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The pipeline cometh

Construction began this week on a 185-mile natural gas pipeline that will originate in Conway County, travel through White County and terminate in Mississippi.

The Fayetteville Express Pipeline (FEP) will cost $1.25 billion and is a joint venture between Energy Transfer Partners and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners.

The announcement raises questions as to how land easements will be acquired.

Interstate gas lines are common carriers under the law and are granted the power of eminent domain. That has occasionally presented problems, particularly when pipelines gather gas from wells to ship to interstate lines.

Companies have faced lawsuits after failing to properly negotiate with landowners before claiming eminent domain.

State Rep. Jonathan Dismang, R-Beebe, introduced a bill in the 2009 legislative session to stop gathering-line companies from using eminent domain. The bill was defeated, the result of a massive lobbying effort by the gas industry. He said he’s hopeful eminent domain issues won’t be a problem as construction for the FEP gets underway.

“It’s my understanding that everything is going to be acquired through negotiations and that the companies involved would not use eminent domain for the easements,” Dismang said. “They’re going to pay a fair amount or figure out an alternate route.”

Maine chance

There’s an Arkansas angle in this year’s race for Maine governor. The leading Democratic candidate (primary is in June) is Libby Mitchell of Augusta, who is president of the Maine Senate and a former House speaker. The Arkansas angle is her husband, Jim Mitchell, a Little Rock native and 1960 graduate of Hall High who’s a lawyer and probate judge. His sister, Starr Mitchell of Little Rock, passes along his recent honor as the Maine ACLU’s person of the year.

Bill Clinton, who appointed Libby Mitchell to the Board of the Federal Home Loan Bank in Boston when he was president, recently endorsed her. She’s running as a Clean Elections candidate. She will qualify for public campaign financing by taking no PAC or corporate money and no individual contribution of more than $100.

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Hidden pork

“Audubon and Sierra Club would rather buy oil from Saudi Arabia I guess,” Maxwell says. “I’m not going to promote a smoken Environmentalists smelled pork in legislastack technology. I’m not for burning it. You tive passage of the higher education spending can mine it, and capture those materials and bill. It included authorization for spending up sell them to other industries. There are also to $1.5 million for a center at Southern Archemical processes being developed to turn kansas University to study the development lignite into crude oil. I’m for promoting that of lignite (brown coal). It is sometimes used to other industries and making it profitable.” to generate electricity.

Beyond the air emissions risks, Smith “Burning lignite is much dirtier than burnsays lignite mining would be harmful to Aring coal,” says Audubon Arkansas executive kansas’ natural habitats and there are better director Ken Smith. “It’s almost like burning energy opportunities for Arkansas. dirt. There are lots of trace elements such as lignite: Unclean.

“We have mills in south Arkansas and they mercury associated with it and it doesn’t have are shipping thousands of tons of wood pellets to Germany to near the BTU value that coal does. That means you have to fuel their renewable energy programs,” he says. “We need to burn much more of it in order to achieve the same output that be developing those capabilities so that our wood products are you would with coal.” fueling our energy-producing plants here in the state.”

Rep. Allen Maxwell is a proponent of developing lignite.

Teachers give up; ask for paddle n A recent article in the Hot Springs Village Voice reported that 40 Fountain Lake School District elementary teachers had petitioned the School Board to approve paddling, a practice currently banned in the schools. Said the article: “Disciplinary issues, particularly in the lower grades, have taxed the nerves of many elementary school teachers, who say too much class time is wasted dealing with unruly children.” That prompted a speedy response from Randy Cox, a Little Rock social worker and the force behind neverhitachild.org, dedicated to ending the use of corporal punishment. He noted in a letter to local newspapers that 30 states and the largest school districts in Arkansas ban corporal punishment. No teachers college provides instruction in the “correct” method of whipping a child, he said. All the national education organizations disapprove of the practice, which can make a school district vulnerable to lawsuit.

“Last year, nearly 40,000 times, an Arkansas teacher took some unfortunate minor aside to have him or her ‘take the position’ and submit to a battering that is way too close to the genitals,” Cox wrote. “Despite the myths and plenty of anecdotes, there just isn’t any empirical evidence that it has ever had any measurable, long-term positive effect.” Fountain Lake, coincidentally, is the school district that raised the ire of Americans United for Separation of Church and State when a plaque identified a new athletic department addition there as a Fellowship of Christian Athletes facility. School officials claimed this was a misunderstanding. Its School Board intends to study the teachers’ request.

You now can see the forest n One of our favorite volunteer groups passed a significant milestone last weekend. Tree Streets, an urban forestry project, planted its 1,000th tree in the central part of Little Rock. More than 150 blocks have trees thanks to the privately funded group. The latest was planted in Bernice Park, at Main Street and Daisy Bates Boulevard, with assistance from the Quapaw Central Improvement District. Its work has also included tree planting along Swaggerty Creek and replanting trees lost in the 1999 tornado that devastated downtown.

For more information, check the group’s website at treestreets.org.

9 Where the elite meet

Tracking the ritzy places where lobbyists gather to press money on politicians turns up the trail of U.S. Rep. Mike Ross and Sen. Blanche Lincoln. — By Paul Barton

10 Rite of spring

Time again for our spring guide to music, movies, theater and other entertainments, leading off this year with the joyful noise metal music from Rwake. — By Lindsey Millar

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Real Mexican

La Valentina’s has succeeded Dizzy’s in Benton and a family from Guanajato is serving up authentic Mexican cooking there, along with familiar Tex-Mex dishes. — Dining.

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4 • Smart Talk

5 • The Observer

6 • Letters

8 • Orval 9-21 • News

22 • Opinion

25 • Arts & Entertainment

39 • Dining

45 • Crossword/ Tom Tomorrow

46 • Lancaster

Words n Every dork has his day: The American Prospect is a very serious political journal, so I was surprised to find in it a column subtitled “geek love” containing some playful new terminology.

A TAP staffer interviewed a young woman named Aminatou Sow about “Why are the ladies so into Peter Orszag?” Orszag is President Obama’s appointee as director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Ms. Sow is “co-founder of Orszagasm. com, a site devoted to the man who puts the ‘OMG back into the OMB.’ ” TAP: “Aminatou, you identified Orszag as a hottie over a year ago. What exactly is so appealing about [him]?”

SOW: “Besides his quiet and dashing looks? The man is good with numbers and ultimately very smart. Basically he is the mathlete you always wanted to date.”

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is not taken in by his dashing LensCrafters frames and toupee-ish haircut, I have to press you on this: What makes Peter O. different from any other government geek?”

SOW: “I remember the first time I saw him on C-SPAN. He was obviously a number-crunching policy nerd, but he had a personality to go with it. You don’t find that combination in the wonk world.”

TAP: “So you’re saying he has it all.

Total package.”

SOW: “Yes. He is adorkable.” n On the wall, perhaps: “Jim Holt to Announce for U.S. Sen-

ate with a Fly Around.” n They know not what they do: “Hiding from merciless militiamen and trekking through unforgivable mountainous terrain, Madhel Majok escaped the mass slayings and genocide of the Sudan that killed his parents.”

Michael Klossner writes: “Mountains are not unforgivable. They are unforgiving.” n Jim Harris asks, “When someone says, ‘Don’t get your dobber/dauber down,’ how should it be spelled? One source I found had it spelled dobber but said it came from the old painter’s term of dauber.”

Webster’s Third New International says the slang word that means “spirits, courage” is dauber: “Just keep your dauber up an’ your mouth shut — Harold Sinclair.” The origin is unclear.

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The basketball Razorbacks

have been a disappointment, but there’s March madness in the air, nonetheless. The Observer found last Sunday that the men’s and women’s finals of the Division II Gulf South Conference were being televised from Southaven, Miss., and that Arkansas Tech was playing in both games. Thrillers they were, too. First, an excited Observer watched the Golden Suns defeat Delta State in double overtime. Then, the Wonder Boys beat the University of Alabama at Huntsville in a game that came down to a last desperate shot by UAH that was blocked by the W-Boys.

The Observer’s cheers covered up the noise being made outside by spectators watching short-pantsed plodders clogging the streets of Little Rock. Why don’t those people get a life, The Observer wonders.

Both Suns and ’Boys now move on to the national Division II playoffs. The Observer plans to be watching, the Tech fight song ringing in his ears: “We’re the sons and daughters of Tech, Don’t mess with us by heck, “We’re wondrous and sunny, We’ve plenty of money, “And we’ll leave you looking a wreck.”

The Observer has special

powers, such as the ability to be in two places at once. So count us among the short-pantsed who plodded around Little Rock on a refreshingly brisk Sunday morning.

Not the most fit of the group, we signed up for the half-marathon instead of the whole shebang. Much to our surprise though, dragging our body around town for 13 miles was much easier than we had imagined. A lot of that is owed, we think, to the volunteers and spectators.

Volunteers, civic organizations and, yes, even politicians manned rest-stops along the way, handing out Gatorade and water. Throngs of people gathered along the course to cheer on runners they knew, and even ones they didn’t.

As we came down the home stretch, straining for that last bit of energy to carry us through, and finding not much was left, we took comfort in the cheers of complete strangers, thinking that if we only had their energy and commitment, those last two miles would have been much easier.

The Observer had the occa-

sion last week to welcome home a long-time friend and former college roommate from a recent, and hopefully final, tour of Afghanistan. It was interesting to hear his take on the war, the people and culture of Afghanistan and the efforts of the U.S. military to establish some form of control and order in the region.

For someone who spent the better part of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in college, grad school and working for a weekly newspaper, our first question was simply, “What’s it like over there?”

“Well, try to imagine what it would have been like during Old Testament times,” our old buddy said. “It’s like that, just add the internal combustion engine, AK-47s and cell phones.”

He always did have a way with words.

We talked about a lot of things that night: what it was like to be in the army, the use of military force, the difficulty in understanding other cultures, some of the horrible things he witnessed and how he never wants to witness them again.

He was open and honest, and, as always, up for a good talk. But this little chat didn’t exactly take place in the good old days, back in college when the main topic of conversation was the cute girl who sat in the back of the class or who was going to pick up the beer this weekend. We realized we were grownup now and this was what real life was like.

Finally, we asked him the one question that probably should have been asked in the first place.

“Do you mind talking about those things?” we asked. “The bullets, the confusion, the death, that nervousness in the pit of yours stomach?”

“Well,” he said, “I imagine it’s kind of like talking with someone who’s been through a really trying, personal situation, like an abortion. They might talk about it with you, but it would probably be uncomfortable and more than likely, they wouldn’t enjoy it that much. That’s kind of the way I feel about it.”

We both sat there for a second. The room had gone quiet. We took a sip from our whiskey glasses, nodded, and started talking about the stupid stuff we did when we were in college.

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Orval too much The normal cartoon themes are usually funny/silly and can be enjoyed whether one agrees or not. The Orval cartoon Feb. 25 was neither funny nor to be enjoyed.

The best description is crude. You can and have done better. Please!

Jerry Kincade Maumelle

Park in a park What is it about the city of Little Rock government that can’t leave a good thing alone ? As I write this they are cutting trees at historic War Memorial golf course. Their plan (Truman Tolefree and Stacy Hurst and Mark Stodola ) is to place a park within a park. Apparently some idiot (or someone off their meds) thought a playground would be a good thing to place in the middle of the golf course. All of this has come to pass since early February. No public forum, nada. Worse yet, last Monday a sign was placed in the clubhouse stating work would begin March 1.

They knew from the objections raised by the golfing community that we were going to talk to the City Board meeting on March 2. It appears they wanted to sneak in and do it without proper consideration being allowed the citizens.

The whole way this thing has been handled smacks of collusion, deceit and dishonesty. Perhaps it is time for the big three to leave their positions. A good time would be at the city (mis)directors’ meeting.

Steve Gibson Little Rock

No bear baiting According to a recent press release from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Arkansas hunters “harvested” a record number of bears during the 20092010 season. More than 530 bears were killed. That’s 130 more than the previous record. Bear program coordinator Myron Means was quoted as saying that the record harvest was due to bear baiting and low availability of food.

“Baiting for bears is very effective where there’s not a lot of available food in their natural habitat,” Means said.

Shame on you Arkansas and all the hunters who allure bears by baiting them with food, then hiding behind a blind or in a tree at close range and then shooting.

This is not a harvest. This is a slaughter.

Arkansas is one of only 10 states that still allow bear baiting to give hunters an unfair advantage. Not only is baiting unsporting and inhumane, but what kind of lesson are hunters teaching their children? Hunters are teaching their children the very basics of cheating. Not only does the youngster get to kill the animal, he is rewarded with the newspaper running a picture of him in

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I encourage those of us who believe in sportsmanship and fairness to contact your state wildlife agency, write a letter to the editor, attend a state wildlife agency meeting and demand that steps are taken to prohibit bear baiting. Or contact your state legislator and ask them to introduce legislation to ban this practice in Arkansas.

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its efforts to prevent the change we need.

Senators must not let them get away with it. There is too much at stake.

We need financial reform to rein in the big banks on Wall Street that cost millions of jobs, and to crack down on abuses committed by credit card companies and the mortgage lending industry. These reforms will strengthen our financial system and will help to prevent another financial crisis.

Stephen Copley North Little Rock

Financial reform

Obama a blessing

As families across the country continue to struggle with unemployment rates around 10 percent, mortgages that cost more than the homes they pay for are worth, and the anxiety of lost retirement and college savings, the biggest banks and Wall Street firms are about to give out bonus and compensation pools rivaling record breaking 2007 levels.

This reveals more than simply hubris.

It shows that Wall Street believes that nothing has changed. The terrible truth is that so far, thanks to their own continued success in lobbying for their narrow interests, even as they have benefited from trillions in public support, they are right.

There is a way to change this. The administration is calling for financial reform and recently the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that took steps in the right direction. Now it’s the U.S. Senate’s turn to act, and the industry is redoubling

President Barack Obama makes this country and the world understand our universal needs. His life is a blessing that strengthens this world just as much or better than any event, activity or program that has ever been awarded the Nobel Prize.

President Obama was born of dual race parents. He achieved as a youth in a less than traditional family life. He achieved in his educational efforts. His life is a lesson that will make this country better.

He is married to a partner that he loves, respects and is not intimidated by.

He achieved at Yale. He sought to teach. In order to do wider service, he became a politician. He became the president — not of Chicago or Illinois, not of blacks, Hispanics or immigrants, but of the United States of America. He is making a difference in all our lives.

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The WEEK THAT was March 3-9, 2010

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It was a GOOD week for …

POLITICS. Some 338 candidates filed for party or judicial primary elections

by Monday’s deadline, led by record interest in the U.S. Senate seat.

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Friends of Mike Lobbyists put on the dog for congressional favorites.

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REPUBLICANS. They’ll have primaries for every federal office on the ballot this year and odds are they’ll make gains in both houses of the state legislature, based on guaranteed seats so far and the outlook in contested races.

LITTLE ROCK. The Little Rock Marathon drew thousands of runners and thousands more spectators who luxuriated in cool, sunny weather and the good vibes of a well-run event.

REP. ROBERT MOORE. After adjournment of the legislative session, his House colleagues gave him enough votes to become speaker of the House in 2011.

The RAZORBACKS. No, not the men’s basketball team, which is still struggling. The school’s club hockey team won the SEC championship.

Who knew?

It was a bad week for …

ALEXANDER. This misbegotten hamlet on the Pulaski-Saline line was on the losing end of a discrimination lawsuit. Federal Judge G. Thomas Eisele said Assistant Police Chief Tommy Leath had racially profiled Hispanic drivers to pile up fines for minor infractions.

GOV. MIKE BEEBE. He’s a cool, cautious, intelligent leader. But did he really need to throw around talk of more tax cuts, even if it is election season? The state is barely holding things together as it is thanks to depressed revenues and a still-gloomy economic outlook.

KY MADDEN. The East Poinsett guard, one of the state’s most touted high school basketball players, lost his cool after a playoff loss and kicked over a huge water container, dumping water on a new gym floor. Not a good press clipping.

DIET COKE LOVERS. Pepsi again won exclusive rights to sell soft drinks at UALR in a seven-year deal worth $1.9 million to the school.

BRING A CHECK: Burgers cost $15 at Bobby Van’s, a high-end steakhouse in Washington, D.C., often used by lobbyists to throw fund-raising parties for people like U.S. Rep. Mike Ross. n WASHINGTON — Arkansas members of Congress, especially Rep. Mike Ross, continue to benefit from fund-raisers where corporate lobbyists are either the hosts or main guests, according to listings posted by the Sunlight Foundation, a watchdog group.

The events are often in lobbyists’ townhouses or in some of the finest restaurants in the nation’s capital or at upscale golf courses and lodges.

Watchdog groups say the social events illustrate one of the many sides of the lawmaker-lobbyist relationship that the public knows little about. The Sunlight Foundation depends on copies of fundraiser invitations that come to it over the transom to put together its list.

Lobbyist assistance in fund-raising events is just as valuable as direct contributions and thus builds often unseen influence for legislative battles. It’s another advantage enjoyed by incumbents and the practice isn’t likely to go away, if lawmakers have any say.

“There is no chance in hell they will restrict that. It’s too ingrained,” said Melanie Sloan, spokesperson for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

Similarly, the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan campaign research organization helping the Sunlight Foundation’s project, says: “The quest for money is never-ending for members of Congress — and social events from breakfasts to barbeques, sporting events to concerts, are held to help fill the coffers. Often hosted by lob-

byists or other well-heeled insiders, these events provide opportunities for attendees to support politicians and establish a connection and access to the member.”

The Sunlight Foundation has records indicating heavy use of lobbyist-aided events over the past two years not just by Ross but also by Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln, Democratic Rep. Marion Berry and Republican Rep. John Boozman.

Berry is retiring after this year, but Ross and Lincoln are running for re-election and Boozman is opposing Lincoln.

None except Lincoln would respond to requests for comments on the issue.

Melanie Sloan said it’s safe to assume each lawmaker has had many more lobbyist-related fund-raisers than those known about.

Of those the foundation does list, Ross is identified with at least 30 going back to March 2008, including two recent events.

On Feb. 9, contributors gathered at Bobby Van’s, a deluxe steakhouse, where even a burger costs $15. Like invitations to other congressional fund-raisers, the notice of Ross’s event, distributed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, suggested donations. It asked for $5,000 a PAC “host.” Other PACs are asked to give $2,000 apiece and individual hosts and contributors are asked for $1,000 contributions.

Many of Ross’ events use the Razorback theme.

For instance, on March 3, Ross was to benefit from an “Arkansas Razorback Bar-B-Que” at the townhouse of lobby-

ist Tim Rupli. Rupli, an ex-aide to former Republican Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas, has represented many non-profit and for-profit associations, including payday lenders. He holds scores of fund-raisers.

Sites for some of Ross’ other fund-raisers have included a Washington Nationals baseball game; two at the Washington offices of Entergy, three at the Prince George’s Country (Maryland) Trap and Skeet Center, one at the Patton Boggs House, named after what many consider the capital’s most powerful lobbying firm, and several at pricey restaurants such as Charlie Palmer’s Steak, which touts its private dining rooms “where gathering around the table gets things done in the best possible way.”

Lincoln has had at least 11 lobbyistorganized fund-raisers, some of them at the same spots as Ross’, the Sunlight Foundation reports. She is not apologetic.

“Senator Lincoln supported campaign finance reform reporting requirements that make fund raising activities by registered lobbyists fully transparent to her constituents,” campaign press aide Katie LaningNiebaum said in a statement. “These reporting requirements now make it possible for citizens and organizations like the Sunlight Foundation to track fund raising activities by lobbyists and other professional groups for members of Congress. She supported these changes because, regardless of her fund raising totals, Senator Lincoln knows that she will be ultimately accountable to the voters of Arkansas.” Under 2007 legislation, lawmakers must report lobbyists who’ve bundled more than $16,000.

But Nancy Watzman of the Sunlight Foundation says there is no requirement that lawmakers disclose the involvement of lobbyists in their fund-raising.

Melanie Sloan said she considers it a conflict of interest for lobbyists to contribute to members of Congress whose actions they are trying to influence. Some states have banned lobbyists from directly contributing to legislators but she doubts that will ever happen in Washington.

Boozman has held at least two fundraisers over the past year at the Capitol Hill Club, a well-known Republican gathering spot down the street from Congress. He has also held one at the UPS Townhouse.

Berry, before announcing his retirement, used his residence near Gillett for several recent fund-raisers, including one last June in which the invitation said: “Burgers, Dogs and Beer on his Back Porch.” The foundation listed 10 Berry events back to 2006, including at a Washington Redskins home game and at golf courses including Raspberry Falls Golf and Hunt Club in Leesburg, Va., and Vista Ridge in Colorado. www.arktimes.com • march 11, 2010 9

SpringArts Who loves the sun?

Spring brings singing, swinging and a bit of blinging.

By John Tarpley

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fter a long, icy winter, cabinfeverish Arkansans can look forward to a spring bloom of live bands. Here, we note shows on Little Rock’s club scene worth plugging into your planner and preview the season’s festival lineups at Riverfest; the Blues Weekend and Opera in the Ozarks (Eureka Springs), and Wakarusa (Ozark).

Kings of the Muscle Shoals, Ala., jam-house-psych scene and festival circuit regulars BoomBox will feature sequencers, turntables and lead guitar by the son of Grateful Dead backup-singer Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay (March 19, Revolution). John Lee Hooker Jr., another son of American music royalty, visits town with his updated take on his father’s rustic talking blues (March 20, Sticky Fingerz).

Sweet Eagle, the local supergroup with a cult following under its belt after only three shows join chief peddlers of fried sonic testosterone, J. Roddy Walston and the Business for a raucous double header (March 21, White Water Tavern). When Green Jelly, the comedy-rock band that takes a legendary pride in its ineptitude, comes to town, puppets, stupidity and nostalgia abound (March 22, Juanita’s). Concluding this three-day stint of ridiculously named outfits, Little Rock gets a taste of Brooklyn with experimental popsters Suckers and literate streetsmith Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson (March 23, Sticky Fingerz).

Hot Springs hosts a couple of particularly eye-catching events with the annual “Keith Sykes Weekend” (March 2627, Arlington Hotel), where the awardwinning songwriter (known for penning songs for Jerry Jeff Walker, John Prine Continued on page 12 10 march 11, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES

wakarusa bound: The Black Keys.

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live in nyc: At a sold-out concert in November, opening for Shrinebuilder.

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wake. The R is silent, so say “Wake.” Or, if you’re the type who believes in pronouncing words with all intended flourish — if you, say, relish pronouncing Chile “Chil-ay” instead of “Chili” — try it loudly slurred and phlegmatic. That’s how frontman Chris Terry, known far and wide as CT, sounded early in the life of the band, when, under heavy drug influence, he tried to pronounce “Wake,” the group’s original name. “It was like primordial man,” he remembers, or rather remembers his bandmates remembering.

And it stuck: “ARRRGWAKE!” That sort of primal yawp signifies well for Rwake. If you haven’t guessed, this is a band that makes dense, visceral music, punctuated by vocals that aren’t so much screamed as they are thundered. The name has an imperative quality, too. Like, “awake, rise.” Accordingly, Rwake’s narrative follows a steady, willful rise that begins in North Little Rock a little more than a decade ago and ends, at least in this story, with the band prepping to play one

of Europe’s largest summer festivals.

That Rwake enjoys international acclaim yet remains largely unknown in Arkansas is a consequence of its scene. The six-member act operates broadly within metal, but its sound and ethic doesn’t resemble Metallica or any of the genre’s big names. Rather, Rwake works within the sprawling world of underground metal, an arcane and stratified umbrella genre made up of sects connected only by their commitment to taking an already abrasive formula long scorned by mainstream culture — one of blistering guitars, crashing drums, roaring vocals and taboo-flaunting lyrics — and pressing the issue.

“Within the underground metal scene, they’re definitely well respected,” said Erik Larson, who played in Alabama Thunderpussy and Avail, two of underground music’s most esteemed. “People who are fans are rabid fans. It’s almost like jazz; it goes over people’s heads. If you don’t understand what’s going on, it sounds like this swirling metallic mess.

But then you pay attention to the dynam-

A locally obscure North Little Rock metal band has a following that extends across the world.

ics of all the melodies and harmonies and even just the back and forth vocals, and it’s inspiring.”

Sonically, Rwake has less in common with totemic metal bands like Megadeth and Slayer than it does with early hard rock. There’s a visible through line from Black Sabbath to Rwake, especially in terms of tempos and guitar figures. But it’s easy to overlook. On top of its slow, thunderous groove, Rwake piles layer upon layer: demonic screams on top of guitar on top of guitar on top of Moog synthesizer on top of samples of noise and spoken bits from B-movies and TV shows. Heavy, glacial sections often give way to vast, complex, progressive rockstyle instrumental passages that stretch for minutes on end. Together, it’s a sonic sludge (in fact, sludge is the subgenre with which Rwake’s most closely associated) that’s as gut-punching as it is cerebral.

“They’ve really pushed the boundaries of heavier music,” said producer and musician Phillip Cope, who fronts Savannah genre stars Kylesa and produced un-

By Lindsey Millar derground metal’s most acclaimed record from last year, Baroness’ “Blue Album.”

“There’s so much raw energy in their music, especially the most recent [album ‘Voices of Omens’]. It really grabs you and makes you a part of its world, which is sometimes kind of scary.”

In person, Rwake does not look very scary. Or even like they play in a metal band. Only CT and guitarist Kiffin Rogers sport beards and long hair, and CT alone is visibly covered in tattoos (he’s got Black Oak Arkansas frontman Jim Dandy’s autograph tattooed on his right hand). At a recent Monday practice above Downtown Music, bassist Alan Wells, who owns the club, arrived like he’d just come from the deer woods, in camo pants and a thick jacket. Everyone else — guitarist number two Kris Graves, known to all as Gravy; keyboardist and vocalist Brittany Fugate, better known as B.; drummer Jeff Morgan — came with haircuts and Tshirts and hoodies and ball caps that, anywhere outside of a band practice space, Continued on page 12 www.arktimes.com • march 11, 2010 11

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madman Les Claypool visits as well (April 24, The Village). Fresh off hosting the Oscars, Steve Martin shows off his adept banjo-playing ability, with the bluegrass band The Steep Canyon Rangers (April 24, Walton Arts, Fayetteville).

Poppy, harmonic and hook-heavy Los Angelenos Local Natives are quickly making a name for themselves in the music press for their hypercurrent Afropop-guitar/angular drum sound (April 26, Sticky Fingerz). In Conway, UCA hosts the touring Moscow Festival Ballet company for a one-night only performance of “Sleeping Beauty” (April

26, Reynolds Performance Hall).

Two of the most beloved bands on the college charts, the genre-mashing, everbright Dr. Dog and the melodic, Southern gothic Deer Tick (May 3, George’s Majestic Ballroom) visit Fayetteville.

The next night, Little Rock plays host to the latter (May 4, Sticky Fingerz).

The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra holds a night of famous cinematic scores, songs and love themes from “Wizard of Oz” to “Lord of the Rings” with “Spotlight on Hollywood” (May 7-8, Robinson Center Music Hall).

Then comes the Arkansas festival music season.

The Riverfest lineup for the threeday Memorial Day weekend (May 2830, Riverfront Park) is shaping up nicely with Oklahoma’s jam stalwarts Cross Canadian Ragweed, bluesman Robert Cray, classic rock radio staples Steve Miller Band, country radio superduperstars Blake Shelton and Gary Allan and perennial blues-rock favorites The Black Crowes.

Accepted (and adored) as the quirkiest town in Arkansas, Eureka Springs holds its annual Eureka Springs Blues Weekend (June 3-6, various venues) and celebrates the 60th anniversary of its yearly Opera in the Ozarks festival by staging three of the most well-known operas in the canon with Bizet’s “Carmen,” Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” and Puccini’s “Tosca” (June 18-July 27, Inspiration Point Lookout).

And finally, the new kid on the festival block, Wakarusa (June 3-6), hopes to repeat the success it had last year after it moved to Ozark and brought in over 80 bands over four days. Headliners include Widespread Panic, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Umphrey’s McGee and Disco Biscuits. Joining these overlords of all things jam are garage blues heroes The Black Keys; ’90s radio staples Blues Traveler (you now have “Hook” stuck in your head); Frank’s son, Dweezil, performing Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa; the soulful, Harding Universityenraging Robert Randolph and the Family Band, the fantastic, soul outfit of Black Joe Lewis and the frustratingly underrated twilight country act The Moondoggies.

of 7,000 copies, a solid number among the label’s roster, but one far removed from genre heavyweights like Mastodon.

But fame’s never been a major motivator for Rwake. It started, in 1997, with CT, Gravy, Jeff and another friend simply jamming for fun. As it grew, in members and stature, the band became the driving force for the local underground community, hosting massive metal shows at house parties and out of the way venues because no one in Little Rock would book them. In 2002, Alan, who’s only been with the band since 2008 (but has long been a compatriot), saved enough money to open Downtown Music. In the last eight years, as Rwake’s toured and released albums nationally, it’s helped grow Downtown’s reputation. “A lot of bands want to go to Little Rock [and play Downtown] because of Rwake,” Alabama Thunderpussy’s Larson said recently.

If Rwake hasn’t even approached mainstream fame, it’s grown perhaps a more impressive fan base. “They’re a band’s band. All the Relapse bands love them,” said the label’s Rennie Jaffe, of arguably the most influential underground metal roster in the business. The members of Lamb of God, currently touring internationally with Metallica, are fans.

Last year, underground metal super group Shrinebuilder (which includes members of The Melvins, Neurosis and Om) handpicked Rwake to open sold-out dates in Chicago and New York.

“There’s a real majesty to heavy music,” Shrinebuilder’s Scott Kelly said recently. “It feels like you’re firing a bolt into the center of the earth when it hits the right moment. Rwake does that. And they’re evolving. Their new material blew me away. It was somewhat daunting to go on after hearing it.”

At that recent Monday night practice, Rwake gathered to prepare for a busy spring and summer. On Saturday, March 13, the band headlines Downtown Music’s eighth anniversary concert. At the end of the month, it heads to Chicago to record a new album, and in June it travels, for the first time, to Europe, to play at Hellfest Open Air in Clisson, France, alongside metal forefather Alice Cooper, Deftones, KISS, Motorhead and Slayer.

It’s one of the biggest extreme music festivals in the world.

In the band’s room above Capitol Avenue, members move purposefully, connecting instruments and microphones to amplifiers, studying lyric books and pass-

ing a marijuana pipe. The space looks like a teen-ager’s bedroom, with posters of KISS, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Clint Eastwood from “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and a goldfish swimming in a bong lining the wall. Boxes and cords and gear are strewn across ancient, plumcolored carpet. The room’s redolent of spilled beer and cigarette smoke. Before warming up, B. offers a guest rolled up toilet paper for makeshift earplugs. Moments later, the band bludgeons its way through a new, doom-y track from its forthcoming album. Afterwards, CT suggests that they play a new, “pretty song.”

It starts with weaving guitar figures that are, in fact, warmly melodic. Not just from Gravy and Kiffin and bassist Alan, but also from drummer Jeff, who directs a guitar into his snare head, sending a buzzing wash of noise over the melody.

Meanwhile, B. manipulates a Theremin, the electronic instrument that emits an eerie whir common in horror movies. Variations on that last for at least five minutes, before the guitars get heavier, Jeff returns to drums and CT and B. start screaming so loud they’re doubled over. The song lasts somewhere in the neighborhood of 11 minutes. And, yes, it’s epic.

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and Jimmy Buffet) will be joined by 10 fellow troubadours for two days of performance and shoptalk. Across the road, three Chinese rock bands, Carsick Cars, P.K.14 and AV Okubo stop in on their way to SXSW for “China Rocks!”

(March 26, Maxine’s).

G-Love and Special Sauce, the hiphop-by-way-of-hacky-sack college favorites are still touring and, even more surprisingly, still making music after 17 years (April 1, Revolution). British singer/songwriter and collaborator with Billy Childish and The White Stripes, Holly Golightly comes to town in her newest, garage-y incarnation as Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs (April 7, Sticky Fingerz). British-born rapper Slick Rick, with his trademark eye patch and Mr. Tstyle gold chains, remains compulsively listenable more than 20 years after he recorded songs like “La Di Da Di,” “Children’s Story” and “Teenage Love.” Beatbox pioneer Doug E. Fresh and actress Vivica Fox, who’s hosting, share the bill, a birthday celebration for One Stone Entertainment’s Chris Bowen (April 9, Revoltuion).

Critically acclaimed Scottish outfit Frightened Rabbit has built a reputation for intense live shows thanks to its desperate rock music with emotion to spare (April 23, Revolution). Known for his experimental funk-metal band, Primus, his collaborations with Tom Waits, and for composing the theme music to “South Park,” eccentric bass

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Continued from page 11 would convey nothing more specific than regular folks.

Which, of course, is what they are.

When he’s not booking bands for Downtown Music or working on “Slow Southern Steel,” a documentary that explores Southern metal and includes interviews with the likes of Hank III, Phil Anselmo and members of Mastodon (see a preview on the Times’ entertainment blog, Rock Candy), CT’s lately kicked around service industry jobs. Alan works a factory job in addition to managing Downtown Music so his kid can have health insurance. Gravy’s a manager at Pizza Hut. B. owns The Darkside Tattoos on Main Street in Little Rock. Jeff, who has a child with B., works at the Walmart distribution center in Searcy. Kiffin’s lately been caring for his family.

Rwake’s nowhere near a sustaining force for its members. Because of jobs and children, the band’s toured sporadically and, according to CT, turned down a lot of tours it should’ve taken. “Voices of Omens,” the group’s debut with independent metal powerhouse Relapse Records, has sold somewhere in the neighborhood 12 march 11, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES

down on the river: The Black Crowes headline at Riverfest.

Celebrate Women’s History Month with Philander Smith College

Iyanla Vanzant Internationally Renown Inspirational Speaker; Author Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for Women

Tuesday, March 16 7:00 p.m.

M. L. Harris Auditorium 900 Daisy Bates Drive Little Rock, AR 72202 www.philander.edu

Dr. Tricia Rose Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University; Author, The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop—and Why It Matters

Thursday, March 25 7:00 p.m.

M. L. Harris Auditorium

All lectures are free and open to the public. For more information call 501-370-5279. No tickets or RSVPs required.

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ARTWEEK ’10: The second annual ARTWEEK festival in Little Rock and North Little Rock kicks off May 13. Visual and performing arts-related events, such as last year’s performance by the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Youth Orchestra (above), will be scheduled over the 10-day festival, including the 2nd Friday Art Night south of the river and the 3rd Friday Argenta Artwalk on the north side.

Other events will include artist demonstrations, spoken word entertainment, dance and more. The festival concludes May 22. For information on the event schedule, go to www.art-week.org.

GREATER LITTLE ROCK COMEDY

MARCH 17-20: Cowboy Bill. 8 p.m. Wed.Thu.; 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m. Fri.; 7 p.m., 9 p.m., 11 p.m.

Sat. $6-$9. Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham.

228-5555, loonybincomedy.com.

MARCH 24-27: Ben Creed. 8 p.m. Wed.-Thu.; 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m. Fri.; 7 p.m., 9 p.m., 11 p.m. Sat., $6-$9. Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham. 2285555, loonybincomedy.com.

MARCH 31-APRIL 3: Todd Yohn. 8 p.m. Wed.Thu.; 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m. Fri.; 7 p.m., 9 p.m., 11 p.m.

Sat., $7-$12. Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham. 228-5555, loonybincomedy.com.

APRIL 7-10: Julie Scroggins. 8 p.m. Wed.Thu.; 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m. Fri.; 7 p.m., 9 p.m., 11 p.m.

Sat., $6-$9. Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham.

228-5555, loonybincomedy.com.

APRIL 14-17: The Sandman. 8 p.m. Wed.Thu.; 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m. Fri.; 7 p.m., 9 p.m., 11 p.m. Sat., $7-$12. Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham. 228-5555, loonybincomedy.com.

APRIL 21-24: Caroline Picard. 8 p.m. Wed.Thu.; 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m. Fri.; 7 p.m., 9 p.m., 11 p.m.

Sat., $6-$9. Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham.

228-5555, loonybincomedy.com.

APRIL 28-MAY 1: Paul Hooper. 8 p.m. Wed.Thu.; 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m. Fri.; 7 p.m., 9 p.m., 11 p.m.

Sat., $6-$9. Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham.

228-5555, loonybincomedy.com.

MAY 5-8: Kevin Bozeman. 8 p.m. Wed.-Thu.; 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m. Fri.; 7 p.m., 9 p.m., 11 p.m. Sat., 14 march 11, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES

$6-$9. Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham. 2285555, loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS MARCH 26: Eggshibition XIX. A fund-raising silent auction of eggs decorated by artists and celebrities to benefit Youth Home. 7 p.m., $50. Jack Stephens Center, UALR. 821-5500, youthhome. com/eggshibition2010.htm.

APRIL 8-11: 7th Annual Arkansas Literary Festival. Readings, book discussions, panels and workshops in the River Market District. 6634321, arkansasliteraryfestival.org.

APRIL 8-9: Scimitar Shrine Circus. 7 p.m.

Fri.; 10 a.m., 2 p.m., 7 p.m. Sat.; $10 general, $5 children. Barton Coliseum, 2600 Howard St. 3728341, scimitarshrine.com.

APRIL 15: Arkansas a la Carte. Tastings from over 20 Arkansas restaurants and a silent auction to benefit Arkansas Children’s Hospital. 6:30 p.m., $100. Chenal Country Club, 10 Chenal Club Blvd.

364-1476, archildrens.org.

APRIL 16: 19th Annual Cooks Tour. Chenal Valley’s Orle neighborhood hosts Little Rock’s best chefs for their annual fund-raiser for the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. 7 p.m. Orle Neighborhood. 686-8286, cancer.uams.com/cookstour.

APRIL 17-18: “Blooms!” Wildwood’s annual spring festival with events, crafts and gardening.

Noon, $10 adults, $5 children. Wildwood Park for the Arts, 20919 Denny Road. 721-7275, wildwoodpark.org.

APRIL 24: Arkansas Earth Day Festival. 10 a.m., free. North Shore Riverwalk. 247-2953, arkansasearthday.org.

APRIL 24: Woo at the Zoo. A walking tour

through the park to mark the single day out of the year in which female lemurs mate. 6 p.m., $35.

Little Rock Zoo, 1 Jonesboro Drive. 661-7212, littlerockzoo.com.

APRIL 30: 13th Annual Foam Fest. Sample over 100 varieties of beer and wine and listen to live local bands. 6 p.m., $25 adv., $30 d.o.s. River Market Pavilions. 664-7242, foamfest.org.

MAY 1-2: “A String of Pearls.” Little Rock’s 10th annual city garden tour. 9 a.m. Sat., 1 p.m.

Sun., $20. Various locations. 663-7515.

MAY 2: Cinco de Mayo. 12 p.m., free. River Market Pavilion, Riverfest Amphitheatre.

MAY 13-22: Artweek 2010. Visual and performing arts events, including 2nd Friday Art Night May 14, 3rd Friday Argenta Artwalk May 15, artist demonstrations and more. www.art-week.org.

MAY 15: 11th Annual Paws on the Pavement. 8 a.m., $20 individual, $36 family adv., $25 individual, $40 family d.o.e. Murray Park. 6032273, careforanimals.org.

MAY 15: Wild Wines of the World. 7 p.m., $40 members, $50 non-members. Little Rock Zoo, 1 Jonesboro Drive. 661-7208, littlerockzoo.com.

MAY 16: Jewish Food Festival. 10 a.m. River Market Pavilions. 663-3571, jewisharkansas.com.

FILM MARCH 19-20: Smoke on the Water USA Barbecue Championship. 5 p.m. Fri, noon Sat., $5. Downtown Riverside RV Park, 250 S. Locust St., NLR. smokeonthewaterbbq.com.

MUSIC MARCH 18: Micky & the Motorcars. 9 p.m., $8. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707,

stickyfingerz.com.

MARCH 19: Boombox. 9 p.m., $10 adv., $12 d.o.s. Revolution, 200 President Clinton Ave. 8230090, rumbarevolution.com.

MARCH 19: Flight. 8 p.m., $7. Vino’s, 923 W. 7th St. 375-8466, vinosbrewpub.com.

MARCH 19: Joe Buck, Iron Tongue. 10 p.m.

White Water Tavern, 2500 W. 7th. 375-8400, myspace.com/whitewatertavern.

MARCH 20: Chris Knight. 9 p.m., $10. Revolution, 200 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090, rumbarevolution.com.

MARCH 20: Evergreen Terrace, Stray from the Path, Wishtribe. 8:30 p.m., $12 adv., $15 d.o.s. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 374-3271, juanitas.com.

MARCH 20: John Lee Hooker, Jr. 9 p.m., $8 adv., $10 d.o.s. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707, stickyfingerz.com.

MARCH 21: J. Roddy Walston & the Business, Sweet Eagle. 9 p.m. White Water Tavern, 2500 W. 7th. 375-8400, myspace.com/whitewatertavern.

MARCH 22: Awesome Color, Tyvek. 8 p.m., $7. Vino’s, 923 W. 7th St. 375-8466, vinosbrewpub.com.

MARCH 22: Green Jelly. 9 p.m., $5 adv., $8 d.o.s. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 374-3271, juanitas.com.

MARCH 23: Suckers, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. 8:30 p.m., $8 adv., $10 d.o.s.

Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707, stickyfingerz.com.

MARCH 27: Duwayne Burnside, Thomas Houston Jones. 9:30 p.m. White Water Tavern, 2500 W. 7th. 375-8400, myspace.com/whitewatertavern.

MARCH 28: Iron Tongue, Sweet Eagle. 6:30 p.m., $7. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 374-3271, juanitas.com.

MARCH 29: Screaming Females. 8 p.m., $7.

Vino’s, 923 W. 7th St. 375-8466, vinosbrewpub. com.

APRIL 1: G-Love & Special Sauce. 9 p.m., $20 adv., $25 d.o.s. Revolution, 200 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090, rumbarevolution.com.

APRIL 3: Fear Factory. 8 p.m., $19 adv., $23 d.o.s. The Village, 3915 S. University. 570-0300, thevillagelive.com.

APRIL 3: John Paul Keith, Jack Oblivion, The Dirty Streets. 9:30 p.m. White Water Tavern, 2500 W. 7th. 375-8400, myspace.com/whitewatertavern.

APRIL 7: Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs.

9 p.m., $7. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 3727707, stickyfingerz.com.

APRIL 7: Voodoo Glow Skulls, Authority Zero. 8 p.m., $13 adv., $15 d.o.s. Vino’s, 923 W. 7th St. 375-8466, vinosbrewpub.com.

APRIL 10-11: Arkansas Symphony Orchestra presents “Farewell, Maestro!” 8 p.m.

Sat.; 3 p.m. Sun, $35-$58. Robinson Center Music Hall, 7 Statehouse Plaza. 666-1761, arkansassymphony.org.

APRIL 13: Heartless Bastards. 9 p.m., $10 adv., $12 d.o.s. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 3743271, juanitas.com.

APRIL 13: River Rhapsodies Chamber Music Series: “Brilliant Brass … Stirring Strings.” 7 p.m., $28. Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave. 666-1761, arkansassymphony.org.

APRIL 13: Saliva. 8 p.m., $15 adv., $20 d.o.s.

Revolution, 200 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090, rumbarevolution.com.

APRIL 22: Local H. 8:30 p.m., $10 adv. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707, stickyfingerz.com.

APRIL 23: Frightened Rabbit. 8 p.m., $10 adv.

Revolution, 200 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090, rumbarevolution.com.

APRIL 24: Dana Falconberry. 10 p.m. White Water Tavern, 2500 W. 7th. 375-8400, myspace. com/whitewatertavern.

APRIL 24: Les Claypool. 7 p.m. $22 adv., $25 d.o.s. The Village, 3915 S. University. 570-0300, thevillagelive.com.

APRIL 24: Yearling, Select Start. 8 p.m., $10.

Vino’s, 923 W. 7th St. 375-8466, vinosbrewpub. com.

APRIL 26: Local Natives. 9 p.m., $10 adv., $12 d.o.s. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 3727707, stickyfingerz.com.

MAY 4: Deer Tick. 9 p.m., $10. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707, stickyfingerz.com.

MAY 7-8: Arkansas Symphony Orchestra presents “Spotlight on Hollywood.” 8 p.m., $35-$58. Robinson Center Music Hall, 7 Statehouse Plaza. 666-1761, arkansassymphony.org.

MAY 8: Edgefest 2010 with Godsmack, Rob Zombie and more. 1 p.m., $35 adv., $40 d.o.s.

Arkansas State Fairgrounds. 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com.

MAY 14: Vallejo. 9:30 p.m., $7. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707, stickyfingerz.com.

MAY 26: The Magpies. 9:30 p.m. White Water Tavern, 2500 W. 7th. 375-8400, myspace.com/ whitewatertavern.

MAY 28-30: Riverfest 2010 with Black Crowes, Blake Shelton, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Gary Allan, Little River Band, Robert Cray, Steve Miller Band. $25. Riverfront Park, LR; North Shore River Walk, NLR. 2553378, riverfestarkansas.com

SPORTS MARCH 19-20: 31st Annual Budweiser Toughman Competition. 8 p.m., $15-$40.

Statehouse Convention Center, Hall IV, 7 Statehouse Plaza. 800-883-4897, toughmancontest. com.

MARCH 20: Arkansas Diamonds vs. Austin Turfcats. 7 p.m., $12-$50. Verizon Arena, NLR. 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com.

MARCH 27: Arkansas Diamonds vs. Abilene Ruff Riders. 7 p.m., $12-$50. Verizon Arena, NLR. 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com.

APRIL 2: 30th Annual St. Vincent Auxiliary Pro Circuit Tennis Tournament. 10 a.m., free.

Pleasant Valley Country Club, 1 Pleasant Valley Drive. 552-3552, newoutlooktennis.com.

APRIL 3: Little Rock Diamonds vs. Corpus Christi Hammerheads. 7 p.m., $12-$50. Verizon Arena, NLR. 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com.

APRIL 10: Walk MS. A one-mile fun run to benefit multiple sclerosis research. 10 a.m. Riverfest Amphitheatre. 212-986-3240.

APRIL 10: Walk to Defeat ALS. Group walk to fund Lou Gehrig’s Disease research. 9 a.m. Dickey Stephens Park, 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 5806672, walktodefeatals.org.

APRIL 15-17: Arkansas Travelers vs. Midland Rockhounds. Travs home opener. 7:10 p.m. Thu.-Fri.; 6 p.m. Sat. $6-$12. Dickey Stephens Park, 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 664-1555, travs.com.

APRIL 18-20: Arkansas Travelers vs. Frisco Roughriders. 4 p.m. Sun.; 11 a.m. Mon.; 7:10 p.m. Tue; $6-$12. Dickey Stephens Park, 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 664-1555, travs.com.

MAY 1: Hunt! Little Rock. A city-wide team scavenger hunt with a $500 grand prize. 10 a.m., $22/person. Riverfront Park, Belvedere. 314-5659441, cityhunts.com MAY 17: Pfeifer Kiwanis Camp Golf Classic. 11:30 a.m., $100. Eagle Hill Golf Course, 3 Eagle Hill. 821-3714, pfeifercamp.com.

MAY 21-23: Art on the River. 5 p.m. Fri, 10 a.m. Sat.-Sun. Clinton Presidential Park. 255-3378, riverfestarkansas.com

THEATER MARCH 19-28: “The Little Dog Laughed.”

Nominated for a Best Play Tony in 2007, the play follows a show business agent who can’t seem to keep her client in the closet. 7:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat.; 2:30 p.m. Sun., $14. The Weekend Theater, 7th and Chester. 374-3761, weekendtheater.org.

APRIL 9-24: “Summertree.” A young man’s wandering thoughts provide the backdrop for this play about the nature of human interaction and the effects of war. 7:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat., $14. The Weekend Theater, 7th and Chester. 374-3761, weekendtheater.org.

APRIL 16-MAY 2: “Frost/Nixon.” A staged retelling of the post-Watergate interviews between the disgraced ex-president and British talk show host. 7 p.m. Wed.; 8 p.m. Thu.-Sat.; 2 p.m., 7 p.m.

Sun.; $20-$40. Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St. 378-0405, therep.org.

APRIL 20-MAY 23: “Christmas Belles.” A Southern farce about sibling rivalry, family secrets, a gruff Santa Claus and vengeful sheep. 6 p.m. dinner, 7:45 curtain Tue.-Sat.; 11 a.m. lunch, 12:40 p.m. curtain, 5:30 p.m. dinner, 6:45 curtain Sun.; $28-$30. Murry’s Dinner Theater, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road. 562-3131, murrysdinnerplayhouse. com.

APRIL 30-MAY 16: “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.” Classic children’s story about the street thief who befriends a magical genie. 7 p.m.

Fri., 3 p.m. Sat., 2 p.m. Sun., $11-$14. Arkansas Arts Center, 501 E. 9th St. 372-4000, arkarts.com MAY 14-29: “Glengarry Glen Ross.” Desperate real estate salesmen hustle worthless Florida real estate; tension and greed ensue. 7:30 p.m.

Fri.-Sat., $14. The Weekend Theater, 7th and Chester. 374-3761, weekendtheater.org.

MAY 25-JUNE 20: “Over the River and Through the Woods.” When a man from New Jersey takes a job out of state, interrupting his standing Sunday afternoons with his grandparents, his family schemes to keep him around. 6 p.m. dinner, 7:45 curtain Tue.-Sat.; 11 a.m. lunch, 12:40 p.m. curtain, 5:30 p.m. dinner, 6:45 curtain Sun.; $28-$30. Murry’s Dinner Theater, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road. 562-3131, murrysdinnerplayhouse.com.

MAY 28-JUNE 27: “Ragtime.” Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow, this epic musical depicts life in turn-of-the-20th-century America. 7 p.m.

Wed.; 8 p.m. Thu.-Sat.; 2 p.m., 7 p.m. Sun., $20$40. Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St. 378-0405, therep.org.

BATESVILLE FILM

MARCH 24-28: 9th Annual Ozark Foothills Film Festival. $3-$5. UACCB, Lyon College.

251-1189, ozarkfoothillsfilmfest.org.

EVENTS APRIL 23-25: 31st Annual Scottish Festival. Annual food, music and sport festival. 10 a.m.

Lyon College, 2600 Highland Road. lyon.edu.

CONWAY EVENTS

APRIL 30-MAY 2: Toad Suck Daze. Annual music, food and arts festival. Free. Downtown Conway. 501-327-7788, toadsuckdaze.com

MUSIC MARCH 27: The Curse Follows, Poisonwood. 8 p.m., $6. Soundstage, 1008 Oak St. myspace.com/soundstage.

APRIL 16: Chapters, Hollywood Homicide.

8 p.m., $6. Soundstage, 1008 Oak St. myspace. com/soundstage.

APRIL 26: Moscow Festival Ballet presents “Sleeping Beauty.” 7:30 p.m., $23-$35. Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA. 501-450-3265, uca. edu/tickets.

THEATER APRIL 8-9, 14-16: “The Skin of Our Teeth.”

Thornton Wilder’s play on the resiliency of the human race. 7:30 p.m., Snow Fine Arts Center, UCA. 501-450-3265, uca.edu/tickets.

APRIL 16: “Jesus Christ Superstar.” The political and personal struggles of Jesus Christ and his disciples are depicted in this rock opera. 7:30 p.m., $40-$50. Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA. JUNE 16-17, 20: “Comedy of Errors.” Shakespeare’s first play is turned into a toga party romp around ancient Greece. Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA. 501-269-4815, arkshakes.com.

JUNE 18-19, 27; JULY 2: “Henry V.” The young warrior king places his nation at war with France in an attempt to earn respect from his divided country. Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA. 501-269-4815, arkshakes.com.

JUNE 24-25, 27, 30; JULY 1, 3: “Dracula.”

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ajun music documentaries by Les Blank and four films on Southern food culture lead the bill at the 2010 Ozark Foothills Filmfest, set for March 24-28 in Batesville.

The festival, now in its ninth year, should include more than 50 entries this year, including 20 by Arkansas filmmakers, president and co-founder Bob Pest said.

The Little Rock Film Festival follows in June, and will announce its lineup in May, and like the Batesville screenings it will put an emphasis on Southern film.

“This year we really want to embrace the fact that we’re from the South, and we’re one of the premiere Southern film festivals,” said director Jack Lofton.

The Ozark Foothills Filmfest is partnering this year with the Southern Foodways Alliance of Oxford, Miss., on a special showcase, “Southern Succulents.”

The showcase will feature four films from the alliance, including “Above the Line: Saving Willie Mae’s Scotch House,”

By Jaman matthews about a chicken-frying expert and the rebuilding of her New Orleans restaurant after Hurricane Katrina.

But, as Pest notes, the big deal is Blank, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker who often focuses his lens on folk culture. He’ll screen “J’ai Ete au Bal” and “Marc and Ann,” each featuring the Savoy Family Cajun Band. The band will perform Saturday night, March 27, after the screenings.

Pest bills his festival as “filmmaker friendly.” There are no prizes awarded.

“We’ve kept it noncompetitive to encourage young, emerging filmmakers,” he said.

A grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will allow the OFF to offer a half-day independent-film marketing workshop. Heidi Van Lier, filmmaker and author of “The Indie Film Rule Book,” will conduct the free workshop Friday afternoon, March 26.

The Batesville festival, which will take place largely on the campus of the Uni-

'marc and ann': A still from the Les Blank film. versity of Arkansas Community College, is thriving and, unlike many film festivals, here to stay, according to Pest.

The LRFF, now in its fourth year, looks like it’s becoming an institution.

The five-day event will be held June 2-6 in downtown Little Rock.

Festival director Jack Lofton said the attendance at the festival grew from 3,000 its first year to 20,000 in 2009. “Like most thriving cities that have an art scene, people in Little Rock are really hungry for

film,” he said.

The number of films to be shown is also on the rise. “We had around 85 films and 160 screenings last year,” said Lofton.

“We’re going to have over 100 films this year.”

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he fall season for Arkansas theater was dominated by crowd pleasers — lots of big cast musicals with recognizable titles. There was a sense that theaters needed to put the shiny names out front while hanging on as aftershocks of the economic recession rippled through the state. The spring and summer of 2010 isn’t as predictable — oh sure, there will be a few known commodities on the schedule — and that makes for a more interesting time all the way around for theater fiends.

Let’s start with “Glorious” (March 12-28), the new comedy by English playwright Peter Quilter that comes to the Arkansas Repertory Theatre a mere five years after its London debut. The play is a true-life story of American soprano Florence Foster Jenkins, who gained dubious notoriety as one of the worst singers in history. Anybody who has watched the early rounds of “American Idol” knows that bad vocalists can equal comic gold.

Speaking of strivers, Walton Arts Center brings “Runt of the Litter” (April 23-May 2) to Fayetteville. This one-man show stands out in the theater crowd because it’s about football, a subject that’s rarely, um, tackled on the American stage.

Former Houston Oiler defensive back Bo Eason relates a semi-autobiographical tale of sibling rivalry and the struggle for an undersized player to make it in the NFL. The show snagged solid reviews in its 18 march 11, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES

Theater offerings to anticipate. By Werner Trieschmann

New York City debut.

Douglas Carter Beane is a much-admired New York playwright with work that’s been done at the Rep (“As Bees in Honey Drown”). “The Little Dog Laughed” (March 19-28), which arrives in Little Rock thanks to the Weekend Theater, is Beane’s 2007 Tony-nominated comedy about an actor who won’t stay in the closet. A few months later the Weekend Theater goes blue when the desperate real estate hucksters of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” (May 14-29) drop F-bombs galore to score that prize set of steak knives.

Theatresquared in Fayetteville has an intriguing offering in Theresa Rebek’s “Mauritius” (March 26-April 11), which deals with the seamy underside of, wait for it, stamp collecting. A case could be made for Rebek being one of America’s most popular playwrights and “Mauritius” promises suspense and laughs. The lineup of Theatresquared’s Arkansas New Play Festival (May 20-23) has yet to be announced but discovery and surprise is what’s fun about a three-day binge of readings of brand new work.

Some of the wind might have slackened in the sails of the Rep’s production of “Frost/Nixon” (April 23-May 9) due to Ron Howard’s movie of Peter Morgan’s stage drama. But political junkies will have a feast on Morgan’s tight

(on stage at least) recreation of David Frost’s post-Watergate interview with Richard Nixon. Morgan’s success pivots on his ability to communicate the high stakes involved for both the disgraced former president and the jocular, popular TV host.

The 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz” (June 21-23) is considered a treasure and Celebrity Attractions is counting on that when a stage version — decked out with some fancy special effects — of the indestructible tale sets up at Robinson Center Music Hall. Taylor Hicks won “American Idol” but didn’t move much product so he’s spending time as the Teen Angel in the touring production of “Grease” (May 4-9) at the Walton Arts Center. The Rep’s “Smokey Joe’s Cafe” (June 4-27) is a return of the wildly popular jukebox musical that’s stocked with the tunes of pop/rock songwriters Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller.

You can’t get more popular than William Shakespeare and the Arkansas Shakespeare Festival (June 16-July 3), performing for the fourth season at Conway’s Reynolds Performance Hall. The rotating repertory pairs “A Comedy of Errors” with the history play “Henry V,” which attempts to approximate the “vasty fields of France.” The non-Shakespeare part of the Festival has scares in “Dracula” and something for younger audiences in “Alice in Wonderland.”

deadline for film entries is April 15.

The LRFF will also include acting workshops this year, “with some recognizable names,” Lofton said. Those names will be announced in May; Lofton said the festival is working with an actor from ABC TV’s “Grey’s Anatomy.”

There will also be an Arkansas music video competition, lectures, panel discussions and parties — including the Oxford American’s opening night party, a deejayed party aboard the Arkansas Queen riverboat and a “Twitter party,” the location of which will be revealed via the social networking site. The gala and awards ceremony, co-sponsored by the Arkansas Times, will be held at the Clinton Presidential Library.

Need a film fix before the major film festivals? Market Street Cinema in Little Rock has its Found Footage Film Festival coming up Friday, March 12 (see the ToDo List, page 26, for more details).

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Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA. 501-269-4815, arkshakes.com.

JUNE 25-26, JULY 2-3: “Alice in Wonderland.” When Alice falls into a rabbit hole, she finds herself in a parallel world filled with peculiar characters and adventure. Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA. 501-269-4815, arkshakes.com.

EUREKA SPRINGS EVENTS

MARCH 27: 20th Annual Eureka Springs Kite Festival. 10 a.m. Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge, Hwy. 23 S. 479-253-6596, zizirogers@excite.com.

APRIL 9-11: Annual UFO Conference. $50 adv., $70 d.o.e. Best Western Inn of the Ozarks, 207 W. Van Buren. ozarkufo.com MAY 8: Bull Run Eureka. Pamplona comes to the hills with a bull run followed by a parade and “La Tomatia” (the tomato fight). Noon, free. Eureka Springs Post Office, 101 Spring St. 479-981-9551, bullrun@ureeka.org.

MUSIC JUNE 3-6: Eureka Springs Blues Weekend.

Various venues. eurekaspringsblues.com.

JUNE 18-JULY 27: Opera in the Ozarks. Eureka Springs celebrates the 60th anniversary of its annual opera series with “Carmen,” “Don Giovanni,” and “Tosca.” Inspiration Point Overlook, Route 62. 479-253-8595, opera.org.

FAYETTEVILLE MUSIC

MARCH 27: Joe Bonamassa. 8 p.m., $39-$69.

Baum Walker Hall, 495 W. Dickson. 473-443-5600, waltonartscenter.org.

MARCH 31: G-Love & Special Sauce. 9 p.m., $20. George’s Majestic Theater, 519 W. Dickson.

479-442-4226, georgesmajesticlounge.com.

APRIL 3: Charlie Robison. 9 p.m., $15.

George’s Majestic Theater, 519 W. Dickson. 479442-4226, georgesmajesticlounge.com.

APRIL 6: Shooter Jennings. 9 p.m., $18.

George’s Majestic Theater, 519 W. Dickson. 479442-4226, georgesmajesticlounge.com.

APRIL 8-9: Bearfoot. 8 p.m., $16-$26. Starr Theater, Walton Arts Center, 295 W. Dickson. 473443-5300, waltonartscenter.org.

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APRIL 13: Frederica von Stade, Samuel Ramey. 7:00 p.m., $46-$76. Baum Walker Hall, 495 W. Dickson. 473-443-5600, waltonartscenter.org.

APRIL 22: Levon Helm. 7 p.m., $20-$125.

Arkansas Music Pavilion, 4201 Shiloh Drive. 479442-2776, arkansasmusicpavillion.com.

MAY 3: Dr. Dog, Deer Tick. 9 p.m., $15.

George’s Majestic Theater, 519 W. Dickson. 479442-4226, georgesmajesticlounge.com.

MAY 22: Blue Oyster Cult, Georgia Satellites. 7 p.m., $10-$50. Arkansas Music Pavilion, 4201 Shiloh Drive. 479-442-2776, arkansasmusicpavillion.com.

MAY 26: Indigo Girls. 7 p.m., $15-$75. Arkansas Music Pavilion, 4201 Shiloh Drive. 479-4422776, arkansasmusicpavillion.com.

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MAY 4-9: “Grease.” Greasers and bobby socks at Rydell High drift through drive-ins and dances and the intricacies of 1950s teen-age life. 7 p.m.

Tue.-Thu.; 8 p.m. Fri.; 2 p.m., 7 p.m. Sat.-Sun. Baum Walker Hall, 495 W. Dickson. 473-443-5600, waltonartscenter.org.

APRIL 23-MAY 2: “Runt of the Litter.” Bo Eason, former Oilers defensive back and younger brother of Eagles quarterback Tony Eason, writes and stars in this one-man show about sport and sibling rivalry. 7 p.m. Tue.-Thu.; 8 p.m. Fri.; 2 p.m., 7 p.m. Sat.-Sun. Baum Walker Hall, 495 W. Dickson. 473-443-5600, waltonartscenter.org.

HOT SPRINGS MUSIC

MARCH 23: Birds and Batteries. 9 p.m., free.

Maxine’s, 700 Central Ave. 501-321-0909, maxinespub.com.

MARCH 26: China Rocks! A night of rock music from three Chinese bands, Carsick Cars, P.K.14 and AV Okubo. 8 p.m. Maxine’s, 700 Central Ave. 501-321-0909, maxinespub.com MARCH 26: Keith Sykes Weekend. Singersongwriter convention/festival. 8 p.m. Fri., 10:30 a.m., 8 p.m. Sat., $50. Arlington Hotel, 239 Central Ave. 800-643-1502.

MAY 9: Rovar 17. 9 p.m. The Exchange, 100 Exchange St. 501-624-9463, myspace.com/exchangevenue.

MAY 30-JUNE 12: 15th Annual Hot Springs Music Festival. 200 international musicians produce 21 concerts and hold 250 rehearsals of orchestra, opera, chamber music and more. Free-$25. Various locations. 501-623-4763, hotmusic.org.

THEATER MAY 6-9, 13-16: “The Foreigner.” When a chronically shy young man is introduces as a foreigner without an ear for English, he stumbles onto a sinister plan by a two-faced local minister. 7:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 2:30 Sun., $10. The Pocket Theater, 170 Ravine St. 501-623-8585, pockettheatre.com.

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Mulberry Mountain. wakarusa.com.

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Harding University’s Spring Sing. Harding’s annual student musical variety show includes a 20-member ensemble, jazz band and seven club acts celebrating international heritage. 7 p.m. Thu.-Fri.; 2 p.m., 7 p.m. Sat. Benson Auditorium, Harding University, Searcy. 870-279-4255, hardingtickets.com.

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Editorial n There’s a time to talk sweetly to members of the opposing party, and a time, when sweetness has failed, to slap them smartly across the face. President Obama has not yet learned this important lesson, to the detriment of his presidency and the nation. Gov. Mike Beebe, a more experienced lawmaker, has it down.

Shocked by the way Obama’s humanitarian efforts have been blocked by partisan, small-hearted Republicans, Beebe has advised that similar tactics should not be used by obstructionist legislators in Arkansas. Speaking to a group of political hobbyists, Beebe observed, correctly, that the Arkansas legislative process is largely devoid of partisan politics. But, he said, he’s seen signs of undue factionalism by certain Republicans.

“We saw a hint of that [in 2009],” the governor said. “I warned some folks about it. And I’m warning them again about it.” He said he’d even detected a case of extreme party loyalty in a state representative from his home county, White.

Beebe didn’t say precisely what he’d do to errant legislators. Some theorists believe that obstreperous partisans can be managed through use of the carrot. But President Obama has tried that approach, and it hasn’t worked. We suspect that Governor Beebe will be more inclined to apply the stick to such as Rep. Bryan King, R-Berryville, and Sen. Gilbert Baker, R-Conway. It works better, and it’s more fun.

Whirlwind reaped n The selection of Kenneth Starr as the new president of Baylor is quickly having a demoralizing effect on the world’s largest Baptist university, just as experts predicted. Only weeks after Starr’s appointment was announced, a six-foot-eight player on Baylor’s women’s basketball team savagely assaulted a Texas Tech player, leaving her stunned and bloody. The Bearess was ejected from the game and subsequently suspended for two more games, little enough punishment for her offense.

But the fault is not hers alone. By hiring Starr, the Baylor Board of Regents has told students, “We want you to play dirty, to be ruthless, to cheat and lie and do whatever is necessary to get the better of your opponent. Copy Kenneth Starr’s actions as a special prosecutor. Remember that nice guys finish last, and that goes for girls too.” Young people look to their elders for guidance. The elders at Baylor have failed them.

Clearly, Starr must be kept away from American youth, even Texans. Still, Christians will ask, “Is Kenneth Starr himself beyond redemption?” Possibly not, in the right setting, with the right supervision. On Devil’s Island for 10 or 12 years, say. Hard labor.

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Lay on, Governor

THEY’RE OFF: Runners were in high, even exultant spirits, at the state of last Sunday’s Little Rock Marathon.

Twenty-six miles later finishers were no less happy, but a little more haggard.

They’re off n Election filing concluded Monday for Democrats and Republicans and judicial candidates, 338 all told.

The filings were well short of a record (over 420 in both 1998 and 2002) and I wonder if primary voter turnout will also be less than expected. There are undeniable pockets of fervid political interest — mostly of the throw-the-bums-out variety — but cynicism about the system and lack of an electrifying electoral figure could just as easily depress overall turnout. Black voters, particularly, seem uninspired this year from what I hear.

Some gleanings from the filing: • Contested Republican primaries for every federal office are barometers of the Tea Party spirit and that niche’s perception of a weakness in anti-Obama Arkansas on the part of anyone labeled Democratic.

Even Rep. Mike Ross of Prescott, who’s careful never to take a step contrary to presumed Arkansas political wisdom (however unwise or how wrong the presumption might be), drew two would-be Republican challengers.

• Sen. Blanche Lincoln apparently looks less vulnerable to Democrats than Republicans, drawing only Bill Halter as a primary opponent while eight Republicans want a crack at her. Is that a clue that conventional Democratic primary voters are, on balance, willing to stick with Lincoln? If so, and she wins the primary, it will improve her standing for the general election. There, if her prayers were to be answered, she’d face extremist Jim Holt or colorless and obstructionist U.S. Rep. John Boozman.

• Will this be the year for a turn of tide in the Arkansas legislature? The 35-member Senate currently has eight Republicans. All eight of those seats will remain in Republican hands. Additionally, Republicans are challenging Democrats for seven open seats currently held by Democrats, at least three of them in districts with strong Republican constituencies. A jump of GOP senators from eight to 11 or up to 15 would create a dramatic new legislative dynamic. The 100-member House had 24

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Republicans when it convened in 2009. At the close of filing, there were 42 unopposed Democrats and 23 unopposed Republicans. Democrats will win a majority of the 35 contested seats, but it’s hard to imagine they won’t lose ground, probably a substantial amount, and with it the vital three-fourths voting majority on spending bills. Superior Republican recruiting is at work here.

• There are two contested races for seats on the Arkansas Supreme Court, both vacant on account of retirements. These could be expensive contests. Voters will want to watch carefully where the money comes from. Lawyers have always been the primary source of judicial campaign cash, but there are lawyers and there are lawyers. Judge contributors by their work on such important issues as financial regulation, workers compensation and medical malpractice.

• The most dominant politicians in Arkansas?

No, not Gov. Mike Beebe. He has a Republican opponent, former Little Rock senator Jim Keet. The untouchables are Charlie Daniels, unopposed for his run for a third statewide office (auditor this time), Treasurer Martha Shoffner and Attorney General Dustin McDaniel.

• Could McDaniel’s breeze to re-election prove to be the most meaningful event for future Arkansas politics? Does it make him the foregone conclusion as Democratic nominee for governor in 2014 or would an easy win over token opposition have been better?

It certainly means he has four years to luxuriate in a job that allows him to file feel-good lawsuits, travel the state under official auspices and avoid the vexing business of declaring himself on hot-button legislation. He’ll find time, too, I’ll wager, to do more work to curry favor with the gun lobby.

Blame Arkansas n If the last chance for health-insurance reform in this generation perishes, our little state and its quailing delegation in Washington will take a large measure of the blame — or the credit, if you think the 481,000 uninsured Arkansawyers and the insurance industry deserve mutually to be left alone.

Last week, Rep. Marion Berry bailed out on health reform after casting a vote in November that gave the most liberal version of reform its narrow victory in the House of Representatives. Like his East Arkansas colleague, Sen. Blanche Lincoln, who has seemed to be backpedaling after voting for and helping write the Senate reform bill, Berry got an earful from constituents in his native Delta who are enraged that he would side — on anything — with the black president with the alien name.

Mike Ross, the delegate from South Arkansas, reaffirmed that he would not be caught voting for any health bill that his party might produce although the bill that may go to a vote in the House next week meets just about every precondition that Ross ever raised: It expands coverage to nearly everyone in his district, lowers the nation’s budget deficit, stops insurance abuses, helps small businesses afford insurance, protects Medicare beneficiaries, hospitals and doctors from cuts, imposes tax obligations on only a few hundred of the richest people in his district and starts to stem the spiral in health-care costs.

No one in the Arkansas delegation has

Ernest Dumas been more forceful or eloquent in championing comprehensive health reform than Ross, who has chronicled stories about people in South Arkansas who suffered unbearable hardship from the loss of insurance. You can still hear him talk earnestly about the urgent need for reform on a TV show that he taped last fall. But since he could not satisfy both militant sides in the health-care debate Ross resolved to go with the loudest and meanest side and vote against any bill that came out of the crucible.

To say one thing, do exactly the opposite and get credit for both is a marvelous political skill, but it will earn you no due beyond the next election.

Senator Lincoln hasn’t fully recanted her vote but she says she will fight a procedure that would allow a final vote in the Senate.

That leaves Sen. Mark Pryor and Rep. Vic Snyder as the only unapologetic advocates of a reform that most people in Arkansas have wanted for 40 years.

With Republicans and Southern Democrats pretty much united to stop any initiative, Arkansas’s little delegation is likely to be the one that kills it just as it was the one that passed the bills in November

Can Blanche go home again? n The New York Times dispatched a reporter last week to Helena-West Helena, the hometown of U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, where the local white people might offer a pretty good gauge of broader attitudes by our state’s decisive rural conservatives.

A woman lamented Blanche’s “bad decisions” even as Blanche’s mother sat nearby at lunch.

A man who deals at a casino across the river didn’t like that Lincoln had provided a vote, even if a partial and sporadic one, for President Obama on health care.

A farmer said his pocketbook didn’t matter as much as it once did, considering a broader state of affairs that troubles him, and that, therefore, Blanche’s recent ascension to the chairmanship of the Senate Agriculture Committee wouldn’t dictate his vote as it once would have.

They were mad at Lincoln from the right for being too liberal, even as liberals nationwide ante up to Bill Halter’s campaign out of anger at her for being too conservative.

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That old Arkansas Democratic finesse, by which people named Clinton and Pryor (and Lincoln) finely balance the liberal interests of their national party with the rural conservatism of their constituency, has blown up on Lincoln.

It’s because of Barack Obama, his name, his image, his culture, his other thing. It’s because of the bank bailout, the auto bailout, the stimulus, the fear of government health care, a deficit now nearly $2 trillion.

The Times’ piece says Blanche’s predicament shows how perilous the political center has become amid raging voter anger.

Someone on one extreme or the other at least could find a friend now and then.

Steve Patterson, Lincoln’s campaign manager, was quoted last week as saying

and December.

The distinction for Arkansas will be perversely ironic in a couple of ways.

The more stalwart forebears of the Arkansas delegation gave the country the great pillars of economic security for the elderly, Sen. Joe T. Robinson of Lonoke when he guided old-age, survivors, disability and unemployment insurance into law in 1935, and Rep. Wilbur D. Mills of Kensett, who drove Medicare and Medicaid through a bitterly divided House 30 years later. Only a few tea partiers and Republican candidates for the Senate would reverse those achievements.

Had Mills and Richard Nixon not almost simultaneously fallen to scandal in 1974 they would have produced a universal health insurance system, and 35 years later it would be as politically inviolable as Social Security and Medicare.

The bills in the House and Senate today are close replicas of the Republican and Mills-Kennedy plans of 1974.

But the crueler paradox is that Arkansas would be the runaway winner among all the states if some version of the Senate health bill became law. Because family incomes in Arkansas are so low and current programs so weak, a larger proportion of people would qualify for new Medicaid coverage in Arkansas than any other state, another 323,000 would get help or tax credits to pay insurance premiums, 89,800 elderly seniors would see their drug costs drop, and 506,000 seniors would get preventive health services.

Very little of the burden of paying for all those benefits for Arkansawyers would fall on Arkansas. An excise tax on

so-called Cadillac insurance plans, typically written for big union shops or for individuals with no concern for the cost, would touch only a handful of people in Berry’s and Ross’s districts. Those are policies valued at $24,000 a year for families and $8,900 for individuals, and people in high-risk occupations or who are retired would have even higher thresholds. The tax would be levied on insurance companies or administrators.

The other tax would be a small Medicare payroll levy on couples earning more than $250,000 a year and individuals earning more than $200,000, and the tax would apply only to income above those thresholds. Berry and Ross can name nearly everyone in their districts who would pay new taxes. Their federal taxes have fallen dramatically the past 10 years.

Berry and Ross said they couldn’t vote for the Senate bill because of its “liberal” abortion provisions. The bill is tougher than the current federal law. No tax money could ever be used to pay for abortions.

The bill would allow states like Arkansas to ban abortion coverage in private insurance policies, including those bought with federal subsidies, and it would require that if any policy bought with a federal subsidy through the insurance exchange added abortion coverage to a policy it would have to be bought out of pocket in a separate rider.

Abortion is a transparent figleaf. If life were their big concern they would be thinking about the hundreds in their districts who die each year because they cannot afford medical care. They don’t buy ads railing about government takeover of health care.

Lincoln is fighting for the very right to be a moderate Democrat.

Moderation is a hard thing to fight for when the whole country has gone mad.

Blanche’s challenge is to use TV advertising, mainly, to fashion a narrative for herself that redefines her.

That’s what all big-time politics is about, of course.

Halter fashions a narrative for himself as a grocery-bagger who is running for Arkansas values against those evil Washington people, even as he exists in truth as a tool of national liberals and labor unions wanting to punish Lincoln.

Blanche is similarly creative in her long-awaited and suddenly famous introductory television ad last week. Tom Hanks was talking about it on a national cable show, complaining that it represented a politics of “no.” The panelists on “This Week” on ABC were in wonder about it Sunday, finding it supremely odd that a Democrat would run so hard against her own president not in the general election, but the primary.

These folks should go to Helena.

Lincoln’s commercial represents one of the best tries I’ve ever seen. It presents her as an opponent of Obama’s most liberal policies, seeking to separate her from her

president. It says she doesn’t answer to her party, but to the people of Arkansas.

Perhaps most ambitiously of all amid this populist revolt, it presumes to make her the outsider, standing up for reason amid all that childish idiocy in Washington. It closes by calling her “one tough lady,” since Arkies like spunk and independence.

A postscript: There’s this left-of-center establishment Democratic lunch group formed under the leadership of Dale Bumpers’ son, Brent, that sprang from ad hoc radio advertising that it ran for John Kerry in 2004. These are left-of-center politicos associated with the campaigns of Clinton, Bumperd and Pryor, generally speaking. They call themselves the “blue necks.”

So they got together last week and did a straw vote of Lincoln and Halter.

There were 20 votes for Lincoln and 14 for Halter.

That’s not really so good for her. She’d need a bigger lead in that group before she could take a deep breath.

John Brummett is a columnist and reporter for Stephens Media’s Arkansas News Bureau. You can read additional Brummett columns in The Times of North Little Rock. www.arktimes.com • march 11, 2010 23

CONGRATULATIONS BROTHER ANDY & HIS BIG DAMN MOUTH

WINNER OF THE

THANKS TO FINALISTS: • BOBBY • ELISE DAVIS • UNDERCLAIRE • FLASH LARUE And Everyone Who Showcased This Year! www.arktimes.com/blogs/rockcandy

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By Lindsey millar

n Like last year and the year before, I’m proud — and confident — to say that this year’s winner of the Musicians Showcase is doing something utterly singular in Arkansas music, something that should be filling up venues not just in Central Arkansas, but all across the country. Start getting used to this unwieldy name: Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth.

Because if what happened at last Friday’s coronation concert at Revolution is any indication, the threepiece is already on its way. When the band finished its 30-minute set, the crowd, which filled Rev near capac-

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Who? Lead singer/songwriter in last year’s winner, Velvet Kente.

On Brother Andy. I love the way they consistently turn audiences’ expectations on their heads.

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ity, didn’t so much cheer as roar. Other finalists earned hearty, extended applause, but when I took the stage immediately after Brother Andy’s set, minutes went by before the crowd let me speak.

There’s a visceral appeal to be sure. Friday, the band traded the cut-off jean shorts and unbuttoned Hawaiian shirts it wore in its semi-final win for a White Stripesmeets-Li’l Abner get-up: red union suits (long johns) and coon skin caps. Aside from the costume, onstage Brother Andy (guitar, vocals), even with his massive frame and lumberjack beard, strikes a laconic pose. He’s

Leigh Wood

Who? Director of the Arkansas Community Arts Cooperative (ACAC).

On Brother Andy. This is the best band in Little Rock.

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Who? Local guitar god and vocalist.

On Brother Andy. Viking rock. Power to the People music perfectly executed. The total lack of irony in the direct and profane takes them over the top.

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barely expressive. He plays his guitar with a casual, almost tossed-off ease. Then he starts hollering, and he makes the hairs stand up on your arms. It’s raw, barbed a bit — but not abrasive — with plenty of wild-eyed theatricality. Something like Tom Waits doing his best Frank Black. Meanwhile, Johnny D. bounces around maniacally and Bad Chad furiously bangs his kit, but their sense of time always remains acute.

The band would be memorable for all that, but it’s the songs that put BABDM over the top. They are, as I said after the band won in the semi-finals, elegant pop songs at their core. But within that standard chorusverse arrangement, Brother Andy wallows in a dark, mostly teen-age portrait of the South, where sex and ghosts intersect with love and religion. It’s powerful stuff and powerfully funny more often than not.

Props, too, to the other finalists. Elise Davis offered the same winning stage presence and knack for writing a relationship-directed pop song that she did in her semi-final win. Everything came together for Flash LaRue, the first band to ever play the Showcase three times. The six-member act improved threefold from its second-week appearance to the finals. Bobby was the only finalist who delivered an entirely new set. This one came with an “Alice in Wonderland” theme, and drew high praise from the judges. In the night’s final spot, Underclaire’s front man Mike Mullins gamely battled through the lingering effects of the flu. If he hadn’t told me beforehand, I wouldn’t have noticed. The alt-rockers are surely among the city’s tightest acts.

So thanks again to all of our sponsors, especially Sticky Fingerz and Revolution for hosting. To Maestro and Timmy for running sound and, most of all, for everyone who came and supported local music.

Make sure you see Brother Andy and His Big Damn Mouth at Riverfest.

Natalie Elliott

Who? Music critic.

On Brother Andy. Everything they do makes me feel like I’m 17 and I’m going to live forever in a ball of exploding light. They prove once again it’s important to be fun and anthemic.

Rob Bell guest judge

Who? Local musician, founder/booker of Riverfest’s Arkansas Music Tent.

On Brother Andy. The real deal. An adrenaline shot to Arkansas music. What a treasure. www.arktimes.com • march 11, 2010 25

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a notion that gained traction during the civil rights era and continues to hold sway today, even as the opera’s defenders frame it as a cultural artifact. LM.

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By Lindsey Millar and John Tarpley

9 p.m., Juanita’s. $7.

9:30 p.m., White Water Tavern. $5-$10.

n The plot of “Voodoo Cowboys,” a new independent film set to begin shooting in DeValls Bluff in April, is a little hard to follow. Or at least a little hard for me to follow. It involves cowboys; the voodoo religion; a man called Duvalier, who after Hurricane Katrina has managed to seize control of the gates of hell (in New Orleans, of course), and zombies, who in this film are not diseased, but possessed.

When I tell screenwriter Jere Marcella Liles that I’m lost, she distills the movie to its essence: “It’s Grindhouse — a lot of blood, a lot of boobs, a lot of blues.”

Directed by DeValls Bluff native SeanMichael Argo and produced by his brother Ian, the film features scream queen Debbie Rochon (“Bikini Bloodbath Car Wash,” “Chainsaw Cheerleaders”) and, according to Liles, is close to having a $50,000 budget, the amount necessary to claim the newly enacted Arkansas film incentive. Which is where this event comes in. To help get the production over that $50,000 hump, local acts Ace Spade and the Whores of Babylon, Hector Faceplant, Iron Tongue (led by Rwake’s CT), The See and Vessels of Wrath (from Fayetteville) come together to help raise money with this benefit. Come dressed as a zombie and you might win a prize. LM.

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FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL

9 p.m., Market Street Cinema. $10.

n Think “The Soup” meets “Mystery Science Theater 3000” meets FOUND

ZOMBIES IN REAL LIFE: Ace Spade and the Whores of Babylon help producers of “Voodoo Cowboys” get over the hump at Juanita’s. magazine meets all the insane pre-digital ephemera people exhume and stick on YouTube and you’re on your way to the Found Footage Festival. For almost 20 years, childhood friends Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher have been digging through dumpsters and scouring thrift stores in search of VHS gold. Since 2004, Pickett, a former film technician, and Prueher, a former researcher at “The Late Show with David Letterman,” have toured with highlights of their collection, which today includes some 3,000 VHS tapes, according to Prueher. Friday’s stop in Little Rock, for the first time ever, will find the hosts introducing and providing background and jokes on things like a home movie taken at a 1985 heavy metal festival outside D.C., exercise videos featuring Dolph Lundgren and Milton Berle and, if we’re lucky, a custom-cut trailer for the ’80s Arkansas film “Little Marines.” Advance tickets are available at foundfootagefest.com. Pickett and Prueher encourage folks to bring their own “finds” to the screening. Look for a Q&A with Prueher on Rock Candy, too.

LM.

FINDERS, KEEPERS: Found Footage hosts Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett come to Market Street on Friday.

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‘PORGY AND BESS’

8 p.m., Robinson Center Music Hall. $20$72.

n This weekend, for the first time ever, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra presents Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess.” There’ll be no costumes or staging, but otherwise the folk opera gets the full treatment, with four decorated guest vocalists, the UAPB Vesper Choir, the Philander Smith College Choir and, of course, the full symphony. That’s a promising slate of collaborators. Coupled with the music in “Porgy and Bess,” which borrows heavily from jazz and folk music idioms, the two performances promise to be among the strongest the ASO offers this season. But is “Porgy and Bess” racist? George and Ira Gershwin adapted the libretto from Southern writer DuBose Heyward’s 1924 novel, “Porgy.” Heyward was an early believer in primitivism, the notion of blacks as “noble savages.” And over the years, critics have derided “Porgy and Bess” for promoting racial stereotypes,

n Now here’s a trend I can endorse: longstanding badass sidemen stepping into the spotlight. Last year, it was The Boondogs’ Chris Michaels stepping out on his own. Now, we’ve got Dave Raymond taking the lead. The former Mulehead guitarist and current Kyoto Boom axe man celebrates the release of his debut album, “Familiar Sting,” on Max Recordings. It’s an album that reveals Raymond to have a gift for smart, memorable lyrics that rivals his estimable guitar skills. In a voice shaded by hues of his Texas country rock roots, Raymond’s put out an album that’s bound to please all those folks who used to pack local venues out to catch Mulehead.

His backing band isn’t too shabby either.

It’s Geoff Curran on drums (Mulehead, Kevin Kerby and Battery), Josh Bentley on bass (Kevin Kerby and Battery, Big Cats) and Max Recordings’ Burt Taggart (Big Cats, too) on guitar and backing vocals. You get a copy of the album with the $10 admission. LM.

HEYPENNY / HOW I BECAME THE BOMB 9 p.m., ACAC Arkansas, $7.

n When bands intentionally piece together so many undiluted and disparate components of pop music with no regard to subtlety, it’s like diluting cotton candy with syrup or concocting a cocktail out of the strongest liquors (and cleaning solvents) you happen upon in your kitchen. Heypenny works with that type of mad mindframe, throwing everything — horns, staccato chants, synths, marching

FAMILIAR FACES: Dave Raymond (in foreground) and Present Company (from left, Burt Taggart, Josh Bentley and Geoff Curran) celebrate their CD release at White Water.

Robinson Center Music Hall. While “Lord of the Dance” remains, in retrospect, one of the most headscratchingly random fads to come out of the ’90s (it always struck me as Hee-Haw with shamrocks), the production still draws a considerable crowd with each showing. Even without Michael Flatley, the Orson Welles of “Lord of the Dance,” the show dances on with Scott Doherty, world champion Irish dancer, in the lead role. JT.

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THOSE DARLINS 9 p.m., White Water Tavern.

ON A KANYE-BLAZE PATH: Former producer 88 Keys, who comes to Rev. bands, backup singers — in the blender, then seeing what happens. Surprisingly, the “suicide slush” of songs works really well. In fact, they’ve received a fair bit of attention from MTV, who ran their video for “Copcar,” for their OK Go by-way-of Go! Team sensibilities. (Also, it should be noted that this band is two-thirdsArkansan, with Ben Elkins representing Fayetteville alongside fellow UA alum DJ Murphy.)

Heypenny also brings fellow Nashville pop-rockers How I Became the Bomb.

Rap virtuoso 607 and (full disclosure, my band) Frown Pow’r, provide an odd duo of local support. JT.

Nick Catchdubs and produced Izza Kizza. JT.

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‘LORD OF THE DANCE’ 7 p.m., Robinson Center Music Hall, $27.95-$58.25.

n Right in time for St. Patrick’s Day, the iconic Irish musical featuring traditional — and loud — step-dance comes to

n It’s easy to say Those Darlins are Tennessee’s response to the Olympia, Wash., grrrl scene. The Darlin girls, Kelley, Jessi and Nikki, have catchy, rock chops like their older genre cousins and certainly retained a healthy chunk of their forbears’ attitude. Like a female Black Lips with popabilly tone, they’re the girls who are too cool to be the lady in your dude crew, won’t hesitate to break a trifling guy’s car windows and probably do it all with a switchblade in their boot. When, in “Mama’s Heart,” they tell their mom’s boyfriend to shape up or ship out (or else), it doesn’t sound like East Nashville posturing; they begin to touch a Larry Brown-esque level of sinister charm. With their cover of Uncle Dave Macon’s “Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy,” they can make even the most dirty-minded guys blush. Make no mistake, this will be one of the better SXSW-bound shows that Little Rock gets this year. JT.

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n At Robinson Center Music Hall, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra continues their Pops Live! series by performing classic Gershwin pieces from “Porgy and Bess,” 8 p.m., $32-$72.

DJs Risky Biz, IKE and g-force conduct the dancing masses at Star Bar for the monthly “Spectrum” dance party, 10 p.m., $5. Down the street, DJ (poet, and soon to be Delawarean sheep farmer) Michael Inscoe spins at White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. “The O.D.” hip-hop party comes to Sticky Fingerz with a stageful of local rappers, including 607, Rah HoWard, Big Drew and Shea Marie, 9 p.m., 10. Elvis impersonator extraordinaire Travis Ledoyt begins a three-night stand at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse. Dinner 6 p.m., curtain 7:45. Bouncy blues outfit Unseen Eye releases their first album, “Too Bad,” at Cornerstone Pub in North Little Rock, 8 p.m., $5. Cindy Woolf, Amanda Rook and Paige Allbritton play affected guitar ballads with a healthy splash of youthful sincerity at Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $7. Batesville’s outlaw country outfit All Called Liar join crazy asses Tom Sweet Band to kickoff Downtown Music’s weekend long birthday party, 8 p.m., $6. Vino’s hosts five bands in one night with The Forecast, A Good Fight, Townsend, Since Forever and The Narrative, 8 p.m., $10. In Hot Springs, Maxine’s brings Fayetteville’s ultra-promising Hosta alongside Brazilian guitar pop duo Canja Rave and Spa City experimentalists Landrest for a Valley of the Vapors fund-raiser, 9 p.m.

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88 KEYS/ KIDS IN THE HALL 8 p.m., Revolution, $10.

n If you’re not familiar with 88 Keys, it’s okay. He was part of the massive mid’00s exodus of producers that followed Kanye (88’s shopping buddy) from the mixing board to the microphones. Not that he had any exceptional need to add an emcee credit to his repertoire; he has a string of impressive production credits, using his piano skills to fashion backing tracks for Musiq Soulchild, Macy Gray and, more so than anyone else, Mos Def. Nevertheless, he specializes in selfdeprecating, radio-ready tracks with no shortage of piano accompaniment. Think Talib Kweli by way of Ben Folds and you’re getting there. He’s joined by buzzy skater-rap duo Kidz in the Hall, Atlanta’s trouble-making Donnis, and the eccentric

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COUNTRY GRRRLS: Those Darlins stop in at White Water Tavern.

n Pedigreed blues-rock roadmasters North Mississippi Allstars stop at Revolution alongside Hill Country Revue, 8 p.m., $20. Juanita’s intercepts SXSW bound Pomegranates and Jookabox and places them alongside local favorites Big Boots and Whale Fire, 9 p.m., $7. Cody Belew & Co. bring their buttoned up, blue eyed jazz standards to Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5.

Max Recordings’ newest release hits the streets with a CD release show by the ex-Mulehead fronted Dave Raymond & Present Company, White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. If you find yourself in Fayetteville, the best baroque-crunk gangsaristocrat MCs of, possibly, all time, Lord T and Eloise, play George’s Majestic Lounge, 9 p.m.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 11 MUSIC

Attack Attack!, Breathe Carolina, I See Stars, Asking Alexandria, Bury Tomorrow.

7 p.m., $13 adv., $15 d.o.s. The Village, 3915 S. University. 570-0300, thevillagelive.com.

Brian & Nick (happy hour), Trademark (headliner). 6 p.m., 9:30 p.m. $5 after 8:30. Cajun’s Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road. 375-5351, cajunswharf.com.

DJ Mikey Mike. 8 p.m. Counterpoint, 3605 MacArthur Drive, NLR. 771-5515, myspace.com/bogiescounterpoint.

Dr. Rex Bell Jazz Trio. 8 p.m., $5. Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh. 663-4176, afterthoughtbar.com.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. 7 p.m., $56-$79. Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson, Fayetteville. 479-443-5600, waltonartscenter.org.

Jim Dickerson. 7 p.m. Sonny Williams’, 500 President Clinton Ave. 324-2999, sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

Karaoke with Big John Miller. 8 p.m., Denton’s Trotline, 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717.

Kingsdown, Both/And, Thrill of a Dogfight. 9 p.m., $5-$7 (ladies free). Revolution, 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090, rumbarevolution.com.

Open Mic with Cameron Jones. 8 p.m., free.

Maxine’s, 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-3210909, maxinespub.com.

Piano Masterpieces: Linda Holzer, piano. 8 p.m., free. Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, UALR. 569-3294.

Raising Grey. 9 p.m., $5. Electric Cowboy, 9513 I-30. 560-6000, electriccowboy.com.

The Fox Hunt. 9 p.m. Smoke and Barrel, 324 W. Dickson, Fayetteville. 479-521-6880.

The Juke Joint Duo: Cedric Burnside, Lightnin’ Malcolm. 9 p.m. White Water Tavern, 2500 W. 7th. 375-8400, myspace.com/whitewatertavern.

The Ted Ludwig Trio. 5 p.m., free. Capital Bar & Grill, 111 W. Markham. 370-7013, capitalhotel. com/CBG. Thirsty Thursdays. 8 p.m. On the Rocks, 107 E. Markham. 374-7625, clubontherocks.com.

Tho-D Thursdays. 9 p.m., $5. Cornerstone Pub, 314 Main St., NLR. 374-1782, cstonepub.com.

“Voodoo Cowboys” Benefit Show with Vessels of Wrath, Ace Spade and the Whores of Babylon, Iron Tongue, Hector Faceplant, The See. 9 p.m., $7. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 374-3271, juanitas.com.

EVENTS

“Duck Duck Goose.” Consigned children’s clothing sale. 7 a.m., Arkansas State Fairgrounds, Hall of Industry. duckduckgoosesale.com.

Night on the Street. The Union Rescue Mission hosts a fund-raiser to raise awareness of homelessness in Central Arkansas. 6 p.m., free. River Market Pavilions. 370-0808, urmission.org.

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COUNTRY ON THE RISE: Hard touring Texas country act the Randy Rogers Band is rolling into a summer release of a new album, “Burning the Day,” with a head full of steam. The band’s last album debuted at number three on the Billboard Country Charts and was named by Playboy the Best Country Album of the Year. After appearances on Letterman and Leno, the four piece returns to Revolution, a spot it plays often and usually sells out, for a concert, open to those 18 and older, on Friday, March 12, 9 p.m., $15.

“Phantom of the Pharaoh” Murder Mystery.

Egyptian Murder Mystery Dinner Theater. MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 6:15 arrival, $49, Feb. 1. 503 E. 9th. Reservations 501868-7287.

FILM

Found Footage Festival. 9 p.m., $10. Market Street Cinema, 1504 Merrill Dr. www.foundfootagefest.com.

COMEDY

Steve Hirst. 8 p.m., $6. Loony Bin, I-430 and

Rodney Parham. 228-5555, loonybincomedy.com.

POETRY

Poetry Slam. 6 p.m., free. Thompson Library, 38 Rahling Circle. 821-3060.

Red Hawk Nature Poetry Reading. 6:30 p.m., free. Darragh Center, Main Library, 100 Rock St. 918-3032, cals.org.

LECTURES

Fred Zeidman. Chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council discusses the tragedy. Noon, free.

Sturgis Hall, Clinton School of Public Service. 683-

FRIDAY, MARCH 12 MUSIC

Amanda Rook, Cindy Woolf, Paige Allbritton. 9 p.m., $7. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 3743271, juanitas.com.

ASO’s “Porgy and Bess”: 8 p.m., $32-$72.

Robinson Center Music Hall, 7 Statehouse Plaza.

376-4781, arkansassymphony.org.

Ben & Doug (happy hour), Adrenaline (headliner). 5:30 p.m., 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30. Cajun’s Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road. 375-5351, cajunswharf.com.

Daylight Dimlight. 9 p.m. Flying Saucer, 323 Clinton Ave. 372-7468, beerknurd.com.

DJ Debbi T. 10 p.m. Counterpoint, 3605 MacArthur, NLR. 771-5515, myspace.com/bogiescounterpoint.

DJ Whathedo. 9 p.m. ACAC, 900 S. Rodney Parham. 244-2979, myspace.com/acacarkansas.

All ages.

Katmandu Unplugged. 8:30 p.m., free. Capi’s, 11525 Cantrell Road. 225-9600, capisrestaurant. com.

Keystone Kings. 9 p.m., $5. Underground Pub, 500 President Clinton Ave. 707-2537, theundergroundpub.com.

Letters in Red. 9 p.m., $5. West End, 215 N. Shackelford. 224-7665, westendsmokehouse.com.

Mountain Sprout, Paper Tongues, Jarris. 9 p.m., $8. George’s Majestic Lounge, 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-527-6618, georgesmajesticlounge.com.

Randy Rogers Band. 9 p.m., $15. Revolution, 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090, rumbarevolution.com. 21 plus.

Robb. 8 p.m. Cregeen’s, 301 Main St., NLR. 3767468, cregeens.com.

Sarah Hughes. 9 p.m. Smoke and Barrel, 324 W. Dickson, Fayetteville. 479-521-6880.

Spectrum with DJs Risky Biz, IKE, g-force.

10 p.m., $5. Star Bar, 1900 W. Third. starbarlounge. com Terry and the Executives. 9 p.m., $5. Fox and Hound 2800 Lakewood Village Drive, NLR. 7538300.

The Forecast, A Good Fight, Townsend, Since Forever, The Narrative. 8 p.m., $10. Vino’s 923 W. 7th St. 375-8466, vinosbrewpub.com.

The O.D. with 607, Big Drew, Cat Daddy, Mista Mayhemm, Rah Howard, Carteaire Custom, Shea Marie, Mike Streezy. 9 p.m., $10. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707, stickyfingerz.com.

The Ted Ludwig Trio. 9 p.m., free. Capital Bar & Grill, 111 W. Markham. 370-7013, capitalhotel. com/CBG. Tom Sweet, All Called Liar. 8 p.m., $6. Downtown Music, 211 W. Capitol, 376-1819. downtownshows.homestead.com.

Tonya Leeks & Co. 9 p.m., $7. Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh. 663-4176, afterthoughtbar.com.

Travis Ledoyt. Elvis impersonator. 6 p.m., $30$32. Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn. 562-3131, murrysdinnerplayhouse.com.

Unseen Eye CD Release Party. 8 p.m., $5.

Cornerstone Pub, 314 Main St., NLR. 374-1782, cstonepub.com.

VOV Fundraiser with Hosta, Canja Rave, Landrest. 9 p.m. Maxine’s, 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-321-0909, maxinespub.com.

EVENTS

“Duck Duck Goose.” Consigned children’s clothing sale. 7 a.m., Arkansas State Fairgrounds, Hall of Industry. duckduckgoosesale.com.

FOCAL Book Sale. 10 a.m. Main Library Basement, 100 Rock St. 918-3000, cals.org.

Little Rock Pen and Watch Show. 12 p.m., $5.

Robinson Center Auditorium, 7 Statehouse Plaza.

231-1005, arpenclub@sbcglobal.net.

COMEDY

ImprovLittleRock’s “The Harold.” 10 p.m., $8. Public Theater, 616 Center St. 374-PLAY. Steve Hirst. 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m., $9. The Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham. 228-5555, loonybin.com.

SPORTS

Arkansas Diamonds vs. San Angelo Stampede Express 7:30 p.m., $12-$50. Verizon Arena, NLR. 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com.

SATURDAY, MARCH 13 MUSIC

Barrett Baber. 9 p.m. Flying Saucer, 323 Clinton Ave. 372-7468, beerknurd.com.

Beneath the Empire, Inlow, Red Beard Conspiracy, Legend Has It, Something to Stand For. 8 p.m., $7. Vino’s 923 W. 7th St. 375-8466, vinosbrewpub.com.

B-Flats Doctor Band. 9 p.m., $7. Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh. 663-4176, afterthoughtbar.com.

Chris Denny. 9 p.m. Cornerstone Pub, 314 Main St., NLR. 374-1782, cstonepub.com.

Dave Raymond & Present Company Record Release Show. 9:30 p.m. White Water Tavern, 2500 W. 7th. 375-8400, myspace.com/whitewatertavern.

DJ Shaintrain. 10 p.m. Counterpoint, 3605 MacArthur, NLR. 771-5515, myspace.com/bogiescounterpoint.

Dry County. 8 p.m. Denton’s Trotline, 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717.

Hell’s Kitchen. 8 p.m. Cregeen’s, 301 Main St., NLR. 376-7468, cregeens.com.

Heypenny, How I Became the Bomb, Frown Pow’r, 607. 9 p.m. ACAC Arkansas, 900 S. Rodney Parham. 244-2979, myspace.com/acacarkansas.

Jamey Johnson. 8 p.m., $33-$40. Baum Walker Hall, Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson, Fayetteville. 479-443-5600, waltonartscenter.org.

Jim Mills (happy hour), Cody Belew & Co. (headliner). 5:30 p.m., 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30. Cajun’s Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road. 375-5351, cajunswharf.com.

Justin Sane (disco), g-force (lobby). 9 p.m., $10. Discovery, 1021 Jessie Road. 664-4784, www.latenightdisco.com.

Letters in Red. 9 p.m., $5. West End, 215 N. Shackelford. 224-7665, www.westendsmokehouse.com.

Lord T & Eloise. 9 p.m. George’s Majestic Lounge, 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-5276618, georgesmajesticlounge.com.

North Mississippi All Stars, Hill Country Revue. 8 p.m., $20. Revolution, 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090, rumbarevolution.com.

Pomegranates, Jookabox, Big Boots, Whale Fire. 9 p.m., $7. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 3743271, juanitas.com.

Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf.” Conway Symphony Orchestra presents the symphony as a food fund-raiser for Orchestras Feeding America.

2 p.m., $5. Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA, Conway. 866-810-0012, uca.edu/tickets.

Rwake, Hull, Vore, Snake Sustain. 8 p.m., $6. Downtown Music, 211 W, Capitol , 376-1819. downtownshows.homestead.com.

Slow Trucks, Amo Joy, Guta. 9 p.m., $5.

Smoke and Barrel, 324 W. Dickson, Fayetteville.

479-521-6880.

Superstar Saturday. 8 p.m. On the Rocks, 107 E. Markham St. 374-4625, clubontherocks.com.

The Alley Cats. 9 p.m., $5. Fox and Hound 2800 Lakewood Village Drive, NLR. 753-8300.

The Gettys. 9:30 p.m., $5. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707, stickyfingerz.com.

The Ted Ludwig Trio. 9 p.m., free. Capital Bar & Grill, 111 W. Markham. 370-7013, capitalhotel. com/CBG. Travis Ledoyt. Elvis impersonator. 6 p.m., $30$32. Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn.

562-3131, www.murrysdinnerplayhouse.com.

Playing With Karma, Afternoon Delight, Shotgun Lover and Finding Jimmy Hoffa. 9 p.m. Maxine’s, 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501321-0909, maxinespub.com.

EVENTS

“Duck Duck Goose.” Consigned children’s clothing sale. 7 a.m., Arkansas State Fairgrounds, Hall of Industry. duckduckgoosesale.com.

17th Annual Eureka Springs St. Paddy’s Day Festival. 2 p.m., free. Spring St., Eureka Springs. 479-981-9551, www.stpaddy.ureeka.org.

Coalition of Greater Little Rock Neighborhoods Meeting. 11 a.m. Hinton Center, Twelfth and Pine St. FOCAL Book Sale. 10 a.m. Main Library Basement, 100 Rock St. 918-3000, www.cals.org.

Little Rock School District Parent Institute.

Information presented to parents, families and the community through interactive workshops, exhibits and a health fair provided by district and com-

munity organizations. 8:30 a.m., free. Hall High School, 6700 H St. 447-3357, lrsd.org Party Room Grand Opening. 1 p.m., Museum of Discovery, 500 President Clinton Ave. 396-7050, amod.org.

Rock to North Little Rock St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Celebration of Arkansas’s Irish culture and heritage. 1 p.m., River Market Pavilion. 8686416, irisharkansas.org.

Seed Swap. An open trade for local gardeners to exchange rare and unique heirloom seeds. 1 p.m., free. Faulkner County Library, 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482, arkansasgro.wordpress.com.

Women’s History Seminar: Arkansas Women and Public Health. A symposium with keynote speakers Dr. Joyce Elders, Dr. Edith Irby Jones and Betty Bumpers. 9:30 a.m., free with registration. Old State House Museum, 300 W. Markham. 324-8663, arkansaswomen.org

COMEDY

2nd Annual Arkansas’s Funniest Person. 6 p.m., $10. Electric Cowboy, 9515 I-30. 539-1538, pjbeam@hotmail.com.

ImprovLittleRock’s Comedy Throwdown. 10 p.m., $8. Public Theater, 616 Center St. 374-PLAY. Steve Hirst. 7 p.m., 9 p.m., 11 p.m. $9. The Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham. 228-5555, loonybin.com.

BOOKS

Lee Cowan. Author of “Except For All the Snakes, I Just Love It Out Here.” 3 p.m. WordsWorth Books & Co., 5920 R St. 663-9198, wordsworthbooks.org.

FILM

“Food Inc.” Screening of the Oscar-nominated agriculture and diet documentary. 5 p.m., free.

Faulkner County Library, 1900 Tyler St., Conway.

501-327-7482.

SUNDAY, MARCH 14 MUSIC

88 Keys, Kidz in the Hall, Izza Kizza, Donnis. 8 p.m., $10. Revolution, 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090, revroom.com.

Circa Survive, Good Old War, The Christmas Lights. 7:30 p.m., $15 adv., $18 d.o.s. The Village, 3915 S. University, 570-0700, thevillagelive.com.

DJ Mikey Mike. 8 p.m. Counterpoint, 3605 MacArthur, NLR. 771-5515, myspace.com/bogiescounterpoint.

North Little Rock Community Band. 3 p.m.

Patrick Henry Hays Center, 401 W. Pershing, NLR. 501-758-2576, northlittlerockband.com.

Slow Trucks, Fat Pat’s Water Rats, Ezra Lbs. 8:30 p.m., $4. ACAC Arkansas, 900 S. Rodney Parham. 244-2979, myspace.com/acacarkansas.

Sunday Jazz Brunch with Ted Ludwig. 11 a.m., free. Vieux Carre, 2721 Kavanaugh. 6631196, vieuxcarrecafe.com.

Travis Ledoyt. Elvis impersonator. 6 p.m., $30$32. Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn. 562-3131, murrysdinnerplayhouse.com.

Trinity Presents Collegiate Performance Showcase. 6 p.m., free. Trinity United Methodist Church, 1101 N. Mississippi St. 377-1161.

EVENTS

“Kiss the Brides.” A bridal expo with wedding planners, merchants and information. noon, $10.

Verizon Arena. kissthebridesexpo.com.

FOCAL Book Sale. 1 p.m. Main Library Basement, 100 Rock St. 918-3000, cals.org.

MONDAY, MARCH 15 MUSIC

Good Guys in Black. 9 p.m., $7. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 374-3271, juanitas.com.

Jet, The Crash Kings. 8 p.m., $18 adv., $22 d.o.s. The Village, 3915 S. University, 570-0700, thevillagelive.com.

The Spring Standards, Jenny Owen Youngs.

9 p.m., $6. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 3727707, stickyfingerz.com.

Those Darlins, Brock Zeman. 9 p.m. White Water Tavern, 2500 W. 7th. 375-8400, myspace. com/whitewatertavern.

Tonk Edwards with Joe Vick, Dave Rogers.

8 p.m., $7. Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh. 6634176, www.afterthoughtbar.com.

LECTURES

David Margolick. The author of “Elizabeth and Hazel” will discuss his new book and the infamous

1957 Central High photo it examines. Noon, free.

Sturgis Hall, Clinton School of Public Service. 6835239, publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu.

TUESDAY, MARCH 16 MUSIC

DJ Mikey Mike. 8 p.m. Counterpoint, 3605 MacArthur, NLR. 771-5515, myspace.com/bogiescounterpoint.

Drew Linder, B Klem, Inner City Lights, Jack Bruno. 9 p.m., $7. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 374-3271, juanitas.com.

Feel Lucky Karaoke. 8 p.m. On the Rocks, 107 E. Markham St. 374-7625, clubontherocks.com.

Icarus Himself, Look Mexico, Typefighter, Felix Culpa, Suns. 8 p.m., $10. Vino’s 923 W. 7th St. 375-8466, vinosbrewpub.com.

Latin Nights. 7 p.m. $5, $7 under 21. Revolution, 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090, rumbarevolution.com.

Otep, Bury Your Dead, Through the Eyes of the Dead, Destrophy. 6:30 p.m., $16 adv., $20 d.o.s. The Village, 3915 S. University, 570-0700, thevillagelive.com.

Sammus Theory, Pretty Boy Convoy, Knowing Hand. 8 p.m., $5. George’s Majestic Lounge, 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-527-6618, georgesmajesticlounge.com.

Tigercity, Wave Machines, These Silent Years 8:30 p.m., $8. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707, stickyfingerz.com.

Tina Sparkle. 7 p.m., donations. Starfox, 430 S. Glenwood Ave., Russellville. 21 and up.

Tuesday Jam Session with Carl Mouton.

8 p.m. free. Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh. 6634176, afterthoughtbar.com.

Two Cow Garage, Patrick Sweany. 10 p.m.

White Water Tavern, 2500 W. 7th. 375-8400, myspace.com/whitewatertavern.

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FILM

“10.” Screening of the Bo Derek classic. 7 p.m.

Malco Theater, 817 Central, Hot Springs. www. hsdfi.org.

LECTURES

501-247-5190

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Urs Ziswiler. The Swiss ambassador to the U.S. will lecture on U.S./Swiss relations. 6 p.m., free.

Sturgis Hall, Clinton School of Public Service. 6835239, publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu.

MUSIC

A Hero A Fake, Before There Was Rosalyn, Farewell to Freeway. 8 p.m., $7. Vino’s 923 W. 7th St. 375-8466, vinosbrewpub.com.

Battlefields, Junius, Cloud Burial, Izamal. 8 p.m., $6. Downtown Music, 211 W. Capitol, 3761819. downtownshows.homestead.com.

Brian & Nick. 5:30 p.m. Cajun’s Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road. 375-5351, cajunswharf.com.

Charles Woods & Co. 8 p.m., $5. Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh. 663-4176, www.afterthoughtbar.com.

Cletus Got Shot. 9 p.m. Smoke and Barrel, 324 W. Dickson, Fayetteville. 479-521-6880.

Cold, Nonpoint, Day of Fire, Edison. 9 p.m., $20 adv., $22 d.o.s. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 374-3271, juanitas.com.

DJ Debbi T. Town Pump, 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 663-9802.

The Gettys. 9 p.m., $5. Fox and Hound 2800 Lakewood Village Drive, NLR. 753-8300.

Janet Air. 8 p.m. Cornerstone Pub, 314 Main St., NLR. 374-1782, cstonepub.com.

Jeff Coleman & the Feeders. 8 p.m. Cregeen’s, 301 Main St., NLR. 376-7468, cregeens.com.

Jim Dickerson. 7 p.m. Sonny Williams’, 500 President Clinton Ave. 324-2999, sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

Josh the Devil and the Sinners. 10 p.m.

Union, 3421 Old Cantrell Road. 661-8311.

Mr. Happy. 9 p.m., $5. West End, 215 N. Shackelford. 224-7665, westendsmokehouse.com.

My Gold Mask, River City Tanlines, Giggle Party, The Woes. 9 p.m., free. Maxine’s, 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-321-0909, maxinespub.com.

Pearl and the Beard, (clap!)KidzPop!, Sounds Me and My Friends Make. 9 p.m., $5. ACAC Arkansas, 900 S. Rodney Parham. 244-

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The Ted Ludwig Trio. 5 p.m., free. Capital Bar & Grill, 111 W. Markham. 370-7013, capitalhotel. com/CBG. Tragikly White. 8:30 p.m., $5, $10 under 21. 9 p.m. Revolution, 300 President Clinton Ave. 8230090, rumbarevolution.com.

COMEDY

Cowboy Bill. 8 p.m., $6. The Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham. 228-5555, loonybin.com.

THURSDAY, MARCH 18 MUSIC

Ben & Doug (happy hour), Mr. Lucky (headliner). 6 p.m., 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30. Cajun’s Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road. 375-5351, cajunswharf.com.

Carridale, Thrill of a Dogfight. 8 p.m., $7. Vino’s 923 W. 7th St. 375-8466, vinosbrewpub.com.

DJ Mikey Mike. 8 p.m. Counterpoint, 3605 MacArthur, NLR. 771-5515, myspace.com/bogiescounterpoint.

Jim Dickerson. 7 p.m. Sonny Williams’, 500 President Clinton Ave. 324-2999, www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

Kevin Fowler. 9 p.m., $10. George’s Majestic Lounge, 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-5276618, georgesmajesticlounge.com.

Micky & the Motorcars. 9 p.m., $8. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707, stickyfingerz. com.

Paul Sammons. 9 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-321-0909, maxinespub.com.

Struck by Lightning, Pallbearer, Lost Machina. 8 p.m., $6. Downtown Music, 211 W. Capitol, 376-1819. downtownshows.homestead.com.

The Smiling Dogs. 9 p.m. White Water Tavern, 2500 W. 7th. 375-8400, myspace.com/whitewatertavern.

The Ted Ludwig Trio. 8:30 p.m., $5. Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh. 663-4176, www.afterthoughtbar.com.

Thirsty Thursdays. 8 p.m. On the Rocks, 107 E. Markham St. 374-7625, clubontherocks.com.

Tiffany Christopher. Town Pump, 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 663-9802.

EVENTS

Wine Tasting. Music by Bruce Cochran and James Cripps. $10, 5:30 p.m. Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh. 663-4176, www.afterthoughtbar.com.

COMEDY

Cowboy Bill. 8 p.m., $6. The Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham. 228-5555, loonybin.com.

POETRY

inVerse Open Mic Poetry Night. 6 p.m., $5.

ACAC Arkansas, 900 S. Rodney Parham. 2442979, myspace.com/acacarkansas.

LECTURES

Jesse Ventura. The former Minnesota governor will discuss his new book, in which he accuses the mainstream press of refusing to question the validity behind numerous American assassinations.

6 p.m., free. Sturgis Hall, Clinton School of Public Service. 683-5239, publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu.

THIS WEEK IN THEATER “A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking.” An upper middle class woman from Westchester County, N.Y., befriends a former cheerleader from Texas. 7 p.m. Fri.-Sat.; 2 p.m. Sun. $10 general, $8 senior, $5 student. Royal Theatre, 111 S. Market, Benton. 501-315-5483, theroyalplayers.com.

“Glorious!” The true story of Florence Foster Jenkins, the legendary New York socialite who wanted to be a great opera star despite having one of the worst singing voices ever recorded. 7 p.m.

Wed.; 8 p.m. Thu.-Sat.; 2 p.m., 7 p.m. Sun.; $20$40. Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St. 378-0405, therep.org.

“Nobody’s Perfect.” A failed novelist finds success when he adopts a female pseudonym. 7:30 p.m., $10 adults, $5 students. Donaghey Hall, UCA, Conway. 501-733-6220, conwayarts.org.

“Ferdinand the Bull.” Friendly bull enjoys his life of leisure and Spanish culture away from Pamplona. 7 p.m. Fri., 3 p.m. Sat., 2 p.m. Sun., through March 21; 2 p.m. March 25-26. $11-$14. 9th and Commerce. 372-4000, www.arkarts.com.

“Lend Me a Tenor.” A theater’s assistant company manager has to stand in for a drunken, Italian tenor. 6 p.m. dinner, 7:45 curtain Tue.-Sat; 11 a.m., 5:30 p.m. dinner, 12:45 p.m., 6:45 p.m. curtain Sun. $30-$32. Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road. 562-3131, murrysdinnerplayhouse.com.

ANNOUNCEMENTS 2010 Exploratorium Summer Teacher Institute. The Arkansas Discovery Network is currently accepting applications from state teachers to attend a 4-week professional development clinic in San Francisco from June 21 to July 16. Six winners will be chosen and given a $1,100 stipend. Applications are due by March 17. For more information, visit www.arkansasdiscoverynetwork.org.

Submissions for the THEA Foundation’s first annual filmmaking scholarship are being accepted from any Arkansas high school senior through April 9. More information is available by calling 379-9512 or by visiting www.theafoundation.org.

gAllERIES New exhibits in bold-faced type ARKANSAS COMMUNITY ARTISTS COOPERATIVE, 900 S. Rodney Parham Road: “Habitat: A Photographic Experience by Kat Wilson,” through March. 2-6 p.m. Tue.-Fri., noon-4 p.m.

Sat. 244-2979.

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “Gustave Courbet and the Modern Landscape,” lecture by Mary Morton, 6 p.m. reception, 6:30 p.m. talk March 11, lecture hall; “Seaport of the Pharaohs to the Land of Punt: Recent Excavations at Mersa/Wadi Gewasis,” lecture by Kathryn Bard, 6 p.m. reception, 6:30 p.m. talk March 18; “World of the Pharaohs: Treasures of Egypt Revealed,” artifacts from the 30 march 11, 2010 • arKaNSaS TImES

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through July 7, $22 adults, $14 students; 52nd annual “Delta Exhibition,” juried show of work by Arkansans and residents of contiguous states, through March 14; “Currents in Contemporary Art,” “Masterworks,” “Paul Signac Watercolors and Drawings,” ongoing. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000.

ARKANSAS STUDIES INSTITUTE, 401 President Clinton Ave.: “Paper Trails,” large-scale charcoal drawings by David Bailin, opens with reception 5-8 p.m. March 12, 2nd Friday Art Night, continues through May 29, 2010; “Traveling the World with Mifflin Gibbs,” art and poetry by Gibbs students, mezzanine gallery, through March; “The Big Bear’s Arkansas ABCs: Original Artwork and Storyboard,” original illustrations by Leslie A. Przybylek for Butler Center children’s book, atrium gallery, through April 30. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 320-5792.

BOSWELL-MOUROT FINE ART, 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Work by V.L. Cox, Steve Armstrong, Kyle Boswell, Frank Colcord, Carla Davis, Eleanor Dickinson, Hamid Ebrahimifar, Hans Feyerabend and others. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 664-0030.

CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road: “Faces of the Frontier,” history paintings by John Deering, through April 24.10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 224-1335.

CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 509 Scott St.: “Drawn to Art,” work by Marie Brave, Suzanne Brugner, Gert Casciano, Emily Fan, Julie Fullerton, Glenda Josephson, Dr. Judith Killen, Linda Martz and Dr. Mary Ann Stafford. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Thu. 375-2342.

CHROMA GALLERY, 5707 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Work

by Robert Reep and other Arkansas artists. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 664-0880.

GALLERY 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Marcus McAllister and Janet Wilcox, paintings and drawings, through March 13. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 664-8996.

GREG THOMPSON FINE ART, 429 Main St., NLR: “Short Stories of the Sublime,” paintings by Mark Blaney, through March 13. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sat. 664-2787.

KETZ GALLERY, 705 Main St., NLR: Michael Landis, recent paintings, and work by Robin Hazard-Bishop, John Kushmaul, Marty Smith, Dan Thornhill and others. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 529-6330.

LAMAN LIBRARY EXHIBIT HALL, 2801 Orange St.: “Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography,” Smithsonian Institution show, through May 29. 758-1720.

LOCAL COLOUR GALLERY, 5811 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Oils by Bob Snider, March featured artist. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 265-0422.

RED DOOR GALLERY, 3715 JFK, NLR: Work by Twin, Robin Steves, Brady Taylor, Georges Artaud, Lola, Jim Johnson, Amy Hill-Imler, James Hayes and Theresa Cates. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 753-5227.

RICKS ARMORY: “Pulaski Heights Picassos,” silent and live auction of art to benefit elementary school art programs, 6-9 p.m. March 13. phepicassos.org.

STEPHANO’S FINE ART GALLERY, 5501 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Work by Jessica Smith, Robert Nowlin, Robert Sherman, Alexis Silk and others.

11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Thu.; 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Fri.-Sat. 563-4218.

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: “Exquisite Corpse,” collaborative sculpture by nine artists, to be revealed one day at a time, Gallery II, through March 18,; “Kom Fljugandi/Flown In,” artists working in Iceland, through March 14, Gallery I. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat., 2-5 p.m. Sun. 569-8977.

UALR BOWEN SCHOOL OF LAW: “Law in a Land Without Justice: Nazi Germany 1933-1945,” World War II artifacts, through July. 7 a.m.-11 p.m.

Mon.-Thu., 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Fri., 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Sun. n Arkadelphia OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: “Have Sticks Will Travel,” stick sculpture by Jonathan Brilliant, March 11-April 1, Hammons Gallery, Mabee Fine Arts Building. Gallery reception 5:30 p.m.

March 11. 870-245-5565. n Benton DIANNE ROBERTS ART STUDIO AND GAL-

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HISTORY DOESN’T CHANGE,

BUT OUR EXHIBITS DO.

“Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection” February 15 – June 1, 2010 Features more than 200 pins, many of which became part of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s personal diplomatic arsenal. The exhibit examines the expressive power of jewelry to communicate through a style and language of its own.

Enhance your visit!

For an in-depth tour of “Read My Pins”, take advantage of our special audio tour narrated by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. With purchase of an audio tour, you will also receive a narration by President Clinton, who serves as your personal guide through the 20,000 square feet of exhibit space.

Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection has been organized by the Museum of Arts and Design. Generous support for this exhibition was provided by Bren Simon and for the exhibition book by St. John Knits.

Leadership in a Time of Crisis March 1 – June 1, 2010 In partnership with the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, the exhibit focuses on President Clinton’s ability to lead the country in what was one of its darkest hours and helped rebuild a city that was torn apart by terrorism.

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■ artnotes Following ‘Paper Trails’ Large-scale works by Bailin at ASI. by leslie newell peacock

n David Bailin’s linear charcoals are like the newspaper clippings he says guided his thoughts, if not his images, in his exhibit “Paper Trails.” They tell stories in black, white and shades of gray. His drawing ability, intellect and sometimes humor- ‘BONE (NOAH)’: David Bailin’s spin on the aftermath of ous regard of the hu- the flood, at ASI. man condition are unfield of skulls while two women — renmatched hereabout — perhaps anywhere. dered in the style of mothers from the He’s a master, and thanks to the Arkansas 1950s — busy themselves, one by waStudies Institute, Little Rock is getting to tering a sprig. The scale suggests the see a wide-ranging collection of his work monumentality of a world-wide wipeout for the first time since his one-man show a la flood; the dress is of a generation at the Arkansas Arts Center in 2000. just before the artist’s own. It is a scene Bailin’s earliest works in the show both funny and terrible, a trademark of are 8-by-14 foot drawings (on unwaxed Bailin’s agile and high-energy mind. milk carton paper) inspired by BibliThe large-scale works are awesome and cal tales. In “Bone,” Noah, dressed in a complex, and a trip through the gallery sweater, slacks and a raincoat hanging with the artist adds yet another dimenfrom his wrists, stands numbly amid a

sion. “Skin,” in which Cain holds up a skin in a rocky grid filled with lungs and viscera and other not-so-easy to look at organs, has dates and other notes (including a couple of tic-tac-toe games) scribbled about, recording his progress on the work. The work was done at a time when the artist was incorrectly diagnosed with cancer, an event that sent him to anatomical textbooks to render the guts that Cain would need to reassemble Abel. In the top right corner, crows descend to feed on a nearly indiscernible figure — which is actually where the work started, Bailin explains: Prometheus, who molded man from clay, suffering his perpetual punishment for bringing fire to man.

From there, it’s just a hop skip and a jump for Bailin to describe some of his later, smaller work (he lost his large studio rather than the desire to work large), as Buster Keaton meets Kafka: A man deadpanning his way through a series of misadventures in the plainest of settings: A spare office. Wooden desk. Old file cabinets. Fluorescent lights. Bailin’s strokes, fluid in the earlier work, are confining and straight, few curves to soften things up.

An exception: “Shoe,” in which a huge tree has come through a window into an office, but the man is too engrossed in his feet to notice. It’s symbolic, funny and the rendering of the tree and the shadow it casts, in gorgeous strokes and smears and erasings of charcoal, is sensually appeal-

ing. Which is not to say the non-sensuous works are less fine, but the components of the images are man-made and bleak — though Bailin says they are more about the way we all muddle through life unappreciative, perhaps, of our contributions, than hopelessness.

The exhibit opens March 12, Bailin will attend a Second Friday Art night reception from 5 to 8 p.m. where any errors of interpretation herein will be corrected. n On Saturday night, the Pulaski Heights Picassos art auction, now a biennial event, returns to Ricks Armory to raise money to benefit art programs at Pulaski Heights Elementary School. Work by leading local artists will be for sale.

The event is 6 to 9 p.m.; tickets are $5 for students and $10 for adults in advance or $8 and $15 at the door. Call Monica Kimbrell at 661-1931 to buy in advance. n The organizers of ArtWeek ’10, the 10day visual and performing arts festival in May in downtown Little Rock and North Little Rock, will award $1,000 to the artist who creates the best poster to promote the celebration of art.

The 18-by-24-inch poster will be reproduced on advertising, bus banners and T-shirts. Posters should be submitted to the Historic Arkansas Museum by Friday, April 2. For more information on submitting work, go to art-week.org

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LERY, 110 N. Market St.: Area artists. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 860-7467. n Bentonville CRYSTAL BRIDGES AT THE MASSEY, 125 W. Central: “Heroes of Horticulture,” landscape photographs, through March 21. 479-418-5700. n Conway UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS: Annual “Student Competitive Art Exhibition,” opens with reception 4-6 p.m. March 11, second reception 2-4 p.m. March 14, Baum Gallery, through April 1. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Wed., Fri.; 10 a.m.-7 .m. Thu. 501-450-5793. n Fayetteville UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: “Stop & Go,” screening of stop-motion films by contemporary artists and reception with animator Sarah Klein 7 p.m. March 15, films continue 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

March 16-18; “Un-Natural Histories — Paintings of Invasive Species,” work by Kristin Musgnug, UA associate professor of art, through March 11. 479575-7987. n Helena PHILLIPS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: “Retro Works,” works from Arkansas Arts Council’s “Small Works on Paper” shows 1989-1997, through March 20. n Hot Springs ALISON PARSONS GALLERY, 802 Central Ave.: Paintings by Parsons. 501-625-3001.

AMERICAN ART GALLERY, 724 Central Ave.: Work by Jimmy Leach, Jamie Carter, Govinder, Marlene Gremillion, Margaret Kipp and others.

501-624-0550.

ARTISTS WORKSHOP GALLERY, 810 Central Ave.: Larry Cloyes, pastels; Nina Louton, watercolors, through March. 501-623-6401.

ATTRACTION CENTRAL GALLERY, 264 Central Ave.: Work in all media by Hot Springs artists.

501-463-4932.

BLUE MOON GALLERY, 718 Central Ave.: Sculpture by Wayne Summerhill, through March.

501-318-2787.

CAROLE KATCHEN ART GALLERY, 618 W. Grand Ave.: Paintings, pastels, sculpture by Katchen. 501-617-4494.

FOX PASS POTTERY, 379 Fox Pass Cut-off: Pottery by Jim and Barbara Larkin. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tue.-Sat. 501-623-9906.

FINE ARTS CENTER, 610 Central Ave.: Brenda Morgan, wildlife oils, month of March; also work by 30 area artists. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 501624-0489.

GALLERY 726, 726 Central Ave.: Virmarie DePoyster, pastels, through March. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tue.-Sat. 501-624-7726.

GALLERY CENTRAL, 800 Central Ave.: Equine art by Bob Snider, Renee Torbit, Jan Gartrell, Elaine Irwin, Sandy Hubler and others. 501-318-4278.

HOT SPRINGS CONVENTION CENTER: “Hot Springs: Baseball’s First Spring Training Town,” 24 photos from the early part of the 20th century.

JUSTUS FINE ART, 827 A Central Ave.: New paintings by Robin Hazard-Bishop, Dolores Jus-

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n New York heiress Florence Foster Jenkins (1868-1944) believed she could sing. She compared herself to the opera greats of her time and dismissed the laughter of crowds who gathered to hear her as “professional jealousy.” But Jenkins wasn’t so walled off from the hoots at her expense that she didn’t feel the need to rise to her own defense.

“People may say I can’t sing, but no one can ever say I didn’t sing,” she once said.

The concert-hall-wide gulf between Jenkins’ ability and her ambition is the span where “Glorious,” a comedy by British playwright Peter Quilter and the new production at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, is perched. The ‘GLORIOUS!’: Patricia Kilgarriff stars as Florence Foster Jenkins at the Rep. cast of six is directed by Nicole great voice. So I guess the answer is yes.”

(Herman Petras) and a new accompaCapri Bauer, the Rep vet who is normally Quilter isn’t the only writer that has nist (Darren Dustan). Kilgarrif, who has found working with much younger actors been drawn to the striking off-key wargraced the Broadway stage and worked that make up the Rep’s Summer Musical bling of the New York heiress. Different for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Theatre Intensive training program. takes on Jenkins have been staged at the points not to the music but the relation“I love my young artists but it is nice Edinburgh Fringe Festival and on Broadship with her young accompanist as the to work with actors who can drive and way. It makes one wonder if sometime in heart of “Glorious.” vote,” Bauer notes. the future we will line up for theatrical “The music is really incidental I think,” In “Glorious” Bauer and her cast have works about other noted vocal butchers Kilgarrif says. a subject that is almost the negative image — “William Hung: The Musical,” anyThe agreement among the cast is that of the polished young professionals that body?

Quilter’s play emphasizes Jenkins’ desire emerge from the Rep’s training program. “[Jenkins] is a spokesperson for evand that is what wins the day even as her The real-life Jenkins wanted to study erybody who is a dreamer,” says Bauer. rotten voice marks her for infamy. voice abroad when she was young but “You know, the ugly duckling that turns “My character is swept by what [Jenwas rebuffed by her father. Later, when into the swan. There are laugh out loud kins] is able to do with what she has and her inheritance gave her the liberty to permoments in our show but it’s about being that makes her attractive to him,” says Peform whenever and wherever she liked, a dreamer, having heart.” tras of his character St. Clair. she chose none other than the intimidatKilgarrif rebuffs the question about ing Carnegie Hall for a venue. whether an actress who is required to sing “She is a woman of extremes, great Arkansas Repertory Theatre badly on stage must be an accomplished passions and great theatricality,” says March 12-28, $20-$35 singer first.

Patricia Kilgarrif, who portrays Jenkins.

7 p.m. Wednesday, 8 p.m. Thursday, “I am asked that quite a lot,” Kilgarrif Around Jenkins floats an equally ecFridays and Saturdays, 2 and 7 p.m. says. “I can only say that I worked in mucentric court — a close friend (Dorothy, Sunday sical theater for many years. I have a serplayed by Joan Porter), a maid that speaks 378-0045; therep.org viceable voice for that, but I don’t have a no English (Lillian Castillo), a boyfriend

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2010 Annual Rock to North Little Rock St. Patrick’s Day Parade Saturday, March 13 at 1 pm

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March 12-14 – Main Library Basement 100 Rock St.

$1-hardbacks, $.50 paperbacks Sale Hours: 9 - 10 a.m. Friday – Saturday FOCAL Members only 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Friday – Saturday Open to the public 1 - 4 p.m. – Sunday Open to the public

River Market Books & Gifts 120 Commerce St. 50% off used books (FOCAL members only) 9 - 5 p.m. Friday – Saturday 1 - 4 p.m. Sunday

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The Second Friday Of Each Month • Mar. 12, 5-8 pm 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!

FREE PARKING at 3RD & CUMBERLAND – Catch the trolley at Historic Arkansas Museum FREE STREET PARKING ALL OVER DOWNTOWN AND BEHIND THE RIVERMARKET (Paid parking available for modest fee.)

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LINDA PALMER GALLERY, 800 B Central Ave.: Work by Linda Palmer, Doyle Young, Ellen Alderson, Peter Lippincott, Sara Tole and Jan Leek. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 501-620-3063.

RICIANO ART GALLERY, 833 Central Ave.: Featuring work by Riciano, Lacey Alysse, Char DeMoro and other artists. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. daily. 501339-3751.

TAYLOR’S CONTEMPORANEA, 204 Exchange St.: Work by area and regional artists. 624-0516. n Jonesboro ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: Senior art major shows by Megan Collins, Jake Gambill, Lamar Jackson and Shannon Smithee, Bradbury Gallery, through April 2. 870-972-2567. n Pine Bluff ARTS AND SCIENCE CENTER, 701 Main St.: “Expressions of African Culture,” masks, figures, thrones, clothing, musical instruments and more, through April. 870-536-3375.

MUSEUMS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL MUSEUM VISITOR CENTER, Bates and Park: Exhibits on the 1957 desegregation of Central and the civil rights movement. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily. 374-1957.

CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER, 1200 President Clinton Ave.: “Leadership in a Time of Crisis: President Clinton and the Oklahoma Bombing,” through June 1; “Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection,” more than 200 pins the former secretary of state wore during her diplomatic tenure, through June 1 (video at www.arktimes.com); exhibits about policies and White House life during the Clinton administration. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $7 adults; $5 college students, seniors, retired military; $3 ages 6-17. 370-8000.

HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM, 200 E. Third St.: “Stretched Foundations: Works by Lee Anthony, Jon Hayden and Mary Shelton,” through May 10; “Viewfinding: Photography by Brian Cormack,” through April 4. 324-9351.

MacARTHUR MUSEUM OF ARKANSAS MILITARY HISTORY, MacArthur Park: “Warrior: Vietnam Portraits by Two Guys from Hall,” photos by Jim Guy Tucker and Bruce Wesson, through Aug. 8; exhibits on Arkansas’s military history. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat., 1-4 p.m. Sun. 376-4602.

MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, Ninth and Broadway: Exhibits on African-Americans in Arkansas, including one on the Ninth Street business district, Dunbar High School, entrepreneurs, the Mosaic Templars business and more. 9

a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 683–3593.

MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY, 500 President Clinton Ave.: “Beat. Breathe. Think.” Exhibit in conjunction with National Brain Awareness Day, with sheep brain dissection, other events, March 17-20; hands-on science and technology exhibits. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. Admission: $8 adults, $7 children ages 1-12 and seniors 65 and up, children under 1 free, free second Sunday of every month. 396-7050. www.museumofdiscovery.org.

OLD STATE HOUSE, 300 W. Markham St.: “Badges, Bandits & Bars: Arkansas Law & Justice,” state’s history of crime and punishment, through March 2011. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9685.

WITT STEPHENS JR. CENTRAL ARKANSAS NATURE CENTER, Riverfront Park: Exhibits on wildlife and the state Game and Fish Commission. n England TOLTEC MOUNDS STATE PARK, State Hwy. 165: Major prehistoric Indian site with visitors’ center and museum. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun., closed Mon. $3 for adults, $2 for ages 6-12. 961-9442. n Hot Springs MID-AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM: “Not So Separate,” science and art, through May 9. $8 adults, $7 seniors, military and youth. 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. daily. 501-767-3461.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, 425 Central Ave.: Steve Kaufman, celebrity photographs, including Jimmy Hendrix, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and Coca Cola. $5, $4 for seniors. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thu.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. 501-609-9955.

AnnoUncEMEntS Proposals for sculpture for the Bernice Garden at the southeast corner of Daisy Gatson Bates and South Main Street are being taken through March 31. Individuals or teams may apply. Five sculptures will be selected; stipends of $200 for finalists’ models and $2,800 for construction will be awarded. Application packets are available at www.thebernicegarden.org; mail applications to 1716 N. Spruce St., Little Rock 72207.

The Center for Artistic Revolution is again providing wooden hearts for use in its annual Corazon Mexican Dinner and Silent Art Auction, set for March 27. Hearts can be painted, collaged or otherwise decorated for the auction, which benefits the work of CAR to promote justice and equal rights. To get a heart, call CAR at 244-9690 or e-mail artchangesu@yahoo.com. Deadline is March 22.

Arkansas women who are visual or performing artists are invited to showcase their work at the Arkansas Community Artists Cooperative’s Women’s History Month exhibit, “A Woman’s Worth 3,” to be held March 27. Send an email to info@acacarkansas.org for more information by March 12.

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ten by his son, Bubba, called “Arkansas Dave,” off his new album.

Strait was, as he put it, “sharing the stage with two of the greatest entertainers in country music” — Reba McEntire and Lee Ann Womack, and they all performed “in the round,” with the crowd surrounding them on all sides.

Womack opened with a nice selection of her material, including “I’ll Think of a

George Strait / Reba McEntire Verizon arena, March 6

n “Amarillo By Morning,” “Ocean Front Property,” “The Chair,” “Check Yes or No,” “Run,” “I Can Still Make Cheyenne” — the list goes on and on.

George Strait has sung us a lot of great country songs over the years, and an amazing 57 of them have hit No. 1. He couldn’t pack them all into his concert Saturday night at Verizon Arena, but in a 30song set that ran past 11:30, he gave it his best shot.

The crowd of 15,597 embraced them all, but if his fans love his new songs, they downright adore the old ones. He delivered a terrific mix of both, from his opener, “Twang,” to his trademark finale, “The Cowboy Rides Away.”

Strait — with boots, black hat, starched shirt and jeans all in place — just sings.

There’s not a lot of talk and no strait: He just sings. dazzling special effects. But with his smooth voice and traditional sound, Reason Later,” “A Little Past Little Rock” backed by his Ace in the Hole Band, he and the mega-crossover hit “I Hope You doesn’t need anything else.

Dance,” before turning the diamondAlong the way, the King of Counshaped stage over to McEntire. try tipped his hat to some other country Ever the showstopper, McEntire music legends, thrilling with Merle Hagbelted out hits like “Can’t Even Get the gard’s “The Seashores of Old Mexico” Blues” and “The Night the Lights Went and delivering an inspired cover of JohnOut in Georgia”; provided a comedy skit ny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues.” with Melissa Peterman (the nutty, scene“Amarillo By Morning,” arguably one stealing Barbra Jean from the “Reba” TV of the best country songs ever, was, of show); faced off with Womack for pure course, a crowd favorite, and it was fun to magic on the duet “Does He Love You” still hear him perform “Unwound,” “The and, wearing a slinky red dress, had a yelFireman” and “All My Ex’s Live in Texlow taxi deliver her back to the stage for as.” He also — perhaps because he was an encore performance of “Fancy.” back in Arkansas — threw in a tune writ— Bill Paddack brian chilson

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movielistings All theater listings run Friday to Thursday unless otherwise noted.

Riverdale listings were not available at press time.

Movies 10 and Rave listings are valid Friday through Sunday only. Please visit www.arktimes.com for updates.

NEW MOVIES Green Zone (R) — A political thriller revolving around a rogue soldier during the 2003 search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Breckenridge: 1:25, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00. Chenal 9: 11:10, 1:55, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05. Lakewood: 10:50, 1:35, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45. Rave: 11:00, 1:05, 2:30, 4:15, 5:30, 7:30, 8:45, 10:30.

Our Family Wedding (PG-13) — When a young couple returns home from college to announce their marriage plans, their parents lob hot-headed insults at each other and play tug-of-war over their children’s wedding.

Breckenridge: 1:55, 4:35, 7:35, 10:15. Lakewood: 11:05, 1:35, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45. Rave: 11:05, 12:10, 1:45, 2:45, 4:45, 5:40, 7:10, 8:15, 9:45, 11:00.

Remember Me (PG-13) — After tragedy befalls their families, two young New Yorkers find solace in each other and, eventually, begin to fall in love. Breckenridge: 1:05, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10. Chenal 9: 10:45, 1:40, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10. Lakewood: 10:50, 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50. Rave: 12:20, 2:05, 5:00, 9:00, 10:55. Rave: 12:30, 2:05, 5:00, 8:00, 10:55.

She’s Out of My League (R) — An average guy in a dead-end job inexplicably finds himself the object of affection for a gorgeous, successful woman. With his family, friends and, most of all, himself stunned at this turn of events, he has to find a way to stay in her good graces. Breckenridge: 135, 4:05, 7:15, 9:35.

Chenal 9: 10:40, 1:15, 4:05, 7:10, 9:35. Rave: 11:20, 2:05, 5:00, 8:00, 10:55.

RETURNING THIS WEEK Alice in Wonderland (PG) — Tim Burton’s 3-D sequel to the Carroll classic finds Alice back in the rabbit hole as a rebellious 19-year old. Breckenridge: 1:40, 2:05, 4:20, 4:45, 7:00, 7:25, 9:40, 10:05. Chenal 9: 11:00, 1:35, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40. Lakewood: 11:00, 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40. Rave: 10:45, 11:30, 12:05, 12:45, 1:40, 2:15, 3:00, 3:40, 4:30, 5:15, 5:45, 7:00, 7:45, 8:30, 9:30, 10:00, 10:45, 11:10.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (G) — Alvin, Simon and Theodore take a break from stardom and return to school. Movies 10: 1:10, 3:20, 5:40, 7:50, 10:00.

Animalopolis (NR) — A half-hour film of goofy animals being goofy in enormous 3-D. Aerospace IMAX: 11:00, 7:00.

Avatar (PG-13) — A paraplegic ex-Marine war veteran is sent to establish a human settlement on the distant planet of Pandora, only to find himself battling humankind alongside the planet’s indigenous race.

Chenal 9: 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:30. Rave: 11:10, 3:05, 6:40, 10:20.

The Blind Side (PG-13) — A homeless black teenager is taken in by a family that coaches him into becoming a star student-athlete. Movies 10: 1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55.

Brooklyn’s Finest (R) — Three New York City po-

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IN THE ‘ZONE’: Matt Damon plays an American inspector in 2003 Iraq gone rogue to find reported WMD. lice officers at the end of their ropes find each other’s questionable intents at a crux in the Brooklyn projects.

Breckenridge: 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 9:55. Chenal 9: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00. Lakewood: 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:00.

Rave: 10:50, 12:40, 1:55, 4:20, 5:25, 7:25, 8:25, 10:50.

Cop Out (R) — Two New York City police officers (Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan) try to track down the gangster who stole an exceptionally rare baseball card in this send up of 1980s buddy movies. Breckenridge: 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:15. Lakewood: 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 9:55. Rave: 1:35, 4:40, 7:20, 10:25.

The Crazies (R) — A rural town’s water supply is mysteriously contaminated, turning the residents into psychopaths. Breckenridge: 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:20.

Chenal 9: 10:50, 1:20, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50. Rave: 11:25, 2:10, 5:05, 8:05, 10:40.

Crazy Heart (R) — Seeking redemption, fallen country star Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) finds a friend and confidante in a struggling music journalist. Market Street: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:15. Rave: 12:25, 3:50, 6:55, 9:40.

Daybreakers (R) — Ten years after a plague turned most of the world’s population into vampires, a critical blood shortage is causing panic and gruesome mutations within the undead community. Movies 10: 1:35, 7:20.

An Education (PG-13) — A teen with a bright future meets a charming but older suitor and gets an unforgettable taste of adult life. Market Street: 2:15, 7:15 The Hurt Locker (R) — Three members of the Army’s elite bomb squad battle insurgents and one another as they search for and disarm roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad. Academy Award winner for Best Picture 2010. Market Street: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15.

The Last Station (R) — Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer play Sofya and Leo Tolstoy in this historical drama about the Russian writer’s final year.

Market Street: 2:00, 4:20, 7:00, 9:20.

Legion (R) — An out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. Movies 10: 1:40, 4:05, 7:10, 9:35.

The Lovely Bones (PG-13) — A murdered young girl watches over her family and her killer from heaven and must weigh desires for vengeance against desires for her family to heal. Movies 10: 4:10, 9:40.

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs (NR) — Researchers and explorers piece together the past with the archeological and genetic clues from Egyptian mummies. Aerospace IMAX: 1:00, 9:00.

New Moon (PG-13) — Romance between mortal and vampire soars to a new level as Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) delves deeper into the supernatural mysteries. Movies 10: 1:05, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50.

Old Dogs (PG) — A love-failed divorcee (Robin Williams) and fun-loving bachelor (John Travolta) have their lives turned upside down when they’re unexpectedly charged with the care of 6-year-old twins.

Movies 10: 1:25, 3:30, 5:35, 7:40, 9:45.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (PG) — A dyslexic, ADHD high school student discovers he’s a descendant of Poseidon and finds himself entangled in a war of mythical proportions.

Breckenridge: 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45. Chenal 9: 10:35, 1:25, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40. Rave: 1:50, 7:50.

Planet 51 (PG) — Animated alien adventure comedy revolving around American astronaut Chuck Baker. Movies 10: 1:30, 3:40, 5:50.

The Princess and the Frog (G) — A trumpetplaying alligator, a love-sick Cajun firefly and others spin a love tale on a mystical Louisiana bayou. Movies 10: 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:05.

Shutter Island (R) — Two U.S. marshals travel to a secluded mental asylum to find an escaped patient and end up discovering a vast conspiracy. Breckenridge: 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50. Chenal 9: 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:35, 10:35. Lakewood: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55.

Rave: 11:50, 2:55, 6:50, 10:10.

A Single Man (PG-13) — Colin Firth plays an early ’60s college professor attempting to readjust to regular life after the death of his partner. Market Street: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15.

The Tooth Fairy (PG) — A star hockey player (Dwayne Johnson) is temporarily transformed into a full-fledged tooth fairy as penalty for discouraging a young fan. Breckenridge: 1:30, 4:15.

2012 (PG-13) — Epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world. Movies 10: 8:00.

Up In The Air (R) — A corporate downsizing expert’s cherished travel life is threatened as the woman of his dreams comes along just as he’s on the cusp of reaching 10 million frequent flyer miles. Movies 10: 1:45, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15.

Valentine’s Day (PG-13) — A gaggle of Los Angelenos make, break, and take hearts on Valentine’s Day in this ensemble movie. Breckenridge: 6:45, 9:30.

Lakewood: 10:55. Rave: 10:55, 4:55, 11:05.

Wildfire: Feel the Heat (NR) — Discover how firefighters all over the planet fight the biggest, hottest fires on the planet. Aerospace IMAX: 10:00, 12:00, 2:00, 8:00.

The Young Victoria (PG) — As the only legitimate heir of England’s King William, teen-age Victoria (Emily Blunt) becomes caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Market Street: 4:20, 9:20.

Youth In Revolt (R) — As a teen-age fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, Nick Twisp (Michael Cera) is most definitely out of his element when his mother and her boyfriend move the family to a trailer park. Movies 10: 1:15, 3:25, 5:45, 7:55, 10:10.

Chenal 9 IMAX Theatre: 17825 Chenal Parkway, 8212616, www.dtmovies.com.

Cinemark Movies 10: 4188 E. McCain Blvd., 9457400, www.cinemark.com.

Cinematown Riverdale 10: Riverdale Shopping Center, 296-9955, www.riverdale10.com.

IMAX Theater: Aerospace Education Center, 3764629, www.aerospaced.org.

Market Street Cinema: 1521 Merrill Drive, 312-8900, www.marketstreetcinema.net.

Rave Colonel Glenn 18: 18 Colonel Glenn Plaza, 6870499, www.ravemotionpictures.com.

Regal Breckenridge Village 12: 1-430 and Rodney Parham, 224-0990, www.fandango.com.

Dickinson Theaters Lakewood 8: Lakewood Village, 758-5354, www.fandango.com.

■moviereview Alice in video game land Burton’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ bottoms out in the rabbit hole.

‘ALICE’: Helena Bonham Carter stars. n Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland,” the second Disney rendition of the old Lewis Carroll classic, paints a dazzling Wonderland 13 years after Alice first discovers it, though with the bulk of its wonders bled to hues of dun and ash. This is Wonderland plundered by the Queen of Hearts, played by a hydrocephalic Helena Bonham Carter, capricious and cruel, a practitioner of decapitations so brazen the alabaster heads of her victims bob around her moat like apples. She is a delight, as are the ephemeral Cheshire Cat, the Alan Rickman-voiced blue caterpillar, the moonfaced Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and Johnny Depp’s kaleidoscopic Mad Hatter. Blighted landscape or no, the characterization still shines.

So why isn’t this movie more fun? The story arc, for one, has been rerouted from Lewis Carroll’s original discursive birdwalk through a triptych of nonsense and fever dreaming to something more suited for a PlayStation 3 adaptation. Almost from the moment that Alice (played as a brave, iconoclastic dreamer by the Aussie Mia Wasikowska) flees her surprise betrothal party and plunges down the nowproverbial rabbit hole, she’s told that if she is indeed the Alice, she’s fated to slay the Jabberwock, the subject of one of Carroll’s doggerel detours. From then forward, we’re fairly sure that’s what’s going to happen, and the journey becomes the thing. The journey, sad to say, is not particularly joyful.

The script could have stood with more time to dawdle, to engage in punning and rhyming and the dreamlike silliness that

Carroll has owned since “Through the Looking-Glass.” Still, if you’re a fan of Burton, there’s a lot of Burton-ness here to admire. Costumer Colleen Atwood, of both “Sleepy Hollow” and “Sweeney Todd,” is back with her rich and varied Victorian finest, on down to an array of shifting garb for the ever-shrinking, ever-expanding Alice. Danny Elfman’s gothic brass orchestra is such a staple of the Burton mood that it’s hard to imagine the latter without the former. Depp, the pro, with a childlike glee leavening the force of his performance, manages to own his scenes without overpowering the young Wasikowska, even when she’s small enough to ride on his shoulder.

Bonham Carter, Burton’s wife, taps into a villainy she savors like an everlasting gobstopper.

So again we wonder why this movie isn’t more emotionally vibrant. Perhaps some blame must fall on the medium, and that pesky 3-D that studios insist on these days. Burton shot the movie in 2-D only to add in that third D in postproduction, and the texture during the live-action scenes is reminiscent of a View-Master wheel. In the largely digital Wonderland the effect lives more comfortably, if only heightening the sensation that you should have a video game controller in your hands as you watch. By the time the White Queen’s soldiers clash with those of the Red Queen, and Alice is going all Joan of Arc on the slithy Jabberwock, you have to wonder why the high art of nonsense has been forsaken for common rot.

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n Chocolatier Carmen Portillo has closed her Cocoa Belle retail shop in the River Market’s Ottenheimer Hall to focus on a direct-order business. Her website is cbchocolat.com. n No word yet what will take her place, but Pasta Jack’s, an Italian restaurant with locations in Benton and Bryan, will soon be opening in the southeast corner space formerly occupied by Hunka Pie. Look for the restaurant to serve pasta, pizza, salad and a wide selection of Italian dishes. River Market assistant manager Melanie Jenkins said she anticipated the booth opening sometime in March.

Restaurant capsules Every effort is made to keep this listing of some of the state’s more notable restaurants current, but we urge readers to call ahead to check on changes on days of operation, hours and special offerings. What follows, because of space limitations, is a partial listing of restaurants reviewed by our staff. Information herein reflects the opinions of the newspaper staff and its reviewers.

The newspaper accepts no advertising or other considerations in exchange for reviews, which are conducted anonymously. We invite the opinions of readers who think we are in error.

Restaurants are listed in alphabetical order by city; Little Rock-area restaurants are divided by food category. Other review symbols are:

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ACADIA A jewel of a restaurant in Hillcrest. Wonderful soups and fish dishes. Extensive wine list. On Mondays and Tuesdays get three courses for the fixed price of $22.50.

It’s a bargain. 3000 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 603-9630 D Mon.-Sat. ALLEY OOPS The restaurant at Creekwood Plaza (near the Kanis-Bowman intersection) is a neighborhood feedbag for major medical institutions with plate lunches, burgers and homemade desserts. 11900 Kanis Road. Full bar. CC $-$$ 221-9400 LD Mon.-Sat. ATHLETIC CLUB What could be mundane fare gets delightful twists and embellishments here. Embassy Suites Hotel. 11301 Financial Centre Parkway. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 312-9000 LD daily.

BEST IMPRESSIONS Soup, salad and sandwiches are always on the menu in the Arkansas Arts Center café, and we’ve never had a bad soup of the day here. But there are also entrees you might usually see at dinner, too. Plus, a strong dessert menu. 501 East Ninth Street (Arkansas Arts Center) Full bar CC $$ 907-5946 L Tues.-Sun. BLACK ANGUS Charcoal-grilled burgers, hamburger steaks and steaks proper are the big draws at this local institution. 10907 N. Rodney Parham. No alcohol. CC $ 228-7800 LD Mon.-Sat. BOULEVARD BREAD CO. Fresh bread, fresh pastries, wide selection of cheeses, meats, side dishes, dinners to go — all superb. Good coffee, too. 1920 N. Grant St. CC $-$$$ 663-5951 BLD Mon.-Sat.; River Market Hall, beer and wine, CC $-$$$ 374-1232, BL Mon.-Sat.; College of Public Health, 401 W. Markham St. No alcohol CC $-$$$ 526-6661 BL Mon.-Fri. BOUDREAUX’S GRILL & BAR A homey, seat-yourself Cajun joint in Maumelle that serves up all sorts of variations of shrimp and catfish. With particularly tasty red beans and rice, jambalaya and bread pudding. 9811 Maumelle Blvd., North Little Rock. Full bar CC $-$$ 753-6860 LD Wed.-Sat., D Mon.-Tue.

BY THE GLASS A broad but not ridiculously large list is studded with interesting, diverse selections, and prices are uniformly reasonable. The food focus is on high-end items

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■ dining It’s Valentina’s day Benton welcomes Mexican restaurant. n La Valentina is so tidy and stylish and professional it looks like a chain restaurant. But it’s home-grown, in Benton, the new business of Rosa Rasburry and Maria Martinez; Alan Camacho is manager. It’s taken the place of Dizzy’s (which moved to Little Rock) on Ferguson Road and, judging by the lunch crowd the other day, it’s taking a place in the locals’ hearts.

“Real Mexican Food” is what La Valentina touts, but much of the menu is Tex-Mex with touches of authenticity — including the daily specials — and quite a few Norte Americano dishes added to the mix. So the menu will be familiar to anyone who’s eaten in a Mexican restaurant, real or unreal, hereabout: fajitas, combination platters, specials of tacos and enchiladas, etc., with rice and beans on the side. There are also partly assimilated T-bones and ribeyes (served with rice, beans and guacamole salads) and several guacamole special: Spice-filled. shrimp dishes (diabla, mojo fresh cilantro and onions. A chimichurri de ajo, baha etc.). Huevos are on the lunch sauce, a tomatillo sauce and a green salsa menu. came with the tacos, as did a small bowl Three of us sat in a booth and the designof refried beans. Except for some chewy inclined among us admired the look of the moments, this was a fine lunch, one that menu, the sconces and light fixtures — it’s shouldn’t follow a bucket of guacamole a bright space, decorated on the modernperhaps to be fully appreciated. sparse side. No big sombreros and colorful The special of the day is always an blankets, or at least we didn’t see any in authentic dish, said Rasburry (we’d the front dining room. If we missed them, write “pronounced ‘raspberry,’ ” but it might be because we were concentrating that seems strange). On the day of our on the guacamole special delivered to the visit the special was palmadas, fried table in a volcanic-stone metate ($7.99). pies (folded cornmeal quesadillas) Our waitress, apparently a purist, warned stuffed with meat, tomatoes and cheese, we might not like it — it is chockfull of a recipe from Rasburry’s home town jalapeno peppers and spices — but her of Guanajuato. One in our party, who fears were not realized. We dug in (with ordered the dish with chicken, said the good chips, by the way) and stopped short combo worked well. The special came of licking the metate only because we knew with refried beans and rice and pickled our entree was on the way, and it wasn’t off red onion, an aesthetic, as well as sweetthe lunch menu. tart, touch. Other specials include sea Our order: soft tacos al carbon ($8.99), bass tacos, cooked in oil and served in which come with chicken, beef or pork a cilantro sauce and empanadas, floural pastor (shepherd-style), which is maridough dumplings with different fillings. nated. Our waitress didn’t quite underThe chimichanga featured a mysteristand our question about the pastor-style ously uncrispy fried taco, topped with just a — she described it as beef. So we ordered bit of melted cheese, which our diner liked chicken, though as it turned out, we got a lot, and a nice pico de gallo on the side beef anyway. The beef strips were well along with the rice and beans. The theme cooked, but there was a little gristle to here is that La Valentina adds to its meals contend with, and garnished with lots of brian chilson

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something fresh and spicy to jazz up the heavy smoothness of the beans and familiarity of the rice. Nothing here was covered in melted cheese.

Now that we know what al pastor means — pork marinated in a mild adobo sauce and pineapple juice — we wish we’d ordered it.

Carnitas, braised pork chunks, are also on the menu, as are chile rellenos. There are four vegetarian dishes, variations on grilled vegetables, bean burritos, cheese sauces and guacamole.

If you’re a punch person, you’ll have to settle for Hi-C. We went the sweet tea route, and it was just like the real sweet tea you’d get with a meat-and-three kind of place.

(There’s also raspberry tea on the menu, which is not a drink we believe in.) There are also Jarrito sodas from Guadalajara and Mountain Valley sparkling water from Garland County.

The cheese dip here comes with sausage or mushrooms; wings are served with ranch dressing and celery and referred to as “alitos” to stay in keeping with La Valentina’s mission.

Here’s something else to make you sweet on La Valentina: the dessert menu includes churros (ribbons of fried dough rolled in cinnamon and sugar) served with hot chocolate. For the brave, a fried cheesecake. For the traditionalist, flan. For the kids, sopapillas and ice cream.

La Valentina 1217 Ferguson Drive Benton 501-776-1113 Quick bite

Fortunately, one of us knows Benton like the back of her hand so we found La Valentina without problem. Here’s what you do from Little Rock: Take the Congo Road exit from I-30 and follow the access road until it circles up and over the interstate. That’s Military Road. Stay in the right hand lane and follow Military as it curves south until you come to the intersection with Ferguson (which also leads to Wal-Mart). Turn right; La Valentina will be on the left in the bright greenyellow building..

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that pair well with wine – olives, hummus, cheese, bread, and some meats and sausages. 5713 Kavanaugh Blvd.

Wine and beer. CC $$ 501-663-WINE (9463) 4-10 p.m.

Mon.-Thurs., 4 p.m.-midnight Fri.-Sat. CAJUN’S WHARF The venerable seafood restaurant has a new look to go with great gumbo and oysters Bienville, and options such as fine steaks for the non-seafood eater.

In the citified bar, you’ll find some of the best nightly entertainment in town. 2400 Cantrell Road. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 375-5351 D Mon.-Sat. CATFISH HOLE Downhome place for well-cooked catfish and tasty hushpuppies. 603 E. Spriggs, NLR. Beer. CC $-$$ 758-3516. D Tues.-Sat. COPELAND’S The full service restaurant chain started by the founder of Popeye’s delivers the same good biscuits, the same dependable frying and a New Orleans vibe in piped music and décor. You can eat red beans and rice for a price in the single digits or pay near $40 for a choice slab of ribeye, with crab, shrimp and fish in between. 2602 S. Shackleford Road. 312-1616. LD. $$-$$$ Full bar. CC. COPPER GRILL A sunny and ultra-modern restaurant in downtown’s most chic condo tower offers comfort food (fried mac-and-cheese), burgers and sophisticated appetizers and entrees geared solidly for the middle of the dining spectrum. Grilled meats and fish, hearty side dishes and big salads — everything served with a generous hand. Fresh fish, grilled expertly, is a top choice. But sandwiches, big salads and even fried catfish offer a little something for everyone. Desserts are made from scratch. 300 E. Third.

Full bar. CC $$-$$$. 375-3333 LD Mon.-Sat. DAVE AND RAY’S DOWNTOWN DINER Lunch buffet with four choices of meats and eight veggies. All-youcan-eat catfish on weekend nights. 824 W. Capitol Ave. No alcohol. $$ 372-8816 BL Mon.-Fri. DOE’S EAT PLACE A skid-row dive turned power brokers’ watering hole with huge steaks, great tamales and broiled shrimp, and killer burgers at lunch. 1023 W. Markham St. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 376-1195 LD Mon.-Fri, D Sat. FATSAM’S LOUISIANA CAFE Heaping plates of Louisiana-influenced food in a corner of the River Market food hall. The lineup changes daily, but expect to find a steam table full of rib-stickers – shrimp Creole, etouffee, jambalaya, red beans and rice, gumbo and po boys with chicken, spicy pork or catfish. 400 President Clinton Ave. 244-4720. CC $ LD Mon.-Sat. FRANKE’S Plate lunch spot strong on salads and vegetables, and perfect fried chicken on Sundays. Locations in the Regions Bank Building, 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road.

No alcohol. CC $-$$ 225-4487 LD daily.

IZZY’S It’s bright, clean and casual, with snappy team service of all his standbys — sandwiches and fries, lots of fresh salads, pasta about a dozen ways, hand-rolled tamales and (night only) brick oven pizzas. Wholesome, all-American food prepared with care, if rarely far from the middle of the culinary road. 5601 Ranch Drive, off Highway.

Beer and Wine CC $-$$ 868-4311 LD Mon. - Sat. LULAV AND V LOUNGE A Mediterranean-California fusion eatery, and the delicious flavors are like none you’ll experience anywhere in the city. Good fish, veal, daring salads and much more. Plus, a hot bar to see and be seen. 220 A W. 6th St. Full Bar. CC $$-$$$ 374-5100 LD Tue.-Sun. MIMI’S CAFE Breakfast is our meal of choice here at this upscale West Coast chain. Portions are plenty to last you through the afternoon, especially if you get a muffin on the side. Middle-America comfort-style entrees highlight other meals, from pot roast to pasta dishes. 11725 Chenal Parkway. Full bar. CC $$ 221-3883 BLD (breakfast served until 4 p.m.) daily.

PURPLE COW DINER 1950s fare — cheeseburgers, chili dogs, thick milkshakes — in a ’50s setting at today’s prices.

8026 Cantrell Road, 221-3555; 11602 Chenal Parkway, 224-4433. Beer, “adult” milkshakes. CC $-$$ BLD daily.

ROCKS GRILL Bounteous buffets at lunch and Sunday

brunch, while steaks, seafood and chicken are the main draws at dinner, mostly for travelers. Holiday Inn Select, 201 S. Shackleford. Full bar. CC $-$$$ 223-3000 BLD daily.

ROCKSTONS AMERICAN BAR AND GRILL Steaks, ribs and other meaty entrees are the stars here at this outpost of Jerry Barakat’s restaurant empire. 11 Shackleford Drive, 954-8787. Full bar $$-$$$ CC LD daily SALUT! Pleasantly quirky menu here — rosemary barbecued shrimp on seared polenta, gnocchi in a cream sauce with asparagus and red onion, short ribs ravioli and Low Country shrimp and grits. Patio dining. 1501 N. University.

Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 660-4200 L Mon.-Fri. D Wed.-Sun. SHORTY SMALL’S Land of big, juicy burgers, massive cheese logs, smoky barbecue platters and the signature onion loaf. 4317 Warden Road, NLR, 753-8111; 1100 N. Rodney Parham Road, 224-3344. Full bar. CC $$ LD daily.

STARVING ARTIST CAFE An important addition in helping Argenta achieve restaurant critical mass, this is a fun, creative, affordable and consistently excellent locally owned spot. Lunches are downright cheap, while the quality at dinner is impressive for the generally lessthan-$20 entrée price tag. 411 Main St., NLR. Full bar. CC. $$ 372-7976 LD Tue.-Sat. THE HOP You half expect the Fonz to stroll by this oldfashioned dairy bar, where the shakes are thick, the cones tall and the burgers good and greasy. 7706 Cantrell Road.

No alcohol. $-$$ 219-2200 LD Mon.-Sat. TRIO’S Still great after 20 years. You can’t go wrong with custom sandwiches, Peck Special Salad or chicken salad at lunch; the enchiladas and voodoo pasta at dinner, or the monumentally rich list of tempting desserts. 8201 Cantrell Road. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 221-3330. LD Mon.-Sat. UNION RESTAURANT Tasty tapas dishes are really only part of the draw at this rather trendy late-night spot with a great wine list, a full complement of specialty drinks and a chic atmosphere that belies its sub-shop beginnings. 3421 Old Cantrell Road. Full bar CC $$ 661-8311 D daily.

ASIAN CHINA INN Massive Chinese buffet overflows with meaty and fresh dishes, augmented at dinner by boiled shrimp, oysters on the half shell and snow crab legs (all you want cheap). 2629 Lakewood Village Place, NLR. Beer and wine.

CC $-$$ 771-2288 LD daily.

FORBIDDEN CITY The Park Plaza Mall staple has fast and friendly service, offering up good lo mein at lunch and Cantonese and Hunan dishes. Markham and University.

Full bar. CC $ 663-9099 LD daily. a KOBE JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE AND SUSHI BAR Though answering the need for more hibachis in Little Rock, Kobe stands taller with its sushi offerings than grill fare. 11401 Financial Centre Parkway. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 225-5999 D daily.

KOPAN BULGOGI & SUSHI. Cabot’s entry into Korean/ Japanese style food does well when it comes to delicious food at reasonable prices, but the wait for dinner can be unbearable. Go for the bulgogi — thin strips of beef marinated in housemade sauce — and for the kebabs, but skip the salad or soup. 701 West Main Street in Cabot. Alcohol.

CC. $$. (501) 843-2002 LD Mon.-Sat. SAMURAI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE A hibachi grill that transcends typical fare. With a pricey sushi menu, too.

2604 S. Shackleford Road. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 224-5533 LD Mon.-Sat., L Sun. SEKISUI Fresh-tasting sushi, traditional Japanese, the fun hibachi style of Japanese and an overwhelming assortment of entrees. Nice wine selection, sake, specialty drinks. 219 N. Shackleford. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 221-7070 LD daily.

SHOGUN JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE AND SUSHI BAR The chefs will dazzle you, as will the variety of tasty stir-fry combinations and the sushi bar. Usually crowded at night.

2815 Cantrell Road. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 666-7070 LD daily.

SUSHI CAFE Impressive, upscale sushi menu with other delectable house specialties like tuna tataki, fried soft shell crab, Kobe beef and, believe it or not, the Toyko cowboy burger. 5823 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar. CC. $$-$$$ 663-9888 LD Mon.-Fri. D Sat.-Sun.

■ update SAI GON CUISINE While we’ve become big fans of the Thai and Vietnamese food at Sai Gon Cuisine on Cantrell Road, their great daily lunch specials — big entrees, steamed or fried rice, an egg roll and a small bowl of soup, all for $5.99 — have turned us into the John the Baptist of their soups. These days, we just forgo everything but the bowl of steaming goodness that is their soup of the day. We’ve tried three of their offerings so far: egg drop, hot and sour and chicken vegetable. Every one is, in a word, incredible. By this reviewer’s way of thinking, they might be best in town. Trust us when we say: Their broth-based kung-fu is strong. Best of all, for six bucks, they’ll bring you a bowl that looks like the hub cap from a farm implement; more of a lidless tureen, really; a bowl so big that we guarantee your first thought will be that there is no way in hell you’ll be able to even approach eating it all — which is ok, given that they’ve got really big to-go cups (or you can always get a second spooner involved if you’re not worried about germs). Spicy, complex, delectable, swimming with veggies and bits of chicken, they are what soup should be, and especially recommended if you’re feeling poorly from a cold or flu. 6805 Cantrell Road. Beer and wine. CC $$ 663-4000 LD Tue-Sun.

BARBECUE CHIP’S BARBECUE Tasty, if a little pricey, barbecue piled high on sandwiches generously doused with tangy sauce.

Pie is tall and tasty. 9801 W. Markham St. No alcohol. CC $$ 225-4346 LD Mon.-Sat. DIXIE PIG Pig salad is tough to beat — loads of chopped pork atop crisp iceberg, doused with that wonderful vinegar-based sauce. The sandwiches are basic and the sweet, thick sauce is fine. 35th and Schaer streets, NLR. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 753-9650 LD Mon.-Sat. SMOKE SHACK BAR-B-Q The beef and pork sandwiches are the best bet. Interstate 40 at Maumelle/Morgan exit (Exit 142), Maumelle. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 803-4935 LD Mon.-Sat. WHITE PIG INN Go for the sliced rather than chopped meats at this working-class barbecue cafe. Side orders — from fries to potato salad to beans to slaw — are superb, as are the fried pies. 5231 E. Broadway, NLR. Beer. CC $-$$ 945-5551 LD Mon.-Fri. L Sat.

50% OFF 2ND ENTREE* Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner Dine in • Take Out • Patio • full Bar Mon. -Fri. 10-10 Sat. 9-10 • Sun. 9-9 501-280-9888 6820 Cantrell • 9am -10 pm

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EUROPEAN / ETHIC CAFE BOSSA NOVA A South American approach to sandwiches, salads and dessertsb— all quite good — as well as an array of refreshing South American teas and coffees.

2701 Kavanaugh Blvd., Suite 105 Full bar. CC $$ 614-6682 LD Tue.-Sun. ISTANBUL MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE The Turkish eatery offers decent kebabs and great starters. The red pepper hummus is a winner. So are cigar pastries. Possibly the best Turkish coffee in Central Arkansas. 11525 Cantrell Road Suite 914 Little Rock Alcohol pending CC $$ 223-9332 LD daily.

LEO’S GREEK CASTLE Wonderful Mediterranean food — gyro sandwiches or platters, falafel and tabbouleh — plus dependable hamburgers in this charming tiny eatery; there’s outdoor dining for fresh air fans or the claustrophobic. 2925 Kavanaugh Blvd. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 666-7414 BLD Mon.-Sat.

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ITALIAN AMERICAN PIE PIZZA Handmade pizza on perfect thin crust with varied toppings, and inexpensive. We liked the olive-oil-based margherita and supreme, plus there are salads, sandwiches and appetizers ― all under $6. 9708 Maumelle Blvd., Maumelle, 758-8800; 4830 North Hills Blvd., NLR, 753-0081. Beer and wine. CC $ LD daily.

DAMGOODE PIES A somewhat different Italian/pizza place, largely because of a spicy garlic white sauce that’s offered as an alternative to the traditional red sauce. Good bread, too.

Delivery available. 6706 Cantrell Road and 2701 Kavanaugh Blvd. (Pick-up and delivery only location at 10720 Rodney Parham Road). Beer and wine. CC $$ 664-2239 LD daily.

GUSANO’S They make the tomatoey Chicago-style deepdish pizza the way it’s done in the Windy City. It takes a little longer to come out of the oven, but it’s worth the wait. 313 President Clinton Ave. Full bar. CC $-$$ 374-1441 LD daily.

ROCKY’S PUB A little taste of Philly, right in North Little Rock, with authentic cheesesteak sandwiches, hoagies, salads and the like. But you’d be remiss not to try the Italian specialties whipped up at night, such as the proscuitto piselli verdi. 6909 JFK Blvd., NLR. Full bar. $$ CC 833-1077 LD Mon.-Sat. ZAZA Here’s where you get wood-fired pizza with gorgeous blistered crusts and a light topping of choice and tempting ingredients, great gelato in a multitude of flavors, call-yourown ingredient salads and other treats. 5600 Kavanaugh Blvd. $$ Beer and wine 661-9292 CC LD daily.

ZAFFINO’S BY NORI A high-quality Italian dining experience. Pastas, entrees (don’t miss the veal marsala) and salads are all outstanding, and the desserts don’t miss, either. 2001 E. Kiehl Ave., NLR. Beer and wine. CC $$-$$$ 834-7530 D Tue.-Sat.

MEXICAN CASA MANANA Great guacamole and garlic beans, superlative chips and salsa (red and green) and a broad selection of fresh seafood, plus a deck out back at the Cantrell location. Small stand in the River Market (400 President Clinton Ave., 372-6637). 18321 Cantrell Road, 868-8822. 6820 Cantrell Road. Full bar. CC $$ 280-9888 LD daily. Also B on Sat. and Sun. EL PORTON Very good Mex for the price and a wideranging menu of dinner plates, some tasty cheese dip, and great service as well. 12111 W. Markham St. Full bar. CC $$ 223-8588 LD daily.

LA REGIONAL A small grill is tucked away in this fullservice grocery store catering to SWLR’s Latino community, and it offers a whirlwind trip through Latin America, with delicacies from all across the Spanish-speaking world (try the El Salvadorian pupusas, they’re great). 7414 Baseline Road. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 565-4440 BLD daily.

MEXICO CHIQUITO Hearty platters of boldly spiced, inexpensive food compete well with those at the “authentic” joints. 13924 Cantrell, 217-0700, full bar; 4511 Camp Robinson Road, NLR, 771-1604, full bar; 1524 W. Main St., Jacksonville, 982-0533, no alcohol. Takeout only from 102 S. Rodney Parham, 224-8600, and 11406 W. Markham, 217-0647. All CC $$ LD daily.

SENOR TEQUILA Authentic dishes with great service and prices, and maybe the best margarita in town. Multiple locations: 4304 Camp Robinson Road, NLR, 791-3888; 9847 Maumelle Blvd., Maumelle, 758-4432; 10300 N. Rodney Parham Road, 224-5505; 2000 S. University Ave., 660-4413; 1101 S. Bowman Road, Little Rock, 954-7780.

CC Full bar. $$ 224-5505 LD daily.

Arkansas Needs State Pre-K High-quality pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) helps young children become school-ready better than almost anything else. Pre-K children also are more likely than other children to perform better in school, stay out of trouble with the law, graduate on time from high school, and go on to college.

Arkansas Pre-K – A Good Value: The current cost of delivering Pre-K to a child in Arkansas is almost 60% less than the per pupil cost of K-12 education or higher education. And Pre-K comprises only 8 cents of every $10 in the state’s current budget. Pre-K programs also can help reduce state budget costs. By getting more children “school-ready,” for example, high-quality Pre-K cuts down on the number of students who repeat kindergarten or later grades.

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Arkansas Pre-K Races to the Top: Arkansas Pre-K is developing into a national leader for both high quality and access. But, Arkansas needs to expand the statewide program to all three- and four-year-olds whose parents want it. Currently, the program serves only 23% of three- and four-year-old children in the state.

Preserve and Expand Pre-K: Arkansas Pre-K is already doing more with less. By preserving and expanding high-quality Pre-K, the next generation of Arkansans will have a chance to enjoy unprecedented gains in education, income, and quality of life.

Arkansas Needs State Pre-K – for everyone’s benefit.

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Visit the “What’s New” section of SEF’s website for a copy of the SEF report, Update: Pre-Kindergarten in the South. www.southerneducation.org

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SEAFOOD Cajun’s Wharf

Food and fun for everyone when you pair Cajun’s Wharf’s succulent seafood and steak with the ever-evolving live entertainment. Enjoy the fabulous fresh seafood or aged Angus beef while listening to the rolling Arkansas River on the famously fantastic deck! They also boast an award-winning wine list.

grampa’s catfish house

Central Arkansas’ oldest catfish restaurant. Serving all-ucan-eat catfish since 1970. A Family friendly restaurant… the place where you can walk in with a large group of folks without a reservation. Open 7 days for lunch and dinner.

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Denton’s Trotline

2150 Congo Rd. Benton, 501-416-2349 Open Tues, Wed & Thurs 4-9 Fri & Sat 4-11

Attention: Members and Guests. Denton’s Trotline is known for their award winning catfish and seafood buffet.

Outstanding appetizer menu. Family owned, featuring a newly remodeled building with live music. Full service catering available.

BISTRO Lulav

220 West 6th St. 501-374-5100 Lunch Mon-Fri 11am-2pm Dinner Tues-Sat 5-10pm V Lounge til 1am, Thurs-Sat

2150 Congo Rd. • Benton from Little Rock to Exit 118 to Congo Rd. Overpass across i-30

YaYas

17711 Chenal Parkway, Suite I-101 501-821-1144

Dizzy’s Gypsy Bistro 200 S. Commerce, Suite 150 (501) 375-3500 Tues-Thurs 11am-9pm Fri & Sat 11am-10pm

Fresh seafood specials every week. Prime aged beef and scrumptious dishes. Wine Spectator Award of Excellence, over 30 wines by the glass and largest vodka selection downtown. Regular and late night happy hour, Wednesday wine flights and Thursday is Ladies Night. Be sure to check out the Bistro Burger during lunch.

Ya Ya’s is both sophisticated and whimsical. Mosaic tile floors, stone columns and fabric covered wall panels while heavy beamed ceilings, hand blown chandeliers and curvy wroughtiron railings add a whimsical flair. The menu is inspired by a combination of Italian, French, Spanish and Greek cuisines.

Mediterranean Euro Delights share the menu with pizzas from our wood-burning oven, rich creative pastas and an array of the freshest of seafood dishes and innovative meat entrees.

Live music resumes on the patio this spring. Join us for live, local music through the week. Don’t forget our Sunday Brunch ($16.95 & only $13.95 for the early bird special, 10 am to 11 am). Reservations are preferred.

For the salad lover, Dizzy’s is an absolute paradise. Its list of eleven “Ridiculously Large Entrée Salads” runs the gamut of what you can do with greens and dressing. For example Zilpphia’s Persian Lime Salad, featuring grilled turkey breast, tomato, cucumber, onion, lime and buffalo mozzarella over romaine. For another: Mary Ann’s Dream, with grilled chicken breast, baby spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, cranberries, mandarin oranges, bourbon pecans and bleu cheese. Don’t that sound good?

chinese Fantastic China 1900 N Grant St Heights 501-663-8999

Sharing good things with good friends is the motto at Fantastic China. A Central Arkansas favorite offering the Freshest Chinese Food in town. It’s made to order with 100% Vegetable Oil. The presentation is beautiful, the menu distinctive, and the service perfect. Fantastic China is one of the heights most reliable and satisfying restaurants and a local favorite. Full bar.

mexican Casa Manana Taqueria

400 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-6637 6820 Cantrell Road • 501-280-9888 18321 Cantrell Road • 501-868-8822

Voted Best Mexican 2007. Featuring authentic fare from the Puebla region of Mexico, the selections seem endless at your choice of 3 locations in the Little Rock area. You will find an array of dishes ranging from the salient Shrimp Veracruzana at La Palapa out west to great Guacamole in the River Market Taqueria. Or try tasty Tostadas that share the name of the original Cantrell location, Casa Manana.

asian Lilly’s Dimsum Then Some

Look no further…voted Best Asian again by the Arkansas Times readers. Lilly’s serves up extraordinary dishes made from the freshest, premium local and organic ingredients.

Also enjoy warm and inviting ambiance as you dine on any one of the tasty house specialties. Sundays are wine day: all wine by the bottle, half off.

Super King Buffet

One of central Arkansas’s largest Chinese buffets, we offer all your favorites with our sushi bar and Mongolian Grill included for one low price. Our dinner and all-day Sunday buffet include your lunch favorites as well as all-you-can eat crab legs, whole steamed fish, barbecue spare ribs, crispy jumbo shrimp and grilled steaks. Take-out buffet and menu available.

11121 Rodney Parham 501-716-2700

Super King Buffet

4000 Springhill Plaza Ct. North Little Rock (Just past Wal-Mart on McCain) 501-945-4802 Sun-Thurs 11am to 9:30pm Fri & Sat 11am to 10:30pm

Wine Bar

Crush Wine Bar 115 E. Markham In the River Market 501-374-9463 Tue-Sat P.M.

Homemade Comfort Food Daily Specials • Monday: Spicy Shrimp Stir-fry. Tuesday: Pot Roast.

Wednesday: Meatloaf. Thursday: BBQ Plate or Shepherd’s Pie. Friday & Saturday: Fried Catfish.

Satellite Cafe

Satellite Cafe - Heights techno-pop coffee shop that serves up the best coffee and breakfast in town, along with great lunch options (dine in or to go). And dinner is served every night except Sunday. Half-off happy hour spot - 4 until 6:30. Remember the drive thru window, just call in and pick up!! BLD - Mon-Sat. B Sunday

Ump’s Pub & Grill

Whether the Travs are at home or on the road, come enjoy the unique Dickey-Stephens Park Atmosphere at Ump’s, an upscale sports pub and restaurant, featuring sandwiches, salads, steaks, seafood, good times and more! Now open 7 days a week for lunch, and open all day sat. and sun during Football season. Closed on Tues & Wed nights since baseball season has ended.

Capers Restaurant

Indulge in the culinary creations and intimate environment that define Capers Restaurant. Food and wine enthusiasts agree Capers’ sophisticated approach to dining is key to it’s many accolades including receiving the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for six years running.

Copper Grill & Grocery

An endless array of delicious dishes available in the Grill or grab your Gourmet-to-Go from the Grocery. Offering products by French Farm, Bella Cucina & Bittersweet Herb that promise to turn any recipe into a memorable masterpiece Copper Grill & Grocery is a wonderland for the gourmand.

West End Smokehouse and Tavern

Happy Hour Mon-Fri 3pm-6pm. $1 off All Drinks and 1/2 Off Appetizers. Monday is Steak Night USDA Choice Aged 14oz Ribeye with 2 sides $13.99. Tuesday is Burger Night – Ultimate Burger with Fries just $4.99. Live Music Fri & Saturday!

SO

This is a first class establishment. SO has some of the best steaks and seafood in the city, including oysters from the east and west coasts. Their menu has been updated and features a fantastic selection of cheeses like port salut, stilton, murcia and pecorino. Don’t forget to check out the extensive wine list.

Butcher Shop

Tremendous steaks, excellent service, fair prices and a comfortable atmosphere make The Butcher Shop the prime choice for your evening out. In addition to tender and juicy steaks, The Butcher Shop offers fresh fish, pork chop, 24 hour slow roasted Prime Rib, char grilled marinated chicken and fresh pasta. Ideal for private parties, business meetings, and rehearsal dinners. Rooms accommodate up to 50-60 person.

10907 N. Rodney Parham Mon-Sat 10:30am-9pm 501-228-7800

Kavanaugh and University, 501-663-6336

Dickey-Stephens Park Broadway at the bridge North Little Rock (501) 324-BALL (2255) www.travs.com

14502 Cantrell Road 501-868-7600

300 West 3rd Street 501-375-3333

215 N. Shackleford 501-224-7665 www.westendsmokehouse.net

Open daily. 11 am - close Sunday Brunch. 11 am to 2 pm 3610 Kavanaugh Blvd.

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Shackleford & Hermitage Rd. (501) 312-2748

steak Sonny Williams

If you have not been to Sonny Williams lately, get there immediately and check out the martini/wine bar. Now you can enjoy 35 wines by the glass, 335 selections of wine, 6 single barrel bourbons and all different kinds of Scotch from the many regions of Scotland. Of course, don’t miss out on the nightly entertainment by Jeff at the piano. Sonny’s is a River Market mainstay and perfect for intimate private parties; free valet parking! As always, Sonny Williams has the best steaks in town along with fresh seafood and game. No Skinny Steaks… Call ahead for reservations (501) 324-2999

Faded Rose

Featuring the Best Steaks in town with a New Orleans flair from a New Orleans native. Also featuring Seafood and Creole Specialties. As Rachel Ray says “This place is one of my best finds ever.” Back by popular demand…Soft Shell Crab and New Orleans Roast Beef Po-Boys.

500 President Clinton Avenue Suite 100 (In the River Market District) 501-324-2999 DINNER MON - SAT 5:00 - 11:00 pm PIANO BAR TUES - THU 7:00 - 11:00 pm FRI & SAT 7:00 - Late

400 N. Bowman 501-224-3377 1619 Rebsamen 501-663-9734 Open Sunday

Mediterranean star of india

North Shackleford Road 501-227-9900

Authentic North Indian Cuisine at its very best! Vegetable and Non-vegetable Buffet daily with Special. Saturday and Sunday Brunch. Mention this ad for a complimentary Indian Mango Drink.

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Crush Wine Bar celebrated its one-year anniversary!

Voted Best Wine List by the Arkansas Times readers twice in their first year!! This elegant, cozy wine bar offers 130 wines by the bottle and 70 by the glass along with imported beers. Wine list changes monthly, and wine tasting events every other Monday. Jazz Saturdays. Website www. crushwinelr.com

Vino’s Pizza•Pub•Brewery 923 West 7th Street 501/375-VINO (8466)

Beer, pizza and more! Drop in to Vino’s, Little Rock’s Original Brewpub! and enjoy great New York-style pizza (whole or by-the-slice) washed down with your choice of award-winning ales or lagers brewed right on site. Or try a huge calzone, our new Muffaletta sandwich or just a salad and a slice with our homemade root beer. The deck’s always open, you don’t have to dress up and the kids are always welcome (or not).

Vino’s is open 7 days, lunch and dinner. You can call ahead for carry-out and even take a gal. growler of beer to-go. And guess what?? The bathrooms have just been re-done!

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Located at 1220 Kavanaugh Boulevard, you’ll find this beautiful home in the heart of historic Hillcrest. With so many shops and restaurants just a few short blocks away, enjoy all that Midtown has to offer. Extensively remodeled, this beautiful home has three bedrooms, two-and-one-half bathrooms and offers too many updates to mention. Those desiring the feel of a newer home with the charming character of Hillcrest need look no further. With beautiful hardwood floors, two fireplaces, custom built-ins, plantation shutters and new crown moulding throughout, this home has all of the extras.

Completely gutted to the studs, the gourmet kitchen is every chef’s dream. Enjoy custom cabinetry with full extension drawers and roll-out pantry, top-of-the-line appliances, a water filtration system, travertine backsplash and beautiful silestone countertops.

To top off the already remarkable kitchen, a large butler’s pantry provides the additional storage so valued by lovers of Hillcrest homes.

There are many updates throughout.

The home has two fireplaces.

You won’t want to miss the master suite with large walk-in closet. Fitted with desirable Elfa closet systems, this is one space that makes storing the clothes of even the most fashionable a breeze. While all bathrooms in the home have been completely remodeled, the master bathroom takes the cake with its spa-like feel, custom vanity and jetted tub with steamer shower door.

Enjoy your mornings with a hot cup of coffee in the beautiful sunroom where light flows through nine-foot French doors and unwind at the end of the day with an evening cocktail in the backyard under the pergola outfitted with ceiling fans.

Revel in the fun to be had in the heart of Hillcrest or relax in all the charm this inviting home has to offer. This fantastic home is offered at $475,000 with Eric Wilkerson of the Charlotte John Company. For a private tour, please call Eric at 804-2633. You can also reach him by visiting his website at www.ericandcarawilkerson.

The kitchen is a dream.

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REAL ESTATE by neighborhood TO ADVERTISE, CALL TIFFANY HOLLAND AT 375-2985

REMODELED & CHIC

Land LAND/OWNER FINANCE - Greenbrier 10-44 ac; Conway 2.5 ac tract; Damascus 7 ac w/barn, Call Linda Roster White Real Estate 501-730-1100

Downtown

1867 S. GAINES • $219,900

This is a fantastic home built in the early 1900’s that has been extensively remodeled with all the modern conveniences we look for. It has beautiful hardwood floors, neutral paint colors, 3BR/3BA, great cabinets in the kitchen, granite coutnertops, tile backsplash, stainless steel appliances, separate laundry room, formal dining room and two living areas. The master suite is upstairs and overlooks the fully fenced backyard. Don’t miss the closet space!

4403 STONE CREEK COVE - $285,000

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Buying Lake Hamilton Condos!

Built for builder’s personal home in 2007 on 3.52 acres. Great family home with extra-large den (24x28) den, separated master suite with Jacuzzi and separate glass brick shower.

Beautiful setting plus too many amenities to this one level home. Bill of Assurance allows for horses. Visit www.cbrpm. com to view additional pictures.

D. Hastings 680-5340 Listed with The Wilkerson Team.

Call Eric or Cara Wilkerson for more information or a private tour.

501.804.2633 www.ericandcarawilkerson.com

LAFAYETTE SQUARE One & two BR condos which feature open floor plans of 1,026 to 1,667 SF and are competively priced for lease and for sale.

Urban upscale living has never been so accessible and affordable. Each unit has large kitchens complete with marble counters, classic hardwood cabinetry & stainless steel appliances.

Washers & dryers are included in every condo. Building amenities include reserved gated parking, an exercise room & sauna, storage units and meeting/event space. Pricing starts at $145,900. Call Melissa Bond of the Charlotte John Company for sales inquires at 960-0665.

Directions: West on Colonel Glenn to left on Lawson, 6.2 miles to Stone Creek, turn left, first house on right.

501.664.6629

Publisher’s Notice All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act which

makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free 1-800-669-9077. The toll-free number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

Hers, inc. presents PULASKI COUNTY Real Estate sales over $100,000 Gloria J. Williams, Arthur O. Williams to Deutsche Bank Trust Compan y Americas, Ls1-2 B15, Kimball South Park, $1,107,564.

Clinton I. Wilson, Barbie D. Wilson to 5600 JFK LLC, L5, Bella Rosa Estates , $775,000.

Charles F. Prichard, Janie M. Prichard to Homesales Inc., 10 Sellette Ct., $612,000.

Billy M. Clark, Allison C. Clark to Charles B. Dill, Laura L. Dill, L19 B5, Shady Valley, $490,000.

Brett A. Morgan to Alfred H. Herget, Brenda L. Herget, Lot A22 B13, Chenal Valley, $485,000.

Thelma L. Joshua to Rex E. Luttrell, Marge A. Luttrell, Lot D30 B13, Chenal Valley, $445,000.

Calvin S. Guinn, Nikki Guinn, Nikki J. Dahm to Shon Randles, Sydney James, Ls4R & 5R, Eagle Ridge

Estates, $400,000.

Charles M. Gatrell, Louise Gatrell to McGeorge Contracting Co. Inc., SW SE 26-1N-12W, $400,000.

Flavio B. Rossi, Viviane S. Rossi to Yanbin Ye, Dongdong Yu, L35RB21, The Villages Of Wellington, $362,000.

Randy James Construction Company Inc. to James E. Hall, Pollyann Hall, L8 B20, Maumelle Valley Estates, $328,000.

Sixth Hole Condos At Chenal LLC to David Bazzel, L622 B600, Chenal Woods HPR, $319,000.

Ta y p a c H o m e s L L C t o Timothy A. Coon, L81, Madison Valley, $305,000.

Shailesh R. Shah, Sonia Shah to Lucas Rowan, Lacey R o w a n , L 1 1 , Pe n n w y c k , $305,000.

S&M Limited to Lois S. Bull, LB, Elmwood Condominiums HPR, $300,000.

HERS, INC.

Angela D. Moore to Zhengxian Zhang, Hua Wang, L77, Pebble Beach Woods, $289,000.

Sherry L. Long to Charles A. McKnight, SW NW 28-2N14W, $285,000.

David Bazzel to Sixth Hole Condos At Chenal Woods LLC, L58 B800, The Cliffs HPR, $210,000.

Eric J. Ransick, Scott E. R a n s i c k , R a n s i c k Fa m i l y Trust to Sharilyn Gasaway, L9, Gleneagles, $205,000.

Carl Johnson, Mildred M. Blount Revocable Trust to Daniel B. Reimer, Jennifer A. Reimer, L8 B3, Summerwood, $198,000.

Dan L. Woods, Joyce A. Woods to Bac Home Loans Servicing LP, L8 B1, Shadow Oaks, $196,389.

Fitzhugh Construction I n c . t o L a n c e M c A l i s t e r, L160, Kenwood Estates, $184,000.

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Rawlings to Ryan E. Donohoe, L2 B4, Riffel Rhoten Ridgeland, $180,000.

Ross Black, Tay a Black to Alvin R. McMiller, L10, Bentley Court Phase 1, $177,000.

Regina Thurman, Scotty Thurman to Stephen D. Murphy, Monique S. Murphy, L74, Westfield Phase 1, $175,000.

Hbb Farms Inc. to Jennifer Holland, Anthony C. Holland, Billy C. Holland, L6 B2, Parkway Place, $175,000.

Fred Allred, II, Rebecca S. Allred to Sanjay Garg, L20, Pleasantree 3rd, $168,000.

Dorothy S. English to Max T. Mitcham, Brooke Mitcham, L4, Rainwood 2, $166,000.

HSBC Bank USA to Aaron C a r t e r, 2 7 L o r i n e C i r. , $165,000.

Cope Homes Inc. to Ty l e r P. Ti p t o n , L 1 6 B 8 , Jaxon Terrace Phase 7,

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Darrell R. Sasaki, Rhonda Sasaki to Regions Bank, Regions Mortgage, L8, Little Northfork, $161,266.

F r a n c h e l l e M . J a e g e r, Matthew W. Jaeger to Donald R. Betzold, Sarah N. Betzold, L265, Cammack Woods, $159,000.

Jing Y. Wang, Yan Huang t o S t e v e n M o s l e y, S a r a Mosley, L66, Westhampton, $154,000.

Linda S. Whitley, Gene N. Whitley to Bac Home Loans Servicing LP, L10 B4, Stone Links, $153,232.

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Keith Caldwell Properties LLC to Sean R. Larson, Kelly Larson, L6, Woodland Hills Phase 1, $125,000.

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Pastoral n First sign of spring weather, I went out to bust up my back 40. That’s where for several years now I’ve planted my cotton, soybeans, and rice, harvesting several bales of each, as my own small tribute to the traditional Big Three of Arkansas agriculture. I also had my chickenhouse out there — also a tribute, to the succulent queen of Arkansas livestock — but it washed away in the flash flood following one of those 10-inch rains that we had with such regularity last year.

I don’t know where the chickenhouse wound up. The flood took it to the creek about two mile yonder, and the creek to the river, and (I assume) the river to a larger river, and thence to the Gulf of Mexico if one of those Katrina survivors didn’t fish it out and refurbish it into a low-slung Big Easy bungalow. That’s possible, as it’s happened before. Among others, George and Lurleen Wallace lived in a reclaimed chickenhouse for a spell as newlyweds during the Depression.

If we’d all just loaded up our chickenhouses and flatbedded them down there after the hurricane, the people of New Orleans would’ve been better served than they were by those $300 million worth of heckuva FEMA trailers that never got past the Arklatex. Trent Lott wouldn’t

Bob L ancaster have stooped to temporary chickenhouse residency, of course, but you know where Trent Lott can stick it as far as I’m concerned.

Anyway, I was going out to dist the back 40 and didn’t remember till I got out there that I don’t even have a back 40 anymore. Those first floods last year took off a foot of topsoil and five foot of subsoil and clogged up my dreen ditches to a degree comparable to the Great Raft on the River Rojo, so that the later ’09 toad-stranglers just collected there atop my own Sunk Lands as a natural reservoir about half as big as Lake Pine Bluff and about the same depth. Some of the local idlers have already been fishing out there, and have reported taking some nice Asian snakeheads, grinnels, and what Pap called Jasper Goulds, which I think was his corruption of gaspergou, the old freshwater drum that doesn’t even rate an entry in the dictionary anymore.

How those fish got into newly-formed

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If it had been his brother Alvis telling me such, I would’ve known it was merely what Ol’ Diz used to call woofin’. Alvis was a master woofer. But it just wasn’t in Cecil to josh. He was no Bill Arthur Ward, that’s for sure. He never told anybody anything except in perfect earnestness, and he didn’t take lightly to imputations of unseriousness on his part. I first assumed he meant some larval, microscopic fish forms that somehow got pulled up through the evaporation process and fell from the sky by the bushel basket, but he promptly made clear that he meant identifiable recognizable fish, maybe sometimes in miniature, but always the real McCoy and not some elusive fish essence like we’ve all experienced when falling rain has that disgusting unmistakable fish smell.

I get that smell in my tap water occasionally, despite that water’s having been

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pumped from deep wells going down 200 feet to an aquifer that’s seeped this way 2,000 miles over a period of years from the Canadian north woods. No way slow-filtered deep-running water like that could’ve retained a telltale trace of fish slime — and no way a hobo crappie might’ve got into the big water tank they store it in — but turn on the kitchen faucet during one of those skunkwater spells and it’ll might near run you out of the house.

It gets in your ice cubes so that if you’d planned on having your highball “on the rocks,” you’d probably just as soon take the glass on outside and let a buzzard throw up in it. It’s a mystery. Cecil could probably explain it but I can’t.

So you can count me out, at least for this year, as far as serious agriculture. If anything it’ll just be some minor truck in the jacklot for ol’ moi — some onions, radishes, a hill or two of snap beans, a mess of wheat, maybe a few pineapples.

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