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We noticed this “tweet” recently on the Twitter account of Sarah Huckabee, daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee and an employee of his Huck PAC. “Going for a stroll with my old man in his neighborhood in N. Little Rock. Nice nite in Arkansas.”

As all know by now, Mike and Janet Huckabee say they have become legal residents of Florida, for unexplained “business” reasons. We know that such a move, if properly carried off, would exempt Huckabee’s new Fox-ABC Radio income from the Arkansas state income tax. So the question of whether North Little Rock is “his” ’hood has more than passing interest.

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The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette headlined the semi-annual report on national newspaper circulation this week by saying it had gained subscribers while papers nationwide had lost readers.

Several paragraphs later came the rest of the story. The core D-G actually lost subscribers, but made up for most of that loss by adding 15,000 subscribers through a merger with former Stephens Media newspapers in Northwest Arkansas. It reported a 2.7 percent rise in weekday circulation with the addition, but still had a .8 percent drop in Sunday circulation.

Closer to home, things resembled the decline nationwide, though the newspaper didn’t report it that way. In the “city zone,” mostly Pulaski County, the DemocratGazette reported that its penetration remained second-best in the U.S., with 58.2 percent of households as subscribers.

The newspaper didn’t mention the Audit Bureau of Circulation report for March 31, 2009, which showed the Sunday newspaper then covered 63 percent of the city zone’s estimated 134,000 households.

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There’s no real split among Republicans of any age on familiar social issues – antiabortion and anti-gay rights, for example – there’s a new urgency about fiscal issues such as taxes, spending, debt.

“If we want to grow our party and our caucus we’re going to have to talk about issues that matter to people and we’re going to have to show that we can be effective,” Burris says. “We don’t need to grandstand and poke at all the old buttons that may have worked in 2004 or 2006 or whatever.”

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Smart talk

Contents Roy Brooks: Lightning rod again

BOW WOW FACTOR: An example of Little Rock dog groomer Angela Kumpe’s work, from a 2009 show.

Poodle power n Angela Kumpe, a Little Rock dog groomer, got international attention in an extensive feature article recently in the New York Times. For the third year, she won the top prize — and $1,500 — for the creative challenge event at Intergroom, a national competition for groomers held in Seacaucus, N.J..

First, she clipped and dyed a standard poodle as a tribute to Elvis, with his image on one side and a guitar on the other.

Then she turned a dog into a peacock. This year, she shaped a standard poodle into a grieving angel as a tribute to her late mother, Linda Smead. A woman with hair tied in a bun was sculpted on one side of the dog. Carefully sculpted flowers and green leaves were part of the dog’s coat, too. Kumpe herself dressed in white and wore angel wings. Wrote the Times of the scene after Kumpe won the top prize: “Her father, Norman Smead, sat in the front row, holding a small dog. The dog’s white coat was smeared with faded colors. The father’s eyes were filled with tears.”

n Roy Brooks, fired as Little Rock School District superintendent and encouraged to move on from leadership of the eStem charter school when his salary proved too expensive, was hired recently as superintendent of the 5,000-student Americus, Ga., school district. Looks like history may repeat.

Brooks, who was fired by a black majority of the Little Rock School Board, was hired in a racially divided vote, 5-4. Whites on the Americus board voted for Brooks, who is black. Blacks opposed him to lead the majority black school district.

Brooks’ hiring was criticized in a local black newspaper, the Americus-Sumter Observer, which said he was the “worst superintendent they could find.” Dr. John D. Marshall, an NAACP leader and publisher of the paper, said the white majority hired “a man they could control.”

Brooks would be a “lap dog” to white Board members, an article in the paper said. Brooks’ catering to wealthy whites, including Democrat-Gazette publisher Walter Hussman and representatives of the Walton fortune, contributed to his rocky ride in Little Rock.

Do you believe in magic? n Does the name of Roosevelt still have political magic in it?

Evidently Bill Halter thinks so. Arkansas voters have received recorded messages from James Roosevelt, a grandson of FDR, urging them to vote for Halter for the U.S. Senate. Roosevelt, a lawyer and Democratic Party official, says that he and Halter fought together in Washington against privatization of Social Security.

Halter was a top Social Security official during the Clinton administration. Some Little Rockers will remember that another Roosevelt grandson, David, lived here for awhile.

Since moving away, he’s written a book about his grandmother, called “Grandmere,” which is what she liked to be called.

8 River Market trash

Merchants and landlords are unhappy with the cleanliness of President Clinton Avenue. – By Leslie Newell Peacock

8 A Main Street birthday

Bennett’s Military Supply turns 140 in May. – By Doug Smith

11 Academic All-Stars

Meet the 2010 Arkansas Times All-Star Team, 20 of the state’s brainiest high school seniors.

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5 The Observer

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47 Dining

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54 Lancaster ON THE COVER: Andrew Evans of Rogers.

Words n Where angels fear to trod: “McPherson Unit chaplain trods cellblocks where she served 6 years.” Trod is the past tense of tread. The chaplain treads today; she trod yesterday. There is no trods.

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n I say borrow and you say barrow: Our March 18 conclusion that bar pit comes from borrow pit did not settle the issue for Bruce Wood of Conway. He writes that when he was a child in Corning, his father explained to him that the dirt used to build up the highway “came from the bar pits just off the roadway. He said the word was spelled barrow, like a wheelbarrow. If, as [a previous contributor] pointed out, narrows is colloquially pronounced nars, then perhaps barrow likewise comes out bar.”

Perhaps. I turned to Random House for help, but it wasn’t much. There’s a listing for bar pit, which is described as a Western U.S. term, but the entry says only “See barrow pit.” Barrow pit, also described as “Western U.S.” is defined as “a roadside borrow pit dug for drainage purposes.” And borrow pit? It’s a civil engineering term for “a pit from which construction material, as sand or gravel, is taken for use as fill at another location.” We seem to be going in circles.

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n Incensed over incented: “Many corporations assume that agencies that accept equity in lieu of cash will be more incented because they will have ‘skin in the game.’”

Barbara Jaquish writes, “I’ve ground my teeth over ‘incentivize’ and now comes ‘incented.’ Tell me this is an anomaly and this ugly word won’t take off.”

How I wish I could give such an assurance. I’d never heard of incented until I received the Jaquish e-mail, and now I’m losing sleep over it. The ever-alert Bryan Garner has kept his eyes open, though. He says in his Modern American Usage that incentivize and incent are neologisms that have become vogue words, especially in American business jargon, and concludes “There is no good incentive to use either one.”

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On the way to work this

morning, in the parking lot down by the freeway, The Observer found some money among the pigeon poop. It wasn’t a lot — two fives and two singles, rolled up tight as a cigarette butt and then flattened into the pavement, as if a car had rolled over them. Pondering life’s mysteries as we are wont to do, we dropped our head just in time to spot Mr. Lincoln’s warm and gentle eye staring up at us like a kid looking through a knothole in a fence.

A second sooner or later, and we would have stepped over or on it and kept on strolling.

The Observer’s posture is terrible, and we keep our head down like a man riding a horse into a gale most of the time, which makes it all the more surprising that we haven’t found more dropped cash in our time here on earth. Either that, or people tend to hang onto currency way better than we give them credit for. It has happened rarely enough to us that we can remember every time it happened, along with the amount.

The first time was when we were 9 years old, walking home the halfmile from school, down dusty Hammond Road where we lived in those days.

The Still-Percolating Observer kicked over a clod and there, beneath it, was a single rumpled $100 bill. Twenty-five years later, The Observer still lies awake at night sometimes, wondering how that forlorn and dusty Benjamin came to be under that clod. It doesn’t seem to make sense – almost as if our 9-year-old mind wished it into existence there.

It’s probably a hell of a story, and in the unlikely event we’re lucky enough to make it to heaven, the origin of that bill is gonna be one of the first things The Observer inquires about during our time with The Big Guy, right after the formula for Coca-Cola and the whereabouts of Maud Crawford.

I can’t quite remember what I did with that hunnert, though I recall there was a lot of candy involved, and a remote controlled boat — along with a trip out to din-

ner for my family to rid myself of the dreaded curse of found money, which my older brother assured me would surely perch on my head if I didn’t share the love. All these years later, as I stooped to pick up the $12 bucks this morning, I heard him again. That didn’t mean I was dumb enough to leave it lying there, though.

Went out to Lorance Creek

Natural Area, south toward Pine Bluff, last weekend. We don’t remember Aprils of years past being this green.

The leaves are big, obscuring the new arrivals at Lorance, the yellow-throated vireos, the yellow-throated warblers, the prothonotary warblers, the Louisiana waterthrushes. You can hear them, though, loud and clear.

We were on the boardwalk with our yellow mutt when a couple approached, also in the company of their dogs. An older Chesapeake Bay retriever, a young fancy terrier of some sort.

Because dogs allow strangers to strike up a conversation, we did. The gentleman pointed to a spot and said he had shot his first squirrel there in the Lorance Creek swamp.

Skinned and ate it that night.

Not his favorite food, he confessed, but a fine moment in a childhood that included walks in woods just where he grew up.

He wasn’t unhappy he couldn’t hunt there any longer, we were relieved to hear. He was glad the swamp was still there, still wild. He and his wife visit often. It’s nice to know it will always be there, still thick with gums and sweetspire and cardinal flowers and royal ferns. Water rippling past the cypress trees. Wood ducks hiding.

Birds, even if they are obscured by a spring that comes a little too fast these days.

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Flo reports Since our house burned in November, we have been so blessed. We have a nice cottage for seniors in Otter Creek. People have been so good to us. We have all new furniture. God has met our needs. Our grandson Jarrod gave us a new bedroom suit. A niece, Melanie, gave us a round oak table and chairs. Ron Routh gave us a TV. So many gave gifts and money.

Psalms 91:11 says that He will give his angels charge over us. His angels were busy that day.

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No to Fogleman Re Mara Leveritt’s article on Judge John Fogleman’s candidacy for state Supreme Court: Nor do I want to see Fogleman on our high court. Disgraceful.

I’ve sent the article to my statewide email base along with my comment that Mr. Fogleman will not be receiving my vote.

The West Memphis Three case has always bothered me, and I recall the mother of one of the slain boys stating that she’d recognized a shoelace or something in the crime scene pictures that belonged to someone in her family and that she’d thought THAT man had committed the murders and had told law enforcement that at the time. Those poor young men, I have never thought they did this. I think they were easy targets because they were easy pickings for perhaps political reasons.

Thanks for putting out the truth.

Lisa Burks Conway

Rabble I was reading some of the signs the rabble rousers were carrying at the state Capitol recently during a Tea Party demonstration. One really stood out. It said, “God hates taxes.” That person really knows a lot. If he would read Matthew 22: 17-21, he’d see that Jesus explains it very simply. People who tried to trip him up asked if it was lawful to pay tribute (taxes) to Caesar. Jesus said, “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s.”

It would make me very uncomfortable to carry a sign in public proclaiming what God hates.

Peggy Wolfe Heber Springs

Tea parties I remember I once ran away from home as a young child. I never got any further than the neighbor kid’s yard and didn’t stay away from home any longer 6 april 29, 2010 • arkansas Times

than the time it took to get good and hungry. My mother never realized this rebellion even took place. Something else I remember from childhood was being taught in public school that the Boston Tea Party was about taxation without representation. The colonists were being taxed heavily without tangible benefits or services to show for it. Their American Revolution was all about claiming the right to establish and run their own government in order to provide for its people. Our presentday tea baggers say they don’t want their government to be so big or so involved in their lives. I feel that if they don’t want to pay federal, state, and local taxes that support “socialist” institutions like librar-

ies, public schools, universities, fire departments, public utilities, police forces, armed forces, Social Security, Employment Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Veteran’s Administrations, and government medical health care then let’s figure out a way to accommodate them. Let’s allow them to give up all the tangible benefits and services these taxes provide and allow them to live tax-free and benefit-free for as long as they desire. Then they may appreciate what that first tea party was all about, and I’ll bet it won’t be long before they too will get hungry and want to head back home just like I did.

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Ire is up My ire is up and I cannot hold back the words. At a hearing concerning my teaching abilities, my writings were presented as evidence of district disrespect. For that reason and because shared thoughts did not seem to generate change, I put my writing efforts into a novel. But the other paper, the one that begrudgingly makes positive comments about public schools, provoked these comments.

I pray each day that the earth does not shake because my school would crumble like an eggshell. There is no steel (except that added later to hold together cracked beams) in the building and tons of cracked concrete sit above on single brick columns and walls. My school continues to be used almost 60 years after it was built. Why? It is not replaced because the district does not have enough money. The district must parcel out money somewhat like fighting a blazing fire with an eye dropper and a cup of water.

Most of the school money goes to teacher pay. The other paper regularly mocks supposedly overpaid teachers.

I challenge you to write down a dollar figure for someone who spends around 180 days educating a child. Better yet, put down a dollar figure for the value of a parent because much of that time is spent parenting. In every profession there are some weak workers and teaching is no exception. However, most teachers are worth every cent they earn. This community should tax itself enough to keep good schools and good teachers.

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(4) Legalize and tax marijuana. In California alone this would generate $18 billon every year.

(5) Use enough of the money generated from the ideas above to improve our education system.

(6) Stop letting anybody’s religious beliefs affects the policies of our government. Separation of church and state is a great idea.

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It was a GOOD week for …

SEN. BLANCHE LINCOLN. She won some brief acclaim for tough legislation to increase regulation of derivatives trading. She also did well in a televised debate Friday night, not so well in an untelevised match with Bill Halter before a news organization.

GOING PRO. Razorback basketball star Courtney Fortson ended his college days (he dropped out of classes, too) by turning pro.

It was a bad week for …

WAL-MART. A federal appeals court signed off on a giant class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart over alleged discrimination in its pay and promotion of women. The suit could cover more than 1 million workers and billions in damages.

NEWSPAPERS. Figures show newspaper readership continued to decline in the six months ending March 31, including the core readership of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The D-G saw a drop in Sunday circulation despite picking up 15,000 subscribers from a combination of the paper with the former Stephens Media-owned newspapers in Northwest Arkansas.

The Sunday D-G’s penetration of the city zone continued to decline from 63 percent of households a year ago to 58.2 percent.

COLLEGE STUDENTS. The state Higher Education Department has proposed a sharp increase in the amount that tuition should contribute to the total cost of a college education.

This reduces the pressure on the state to subsidize college costs. It will inevitably diminish the value of the new lottery scholarships as rising tuition swiftly negates the benefits.

SOUTHWEST LITTLE ROCK. The state Pollution Control and Ecology Commission blocked an effort to shut the BFI landfill on Mabelvale Pike. The noxious neighborhood irritant can continue to operate under the decision for as much as three more years.

The PULASKI COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD. It invited a teacher strike with a divided vote to continue efforts to end recognition of the Pulaski Association of Classroom Teachers.

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Talking trash in the River Market Who’s responsible for cleanup?

By Leslie Newell Peacock

n Like a street in any nightclub district, President Clinton Avenue has a litter problem. Cigarette butts lie thick on the street any day; on Saturday and Sunday morning, the debris from partying the night before runs the gamut from butts and broken glass to blood and vomit.

Unlike most entertainment districts, however, Clinton Avenue is also the street that tourists and others stroll to get to the River Market, the Clinton Library, the Stephens Nature Center, the Main Library and other venues whose business is conducted during daylight hours and draws families. “It’s an embarrassment,” district developer Jimmy Moses told property owners at the River Market District Neighborhood Association meeting on Wednesday. “We’re inviting people into a sewer.”

Now, the neighborhood association is asking the city to schedule street sweepers to work the weekends, rather than weekdays, in the district, and for more garbage cans. Tim Heiple, association chair, said the group has bought and will soon begin installing cigarette butt receptacles on Clinton.

Mayor Mark Stodola, who attended the association’s meeting with assistant City Manager Bryan Day, noted that code requires property owners to clean up in front of their stores to the curb and

asked for “compliance.”

But Ernie Biggs’s Piano Bar owner Daniel Bryant pointed out that it’s the streets, not the sidewalks, that are dirty.

His employees, for better or worse, sweep into the street. Stodola suggested they use a dustpan. Tim Heiple, association chair, said in a “perfect world,” that might happen.

City parks used to assist in cleanup around the district, but budget cuts ended that. Property owners at one time got estimates on a private cleaning service, but it proved too costly and not all businesses were BUTTS BY THE BARREL:Trash accumulates in and on board with footing around the garbage can next to the police substation in the the bill. The Little Rock River Market.

Convention and Visitors Riverfest, suggested that organizations Bureau, which now operates the River be encouraged to adopt the River Market itself, cleans the market, the Market District, in the same way they do street in front and park area in back twice highways, to provide help cleaning up. weekly, COO Jim Rice told the mayor.

A surcharge on those who throw special No commitment was made on street events at the Riverfest Amphitheatre sweepers. Stodola said the city would be — which can produce tons of trash, able to provide more trashcans. now picked up by the city — was also DeAnna Korte, executive director of proposed.

Bennett’s turns 140 Camping gear to gas masks for sale.

By Doug Smith

n The few remaining businesses on Main Street are not old. The old-timers fled downtown or went out of business years ago. With one exception. Bennett’s Military Supplies at Third and Main is celebrating its 140th birthday May 7 and 8, which makes it one of the oldest businesses in Arkansas.

It’s easily the oldest on Main Street, where it’s been for the last 60 years. And it’s been owned by the same family since the beginning.

Two brothers, Max and Isaac Bennett, founded the store in North Little Rock in 1870. They were not selling army surplus from the Civil War. Bennett’s was just a dry goods store then. It was during World

War I that the family began taking in military surplus property and reselling it.

Sheree Meyer, the current owner, is the fifth generation of her family at the store. Her son, Adam Davenport, who works there part-time, is the sixth. Adam’s Marine Corps uniform works at the store fulltime. It’s on one of the mannequins in the window. Another Marine mannequin, bare-armed, is heavily tattooed. Meyer had that done at the tattoo parlor a couple of doors away.

People who’ve been in Little Rock for awhile will remember Meyer’s father, Joseph Kaufman, a familiar face on Main Street. They’ll probably remember the

suit of armor that stood in the window for years. The suit’s inside the store now.

Bags, boots, knives, camping gear, battle dress uniforms (called BDU’s), backpacks and camouflage netting are big sellers to hunters and others. Kids come in on weekends wanting knives and dog tags.

No firearms are sold, but pepper spray and stun guns are. Also working gas masks.

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n An article last week about Judge David Burnett’s role in the West Memphis Three murder case misidentified the author of a 2009 Arkansas Law Review article on the case. The author was David S. Mitchell Jr. Also, the article, titled “No to Fogleman,” reported that Victoria Hutcheson testified at the trial of Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin. She testified only at the trial of Jessie Misskelley Jr.

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It’s the 16th year for the only statewide recognition of academic achievement.

The winners will be recognized this week at a ceremony at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, a long-time sponsor of the program. They’ll receive plaques, checks for $250 and be filmed for features on AETN. Each year, we invite all schools public and private to nominate one male and one female senior student for the competition. Home-schooled students also can apply. The initial applicants are winnowed to a finalist round and veteran educators make the final selection of 10 males and 10 females for our team.

It’s always difficult to make decisions. There are no losers in the dozens of nominees.

Congratulations to all.

With this story you’ll find a list of all nominees, by hometown, and the students who made the final round of judging. Bottom line: Good things are happening in Arkansas schools.

INDEPENDENT: Melissa Richardson of Fayetteville, one of 12 kids in her family, is a standout. www.arktimes.com • april 29, 2010 11

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A helping hand

The quest for happiness

guess it’s just in my nature to sit down and help people. One of my favorite quotes is ‘teaching is learning twice.’ So I do that whenever I can. I benefit more from helping others than they do.”

That pretty much sums up Yazan “Zee” Al-Fanek. This 17-year-old honor student came to Little Rock with his family, from Amman, Jordan, when he was 12. He didn’t speak English at all, but learned quickly. He recently scored a 3 on his AP English exam, which is no easy feat, even for a native speaker.

“Now it’s funny because I correct people on their grammar,” Zee says.

Jeannie Moss, the AP English Literature teacher at Mills, describes Zee’s work ethic and passion for learning as “amazing.”

“There is a grant that pays students who score high on AP tests,” Moss says. “Zee qualified for some of that money this year and he didn’t want to accept it because he doesn’t think students should get paid to make good grades. So he decided that he would take out a couple of the teachers to dinner. He just has a great heart.”

When he’s not at school, studying, playing violin in the school’s orchestra or working on group projects, Zee volunteers his time, doing neuroscience research at the National Center for Toxicological Research near Pine Bluff.

“The medical profession needs people who actually care and want to help out other people and that’s what I want to do,” Zee says.

ruth and lasting happiness are not final destinations, but a manner in which we should travel.”

When Bro. Richard Sanker read the words on the page he was pleasantly surprised. Sanker has been asking students about the quest for truth and happiness for years, but has never received a response like the one from Alan Baltz.

“That’s the first time I’ve ever read anything quite like that from someone that age,” Sanker says. “He’s so centered and so focused on the right things, it’s beautiful to see. He’s wonderfully humble about it. He doesn’t walk around with his head in the air or anything like that. He’s just a down-toearth guy.”

And that manifests itself in the straight-A student’s interactions with other students.

“He loves to communicate and he can relate to anybody,” says Sanker.

“I’ve always respected my classmates,” Alan says. “I have no enemies and a bunch of unexpected friends, which is great. I just try to be a buddy to someone that needs help. If there’s a freshman that’s struggling, I’m going to try to help them. We’re here to get through this high school experience together and make it as good as possible, why not try to help each other out along the way? I’ve always been one to say, if you need something, ask me a question. If I can answer it, I will and that helps me learn too.”

Alan, a member of the Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps at Catholic and an amateur ham radio operator, wants to make a living out of helping people by becoming a doctor.

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hristian Braunfisch strolls effortlessly along the sidelines of the soccer field of his high school. He’s tall, thin, and, wearing the tie-and-blue-blazer Episcopal School uniform, looks like he just stepped out of the movie Rushmore.

“I don’t know.”

That’s what he says when asked what he wants to do with his life. Looking at his resume, you get the idea he’ll have plenty of options.

“Once I get out of college I want to go out and do something crazy,” he says. “I want to work in London, or trade on the Asian markets, or do something that I won’t be able to do later. But that’s all subject to change.”

Honor council, class president, TV show producer, cofounder of the Mathletes, varsity soccer, 9 AP classes — and that’s not even the whole list. Christian’s got a lot going on to say the least. But according to those at his high school, he handles it with ease.

“This generation seems to be able to do a lot of things — text each other and do research on the Internet, type out their papers, keep up with their favorite show on TV, play their sport and stay on top of the rest of their subjects — and do it all at the same time. It’s quite remarkable and Christian is definitely that kind of student,” says counselor Phil Hooper.

And though he may not know exactly what the future holds, he’s not sweating it.

“I’m just ready for new challenges,” he says.

hough a lot of our Academic All Stars naturally gravitate toward math and science, Fayetteville High School Valedictorian Pete Brooks is captivated by stories and the written word. From a very young age, he recalls, he wrote and put on plays for his family — so many, in fact, that his parents eventually bought him a video camera so he could perform for himself. It’s a love he has kept as he has matured, editing the Fayetteville High School literary magazine “Connotation,” and developing his fiction and plays into high art.

“I write something every day, even though it might be only an idea,” he said. “A lot of times I don’t finish what I’m writing, not because I give up, but I think especially right now, with my age and my experience, I don’t feel a need to finish everything … I like to think through things and tinker with them for my own enjoyment, and if I feel like I’ve gotten everything out of it personally, then I move on.”

That’s not to say that Pete is a one-trick pony. Though he admits that science is his least favorite subject, he has excelled in every class he has taken, landing a 4.09 GPA and the number one ranking out of his school’s academically competitive senior class of 531 students. Asked what he plans to do with his life, he says he’s just happy to not have to worry about it right now. “As far as careers go, my ideas of what I would do in the near future and in college haven’t really rested on an end in a career,” he said. “For now, I know these things that interest me, and I plan on just exploring those and seeing where it takes me.”

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ALAN BALTZ Age: 18 Hometown: Maumelle High School: Catholic High School Parents: Brad Baltz and Patricia Bourdo College plans: Hendrix, pre-med

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PETE BROOKS Age: 18 Hometown: Goshen High School: Fayetteville High School Parents: Sheri and Wayne Brooks College plans: Undecided

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or Southside High School’s James Brown, history isn’t something found in cloudy cases and dusty books. It’s happening all around us, right now. And he plans to catch it while it’s hot.

A fan of European history who hopes to be a college professor some day, he’s well on his way to making some history of his own. Ranked third in his class of 540, James has racked up a 4.28 grade point average and an ACT score of 33. He plays French horn in the Southside Rebel marching and concert bands, which afforded him a rare honor in 2009: playing on the deck of the battleship U.S.S. Missouri — where the surrender documents of Japan were signed at the end of World War II — during the 50th anniversary of Hawaii statehood.

“Me being a history buff and everything, it was incredible,” James said. “It was so cool. I couldn’t believe I was there where all that history had taken place, not very long ago in the past.”

For James, history is something that we’re literally experiencing every minute. “It’s not like you have to go into a lab to encounter history,” he said. “Each second that goes by is history.” Asked why he pushes himself so hard academically, he gives an answer that would probably make Doris Kearns Goodwin proud: “It’s what I owe. I owe it to my friends, and all the people that have tried hard in my own life. They haven’t just done what’s enough.”

JAMES BROWN Age: 18 Hometown: Fort Smith High School: Southside High School Parents: Jim and Rhonda Brown College plans: University of Arkansas

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llen Eubanks sports an unblemished transcript, stuffed with As in the grade column, leaving her with an impressive 4.12 grade point.

When asked what drives her to maintain such a perfect streak of grades, the bubbly, personable Arkadelphia High senior laughs bashfully, saying, “Heck, I just really don’t like getting bad grades!”

While her performance in the classroom is uniform, her extra-curricular activities are undeniably varied: drum major for Arkadelphia’s prestigious, prodigious marching band, member of the tennis and soccer teams, Quiz Bowl competitor, National Honor Society … the list goes on, and ever diverse.

She speaks about the months she spent wrestling with Frederic Chopin. Rather, wrestling with his “Nocturne in C Sharp Minor,” a delicate, expressive piece for piano with an intimidating amount of difficult polyrhythms. The complexities of the song made it difficult to memorize and, as Ellen says, without memorization, one can’t perform the song with necessary nuance and expression. But, after months of tenacity and encouragement from her instructor, Carol Houston, she learned the pride of conquering a piece that’s challenged pianists of every skill level for 175 years.

Having already enrolled (and excelled) in Latin and indoor climbing classes at Ouachita Baptist, Ellen plans on continuing her tenure as a Tiger, studying English. A fan of fantasy books from Tolkien to Brandon Sanderson, she sees herself either writing her own brand of escapist literature or acting as an editor at a publishing house.

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Episcopal Collegiate School Salutes the 2010 Academic All-Star Team and Congratulates our Graduating Class of 2010.

ELLEN EUBANKS Age: 18 Hometown: Arkadelphia High School: Arkadelphia High Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Byron Eubanks College plans: Ouachita Baptist, English.

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ike a lot of people in this world, K. Amanda Carr has a painful past. Unlike most, however, she’s not letting it slow her down. A victim of mental and physical abuse that she said left her feeling like a prisoner a lot of the time when she was younger, Amanda and her mother were eventually able to escape from their difficult situation at home.

Some of the police and social workers involved in her case feared it might hold her back for life. In response, she resolved not to let it, and has succeeded in spades. She will graduate with a 4.44 GPA and is first in her class of 239 at Alma High School.

“I actually got asked the question the other day about what has been the most important lesson I’ve learned in life,” Amanda said. “And I just had to say that it’s just to be strong.

That sounds generic, but after everything I’ve gone through, it’s just all you can do really. You’ve got to depend on others, but you’ve got to depend on yourself.”

In addition to her demanding academic schedule, Amanda finds time to volunteer at a long list of charities catering to victims of violence, including The Crisis Center for Women and the Morgan Nick Foundation. She picked the colleges she applied to based on the quality of their non-profit leadership courses, and plans on working in and hopefully leading a non-profit when she’s older.

“I guess I have a perfectionist tendency,” Amanda said of her academic career. “It gives me a sense of accomplishment to know that I’ve done something for myself, and that it’s going to pay off in the end. Maybe it’ll help me to help other people in the long run.”

K. AMANDA CARR Age: 18 Hometown: Mulberry High School: Alma High School Parent: Annette Carr College plans: Davidson College, North Carolina, or University of Tulsa

All-around senior A sinewy senior from Rogers, Andrew Evans encapsulates the idea of “student athlete.” A multiple award-winning cross-country star who finds time to captain his team and lead his marching band’s percussion section. Evans not only sports a hectic schedule and a crowded letterman jacket, but an astonishing 35 on his ACT, as well.

Anyone who went to high school knows it’s easy for the exceptionally talented — both academically and athletically — to get a little cocky, but, as Shiloh Christian counselor Debbie Diehm reiterates, “He’s enormously humble and unpretentious; you’d never suspect someone who flies under the radar so well to be so gifted.”

That’s not to say that he keeps to himself, however. Diehm also applauds Andrew for his skills as a great encourager, a major trait which helped him lead his cross-country team to the 3A state championship in 2007. “He’s always thinking of others first,” she says.

His modesty doesn’t end at the school doors, either. A frequent volunteer, he’s spent time in remote Honduran villages with his church, gathered school supplies for the underprivileged and works with Blessing Baskets, an annual Thanksgiving food distribution organization.

A student of math and the sciences, Andrew will continue his education (and running career) at Harding University, where he plans to study mechanical engineering.

When asked what drives him to consistently go the extra mile, Andrew, in his understated way says simply, “I’m just motivated to be the best I can be and I’ll do whatever it takes.”

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ANDREW EVANS Age: 17 Hometown: Rogers High School: Shiloh Christian School Parents: John D. & Betty Evans College plans: Harding University, mechanical engineering

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ike a lot of our All-Stars, Savannah Fletcher has a resume to make college administrators drool. She’s a National Merit Finalist. She scored within a point of perfect on the ACT. She’s set to graduate with a 4.39 GPA in the rigorous International Baccalaureate diploma program, which puts her atop a competitive Mount Saint Mary’s class.

She’s been a varsity cheerleader for four years. She’s on the Quiz Bowl team. She’s tutored students at Franklin Elementary and volunteered at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center. And lest you think everything Savannah does comes in service of padding said resume, Mount Saint Mary’s counselor Tricia Davis reports that, even though she asks her students to tell her everything they do outside of the classroom that might be relevant to college applications, Savannah never mentioned perhaps her most impressive extracurricular activity — that she successfully navigated the Byzantine world of grant writing at 16. The idea came after hearing from her mother about the Union Rescue Mission’s financial woes.

“I didn’t really have many resources,” she explained, “but I started researching extensively on the Internet and found possibilities. It ended up fruitfully.” The grant landed Union Rescue $2,000 and products from Maybelline.

Savannah says her ability to balance a full schedule is simply an offshoot of her personality. “I’m naturally driven.

I like to be busy. I don’t like to sit around. I want to feel like I’m accomplishing something.” Next on her list: Attending Vanderbilt, where she plans on majoring in biomedical engineering with a focus on pre-med.

he will to compete, a quality anyone who finishes first in her class must possess, comes naturally to Breanna Harris. Like from the womb, naturally.

Harris and her fraternal twin, Chelsea, have made straight A’s since they started school, and throughout their high school career each has been jockeying to best the other in class ranking. But they’ve finished, predictably, tied for valedictorian. Asked, mostly in jest, if they’ll alternate words in their graduation speech, Breanna said, “That’s what we suggested, but we don’t know if the counselor will go for it.”

Change is on the horizon for Breanna. Not only will she and Chelsea go to different colleges next year — Breanna is bound for the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, while Chelsea will head to the University of Mississippi (“I give them one semester,” their father Lesley Harris said, laughing) — it will be the first time Breanna isn’t competing in sports. Basketball and track, in particular, have been her favorites.

This year she was captain of both teams at Riverview.

“Speed is exhilarating,” Breanna wrote in her All-Stars’ essay. “The feel of the wind passing through my hair or the patter of feet chasing after me creates a feeling I never want to lose.”

She said she’ll apply that determination and devotion to moving fast to the classroom at UAFS, where she plans to go pre-med in psychology.

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tephanie Lim is itching for college. She got a taste in 2008, when she attended an eight-week summer school program at Harvard, where she says she made friends with people from all across the country (and Singapore), whom she still talks to at least four times a week.

She also managed to get a better grade than classmates from prestigious prep schools like Andover and Exeter in a class all Harvard freshman are required to take.

“I think that speaks well for Searcy High School,” she said. “I feel prepared.” Of course, Stephanie should certainly feel free to take some credit herself. In 10th grade, in her free time, she started working with a professor at Harding University’s pharmacy department — analyzing data and statistics and writing — on a paper on amphetamine sensitization that they submitted to the journal Behavioural Brain Research (it’s currently in a follow-up round of editing). Also in 10th grade, she started a school community service organization, Humanitarian Efforts for Life Progression. Through HELP, she organized groups to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, raised money for the Susan B. Komen foundation and started a recycling program at high school basketball games.

In addition to graduating first in her class, scoring a perfect 36 on the ACT and becoming a National Merit Finalist, Stephanie has been the clarinet section leader in band throughout high school. Somehow, she also found time to compete with the varsity swim team and play violin in the Harding University orchestra. As for a course of study at either Harvard or Princeton, she’s not sure. “I like too many things.”

elio Liu isn’t being immodest when he mentions his work ethic. His teachers say the same. He says he’ll spend a whole night reading about an esoteric subject such as “deinterlacing and frame rate correction in video” or spend five hours’ work at home to make up for a wasted school period. His AP statistics teacher (one of 21 AP courses he’s taken) says that when others are visiting at lunch hour, Helio is likely to be working on physics. “He wants to be the best,” his teacher wrote. “And IS number one in the state in statistics.” He’s also leading his Science Bowl team to national competition this week.

The results of his hard work are a sparkling resume. Helio’s had nearly perfect scores on both the SAT and ACT tests. He’s a National Merit scholarship semi-finalist. He’s a star in math, programming and engineering competitions.

He’s not just a classroom grind. He plays viola in the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. He tutors other students in AP courses.

And, teachers say, he has a quick wit. “You won’t find traditional humor,” he says. “You’ll find things like math jokes mixed with some strange irony.” Last summer at Governor’s School, it was Helio who led a group that decorated the courtyards at Hendrix College with giant chalked Pokemon drawings.

Underneath it all is a seriousness of purpose. “I want to save the world,” he wrote in his application essay. “Not from aliens or terrorists, but from pollution and waste.”

He’s interested in an academic career, which he sees as a freer environment than the private world. His early prep work includes the UAMS Medical Applications of Science for Health summer program and the UALR High School Research Program. He’ll graduate from Central No. 1 in a class of 527 students, with a grade point average of 4.54.

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HELIO LIU Age: 18 Hometown: Little Rock High School: Central High School Parent: Yuzhi Chen College plans: University of Arkansas for environmental or electrical engineering

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Reading is fundamental

Hands-on

ara McCollum would shine anywhere with her straight-A average, 33 ACT score, AP courses whenever possible and top ranking in a class of 227. In a school district where poverty requires a major school focus on underachievers, she sparkles even brighter. “One of my biggest challenges has been creating opportunity,” she says.

She’s taken enough courses at the local community college — in voice, piano and other subjects — to qualify for an associate of arts degree. She encouraged Forrest City High to create an Advanced Placement course in studio art. Two years ago, she helped start the school’s student government and now is its president.

Cara says her achievement started with a love of reading. She wrote in her All-Star application essay that books have taken her around the world, from Sierra Leone with child soldiers to California with Dust Bowl Okies. More concretely, the learning they inspired took her to the Duke Talent Identification Program, where she studied dystopian literature, and to the Interlochen Summer Academy, where she worked on creative writing.

Reading isn’t a selfish pursuit. Cara started a monthly story time at the Boys and Girls Club. She donated more than 1,000 books to a children’s library. She started a countywide Birthday Book program for poor children aged 5-10, an outgrowth of the Christmas-time Toys for Tots campaign.

Parents who registered for toys also were provided a book.

She later expanded the birthday book program to a local elementary school, with a gift book for every child. Cara’s work made her a finalist in the annual Daniel Cayce Award competition for youth volunteerism.

She isn’t strictly bookish. She’s a dancer and artist (a prize-winner in print-making and watercolor). She also sings, plays the piano and debates. Because of her love of literature, she thinks she’ll major in English in college.

orey Post arrived at Pulaski Academy in his junior year from Lexington, Ky. But, said counselor Cheryl Watts, “It’s like he’d been here from the first.”

Pulaski Academy doesn’t rank its students, but Corey’s grades in AP biology, calculus, government, composition, literature and Spanish V range from 96 to 100. He’s a National Merit semi-finalist.

He tells counselor Watts that he particularly likes physics because of the hands-on work at figuring out how things work. Hands-on is a good description for what Corey lists as his greatest achievement. He’s been an active Boy Scout since the fourth grade, putting in 115 hours designing, supervising and laboring in the construction of a horseshoe pit for a retirement home as his Eagle Scout project.

Despite his strong inclination toward math and science (he’s done independent work at his father’s UAMS lab on cellular receptors), Corey has blossomed in the humanities, too. In History Day competition last year, he wrote and filmed a documentary on an early leader for Irish independence. The project reached the national finals. His success inspired him to take a senior thesis class, which requires original research and a paper of at least 50 pages. Corey is writing his on copyright infringement, with a focus on Internet data piracy. Outside the classroom, he’s president of the school’s Amnesty International chapter. He leads on ongoing project to teach others about the Republic of the Congo and to raise money through bake sales and solicitations for work there, such as by Doctors Without Borders. After the earthquake in Haiti, the Amnesty chapter quickly switched focus and raised $1,500 for relief efforts. And what would classmates probably remember most about Corey? Probably the day he showed his AP history class during a five-minute break how to solve the Rubik’s Cube.

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ou can learn a lot when you’re the second-oldest in a family of 12 children. Melissa Richardson has.

“I learned to be independent and responsible at a very early age and have been conscious of my position as a role model and leader for the rest of my family. Also, I have become a pro at babysitting 10 children at a time!”

She wasn’t always so comfortable with her lot. She remembers being stared at when her mother picked her up at school in a 15-passenger van filled with chattering children and a crying baby.

“Those were the junior high days, those conformist days when you don’t want to stand out for fear of ridicule. That’s when my family was an embarrassment. It wasn’t until I got past the ‘wanting to be normal’ stage that I realized how much the experience of growing up in a big family has shaped my character.” (Seven of the 12 children are the biological children of Connie and Vernon Richardson. The other five were adopted from Russia.)

Melissa wants to be a child psychologist or psychiatrist.

She seems well-equipped. She ranks first in a class of 531.

She’s co-editor of the school newspaper, a member of the honors choir, the National Honor Society and Mu Alpha Theta, and president of the National French Honor Society.

She was in the cast of the school musical “Bye Bye Birdie.”

She’s a volunteer at the Veterans Hospital, a youth music leader at her church, and the church choir pianist. She’s a National Merit semi-finalist, an AP Scholar with Honors and ranked in the top 6 on a national French exam.

pencer Sharp loves cars, which is not unusual among people his age. The things he does to cars are unusual.

For example, he’s working with three classmates to convert six police cruisers to run on natural gas. “We hope to set an example for people to shy away from gasoline.” When he was in the seventh grade, he began dreaming about restoring a classic car with his dad. In the ninth grade, he found the car of his dreams — a 1971 Chevelle SS. His father bought it, and the two of them have worked on it for more than two years, “transforming a rusty eyesore into a beautiful, reliable vehicle.” Spencer drives it to school. It’s a constant reminder, he says, that hard work and determination pay off.

He hopes to work on even more sophisticated vehicles.

He plans to major in aerospace engineering at Oklahoma State University, which has an aerospace program affiliated with NASA. Spencer is president of Mu Alpha Theta and a member of the AP Academy, the Astronomy Club, the Ecology Club, the Spanish Club and the Spanish Honor Society. He’s tutored other students in math and coached fourth-grade Quiz Bowl contestants. He’s a National Merit semi-finalist and an AP Scholar with honor. He was one of eight Arkansans chosen to compete in a “Who Wants to Be a Mathematician?” contest hosted by the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and he was a member of an Algebra II team that placed ninth in a national competition.

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COREY POST Age: 18 Hometown: Little Rock High School: Pulaski Academy Parents: Drs. Steven and Ginell Post College plans: Considering University of Illinois to study chemistry

SPENCER SHARP Age: 18 Hometown: Cabot High School: Cabot Parents: Kevin and Amy Sharp College plans: Oklahoma State University, double major in aerospace and mechanical engineering

Arkansas Academic Challenge SCHOLARSHIP

With additional funding made possible by the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery, the Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship has been expanded to provide opportunities for higher education to previously underserved Arkansans.

The award amounts for the Academic Challenge Scholarship are $5,000 per year for a full-time student to attend a four-year university and $2,500 per year for a full-time student to attend a two-year college (includes approved nursing schools).

THE REQUIREMENTS: • Open to high school seniors, currently enrolled college students and nontraditional students • Must be an Arkansas resident and attend an approved Arkansas institution • Applicants must complete the Arkansas YOUniversal Scholarship Application and submit the FAFSA

• For graduating high school seniors, application deadline date is June 1 • All other applicants, application deadline dates are June 1 for fall term and November 1 for spring term • For complete details and academic eligibility requirements please visit www.adhe.edu

HOW TO APPLY Take advantage of the new online universal application available at www.adhe.edu.

It’s your one-stop shop for state and lottery-funded financial aid. With the new online application you can: • Search and apply for scholarships and grants • Create your account • Check your status • Receive alerts and notices through email • Manage your account 24/7

Financial Aid Division | 114 East Capitol Avenue | Little Rock, AR 72201 Email: finaid@adhe.edu (800) 54-STUDY (501) 371-2050 – Greater Little Rock | www.adhe.edu www.arktimes.com • april 29, 2010 17

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Stagestruck

Poet, math whiz, biologist

icholas Stevens is involved in many activities at his school, but “What I am truly passionate about is performing. I love the stage. My greatest accomplishments in high school haven’t been my grades or being voted Senior Class president. No, I am most proud of my performance in ‘Grease,’ my work on the choreography for the choir’s rendition of ‘The Pink Panther,’ and the skits I created for the choir’s annual Follies program.” Since he wrote that, he’s added another star to his performing crown.

Last month, he played Snoopy in a production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.”

His other accomplishments aren’t small either. Academically, he ranks first in a class of 165. His grade point average is 4.29 in what a counselor calls “one of the most rigorous courses of study we offer.” He’s vice president of the Student Council, a member of the choir, the Beta Club and the National Honor Society, and works on the yearbook. He is the lone student representative on his school’s Site-base Council, which includes teachers, an administrator and a parent.

He was a delegate to Boys State and a National Merit semifinalist. He’s a worship leader at his church, and a volunteer at Fishnet Missions and the Costume Corner. Nicholas is “a driving force in every senior activity,” according to counselor Suzanne Knowles. She adds that he’s also “fun, and can make many difficult situations enjoyable.”

lmost in the same breath in which she describes herself as “more normal than a lot of people,” Ariel Teague notes that because of her passion for writing, “When I go home, my forearms are covered with notes or ideas. I love to write. It’s my bread and butter. There is something undeniably right about a pen.” So it may come as a small surprise that the straight-A student and AP Scholar with Distinction, who exults “Ariel Teague Loves John Donne Forever,” is considering a pre-med track at Lyon College, which she’ll attend on full scholarship. And that the thirdplace winner of the Poetry Out Loud contest is a Mu Alpha Theta member. But Ariel doesn’t see a conflict in her love of literature and her scientific goals. “Some math,” she tries to explain to a reporter, “is not going to use integrals,” and she loves science. And while she says she’d jump off a bridge for her English teacher (Oretha Ferguson), she calls her biology teacher, John Ford, “amazing.” She has another reason to go into medicine: She’d like to do research in the disease that her mother suffers from, schizophrenia, a disease that took her mother from her home. In an essay, Ariel wrote, “If, one day, a little girl doesn’t see her family ripped apart by such a disease, well, there’s not much more I could honestly ask for.” This summer, however, she’s going to take it easy.

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inda Porter, a counselor at Central High School who has worked for 35 years in education, says Yi Wu is one of the most highly motivated students she’s ever worked with. It might be because, as Yi says, in Chinese culture “kids are supposed to fulfill their parents’ dreams.” But, she quickly adds, though she feels a certain amount of pressure to succeed, “At the same time I want to do this, to get a good job and be successful.” Here’s what the No. 2 student at Central High School can offer: A head for math — she finished all of Central’s AP math offerings by the end of her junior year and so is taking Calculus 3 at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock this year. A head for science — a research paper on which she is listed as the second author, “Arsenic Trioxide as Potential Treatment for Multiple Myeloma,” is under review for publication in the journal Hematology. She speaks and reads Chinese. She is creative, enjoying buying clothing from the resale stores and then altering it to make it different (like the “hideous” dress she bought for $5, cut up and added gold to wear to the National Youth Conference in D.C.). And she can write, as her essay suggests: “While the rest of my girlfriends were busy batting their lashes at high school jocks, dreaming of the day when they could be declared the ‘alpha girl’ with one of them hooked in their arms, I was profusely batting my eyes at the computer screen, trying to understand the Greek in front of me on something called the Annual Percentage Rate.” Yi must have figured it out, because, inspired by an AP economics class, she plans to major in business and get an MBA. Then, she wants to go into international business, perhaps as a liaison between an American company or organization and China.

nn Xu’s childhood was slightly out of the ordinary.

She grew up at the Shanghai Restaurant, owned and operated by her parents in Hot Springs. “I would go every day, and go to the library and check out two or three books. … I would just sit and read in my corner and eat food off the buffet.” Sometimes she sat with favorite customers; some of them taught her how to read. The regulars at the restaurant became her extended family, filling in for her grandparents in China, her brother 10 years her senior. (Ann extended her family herself — had her parents not stayed in China, she pointed out, they could not have had a second child.) The experience gave her respect for hard work, which must have been required to make straight A’s at the state’s school for students gifted in science and math. (“My friends tell me that I work too much,” she confided.) Outside school, Ann is president of the national Rotary service club Interact, which has worked with the Boys and Girls Club in Hot Springs. In the gaps of time left over, she plays piano and flute. Ann thinks she may go into business law or medicine, but she is undecided. She knows this: “I want to be able to help people. I feel like a lot of people have helped me.” She’s looking forward to college, what she calls “another door that opens.” She was trying to make a decision which door to enter as this issue went to press.

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YI WU Age: 19 Hometown: Little Rock High School: Central High School Parents: Jumei Shi and Xiao Song Wu College plans: MIT, Boston or University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

ANN XU Age: 18 Hometown: Hot Springs High School: Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts Parents: Longhua Xu and Shunying Chen College plans: Undecided; will major in business law or medicine

The nominees Here are the nominees for the 2010 Arkansas Times Academic All-Star Team, organized by the students’ hometowns.

ALMA Brooks Blanton Alma High School

ALTUS Priscilla Her Westside High School Justin McCormick Westside High School

ARKADELPHIA Ellen Eubanks Arkadelphia High School

Will Sonheim Arkadelphia High School

BALD KNOB Amber Dugger Bald Knob High School

BATESVILLE Samantha Hallowell Southside High School

BAUXITE Chelsey Smith Bauxite High School

BAY Rebecca Lauren Rutherford Bay High School

BEEBE Judd Burns Beebe High School Sarah Martin Beebe High School

BEE BRANCH Brian Jackson South Side High School

BEECH GROVE Molly Elizabeth Young Paragould High School

BENTON Hayden Davis Bauxite High School Julia Davis Benton High School

BERRYVILLE Chelsea Taff Berryville High School

BRYANT Aaron Rice Bryant High School Olivia Ruple Bryant High School

CABOT Grace Coggins Cabot High School Spencer Sharp Cabot High School

CAMDEN Ryan Evans Harmony Grove High School

Tyler Feemster Parkers Chapel High School

Nick Kordsmeier Conway High School

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Thomas Deatherage Clinton High School Annice Olejniczak Clinton High School

CONWAY Ann Catherine Corbitt Conway High School

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Jared Kanady Dover High School

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Brittany Walker Dover High School

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FARMINGTON Blake Abrecht Farmington High School

FAYETTEVILLE Pete Brooks Fayetteville High School Grace Heymsfield Elkins High School Lindsay Nickell Farmington High School Melissa Richardson Fayetteville High School FORREST CITY Cara McCollum Forrest City High School

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GREEN FOREST Bryce Hostatler Berryville High School

HARRISBURG Josh Fallon Harrisburg High School

HENSLEY Caitlin Renee Buchanan Sheridan High School

HARRISON Ashley Nicole Long Bergman High School

HOT SPRINGS Sierra Sunshine Mendoza Cutter Morning Star High School Karina Sanders Lake Hamilton High School Tawny Smedley Hot Springs High School Zachary Tilley Lake Hamilton High School JaCarri Tollette Hot Springs High School Ann Xu Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts

HOXIE Shayla Coats Hoxie High School

HUNTSVILLE Lindsay Davis Kingston High School

JACKSONVILLE Nicholas Stevens Jacksonville High School

JONESBORO Morgan Ann Caples Valley View High School Devin Griffen Bay High School Madison Mashburn Nettleton High School David Ramsey Crowley’s Ridge Academy

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MAUMELLE Alan Patrick Baltz Catholic High School for Boys

Christian Braunfisch Episcopal Collegiate School

Daniel Joseph Hopkins Arkansas Baptist High School

Christopher Cranford Hall High School

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La’Vada Gardner McClellan High School Rachel Garrett Episcopal Collegiate School

Autumn Paige Davies Mount VernonEnola High School

MULBERRY Amanda Carr Alma High School

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n The author of what he hopes will be a best-selling book was in town recently advancing his odd notion that the poisonous political discourse of today began with the investigation and 1998 impeachment of Bill Clinton, suggesting that Clinton was as much at fault as his persecutors. We’ve noted earlier that the political “total war” began at least as far back as Ronald Reagan’s decision to appoint only reactionary Republicans to federal judgeships. The “Doonesbury” comic strip Sunday reminded us of another milestone preceding Monica Lewinsky and the Clinton impeachment. This was Newt Gingrich’s infamous 1994 memo instructing Republican candidates to lash their Democratic opponents with words like “sick, disgrace, corrupt, cheat, decay, pathetic, radical, traitor, greed, antifamily,” etc. That memo, Doonesbury pointed out, was “the Magna Carta of attack politics. It codified the toxic rhetoric that came to define an era.” Another pre-impeachment landmark was “The Clinton Chronicles,” a video that accused Clinton of a couple of dozen murders, among other offenses.

It was shown and sold widely, with the acquiescence of the mainstream media. Not since Franklin Roosevelt was president, maybe not since Lincoln, had such a savage attack on a sitting president been so indulged. The impeachment of Bill Clinton was not the beginning of political terrorism, but an example of its protracted practice.

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n The primary elections are May 18 and early voting begins Monday, May 3. Here are some of the Arkansas Times’ choices, all of them candidates in the Democratic primary: CIRCUIT JUDGE TIM FOX for the Arkansas Supreme Court, Position 6. He’s ruled wisely in tough cases, including his finding that a state rule prohibiting homosexuals from serving as foster parents was unconstitutional. His chief opponent, Court of Appeals Judge Karen Baker, seeks votes from the Religious Right by slyly criticizing this decision.

WENDELL GRIFFEN for circuit judge in District 6, Division 5, Subdistrict 6.1. The former Court of Appeals judge has an admirable public record, as well as the gravitas and integrity to restore respect to this judgeship, whose previous occupant was removed by the state Supreme Court for violations of judicial ethics.

JAY BARTH for the state Senate, District 34. The college professor would bring intellect and empathy to the Senate. The record of his opponent does not inspire trust.

REP. RICHARD CARROLL for re-election to the House of Representatives from District 39. A former member of the Green Party, Carroll is a progressive and independent legislator. His opponent, Sen. Tracy Steele, has been often allied with the special-interest groups who seek to control the legislature, and too often succeed.

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WHAT’S OUT THERE?: A child gazes out of a window on the third floor of the Central Arkansas Library System’s Main Library in this photo submitted to our eyeonarkansas flickr webpage by Don Dailey.

Dilemmas n Early voting opens at 8 a.m. Monday, May 3.

Among the quandaries remaining on the Democratic side of the ballot: • The Democratic primary race for 2nd Congressional District. Retiring Rep. Vic Snyder will be hard to replace. But there’s a rich Democratic candidate pool, progressive almost to a fault (the possible fault being House Speaker Robbie Wills).

Snyder’s former staff chief, David Boling, lawyer John Adams (who happens to be a friend of my daughter) and Patrick Kennedy, a former Clinton School employee, lack name recognition, but not brains or energy. They are reminiscent of the unknown Arkansas law professor who rose to prominence in a 1974 congressional race. There’s one more candidate with name recognition, Sen. Joyce Elliott, a friend of unions, immigrants and sexual minorities, to name just a few unpopular causes she’s fearlessly championed. She happens to be black, with a stirring personal biography. Can a black liberal win a district that defeated Barack Obama in 2008 and which has a small black voting base outside Pulaski County?

• The race for state Supreme Court between Judge Courtney Henry and Judge John Fogleman. Fogleman enjoys broader support from attorneys, including prominent lawyers from Henry’s Fayetteville hometown, for the simple reason that she lacks necessary experience, her year on the Court of Appeals notwithstanding. Her outpouring of nursing home financial support isn’t reassuring, either. Fogleman is nearly universally applauded as a trial judge. But his resume bears a stain as a prosecutor in the West Memphis Three case 17 years ago.

Appeal court affirmation of those murder convictions — particularly given discoveries in years since — doesn’t whitewash the prosecutorial overreaches, particularly the dubious testimony by a bogus expert in Satanism that helped leverage a thin, circumstantial case into a death sentence. It would help if Fogleman would concede, given the subsequent revelations, an

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understanding of the skepticism about the trial (the death jury’s improper consideration of an inadmissible confession is another outrage). A consideration in this race, too, is the lack of a woman on the sevenmember Supreme Court. It shouldn’t be corrected in another Supreme Court race where Judge Tim Fox is the clear choice over Judge Karen Baker, whose forces have been working quietly behind the scenes to whip up religious-based fervor against some of Fox’s principled rulings. But Henry’s avowed admiration for Chief Justice John Roberts’ “philosophy” is no comfort for feminists.

• The race for U.S. Senate. Liberals sneer at incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln for her billionairefriendly legislating, but she has modestly progressive scores on most broad indexes of voting records. She could have killed health insurance reform legislation but didn’t. Her chief opponent, Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, has won labor support because Lincoln deserted unions, but he’s avoided declarations on some of the big issues. You sense that he’d be more progressive, but can you be sure? He’s also hard to warm up to personally. Finally, his singular achievement — the state lottery — is a disincentive. The state is already backsliding on its commitment to higher education with the knowledge that lottery money (read poorer voters’ ticket purchases) will pick up the slack. One consideration is the possibility that Lincoln would be the strongest challenger, on account of her perceived centrism, to the likely Republican nominee, a baggage-laden U.S. Rep. John Boozman.

I’m leaning toward Adams and Fogleman. HalterLincoln? I may need a coin.

Lincoln plays Hattie n For an all-too-brief interlude it looked like Senator Blanche Lincoln might have settled on the staple Arkansas political strategy for hard and discontented times: go after Wall Street and the financial trusts.

She reprised Hattie Caraway and Jeff Davis, who exploited popular anger with financiers, commodities exchanges and trusts to win big victories for the Senate and, in Davis’s case, for governor, too.

Hammered by her more liberal Democratic opponent for voting for the financial bailout of 2008 and for taking hundreds of thousands of campaign dollars from the finance industry, Lincoln suddenly sprang a bill on the Agriculture Committee, which she chairs, that imposes some pretty draconian regulations on bank trading of derivatives, the cloudy securities that were a leading cause of the financial collapse of 2008.

Eager to help their distressed colleague, Democrats on the Agriculture Committee quickly reported the bill out, and its central provisions were incorporated this week into the broad financial reform bill that Democratic leaders and President Obama hope to push to a final vote next month.

Everybody on Capitol Hill wants to be known as favoring tough financial reform, but Lincoln claimed that her bill was the toughest of all, and on derivatives she was probably right. It would require for the first time that derivatives be traded in the

Ernest Dumas open on exchanges, but transparency, we should have learned in the past decade, is oversold. It gives investors and the general public a false sense of safety and trust but it doesn’t stymie the malefactors.

But Senator Lincoln’s bill goes further.

If a bank did not spin off its trading of credit default swaps, an especially lucrative form of derivatives, it could not get its retail deposits insured by the FDIC and it couldn’t queue up at the Federal Reserve window to get cheap loans if it got into trouble. That has to make Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and J. P. Morgan Chase take notice.

For scant days Blanche Lincoln was the toast of Washington. Though her own rhetoric was polite, she was for a few days the scourge of Wall Street. If she avoided the Huey Long style of bombast herself, Republicans accused her and her committee of it. “Pandering populism that just dislikes anything that has to do with Wall Street,” Senator Judd Gregg, R-NH, called it.

The style worked for Senator Caraway, Lincoln’s exemplar, in 1932, at the depth of the Great Depression, and for Davis a century ago after the Long Depression,

Blanche wants to be as liberal as Halter n A reporter from Politico asked U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln on Saturday if Bill Halter was more liberal than she.

Her answer two weeks ago would have been pretty much this: “Oh, yes. Just look at who’s behind him, national labor unions and moveon.org. I’ve always been a moderate, a centrist, a pragmatist, trying to represent the strong independent streak of Arkansas people. That’s why the national liberals have come after me. I think he’s more representative of an extreme national liberal agenda and that it’s an agenda not always in tune with Arkansas Democrats.”

That’s been the essence and mantra of Lincoln’s success over two decades in Arkansas politics. She’s a middle-of-theroader who gets the business and farm vote while hanging on to traditional Democratic constituents such as African-Americans.

But here is what she said Saturday in answer to that question: “No. He’s just trying to get elected.”

I don’t know which part of the answer was more jarring — that she wants to be a co-equal liberal with Halter or that she wants to downplay his genuine liberalism or that she believes it serves Halter’s victory

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prospects to be seen as more liberal.

In any event, conventional Arkansas political wisdom was last seen blowing out of the state Saturday afternoon in one of those major gusts.

There are a couple of possibilities. One is that Blanche flubbed the question.

The other, more likely, is that liberalism has become — for the moment, and in a Democratic primary — less a detriment to election in Arkansas than incumbency.

While Blanche can’t do anything about incumbency, she can try to re-shuffle the rest of the deck.

It’s also likely that Lincoln senses that Halter’s challenge suddenly threatens to encroach on enough traditional Democratic support that she needs a curious course correction by which she’d like the liberalness to be kind of a wash.

Liberal, it turns out in this case, is a standard she wouldn’t mind bearing at least a

which lingered in the Arkansas countryside for decades. Hattie herself was almost as polite as Blanche, but she had a fiery surrogate, Huey P. Long, who toured the state with her to tell people that the big boys of Wall Street whose greed had engineered the Depression had decided that she had to go because she stood up for the little people. In every election year from 1900 to 1912 Jeff Davis raged against the gamblers of Wall Street, who played with the price of commodities and kept Arkansas’s poor farmers in thrall.

But did it and can it work for Lincoln, who is close to the abysmal position in which Caraway found herself at the beginning of 1932, written off as she sought her first full term in the Senate? Blanche Lincoln is not Huey P. Long, or even Hattie Caraway, who eventually found a voice that was a pale imitation of Huey’s wonderful invective. And she is certainly no Jeff Davis.

“I hope the day will soon come when we can see the stock gamblers of New York in felon’s stripes,” Davis roared in his maiden speech in the U. S. Senate in 1907.

Can you hear Lincoln saying that? Lincoln was about to schmooze with Goldman Sachs executives until the Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil charges against the company and one of its young traders this month.

Her heart just doesn’t seem to be in it and maybe for good political reasons.

Although the bank bailout of ’08 is credited with triggering the great discontent, the evidence is that the tea-party crowd isn’t really mad at the financial industry, which is entitled to satisfy its greed any way that

it can, but only the government. A poll of tea partiers would almost certainly show they are opposed to any government regulation of the shadow market that brought us to ruin. The most popular candidate for the Senate with conservatives and tea partiers is Rep. John Boozman, who is the only candidate who both voted for the bank bailout and still stoutly defends it.

Lincoln’s brief fling with populism is more tactical than strategic, a counter to Bill Halter’s campaign to characterize her as a Wall Street patsy. It probably gave her some short-term advantage but it was not a game changer.

It’s too bad. If there ever was a time for legitimate anger at American finance it is now after it plunged the country into the deepest and longest recession in 70 years and after three decades in which the finance industry, which accounted for a third of all the domestic profits in the United States in the latter years of George W. Bush, paced the vast shift of wealth from the middle class to the top 1 percent.

Lincoln needs an assist from Huey Long. Here’s the capper penned by Huey in a flier titled “Wall Street vs. the People” that he distributed at rallies for Hattie that could be tailored for Blanche: “And today she finds herself surrounded, a target of the masters who have marked for destruction every member of the U. S. Senate who has ignored the ultimatum of the mighty. She has persisted in voting against the masters of Wall Street. She has offended the powers of fortune. The overlords of business demand her retirement.”

Bill Halter would be toast.

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The first sign of that was her putting out two weeks ago the most liberal bill on derivatives regulation now on file in Congress. The second was the mailer I received at home from her campaign earlier in the week. It showed a pretty picture of Lincoln hugging her dear friend Barack Obama.

Her answer to Politico also might have had something to do with the fact that this interview took place moments after Halter had outperformed her in a debate before newspaper editors. And Halter had done it, in part, by pummeling her for being historically too cozy with the Goldman Sachses of the world.

It gets curiouser and curiouser.

For Blanche’s partner in the Senate, traditional centrist Mark Pryor, the mantra has always been “put Arkansas first.” But the dynamic is now such that, for Lincoln, it may be less a matter of putting Arkansas first and more a matter of putting Wall Street last, in a tie with Washington.

If it’s true that incumbency, not liberalism, is now the heaviest negative baggage to carry, then the candidate match-ups for the fall become much more intriguing.

It means Republicans would be better off in November nominating Gilbert Baker than John Boozman, since Baker is not a federal incumbent, but merely a less-beleaguered state senator.

It means the Democrats would be better off nominating Halter than Lincoln, except that, if the Republicans nominated Baker, a Baker-Halter contest would contain no federal incumbent and leave Halter’s associative liberalism as the dreaded heaviest baggage.

If both Lincoln and Boozman survive their primaries, including likely runoffs, Blanche will be the most vivid incumbent, meaning the holder of the office in question. And now she’d also be the woman who said in April that she and that labor candidate from moveon.org were equivalent liberals.

So, for fun, let’s rank the Big 4 this way, from strongest to weakest for the general election: 1. Gilbert Baker, being neither a federal incumbent nor liberal.

2. (tie) John Boozman, being a federal incumbent, but not liberal, and Bill Halter, being liberal, but not a federal incumbent.

4. Blanche Lincoln, being the most direct federal incumbent and, now, also self-professed and self-confessed as no less liberal than the guy put in the race by the national liberal network.

John Brummett is a columnist and reporter for Stephens Media’s Arkansas News Bureau. You can read additional Brummett columns in The Times of North Little Rock. www.arktimes.com • april 29, 2010 25

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The malt shop Black-owned brewery whips up the suds in LR. By david koon

n Let’s talk about beer.

For your average lover of Liquid Bread, there’s something magic about it, something beautiful. It’s fitting that the spectrum of beer — red, deep brown, honey yellow, rich copper, near-black — looks a lot like the spectrum of humanity, given how much joy it can give to our species.

This is the truth that men like Windell Gray know.

By the time you read this, Gray will be bottling ales and malt liquor at his new business, Refined Ale Brewery of Little Rock, at 2221 Cedar St. From his small shop

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there — a space so small, in fact, that he had to get all his equipment custom-fabricated in Cabot so it would fit — he’s making history as well as suds, as the proprietor of the first black-owned brewery in Arkansas.

Refined Ale of Little Rock officially opened April 16, but Gray has been making libations since the early 1990s.

Back then, he owned a barbecue restaurant called Mr. G’s on 12th Street. His homemade wine was a component of the sauce there, and he gave away whatever didn’t go on the ribs. He then got into the trucking business,

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WINDELL GRAY: Brewing beer in Little Rock. but he didn’t abandon the winemaking. He also started home-brewing beer, though strictly as a diversion until last year.

“About a year ago, when trucking started getting slow, I stopped trucking,” Gray said. “I said, I’m going to take one of my hobbies and go mainstream.”

After securing a small space next door to his mother’s restaurant, Wayne’s Fish and Burgers, Gray started working his way through the laborious process of securing the permits to make beer commercially. “It’s kind of difficult to get cranked up, because there’s so many different requirements you have to meet,” he said.

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TH UR S D AY, 4 / 2 9

TONY JOE WHITE 9 p.m., Juanita’s. $10.

n If you’re not intimately familiar with Tony Joe White, here’s what you need to know about The Swamp Fox: One, it’s this writer’s opinion that his first album, “Black & White,” is 35 minutes of the coolest music ever put on wax, period; two, his rich songbook has been covered by tons of familiars, notably, Johnny Cash, Tina Turner, Dusty Springfield and Elvis Presley; three, he wrote the ineffable classic “Rainy Night in Georgia.” Done.

All rumbling baritone and guttural, tongue-y patois, Tony Joe White never enjoyed mainstream domestic success here the way he (inexplicably) did in France, but his particular, racially ambiguous take on electric swamp rock has been thrusting through American music for decades. Tony Joe’s steadily made music for 40-plus years, mixing curious swamp rock hybrids with a foray into Michael McDonald-esque yacht rock, a loop and breakbeat-infused album of revisited hits and a brief detour into — gasp — disco territory! (Find his peccadillo-praising 1980 single “I Get Off on It” on hypem.com to turn that grimace into a quick grin.) For those who are quick to disparage this show as a cash-in revival, you’re out of luck and in for another surprise. John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives, the jaunty Memphis-based regulars who reside on a low branch of the Tony Joe White family tree, open the show. JT.

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FOAM FEST

THE SWAMP FOX: Cult singer-songwriter Tony Joe White heads to Juanita’s. access to over 100 beers, it may be best happy hour you’ll find in town all year.

Also, those who intend to do justice to this 13th annual Foam Fest would be wise to pocket a few bucks not only for a cab ride but to tip the music for the night, provided by acoustic act Canvas. JT.

TOAD SUCK DAZE

5 p.m., downtown Conway. Free.

n Arkansas’s favorite annual family celebration of drunken riverboat crews — who long ago would stop at a tavern outside of Conway, where they’d “suck

on the bottle” until they swelled “up like toads” — returns this weekend for the 39th year. Here’s hoping it doesn’t end up like the 38th, which saw flash flooding wash out all of Saturday’s events and muddy Sunday’s. If the scattered thunderstorms in the forecast scatter before the weekend, revelers will have an opportunity to ride carnival rides and ponies, lose sleep in a quest to win “Stuck on a Truck,” scale a climbing wall and, of course, participate in the ultra-competitive “World Championship Toad Races.” In the evening on Friday and all day on Saturday and Sunday,

6 p.m., River Market Pavillions. $25 adv., $30 d.o.e.

n For more than a decade, this is one of the annual spring events a goodly number of local folks await for weeks. It’s a place where both those with discerning palates and scarred livers unite over good and — most importantly — copious beer from local distributors and microbreweries.

That means everything Pabst to Chimay, Dos Equis to Diamond Bear. Yes, it’s a fund-raiser to benefit the Arkansas chapter of the American Arthritis Foundation and that’s all very well and good; arthritis affects the grip and it’s gross drinking beer out of a straw. But let’s get to brass tacks: It’s a celebration of good beer, it’s as decent a way as any to enjoy an evening river breeze after a week at work and, for $25 in advance and $30 at the door for three-hours of unobstructed 28 april 29, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES

STILL HOLDING ON: Clint Black headlines on Saturday at Toad Suck in Conway.

there’s music in Simon Park. Memphisbased Christian hard-rockers Skillet (9 p.m.) lead the way on Friday. Saturday, Arkansas’s rising country-rock standouts Riverbilly (7:30 p.m.) open for bona fide country superstar Clint Black (9 p.m.).

Sunday, Southern gospel star Jason Crabb (3:45 p.m.) headlines. Check out the complete schedule at toadsuck.org.

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‘ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP’

7 p.m., Children’s Theatre, Arkansas Arts Center. $11-$14.

n After five productions since September, the Arkansas Arts Center’s Children’s Theatre is winding down its 20092010 season with one of the most wellknown folk tales ever in “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.” Ever since Robin Williams hijacked everyone’s perception of the story years ago, it’s been difficult to separate his lampooning from the centuries-old story of the beggar, the sorcerer, the girl and the genie that’s so familiar there’s really little use in retreading it for anyone who’s old enough to read this article. That said, if you have a tater tot running around your house, oblivious to the magic and action in “Aladdin,” it’s high time to provide an introduction. The play continues through May 16, with performances at 7 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m.

Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. JT.

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DAVID KIMBROUGH JR. 9 p.m., White Water Tavern. $10.

n You know, I’d suspect that, by definition, it’s impossible to be born into the blues. You’ve got to earn honest calluses on your fingertips, not to mention tap into some down deep mysticism or soulfulness, to really play the blues. Even if you’re the only one of 28 children who chose to carry on the namesake of the venerable blues emperor for infinity and some, Junior Kimbrough. No sir, there’s no room for nepotism on a juke joint stage and David Kimbrough Jr. certainly wasn’t ushered onto the placards with a silver guitar in his hand. He began his career at 6, singing alongside his father at the local fish fry. He served time in Parchman Farm, the Mississippi state prison with a gory history of racism. Now he runs a juke joint outside of Holly Springs, carrying on the custom of his father’s famous stomp shack, Junior’s, and playing weekend gigs all around the South. Is it history repeating itself or a family tradition? Y’know, it doesn’t really matter when he’s taking his father’s tribal repetition and salty licks and kneading it in with his generation’s take on soul music. Mockingbird, self-described “fine purveyors of hillbilly psychedelia,” open alongside long-established local singer-songwriter Stacey Mackey. Before Kimbrough starts his blues set, all three acts will share the stage and perform a handful of what Mockingbird calls “genre bending” original songs. JT.

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BLUES OF ALL KINDS: It’ll be a genre mash-up when Mockingbird (pictured) shares the stage with Stacey Mackey and David Kimbrough Jr. at White Water. creaky wooden rudder through the band’s driving, desperate Americana shuffle, Deer Tick has been on the receiving end of the music press’ “oohs” and “aahs” since it went from playing house shows (including a number in Little Rock) to being the toast of SXSW overnight after a 2007 debut, a home-recorded affair called “War Elephant,” found an audience on the Internet’s tangle of music message boards and blogs. (It was an unexpected sensation that gave way to one of the most surreal music interviews in recent memory when the band sat down with a

vocal fan in NBC Nightly News’ Brian Williams.) The act’s taken the vocal cadence, relaxed finger plucking and facial hair of John Prine, combined it with a vague grunge demeanor and found itself leading way for a nation full of young Americana acts. This show has been heavy with buzz since it was announced months ago, so expect a big crowd. The guys and I in Frown Pow’r and the trio of Jonathan Wilkins and the Reparations open the show with two different, local takes on that Americana stuff we just talked about. JT.

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10 a.m., Riverfest Amphitheatre. $5.

n The 12th annual celebration, sponsored by the Central Arkansas League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), is billed as “the largest showcase of Hispanic culture in Arkansas.” That means, from morning until near dark, there’ll be singing and folkloric dancing and games for kids and all sorts of delicious Mexican and Latin American grub. More on that last item: If you like Mexican food, but have never sampled what southwest Little Rock is cookin’ in any of the scores of taco trucks and mercados and restaurants where sometimes little English is spoken, you really, really owe it to yourself to go for a taste test. It’s a rare day when real-deal authentic Mexican and Central American cuisine comes downtown. Don’t miss out.

Kids under 12 get in for free. LM.

FRIDAY, APRIL 30

n Sticky Fingerz brings a second night of tribute bands with the band that could have been called “Ants Marching” or “Tripping Billies,” but that would have been way too obvious, right? The Dave Matthews Tribute Band plays, 10 p.m., $6 early admission. April’s Cool Shoes dance party at Downtown Music brings out DJs Kichen, Johan, Risky Biz and B. Pleiss, 10 p.m., $5 or $8 if you’re under 21. Austin’s Literature returns after a fantastic show at White Water; the band shares the bill with local garage-pop outfit Magic Hassle at Union, 10 p.m., donations. One of the most reliably mind-blowing bands anywhere plays with one of the best rappers, period, at Juanita’s: Velvet Kente hits the stage with 607 at 10 p.m., $5. UALR Opera Theatre updates Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” with a contemporary English translation and new setting in the NYC subway; Wildwood Park for the Arts hosts, 7 p.m., $15, $5 students. Speaking of universities, UCA takes out Reynolds Performance Hall to showcase the school’s cinematic talents with a night of shorts, docs and music videos in the sixth annual UCA Film Festival, 5:30 p.m., free.

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9 p.m., Sticky Fingerz. $10.

n With its front man’s instantly recognizable voice sounding off like a

n Big-beat, dubstep — how ’bout we just start chunking subgenres at the bass and see what happens?

Bassnectar twiddles his knobs for an adoring public at Revolution, 9 p.m., $17 adv., $22 d.o.s. Fun fact: Who opened up for Metallica on its 1998 “Garage Inc.” tour? Battery: Masters of Metallica, the cover band. That’s hilarious. See the doppelgangers at Sticky Fingerz, 9 p.m., $10. Times favorite Bonnie Montgomery fronts Montgomery Trucking and plays alongside 3 Penny Acre for a ROOT Cafe fund-raiser at the Arkansas Flag & Banner building, 9:15 p.m. Kat & Chuck of Katmandu play as a duo at Afterthought, 8 p.m., $5.

GET BIT: Deer Tick returns to town for a Tuesday night gig at Sticky’s.

n If you feel like getting off the beaten track, the legendary Leon Russell plays the Omaha Center in Cherokee Village, 7 p.m., $20 adv., $25 d.o.s.

Bluegrass outfit Pope County Bootleggers will be drinking at Town Pump, music to follow, 10 p.m., $5.

Speaking of drinking, if you plan on getting in it to win it, you could do worse than bellying up at Counterpoint for a night of music by party band The Gettys, 10 p.m. www.arktimes.com • april 29, 2010 29

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THURSDAY, APRIL 29 MUSIC

Bassnectar. 9 p.m., $17 adv., $22 d.o.s. Revolution, 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090, www. rumbarevolution.com. 18 plus.

Battery: Masters of Metallica. 9 p.m., $10.

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

Ben Coulter. 8 p.m., $5. Denton’s Trotline, 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717.

Brown Soul Shoes. 8 p.m. Markham Street Grill, 11321 W. Markham. 224-2010.

Chris Henry. 9 p.m. Grumpy’s, 1801 Green Mountain Drive. 225-3768.

Crows and Thieves, Your Family on Fire, The Monastics. 8 p.m. Vino’s, 923 W. 7th. 3758466, vinosbrewpub.com.

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

D-Mite, D-Dirt-E. 9 p.m., $5. Cornerstone Pub, 314 Main St., NLR. 374-1782, cstonepub.com.

J-One Productions’ “In Too Deep” Party. 9 p.m. Deep Ultra Lounge, 322 Clinton Ave. 2449550.

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

Kat & Chuck. 8 p.m., $5. Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh. 663-4176, afterthoughtbar.com.

Little Rock Jazz Quintet. 8 p.m. Ferneau, 2601 Kavanaugh. 603-9208, ferneaurestaurant.com.

Mayday Parade, Sparks the Rescue, Hot Chelle Rae, Polyphonic Breakdown. 7 p.m., $13 adv., $15 d.o.s. The Village, 3915 S. University. 570-0300, thevillagelive.com.

Montgomery Trucking, 3 Penny Acre. Fundraiser for The ROOT Cafe. 9:15 p.m. Arkansas Flag & Banner, 800 W. 9th St. 944-8500, therootcafe@ yahoo.com. All ages.

Outlaw Nation, Idle of the Peach. 9 p.m., free.

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

Paul Sammons. 10 p.m., free. Union. 3421 Old Cantrell Road. 661-8311.

The Ted Ludwig Trio. 9 p.m. Capital Bar & Grill, 111 W. Markham. 370-7013, capitalhotel.com/ CBG. Tony Joe White, John Paul Keith & the One Four Fives. 9 p.m., $10. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 374-3271, juanitas.com.

Trademark (headliners), Fjord Mustang.

5:30 p.m., 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. Cajun’s Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road. 375-5351, cajunswharf.com.

EVENTS

Rajun’ Cajun Bash. All-you-can-eat Cajun food, drinks and live music. 6 p.m., $30 adv., $35 door.

River Market Pavilion. 296-3429, carti.com.

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SHORES, SORDID: Acclaimed playwright Del Shores (“Sordid Lives,” “Southern Baptist Sissies”) brings his one-man show, “My Sordid Life,” to the Weekend Theater’s annual gala on Saturday, May 1, at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1818 Reservoir Road. Tickets, available via weekendtheater.org or at the door, are a suggested minimum donation of $50. There will be a silent auction, hors d’oeuvres, wine and beer at the reception, which begins at 6:30 p.m,, with the performance to follow at 7:30 p.m.

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Paul Hooper. 8 p.m. $7. Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham. 228-5555, loonybincomedy. com.

Red Octopus presents “...And Now a Word from Our Sponsors.” 8 p.m., $10. The Public Theatre, 616 Center St. 626-0153, redoctopustheater. com.

POETRY

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

ACAC, 900 S. Rodney Parham Road. 244-2979, myspace.com/acacarkansas.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Tulsa Drillers. 7:10 p.m., $6-$12. Dickey-Stephens Park. travs.com.

FRIDAY, APRIL 30 MUSIC

Arkansas Choral Society presents “Magnificent Mozart, Splended Schubert.” 7:30 p.m., $15, $8 students. St. James United Methodist Church, 321 Pleasant Valley Drive. 376-8484, arkansaschoral.wordpress.com.

Battle of the Bands Finals. 8 p.m. Vino’s, 923 W. 7th. 375-8466, vinosbrewpub.com.

Big John Miller. 8 p.m., $5. Denton’s Trotline, 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717.

Brian Nahlen. 9 p.m. Flying Saucer, 323 Clinton Ave. 372-7468, beerknurd.com.

Cool Shoes with DJs Kichen, Johan, Risky Biz, B. Pleiss. 10 p.m., $5, $8 under 21. Downtown Music, 211 W. Capitol. 376-1819, downtownshows.homestead.com.

Dave Matthews Tribute Band. 10 p.m., $6 early admission. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707, www.stickyfingerz.com.

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

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

Good Time Ramblers. 9 p.m., free. Grumpy’s, 1801 Green Mountain Drive. 225-3768.

Graham Wilkinson & The Underground Township, Jonathan Wilkins & The Reparations. 9:30 p.m. White Water Tavern, 2500 W. 7th.

375-8400, myspace.com/whitewatertavern.

High Ball. 9 p.m., $5. Underground Pub, 500 President Clinton Ave. 707-2537, www.theundergroundpub.com.

Jill Stringham Band. 9 p.m. Reno’s Argenta Cafe, 312 Main, NLR. 376-2900.

Keith Lewis, Gil Franklin. 8 p.m. Honey Hut, 3723 MacArthur, NLR. 753-0091.

Keystone Kings. 9 p.m., $5. Cornerstone Pub, 314 Main St., NLR. 374-1782, www.cstonepub. com.

Magic Hassle, Literature. 9 p.m. ACAC, 900 S. Rodney Parham Road. 244-2979, myspace.com/ acacarkansas. All ages.

Mandy and Bonnie. 5:30 p.m., free. Town Pump, 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 663-9802.

Mare Carmody, Courtney Sheppard. 8:30, free. Capi’s 11525 Cantrell Road. 225-9600, capisrestaurant.com.

N2Blues. 7 p.m. Khalil’s Pub & Grill, 110 S. Shackleford. 224-0225, khalilspub.com.

One Shot Rising. 10 p.m., $5. Fox and Hound, 2800 Lakewood Village Drive, NLR. 753-8300.

Rodney Block and Co. 9 p.m., $10. Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh. 663-4176, afterthoughtbar.com.

Sammy Priest. 7 p.m. Norm’s, 6416 Colonel Glenn Road. 868-9443.

The Crumbs. 12:30 a.m., $5 non-members. Midtown Billiards, 1316 Main St. 372-9990, midtownar.com.

The Diving Bell Ball with Magic Hassle, Randall Shreve, Falcon Scott, Free Micah.

8:30 p.m., $5, $7 under 21. Revolution, 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090, www.rumbarevolution.com.

The Memphis Yahoos (headliner), Jason Paul (happy hour). 5:30 p.m., 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. Cajun’s Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road. 3755351, cajunswharf.com.

The Ted Ludwig Trio. 9 p.m. Capital Bar & Grill, 111 W. Markham. 370-7013, capitalhotel.com/ CBG. Thomas East. 7 p.m. Sonny Williams’, 500 President Clinton Ave. 324-2999, www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

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MAY 10: Neil Hamburger. 9 p.m., $8 adv., $10 d.o.s. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707, stickyfingerz.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 22: The Most Serene Republic. 9 p.m. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 3727707, stickyfingerz.com.

MAY 28-30: Riverfest 2010. Arkansas’s biggest music, arts and food festival. Riverfront Park, River Market District and North Shore Riverwalk. 255-3378, www.riverfestarkansas.com.

MAY 29: Andy McKee. 9 p.m., $12 adv., $15 d.o.s. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 374-3271, juanitas.com.

JUNE 2-6: 4th Annual Little Rock Film Festival. Documentary and wide-release films at several venues, including Riverdale 10, Clinton School and the Chamber of Commerce.

960-0864, www.littlerockfilmfestival.org.

JUNE 4: John Prine. 8 p.m., $49-$60. Robinson Center Music Hall, 7 Statehouse Plaza.

666-1761. ticketmaster.com.

JULY 15: Robert Plant and Band of Joy. 8 p.m. $65-$85. Robinson Center Music Hall, 7 Statehouse Plaza. 666-1761.

Martin. 9 p.m. Maxine’s, 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-321-0909, maxinespub.com.

Velvet Kente, 607. 10 p.m., $5. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 374-3271, juanitas.com. 18 plus.

White Collar Criminals. 8 p.m. Markham Street Grill, 11321 W. Markham. 224-2010.

EVENTS

13th Annual Foam Fest. 6 p.m., $25 adv., $30 door. River Market Pavilions. 664-7242, foamfest. org.

Arkansas Baptist High School’s “Eagle Fest Luau” Concert and Dinner. 6 p.m., $15. First Baptist Church, 62 Pleasant Drive. arkansasbaptistschoolsystem.com.

Winthrop Rockefeller Legacy Weekend.

Panels and discussions on the former Arkansas governor, accompanied by an art exhibit and sale.

3 p.m., free with registration. Winrock Institute, Petit Jean Mountain, 1 Rockefeller Drive, Morrilton.

501-727-5435, uawri.org.

COMEDY

Paul Hooper. 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m. $9. Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham. 228-5555, loonybincomedy.com.

Red Octopus presents “...And Now a Word from Our Sponsors.” 8 p.m., $10. The Public Theatre, 616 Center St. 626-0153, redoctopustheater. com.

FILM

6th Annual UCA Film Festival. A festival/competition of student music videos, shorts and documentaries. 5:30 p.m., free. Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA, Conway. 501-450-3293, smaiden@uca. edu.

SATURDAY, MAY 1 MUSIC

7-Toed Pete. 9 p.m., $5. West End, 215 N. Shackelford. 224-7665, www.westendsmokehouse.com.

David Kimbrough Jr.; Mockingbird; Stacey Mackey. 9:30 p.m. White Water Tavern, 2500 W. 7th. 375-8400, myspace.com/whitewatertavern.

DJ Balance (disco), Brandon Peck (lobby).

9 p.m., $10. Discovery, 1021 Jessie Road. 6644784, latenightdisco.com.

DJ Dave London. 8 p.m., $10 early admission.

Revolution, 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090, rumbarevolution.com.

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

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Dread Noughts. 8 p.m. Markham Street Grill, 11321 W. Markham. 224-2010.

Fundamental Elements. 9 p.m., $5. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707, www.stickyfingerz.com.

Jeff Coleman. 8 p.m., $5. Cregeen’s, 301 Main St., NLR. 374-7468, cregeens.com.

Jet 420 (headliner), Darryl Edwards (happy hour). 5:30 p.m., 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. Cajun’s Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road. 375-5351, cajunswharf.com.

Joe Pitts. 8 p.m., $5. Denton’s Trotline, 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717.

John Gavin Brewer. Proceeds go to benefit ACH Heart Center. 9 p.m., $5. Rock City Lounge, 8115 Arch St. 562-3613.

Junior Steele. 9 p.m. Flying Saucer, 323 Clinton Ave. 372-7468, beerknurd.com.

Keith Lewis, Gil Franklin. 8 p.m. Honey Hut, 3723 MacArthur, NLR. 753-0091.

Leon Russell, Gerry Moss. 7 p.m., $20 adv., $25 d.o.s. Omaha Center, Cherokee Village. 870698-2288, batesvillepromotions.com.

Lime Aid Outdoor Concert. With Underclaire, Ms. Tommie’s Dance Academy Dancers, Nonastics and B.I.B. Entertainment. Noon. Riverfest Amphitheatre. limeaidpartership.com.

Oh Sleeper, Greeley Estates, pmtoday, I am Alpha and Omega, My Hands to War, Kingdom Under Siege. 7 p.m., $10 adv., $13 d.o.s.

The Village, 3915 S. University. 570-0300, thevillagelive.com.

Ozarks Chorale. 7 p.m. The Auditorium, 36 S. Main St., Eureka Springs. (479) 253-7788. theaud. org.

Pay It at the Pump, The Science of Sleep, Take It to Heart, Hollywood Homicide. 8 p.m.

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

Pope County Bootleggers. 10 p.m., $5. Town Pump, 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 663-9802.

Scholastic Jazz Festival. Noon, free. Arlington Hotel Lawn, 239 Central Ave., Hot Springs, hotspringsjazzfest.org.

Superstar Saturday with DJ Hypnotik. 8 p.m.

On the Rocks, 107 E. Markham. 374-7625, www. clubontherocks.com.

The Ted Ludwig Trio. 9 p.m. Capital Bar & Grill, 111 W. Markham. 370-7013, capitalhotel.com/ CBG. The Gettys, Wicked Wes. 10 p.m. Counterpoint, 3605 MacArthur, NLR. 771-5515, myspace. com/bogiescounterpoint.

The Weather Folk. 9 p.m. Reno’s Argenta Cafe, 312 Main, NLR. 376-2900.

Whale Fire. 10 p.m., free. Union, 3421 Old Cantrell Road. 661-8311.

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

Thread. 10 p.m., $5. Fox and Hound, 2800 Lakewood Village Drive, NLR. 753-8300.

William Staggers. 9 p.m., $7. Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh. 663-4176, afterthoughtbar.com.

Wisebird. 12:30 a.m., $5 non-members. Midtown Billiards, 1316 Main St. 372-9990, midtownar. com.

Xero Knight Fest with Attack the Mind, Jessie James, Psycho Syntax, Intoxx. 8 p.m., $7. Downtown Music, 211 W. Capitol. 3761819, downtownshows.homestead.com.

EVENTS

18th Annual Mayhaw Festival and Bluegrass Jamboree. Featuring a 5K run, antique car show, food and historic house tours. 8 a.m.

Newton House Museum, 510 N. Jackson, El Dorado. 862-9890.

7th Annual ¡HOLA! Arkansas Health & Safety Fair. 10 a.m. Jefferson Community Clinic, 4206 Frasier Pike. 771-5001, hola-arkansas.com.

7th Annual Julep Cup Jaunt. A live Kentucky Derby watch party with silent auction to benefit the UAMS Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 4 p.m., $25.

12th floor, Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute, UAMS campus. www.julepcupjaunt.eventbrite.com.

Central Arkansas Iris Society’s 45th Annual Iris Show. 1 p.m. Grace Lutheran Church, 5124 Hillcrest. 455-1478 Crawfish Boil. A fund-raiser for the Arkansas chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, music by Spindown. 5 p.m., $40 per person, $70 per couple. River Market Pavilion.

251-9932, afsp.org.

Hunt! Little Rock. Scavenger hunt teams of four have three hours to find as many listed items in town to win a $500 prize. 10 a.m., $22/person.

Riverfront Park Belvedere. 314-565-9441, huntlittlerock.com.

India for Harmony Fund-raiser. Concert by Little Rock Music Masti, dance, Indian fashion shows, silent auctions and Indian food. All proceeds benefit Harmony Health Clinic. 6 p.m. Connor Performing Arts Center, Pulaski Academy, 12701 Hinson Road.

Little Rock’s 2010 Garden Tour: “A String of Pearls” The tenth annual Little Rock spring garden tour. 9 a.m. Sat., 1 p.m. Sun., $20. Various locations. 663-7515.

Parking Lot Rummage Sale. Proceeds go to benefit ACH Heart Center. 8 a.m. Rock City Lounge, 8115 Arch St. 562-3613.

Southwest Service Dogs Ducky Pull Fundraiser. 1 p.m., $5. Lake Willastein, Maumelle. www.southwestservicedogs.org Walk Now For Autism Speaks Arkansas Kickoff. Fund-raiser walk for autism research. 10 a.m., Clinton Presidential Center. 951-0115.

Winthrop Rockefeller Legacy Weekend.

Panels and discussions on the former Arkansas governor, accompanied by an art exhibit and sale.

3 p.m., free with registration. Winrock Institute, Petit Jean Mountain, 1 Rockefeller Drive, Morrilton.

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Red Octopus presents “...And Now a Word from Our Sponsors.” 8 p.m., $10. The Public Theatre, 616 Center St. 626-0153, redoctopustheater. com.

SPORTS

Arkansas Black Rodeo. 6:30 p.m., $15, $12 children. Arkansas State Fairgrounds. realcowboyassociation.com.

Arkansas Diamonds vs. West Texas Roughnecks. 7 p.m., $12-$50. Verizon Arena, NLR. 800745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com.

SUNDAY, MAY 2 MUSIC

“Jamaica Me Crazy.” 8 p.m., $8. Revolution, 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090, www.rumbarevolution.com. 18 plus.

Gil Franklin & Friends. 6 p.m. Honey Hut, 3723 MacArthur, NLR. 753-0091.

Karaoke with DJ Mikey Mike. 10 p.m. Counterpoint, 3605 MacArthur, NLR. 771-5515, myspace.com/bogiescounterpoint.

Martin Sexton, Ryan Montbleau Band 8 p.m., $20. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 3727707, www.stickyfingerz.com.

Sunday Jazz Brunch with Ted Ludwig. 11 a.m. Vieux Carre, 2721 Kavanaugh. 663-4176, afterthoughtbar.com.

The Wedding, Wavorly, Hollywood Lies. 6 p.m., $8. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 374-3271, juanitas.com. 18 plus.

EVENTS

“Bathhouse Row Wine, Food and Art Extravaganza.” Festival featuring eight bathhouses, many wineries and local chefs to benefit Friends of the Fordyce. Bathhouse Row, Central Avenue, Hot Springs. 501-623-7991.

2010 Cinco de Mayo Celebration. Food, arts and crafts, games and live entertainment. 10 a.m., free. River Market Pavilion.

MONDAY, MAY 3 MUSIC

Dr. Dog, Deer Tick. 9 p.m., $15. George’s Majestic Lounge, 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville.

479-527-6618, georgesmajesticlounge.com.

Oni. The 27-member Dutch mandolin orchestra performs. 4 p.m. $10. Unitarian Church, 1818 Reservoir Road. 952-5290, mandolineorkestoni.nl.

Richie Johnson. 5:30 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m.

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TRICKY: Frost (Heberlee) and Nixon (Langsdale).

■ review ‘Frost/Nixon’

April 21, Arkansas Repertory Theatre

■ It’s difficult to consider Richard Nixon beyond caricature. Or rather, aside from that goofy double peace-sign wave, it’s difficult to remember him as anything but a head, a great bulbous mass of broad Irish nose, laser eyes and jowls, flapping to the rhythm of all the terrible things he said.

For its new production of Peter Morgan’s “Frost / Nixon,” the Rep found a strikingly similar head on actor Keith Langsdale — estimable, round through the chin, jowl-y. But Langsdale doesn’t follow his face down the path of mimicry.

Rather, he comports himself and his voice in broadly presidential fashion. He moves decisively, gestures expressively and talks in a careful, stentorian tone. And once he gets past a campy opening bit, where Nixon jokes, awkwardly, with camera men and aides just before he goes on television to tell the American people he’ll resign, he’s utterly believable as the fallen president. In the end, he delivers a Nixon who is, if not sympathetic, leagues more complex than an evil head.

He’s helped, of course, by the material.

Morgan, who’s built his career on adapting modern political history for the stage and screen (“The Queen,” “The Last King of Scotland”) takes the 1977 interview between the title characters — a signal event of the era, but not exactly riveting TV today — and transforms it into a thoroughly engaging heavyweight bout.

The challenger, David Frost (Brad Heberlee), is a British talk show host who interviews celebrities, the epitome of a lightweight, a notion Heberlee helps along with a healthy dose of British jocularity. Nixon, in all but that opening scene, resides in a kind of political purgatory in his native California, where Watergate has left 32 april 29, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES

him persona non grata. Frost, eager to add some heft to his reputation and conquer the U.S., where he’d previously failed, fields an offer for a “no-holds-barred” interview with the president. Eager to escape purgatory and convinced of Frost’s ineptitude (the interview will be “like a big wet kiss,” Nixon’s agent tells him), the former president assents, and for unheard-of terms — $600,000 for the interviews and 10% of the profits, a cost that threatens to bankrupt Frost.

Director Gilbert McCauley (“Fences” and “Looking Over the President’s Shoulder”) delivers the play to us on a spare set, with nothing more than a table or a few chairs and several large square dividers, meant, perhaps to evoke television screens. Yet, with frequent narration, from Nixon adviser Jack Brennan (David Sitler) and Frost’s interview coach James Reston Jr. (Mark Irish), which often weaves in and out of dialogue, the pace moves along briskly.

Nixon scholars will squirm at some of the liberties Morgan takes with the facts.

He rearranges the chronology of the interview so that the knockout blow comes at the end of the play. But it’s the penultimate scene, the only one that I know of that’s a complete fabrication, which hits the hardest. Nixon, drunk the night before the portion of the interview dedicated to Watergate, rings Frost in his hotel room.

Frayed by nerves and drink, the two talk informally and honestly, and it becomes clear not only how similar the stakes are for the two men, but how emotionally alike the two are. “The limelight can only shine on one of us,” Frost tells Nixon. “For the other, it will be the wilderness.”

— Lindsey Millar

the center of our galaxy could chuck if a multi-dimensional woodchuck could chuck wood. Given that, you know his new effort for The Discovery Channel is gonna be good. This is not some George Foreman Grill of a name-only endorsement, either. Word is that Hawking has been involved in the show from beginning to end, from writing the narration to overseeing the amazing computergenerated illustrations of his theories.

Last week, I caught the first episode of the show, in which Hawking tackled the issue of what alien life might be like (in a nutshell: Ask Montezuma how much fun it is to be visited by aliens with superior technology, and you’ll see why Hawking cautions against efforts to broadcast the location of our all-you-can-eat buffet to the stars), and I can tell you that it’s a

n When discussing the universe, it would be hard to imagine a better guide than all-around world’s smartest dude Stephen Hawking. The former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at England’s Cambridge University (a title that I’m assuming came with a really bitchin’ parking space), Hawking hasn’t let his crippling ALS keep him from having been called the scientific successor to Albert Einstein since he was in his early 30s. He doesn’t think about little stuff.

Balancing his checkbook?

What to make for dinner?

Whether or not he needs to get his oil changed?

I’m pretty sure he has HAWKING: Solving mysteries of the universe. volunteers standing in line to do that kind of mental ditch-digging stunner. This week, Hawking is squarely for him, just so he’ll have more time to in his element with a new discussion of muse on black holes, what was before how the universe was created, and how it the Big Bang and how much wood the will end. Definitely recommended.

— David Koon vast, multi-dimensional woodchuck at

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n Don’t forget to register for the 2nd annual Rock Candy 500 pinewood derby, which is happening at 7 p.m. May 6 at the River Market Pavilions. Friday, April 30, is the deadline for entry. You’ll find an entry form on page 48 and the rules and more info at arktimes.com. Call Lindsey Millar at 375-2985 for more information. n We got the info too late to get it in the print calendar, but Memphis rap star Yo Gotti is coming to On the Rocks on Thursday, April 29, for Chris Bowen’s regular Thirsty Thursday party. Doors open at 8 p.m., $10 early admission, show starts at midnight. n After its original date to turn non-smoking was pushed back due to a delay getting a building permit, White Water Tavern is now, officially, smoke-free. There’s now a fenced-in courtyard off the back exit for smokers to congregate. n On Tuesday, Max Recordings released the debut full-length “The Offending Party” from Memphis’ Dragoon, made up of former Trusty guitarist/vocalist Bobby Matthews and former members of The Grifters. n Big show to clear your calendar for: Recently disbanded local acts Smoke Up Johnny and Androids of Ex-Lovers will reunite on Saturday, May 22, for Thick Syrup Records fourth birthday party. Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth is also on the bill.

■ media What can Foursquare do for your business?

By gerard matthews

Location-based apps are good for ■ With all the new social media tools businesses, but they’re also great for available, it’s hard to tell which ones have customers. real value and which ones are just fun time“The tips are a feature that’s really wasters. Location-based social network handy,” Crawford says. “If you’re in applications are no different. As with any downtown Little Rock you can open up other new media tool, Twitter for example, Foursquare and get suggestions left by users are finding inventive ways to get other users. If you’re at this restaurant, value, whether in the form of networking try this off-menu item. If you’re near this or improving their business’ bottom line, from applications like Foursquare and Gowalla.

Location-based social networking apps allow you to “check-in” (usually by way of iPhone or Android smart phone apps) to restaurants, coffee shops – even your office – and let your friends know where you are.

Once you’ve checked in, you can find out where your other friends are, invite them to join you and leave tips for future visitors. Foursquare tells HIP TO BE SQUARE: Foursquare may land users all these things about a specific you deals at local businesses. location. location make sure you validate your Check-in to a venue more than anyone parking – things like that. Foursquare has else over the span of two months and you really excelled in that area. It’s like insiderbecome the “mayor” of that location. trading in the real world.”

For example, I’m now the mayor of the Of course, there is a little bit of a Big Arkansas Times, which, regretfully, gives Brother thing going on here. It’s a little me no more power, pay or influence – just strange to think that others will know bragging rights. where you are all the time. But, apps like Businesses are trying to find ways to Foursquare don’t do anything automaticapitalize on apps like Foursquare and cally. You have to check-in and you can some are doing better than others. Locally, opt out of telling others where you are. the Capital Hotel is leading the way.

Websites like PleaseRobMe.com have “The Capital Hotel is one of the premier popped up recently, warning people of the businesses in the nation using Foursquare dangers of over-sharing your location on for marketing and customer engagement,” services like Twitter and Foursquare. says Keith Crawford, a local network “There are lots of people who see engineer and self-described “social media somebody has checked in and stop by to evangelist.” say hi or have a beer with them,” Bradley“They’re offering specials for mayorHole says. “Some people think that’s a ships. If you check in 10 times you get little creepy, but to people who are into it, a free dessert, so it’s encouraging repeat it seems very natural.” business and loyalty there, but a lot of it is As for the future of these apps, there’s just the visibility and the engagement that really no telling where the technology comes along with it.” could lead. Gowalla recently teamed up Amy Bradley-Hole is the commuwith the New Jersey Nets to hide virtual nications director for the Capital Hotel, tickets all over town that users could pick Ashley’s and the Capital Bar and Grill. up and redeem at the arena. The event was The buzz created by the special offers and a huge success. prizes is great, she says, but Foursquare has As for the Capital Hotel, Bradley-Hole also helped reach a new clientele. says she’ll let the users lead the way.

“It was a great way to reach out to “We can constantly change what we’re a demographic that wasn’t necessarily doing or where we’re going, she says. “It coming in here – a younger demographic, a takes a lot of research and time to stay on really socially active, very computer-literate top of the trends and judge where things demographic that probably didn’t know a are going. I don’t know exactly where it’s lot about us or thought that we were too headed but it’s fun to play along and see. expensive. We had already started Twitter Again, it’s kind of like listening to what and Facebook accounts, but Foursquare everyone else is saying and letting them just gave us one more way to bring people tell you where they want you to go.” in,” she says.

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

Rave and Riverdale times weren’t available at press time. Visit www.arktimes.com for updates.

NEW MOVIES The Eclipse (R) — An Irish widower finds himself falling for a horror author, all the while beginning to believe he sees ghosts. Market Street: 2:00, 4:20, 7:15, 9:20.

Furry Vengeance (PG) — An Oregon real estate developer’s plans to erect a subdivision goes awry when forest creatures take to action. Breckenridge: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:35. Lakewood: 11:20, 1:30, 4:05, 7:10, 9:45. Rave: 11:15, 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:35.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (R) — Remake of the 1984 horror classic in which a murderer uses the dream world to take revenge on the children of the lynch mob that killed him. Breckenridge: 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15. Lakewood: 11:00, 1:40, 4:25, 7:25, 10:00, 11:55. Rave: 11:00, 11:55, 1:15, 2:00, 2:30, 4:15, 4:50, 5:30, 7:00, 7:50, 8:30, 9:30, 10:20, 11:00.

Phish 3-D (NR) — The much-loved jam band throws their hat in the 3D game with this 140-minute concert movie filmed during a threeday festival in Indio, Calif. Rave: 7:05, 10:15.

RETURNING THIS WEEK Alice in Wonderland (PG) — Tim Burton’s 3D sequel to the Carroll classic finds Alice back in the rabbit hole as a rebellious 19-year-old. Rave: 1:25, 4:00, 6:45, 10:05 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (G) — Alvin, Simon and Theodore take a break from stardom and return to school. Movies 10: 1:25, 4:20.

Animalopolis (NR) — A half-hour film of goofy animals being goofy in enormous 3D. Aerospace IMAX: 11:00, 7:00 Fri.; 1:00, 3:00, 7:00 Sat. Avatar (PG-13) — A paraplegic ex-Marine war veteran is sent to establish a human settlement on the distant planet of Pandora, only to find himself battling humankind alongside the planet’s indigenous race. Movies 10: 2:00, 5:30, 8:50.

Rave: 11:35, 3:00, 6:40, 10:10.

The Back-Up Plan (PG-13) — Jennifer Lopez stars as a single woman who meets the man of her dreams hours after artificially conceiving twins.

Breckenridge: 1:50, 4:50, 7:45, 10:05. Lakewood: 11:00, 1:30, 4:05, 7:00, 9:45. Rave: 1:20, 4:05, 4:55, 7:20, 8:20, 9:55, 10:55.

Book of Eli (R) — Across the wasteland of what once was America, a lone warrior (Denzel Washington) must fight to bring civilization the knowledge that could be the key to its redemption.

Movies 10: 7:15, 10:05.

Brooklyn’s Finest (R) — Three New York City police officers at the end of their ropes find each other’s questionable intents at a crux in the Brooklyn projects. Movies 10: 1:05, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55.

Clash of the Titans (PG-13) — Perseus, son of Zeus, leads a band of warriors into uncharted dimensions while attempting to defeat the evil Hades, God of the Underworld. Breckenridge: 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40. Lakewood: 11:05, 1:35, 4:15, 7:05. Rave: 12:05, 2:35, 5:35 (2D); 11:10, 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 10:00 (3D).

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

The Crazies (R) — A rural town’s water supply is mysteriously contaminated, turning the residents into psychopaths. Movies 10: 1:20, 4:05, 7:05, 9:45.

Date Night (PG-13) — When a bored couple tries for a romantic evening in New York City, a case of mistaken identity sends them off into a night of danger. Breckenridge: 2:15, 4:40, 7:25, 10:00. Rave: 12:25, 2:40, 5:15, 8:25, 10:35.

Death at a Funeral (PG-13) — A funeral for a family patriarch goes haywire, being constantly disrupted by a series of accidents, missteps, idiocy and blackmail. Breckenridge: 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10. Lakewood: 11:15, 1:25, 4:10, 7:30,

“9, 10, HERE WE GO AGAIN”: Freddy Krueger (this time played by Jackie Earle Haley) returns in “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” a reimagining of the horror classic of the same name in which a serial killer attacks his newest victims in their dreams, turning a troupe of high schoolers into sleep deprived, paranoid basket cases.

9:40. Rave: 12:00, 2:25, 5:20, 8:10, 10:30.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (PG) — Greg, a 6thgrade runt, can’t stand the ceaseless bullying, wedgies and swirlies he puts up with at school, so he retreats to his journal and his imagination.

Breckenridge: 1:35, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30. Rave: 11:40.

Greenberg (R) — Middle-aged and a perpetual failure, Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) ends up finding love and hope while house-sitting for his successful brother. Market Street: 2:15, 4:20, 7:15, 9:20.

How to Train Your Dragon (PG) — A timid young Viking, raised to slay dragons by his heroic father, ends up befriending one he tried to slay.

Breckenridge: 1:30, 4:30, 6:55, 9:25. Lakewood: 11:05, 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:35. Rave: 11:05, 1:10, 1:50, 3:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:40.

Kick-Ass (R) — Teen-age wannabe superheroes turn their aspirations into reality and take to the streets in spite of having absolutely no superpowers. Breckenridge: 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55. Lakewood: 11:10, 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55.

Rave: 1:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25.

The Last Song (PG) — Miley Cyrus and Greg Kinnear star in this father/daughter tale in which an alienated teen is forced to spend a summer in Georgia with her pianist father. Breckenridge: 1:10, 4:25, 7:20, 9:50. Rave: 11:20, 2:10.

The Losers (PG-13) — After escaping an assassination attempt in the Bolivian jungle, executed by a shadowy man seemingly on their side, elite U.S. agents vie for revenge.

Breckenridge: 4:20, 7:35, 9:55. Lakewood: 11:00, 1:35, 4:20, 7:15, 9:55. Rave: 11:25, 1:55, 4:25, 7:25, 8:15, 9:50, 10:50.

Mother (R) — A mother sets out to prove her foolish co-dependent son’s innocence after he’s accused by an incompetent police force of murdering a stranger. Market Street: 1:45, 4:15, 7:00, 9:10.

Oceans (G) — An ecological drama/documentary about the amazing underwater world and threats to ocean life. Rave: 11:30, 1:40, 4:20, 6:55, 9:25.

Our Family Wedding (PG-13) — When a young couple returns home from college to announce their marriage plans, their parents lob hot-headed insults at each other and play tug-of-war over their children’s wedding. Movies 10: 1:45, 4:30, 7:35, 10:15.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (PG) — A dyslexic, ADHD high school student discovers he’s a descendant of Poseidon and finds himself entangled in a war of mythical proportions. Movies 10: 1:10, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45.

A Prophet (R) — A 19-year-old Franco-Arab begins a six-year stint in prison, falling in with a

sadistic gang of Corsicans. Market Street: 4:00.

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.

Movies 10: 10:10.

The Runaways (R) — The young girls of the titular band experience a quick, starry rise and faster, druggy fall from glory during the ’70s.

Market Street: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:15.

The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry (PG) — A 12-year-old on summer vacation forms a friendship with an elderly man from church, learning life lessons along the way. Market Street: 1:45, 7:15, 9:15.

She’s Out of My League (R) — An average guy in a dead-end job inexplicably finds himself the object of affection for a gorgeous, successful woman. Movies 10; 1:14, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10.

The Spy Next Door (PG) — A CIA spook retires to marry his girlfriend and must gain approval of her kids, who mistakenly download top secret documents, making the family a Russian target.

Movies 10: 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:40.

The Tooth Fairy (PG) — A star hockey player (Dwayne Johnson) is temporarily transformed into a full-fledged tooth fairy as penalty for discouraging a young fan. Movies 10: 1:40, 4:10, 7:20, 9:40.

Why Did I Get Married Too? (PG-13) — When four couples get together for their annual vacation in the Bahamas, their rest and relaxation is interrupted by an ex-husband determined to reunite with his remarried wife. Breckenridge: 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:45. Rave: 2:05, 5:00, 8:00, 10:45.

Wildfire: Feel the Heat (NR) — Discover how firefighters all over the planet fight the biggest, hottest fires on the planet. Aerospace IMAX: 10:00, 12:00, 2:00, 8:00 Fri.; 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 8:00 Sat. Chenal 9 IMAX Theatre: 17825 Chenal Parkway, 821-2616, www.dtmovies.com.

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

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

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

Market Street Cinema: 1521 Merrill Drive, 3128900, www.marketstreetcinema.net.

Rave Colonel Glenn 18: 18 Colonel Glenn Plaza, 687-0499, www.ravemotionpictures.com.

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

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

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TUESDAY, MAY 4 MUSIC

RISING FROM THE BLUE: In ‘Oceans.’

■moviereview ‘Planet Earth,’ Disney-fied Stunning shots of the deep blue meet forced theatrics in ‘Oceans.’ n Folks will try to tell you that “The Wire” is the greatest television show of all time. They will be wrong. I usually don’t make these kinds of distinctions, but the greatest television show of all time is “Planet Earth.” More than that, it’s one of the great human achievements, an unprecedented visual experience of the natural world. The budget for the entire 11-part series, shot over several years, was roughly a tenth of what James Cameron spent on “Avatar.”

“Oceans” arrives in the wake. From the filmmaking team of Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud, whose previous “Winged Migration” provided an inkling of the kind of images that technology was ready to provide, the film packages stunning photography of the ocean depths for a family audience. Sperm whales breach foaming seas in exquisite slow motion.

Schools of fish whirl. Birds dive-bomb and float weightless. Hundreds of dolphins flit and spin. Bright and colorful sea creatures dance. Fussy crabs scuttle. The opportunity to absorb these majestic images on the big screen should not be missed.

Originally having opened in the filmmakers’ native France, the film’s stateside release is a Disney affair. The studio is reentering the nature documentary fold after many years of absence. Its previous work in the genre has an ambiguous reputation. Walt Disney created his “True Life Adventure” series to capture wildlife as it had never been seen before, and to this day the beauty of those images remains breathtaking. At the same time, Disney deployed his trademark anthropomorphization on living creatures, staging unlikely and counterfactual “natural” plots that often crossed ethical lines.

Perrin and Cluzaud themselves aren’t beyond deceptive theatrics, having used domesticated animals for some of the footage in “Winged Migration.” Their theatrical instincts are less restrained in “Oceans,” where a clumsy framing device emphasizes some odd connection between space travel and oceanic life, but at least there’s no attempt to obscure their intentions when they shoot a stoic iguana gazing at ascending spacecraft on the horizon, an orange glow in its unblinking eyes.

The heavy-handed narration is no match for the majesty of its attendant imagery. Frequently inane and tactful to a fault, Pierce Brosnan’s narration provides scant facts, offering instead a kind of acquisitive knowledge, as if humanity can only begin to take responsibility for its impact on the natural world if bestowed a sense of ownership. In place of a legitimate respect, one based on biblical awe, the film gives us simple wonder, as if its family audiences couldn’t recognize a beauty mixed with terror.

What remains is certainly worth the price of admission, but I can’t rein in my anxiety over the ethics of access. How can audiences feel confident in their knowledge if it is scrubbed clean of real violence?

What effect will this expunged sense of beauty have on our treatment of the natural world? Images torn free of context seem to be the way of the future. Indeed, two trailers that ran before this film felt like extended cuts from YouTube. The first was a feature-length home movie called “Babies,” a WMD of Cute. Second came the next installment in the DisneyNature series. More cuteness, more babies. This time kittens, or “African Cats.”

— Derek Jenkins

Arkansas Youth Orchestra String Quartet’s Spring Recital. 7 p.m., free. Byrne Hall, 2417 N. Tyler St. arkansassymphony.org.

Brian & Nick. 5:30 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. Cajun’s Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road. 375-5351, cajunswharf.com.

Deer Tick, Frown Pow’r, Jonathan Wilkins & The Reparations. 9 p.m., $10. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707, www.stickyfingerz. com.

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

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

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

Mat Mahar. 10 p.m., free. Union, 3421 Old Cantrell Road. 661-8311.

Ryan Bingham. 9 p.m. George’s Majestic Lounge, 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-5276618, georgesmajesticlounge.com.

Tuesday Jam Session with Carl Mouton. 8 p.m., free. Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh. 6634176, afterthoughtbar.com.

Tuesday Jazz Project’s End of Term Concert. 7 p.m., free. Capitol Keyboard Recital Hall, 13401 Chenal Parkway. 228-9999.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 5 MUSIC

Bang Tango. 8:30 p.m., $5 adv., $10 d.o.s. Revolution, 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090, www. rumbarevolution.com.

First Impressions. 9 p.m., free. Grumpy’s, 1801 Green Mountain Drive. 225-3768.

Help Haley Get to Equador Benefit with EKG, Sam Walker, The Alexei, 16th Walk.

9 p.m., $5. Juanita’s, 1300 S. Main St. 374-3271, juanitas.com. All ages.

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

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Continued from page 27 he hired an employee today, it would take about three and a half months to get him certified to work in the brewery before he could start. Understandably, Gray works alone for now. While he was wading through red tape, he educated himself by studying the art and science of brewing — including long days spent observing the process at Little Rock’s Diamond Bear Brewery in Little Rock. “I spent a lot of time over at Diamond Bear,” he said. “I should’ve been on the clock.” He came to respect Diamond Bear, he said, for its care and absolute dedication to cleanliness, traits he said he has tried to emulate at his own shop.

Refined Ale runs three barrel batches of 35 gallons each, and Gray said he should be able to run 12 barrels a week. He said that his ale and malt liquor will be made in essentially the same way — though malt liquor recipes have fewer hops, which gives the drink a sweeter and less bitter flavor. Gray said that Refined Malt Liquor, however, will be lacking a few things you

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

Lucious Spiller Band. 9:30 p.m., $5. Sticky Fingerz, 107 Commerce St. 372-7707, www.stickyfingerz.com.

Puddin’head. 5:30 p.m., free. Town Pump, 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 663-9802.

The Gettys (headliner), Crash Meadows Duo (happy hour). 5:30 p.m., 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. Cajun’s Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road. 3755351, cajunswharf.com.

The Ted Ludwig Trio. 5 p.m. Capital Bar & Grill, 111 W. Markham. 370-7013, capitalhotel.com/ CBG.

EVENTS

Planned Parenthood Garden Party: “Creole Style.” A celebration of the life and work of Brownie Ledbetter featuring dinner, drinks and a silent auction. 6 p.m., $75 individual, $125 couple.

Martindill House, 458 Valley Club Circle. ppaeo. org.

COMEDY

Kevin Bozeman. 8 p.m. $6. Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham. 228-5555, loonybincomedy. com.

LECTURES

Brian Robertson. The Butler Center’s Legacies & Lunch series hosts Brian Robertson to discuss “Forgotten: The Arkansas Korean War Project.” 1 p.m., free. Butler Center, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave. 918-3056, butlercenter.org.

THURSDAY, MAY 6 MUSIC

After Eden. 9 p.m., $5. Electric Cowboy, 9513 I-30. 560-6000, www.electriccowboy.com.

Chiodos, Safe to Shore. 7 p.m., $12 adv., $15 d.o.s. The Village, 3915 S. University. 570-0300, thevillagelive.com.

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

Elvis T-Bus Boy (headliner), Fjord Mustang (happy hour). 6 p.m., 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m.

Cajun’s Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road. 375-5351, cajunswharf.com.

First Thursday Blues with Carl Mouton and Charles Woods. 8 p.m., free. Afterthought, 2721

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might get from a big-name brew like Colt 45.

“If you go to the store and buy the typical on-the-shelf malt liquor, it has everything in it but the kitchen sink. Malt liquors tend to be made from leftovers that are left after you make the beer,” Gray said.

“Craft brewers, we don’t brew with any kind of preservatives or anything. We don’t put any junk in the beer. There’s no corn, no nothing. Nothing to stretch it out.”

Gray said he’s working on a deal with distributors now, and it will probably be sometime in mid-May before you can sample the sweet fruits of his labors. For now, he’s just concentrating on making the best product he can. It’s a process that’s strangely familiar for a man who has long known his way around a stove.

“I’ve been cooking a long time,” Gray said. “They call it brewing, but I really call it cooking. When you make beer, all you’re doing is making a soup. You can call it brewing, but you’re really just making a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.”

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Kavanaugh. 663-4176, afterthoughtbar.com.

Greg Madden. 10 p.m., $3. Town Pump, 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 663-9802.

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

Puddin’head. 7 p.m. Norm’s, 6416 Colonel Glenn Road. 868-9443.

Sweetwater. 8 p.m., $5. Denton’s Trotline, 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717.

The Ted Ludwig Trio. 5 p.m. Capital Bar & Grill, 111 W. Markham. 370-7013, capitalhotel.com/ CBG.

“Christmas Belles.” A church Christmas program spins out of control in this Southern farce about fighting sisters, family secrets and a surly Santa, through May 23. Dinner: 6 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 5:30 p.m. Sun. Lunch: 11 a.m. Sun. and special Wed. matinees. Curtain: 7:45 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 12:40 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. Sun. $30-$32. Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Col. Glenn Road. 562-3131, murrysdinnerplayhouse.com.

“Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.” A poor street urchin discovers mysterious magical lamp.

Arts Center Children’s Theatre, 7 p.m. Fri., 3 p.m.

Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. through May 16. $11-$14. 9th and Commerce. 372-4000, www.arkarts.com.

UALR Opera Theatre presents Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” A contemporary English translation of Mozart’s classic as set in the New York City subways. 7 p.m. Sat., 3 p.m. Sun., $15, $5 students and children. Wildwood Park for the Arts, 20919 Denny Road. 569-8993, ualr.edu.

“Del Shores: My Sordid Life.” The playwright visits little rock for a reception followed by his oneman show. Reception 6:30 p.m.; performance 7:30 p.m. Sat.; $50. Unitarian Universalist Church, 1818 Reservoir Road. 374-3761, weekendtheater.org.

Live From the Met: “Arminda.” The final “Live From the Met” screening presents Gioachino Rossini opera. 2 p.m. Sun., $15, $5 students.

Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA, Conway. 501450-3265, uca.edu/tickets.

“The Foreigner.” A pathologically shy Englishman pretends he’s completely deaf to the English tongue and soon finds himself privy to scandals and secrets. 7:30 p.m. Thu., May 6, $10 adults, $5 children. Pocket Community Theater, 107 Ravine St., Hot Springs. 501-623-8585, www.pockettheater.com.

“Frost/Nixon.” A staged retelling of the famous series of interviews in which a British journalist cajoled a series of admissions from disgraced former U.S. President Nixon. 8 p.m. Thu.-Sat.; 2 p.m.,

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EVENTS

Hillcrest Sip & Shop. The family-filled neighborhood event that takes place the 1st Thursday of each month. 5 p.m., Hillcrest District, Kavanaugh Blvd. hillcrestmerchants.com.

COMEDY

Kevin Bozeman. 8 p.m. $6. Loony Bin, I-430 and Rodney Parham. 228-5555, loonybincomedy. com.

CALL FOR ENTRIES Auditions for Murry’s Dinner Playhouse’s production of “Annie” to be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 10. Child actors need prepare a 16-bar song, adults need prepare a song and a one minute monologue. Accompanist provided. Resume and picture required.

Rehearsals are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., starting July 3; production runs from July 20 to Aug. 29. For more information, call 562-3131.

Registrations for the 11th Annual Paws on the Pavement 5K run, 1-mile run/walk, volleyball tournament, dog carnival and vendor booths. Race/walk entry fee is $20 per individual or $36 per family (limit 4) until May 10; volleyball tournament registration is $60 per team, no day-of registration. For more information,

THIS WEEK IN THEATER

7 p.m. Sun., 7 p.m. $20-40. Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St. 378-0405, therep.org.

GALLERIES, MUSEUMS New exhibits, upcoming events ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “World of the Pharaohs: Treasures of Egypt Revealed,” artifacts from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through July 7, $22 adults, $14 students; “Life and Living in Ancient Egypt,” lecture by “Pharaohs” curator Bill Peck, reception 6 p.m., lecture 6:30 p.m. May 6; “Capturing the Orient,” lithographs by David Roberts and works by other 19th century artists who traveled to Egypt and the surrounding region, through May 16; “Currents in Contemporary Art,” “Masterworks,” “Paul Signac Watercolors and Drawings,” ongoing. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000.

ARKANSAS GOVERNOR’S MANSION: 8th annual “Expressions Art Show and Sale,” 250 framed paintings by clients of Birch Tree Communities for the mentally ill, 6-8 p.m.; live auction at 6:45 p.m. April 29, $25. 303-3202.

CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road: “Let’s Eat!” paintings of the top chefs and restaurants in Little Rock by Carole Katchen, opens with reception 6-8 p.m. April 30, show through June 19. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 224-1335. n Arkadelphia HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY Manipulated digital photographs, senior show by Kris Bredlow, Huie Library, through May 7. n Eureka Springs 83 SPRING STREET GALLERY Open house, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. May 1. 479-253-8310.

ARTRAGEOUS PARADE Kick-off for May Festival of the Arts, 2 p.m. May 1, downtown Eureka, with Razorback “Tusk III” as grand marshal. artrage.ureeka.org.

EUREKA FINE ART COMPANY 78 Spring St.: Work by Larry Mansker, James Yale and Carol Dickie, through May, reception 6-9 p.m. May 1. 479-253-6595.

EUREKA SPRINGS HISTORICAL MUSEUM 95 S. Main St.: Paintings by the late Glenn Swedlen, May 1-31. 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 9:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sun. 479253-9417.

EUREKA TIME, 19 Spring St.: Les Castell, John Dilbeck, Jim Kibby, woodworks, reception 6-9 p.m. May 1. 479-363-9600.

IRIS AT THE BASIN, 8 Spring St.: 8th annual “High School Art Exhibit,” opening reception 7-8:30 p.m. April 29, show through May. 479253-9494.

JEWEL BOX GALLERY, 77 Spring St.: Courtney Trimble, colored pencil drawings, reception 6-9 p.m. May 1. 479-253-7828.

QUEEN ANNE MANSION, Hwy. 62: “Invitational Art Show,” May 1-31, $2. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily.

QUICKSILVER GALLERY, 73 Spring St.: Maura Miller, pottery. 479-253-7679.

STUDIO 62 GALLERY, 335 W. Van Buren: 5th annual “Art as Prayer Exhibit,” May 1-31, reception 5-8 p.m. May 7. studio62.biz.

ZARKS FINE DESIGN, 67 Spring St.: “The Frogman’s Back!,” bronzes by Tim Cotterill, reception and silent auction 6-9 p.m. May 1. 479-2532626. n Morrilton WINTHROP ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE, Petit Jean Mountain: “Arts in the Air Professional Art Exhibit and Sale,” work in conjunction with legacy event “WR: The Rockefeller Brand on Racial and Social Justice for Arkansas” by David Clemons, Rex Deloney, Alonzo Ford, Henri Linton, Delita Martin, Bryan W. Massey, Heidi Mullins, John Newman, Aj Smith, Angelo Thomas, Ed Wade, Susan Williams and Marjorie Williams-Smith, reception 5-7 p.m. April 30, $10, exhibit 5-8 p.m. Thu.-Fri. May 6-21. n Rogers ROGERS HISTORICAL MUSEUM, 322 S. 2nd St.: “Buried Dreams,” photographs documenting the life of “Coin” Harvey and his Monte Ne project, opens May 1; “Rogers Auto-Biography: An Automotive History of Rogers,” through 2011; “Of Promise and Pain: Life Between the Wars,” through June. 479-621-1154.

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he calendar for the 23rd Annual Eureka Springs May Festival of the Arts, just released, includes over 130 events - the most ever. The city known as Mid-America’s Art Capital celebrates arts of every kind throughout the month of May. “This year we continue the recent trend of raising both the number and quality of festival events,” according to C.A.P.C. Executive Director Jim Williams.

“Our very talented arts community has put together an amazing and exhaustive array – everything from fine art to the ‘artrageous,’ from gallery strolls and studio walks to parades and free music in the park,” he added.

MAY 1 - JUNE 6 23rd Annual Eureka Springs May Festival of the Arts. We celebrate the art of Eureka in all its forms; this year’s festival lasts 37 days! Many, if not most, events are free. There are parades, art exhibits and shows, artist’s receptions and demonstrations, Gallery Strolls, the annual White Street Studio Walk, free concerts, an Ozarks Chorale concert, Blues Weekend, and much more.

For more info about Eureka Springs, go online to www.eurekasprings.org, Email Ken Rundel, krundel@eurekasprings.org, or mail to: CAPC, P.O. Box 522, Eureka Springs, AR, 72632.

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There’s free music in Basin Spring Park daily throughout May. Photo by Ken Rundel

23RD ANNUAL EUREKA SPRINGS MAY FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS FESTIVAL GUIDE AND PUBLIC RELATIONS CALENDAR OF EVENTS MAY 1-31 Free Music in Basin Spring Park every day this month, weather permitting. Monday through Friday 3-5 p.m., Saturdays 12-6 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Dan Zanes and Friends, May 15, 3-5 p.m.–courtesy of Walton Arts Center’s Artosphere Festival.

MAY 1-31 A collection of paintings by the late Eureka Springs’ artist, Glenn Swedlen, will be on display the entire month of May at the Eureka Springs Historical Museum at 95 S. Main Street, open 9:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, Saturdays in May 9:30 a.m. until 8 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. Light refreshments will be served on Saturday evenings. Call Ginni at the museum, 479-253-9417 or visit www.eurekaspringshistoricalmuseum.org.

MAY 1-31 The Eureka Springs Invitational Art Show, Open daily entire month of May from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. in the Queen Anne’s Mansion Garden Level Gallery, HWY 62. Admission: $2 (Gallery admission only). Exhibit featuring two and three-dimensional work created by some of Eureka Springs’ finest artists.

MAY 1-31 Fantasy & Stone will feature Eureka Springs artist Lorna Trigg Hirsh. Call 479-253-5891.

MAY 1-31 As part of the Carnegie Library’s Centennial celebration, the students of Eureka Springs High School and their school art instructor, Jessica Cummings, have created handmade books to honor the impact of their favorite childhood stories. The exhibit will be in the Carnegie Library and the Library Annex window. For further info call 479-253-8754.

MAY 1-31

Studio 62 hosts the 5th Annual “Art as Prayer” Invitational Exhibit. Local and regional artists interpret the theme in various artistic media. Artists Reception Friday, May 7th 5:30-8:30 Contact Jody Stephenson @ 479-363-9209 or jodystephenson@yahoo.com

MAY 1-31 Iris at the Basin Park will exhibit the art of Eureka Springs and Berryville High School students. The opening of the exhibit will be April 29th from 7-8:30pm. Call the gallery at 479-253-9494.

MAY 1-31 Fusion Squared will be featuring the fused glass work of John Rinehart. Call 479-253-4999 or email fusionsquared@eurekafusion.com www.eurekafusion.com

MAY 1 SATURDAY May Festival of the Arts kicks off with the ARTrageous Parade through historic downtown. Free and fun for the whole family.

2 p.m. For more info, visit http://artrage.ureeka.org • The first “ARTISAN’S AT THE LAKE” art show and sale. 10am6pm at the Log Home Model located at 324 Mundell Road. This show will showcase the talented artisan’s that reside in the Grassy Knob/Beaver Lake area. Follow the signs starting at Hwy. 62 West and Hwy. 187 junction and venture out to the wonderful, calming Grassy Knob community. Contact David Smith @ 479-253-1066 or Jana Jean @ 479-253-7495 • Gallery Stroll. 6-9 p.m. every Saturday in May. Our galleries will host artists’ receptions and special exhibits. Refreshments will be served. Some times may vary. See some of the participating galleries and the artists they are featuring below. More info at www.artofeureka.com.

• Zark’s Fine Design Gallery presents a show and reception for internationally known sculpture artist Tim Cotterill entitled “The Frogman’s Back!” - limited edition bronze frog, koi, and gecko sculptures. 6-9 p.m. 479-253-2626.

• Eureka Thyme features woodcrafters to kick off the May Festival of the Arts. Les Casteel of Wood That Rocks crafts fine furniture. John Dilbeck specializes in segmented, turned bowls.

Jim Kibby works in wood burl. Join us for a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. 479-363-9600.

• 83 Spring Street Gallery kicks off this year’s festival with an open house. Refreshments available. 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. For more information go to www.83springstreet.com or call 479253-8310.

• Eureka Fine Art features the brilliant, varied work of Larry Mansker, the masterful mythical realism of James Yale and the colorful mixed water media landscapes of Carol Dickie. Location 78 Spring Street. For more information call the gallery @ 479-253-6595.

• Jewel Box Gallery at 77 Spring Street will host Courtney Trimble and her beautiful colored pencil wildlife and botanical subjects. For more information call 479-253-7828.

• Quicksilver Gallery presents the work of potter and sculptor Maura Miller. See her creations of raku masks and ceramic vessels fused with glass.

• Iris at the Basin Park. In honor of Spring, Lorna & Craig Hirsh will be visiting the gallery with a new collection of their musical art including tuned ceramic bird whistles and wind chimes.

1:00-4:00 and 6:00-9:00pm. Contact rfeutz@sbcglobal.net • Gazebo Books @ 86 Spring Street will host a book signing with Michael “Supe” Granda of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils.

“IT SHINED – The Saga of The Ozark Mountain Daredevils” will take you through the colorful history of the band and their days on the “rock-n-roll highway”. For more information call 479-253-9556.

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Children enjoying Fire Om Earth Studio. Owners Lorna and Craig Trigg Hirsch create homemade drums, flutes, and many other items. Photo by Ken Rundel • The Ozarks Chorale performs in the Eureka Springs City Auditorium at 7 p.m. For more info and tickets go to www.theaud.org.

• “Heal the Waters,” at sunset at Magnetic Spring. With Barbara Harmony, Becky Gillete, Rebekah Clark, and Lisa Dawn. On this day, the world will come together and recognize the importance of water to all of life– to honor it, to heal it, and to be more conscious of how we interact with it. We invite you to become a part of this worldwide event.

MAY 2 SUNDAY Wooden and Bamboo Flute Making Demonstration 12-4 p.m. Free. Fire Om Earth Art Studio and Retreat Center, 872 Mill Hollow Rd. Jim Pesack of Southern MO, is a builder of Native American End Blown Love Flutes. He will demonstrate cutting wind channels and placing finger holes.

• Craig Hirsch resident flute-maker, will demonstrate how he takes a bamboo pole and turns it into a finely tuned and easy to play transverse (side blown) flute. www.fireomearth.com or 479-363-9402

MAY 3-14 The 4th Annual Mayor’s Student Art Exhibit. The public is invited to view the artwork of 7th and 8th graders from Eureka Springs Middle School at City Hall during business hours. Free.

MAY 4 TUESDAY Free! “Let’s Read a Picture.” Drop-in art appreciation experiences for children & families; best for children ages 5 –12 years old and their adult partners. Interactive games, discussions and art and book-related activities spur excitement about looking, reading, and making. 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Carnegie Public Library- Meeting Room, 194 Spring Street. 479-253-8754.

MAY 7-9 FRIDAY-SUNDAY 10th Annual Eureka Springs PT Cruiser Rally and Show at Pine Mountain Village. Parade on Saturday at 9 pm. For more information call Anita Rook at 479-685-1522 or Tammie Runyan at 479-238-4979, email Tammie at t.runyan@cox.net or visit www.nwaptcruiserclub.com

MAY 7-9 FRIDAY-SUNDAY Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge Arts & Crafts Fair. Located 7 miles south of Eureka Springs on Scenic Hwy 23 South. For more information contact Clif Jackson at 479-253-3790 or visit www.turpentinecreek.org or email tigers@turpentinecreek.org.

• War Eagle Mill Antique & Craft Show. Wide variety of crafts and food concessions. For more information call 479-789-5343, visit www.wareaglemill.com or email info@wareaglemill.com.

• 42nd Annual Season of The Great Passion Play opens. For more information or reservations call 800-882-7529 or visit www.greatpassionplay.com • Studio 62 is hosting the 5th Annual Art as Prayer Exhibition--an invitational show coinciding with the Eureka Springs May Festival of the Arts and the National Day of Prayer, all occurring during the month of May. The artists’ reception will be held from 5-8 p.m. at 335 W. Van Buren. For more info visit www.studio62.biz or call 479-363-9209.

MAY 8-9 SATURDAY & SUNDAY Art In The Park. Free! Artists display their crafts and wares at Basin Spring Park in historic downtown. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Saturday Gallery Stroll. 6-9 p.m. every Saturday in May. Our galleries will host artists’ receptions and special exhibits. Refreshments will be served. Some times may vary. See below some of the participating galleries and the amazing artists they are featuring. More info at www.artofeureka.com.

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The ARTrageous parade on Saturday, May 1, winds through historic Eureaka Springs.

• 83 Spring Street Gallery celebrates artists that hale from Arkansas, including master glass carver Rick Isaacs, equestrian artist Allison Cantrell, and fine art skull artist Kate Barger. 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. For more information go to www.83springstreet.com or call 479-253-8310.

• Eureka Thyme. Meet and greet artist Maureen Dailey. Her glass sculpture is organic and oneof-a-kind. 479-363-9600.

• Quicksilver Gallery presents their two in-house jewelry artists, Lyla O. Allison and Brian Watson. Both Lyla and Brian create very unique, one of a kind pieces.

• Eureka Fine Art at 78 Spring Street is featuring the fine art photography of Josh Mitchell, the impressionist landscapes of Jimmy Leach and the artisan jewelry of David Rush. For more information call 479-253-6595 • Jewel Box Gallery. Come and watch glass artist Jeff Price as he demonstrates how he makes his amazing levitating marbles (taped). Refreshments 6-9 pm. For info call 479-253-7828 • Iris in the Basin Park will be the host to one of Eureka’s treasures, Valerie Hubbard Damon.

She will be introducing her newest work. Valerie creates fantasy in paintings, pottery, fiber and children’s books. Have her personalize a piece for you! 1:00 to 4:00 and 6:00-9:00.

• Zark’s Fine Design Gallery presents the 12th Annual Group Invitational Theme Show – “Widgets, Gizmos, & Doohickies.” Show & Artists’ Reception 6-9 p.m. Over 30 area artists were invited to interpret this year’s theme. The show will be on display all day Saturday. Cast your vote for the “People’s Choice Award.” Call 479-253-2626 for info.

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MAY 13-16 THURSDAY-SUNDAY Eureka Springs Grand Illumination. Thousands of Japanese and Chinese paper lanterns adorn the facades of historic downtown buildings and many of the grand Victorian homes throughout our picturesque hillside village. Many related events as well. Visit www.eurekaspringsgrandillumination.com or call 479-981-4355.

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Doumbek Drum Making Demonstration. Free. 12-4 p.m. Fire Om Earth Art Studio and Retreat Center, 872 Mill Hollow Rd. Lorna Trigg Hirsch master hand drum builder will demonstrate how to throw a clay doumbek on the potter’s wheel. Tour the full studio while you visit. FireOmErth@aol.com

Award winning coffee, desserts & fresh made-to-order sandwiches, wraps, burgers, omelets & pancakes.

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MAY 14-16 FRIDAY-SUNDAY Eureka Springs School of the Arts Oil Portraits Master’s Class. If you’re into portrait painting in oil don’t miss Kevin Kresse’s “Oil Portraits” Masters Class. $375 for 3 days, plus an additional $35 models fee. Visit www.esartschool.com or call 479-253-5384

MAY 14-15 FRIDAY & SATURDAY “Healing Waters” Women’s Conference. For more information call 870-654-7405 or visit www. rachelloveministries.com.

MAY 15 SATURDAY Free! Dan Zanes and Friends Concert at Basin Spring Park, 3-5 p.m. Entertainers appear courtesy of the Walton Arts Center’s Artosphere Festival.

• Saturday Gallery Stroll. 6-9 p.m. every Saturday in May. Our galleries will host artists’ receptions and special exhibits. Refreshments will be served. Some of the following participating galleries are showcasing special artists for your enjoyment. Times may vary. More info at www.artofeureka.com.

• Zark’s Fine Design Gallery Show and artists’ reception featuring Michael Schwade: Contemporary Artifacts - copper, brass, and silver jewelry embellished with glass cabuchons. 6-9 p.m.

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• Eureka Thyme Meet fine artist Diana Harvey at her reception from 6-8 p.m. Her oil paintings are well known both in Eureka Springs and nationally. In the past year, Diana has had her work on display in four prestigious shows: 479-363-9600.

• 83 Spring Street Gallery Meet master duck decoy carver John Bundy. John and his famous Bundy Ducks first appeared in Eureka Springs 25 years ago. He will be creating a special limited edition 25th anniversary duck that will only be available at this event. 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. www.83springstreet.com or call 479-253-8310.

• Iris at the Basin Park will present the newest ceramic creations from Terry Russell and his Blue Moon Studio. Terry is a local artist and retired educator who inspired many of Eureka’s youth with his love of nature and joy of creating art from clay.

1:00-4:00 and 6:00-9:00 • Eureka Fine Art Featuring the vibrant, magical realism of Denise Ryan, the unique watercolors and Eureka scenes of Julie Kahn Valentine along with the Ozark riverscapes of Ernie Kilman. Located @ 78 Spring Street. @479-253-6595.

• Jewel Box Gallery, 77 Spring Street, will host Skip Cluff, metalsmith. He will be showing his sandcast jewelry inspired by nature and the cosmos. Reception 6-9 pm. Call 479-253-7828.

• Quicksilver Gallery will showcase their newest jewelry artist, Jodie VanDerwall. Her new pieces are beautiful dichroic glass surrounded by silver which accents the designs playing in the glass.

• Eureka Fine Art will feature the beautiful, realistic acrylic and oil work of Lisa Bauer, the delightful fabric collage designs of Candace Kenyon and the decorative and functional ceramics of Sheyodi.

public into their homes and studios to view their latest works.

Call Zeek at 479-253-9318 and visit www.eurekasprings.org

MAY 22 SATURDAY EVENING GALLERY STROLL Saturday Gallery Stroll. 6-9 p.m. every Saturday in May. Times may vary. Our galleries will host artists’ receptions and special exhibits. Refreshments will be served. Below are some of the galleries and their featured artists. More info at www. artofeureka.com.

• Zark’s Fine Design Gallery presents a show & artist’s reception for renowned glass artisan Rollin Karg: Hot Glass & Cold Steel blown glass and metal sculptures. 6-9 p.m. 479-253-2626.

MAY 18-20 TUESDAY-THURSDAY “Eureka Springs ARTCAR Get Together.” Part of the “Great MidWestern ARTCAR Tour of 2010.” Cruising, community outreach, meet and greet the art cartists. Sponsored by Eureka Springs ARTCARtists 2.0. Contact Ranaga at 479-981-3288/ nagasan@ sbcglobal.net or MrShrine1@Hotmail.com or call Ralph Wilson at 479-981-6190.

MAY 19 WEDNESDAY ARTCAR Parade, following the traditional route through historic downtown on Spring Street, 6 p.m.

MAY 20 THURSDAY Poetluck is a potluck dinner and literary salon held the third Thursday of every month, January-November at The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs. Bring a dish to pass, spend quality time with resident writers, and share a bit of your writing with the group if you like. 479-253-7444.

MAY 21 FRIDAY Annual White Street Studio Walk. Historic White Street is the working address of several local artists who will welcome the

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Free! Open-Air Meditation Sanctuary Grand Opening, and First Annual Celebration of Humanity. Prayerformances by Shaumbra Dance Theater Company, Wisdom Circles, Drumming, Meditation, Trail Walks and more. Come for outdoor fun and a dynamic exchange of energy and ideas on group evolution. www.28rites.com. 479-363-7024.

• A Taste Of Art. A fine dining and arts experience with Eureka Springs restaurants hosting artists and their works. Visit www. mayfestivalofthearts.com/taste-of-art/.

Saturday Gallery Stroll. Our galleries will host artists’ receptions and special exhibits. Refreshments will be served. See below for a list of some of the participating galleries. Times may vary this last weekend of the Festival. See the gallery information below for specific times. www.artofeureka.com.

• Eureka Thyme hosts an exhibit of the photography of the Beaver Bridge, a much-photographed landmark in the Eureka Springs area. See it through the eyes of photographers Randal Thompson, Dale Johnson, Stephen Shogren, Gerry Toler, and Jim Young. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. 479-363-9600.

• Zark’s Fine Design Gallery: Open House all day. 479-2532626.

• 83 Spring Street Gallery hosts jewelry designer Betsy Stafford for a 2-day trunk show event. Using rare and unusual gemstones that are rated excellent or better, Betsy wraps each piece letting the stones be her guide. Saturday 10 a.m. – 8pm www.83springstreet.com or 479-253-8310.

• Castle Rogue’s Manor presents “Pinups, Pushups and Glamour.” Free. 3-6 p.m. at the Castle. More info at www.castleroguesmanor.com • Eureka Fine Arts showcases the still-lifes and miniatures of Diana Harvey, the colorful one-of-a-kind abstracts and the stunning, panoramic landscapes of Randy Rust.

• Jewel Box Gallery Open House all day. For more information call 479-253-7828.

• Iris at the Basin Park will present Kate Baer, a jeweler from the Buffalo River Valley who will be showcasing her latest treasures. 1:00-4:00 and 6:00-9:00

“Three Springs and a Ladder” Photography Exhibit sponsored

by Eureka Springs Outdoor Alliance will be held at Bank of Eureka Springs Historical Museum, within the downtown branch of Cornerstone Bank at 70 South Main Street. Exhibit will feature selected photos from the April 17th tour of the three springs in the East Mountain and Water Street area and Jacob’s Ladder by local and regional artists. A reception opens the exhibit from 3-6pm. Contact Lorri Carter at artsifrtsy@yahoo.com.

• Studio 62 and the Eureka Springs Christian Writers Group present “Food For Thought” at the Lovin’ Oven. Located at The Quarter shopping center on Hwy 62. And it’s free! It starts at 6 p.m. Complimentary coffee and tea will also be available.

6th Annual Books in Bloom Literary Festival. Free! This is for adults and children, features authors and book-related professionals, and is presented by the Carroll and Madison Public Library Foundation. Call 870-423-5300 or visit www. booksinbloom.org.

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• Eureka Springs Garden Club’s Spring Garden Tour from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. $20. Call 479-253-7078.

The ARTrageous parade winds through historic downtown.

• Iris at the Basin Park will feature Sue Burkart Chisholm. She is one of the favorite artists of the gallery regulars. This year she will be introducing new wall décor, raku vases and a multipurpose ceramic ‘Sunstar’.

1:00-4:00 and 6:00-9:00.

• 83 Spring Street Gallery. Mark and Eli Hopkins unveil the newest pieces in Mark’s one-of-a-kind collection, themed ‘Child’s Play’. Also, see Eli’s latest creations. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Visit www.83springstreet.com or call 479-253-8310.

• Eureka Thyme. Meet artists Ken and Sandy Starbird in a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Ken’s ceramic creations continue to amaze and delight! Sandy’s fabric primal images are expanding our consciousness daily. These wonderful artisans are combining their talents in amazing ways. 479-363-9600.

• Eureka Fine Art will feature the beautiful, realistic acrylic and oil work of Lisa Bauer, the delightful fabric collage designs of Candace Kenyon and the decorative and functional ceramics of Sheyodi. Call 479-253-6595.

• Jewel Box Gallery will feature Wayne Schmidt presenting new stones and jewelry designs fabricated in silver. Reception 6-9 pm. 479-253-7828.

• Quicksilver Gallery is showcasing the paper artist extraordinaire, Mark Nichols. Mark treats the surface of dried plant materials from his garden and his paper with various powdered metals. Patinas give the work warmth and reality.

• 63rd Annual Garden Club Plant Sale from 8am-3pm in the parking lot of the Eureka Springs High School. For more information

MAY 29 SATURDAY 16th Annual Mustang Show. Call Jim Post @ 479-253-2364 or email eurekamustangs@arkansas.net

MAY 29-30 SUNDAY “Pinups, Pushups and Glamorous Art.” Free. 3-6 p.m. at Castle Rogue’s Manor. More info at www.castleroguesmanor.com

MAY 30 SUNDAY 83 Spring Street Gallery hosts jewelry designer Betsy Stafford for a 2-day trunk show event. Sunday 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. www.83springstreet.com or 479-253-8310.

MAY 31 MONDAY Castle Rogue’s Manor will present a Cabaret Finale to their 3 day May Festival of the Arts weekend extravaganza. The Memorial Day event includes Musicians and the Arts, Magic, Artists and their Arts & More. Cash Bar. $40.00 per person. Only 200 tickets available. Visit www.castleroguesmanor.com for more information.

JUNE 3-6 (THURS.-SUN.) 23rd Annual May Festival of the Arts concludes the first weekend in June with our annual Eureka Springs Blues Weekend.

Concerts in the City Auditorium and at venues all around town.

Plus free concerts in Basin Spring Park. For info and schedule go to www.eurekaspringsblues.com.

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Destination: Eureka Springs Historic hotels, luxury spas, scenic splendor, unique shops, great restaurants and laidback locals are some of the many things that keep visitors coming back to Eureka Springs year after year. Festivals are also a big draw to the quaint Ozark Mountain town.

Restaurants

Sparky’s Roadhouse Café offers fun, casual dining with lots to choose from on their giant menu as well as an impressive list of beers, wines and cocktails. A best bet is Dr. Scott’s Gourmet Cheeseburger. Outdoor dining is welcome on thier large patio. Sparky’s is located on E. Van Buren. Café Luigi has been serving affordable Italian cuisine for the past 22 years in the heart of downtown Eureka Springs at 91 Main St. Open for lunch and dinner.

Gaskins Cabin Steakhouse is located on Hwy. 23 in the oldest property in Carroll County. The menu changes seasonally to incorporate fresh ingredients and fresh ideas in the kitchen, but the prime rib, aged steaks and a few other Cabin favorites remain constant.

Family owned and operated, Mud Street Café serves up fresh food and friendly service in unique Underground Eureka. The building was formerly a storefront before the city built Main Street. In those early years, the street kept flooding and was nicknamed Mud Street hence the name Mud Street Café. The award-winning restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner and is well known for its specialty coffee drinks. Located at 71 Main Street, Local Flavor Café is a hip place to enjoy lunch and dinner. It boasts a tantalizing menu of fresh salads, sandwiches, burgers and entrees of beef, chicken and seafood.

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Attractions

Keels Creek Winery produces its own wines and offers tastings in a Spanish-style building featuring the Keels Creek Art Gallery. The winery is located at 3185 E. Van Buren. For more information, call 479-253-9463.

Pine Mountain Theater proudly presents “the show you just gotta see.” Mike and Dale Bishop lead outstanding singers, pickers and comedians through a fun-filled evening of Pine Mountain Theater offers the best music and music and comedy feacomedy show in town. turing classic country, rhythm and blues, rock ‘n roll, gospel and much more. Pine Mountain Theater is included in a variety of Extraordinary Escape packages, which include lodging at Best Western Inn of the Ozarks, tickets to the show and admission to other area attractions. Find a vacation package that’s right for you and your family online at www.vacationeurekasprings.com. Pine Mountain Theater is located at 2075 E. Van Buren. For more information, call 877-504-2092.

Other Events

On Saturday, June 12, the XTERRA Eureka Springs Off-Road Triathlon and Trail Run returns to Eureka Springs to challenge endurance athletes from as many as 12 states across the country. The city’s 1600-acre crown jewel, Lake Leatherwood City Park, will host the 5th annual event. Race day consists of two races, the Trail Run and the Off-Road Triathlon. Visit www.eurekaspringsoffroadtriathlon.com.

The Eureka Springs Blues Weekend will be on June 3-6. Presented by the 1905 Basin Park Hotel. It is a fundraiser for The Blues Foundation’s Handy Artist Relief Trust and Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge. To sign up for more information, or to volunteer, please visit www.

EurekaSpringsBlues.com.

Lodging and ticket packages will be available at many Eureka Springs area hotels, Athletes from all over the country compete in the and tickets are on sale at XTERRA Eureka Springs Off-Road Triathlon on June EurekaSpringsBlues.com.

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EXCITING ARKANSAS EVENTS ON THE HORIZON ■ Bennett’s Military Supplies is celebrating its 140th anniversary on Friday May 7 and Saturday, May 8 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bennett’s has been owned by the same family for six generations. To honor this accomplishment, the store will offer a 10% discount of all merchandise along with many giveaways and prizes. Personalized dog tag sets will be free with any $10 purchase. Bennett’s is located at 3rd and Main Street in downtown Little Rock.

■ Celebrate Nursing takes place at Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock on Friday, May 7 at 7 p.m. Honor nursing professionals for the compassionate work they do on a daily basis. Enjoy live music by Chris Michaels and the Cranks, dancing, food and fun. There is no cover charge. The event coincides with Nurses Week, which runs May 6-12.

■ Arkansas Symphony Orchestra presents “Spotlight on Hollywood” on Friday May 7 and Saturday, May 8 at 8 p.m. at Robinson Center Music Hall. As part of the ACXIOM Pops! series, this production will feature selections from your favorite movie classics, including The Wizard of Oz, The Empire Strikes Back and Lord of the Rings. For added fun, ASO’s guest maestro and clarinetist, Carl Topilow, will test your movie knowledge with a trivia quiz. For ticket information, call 501-666-1761 or visit www.arkansassymphony.org.

■ Now showing at the Arkansas Repertory Theater is Frost/ Nixon. This fast-paced Tony Award-nominated play showcases the determination, conviction and cunning nature of two men as they square off in one of the most monumental interviews of all time. In one corner is David Frost (Brad Heberlee), a media jack of all trades with a jet-set lifestyle and penchant for flashy suits, exuding self-confidence and a desire to do something important. In the other corner is Richard Nixon (Keith Langsdale), reviled in his own country with his reputation in tatters. Profoundly evocative and vibrantly written by Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon is an exhilarating, intellectual David and Goliath battle of wits as Frost attempts to “give Nixon the trial he never had.” The play runs through Sunday, May 9. Tickets range from $25-$40. For show times and additional information, call 51-378-0405 or visit www.therep.org.

■ Little Rock’s Minx Boutique carries cutting edge fashions you can’t get anywhere else. Currently, Minx is receiving new ship-

ments of spring and summer staples as well as trendy looks from New York and L.A. every day. Prophetik, an artistic natural clothing line, is one of the unique brands you’ll discover at Minx. From their “Goldie” t-back frock in green ($152) to an organic silk that’s been painted by elephants from the Asian Elephant Art & Conservation Project, Prophetik has something for every eco-conscious fashionista. Wear your favorite Prophetik look on May 13 and trump the trunk when Minx collaborates with Prophetik for an outdoor fashion show. Look for models riding horseback through Hillcrest. For more information, call 501-2238879. Minx is located at 2915 Kavanaugh Blvd.

■ Hosted by Alice 107.7’s Heather and DC, the 11th Annual Paws on the Pavement benefitting Central Arkansas Rescue Effort (CARE) for Animals will take place Saturday, May 15 at Murray Park in Little Rock. Festivities will include a $2 dog carnival, a 5K run, miniature therapy horses, a one-mile run/ walk, adoptable pets, CARE’s first ever three-on-three volleyball tournament, caricatures, dog agility demonstrations, games, booth vendors and pet psychic readings by nationally acclaimed psychic Carol Pate. Paws on the Pavement will kick off with the 5K run at 8 a.m., followed by the one-mile run/walk at 9:30 a.m. and the volleyball tournament at 10:30 a.m. Online registration and printable entry forms are available through the CARE website at www.careforanimals.org. Entry forms are also available at the CARE gift shop at 5516 Kavanaugh Blvd.

All proceeds from this event will directly benefit CARE for Animals, Inc., a non-profit animal rescue and spay/neuter organization. For more information, call 603-CARE or visit www. careforanimals.org.

■ Riverfest returns to downtown Little Rock May 28-30. Music is always a big draw to the festival. This year’s headliners include Ludacris, Lucero, The Black Crowes, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Gary Allan, Steve Miller Band and Bell Biv Devoe. Other notable acts include The Juke Joint Duo featuring Cedric Burnside and

Richard Nixon (Keith Langsdale) and David Frost (Brad Heberlee) clash during an interview scene in The Rep’s production of Peter Morgan’s Frost/ Nixon. (photo by Ben Krain)

Lightnin’ Malcolm, local rapper 607 and Little Rock bands Love Ghost, Dave Raymond & Present Company, Boondogs, The Reds and The See. For a complete lineup, visit www.riverfestarkansas.com. Music isn’t the only attraction.

This year’s festival features a Rock ‘n Stroll Fun Run, KidZone, ArtZone, Teen Extreme with rock wall and many food vendors. Admission is $30 for the three-day festival. Wendy’s and Big Red stations are currently selling a limited number of half-price buttons for $15. For a list of locations, visit www.riverfestarkansas.com/ tickets-merch.

■ ArtWeek ’10: Bridging The Arts. Bridging the cities and bridging the arts—Junction Bridge will do just that Thursday evening, May 13 at a kickoff party for ArtWeek’10 hosted by Downtown Little Rock Partnership and Argenta Downtown Council. From 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. the public is invited to an evening of art, music, food, and entertainment on the bridge. Wristbands for food and drinks may be purchased for $20 per person at either entrance to the bridge. Entrances can be accessed from the Little Rock side in Riverfront Park or on the North Little Rock side near Enclave at the Riverfront. Participating restaurants will include Starving Artist, Crush Wine Bar, Cregeen’s Irish Pub, Cornerstone Pub & Grill, Reno’s Argenta Café, Boscos, Sufficient Grounds, Community Bakery, Hunk A Pie and more. Also sponsoring this special event are: Laman Library, Arkansas Times, Budweiser, Miller Lite, New Belgium Brewing, Boulevard Brewing Co., and Coca-Cola. Downtown Little Rock Partnership and Argenta Downtown Council are both member-based nonprofit organizations whose missions are to provide leadership, advocacy and initiatives for assuring vibrant downtowns in Little Rock and North Little Rock. 2nd Friday Art Night, 5-8 pm, Friday, May 14 in downtown Little Rock. 3rd Friday Argenta ArtWalk, 5-8 pm, Friday, May 21 in downtown Argenta. Unleash your native genius at Be an Artist, Main Street Argenta, 2-6 pm, Saturday, May 22. Free materials! Design your own tattoo. String your own beads. Food as Art Competition. Art for Lunch and Dinner: Participating restaurants and clubs will feature art demonstrations of all kinds during lunch and dinner for all ten days! ArtWeek concludes with performance art by Larry Wade Hampton at the new galleries of Hearne Fine Art, 1001 Wright Ave in Little Rock, Saturday, May 22. For more information go to www.art-week.org.

(Left) Rapper Ludacris headlines a show at Riverfest on May 30. (Right) Minx Boutique and the eco-friendly clothing line Prophetik team up for a Hillcrest fashion show on May 13.

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n Terry’s Finer Foods’ new adjacent restaurant, named, simply, Terry’s Finer Foods the Restaurant, opens May 4. Dining room manager Barret Seymour describes it as a chop house with an emphasis on fresh ingredients.

Patrick Herron, former chef/owner of the Beechwood Grill and Afterthought, is the chef. Initially, the restaurant will be open from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Tuesday through Saturday, with lunch planned for the not-too-distant future.

The main dining room seats 38 with space for 20 in an auxiliary dining room.

The restaurant will feature a full bar with a special bar menu that includes tapas and mini pizzas topped with things like duck confit and brie.

Seymour says the restaurant is mostly booked through its first week, though he’s saved room for walk-ins.

Go to Eat Arkansas to see the full menu. n Ferneau has unveiled a summer menu that includes items like ahi tuna nachos, a Caprese salad, buttermilk fried chicken, shrimp and grits and rack of lamb on ratatouille. See the full menu on the Times’ food blog, Eat Arkansas.

Ferneau is located at 2601 Kavanaugh.

The restaurant serves dinner 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The phone number is 603-9208. n Jacksonville celebrates the grand opening of a new 2,355 squarefoot Farmers’ Market Pavilion on Saturday, May 1. It’s located at 9 Municipal Drive.

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

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

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

B Breakfast L Lunch

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$ Inexpensive (under $8/person)

$$ Moderate ($8-$20/person)

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APPLE SPICE JUNCTION A chain sandwich and salad spot with sit-down lunch space and a vibrant box lunch catering business. With a wide range of options and quick service. Order online via applespice.com. 2000 S. University Ave. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 663-7008 L Mon.-Fri.

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■ dining New on Clinton Ave. Bill Street does burgers and more. n In name alone, Bill Street makes a great first impression – a quirky take on its location, President Clinton Avenue, and a near sound-alike version of the famous party strip in Memphis.

The puts-a-smile-on-your-face vibe continues when you head down the wooden stairs and cross the below-street-level patio that leads to the long, shotgun-style restaurantbar. Bill Street has a friendly feel to it, especially during the bustling lunch hour, and the creativity of some menu items distinguish the place from the same old pub grub spots.

Our two visits came just a couple of weeks into what we hope is a long run for Bill Street. There were enough culinary bright spots to offset some duds that might owe to the workingout-the-kinks nature of newness.

Even at lunch it’s hard to resist adding appetizers to the plan, so we bill’s double: Burger nirvana for less than $10. had five (over two visits): tions here were bass-ackward. We hardly the best fried mushrooms we’ve had.

1. We can never say no to onion noticed the two or three strips of bacon as Early chatter about Bill Street centered rings, sort of like cheese dip; both, we we gnawed through the inch-thick, rather on the burgers, and indeed there’s a whole think, tells you something about the heart tough fried mater slices. A rework is in page of them – huge ground beef patties of the place. Bill Street’s rings are the thin order. dressed up every way imaginable as well kind (our fave), crisped up nicely with a Bill Street has two desserts: a fried as black bean, veggie and salmon varieties. coating that suggests panko breadcrumbs.

Snickers for those who can’t wait for To set a benchmark, we went for the basic A little greasy, yes, and lacking a needed Riverfest or the State Fair to get their fix; Bill burger, a half-pound slab fully dressed shot of salt, but still better than average. and the ubiquitous huge brownie with ice with top-notch, batterish fries for a mere Too bad they’ve since been removed from cream, chocolate sauce and a whipped $6 (there’s a Bill’s double for $9 that’s the menu. cream type product. We’re not sure what a full pound, too). It would have been a 2. Bill Street’s sausage balls are as decatoughened up the edges of the brownie – resplendent burger experience had only dent as it gets – greasy, cheesy and yummy either too long in the oven or microwavethe cook pulled the patty off the fire about with hardly any of the Bisquickish filler induced, but we could have driven a nail three minutes sooner. It wasn’t burned, but that gums up so many potluck versions. with that section. As it was, there was still it was completely well done, dull gray with These are sleek – off-the-charts in fat plenty of edible brownie in the cocktail nary a hint of moistness. grams and cholesterol – but man do they napkin-sized slab to satisfy.

So we came back and got another one make your coat shiny!

– this time opting for the “steakhouse” Great name, cool place, creative menu, 3. The wings are generally standard burger, with cheddar, sauteed mushrooms some hits and some minor misses – all in issue, but they are meaty and crisp and at and onions. The cook kept his/her head in all, a not-too-bad start for the newest River $6 for a dozen, way cheaper than most. the game this go-round, and we had the Market haunt.

The highlights of the quintet of apps: burger nirvana moment we know happens 4. The homemade pimiento cheese, regularly at Bill Street. served with celery, which automatically The salmon burger is equally huge, a makes it way healthier. We give not a whit 614 President Clinton Avenue regulation hockey puck-sized croquette about standard-issue pimiento cheese, 353-1724 fried, topped with fried green tomato (a finding it way too gloppy and bland, and problem; see below) and a remoulade.

Quick bite the little red specks weird us out. But Bill Even if the sight of the preternaturally orange glop Substantial, but the grease gets to you Street and Mrs. Weaver have nothing in the Mrs. Weaver’s tub makes your stomach about halfway through. in common when it comes to pimiento turn, try the homemade pimiento cheese at Bill The burger everyone’s talking about cheese. This was a dense blend featuring Street – it’s dense and flavorful, bold yet subtle.

You can get it with celery as an appetizer or on is the peanut butter/bacon topped model, shaved cheddar – bold yet subtle, and quite jalapeno cornbread as a sandwich. but we’re guessing most of those talking substantial. Don’t miss it. about it ain’t ordering it. Some swear it’s Hours 5.The fried portobello strips: Finally 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 4 tasty, and the sweet/salty combo is kind the correct treatment of a flawed appetizer p.m. to 2 a.m. Wednesday through Friday, 4 p.m. of trendy these days. But we just couldn’t concept. Rather than battered, greaseto 1 a.m. Saturday. Happy hour 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. do it. Sorry.

Wednesday through Saturday. Kitchen closes at trapping button mushrooms that explode 11 p.m. on nights with dinner service.

The applewood smoked bacon sandand scald your mouth on contact, these are wich with fried green tomatoes was crisp, with a light tempura-style batter, and Other info Credit cards accepted. Full bar. another intriguing selection, but the propormuch easier to consume bite by bite. By far brian chilson

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Restaurant capsules Continued from page 47 ASHLEY’S Perfect seafood, unusual ingredients, careful cooking and gorgeous presentation make meals here a feast for eyes, mind and stomach. Incredible wine list.

Capital Hotel. Full bar. CC. $$$. 374-7474 BLD Mon.-Sat. B Sun. BONEFISH GRILL A half-dozen or more types of fresh fish filets are offered daily, grilled (perfectly in our experience) over a wood fire. Several sauces are available, but the fish is good enough on its own. Shrimp, mussels and scallops star on the appetizer list and there’s plenty of meat and chicken for those who resist seafood. 11525 Cantrell Road. Full bar. CC $$. 228-0356. D daily.

BONNIE’S BUFFET Small buffet teeming with homecooked classics. Friday is catfish day, a big draw.

8622 Chicot Road. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 565-5604 LD Mon.-Fri. BRAVE NEW RESTAURANT The food’s great, portions huge, prices reasonable. Diners can look into the open kitchen and watch the culinary geniuses at work slicing and dicing and sauteeing. It’s great fun, and the fish is special.

2300 Cottondale Lane. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 663-2677 L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat. CAMP DAVID Inside the Holiday Inn Presidential Conference Center, Camp David particularly pleases with its breakfast and themed buffets each day of the week.

Wonderful Sunday brunch. I-30 and 6th Street. Full bar.

CC $$-$$$ 975-2267 BLD daily.

CAPI’S Sophisticated yet friendly, the latest offering from the folks who created Trio’s features easy to share small bites in larger than expected portions. Selections range from the expected to more unconventional fare. Don’t skip one the fresh desserts offered each day. 11525 Cantrell Suite #917 (in the Pleasant Ridge Town Center). Full bar.

CC $-$$$ 225-9600 LD daily.

CAPITOL BISTRO Breakfast and lunch items, including quiche, sandwiches, coffees and the like. 1401 Capitol Ave. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 371-9575 BL Mon.-Fri. CAPITAL HOTEL BAR A watering hole with mouthwatering food, swished-up Southern style — pork confit, smoky gumbo, homemade Moon pies. Capital idea: Sit by the big windows that look out on Markham with an organic martini and maybe some country pate and pumpkin jam..

111 W. Markham St. Full bar. CC $$ 370-7013 LD daily.

CHEEBURGER CHEEBURGER Premium black Angus cheeseburgers, with five different sizes, ranging from the Classic (5.5 ounces) to the Pounder (20 ounces), and nine

■ update THE DOUBLETREE PLAZA GRILL One of the better if lesser-known options for a downtown lunch is the buffet at the Plaza Grill in the Double Tree Hotel. On a recent trip we found several kinds of salads, including a pleasing fruit salad in a creamy-type syrup, scalloped potatoes (always a personal favorite, and these didn’t disappoint), homemade vegetable beef soup, and more. The two entrees were fried pork chops and grilled chicken. The battered pork chops looked really fine, but we were thinking healthy and so took the chicken instead. Not bad, but a little dry. We should have been reckless. The cornbread was good – the best cornbread is always made with yellow cornmeal, isn’t it? – and the topper was a savory peach cobbler with just the right balance between crust and fruit. All you can eat for $10.25. On another trip, we had baked chicken breasts in a cream sauce, and these weren’t dry. Also, bread pudding that pleased even someone who’s not normally a bread pudding eater. Markham and Broadway (Doubletree Hotel). Full bar. CC $$ 372-4371 BLD 7 days. cheese options. For sides, milkshakes and golden-fried onion rings are the way to go. 11525 Cantrell Road. No alcohol. CC $$ 490-2433 LD daily.

COCK OF THE WALK Yes, the chicken and shrimp are great, but go for the unbeatable catfish. Plus, we say the slaw is the world’s best. 7051 Cock of the Walk Lane, Maumelle. Full bar. CC $$ 758-7182 D daily. L Sun. CREGEEN’S IRISH PUB Draft pints, fine single-malt Irish whiskey and a choice of food from American (chicken wings) and Irish (fried Irish camembert) pub favorites to burgers, Irish stew, fish and chips and even broiled salmon for the health-conscious. 301 Main, NLR. Full bar. CC. $-$$.

376-7468 LD daily.

DAVID FAMILY KITCHEN Call it soul food or call it downhome country, the food here — neckbones, ribs, sturdy cornbread, mustard greens and the like — is good, the desserts especially so. 2301 Broadway. No alcohol. CC $ LD Sun.-Fri. 371-0141.

DELICIOUS TEMPTATIONS A great variety of sandwiches, meal-sized salads and homemade soups, many of the items heart-smart. Great desserts, too. 11220 Rodney Parham Road. Beer and wine. CC $$ 225-6893 BL daily.

EJ’S EATS AND DRINKS This hoagie shop serves up generous burgers, sandwiches, homemade soups, salads and homemade potato chips. Vegetarians can craft any number of acceptable meals from the flexible menu. 523 Center St. (corner of Center and Sixth). Beer and wine. CC $ 666-3700 LD Mon.-Fri. FADED ROSE The Cajun-inspired menu seldom disappoints. Steaks and soaked salads are legendary. 1615 Rebsamen Park Road, 663-9734; Bowman Curve, 224-3377. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ LD daily.

FLIGHT DECK A not-your-typical daily lunch special highlights this spot, which also features inventive sand-

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wiches, salads and a popular burger. Central Flying Service at Adams Field. Beer and wine. CC $-$$ 375-3245 BL Mon.-Sat. FLYING FISH The fried seafood is fresh and crunchy and there are plenty of raw, boiled and grilled offerings, too.

The hamburgers and fish tacos are big hits. It’s counter service; wander on through the screen door and you’ll find a slick team of cooks and servers to get you in and out in good time. 511 President Clinton Ave. Beer and wine. CC $-$$ 375-3474 LD daily.

JASON’S DELI A huge selection of sandwiches (wraps, subs, po’ boys and pitas), salads and spuds, as well as red beans and rice and chicken pot pie. Plus a large selection of heart-healthy and light dishes. 301 N. Shackleford Road.

Beer and wine. CC $-$$ 954-8700 BLD daily.

JIMMY’S SERIOUS SANDWICHES Consistently fine sandwiches, side orders and desserts. Chicken salad’s among the best in town. Get there early for lunch. 5116 W. Markham St. No alcohol. No CC $ 666-3354 L Mon.-Sat. LOCA LUNA Grilled meats, seafood and pasta dishes that never stray far from country roots, whether Italian, Spanish or Arkie. “Gourmet plate lunches” are good, as is Sunday brunch. 3519 Old Cantrell Road. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 663-4666 L Sun.-Fri., D daily.

MADDIE’S PLACE A broad selection of familiar but not boring Cajun-Creole staples, all well prepared and reasonably priced. Among the highlights: po’ boys made on the same bread, and with the same care, as most of New Orleans’ most revered joints, gooey bread pudding and chicken-andouille gumbo with a lusciously dark roux.

1615 Rebsamen Park Road, Little Rock. Full Bar CC $$ 660-4040. LD Tues.-Sat. MASON’S DELI AND GRILL Heaven for those who believe everything is better with sauerkraut on top. The

Reuben is among the best in town. There are wraps and chicken strips on the menu, too. Ottenheimer Hall, River Market. No alcohol. CC $$ 374-0000 L Mon.-Sat. NEW GREEN MILL CAFE A small workingman’s lunch joint, with a dependable daily meat-and-three and credible cornbread for cheap, plus sweet tea. Homemade tamales and chili on Tuesdays. 8609-C W. Markham St. No alcohol.

No CC $ 225-9907 L Mon.-Sat. OZARK COUNTRY RESTAURANT Football-sized omelets filled with the same marvelous smoked meats and cheeses that are heaped on sandwiches at lunch. Great biscuits and gravy, bacon, homestyle potatoes and a daily plate lunch special to boot. 202 Keightley Drive. No alcohol.

CC $ 663-7319 BL Tue.-Sun. RENO’S ARGENTA CAFE A vast selection of sandwiches, from Cuban pork to French dip to a muffaletta, plus gyros, wraps and specialty pizzas. 312 Main St., NLR. Full bar. CC $$ 376-2900 LD Mon.-Sat. SATELLITE CAFE This Heights techno-pop coffee shop offers fresh breads and fruits all day. Sandwiches are trendy and good. Kavanaugh and University. CC $$-$$$ 663-6336 BL daily.

SONNY WILLIAMS’ STEAK ROOM Steaks, chicken and seafood in a wonderful setting in the River Market.

Steak gets pricy, but the lump crab meat au gratin appetizer is outstanding. Give the turtle soup a try. 500 President Clinton Ave. Full bar. CC $$$ 324-2999 D Mon.-Sat. SPECTATOR’S GRILL AND PUB Burgers, soups, salads and other bar food, plus live music on weekends. 1012 W. 34th St., NLR. Full bar. CC $-$$ ($2 cover) 791-0990 LD Mon.-Sat. SUFFICIENT GROUNDS Great coffee, good bagels and pastries, and a limited lunch menu are at the downtown location. 1 Union Plaza. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 372-1009 BL Mon.-Fri. TERRI-LYNN’S BAR-B-Q AND DELI High-quality meats served on large sandwiches and good tamales served with chili or without (the better bargain). 10102 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol. No CC $-$$ 227-6371 LD daily.

VIEUX CARRE A pleasant spot in Hillcrest with specialty salads, steak and seafood. The soup of the day is a good bet. At lunch, the menu includes an all-vegetable sandwich and a half-pound cheeseburger. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 663-1196 LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat., BR Sun. WILLY D’S DUELING PIANO BAR Willy D’s serves up a decent dinner of pastas and salads as a lead-in to its nightly sing-along piano show. Go when you’re in a good mood.

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ASIAN ASIA BUFFET Formerly Dragon Palace Buffet, with the delicious Mongolian grill, sushi, crab legs, and Asian and American items. Bowman Station, Hermitage and Bowman.

Beer and wine. CC $ 225-0095 LD daily.

BANGKOK THAI CUISINE Get all the staple Thai dishes at this River Market vendor. The red and green curries and the noodle soup stand out, in particular. Ottenheimer Hall, River Market. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 374-5105 L Mon.-Sat. BENIHANA THE JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE Enjoy the cooking show, make sure you get a little fillet with your meal, and do plenty of dunking in that fabulous ginger sauce.

All-you-can eat sushi specials daily. Riverfront Hilton, NLR. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 374-8081 LD Mon.-Fri. D Sat.-Sun. FANTASTIC CHINA The food is delicious, the presentation beautiful, the menu distinctive, the service perfect, the decor bright. 1900 N. Grant St. Full bar. CC $ 663-8999 LD daily.

HUNAN ORIENTAL CUISINE Old favorites, such as orange beef or chicken and Hunan green beans, are still prepared with care in very nice surroundings out west.

11610 Pleasant Ridge Drive. Full bar. CC $$ 223-9966 LD daily.

IGIBON It’s a complex place, where the food is almost always good and the ambiance and service never fail to please. The sushi is good, while the Bento box with tempura shrimp and California rolls, and other delights stand out.

11121 N. Rodney Parham Road. Beer and wine. CC $$-$$$ 217-8888 LD Mon.-Sat. KOTO Sushi and upscale Japanese cuisine. 17200 Chenal Parkway Suite 100 Full bar CC $$-$$$ 821-7200 LD daily.

NEW CHINA 8 A burgeoning line of massive buffets, with hibachi grill, sushi, mounds of Chinese food and soft serve ice cream. 201 Marshall Road, Jacksonville. 982-8988.

4617 JFK Blvd., NLR 753-8988, No alcohol, CC, LD all week, $-$$.

PANDA GARDEN Expansive buffet with sushi and a dessert bar. 2604 S. Shackleford Road. CC Beer and wine $$ 224-8100 LD daily.

P.F. CHANG’S Make a reservation to get seated immediately and enjoy some terrific flavors and presentations. 317 S. Shackleford Road. Full bar. CC $$ 225-4424 LD daily.

SAKURA Standard Japanese steakhouse and sushi fare; it’s hard to go wrong choosing from the extensive menu. 7307 Alcoa Road, Bryant, 778-9585. E. Kiehl Ave., Sherwood. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 834-3546 LD daily.

BARBECUE CORKY’S RIBS & BBQ The pulled pork is extremely tender and juicy, and the sauce is sweet and tangy without a hint of heat. Maybe the best dry ribs in the area. 12005 Westhaven Drive, 954-7427; 2947 Lakewood Village Drive, NLR, 753-3737. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ LD daily.

CROSS-EYED PIG Huge portions of marvelous barbecue, including amazingly tender pulled pork; lean-and-meaty, fall-off-the-bone-tender ribs; and crusty-brown, juicy halfchickens. 1701 Rebsamen Park Road. Full bar. 265-0000.

L Mon.-Fri, D Tues.-Fri.; 6015 Chenonceau Blvd. Beer and wine. 227-7427. LD daily. CC $$.

JO-JO’S BAR-B-Q The delicious, smoky aroma of Jo-Jo’s standard ’cue, once a Levy standard, has shifted to Sherwood. 117 Country Club Road, NLR. Beer, wine.

CC $-$$ 834-9696. LD Mon.-Sat. SMOKEY JOE’S BAR-B-QUE A steady supplier of smoked meat. With catering. 824 Military Road, Benton.

CC $-$$ No alcohol. 315-8333. L daily D Mon.-Sat.

EUROPEAN / ETHNIC AMRUTH AUTHENTIC INDIAN CUISINE Nice spicy Indian dishes in a small but shiny storefront and at a price you can afford. Lunch specials, available weekdays, are only about $6.50. Lamb and shrimp dishes accompany any number of vegetarian delights. 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road, 224-4567. LD daily, hours vary. CC. $$.

No alcohol.

GEORGIA’S GYROS Good gyros, Greek salads and fragrant grilled pita bread highlight a large Mediterranean food selection, plus burgers and the like. Lively atmosphere and friendly folks. 2933 Lakewood Village Drive, NLR. Full bar. CC $-$$ 753-5090 LD Mon.-Sat. LAYLA’S HALAL Delicious Mediterranean fare — gyros, falafel, shawarma, kabobs, hummus and babaganush — that has a devoted following. All meat is slaughtered according to Islamic dietary law. 9501 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol CC 227-7272 $-$$ LD daily (close 5 p.m. on Sun.).

STAR OF INDIA People who don’t know if they like Indian food discover here that they do. It’s always one of Little Rock’s most highly regarded restaurants – great lamb, great curries, great chicken tandoori, great naan. The daily lunch buffet is a real deal. Don’t forget to try the Indian beer. 301 N. Shackleford Rd. Beer and wine CC $$-$$$ 227-9900 LD daily.

TAZIKI’S GREEK FARE A fast-casual chain featuring Greek salads, pitas, sandwiches and plate dinners. The food is better than the reasonable prices suggest. Great gyros and side dishes. 8200 Cantrell Road. Beer and wine.

CC. $-$$ 227-8291 LD Mon.-Sat. L Sunday.

TERRACE ON THE GREEN This Greek-Italian-Thai-andwhatever restaurant has a huge menu, and you can rely on

each dish to be good, some to be excellent. Portions are ample. 2200 Rodney Parham Road. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 217-9393 LD Mon.-Fri. D Sat.

ITALIAN BOSTON’S Unremarkable chain fare—pizza, pasta, sandwiches and salads—out by the airport. 3201 Bankhead Drive. Full bar CC $$ 235-2000 LD daily.

CAFE PREGO Dependable entrees of pasta, pork and the like, plus great sauces, fresh mixed greens and delicious dressings, crisp-crunchy-cold gazpacho and tempting desserts in a comfy bistro setting. 5510 Kavanaugh Blvd.

Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 663-5355 LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. CAPRICCIO GRILL ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE Large portions are the rule here, though the menu is not, as the name might suggest, exclusively Italian. Steaks, soups and seafood are good choices. 3 Statehouse Plaza. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 906-4000 BLD daily.

GRADY’S PIZZAS AND SUBS Pizza features a pleasing blend of cheeses rather than straight mozzarella. The grinder is a classic, the chef’s salad huge and tasty. 6801 W. 12th St., Suite C. Beer and wine. CC $-$$ 663-1918 LD Mon.-Sun. GRAFFITI’S The casually chic and ever-popular Italianflavored bistro avoids the rut with daily specials and careful menu tinkering. 7811 Cantrell Road. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 224-9079 D Mon.-Sat. LUIGI’S PIZZARIA Excellent thin-crust pizza; whopping, well-spiced calzones; ample hoagies; and pasta with tomatoey, sweet marinara sauce. 8310 Chicot Road. Beer and wine. CC $$ 562-9863 LD Mon.-Sat. NYPD PIZZA Plenty of tasty choices in the obvious New York police-like setting, but it’s fun. Only the pizza is cheesy.

Even the personal pizzas come in impressive combinations, and baked ziti, salads and more also are available. 6015 Chenonceau Blvd., Suite 1. No alcohol. CC $$ 868-3911 LD daily.

PIZZA D’ACTION Some of the best pizza in town, a marriage of thin, crispy crust with a hefty ingredient load.

Also, good appetizers and salads, pasta, sandwiches and killer plate lunches. 2919 W. Markham St. Full bar. CC $$ 666-5403 LD daily.

RISTORANTE CAPEO Authentic cooking from the boot of Italy is the draw at this cozy, brick-walled restaurant on a reviving North Little Rock’s Main Street. Let the chef entertain you with some exotic stuff, like crispy veal sweetbreads.

Mozzarella made fresh daily. 425 Main St., NLR. Full bar.

CC $$-$$$ 376-3463 D Mon.-Sat. U.S. PIZZA AND SALAD EXPRESS A downtown offshoot off the original with a distilled menu that includes pizza, salad and sandwiches. Call in pizza orders early. 402 S. Louisiana St. No alcohol. $-$$ CC L Mon.-Fri. VILLA ITALIAN RESTAURANT Hearty, inexpensive, classic southern Italian dishes. Rock Creek Square, West Markham Street and Bowman Road. Full bar. CC $$ 219-2244 LD Mon.-Sat.

MEXICAN CANON GRILL Creative Southwest-flavored appetizers come in huge quantities, and the varied main-course menu rarely disappoints, though it’s not as spicy as competitors’. 2811 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar. CC $$ 664-2068 LD Mon.-Sat. COTIJA’S From the famed La Hacienda family tree comes a massive menu of tasty lunch and dinner specials, the familiar white cheese dip, sweet red and fiery-hot green salsas, and friendly service. Try the brochets (combo meatseafood cooked ka-bob style and eaten with tortillas). 406 S. Louisiana. CC $$ 244-0733. LD Mon.-Sat. EL DORADO More creative fare found here than at most of the locally owned restaurants, including a great chili verde and, occasionally, carnitas. Portions are huge, the cheese dip is tasty, the margaritas are great. 5820 Asher Ave. Full bar. CC $$ 562-1025 LD daily.

HAY CHIHUAHUA Fajitas cooked and spiced just right, served in portions large enough for leftovers. Ground beef burritos (or chicken) come with lettuce, tomatoes and a lot of sour cream and cheese, with plenty of bean and rice as side items. Hay chihuahua, it’s great! Seafood dishes and a large selection of $6.50 combos offered as well. 5500 MacArthur Drive, 753-5525. Full bar, CC $-$$ LD daily.

JUANITA’S Menu includes a variety of combination entree choices — enchiladas, tacos, flautas, shrimp burritos and such — plus creative salads and other dishes. And, of course, the famed “Blue Mesa” cheese dip. 1300 Main St., 372-1228. Full bar. CC $$ LD Mon.-Sat. LAS DELICIAS SUPER MERCADO Y TAQUERIA A Hispanic grocery store with a cluster of tables in a back corner, offering authentic, generous and cheap food. A surefire pick is the big burrito, stuffed with rice, beans, lettuce, avocado and a choice of meats. Tamales are made fresh, but heavier on the masa than those accustomed to Delta tamales will like. 3401 Pike Ave., NLR. Beer. CC $ 812-4876 LD daily.

RUMBA Don’t forget that the popular bar and live music venue does a fine job with its creative, Latin-themed food – particularly the entrees. The “Ay Caramba” Mexican casserole is cheesy, just right greasy and easy to love.

300 President Clinton Ave. Full bar. CC. $-$$ L Mon.-Fri. D Mon.-Sun. BR Sat-Sun. SAN JOSE GROCERY STORE AND BAKERY This mercado-plus-restaurant smells and tastes like Mexico, and for good reason: Fresh flour tortillas, overstuffed burritos, sopes (moist corncakes made with masa harina) and chili poblano are the real thing. 7411 Geyer Springs Road. Beer.

CC $ 565-4246 LD daily.

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LOS AMIGOS Authentic Mexican food where everything is as fresh and tasty as it is filling. At lunch, go for the $4.99 all-you-can-eat special. 2850 Prince St. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 501-329-7919 LD daily.

MARKETPLACE GRILL Always draws a crowd for its flaming appetizers, prime rib, steaks, pasta in big ceramic bowls — all in a wide-open, loud dining area. One menu for all day means lunch can get pricey in a dinner kind of way.

Interstate 40 and U.S. Highway 65. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 501-336-0011 LD Mon.-Sun. OLD CHICAGO Pizzas, pastas, calzones, sandwiches, burgers, steaks and salads and booze. The atmosphere is amiable and the food comforting. 1010 Main St. Full bar.

CC $$ 501-329-6262 LD daily.

SMITTY’S Meat so tender it practically falls off the ribs, and combos of meat that will stuff you. Hot sauce means HOT. 740 S. Harkrider. No alcohol. CC $$ 501-327-8304 LD Mon.-Sat. STOBY’S Great homemade cheese dip and big, sloppy Stoby sandwiches with umpteen choices of meats, cheeses and breads. 805 Donaghey. No alcohol. CC $-$$ 501-3275447 BLD Mon.-Sat.

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EUREKA SPRINGS CAFE LUIGI Homemade bread, pasta and red sauce make this a great Italian spot. 91 S. Main St. Beer and wine. CC $$-$$$ 479-253-6888 LD daily.

CAFE SANTA FE Well-prepared, generous servings of traditional and trendy Tex-Mex at this Arkansas-based chain that is growing quickly. 179 N. Main St. Full bar. CC $-$$ 479-253-9617 LD daily.

ROGUE’S MANOR Great food in gorgeous surroundings. Some say it’s the finest dining in Northwest Arkansas.

Bar and humidor, too. 124 Spring St. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 479-253-4911 D Mon.-Sat. SONNY’S PIZZERIA Home of some of the state’s very best pizza. Don’t miss the garlic knots ($2.50 for four) — fresh-baked wads of pizza dough, slathered with chopped garlic and a bit of olive oil, served with homemade marinara. 119 N. Main St. BYOB No CC $-$$ 479-253-2307 LD Wed.-Mon.

FAYETTEVILLE AREA BORDINOS Exquisite Italian food, great wines and great service in a boisterous setting. 324 W. Dickson St. Full bar.

CC $$-$$$ 479-527-6795 D Mon.-Sat. COPELAND’S New Orleans-based chain features tasty Cajun and Creole delights as well as top steakhouse-quality steaks. The top grossing restaurant in the market in 2003.

463 N. 46th St, Rogers. Full bar. CC $$$ 479-246-9455 BLD daily.

GRUB’S BAR AND GRILLE A commendable menu that includes pub fare and vegetarian both is full of tasty offerings. The Hippie Sandwich and the Santa Fe burger come to mind. But what’s really great about Grub’s is the fact that kids under 12 (with their parents) eat free, and there’s no stale smoke to fill their little lungs, thanks to good ventilation. 220 N. West Ave. Full bar. CC $$ 479-973-4782 LD Mon.-Sat. JAVA ROASTING ON THE SQUARE THE place to be in downtown Bentonville. Muffins are such standouts they’ll make you remember why you liked them when they weren’t on every menu. The lunch and dinner menu feature soups and sandwiches and quiches. 102 E. Central. CC $-$$ 479-657-6070 BLD Mon.-Sat. MARY MAESTRI’S Great homemade pasta, lasagna, spaghetti and meatballs, ravioli, chicken picatta and spumoni. U.S. Highway 412, Tontitown. Beer and wine.

CC $$-$$$ 479-361-2536 D daily.

MERMAIDS It’s seafood you’ll want here, of course — crab cake sandwiches, coconut-coated shrimp, smoked fish quesadillas and oyster and crawfish po’boys, tilapia, grilled salmon, yellowfin tuna, shrimp alfredo. The scaly girls serve up beef and pork for landlubbers and tempt all with huge desserts. 1815 Green Acres. Beer and wine. CC $$-$$$ 479-443-3737 LD Mon.-Sat. RIVER GRILLE Great steaks, fresh seafood flown in daily, and some out-of-this-world creme brulee. But though some pricy offerings are splendid, others are just average. Service is outstanding. Membership required. 1003 McClain Road, Bentonville. Full bar. CC $$$ 479-271-4141 LD.

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HOT SPRINGS CAJUN BOILERS Expertly prepared boiled shrimp, crawfish and such, served in a fun atmosphere. 2806 Albert Pike.

Beer and wine. CC $$-$$$ 501-767-5695 D Tue.-Sat. DOE’S Locally owned branch of the Greenville, Miss., icon offers the familiar steaks and soaked salad. The owners didn’t get the same tamale recipe, but they’re good, too.

Biggest difference from other Doe’s eateries: It’s strikingly clean. 4904 Central Ave. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 501-525-8585 LD daily.

HOT SPRINGS BRAU HAUS All the usual schnitzels are available, an inviting bar awaits as you enter, and the brickwalled place has a lot of history and coziness. 801 Central Ave. Full bar. CC $$-$$$ 501-624-7866 LD Tue.-Sun. MCCLARD’S Considered by many to be the best barbecue in Arkansas — ribs, pork, beef and great tamales, too. 505 Albert Pike. Beer. No CC $ 501-624-9586 LD Tue.-Sat. www.arktimes.com • april 29, 2010 49

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The floor plan is very open with four bedrooms, three full bathrooms and 2,998 square feet of space. The master suite is on the main level along with another guest room on the other side of the home. Downstairs are two more bedrooms that work perfectly as teen quarters.

The kitchen is impressive. It is all stainless steel with double convection gas ovens, granite countertops, hardwood floors, an island and a breakfast bar, plus a breakfast

Have gorgeous views of Pinnacle Mountain.

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area. In fact, there are lots of built-ins throughout the house.

Hardwood floors throughout the main living areas and nice carpet in the bedrooms bring aesthetically pleasing comfort. Another bonus is that the hardwoods were sitefinished. The living room is nice and open with a gas log fireplace encased in glass, a built-in entertainment center and book shelves, plus great surround sound. Both the kitchen and living room have sheer, horizontal shades covering the large windows in the rooms.

Other features of the home include a sprinkler system to keep the extensive landscaping growing healthy, a workroom below the house and an attached storage shed.

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Arkansas times presents PULASKI COUNTY Real Estate sales over $105,888 Bowman Road LLC to Richardson Properties LLC, 5900 Lee Ave., $1,350,000.

Shah NSR Corp. to Community South Bank, SW NW 28-2N-11W, SE NE 29-2N-11W, NE 29-2N-11W, NW 28-2N-11W, $1,000,000.

HSBC Bank USA to David M. Wengel, Sarah H. Wengel, 4 Spring Valley Ln., $950,000.

Mary R. Buchanan to Equity Properties LLC, 5900 Lee Ave., $728,000.

Robert E. Richardson, Jeanie Richardson to Gina R. Wood, 32 Pine Manor Dr., $498,000.

Kirk Stone to Paul L. Bash, Paul L. Bash Revocable Trust, L7, Edgerstoune Lane, $470,000.

Christina B. McGehee to Daniel Cooper, Elisabeth Cooper, 500 Holly St., $465,000.

Jeffrey D. Schulz, Linda A. Schulz to Hugo Arevalo, Juanita Arevalo, 25 Auriel Dr., $448,000.

Charles B. Henderson, Jann Henderson to Joel W. McMasters, Robyn A. McMasters, 50 Laval Cir., $435,000.

PTC Properties LLC to Hillcrest Court LLC, 3801 Hill Rd., $415,000.

Paul M. Zander, II to Dominik Mjartan, Georgia Mjartan, 6100 Longwood Rd., $405,000.

Michael R. Lipscomb, Dixie L. Lipscomb to Deah M. Colclasure, James M. Colclasure, 3 Champagnolle Ct., $395,000.

Bethany Buller, Timothy B. Buller to James R. Yates, 18 Challain Cove, $366,000.

Davisbuilt Inc. to Matthew B. Carnes, 13901 Foxfield Ln., $342,000.

Lynn Dickey Construction Inc. to Jennifer L. McClure, James R. Owens, 143 Beaver Creek Ln., Maumelle, $325,000.

Robert R. Verboon, Teresa L. Verboon to Federal National Mortgage Association, 116 Oneida Way, Maumelle, $320,191.

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Rodriguez to Matthew J. Fraserand, Karen M. Fraser, 2615 Sweetgrass Dr., $309,000.

BOE Acquisition Company Inc. to Robert A. Barnhardt, Elizabeth B. Barnhardt, 128 Breckenridge Ln., Maumelle, $286,000.

Brad Renick, Sarah Renick to Sean Darragh, Marlene Darragh, L1207, The Quarters Phase 20- The Country Club Of Arkansas PRD, $265,000.

John Wright Construction Co. Inc. to Arthur H. Burns, 110 Riverview Dr., Maumelle, $265,000.

Jerry L. Ivey, Marie A. Ivey to Jonathan A. Steckbeck, Leslie C. Steckbeck, 603 Innsbrooke Cove, Jacksonville, $260,000.

Joe A. Lyle to Anna V. Price, Robert D. Price, 2214 S. Battery St., $255,000.

Mary B. Ballard, Claude M. Ballard to Joan Bass, LS4, Westriver Tower HPR, $245,000.

Ruth E. Windham to Betty J. Bellando, Robert E. Hilton, 3 Nicklaus Dr., Maumelle, $235,000.

Majid Saleem, Saima Majid to Robbin M. Harville, 21 Duquesne Dr., $228,000.

Matthew J. Fraser, Karen M. Fraser to Timothy R. Allen, Christine E. Westhoff, 1607 Dorado Beach Dr., $223,000.

Joe Douglas, Judith H. Douglas to David L. Cameron, Ranaye M. Cameron, 6933 Waterview Pl., Sherwood, $220,000.

Kevin L. Vines to Keith A. Hart, Kim J. Hart, 159 Obsidian Dr., Sherwood, $220,000.

Timothy R. Allen, Christine E. Westhoff to Michael E. Nelson, 3005 W. 3rd St., $218,000.

Mitchell H. Lowe, Sarah E. Lowe to Jeffrey L. Barber, Laurie G. Barber, L5 B3, Englewood, $216,000.

Keith J. Warzecha, Kerry M. Warzecha to Linda D. Williams, 2210 Huntleigh Ct., $215,000.

Mikeal A. Forrest, Angele N. Forrest to Wendell L. Barner, Ellen L. Barner,

9 Snow Mass Cove, Maumelle, $215,000.

Vernon D. Bradshaw, Shirley A. Bradshaw to Taylor S. Rigollet, Matthieu A. Rigollet, 7007 Park Meadows Dr., Sherwood, $206,000.

Gary W. Vassaur to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, L135B B203, Park Hill NLR, $197,937.

Keith Hamaker, Donna Hamaker to Richard T. Glatter, 45 Springridge Dr., $195,000.

Louis E. Williams, Martha K. Williams to Charles H. Stutts, Sr., Virginia C. Stutts, 9124 Wilhite Ln., Sherwood, $195,000.

Wesley A. Reeves, Jr. to James F. Birtcher, Linda A. Birtcher, 5900 Lee Ave., $195,000.

Zoran Bursac, Coniell Bursac to Heather Buckaloo, Jeffrey Buckaloo, L3 B2, Gap Creek, $189,000.

Jeff Fuller Homes LLC to Lori Harrison, 18 Amandine Ct., Maumelle, $188,000.

John Wright Construction Co., Inc. to Marvell O. Banks, Kimberly L. Banks, 112 Danielle Cir., Maumelle, $186,000.

James Built Homes Inc. to Chad L. McCormick, Dianne M. McCormick, 4404 Montgomery Rd., $185,000.

James Built Homes Inc. to Francis P. LoPorto, Miriam L. LoPorto, Francis P. LoPorto & Miriam L. LoPorto Revocable Trust, L1R, Madison Park, $183,000.

Horton Custom Homes, Inc. to Mario L. Thompson, 2210 Reveille Cir., Jacksonville, $182,333.

Chad E. Branson, Andrea M. Branson to Lori R. Gardner, 21 Park Ridge Dr., Maumelle, $182,000.

Kendall D. Wagner, Kathie A. Wagner to Johnson Melhorn, Katherine Melhorn, L10, Pulaski Heights Replat, $181,000.

Bank Of Little Rock to Johnny L. Pettis, 900 Queens Ct., Benton, (Saline Co), $175,000.

Gabrielle O’Shea to Matthew D. Niblett, 5900 Lee Ave., $175,000.

Kira L. Hubbell, Fred W. Hubbell to Adrienne Green, 13617 Stonehenge Cove, NLR, $173,000.

Alvin L. Hawthorne, Evelyn Hawthorne to Elizabeth J. McAlpine, 6616 Young Rd., NLR, $170,000.

Hutson Enterprises Ltd to W. A. Menard, Jr., Dawn M. Menard, L4, North Ridge, $165,000.

Sherry A. Hess to Stefanie R. Bailey, 3061 Woodruff Creek Dr., Sherwood, $165,000.

James C. Polk, Brooke A. Polk to Gloria C. Lewis, 13509 Hansfield Cir., NLR, $164,000.

Tena M. Crowe to Kiyoko Hampton, L6, Reser voir Heights No.2, $160,000.

Ricky W. Millard, Polly M. Millard to Alex McKinley, Sonja McKinley, 10 Bjorn Borg Ct., $158,000.

Saundra K. Harden to Bank Of England, Eng Lending, 7 Whispering Oak Dr., Mabelvale, $157,862.

Eardell Shelton, Travis D. Turner to Bank Of England, 9 Apple Tree Cir., $154,615.

Edwin J. Abraham, Betty E. Abraham to Gregory L. Phillips, 2219 Hickorynut Ct., $154,000.

Sally A. Logan to Beau Brosius, 1100 N. Taylor St., $153,000.

Kimberly Fradette, Eric M. Fradette to Justin M. Pate, 10960 Bainbridge Dr., $153,000.

Clell A. Callaway, Clell A. Callaway Revocable Trust, Troy A. Callaway, Troy Ann Callaway Revocable Trust to Kelly C. Wirges, 116 Rim Rock Pl., NLR, $152,000.

Deltic Timber Corp. to Ronnie D. Glenn, Barbara F. Glenn, L5 B116, Chenal Valley, $152,000.

Pauline A. Michael to JC White Properties LLC, L1 B50, Park Hill NLR, $150,000.

George R. Sherwin, II to Eula Pearl LLC, 16 Betsy Ln., $150,000.

Ronny Haydon, Ladonna Haydon to Ronald D. Padgett, Justine K. Padgett, 111 Devon Cove, Jacksonville, $150,000.

Molly L. Smith, Jonathan S. Barket to Temper R. Williams, 512 N. Valentine St., $150,000.

Dale A. Bryant, Angela M. Bryant to Secretary Of Veterans Affairs, 2006 Cherrybend Dr., $148,088.

Matthew D. Mansfield, Melissa A. Mansfield to Racheal L. Carter, Herbert H. Ragan, IV, 5 Pinto Pt., $143,000.

Charles D. Ray, Tamela J. Ray to Ronald P. Cook, Ann S. Cook, 17324 Alpine Cir., $143,000.

Jett Ricks Construction LLC to Chasty Farrell, 1802 N. McKinley St., $142,000.

Michael C. Klamm to Tammy A. Crabb, 2303 Maple Ridge Rd., $138,000.

Beverly Knight, Gib A. Berryhill, Dennis Edge to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., 24 Coachlight Dr., $135,802.

Douglas R. Harrison, Amal D. Harrison to Jessica Temple, 9 Flourite Ct., $135,000.

Marvin Barclay-Bowden to Crystal D. McFarlin, 6721 Greenwood Rd., Cammack Village, $133,000.

Bosley Construction, Inc. to Christal M. Cleaver, 117 Bracey Ln., $130,000.

Clay T. Sanders, Janise Sanders to Amanda C. Tippitt, 8803 Oakhaven Dr., Sherwood, $128,000.

Hwy 165 Development LLC to Rausch Coleman Mid Ark LLC, Ls4, 26 & 41-43 Cypress Crossing, $127,000.

Matthew B. Carnes, Jessica D. Carnes to Caleb S. Rash, Katelyn M. Rash, 330 W. H. Ave., NLR, $126,000.

SDH Custom Homes LLC to Monica R. Nelms, 6 Oxford Run Ct., $125,000.

Edward Polm, Betty Polm to Tri A. Hidayat, Gunawan C. Soehanto, L11 B3, Pennbrook Section A, $125,000.

Jason A. Marshall to Brenda K. Johnson, 8913 Pea Ridge Cir., Mabelvale, $125,000.

Rausch Coleman Mid Ark LLC to Quan Van Le, Giau N. Le, 1201 Yarrow Dr., NLR, $124,000.

Shon Randles, Sydney E. James to Blake Ellis, Leah Ellis, 19 Flourite Ct., $123,000.

Lawrence Hopkins, Marni Hopkins to BAC Home Loans Servicing LP, L28 B816, The Cliffs HPR, $121,500.

Randy Wright to William D. Williamson, 14809 Burlingame Rd., $120,000.

Charles H. Stutts, Virginia C. Stutts to Candice R. Evans, 15 Ridgevale Rd., Jacksonville, $118,000.

Edilberto M. Andrade, Juana A. Garcia to Kelani M. Flowers, Robert E. Flowers, 9009 Mabelvale Cut Off Rd., Mabelvale, $115,000.

Andra L. Felton, Andra L. Ford, Nate W. Felton to Lawrence E. Dickerson, 150 Sheridan Rd., NLR, $114,000.

William P. Peeples to Ruthie Carter, 18 Redleaf Cir., $113,000.

Better Community Development Inc., Black Community Developers Inc. to Marcenia Young, 1505 S. Oak St., $112,000.

Gwendolyn P. Blake to BAC Home Loans Servicing LP, L4A, Suggs, $111,239.

Castle Investments LLC to Robert D. Hensley, Gay M. Hensley, 208 Fred Rains Dr., Sherwood, $110,000.

Richard A. Eisner, Jane Eisner to L2 Investments LLC, 12621 Pleasant View, $110,000.

C Street Group LLC to Karen D. Sykes, 510 S. Valentine St., $109,000.

Randy Gattis, Renn Gattis to Deatrick Pace, 11121 Beverly Hills Dr., $108,000.

Norma J. Wilson, David O. Wilson to Linda L. Bergin, 8808 Mabelvale Cut Off Rd., Mabelvale, $107,000.

Rebecca P. Miller, Dennis Miller to Kay McGinley, Wanda Rhoads, 32 Warwick Rd., $107,000.

Ricky J. Fahs, Darlene H. Fahs to Secretary Of Veterans Affairs, 706 E. Lee Ave., Sherwood, $105,888.

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Hillcrest 4307 N. LOOKOUT - $399,000. Fabulous 4 or 5 BR home with 2.5 BA is like a private Hillcrest hideaway. Beautifully updated with stained and leaded glass features. Upgraded kitchen with contemporary solid surface counters & top-ofthe-line stainless steel appliances. The huge multi-level deck is ideal for outside grilling, dining & entertaining. For more details, call Susan Desselle with the Charlotte John Company at 772-7100 or visit www.SusanSellingLittleRock.com 4916 HILLCREST AVE - Nicely updated home on oversized lot. Updates include: new roof (March ‘10), refinished hardwoods, new laundry room, new windows, new paint throughout. Other features include two driveways for extra off-street parking, lots of deck space for entertaining, fenced back yard with large storage shed and kid’s playset. The kitchen has gorgeous cherry cabinets with solid surface countertops and stainless appliances. Walk-in closet and double vanity in the MBR! Call John Selva with Pulaski Heights Realty at 993-5442.

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6220 SOUTHWIND - $273,400. Spacious 3-4BR/3.5BA home with all the amenities you would expect in a newer home.

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Conway 1110 TRENTON - $130,000. 3BR/2BA split plan with FP, XL kitchen, lots of cabinets with walk-in pantry, new paint 2010. Close to UCA. Move-in ready. MLS# 10245823 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-730-1100 or 501-679-1103.

Greenbrier 12 VALMONT - $179,900. Extremely nice 4BR/2BA with 12’ ceiligns, gas FP, extensive trim, custom maple cabinets, custom tile shower. Walk to school! MLS# 10242940 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-730-1100 or 501-679-1103.

5 COUNTRY COVE - $399,000. 5BR/4.5BA country estate. Perfect for horses! Den w/ FP, granite counters in kitchen. More land available. MLS# 10238516 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-730-1100 or 501679-1103.

53 WIN MEADOW - $239,000. 4BR/3BA, bright & cheery open concept on 55-acre lake. Lg kitchen with oak cabinetry, double pantry, island. Lots of windows, covered porch, large patio. MLS# 10237231 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-730-1100 or 501-679-1103.

Sherwood 611 GRANDVIEW ST - $136,900. Approx.

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Footprints n Back in the day we were obliged to memorize and recite a dreadful old Wadworth psalm that concluded, if I remember it right, with this consolation: “Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing , leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.”

I’ve been thinking about those footprints.

• Instead of footprints on the sands, I’ve left mainly assprints on the couch.

• I remember the late Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller at a long-ago political rally where he was given an enthusiastic nubslapping introduction to a rowdy crowd by his running mate, the one-armed war hero Maurice “Footsie” Britt, who went on and on enumerating the governor’s accomplishments, to which Rockefeller, a little tipsy as usual, replied in all humility when he mounted the platform: “Thank you, Footsie, for all those great things you said about all the great things I’ve done.”

His seemed bootprints that would last a good long time. But who’s left now, after just an eyeblink, who could tell you what any of those “great things” were?

• A memorabilia auction in Little Rock last week included hundreds of film reels and movie posters that featured, according to the daily newspaper, ‘long-ago Western

Bob L ancaster stars Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson and William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy — all legendary names from early Hollywood but unfamiliar to probably anyone under the age of … 40.”

I have to admit that one hauled me up.

Roy Rogers and Gene Autry were veritable gods to people in a certain age group at one time in living memory. We might couldn’t have told you who the president was, or the fuhrer, but we knew that yippiee-o pantheon down to the names of their steeds, and if hoofprints of such wide-eyed awesomeness have already disappeared from all but the plaqued imagination of geezers, what chance does any mere mortal have of scrunching a lasting print in the fourth-dimension silica?

Will Elvis be next to slip off into oblivion?

• A dinosaur once left a long trail of washtub-size prints along an ancient muddy creekbank in what is now southwest Arkansas. Those prints found second exposure and scientific identification in our

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lifetime, and they tell us all that we know of that creature, called a diplodocus, and the race or species its footprints evidence. To wit, it was humongous, it was a herbivore, and it lived 100 million years ago, give or take a fortnight.

But that creekbed track also reveals the inadequacy of footprints as memorial markers. The footprints say almost nothing of the diplodocus’ character, its essence.

For instance, did each and every diplodocus have a sense of individual uniqueness — in other words, a personal identity?

Did it have friends, and did it know them by a diplodocus equivalent of Steve, Pete, Becky and Gomer? Did it think diplodocus homosexuals, if there were any, represented a threat to the sanctity of traditional diplodocus monogamy? Was there such a thing as diplodocus school (well, fish have them) — or diplodocus church, to spread the gospel of a heavenly or hellish afterlife for immortal diplodocus shades? Did any of them experience a Jurassic hankering to don a baseball-type cap and to wear it backward, or are such yearnings limited in all of earth’s biota to physical possibility, and to product availability? Did the dips have a technological facility (e.g., working as organic steam-shovels as was often alleged in “The Flintstones”)?

More to the point, did they make tiny pets of the bashful shrews playing about their ankles, somehow anticipating that the little ratballs would evolve into a line of critter that would one day by the legerde-

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A hundred million years from now, it might be that a trail of human footprints (perhaps left by Confucius, or your uncle, or by Wilbur Mills in the sands along the Tidal Basin) will resurface, and that a being much different from the diplodocus and from you and me will be in a position to observe those prints, and will have the knowledge and sufficient interest to hoke up a prototype. By then the science might have advanced so that a single footprint will give them to know more about us than we know about dinosaurs. More than we know about ourselves.

A new metaphor has wormed into contemporary usage. The reference now is not to footprints but to legacies, and legacies mostly appear in blather about fading sports stars and has-been politicians eager to rescript the annals. One of these notables, an ex-president, was in the house last week, said to be on a mission to “rebuild his legacy.” The metaphor change gives him a chance to succeed at that. You can rehab a legacy where you can’t a footprint. Just not much you can do with a footprint.

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Fiber optic lines have been laid giving homeowners the fastest internet available right now.

Lots start at $29,900 Directions: From I-430, take the Colonel Glenn exit. Go right, past the Rave Theater for about five miles. Turn left onto Marsh Rd. Follow until you see Lochridge Estates on your left. From Chenal Parkway, turn left on Kanis Rd., then left onto Stewart Rd., left onto Burlingame then left onto Colonel Glenn. Turn left onto Marsh Rd. Follow until you see Lochridge Estate on your left.

private tours by appointment

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