P. Dodge, Jr., National Equity, Inc. to Jeffrey A. Hearne, Wendy Chauluka, 122 Mountain Valley Dr., Maumelle, $262,000. Benjamin T. Eiler, Kristen M. Eiler to Mary Deloach, 14502 Black Bear, $261,000. Commissioner In Circuit to National Bank Of Arkansas, L10, Quail Creek Estates Unrecorded, $250,000. Trudy A. Moore to Joseph L. Hurdle, II, 104 Sancerre Dr., Maumelle, $240,000. Travis W. Porter, Linda M. Porter to Anna T. Ostrom, Brad J. Ostrom, 10702 Brazos Valley Ln., $238,000. Hoang Nguyen, Tien Q. Tran to Norman P. Wilson, 9408 W. Lake Cir., Sherwood, $235,000. Bernard E. Kaiser, II, Teri Kaiser to Martha M. Turner Revocable Trust, Martha M. Turner, SW SW 5-2N-14W, $230,000. Samuel M. Meredith, Latoya T. Meredith to BAC Home Loans Servicing LP, L21, Otter Creek Phase 11, $229,429. Graham Smith Construction LLC to Elizabeth Ann Allen, 14905 Pride Valley Rd., $227,000. J. A. Vines, James A. Vines, Brooke L. Vines to Darin Boen, Lisa Gorog, 9 Alpine Ct., $218,000. Jill E. Judy, Mark H. Brown to John
D. Rather, Rebecca H. Rather, 1919 S. Gaines St., $208,000. Denise R. Thrower, Glen S. Thrower to Casey L. Barnett, Brian S. Barnett, 6 Coventry Ln., $198,000. Pfeifer Family Limited Partnership No.1 to Treviso LLC, L10 B8, N o r t h s h o r e B u s i n e s s Pa r k , $197,000. D. A. Phillips Homes LLC to Christopher J. Lang, Emmalee W. Lang, 3332 Brundle Ct., Sherwood, $196,000. Kui Teng, Zhuoqing Yeng to Chad A. Tappe, Andrea K. Tappe, 7 Cherryside Ct., $196,000. Commissioner In Circuit to One Bank & Trust, LA B1, Fulk Replat, W/2 NE 19-3N-11W, $195,000. Gregory L. Cypret, Cheryl M. Cypret to N. P. Dodge, Jr., National Equity, Inc., 5 Briarstone Dr., Sherwood, $195,000. N. P. Dodge, Jr., National Equity, Inc. to Gregory M. Williams, 5 Briarstone Dr., Sherwood, $195,000. Gregory L. Cypret, Cheryl M. Cypret to N. P. Dodge, Jr., National Equity Inc., 5 Briarstone Dr., Sherwood, $195,000. Nancy L. Dudley to Matthew Myklebust, Melanie Myklebust, 206 Summit Valley Cir., Maumelle, $194,000. Rausch Coleman Mid Ark LLC to Billy J. Waddles, II, 11000 Cypress Xing, NLR, $192,000. Joshua C. Barg, Ina C. Barg to Bren M. May, 50 Park Ridge Dr., Maumelle, $192,000. Tim Wilson Custom Homes Inc. to Ben Woods, Victoria Woods, 2200 Miramonte, Sherwood, $192,000. Elizabeth Anderson, James Anderson to Miki L. Crotts, L6 B2, Stone Hill Phase I, $190,000. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company to Roshini Eva Carter, Evangeline Samuel, 1300 Lansing St., $185,000. James Built Homes, Inc. to Warren M. Douglas Revocable Trust, Warren
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M. Douglas, 4408 Montgomery Rd., $183,000. Rausch Coleman Mid Ark LLC to Reginald Williams, Shundra Williams, 1308 Myrna Ln., NLR, $180,000. Margaret Anderson, David Anderson to Judy R. Surrett, 13200 Arch St., $180,000. Kevin L. Skinner, Hilary A. Skinner to Justin A. Powell, Claire M. Powell, 9 Stonebrook Ct., $180,000. Suzanne G. O’Donoghue Revocable Trust, Suzanne G. O’Donoghue to Patrice O’Donoghue Revocable Trust, Patrice O’Donoghue, 6508 South Rd., $179,000. Kristin M. Cummings to Bonnie J. Sellers, 181 Diamond Dr., Maumelle, $175,000. Phillip Ray, Tracy Ray to Wilbert Brown, Sandra Brown, 11 Woodridge Dr., $173,000. Randall Dewese to BAC Home Loans Servicing LP, L12, Westwind, $170,972. Gina M. Robinson, Larry D. Robinson to Craig S. Jones, 809 W. 22Nd St., $170,000. Circular Properties LLC to Garrett Childers, Ashley Childers, L6, Chenal Downs, $170,000. Myra K. Britton to Heather D. Smith, Sarah Ort, Frederick Ort, Linda Ort, L5 B3, Altheimer, $167,000. Junru Wang, Jiang Liu to Tiffany J. Lepard, Myron J. Tassin, 12440 Southridge Dr., $165,000. Marcos A. Quijano to HSBC Bank USA, L4, Camelot Estates, S/2 SW 4-3N-10W, $163,225. Bren M. May to Jonathan Pagan, Jennifer Pagan, 11701 Shady Creek Dr., $163,000. CitiMortgage, Inc. to Jett Ricks Construction LLC, 3425 Imperial Valley Dr., $161,000. Phyllis C. Zettle, Deanne L. Paiva, Paul Paiva to Charles W. Ratcliff, Betty J. Ratcliff, 20 Kingsbridge Way, $155,000. Kathleen Wilstrom, Kathleen Hiserodt, Kathleen Wikstrom, Carl
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4916 HILLCREST AVE - Nicely updated home on oversized lot. Updates include: new roof (March ‘10), refinished hardwoods, new laundry room, new windows, new paint throughout. Other features include two driveways for extra off-street parking, lots of deck space for entertaining, fenced back yard with large storage shed and kid’s playset. The kitchen has gorgeous cherry cabinets with solid surface countertops and stainless appliances. Walk-in closet and double vanity in the MBR! Call John Selva with Pulaski Heights Realty at 993-5442. DUPLEX - $187,500. Over 2700 total SF. Buy now & get $8K tax credit and have renter offset your mortgage payment. Main level is 2BR/2BA, 1500 SF. Upstairs studio rental is approx 550 SF ($515/mo.) Also, has 700+SF walkout basement. New Paint! Owner is licensed agent. Call John, Pulaski Heights Realty, at 993-5442 for more info.
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Conway 1110 TRENTON - $130,000. 3BR/2BA split plan with FP, XL kitchen, lots of cabinets with walk-in pantry, new paint 2010. Close to UCA. Move-in ready. MLS# 10245823 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-730-1100 or 501-679-1103.
Greenbrier 12 VALMONT - $179,900. Extremely nice 4BR/2BA with 12’ ceiligns, gas FP, extensive trim, custom maple cabinets, custom tile shower. Walk to school! MLS# 10242940 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-730-1100 or 501679-1103. 5 COUNTRY COVE - $399,000. 5BR/4.5BA country estate. Perfect for horses! Den w/FP, granite counters in kitchen. More land available. MLS# 10238516 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-730-1100 or 501-6791103.
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4307 N. LOOKOUT - $399,000. Fabulous 4 or 5 BR home with 2.5 BA is like a private Hillcrest hideaway. Beautifully updated with stained and leaded glass features. Upgraded kitchen with contemporary solid surface counters & top-ofthe-line stainless steel appliances. The huge multi-level deck is ideal for outside grilling, dining & entertaining. For more details, call Susan Desselle with the Charlotte John Company at 772-7100 or visit www.SusanSellingLittleRock.com
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n God and I chat not. Neither do we tweet. I have friends and relatives who have regular or at least semi-regular two-way conversations with Him, and best I can tell these exchanges are warm and collegial. One side is not struck dumb with awe, as was customary with the ancients. There seems to be a goodly amount of give-andtake, consistent with the modern democratic ideal, as opposed to the monarchial deferences that once applied. There’s usually a frank exchange of views, in the Cold War parlance. So the dialogue proceeds with a kind of affable George Burns informality that’s very popular except with the mossy segment that still considers it a compliment to be called “God-fearing.” Discussion was nearly always God-initiated back when. And His beck was so terrifying to mere mortals that they not only shrank from it but literally ran away. You couldn’t amscray from God, though, if He was of a mind to parleyvoo. He’d send a fish after you if He had to. And when you were brought back and barfed up inescapably, He’d give you to know how it was going to be, not inviting your input. It’s apparently exactly the opposite now. It’s the mortals who make first contact and the Deity who keeps glancing at his watch.
Bob L ancaster We get our input put in before He has a chance to demur, and His alleged responses have none of the old Godly enthusiasm. He’s often said to reply in a still small voice. Very unlike the old thunder. Or He’s said to reply by allusion. Or in dreams. Or in the unfolding of events. Or in dillweed billboard quotations. Or otherwise vaguely, indirectly, almost wearily. This just doesn’t sound like Him. If Strunk and White knew you should be clear and concise, surely God knows it. And wouldn’t you expect the Author of forcefulness and directness to be forceful and direct? Why, then, without melting their very pusses as in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” would He suffer all these intercessory weasels and weenies and rollers putting foolish words in His mouth ? Short answer, He wouldn’t. You don’t beat around the bush if you ARE the bush. So over the weekend, I saw on TV an East End woman whose mobile home was destroyed when a big tree uprooted by a
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with the doofus roundballer crowing that his team was advancing to the second round of the NBA playoffs mainly because God was their Sixth Man. An element of that too, I suspect, in the continuing push for press-box prayer on the stadium P.A. before high-school football games. “If one of these boys has to be hurt here tonight, Lord, let him be on the other team. Or one of our scrubs.” Or in putting up graven Decalogue stelae. But you never know. Even Billy Graham in his newspaper column last week said it’s really hard to tell sometimes whether it’s God talking to you or the Devil. The Devil is such a good mimic and God gives him such latitude. You usually know after the fact which one it was, but by then mootness has pretty much set in. Some chatter over the weekend wondering why God sent two and even three tornadoes along the same track – through East End and over the Little Rock airport – at different times on the same evening. Was there a providential point, and if so, again, why wrapped in such obscurity? Was it meant to teach a lesson to someone in the affected areas? Or, as Bro. Pat and Bro. Jerry said after 9/11, was it a shot across our collective bow? Showing His displeasure, His gathering wrath, over all these abortions,queers cornholing one another, etc.? Short answer: None of the above.
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