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Minimum not good enough In the Pulaski County Special School District, where I teach, the superintendent is striving for minimal standards for teachers. Our days are to be cut to the minimum, they want to pay us a minimum salary and we already receive minimum respect. On Teachers Appreciation day we received our non-renewal letters. Special Education classes are being expanded to have more students per teacher, so that each student will receive the minimum amount of teacher assistance. Some schools will only have a part-time resource teacher for the entire school. We turn hungry children away who owe lunch money, while the superintendent charges the district in excess of $80 for a working lunch. Our students are performing on minimum nutrition while a minimum effort is being put forth by the district to save money at the top. Textbooks will not be bought because with the new Common Core standards the state adopted we are expected to “do projects” or share a set of books with the whole school. Some people will be afraid that the result of all this negativity will be seen in student performance and teaching effort. However, this isn’t our first rodeo. Attempts to destroy the unions PACT and PASS have been tried before. People tried to run our district into the ground before, so that Jacksonville would get their own district while Little Rock and North Little Rock could absorb what’s left. One thing for sure remains tried and true: the teachers and support staff always continue to work. We do our job despite what’s thrown at us. We’re used to minimum positive assistance from administration. We persevere. Minimum isn’t sufficient for us. It never has been and never will be. Judy Stockrahm Conway
From the web In response to a post by Max Brantley on the Arkansas Blog on the DemocratGazette’s decision to raise its single-copy sales from 50 cents to $1 daily and $1.25 to $2 on Sunday. Brantley noted the Arkansas Times remains free on newsstands and on the web, where it often provides more timely reporting than the daily. The Arkansas Times and blog are the height of journalistic excellence? You spit out “news” without checking facts — if, that is, said news enables you to spew your usual crap. Sure, sometimes you deign to admit to making an error (read: jumping to conclusions). More often, you choose to ignore — or justify — your blatant mistakes or assumptions. I assure you that we who work at the Democrat-Gazette do our best to inform our readers. No, we can’t throw shit onto the Internet the minute 4
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to pursue. As for other types of news, however, we often are first. We write enterprise and investigative stories that can’t be found on television or online. We get the interviews that other media don’t. We find the documents that require patience and persistence. I’ve been a journalist for 18 years. Before moving to Arkansas in 1999, I worked at four smaller Texas dailies as a copy editor, reporter and assistant city editor. No newsroom is perfect. But I can say that most of the journalists I’ve met over the years care deeply—
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not only about their papers, but about their communities as well. We at the D-G cover hundreds of communities across the state, not just central Arkansas. And as a statewide newspaper, we do our best to enlighten and inform readers in the furthest corners of Arkansas. Cathy Frye In response to an item on the Arkansas Blog about an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette report on Little Rock Christian Academy’s refusal to admit a 4-year-old Mormon. Let’s see if I can follow the logic here. The board of Little Rock Christian believes that Mormons are going to hell, yet they are unwilling to try to prevent this young person from ending up in hell by admitting them to the school and influencing him/her otherwise? If one really believed that Mormons are going to spend eternity in an everlasting holocaust, then wouldn’t you want to engage them in whatever way possible to prevent them an eternity of suffering? Wouldn’t you believe that your own lifestyle and beliefs are winsome enough to convert them? I wonder if they doubt themselves that much or if they actually prefer that Mormons go to hell. Wouldn’t want heaven to get too crowded. Perplexed In response to a post on the Arkansas Blog that suggested that the city, which plans to use eminent domain in acquiring land to build the Little Rock Technology Park, use eminent domain to take land needed to finish the River Trail from either the Dillard’s headquarters or the Episcopal Collegiate School campus.
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The completion of the River Trail will allow for cleaner air as we develop downtown into a thriving, livable community over the next 10 years. The completion of the River Trail won’t fund Social Security, but it will promote a healthy, viable option for transportation, which will reduce future health care costs. The River Trail will also provide a sustainable option for transportation that is less taxing on society in the form of start-up costs, maintenance, and energy consumption. As many users of the River Trail (walkers, runners, and riders) will attest, it provides a recreational outlet that builds free, healthy activity for families. Lastly, it’s a proven fact that businesses invest in healthy cities (and vice versa). Young entrepreneurs, like myself, are drawn to walkable/bikeable/livable cities. There are very few negatives to building a healthy city. Maybe some upfront costs, but it’s been proven by many other cities that they pay for themselves many times over in the long run. Jeremy Lewno
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ormer Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was in town the other night to refute the Court’s awful Citizens United decision, to which Stevens formally dissented when it was made in 2010. Co-sponsored by the Clinton School of Public Service, Stevens’ address was considered of some importance by CBS, NBC, the New York Times and other media outlets, less so by the local daily, which put its report on page 4B, after the obits. Billy Tauzin, a fixer for the drug companies, got better coverage when he spoke at the Clinton School a few years back. Tauzin is a Republican, and the Citizens United decision that Stevens criticizes was written by Republican justices, all of which may be coincidental. The decision also benefits Republican presidential candidates, including the one the daily has already endorsed. More coincidence, maybe. Stevens brought good news for those who believe the American people should choose their nation’s leaders, rather than deep-pocketed domestic and foreign corporations. Abraham Lincoln, a great Republican president, didn’t call for “government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations.” Quite the reverse. Nonetheless, a 5-4 Court majority in Citizens United removed long-standing limits on corporate political expenditures, allowing a flood of corporate money into the political process. The Court majority said in Citizens United, astonishingly, that corporations are “people” (Mitt Romney agrees!) and money is “free speech.” Some citizens thought the decision a joke at first, but the Antonin Scalia gang is not light-hearted. They showed that when they installed a president in 2000, wresting the right of selection from voters. Stevens, 92, retired from the Court after writing the Citizens United dissent, which was joined by three other justices. The good news he delivered in Little Rock is that he believes the Citizens United decision will not stand, at least not in its present form. The growing evidence that foreign entities are trying to control American elections, just as President Obama predicted, is beginning to be noted by the justices, Stevens said, making reconsideration of the Citizens United decision likely. Turning over American elections to Chinese corporations is hard to defend. Too, justices still on the court who joined in Stevens’ dissent are pressuring for reconsideration. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has written that experiences in state elections since Citizens United “make it exceedingly difficult to maintain that independent expenditures by corporations do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.” She urged the court to seize the opportunity “to consider whether, in light of the huge sums currently deployed to buy candidates’ allegiance, Citizens United should continue to hold sway.” The bad news from Stevens’ speech is that reconsideration won’t come before this year’s elections. For now, we, the people, must defend ourselves against the corporations and their agents, the Mitt Romneys and Tim Griffins. Remember what Lincoln said. Fight on.
WHERE IN ARKANSAS? Know where this slice of life in Arkansas is? Send along the answer to Times’ photographer Brian Chilson and win a prize. Once a month in this space, he’ll post a shot from a relatively obscure spot in Arkansas for Times’ readers to identify. We also invite photographers to contribute submissions of both mystery and other pictures to our eyeonarkansas Flickr group. Write to brianchilson@arktimes.com to guess this week’s photo or for more information.
The fight for equality
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he Clinton School has another dynamic lecture at noon Monday. Hope native Chad Griffin will speak. He was a public relations executive in California after a stint as one of the youngest White House aides ever, joining Bill Clinton’s staff at age 19. Griffin went on to greater fame. He led the American Foundation for Equal Rights in a vigorous, but unsuccessful battle to defeat a proposition to ban samesex marriage in California. It was Griffin who brought together a legal dream team of David Boies and Ted Olson to challenge the marriage ban, a case soon to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Griffin has also become president of the Human Rights Campaign, the country’s leading organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights. He’ll be interviewed about his organization’s work by state Rep. Kathy Webb, the influential Little Rock legislator who co-chaired the Joint Budget Committee in the last legislative session. Griffin’s words are welcome anywhere, but more in need here than in, say, New York, where same-sex marriage is legal and there’s far less fear that sexual orientation can be a cause for discrimination in employment, housing or other public accommodation. Arkansas has made strides, but it will be among the last with barriers to full equality. Fall they will. I was pleased to learn when speaking at American Legion Boys State last week that delegates included gay students. That’s not really new. What’s new is the number who are “openly gay” — a loaded phrase I hope will disappear soon from use. (Have you ever heard someone called “openly heterosexual”?) Not too many years ago, an honest declaration of self could have been dangerous at Boys State. It might still be perilous in some parts of Arkansas. Marriage of people of the same sex is, of course,
unconstitutional in Arkansas. It will take a court ruling to strike this down, just as it took the courts to end the Arkansas Constitution’s protection of racial discrimination. (Voters symbolically MAX removed the racial hate speech, BRANTLEY barely, in 1992.) maxbrantley@arktimes.com Arkansas is not yet even at a point where the state’s largest newspaper will recognize all legal marriages of Arkansans. A Rockefeller marrying in South Carolina, yes, that may be reported. A male lawyer and a distinguished male professor, both from Little Rock, marrying in New York? That’s not fit for the marriage column. But the tide turns. I’ve actually seen a Young Arkansas Republican make a tolerant remark about homosexuals on Twitter, though no Republican political candidate would dare do that just yet. Polls show the tide of prejudice will ebb as the older generation dies off. Mass media influence, courageous openness and bedrock fairness will in time produce an undeniable arc toward justice. Money will help, as ever. Almost 50 major corporations joined the legal team that won the recent major legal victory over the federal Defense of Marriage Act, a law that allows discrimination against legally married couples. No Arkansas-based corporation was on that list, but Walmart has demonstrated patchy friendliness toward gay interest groups on occasion. Whether intended or not, Alice Walton’s hiring of a gay man with a stay-at-home partner and child to head her Crystal Bridges Museum was a powerful statement in conservative Bentonville. Next week, we have a chance to hear a man from Hope whose efforts will produce a landmark ruling — for better or worse — on minority rights. He’s worth a listen.
OPINION
Voting for our enemies
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he white Louisiana farmer’s lament a century ago that “Us poor people vote but we don’t elect nobody” needs modern revision. Now it would be truthful to say “Us poor people vote a little but we elect people who vote against us.” Americans, particularly the poorer of us, have always been suckers for slick advertising, making us crave what we do not need or cannot afford. Now the U.S. Supreme Court has turned American elections, from top to bottom, into a Madison Avenue grab bag. Political offices go to the man or woman and the party with the big bucks and slick ads. The extent to which a candidate will tend to the needs of the people who elect him is not a serious factor. It takes a fanatically attentive voter even to know. That is the effect of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC decision in 2010, a ruling that set corporations free to buy elections anonymously and liberated the so-called super PACs to take corporate and unlimited personal gifts and pour them into campaigns against overmatched opponents. The court said corporations enjoyed the same rights as an individual citizen and if they had the money to drown individ-
ual voices it was just the American way. Is that hyperbole? Through the first week of ERNEST March, “indeDUMAS pendent” expenditures — those from outside a candidate’s own war chest — totaled $80 million in this election cycle, and we have barely begun. Compare that with $7.2 million at the same time in 2004. Corporate PAC money is flowing into individual campaign treasuries, nearly all Republican, in record amounts, too. John Paul Stevens, the 92-year-old retired Supreme Court justice who wrote the ringing dissent in Citizens United, read a scholarly treatise against the decision last week at the Clinton School forum. He thought the five-man majority, or one or two of them, were already seeing the horrible ramifications of their decision and would someday undo the worst of it. Montana’s crusty farmer-governor, Brian Schweitzer, wrote the best commentary on Citizens United last week in The New York Times. Montana has had the toughest campaign finance laws in
Remembering why the Buffalo flows
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his year marks the 40th anniversary of the legislation making Arkansas’s Buffalo River the first national river in the U.S. and the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Ozark Society, the group most responsible for saving the river from damming by the Army Corps of Engineers and for its eventual protection. To mark those occasions, I spent most of the second half of May with two colleagues and a dozen Hendrix College students examining the natural and environmental history of the Buffalo region, the policy debates that led to its protection, and creative responses — in the form of photography, poetry, and music — to the natural beauty of the Ozarks. Those more traditional academic exercises were combined with hiking, camping, and floating from Boxley to Rush. The 12 days reminded me why I love being a liberal arts professor — working closely with students in looking at complex phenomena through the lenses of different disciplines. It also forced
me to think more deeply about the natural beauty of Arkansas and how it’s been maintained — not JAY through luck but BARTH instead through ongoing engaged citizenship. It’s a crucial lesson as we think about the more complex environmental battles of our time. There were numerous heroes in the battle to save the Buffalo (including women who tended to get short shrift in the politics of that era), but three stand out. Neil Compton founded the Ozark Society in 1962 and used creative approaches to turn the battle over the Buffalo into a successful national movement; Gov. Orval Faubus stopped the dam plans with a late 1965 letter to the Corps (the agency’s policy was that state executives could place holds on such plans with which they disagreed), and Republican John Paul Hammerschmidt defeated ardent pro-dam U.S.
the country since 1912, outlawing corporate spending on political campaigns in any form, but the Supreme Court notified Montana that it had to stop enforcing that law owing to Citizens United. Montanans wrote the initiative and passed it after a buccaneer miner who owned the largest copper deposits on earth and was one of the richest men on the planet bribed a majority of state legislators in 1899 to make him a U.S. senator. (Legislatures chose senators in those days.) When the bribes came to light, the U.S. Senate expelled him. Two years ago, corporate groups like Americans for Prosperity began pouring money into state legislative campaigns in Montana, and their bills to end environmental restrictions on mining began to pop up in the Montana legislature. Schweitzer vetoed them and joined a national campaign for a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United and prohibit corporate political funding. A Catholic High teacher and other youthful visionaries (Dale Bumpers is on board, too) are trying to put an initiated act on the ballot in Arkansas this summer to outlaw corporate political funding and corporate lobbying gifts to public officials. Citizens United probably invalidates it. But what is the evidence that all that money from corporations and their
owners and officers corrupts voters’ decision making? Look at a couple of Arkansas congressional seats. You know all about Tim Griffin, the emissary from the lobbying precincts of Washington who was elected congressman from central Arkansas two years ago and bids to be re-elected this year although few voters would agree with his priorities like dismantling the current Medicare system and curtailing environmental regulation. American Crossroads, his old boss Karl Rove’s big super PAC, is raising money again for Griffin’s ample treasury. In the Fourth District of south and west Arkansas last month, Republican primary voters voted for Tom Cotton. More than a fourth of the Harvard grad’s money came through the Club for Growth, the billionaire club in Washington that seeks to shut down Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, convert Social Security to a private investment program, halt environmental and safety rules, and end taxation of wealthy investors. If voters from Ashley to Madison County knew what he expected to do, or what his main backers expect him to do, what are the chances even 5 percent would vote for him? He’s considered a cinch.
Rep. Jim Trimble in 1966 and immediately introduced legislation to create a national river that came to fruition in 1972. All three showed conservatism in other aspects of their political lives, but saw a place for governmental activism when it came to protecting the gorgeous, free-flowing river from being turned into just another manmade lake. As shown most clearly in the decades-long work of Compton, saving the Buffalo took nonstop energy and engagement on the issue. It also showed an ability and willingness to veer between outsider strategies and working with political elites to get legislation passed. The battle to save the natural beauty of the Buffalo had unintended consequences. Demise of the distinctive culture of the Buffalo region was hastened by the National Park Service’s taking of homesteads and the arrival of non-natives. One stalwart in the Ozark Society told our group how he can no longer float the river because of his sadness about the absence of a culture that he loved as much as the bluffs and cedars. In the height of floating season, canoe traffic overwhelms the tranquility of the river and canoeists’ trash mars the scenery. Locals also feel abused by
the state’s reintroduction of elk in the area, a herd that provides entertainment to tourists but chomps down the crops of locals. Although now lessening, unnecessary conflicts between the Park Service and the local population also arose. For instance, the Park Service’s failure to place its headquarters in Marshall, the home base of the pro-dam Buffalo River Improvement Association, as it had promised, created a new generation of locals peeved about the jobs lost by the dam’s demise. While recognizing these shortfalls — some of which could have been foreseen and others that couldn’t — the Buffalo River’s survival is a cause for great celebration. If you have the pleasure to go there this summer or fall and experience its beauty, remember the diligence of those who were responsible for protecting it decades ago and think about the duty we have to continue that legacy. Arkansas’s environmental challenges of this generation — from fracking to coal-powered plants — are more complex ones with interests even more powerful than the Corps of Engineers on the other side. Now more than ever, we need leaders — both political and citizen — to continue to preserve our Natural State. www.arktimes.com
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ynic that I am, I fully expected to write this week about Arkansas’s beleaguered baseball team closing out a mildly disappointing campaign with a quick exit from the NCAA regionals. Oddly enough, the Razorback offense, which sputtered often in SEC play, did about what I thought it would during a three-game stint in Houston: 11 total runs, a cumulative batting average of .228 for the weekend, and zero home runs. It was anything but an offensive showcase, and frankly, I wonder if any hitting coaches are still bothering to order Tom Emanski’s useful series of instructional VHS tapes anymore — I mean, for God’s sake, Fred McGriff endorses it! Yet, go figure, the Hogs blew through the Rice regional with a spotless 3-0 mark, and are now heading back to Texas this weekend to square off with Baylor in the best-of-three Super Regional. The centerpiece of the mostly punchless stint in Houston was a 1-0 nail-chewer over host Rice on Saturday night, which was bookended by two wins over Sam Houston State on Friday and Sunday. Arkansas earned its berth in the Round of 16 by having a pitching staff with tremendous guts and stamina, and by avoiding the dreaded plunge into the loser’s bracket, which can make for a hellishly taxing weekend. It has become folly to try to project what a Dave Van Horn-coached team will do in the postseason. His 2009 team was a gifted bunch, but plodded through a 14-15 conference campaign and seemed ill-suited to make a lengthy run through the NCAA tournament. Those Hogs promptly skated to Omaha by roaring through a regional at Oklahoma and a thrilling Super at Tallahassee. They then won two games at Rosenblatt Stadium before bowing out to eventual national champion LSU in the national semifinal. Conversely, two years prior, Arkansas handily won the SEC West and took a three-headed pitching monster of Nick Schmidt, Jess Todd and Duke Welker into a home regional as the seventh overall national seed. Oklahoma State battered Todd in the second game at Baum, then ended the Razorbacks’ promising season the following night. It was by all rights a premature exit, a letdown given how seemingly well positioned the team was. What makes the 2012 Hogs remarkable is that they’ve nudged past the 40-win mark for the sixth time under Van Horn’s watch despite being an utterly average offensive team. Their
occasional struggles at the plate are reflected in the fact that they absorbed eight one-run losses BEAU this season, seven WILCOX of which came in regular-season SEC play, but give credit where it is justly due: the Hogs also took two of three games at Florida, which secured the overall No. 1 seed in the national tournament, and won several tight contests as well. Nevertheless, Arkansas had peaked at No. 3 in the national rankings several weeks ago, then got summarily shuttled down the elevator shaft with an uneven performance in league play. By the time the Hogs were shipped out of the conference tournament with two losses in 24 hours, they had fallen out of the rankings and completely out of consideration for being a regional host. Fortunately, they had done enough throughout the season to bolster their RPI and not find themselves stuck in a remote outpost to fight their way out of the regional from a position of disadvantage. Baylor presents a more balanced and therefore more dangerous foe than Rice did. The Bears are, as they often have been under head coach Steve Smith, overwhelmingly well-stocked with pitching — none of its top three starters are particularly overpowering in the way a Kevin Gausman (LSU) or Chris Stratton (Mississippi State) is, but the trio of Josh Turley, Trent Blank and Tyler Bremer have combined for a 26-3 record and an aggregate ERA in the low 2s. Offensively they are anchored by stocky senior catcher Josh Ludy, who is hitting .368 with 15 home runs, and speedy junior outfielder Logan Vick (.344, 39 RBI, 17 SB). It’s not a lineup full of mashers, but it’s a consistent and well-disciplined team up and down. That’s the point of contrast with Arkansas, which has basically relied on two capable corner infielders in Matt Reynolds and Dominic Ficociello, and can’t find much else in the way of clutch hitting. These Hogs play pretty ugly baseball, by and large, but they will find ways to scratch out runs and then let their steady arms hold serve. The win over Rice was substantive proof of just how they operate: the Hogs scored a single unearned run early, then starter Ryne Stanek battled out of myriad jams to fire seven shutout innings before Barrett Astin closed the door. This late in the season, against this level of competition, three- and four-run games may not suffice.
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Look who’s alleging “Logan Bafferty, a 16-year-old high school junior from a suburb outside of Akron, Ohio, was arrested on alleged attempted murder charges for his involvement in a plot to lure men to remote rural areas via a help wanted ad posted on online classified ad site Craigslist, and killing them.” You have not committed a crime, and cannot be arrested, simply because someone has alleged that you were charged with attempted murder. (Though the allegation might damage your reputation a bit.) In the interest of shielding themselves from lawsuits, the news media often overdo the “alleged” thing. A formal charge is itself a kind of allegation, one that still must be proved. Bafferty was arrested on attempted murder charges, not “alleged” attempted murder charges. Police run amuck: While we’re on the crime-and-alleged beat, John Wesley Hall was taken aback by this headline: “Police kill Fla. man after allegedly eating another’s face.” Face-eating police are even scarier than flesh-eating bacteria. “The two largest urban regions in Arkansas have partnered with the Arkan-
sas Film Commission to create the Arkansas Production Alliance (arfilm), to keep, attract and grow DOUG a competitive film SMITH dougsmith@arktimes.com and digital content production industry in Arkansas . … For the first time in Arkansas’s history, qualified resident crew and ex-patriots will have the opportunity to submit and update their contact information, credits and resumes for consideration by productions shooting in Arkansas.” And those who are still patriots will be denied this opportunity? That’s outrageous. More of the Scalia court’s doing, I suppose. Exmas is always wrong: “Ex-high court justice topic of LR talk today.” “UA ex-receivers among players in state awaiting NFL draft call.” The first headline writer got it right. Although there might be some quibbling, most readers will understand that the ex- prefix generally applies to the whole phrase that follows. Make it “ex-UA receivers.” Sometimes it’s easier, and clearer, to use “former” instead of “ex-.”
WEEK THAT WAS
It was a good week for … RAIN. A muchneeded shower on Monday in Central Arkansas offered only small relief following the record low rainfall reported at the Weather Service office in North Little Rock and 31 other weather reporting stations around the state for May. Last month, North Little Rock got .55 inches of rain, below the record of 1.05 in 1988. WALMART. The Bentonville-based corporation decided to drop financial support of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a thinly veiled corporate lobby that stocks compliant state legislators, usually Republican, with cookie-cutter bills to advance the corporate agenda. Anti-tax, anti-regulation, anti-health care reform and pro-gun themes dominate.
It was a bad week for … ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. The state of Arkansas gave Windstream $1 million upfront and promised about $4.5 million more to locate its corporate headquarters in Little Rock, where most of the execs were already working prior to a spin-off
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from Alltel. So what now? The company announced this week it might lop up to 400 management-level jobs, some of them certain to be in Little Rock. LITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY. A 4-year-old Mormon child was denied admission to the private Little Rock Christian Academy because of his religion, the Democrat-Gazette reported. Mormon doctrine doesn’t align with doctrine of the school, founded by the Bible Church. The parents promised their 4-year-old wouldn’t proselytize, but that didn’t bring down the barrier. Carla Emanuel, a school board member, put it rather pungently. She said it was “sneaky” for kids to come in at early ages when children are susceptible to influence, adding of Mormons, “I don’t believe they’ll go to heaven.” READERS OF THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman announced an increase in the cost of single copies of the paper. The price will rise from 50 cents for the daily paper to $1 and from $1.25 for the Sunday paper to $2. That’s a 100 percent rate increase daily and 60 percent on Sunday. Hussman hinted at raising subscription prices as well: “[W]ith continued advertising declines, we can see no other way to do this other than fundamentally changing our revenue base. In the future, we will have to rely more heavily on revenue from readers and subscribers,” he wrote.
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Summer smoke THE OBSERVER VENTURED into the
depths of far north Pulaski County over the weekend to El Jefe Alan Leveritt’s palatial spread, out near Cabot. It’s a place that’s been in his family for over a hundred years, with the log cabin one of his forebears built duded up nice inside and out. The house sits on a rolling little corner of heaven, graced with fowl and sheep and an enormous truck garden full of the fantastical heirloom veggies. Yours Truly has been heading out there once a year for a while now to smoke ribs and pork butt for the annual Times’ staff-and-friends party. We can’t really remember how we got the gig — probably some overheard interoffice boast about the swine we’d cooked on a casual basis up until then — but we’ve been doing it ever since. More than 70 people come to the shindig every year, so it’s a big to-do. It takes around seven hours for pork to go from raw to edible the way The Observer does it, so we were there on Saturday morning long before the other guests, firing the two upright smokers, scrubbing down a table and the racks, applying the deep red rub and getting ready to lay meat to heat. There’s a Zen to that moment, when you’re cooking — the moment when the list of things you have to do stands in a neat, numbered column in your head, steps 1 through 50, each one crossed off in turn with pauses to wipe your hands and think in between. The Observer is one of those people whose mind goes a mile a minute most of the time. When we’re cooking, though, our head gets still, the goal glimmering out on the horizon and a clear path to it. At a moment like that, we can see why some people love to work in kitchens. With the meat seasoned and tucked away, the doors of the smokers shut and the temperature gauges hanging where we wanted them, The Observer washed our hands for the umpteenth time that morning then settled in for several hours to wait, glancing up every once in awhile at the gauges, adding sticks of oak from Alan’s wood pile as needed. The last time we smoked out there, it was dead in the middle of summer,
full of misery. Last weekend, though, was pleasant: breezy, cool most of the day, with the wind running her hands through the garden and the leaves of the trees. We’d brought Junior’s laptop, and so we killed a few hours watching “Sunset Boulevard” in the shade. The sun rolled over the sky and sank. The shadows inched toward the garden, and the space between the shadows filled with dusk. The meat came out just before 7 p.m., and we hauled it inside the cool house by the platter — four Boston butts and 10 racks of ribs — The Chef varnished in grease and sweat, eyes smoked red as a demon’s. Like we usually do, we waited for the chow line to thin, grabbed a plate of pork and potluck goodies, then retired to an out of the way place to sup: the open side door of our van near the smokers, away from the crowd. Behind us, 70 or so people — all of them freshly showered, in shorts and polo shirts and light summer dresses — sat down at round tables in the gloaming. The Observer is an admitted odd duck of some renown. We don’t really like parties all that much, just because we never mastered the art of small talk and don’t drink enough to ever become socially lubricated. The annual hoedown at Alan’s, however, is one we always look forward to, even if we do wind up the day looking like a hobo who has snuck onto the grounds for a free meal. Here’s why: We love that moment at the end, when everyone is walking to the tables with their plates. The Observer was a churchgoer in our youth, and before the church dinners, some revered old head always stood up and said Grace. The Observer has never been much for prayer, but we always loved that time — the silence of it, heads bowed, the smell of good food in the hall, serving spoons waiting in casserole dishes for hands to unclasp. There’s no Grace said out at Alan’s. But that moment is still there, and The Observer loves it: that lovely, twilight moment just before the people sit down to Fellowship, smile, and dig in, to the nourishment and replenishment of our bodies. Amen.
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Spicy Senate race in NW Arkansas Experts in guitar, karate clash. BY DOUG SMITH
A WHITING
Chamber control: It’s real It has been transparent for some time that the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce ran the campaign to pass the $500 million Little Rock city sales tax and that it is now running the Little Rock Technology Park Authority, which got a $22 million cut of the tax proceeds to build an office building that threatens some inner city neighborhoods with mass removal. That’s not illegal. But the chamber’s politics — and its resistance to accountability — make it unsettling. The chamber’s control of the Tech Park — though stoutly denied by city officials — seems a particularly dangerous delegation of public power, money and trust to a private organization whose interests don’t tend to extend to the working class and poor. But the city and chamber persist in insisting the chamber’s control is a figment of our imagination. This, despite the controlling influence of chamber CEO Jay Chesshir in everything from secrecy of tax campaign expenditures to writing directives and making committee appointments for Tech Park Authority Chair Mary Good to regurgitate. Mayor Mark Stodola wrote to Times senior editor Max Brantley March 31, for example: “I know you dispute this, but the chamber did not ‘run’ the sales tax election. Several in the business community supported the tax as part of a broad based coalition and contributions came from several sources, not just the business community.” Earlier this week, a news release from the University of Arkansas announced that Will Whiting was leaving a job as vice president of public advocacy and public policy at the Little Rock Regional CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 12
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rock-guitar-playing right-winger supported by labor unions and trial lawyers defeated a rightwinger with Koch Brothers support in the Republican primary, and now faces a Democratic martial-arts practitioner who hopes to become the first Latina member of the Arkansas legislature. It’s an interesting year in state Senate District 7. State Rep. Jon Woods of Springdale bested state Sen. Bill Pritchard of Elkins last month, 2,784 to 2,614, after a spirited contest. In the November general election, Woods will be on the ballot against Diana Gonzales Worthen of Springdale. Worthen’s greatest support so far has come from a political action committee, Naturally Blue, that was formed about 20 months ago by young Democratic activists. Term limits are forcing Woods out of the House, so he filed for the Senate. Political observers at Little Rock foresaw a Senate race between Woods and Pritchard as one of peas from the same ideological pod. Both men have conservative voting records; both promised more of the same. But a look at the latest financial reports of the two revealed striking dissimilarities in funding. Pritchard’s contributions came from familiar sources for conservative candidates. Koch Industries of Wichita gave $2,000, the maximum. The Kochs are huge supporters of right-wing causes and candidates nationwide. The nursing home and real estate lobbies kicked in for Pritchard. (Jim Lindsey, the Northwest Arkansas real estate tycoon, gave $2,000 of his own money to each of the candidates.) The political action committee of Nucor, the steel company with a plant in Mississippi County, gave $2,000. The Landlords of Arkansas PAC forked over $500. Two of the many things that conservatives hate are labor unions and trial lawyers. But look at Woods’ report. The public employees union AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees), gave $2,000. The Arkansas Education Association, the teachers union, gave $600. The Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association contributed $2,000, and indi-
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vidual lawyers gave generously on their own: Greg Giles of Texarkana, $2,000; Ralph Cloar of Little Rock, $2,000; the Crockett Law Firm of Little Rock, $500; Don Elliott of Fayetteville, $800; Paul Byrd of Little Rock, $1,700; the McKinnon Law Firm of Little Rock, $1,500; Thomas Buchanan of Little Rock, $600; Phillip Wells of Jonesboro, $450; Bobby McDaniel of Jonesboro (father of Attorney General Dustin McDaniel), $1,000; Jerry Kelly of Lonoke, $2,000; Sach Oliver of Cave Springs, $2,000; Frank Bailey of Mountain Home, $2,000; Brad Hendricks of Little Rock, $2,000, and Theresa Hendricks, a homemaker of the same address, $2,000. Matthew Hass of Little Rock, executive director of the trial lawyers association, said that although people think of trial lawyers as Democrats, ATLA has given to Republicans before. But when it does, the Republican is usually a lawyer, Hass said. Woods is not. Even so, “We’ve been able to work with Jon at the legislature,” Hass said. “He’s a true conservative. He supports all of the Constitution, including the Seventh Amendment [trial by jury].” Pritchard, on the other hand, was the lead-
ing sponsor of a workers compensation “reform” bill that was actually anti-worker legislation, according to Hass. Many lawyers practice workers comp law. The bill died in a Senate committee. Not a lawyer, how does Jon Woods make a living? It’s not entirely clear. A legislative directory says, a little vaguely, “investments.” His campaign website says he’s worked as a banker, but doesn’t say that he’s doing so now. Wikipedia identifies him as “an Arkansas legislator and musician … currently the bassist in Fayetteville rock band, A Good Fight.” Though Wikipedia says that A Good Fight “has had success with getting their music on several reality shows on MTV,” and is “currently touring,” questions remain about how good a gig this would be. Most bass guitarists in Arkansas rock bands need day jobs. The band became something of a campaign issue when Pritchard noted that one of its videos included the song “Whiskey ’Fore Breakfast.” He said this was unrepresentative of the conservative Christian values found in District 7. Woods said he was an evangelical Catholic who’d never consumed alcohol, cigarettes or drugs, and he counter-attacked by pointing out Pritchard’s $500 contribution from a West Memphis dog track. A few days later, A Good Fight was playing at George’s Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville and Woods’ brother, Dustin, also a band member, introduced “Whiskey ’Fore Breakfast” with some harsh words for Pritchard. According to one reporter, “The mention of Pritchard’s name brought boos from the crowd and obscene gestures.” Had Woods responded to the Times’ calls and e-mails, we would have asked if he chose his instrument because of another Arkansas bass guitarist/politician. Mike Huckabee served a decade as governor, before moving to Florida and becoming a high-paid conservative commentator on national television. He’s still occasionally mentioned as a Republican presidential candidate at some point. And still rocking, as far as we know. But Wikipedia says Woods “took up the bass guitar because of the song ‘Longview’ by Green Day.” Despite Woods’ support from lawyers and labor unions, he was generally perceived as running as the farther-right of the two candidates. The farther-right candidate is usually the one who wins Republican primaries these days. Will Bond of CONTINUED ON PAGE 19
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HOW BILLY BOB BECAME BILLY BOB
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ANGELINA JOLIE ON BILLY BOB: “Billy’s mother is a psychic, and he worries he, too, has the gift. He can’t tell the difference between a dream, a thought, and a dangerous premonition. It’s why he has to correct it in his mind. He has to put things back into alignment. To be with him is like being with a mad mathematician. He is constantly counting and repeating. To him, I am the number four. May sound strange, but it means a lot to me.” “One of my favorite things is to watch Billy play an entire game of baseball with himself on the tennis court. Only himself. Not easy to do. He throws the ball, calls out the action moment to moment. He catches the ball. Scolds or congratulates his teammates. It’s fascinating. Some who don’t know him well might call it crazy if they watched it for hours on end. But then, you don’t know Billy.” THINGS THAT BILLY BOB REALLY DOESN’T LIKE Watching old-time movies while he’s eating Ornate antique furniture Benjamin Disraeli’s hair Komodo dragons (“I’m all for saving animals, but Komodo dragons are dinosaurs and they have no business being here.”) Real silverware Saying the word “tater-tot”
INSIDER, CONT. Chamber of Commerce to become assistant director of development for university initiatives at the University of Arkansas. From the news release: “During his time with the Little Rock Chamber, Whiting was responsible for the public advocacy division, which includes governmental affairs, public relations and public policy. He planned and implemented several campaigns for the Little Rock Chamber including the passage of a recent sales tax for the city of Little Rock. He was also responsible for the strategic development and management of the newly created Little Rock Technology Park Authority Board.” Either the chamber ran the tax campaign and runs the Tech Park Authority or it doesn’t. The Tech Park Authority can make no credible claim of independence as long as it is managed administratively by the Chamber and the Chamber and its allies control the Board and even the committee established to supposedly look after neighborhood concerns.
DWIGHT YOAKAM ON BILLY BOB: “Have I ever seen Billy Bob Thornton eat? Non-intravenously? I’m trying to remember. Maybe. Once. No, he spit that out, actually.”
HOW BILLY BOB BECAME BILLY BOB: In a letter, Teddy Wilburn, of the Wilburn Brothers, encouraged Thornton to go by Billy Bob instead of Billy because it would make him more memorable. “I was never Billy Bob, because back in Arkansas you don’t call yourself that. You might as well just say Jethro Bodine. ... Sure enough, even when I first got to L.A., there wasn’t a ... soul among the casting directors who didn’t know who I was when I called.” ONE FOR THE BROCHURE: “My niece ... went [to Henderson State University], and she told me they have a plaque at the college that has my name on it, about fulfilling your dreams and how you can be whatever you want to be. That’s kind of ironic considering I never graduated because I was too drunk most of the time. But it’s a cool, creative school. If you went to Henderson, it meant that you were the real deal. Not in academic terms, necessarily, but it meant that you were a hippie or you were a football player or you had some edge to you.” Why Billy Bob isn’t making many movies anymore: “When people go to a movie today, some random person with a blog will point something out about it, and then the next thing you know that becomes the thing every article is about ... When I was growing up, we didn’t care. We went and saw a movie, and if we liked it we liked it, and if we didn’t like it we didn’t like it. Now we live in a society that drives artists inward, and so the real artists do not have the inclination to keep doing their art. They’re afraid of getting their hearts broken. That’s what happened to me anyway.”
IF HE COULD TIME-TRAVEL, BILLY BOB WOULD RETURN TO… When he was filming “The Alamo” When he was filming “Bad Santa” When he worked for the Arkansas Highway Department in 1979 TWO INSPIRATIONS FOR “SLING BLADE”: A mumbling man from Arkadelphia named Mark, who could pee outside his overalls without undoing them. An unnamed Edward Hopper painting
THE FIRST TWO PEOPLE WHO CALLED BILLY BOB TO CONGRATULATE HIM FOR BEING NOMINATED FOR AN ACADEMY AWARD FOR “SLING BLADE”: Elizabeth Taylor Gregory Peck
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Billy Bob Thornton’s new memoir, “The Billy Bob Tapes: A Cave Full of Ghosts” (William Morrow), reads like he’s sitting around a group of friends telling stories. Because that’s what it is. Goaded by his friend Kinky Friedman, who shares a co-author credit, the actor, musician and native Arkie told his life story to a tape recorder and a group of friends, who gathered at his house over a series of nights. With digressions intact, the book collects those stories and pairs them with occasional commentary from friends like Tom Epperson, Angelina Jolie, Robert Duvall and Dwight Yoakam.
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Gubernatorial hyperbole Gov. Mike Beebe will certainly dance with the industry that has brought jobs to Arkansas. In an Atlanta speech, he said it’s “un-American” to oppose a continuation of tax breaks for wind industry manufacturers. Beebe finds himself in an odd partnership with the reactionary Republican governor of Kansas, Sam Brownback. His state also has manufacturers who’d benefit from the tax break, caught in the congressional stalemate over spending and the Republican push for continuation of most favorable tax treatment for the wealthy. Alternative energy sources are good things. But “un-American” not to extend tax breaks? www.arktimes.com
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‘Distinctions which God has not made’
DESPITE SCHOOL SENTIMENT, HARDING’S LEADER SAID NO TO INTEGRATION.
BY MICHAEL D. BROWN
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ne day in September 1957, Bill Floyd traveled by bus to Little Rock for an afternoon doctor’s appointment, but arrived early enough in the morning to satisfy his curiosity and witness history. Disembarking, he asked a man on a downtown street corner for directions to Central High School, site of violent protests over the Little Rock School Board’s decision to enforce the U.S. Supreme Court’s
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1954 order to desegregate public schools. Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus had called up the National Guard to block the Little Rock Nine and protect, in his words, “public safety.” As it turned out, the man was headed Floyd’s way and offered a ride. Floyd accepted, but as he approached the man’s pickup truck he saw a fully stocked gun rack hanging over the back window — and paused.
Floyd was the student association president of Harding College (now Harding University), a segregated, Churches of Christ-affiliated liberal arts school 50 miles northeast in Searcy. A wiry, nondescript former track star with wavy brown hair, Floyd excelled academically but made his mark as a cutup with slapstick chapel skits and post-curfew pranks. Humor often endears, and to the surprise of the straight-arrow gunners, politicos, jocks
and “preacher boys,” Floyd had emerged as a darkhorse winner in the previous spring’s student government elections. “Where y’all from?” the driver asked. “Searcy,” Floyd replied. “What do you think of the governor’s action?” Bill Floyd’s father was a Church of Christ preacher who had been fired from the pulpit numerous times for preaching against Jim Crow. With every new church,
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At Harding College, Floyd faced a more formidable foe than Orval Faubus. At least the governor of Arkansas was constrained by his state constitution and had to answer to the people. Harding College President George Stuart Benson answered to no one except himself and, presumably, God. By 1957, Benson had led Harding College away from its apolitical and pacifist roots and transformed it into a nationally renowned stronghold of conservative politics. Through pamphlets and films produced by his brainchild, the National Education Program (NEP), Benson preached the merits of his twin pillars of “Godliness and Patriotism.” His creed was the “Three Cs” — Constitution, capitalism and Christianity — along with a strong antipathy to Communism. This promotion of civil religion and Americanism represented a sharp break with founding influences James Harding and David Lipscomb, two turn-of-the-century Church of Christ preachers who had emphasized kingdom come over money and guns. But World War I had produced a fundamental shift, a fusion of faith and politics that would mark the small, mostly Southern denomination for decades to come. Pacifists, once honored with the best seats in the church house, became unpatriotic pariahs. CONTINUED ON PAGE 16
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Floyd’s father could only hold his tongue for so long. Floyd aspired to follow in his father’s footsteps. He became a champion debater, and he was unafraid to speak his mind. Floyd replied, “I think history will show Governor Faubus’ action to be ill-advised.” What happened next happened fast. The driver reached across Floyd, flung open the passenger door, and with his elbow sent him flying toward the gutter. As Floyd lay dazed, the driver slammed on his brakes and threw the truck in reverse. Floyd jumped behind what he called, years later, a “trembling” telephone pole. The driver shouted, “No goddamn nigger lover is ever riding in my truck!” He hit the gas and sped away. Floyd waited until the truck was gone and then joined a crowd walking toward Central High. From a distance, he spotted the school and the large crowd of protestors, soldiers, and police. He dared not get too close, however. He was afraid the truck driver might spot him and finish what he had started. After Floyd hit the ground that day, he returned to Searcy and lit a pro-integration fire among fellow Harding students who had witnessed the early events of the civil rights era and searched their souls for their response.
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Benson had graduated from Harding in 1925 and traveled as a missionary to China where he experienced several close encounters with Communist brutality. When he returned to the U.S. in the 1930s, he was disillusioned by the New Deal, which he regarded as a dilution of the “up-by-your-own-bootstraps” work ethic of his own pioneer Oklahoma upbringing. Then-president J.N. Armstrong was embroiled in a theological controversy and struggling to pay the bills on nickel and dime donations from a handful of individuals and churches. Aware of his own fiscal shortcomings, Armstrong saw Benson as a man with strong convictions and persuasive powers who had “seen the world” and how it works. In 1936, he handpicked Benson as his successor. Benson soon discovered that strong convictions and persuasive powers could be converted to cold, hard cash. He learned to court big business moguls and conservative powerbrokers who were delighted to support a college that served their interests and goals. His new benefactors provided a financial lifeline that lifted Harding from the brink of financial ruin. New buildings sprang up across campus. New faculty members were hired. Harding’s reputation as an up and coming liberal arts school that supported “American values” grew along with its physical plant. This blend of Christianity and Americanism met with considerable criticism within Churches of Christ. Benson pressed forward nonetheless, often employing the prolific rhetoric of Dr. James Bales, a Bible professor with a PhD in philosophy from the University of California Berkeley. Gangly and disheveled, the stereotypical academic, Bales was widely regarded in Church of Christ circles as an intellectual and a brawling, but congenial, debater. Benson had found his most effective partner and mouthpiece. The two of them took on all comers, from Khrushchev to the Kennedys, and defended “The American Way” — and the status quo of racial segregation — to the hilt. ♦♦♦ However, some members of the Harding community interpreted biblical passages like Acts 10:34 (“God is no respecter of persons”) literally. They resisted Benson’s defense of segregation. Professors James Atteberry and Bill Verkler reached out to and worked with members of a black Church of Christ in Searcy. They also encouraged students to discuss segregation and civil rights, albeit behind closed office doors and in dorm rooms, not in the classroom. Students resisted, too. They started publishing pro-integration editorials in the
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upon by the NAACP and used to create all possible embarrassment,” he said. He encouraged students to leave the matter to the Board: “Thank God you do not have to make the decision.” In May 1957, a Bison editorial challenged students to back their rhetoric with consistent action, “to follow what you advocate when the time comes for you to eat, ride and directly associate with Negroes.” The writer concluded, “What are you going to do when directly faced with the problem?” For Harding students, the answer would come soon. ♦♦♦
student newspaper, the Bison, during the years leading up to the Little Rock crisis. In 1949, a year after the desegregation of the U.S. military, the editorial “Is It A Great Day For the Race?” took up the issue of “race distinctions,” calling for increased discussion of the issue in the “hope for greater understanding.” A year later, in November 1950, Betty Thornton Ulrey, the first woman editor of the Bison, wrote a commentary in which she defended the editor of the University of Mississippi student newspaper who had written in support of the admission of a black student to the law school. She denounced the campuswide protest — and cross burning — that followed. An editorial published in October 1955 praised the desegregation ruling of Brown v. Board of Education and denounced the sham trial of Emmett Till’s accused murderer. The editorial concluded, “We would be happy if the college would announce, ‘Harding College will not refuse entrance to any person because of his race, creed or color’ … Probably the administration
would be glad to make an announcement to this effect if all students favored it, but some of the Harding students wouldn’t return to school if Negroes were admitted.” The last statement formed the crux of Benson’s public arguments against integration. On Jan. 7, 1956, in a chapel speech titled “Harding College and the Colored Problem,” he put to rest any notion that Harding would soon integrate, chiding the students’ youthful idealism and calling on them to trust “the judgment of elderly people of experience” such as the Harding Board of Trustees. According to his prepared remarks, Benson explained that integration “now” was not the “voice of wisdom,” and he argued that immediate implementation would cause Harding to “lose 50 or more whites” and “much standing in the community — community not yet ready.” The Supreme Court decision, Benson said, was “a great shock to much of the South” and “time is required to absorb it.” Benson then issued a warning. “Any pressure — petition, etc., would be seized
News of Bill Floyd’s adventure in Little Rock spread quickly across campus. Rumors circulated that he had been in a riot and was now on Governor Faubus’ watch list. With the Central High crisis playing out before a worldwide audience, Harding students came to view Floyd as a point man for a movement of their own. Some students wanted to demand an immediate end to segregation on campus. However, Floyd knew such a direct and confrontational approach would fail. “We had no power,” Floyd told this reporter last year. “We were living in a dictatorship that preached American values. I thought we should approach the situation with humility and tact and make a statement that would have a good chance of receiving broad support.” Floyd met with other members of the student association. They wanted to express their willingness to integrate, but finding the right words was difficult. They needed help. Floyd found his wordsmith in English professor Robert Meyers. Dark-haired and handsome, Meyers had once modeled in his Army uniform for a Kodak ad in the Saturday Evening Post. Raised in a fundamentalist Churches of Christ home, he
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first attended one of the denomination’s more doctrinaire colleges, Freed-Hardeman. Meyers had dreamed of becoming a renowned and “doctrinally correct” preacher like his mentor, Freed-Hardeman’s president N.B. Hardeman. But World War II intervened. Time spent overseas as an Army reporter opened his eyes to the world. He had witnessed profound sacrifices and acts of love from soldiers of many different faiths — and no faith at all. His rigid belief system had melted in the crucible of war. Returning home, he sought solace and healing in literature at Abilene Christian College. Later, he joined the Harding faculty to fulfill a life-long dream of teaching at a Christian college. Students loved him and hung on his every word. Some administrators and Bible professors were less enthusiastic. His fascination with those “outside the fold,” such as the Anglican writer C.S. Lewis, was cause enough in their minds to label him a potentially subversive “modern” who might teach “unsound ideas.” “I am more than a little embarrassed about how slight my role was in the integration ruckus,” Meyers said. “But I knew that Bill’s request represented a Christian position, and I was glad to advise about its composition and to sign it. I had no hesitation. I believed it was the right thing to do.” Meanwhile, word of the student movement had spread to Benson and other administrators. Floyd recalls that Benson did not confront him directly, but sent proxies to deliver his message. “I was warned by several administrators and professors that my future employment prospects would be harmed if we proceeded. I was told that the student association should serve as a means of indoctrinating the student body on the view of the administration rather than protest and that if I wanted to agitate for integration, I should go elsewhere,” Floyd said. Nevertheless, the student association
met to hammer out the final draft of their “Statement of Attitude” and voted to distribute it. It expressed the student body’s willingness to integrate immediately and fully — including the dormitories. If signed by a majority of the student body, they reasoned, the statement would deal Benson’s main public argument against integration — that the Harding community was not ready and would not stand for it — a severe blow. The “Statement of Attitude” began: “To the Administration and Board of Trustees of Harding College: “A number of members of the Harding College community are deeply concerned about the problem of racial discrimination. Believing that it is wrong for Christians to make among people distinctions which God has not made, they sincerely desire that Harding College make clear to the world that she believes in the principles of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. To that end, the undersigned individuals wish to state that they are ready to accept as members of the Harding community all academically and morally qualified applicants, without regard to arbitrary distinctions such as color or social level; that they will treat such individuals with the consideration and dignity appropriate to human beings created in the image of God; and that they will at all times face quietly, calmly, patiently, and sympathetically any social pressures intensified by this action.” The students were careful to add that the “Statement of Attitude” was not “an attempt to precipitate action,” but instead “an expression of internal readiness.” They walked a fine line, daring to challenge Benson and the Board of Trustees while continuing to show respect to their elders. Student leaders planned to circulate the statement in dorms and on sidewalks. There would be no arm-twisting. Each student, faculty, or staff member would be
first learned about the “Statement of Attitude” when I read Bill Floyd’s essay about it in a 1966 book edited by Robert Meyers, “Voices of Concern: Critical Studies in Church of Christism.” I was elated that such a large number from the Churches of Christ — the predominantly Southern religious denomination in which I was raised — and from my alma mater had engaged in significant civil rights activism. I wanted to find Bill Floyd and Robert Meyers and thank them. I tracked down Floyd in Kelowna, British Columbia. Robert Meyers was not far away in Bellingham, Wash. Both had continued to write and teach, spending large portions of their careers in academia. Through the years, they had remained good friends. (Meyers passed away in January 2012.) Inspired by Floyd and Meyers, I decided to write about the “Statement of Attitude.” I was in Searcy researching this article when I discovered the original “Statement of Attitude” in a manila folder labeled “Integration” inside a box of Benson’s files that a Harding employee had rescued from a building set for demolition. Its pages were yellowed and smelled of 50-plus years of must and mold. All 946 signatures were perfectly legible. At the top, in the first blank, was the name “Bill Floyd, Pres: Student Body (Sr.).” The “Statement of Attitude” still resonated, a memorial to the revival-like flowering of social consciousness that had once spread across the Harding campus. The file also contained segregationist propaganda, such as a satirical “mug shot” of NAACP Little Rock chapter leader Daisy Bates published by the Capital Citizens Council, Arkansas’s answer to similar racist organizations in Mississippi and other Southern states. Several articles by Clennon King Jr., an eccentric and controversial AfricanAmerican academic who in 1957 was promoting segregation and writing disparagingly of the NAACP, had also been filed away. Benson’s hand-written chapel talks on race were there, including the notorious “Blackbird, Bluebird” speech. Many pages appeared to have been gathered by Bales (some included his signature). Some were heavily marked and underlined; someone had pored over them with intent. Clearly, George Benson was marked by the segregated society in which he was raised. He carried with him the same baggage of racism as many Southern white men. Doubtless, he feared the loss of conservative donations that would have followed early desegregation and felt an obligation to protect the school he had built. His dread of miscegenation was apparent to all. However, Benson was also a man who turned down a lucrative offer by a Mississippi group to start a college in that state that would have excluded blacks from its charter. He personally wrote letters to gain financial support for Lewis Brown, Walter Cunningham, and David Johnson, the three black students who broke the color barrier at Harding in 1963. To one such contributor who had sent $50 in scholarship support for the three he wrote, “They are starting off well with their work. We hope all of them will continue to do well.” On some level, Benson too believed that “God was no respecter of persons.” Whether or not Benson ever acknowledged his mistakes and racial myopia is unclear. Sometimes, though, karma smiles and God winks. Sometimes things come full circle, and the insight and redemption that elude us in our own lifetimes are discovered by others who carry on in our wake. During an interview, a Harding official told me a story about a young man who currently attended the school, which is still conservative, but a shade or two more colorful than 1957. The student was dating a fellow Harding student and had recently traveled to meet her family. What was unusual — and ironic — was that the young man, a direct descendant of Benson’s, was white. His girlfriend was a black woman from Uganda. The official’s face lit up, his eyes twinkling with mischief. “I bet old George is rolling over in his grave,” he laughed. Turning more serious, he leaned forward and added, “Everyone here wishes them the very best.” — Michael D. Brown
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asked to read the statement and sign only if they agreed. If someone refused, student activists were to refrain from comment or argument, thank the person for his or her time, and move on. It would be a campaign of Christian conscience, not coercion. Floyd oversaw the circulation of the statement to faculty. Their salaries were dependent on Benson’s appeals to conservative donors, who often viewed integration as a communist plot, and their endorsements would be significant. A few professors refused, but most signed — some hesitantly, others quickly, eager at long last to exercise the kind of academic freedom that their peers at secular schools took for granted. Floyd feared for Meyers in particular and went to great lengths to conceal his involvement. “I figured that Dr. Benson suspected that Dr. Meyers had helped us,” Floyd said. “It was an eloquent statement, and there were only a few people on campus who could write that well, plus his office was next to mine. I had him sign further down the list, far below my name, to make it seem less like collaboration.” On Nov. 14, 1957, the Bison published an above-the-fold story with a bold headline that read: “Results of Recent Poll On Racial Integration Show Student Attitudes.” A total of 946 out of 1276 students, faculty and staff — nearly 75 percent of the campus — had signed the “Statement of Attitude,” including 49 faculty members, 42 staff members, and 1 administrator, Dean of Students James Atkinson. The minutes of a Board of Trustees meeting show that later that same month, Benson dutifully delivered — per official protocol — the “Statement of Attitude” to the board for its “consideration.” ♦♦♦ Harding College’s policy of segregation did not change after the Board of Trustees received the “Statement of Attitude.” Nor did Benson respond immediately to the students’ demonstration. Instead, he sent others, including Bales, around campus to make the argument for continued segregation. But in January 1958, Benson gave a chapel speech titled “Harding College and the Negro Question.” According to his prepared notes, Benson scolded Bill Floyd and the student association for their circulation of the “Statement of Attitude.” He complained that proper procedure had not been followed (“A petition normally is a last resort, not a first step!”) and that he had considered offering an open chapel forum to Bill Floyd in which both sides could discuss the issue. According to Floyd, Benson never extended such an offer. He said, “Others
tried to warn us off, but he never offered a forum. A petition was much easier to control. Had he opened up the subject to debate, we would have done so gladly. But he didn’t for fear of the press and the NAACP showing up on campus for such an event. He would have never risked that.” Benson said that few blacks desired to attend Harding and that those who had applied had received financial assistance from his own pocket to attend all-black schools in Little Rock and Texas. He contended that “many students and faculty have come to me and apologized for signing after learning the facts.” Floyd disputed this claim. “I’m not aware of a single person who ‘took back’ their signature. We knew exactly what we were doing and what was at stake and were willing to risk reprisals to do the right thing.” Ken Perrin, a first-year faculty member in the fall of 1957, confirmed Floyd’s recollection when a reporter read him portions of Benson’s speech. “I suppose some might have had ‘signer’s regret’ but I personally didn’t know of any. The statement enjoyed broad support, and everyone who I was around who signed was glad they had.” Benson asserted that blacks in America “have more cars than people in Russia” and “more money than people in Canada.” “Equal educational opportunities” existed for all and did not require racial mixing, according to Benson. “The Little Rock Nine,” he said, “left a far better building and their own teachers to go to Central.” Citing Washington, D.C., as an example, Benson warned that integration would bring “increased destruction to property, increased gonorrhea and syphilis, and increased pregnancies.” He also railed against “mixed marriages” which would lead to “more broken homes” and an “increase in crime.” Benson concluded the speech with a line that Harding’s faculty and students had heard him say before but never with so much emphasis: “The blackbirds and bluebirds, the blue jays and mockingbirds, they don’t mix and mingle together, young people!” Robert Meyers recalled staring toward the Administration Auditorium from a classroom later that day, stewing over Benson’s racist diatribe. Turning toward his lectern, Meyers shook his head and asked no one in particular, “Did he really say that?” Later that night, three freshman students, Gary Ackers, Bob Silvey and Bill Floyd’s younger brother Keith, vented their frustration in clandestine protest. They snuck out after curfew and made their way toward the Lily Pool, a popular campus gathering place. Two of them waded into the middle of the pool and
planted a sign that read, “White Only.” “Actually, I just ‘held their coats,’ so to speak,” Keith Floyd recalled in an e-mail. “I have wished ever since that I had waded into the pond.” For the next several weeks, numerous students wrote anonymous letters and oblique critiques of and poems about Benson’s remarks in the Bison. However, their movement lost steam. There was no mention of the “Statement of Attitude” in the student yearbook or in the typical “year in review” pieces that appeared in the Bison in the late spring. Meanwhile, the Board of Trustees’ “consideration” of the “Statement of Attitude” lasted the remainder of the academic year — and for several years after. Bill Floyd graduated and moved on. Within three years, Robert Meyers and James Atkinson were gone, too, driven out for their failure to toe the Harding party line. As the civil rights movement entered its most productive and visible years, Benson and the Board of Trustees remained mostly silent. Yet even Benson could see the future. In a chapel speech in the fall of 1958, he decried the “ton of heartaches” that “integration and amalgamation” would bring but predicted that both “will ultimately take place, if the world
continues a few hundred years.” By the fall of 1963, however, the forthcoming Civil Rights Act changed the financial calculus of segregation. When the bill passed, Harding would be required to desegregate to continue receiving federal funds. In a surprise chapel announcement that fall, Benson said that, effective immediately, three black male students would be admitted. Harding officially became the first private college in Arkansas to desegregate. Benson’s announcement was met with a standing ovation. An editorial cartoon from the Sept. 26, 1963, Bison shows a beleaguered figure, presumably Benson, standing behind the podium, hands raised as if attempting to stem the tide of history. The caption read: “Please, there’s no need of a standing ovation for the announcements!” That same week, Bill Floyd’s father lost another Churches of Christ pulpit job in Sylacauga, Ala. He had denounced the recent bombings at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham and was fired on the spot. By the time the first black student association president, Lot Therrio, was elected in 1975, the early civil rights activism of Bill Floyd and the signers of the “Statement of Attitude” had been long forgotten.
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SENATE RACE, CONT. Little Rock, chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party, noted that after Woods’ victory, he was quoted as saying that the day of the moderate Republican was over. During the campaign, Pritchard criticized Woods for accepting the contribution from the AFSCME, which he called “a proud backer of Democrats across America” that had “recently endorsed Barack Obama for president.” Woods said Prichard was trying to divert attention from his own votes for tax bills. Evidently, Republican voters’ aversion to taxes was stronger than their aversion to labor unions. One longtime political activist in Northwest Arkansas suggested that Woods was more elastic than Pritchard, better able to present himself as whatever a particular voter wanted him to be. There’s no doubt he’ll run to the right of his general-election opponent, the Democratic nominee Diana Gonzales Worthen. Except to those especially fond of the bass guitar, Gonzales Worthen’s resume is the more impressive of the two candidates’. The granddaughter of immigrants, she’s been an educator in Northwest Arkansas for more than 15 years, having taught in the Rogers and Springdale
public schools and at the University of Arkansas, where she previously earned a Ph.D. in education. Her campaign biography says she now directs Project Teach Them All, a Department of Education grant program that trains people to teach English as a Second Language. She’s also run a martial-arts academy in Texas and has a second-degree black belt in Wado Shinzen-Kai, a form of Japanese karate. She’s secretive about her age, apparently greater than Woods’. She’s a member of the sort of groups that right-wingers look down on — the League of Women Voters, the American Association of University Women — and says she’s a champion for accessible health care, among other things. Her biggest contribution so far is $2,000 from the Naturally Blue PAC. Though Northwest Arkansas is mostly Republican, it’s still possible for a Democrat to be elected in Washington County, and Democrats insist they have a real chance of winning in Senate District 7. It’s less partisan than neighboring Benton County, they say. Springdale has a big Hispanic population too, which is presumably to Gonzales Worthen’s advantage, but whether a large number of them will vote is unclear.
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OBSERVATIONS ON WAKARUSA Notes from the Mulberry Mountain jam-band extravaganza.
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his is the first thing, and everyone says it, but still, it cannot be overstated: Mulberry Mountain is an unequivocally spectacular location for a big music festival or camping or both. The landscape is lush, green and gorgeous. It is a jewel. And you really do feel separated from the world up there. Interstate 40 might be just a short ways down the road, but you wouldn’t know it. A fair number of the people at Wakarusa — perhaps 62 percent or more by my wildly unscientific, gut-feeling calculations — seemed to be of that variety of hippie who loves nearly all music, almost unconditionally. I’ll admit to being somewhat jealous of these folks. How good must it feel to wear comfortable clothing while tossing your nappy locks about and smiling with utterly unselfconscious abandon, purely because the sound of other people making music fills your heart with joy such that it causes you to twirl around for hours? Say what you will, punk rockers and smart-alecky snark-sters, but the hippies are the ones who truly don’t care what other people think. And you know what? Bless their hearts, every last one of them. That’s right, bless their hearts because even though they might be irritatingly sincere space cadets with BO and self-indulgently noodle-y music and politics of the most 20
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half-baked sort, they are putting more love out into the world than hate, and that’s a good thing. Man, there sure seemed to be a lot of girls named Molly who kept getting separated from their friends. I was bumping into all these guys who were like, “Molly? Molly? Molly-Molly-Molly?” Finally I said to one of these dudes, I said, “Hey man, your other friend who was dressed kinda like you, he was looking for Molly too, just like, 15 minutes ago right here. You guys need to go up to the media center there on the hill and tell somebody that she’s missing.” He gave me a confused look and walked off, going “Molly? Molly?” It was weird. Oh, uh, just kidding about all that. Apparently Ecstasy is known as “Molly” nowadays. Or maybe they’ve been calling it that for a while. I haven’t been to a rave since some time in Clinton’s second term so my drug lingo is probably a bit dated. People at festivals drop things. This happens for a variety of reasons, some intentional, others unintentional. At Wakarusa, they don’t want you to drop anything — “leave no trace” and all that. But people do anyway. Sometimes, they drop things they really didn’t mean to, things they really need: wallets, keys, critical pieces of clothing, various recreational accoutrements. I learned
from the Internet that when you find one of these dropped party favors, it’s called a “ground-score.” Thus after a set is over, there will be lots of people with flashlights scouring the earth for ground-scores. I didn’t see anybody make a good ground-score, though they probably wouldn’t announce it real big if they did. One guy wearing a dress and one of those gigantic 19th century Chinese peasant hats chanced upon a rather expensive-looking camera lens. He held it up, shining his flashlight on it. “Anybody? Anybody?” Nope, nobody. Ground-score. Events like Wakarusa undoubtedly provide a critical release valve for severe extroverts. Where else can you walk around for four days wearing only sunglasses and a hemp sling wrapped around your bidness and not promptly get tossed into the pokey? They were all out in force and their freak-flags were flying high and free. That said, I was surprised by the number of Natty-Lite guzzling fratbro types in attendance. I saw one such guy wearing a turquoise tank top with all-caps neon letters reading, “You had me at Chi O.” If there’s anything music festival people love as much as spinning around in a circle, it’s glowing things. Sticks, necklaces, rings, hula-hoops, wands, batons, slightly longer sticks — you name it, there’s somebody at Wakarusa slinging around a glowing version of it while spinning in circle. Something else they love? Those floating sky lantern thingies. The kind where you light part of it on fire and it ascends into the night sky before burning out completely about 200 feet up and they’re a poignant visual metaphor for our own heartbreakingly beautiful yet ultimately doomed journey heavenward? Yeah man, they love those things. I must’ve seen a hundred of them or more. Oh yeah, the music. You can see a whole, whole lot of it in a short amount of time. The lineup is certainly dominated by what could be loosely thrown together under the jam-band umbrella, but there were also many bands that didn’t fit that description. In the span of only a few hours, I saw/heard: Sousa-by-way-of-steampunk from the MarchFourth Marching Band; lightning-fast bluegrass from Split Lip Rayfield; newfangled old-timey music from The Devil Makes Three; hiplet-friendly art rock from Rubblebucket; the awesome Crazy Horse-esque classic rock of Blitzen Trapper; quasi-hippie indie rock from Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros; dubstep with a real-live drummer from Break Science; soaring folk-rock from The Avett Brothers; and obnoxious mash-up mischief from button-pusher Girl Talk. And that was only a portion of what was on offer on a single afternoon and evening. Here’s my main takeaway: Nearly everyone I saw at Wakarusa seemed to be having an absolute blast. Even when it was rainy and chilly and gloomy on Friday afternoon and evening, there was no bellyaching. In fact, there were quite a few people rolling around on the cold ground, making out. But in all seriousness, how many other places are you going to go and see 20,000 or so people all having that much fun? Now to be sure, my cranky, creaky old ass is way too irritable and anti-social to go to a festival like Wakarusa every year, but if you’re a serious jam-band head and you live anywhere remotely close to Ozark, you should just permanently mark off late May/early June on your calendar every year.
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THE DUST OF WAKARUSA MIGHT STILL be settling over Mulberry Mountain, but the lineup for the next big musical shindig up at the bucolic spread outside of Ozark was recently announced. The 2012 Yonder Mountain String Band’s Harvest Music Festival features jam-band luminaries such as Leftover Salmon, Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart with Dave Schools and, of course, Yonder Mountain String Band. Other headliners include alt-country pioneers The Jayhawks, blues/soul/boogie veterans The North Mississippi Allstars, newgrass mandolin maestro Sam Bush, progressive folk outfit The Punch Brothers, as well as many more bluegrass, country and folk favorites, including Split Lip Rayfield, Cornmeal, The Gourds, Wookiefoot, Joe Purdy and more. There are a handful of Arkansas acts in the mix as well, including Mountain Sprout and Adam Faucett & The Tall Grass. Mark it on your calendars: Oct. 1113. Should be a great time.
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WEDNESDAY 6/6
HOT SPRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL
Now in its 17th year, the Hot Springs Music Festival — which started Sunday and runs through June 16 — gives classical fans in Central Arkansas the
opportunity to see accomplished musicians from all over the world perform alongside budding players. The festival features lectures, as well as 20 official concerts and more than 250 open rehearsals, at which the professionals mentor the young up-andcomers. Much of the festival is broadcast on KLRE 90.5 and recorded for
THURSDAY 6/7
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10 p.m. White Water Tavern. $5.
The Ezra Lbs. self-titled debut, out now on Thick Syrup Records and available at this record release show, is quite an odd album, and I mean that in the best way possible. It seems to have been written, recorded and sequenced without any consideration whatsoever of following convention. The album is 22 songs, divided between perfectly rougharound-the-edges garage-rock tunes, wistful bedroom pop and meandering instrumental passages, such as “Pennies,” which has an underwater loungejazz feel, and “Insomnia,” which recalls those drifting interstitial pieces from Eno’s timeless “Another Green World.” “Bears” and “Postcard” are fantastic, melancholy sketches that remind me a bit of The Great Unwashed (David and Hamish Kilgour’s excellent, underheralded post-Clean collaboration). “Purple Sweater” is a wordless, minute-and-a-half blast with a late-period Jay Reatard vibe that segues into the delightful “Record.” But as good as all those songs are, for me, the sweet spot is the final stretch of the album. The last four songs make up a perfect suite of gorgeous guitar rock that I’ve listened to over and over. The last song in particular, “Motorcycle Accident,” is sublime, with soaring, gorgeously distorted guitar. In a basic sense, Ezra Lbs. is building on similar influences as the British band Yuck — which I also love — those being Yo La Tengo, Dinosaur Jr., Pavement and the like. But this Arkansas crew is more restless, adventurous and willing to take those familiar touchstones in weirder directions. It’ll be interesting to see where they go next, but until then we’ll have this very enjoyable album to absorb. Also playing is the ever-burly rock machine known as Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth. RB 22
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Various times. Hendrix, UCA and Wildwood Park. $0-$30.
This season, Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre gets rolling with one of the Bard’s comedies, “Twelfth Night.” The tale of twins, shipwrecked and separated on the mysterious island of Illyria, is one of Shakespeare’s works that director Rebekah Scallet found herself drawn to again and again. “There are many dif-
Hot Springs Fieldhouse. A pre-concert talk starts at 6:30 p.m., with the Festival Symphony Orchestra starting at 7:30 p.m., performing music by Rachmaninoff, Paganini, Charles Ives and more. Tickets are $5 for students and veterans and $15 for others. Check the website at www.hotmusic.org to find the full schedule. RB
ferent love stories woven throughout the play, and the way the characters feel about each other is always first detected in their language,” Scallet wrote in her director’s note. “All the lovers play verbal games of wit with each other, picking up each other’s phrases, taking a word and turning it over in such a way that it has a new meaning. Through this complementary use of language the audience can tell these people are truly meant for each other, and it is so much fun to watch
them figure out what we already know.” The first five performances of “Twelfth Night” — June 7, 9, 10, 15 and 17, all at 7:30 p.m. — are pay what you can shows at Hendrix. The remaining performances are June 22-24 at 7:30 p.m. at Wildwood Park for the Arts and tickets are $15-$20. The Tony-winning Huck Finn musical “Big River” opens Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Reynolds Performance Hall at UCA, with a 1 p.m. matinee on Sunday. Tickets are $30. RB
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Various times and locations in Hot Springs. $5-$15.
release on CD on the Naxos/Marco Polo label. Some of the featured performers this year include Rick “Mr. CutTime” Robinson and The Cassatt String Quartet. Described on its website as being “serious in focus but casual in atmosphere,” the festival takes place at several venues in Hot Springs. Wednesday’s concert is at the
ADOLESCENT TALE: Garrett Houston and Jessica Smith star in The Weekend Theater’s production of “Spring Awakening,” which opens Friday at 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY 6/8
‘SPRING AWAKENING’
7:30 p.m. The Weekend Theater. $16-$20.
Adolescence is a bummer. You feel uncomfortable and moody all the time. Your body’s all weird and there are all of these new, strange feelings you’ve got to negotiate. To top it all off, your parents and teachers and other grown-
ups are mostly jerks who don’t understand what you’re going through and why can’t they just get off your case and let you do what you want? Jeez! “Spring Awakening” is a rock musical — based on an earlier work by German proto-expressionist playwright Frank Wedekind — that deals with this awkward time in three young peoples’ lives. Wendla, Melchior and Moritz all strug-
gle to navigate this new, foreign terrain and the adults in their lives aren’t too helpful, as they avoid uncomfortable topics. The updated version won eight Tonys in 2007, and is pretty frank in its portrayal of teenage sexuality. The Weekend Theater’s production runs through July 1, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays. RB
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HOOP JAMS
9 a.m., Clinton Presidential Center. Free (for spectators).
Arkansas Baptist and the Clinton Foundation once again team up to host Hoop Jams, a massive 3-on-3 basketball tournament in the spirit of the Hoop Fest that ran for years in Little Rock.
I haven’t played basketball in at least a year, but I was ready to play in the media division this year, except that I have to be away for a wedding. But look out Pat Bradley or Roger Susanin or whoever in the media world plays ball, Team Arkansas Times is gunning for you next year. When we win, we’re gunning
for the Top Gun division, which celebrity host Joe Johnson and Team Jordan won last year. Even without the Times team, this promises to be a competitive field. Games happens from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Saturday and from noon until 6 p.m. Sunday. The deadline to register has already expired. LM.
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Noon. Clinton School of Public Service. Free.
ODD DUDE: Houston rapper Devin the Dude comes to Revolution Sunday for an 18-and-older show.
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8 p.m. Revolution. $20 adv., $25 d.o.s.
In “Lacville ’79,” one of Devin the Dude’s first big singles, he raps about driving “47 in a 55.” The chorus goes “I’m rollin’ / Car not stolen / Probably never will be it’s much to old and / Smokin’ weed and feelin fine.” That song and those lines in particular offer a good window into Devin’s special brand of rap genius. Where most of his peers tap into aggression and swagger, Devin works in the Slick Rick tradition; his
languid raps often sound like he’s delivering them with a smile on his face. He’s not afraid to be self-deprecating, and while his lyrics occasionally dip into dark territory, more often than not he’s rapping about the joys of being high with nothing much to do. The opening bill includes 607, the most accomplished rapper in Arkansas, playing one of his last shows before a career refocusing hiatus; Arkansas Bo, the Dallasbased Arkansas expat who works in the same mode as Devin and the local supergroup Labratz. The show is open to those 18 and older. LM
When it comes to treating people equally, Arkansas still has a long, long way to go. But we can certainly take pride that someone like Chad Griffin came from here. Griffin was the youngest staffer ever to serve in the White House (he was 19 in 1992 when he was hired as a press aide in the Clinton White House) and since then he’s led numerous campaigns for all manner of righteous causes, including stem cell research, clean energy, environmental protection, and, of course, LGBT rights. The Hope native (who grew up in Arkadelphia) was one of the leaders behind the successful campaign to overturn California’s Prop 8, the constitutional amendment which stripped same-sex couples of the right to marry. Out magazine placed him at No. 20 on its 2012 Power 50 List, published back in April. Earlier this year, Griffin was named the next president of the Human Rights Campaign, which is the largest group working for LGBT rights. He assumes that role on June 11. On his first day as HRC president, he’ll discuss his plans for his new role with state Rep. Kathy Webb, the first openly gay person to serve in the state General Assembly. RB
EQUALITY ADVOCATE: Chad Griffin, incoming president of the Human Rights Campaign, will discuss his work with state representative Kathy Webb at noon, Monday at the Clinton School of Public Service.
Classic rock royalty Kofi Baker — son of the great percussionist Ginger Baker — brings The Cream Experience to Revolution for an 18-and-older show, 8:30 p.m., $10 adv., $15 day of. Bluff City trio The Memphis Dawls specialize in haunting, lushly arranged contemporary folk that draws inspiration from country, rock and gospel, 18-and-older, Stickyz, 9 p.m., $6. The band also plays at 9:30 p.m. Friday at Maxine’s features Star & Micey, $5 adv., $7 day of. Racing season is over, but Oaklawn still has plenty going on, including a concert from The Oak Ridge Boys, 7 p.m., $20-$30. Up on The Hill, there’s a celebration of all things “Soul Train,” with a photo exhibit of images from the classic music show, a screening of the documentary “The Hippest Trip in America” at 6 p.m., a performance from the dance company Afrique-Aya at 7:30 p.m. and dancing in the street starting at 8 p.m. It’s all at the Fayetteville Square as part of the monthly First Thursday.
FRIDAY 6/8 White Water Tavern has Mississippi favorite Jimbo Mathus and his ace band, The Tri-State Coalition. They’ll be serving up piping hot Catfish Music for the Masses long about 10 p.m., $10. The Mockingbird Hillbilly Band’s hillbilly psychedelia will no doubt get the crowd rowdy at Thirst n’ Howl, 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. As part of its 2012 Wine Festival, the Walton Arts Center has several vino-focused events, including Wine Tasting 101, 5:30 p.m., $30 and Uncorked!, 7 p.m., $75. There are also wine events Thursday and Saturday (see calendar).
SATURDAY 6/9 Magic Springs’ Timberwood Amphitheater has a concert from Grammy-winning Christian pop act Third Day, 7:30 p.m., $30-$65. The retro-rock duo Water Liars play Maxine’s, with Mandy McBryde & The Unholy Ghost, 8 p.m., $5 adv., $7 day of. The Little Rock Wind Symphony has its annual Stars and Stripes Celebration, with music by Gershwin, John Philip Sousa, Scott Joplin, Irving Berlin and more at MacArthur Park, 7 p.m., free. Here Come the Mummies brings new meaning to the term “vintage funk.” The multi-piece outfit performs a libidinous brand of old-school funk while in full mummy regalia. The band plays at George’s in Fayetteville on Friday and Shooter’s in Little Rock on Saturday (see calendar for more details). The See, Teenagers and The Tricks (who’ll have some new free singles to give away) play White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. Check out some up-and-coming rappers at Juanita’s, with K. Flay and Colin Munroe, 10 p.m., $10.
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sundown. Riverfest Amphitheatre, 8 p.m., free. 400 President Clinton Ave.
THURSDAY, JUNE 7
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“1964: Tribute to The Beatles.” Woodlands Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.; June 7, 7:30 p.m., $25. 1101 De Soto Blvd., Hot Springs Village. 501922-4231. www.hsvwoodlands.com. Acoustic Open Mic. The Afterthought, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com. Almost Infamous. The Tavern Sports Grill, 7 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. www. thetavernsportsgrill.com. Alternative Wednesdays. Features alternative bands from Central Arkansas and the surrounding areas. Mediums Art Lounge, 6:30 p.m., $5. 521 Center St. 501-374-4495. Big Water Possum. Cajun’s Wharf, 5 p.m., $5 cover after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com. The Carper Family. George’s Majestic Lounge. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226. DJ Epic. Flying DD, 8 p.m. 4601 S. University. 501-773-9990. flyingdd.com. Gil Franklin & Friends. Holiday Inn, North Little Rock, first Tuesday, Wednesday of every month. 120 W. Pershing Blvd., NLR. Grim Muzik presents Way Back Wednesdays. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 8:30 p.m. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub.com. Hot Springs Music Festival XVII. More than 200 performers from around the world will gather for 20 concerts and hundreds of open rehearsals at venues all over Hot Springs. Downtown Hot Springs, through June 16. Central Avenue, Hot Springs. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m.; June 7, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Ricky David Tripp. Ferneau, 5:30 p.m. 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-603-9208. www.ferneaurestaurant.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. The Winter Sounds. 18-and-older show. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.
MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: The 2012 season of Movies in the Park gets started Wednesday at sundown at Riverfest Amphitheatre, with the Michael Bay explode-a-thon “Transformers.” All screenings are free, and moviegoers are welcome to bring chairs, blankets, food and drinks (but no glass containers). The series continues with “Steel Magnolias” June 13; “Puss N Boots” June 20; “Moneyball” June 27; “Jaws” July 11; “Twilight Eclipse” July 18; “Caddyshack” July 25; and “Annie” Aug. 1.
June 7, 9 a.m. p.m. 7th and Rock Streets. 501372-4000. www.arkarts.com. The Arkansas Extension Homemakers Council Meeting. Hot Springs Convention Center. 134 Convention Blvd., Hot Springs. 501-321-2027. www.hotsprings.org.
CAMPS
An Asian Summer: Journey to the Far East. Camp for ages 9-11 explores Asian culture and art. Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, through June 8, 9 a.m. p.m., $140-$150. 20919 Denny Road.
CLASSES
Summer Museum School. Registration for the Arkansas Arts Center’s Museum Summer School classes for children and adults has begun. Classes begin June 18. For more information
go to arkarts.com and click on Art Classes or call 372-4000. Arkansas Arts Center, Continues through June 18. 501 E. 9th St. 501-372-4000. www.arkarts.com. Thea summer art classes. The Thea Foundation is taking registrations for Thea’s Art Class, a summer art camp with teacher Sarah Elizabeth Miller. Session 1 is July 2-5 and 9-12, from 9-11 a.m. for third through sixth graders and 2-4 p.m. for seventh through ninth graders. Session 2 is July 23-26, 30-31 and Aug. 1-2 (same hours as above). Fee is $75 for 8 classes; class limit is 15 students. For more information, go to theafoundation.org. Thea Foundation, Continues through July 25. 401 Main St., NLR. 501-3799512. www.theafoundation.org.
FILM
Movies in the Park: “Transformers.” Begins at
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COMEDY
Untamed Shrews. The Loony Bin, 8 p.m. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www. loonybincomedy.com.
DANCE
Little Rock Bop Club. Beginning dance lessons for ages 10 and older. Singles welcome. Bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 7 p.m., $4 for members, $7 for guests. 12th & Cleveland Streets. 501-350-4712. www.littlerockbopclub.
EVENTS
Museum School Workshop. Four-day advanced oil painting workshop focuses on painting the figure from life. Not for beginning or intermediate level painters. Terry House, 9 a.m. p.m.;
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“1964: Tribute to The Beatles.” Woodlands Auditorium, 7:30 p.m., $25. 1101 De Soto Blvd., Hot Springs Village. 501-922-4231. www.hsvwoodlands.com. “After 7.” Includes open mic performances, live band, drink specials and more. Porter’s Jazz Cafe, 7 p.m. 315 Main St. 501-324-1900. www. portersjazzcafe.com. Brian Martin. 21-and-older show. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. Crisis (headliner), Shannon McClung (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, $5 cover after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com. Ezra Lbs. (album release), Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www. whitewatertavern.com. Fire and Brimstone. Faulkner County Library, 7 p.m., free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-3277482. www.fcl.org. Hot Springs Music Festival XVII. See June 6. “Inferno.” DJs play pop, electro, house and more, plus drink specials and $1 cover before 11 p.m. Sway, 9 p.m. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Kofi Baker’s Cream Experience. 18-and-older show. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $10 adv., $15 d.o.s. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com. The Memphis Dawls. 18-and-older show. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $6. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com. Oak Ridge Boys. Oaklawn, 7 p.m., $19.95-$29.95. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-623-4411. www.oaklawn.com. Port Arthur Band. Parrot Beach Cafe, 9 p.m. 9611 MacArthur Drive, NLR. 771-2994. RockUsaurus. Senor Tequila, 6 p.m. 10300 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-224-5505. Rodge Arnold. The Tavern Sports Grill, 8 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. www. thetavernsportsgrill.com. Rough Draftz & Admirals. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9 p.m. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Texarkana Band. Thirst n’ Howl, 8 p.m. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl. com. The Winter Sounds, Cons of Formant, Interstate Buffalo. Soundstage, 7 p.m., $6. 1008 Oak St., Conway. www.thewintersounds.com.
COMEDY
Untamed Shrews. The Loony Bin, 8 p.m. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www. loonybincomedy.com.
EVENTS
Black Music Month Celebration. A part of Fayetteville’s First Thursday,the Celebration will include a Soul Train Photo Exhibition, Face
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An Asian Summer: Journey to the Far East. Camp for ages 9-11 explores Asian culture and art. Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, through June 8, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., $140-$150. 20919 Denny Road. Traditional Puppetry. Students ages 12-18 create their own life-size Indonesian shadow puppet and French marionette, as well as smaller puppets and sets to perform in a puppet show. Artchurch Studio, June 7-9, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., $100. 301 Whittington Ave., Hot Springs. 501-3186779. www.artchurch.org.
CLASSES
Summer Museum School. See June 6. Thea summer art classes. See June 6.
FRIDAY, JUNE 8
MUSIC
Big Stack. West End Smokehouse and Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. 215 N. Shackleford. 501-224-7665. www.westendsmokehouse.net. Bluesboy Jag and His Cigar Box Guitars. Dogtown Coffee and Cookery, 6 p.m., free. 6725 John F. Kennedy Blvd., NLR. 501-8333850. www.facebook.com/pages/DogtownCoffee-and-Cookery. Boom Kinetic. 18-and-older show. Revolution, 9:30 p.m., $10. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501823-0090. revroom.com. Chris Henry. The Tavern Sports Grill, 8 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. www. thetavernsportsgrill.com. Class of ‘87 (headliner), Brian Ramsey (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 cover after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-3755351. www.cajunswharf.com. David Adam Byrnes. Denton’s Trotline, 9 p.m. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717. DJ Silky Slim. Top 40 and dance music. Sway, 9 p.m., $5. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582. Exhale at RiverTop. The Peabody Little Rock, through July 6: 9 p.m., $8. 3 Statehouse Plaza. 501-906-4000. www.peabodylittlerock.com. “The Flow Fridays.” Twelve Modern Lounge, 8 p.m. 1900 W. Third St. Goodtime Ramblers. The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com. Here Come the Mummies (headliner), Belaires, Ultra Suede (happy hour). George’s Majestic
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Untamed Shrews. The Loony Bin, 8 and 10:30 p.m. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-2285555. www.loonybincomedy.com.
EVENTS
Food Truck Fridays. Includes three food trucks on the corner of Main Street and Capitol Avenue. Main Street, Little Rock, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Main St. 501-375-0121. LGBTQ/SGL Youth and Young Adult Group. Diverse Youth for Social Change is a group for LGBTQ/SGL and straight ally youth and young adults age 14 to 23. For more information, call 244-9690 or search “DYSC” on Facebook. 800 Scott St., 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St. ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray. Pyramid Art Books and Custom Framing, 3 p.m. 1001 Wright Ave. 501372-6822. hearnefineart.com. Uncorked!. An Art of Wine Festival event. Must be 21 or older to purchase tickets. Walton Arts Center, 7 p.m., $75. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. Wine Tasting 101. An Art of Wine Festival event. Must be 21 or older to purchase tickets. Walton Arts Center, 5:30 p.m., $30. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. CONTINUED ON PAGE 26
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Lounge, 6, 7 and 10 p.m. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226. Hot Springs Music Festival XVII. See June 6. Jeff Coleman. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, June 8-9, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Jimbo Mathus and the Tri-State Coalition. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $10. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com. Matt Stell & Deep Roots. 18-and-older show. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $6. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www. stickyfingerz.com. Michael Shipp, Neon Skin. Vino’s, 9 p.m., $6. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com. Mockingbird Hillybilly Band. Thirst n’ Howl. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirstn-howl.com. North Little Rock Community Concert Band. Bring lawn chairs or blankets. Lakewood Village Amphitheatre, 7 p.m., free. Lakewood Village, NLR. Only Flesh, The STDs, Severe Headwound. Downtown Music Hall, 8 p.m., $7. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownmusichall. com. Rodge Arnold. Flying Saucer, 9 p.m. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-8032. www. beerknurd.com/stores/littlerock. Star & Micey, Holly Cole & The Memphis Dawls. 21-and-older show. Maxine’s, 9:30 p.m., $5 adv., $7 d.o.s. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www. capitalhotel.com/CBG. Trey Hawkins Band. 21-and-older show. Shooter’s Sports Bar & Grill, 9 p.m., $5. 9500 I-30. 501-565-4003. www.shooterslittlerock.com. Vagabond Swing, Spinrad. Brick House Grill, 11 p.m. 801 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501321-2926. “YOLO.” Featuring four DJs and beach volleyball, 18-and-older. Flying DD, $5. 4601 S. University. 501-773-9990. flyingdd.com.
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Painting by School of Rock, Afrique Aya Dance Troupe, and more. Fayetteville Square, 5 p.m. Downtown, Fayetteville. Hillcrest Shop & Sip. Shops and restaurants offer discounts, later hours, and live music. Hillcrest, first Thursday of every month, 5-10 p.m. P.O.Box 251522. 501-666-3600. www.hillcrestmerchants.com. Museum School Workshop. See June 6. Winemaker’s Dinner and Auction. Evening includes a pre-dinner wine reception and silent auction, art and Walton Arts Center performance memorabilia. An Art of Wine Festival event. Must be 21 or older to purchase tickets. Walton Arts Center, 6 p.m., $225. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600.
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AFTER DARK, CONT. Zoo Story Time. Little Rock Zoo, through Aug. 31: 10 a.m. 1 Jonesboro Dr. 501-666-2406. www. littlerockzoo.com.
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Songwriters Showcase. Parrot Beach Cafe, 2-7 p.m., free. 9611 MacArthur Drive, NLR. 771-2994. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Things You Never Thought You Would Hear Played on a Harp. Benefits The Neighbors Table and other outreach ministries. All Saints Episcopal Church, 7 p.m., $5 donation. All Saints Episcopal Church, Russellville. Third Day. Magic Springs’ Timberwood Amphitheater, 7:30 p.m., $30-$65. 1701 E. Grand Ave., Hot Springs. Water Liars, Mandy McBryde & The Unholy Ghost. 21-and-older show. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $5 adv., $7 d.o.s. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. Wreckless Endeavor. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 9 p.m. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub.com.
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SPORTS
CARTI Criterium. Burns Park Soccer Complex, 4:30 p.m., $25. Burns Park, NLR. www.teamcarve.com.
CAMPS
An Asian Summer: Journey to the Far East. Camp for ages 9-11 explores Asian culture and art. Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, 9 a.m. p.m., $140-$150. 20919 Denny Road. Traditional Puppetry. See June 7.
CLASSES
Summer Museum School. See June 6. Thea summer art classes. See June 6.
Chris Henry. Flying Saucer, 9 p.m. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-8032. www.beerknurd. com/stores/littlerock. Flag Day Stars & Stripes Celebration. MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 7 p.m. 503 E. 9th St. 376-4602. www.arkmilitaryheritage.com. The FM Band. The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com. The Gettys. 18-and-older show. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com. Here Come the Mummies. Shooter’s Sports Bar & Grill, 9:30 p.m. 9500 I-30. 501-565-4003. www.shooterslittlerock.com. The Holy Shakes, The Foul Play Cabaret. 18-and-older show. Revolution, 9 p.m. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom. com. Hot Springs Music Festival XVII. See June 6. Jeff Coleman. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Just Sayin’ (headliner), Dillan Cate (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 cover after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-3755351. www.cajunswharf.com. K. Flay. Juanita’s, 10 p.m., $10. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com. “KISS Saturdays” with DJs Deja Blu, Greyhound and Silky Slim. Sway, 10 p.m. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582. Little Rock Wind Symphony. MacArthur Park, 7 p.m., free. 503 E. Ninth St. www.lrwindsymphony.org. Octopus Jones, Ellison Cage. Vino’s, 9 p.m., $6. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com. Pickin’ Porch at the Library. Faulkner County Library, through Aug. 4: 9:30 a.m., free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www.fcl.org. Prosevere. Downtown Music Hall, 8 p.m., $6. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownmusichall.com. Saturday night at Discovery. Featuring DJs, dancers and more. Discovery Nightclub, 9 p.m., $10. 1021 Jessie Road. 501-664-4784. www. latenightdisco.com. The See, Teenagers, The Tricks. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com. Seth Freeman. West End Smokehouse and Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. 215 N. Shackleford. 501-2247665. www.westendsmokehouse.net. Smokey. The Tavern Sports Grill, 8 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. www. thetavernsportsgrill.com.
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Untamed Shrews. The Loony Bin, 7, 9 and 11 p.m. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-2285555. www.loonybincomedy.com.
DANCE
Dance and Discover Party. Free admission with Arkansas Blue Cross, Health Advantage or BlueAdvantage Administrators of Arkansas health plan ID card. Featuring Radio Disney. Museum of Discovery, 11 a.m. 500 Clinton Ave. 396-7050, 1-800-880-6475. www.amod.org. Little Rock West Coast Dance Club. West coast dance lessons. Singles welcome. Ernie Biggs, 7 p.m., $2. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-247-5240. www. arstreetswing.com. Summer Salsa. Presented by Arkansas Children’s House of Northwest Arkansas. George’s Majestic Lounge. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226.
EVENTS
Argenta Farmers Market. Argenta, 7 a.m.-12 p.m. Main Street, NLR. Falun Gong meditation. Allsopp Park, 9 a.m., free. Cantrell & Cedar Hill Roads. Helena Second Saturdays. Art and music along historic Cherry Street in downtown Helena. Downtown Helena, through Sept. 8: second Saturday of every month, 5-8 p.m. Cherry and Main Streets, Helena. Hillcrest Farmers Market. Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, 7 a.m.-12 p.m. 2200 Kavanaugh Blvd. Little Rock Farmers’ Market. River Market Pavilions, through Oct. 27: 7 a.m.-3 p.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 501-375-2552. rivermarket.info. Made from Scratch: Cooking Basics. The class will cook a meal from start to finish using basics like pork tenderloin and rice. Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, 10 a.m. p.m., $80. 1 Rockefeller Drive, Morrilton. 501-727-5435. www.livethelegacy.org. The Premier Tasting. An Art of Wine Festival event. Must be 21 or older to purchase tickets. Walton Arts Center, 6 p.m., $150. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. The Sparkling Wine Extravaganza. An Art of Wine Festival event. Must be 21 or older to purchase tickets. Walton Arts Center, 4:30 p.m., $30. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. Super Summer Saturdays. A section of the Clinton Center will be transformed into a baseball diamond, filled with hands-on activity stations. Clinton Presidential Center, through Aug. 11: 10 a.m., free. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 370-8000. www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org. Swapnista Little Rock. Korto Momolu Studio, 5 p.m., $16. 319 President Clinton Ave. www.
swapnista.com. The Wine Lover’s Brunch. An Art of Wine Festival event. Must be 21 or older to purchase tickets. Walton Arts Center, 11 a.m., $65. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600.
SPORTS
25th Annual Short Track. I-30 Speedway, 7 p.m. 12297 Interstate 30. www.i-30speedway.com. Second Annual Hoop Jams. A statewide threeon-three basketball tournament that supports ongoing educational programming at the Clinton Presidential Center and Arkansas Baptist College. Clinton Presidential Park, June 9, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; June 10, noon-6 p.m., $80 - $100 per team. 1200 President Clinton Ave., NLR. 501374-4242. www.hoopjamslr.com. Soul Spirit Zumba with Ashan. Soul Spirit Zumba fuses fun Latin-based rhythms with soulful inspirational music. Canvas Community Art Gallery, 9:30-10:30 a.m., $5. 1111 W. 7th St. 501-414-0368.
BOOKS
Author Carol King Kennard Book Signing. Hastings, 4 p.m. 915 W. Main St., Jacksonville. 501-982-3027. Author Herman Sullivan Book Signing. Hastings, 1 p.m. 1360 Old Morrilton Hwy., Conway. 501-329-1108. Emily Roberson Book Signing. WordsWorth Books & Co., 3 p.m. 5920 R St. 501-663-9198. www.wordsworthbooks.org.
CAMPS
Traditional Puppetry. See June 7.
CLASSES
Summer Museum School. See June 6. Thea summer art classes. See June 6.
SUNDAY, JUNE 10
MUSIC
Devin the Dude, 607, Lo Thraxx, Arkansas Bo, Labratz, Joe Average. 18-and-older show. Revolution, 8 p.m., $20 adv., $25 day of show. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com. Hot Springs Music Festival XVII. See June 6. Sunday Jazz Brunch with Ted Ludwig and Joe Cripps. Vieux Carre, 11 a.m. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.vieuxcarrecafe.com. Ted Nugent, Laura Wilde. Arkansas Music Pavilion, 7:30 p.m., $17-$77. 2536 N. McConnell Ave., Fayetteville. www.arkansasmusicpavilion.com. Tenth Avenue North. Magic Springs’ Timberwood Amphitheater, 7:30 p.m., $30$65. 1701 E. Grand Ave., Hot Springs.
EVENTS
Bernice Garden Farmers’ Market. The Bernice Garden, through Oct. 14: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 1401 S. Main St. 501-617-2511. www.thebernicegarden.org.
SPORTS
Second Annual Hoop Jams. See June 9.
CLASSES
Summer Museum School. See June 6. Thea summer art classes. See June 6.
MONDAY, JUNE 11
MUSIC
Hot Springs Music Festival XVII. See June 6. Irish Traditional Music Session. Khalil’s Pub, Fourth and second Monday of every month, 7 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com.
Jazz@Afterthought featuring Handmade Moments. The Afterthought, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com. Reggae Nites. Featuring DJ Hy-C playing roots, reggae and dancehall. Pleazures Martini and Grill Lounge, 6 p.m., $7-$10. 1318 Main St. 501-376-7777. www.facebook.com/pleazures. bargrill. Richie Johnson. Cajun’s Wharf, 5 p.m., $5 cover after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-3755351. www.cajunswharf.com. Touch, Grateful Dead Tribute. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.
EVENTS
Arkansas Foodbank Summer Feeding Sites. Two meals a day served at the Billy Mitchell Boys and Girls Club, Thrasher Boys and Girls Club, Penick Boys and Girls Club and Dalton Whetstone Boys and Girls Club in Central Arkansas, and the Boys and Girls Club in Benton in Saline County. Arkansas Foodbank, through Aug. 20: 8:30 a.m. and 12 p.m., free. 4301 W. 65th St. 501-565-8121. www.arkansasfoodbank.org. HRC President Chad Griffin Interviewed by State Rep. Kathy Webb. Clinton School of Public Service, 12 p.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5239. www.clintonschool.uasys. edu. Human Rights Campaign Community Celebration. A celebration to welcome HRC’s incoming president Chad Griffin. BoswellMourot Fine Art, 7 p.m. 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-944-7028. www.hrc.org/littlerockcommunityreception.
CAMPS
Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre’s The Groundlings Company. Camp for ages 10-18. Students receive training from AST’s professional company of actors and teaching artists. Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, June 11-22, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., $400. 20919 Denny Road. Crazy Mosaic Session 1. For ages 8 and up. Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios, June 11-15, 1-3:30 p.m. 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. theatre2.org. The Quest Session 1. For ages 5-7. Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios, June 11-15, 9-11:30 a.m., $80. 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. theatre2.org. The Youth Theatre of Central Arkansas. For students in grades 3-12. University of Central Arkansas, Snow Fine Arts Center Recital Hall, through July 13: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., $275-$300. 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. 501-450-5092. www. uca.edu/theatre. Youth Oil Painting. For ages 10 and up. Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios, June 11-15, 9-11:30 a.m., $80. 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. theatre2.org.
CLASSES
Children’s Pottery Class. Ages 6-12. Claytime Pottery Studio, June 11-15, 10 a.m.; July 23-27, 10 a.m., $150. 417 Main St. 501-374-3515. Finding Family Facts. Rhonda Stewart’s genealogy research class for beginners. Arkansas Studies Institute, second Monday of every month, 3:30 p.m. 401 President Clinton Ave. 501-320-5700. www.butlercenter.org. Summer Museum School. See June 6. Thea summer art classes. See June 6.
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Children’s Pottery Class. Ages 6-12. Claytime Pottery Studio, through June 15, 10 a.m.; through July 27, 10 a.m., $150. 417 Main St. 501-374-3515.
AFTER DARK, CONT. Summer Museum School. See June 6. Thea summer art classes. See June 6.
KIDS
Junior Arts Academy. For ages 6-9. Arkansas Arts Center. 501 E. 9th St. 501-372-4000. www. arkarts.com.
“Voluntary Simplicity.” Discussion course hosted by the Ecumenical Buddhist Society of Little Rock. Ecumenical Buddhist Society, June 12, 7:15 p.m.; June 19, 7:15 p.m.; June 26, 7:15 p.m.; July 10, 7:15 p.m.; July 17, 7:15 p.m.; July 24, 7:15 p.m., $35. 1015 W. 2nd St. 501-376-7056. arkansasearth.org/2011/voluntary-simplicity.
TUESDAY, JUNE 12
FILM
MUSIC
Big Silver. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com. Brian & Nick. Cajun’s Wharf, 5 p.m., $5 cover after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-3755351. www.cajunswharf.com. Brian Martin. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. Hot Springs Music Festival XVII. See June 6. Jeff Long. Khalil’s Pub, 6 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, June 12-13, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom. com. Lucious Spiller Band. Copeland’s, 6-9 p.m. 2602 S. Shackleford Road. 501-312-1616. www.copelandsofneworleans.com. Ricky David Tripp. Ferneau, 5:30 p.m. 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-603-9208. www.ferneaurestaurant.com. Ron Pope, Josiah Leming. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $10. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com. Top of the Rock Chorus rehearsal. Cornerstone Bible Fellowship Church, 7-10 p.m. 7351 Warden Road, Sherwood. 501-231-1119. www. topoftherockchorus.org. Tuesday Jam Session with Carl Mouton. The Afterthought, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.
DANCE
“Latin Night.” Revolution, 7 p.m., $5 regular, $7 under 21. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-8230090. www.revroom.com.
EVENTS
Arkansas Foodbank Summer Feeding Sites. See June 11. Little Rock Farmers’ Market. River Market Pavilions, through Oct. 27: 7 a.m.-3 p.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 501-375-2552. rivermarket.info. Tales from the South. Authors tell true stories; schedule available on website. Dinner served 5-6:30 p.m., show at 7 p.m. Call for reservations. Starving Artist Cafe, 5 p.m. 411 N. Main St., NLR. 501-372-7976. www.starvingartistcafe.net. Trivia Bowl. Flying Saucer, 8:30 p.m. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-8032. www. beerknurd.com/stores/littlerock.
“The Seven Year Itch.” Market Street Cinema, 7 p.m., $5. 1521 Merrill Drive. 501-312-8900. www.marketstreetcinema.net.
end every August to recharge their relationships. Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, through June 6: Tue.-Sat., 6 p.m.; Wed., 11 a.m., $15-$33. 6323 Col. Glenn Road. 501-562-3131. murrysdinnerplayhouse.com. “Spring Awakening.” Tony Award-winning musical adapted from Frank Wedekind’s 1891 expressionist play about the trials, tears and exhilaration of the teen-age years. The Weekend Theater, through July 1: Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 2:30 p.m., $16-$20. 1001 W. 7th St. 501-374-3761. www.weekendtheater.org.
CAMPS
GALLERIES, MUSEUMS
Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre’s The Groundlings Company. See June 11. Crazy Mosaic Session 1. For ages 8 and up. Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios, through June 15, 1-3:30 p.m. 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. theatre2.org. The Quest Session 1. For ages 5-7. Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios, through June 15, 9-11:30 a.m., $80. 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. theatre2.org. The Youth Theatre of Central Arkansas. For students in grades 3-12. University of Central Arkansas, Snow Fine Arts Center Recital Hall, through July 13: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., $275-$300. 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. 501-450-5092. www. uca.edu/theatre. Youth Oil Painting. For ages 10 and up. Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios, through June 15, 9-11:30 a.m., $80. 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. theatre2.org.
CLASSES
Children’s Pottery Class. Ages 6-12. Claytime Pottery Studio, through June 15, 10 a.m.; through July 27, 10 a.m., $150. 417 Main St., NLR. 501-374-3515. Summer Museum School. See June 6. Thea summer art classes. See June 6.
THIS WEEK IN THEATER
Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre: “Big River.” Musical based on Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA, Fri., June 8, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., June 10, 1 p.m.; Thu., June 14, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., June 17, 1 p.m.; Sat., June 23, 1 p.m.; Sun., June 24, 1 p.m.; Wed., June 27, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., June 29, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., June 30, 7:30 p.m. 350 S. Donaghey, Conway. Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre: “Twelfth Night.” Hendrix College, Thu., June 7, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., June 9, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., June 10, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., June 15, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., June 17, 7:30 p.m. 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. www.hendrix.edu. “The Dixie Swim Club.” Five Southern women, whose friendship began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long week-
NEW EXHIBITS, ART EVENTS
BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute: “Pattern in Perspective: Recent Work by Carly Dahl and Dustyn Bork,” reception 5-8 p.m. June 8, 2nd Friday Art Night; “Arkansas Art Educators State Youth Art Show 2012,” through July 28; “Small Town: Portraits of a Disappearing America,” through Aug. 25; “Making a Place: The Jewish Experience in Arkansas,” through June 23. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 320-5790. CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 509 Scott St.: “Art Musings,” work by clients of the Creative Expressions program of the Arkansas State Hospital, through July 3, reception 5-8 p.m. June 8, 2nd Friday Art Night. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 8 a.m.-noon Sun. DESIGN INSPIRATIONS, 300 River Market Ave.: Clothing, jewelry, art, open 5-8 p.m. June 8, 2nd Friday Art Night. 372-7467. GALLERY 221, 221 W. 2nd St.: “Impressions and Reflections,” work by Jennifer Cox Coleman, Catherine Rodgers, Larry Hare, Cynthia Ragan and others. Open 5-8 p.m. June 8, Second Friday Art Night. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 801-0211. THE GREEN CORNER STORE, 1423 Main St.: Postcard art by George Wittenberg, 5-8 p.m. June 8, 2nd Friday Art Night. 374-1111. HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “Montage 24,” 24 artists with the gallery for 24 years, open 5-8 p.m. June 8, 2nd Friday Art Night. 372-6822. HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM, 200 E. Third St.: “A Collective Vision,” recent acquisitions, reception 5-8 p.m. June 8, 2nd Friday Art Night; “Creating the Elements of Discovery: Tim Imhauser, Jason Powers and Emily Wood,” sculpture, drawings and paintings, through Aug. 5, “Doug Stowe: The Making of My Small Cabinets,” through July 8. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351. LOCAL COLOUR, 5811a Kavanaugh Blvd.: Robin Parker, featured artist for June. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 265-0422. OLD STATE HOUSE MUSEUM, 300 W. Markham: “Battle Colors of Arkansas,” 18 civil
war flags; “Things You Need to Hear: Memories of Growing up in Arkansas from 1890 to 1980,” oral histories about community, family, work, school and leisure. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. Open 5-8 p.m. June 8, 2nd Friday Art Night. 324-9685. STUDIOMAIN, 1423 S. Main St.: “Main Street Studio Student Competition,” visitors get to vote on student designs for Main Street, 5-8 p.m. June 8, 2nd Friday Art Night. info@ studio-main.org. THEA FOUNDATION, 401 Main St., NLR: Jacksonville Lighthouse Academy fine arts exhibition and auction, opens with reception 6-8 p.m. June 7, with performance by Jacksonville Lighthouse choir, show through June 13. 9 a.m.noon, 1-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 379-9512. FAYETTEVILLE 2012 E. PROSPECT ST.: One day show of work by Stewart Bremner, Megan Chapman, Jennifer Libby Fay, Craig Colorusso and others, 5-8 p.m. June 7. UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: “Scarcity,” ceramics by Shih Hwa Lee, Fine Arts Center hallway cases, reception 4:30-6 p.m. June 7, show through June 11. 479-273-5305.
CONTINUING EXHIBITS
ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “The Rockefeller Influence,” 57 works donated or loaned by the Rockefeller family, through Aug. 19; “11th National Drawing Invitational: New York, Singular Drawings,” through Sept. 9, curated by Charlotta Kotik; “Still Lifes of Daniel Massad,” through June 10; “The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft,” through Aug. 5; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000.
ONGOING MUSEUM EXHIBITS
CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER, 1200 President Clinton Ave.: “Play Ball! The St. Louis Cardinals,” memorabilia, including World Series trophies, rings and Stan Musial’s uniform, through Sept. 16; permanent exhibits about policies and White House life during the Clinton administration. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $7 adults; $5 college students, seniors, retired military; $3 ages 6-17. 370-8000. MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, Ninth and Broadway: “Creativity Arkansas Collection,” works by black Arkansas artists; permanent exhibits on African-American entrepreneurial history in Arkansas. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 683—3593. More gallery and museum listings at www.arktimes.com.
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JUNE 8-9
FIRING UP: “Prometheus” is director Ridley Scott’s first sci-fi outing since “Blade Runner.” So will it be mentioned in the same breath as that film and Scott’s classic “Alien” (which “Prometheus” is supposed to be related to somehow) or is it another “1492: Conquest of Paradise”? Market Street Cinema times at or after 9 p.m. are for Friday and Saturday only. Rave showtimes are valid for Friday and Saturday only. Breckenridge, Chenal 9 and Lakewood 8 showings were not available as of press deadline. Find up-to-date listings at arktimes.com. NEW MOVIES First Position (NR) – Doc follows budding young ballet dancers who compete at the prestigious Youth America Grand Prix. Market Street: 2:00, 4:20, 7:15, 9:15. Headhunters (R) – Norwegian thriller about an art thief who becomes a hunted man. Market Street: 1:45, 4:00, 6:45, 9:00. Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) – The Dreamworks franchise rolls on, with Chris Rock, Ben Stiller and other people who make stupid amounts of money as talking animals. Rave: 9:40 a.m., 10:15, 12:15, 12:40, 2:10, 2:45, 3:15, 5:01, 7:15, 7:45, 10:15 (2D), 10:45 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:25, 4:00, 4:45, 6:30, 9:00, 9:40, 11:30 (3D). Riverdale: 8:25 a.m., 10:40 a.m., 12:55, 3:05, 5:20, 7:25, 9:40. Prometheus (R) – Shiny sci-fi from Ridley Scott. Rave: 10:30 a.m., 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30, midnight (2D), 9:45 a.m., 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 (3D), 11:15 a.m., 2:15, 5:15, 8:15, 11:15 (3D Xtreme). Riverdale: 8:10 a.m., 10:50 a.m., 1:30, 4:15, 6:55, 9:35. Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview (NR) – A 1995 interview – long thought to be lost – with the Apple visionary. Market Street: 2:15, 7:00. RETURNING THIS WEEK 21 Jump Street (R) – Buddy cop comedy starring Jonah Hill and former male stripper Channing Tatum. Movies 10: noon, 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05. Avengers (PG-13) – Based on the Marvel Comics superhero series. Rave: 9:35 a.m., 12:55, 4:05, 7:25, 10:50 (2D), 10:25 a.m., 1:50, 5:05, 8:25, 11:50 (3D). Riverdale: 8:00 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 2:50, 6:15, 9:45. Battleship (PG-13) – Action adventure film starring Rihanna, whose Battleship many people would no doubt like to sink. Rave: 11:20 a.m., 2:30, 5:30 8:35, 11:35. Bernie (PG-13) – Based on a murder in smalltown Texas, starring Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey and Richard Linklater. Market Street: 2:00, 4:15, 7:00, 9:15. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) –
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British senior citizens go to India and learn about poor people and that it’s OK to eat weird stuff and it’s all very heartwarming. Rave: 10:20 a.m., 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20. Chernobyl Diaries (R) – Some terror happens to attractive young people at the site of the Chernobyl disaster, from the director of “Paranormal Activity.” Rave: 10:25 p.m. Crooked Arrows (R) – Lacrosse version of “Hoosiers” set on an Indian reservation. Riverdale: 8:05 a.m., 10:25, 12:45, 3:05, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10. Dark Shadows (PG-13) – Kinda like Dracula goes to “Austin Powers,” starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, directed by Tim Burton. Nah, baby. Riverdale: 8:20 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 1:35, 4:05, 6:35, 9:05. The Dictator (R) – Sacha Baron Cohen is a dictator from a fictional foreign country and he has a funny accent and so forth. Rave: 5:35, 7:50. Riverdale: 8:15 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:40, 3:50, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10. For Greater Glory (R) – Andy Garcia is a retired general who leads a ragtag bunch of Catholic soldiers in a fight against the totalitarian Mexican government of the late 1920s. Rave: 10:35 a.m. Riverdale: 8:30 a.m., 11:50, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30. The Hunter (R) – Willem Dafoe is a bounty hunter seeking a rare Tasmanian tiger. Rave: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15. John Carter (PG-13) – “Braveheart” goes to Avatarnia, based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. Movies 10: 1:00, 4:05, 7:00, 9:50. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) – When you were watching “Land of the Lost,” did you find yourself wishing they’d cast The Rock instead of Will Farrell? Well, here you go. Movies 10: 12:25, 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55. The Lorax (PG) – A 3D CGI adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ classic tale. Movies 10: 12:30, 2:35, 4:45, 7:05, 9:25. The Lucky One (PG-13) – Zac Efron as an Iraq war vet who becomes infatuated with a stranger. Movies 10: 12:35, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:15. Men in Black 3 (PG-13) – This go-round, they’ve got to travel backwards in time or something. Rave: 10:50 a.m., 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 (2D), 11: 50 a.m., 2:35, 5:25, 8:10, 10:55 (3D). Riverdale: 8:10 a.m., 10:25 a.m., 12:40, 2:55, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05. Mirror Mirror (PG) – Retelling of “Snow White”
with Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen. Movies 10: 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10. Safe (R) – Another 90 minutes or so of Jason Stratham kicking ass and stuff. Something about a safe in this one? Yeah, that sounds right. Movies 10: 12:15, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:45. Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) – Dark and foreboding Snow White reboot No. 2 for the year, this time with Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron. Rave: 9:50 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 11:45, 12:50, 2:00, 2:40, 3:50, 5:00, 5:45, 7:00, 8:00, 8:45, 10:00, 11:00, 11:45. Riverdale: 8:20 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55. Sound of My Voice (R) – Two investigative journalists infiltrate a religious cult and wind up getting sucked into the secretive group. Market Street: 4:25, 9:00. Think Like a Man (PG-13) – Based on Steve Harvey’s best-selling book. Rave: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40. Riverdale: 8:10 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00. The Three Stooges (PG) – Yup, starring three guys you’ve never heard of. Movies 10: 12:10, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:35. Titanic 3D (PG-13) – Cameron’s really rubbing our noses in it this time, huh? Just wait ’til they come out with 4D. You’ll be able to smell Leo’s greasy locks. Movies 10: 12:05, 4:00, 8:00. What to Expect When You’re Expecting (PG13) – Film mines bestselling pregnancy book for attempt at comedy. If that’s what you were expecting, you were right. Rave: 10:35 a.m., 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35. Wrath of the Titans (PG-13) – A.k.a., “Is this a movie or a really long ad for a video game?” Starring Liam Neeson as Zeus, because duh. Movies 10: 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00. Chenal 9 IMAX Theatre: 17825 Chenal Parkway, 821-2616, www.dtmovies.com. Cinemark Movies 10: 4188 E. McCain Blvd., 945-7400, www.cinemark.com. Cinematown Riverdale 10: Riverdale Shopping Center, 296-9955, www.riverdale10.com. Lakewood 8: 2939 Lakewood Village Drive, 7585354, www.fandango.com. Market Street Cinema: 1521 Merrill Drive, 312-8900, www.marketstreetcinema.net. Rave Colonel Glenn 18: 18 Colonel Glenn Plaza, 687-0499, www.ravemotionpictures.com. Regal Breckenridge Village 12: 1-430 and Rodney Parham, 224-0990, www.fandango.com.
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Little Rock Film Festival recap On the winners and other favorites.
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fter winning at Sundance and Cannes, “Beasts of the Southern Wild” seemed like a lock for the $10,000 Oxford American Best of the South prize, not officially the top prize at the Little Rock Film Festival — which “Beasts” won — but the only one with a cash prize. In the upset bid for the bigmoney OA prize: Martha Stephens’ “Pilgrim Song,” which Cheree Franco called “contemplative, graceful and sparse” in our preview of the festival. Stephens raised $8,440 via the crowd-funding site Indiegogo to fund the project, an amount that she told the Times represented about half of her budget. At that rate, she’s more than halfway finished funding her next project thanks to the prize. Stephens told the Times’ Kim Lane that she made the movie — about a middle school teacher who decides to hike the Sheltowee Trace Trail after he’s laid off — because she wanted to showcase the natural beauty of her home state of Kentucky. “You see so many movies that look at Appalachia as a disgusting, druginfested, impoverished place, and a lot of the stereotypes exist for a reason. We have all of that. But also, there are some nooks and crannies that are absolutely breathtaking. I wanted to make a movie about a guy hiking through that area.” The complete list of winners: Arkansas Times Audience Award: “Wolf”; World Shorts: “The God Phone”; Best Youth Film: “Colors in White”; Made in
Arkansas Best Performance: Samuel Pettit in “Cain and Abel”; Made in Arkansas Best Director: Edmund Prince (Imraan Ismail) for “Shattered”; Charles B. Pierce Award for Best Arkansas Film: “Man in the Moon”; Golden Rock for Best Documentary: “High Tech, Low Life”; Golden Rock for Best Narrative Film: “Beasts of the Southern Wild” and Oxford American Prize for Best Southern Film: “Pilgrim’s Song.” More on those and other favorites (read our complete coverage of the festival at arktimes.com/lrff2012):
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The award-winning darling of both Sundance and Cannes, “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” is a dense, ambitious epic, set in a swampy downtrodden utopia known as The Bathtub and starring 6-yearold Quvenzhane “Nazie” Wallis as Hushpuppy, a half-feral bayou child. She’s confident, intuitive and absolutely convincing. The other standout is the art direction, which manages superb tasks on a budget of under $2 million (some of which is a grant from the Sundance Institute). A stand-in for the Ninth Ward and other invisible, institutionally disenfranchised communities, The Bathtub is populated by crocodiles, overgrown fish, goats, chickens, mutts, drunks, a shaman and children. Everyone lives on his or her own terms. Freedom is what matters, tiny things are marvelous, and life is rowdy. CONTINUED ON PAGE 30 www.arktimes.com
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MOVIE REVIEW, CONT. But beyond The Bathtub there’s global warming and rising sea levels, and as Hushpuppy repeatedly reminds us, the whole universe is connected. A legendary storm comes. It kills the animals, and The Bathtub is underwater. Afterwards, those who didn’t leave for life beyond the levee (where fish are trapped in plastic and babies are trapped in carriages) must live together in boats and a floating schoolhouse shack. They must learn to survive — especially Hushpuppy, because her mama ran off and her daddy is dying of some mysterious blood ailment. Many films celebrate or portray life on the fringes, but this film pushes those fringes to mythical proportions. These people are utterly isolated, and yet, they are never alone. They have the whole universe. They have universes within the universe. They have their own gypsyrefuse Mardi Gras whenever they feel like it. They have occasional contact with other fringe-dwellers, in fantastic places such as floating saloons, where a goddess-cumwaitress, who might just be your longlost mama, fries up the best alligator you ever tasted and then dances with you all night long. They have fireworks and armwrestling and, always, plenty of beer and moonshine. It’s eerie and gorgeous. It’s the squatters’ New Orleans, the pirated, hobo underbelly of the tourist city. It’s prehistoric art on cardboard caves and made-for-TV Viking lore. Like the best fairy tales, “Beasts of the Southern Wild” is both familiar and disconcerting. The film takes some effort to absorb. Its strength is in impressions, but these impressions are layered, and the scenes are laden with archetype and narrative. Combined with the emotional score, it all became a poetic wash, catapulting your psyche in a hundred unbidden directions at once and dredging up “everything that made me,” to quote Hushpuppy. This is what I most appreciated about the film, but it’s also what I found problematic. At times, it all seemed a little self-conscious. Sometimes you’re more aware of the artiness, craft and ambition than you are engaged by the characters and their lives. —Cheree Franco Of all the famous Arkansas musicians you can name, it’s all right if you’re not familiar with avant-garde composer Conlon Nancarrow. Dr. James Greeson, writer and director of the new documentary “Conlon Nancarrow: Virtuoso of the Player Piano,” didn’t know Nancarrow was from Arkansas until after he started professing music up in Fayetteville. Greeson grew fascinated with Nancarrow’s strange and groundbreaking compositions, and embarked on an extensively researched documentary detailing Nancarrow’s life. The result is a largely educational but overall fascinating 30
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portrait of a musical genius who grew up in Texarkana. Okay, so the title is a little unwieldy. But it requires a double-take: How does one exactly become a “virtuoso” of an instrument that plays itself? Greeson’s film begins with a reminder of how prevalent the player piano was in family living rooms in the days before radio and television. Nancarrow himself grew up with one but its prominence wouldn’t feature in his life until much later. In a thrilling turn of events, Nancarrow, one of those mustachioed bohemian intelligentsia Communists of the 1930s, left the U.S. to fight against Franco in the Spanish Civil War, where, after the defeat of the Spanish Republican Army, he was retained in a concentration camp, and permitted to leave only because he was American. He also lived in New York and befriended titans of composition like John Cage and Aaron Copland. In 1949, one of his pieces was choreographed by the legendary Merce Cunningham. Frustrated with trying to stage his experimental pieces with unreliable musicians, Nancarrow eventually turned to the player piano, in essence, as a mechanical orchestra. It’s this realization that comes across brilliantly in the documentary: Nancarrow’s gift was for using a piano not as one but several instruments. One music scholar and biographer admits that the composer’s player pianos had shellac or tin on the hammers, so their sound was crisp, jarring, decisive. In what feels like a bold move for the non-avant garde friendly, Greeson features several long clips of Nancarrow’s most noteworthy compositions, including the entrancing and maniacal-sounding “Canon X.” Nancarrow spent much of his later life in Mexico City, where he emigrated after passport complications in the McCarthy era. He continued to compose there, punching those little holes in the rolls
of paper for his pieces. It wasn’t until he was in his 70s that he earned a MacArthur genius grant and toured the world holding performances of his work. The documentary does have a little structural trouble, jumping around in chronology in a fairly befuddling way, but the expert interviews, archival footage, and deconstruction of Nancarrow’s pieces are informative and user-friendly. It was impressive how a music professor managed to express, through a series of accessible visuals, how complex and significant Nancarrow’s innovations were. What makes a subject like Nancarrow worthy of a documentary is the sheer visual impact of seeing his pieces performed on the player pianos — there are times when the keys are compressing so quickly they look exactly like rippling water. If you’re an appreciator of old-school New York avant garde, a music theory nut, or simply interested in an obscure and provocative Arkansan, “Conlon Nancarrow” is a thorough and engaging biography. —Natalie Elliott “Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story” is a film that ought to be distributed in the public schools as a gripping lesson in racism. The film encapsulates black-white relations in the South with the story of just one brave black man, Booker Wright, but is multi-layered, a film about a film and its repercussions, in the past and today. Raymond De Felitta’s documentary brings to light a film his father, Frank De Felitta, made for NBC in 1966 (they don’t make them like they used to: Imagine an hour-long, prime-time documentary on a subject of similar controversy on NBC today) and then put away for 50 years. The older De Felitta, now in his 90s, went to Greenwood, Miss., to record the viewpoints on race. For “Mississippi: A Self Portrait,” De Felitta found lots of white people saying they loved their
negroes, like the old codger who took the crew through sharecropper cabins to show them how well his negroes lived. Hell, they had propane gas! “We’ve never denied them anything,” the man, Louis, says; the black man says, “Yes, suh!” But it is Booker Wright who is the heart of this story, a man who was a waiter at Lusco’s, a whites-only restaurant by night while running his own restaurant, Booker’s Place, by day. White people loved to hear Wright recite the menu at Lusco’s — it wasn’t written down and you didn’t know the price of anything until you were at the cash register after dinner — and suggested De Felitta get it on film, which he did. Wright, dressed in his waiter’s white suit, gave his spiel and then surprised the filmmaker by continuing to talk, giving a discourse on the way white people treated him at the restaurant. “Some people call me Booker, some call me John, some call me Jim and some call me nigger,” he said, and then explained how he was nice to all of them. The meaner the customer, he said, the more “you smile, even though you’re crying on the inside.” The waiter says that’s what he has to do, so his children can get an education and won’t have to smile at people who afford them no respect when they grow up. The elder De Felitta regrets he did not leave the interview out of “Mississippi: A Self Portrait,” even though what Booker said needed to be heard. After its national airing, Booker Wright lost his job, was beaten by police, his restaurant was burned. He was murdered seven years later by an African-American named “Blackie,” a man who appeared so selfconfident throughout his murder trial that it’s speculated he was encouraged to kill Wright and told, falsely, the trial would be fixed so he would get off. (He’s still in prison; authorities wouldn’t let Raymond De Felitta interview him.) Wright’s children don’t share De Felitta’s regrets. They say he was no “accidental activist.” Wright’s granddaughter, Yvette Johnson, had been looking for the NBC film for years when a friend told her it had just been posted to the Internet by De Felitta’s son. She got in touch with Raymond De Felitta and the new film was born. The younger De Felitta’s choice to make his film in black and white, as was his father’s, is pure mimesis, and provides continuity between the Mississippi of the 1960s and Mississippi in the 21st century. Best exemplifying the latter: Comments from a group in Greenwood who gathered to watch the NBC film. One man rises to say he considered the black woman who raised him as his second mother — who has not heard that in the South? His effusive remarks prompt a black man to rise and point out that that woman had to ignore her own family
MOVIE REVIEW, CONT. so she could take care of the whites she worked for. A woman comments that she loved the film because she got to see on film people she loved — including Booker, but also the town leaders at the time, closeted Klansmen who said integration would be unfair to “illiterate” black kids and that the “nigras” wanted segregation as much as they did. —Leslie Newell Peacock With an off balance washing machine in the opening scene providing a visual and auditory sensation of entering a simmering cauldron of psychosis, “Shattered” features a classic, stylized domesticity rendered to embody the film’s title. The carefully orchestrated cinematography, editing and sound effects combine for an unnerving, haunting experience. Describing the film as Lynchian seems appropriate. As the plot progresses, it becomes increasingly unclear whether the wife, husband, or both are at the heart of the madness. It would be a shame if writer and director Edmund Prince (Imraan Ismail) and cinematographer Gabe Mayhan didn’t collaborate further on future projects. —Jeremy Glover “Teddy Bear” opens with the brooding, hulking figure of Dennis (Kim Kold)
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standing in a bathroom and staring at himself in the mirror. He says nothing and his expression is a chiseled grimace, though his eyes are soft. The scene is one of many in which Dennis contemplates the mirror. This makes sense for a professional bodybuilder, which he is, age 38 and living at home in a Copenhagen suburb with his shrill, petite, obsessive mother. The mirror serves as both a refuge and a torment for Dennis — it’s as if he’s constantly trying to find himself in its thankless reflection. It turns out Dennis is on what appears to be one of many failed dates with a buxom blonde he met at the gym. He goes
home to his mother and lies about where he’s been. His relationship with women is established briskly: He reveres them, but he can’t emotionally access them. This is due, in part, to his overbearing matriarch, whose creepy jealousy and infantalizing of Dennis has ironically worn down this muscled behemoth of a man into a simpering coward. When, at a celebration dinner, Dennis sees the unbearable joy his wiry uncle Bent feels towards his new, questionably procured Thai wife, Aoi, Dennis is in awe and consumed with envy. After Bent assures him that Thai women are warmer and more friendly, Dennis naively
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travels to Pattaya, renowned for its salacious nightlife, to find a bride. Dennis’ depiction verges on a gentlegiant stereotype, the enormous, physically strong person as awkward, gullible, and easily dominated by others. But the sympathy is earned less through Dennis’ action than his inaction, his silence, his inability to react. Shots are composed around his bulky frame — seeing him standing over the showerhead in attempts to shampoo his hair, watching him dial a touch-tone telephone whose keys look like pinheads beneath his thick fingers. These are the images that earn pity. It’s the small things, including his tiny mother, that seem to overpower him. There must be something about Danish mothers — the infamous director Lars von Trier speaks often about his flawed relationship with his domineering mom — because there’s an implicit approval of these less-than-progressive female ideals throughout the film. Even Toi, the Thai woman who Dennis eventually meets, seems clueless at times, or mute, or unable to stand up for herself. This may be cultural, and this may be what makes her a good match for helpless Dennis. But these skewed and anti-feminist female portrayals weaken what is otherwise a plainly heartfelt, tender film. —Natalie Elliott
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W.T. (White Trash) Bubba’s, has opened at 500 President Clinton Ave., right under Boscos, where the old Underground Pub once was. It’s a theme bar, but only half in jest — with dark wood paneling, velvet Elvises, flatbed truck tables, toolboxes stocked with beer, frumpy old couches and a V.I.P. camper. Yep, it’s all about being Southern and being country, and our guess is, it’ll appeal to locals and tourists alike. It’s owned by five guys in the Air Force — Jason Fallis (co-owner of Cregeen’s), Josh Fulther, Brent Manbeck, Ron Powell and Paul Henke — and managed by Carla Wrackly, former manager of Willy D’s piano bar. The guys thought up the idea, appropriately, over beer and BBQ. “We were sitting around one day talking about what was lacking downtown, and we came up with a country bar,” Manbeck said. “The closest you have is Electric Cowboy, and that’s way out in Southwest Little Rock.” So W.T. Bubba’s was born. There will never be a cover, weekends will feature live music (mostly Southern rock and country), and the fixin’s will be cheap ($5-$10 a plate). In addition to lots of BBQ ribs and brisket, the menu will feature inhouse smoked sausages, smoked hot dogs, a smoked bologna sandwich and sloppy joes, which you can follow with such delicacies as banana pudding and Tang pie. Also on the menu: a build your own nachos bar. The owners are from various states, but they’ve all logged serious time in Arkansas. Manbeck was born and raised in Texas. When they started talking decor, he said, “We thought about what made us feel at home as little kids — stuff like that wood paneling, corrugated metal ...”. The eventual plan is to franchise W.T. Bubba’s and turn it (with its waitresses, the Bubbettes) into a national chain. There’s a full bar, credit cards are welcome and hours are 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to midnight Sunday. Phone number is 244-2528.
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65TH STREET DINER Blue collar, meatand-two-veg lunch spot with cheap desserts and a breakfast buffet. 3201 West 65th St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-5627800. BL Mon.-Fri. ACADIA A jewel of a restaurant in Hillcrest. Unbelievable fixed-price, three-course dinners on Mondays and Tuesday, but food is certainly worth full price. 3000 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, CC. $$-$$$. 501-603-9630. D Mon.-Sat.
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A NEW RESTAURANT AND BAR,
NEW NAME: Rocket Twenty One offers an affordable lunch.
Lunch at Twenty One Fletcher puts mark on what used to be Ferneau’s.
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onnie Ferneau is still the chef at the restaurant that until recently bore his name. The food is still good. But it’s a different place. Frank Fletcher — the auto dealer, hotelier, restaurateur, thoroughbred owner, seller of beaucoup lamps to Walmart, etc. — bought Ferneau in November. Around May 1, he changed the name to Rocket Twenty One in tribute to one of his best racehorses, though the “Rocket” is downplayed in the restaurant logo, and the restaurant likely will commonly come to be known as “Twenty One.” Cosmetic changes include a large aquarium and adjacent wine display cabinet that separate the now-larger bar area from the restaurant more distinctly than before. Fletcher also has instituted the same “early-bird special” deal he features at Benihana and Riverfront Steakhouse, the two restaurants in his Riverfront Wyndham hotel: Buy one entree and get one entree of equal or lower price free from 5:30-6:45 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. And lunch — which will be the focus of this review — has been added. Rocket Twenty One has a cool bistro feel with stylish, curved water glasses, soup bowls that sit at an angle and silverware with curved handles. Classic rock played unobtrusively during our first visit. Lunch is exceedingly affordable, particularly compared to typical Ferneau prices, with everything less than $10. Both times we were there tomato bisque was the soup
Rocket Twenty One 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd. Little Rock, AR 603-9208 QUICK BITE Frank Fletcher, who purchased Ferneau in November and changed its name last month, has instituted the same early-bird special deal he features at Benihana and Riverfront Steakhouse, the two restaurants in his Riverfront Wyndham hotel: Buy one entree and get one entree of equal or lower price free from 5:30-6:45 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. HOURS 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. TuesdayFriday, 5 p.m. to midnight Saturday. OTHER INFO Full bar; CC accepted
of the day ($4.50), and it’s a thick, chunky soup accented by a ribbon of balsamic vinegar — all in all hearty and satisfying. The apple and goat cheese salad ($7.95 and entree-sized) was amazing — mixed greens, julienned Granny Smith apples and chunks of very soft goat cheese accented perfectly with a creative salted caramel vinaigrette. We also spent a whopping $1 for a saucer full of homemade, crunchy, salty, addictive potato chips. We wanted more but had gotten the last order on a late-lunch visit. The fish tacos ($7.95) feature flavorful,
non-fishy slabs of fried pollock encased in grilled flour tortillas and topped with a jalapeno pineapple salsa that almost overwhelmed the fish in terms of taste and quantity. The chipotle mayo offered a bit of zing. The Rocket Burger ($6.95) was almost as tall as it was broad, cooked medium as ordered — the buttered, griddled bun a nice touch. It came cut in half, which made it more manageable. The accompanying shoestring fries were pretty standard for their type. As we entered for our second lunch visit we saw a departing friend who asked us if we, like him, had heard Fletcher on 103.7 the Buzz that morning touting a twofor-one entree lunch special that day. We hadn’t, and we’re guessing it was a onetime deal, but we were happy our timing was good. There were three of us, but we took advantage of the deal by ordering four entrees and paying for two: • Cuban Pork Sandwich ($7.95): a thicker, meatier-than-usual version with a good-sized stack of smoky ham sandwiched between layers of tender, shredded pork with Swiss cheese binding the whole melange between well-griddled bread — mustard and pickles providing flavor accents. • “Classic” Fettuccine Alfredo ($7.95 — add $3.95 for chicken or $4.50 for shrimp): Our buddy called this “elegantly simple” and indeed it was the “classic” version — creamy, with a nice parmesan zing and plenty of garlic, with just a few fresh spinach leaves tossed in for color. • Bowtie Cheddar Mac-n-Cheese ($6.75): Decent but not overly creamy (or cheesy) macaroni and cheese comes in an individual-sized casserole dish with a layer of nicely browned-until-crunchy layer of cheddar on top. • Shrimp and Grits with Tasso ($9.75): Six plump, medium-sized shrimp sat atop a large pile of creamy grits mingled with a few chunks of cooked tomato, all swimming in a fairly mild sauce. (We missed the ham; maybe it was hiding from us.) This was a wholly satisfying dish, though the sauce — like that on the alfredo and in the mac/cheese — could have used more kick. We can’t speak for dinner, but at lunch it seems Rocket Twenty One is shooting for the middle, and hitting the mark. And that please-the-masses approach makes sense. No big risks are being taken, but all dishes are well-executed, presentation is superb and the lunch experience is pleasant.
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BIG ORANGE: BURGERS SALADS SHAKES Gourmet burgers manufactured according to exacting specs and properly fried Kennebec potatoes are the big draw. 17809 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-821-1515. LD daily. BLACK ANGUS Charcoal-grilled burgers, hamburger steaks and steaks proper. 10907 N. Rodney Parham. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-228-7800. BLD Mon.-Sat. BOBBY’S CAFE Delicious, humungo burgers and tasty homemade deserts. 12230 MacArthur Drive. NLR. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-851-7888. BL Tue.-Fri., D Thu.-Fri. BOSCOS Along with sandwiches, burgers, steaks and big salads, they have entrees like black bean and goat cheese tamales, open hearth pizza ovens and muffalettas. 500 President Clinton Ave. Full bar, Beer, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-907-1881. LD daily. BUTCHER SHOP Large, fabulous cuts of prime beef, cooked to perfection. 10825 Hermitage Road. Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-312-2748. D daily. CAJUN’S WHARF The venerable seafood restaurant serves up great gumbo and oysters Bienville, and options such as fine steaks for the non-seafood eater. 2400 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-375-5351. D Mon.-Sat. CAPERS It’s never been better, with as good a wine list as any in the area, and a menu that covers a lot of ground — seafood, steaks, pasta — and does it all well. 4502 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-868-7600. LD Mon.-Sat. COAST CAFE A variety of salads, smoothies, sandwiches and pizzas, and there’s breakfast and coffee, too. 400 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-371-0164. BL Mon.-Sat. COPPER GRILL Comfort food, burgers and more sophisticated fare at this River Marketarea hotspot. 300 E. Third St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-375-3333. LD Mon.-Sat. DAVE’S PLACE A popular downtown soupand-sandwich stop at lunch draws a large and diverse crowd for the Friday night dinner. 201 Center St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-3723283. L Mon.-Fri., D Fri. DELICIOUS TEMPTATIONS Decadent breakfast and light lunch items that can be ordered in full or half orders to please any appetite or palate. 11220 Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-225-6893. BL daily. DIZZY’S GYPSY BISTRO Interesting bistro fare, served in massive portions at this River Market favorite. 200 River Market Ave. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-375-3500. LD Tue.-Sat. THE FADED ROSE The Cajun-inspired menu seldom disappoints. Steaks and soaked salads are legendary. 1615 Rebsamen Park Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-9734. LD daily. FRANKE’S CAFETERIA Plate lunch spot strong on salads and vegetables, and perfect fried chicken on Sundays. 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-2254487. LD daily. 400 W. Capitol Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-372-1919. L Mon.-Fri. FRONTIER DINER Nice selection of manfriendly breakfasts and lunch specials. 10424 Interstate 30. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-5656414. BL Mon.-Sat. FROSTOP Big and juicy burgers and great irregularly cut fries. 4131 JFK Blvd. NLR. No
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home-cooking joint for huge helpings of meat loaf and chicken-fried steak. 6 Collins Place. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-758-0903. BLD Tue.-Fri., BL Sat. MARKHAM STREET GRILL AND PUB The menu has something for everyone. Try the burgers, which are juicy, big and fine. 11321 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-2242010. LD daily. RED DOOR Fresh seafood, steaks, chops and sandwiches. 3701 Old Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-666-8482. BL Mon.-Fri. D daily. REDBONE’S Piquant Creole and Cajun food that’s among Little Rock’s best. The shrimp po-boy and duck and andouille gumbo are
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CHATZ CAFE ‘Cue and catfish joint that does heavy catering business. 8801 Colonel Glenn Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-562-4949. LD Mon.-Sat. CORKY’S RIBS & BBQ The pulled pork is extremely tender and juicy, and the sauce is sweet and tangy without a hint of heat. 12005 Westhaven Drive. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-954-7427. LD daily. 2947 Lakewood Village Drive. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-753-3737. LD daily, B Sat.-Sun. WHITE PIG INN Go for the sliced rather than chopped meats at this working-class barbecue cafe. 5231 E. Broadway. NLR. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-945-5551. LD Mon.-Fri., L Sat. WHOLE HOG CAFE The pulled pork shoulder is a classic, the back ribs are worthy of their many blue ribbons, and there’s a six-pack of sauces for all tastes. 516 Cantrell Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-664-5025. LD Mon.-Sat. 12111 W. Markham. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-907-6124. LD daily 150 E. Oak St. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-513-0600. LD Mon.-Sat., L Sun. 5107 Warden Road. NLR. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-753-9227.
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CAFE BOSSA NOVA A South American approach to sandwiches, salads and desserts, all quite good. 701 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-614-6682. LD Tue.-Sat., BR Sun. GEORGIA’S GYROS Good gyros, Greek salads and fragrant grilled pita bread highlight a large Mediterranean food selection. 2933 Lakewood Village Drive. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-753-5090. LD Mon.-Sat. HIBERNIA IRISH TAVERN Broad beverage menu, Irish and Southern food favorites and a crowd that likes to sing. 9700 N Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-246-4340. LAYLA’S Delicious Mediterranean fare. All meat is slaughtered according to Islamic dietary law. 9501 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-227-7272. LD daily (close 5 p.m. on Sun.). 612 Office Park Drive. Bryant. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-847-5455. LD Mon.-Sat. TAJ MAHAL Offers upscale versions of traditional dishes and an extensive menu. Dishes range on the spicy side. 1520 Market Street. Beer, All CC. $$$. (501) 881-4796. LD daily. THE TERRACE MEDITERRANEAN KITCHEN A broad selection of Mediterranean delights. 2200 Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-217-9393. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat. YA YA’S EURO BISTRO Best bet is lunch, where you can explore the menu through soup, salad or half a sandwich. 17711 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-821-1144. LD daily, BR Sun.
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DONA’S LITTLE ITALY A newcomer among Little Rock’s Italian entries and a worthy one. Great marinara. Everything is well-cooked and served in generous portions. 315 N. Bowman Road. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-225-6168. LD Tue.-Sun. GRAFFITI’S The casually chic and ever-popular Italian-flavored bistro avoids the rut with daily specials and careful menu tinkering. 7811 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-224-9079. D Mon.-Sat. RISTORANTE CAPEO Authentic cooking from the boot of Italy. They make their own mozzarella fresh daily. 425 Main St. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-376-3463. D Mon.-Sat. ROCKY’S PUB Rocking sandwiches and a fine selection of homemade Italian entrees, including as fine a lasagna as there is. 6909 JFK Blvd. NLR. Beer, Wine. $$. 501-833-1077. LD Mon.-Sat. ZAZA Wood-fired pizza, great gelato, call-your-own ingredient salads and other treats. 5600 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-661-9292. LD daily. 1050 Ellis Ave. Conway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-336-9292. BLD daily.
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BUMPY’S TEXMEX GRILL & CANTINA The menu includes Tex-Mex staples but also baby back ribs, fried fish and a grilled chicken salad. 400 N. Bowman Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-379-8327. LD daily. CANTINA LAREDO This is gourmet Mexican food. We can vouch for the enchilada Veracruz and the carne asada y huevos, both with tasty sauces and high quality ingredients perfectly cooked. 207 N. University. Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-280-0407. LD daily. JUANITA’S Menu includes a variety of combination entree choices plus creative salads and other dishes. 614 President Clinton Ave. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-372-1228. L Mon.-Fri., D Thu.-Sat. ROSALINDA RESTAURANT HONDURENO A Honduran cafe that specializes in pollo con frito tajada (fried chicken and fried plaintains). With breakfast, too. 3700 JFK Blvd. NLR. No alcohol, No CC. $-$$. 501-7715559. LD daily. SENOR TEQUILA Authentic dishes with great service and prices, and maybe the best margarita in town. 10300 N. Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-224-5505. LD daily 9847 Maumelle Blvd. NLR. 501-7584432. 34
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THe Hot Springs Music Festival
will take place June 3-16, 2012, and feature over 20 concerts and 250 free, open rehearsals. For more information or to purchase tickets, call (501) 623-4763 or visit www.hotmusic.org.
JUNE 9
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Root Root Root for the Home Team
All home games are played at Dickey Stephens Park in North Little Rock.
June 14-16 vs. Tulsa Drillers, 7:10 p.m. June 17 vs. Tulsa Drillers, 6 p.m. June 18-21 vs. Springfield Cardinals 7:10 p.m. June 29-30 vs. Midland RockHounds 7:10 p.m.
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Arkansas Travelers Home Games
JUNE 7-JULY 1
This season the Conway-based Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre will present the Bard’s Twelth Night, Richard III and The Tempest as well as the Tony Award-winning musical, Big River adapted from Mark Twain’s classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with music and lyrics by Roger Miller. Performances will be held at Reynolds Performance Hall on the UCA campus, the Village at Hendrix and Wildwood Park for the Arts in Little Rock. Visit www.arkshakes.com for ticket prices and show times.
JUNE 9
Don’t forget the 2nd Saturday Sale at Dreamweavers, June 9 from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. The best part is they’ve now extended their sale to include second Fridays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. as well. Find the best in rugs, pillows, throws and mirrors at wholesale prices. They just received a new shipment of mirrors so there’s sure to be something for everyone. The outlet store is located at 1201 S. Spring St.
JUNE 9-10
Hoop Jams is a two-day event
The Delta Cultural Center located on historic Cherry Street in Helena-West Helena hosts its annual Mother’s Best Music Fest. Enjoy music by the Kenny Neal Band, Tony Joe White, Jimbo Mathus, the Sarah Hughes Band, Blue Mother Tupelo, the Sterling Billingsley Band and Tyrannosaurus Chicken. For more information, visit www.deltaculturalcenter.com.
JUNE 11
Join the LGBT community
of Little Rock and Chad Griffin, a native
Arkansan and the new President of the Human Rights Campaign for an evening of great conversation, hors d’oeuvres and wine at 7 p.m. at Boswell Mourot Fine Art located at 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd.
featuring a premiere statewide threeon-three basketball tournament on the grounds of the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock. It will be a fun and family-friendly event. Teams must pay registration fees. The event is free for spectators. For more information, visit www.hoopjamslr.com.
JUNE 13
Closing out the Arkansas Rep’s season is a very special treat by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Picnic and Bus Stop. A Loss of Roses, a little-known William Inge masterpiece, bravely tells the story of two women struggling to make their lives bearable in a small Kansas town. Preview performances are Wednesday, June 13 and Thursday, June 14 at 7 p.m. Opening night is Friday, June 15 at 8 p.m. and includes a post-show reception with the cast. Complementary champagne and light hors d’oeuvres will be served. For tickets, visit www.therep.org or call 501-378-0405.
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Grammy Award-winning country pop trio Lady Antebellum plays North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena on Wednesday, June 27 at 7 p.m. Special guests Darius Rucker and Thompson Square will also perform. Tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster at www.ticketmaster.com and are $35.50, $53.00 and $84.50. For more information, visit www.verizonarena.com.
The Promenade at Chenal and the Arkansas Travelers baseball team are asking you to tell us “Why is Your Dad Rad?”. Beginning June 1, submit at www. chenalshopping.com/contest and tell what makes your Dad so Rad to get entered to WIN a great package of goodies for Dad from The Promenade at Chenal. Plus, take Dad to a game of baseball at Dickey-Stephens field on Father’s Day, June 17, where you and Dad get to throw the games first pitch! Join The Promenade at Chenal on June 15, from 10:30AM-Noon for an Arkansas Traveler’s team baseball signing, games and we’ll announce the Dad’s Rad Winner! Sponsored by Crain Ford. For contest details go to ChenalShopping.com and look under the Events tab. http://www.chenalshopping.com/ events/the-promenade-at-chenal-2012-events/
JUNE 22-SEPT 9
Funny man and accomplished banjo picker Steve Martin comes to Robinson Auditorium on June 20 at 7 p.m. bringing an evening of bluegrass and comedy. Martin and his bluegrass band The Steep Canyon Rangers are touring behind their album, “Rare Bird Alert,” which they released last year to much acclaim. Tickets are $65-$95 and are on sale at ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster outlets or by phone at 800-745-3000.
JUNE 27
June 15
The Arkansas Art Center presents “Tattoo
Witness: Photographs by Mark Perrott,” featuring large-scale black-and-white photographs documenting 25 years of tattoo culture. In these stark potraits of both the tattoos and their owners, photographer Mark Perrott investigates the very personal and public nature of tattoos. For more information, visit www.arkarts.com. Arkansas Times presents an AfterParty at 7th Street Tattoos featuring Scott Diffee of Go Fast on June 21 - from 8 until...
Don’t miss the shops and galleries that are open late for Hillcrest’s Shop & Sip, JUNE 7; 2nd Friday Art Night, JUNE 8; Argenta Art Walk, JUNE 15; Heights Happy Hour, JUNE 21.
JUNE 26-JULY 22
One of Broadway’s most enduring and successful romantic comedies, Barefoot in the Park, opens at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse. This Neil Simon hit sparkles with charming characters who find joy amid inspired lunacy. For show times and prices, visit www.murrysdinnerplayhouse.com. Call 501-562-3131 for reservations.
Boswell Mourot Fine Art takes first steps to open gallery in Berlin
Boswell Mourot Fine Art is expanding into Berlin, according to owner Kyle Boswell. He says that artist Hans Feyerabend will be the first to participate in an exchange program with Temporary Gallery Berlin owned by Andrea Amelung. “Andrea will send one or two of her own artists to Little Rock,” Boswell said, adding that an Arkansas artist will be the next to go to Berlin. The exchange is the first step toward establishing a Boswell Mourot gallery in Berlin. “I’m hoping by late 2013 or early 2014, we will be open there.”
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hearsay ➥ The DREAMWEAVERS 2nd Saturday Sale has expanded to include Friday, as well. Be sure to check out the June event — they just got in 300 mirrors that are priced at half off retail. Of course they always have the rugs, too! Friday hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday hours are 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. ➥ The newest addition to the PROMENADE AT CHENAL is APRICOT LANE BOUTIQUE, which opened June 1. The store, located on The Promenade Main Street, is more than 1,600 square feet and is another one-of-a-kind addition to Arkansas, offering celebrityinspired branded women’s apparel, affordable fashion, jewelry, handbags and accessories in the styles and trends shoppers crave. In-store brands include Rock Revival, Miss Me, MEK, 7 For All Mankind, Yellow Box Shoes, Lucky Brand Jeans, Steve Madden Shoes, Humanity and many more. In addition to fashion apparel and accessories, customers can also shop for bath, body and spa, home and wall décor. ➥ The ninth annual TOUR DE ROCK will be from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 9 at the Burns Park Soccer Complex in North Little Rock. This fundraiser for CARTI is a premier cycling event that promises fun for everyone. Events include the 10-mile Family Fun Ride and the Advanced Ride, which has 30-, 50-, 62- and 100-mile courses. Registration is $35. For more information, visit www.carti.com. ➥ Also scheduled for June 9 is SWAPNISTA, a fashion swap party where attendees bring two to three gently used items of clothing, accessories or perfume to trade. The event will be at KORTO MOMOLU, 319 President Clinton Ave., with registration beginning at 5 p.m. Little Rock fashion bloggers will hit the runway at 6 p.m. , and the swap room opens at 7. Admission is $15 plus fees; for more information, visit swapnista.com. ➥ Bell House at Mount Holly Cemetery will be the setting for the Downtown Dames’ MOUNT HOLLY GARDEN SERIES event, which begins at 9 a.m. June 16. Admission is free, but a $5 donation is suggested. For more information, call 375-7794. ➥ THE REP recently announced its 2012-13 season, which celebrates the spirit of adventure with a mix of Shakespeare (“Henry V”), movie classics brought to the stage (“White Christmas”) and Broadway hits (“Death of a Salesman”, “Avenue Q”). For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.therep.org. 36
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emorial Day has come and gone, which means summer is officially underway with all of its attendant delights: barbecues, pool parties, days on the lake. The down side is, of course, you can’t hide under layers of clothing, so many of us are in a quandary — you don’t want to bare blindingly white skin, but you don’t want to look like Tan Mom, either. So what are you going to do? There are many options for getting that sun-kissed look, each with its own set of problems: you could get a tan the old-fashioned way, either through lying out in the sun or in a tanning bed, but the possibility of getting skin cancer isn’t pretty. There are also self-tanners, but if you’re not an expert at applying it, you could end up a streaky, orange mess. Fortunately, there’s another option out there: airbrush tanning. Up until about a decade or so ago, when someone said “airbrush,” it called to mind those T-shirts sold at the fair or the mall emblazoned with pictures of sunsets or unicorns. But the beauty industry has adopted this technology for both makeup and tanning, with good results. We recruited one of the Times staffers, known for her pale complexion and blonde hair, to be our airbrush tan guinea pig. We sent her out to Island Tan in Sherwood, which is owned by Lisa Garrett. Here’s the staffer’s experience, in her own words: “For years I’ve wanted to try professional spray [airbrush] tanning, but since I’m so white (as in I can’t even get any tan lines), I was afraid I’d be too dark, with a big, white head. But I have a Colorado trip planned and I know I’ll be in shorts and very active — hiking and biking — so I thought, ‘what the heck,’ I’ll give it a test drive. “Several devoted spray tanners gave me some pretty good tips — precautions such as coating palms, cuticles,
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the bottom of feet and toes with lotion; wearing a shower cap; having really old clothes to wear afterwards and even using old sheets on the bed so as not to have any residue come off during sleep. I made a Friday afternoon appointment, packed my bag and felt completely prepared. “At Island Tan, Lisa the owner had everything completely taken care of — she had lotion, a hair cap and all the precaution information necessary. She’s obviously a pro in the know. “Granted, it’s beyond weird standing basically naked on a low podium in front of someone, but you get used to it. The entire process took maybe 30 minutes, which includes the after period of waiting before getting dressed. My skin felt a little sticky, but in 30 more minutes that feeling was gone. And the tan looked great. My instructions were that I could take a shower in an hour! I thought I had to wait until the next day! What a relief — in about two hours I took a bath, slathered on the lotion, got dressed and hit the town (and had a great dinner at the new Rocket Twenty One in Hillcrest).” Garrett said in an interview that after the session, the color takes about four to five hours to fully develop, and advances in the tanning solution allow for a more natural color. When choosing what to wear during the session (most people wear a swimsuit) Garrett cautioned to keep in mind the placement of tan lines. We now know the process is easy, but how long does the tan last? “Now, exactly one week later, the tan still looks good,” said our staffer.
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“My legs have faded a bit, but not in a weird, uneven way, and my arms and upper body are still tan. I did not tan my face, which was a good move for me, especially being so light. But many folks I talked to did tan their face. It’s a personal option, certainly. I am happy to say I’m hooked. “I’ve always been a big self-tanner, Clarins products being my favorite and Sally Hansen spray-on hose is a perfect quick fix. But this more permanent option is clearly a smart easy move that I highly recommend.” So there you have it. Happy tanning!
HATS ON! BY JANIE GINOCCHIO PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN CHILSON
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ou put loads of time and effort into picking out the perfect swimsuit, so why are you topping it off with that ratty old ball cap? Check out the latest offerings from Box Turtle and Tulips and protect your head with a beautiful chapeau.
For a classic look, this women’s camel suede floppy summer hat from BOX TURTLE ($105) can’t be beat.
Jump Start Summer With a Feeling a little downtown funky? This Michael Stars garden stripe fedora from BOX TURTLE ($42) is right up your alley.
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Janie Ginocchio is happy to be writing again about the Central Arkansas retail scene for the Arkansas Times CUE section, where she cut her teeth in journalism as a staff writer and shopping columnist. After six years as an award-winning reporter and editor at newspapers in Russellville and Paragould, she’s glad to be back in North Little Rock, where she lives with her 3-year-old daughter Isabella, a budding shoe addict and fashionista.
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Statue worthies
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hey’ve put up a statue of Rush Limbaugh in the state Capitol in Missouri. This is the kind of weasel they admire in Missouri any more. Used to be Mark Twain, Harry Truman, Stan Musial, Walt Disney. But standards have slipped everywhere in Century 21. Even standards for free-range radio blowhards, this Limbaugh being a lame knockoff of Garner Ted Armstrong before the Devil got his talons into the late mellifluous host of The World Tomorrow. Anyway, I’ve been thinking about this, and can’t see why Arkansas should take a back seat to Missouri in putting up statues in our Capitol to obnoxious, offensive, hateful, bilious, ridiculous, crazy people. It’s not like we have a shortage of such people. We have loons and knaves by the scad. By the boocoo. Past and present. Ours might not be as vile, as gross, as much a stench in the nostrils of all decency, but that doesn’t make them less statue-worthy in their lunacy, their knavery, or their both. I’ve been putting together a roster of those Arkies or Arkie-associateds who, in my opinion, have qualified by their misfeasance, malfeasance, general a-holery, exceptional meanness, low-downness, or dumnassedness to have earned
a pedestaled place in our statehouse for likenesses of themselves. You might also qualify by being especially BOB supercilious, or LANCASTER insufferably sanctimonious, or pie-in-the-face smug, or too-too unctuous, or outstandingly objectionable in some other statue-worthy way. Or just a punk, like Mitchell Johnson. Or an innocent bystander, in the wrong place at the wrong time, who happened to have statuesque notoriety thrust upon you — for example, I put Duford Lafoon, about whom I know nothing, in my pantheon just because I thought somebody with that name deserved the recognition. Among the others, in no particular order: I’d like to see a statue of Nap Murphy taking a leak in the White House Rose Garden while the assembled glitterati pretended not to see it during the first Clinton Inauguration reception. In the same vein, or urinary tract, a good sculptor might also capture Gennifer Flowers relieving herself into a brass kitchen bowl while conducting a radio interview during that same epoch. Or
Dick Morris sucking the painted big toe of a disembodied whore-foot. Something for visiting schoolchildren to ponder. Et al. Thom Robb (sculptor will have to raise the hood so we can see who’s under it.). Lu Hardin (shown pulling a slot handle). Imon Bruce (a personal thing). Jeff Davis (the governor, not the CSA president in the petticoats and crinoline). Robert Henderson. Roger Clinton (trying to sing, or whatever the hell it was he tried to do). Ron Mathieu. Early Hurt. Douglas MacArthur. Bobby Petrino and the hog he rode in on. Or out on. Jerry Cox (with halo). Dog Boy. Fred Phelps. Gerald L.K. Smith. Harold Simmons. Arnold Murray (with Cain, “the first Jew,” hunkering in the background). Velveeta Man with his hand out. W.O. Vaught (shown counseling Willard’s “daddy” on when, from the biblical perspective, sex has occurred and when it hasn’t). Tony Alamo. The old seg now/seg forever crowd, perhaps in a grouping: Uncle Orv, Bruce Bennett, Justice Jim Johnson, Wesley Pruden, Amis Guthridge, Dale Alford, Jimmy Karam outfitting them all in new duds before leading them down Broadway and over to Central with their symbolic axe-handles and pitchforks shouldered and their spitters at the ready. George Douthit and John Robert Starr cheering them on.
Their auxiliary, the Mothers Against Pickininnies, not far behind. Tommy Robinson. Wayne Dumond, with Dr. John Brinkley in the background hefting a pair of goat glands (possible replacements for those of Wayne’s that wound up in the pickle jar). King Crowley. Laughing Sally. Lonesome Rhodes. Owney Madden. Clifton Clowers. The ETs who made the first attempt to abduct young Whitley Streiber from a passing-through late-night passenger train in southwest Arkansas. Jill Republican Dabbs. Arch Campbell (purple bronze?). Thomas Coughlin. Debbie Pelley. Jay P. Greene. DonRey. Boo. Jim Bruton, cranking up the Tucker telephone, which he called his “baby.” Mose Harmon, chief strap wielder at Cummins prison for a long time — one scary son-of-a-bitch. Paul Van Dalsem, whose prescription for uppity women was to keep them pregnant and barefooted and give them an extra cow to milk. Big Beulah (giving the umps hell at old Ray Winder). James MacKrell. Marlin Hawkins (tombstoning). Mutt Jones. Maw and Paw Teakettle, aka, the Mastersons. J.B. and Michelle Duggar and litter. Mark Martin (the yahoo pol not the race-car driver), himself eminently statue-worthy, would, as chief Capitol custodian and rotunda display czar, have the final say.
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ARKANSAS TIMES CLASSIFIEDS Employment Field Workers 11 temporary positions; approx 10 _ months; Duties: to operate farm equipment in sugar cane fields; to prepare the field and give maintenance to the crop during and after the harvesting season. Planting of sugarcane by hand, farm, field and shed sanitation duties; operation and performing minor repairs and maintenance of farm vehicles and equipment. Able to work in hot, humid weather, bending or stooping to reach ground level crops and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Once hired, workers may be required to take random drug test at no cost to the workers. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination. $9.30 per hour; Job to begin on 8/1/12 through 06/15/2013. Must have 3 months experienced required in job offered. All work tools, supplies and equipment provided. Housing expenses provided to workers who can not reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day; transportation and subsistence expenses to the worksite will be provided upon completion of 50% of contract; _ guaranteed of contract. Employment offered by Charles Guidry located in Erath, LA. Worksite located in Erath, LA. Qualified applicants may call employer for interview at (337) 654- 2403 or may apply for this position at their nearest State Workforce Agency located at 5401 S. University, Little Rock, AK 72209.
Field Workers 12 temp positions2 months; job to begin 8/- 1/12and end on 10/5/- 12Duties: planting of sugarcane by hand, farm and field duties; able to work in hot, humid weather, bending or stooping to reach ground level crops and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Once hired, workers may be required to take a random drug test at no cost to the worker. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination. $9.30 per hour; 1 months experience in job offered required. All work tools provided. Housing and transportation provided to workers who can not reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day; Transportation and subsistence expenses to worksite will be provided by employer upon completion of 50% of work contract or earlier if appropriate; _ hours guaranteed in a work day during contract. Employment offered by K & M Cane located in Bunkie, LA. Worksite located in Bunkie, LA. Qualified applicants may call employer for interview at 337-945- 9120 or may apply for this position attheir nearest SWA office located at 5401 S. University, Little Rock, AK 72209
Legal Notice Field Workers 15 temporary positions; approx 5 _ months; Duties: to operate farm equipment in sugar cane fields; Planting of sugarcane by hand, farm, field and shed sanitation duties; operation and performing minor repairs and maintenance of farm vehicles and equipment. Able to work in hot, humid weather, bending or stooping to reach ground level crops and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Once hired, workers may be required to take random drug test at no cost to the workers. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination. $9.30 per hourJob to begin on 8/1/12 through 1/15/13. Must have 3 months experienced required in job offered. All work tools, supplies and equipment provided. Housing expenses provided to workers who can not reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work daytransportation and subsistence expenses to the worksite will be provided upon completion of 50% of contract_ guaranteed of contract. Employment offered by Charles Guidry located in Erath, LA. Worksite located in Erath, LA. Qualified applicants may call employer for interview at (337) 654- 2403 or may apply for this position at their nearest State Workforce Agency located at 5401 S. University, Little Rock, AK 72209.
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Dept. I IN THE NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA IN AND FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY DAVID JAMES COHOE, Plaintiff, TARA LINDSEY NGUYEN COHOE, Defendant. THE STATE OF NEVADA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT: You are hereby SUMMONED and required to serve upon plaintiff, DAVID JAMES COHOE, whose address is 10440 Maya Linda Road Apt. E305, San Diego, CA 92126, an ANSWER to the Complaint which is herewith served upon you, within 20 days after service of this Summons upon you, exclusive of the day of service. In addition, you must file with Clerk of this Court, whose address is shown below, a formal written answer to the complaint, along with the appropriate filing fees, in accordance with the rules of the Court. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is brought to recover a judgment dissolving the contract of marriage existing between you and the Plaintiff. The filer certifies that this document does not contain the social security number of any person. Dated this 14 day of March, 2012. TED THRAN Clerk of Court by Deputy Clerk Ninth Judicial District Court P.O. Box 218 Minden, NV 89423 June 6, 2012
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