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Against NLR tax increase Why does North Little Rock need a tax increase? A flier that was mailed to me stated that with Little Rock and Newport as well as Garland and Jefferson Counties increasing their tax rates, North Little Rock needs to increase its tax rate to stay competitive. So increasing taxes keeps us moving forward? I have been told by politicians for years that lowering tax rates attracts businesses. Is that not why North Little Rock gave Caterpillar $10-$13 million over ten years to locate here? Perhaps Mayor Hays believes that the tax rate should be shifted from corporations to the working man. I wonder if the citizens of North Little Rock agree. Second, hasn’t the tax base been broadened with the addition of Caterpillar’s newly added 600 jobs, the opening of Dickey-Stephens Park and the many bars, restaurants, retail outlets and galleries that have opened in the now flourishing Argenta district? Usually a government can lower taxes as more pay into the system. Is that not the theory of trickle down or supply side economics? Is that not why corporate tax rates have been cut in half over the past 30 years? Unlike every other city in Arkansas, North Little Rock runs its own electric company. Every penny of profit generated by North Little Rock Electric goes into the general fund. Twelve million was budgeted in 2011 alone. That’s $12 million that the city takes in before one cent of tax revenue is generated. Oh, and by the way, sales tax is charged on that $12 million. Well, that is if you are not Caterpillar. It should also be noted that electric rates for residents were increased 38% in May of 2008. Yes, we are paying 38% more for our basic utility than we were just three and a half years ago. Now let’s evaluate why North Little Rock may be short of money. First, there is that Inland Maritime Museum. How much revenue does that generate? How much money was spent defending the city in that TIF lawsuit to use school money to build a parking garage for a private hotel firm? If Holiday Inn or Hilton or Marriott or whatever other hotel company thought they could make money off of building a hotel in downtown North Little Rock, then they would build one. The reason that the Wyndham is the only hotel downtown is because that is all that the downtown area can support. I have no problem voting for a tax increase, I voted for the increase to build Dickey-Stephens Park. But I believe the city should adequately fund the police and fire departments, maintain the roads, parks and school system before spending money on pet projects. I will not support funneling off money for essential 4 NOVEMBER 2, 2011 ARKANSAS TIMES
purposes to fund other pet projects and then be told that the city needs additional revenues for essential projects. Fund what a city is supposed to provide for its citizens and then spend the additional revenues however you wish. But try to properly fund those essentials and then ask for a tax increase for your pet projects and see if the good people of North Little Rock will support it.I doubt it. That is why all voters of North Little Rock should vote against the proposed tax increase on Nov. 8. Garrett Brown North Little Rock
The kids are all right
Tea Party winning the debate
In recent weeks I have heard the young people of the “occupy” movement being compared to the hippies of the 1960s. Often it is said in a derogatory manner. One thing we should remember about those young people who took to the streets back in the ’6os to protest the war in Vietnam, segregation in the South and the state of the environment almost everywhere; those kids were right. I believe these kids today are right as well. David Rose Hot Springs
As Tom Norrell’s head spins (Letters, Oct. 26) while spitting split pea soup, in his attempt to prove what hypocrites Tea Party members are for, gasp, using a tax funded facility, he has warmed my smaller government heart. The fact that all he can do is use a pejorative (where the most common practitioners are liberal Democrats), and then try to claim we are all hypocrites for using what we’ve also helped pay for (yes, we do pay taxes), shows we are winning the war in framing the debate. I know Norrell won’t be happy until we have a single payer payroll system where the federal government sends us what they think we need, instead of an employer paying us for something we’ve actually earned or produced. I know we are on target when the venom flies towards us. Norrell would be shocked at how many government employees are Tea Party members because they see the waste on a daily basis. What we are really debating is how much government we need or can afford. The Tea Party isn’t anti tax or anti government. What we do know is that government can’t be all things to all people so let’s set priorities instead of building a government based on politicians purchasing votes (think farm subsidies, loopholes and various tax credits). Maybe I’ll join the Occupy Wall Street crowd next since they’re against bankers giving money to politicians, and the vast majority of the Wall Street money is going to Democrats. Brice Hammerstein Sherwood
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EDITORIAL
EYE ON ARKANSAS
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resident Obama’s plan for Medicare would “balance the budget on the backs of seniors,” Rep. Tim Griffin says in a mailing to residents of the Second Congressional District. He lies. The president’s Affordable Care Act, passed over the objections of Griffin and his fellow Republicans, extends the life of Medicare and provides rebates to recipients who are in the dreaded “doughnut hole” for prescription drugs. Griffin and the other Republicans supported a plan to replace Medicare with a voucher system. Their vouchers would have forced low-income Medicare recipients to pay almost $5,000 a year more than they pay now, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Backbreaking. Republicans hate Medicare the way they hate Social Security, because these are government programs that work, directly refuting the Republican philosophy of every man for himself. (Griffin’s mailer was prepared by a national group and distributed to a number of Republican congressmen.) Not long after receiving Griffin’s propaganda, we saw that a poll showed him “in serious jeopardy” of being defeated next year. The poll was conducted by a Democratic-leaning group, true, but it’s still easier to believe than Griffin’s Medicare falsehood. “Overwhelming majority doesn’t think Tim Griffin deserves re-election” was the inspirational headline on the news release. It was soon followed by an announcement that the majority wants to get rid of Rep. Rick Crawford too. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
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etter roads and more jobs is a combination that’s hard to quarrel with, and we won’t. The Arkansas Times supports the proposed $575 million bond program for interstate highway improvements. No additional taxes will be required. Gov. Beebe has called a special election on the bonds for Nov. 8. Early voting has begun. Keeping the interstate system up to par is a neverending job, especially considering the pounding the highways take from trucks heavier than the roads were designed for. If approved by voters, the new highway project will repeat some of the work done in 1999, the year of the last major overhaul of Arkansas interstates. Some of the improvements will be new. The work will provide thousands of jobs, according to the state Highway Department. That means thousands more consumers will have money to spend, in an economy that badly needs stimulus. We have one serious concern, but it can be met. When the 1999 highway project was underway statewide, workers were killed by reckless and impatient motorists. The work crews remained in danger until the Highway Department and the State Police adopted special measures to protect them. This time, we hope the authorities will be adamant from the beginning, and drivers more careful and more considerate of fellow Arkansans, working for a living.
DRAGGED THROUGH THE MUD: The annual Mud Run 5K took place at Two Rivers Park in Little Rock this past weekend. The event, billed as Little Rock’s Dirtiest 5K, benefits Little Rock Parks and Recreation.
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orth Little Rock votes on a sales tax increase next week and it seems only fair to give Mayor Pat Hays a little of the attention I gave Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola on his recent push for a penny increase. Hays is following the Little Rock model. The tax is split in two half-cent proposals — one permanent, one temporary for “capital” expenditures. The increases come with no guarantees, only general promises not backed by law. Hays could take the $15.5 million a year and spend it on retired PT boats for his riverfront fleet if he chose. The tax will increase the sales tax on a pair of socks or a T-shirt at a North Little Rock Walmart to 9 cents on every dollar — 6 cents state, 1 county, 2 city. Buy $10 worth of burgers at McDonald’s and the tax will now be $1.20, counting the 3-cent burger tax. Little Rock, to its credit, provided more information sooner about its tax, both on its website and in a series of public meetings. Hays is getting the job done with far less exposition, in a brief six-week window. The speed and lack of information form some of the objection from the Arkansas Tea Party, which is circulating flyers in opposition to the tax. I’m not sure it matters. North Little Rock is friendly — as most of blue collar Arkansas unaccountably has always been — to the regressive sales tax. Everybody pays the same, right? Few stop to think that the poor spend a disproportionate share of their income on taxes on life’s necessities — food, clothing, utilities, cars. But the Tea Party, which I tend to reflexively oppose, has some valid points. One is that in two years the city will have paid off a bond issue on a hydroelectric plant. That will free more than $14 million a year, permanently, almost what the full penny will raise.
An even stronger point is the slush fund criticism. Hays says he’ll take $20 million — $20 million! — to buy 2,000 acres on the east side of the city. Perhaps it will be the site to relocate the MAX Arkansas State Fair, anxious to BRANTLEY leave a poor neighborhood in maxbrantley@arktimes.com Little Rock. Perhaps it will be a “business park.” Perhaps he won’t buy the land at all. The mayor could just as legally build a parking deck with the tax money for a new downtown hotel or buy another submarine. The State Fair promise is in particular need of greater inspection. Does moving the fair from one side of the Arkansas River to the other guarantee any economic benefit for the area? Perhaps a marginal amount of sales tax revenue for North Little Rock. But a State Fair with a major event venue will also cannibalize Verizon Arena, just as Verizon cannibalized Barton Coliseum at the State Fair. The bigger “if” about the State Fair concerns the total project cost. The land is almost irrelevant. A Jacksonville group has offered to provide free land. A paid consultant has said a State Fair move would cost $190 million for new structures — and might produce an additional $1 million a year in revenue. Where will the millions for new buildings and infrastructure come from? The dream was once that the federal government would provide it. In these times, it’s hard to imagine. Mayor Hays has imitated Stodola in one important respect. He’s wrapped his fanciful wishes inside tangible needs — police, fire and street needs. He understands most voters will respond to these basics and hopes they overlook the slush funds.
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he professionals are consigning the Republican presidential nomination to Mitt Romney more than a month before the first Iowan casts a vote. Ross Douthat, the New York Times’ resident Republican oracle, said there was no point in any further speculation. It’s over. When no one approaches 30 percent among even Republican voters in any poll and Romney’s negatives run high, that seems a little rash, but Douthat is probably right. When opportunists like Tim Griffin jump on board a campaign that is hardly visible in Arkansas, it is a good sign. In Griffin’s case, it merely means that Karl Rove, the modern Rasputin and Griffin’s old mentor, has settled on Romney as the GOP’s likely winner, but Douthat needs no more evidence than that. Romney has been in the wilderness a long time, but the Republican Party is finally safe for a chameleon — and the biggest flip-flopper in history at that. He owes it, ironically, to the rise of extremism and the congressional Republican leadership’s abdication to the bomb throwers who despise Romney. That is not a non sequitur, but more about it in a moment. First, Romney the other day completed a hat trick on climate change, the last of the burning issues of the day
on which he has taken both sides. As recently as five years ago, Al Gore was not a stronger advocate of ERNEST drastic steps to DUMAS lower carbon emissions than Mitt Romney, then the governor of Massachusetts. Romney joined demonstrators outside a coalfired plant in 2003 to show his support for emissions caps. “I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant, that plant kills people,” he said. He began to change in his 2008 presidential race and this year he reversed direction completely. As late as June, he was still saying that human activity was causing climate change and the country needed to reduce carbon emissions. But last week, at a forum put on, naturally, by one of the largest coal-mining companies, he had no idea whether warming was caused by human activity and he opposed spending money to reduce carbon emissions. Everyone knows his flip-flop on health care. He instituted the first universal health care system by installing in Massachusetts the old Nixon-Ford health plan, based on
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veryone I talk to is tired. You ask anyone how they are and this seems to be the response. Tired from work, tired from kids, tired from one more episode, from one more game the night before. Sleep deprivation supposedly exacts a serious toll, yet I read recently in the New York Times that getting more than seven hours of sleep per night is associated with a shorter lifespan. As a matter of fact, people who got more than 8 hours of sleep per night died 12% earlier than people who got between 6 and 7. If I were a reasonable person, this information might lead me to explore what amount of sleep is best for me. Instead, it led me to one perfectly idiotic question: if less sleep is better for me, what about no sleep? How long could I go? And what would happen to me? The first 18 hours were a slightly longer-than-normal day. What follows is a log of the hours after that. 1 a.m.-3 a.m. (hours 19-20): My
third cup of coffee’s run its course. Yawning. Eyes watering. Work is tougher because I start GRAHAM weird conversaGORDY tions with myself. grahamgordy@gmail.com “Will an itch just go away if I never scratch it?” 3 a.m.-5 a.m. (hour 21-22): You must get a lot hungrier awake than asleep. I eat a banana. Then a bagel. Then a cheese omelette. 5 a.m.-7 a.m. (hour 23-24): No energy. If I were out drinking, I’d notice the time less, but I’m trying to work. Twenty-four hours awake, my blinks become longer. It’s like my eyelids are trying to tempt my brain into just letting them close. Oh, and I think facial hair grows faster waking than sleeping. 7 a.m.-9 a.m. (hour 25-26): The “Backpack! Backpack!” song from “Dora the Explorer” is the only clear and unin-
mandatory insurance purchases. He said it could be a model for the country. Now he promises to try to repeal the national system that was modeled after his own. His most astounding backflip was on abortion. When he ran for the Senate against Edward M. Kennedy in 1994, he declared: “I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. … I believe that Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years and we should sustain and support it.” He said he would never waver on abortion. As governor of Massachusetts he supported state funding of abortions for poor women and approved of abortion pills, including RU-486. Pro-choice groups endorsed him. Now he favors amending the U.S. Constitution to outlaw all forms of abortion in all situations. As a candidate for the Senate in 1994 and for governor in 2002 he championed the rights of gays and lesbians, including civil unions and the extension of marital benefits to gay couples. He promised to be a more effective champion of gay rights than Ted Kennedy. He was for gun control before he was against it. As governor he favored a ban on assault weapons and the Brady Bill, which required a waiting period to buy handguns. Now he’s solidly with the National Rifle Association. As governor he raised $500 million in corporate taxes and fees to shore up the budget. Now he wants to cut
corporate taxes and promises never to raise them. He once was a little soft on immigrants, grieving about making it hard for the children of illegal aliens to go to college by denying them in-state tuition. Now he’s tougher than all the others. So in a season when the party seems to demand total purity the most transparent weathervane in history is going to be the nominee and perhaps the president. How does that happen? To the leaders of the party, to the men who bankroll it and to a large extent the rank-and-file Republican voters, character is not the decisive factor but who can get elected. The extremists can’t. There are, in fact, certain advantages to having weak character. Old-line Republicans, who are still the majority in the party, and independents may not admire Romney — few could — but they don’t fear him. As president they know he would govern by accommodation as he always did. No one believes that he would stick to any of the stands he has taken the past year. People may have loathed and distrusted Richard Nixon, but they didn’t fear him. He talked as conservative as they come but left a record as progressive as Jimmy Carter’s, Bill Clinton’s or Barack Obama’s. As for the Tea Party, they can’t bolt for a third party next summer. Romney, after all, is with them on everything.
terrupted thought I’ve had in hours. I want to stick my finger in my eye until I touch my brain. 9 a.m.-11 a.m. (hour 27-28): This was a terrible damn idea. The feeling it most resembles is of being drunk and heartbroken. What was I hoping to accomplish? That I could discover some wormhole I could pass through and I would never have to sleep again? Why not experiment with hitting myself in the crotch with a hammer in the hope that I would eventually cross some threshold into pleasure? This is my last guinea pig column. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. (hour 29-30): I forgot to take out the recycling and I hear the truck. Six steps into the yard, I realize I’m only wearing boxers. Back inside. Pants. Slap myself in the face. Back outside. Missed the truck. I go for a run, but the thoughts only get louder. 1 p.m.-3 p.m. (hour 31-32) I have to go to a lunch I forgot about. This isn’t helped by the fact that I just had a vision of an imaginary cockroach. Driving to the restaurant, a couple of nonexistent animals run by in my peripheral vision. My lunch date doesn’t seem to realize
that I’m a total basketcase. 3 p.m.-7 p.m. (hour 33-36) A second wind of sorts, my body giving in to the fact that I must press on till bedtime. I’m totally delirious, though. 7 p.m-11 p.m. (hour 37-40) Girlfriend gets home. I try to hide my derangement, but during dinner I make a joke about Oprah, a joke about selling sex for back pills, and a joke about Oprah selling sex for back pills. I think I’m hilarious. She suspects nothing. We watch a movie. I fall asleep at 11 p.m., 40 hours after the last time I’d woken up. I sleep nine hours. I sleep the sleep of the just. If there’s a lesson to be gained, it’s a reminder of what true fatigue feels like. There’s always something mundane but seductive via television, Internet or elsewhere to distract us. Also, who among us works hard enough to truly be tired at the end of a day? When I re-read the study with a clear head, I realize it wasn’t accounting for happiness, only longevity. Quantity as opposed to quality. So, oversleeping becomes a choice for each of us, another instance of a long life or a happy one. www.arktimes.com NOVEMBER 2, 2011 7
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rkansas fans are renowned fatalists. You know all the lowlights by heart. Street to Peschel. The phantom pass interference against SMU. Atwater’s missed pick in Miami. Stumble and Fumble. The Southern-Fried Misadventures of Reggie Fish. In 2011, the worm seems to have turned. For a minute at least. What’s happened the first two months is pretty special stuff, if you can cease bitching long enough to appreciate it. We are winning contests that should have a surgeon general’s warning emblazoned on the game program. These Razorbacks are besotted with self-destructive, maddening traits. They play lethargically early, recklessly at the end, and only sporadically well in between. And yet they are, as of this writing, a 7-1 team nestled snugly in the No. 7 spot of the BCS standings. The Hogs’ first trip to Nashville in five years ended the same way the last one did: triumphant, but only by virtue of the Commodores’ own sad history catching up to them. In 2006, Vandy’s kicker, Bryant Hahnfeldt, kicked a 48-yard field goal attempt about 46 yards in the final minute — Houston Nutt famously credited the late Paul Eells’ otherworldly breath for blowing the try short — and that allowed the Razorbacks to escape with a two-point win. This time, Carey Spear’s 27-yard kick to send the game into overtime went dead right in the waning seconds and the Hogs tiptoed out of Vandy’s crypt-masquerading-as-stadium as 31-28 winners. Vanderbilt rolled up 462 total yards, built a 14-point first-half lead and had the Hogs squarely against the ropes in the fourth quarter, driving for a score that would have given the Commodores a 15-point lead with about 12 minutes left. That’s when fate interceded again. A completely unforced fumble by Vandy’s outstanding tailback, Zac Stacy, was snatched off the turf by Jerry Franklin, and the senior linebacker coasted to a 94-yard touchdown return that flipped the momentum permanently. Zach Hocker’s third field goal of the game later gave the Hogs the lead, then Vandy’s brilliant last-ditch effort at victory stalled at the Arkansas 10 before Spear’s fateful shank. It’s been a charmed run through October: first-half deficits in all four games, all casually brushed aside by a team that seems to be far more adept at finishing. In this space before the season, I noted that the one nagging shortcoming of the Petrino era was an inability to close. We
are presently, in ways that sometimes defy explanation, sloughing that albatross. And while punBEAU dits might observe WILCOX that we aren’t knocking down titans, we’re doing nothing differently from what champions do, year in and year out. Auburn narrowly dispatched Kentucky and Mississippi State a year ago. The year before, Alabama’s national championship run was salvaged by Terrence Cody’s meaty fingers in a twopoint win over a sub par Tennessee team. The best teams are those that win across the spectrum, blowout to squeaker and all in between. One of the benefits of all these prenoon kickoffs is that by the time Saturday evening rolls around, the pollsters are getting their digs in at other top-flight programs that have lost or struggled mightily. The Hogs aren’t winning pretty, but once the flurry of upsets materializes (Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Clemson, etc.) the news about Arkansas having another dogfight becomes stale and largely irrelevant. We aren’t losing ground, but we are content to let others do it for us. Lost in the furor over another sketchy performance is an indisputable fact: winning on the road in the SEC is an onerous task, especially when it’s Andre Ware’s Early Bird Special. From this point forward, it’s likely to be post meridiem start times in far friendlier confines (until LSU of course). It starts Saturday with a home date against a South Carolina team that sits just behind us in the BCS pecking order, a lone loss to Auburn blemishing its record. In many ways, the Gamecocks are a mirror of the Hogs, their loftiest hopes being thwarted by an early-season loss and a critical injury to their bellcow. They also appear to fancy a close game, with three of their seven wins by a field goal or less. For once, that predilection toward high tension may not work against us, as we have three recent wins by a combined 12 points. Two full months in, nobody knows what to make of this team. It’s reasonable to anticipate slippage in November, a final prelude to some nondescript December bowl sponsored by toiletries or industrial sanders. But it would also be none too surprising to see them march to Baton Rouge with a 10-1 record, brimming with swagger, and these next three weeks would seem to lay an ideal foundation for that sort of finale.
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Not Barney Cissy Feehan writes: “I see that google is now in the dictionary as a verb meaning ‘to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web.’ But where did the search engine get the name? Does it have anything to do with the old comic strip character Barney Google, he of the goo-goo-googley eyes?” Cissy is no chicken, clearly. Not many people can remember Barney Google, who was, as she says, the hero of a longago comic strip. And of a song inspired by the strip; that’s where the line about the “goo-goo-googley eyes” comes from. Barney was a banjo-eyed little fellow who owned a less-than-successful race horse named Sparkplug. Sometime in the 1930s, a hillbilly associate of Barney’s named Snuffy Smith was introduced into the strip, and in a few years’ time, Snuffy had taken over. The Snuffy Smith comic is still around. But we’ve drifted away from the subject, perhaps because I find comic strips more interesting than search engines. No, Barney Google had nothing to do with the high-tech Google. According to Wikipedia, “The name ‘Google’ origi-
nated from a misspelling of ‘googol,’ which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by oneDOUG hundred zeros.” SMITH Techies tend not dougsmith@arktimes.com to be good spellers, and vice versa. Now here is an example of comics and technology working together to enlighten mankind, or at least me. In the “Get Fuzzy” strip, I read “Satchel, there’s no reason to fear mothmen, even if they do exist. … Being part moth nerfs an otherwise potentially scary mutant.” Unfamiliar with this usage, I turned to the on-line Urban Dictionary and found the verb nerf: “To weaken or make less dangerous. Taken from the ‘Nerf’ brand name, which makes sports equipment toys out of a soft foam (e.g., the Nerf football is soft foam rather than the hard leather of a real football). Used frequently in the context of computer game balance changes. “ ‘The chaingun was awesome til they nerfed it, now you can’t hit s*** with it.’ ”
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It was a good week for… MIKE BEEBE. Governing magazine named the governor one of its 2011 public officials of the year and the University of Arkansas’s Arkansas Poll reported that he enjoys a stratospheric 72 percent favorable rating in the state.
RICK CRAWFORD AND TIM GRIFFIN. A poll by Public Policy Polling showed voters favor replacing the First District’s Rep. Rick Crawford 48-43 and the Second District’s Rep. Tim Griffin 49-44 with “someone new.”
PROTECTING THE OZARKS. The Ozark Society has sued to stop gas drillling in the Ozark National Forest until an adequate environmental impact statement has been completed. Federal agencies haven’t adequately considered impact on endangered species, roadless areas and wild and scenic rivers, the suit said. It also said they particularly have failed to consider the fallout from hydraulic fracturing wells. The suit asked for a preliminary injunction against further exploration until the suit can be tried.
FORT SMITH. Whirlpool announced that in 2012 it will close a plant in Fort Smith that currently employs some 1,000 workers. Several hundred jobs in related industries will also be lost.
WALTER KIMBROUGH. The highlyregarded, self-styled “hip-hop president” of Philander Smith College is leaving Little Rock to become the president of Dillard University in New Orleans. It’s a move up for Kimbrough, 44. Dillard has long been considered one of the country’s top historically black colleges and universities and recently won a $25 million National Institutes of Health grant to research disparities in health care.
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SCOTT FORD. In a speech to the Fort Smith Chamber of Commerce, the former Alltel CEO drew a comparison between the 99 percenters of the Occupy movement demonstrations with those responsible for genocide in Rwanda. SHERIFF KENNEY CASSELL. Prosecutor Cody Hiland of Conway will seek to remove Cassell from office as Searcy County sheriff for a misdemeanor federal conviction in 1979 for possession of stolen Cornish hens. Cassell, like Hiland, a Republican, admits his past and notes that he disclosed it to voters when he ran. Hiland said the Arkansas Supreme Court case law is clear; that a conviction of this nature requires removal from office.
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Braving haunted houses IT’S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR, WHEN THE OBSERVER seeks out manufactured
scares to get in the mood for Halloween. Like every American holiday, the night of Oct. 31 is surrounded by a certain amount of capitalistic tackiness; we wonder what it must have been like to live back when people were actually afraid of the dead returning to life. In the hopes of getting into the spirit of the season we took a trip down to the Scimitar Shrine Center (home of the Shriners, best known for their philanthropy and wearing red fezzes), and their annual Temple of Terror. We hadn’t been to a haunted house since we were a kid, the memories of which we had successfully repressed, so we weren’t sure what to expect. Step one: get in line. From the outside, the Shrine Center looked empty, but, after we’d been escorted through the dimly lit lobby with cliche Halloween merchandise in every corner (skeletons, spiders, cottony cobwebs), we took a seat with about 40 others who were waiting for entrance. On one end of the room concessions were being sold; at the other a big TV played the last thirty minutes of “Poltergeist.” Hanging from the ceiling were zombie-ghost-grim reaper hybrids that occasionally lit up and vibrated and emitted compressed shrieks. A few people were in costume. The initial shivers that had followed us in from the chilly night outside were gone very quickly, once we realized that we were in for a long wait. Over an hour’s wait, in fact, but we had company and there was, after all, the promise of a good scare once the time came. Occasionally the exit would pop open and visitors would scamper out, chased by the sound of a chainsaw. The Observer and our companion laughed with each other, but of course there lingered in our conversation the vague concern for what, exactly, was behind the door that every 10 minutes or so would admit a few giggling teenage girls and their parents. At last it was our turn. Volunteers tore our tickets and ushered us into the Temple. We’ll admit, it was unnerving — everybody’s a little bit afraid of the dark. Here’s how it went: the haunted
house was essentially a series of rooms, each one playing off a particular horror movie trope. In one there was a family sobbing around an open coffin; as we strolled past it the person inside jumped out with a screech. Another was a psych ward with white-clad patients chained to their metal cots, beseeching us to help them escape. A few were empty except for Halloween paraphernalia — ghoulish mannequins, TVs playing nothing but static, giant bugs. Most of it was in total darkness. Between each room we had to squeeze through very thin partitions, which, for the claustrophobic, was probably the most terrifying part of the experience. The Observer was most creeped out by a room painted all in white with a fog machine going somewhere — it was impossible to see, and there were people with gas masks who appeared out of the smoke to get up in our face. Yes, we jumped more than once as we trudged through the Temple, and there were even a few times that we had to laugh. All in all it was an amusing evening, despite the wait. We can admire anyone who waits around in a small, dark room, surrounded by skeletons, waiting for an (somewhat) unsuspecting victim to walk through. That, we think, would be pretty freaky.
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Junior had outgrown trick-or-treating this year, so instead of organized begging, The Observer and family drove up to Conway, and hit another haunted house. The building was a dark, close maze in a large building. Junior held onto his mother’s shirt tail, and The Observer onto his. At times, he almost ran. In the middle of things — the dark, the noise, the folks jumping out of shadows — The Observer found himself thinking about the mannish boy who has replaced the warm bundle who once slept on our shoulder. This moment, The Observer thought, is as good a metaphor for his onrushing teenage years as we’re likely to get: Trailing him through darkness. Struggling to hold on but not hold him back. Both full of apprehension. Both dreading the inevitable moment when it will all be over and we will emerge in the Real World. www.arktimes.com NOVEMBER 2, 2011 11
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Dillard a-Twitter Dr. Walter Kimbrough, president of Philander Smith College, Tuesday was named new president of Dillard University in New Orleans. This being the modern age, Dillard students were on Twitter about the selection even before it was announced and then even more so afterward. Lots of students were impressed that Kimbrough, 44, is a Twitter user himself. His handle: @hiphopprez. Kimbrough has styled himself as a new-style college leader, with a social justice outreach that saw him lead student trips in support of civil rights and his hiphop lecture series that featured provocative speakers. But the Twitter handle really caught Dillard students’ attention. Example of many, from Twitter user RoxxStarr: “The fact that DU’s new President’s twitter name is @HipHopPrez makes me like him instantly.”
Hot check artist unchallenged Roby Brock’s Talk Business website reported this week that Rep. Josh Johnston had announced for re-election in District 65 and that the Rose Bud Republican had no Democratic opposition. The Blue Hog Report blog reported in April that Johnston had been arrested in 1995 on a felony hot check charge and eventually pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and paid more than $700 in fines and costs. He’s refused to respond to the Times’ questions about his eligibility in light of the record. A court removed another Republican candidate last year for a federal misdemeanor conviction involving misuse of Medicaid money. A Republican prosecutor in Conway announced this week that he’d seek to remove a Republican sheriff in Searcy County because of a 30-year-old misdemeanor related to possession of some stolen Cornish hens from a truck shipment. Another candidate was ruled ineligible because of theft of campaign signs. The Arkansas Republican Party has so far declined to answer questions from the Times about Johnston’s eligibility. We can report that sources say Johnston is expected to have a Democratic opponent with experience in elective office and that Johnston’s record isn’t likely to be swept under the rug.
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WANTS MURAL RESTORED: Brad Cushman says the artwork could be a UALR centerpiece.
The story of a mural
First an artwork, then building material, now the goal of UALR restoration project. BY LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK
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or the past 27 years, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has stored a fragile mural by social realist painter Joe Jones, after then-UALR archivist (and now Central Arkansas Library Director) Bobby Roberts rescued it from oblivion in 1984. Painted for Commonwealth College in Mena in 1935, “The Struggle of the South” portrays the miseries of sharecropping, a lynching and the plight of coal miners. Jones was a Missourian who said “I’m not interested in painting pretty pictures to match pink and blue walls. I want to paint things that knock holes in walls.” Ironically, Jones’ mural was turned into walls, with holes knocked in them, for a house in Fort Smith. Now, the gallery director of the UALR art department wants to restore them. Jones, who’d shown his work in New York and who as a Works Progress Administration artist had painted a mural at a Magnolia post office the previous year, was commissioned by Commonwealth College in 1935 to paint the mural. The college scraped together $50 for the project, and according to some reports, Jones had to make his own charcoal to draw the mural. Commonwealth, despite being the
alma mater of future Gov. Orval Faubus, was created in the 1920s to train organizers for the workers movement and make other social reforms. In the Aug. 1, 1935, issue of its twice-monthly newsletter, the Fortnightly, the college announced Jones would lecture on “proletarian art and culture” during the two weeks he would be at the college. “It was his students who painted the murals on the walls of old St. Louis courthouse and fought the efforts of the indignant property owners to demolish them,” the paper reported. Jones worked at the museum from Aug. 5-19 completing the mural, approximately 44 feet long and 100 inches high and placed on three walls of what appears in photographs to be a bay window in the dining room. Commonwealth closed in 1940 and was dismantled. Forty-four years later, Fadjo Cravens of Fort Smith contacted Roberts, told him a house in which the mural had been used as building material was about to be torn down and asked him if the archives would like to buy it. Roberts paid $500 for it sight unseen. The mural languished in storage until 2009, when Andrew Walker, thendirector of the St. Louis Art Museum,
in Jones’ home town, got in touch with Cushman to see if UALR indeed had the mural and if it could be used in the museum’s upcoming exhibition, “Joe Jones, Painter of the American Scene,” which was hung last year. But the mural wasn’t in any condition to be exhibited. It had been divided into sections and used to wall a closet. Part of it was covered with wallpaper. Other sections had been hung with the image facing the studs, and large bits of the paint had flaked off. Some parts were missing entirely. Its condition was so delicate that students who wanted to see it were only provided photographs. But Cushman agreed to take the mural out of storage for Walker and other museum personnel. “They were blown away,” Cushman said. So blown away that they offered to restore the central section of the mural — the lynching scene — at their own cost. Cushman agreed. That exhibition, UALR’s decision to create an Institute on Race and Ethnicity and interest outside UALR on the work has prompted a determined restoration effort. After the exhibition, Jones’ grandson, Jonathan Jones, a D.C. lobbyist and friend of Sen. Mark Pryor, contacted Cushman to learn more about the mural. Jones, Mark Pryor, and Sen. David and Barbara Pryor attended an event at UALR last week to see a documentary that the university has begun to make to record the mural, its history and the restoration project. Jones saw the rest of the mural for the first time and was moved, Cushman said, calling restoration efforts a great tribute to his grandfather. He expressed the hope that the work could be placed in a common room so students would “have to look at it and think about it for the next 100 years,” Cushman said. Cushman plans to seek federal, state and private grants to pay for the restoration. Helen Houp and the St. Louis conservator Paul Hanner inspected the mural a couple of weeks ago and compared notes; Houp should have a report to UALR within a couple of weeks on what it will take to bring it back to life. Cushman would like to see it exhibited in the manner it was hung at Commonwealth — against three walls — where it would embody lessons in art and social history and serve as a centerpiece for the university.
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On Oct. 26, the University of Arkansas’s Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society released its 13th annual Arkansas Poll. Conducted between Oct. 14 and 19 via 800 telephone surveys, the poll’s authors claim it has a margin of error plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. For a link to more results from the poll, go to arktimes.com/arkpoll.
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Percentage who approve of the way these politicians have handled their jobs in 2011.
Gov. Mike Beebe: 72%
2011: 74%
2009: 72%
Percentage who feel that Arkansas is generally headed in right direction.
2011: 67%
2010: 67%
2010: 52%
Percentage who said global warming/climate change is an urgent problem. Percentage who said most important problem facing people in Arkansas is the economy. Percentage who self-identify as Democrat. Percentage who self-identify as Independent.
Sen. Mark Pryor: 47%
2007: 44% 2010: 42%
2009: 39% 2008: 35%
2008: 33%
Sen. John Boozman: 40% 2009: 34% 2009: 34%
2011: 34% 2011: 33% 2011: 31%
2009: 33%
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INSIDER, CONT. movement that started in New York City with Occupy Wall Street, is getting a $1,000 donation last week from the Arkansas AFL-CIO. Though OLR’s “General Assembly” — the group of protestors who are on hand during their planning meetings — still has to vote on how the donation will be allocated, some organizers we spoke to note that Occupy’s camp at Fourth and Ferry Streets near downtown has some winterization needs as the colder months set in, as well as ongoing concerns like food, propane for cooking, securing a larger tent to serve as a central meeting place, and acquiring wooden pallets to use as risers to keep tents from flooding in the rain. Caleb Baumgardner, a law student who has been with Occupy Little Rock since the first organizational meetings, said that though far-right conservatives have been spreading rumors that the Occupy movement is a front for organized labor since the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street protests, the support from the AFL-CIO, both nationally and at the local level, is simply an acknowledgement that Occupy and union workers share some of the same goals. “We understand that organized labor is supposed to be a countervailing force to the power of big business in this country so big business can’t just run roughshod over everyone and do whatever they want with no accountability and no responsibility,” he said. “They understand that we get that, so they understand we have a common cause.” Occupy Little Rock will hold its next large-scale protest march this Saturday, Nov. 5, beginning at 10 a.m. at the Occupy Little Rock camp at Fourth and Ferry Streets.
2010: 28% Percentage who self-identify as Republican.
2011: 26%
2008: 24%
CORRECTIONS
2010: 21%
President Barack Obama: 32%
SEND US YOUR BIG IDEA At the end of the month, we’ll unveil the third edition of our annual Big Ideas for Arkansas edition and, as usual, we’re taking nominations for ideas that would make Arkansas a better place to live. Every topic is on the table. Commerce. Education. Government. Infrastructure. Tourism. Entertainment. Should we overhaul the state tax code? Build bike trails across the state? End blue laws? Feel free to be as pragmatic or wacky as you want to. Send your nominations to lindseymillar@arktimes.com or to Arkansas Times Big Ideas, P.O. Box 34010, Little Rock, AR 72203. Below are some of the more provocative ideas from previous editions: ≥ Make elected officials do community service ≥ Tear down I-630 and replace it with a boulevard. ≥ Build a permanent home for the Little Rock Film Festival downtown. ≥ Solve the energy crisis with wastewater and chicken feathers. ≥ Put a state moratorium on prison construction. MATT FOX ILLUSTRATION
In transcribing the Best Doctors® Inc. list that ran in last week’s issue of the Arkansas Times, two names were omitted: oncologist/ hematologist Dr. Lawrence A. Mendelsohn and ophthalmologist Dr. Wade Brock. The Times regrets the errors. Max Brantley’s column last week said incorrectly that the top state income tax bracket began at $25,000. That was the top bracket when the income tax was adopted in 1971, but it has been indexed since 1997 and the top bracket now kicks in at $32,700. www.arktimes.com NOVEMBER 2, 2011 13
judicial elections and how to avoid them BRIAN CHILSON
Nationwide, judicial races are getting nastier. COURTHOUSES FOR SALE?: It’s starting to look that way.
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he prospect of big, greedy corporations and bigoted, right-wing religionists seizing control of the state courts is plenty scary, like finding Karl Rove and Donald Wildmon on your doorstep. (Does anybody sell Rove and Wildmon masks for Halloween? People would hand over their daughters to avoid tricks from those two.) Add the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the cause, and you have a true Axis of Evil. It could happen in Arkansas, the way it’s happened elsewhere. Rove, the Republican Party strategist and lead handler of George Bush, helped business interests unseat a Democratic chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who was believed soft on plaintiffs.
He’s done similar work in his home state of Texas. Over the last decade, the Chamber of Commerce has poured millions of dollars into state Supreme Court races around the country, seeking — usually successfully — to get rid of justices who’ve displeased corporations by ruling against them in lawsuits. Right-wing religionists got everybody’s attention last year, when they removed three Iowa Supreme Court justices who’d voted to legalize same-sex marriage. The vote by the seven court justices was unanimous, but only three of them were on the ballot in 2010. Presumably, the fundamentalist faction will go after others in 2012, like sharks coming back for another bite.
Justice Robert L. Brown, Little Rock, chair Elizabeth Andreoli, Little Rock Nate Coulter, Little Rock Judge David F. Guthrie, El Dorado Stephanie Harris, Little Rock Henry Hodges, Little Rock Karen Hutchins, Little Rock Jim Julian, Little Rock Judge Alice Lightle, Little Rock Harry Truman Moore, Paragould Mark W. Nichols, Little Rock John F. Stroud Jr., Texarkana Annabelle Imber Tuck, Little Rock Judge Larry Vaught, Little Rock Judge Joyce Williams Warren, Little Rock Judge Ralph E. Wilson, Osceola
In Arkansas, a “tort reform” law, making it more difficult for people to win lawsuits against corporations, was approved by the legislature a few years back. Since then, some of the law has been struck down by the Arkansas Supreme Court as unconstitutional. Similar rulings in other states have resulted in business interests backing “tort reform” candidates against sitting justices in bitter and expensive elections. The Arkansas Supreme Court last year invalidated an initiated act that prohibited unmarried, cohabiting couples from adopting or fostering children. Act 1 was aimed primarily at same-sex couples, who cannot legally marry in Arkansas. It was backed by the Arkansas Family Council, a fundamentalist group, and approved by voters in 2008. After the Supreme Court knocked the law down, Family Council President Jerry Cox said the decision was the worst the Court had ever made. The decision by the seven-member court was unanimous. None will be removed for that vote in 2012, though. Only one Supreme Court seat will be on the ballot next year, and the incumbent, Associate Justice Jim Gunter, is not seeking re-election. Associate Justice Robert Brown wrote the Act 1 decision, saying the act violated fundamental privacy rights implicit in the Arkansas Constitution. Angry voters won’t get another shot at him. His term doesn’t expire until 2014, but he’s announced he’ll retire at the end of 2012 (after the elections). He couldn’t run again even if he wanted to, because of age limits on judicial candidates. Nonetheless, Brown is concerned about what he’s called “toxic judicial elections,” of the sort that have occurred elsewhere and could occur here. He’s the chairman of a state task force looking for ways to prevent their occurrence. The Task Force is a creation of the Arkansas Bar Association and the Judicial Council, which is an organization of the state’s judges. In a law-review article, Brown has noted that “judicial campaigns for the supreme court in Alabama in 2008 cost a total of $5.3 million. They cost $9.3 million in Illinois in 2004. A 2008 election for the high court in Wisconsin cost approximately $6 million, with $4.8 million contributed by special interest groups and $1.2 million raised on behalf of the candidates them-
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selves. In Michigan, the price tag for chief justice in 2008 exceeded $7.5 million.” Last year in Arkansas, the two Supreme Court races on the ballot cost a total of $1.8 million, big money by Arkansas standards, but not reflective of the huge contributions from specialinterest groups that have been made in other states. In that 2008 Michigan race, a Republican chief justice, Cliff Taylor, was defeated by a Democratic challenger, Diane Hathaway, in an election that has been described as “an orgy of negativity.” Brown says: “A number of attack ads were run on television by both candidates, the majority of which were paid for by special interest groups, including the Michigan Democratic and Republican Parties and the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, at a cost in excess of $3.8 million.” A Democratic ad accused Taylor of nodding off during a case involving the deaths of six children. A
Republican ad, citing a decision by Hathaway to give probation to an Arab-American defendant, suggested that she was sympathetic to terrorists. In Arkansas, judicial races are nonpartisan; presumably, the political parties will not make large contributions. But there’s nothing to keep the big-business groups out. The right-wing religious groups don’t generally have a huge amount of money, but they have voters, and they can turn them out. Forbes magazine reported that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce raised $8 million to contest judicial races in 2000, $20 million in 2001, and $40 million in 2002. The Chamber won 21 of the 24 judicial races it attempted to influence from 2001 to 2003. In 2004, the Chamber won 12 of the 13 state supreme court races in which it was involved. Chamber President Tom CONTINUED ON PAGE 16
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“Demagoguery and outrageously high campaign contributions are emerging as the twin ingredients for success in supreme court elections.” Donohue said in a 2002 speech that “On the political front, we’re going to get involved in key state supreme court and attorney general races as part of our effort to elect pro-legal reform [pro-business] judicial candidates.” The National Association of Manufacturers, a corporate cousin of the Chamber, also invests in judicial races, through a subsidiary called the American Justice Partnership that strives to withhold justice from plaintiffs. Viveca Novak wrote in The American Prospect that “The true extent of spending by the Chamber and the AJP is impossible to know. They and many of the conduit groups through which they funnel money are orga-
nized under sections of the tax code that don’t require disclosure of donors or outlays. Also, in some cases, groups can mask their donors when they run only ‘issue ads’ that don’t explicitly call for someone’s election or defeat, even if their intent is clear.” A Wisconsin race involving Louis Butler, the state’s first black Supreme Court justice, produced what Brown says are perhaps the most offensive ads in recent memory. Butler’s challenger, Michael Gableman, ran a Willie Horton-type ad that showed a black offender and had this voiceover: “Louis Butler worked to put criminals back on the street. Like Ruben Mitchell, who raped an 11-year-old girl with
a learning disability. Butler found a loophole. Mitchell went on to molest another child. Can Wisconsin families feel safe with Louis Butler on the Supreme Court?” The Butler camp responded with an ad accusing Gableman of being soft on sex offenders. It didn’t save Butler from becoming the first incumbent judge to lose a race in Wisconsin in 40 years. “Demagoguery and outrageously high campaign contributions are emerging as the twin ingredients for success in supreme court elections,” Brown says. In Arkansas, judges are elected. (A system of which Brown approves, incidentally.) In Iowa, they’re appointed, a procedure that some believe produces
better judges. A 15-member panel — seven members appointed by the governor, seven by the state bar association, one a sitting state supreme Court justice — interviews potential judges. The panel is forbidden from asking about political affiliation. The panel recommends three finalists for each vacancy. The governor selects from those three. Periodically, voters decide whether a particular judge should be retained or dismissed. Incumbent supreme court justices usually win these retention votes easily. Not in 2010. In 2009, the seven-member Iowa Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Iowa’s ban on same-sex marriage violated the equal-protection clause of
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BUTLER: Out in Wisconsin.
the state constitution. Iowa became the third state to legalize same-sex marriage, behind Massachusetts and Connecticut. Five of the justices had been appointed by Democrats, two by Republicans. Social conservatives were outraged by the decision, and three of the offending judges were up for retention in 2010 — Chief Justice Marsha Ternus and Associate Justices David Baker and Michael Streit. Some Iowa Republican politicians were active in a movement to remove the three, but the anti-retention campaign got its money from a religious-right group, the American Family Association (AFA), headquartered in Tupelo, Miss. Originally called the National Federation for Decency, the organization was founded in 1977 by Rev. Donald Wildmon, and is often in the forefront of Religious Right causes. Its efforts bore fruit in Iowa. All three of the offending justices lost their retention votes. The decision allowing samesex marriage still stands. The Arkansas Task Force on Judicial Elections has been meeting for months and is expected to have some recommendations by the end of the year. Some of the proposals it is considering to keep judicial elections clean would require legislative action, possibly even constitutional revision. Some could be achieved more informally. The reform that might be the most effective might also be the hardest to achieve. Public financing of judicial campaigns would effectively prevent big campaign contributions from special interests, but as a practical matter, the chances of achieving public
financing in Arkansas are slight. Many Arkansans would be hostile to the idea of spending the people’s money to elect lawyers, figuring the lawyers get enough of their money already. But North Carolina has public financing, and other states are considering it. Another proposal would require judges to recuse in cases involving their big campaign contributors. Some judges do this now, voluntarily. Some don’t. A “rapid response team” of lawyers and laymen would respond to misleading ads by judicial candidates, possibly asking for a retraction from the candidate, and issuing its own statement if he or she didn’t retract. The use of an official “voter’s guide” providing information about judicial candidates and sent at no cost to all voters would perhaps lessen the use and influence of deceptive advertising. Most voters are unfamiliar with the judicial candidates, which makes them easier to mislead. The movement to keep specialinterest money from dominating judicial elections became even more urgent with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year in the Citizens United case. Reformers like Brown may want to lessen the influence of corporate contributors, but a majority of the Supreme Court does not. In a 5 to 4 decision, the Court removed the legal limits on corporate contributions in political races. Reformers feel that decision looming over them. “What we’re doing is prophylactic,” Brown said. “We’re getting ready for what we think is coming.”
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Arts Entertainment AND
ELVIS IS IN THE MUSEUM And so are Van Halen and Heart, at Barton.
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or decades, music fans in Central Arkansas knew Barton Coliseum as THE place for big name concerts. It certainly wasn’t the most ideal venue, thanks to its poor acoustics. But it was pretty much the only choice in the region for shows too big for Robinson Auditorium but not big enough for War Memorial Stadium. Fairgoers at this year’s Arkansas State Fair who lived through those years got a flashback with the unveiling of the Barton Rock ’n’ Roll Museum. It looks at a few especially noteworthy performances, as well as one show that didn’t end up taking place. It also features artists like Heart, Styx, Journey, Boston and Foghat, who played there repeatedly over the years. The collection, featuring 31 performers, is mostly housed in a small area just off the coliseum’s main hallway. Included are photos from shows, concert posters, ticket stubs and framed record albums. There are also legal contracts for a few of the performances, which are among the more interesting items featured. “Last year we started going through [the Arkansas State Fair] archives and seeing what we had and getting them preserved because they were in one of our buildings here on the grounds that was not a good place for them,” said Deb Crow, organizer of the museum. The efforts were initially for an exhibit that opened last year looking at the century-old history of the State Fair. Crow says she started coming across items related to the many huge rock shows featured at Barton and decided a look at that was warranted. One of the museum’s prime exhibits: a sold-out show by Elvis Presley on April 17, 1972. “We were able to have someone donate posters from the concert, had pictures donated, even a copy of the ticket,” said Crow. The photos feature Elvis in a red, glittering rhinestone jumpsuit with cape, while the marquee along Roosevelt 18 NOVEMBER 2, 2011 ARKANSAS TIMES
said “Welcome Elvis and thousands of out of state visitors. Sold out.” A CD of the performance was eventually released and is also on display. Another exhibit features a copy of a contract for a concert Lynyrd Skynyrd was to play at Barton Coliseum on Oct. 22, 1977. But two days before that, just a few shows into a new tour, a chartered plane crashed, killing several members of the band, including front man Ronnie Van Zant. The contract details how the group was guaranteed $12,500, plus 71.1 percent of the gross box office receipts over $36,887. But a handwritten notation says simply: “cancelled Van Zant killed in plane crash.” Other acts noted in the museum include Van Halen, the Jackson Five, Black Oak Arkansas, Jefferson Starship, the Allman Brothers and Grand Funk Railroad, which immortalized Little Rock and groupie “Sweet” Connie Hamzy in its 1973 anthem “We’re an American Band.” There’s also an extensive display on Stevie Ray Vaughan, who played there in 1984, including a contract signed by him and photos from a special VIP show. Like so many who grew up in Central Arkansas, my first concert was at Barton Coliseum. Looking at a display on the many performances there over the years by Rush, I was happy to see a ticket stub from the April 1, 1982, concert. It was a bewildering, mind-altering experience for a 10-year-old in fourth grade. My older brother had talked my parents into taking us. In the following years I’d see one concert after another there, including countless heavy metal bands, which for the most part aren’t included in the museum. Going to concerts at Barton was practically a right of passage for young people in the area. Walking into a show felt like walking into a rock ’n’ roll fantasy. The place would be swarming with teens and young adults, all enjoying a massive
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party away from parental eyes. There was always a smoky haze inside, sometimes so thick it was hard to see through to the stage. It was a different era for concerts, when general admission was typical, prompting people to line up outside Barton beginning early on the day of a concert. When the doors would finally open up, once getting past the tickettaker, people would often break into a hard sprint to secure a place near the front of the stage. In addition to the rock shows, many long gone legends of country and R&B also played at Barton. Tickets to James Brown concerts cost only 99 cents at one time. The museum feels a little hollow only noting the rock acts, but much of Barton’s records were lost when a secondary storage location was destroyed. Much of
what’s in the museum was preserved by a local music fan. Today Barton Coliseum is no longer used for concerts, with most large shows held at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock. With consideration underway of new possible locations for the Arkansas State Fair, the clock could be ticking for Barton Coliseum. One possible site could be in North Little Rock, if voters there approve a sales tax increase on Tuesday, Nov. 8. While I haven’t heard any specific talk of Barton being torn down, it’s hard to imagine the coliseum, which was built in 1949, remaining if the fairgrounds are moved. This museum at least acknowledges some of its history. The Barton Rock ’n’ Roll Museum is open 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and during occasional special events.
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which means Christmas is nigh, which means before you can say “two-day hangover” you’ll be tying one on and toasting the new year and wondering just how in the hell 2011 managed to sneak past you so quickly. And of course, with another new year comes another Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase. This marks the contest’s 20th year. Here’s how it’ll go down: your trusty Times staff and the folks from Stickyz and Revolution pare down the field to a gaggle of semi-finalists; starting Jan. 26, four of those acts will square off each week at Stickyz and five judges will select a winner. Each week’s winner moves on to the finals at Revolution. The winner of the final round will receive a bevy of excellent prizes and a drink named in his, her or their honor. So if you are an Arkansas-based musical act (solo or band) performing original material in any genre, you should go ahead and enter at www.arktimes.com/ showcase12.
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THE TO-DO
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BY ROBERT BELL AND BERNARD REED
WEDNESDAY 11/2
OZARK FOLK FESTIVAL
Various times. Eureka Springs. Free-$15.
Back for its 64th year, the original Ozark folk festival is taking hold of Arkansas’s quirkiest, coolest small town with up-and-coming and wellestablished musical acts from around the region playing in various venues around town. The headliners are, per usual, a who’s who of bluegrass — Big Smith (Friday) and Still on the Hill, Split Lip Rayfield and 3 Penny Acre (Saturday) — with their unique folk and country sounds that keep them swimming against the mainstream. On Friday night is the festival’s oldest tradition, the Barefoot Ball, which is as unpretentious as it sounds (although, hillbillies be warned, shoes are required for entrance). The Folk Festival Parade, with a “Eureka through the Years” theme, rolls through Saturday for the grand finale. BR.
THURSDAY 11/3
WEDNESDAY 11/2
‘BLAZE FOLEY: DUCT TAPE MESSIAH’
‘DRUNKEN ANGEL’: Stickyz screens a documentary about legendary singer/songwriter Blaze Foley and follows it with a concert.
RVIVR
8:30 p.m., Stickyz Rock N’ Roll Chicken Shack. $10 adv., $12 d.o.s.
From out of the damp, green environs of Olympia, Wash., comes the upbeat sound of RVIVR, playing punk-rock ’n’ roll a la Dillinger Four or maybe Against Me! The band crafts driving pop-punk anthems with lots of palm-muting, boygirl shout-singing and soaring, dramatic choruses rife with “whoa-ohs” and on a couple of tracks — I kid you not — horns. And it’s awesome. It’s been a ton of years since I kept up with DIY punk, but RVIVR (pronounced “reviver”) is the kind of band that makes you remember what it’s like to be excited about living for the moment, drinking too much cheap beer with your best friends, kissing this town goodbye and flipping a fat middle finger to the square community. This is music that’s earnest but not naive, skeptical but not cynical, bursting with poppy hooks but still capable of leaving a bruise. You know that cute girl with the green hair and the nose ring and the Molotov cocktail tattoo, the one who works at the grimy punk-rock pizza joint in every mid-sized city in the country? RVIVR is her favorite band. It could be yours, too. Brother Andy and No Hickeys round out what will be a bitchin’ show that you’ll be glad you went to next time your jerkwad boss has you all bummed out. RB.
Malvern-born troubadour and duct tape aficionado Blaze Foley finally gets his due in a documentary more than 20 years after he was shot to death by a friend over nothing more than a grudge. Although some of his great-
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lawyer Brad Hendricks, whose firm is sponsoring the screening at Stickyz, was one of those acquaintances; they were good friends and even shared a place one time. Multi-instrumentalist Gurf Morlix, who has collaborated with everyone from Robert Earl Keen to Lucinda Williams (whose “Drunken Angel” is a tribute to Foley), performs after the documentary screening with Triplett. BR.
FRIDAY 11/4
‘THE QUALITY OF LIFE’
7:30 p.m. The Weekend Theater. $12-$16.
It’s hard these days to avoid the ideological conflicts of our political and cultural landscape; there’s too much yelling and not enough insight, and it seems nobody can get along because nobody really wants to. TV and the Internet, for all their hopeful modernity, have turned into the stomping ground of the stupid, so perhaps it’s worth it to examine our world in a more oldfashioned way, from the stage. The Weekend Theater presents this drama about a conservative couple whose faith in God helps them cope with the death of their adult daughter, and their weekend visit to liberal, hippy-dippy cousins who live in Berkeley and smoke medical marijuana. By now these are two worldviews whose clash we are not unfamiliar with, but the stage is generally a quiet place, and it possesses a realism that might remind us that we’re all human, no matter what we believe in. The drama continues Nov. 5, 11, 12, 18 and 19. BR
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est songs are best known from the interpretations of other artists, such as Merle Haggard (“If Only I Could Fly”) and John Prine (“Clay Pigeons”), Foley’s music maintains an impressive legion of followers. He lived all over the country, from Georgia to Chicago to Austin, and his vast number of acquaintances made the film project a logistically difficult one for Texan director Kevin Triplett. Little Rock
GOD DRAMA: Alan Douglas, Fran Jameson, Stephanie Gunderman and Scott Minor star in ‘Quality of Life.’
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IN BRIEF
THURSDAY 11/3
SATURDAY 11/5
CORNBREAD FESTIVAL
11 a.m. Bernice Garden. $3-$5.
Cornbread is to Southern cuisine kind of like Faulkner is to Southern literature, or the word “y’all” is to our regional dialect: the standout you can’t avoid twining into any sensible conversation on the subject, so ubiquitous and obvious and essential that it almost
need not be mentioned at all. Cornbread is, after all, bread, a benchmark in not only culinary but also cultural achievement (see our Native’s Guide to cornbread in Arkansas on page 58). The Bernice Garden hosts this inaugural South Main celebration of castiron connoisseurs, professionals and amateurs who can do a thing or two with maize and butter, all while tap-
ping their feet to blues and bluegrass. Besides a cornbread competition and music there’ll be vendors, a variety of family activities and “Cornbread Gospels” author Crescent Dragonwagon (who will also give a talk at noon at the Historic Arkansas Museum). Put down “The Sound and the Fury” and grab some comfort food that Faulkner would be proud of. BR.
SUNDAY 11/6
DEAD CONFEDERATE
8:30 p.m. Stickyz. $10.
SMART PSYCH: Dead Meadow comes to Juanita’s.
SUNDAY 11/6
DEAD MEADOW 8 p.m. Juanita’s. $10 adv., $12 d.o.s.
It’s time for a live show of music that’s made for lying in bed watching the ceiling fan spin, tuning in and dropping out to slumberous skyward guitars. For a band that’s so potently neo-psychedelic and stoner rock, Dead Meadow seems to be made up of fairly smart guys — their drummer stepped out temporarily to
After touring with the Meat Puppets and Dinosaur Jr. (who it opened for the band last time it was in Little Rock), Dead Confederate ought to be ready to make it on its own. Listeners still eat up Nirvana, of course, who always take the number one slot when the “sounds like” comparison is made for the Athens-based altrockers. Front man Hardy Morris doesn’t quite hit the right level of Cobain melancholia, although his hair is stringy enough to play the part, and there’s a uniquely unSeattle drawl — both in Morris’ vocals and in the steely, swerving notes of the guitar. Maybe this country-grunge fusion is too safe or too neurotic a path to take, but in a world where the rock ’n’ roll charts have been hijacked by the likes of Nickelback, Dead Confederate can take whatever path it wants. BR.
go to law school, and they have lyrics indebted to Tolkien and Lovecraft (considered reasonably intellectual reading). But critics are polarized over whether or not the band has made any significant evolution after 10 years and five albums. It’s up to you to decide — are they pushing boundaries with janglier riffs and more harmonic restraint than ever, or just languishing in the cavernous reverb of a long-running acid-trip? BR.
BACK TO HEADLINE: After touring with Dinosaur Jr., Dead Confederate plays Stickyz.
pendulum hips that ticked scandalously. Coming to Arkansas is Eddie Miles, Grade A Elvis impersonator, to touch a few more lives and keep the music alive in all of our hearts. Critics, including Elvis’ drummer, a couple of his guitarists, and lifelong friends, say Miles is one of the best. He’s billed as
one of the classier tribute acts, and also plays songs from country legends in his solo performance. If the King really is still alive out there somewhere, he’s either awfully pleased with his reputation, or seriously creeped out. Miles returns for another concert on Wednesday, too. BR.
6 p.m. Murry’s Dinner Playhouse. $23-$33.
According to Wikipedia, 84 percent of Americans say their lives have in some way been touched by Elvis. I, for one, used to have an Elvis clock with
FRIDAY 11/4 Downtown Music Hall’s massive lineup of Christian post-hardcore bands is a real mouthful, with A Bullet For Pretty Boy, The Great Commission, The Plot in You, The Air I Breathe and The Front Line, 6 p.m., $11. Glossary and Austin Lucas are no doubt two of the most beloved Americana acts that frequent Arkansas, and Maxine’s has both of them, 8 p.m., $5 adv., $7 door. For some Red Dirt country rockin’, Revolution has Jason Boland & The Stragglers and American Aquarium at an 18-and-older show, 9 p.m., $12 adv., $15 d.o.s. For some late-night rowdiness, check out Joecephus & The George Jonestown Massacre at Midtown, 12:30 a.m., $5. Fans of bratty Millennial pop-punk and post-Bieber boy-bands will have their hands full at Juanita’s with All Time Low, The Ready Set and He Is We, 9 p.m., $22.50 adv., $25 d.o.s. The FOCAL book sale starts at 10 a.m. at Main Library.
SATURDAY 11/5
TUESDAY 11/8
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Do you seek an evening of heavymetal-psych-rock-riff-o-rama? Look no further than White Water Tavern, which hosts Iron Tongue, Black-Eyed Vermillion and Whiskey Dick, 9 p.m., $5. Up in Fayetteville, UARK Bowl has John Oates, one half of legendarily smooth blue-eyed soul duo Hall & Oates. It starts at 8 p.m., $20 adv., $22 door. Cajun’s Wharf has The Gettys as the headlining act and Ben & Doug playing during happy hour, 5 p.m. and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. Author David Cortight will discuss “Ending Obama’s War,” his book about U.S. and NATO military policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Clinton School of Public Service, 6 p.m., free.
Ed Bowman & The Rock City Players bring rockin’ R&B to Shooter’s Sports Bar & Grill, 9 p.m., $5. The Toneadoes tear it up and put it all back together at Cregeen’s Irish Pub, 8 p.m., $5. Get out your wallets, comic book geeks, because it’s time once more for the River City Comic Expo at Sherwood Forest. It’s $3 to get in, doors open at 10 a.m. and the cosplay costume contest starts at 11 a.m. Arkansas TheatreWorks’ production of the Fats Waller-inspired musical “Ain’t Misbehavin’” opens at Central Theatre, 8 p.m., $20-$30. This is your last chance to catch “That ’80s Show” at Wildwood Park for the Arts, 7 p.m., $15-$25. www.arktimes.com NOVEMBER 2, 2011 21
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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2
MUSIC
Alternative Wednesdays. Features alternative bands from Central Arkansas and the surrounding areas. Mediums Art Lounge, 6:30 p.m., $5. 521 Center St. 501-374-4495. Archeology. For ages 18 and older. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8:30 p.m., $6. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com. Bolly Open Mic Hype Night with Osyrus Bolly and DJ Messiah. All American Wings, 9 p.m. 215 W. Capitol Ave. 501-376-4000. allamericanwings.com. Brian & Nick. Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-3755351. www.cajunswharf.com. Chris Robinson & The Brotherhood. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9 p.m., $22. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226. Gil Franklin & Friends. Holiday Inn, North Little Rock, first Tuesday, Wednesday of every month. 120 W. Pershing Blvd., NLR. Grim Muzik presents Way Back Wednesdays. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 8:30 p.m. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub.com. Heidi Newfield, Bridgette Tatum, Lindsay Kate Band. For ages 18 and up. Revolution, 7:30 p.m., $10 adv., $15 d.o.s. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. RVIVR, Brother Andy and His Big Damn Mouth, No Hickeys. For ages 18 and older. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $6. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG.
COMEDY
Tommy Blaze, Kurt Green, Tommy Nolan. The Loony Bin, 8 p.m.; Nov. 4, 10:30 p.m.; Nov. 5, 7, 9 and 11 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.
EVENTS
Jewish Learning Event. Rabbi Euguene Levy of Temple B’nai Israel will discuss the history of Reform Judaism and the creation of Conservative Judaism. Hendrix College, 7:30 p.m. 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. 501-4504597. www.hendrix.edu. “Pinta” and “Nina” docking. Replicas of Christopher Columbus’ ships will dock at Riverfront Park for visitors to explore. Riverfront Park, through Nov. 6, 9 a.m. p.m., $6-$8.
LECTURES
“The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, American Policy and the Arab Uprisings.” Ethan Bronner, Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times, will discuss the current state of U.S. and Middle East relations. Clinton Presidential Center, 6 p.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 370-8000.
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SUPER-SPAZZ: Atlanta’s Family Force 5 mixes the over-the-top theatricality of André 3000 with pop, pop-punk, techno, auto-tuned vocals and a heaping helping of ADD and puts it all in a big Gen-Y blender and hits “puree.” The result? One of the most bewilderingly, mind-blowingly bizarre musical concoctions ever. If that sounds like your cup of crazy, don’t miss this show, at Revolution, 9 p.m., $15. www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org. Remembering LBJ and Ladybird. Christy Carpenter is the guest speaker. Lunch will be served. Reservations required. Governor’s Mansion, 11:30 a.m., $20. 1800 Center St. “The Thousand-Year Flood: The OhioMississippi Disaster of 1937.” David Welky, associate professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas, discusses one of the biggest natural disasters in American history. Main Library, 12 p.m. 100 S. Rock St. www.cals.lib.ar.us.
THURSDAY, NOV. 3
MUSIC
“BLISS.” Music by DJ Greyhound. Deep Ultra Lounge, 10 p.m. 322 President Clinton Ave. Fire & Brimstone. Faulkner County Library, 7 p.m. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www.fcl.org. The Gettys (headliner), Ben & Doug (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www. cajunswharf.com. Grandchildren, Brian Martin. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $5. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub. com. “Inferno.” DJs play pop, electro, house and more, plus drink specials and $1 cover before 11 p.m. Sway, 9 p.m. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582. Iron Tongue. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $5.
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2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. John Oates. UARK Bowl, 8 p.m., $20 adv., $22 door. 644 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-3012030. www.uarkballroom.com/. Ol’ Puddin’haid. Thirst n’ Howl, 7:30 p.m., free. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirstn-howl.com. Port Arthur Band. Parrot Beach Cafe, 9 p.m. 9611 MacArthur Drive, NLR. 771-2994. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG.
COMEDY
Tommy Blaze, Kurt Green, Tommy Nolan. The Loony Bin, through Nov. 4, 8 p.m.; Nov. 4, 10:30 p.m.; Nov. 5, 7, 9 and 11 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www. loonybincomedy.com.
EVENTS
64th Annual Original Ozark Folk Festival. Includes arts and crafts demonstrations, a parade and performances from Split Lip Rayfield, Big Smith, 3 Penny Acre, Still on the Hill and others. Basin Spring Park, 10 a.m., $10$15. Downtown Eureka Springs, Eureka Springs.
479-253-7333. Arkansas Workforce Services 2011 Career Expo. Information about job vacancies, meetings with employers, and workshops on interviewing, networking, resume tips and more. Verizon Arena, 10 a.m., free. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 855-225-4440. www.ARJobLink.com. “Columbo and Crime Television.” Amelie Hastie, associate professor of English and chair of Film and Media Studies at Amherst College, will present this lecture about the popular crime series in relation to crime television past and present. Hendrix College, 7:30 p.m. 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. 501-450-4597. www. hendrix.edu. Hillcrest Shop & Sip. Shops and restaurants offer discounts, later hours, and live music. Hillcrest, first Thursday of every month, 5-10 p.m. P.O.Box 251522. 501-666-3600. www.hillcrestmerchants.com. “Pinta” and “Nina” docking. See Nov. 2. Quapaw Quarter Association Annual Membership Meeting and Greater Little Rock Preservation Awards. Kirk Huffaker, Executive Director of the Utah Heritage Foundation, will join us to speak about successful neighborhood revitalization programs. Historic Arkansas Museum, 5:30 p.m., Free. 200 E. Third St. 501-324-9351. www.quapaw.com.
LECTURES
David Cortight. The author of “Ending Obama’s War” will discuss his book about U.S. and NATO military policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Clinton School of Public Service, 6 p.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5239. www.clintonschool.uasys.edu.
CLASSES
“Your Story” workshop. Free autobiographical writing and performance workshop led by Pulaski Technical College instructors April Gentry-Sutterfield and Paula Morell. Limited to 20; to register, contact Mary Gall at 501-8122751 or mgall@pulaskitech.edu. Laman Library, 6 p.m. 2801 Orange St., NLR. 501-758-1720. www.lamanlibrary.org.
FRIDAY, NOV. 4
MUSIC
All Time Low, The Ready Set, He Is We. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $22.50 adv., $25 d.o.s. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com. Brandon White. Cregeen’s Irish Pub, 8 p.m. 301 Main St., NLR. 501-376-7468. www.cre3421 Old Cantrell Rd • 501-353-0360 geens.com. 3421 Old Cantrell Rd. • 501-353-0360 (One block from Loca Luna) Brian & Nick. Flying Saucer, 9 p.m., $3. 323 (One block from Loca Luna) President Clinton Ave. 501-372-7468. www. www.unionbistrolittlerock.com Lunch • Tuesday - Friday 11 am - 2 pm beerknurd.com/stores/littlerock. Dinner • Tuesday Saturday 5 pm 12 am Lunch • Tuesday-Friday 11am-2pm A Bullet For Pretty Boy, The Great Commission, Brunch • Sunday 10 am - 2 pm Dinner • Tuesday-Friday 5pm-12am The Plot in You, The Air I Breathe, The Front Brunch • Sunday 10am-2pm Line. Downtown Music Hall, 6 p.m., $11. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownshows. 3421 Old Cantrell Rd • 501-353-0360 homestead.com. (One block from Loca Luna) Tuesday - Thursday • Never aDJ cover Silky Slim. Top 40 and dance music. Sway, 9 Live Local Music Lunch • Tuesday - Friday 11 am - 2 pm p.m., $5. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582. Dinner • Tuesday - Saturday 5 pm - 12 am Thursday & Saturday nights Ed Burks. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, Nov. 4-5, Brunch • Sunday 10 am - 2 pm Never a cover 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. Starting a 9:30 • $5.00 cover www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Live local music “The Flow Fridays.” Twelve Modern Lounge, 8 Salsa Night on Fridays Tuesday - Thursday • Never a cover p.m. 1900 W. Third St. Starting at 9:30 • $5.00 cover FreeVerse. 18 and up show. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Salas Night on Fridays Chicken Shack, 10 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. Starting a 9:30 • $5.00 cover Daily Lunch and Dinner Specials 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.
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Glossary, Austin Lucas. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $5 adv., $7 door. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. Gravel Road. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $5. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com. Jason Boland & The Stragglers, American Aquarium. 18+ show. Revolution, 9 p.m., $12 adv., $15 d.o.s. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501823-0090. revroom.com. Jerry Don O’Neal. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 9 p.m. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 9 p.m. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. www.jerrydononeal.com. Jodi James (headliner), Richie Johnson (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www. cajunswharf.com. Joecephus & The George Jonestown Massacre. Midtown Billiards, 12:30 a.m., $5. 1316 Main St. 501-372-9990. midtownar.com. Michael Ward, Ed Perkins. Porter’s Jazz Cafe, 9 p.m., $20. 315 Main St. 501-324-1900. www. portersjazzcafe.com. Minerva, Scott Diffee & His Six String, Threshold. Vino’s, 9 p.m., $8. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com. Nine Lives Spent. Shooter’s Sports Bar & Grill, 9 p.m., $5. 9500 I-30. 501-565-4003. www.shooterslittlerock.com/. OTR. Denton’s Trotline, 9 p.m. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717. Runaway Planet. The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG.
COMEDY
Tommy Blaze, Kurt Green, Tommy Nolan. The Loony Bin, through Nov. 4, 8 p.m.; Nov. 4, 10:30 p.m.; Nov. 5, 7, 9 and 11 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www. loonybincomedy.com.
DANCE
Dancing into Dreamland. Benefit for Dreamland Ballroom restoration with performance by Lawrence Hamilton, competitive dancing with text voting, silent auction, appetizers, refreshments. After party at Porter’s Jazz Cafe, 315 Main St., from 9 to 12. Governor’s Mansion, 6 p.m., $100. 1800 Center St. 501-607-0954. www. dreamlandballroom.org.
EVENTS
Arkansas AIDS Walk Wine & Cheese Kickoff. Silent auction and entertainment. Historic Rogers House, 7 p.m., $20. 400 W. 18th St. 501-376-6299. Arkansas Genealogical Society seminar and book fair. Saturday registration includes lunch. Includes special lecture sessions with genealogist Mark Lowe Friday and Saturday. Wyndham Riverfront Hotel, Nov. 4, 5 p.m.; Nov. 5, 8 a.m., $30 Friday only; $35 Saturday only; $50 both days. 2 Riverfront Place, NLR. 501-888-6981. www.agsgenealogy.org. “Cornbread: Food, Shelter, Story.” Talk by Crescent Dragonwagon, author of “Cornbread Gospels.” Kicks off the Arkansas Cornbread Festival at the Bernice Garden, 1401 S. Main Street. RSVP to 324-9351. Historic Arkansas Museum, 12 p.m. 200 E. Third St. 501-324-9351. www.ARCornbreadFestival.com.
Hot Springs Jaguar Invitational car rally. This rally takes place at various locations in Hot Springs. Downtown Hot Springs, 11 a.m. Central Avenue, Hot Springs. 501-366-4110. LGBTQ/SGL Youth and Young Adult Group. Diverse Youth for Social Change is a group for LGBTQ/SGL and straight ally youth and young adults age 14 to 23. For more information, call 244-9690 or search “DYSC” on Facebook. 800 Scott St., 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St. “Pinta” and “Nina” docking. See Nov. 2.
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LECTURES
Dennis Henigan. Thee acting president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence will discuss American gun policy. Clinton School of Public Service, 12 p.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5239. www.clintonschool.uasys. edu.
POETRY
Haiku Hot Springs. National Park Community College Library, Hot Springs, 9 a.m., free.
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BOOKS
FOCAL book sale. FOCAL members are allowed to shop the basement starting at 9am on Friday and Saturday. Main Library, Nov. 4, 10 a.m.; Nov. 5, 10 a.m.; Nov. 6, 1 p.m. 100 S. Rock St. 501-918-3086. www.cals.org.
SATURDAY, NOV. 5
MUSIC
Arkansas Trainwreck feat. Mare Borgelt. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 9 p.m. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub.com. Banks & Shane. Woodlands Auditorium, 7:30 p.m., $18. 1101 De Soto Blvd., Hot Springs Village. 501-922-4321. www.hsvwoodlands. com. Ben Miller Band. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $5. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. Crash Meadows (headliner), Andy Tanas (happy hour). White Water Tavern, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2500 W. 7th. 501-3758400. www.whitewatertavern.com. DJs Ramon, Joel Allenbaugh, A.M.P. and Hollywood. Performers include Dominique, Skye Ohara Paige and Whitney Paige. Discovery Nightclub, 9 p.m., $12. 1021 Jessie Road. 501-664-4784. www.latenightdisco.com. Ed Bowman & The Rock City Players. Shooter’s Sports Bar & Grill, 9 p.m., $5. 9500 I-30. 501565-4003. www.shooterslittlerock.com/. Ed Burks. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www. sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Family Force 5. All ages show. Revolution, 9 p.m., $15. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-8230090. revroom.com. Four on the Floor. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com. Ghost Town Blues Band. Midtown Billiards, 12:30 a.m., $5. 1316 Main St. 501-372-9990. midtownar.com. The Kavanaugh Band. The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com. Kent Burnside & The New Generation. 18 and up show. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www. stickyfingerz.com. “KISS Saturdays” with DJs Deja Blu,
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THE TELEVISIONIST
Beavis and Butt-head return BY DAVID KOON
BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD: NEW EPISODES Thursdays at 9 p.m. MTV
It’s time to dig your Nirvana t-shirt out of the closet and get that case of OK Soda you’ve had aging behind the water heater, because “Beavis and Butt-head” is back. Created by Mike Judge, the seminal bonehead cartoon series broke a lot of ground when it first debuted in March 1993, earning legions of fans and howls of protest from parents’ groups, who clearly didn’t see the humor in the two low-forehead heroes’ penchant for lechery, setting stuff on fire and getting stoned on paint thinner fumes. Judge — seeking to focus more time on his more family-friendly series “King of the Hill” — had the dumbass duo ride off into the sunset at the height of the popularity in Nov. 1997 (a feature film, “Beavis and Butt-head Do America,” had done big biz at the box office the previous year),
but with the cancellation of “King of the Hill” in May 2010, it looks like Judge saw the wisdom of cashing in on Generation X’s 1990s nostalgia while the getting was good. I caught the first new 2011 episode last week, and, while the show paved the way for naughty, envelope-shredding fare like “Family Guy,” “South Park” and “Adult Swim,” it seems positively tame now. That ain’t to say it’s not still funny as hell though, especially given that the new episodes feature Beavis and Butt-head not only doing their shtick of providing color-commentary for music videos (for everybody under the age of 20: a “music video” is a kind of minimovie set to a popular song. Look it up on Wikipedia), but also ripping into scenes from the reality-show dreck that has replaced music on MTV in the years since the first incarnation of “Beavis and Butt-head” went off the air, including “Jersey Shore.” (Sample: “You’re the best grandma ever, Grandma Jwoww... tell us again about the time you got syphilis.”)
While it’s questionable whether the show will manage to catch the attention of the youngsters once again, especially in this world that’s full of much edgier cartoon fare, it’ll be must-see TV every week for this old fart, and may well win some new converts.
HELL ON WHEELS: SERIES PREMIERE 9 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6 AMC
If you’re old enough to remember the dim days of ten years ago, you know that AMC was once the Old Lady of basic cable, running mothballed flicks from the vaults and hovering only a step or two above Turner Classic Movies in the coolness department (“Welcome back to TCM! Here’s another 26-hour marathon of movies starring Fred Murray to help you kill a few more hours until your inevitable death!”). In recent years though, AMC has morphed into a dramatic powerhouse, rolling the dice on some of the edgiest, most genre-busting television around and winning big with fans and critics. As you know well by now if you’ve watched this space for awhile, I’ve come to trust AMC almost absolutely when it comes to their dramatic series development. Viewers have as well, with groundbreaking show
after show taking off like rockets and scooping up the Emmy Awards — “Mad Men,” “Breaking Bad” and “The Walking Dead.” That’s not to say they can’t lose (their flopped espionage thriller “Rubicon” comes to mind), but the network’s definitely got a hell of a lot better batting average than NBC. Now comes their new foray into the Western genre, “Hell on Wheels.” The show features Anson Mount as Cullen Bohannon, a former Confederate Army soldier and all-around Dangerous Sumbitch, who is out for blood after his wife was murdered by a band of Union raiders during the darkest days of the Civil War. With Reconstruction in full swing, Bohannon heads west to Hell on Wheels, the massive tent city of workers, whores, swindlers, cutthroats, robber barons and preachers that moved along with the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad as the rails inched west to the Pacific. Helping out Mount is an ensemble cast, including the rapper Common as freed slave Elam Ferguson. While I haven’t snagged a copy of the pilot yet, the trailer (available at AMC.com) looks damn fine, with sprawling vistas, tons of period filth, and Bohannon shooting a priest in the face through the screen of a confessional. If that’s what’s in the trailer, I can’t wait to see what the show comes up with week to week. Definitely one to watch.
THE TELEVISIONIST Greyhound and Silky Slim. Sway, 10 p.m. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582. Mobley. Vino’s, 9 p.m. 923 W. 7th St. 501-3758466. www.vinosbrewpub.com. Nordic Lights. Featuring piano soloist Neil Rutman. Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA, 7:30 p.m., $6 for students, $20-$30 for adults. 350 S. Donaghey, Conway. 450-5506. conwaysymphony.org. Shannon McClung. Flying Saucer, 9 p.m., $3. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-7468. www. beerknurd.com/stores/littlerock. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www. capitalhotel.com/CBG. The Toneadoes. Cregeen’s Irish Pub, 8 p.m., $5. 301 Main St., NLR. 501-376-7468. www. cregeens.com.
COMEDY
Tommy Blaze, Kurt Green, Tommy Nolan. The Loony Bin, 7, 9 and 11 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www. loonybincomedy.com.
EVENTS
Arkansas AIDS Walk. Registration begins at 10:30 a.m. River Market Pavilions, 12:15 p.m., $25; $15 for students. Registration begins at 10:30 a.m. River Market Pavilions, 12:15 p.m., $25; $15 for students. 400 President Clinton Ave. 376-6299. www.rivermarket.info. Arkansas Genealogical Society seminar and book fair. See Nov. 4. Arkansas Farmers Market. Locally grown produce. Certified Farmers Market, 7 a.m.-12 p.m.
6th and Main, NLR. Cornbread Festival. Includes a cornbread competition, games, live music and more. The Bernice Garden, 11 a.m., $3-$5. 1401 S. Main St. www.thebernicegarden.org. Eureka Springs 64th Annual Folk Festival. Artists will demonstrate a variety of crafts, including broom-making, weaving, wood carving, blacksmithing and more. Basin Spring Park, 10 a.m. Downtown Eureka Springs, Eureka Springs. 479-253-7333. Fall Craft Show and Used Book Sale. Artisans and vendors will sell unique items ranging from jewelry to soup mix to home decor. Breakfast and lunch available. Grace Lutheran Church, 9 a.m., free. 5124 Hillcrest Ave. 501-663-3631. Falun Gong meditation. Allsopp Park, 9 a.m., free. Cantrell & Cedar Hill Roads.
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Hillcrest Farmers Market. Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, 7 a.m. 2200 Kavanaugh Blvd. “Pinta” and “Nina” docking. See Nov. 2.
LECTURES
“The Teddy Bear and the Spanish-American War.” MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 9 a.m., Free. 503 E. 9th St. 501-376-4602. www.arkmilitaryheritage.com.
SPORTS
Team NUSA 2012 5K Race to Indianapolis. This is the first annual 5K race to raise money for Little Rock’s Team Neighborhoods USA to attend the upcoming NUSA conference. Hindman Park, 8 a.m. 60 Brookview Drive. www. meadowcliffbrookwood.org. CONTINUED ON PAGE 30
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Celebrate our 7th Anniversary at the Clinton Center November 12 – 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Parade of nations
Start at overpass on President Clinton Avenue, 4:00 – 4:30 PM
Reception at the Clinton Presidential Center great Hall 5:00 – 6:00 PM
Free concert
New Clinton Bridge, 5:00 – 6:00 PM
Monday, November 7 international Companies Seminar
Darragh Center, Central Arkansas Library, 9:45 – 10:45 AM
Coffee Break with international Coffees
Darragh Center, 10:45 – 11:15 AM
Local Businesses engaged internationally Seminar
Darragh Center, 11:15 – 12:15 PM
Lunch - Albert Porter Citizen Diplomacy Award Darragh Center, 12:15 – 1:25 PM
international Students in Higher education Seminar Room 110, Ark. Studies Center, 1:30 – 3:30 PM
nonprofits in the international Sector Seminar Room 124, Ark. Studies Center, 1:30 – 3:30 PM
High tea and networking
Darragh Center, 3:30 – 4:30 PM
See what’s NEW at the Clinton Center! Audio Tours Audio tours narrated by President Clinton are FREE. New features added to the audio tour!
See amazing sculptures out of LEGO® bricks.
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Nathan Sawaya’s The Art of the Brick Open until February 12, 2012 Dubbed the Picasso of LEGO® bricks, lawyer-turned-artist Nathan Sawaya creates artistic masterpieces from the beloved toy. LEGO® Robotics Demonstrations 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Clinton Center, in partnership with the Science and Technology Group and FIRST® LEGO® League, will showcase LEGO® MINDSTORMS Robotics. Arkansas FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL®) teams will present their robotic designs and showcase their problem-solving skills, creative thinking and teamwork to school groups. Demonstrations will be held every hour.
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no charge due to the generosity of the Summit Planning Committee.
All are welcome to bring the flag of their birth or citizenship & come join the fun and a free concert afterward. An opportunity to show Arkansas the nations represented by our residents. Parade begins on Pres. Clinton Avenue underneath the I-30 bridge at 4 PM on Sunday Nov. 6, 2011. Sponsored by:
Walter Nunn Executive Director, 501-370-9400 Lafayette Square 523 Louisiana, Suite 450, arkciv.org
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AnnuAl HolidAy open House
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Fri. Nov 11th & Sat. Nov 12th 10 a.m. till 6 p.m.
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Oliver’s Antiques
Best little antique store in central Arkansas! 501.982.0064 1101 Burman Dr. • Jacksonville Take Main St. Exit, East on Main, Right on S. Hospital & First Left to Burman
Christmas Open House November 11 & 12
Florist & Gift Shoppe 918 W. Main St Jacksonville 501-982-3125 M-F 8-5 • Sat 9-4
MonDay-SaTuRDay 10-5
We’re Telling Tales! Lunch: Tuesday-Saturday 11am-3pm Dinner: Friday-Saturday 5pm-9pm Dinner And A Show: Tuesday’s 5pm-8pm
‘Shrek’ Mae by V.L. Cox
411 Main St. • In The Heart Of The Argenta Arts District Downtown North Little Rock www.TalesFromTheSouth.com • 501.372.7976
Paws in the Vineyard Benefiting CARE for Animals
wine tasting w hors d’oeuvres w drawings Thursday, November 3 w 5:30 - 8:00pm $40 per guest
Unitarian Universalist Church of Little Rock, 1818 Reservoir Road
501.603.2273 to purchase tickets Wine Master: Bruce Cochran
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Framed print by Amy Reges to be raffled. CARE for Animals 5516 Kavanaugh Blvd. Little Rock, AR 72207 501.603.2273 www.careforanimals.org 26 NOVEMBER 2, 2011 ARKANSAS TIMES
Oct. 28, Robinson Center Music Hall BY WERNER TRIESCHMANN
N
ew York critics weren’t wild about the 2008 stage incarnation of “Shrek the Musical.” But, outside of “The Lion King,” theater critics have pretty much walled off their hearts to popular film cartoons being made into high-priced, Great White Way entertainment. Then again, it’s a tricky business to turn the intricately animated into singing and dancing flesh-and-blood. Now “Shrek the Musical” arrives at Robinson Center Music Hall thanks to a non-equity tour diverted to Little Rock by Celebrity Attractions. Directed on Broadway by Arkansas native Jason Moore, “Shrek” has undergone changes and songs have been added and cut (book and lyrics are by David LindsayAbaire and music is by Jeanine Tesori), but it’s still a musical that very much resembles the 2001 Dreamworks movie. On stage, “Shrek” is funny and involving — like the movie, it’s aimed at tickling adults and children. The cracked fairy tale story of an ogre and a princess with a secret doesn’t take itself too seriously or smother the audience in winks. There are sections that simply don’t translate on stage but they pass pretty quickly. That’s good because “Shrek” lasts two and half hours, which is something to know if you are taking kids. As a story, “Shrek” is a busy and pop-
ulated tale beginning with fairy tale creatures that are relocated to Shrek’s swamp by the vertically-challenged Lord Farquaad (played with great relish and on his knees in a special short legs costume by Merritt David James). The group is lead by a particularly pessimistic Pinocchio (Chase Todd) and there’s even Gingy (voiced by Schuyler Midgett), the sassy gingerbread cookie. Of course Donkey, the part that was voiced by Eddie Murphy in the movie and who Andre Jordan sounds a lot like here, is along for the journey to be both pain and friend to Shrek. Overall, the performances in this “Shrek” are energetic and comic without crossing over into the camp territory. As Shrek, Lukas Poost’s accent gets the better of him at times but he plays off well with Liz Shivener’s sharp, “bi-polar” Princess Fiona. Tesori’s music has a modern edge to it and is more serviceable than memorable. The songs are spiced by Lindsay-Abaire’s witty lyrics. The parts that don’t work in this “Shrek” are the parts that really could only be pulled off on film — the dragon is an impressive large puppet but does it really need to have a song? And the spectacle of Princess Fiona’s final transformation is pretty but doesn’t make sense. Still, “Shrek” is light and bright entertainment. The show isn’t trying to be the Great American Musical, thank goodness, and just because Hollywood got to it first doesn’t make it bad. The story holds up and the ogre and his cartoon pals are good-hearted and warped just enough to be worth the time.
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NEW MOVIES Anonymous (PG-13) – What if Shakespeare didn’t really write all those plays and his works were actually created by time-travelling robots? Sadly, this period piece doesn’t explore that tantalizing, entirely plausible angle. From the director of “Stargate.” Rave: 10:30 a.m, 1:30, 4:30, 7:35, 10:35. Saint (NR) – An evil Saint Nick brings bloody Christmas carnage to Amsterdam. Can a renegade ex-cop stop this jolly, murderous madman? Market Street: 2:15, 4:15, 6:45, 9:00. The Way (PG-13) – Martin Sheen plays a father who learns some unexpected lessons after traveling to France to pick up the remains of his adult son, who was killed while hiking in the Pyrenees. Written and directed by Emilio Estevez. Market Street: 1:45, 4:00, 7:00, 9:15. Tower Heist (PG-13) – A Bernie Madoff type steals millions from his clients as well as the retirement funds of the staffers at his luxury condo. Breckenridge: 1:05, 4:05, 7:10, 10:00. Rave: 12:01 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1:30, 2:30, 3:45, 4:15, 5:15, 7:00, 8:00, 8:45, 9:45, 10:45. Riverdale: 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40. A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (R) – Remember how the first Indiana Jones movie was awesome, and the second one was kinda meh, but then the third was awesome again? (3D Stoner Christmas comedy). Breckenridge: 1:35, 4:35, 7:40, 10:15. Rave: 12:01 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 12:55, 2:40, 3:35, 5:00, 5:55, 7:30, 8:30, 10:00, 11:10. Riverdale: 11:25 a.m., 1:30, 3:40, 5:50, 8:00, 10:15. RETURNING THIS WEEK 50/50 (R) – Seth Rogen and Joseph GordonLevitt star in this story of love, friendship and finding humor in the face of serious illness. Riverdale: 11:40 a.m., 2:05, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10. Apollo 18 (PG-13) – Turns out the Department of Defense sent a secret mission to the moon in 1974, and this is their footage. We remain unconvinced. Movies 10: 12:30, 5:20, 9:55. Blackthorn (R) – A historical re-imagining of what might have happened if Butch Cassidy hadn’t been killed in a Bolivian showdown following his adventures with the Sundance Kid. Market Street: 1:45, 4:00, 6:45, 9:00. Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (R) – Quite possibly the worst movie ever made with the distinction of a 0 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Movies 10: 12:15, 2:35, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50. Cars 2 (G) – A group of animated talking cars travel abroad for the inaugural World Grand Prix in this Pixar sequel. Movies 10: 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30. Colombiana: Latina badass hunts down her parents’ murderers. Movies 10: 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20. Courageous (PG) – This is a wholesome family movie about courage and God and police officers and things like that. Breckenridge: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00. Rave: 1:50, 5:00, 8:25, 11:25. Crazy, Stupid, Love (PG-13) – Steve Carell plays Steve Carell in this movie about Ryan Gosling taking on a less serious role to avoid being stereotyped in his rise to fame. Movie 10: 12:50, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45.
‘TOWER HEIST’: Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda and Ben Stiller star in this tale of a Wall Street huckster who bilks not only his clients, but also screws over the staff of his luxury condo. The Debt (R) – Two retired Mossad secret agents learn a dark secret about their former colleague and the mission they undertook back in the 1960s. With Helen Mirren. Movies 10: noon, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00. Dolphin Tale (PG) – This story about an injured dolphin overcoming adversity and learning to use a prosthetic tale will jerk the tears out of your face so hard you might catch whiplash. Breckenridge: 4:15, 9:50 (2D), 1:15, 7:15 (3D). Footloose (PG) – This remake of the 1984 classic will probably make you side with the humorless minister who doesn’t want the small-town kids to have any fun ever. Breckenridge: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:05. Rave: 10:35 a.m., 1:25, 4:35, 7:25, 10:30. The Guard (R) – Brendan Gleeson plays an Irish policeman who must team up with an FBI agent, played by Don Cheadle, in this comedy. Market Street: 2:00, 4:20, 7:00, 9:15. The Help (PG-13) — Emma Stone and Viola Davis star in this adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s novel about the African-American maids who work in white households in 1960s Mississippi. Riverdale: 11:05 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15. Higher Ground (R) – Vera Farmiga directs and stars in this drama about a Jesus freak waiting on the Rapture, until family matters cause her to question her faith. Market Street: 4:20, 9:15. Ides of March (R) – Clooney directs Clooney in this political thriller starring Ryan Gosling, who seems poised to become the next Clooney. Breckenridge: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05. Riverdale: 11:00 a.m., 1:25, 3:55, 6:20, 8:40. In Time (PG-13) – Justin Timberlake stars in this movie that takes us to a future where aging has been halted at 25 and time has become currency. Breckenridge: 1:25 (open-captioned), 4:10, 7:15, 10:05. Rave: 11:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:10, 3:10, 4:50, 7:40, 11:00, 11:30. Riverdale: 11:35 a.m., 2:10, 4:45, 7:35, 10:05. The Last Ride (NR) – Shot in Arkansas, this film chronicles the last hours of country music legend and tortured genius Hank Williams. Rave: 1:35, 6:30. The Lion King 3D (G) – It’s “The Lion King” and it’s in 3D. Movies 10: 12:45, 2:55, 5:05, 7:15, 9:25. Moneyball (PG-13) – Baseball can seem pretty boring, but this movie makes it look funny, but also people learn things about life and themselves. Breckenridge: 1:00, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45. Riverdale: 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00. Paranormal Activity 3 (R) – The franchise continues with more found footage of people who conveniently videotape their lives. This one takes us back to the genesis of the demon from the first two. Breckenridge: 1:45, 4:47, 7:45, 9:50. Rave: 12:01 a.m., 11:50 a.m., 2:05, 4:25, 5:55, 7:05, 8:30, 9:30, 11:05. Riverdale: 11:30 a.m., 1:40, 3:50, 5:55, 8:05, 10:10.
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Puss in Boots (PG) – A Shrek spin-off following the adventures of Puss in Boots, voiced by Antonio Banderas. Breckenridge: 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 9:55 (2D), 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 9:25 (3D). Rave: 11:40 a.m., 1:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 7:50, 9:50 (2D), 10:40 a.m., 11:05 a.m., 1:10, 3:40, 5:20, 6:35, 9:05, 10:20 (3D). Riverdale: 11:10 a.m., 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50. Ra.One (PG-13) – Who ever heard of a Hindi scifi action film? This one, evidently, is the most special-effects laden extravaganza Bollywood has ever produced. Rave: 10:50 a.m. (2D), 2:00, 5:05, 8:15, 11:20 (3D). Real Steel (PG-13) – You know they’re turning Battleship into a movie, too. (Boxing robots). Breckenridge: Rave: 10:45 a.m., 1:40, 5:10, 8:05, 11:20. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (PG-13) — The resurrected ’70s sci-fi franchise continues in this origin story of just how those primates got to be so smart. Movies 10: 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15. The Rum Diary (R) – Based on Hunter S. Thompson’s long-lost first novel, and starring Thompson’s Hollywood persona, Johnny Depp, based on the author’s early career as a reporter in Puerto Rico. Breckenridge: 1:40, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10. Rave: 10:55 a.m., 1:55, 5:05, 8:15. Shark Night: (PG-13) – Oversexed college students get terrorized by a shark at a lakeside cabin. Movies 10: 12:05, 2:25, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40. The Smurfs (PG) — The venerable Dr. Doogie Howser must aid a cadre of tiny blue communists as they flee from an evil plutocrat who seeks to control their means of production. Movies 10: 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05. Straw Dogs (R) – One of those movies that makes Southerners look like violent, angry hillbillies; remake of the 1971 original starring Dustin Hoffman. Movies 10: 2:45, 7:25. Take Shelter (R) – Critically acclaimed and directed by Little Rock native Jeff Nichols, in which a husband must protect his family from his apocalyptic nightmares. Rave: 10:30 a.m., 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10. The Thing (R) – OK, so supposedly this is not just another in an endless litany of pointless remakes, but rather a prequel to the 1982 version of “The Thing,” which was a remake of the 1951 original. Riverdale: 11:15 a.m., 1:55, 4:20, 6:50, 9:15. The Three Musketeers (PG-13) – Orlando Bloom stars in the steampunk adaptation of the adventures of d’Artagnon and his friends, with more explosions than Dumas could ever have intended. Breckenridge: (2D), (3D). Rave: 11:10 a.m. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (R) – “Deliverance” x “Shaun of the Dead” = this comedy of errors, which looks like it could be pretty funny, actually. Market Street: 2:00, 7:15. Chenal 9 IMAX Theatre: 17825 Chenal Parkway, 821-2616, www.dtmovies.com. Cinemark Movies 10: 4188 E. McCain Blvd., 945-7400, www.cinemark.com. Cinematown Riverdale 10: Riverdale Shopping Center, 296-9955, www.riverdale10.com. Lakewood 8: 2939 Lakewood Village Drive, 7585354, www.fandango.com. Market Street Cinema: 1521 Merrill Drive, 312-8900, 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.
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y this, the third installment, there’s a familiar normalcy to the happenings in “Paranormal Activity 3.” But say this for its unrepentant, unadorned approach to the bumpin-the-night haunt flick: You know exactly what’s coming. It tells you what’s coming. Eerie noises. Ominous, shadowy bursts. Furniture moving … on its own! Remarkably, it all still works. This is the grilled cheese sandwich of horror movies, straightforward but quite satisfying, if it’s what you’re in the mood for. Like the previous “Paranormal” movies — the first of which was shot for $15,000 and went on to gross nearly $200 million; the second, shot for $3 million, raked in $177 million — the third is filmed by the characters therein. Most of it takes place in 1988, when the sisters from the earlier movies, Katie and Kristi, are little girls first making the acquaintance of the haunts that will follow them later; Kristi, the younger, has what everyone assumes is an imaginary friend named Toby. Their mother, Julie, played to an underconcerned T by Lauren Bittner, reluctantly consents to a request by her videographer boyfriend, Dennis (Christopher Nicholas Smith), to put cameras around their home in a bit of DIY ghostbusting. He starts noticing some low-grade thuds and thumps that can’t be explained merely by an errant Teddy Ruxpin doll. Real-life documentarians Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost (who teamed up for “Catfish”) direct. Fans of the previous movies will appreciate that the prequel addresses some of the story points raised in the 2007 and 2010 “Paranormal” flicks, though it’s clear by glancing at online discussion boards for this movie that dedicated viewers could drive a dump truck through the plot holes. Care at
your own risk. Also, the trailers would have you believe that all hell proceeds to break loose, but whether those are being saved for the DVD extras or what, the result on the screen is as patient as any 81-minute movie you’ve seen, with each scene’s reveal turning the screw another notch. “Paranormal Activity 3” doesn’t overexplain the whys or hows beyond Dennis’ buddy Randy (Dustin Ingram) flipping through some library books on the occult (in California, of course, the local branch carries titles like “Demonology”). There are a couple of scary symbols placed on walls and a couple of pretty aggressive acts by whatever’s haunting the home. Mostly the low, wooden sighs and random rattlings are attributed to something that stays out of view, and rightly so. For as campy as the “Paranormal” franchise is (and it’s sure to keep expanding, given that these movies print money) there’s an endearing quaintness to the films. Audiences absolutely scream at these things, so long as they can suspend their disbelief long enough not to giggle. A swinging door, a shuddering mirror — in the age of profligate digitized explosions, aliens, monsters, magic, space travel, on and on, ad nauseam, ad mortem, how can it be that a little girl standing still for an hour to stare at someone else sleeping is still so utterly creeptastic? The minimalist approach forces even yappy teen-agers to shut up and stare if they’re gonna get anything out of it. The scariest things, the funniest things, the sexiest things, the most engrossing things, are those which remain just out of view. When you find yourself wondering how a stationary bedsheet can seem so frightening, you’ll stop wondering how these low-budget gotcha flicks keep raking in the dough.
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Out Of The Darkness Community Walk For Suicide Prevention. Help raise money and awareness to prevent suicide. You can register as an individual or a team online. Clinton Presidential Center, 9 a.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 370-8000. www.outofthedarkness.org. “Reining Cats and Dogs.” 19th annual fundraiser for the Humane Society of Pulaski County includes auction of artwork, pet items, jewelry and dining and music by Paradox, in the Great Hall. Tickets at www.warmhearts.org, 227-6166, in person at the HSPC shelter, Just Dogs Gourmet!, E Bistro and Green Counter Store. Clinton Presidential Center, 7 p.m., $50, $60 at door. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 3708000. www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org.
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Corey Smith. All ages show. Revolution, 8 p.m., $18 adv., $20 d.o.s. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com. Dead Confederate. 18 and up show. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8:30 p.m., $10. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com. “Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon.” Benefit for the Ozark Foothills FilmFest featuring performance by Rodney Block & The Real Music Lovers. Elizabeth’s Restaurant & Catering, 3 p.m., $25. 231 E. Main St., Batesville. 870-698-0903. Karaoke. Shorty Small’s, 6-9 p.m. 1475 Hogan Lane, Conway. 501-764-0604. www.shortysmalls.com. Music for the Saints. Featuring Molly Williams on the cello and Bob Bidewell on the organ. St. Paul United Methodist Church, 4 p.m., Free. 2223 Durwood Road. 666-9429. Sunday Jazz Brunch with Ted Ludwig and Joe Cripps. Vieux Carre, 11 a.m. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.vieuxcarrecafe.com. Times Remembered. Patrick Henry Hays Center, 3 p.m., Free. 401 W. Pershing, NLR. 501-7582576. www.northlittlerockband.com. Traditional Irish Music Session. Hibernia Irish Tavern, through Dec. 18: first Sunday of every month, 2:30 p.m.; third Sunday of every month, 2:30 p.m. 9700 N Rodney Parham Road. 501246-4340. www.hiberniairishtavern.com.
EVENTS
“Pinta” and “Nina” docking. See Nov. 2. Wagner’s “Siegfried.” Part of the Captured Live from the Met Performance Series. Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA, 2 p.m., free. 350 S. Donaghey, Conway. 501-450-3293. www.uca. edu/cfac.
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NAPVI golf tournament. Lunch catered by Whole Hog Cafe at 11am during registration. 12:30 p.m. www.arnapvi.org. The Walk for CommUNITY. Sponsored by Just Communities of Arkansas, Walkers and Walk Teams raise funds to support JCA’s youth and community leadership programs. River Market
Pavilions, 3 p.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 501372-5129. www.arkansasjustcommunities.org.
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FOCAL book sale. See Nov. 4.
MONDAY, NOV. 7
MUSIC
Tony Caramia, “An American Journey.” Harding University, 7 p.m., $3. 900 E. Center Ave., Searcy. 501-279-4343. Touch, Grateful Dead Tribute. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.
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Brian Martin. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. Dr. Dog. George’s Majestic Lounge, 8:30 p.m., $21. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-4424226. Eddie Miles. Miles performs a “Salute to Elvis.” Dinner before show at 6 p.m. Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, Nov. 8-9, 7:45 p.m., $31. 6323 Col. Glenn Road. 501-562-3131. murrysdinnerplayhouse.com. Jeff Long. Khalil’s Pub, 6 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Jucifer. 8 p.m., $7. Liszt: A Faust Symphony. Performed by Norman Boehm and Annalisa Crosmer, pianos, featuring the Hendrix College Choir. Hendrix College, 7:30 p.m. 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. 501-450-1247. www.hendrix.edu. Lucious Spiller Band. Copeland’s, 6-9 p.m. 2602 S. Shackleford Road. 501-312-1616. www.copelandsofneworleans.com. Ringworm, The Greenery. Downtown Music Hall, 7 p.m., $10. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownshows.homestead.com. Tsar Bomba, Echo Canyon, Michael Whitman. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. 2500 W. 7th. 501375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com. Tuesday Jam Session with Carl Mouton. The Afterthought, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.
DANCE
“Latin Night.” Revolution, 7 p.m., $5 regular, $7 under 21. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-8230090. www.revroom.com.
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Tales from the South. Authors tell true stories; get schedule at www.talesfromthesouth. com. Dinner served 5-6:30 p.m., show at 7 p.m. Reserve at 501-372-7976. Starving Artist Cafe. 411 N. Main St., NLR. 501-372-7976. www. starvingartistcafe.net.
FILM
“The Hustler.” An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single highstakes match. With Paul Newman (1961). Market Street Cinema, 7 p.m., $5. 1521 Merrill Drive. 501-312-8900. www.marketstreetcinema.net.
LECTURES
Brian Fagan. The author of “Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind” will discuss the history of water and how ancient societies viewed the resource. Clinton School of Public Service, 12 p.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5239. www.clintonschool.uasys.edu. CONTINUED ON PAGE 33
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Secured Party neither grants, nor implies, nor otherwise gives consent for any unauthorized use of GERALD DUKES© , and all such unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Secured Party is not now, nor has Secured Party ever been, an accommodation party, nor a surety, for the purported debtor, i.e.”GERALD DUKES,” nor for any derivative of, nor for any variation in the spelling of, said name, nor for any other juristic person, and is so-indemnified and held harmless by Debtor, i.e. “GERALD DUKES,” in Hold-harmless and Indemnity Agreement No. GD-010484-HHIA dated the Fourth Day of the First Month in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred Eighty-four against any and all claims, legal actions, orders, warrants, judgments, demands, liabilities, losses, depositions, summonses, lawsuits, costs, fines, liens, levies, penalties, damages, interests, and expenses whatsoever, both absolute and contingent, as are due and as might become due, now existing and as might hereafter arise, and as might be suffered by, imposed on, and incurred by Debtor for any and every reason, purpose, and cause whatsoever. 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User further consents and agrees with all of the following additional terms of Self-executing Contract/Security Agreement in Event of Unauthorized Use: Payment Terms: In accordance with fees for unauthorized use of GERALD DUKES© as set forth above, User hereby consents and agrees that User shall pay Secured Party all unauthorized-use fees in full within (10) days of the date User is sent Secured Party’s “invoice,” itemizing said fees. Default Terms: In event of non-payment in full of all unauthorized-use fees by User within (10) days of date invoice is sent, User shall be deemed in default and; (a) all of User’s property and property pledged as collateral by User, as set forth in above in paragraph “(2),” immediately becomes, i.e. is, property of Secured Party; (b) Secured Party is appointed User’s Authorized Representative as set forth above in paragraph “(8)”; and (c) User consents and agrees that Secured Party may take possession of, as well as otherwise dispose of in any manner that Secured Party, in Secured Party’s sole discretion, deems appropriate, including, but not limited by, sale at auction, at any time following User’s default, and without further notice, any and all of User’s property and interest, described above in paragraph “(2), “ formerly pledged as collateral by User, now property of Secured Party, in respect of this “Self-executing Contract/Security Agreement in Event of Unauthorized Use,” that Secured Party, again in Secured Party’s sole discretion, deems appropriate. Terms for Curing Default: Upon event of default, as set forth above under “Default Terms,” irrespective of any and all of User’s former property and interest in property, described above in paragraph “(2),” in the possession of, as well as disposed of by, Secured Party, as authorized above under “Default Terms,” User may cure User’s default only re the remainder of User’s said former property and interest property, formerly pledged as collateral that is neither in the possession of, nor otherwise disposed of by, Secured Party within twenty(20) days of date of User’s default only by payment in full. 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AFTER DARK, CONT. Heather Sellers. Lecture will be held in the College of Business building, room 107. University of Central Arkansas, 7:30 p.m., Free. 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. 501-450-3653. www.uca.edu. Michelle Alexander. The Ohio State University law professor and author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” will discuss her work. Philander Smith College, 7 p.m. 900 W. Daisy L. Gatson Bates Drive.
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THIS WEEK IN THEATER
THEATER
“Ain’t Misbehavin’.” Arkansas TheatreWorks presents the rollicking musical ode to the life of the legendary Fats Waller. Central Theatre, through Nov. 17: Fri., Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m.; Mon.-Thu., 7:30 p.m., $20-$30. 1008 Central Ave., Hot Springs. “Alice in Wonderland,” Théâtre Tout à Trac. This French-Canadian troupe’s unique presentation of the classic tale implements masks and puppets and is kid-friendly. Walton Arts Center, Sat., Nov. 5, 10 a.m., $8-$16. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. “Cinderella: A Rockin’ New Musical.” Children’s Theatre production of the fairy tale set to music. 7 p.m. Fridays, 3 p.m. Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays. Arkansas Arts Center, through Nov. 6: Fri.-Sun.. 501 E. 9th St. 501-372-4000. www.arkarts.com. “The Diary of Black Men.” Thomas Meloncon’s play examines issues inherent in the relationships between black men and black women. Robinson Center Music Hall, Nov. 4-5, 7:30 p.m., $28-$40. Markham and Broadway. www. littlerockmeetings.com/conv-centers/robinson. Gladys in Wonderland. Shepherd of Peace Lutheran Church, Fri., Nov. 4, 7 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun., Nov. 6, 2 p.m.; Fri., Nov. 11, 7 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 12, 7 p.m.; Sun., Nov. 13, 2 p.m., $12 for adults, $10 for students and seniors. 449 Millwood Circle, Maumelle. 501-352-4239. www.maumelleplayers.org. “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Aquila Theatre presents this take on Oscar Wilde’s comedic masterpiece that sends up the upper classes of Victorian London. Walton Arts Center, Sat., Nov. 5, 8 p.m., $10-$25. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. “Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical.” The Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences presents this story about family, friends and memories, told through costumes, dancing and song. Walton Arts Center, Sun., Nov. 6, 2 p.m., $8-$16. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. “The Mousetrap.” A snowstorm strands a group of strangers and a murderer in an isolated boarding house, in one of Agatha Christie’s most popular works. Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, through Nov. 6: Tue.-Sat., 6 p.m.; Wed., Sun., 11 a.m.; Sun., 5:30 p.m., $23-$33. 6323 Col. Glenn Road. 501-562-3131. murrysdinnerplayhouse.com. “Mr. Marmalade.” Dark comedy explores the way children absorb adult issues and what it takes for them to grow up in troubled times. Recommended for mature audiences only. University of Central Arkansas, Nov. 3-4, 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 9-11, 7:30 p.m., $10. 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. www.uca.edu. “The Odditorium.” Paul Prater presents a fact-paced one-man stage show featuring
sideshow stunts, mind-reading, mystery and storytelling. The Public Theatre, Nov. 4-5, 8:30 p.m., $12. 616 Center St. 501-374-7529. www. thepublictheatre.com. That ‘80s Show. Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, Wed., Nov. 2; Thu., Nov. 3; Fri., Nov. 4; Sat., Nov. 5, $15-$25. 20919 Denny Road. 501-378-0405.
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GALLERIES, MUSEUMS
NEW EVENTS, EXHIBITS
CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER: “Reigning Cats and Dogs,” auction of artwork and other items to benefit the Humane Society of Pulaski County, 7-10 p.m. Nov. 5, live music, hors d’oeuvres, $50. 227-6166, warmhearts.org. CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road: “Night Owls,” paintings by John Deering, opens with reception 6-8 p.m. Nov. 4, runs through Dec. 24. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 224-1335. M2GALLERY, 11525 Cantrell: New work by Chris Hall, Taylor Shepherd, Lisa Krannichfeld, Robin Tucker, Jason Twiggy Lott, Sam Jones IV, Richard Sutton. 2256257. ARKADELPHIA ARKADELPHIA ARTS CENTER, 625 Main St.: Hanging party for donated ceramic mobile “Suspended Boogie Woogie” by HSU students and other ceramics by Peake Elementary students, 2-4 p.m. Nov. 5. 501-802-1003. BENTON HERZFELD LIBRARY: Lainie Deerman, photographs and artwork, through November. Reception 6:30 p.m. Nov. 17. 501-778-4766. FAYETTEVILLE FAYETTEVILLE UNDERGROUND, One E. Center St.: “Progressive Hemofiction,” paintings by Luciano Trigos; “Gravity,” photographs by Dana Idlet; “Tea Time,” ceramics by Gailen Hudson; drawings and ceramics by Chad Sims, reception 5-8 p.m. Nov. 3, First Thursday. fayettevilleunderground.blogspot. org. HOT SPRINGS Most galleries are open 5-9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, for Gallery Walk ALISON PARSONS GALLERY, 802 Central Ave.: Paintings by Alison Parsons. 501-625-3001. AMERICAN ART GALLERY, 724 Central Ave.: Paintings by Jimmy Leach, Jamie Carter, Ersele Hiemstra, Margaret Kipp, Kim Thornton, Sue Coon, Virgil Barksdale and others. 501-624-055. BLUE MOON GALLERY, 718 Central Ave.: “Vision Re-visited: Ten Years After,” photographs by David Rackley, continuing through November. 501-318-2787. GALLERY 726, 726 Central Ave.: Shirley Anderson, Barbara Seibel, Caryl Joy Young, Sue Shields, Becky Barnett, Janet Donnangelo, Marlene Gremillion, Ken Vonk and others. 501-915-8912. GALLERY CENTRAL, 800 Central Ave.: Michael Ethridge, paintings. 501-318-4278. JUSTUS FINE ART, 827 A Central Ave.: “Near and Far,” photography by Don House and Cindy Momchilov; also work by Steve Griffith, Donnie Copeland, Rene Hein, Robyn Horn and Dolores Justus. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 501-321-2335. TAYLOR’S CONTEMPORANEA, 204 Exchange St.: Winfred Rembert, images of the segregated South in leather, through November. Gallery Walk reception 5-9 p.m. Nov. 4. 501624-0516.
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Administrative / Regulatory Law Little Rock
Frederick K. Campbell
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Doak Foster Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Allan W. Horne Dover Dixon Horne Metropolitan Tower, 37th Floor 425 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-9151
T. Ark Monroe III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Charles L. Schlumberger Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
William H. L. Woodyard III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Antitrust Law Little Rock
Philip S. Anderson
Williams & Anderson PLC Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Peter G. Kumpe Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Robert Shults Shults, Brown & Perkins 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1600 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3637 501-375-2301
Appellate Practice Fayetteville
Constance G. Clark
Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor, PLC 19 East Mountain Street P.O. Box 1688
Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702-1688 479-521-7600
R. Christopher Lawson Friday, Eldredge & Clark 3425 North Futrall Drive, Suite 103 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703-6252 479-695-2011
Little Rock
Philip S. Anderson
Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Jess L. Askew III Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
E. B. Chiles IV Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
Patrick J. Goss Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
Philip E. Kaplan Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Troy A. Price Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Roger D. Rowe Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, McKenzie & Rowe Cantrell West Building, Suite 201 11300 Cantrell Road Little Rock, Arkansas 72212 501-376-6565
Robert S. Shafer Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Arbitration Fort Smith
Robert E. Hornberger
ADR, Inc. 404 North Seventh Street P.O. Box 8064 Fort Smith, Arkansas 72902 479-783-1776
Little Rock
Sidney H. McCollum
ADR, Inc. 1501 North University Avenue, Suite 420 Little Rock, Arkansas 72207 501-376-2121
Banking and Finance Law Jonesboro
Ralph W. Waddell
Barrett & Deacon, P.A. 300 South Church Street, Third Floor Jonesboro, Arkansas 72403 870-931-1700
Rogers
Leigh Anne Yeargan
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 5414 Pinnacle Point Drive, Suite 500 Rogers, Arkansas 72758-8131 479-464-5650
Little Rock
Garland W. Binns, Jr.
Dover Dixon Horne Metropolitan Tower, 37th Floor 425 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-9151
Patrick A. Burrow Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
Randal B. Frazier Kutak Rock 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3706 501-975-3000
Jeb H. Joyce Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
John Kooistra III Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
David F. Menz Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
David B. Vandergriff Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
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Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law Crossett
THOMAS S. STREETMAN Streetman, Meeks & Gibson 302 Main Street P.O. Drawer A Crossett, Arkansas 71635 870-364-2213
Fayetteville
JASON N. BRAMLETT Friday, Eldredge & Clark 3425 North Futrall Drive, Suite 103 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703-6252 479-695-2011
JILL R. JACOWAY Jacoway Law Firm 223 Southeast Avenue P.O. Box 3456 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702 479-521-2621
Bet-the-Company Litigation Batesville
H. DAVID BLAIR Blair & Stroud 500 East Main Street, Suite 201 P.O. Box 2135 Batesville, Arkansas 72501 870-793-8350
CHARLES W. BAKER Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
CHARLES T. COLEMAN Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
STEVEN T. SHULTS
CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER
JOHN E. TULL III
FLOYD M. THOMAS, JR.
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
Thomas, Hickey & Shepherd 423 North Washington Avenue El Dorado, Arkansas 71730-5615 870-862-3478
Fayetteville Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 19 East Mountain Street P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702-1688 479-521-7600
JOHN C. EVERETT Everett & Wales 1944 East Joyce Boulevard P.O. Box 8370 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703-8370 479-443-0292
Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 3425 North Futrall Drive, Suite 103 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703-6252 479-695-2011
HARRY A. LIGHT
RICHARD L. RAMSAY
STAN D. SMITH Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
GEOFFREY B. TREECE Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
North Little Rock
DAVID A. GRACE Hardin & Grace 500 Main Street, Suite A P.O. Box 5851 North Little Rock, Arkansas 72119 501-378-7900
Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 400 West Capital Avenue, Suite 2470 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-1887
MICHAEL N. SHANNON Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
Shults, Brown & Perkins 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1600 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3637 501-375-2301
CLIFFORD W. PLUNKETT
Eichenbaum, Liles & Heister Union National Bank Building, Suite 1900 124 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3717 501-376-4531
SIDNEY P. DAVIS, JR.
PATRICK J. GOSS Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
WILLIAM M. GRIFFIN III
JUDY SIMMONS HENRY
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
James F. Dowden 212 Center Street, 10th Floor Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-324-4700
LANCE R. MILLER
R. T. BEARD III
Constance G. Clark Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 19 East Mountain Street P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702-1688 479-521-7600
DENNIS L. SHACKLEFORD
Conner & Winters 4375 N. Vantage Drive Suite 405 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703 479-582-5711
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Fayetteville
Shackleford, Phillips & Ratcliff 100 East Church Street P.O. Box 1718 El Dorado, Arkansas 71731-1718 870-862-5523
ROBERT L. JONES III JAMES F. DOWDEN
CHARLES L. SCHLUMBERGER Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
El Dorado
SIDNEY P. DAVIS, JR. Little Rock
TIMOTHY O. DUDLEY Timothy O. Dudley 114 South Pulaski Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-1924 501-372-0080
Helena
DAVID SOLOMON David Solomon 427 Cherry Street P.O. Box 490 Helena, Arkansas 72342-3301 870-338-7427
D. MICHAEL HUCKABAY, SR.
WILLIAM A. WADDELL, JR.
Huckabay Law Firm Metropolitan Tower 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1575 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-5600
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
M. SAMUEL JONES III
JIM L. JULIAN Chisenhall, Nestrud & Julian 400 West Capitol Avenue Suite 2840 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-5800
PETER G. KUMPE Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
JOHN G. LILE Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Little Rock
H. WILLIAM ALLEN
ELIZABETH ROBBEN MURRAY
Allen Law Firm Centre Place, Ninth Floor 212 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2416 501-374-7100
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
PHILIP S. ANDERSON
Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
DAVID M. POWELL Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
STEVEN W. QUATTLEBAUM JESS L. ASKEW III Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
E. B. CHILES IV Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
KEVIN A. CRASS Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
GORDON S. RATHER, JR. Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, McKenzie & Rowe Cantrell West Building, Suite 201 11300 Cantrell Road Little Rock, Arkansas 72212 501-376-6565
JOHN TERRY LEE
RICHARD T. DONOVAN
John Terry Lee 106 South Broadway Street P.O. Box 1348 Siloam Springs, Arkansas 72761-1348 479-524-2337
Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
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JOHN R. ELROD Conner & Winters 4375 N. Vantage Drive Suite 405 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703 479-582-5711
JOHN C. EVERETT Everett & Wales 1944 East Joyce Boulevard P.O. Box 8370 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703-8370 479-443-0292
Conner & Winters 4375 N. Vantage Drive Suite 405 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703 479-582-5711
CLIFFORD W. PLUNKETT Pine Bluff
STEPHEN A. MATTHEWS Bridges Law Firm 315 Eighth Avenue P.O. Box 7808 Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71611 870-534-5532
Civil Rights Law Little Rock
DAVID M. FUQUA Fuqua Campbell, P.A. 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 400 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-374-0200
PHILIP E. KAPLAN Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 3425 North Futrall Drive, Suite 103 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703-6252 479-695-2011
Fort Smith
DAVID SOLOMON David Solomon 427 Cherry Street P.O. Box 490 Helena, Arkansas 72342-3301 870-338-7427
JOSEPH BARRETT DEACON
Porter Law Firm Tower Building, 323 Center Street, Suite 1300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-244-8200
Barrett & Deacon 300 South Church Street, Third Floor Jonesboro, Arkansas 72403 870-931-1700
Batesville
H. DAVID BLAIR Blair & Stroud 500 East Main Street, Suite 201 P.O. Box 2135 Batesville, Arkansas 72501 870-793-8350
El Dorado
BRIAN H. RATCLIFF Shackleford, Phillips & Ratcliff 100 East Church Street P.O. Box 1718 El Dorado, Arkansas 71731-1718 870-862-5523
Shackleford, Phillips & Ratcliff 100 East Church Street P.O. Box 1718 El Dorado, Arkansas 71731-1718 870-862-5523
GARY D. CORUM Wilson, Engstrom, Corum & Coulter 200 South Commerce, Suite 600 P.O. Box 71 Little Rock, Arkansas 72203 501-375-6453
D. NATHAN COULTER Wilson, Engstrom, Corum & Coulter 200 South Commerce, Suite 600 P.O. Box 71 Little Rock, Arkansas 72203 501-375-6453
KEVIN A. CRASS Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
RICHARD T. DONOVAN Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
TIMOTHY O. DUDLEY Timothy O. Dudley 114 South Pulaski Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-1924 501-372-0080
PATRICK J. GOSS Helena
Jonesboro
Commercial Litigation
E. B. CHILES IV Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
DON A. SMITH Smith Cohen Horan 1206 Garrison Avenue P.O. Box 10205 Fort Smith, Arkansas 72917 479-782-1001
AUSTIN PORTER, JR.
DENNIS L. SHACKLEFORD ROGER D. ROWE
Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
WILLIAM M. GRIFFIN III Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Little Rock
D. MICHAEL HUCKABAY, SR.
H. WILLIAM ALLEN
Huckabay Law Firm Metropolitan Tower 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1575 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-5600
Allen Law Firm Centre Place, Ninth Floor 212 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2416 501-374-7100
M. SAMUEL JONES III PHILIP S. ANDERSON Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
JIM L. JULIAN JESS L. ASKEW III Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Chisenhall, Nestrud & Julian 400 West Capitol Avenue Suite 2840 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-5800
PHILIP E. KAPLAN KRISTINE G. BAKER Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
FLOYD M. THOMAS, JR. BEVERLY A. ROWLETT
Siloam Springs
Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
PHILIP E. KAPLAN Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 19 East Mountain Street P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702-1688 479-521-7600
ROBERT L. JONES III TERESA M. WINELAND
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
JASON J. CAMPBELL
Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-374-6535
Thomas, Hickey & Shepherd 423 North Washington Avenue El Dorado, Arkansas 71730-5615 870-862-3478
JOHN K. BAKER
PETER G. KUMPE
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Stephen R. Lancaster Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
John G. Lile Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Rogers
James G. Lingle
Lingle Law Firm 110 South Dixieland Road Rogers, Arkansas 72758 479-636-7899
Marshall S. Ney
Bruce E. Munson
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 5414 Pinnacle Point Drive, Suite 500 Rogers, Arkansas 72758-8131 479-464-5650
Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-374-6535
Communications Law
Elizabeth Robben Murray Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
David M. Powell Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Steven W. Quattlebaum Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
Gordon S. Rather, Jr.
Fort Smith
Douglas O. Smith, Jr.
Warner, Smith & Harris PLC 400 Rogers Avenue P.O. Box 1626 Fort Smith, Arkansas 72901 479-782-6041
Construction Law Fayetteville
John M. Scott
Conner & Winters, LLP 4375 N. Vantage Drive Suite 405 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703 479-582-5711
Little Rock
Jack East III
Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Jack East III 2725 Cantrell Road, Suite 202 Little Rock, Arkansas 72202 501-372-3278
Roger D. Rowe
Cyril Hollingsworth
Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, McKenzie & Rowe Cantrell West Building, Suite 201 11300 Cantrell Road Little Rock, Arkansas 72212 501-376-6565
Dover Dixon Horne Metropolitan Tower, 37th Floor 425 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-9151
Beverly A. Rowlett
Jeffrey H. Moore
Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-374-6535
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Corporate Law Jonesboro
Ralph W. Waddell
Barrett & Deacon, P.A. 300 South Church Street, Third Floor Jonesboro, Arkansas 72403 870-931-1700
Little Rock
Philip S. Anderson
Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Paul B. Benham III Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Garland W. Binns, Jr. Dover Dixon Horne Metropolitan Tower, 37th Floor 425 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-9151
C. Douglas Buford, Jr. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Walter M. Ebel III Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Price C. Gardner Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Donald T. Jack, Jr.
David M. Powell Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Jack, Nelson & Jones One Cantrell Center 2800 Cantrell Road, Suite 500 Little Rock, Arkansas 72202 501-375-1122
North Little Rock
Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Steven T. Shults Shults, Brown & Perkins 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1600 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3637 501-375-2301
John E. Tull III Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
William A. Waddell, Jr. Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Teresa M. Wineland Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
David A. Grace
Hardin & Grace 500 Main Street, Suite A P.O. Box 5851 North Little Rock, Arkansas 72119 501-378-7900
Copyright Law Little Rock
J. Charles Dougherty
Wright, Lindsey & Jennings LLP 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Harold J. Evans Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Hermann Ivester Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Pine Bluff
Stephen A. Matthews
Bridges Law Firm 315 Eighth Avenue P.O. Box 7808 Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71611 870-534-5532
Corporate Governance Law
James Carter Coulter
P.L.C.
Attorneys at Law
501-372-1414 • www.jamescartercoulterlaw.com 500 Broadway • Suite 400 • Arvest Bank Building • Little Rock
Congratulations to Judson Kidd
D. Nicole Lovell
Walter E. May Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
T. Ark Monroe III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
We congratulate Mr. Kidd on his dedicated service and being named one of Arkansas's Best Lawyers.
John S. Selig Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Robert Shults Shults, Brown & Perkins 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1600 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3637 501-375-2301
H. Watt Gregory III
Criminal Defense: Non-White-Collar
Kutak Rock LLP 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3706 501-975-3000
Buckley, McLemore & Hudson, P.A. 123 North Block Avenue
Little Rock
For Being Selected By His Peers As One Of The Best Lawyers In Arkansas Employment Law – Individuals Employment Law – Management Litigation – Labor & Employment
H. Watt Gregory III
Charles L. Schlumberger
Michael N. Shannon
John Coulter
Kutak Rock 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3706 501-975-3000
Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
Congratulations to
Fayetteville
Timothy M. Buckley
Dodds, Kidd and Ryan 501.375.9901 313 West Second St. Little Rock, AR 72201
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P.O. Box 4700 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702-4700 866-722-7694
JOHN C. EVERETT Everett & Wales 1944 East Joyce Boulevard P.O. Box 8370 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703-8370 479-443-0292
WARNER H. TAYLOR Taylor Law Partners 303 East Millsap Road P.O. Box 8310 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703 479-443-5222
Fort Smith
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Congratulations To Our Best Lawyer! Real Estate Law
EDDIE N. CHRISTIAN, SR. Christian, Byars and Hickey 502 Garrison Avenue Fort Smith, Arkansas 72901 479-782-9147
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
DAVID M. GRAF Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Jonesboro
BILL W. BRISTOW
GREGORY B. GRAHAM
Bristow & Richardson 216 East Washington Avenue Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401-3102 870-935-9000
Overbey, Graham, Strigel & Wesbrook 10809 Executive Center Drive, Suite 310 Little Rock, Arkansas 72211-6022 501-664-8105
BOBBY R. MCDANIEL
JOSEPH B. HURST, JR.
McDaniel & Wells 400 South Main Street Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401 870-932-5950
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Little Rock
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
EDDIE N. CHRISTIAN, SR. Christian, Byars and Hickey 502 Garrison Avenue Fort Smith, Arkansas 72901 479-782-9147
Jonesboro
For 80 years the lawyers of Barrett & Deacon have added value to a broad base of clients operating in nearly every industry. We’re proud that our attorneys continue to demonstrate an exceptional commitment to our clients and our community.
Fort Smith
BILL W. BRISTOW Bristow & Richardson 216 East Washington Avenue Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401-3102 870-935-9000
BOBBY R. MCDANIEL McDaniel & Wells 400 South Main Street Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401 870-932-5950
ALEXANDRA A. IFRAH GARY D. CORUM Wilson, Engstrom, Corum & Coulter 200 South Commerce, Suite 600 P.O. Box 71 Little Rock, Arkansas 72203 501-375-6453
TIMOTHY O. DUDLEY Timothy O. Dudley 114 South Pulaski Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-1924 501-372-0080
JOHN WESLEY HALL John Wesley Hall 1202 Main Street, Suite 210 Little Rock, Arkansas 72202 501-859-0013
Little Rock
TIMOTHY O. DUDLEY
JACK T. LASSITER
Timothy O. Dudley 114 South Pulaski Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-1924 501-372-0080
Lassiter & Cassinelli 813 West Third Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-370-9300
A. WYCKLIFF NISBET, JR. Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
THOMAS L. OVERBEY Overbey, Graham, Strigel & Wesbrook 10809 Executive Center Drive, Suite 310 Little Rock, Arkansas 72211-6022 501-664-8105
CRAIG H. WESTBROOK Overbey, Graham, Strigel & Wesbrook 10809 Executive Center Drive, Suite 310 Little Rock, Arkansas 72211-6022 501-664-8105
Employment Law Individuals
JOHN WESLEY HALL
JEFF ROSENZWEIG
Jonesboro
John Wesley Hall 1202 Main Street, Suite 210 Little Rock, Arkansas 72202 501-859-0013
Jeff Rosenzweig Third and Spring Street 300 Spring Building, Suite 310 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-859-0328
Barrett & Deacon, P.A. 300 South Church Street, Third Floor Jonesboro, Arkansas 72403 870-931-1700
DUI/DWI Defense
Little Rock
PAUL D. WADDELL
J. BLAKE HENDRIX Blake Hendrix 813 West Third Street, Suite 200 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-376-0679
JACK T. LASSITER Lassiter & Cassinelli 813 West Third Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-370-9300
JEFF ROSENZWEIG Jeff Rosenzweig Third and Spring Street 300 Spring Building, Suite 310 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-859-0328
Criminal Defense: White-Collar El Dorado
FLOYD M. THOMAS, JR. Thomas, Hickey & Shepherd, L.L.P. 423 North Washington Avenue El Dorado, Arkansas 71730-5615 870-862-3478
Fayetteville
Fayetteville
KRISTINE G. BAKER
CHRISTINA D. COMSTOCK
Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
Everett & Wales 1944 East Joyce Boulevard P.O. Box 8370 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703-8370 479-443-0292
Little Rock
DAVID H. WILLIAMS The Law Office of David H. Williams 212 Center Street Suite 200 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0038
Education Law Little Rock
JOHN L. BURNETT Lavey and Burnett 904 West Second Street P.O. Box 2657 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-376-2269
JOHN D. COULTER James, Carter & Coulter, PLC Arvest Bank Building, Suite 400 500 Broadway P.O. Box 907 Little Rock, Arkansas 72203 866-716-3242
CLAYTON R. BLACKSTOCK Mitchell, Blackstock, Barnes, Ivers & Sneddon PLLC 1010 West Third Street P.O. Box 1510 Little Rock, Arkansas 72203-1510 501-378-7870
JOHN T. LAVEY Lavey and Burnett 904 West Second Street P.O. Box 2657 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-376-2269
TIMOTHY M. BUCKLEY
J. Mark Spradley We are so proud of you! Love, Laura, Ples, Ty and Victoria 501-537-4290 8114 Cantrell, Suite 240, Little Rock, Arkansas 72227 www.spradleylaw.com 38 NOVEMBER 2, 2011 ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT TO ARKANSAS TIMES
Buckley, McLemore & Hudson 123 North Block Avenue P.O. Box 4700 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702-4700 866-722-7694
DAN F. BUFFORD
ELIZABETH ROBBEN MURRAY
Laser Law Firm 101 South Spring Street, Suite 300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2488 501-376-2981
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
JOHN C. EVERETT
CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER
JANET PULLIAM
Everett & Wales 1944 East Joyce Boulevard P.O. Box 8370 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703-8370 479-443-0292
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
WARNER H. TAYLOR
Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Taylor Law Partners 303 East Millsap Road P.O. Box 8310 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703 479-443-5222
Little Rock
Employment Law Management
BRYANT CRANFORD
Jonesboro
Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street
Barrett & Deacon, P.A.
PAUL D. WADDELL
300 South Church Street, Third Floor Jonesboro, Arkansas 72403 870-931-1700
Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Little Rock
MICHAEL S. MOORE
KRISTINE G. BAKER
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
ELIZABETH ROBBEN MURRAY TIM BOE Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
James, Carter & Coulter Arvest Bank Building, Suite 400 500 Broadway P.O. Box 907 Little Rock, Arkansas 72203 866-716-3242
J. BRUCE CROSS Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon, & Galchus 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-371-9999
Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Dover Dixon Horne Metropolitan Tower, 37th Floor 425 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-9151
JOHN D. DAVIS
ALLEN C. DOBSON Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon, & Galchus 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-371-9999
Little Rock Dover Dixon Horne PLLC Metropolitan Tower, 37th Floor 425 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-9151
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
SAMUEL E. LEDBETTER Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon, & Galchus 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-371-9999
McMath Woods 711 West Third Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-396-5400
CHARLES R. NESTRUD SCOTTY M. SHIVELY
Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Environmental Law
SHERRY P. BARTLEY CHARLES REYNOLDS
RICHARD A. RODERICK OSCAR E. DAVIS, JR.
SCOTT C. TROTTER Perkins & Trotter 101 Morgan Keegan Drive, Suite A P.O. Box 251618 Little Rock, Arkansas 72225-1618 501-603-9000
MARK H. ALLISON JANET PULLIAM
JOHN D. COULTER
N. M. NORTON Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon, & Galchus 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-371-9999
Chisenhall, Nestrud & Julian 400 West Capitol Avenue Suite 2840 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-5800
FREDERICK S. URSERY
G. ALAN PERKINS
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Perkins & Trotter 101 Morgan Keegan Drive, Suite A P.O. Box 251618 Little Rock, Arkansas 72225-1618 501-603-9000
BRIAN A. VANDIVER BYRON L. FREELAND Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
KATHLYN GRAVES Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
CAROLYN B. WITHERSPOON
MARCELLA J. TAYLOR Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Mountainburg
WALTER G. WRIGHT, JR.
MICHAEL R. JONES
Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon, & Galchus 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-371-9999
Gilker and Jones 9222 North Highway 71 Mountainburg, Arkansas 72946 479-783-3109
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
DANIEL L. HERRINGTON Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Pine Bluff
SPENCER F. ROBINSON
Equipment Finance Law
Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson and Raley Simmons Banking Building, 11th Floor 501 Main Street P.O. Box 8509 Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71611 870-535-9000
Little Rock
GARLAND J. GARRETT Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
Rogers
Family Law
DENISE REID HOGGARD
LEIGH ANNE YEARGAN
Hot Springs National Park
Chisenhall, Nestrud & Julian 400 West Capitol Avenue Suite 2840 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-5800
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 5414 Pinnacle Point Drive, Suite 500 Rogers, Arkansas 72758-8131 479-464-5650
BRYAN J. REIS
PHILIP E. KAPLAN Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
DAVID P. MARTIN Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
JOANN C. MAXEY Williams & Anderson
At Cearley Law Firm, we seek justice for our clients. And because we have been successful, we have been named one of the best lawyers in Arkansas every year since 1998. We enjoy being part of the legal system, and we’ve got the plaques on our walls and the smiles of our clients to prove it.
Cearley Law Firm Bob Cearley, Attorney 212 Center Street • Little Rock • 372-5600 (Toll Free) 1-877-934-5600 • www.CearleyLawFirm.com
BRIAN ROSENTHAL
Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon, & Galchus 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-371-9999
CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER
We like what we do.
Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
RUSSELL A. GUNTER
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Justice for our clients. Awards from our peers.
The Farrar Firm 135 Section Line Road, 3rd Floor Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas 71913 501-525-3130
Congratulations to
BOBBY McDANIEL Criminal Defense: Non-White-Collar Criminal Defense: White-Collar Medical Malpractice Law-Plantis Personal Injury-Plaintis
and
PHILLIP WELLS Personal Injury-Plaintis Workers’ Compensation Law-Claimants
Recognized as two of the best lawyers in the state of Arkansas, we applaud them on this honor. We would also like to thank our peers in the legal community and the Arkansas Times readers for their continued support.
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Little Rock
LAWRENCE CHISENHALL, JR.
MARCIA BARNES
Chisenhall, Nestrud & Julian, P.A. 400 West Capitol Avenue Suite 2840 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-5800
Mitchell, Blackstock, Barnes, Ivers & Sneddon 1010 West Third Street P.O. Box 1510 Little Rock, Arkansas 72203-1510 501-378-7870
STEPHEN N. JOINER Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
BARRY E. COPLIN Coplin, Hardy, & Stotts One Union Plaza, Suite 1650 124 West Capitol Avenue
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Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-707-0300
Stephen C. Engstrom
John T. Lavey
Lee J. Muldrow
Lavey and Burnett 904 West Second Street P.O. Box 2657 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-376-2269
Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Henry Hodges
Judson C. Kidd Dodds, Kidd & Ryan 313 West Second Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-9901
W. Michael Reif Dover Dixon Horne Metropolitan Tower, 37th Floor 425 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-9151
Gary B. Rogers Dover Dixon Horne Metropolitan Tower, 37th Floor 425 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-9151
Jack Wagoner III Wagoner Law Firm 1320 Brookwood, Suites D & E Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-663-5225
North Little Rock
Carrol Ann Hicks
Hicks & Associates 5321 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Suite A North Little Rock, Arkansas 72116 501-771-1817
Sam Hilburn Hilburn, Calhoon, Harper, Pruniski & Calhoun One Riverfront Place US Banking Building, 8th Floor P.O. Box 5551 North Little Rock, Arkansas 72119 501-372-0110
400 weSt cAPitOl Avenue, Suite 2400 | little rOck, Ar 72201-4851 telePhOne: 501-372-1887 | fAcSiMile: 501-372-7706 webSite: www.AnderSOnMurPhyhOPkinS.cOM
North Little Rock
Morgan E. Welch, Jr.
Welch, Brewer and Hudson One Riverfront Place, Suite 413 North Little Rock, Arkansas 72114 501-978-3030
Williams & Anderson PLC Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
David M. Powell
Roger D. Rowe Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, McKenzie & Rowe Cantrell West Building, Suite 201 11300 Cantrell Road Little Rock, Arkansas 72212 501-376-6565
William A. Waddell, Jr. Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Government Relations Practice Little Rock
T. Ark Monroe III
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Health Care Law Fayetteville
Bryan G. Looney
Goodwin Moore 511 South Fourth Street P.O. Box 726 Paragould, Arkansas 72450 870-239-2225
Kutak Rock 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 400 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703-4099 479-973-4200
Debby Thetford Nye
Rogers
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Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 5414 Pinnacle Point Drive, Suite 500 Rogers, Arkansas 72758-8131 479-464-5650
Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 400 West Capital Avenue, Suite 2470 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-1887
CRAIG S. LAIR Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
GEORGE N. PLASTIRAS Plastiras Law Firm 101 South Spring Street, Suite 300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-859-0986
Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants Fayetteville
KELLY CARITHERS
Mass Tort Litigation Little Rock
SHERRY P. BARTLEY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
GORDON S. RATHER, JR. Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions Defendants Little Rock
Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor, PLC 19 East Mountain Street P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702-1688 479-521-7600
WALTER B. COX Cox, Cox & Estes Arvest Square, Suite 400 75 North East Street P.O. Box 878 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702 479-251-7900
SIDNEY P. DAVIS, JR. Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 19 East Mountain Street P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702-1688 479-521-7600
STEVEN W. QUATTLEBAUM
JAMES R. ESTES
Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow PLLC 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
Cox, Cox & Estes Arvest Square, Suite 400 75 North East Street P.O. Box 878 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702 479-251-7900
Media Law
WALKER DALE GARRETT
Little Rock
Bassett Law Firm 221 North College Avenue P.O. Box 3618 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702-3618 479-521-9996
JOHN E. TULL III Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow PLLC 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
Jonesboro
PAUL D. MCNEILL
Mediation Fort Smith
ROBERT E. HORNBERGER ADR, Inc. 404 North Seventh Street P.O. Box 8064 Fort Smith, Arkansas 72902 479-783-1776
Little Rock
JOHN A. DAVIS III ADR, Inc. 1501 North University Avenue, Suite 420 Little Rock, Arkansas 72207 501-376-2121
FRANK S. HAMLIN Hamlin Dispute Resolution 823 W. Markham Street, Suite 100 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-850-8888
Medical Malpractice Law
Womack, Landis, Phelps & McNeill Century Center 301 West Washington P.O. Box 3077 Jonesboro, Arkansas 72403 870-932-0900
PAUL D. WADDELL Barrett & Deacon 300 South Church Street, Third Floor Jonesboro, Arkansas 72403 870-931-1700
Fayetteville
JAMES W. SMITH Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP 3425 North Futrall Drive, Suite 103 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703-6252 479-695-2011
Little Rock
PAUL B. BENHAM III Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
C. DOUGLAS BUFORD, JR. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
KEVIN R. BURNS Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
BRUCE E. MUNSON Commercial Litigation Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
BEVERLY A. ROWLETT Bet-the-Company Litigation Commercial Litigation Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
JOHN E. MOORE Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
WALTER M. EBEL III Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
H. WATT GREGORY III Kutak Rock 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3706 501-975-3000
Little Rock
TIMOTHY L. BOONE Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
ROBERT M. WILSON, JR. Associates Closing & Title, PLLC 1521 Merrill Drive, Suite D-220 Little Rock, Arkansas 72211 501-219-9388
TIMOTHY L. BOONE Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-374-6535
KEN COOK
BOBBY R. MCDANIEL
Mergers & Acquisitions Law
T. MICHELLE ATOR Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
McDaniel & Wells 400 South Main Street Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401 870-932-5950
ROBERT J. LAMBERT Roy, Lambert & Lovelace 2706 South Dividend Drive P.O. Drawer 7030 Springdale, Arkansas 72766-7030 479-756-8510
Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law
H. DAVID BLAIR
Jonesboro
Springdale
Little Rock
Batesville Blair & Stroud 500 East Main Street, Suite 201 P.O. Box 2135 Batesville, Arkansas 72501 870-793-8350
LAURA HENSLEY SMITH Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
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MARIAM T. HOPKINS Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 400 West Capital Avenue, Suite 2470 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-1887
D. MICHAEL HUCKABAY, SR. Huckabay Law Firm Metropolitan Tower 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1575 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201
JENNIFER WILSON-HARVEY Wilson & Associates 1521 Merrill Drive Suite A-150 Little Rock, Arkansas 72211 501-223-0949
Municipal Law Little Rock
W. CHRISTOPHER BARRIER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
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Oil & Gas Law
JASON WALES
Springdale
Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
Fort Smith
Everett & Wales 1944 East Joyce Boulevard P.O. Box 8370 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703-8370 479-443-0292
JERRY LOVELACE
HAL JOSEPH KEMP Hal Joseph Kemp 111 Center Street, Suite 1300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-7243
DAVID F. MENZ Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
THOMAS A. DAILY Daily & Woods 58 South Sixth Street P.O. Box 1446 Fort Smith, Arkansas 72902 479-782-0361
Little Rock
ROBERT M. HONEA
MICHELLE ATOR
Hardin, Jesson & Terry Arvest Bank Building, Suite 500 5000 Rogers Avenue P.O. Box 10127 Fort Smith, Arkansas 72917-0127 479-452-2200
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Little Rock
J. SHEPHERD RUSSELL III
G. ALAN PERKINS
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Perkins & Trotter 101 Morgan Keegan Drive, Suite A P.O. Box 251618 Little Rock, Arkansas 72225-1618 501-603-9000
JOHN WILLIAM SPIVEY III Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
GORDON M. WILBOURN Kutak Rock 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3706 501-975-3000
Non-Profit/ Charities Law Little Rock
SARAH M. COTTON Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
DONALD H. BACON Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
JAMES C. BAKER, JR. Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Magnolia
G. SPENCE FRICKE
CAROLYN J. CLEGG
Barber, McCaskill, Jones & Hale 400 West Capitol 2700 Regions Center Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-6175
Keith & Clegg McAlester Building, Suite 205 124 South Jackson P.O. Drawer 1029 Magnolia, Arkansas 71754-1029 870-234-3550
WILLIAM M. GRIFFIN III Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Patent Law Little Rock
STEPHEN D. CARVER Carver Patent Law Pleasant Valley Corporate Center, Suite 800 2024 Arkansas Valley Drive Little Rock, Arkansas 72212 501-224-1500
JEFFREY HATFIELD Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
BYRON M. EISEMAN, JR.
RAY F. COX, JR.
DAVID A. LITTLETON
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 400 West Capital Avenue, Suite 2470 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-1887
JAMES E. HARRIS
J. CHARLES DOUGHERTY
GUY ALTON WADE
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Roy, Lambert & Lovelace 2706 South Dividend Drive P.O. Drawer 7030 Springdale, Arkansas 72766-7030 479-756-8510
Personal Injury Litigation Defendants Arkadelphia
RODNEY P. MOORE Wright, Berry, Hughes & Moore 303 Professional Park Drive P.O. Box 947 Arkadelphia, Arkansas 71923 870-246-6796
Bryant
CLARK S. BREWSTER The Boswell Law Firm 408 North Reynolds Road P.O. Box 798 Bryant, Arkansas 72089-0798 501-847-3031
El Dorado
BRIAN H. RATCLIFF Shackleford, Phillips & Ratcliff 100 East Church Street P.O. Box 1718 El Dorado, Arkansas 71731-1718 870-862-5523
DENNIS L. SHACKLEFORD Shackleford, Phillips & Ratcliff 100 East Church Street P.O. Box 1718 El Dorado, Arkansas 71731-1718 870-862-5523
FLOYD M. THOMAS, JR. Thomas, Hickey & Shepherd 423 North Washington Avenue El Dorado, Arkansas 71730-5615 870-862-3478
Fayetteville
KELLY CARITHERS Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 19 East Mountain Street P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702-1688 479-521-7600
W. WILSON JONES
K. COLEMAN WESTBROOK, JR. Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Personal Injury Litigation Fayetteville
CLIFFORD W. PLUNKETT Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP 3425 North Futrall Drive, Suite 103 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703-6252 479-695-2011
DAVID WILSON Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Cox, Cox & Estes Arvest Square, Suite 400 75 North East Street P.O. Box 878 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702 479-251-7900
TODD WOOTEN Laser Law Firm 101 South Spring Street, Suite 300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2488 501-376-2981
JAMES R. ESTES Cox, Cox & Estes Arvest Square, Suite 400 75 North East Street P.O. Box 878 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702 479-251-7900
WALKER DALE GARRETT Bassett Law Firm 221 North College Avenue P.O. Box 3618 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702-3618 479-521-9996
ROBERT L. JONES III Conner & Winters 4375 N. Vantage Drive Suite 405 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703 479-582-5711
CURTIS NEBBEN Bassett Law Firm 221 North College Avenue P.O. Box 3618 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702-3618 479-521-9996
DON A. TAYLOR Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 19 East Mountain Street P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702-1688 479-521-7600
Fort Smith
DOUGLAS O. SMITH, JR. Warner, Smith & Harris 400 Rogers Avenue P.O. Box 1626 Fort Smith, Arkansas 72901 479-782-6041
G. ALAN WOOTEN Warner, Smith & Harris 400 Rogers Avenue P.O. Box 1626 Fort Smith, Arkansas 72901 479-782-6041
SIDNEY P. DAVIS, JR. Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 19 East Mountain Street P.O. Box 1688
JOHN V. PHELPS Womack, Landis, Phelps & McNeill Century Center 301 West Washington P.O. Box 3077 Jonesboro, Arkansas 72403 870-932-0900
PHILLIP J. WELLS McDaniel & Wells 400 South Main Street Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401 870-932-5950
Little Rock
MICHAEL D. BARNES Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
SHERRY P. BARTLEY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
R. T. BEARD III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
TIMOTHY L. BOONE Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-374-6535
DAN F. BUFFORD Laser Law Firm 101 South Spring Street, Suite 300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2488 501-376-2981
MICHELLE H. CAULEY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
KEVIN A. CRASS Jonesboro
BILL W. BRISTOW WALTER B. COX
Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702-1688 479-521-7600
Bristow & Richardson 216 East Washington Avenue Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401-3102 870-935-9000
PAUL D. MCNEILL Womack, Landis, Phelps & McNeill Century Center 301 West Washington P.O. Box 3077 Jonesboro, Arkansas 72403 870-932-0900
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
DAVID M. DONOVAN Watts, Donovan & Tilley Arkansas Capital Commerce Center 200 River Market Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-1769 501-372-1406
ROGER A. GLASGOW Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300
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ROBERT L. HENRY III Barber, McCaskill, Jones & Hale 400 West Capitol 2700 Regions Center Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-6175
MARIAM T. HOPKINS Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 400 West Capital Avenue, Suite 2470 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-1887
D. MICHAEL HUCKABAY, SR. Huckabay Law Firm Metropolitan Tower 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1575 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-5600
JOHN E. MOORE Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-374-6535
BRUCE E. MUNSON Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-374-6535
RANDY P. MURPHY Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 400 West Capital Avenue, Suite 2470 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-1887
Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 400 West Capital Avenue, Suite 2470 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-1887
LYN P. PRUITT Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
JIM L. JULIAN Chisenhall, Nestrud & Julian 400 West Capitol Avenue Suite 2840 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-5800
The Centre at Ten Building 12921 Cantrell Road, Suite 204 Little Rock, Arkansas 72223-1799 501-376-3564
JAMES M. SIMPSON Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
JEFF SINGLETON Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
LAURA HENSLEY SMITH SCOTT D. PROVENCHER
DON MICHAEL HUCKABAY, JR. Huckabay Law Firm Metropolitan Tower 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1575 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-5600
111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
TERESA M. WINELAND Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
EDWIN L. LOWTHER, JR.
BEVERLY A. ROWLETT
Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-374-6535
ELTON A. RIEVES III Elton A. Rieves III & Associates 213 East Washington, Suite Two P.O. Box 450 Mountain View, Arkansas 72560 870-269-5757
Pine Bluff
JAMES W. TILLEY
STEPHEN A. MATTHEWS
Watts, Donovan & Tilley Arkansas Capital Commerce Center 200 River Market Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-1769 501-372-1406
Bridges Law Firm 315 Eighth Avenue P.O. Box 7808 Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71611 870-534-5532
STUART P. MILLER
JERRY J. SALLINGS
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Personal Injury Litigation Plaintiffs
MICHAEL P. VANDERFORD
Wright, Berry, Hughes & Moore 303 Professional Park Drive P.O. Box 947 Arkadelphia, Arkansas 71923 870-246-6796
McMath Woods 711 West Third Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-396-5400
Arkadelphia
RICHARD N. WATTS
MICHAEL N. SHANNON
BUD B. WHETSTONE
Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow
Whetstone & Odum
BRUCE E. MUNSON Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-374-6535
SCOTT D. PROVENCHER Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 400 West Capital Avenue, Suite 2470 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-1887
MICHAEL N. SHANNON Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
JAMES F. SWINDOLL Law Offices of James F. Swindoll 212 Center Street, Suite 300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-374-1290
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
RODNEY P. MOORE
Watts, Donovan & Tilley Arkansas Capital Commerce Center 200 River Market Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-1769 501-372-1406
MICHAEL D. BARNES Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
ROBERT M. MCHENRY McHenry & McHenry 8210 Henderson Road Little Rock, Arkansas 72210 501-372-3425
FREDERICK S. URSERY
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 400 West Capital Avenue, Suite 2470 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-1887
Little Rock
JAMES BRUCE MCMATH Mountain View
FREDERICK S. URSERY GORDON S. RATHER, JR.
TIMOTHY O. DUDLEY Timothy O. Dudley 114 South Pulaski Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-1924 501-372-0080
LYN P. PRUITT Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
GORDON S. RATHER, JR. Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
MICHAEL P. VANDERFORD Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 400 West Capital Avenue, Suite 2470 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-1887
Mountain Home
FRANK H. BAILEY
RICHARD N. WATTS
Bailey & Oliver 506 Hospital Drive Mountain Home, Arkansas 72653 870-425-6041
Watts, Donovan & Tilley Arkansas Capital Commerce Center 200 River Market Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-1769 501-372-1406
Batesville
H. DAVID BLAIR Blair & Stroud 500 East Main Street, Suite 201 P.O. Box 2135 Batesville, Arkansas 72501 870-793-8350
North Little Rock
CLYDE TAB TURNER Turner & Associates 4705 Somers Avenue, Suite 100 North Little Rock, Arkansas 72116 501-791-2277
North Little Rock
CLYDE TAB TURNER Turner & Associates 4705 Somers Avenue, Suite 100 North Little Rock, Arkansas 72116 501-791-2277
Bryant
TED BOSWELL The Boswell Law Firm 408 North Reynolds Road P.O. Box 798 Bryant, Arkansas 72089-0798 501-847-3031
El Dorado
Product Liability Litigation Batesville
H. DAVID BLAIR Blair & Stroud 500 East Main Street, Suite 201 P.O. Box 2135 Batesville, Arkansas 72501 870-793-8350
FLOYD M. THOMAS, JR. Thomas, Hickey & Shepherd 423 North Washington Avenue El Dorado, Arkansas 71730-5615 870-862-3478
Forrest City
B. MICHAEL EASLEY Easley & Houseal 510 East Cross Street P.O. Box 1115 Forrest City, Arkansas 72336 870-633-1447
Product Liability Litigation Plaintiffs Little Rock
ROBERT M. CEARLEY, JR. Cearley Law Firm, P.A. Centre Place 2nd Floor 212 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-5600
Little Rock
G. SPENCE FRICKE Barber, McCaskill, Jones & Hale 400 West Capitol 2700 Regions Center Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-6175
North Little Rock
CLYDE TAB TURNER Turner & Associates 4705 Somers Avenue, Suite 100 North Little Rock, Arkansas 72116 501-791-2277
EDWIN L. LOWTHER, JR. Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Jonesboro
Professional Malpractice Law Batesville
H. DAVID BLAIR
BILL W. BRISTOW
THOMAS G. WILLIAMS
Bristow & Richardson 216 East Washington Avenue Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401-3102 870-935-9000
Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
Blair & Stroud 500 East Main Street, Suite 201 P.O. Box 2135 Batesville, Arkansas 72501 870-793-8350
BOBBY R. MCDANIEL McDaniel & Wells 400 South Main Street Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401 870-932-5950
PHILLIP J. WELLS McDaniel & Wells 400 South Main Street Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401 870-932-5950
Little Rock
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JERRY LOVELACE Roy, Lambert & Lovelace 2706 South Dividend Drive P.O. Drawer 7030 Springdale, Arkansas 72766-7030 479-756-8510
Product Liability Litigation Defendants Jonesboro
ROBERT M. CEARLEY, JR.
JOSEPH BARRETT DEACON
Cearley Law Firm Centre Place 2nd Floor 212 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-5600
Barrett & Deacon, P.A. 300 South Church Street, Third Floor Jonesboro, Arkansas 72403 870-931-1700
Professional Malpractice Law Defendants Little Rock
DAVID M. POWELL Williams & Anderson PLC Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
SCOTT D. PROVENCHER Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 400 West Capital Avenue, Suite 2470 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-1887
MICHAEL P. VANDERFORD Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins
400 West Capital Avenue, Suite 2470 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-1887
Professional Malpractice Law Plaintiffs Little Rock
Timothy O. Dudley
Timothy O. Dudley 114 South Pulaski Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-1924 501-372-0080
Project Finance Law Little Rock
W. Jackson Williams
James M. Saxton
Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Railroad Law Jonesboro
Joseph Barrett Deacon
Barrett & Deacon, P.A. 300 South Church Street, Third Floor Jonesboro, Arkansas 72403 870-931-1700
Harold W. Hamlin
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
David F. Menz Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
J. Shepherd Russell III Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
W. Jackson Williams Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Little Rock
John Alan Lewis
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 5414 Pinnacle Point Drive, Suite 500 Rogers, Arkansas 72758-8131 479-464-5650
Public Finance Law Little Rock
Robert B. Beach, Jr.
Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
James A. Buttry Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
M. Jane Dickey Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
James E. Hathaway III Kutak Rock 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3706 501-975-3000
Thomas P. Leggett Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
David F. Menz Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
J. Shepherd Russell III Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
John William Spivey III Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Gordon M. Wilbourn Kutak Rock 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3706 501-975-3000
J. Mark Spradley J. Mark Spradley 8114 Cantrell, Suite 240 Little Rock, Arkansas 72227 501-537-4290
Scott H. Tucker
Jay T. Taylor
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Frederick S. Ursery Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Real Estate Law
North Little Rock
Stuart W. Hankins
Hankins Law Firm 800 West Fourth Street North Little Rock, Arkansas 72114 501-371-9226
Fayetteville
Rogers
University of Arkansas School of Law 1045 West Maple Street Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701 479-575-5601
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 5414 Pinnacle Point Drive, Suite 500 Rogers, Arkansas 72758-8131 479-464-5650
Carl J. Circo
Little Rock
W. Christopher Barrier
Rogers
John William Spivey III Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
James P. Beachboard Dover Dixon Horne Metropolitan Tower, 37th Floor 425 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-9151
C. Tad Bohannon Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Glenn E. Borkowski Kutak Rock 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3706 501-975-3000
Randal B. Frazier Kutak Rock 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3706 501-975-3000
Price C. Gardner Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Timothy W. Grooms Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
Harold W. Hamlin Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Jeb H. Joyce Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
Hal Joseph Kemp Hal Joseph Kemp 111 Center Street, Suite 1300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-7243
John Alan Lewis
Securities / Capital Markets Law
Congratulations to our members named among the Best Lawyers® in Arkansas: Allan W. Horne Administrative/Regulatory Law Insurance Law Garland W. Binns, Jr. Banking & Finance Law Corporate Law Securities/Capital Markets Law Cyril Hollingsworth Construction Law Litigation – Construction Gary B. Rogers Family Law
Charles W. Reynolds Employment Law – Management Labor Law – Management Litigation – Labor & Employment Mark H. Allison Environmental Law W. Michael Reif Family Law
Michael O. Parker Litigation & Controversy – Tax Tax Law Trusts & Estates James Paul Beachboard Real Estate Law John B. Peace Tax Law Trusts & Estates Joseph H. Purvis Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
Little Rock
Paul B. Benham III
Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Garland W. Binns, Jr.
(501) 375-9151 425 W. Capitol, Suite 3700 Little Rock, AR 72201
Dover Dixon Horne Metropolitan Tower, 37th Floor 425 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-9151
C. Douglas Buford, Jr. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
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Patrick A. Burrow Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4420 501-379-1700
Walter M. Ebel III Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
M. Sean Hatch Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
John S. Selig Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Securities Regulation Little Rock
Paul B. Benham III
Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Rogers 600 South 52nd Street, Suite 200
C. Douglas Buford, Jr. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800 ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT TO ARKANSAS TIMES
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H. WATT GREGORY III Kutak Rock 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3706 501-975-3000
WALTER M. EBEL III
Technology Law
Little Rock
DAN C. YOUNG
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Little Rock
STEVE BAUMAN
Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
BYRON M. EISEMAN, JR. JOHN S. SELIG Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Securitization and Structured Finance Law
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
PRICE C. GARDNER Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Little Rock
GREGORY B. GRAHAM
J. SHEPHERD RUSSELL III
Overbey, Graham, Strigel & Wesbrook 10809 Executive Center Drive, Suite 310 Little Rock, Arkansas 72211-6022 501-664-8105
Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
W. JACKSON WILLIAMS Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
Tax Law El Dorado
CRAIG S. LAIR Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
JOHN C. LESSEL John C. Lessel 11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock, Arkansas 72212 501-954-9000
MICHAEL O. PARKER Dover Dixon Horne Metropolitan Tower, 37th Floor 425 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-9151
JOHN B. PEACE ROBERT S. JONES Barrett & Deacon 300 South Church Street, Third Floor Jonesboro, Arkansas 72403 870-931-1700
TOM D. WOMACK Womack, Landis, Phelps & McNeill Century Center 301 West Washington P.O. Box 3077 Jonesboro, Arkansas 72403 870-932-0900
Dover Dixon Horne Metropolitan Tower, 37th Floor 425 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-9151
Kutak Rock 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3706 501-975-3000
JOHN R. TISDALE Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
SAMUEL R. BAXTER
THOMAS C. VAUGHAN, JR.
Baxter & Jewell One Information Way, Suite 210 Little Rock, Arkansas 72202-2290 501-664-9555
Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, McKenzie & Rowe Cantrell West Building, Suite 201 11300 Cantrell Road Little Rock, Arkansas 72212 501-376-6565
J. LEE BROWN CRAIG H. WESTBROOK Overbey, Graham, Strigel & Wesbrook 10809 Executive Center Drive, Suite 310 Little Rock, Arkansas 72211-6022 501-664-8105
C. BRANTLY BUCK Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
BRYANT CRANFORD Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
BRYAN DUKE Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Trademark Law
J. CHARLES DOUGHERTY Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
HAROLD J. EVANS Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
HERMANN IVESTER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
Trusts and Estates El Dorado Thomas, Hickey & Shepherd, L.L.P. 423 North Washington Avenue El Dorado, Arkansas 71730-5615 870-862-3478
Fayetteville
WILLIAM JACKSON BUTT II Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 19 East Mountain Street P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702-1688 479-521-7600
JAMES LEE MOORE III Reece, Moore, Pendergraft 75 North East Avenue, Suite 500 P.O. Box 1788 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702 479-443-2705
JAMES W. SMITH Friday, Eldredge & Clark 3425 North Futrall Drive, Suite 103 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703-6252 479-695-2011
Pine Bluff
TED N. DRAKE
Jonesboro
Bridges Law Firm 315 Eighth Avenue P.O. Box 7808 Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71611 870-534-5532
ROBERT S. JONES Barrett & Deacon 300 South Church Street, Third Floor Jonesboro, Arkansas 72403 870-931-1700
ANTHONY A. HILLIARD
TOM D. WOMACK
Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson and Raley Simmons Banking Building, 11th Floor 501 Main Street P.O. Box 8509 Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71611 870-535-9000
Womack, Landis, Phelps & McNeill Century Center 301 West Washington P.O. Box 3077 Jonesboro, Arkansas 72403 870-932-0900
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Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
PHILLIP J. WELLS McDaniel & Wells 400 South Main Street Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401 870-932-5950
Pine Bluff
WILLIAM THOMAS BAXTER
TED N. DRAKE
Texarkana
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Bridges Law Firm 315 Eighth Avenue P.O. Box 7808 Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71611 870-534-5532
Moore & Giles 1206 State Line Avenue Texarkana, Arkansas 71854 870-774-5191
J. LEE BROWN Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
C. BRANTLY BUCK Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
ALLISON J. CORNWELL Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
SARAH M. COTTON Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
BYRON M. EISEMAN, JR. Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
JAMES E. HARRIS Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
WILLIAM DIXON HAUGHT Haught & Wade 111 Center Street, Suite 1320 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-5257
W. WILSON JONES KATHRYN BENNETT PERKINS
JOSEPH HICKEY DAVID A. SMITH
Little Rock
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Williams & Anderson Stephens Building, 22nd Floor 111 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-0800
STEPHEN D. CARVER
THOMAS L. OVERBEY
Jonesboro
HAROLD J. EVANS
Carver Patent Law Pleasant Valley Corporate Center, Suite 800 2024 Arkansas Valley Drive Little Rock, Arkansas 72212 501-224-1500
Overbey, Graham, Strigel & Wesbrook 10809 Executive Center Drive, Suite 310 Little Rock, Arkansas 72211-6022 501-664-8105
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 3425 North Futrall Drive, Suite 103 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703-6252 479-695-2011
Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
JAMES LEE MOORE III
JAMES W. SMITH
J. CHARLES DOUGHERTY
Little Rock
Fayetteville Reece, Moore, Pendergraft 75 North East Avenue, Suite 500 P.O. Box 1788 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702 479-443-2705
Wright, Lindsey & Jennings LLP 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
W. WILSON JONES
JOSEPH HICKEY Thomas, Hickey & Shepherd, L.L.P. 423 North Washington Avenue El Dorado, Arkansas 71730-5615 870-862-3478
RAY F. COX, JR.
Jonesboro
Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
CRAIG S. LAIR Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
JOHN C. LESSEL John C. Lessel 11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock, Arkansas 72212 501-954-9000
THOMAS L. OVERBEY Overbey, Graham, Strigel & Wesbrook 10809 Executive Center Drive, Suite 310 Little Rock, Arkansas 72211-6022 501-664-8105
ANTHONY A. HILLIARD Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson and Raley Simmons Banking Building, 11th Floor 501 Main Street P.O. Box 8509 Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71611 870-535-9000
JAMES C. MOSER, JR. Bridges Law Firm 315 Eighth Avenue P.O. Box 7808 Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71611 870-534-5532
Rogers
CHRISTOPHER T. ROGERS Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 5414 Pinnacle Point Drive, Suite 500 Rogers, Arkansas 72758-8131 479-464-5650
Venture Capital Law Little Rock
CONSTANCE G. CLARK Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor, PLC 19 East Mountain Street P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702-1688 479-521-7600
CURTIS NEBBEN Bassett Law Firm 221 North College Avenue P.O. Box 3618 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702-3618 479-521-9996
Little Rock
JOHN D. DAVIS Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
BETTY J. HARDY Coplin, Hardy, & Stotts One Union Plaza, Suite 1650 124 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-707-0300
Water Law Little Rock
BRIAN ROSENTHAL Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2893 501-375-9131
WALTER G. WRIGHT, JR. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3525 501-688-8800
Workers’ Compensation Law El Dorado
BRIAN H. RATCLIFF Shackleford, Phillips & Ratcliff, P.A. 100 East Church Street P.O. Box 1718 El Dorado, Arkansas 71731-1718 870-862-5523
Fort Smith Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon, & Galchus 5401 Rogers Avenue, Suite 200 Fort Smith, Arkansas 72903 479-783-8200
JOHN B. PEACE
Little Rock
Dover Dixon Horne Metropolitan Tower, 37th Floor 425 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-9151
Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 400 West Capital Avenue, Suite 2470 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-372-1887
R. SCOTT ZUERKER
RANDY P. MURPHY
GEORGE N. PLASTIRAS
PHILIP M. WILSON
Plastiras Law Firm 101 South Spring Street, Suite 300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-859-0986
Philip M. Wilson 711 West Third Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-374-4000
JOHN COGAN WADE
Workers’ Compensation Law Claimants
Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
Fayetteville
H. WATT GREGORY III
MICHAEL O. PARKER
K. COLEMAN WESTBROOK, JR.
Workers’ Compensation Law Employers
Kutak Rock LLP 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3706 501-975-3000
Dover Dixon Horne Metropolitan Tower, 37th Floor 425 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-9151
Haught & Wade 111 Center Street, Suite 1320 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-5257
GREGORY GILES
MICHAEL R. MAYTON Mayton, Newkirk & Jones The Lyon Building, Suite 200 401 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4823 501-376-0504
LEE J. MULDROW Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3699 501-371-0808
FRANK B. NEWELL Laser Law Firm 101 South Spring Street, Suite 300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-2488 501-376-2981
ERIC NEWKIRK Mayton, Newkirk & Jones The Lyon Building, Suite 200 401 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-4823 501-376-0504
JOSEPH H. PURVIS Dover Dixon Horne Metropolitan Tower, 37th Floor 425 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501-375-9151
MIKE RYBURN Ryburn Law Firm 10825 Financial Center Parkway, Suite 136 Little Rock, Arkansas 72211-3555 501-228-8100
GUY ALTON WADE Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3522 501-376-2011
CAROL WORLEY Worley Wood & Parrish One Financial Centre Parkway, Suite 411 650 South Shackleford Road Little Rock, Arkansas 72211 501-225-3535
Fort Smith
EDDIE H. WALKER, JR. Walker, Shock & Harp PLLC 400 North Sixth Street P.O. Box 998 Fort Smith, Arkansas 72902-0998 479-783-7600
Pine Bluff
MICHAEL J. DENNIS Bridges Law Firm 315 Eighth Avenue P.O. Box 7808 Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71611 870-534-5532
Congratulations thomas D. Conley, MD, FaCC, FsCai
For Being selected as one of the Best Doctors 2011 Arkansas Cardiology, P.A. Arkansas Cardiology West Dwight Chrisman, MD, FACC Gary J. Collins, MD, FACC, FACP Scott A. Davis, MD, FACC G. Stephen Greer, MD, FACC J. Douglas Holloway, MD, FACC David G. Jones, MD, FACC Randy Minton, MD, FACC Blake Norris, MD, FACC Alexander N. Orsini, MD, FACC B.K. Singh, MD, FACC 9501 Lile Drive Ste. 600 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-7596
For more than 30 years, Arkansas Cardiology has provided our patients with the most advanced cardiovascular services in the state. We’re honored to have Dr. Thomas Conley recognized among the Best Doctors in Arkansas! Like many of the highly trained physicians at Arkansas Cardiology, Dr. Conley introduced new innovative therapies to the patients of Arkansas. Dr Conley was the first cardiologist in Arkansas to perform coronary stenting from the wrist. This procedure allows patients to walk and stand almost immediately after receiving stents. Arkansas Cardiology appreciates the dedication he has to improving the heart health of the patients he serves every day.
Arkansas Cardiology North Thomas D. Conley, MD, FACC, FSCAI Jay D. Geoghagan, MD, FACC Robert A. Lambert, MD, FACC Jeffrey Neuhauser, DO, FACC 3343 Springhill Dr Ste. 1035 North Little Rock, AR 72117 501-975-7676 Heartline 1-800-482-1224 www.arcard.org “Our Mission is to provide state-of-the-art comprehensive cardiovascular care to the people of Arkansas in a caring and compassionate manner”
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Regions Regions Center Center - 400 West - 400 Capitol West Capitol Avenue Avenue Regions Center - 400 West Capitol Avenue Suite Suite 2840 2840 Suite 2840 Little Little Rock, Rock, Arkansas Arkansas 72201 72201 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 (501) (501) 372-5800 372-5800 (501) 372-5800 www.cnjlaw.com www.cnjlaw.com www.cnjlaw.com *Fellow *Fellow of the of the American College College of Environmental of Environmental Lawyers Lawyers *Fellow of American the American College of Environmental Lawyers **Fellow **Fellow of the of the American College College of Trial ofLawyers Trial Lawyers **Fellow of American the American College of Trial Lawyers ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT TO ARKANSAS TIMES
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The 2nd Friday Of Each Month November 11, 5-8 pm
Opening Reception for
CHUKES
TesseracT Dancing
“Fired Rhythm”
Brett anderson and emily galusha
Ceramic Sculpture and Mixed Media Paintings
• Live music by Lark in the Morning
• Performances by
Arkansas Festival Ballet
A museum of the Department of Arkansas Heritage
200 E. 3rd St. • 501-324-9351• www.HistoricArkansas.org
“Peaceful” 22”x8”x11”
DRINK MOCHA/TALK ART November 12, 2011, 10 am
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 9am – 5pm • Saturday 10am – 6pm Sunday (By Appointment) 1001 Wright Ave. Suite C Little Rock, AR 501-372-6822 www.hearnefineart.com
Windows and Mirrors Reflections on the War in Afghanistan A traveling collection of 25 panels from International artists and children from Kabul, Afghanistan. Canvas Community Church 1111 W. 7th St., LR (close to Vino’s)
FREE PARKING at 3RD & CUMBERLAND FREE STREET PARKING ALL OVER DOWNTOWN AND BEHIND THE RIVER MARKET (Paid parking available for modest fee.)
ARTIST RECEPTION Meet the Artist November 11, 2011, 5pm – 8pm
• pARTy for Peg lighting
Dodophant, by Brett Anderson
These venues will be open late. There’s plenty of parking and a free trolley to each of the locations. Don’t miss it – lots of fun!
November 10, 2011 – January 6, 2012
• Blacksmithing Demonstrations
300 Third Tower • 501-375-3333 coppergrillandgrocery.com
Meet the Cast of Much Ado About Nothing at This Special Reception & Stay for the Theatrical Performance at 8 p.m.
Sponsored by Drivers Legal Plan Drivers Legal Plan
The Old State House Museum is a museum of the Department of Arkansas Heritage.
Gypsy Bistro 501.375.3500
200 S. Commerce, Ste. 150 River Market District (Old Vermillion Location)
Featuring works of art from ArtGroup Maumelle. 521 President Clinton Ave. River Market District (501) 975-9800
Dining
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B Breakfast L Lunch D Dinner $ Inexpensive (under $8/person) $$ Moderate ($8-$20/person) $$$ Expensive (over $20/person) CC Accepts credit cards
BELLY UP Check out the Times’ food blog, Eat Arkansas arktimes.com
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WHAT’S COOKIN’
DISAPPOINTING: Ozark Country Restaurant’s chicken fried steak.
Stick with breakfast Ozark shines in the a.m., but shadows fall over dinner.
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e love the local joints, those little tucked-back places that only the townies know about. Finding one of those restaurants — full of work-a-day Joes rubbing elbows with judges, insurance agents and funeral home directors — is one of the great joys of visiting small town Arkansas. Even if the food isn’t to die for, it’s the only way to really feel like you’ve truly been to a place: by supping where the people who live there sup. There aren’t many of that breed to be had anymore in Little Rock — those places where everybody knows everybody and the frycook knows your name if you visit more than twice. Life moves fast in the big city; too fast for waitresses who call you “hun” and want to chat about last Friday night’s football game at the high school, anyway. There are still a handful of places like that in Little Rock, though, and Ozark Country Restaurant is one. Snuggled just a half-block off Cantrell (which might well qualify as the Main Drag of Little Rock these days), it’s still surprisingly unknown to many. Kind of a non-chain Cracker Barrel, Ozark’s breakfast is popular. Weekend mornings usually mean waiting for a table. On a recent Sunday morning visit, after the obligatory wait, the reviewer tried a short stack of their sweet potato pancakes ($5.59), while our companion sampled the Ozark Country Breakfast ($8.99), featuring a big biscuit, diced potatoes (which they inexplicably call hash browns), white gravy, two eggs and a choice of bacon, sausage or ham. Companion’s breakfast was hearty and stick-to the-ribs good,
Ozark Country Restaurant 201 Keightly Drive Little Rock 663-7319
Quick bite You can order breakfast all day at Ozark Country Restaurant, and everything we’ve tried off that menu so far has been good. Hours 6 a.m. to 2 p.m daily; 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Other info All credit cards accepted, dessert list available on request. No alcohol.
with a nice-sized helping of thick-cut bacon, but it’s admittedly hard to mess up breakfast food. Pancakes, though, are tougher to get right, and the ones we had at Ozark were a real treat. We’ve had the sweet potato variety elsewhere before and weren’t impressed. These, on the other hand, were excellent: sweet, light, with a fine flavor of yams and a little cinnamon. Slathered with some butter and maple syrup, they started the day off right. The restaurant now serves dinner on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights from 5-9 p.m. The dinner menu (which is actually available for lunch, too, beginning at 10:30 a.m. every day) is fairly small, with just six meat-and-two entrees (all $9.59 each) and a spaghetti-and-Italian sausage offering ($8.59). From the dinner slate, we chose our tried-and-true choice whenever we see it on a menu anywhere: the chicken fried steak ($9.59), pairing it
with black-eyed peas and steak fries. Our companion, meanwhile, tried the bacon cheddar burger ($6.59) with fries. Our friend’s burger was fine: big, meaty, with a generous slice of sharp cheddar, all served on a buttery Kaiser roll. With a squirt of ketchup on the side, it and the fries were soon devoured. The chicken fried steak, however, was a sadder story. What we were served turned out to be the cardinal sin in this foodie’s book: the dreaded pre-formed patty, slathered in white gravy. If you’re thinking it sounds like Ozark managed to step on this reviewer’s personal pet-peeve landmine, it did. It’s more than just a quirk, though. The reason we always try the chicken fried steak when we see it on a menu is because that dish, by our way of thinking, is the canary in the coal mine of down-home restaurants. Everything you need to evaluate a restaurant (from care in preparation, to recipes, to the quality of ingredients, to how long since the grease in the fryer has been changed, to whether the service is fast enough to get it to you before it turns into a cold mess) is handily encapsulated in the humble chicken fried steak. Get a good one, and it’s heaven. Get a bad one — burnt, tough, under-seasoned or over-cooked to the point of being like shoe leather — and you probably have a pretty good snapshot of what’s going on behind the kitchen door. All that said, in our experience, any place that sells you a “chicken fried steak” but can’t even spend a couple of bucks on a cube steak to bread and fry just isn’t gastronomically trustworthy enough to rate a second look. As an added affront, the black-eyed peas — a lowly legume which can rise far above its station if done right — were so bland that we might as well have been eating waterlogged lumps of PlayDoh. Even the chunks of ham floating amongst the peas seemed as flavorless as chunks of rubber. The steak fries were better, but were also devoid of any seasoning: no salt, no pepper. A friend who sampled the mashed potatoes and gravy recently said they were bland and no better. In short: while the breakfast at Ozark Country Restaurant deserves a good bit of the praise it has received over the years, our advice is to stick with The Most Important Meal of the Day or their burgers if you visit. While our sample of their plate dinner offerings was admittedly limited, the coal mine canary croaked early, and a little of that particular bird’s swan song goes a long way.
THE CHAIN RESTAURANT CHEDDAR’S, which bills itself as a “casual
cafe,” has opened its first branch in Little Rock. It’s at 300 S. University, in the Park Avenue shopping center that also includes Target. Hours are 11 a.m. until 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. until midnight Friday and Saturday. The phone number is 614-7578 and the website is cheddars. com. HILLCREST ARTISAN MEATS (H.A.M.), the locally-sourced, organic meat shop coming to 2807 Kavanaugh, pushed its opening target back from Nov. 1 to Nov. 7. We’ll keep you posted.
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65TH STREET DINER Meat-and-two-veg lunch spot with cheap desserts and a breakfast buffet. 3201 West 65th St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-562-7800. BL Mon.-Fri. ACADIA Unbelievable fixed-price, threecourse dinners on Mondays and Tuesday, but food is certainly worth full price. 3000 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, CC. $$-$$$. 501-603-9630. D Mon.-Sat. BIG ORANGE: BURGERS SALADS SHAKES Gourmet burgers and properly fried Kennebec potatoes are the big draws. 17809 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-821-1515. LD daily. BOBBY’S CAFE Delicious, humungo burgers and tasty homemade deserts at this Levy diner. 12230 MacArthur Drive. NLR. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-851-7888. BL Tue.-Fri., D Thu.-Fri. BOSCOS Along with tried and true things like sandwiches, burgers, steaks and big salads, they have entrees like black bean and goat cheese tamales, open hearth pizza ovens and muffalettas. 500 President Clinton Ave. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-907-1881. LD daily. BOUDREAUX’S GRILL & BAR A homey, seat-yourself Cajun joint in Maumelle that serves up all sorts of variations of shrimp and catfish. 9811 Maumelle Blvd. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-753-6860. L Sat., D Mon.-Sat. CAJUN’S WHARF The venerable seafood restaurant serves up great gumbo and oysters Bienville. 2400 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-375-5351. D Mon.-Sat. COPPER GRILL Comfort food, burgers and more sophisticated fare at this River Market-area hotspot. 300 E. Third St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-375-3333. LD Mon.-Sat. DAVE’S PLACE Downtown’s premier soup-and-sandwich stop at lunch. Beef, chicken and fish are served with continental flair. 201 Center St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-372-3283. L Mon.-Fri., D Fri. CONTINUED ON PAGE 56
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DAVID FAMILY KITCHEN Neckbones, ribs, sturdy cornbread, salmon croquettes, mustard greens and the like. Desserts are exceptionally good. 2301 Broadway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-371-0141. BL Sun.-Fri. DELICIOUS TEMPTATIONS Decadent breakfast and light lunch items that can be ordered in full or half orders to please any appetite or palate, with a great variety of salads and soups as well. 11220 Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-225-6893. BL daily. DIZZY’S GYPSY BISTRO Interesting bistro fare, served in massive portions at this River Market favorite. 200 River Market Ave. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-375-3500. LD Tue.-Sat. THE FADED ROSE The Cajun-inspired menu seldom disappoints. Steaks and soaked salads are legendary. 1615 Rebsamen Park Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-9734. LD daily. Full bar. $$-$$$. 501-224-3377. LD daily. FERNEAU Great seafood, among other things, is served at the Ice House Revival in Hillcrest. Thu.-Sat. 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$$-$$$$. 501-603-9208. D Tue.-Sat. FRANKE’S CAFETERIA Plate lunch spot strong on salads and vegetables, and perfect fried chicken on Sundays. 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-225-4487. LD daily. 400 W. Capitol Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-372-1919. L Mon.-Fri. FRONTIER DINER The half pound burger is a two-hander for the average working Joe. 10424 Interstate 30. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-565-6414. BL Mon.-Sat. FROSTOP A ‘50s-style drive-in has been resurrected, with big and juicy burgers and great irregularly cut fries. Superb service, too. 4131 JFK Blvd. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-758-4535. BLD daily. GADWALL’S GRILL & PIZZA Mouth-watering burgers and specialty sandwiches, plus zesty pizzas. 12 North Hills Shopping Center. NLR. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-834-1840. LD daily. HAYESTACK CAFE Southern cooking, po’boys and hearty breakfasts. 27024 Kanis Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-821-0070. BLD Tue.-Sun. KIERRE’S KOUNTRY KITCHEN Excellent home-cooking joint. 6 Collins Place. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-758-0923. BLD Tue.-Fri., BL Sat. RED DOOR Fresh seafood, steaks, chops and sandwiches. 3701 Old Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-666-8482. BL Mon.-Fri. D daily. REDBONE’S Piquant Creole and Cajun food that’s among Little Rock’s best. The shrimp po-boy and duck and andouille gumbo are standouts. 300 President Clinton Ave. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-372-2211. LD daily. RIVERFRONT STEAKHOUSE Steaks are the draw here, cooked quickly and accurately to your specifications. 2 Riverfront Place. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-375-7825. D Mon.-Sat. RUDY’S OYSTER BAR Good boiled shrimp and oysters on the half shell. 2695 Pike Ave. NLR. Full bar. 501-771-0808. LD Mon.-Sat. STARLITE DINER Breakfast and ice cream-loaded shakes star here. 250 E. Military Road. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-353-0465. BLD. TRIO’S Fresh, creative and satisfying lunches; even better at night. 8201 Cantrell Road. Full bar. $$-$$$. 501-221-3330. LD Mon.-Sat. VIEUX CARRE A pleasant spot in Hillcrest with specialty salads, steak and seafood. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-1196. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat., BR Sun. ZACK’S PLACE Expertly prepared home cooking and huge, smoky burgers. 1400 S. University Ave. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-664-6444. LD Mon.-Sat.
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CHI’S CHINESE CUISINE Broad menu that spans the Chinese provinces and offers a few twists. 5110 W. Markham St. All CC. $-$$. 501-604-7777. FANTASTIC CHINA The food is delicious, the presentation beautiful, the menu distinctive, the service perfect, the decor bright. 1900 N. Grant St. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-663-8999. LD daily. OSAKA JAPANESE RESTAURANT Fine-dining Japanese dishes and a well-stocked sushi bar. 5501 Ranch Drive, Suite 1. $$-$$$. 501-868-3688. LD. PAPA SUSHI Hibachi grill with large sushi menu and Korean specialties. 17200 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-821-7272. SUSHI CAFE Impressive, upscale sushi menu. 5823 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-9888. L Mon.-Sat. D daily.
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CHATZ CAFE ‘Cue and catfish joint that does heavy catering business. 8801 Colonel Glenn Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-562-4949. LD Mon.-Sat. CORKY’S RIBS & BBQ The pulled pork is extremely tender and juicy, and the sauce is sweet and tangy 12005 Westhaven Drive. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-954-7427. LD daily. 2947 Lakewood Village Drive. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-753-3737. LD daily, B Sat.-Sun. WHITE PIG INN Go for the sliced rather than chopped meats at this working-class barbecue cafe. 5231 E. Broadway. NLR. Beer. $-$$. 501-9455551. LD Mon.-Fri., L Sat. WHOLE HOG CAFE The pulled pork shoulder is a classic, the back ribs are worthy of their many blue ribbons, and there’s a six-pack of sauces for all tastes. 516 Cantrell Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-664-5025. LD Mon.-Sat. 12111 W. Markham. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-907-6124. LD
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AMRUTH AUTHENTIC INDIAN CUISINE Numerous spicy, vegetarian dishes. 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-224-4567. LD daily. CAFE BOSSA NOVA A South American approach to sandwiches, salads and desserts. 701 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-614-6682. LD Tue.-Sat., BR Sun. GEORGIA’S GYROS Good gyros, Greek salads and fragrant grilled pita bread. 2933 Lakewood Village Drive. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-753-5090. LD Mon.-Sat. HIBERNIA IRISH TAVERN Irish and Southern food favorites. 9700 N Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-246-4340. LAYLA’S Delicious Mediterranean fare. 9501 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-227-7272. LD daily (close 5 p.m. on Sun.). 612 Office Park Drive. Bryant. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-847-5455. LD Mon.-Sat. TAJ MAHAL Upscale versions of traditional dishes and an extensive menu. 1520 Market Street. Beer, All CC. $$$. (501) 881-4796. LD daily. THE TERRACE MEDITERRANEAN KITCHEN A broad selection of Mediterranean delights. 2200 Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-217-9393. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat. YA YA’S EURO BISTRO Best bet is lunch, where you can explore the menu through soup, salad or half a sandwich. 17711 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-821-1144. LD daily, BR Sun.
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GRAFFITI’S The casually chic and ever-popular Italian-flavored bistro avoids the rut with daily specials and careful menu tinkering. 7811 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-2249079. D Mon.-Sat. PIZZA D’ACTION Some of the best pizza in town, a marriage of thin, crispy crust with a hefty ingredient load. 2919 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-5403. LD daily. RISTORANTE CAPEO Familiar pasta dishes will comfort most diners, but let the chef, entertain you with some more exotic stuff, too, like crispy veal sweetbreads. They make their own mozzarella fresh daily. 425 Main St. NLR. Full bar. $$-$$$. 501-376-3463. D Mon.-Sat. ROCKY’S PUB Rocking sandwiches an Arkie used to have to head way northeast to find and a fine selection of homemade Italian entrees. 6909 JFK Blvd. NLR. Beer, Wine. $$. 501-833-1077. LD Mon.-Sat. ZAZA Here’s where you get wood-fired pizza with gorgeous blistered crusts and a light topping of choice and tempting ingredients. 5600 Kavanaugh Blvd. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-661-9292. LD daily. 1050 Ellis Ave. Conway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-336-9292. BLD daily.
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ave a hankering for fresh, hot cornbread? Whether your preference is for traditional Arkansas unsweetened cornbread or the more Northern-friendly sweet version, or even if you’re looking for jalapeno bread or johnnycakes, we have the best baker’s dozen places in the state to get your cornbread fix.
Ashley’s. Sweet. Pastry chef Tandra Watkins creates a sweet cracklin’ cornbread that goes perfectly with peas, greens or beans on any particular day. It’s made from War Eagle Mill grain and it’s delightful. Markham and Louisiana inside the Capital Hotel. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/ashleyswebsite. 7 a.m.-11 p.m daily. Bean Palace. Traditional and nontraditional Italian. How fresh is your cornbread? You probably haven’t had it any fresher than what you can find at this restaurant, on the third floor of War Eagle Mill. Grain is grist-milled downstairs and brought up to be cooked up for lunch. Barely sweet, the traditional is great for sandwiches; if they’ve cooked up the Italian version instead treat yourself to that; it’s perfect for the Hickory Smoked Ham Sandwich. Inside War Eagle Mill (near Rogers). 479-789-5343. www.wareaglemill.com. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Bobby’s Country Cookin’. Sweet. The lines start forming around 11 a.m. each day for folks hoping to get their meat-and-twoveg on over at the Shackleford cafeteria. The corn muffins are sweet and crumbly. Have yours with some Great Northern
Beans, some sweet tea and, if you’re lucky, some fried chicken. 301 N. Shackleford Road. 501-224-9900. www.bobbyscountrycookin.com. 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Brown’s Country Store and Restaurant. Sweet. For 39 years the Benton landmark has been serving up a buffet featuring catfish, ribs, Southern cooking and fluffy sweet cornbread. Goes well with a little margarine, or if you’re feeding a sweet tooth try some honey on the table. Exit 118 on I-30 (Benton). 501-7785033. www.brownscountryrestaurant. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. daily. Cock of the Walk. Non-traditional. It would be enough for Cock of the Walk’s cornbread to be the moist, somewhat cakelike jalapeno-tinged cornbread that it is; when it’s served up by a waitress who flips it in the skillet, that’s even better. 7103 Cock of the Walk Drive, North Little Rock. 501758-7182. www.cockofthewalk.biz. 5-9 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 5-10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Sun. Cotham’s Mercantile. Johnnycakes. If you’ve only ever tried the burger at Cotham’s, you’ve missed out on the full experience. Cotham’s serves up its cornbread selection like unsweetened flapjacks with margarine; they’re nicely crusty on the outside and crumbly in the middle. Get you a mess of collard greens with that. The original is at 5301 Hwy. 161, Scott. 501-961-9284. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Fri.-Sat. The city version: 1401 W. Third, Little Rock. 501-370-9177. www.cothamsinthecity.com. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Eunice’s Country Cookin’. Sweet.
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Eunice’s serves up fabulous home-style beef over rice and chicken ’n’ dumplings, both of which are improved by the application of the restaurant’s sweet white cakelike cornbread. You can even order a pan to take home with you. 3325 S. 74th, Fort Smith. 479-484-1465. 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Franke’s Cafeteria. Skillet traditional. Here’s a true Arkansas favorite: that great, crumbly skillet-fried cornbread from one the state’s oldest continually operating restaurant. It’s still soaking up all the butter next to your scalloped eggplant after all these years. Franke’s is now doing gluten-free jalapeno cornbread muffins, too. 11121 N. Rodney Parham, 501-225-4487, 10:45 a.m.-8 p.m. daily. 400 Broadway, Regions Center Building. 501-372-1919. www.frankescafeteria.com. 10:45 a.m.-2 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Fred’s Country Cooking. Traditional. A welcome haven for travelers in the western part of the state, this log cabin restaurant south of Waldron serves up fantastic catfish and burgers as well as some of the best traditional yellow cake cornbread you’ll find in the state. 16538 Highway
71, Boles. 479-577-2676. 6 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 6 a.m.-2 p.m. Sun. Grandma’s Beans and Cornbread. Traditional. Can you build a business on nothing but beans and cornbread? Yes you can. Though this little Eureka Springs shop has changed hands numerous times, it’s still serving up barely sweet cornbread alongside that nearly famous pot of pinto and Great Northern beans. The combination is one of the cheapest and most filling dinners you’ll get in town. 200 Village Circle, Eureka Springs. 479-253-6561. www.grandmasbeansandcornbread.com. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Homer’s. Traditional and non-traditional. This is sopping cornbread, the sort you want when you have a plate of candied yams and turnip greens. Homer’s serves up meat-and-three plates with your choice of a roll (also good), the traditional unsweet Arkansas cornbread or a non-traditional variation with jalapenos. Cornmeal never meets sugar here, not even in the hush puppies. 2001 E. Roosevelt. 501-374-1400. 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Mama Max’s. Traditional. Beautiful, golden yellow and buttery, Mama Max’s thick cornbread is moist but crumbly and perfect with some lima beans or purple hull peas. 1102 W. Main Street, Prescott. 870-887-5005. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wed.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sun. Shannon’s Restaurant. Sweet. Better known for doing breakfast any hour of the day, Shannon’s also serves up great plate lunches, almost always with a choice of roll or cornbread (except on Fridays, when it’s hush puppies). The sweetish cornbread is meant for sopping up bean juice and is great with turnip greens. 5511 Dollarway Road, Pine Bluff. 870-267-0000. 24 hours daily.
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s we reported last week, Boswell Mourot Fine Art inaugurates the opening of their new gallery in Miami with a fete on November 5. We caught up with Kyle Boswell just days before he left to talk about introducing his Arkansas artists into the hot Miami art scene. “As an artist myself, I understand the importance of getting in that market,” he opines. “It’s a larger population; it’s a huge art city, and, of course, Art Basel is there.” Continued on page 60 ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT TO THE ARKANSAS TIMES
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The gallery itself is in a tony area of Miami that was once the bohemian hub of the burgeoning arts community. Boswell invested in it years ago, but it now bears the Boswell Mourot name. He knew even then that he would someday like to have Arkansas artists represented there. “There’s so much untapped talent here,” he says. “Art is demographically influenced so Arkansas artists are different than those in Miami ... and the Miami market is savvy enough that they’ll be accepted.” With the Miami opening, Boswell’s own career has, in a sense, come full circle. “They were the ones who first supported me and showed my work and introduced me to other galleries,” he says. Brad Cushman of UALR, who has a show opening at the Little Rock gallery on November 12, will be one of the artists whose work will also show in Miami. Cushman says, “I’m excited. The more eyes that see it, the better.” Even as he prepares to take on Miami, the forward-thinking Boswell has his sights set on an even farther destination. He muses, “Someday, I think I’d like to have a presence in Berlin.” Achtung world!
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he hot topic among the Mississippi flyway birds coming south during the fall migration continues to be the rapture of several thousands of their brethren near Beebe last winter. The surviving birds, at least the migrants that I talked to, tend to think the raptured birds were “called home” by the great bird god Quetzalcoatl. They don’t disbelieve the official human report that the birds died of some “unexplained blunt-force trauma,” but they think that’s an obvious and negligible part of the story. The trauma was from the birds hitting the ground after falling from a great height, the birds agree, but it was only their mortal shells that fell — the Bird-God had already harvested their immortal souls and borne them away to Bird Heaven, where the streets are paved with sunflower seeds and the upper ranks of demons in faraway Bird Hell are filled with puddies that used up their nine tats. That’s the bird slant on the Great Beebe Croak, but you have to take bird forensics with several grains of Lot’s wife. Birdbrain didn’t come to mean what it does for nothing. Word-of-beak communication is about the only kind they have over long distances, and that combines badly with their tendency to gossip. Gossips always
embroider and festoon their news reports, and elide the subtleties, so that what started out as a mere bobBOB olink spiel evolves LANCASTER at last into a fullblown roadrunner windy, full of such preposterous notions as that creatures other than human beings might have an afterlife. In the Beebe aftermath, bird yarn-spinners outright stole the idea of a human Rapture and applied it to themselves. Deer have leapt to the same conclusion during hunting seasons with a heavy harvest, and possums since the heyday of the flivver have alleged that roadkill represents a rapture of sorts for their icky species. But it’s all hooey. Only humans have a Rapture. Other species can do special effects, but that’s only Pixar legerdemain, not the real deal. Birds do deserve some credit for not being sanctimonious in their bird-rapture delusions, and for not going around squawking or gabbling predicted dates and times. There’s no bird Harold Camping, or even a bird Tim LeHaye — and that speaks well for them. There’s no bird Geraldo, either. They
have no media except snatches of our blogs that they intercept unwittingly as they quietly wing down their predetermined longitudinal flypaths. They have to depend for punditry on the owls, appointed to put a reasonable spin on such prodigies as the Beebe Rapture and to enter authoritative interpretations of such events into the Avian Cosmology, an ancient stash of bird lore and bird fancy. These bird annals go back much farther than our own, but owls don’t know how to write, or how to compile written records, so they have to keep it all in their heads and disclose it only in hoots that all sound like the same hoot. There are only so many gigs of bird saga that you can get into a hoot. Multi-tasking is required of the owls too — if while they’re deep into archiving, for instance, they catch a glimpse of an incautious field mouse they have to beg pardon and go talon the rascal and take it home to stuff piecemeal into owlet maws. So owl wisdom is spotty, with gaps and lapses, sluggish with unpersuasive myth — and their knowledgeability is nothing to hoot home about either. They think bats are birds, for example. They think airplanes are birds. They think helicopters are just big dragonflies. They don’t know what to make of a kite. They can’t decipher roc or auk or any other of the ancient bird languages. You can hypnotize them with metronomes and make fools of them with post-hypnotic suggestions. You can sell
them schlock. Thousands of them are coowners of the Brooklyn Bridge. They’re better in matters of the spirit, but even there a fledgling aspirant to the ecclesiastical would be better served perching attentively in the rafters at a middling Vacation Bible School. There’s not a single owl that knows, or would guess, that the world is only 6,000 years old. Birds are utterly unaware of the great r.o.i.’s that derive from making burnt offerings. Neither raven nor dove has ever traced its ancestry to the ark. Birds have no Decalogue so they can only guess when they’ve sinned, and no blessed assurance is forthcoming for repenting guessed-at trespasses. When churlish jays or wiseacre magpies turn to the owls for priestly or rabbinic guidance, the owls can only shrug. They may add a hoot to the shrug. Birds see Sunnis fighting Shi’ites, Catholics and Protestants blowing each other up, Tutsis braining Wootsies and vice versa, evangelicals warring with the sane, etc. — and it all goes right over their heads. They lack the moral and physical courage to jump into the big middle of frays both great and small. We humans do however have the requisite grit, the dander, and our Maker rewards us with such gifts as the real-McCoy Rapture and dominion over the lesser, fainter-hearted, mindingtheir-own-business beasts, including the yellow-bellied sapsuckers.
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