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The INsIder

Wooldridge leaving AAPU

n Tim Wooldridge, hired in 2007 to be the $150,000-a-year lobbyist for a new organization, the Association of Arkansas Public Universities, is apparently on his way out as executive director of the group.

He lobbied the legislature on higher education issues.

A source confirms a tip that leadership of the group – chancellors and presidents of state universities – had decided Wooldridge won’t be continued in his job. A formal announcement is planned later. The decision was influenced by some positions he took during his recent unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic nomination for 1st District Congress, but also because of a rethinking of the group’s mission. Most notably, Wooldridge gave a video interview to the Family Council in which he said he opposed laws that prevent discrimination on account of sexual orientation. Many campuses that help pay Wooldridge’s salary have explicit anti-discrimination policies on sexual orientation. “He said some things that were not well-received in the academic community,” our source said.

But there’s also been some concern about the cost, which has included monthly office expenses, an assistant and other costs in addition to the salary paid Wooldridge, a former legislator. “We’re going to regroup and see where we really want to go,” the source said. He said a decision on new leadership – whether as a full-time leader or a contracted lobbyist – would be made in the next three to four months. Wooldridge didn’t return a call.

Mayday!

n Local businessman, philanthropist and Christmas light aficionado Jennings Osborne isn’t flying quite so high these days, thanks to a state tax lien placed on the Osborne-owned company that holds his private jet.

According to paperwork filed with the Pulaski County clerk’s office by the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, Osborne Aviation LLC is currently $238,852 in arrears on its taxes.

The original lien was filed in September 2008, and DFA chief legal council Martha Hunt said it is still valid. Hunt said tax liens are filed against the total property holdings of a corporation.

The primary holding of Osborne Aviation is “Miss Breezy II,” a 22-seat Grumman Gulfstream jet, tail number N189WS. A page advertising the jet for sale is online at the website of a company called DuPage Aerospace in West Chicago (you can still find extensive interior and exterior photos there).The asking price is not listed in that ad.

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8 State targets

Pool reprieve

Understudy Toto

n Arkansas isn’t exactly known for its celebrity output, so we take what we can get. In this case, Nigel the Cairn terrier.

You might remember, from an item we did in the Times last year, how the pup made an improbable leap last year from the Northeast Arkansas Humane Society Shelter in Jonesboro to a national touring production of “The Wizard of Oz.” Last spring, Bill Berloni, an animal trainer who’s prepped dogs for the stage and screen for 30 years, adopted Nigel (originally called Toto, if you can believe it) after finding him on the Jonesboro shelter’s website. To make sure he was up to the job, Nigel’s first performance as Toto was for a high school production in Pittsburgh. He shined, and such was his rise to stardom.

Unfortunately, Nigel wasn’t on stage last week at the Robinson Center Music Hall for the off-Broadway tour of “The Wizard of Oz.” In his place was Dusty, not one of Arkansas’s own.

Don’t fret, though — Berloni reports that Nigel was replaced not for lack of charm or skill, but because he’s so good at being Toto that he stayed on Broadway to perform in “The Wiz,” which ran last summer, and is scheduled to be back on stage next spring. At the moment he lives at Berloni’s Connecticut home with 21 other show dogs and 90 acres to run around in.

You’re not in Arkansas anymore, Toto.

synthetic pot

brian chilson

n In what’s turning out to be an extraordinarily hot summer, Little Rock is planning to close its swimming pools early as a cost-saving measure. But last week, after a couple of city directors raised the issue at their Tuesday meeting, money was found to keep the Jim Dailey (War Memorial) and Southwest Community Center pools, scheduled to close in mid-July, open an extra two weeks, through July 31.

That still leaves kids high, dry and hot for August, and City Director Stacy Hurst said she’s hearing from constituents about it. She said she’s going to try and tack on two more weeks, to keep the pools open until mid-August, though she acknowledged she didn’t know how the city, which got an unexpected blow in lowered utility franchise fees this summer, would pay for it.

City Director Brad Cazort wants a dedicated tax for parks upkeep; Mayor Stodola says not now. Hurst said it’s time for a “serious discussion with the community” WAR MEMORIAL POOL: Will help keep about finding funds to operate and maintain the city’s parks and recreation facilities. folks cool through the end of July, at least.

Ape wars

n According to a study co-authored by an anthropologist from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, humans aren’t the only animals who band together to wage war on their neighbors over land. Chimps apparently do it too.

As detailed in a new paper co-authored by UALR’s Sylvia Amsler and appearing this month in the journal Current Biology, Amsler and other scientists tracked a large colony of chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park for 10 years. They found that males in the group routinely patrolled the borders of their 28-square-kilometer territory, moving with soldier-like deliberateness in a silent, single file line. These patrols would attack any strange male they found by biting, jumping on and ripping off the testicles of their rival. If a female from a neighboring group with an infant was discovered, they would kill the baby. In addition to the patrols, the colony’s warrior class would sometimes attack their less-fruitful neighbors, killing enemies and allowing the group to occupy large sections of territory.

While the study Amsler co-authored suggests that the findings may provide no true insight into the origin of warfare given how complicated the causes of human conflict usually are, it goes on to say that the bigger question of why “humans are an unusually cooperative species” may well be rooted in primates’ predisposition to get their war on. And you pinkos thought it was all about language and agriculture.

Words n We shall stick it to the middle class on the beaches, we shall stick it to the middle class on the landing grounds, we shall stick it to the middle class in the fields and in the streets …

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee stays on-message in a news release about a Republican senatorial candidate: “CONGRESSMAN JOHN BOOZMAN CONTINUES STICKING IT TO THE MIDDLE CLASS — VOTES AGAINST TAX RELIEF FOR SMALL BUSINESSES IN KEY VOTE — Congressman John Boozman continued his habit of sticking it to Arkansas’s middle class by voting against a commonsense, bipartisan bill which provides tax relief and other incentives to jumpstart small businesses ... ‘Congressman John Boozman continues sticking it to the middle class, this time by voting against a common4 july 1, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES

Doug smith doug@arktimes.com

sense, bipartisan bill that will provide necessary tax relief to Arkansas small businesses,’ said Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee National Press Secretary Deirdre Murphy. ... Congressman Boozman has a record of sticking it to the middle class and ignoring the needs of everyday Arkansans.” n Let’s take the bullisome by the horns: Congressman Boozman’s opponent may have coined a new word during the Democratic primary.

“At the Forrest City event, one woman complained to Lincoln about someone

knocking on her door supporting Halter who rudely demanded to know who she voted for. ‘Those people are not Arkansans for sure,’ Lincoln responded.

‘Unfortunately, they are bullisome in many instances, and that’s not how we are in Arkansas.’ ” n What if the Earps and the Clantons had missed connections because the Earps said, “We’ll meet at the OK Corral” and the Clantons went looking for the Okay Corral. A lot of Western movies wouldn’t have been made, that’s what. And a world without “My Darling Clementine” would be a poorer world indeed.

Is it OK, O.K. or okay? The Associated Press stylebook says OK. But several usage authorities say that all three are all right, and some lean toward okay, because it has normally spelled inflections — okays, okayed, okaying.

A rash of complaints has prompted state officials to pass an emergency rule banning the sale of a chemical-laced herb compound described as a synthetic similar to marijuana. — By Leslie Newell Peacock

10 The ungreening of Camden

An alternative fuel plant was hailed as an economic boon to Camden. Since the announcement, however, the only developments have been negative. — By Doug Smith

14 Better ethics a pipedream?

Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Keet’s ethics reform ideas are prohibitive longshots, sure. But that doesn’t mean they don’t deserve some praise.

— By Max Brantley

Departments

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4 Smart Talk

5 The Observer

6 Letters

7 Orval 8-12 News

14 Opinion

17 Arts & Entertainment

31 Dining

37 Crossword/ Tom Tomorrow

38 Lancaster

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The Observer was headed

down to Texarkana recently, rolling along Interstate 30, which isn’t the most scenic stretch of highway (it beats the drive from Little Rock to Memphis, though). And while there may not be much to look at along the way, we did have good company, good music and a working air-conditioner — something we haven’t always been blessed with before.

Somewhere long about Prescott our girlfriend looked out the passenger side window as we passed a towering, white diesel truck. The trucker had, quite inventively, taped a sign to his window, facing out toward would-be passersby. Written in thick, black permanent marker were the words, “Show tits please,” followed by a happy little smiley-face.

We refrained from showing the trucker anything and had a good laugh that lasted at least a few miles, but it got us to thinking.

The Observer was once a very young man and, as such, consumed with an overwhelming desire to see those anatomical wonders with which the trucker was so obviously enamored.

Our efforts, though, were never met with much success, probably having something to do with our love of comic books and Star Wars or a physique that reflected hours spent on the couch as opposed to in the gym.

We wondered how often the trucker’s request was successful, if indeed it ever was. It’s likely, we thought, to draw out more middle fingers than exposed breasts, a trade-off the trucker would, more than likely, happily make. But who knows?

We suppose the moral of the story here, if there is one, is you never know until you ask.

Here’s what The Observer

heard over the weekend.

A trio of bike riders on the North Little Rock portion of the River Trail got off their bikes to look at tracks in the dirt off the trail. One of the trio was identifying for the others some of the tracks — raccoon, etc. Suddenly, one of the bikers found a track she couldn’t identify and called it to the attention of her companions.

It was, of course, her own, made by

her bicycle cleats. There are so many bikers these days, probably should be included in a field guide. Homo cyclus, maybe.

We’re up to our eyeballs in

dog and cat fur and we want my vacuum cleaner back. But can we reach a human being in the repair shop? Noooo. The automated telephone system sends us to India, where we’re given a number that’s supposed to connect to the Written in Little Rock store. But thick, black guess what! permanent It puts us marker were back into the automated the words, system! We “Show tits end up in please,” India again!

Now the followed by lady on the a happy little other end smiley-face. says hold on, she’ll break through and get us to an “associate.” Guess what! We end up on the automated system again!

Now when we say we’re up to our eyeballs in animal fur, we’re not kidding.

It’s in the air, on our clothes, in the food.

If you open the door to our house, it comes after you. You can understand our desperation.

Fortunately, because the repair shop in (hallelujah!) Tennessee couldn’t — get this — find anything wrong with the vacuum cleaner in the first place, the shop had called our house. We had the sacred phone number to the Tennessee repair place on our voice mail, and we dialed it. We got a real person, Tennessee accent and all, a lady who could actually look at the records of what happened to the beloved canister. Yes, they were to ship it back two weeks ago! No, the records don’t show it was received! She wants to help, because the dog and cat hair is making its way up the interstate to Memphis and if we don’t get a working vacuum down here soon, the Mississippi River is going to be clogged with pet hair.

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The Hill Thank you for the excellent article on “The Hill.” When I looked at the picture of the Nyberg building, although I had not seen it in 50 years, that facade had a solid place within the memories of my childhood. My dad was a patient at “the San”, as we called the tuberculosis sanatorium at Booneville, from 1939 until he came home in the fall of 1949 to die at home rather than in the soulless rooms and hallways of Nyberg. He was in and out of the hospital many times following his initial stay of three years. At one time, in the mid-40s, his two sisters and a nephew were also patients in Nyberg.

My grandfather blamed himself for their disease because he thought the source was from a cow he purchased that was tubercular. Since my mom did not have a car, it was my grandfather who would take us to Booneville. I remembered those trips as really difficult. We would leave Stuttgart in the early morning to go to Booneville, stay for several hours and repeat the trip back home. The twists and turns of the roads and the dust and grime were all part of the experience; however, Nyberg seemed to always loom before us.

As the article reflected, the building was

formidable. One of the signs on the lawn really expressed the tragedy of the place: Do Not Expectorate On The Grass. I appreciated the article and the care with which it was presented; however, I was not prepared for the sad memories that it revived.

Dr. Jim Robnolt Sherwood I am offering a few more details to supplement David Koon’s excellent article on the state tuberculosis sanatorium at Booneville.

Gov. George W. Donaghey was a strong supporter of the tuberculosis sanitarium and had recommended its creation to the Arkansas General Assembly in his inaugural address on Jan. 14, 1909. Donaghey, like many Arkansans, had lost a sister and other family members to TB. Even though Donaghey had to make drastic cuts in the 1909 state budget since revenues had declined, an economic situation similar to today, he spared the TB appropriation from any cuts.

At the dedication ceremony for the sanatorium on Sept. 1,1909, approximately 1,500 people attended, and Donaghey, who gave the dedicatory address, promised to keep an eye on the project to help it become “one of the best institutions of this kind in this country.”

Cal Ledbetter Jr. UALR-Emeritus Professor of Political Science

It is unfortunate that David Koon did not mention that the sanatorium at Booneville was a segregated facility. Though the Thomas C. McRae Sanatorium for Negroes in Alexander was completed in 1930, “within a matter of days, the waiting list numbered in the hundreds,” and never provided enough beds for black patients. In his inaugural message during his third term in 1959, Orval Faubus admitted there was still a waiting list for blacks at McRae. Nobody knows how many black Arkansans with tuberculosis died for lack of treatment, but white supremacy often meant death for blacks, not just segregation. It took litigation, completed in 1966, to get a federal judge to order admission to the Booneville facility of Arkansas citizens without regard to creed or color.

Grif Stockley Little Rock

Correct Pryor record

Your recent editorial regarding the influence of organized labor on Arkansas politics (or their lack of influence) contained a substantial factual error.

You asserted that David Pryor lost an election with labor support, but won, only after he became a “labor baiter.”

In truth and in fact (please pardon the redundancy) he did lose the 1972 Senate race to Senator McClellan, and Pryor was vigorously supported by organized labor in that race. He won the governor’s race in

1974 — again with the vigorous support of organized labor.

Organized labor was angered when he called out the National Guard during a fireman’s strike in Pine Bluff, while Pryor was governor.

While his labor support may have never again been as uniform as it had been before, labor did support him in some of his subsequent races; and, to my memory, Pryor never did any “labor baiting,” as I understand that phrase.

You can look it up.

BR Wilson Bigelow

Kagan’s nomination

There were many vacant judgeships during the Clinton Administration. ThenJudiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch and his fellow Republicans wouldn’t hold hearings for many of President Clinton’s nominees.

Elena Kagan’s nomination was one of them. When President Obama nominated her for the U.S. Supreme Court, what was the Republicans’ chief objection? She has no judicial experience.

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The WEEK THAT was J u ne 2 3 - 2 9 , 2 0 1 0 It was a good week for …

CLEAN AIR. The Arkansas Supreme Court refused to reconsider its decision overturning Public Service Commission approval of a coalburning power plant in Hempstead County. SWEPCO said it will try to build the plant anyway to sell wholesale power and not depend on Arkansas retail customers, but a number of obstacles remain before that can be achieved.

SEN. BLANCHE LINCOLN. Negotiators included a watered-down version of her effort to regulative derivatives trading in financial reform legislation. This allowed her to proclaim a victory over Wall Street. But the death of Sen. Robert Byrd days later put the Democrats’ ability to pass the legislation in peril.

WAR MEMORIAL STADIUM. Its commissioners struck a 10-year $1.8 million advertising deal with AT&T. The commissioners and the sponsor also agreed within 24 hours to release terms of the deal after a press outcry over the original plan for secrecy.

OPEN GOVERNMENT. The U.S. Supreme Court said there was no constitutional violation in releasing names of people who sign ballot petitions. It’s vital to guard against fraud in such petitions. Backers of anti-gay measures don’t like to be outed, as they were in Arkansas in the case of the antigay adoption law (a disclosure that brought none of the ill consequences alleged in the Supreme Court case).

MIKE HUCKABEE. The former Arkansas resident (now a legal resident of Florida, apparently to avoid state income taxes), was the subject of a warm profile in The New Yorker and that produced an avalanche of publicity about the idea that he was the leading Republican contender for president in 2012. See John Brummett’s column.

It was a bad week for …

WILLARD PROCTOR. His last-ditch appeal of his removal as circuit judge for ethics violations was turned down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The SALINE RIVER. The Health Department said a popular swimming spot near the Highway 5 bridge was unsafe for swimmers because of high bacteria counts.

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Knocking K2 down But there may be more mountains to climb.

By Leslie Newell Peacock

said — run on each new product. n Days are numbered for stores The best way to control the chemiselling K2 and Genie and other cals, he believes, is for the federal herbal products that have been Food and Drug Administration to spiked with chemicals that step in and regulate their producmimic pot. The Arkansas Board tion. of Health will consider an emerK2 (referencing the second gency rule on Friday declaring highest mountain in the world), that they constitute an “imminent more commonly sold as Spice peril” to public health, and their outside the U.S., and the other sale could be illegal as soon as spiked herbs are sold in 3-gram the board votes. The emergency packets. Abbey Road, at 1400 S. rule will make sale of the products University, “is the number 1 distribillegal for 120 days. utor of K2 in the nation. I guess it’s Dr. Paul Halverson proposed just caught on real big here,” said the rule citing a statute that allows employee Matt Taylor. The contents the Health Department to act to of the packets look like potpourri, prevent exposure to chemicals flakes of dried leaves and such, and (S.S. 20-7-109 (e)). The rule the product packaging says it’s not would make sale of the substance for human consumption. But for a misdemeanor. His other option around $40 for 3 grams, it’s not for was to include synthetic pot in putting in a bowl in the living room, Schedule 1 drugs like heroin and either — unless it’s a pipe bowl. methamphetamine, the possession It’s hard to know how a law and sale of which is a felony. banning use of the products, rather The move will please Sen. than the sale as the proposed rule Donna Hutchinson, R-Bella Vista, would do, could be enforced, who has hounded the Health given that there are now no tests Department to stop the sale of to detect the compounds in urine the substance, now available at head shops, convenience stores A TUBE OF TROUBLE: The public health lab’s Dr. Jeffery or blood. The state Public Health and gas stations, though several Moran is close to creating a way to test for ingestion of the Laboratory is working on identifying metabolites of jwh-018 and cities and counties in Arkansas soon-to-be illegal compounds. jwh-073 and may be on the verge have outlawed it. of validating a test for those metabolites symptom in someone young,” he said. One K2 and like products — manufactured in urine, said Jeffery Moran, branch chief case of suspected seizure was reported. in China using formulas that act on the brain for environmental chemistry at the Public Nationally, poison control centers like THC, the active ingredient in marijuana Health Lab. The public health lab will also have reported 352 cases in 35 states, with —have been sold for a couple of years in the conduct population studies to see how wideMissouri as the epicenter, according to USA U.S. and longer in Europe. Several states, Today. starting with Kansas, have moved to make spread use is in Arkansas, testing random But as Arkansas moves to ban K2 and the product illegal. samples ordered by ER doctors treating like products, Foster predicts, new ones will The Arkansas Poison Control Center has patients who appear to be suffering from arise to take their place. “There are literreceived 20 calls from emergency rooms substance abuse. ally hundreds” of synthetic compounds to about patients reporting using the product, What they’re seeing in the laboratory produce a high, he said. “You’re going to be center chief Howell Foster said, and most is backing up what interviews with users chasing your tail” suppressing them. have been from Hutchinson’s bailiwick, have told them, said Moran and Cindy Ordinances passed in cities and counNorthwest Arkansas. But the problem is not Moran, a chemist with the Crime Lab ties in Arkansas name K2 and Spice and much on the radar screen in Little Rock. and Jeffery Moran’s wife: Different prodcompounds found in the products: the two Little Rock Police are focused on hard ucts cause different levels of intoxication. most well-known compounds — jwh-018 drugs; spokesman Lt. Terry Hastings said Cindy Moran, who initially purchased K2 and jwh-073 (named for the Clemson K2 use “has not been a major issue here products (there are a variety of them, with University chemist whose lab created them), for us.” names like “citron” and “blonde”) for the salvia divinorum, HU-210, TFMPP and Most of the calls to Poison Control public health lab to test before the chemical other “structural analogs.” concern young adults ages 15 to 26 or 27, compounds in pure form were available, But, Foster said, “there’s a lot more to Foster said. The most common symptom is said sellers reported that some brands were this than just flipping a law.” As new prodextreme agitation, Foster said. Two cases of best for first-time users. In the lab, Jeffery ucts come on the market, the state will syncopy — sudden unconsciousness likely Moran is seeing that the way compounds have to prove that they contain the illegal caused by a sudden drop in blood presare combined affects how intoxicating they compounds. That will require expensive sure — have been reported and he knows are.

Continued on page 9 assays — tests that can cost $2,000, Foster of a third. Syncopy “is a pretty concerning

The INsIder

Continued from page 3 said the jet was not sold, and departed for Arkansas over a year ago. According to the plane-tracking website flightaware.com, the last flight plan for the jet was filed on March 2, 2009, and had it traveling from the North Little Rock Municipal Airport to DuPage Airport near Chicago. There are no other flight plans listed for that tail number since then.

Attempts to contact Jennings Osborne about the lien and the jet were unsuccessful.

Hot wired

Vegetable victory n A story that played out on the Internet last week was a city crackdown on a small farmers market operating, by invitation, on the grounds of Pulaski Academy in western Little Rock. The city threatened fines against four farmers because the property wasn’t zoned for peddling and they didn’t have licenses. The farmers believe a complaint from another vegetable merchant prompted the city inspection.

An outcry from defenders of the market ensued. Days later, a note went out to interested parties from Assistant City Manager Bryan Day: “ … We are very much in support of

local farmers and want to find a way to increase access to home grown produce throughout the community. In light of our discussions, we have decided to allow the market to continue operating at Pulaski Academy on an interim basis. We must all sit down in the future and develop a longterm strategy for providing locations and procedures for local farmers. …”

Good money news

n Amid economic gloom and doom, we happened to hear encouraging words about philanthropy, particularly as directed toward the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, which will complete this year a major capital campaign. It

has already hit the $325 million goal set in 2003, but a UAMS spokesman said the campaign has now hit $352 million with a half-year left to run, with gifts from 29,900 people.

Back when the campaign began, campus officials dreamed of beating the goal by 10 percent, with $360 million. That hopeful target now looks to be in reach. The money is all private money. No public matches are included. It includes some major gifts from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to the Reynolds Institute on Aging and also gifts to the Psychiatric Research Institute, the Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute and the Stephens Institute for Spine and Neurosciences.

n Shocking stuff from Today’s THV anchor Dawn Scott on her Facebook page last Friday night. She wrote: “Just got electrocuted when I turned on the hair-dryer in the THV ladies’ room.

Seriously. There’s a burn mark underneath my underwire bra (is this TMI?) where, I guess, the electrical current went. I’m totally serious. !!! I’ve not been right since. ...”

The news racked up almost 90 comments of concern on Scott’s Facebook page and a couple dozen on the item we posted about it on our Arkansas Blog, where Scott later commented: “ … I think it surprised me more than anything, and lesson learned: I probably shouldn’t have put it on Facebook …”

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Mike Brown, who sells K2 products from his Green Grass Rock N Roll Grocery and Bodega on President Clinton Avenue, said buyers are across the board. “There is no stereotyping of who is purchasing this product — families, city workers, people on parole, police officers.” He does not sell to anyone under 18. He sold 45 packets during Riverfest.

Abbey Road’s Taylor, while he thinks K2 isn’t dangerous, said he thinks salvia is. “I’ve seen people smoke Salvia and flip cars,” he said.

The Health Department will start the rule-making process during the 120 days the emergency rule is in effect. That process requires public hearings.

Sen. David Johnson, a former Pulaski County prosecutor, is working with the Health Department on a bill he’ll introduce in the next legislative session to include synthetic marijuana in the drug schedule.

The current rule doesn’t not do that.

Correction

n An article in the June 17 Arkansas Times said that Dale Cowling was a candidate for Congress in the Second District in the Democratic primary of 1984. The candidate was Dale Alford.

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CAMDEN COMEBACK SLOWED Proposed pellet plant problematic.

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hings have not gone well for Camden in recent years — for most of South Arkansas, really — but they seemed to be looking up last summer. State and federal officials turned out for a groundbreaking ceremony for a new plant, in a town that has grown more accustomed to plant closings. The new plant possessed symbolic significance too, in that it would be on the old International Paper Company property. From 1927 until it closed in 2000, the IP paper mill was a major employer in Camden.

More than a thousand people lost their jobs when the mill shut down. (Also shut down was the plant’s strong odor, but Camden residents never noticed the smell anyway. Visitors did.)

The new plant would also be part of the fashionable “green” movement, intended to help 21st century America move away from foreign and dirty sources of energy, into the clean-energy uplands.

Here was industrial development that was good for the economy and good for the environment. Cheering was prevalent.

No one was happier or prouder last Aug. 13 than Camden Mayor Chris Claybaker. “I’m the one that first talked with Phoenix [Renewable Energy] and convinced them they should locate on this old IP site,” Claybaker said in a recent interview. “We felt

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something like this would help turn us around — not a panacea but a good step in the right direction.”

A year later, all stepping has ceased. There’s been no construction on the proposed new plant — June 4 was a projected starting date that passed unobserved — and Phoenix has yet to obtain the final approval it seeks from state environmental-quality officials under the “brownfield” program. That final approval won’t be given until some rather expensive work has been done to remove contaminants left over from the paper mill operations.

Presumably, the money would have to come from Phoenix or from the Camden Area Industrial Development Corp., which now owns the IP property and is leasing it to Phoenix.

Even worse, the state securities commissioner determined that Phoenix was selling stock in violation of state law and ordered it to stop. Investigation is continuing.

And, certain information about Phoenix executives that might have aroused suspicion had it been known earlier has now come to light. Skepticism is growing that the Phoenix plant will ever become operational, much less be the boon that was hoped for.

The situation has become a “nightmare,” Claybaker told the Arkansas Times, before he stopped returning our phone calls.

‘NIGHTMARE’: Camden mayor Chris Claybaker’s outlook on the pellet plant has changed.

n Some 400 people were on hand at the groundbreaking Aug. 13, 2009, according to a news release. They’d been told that Phoenix would build a $180 million wood-pellet plant on 44 acres of the old IP property, and that the pellets would be shipped to Europe where “cap-and-trade” laws forced the burning of pellets instead of coal to generate electricity.

The plant would employ up to 60 people, it was said, and create 450 more jobs in timber, transportation and other industries that would serve the plant.

Among the officials who spoke at the ceremony were U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor and U.S. Rep. Mike Ross, who is a vocal supporter of biomass, such as wood pellets. Pryor, whose family has deep roots in Camden, said that South Arkansas needed clean-energy jobs.

Representatives of environmental groups — the Sierra Club, the Audubon Society — were on hand, some waving “Clean Energy” signs. Gov. PHOENIX CEO: Sam Anderson shakes hands with a supporter.

Mike Beebe sent a representative to the event, as did U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, who also issued a statement prison and was released in December 1987.

Another Phoenix official listed in the brochure is “Steve from Washington: “Phoenix Renewable Energy is poised to help make our state a leader in renewable energy production.” Walker, Director of Development.” In May, state Securities (Spokesmen for Pryor, Lincoln, Ross and Beebe say they were invited by Mayor Claybaker and others, and that they routinely attend or comment on industrial groundbreakings.)

A featured speaker at the ceremony was Sam L. Anderson of Hot Springs, CEO of Phoenix Renewable Energy. He said two things made the new plant possible: a change of administration in Washington, and the European cap-and-trade laws requiring the use of clean energy.

“I believe if it were not for the Obama administration’s stimulus plan (and) concept of a new economy, the business we’re about to engage in would not be profitable,” Anderson Commissioner Heath Abshure ordered Phoenix and Stephen said, adding that the American business community should R. Walker to stop soliciting and selling securities in violation of the Arkansas Securities Act. The order said that the securities be more positive about cap and trade.

“Those Phoenix guys are infectious in their enthusiasm,” sold by Walker and PRE were neither registered nor exempt Claybaker told the Times. It’s unclear whether he knew last from registration as required by the Securities Act. In addition, August of Anderson’s background; it’s safe to assume that many Walker violated the Act by soliciting and selling the securiof those in attendance did not. A Phoenix brochure says, “Mr. ties without being registered with the Securities Department Anderson, a founding member of Phoenix Renewable Energy himself, Abshure said. The order said that more than 50 people with many years as a practicing attorney, oversees all aspects of had invested in Phoenix, with some $1.4 million invested in the company.” A casual reader might think that Anderson is still 2009 and 2010. During the same time period, the company a practicing attorney, but no. He lost his license in December had expenditures of about $1.4 million, with over $250,000 1986, after being convicted in 1985 of distributing cocaine. in payments made directly to Walker and over $80,000 in Roger Clinton, brother of the then-governor, was convicted in payments to Anderson, his companies and his family, accordthe same case. Anderson was quoted in the newspaper at the ing to Abshure. The Securities Department is continuing its time as saying that State Police were out to get him because investigation of the matter.

Anderson told the Times that the securities commisof some of the clients he’d represented. He did time in federal

sioner’s order wouldn’t stop construction of the Camden plant. Phoenix will simply have to find another way to raise money, he said. “We think we can stay in business without selling stock. We’ll do whatever we need to do.”

More bad news for Walker came in June.

He was indicted in federal court on charges of income tax evasion and failure to pay taxes.

It was reported also that in 2009 he’d agreed to pay $410,000 to settle a civil lawsuit that accused him of fraud. n Camden had a population of 13,154 in the last census, Claybaker said. He expects the figure to be nearer 12,000 in the new census, continuing a downward trend. “The school district has taken a big hit with loss of students,” Claybaker said. “Forty to 60 new industrial jobs would be important to a town that’s lost so many industrial jobs. We felt something like this new plant would help turn us around.”

“Biomass” and “brownfields” are buzz words in the environmental movement, and both apply to the situation in Camden. Biomass is biological material, such as wood, that

“I was in the oil and gas business for almost 15 years.

I figured I had a pretty good bullshit detector, and I didn’t get that from these guys at all.” can be used as a renewable energy source. Phoenix plans to use wood to make pellets that would then be sold as fuel.

Some environmentalists have questions about biomass, but it’s recognized as a cleaner energy source than coal.

Glen Hooks of the Little Rock office of the Sierra Club said, “We generally support biomass as long as it’s done in a sustainable way. We understand that Phoenix plans to use wastewood, and wouldn’t be cutting down old-growth forests.

We support things like that over coal.” Hooks has on his desk a bag of pellets given out by Phoenix for promotional purposes, but he said he hadn’t heard anything about the proposed Camden plant in awhile.

Claybaker says he’s been going to conferences on the brownfield program for years, and thought Phoenix would be a good fit. The idea is to re-use old industrial property, rather Continued on page 12

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n Until a few years ago, most Arkansans had never heard of “biomass” and “bioenergy,” but in a way, Arkansas has been in the game a long time.

“The forest products industry is the original biomass industry,” Jim Wimberly says. “And paper mills are the original bio-refineries.”

For decades, Arkansas paper mills have burned sawdust in their boilers to generate both thermal and electrical energy. Those mills are using biomass for their own manufacturing purposes, however, not selling biomass to others for the generation of energy, as would a proposed plant at Camden. That advanced use of biomass is still rare if not nonexistent in Arkansas. Development of the proposed Camden plant has been slowed. Another biomass plant was announced for El Dorado, but it’s not operational either.

Wimberly hopes to roll the biomass ball along. He’s president of Bioenergy Systems, a consulting and project development firm in Fayetteville. He says he’s involved with biomass projects under consideration for Arkansas, but they’re all confidential at this point. Some of them have been under consideration for several years, he said.

“But the economics are challenging. The ability to finance projects has been particularly difficult in the last two to three years, because of the credit squeeze and uncertainty about the energy market and energy prices.”

Progress on a federal energy bill has been uncertain, Wimberly said, and it’s hard to know where biomass is headed until more is known about where Washington is headed. When and if biomass gets moving, Arkansas is favorably situated, according to Wimberly. “We often refer to Arkansas as a biomass-rich state,” he said. That’s because the state has significant potential for growing energy crops, such as highyield grasses and fast-growing trees.

The proposed Camden plant would manufacture and sell wood pellets — mostly in Europe — that would be burned to generate energy. The pellets are a cleaner fuel than the coal they’d replace. Arkansas already has a pellet plant, Fiber Resources in Pine Bluff, but it sells directly to consumers who have pellet stoves. than green space, for new industrial purposes. The federal Environmental Protection Agency defines brownfields as “real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.” The IP property in Camden fits that definition. Phoenix is working on getting brownfields approval from the state Department of Environmental Quality. The process is taking longer than was expected, according to Anderson and Claybaker, who said he’s called state officials

They had people from Denver, New Mexico, Germany — they sure made an impression on me.”

They also had political connections. Bob Mathis, a former state representative and former mayor of Hot Springs, is on the Phoenix board of directors. He’s now a lobbyist in Little Rock. Another board member is Jason Willett, former chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party.

Despite the setbacks for Phoenix, “They still give me assurances they’re coming,” Claybaker said. “As soon as they get approval

“Forty to 60 new industrial jobs would be important to a town that’s lost so many.” trying to speed things up. ADEQ officials have identified the remedial actions that Phoenix must take to rid the IP property of contamination left by the paper mill. When that remediation is complete, the property can get brownfield certification, which means that Phoenix would be exempt from liability in lawsuits involving the land’s previous use

by International Paper.

“We were pretty ecstatic about getting this state-of-the-art ‘green’ system using wood from the timber around here,” Claybaker said. “In talking with them [Phoenix], they seemed to know exactly what they’re talking about. I was in the oil and gas business for almost 15 years. You see a lot of bullshitters.

I figured I had a pretty good bullshit detector, and I didn’t get that from these guys at all.

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from ADEQ, they’ll start doing something.

Whether it’ll be to the same extent, I’m a little bit in the dark about that.”

At one time, Phoenix was talking about pellet plants across South Arkansas — Monticello, Warren, Rison. That talk seems to have died out. Now, Anderson says that he still believes the market would support multiple sites, but the Camden plant “will be our first and primary site. That’s the one that all the engineering has been done on.

We felt like we’d made a commitment to that community.”

A reporter wondered if the state Economic Development Commission, which hands out state money to new industries, had invested in Phoenix. A spokesman said no. He sounded pleased.

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Editorial n Judge Martin Feldman admits to being a personal friend of Justice Antonin Scalia, and he clearly belongs to the Scalia school of judging, another conservative activist swashbuckler, determined not to leave important decisions to elected officials, or the elected officials’ appointees, or even the American people, if it comes to that. In the greatest feat of judicial activism ever, a Scalia-led Supreme Court chose the president of the United States in 2000, wresting that right from the voters. If General McChrystal wants to keep his job, he should appeal to the Supreme Court. They’d quickly overturn President Obama’s dismissal of the general.

To the Scalias and Feldmans everything looks like a job for Superjudge. Feldman lit into the Obama administration’s moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, a ban imposed after the accident that has brought catastrophe to the Gulf. To try to prevent another such occurrence is “arbitrary and capricious,” by Feldman’s lights, as well as “heavy-handed” and “overbearing.” Federal judges — the conservative activist ones — will decide when America needs protection, and from whom.

“If some drilling equipment parts are flawed, is it rational to say all are?” the judge wrote. “Are all airplanes a danger because one was? All oil tankers like Exxon Valdez? All trains?

All mines?” Because one bullet felled a police officer, is it rational to say that a second bullet fired into him would be harmful also?

Because a company has shown repeatedly that it cares only for profit, regardless of risk to others, is it rational to assume the company won’t give away its money and join a monastery?

The first report we heard of Feldman’s ruling, on NPR, didn’t mention that he was a Ronald Reagan appointee. This is bad reporting. Reagan set out to fill every judicial opening with a right-wing Republican, regardless of merit. He made no secret of his design. Every Republican president since has followed it. That’s why we have Scalias and Feldmans and unelected presidents, why we have government of, by and for the corporations.

Conservative activists like Scalia and Feldman claim to be originalists, reading the Constitution as the people who wrote it intended. Lawrence M. Friedman, a Stanford law professor, has written on originalism: “A true originalist would have to dump overboard almost all of modern constitutional law, including Brown v. Board of Education, all of the decisions on sex discrimination, all the decisions about the right to privacy ... There is no way to deduce most of the modern rulings on human rights or the powers of Congress or the states from the words of the text as it was understood in the late 18th century.”

That may have been what Reagan had in mind.

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STANDING FOR WHAT’S RIGHT: Will Phillips, 10, of West Fork, addresses the media during the Northwest Arkansas Gay Pride Parade in Fayetteville on Saturday. Phillips, who was the grand marshal for the event, gained worldwide notoriety when he refused to join in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Talk is cheap n Republican Jim Keet’s long-shot mission to beat popular Gov. Mike Beebe requires him to churn up an issue a week to grab some free media.

His ill-considered alliance with the bitter-enders trying to prevent merger of the undersized Weiner School District is one example. Guest writer Rick Fahr, a Weiner alum, makes the case for consolidation in this week’s Times. Such thoughtfulness was lacking in Keet’s rush to find a school issue to stir enthusiasm among rural folks.

I was more favorably struck when Keet unveiled an ethics platform last week. Among his ideas: • A two-year cooling-off period before former legislators and constitutional officers’ staff members could become lobbyists.

• Limiting legislative per diem to actual expenses, supported by receipts. This would end a practice that has turned into a $25,000-plus salary supplement for many lawmakers.

• Reimbursement of legislative travel capped at the “lowest cost reasonable alternative.” No more loading up the family wagon with Ma and the younguns and billing the state by the mile for circuitous road trips with a stop for a conference along the way.

• Holding public officials to the same reimbursement standards as state employees.

• An end to multipliers for state officials’ retirement. No more double-counting of legislative service, for example.

These are good ideas — some of them beaten down by lawmakers before. I’d fault the list only for the omission of a proposal to end lobbyist expenditures on legislators for food, drink, recreation, travel or anything else. Lobbyist entertainment may be the most corrupting practice at the Capitol. All efforts to regulate it have failed; the only solution is to outlaw it.

A veteran legislator — and an ethical one, at that — wasn’t so impressed with Keet’s announcement, however. He told me the ideas are non-starters at the

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legislature and Keet knows it. To him, Keet’s ethics package is just cheap grandstanding. Were Keet a serious contender for election, it might hold some meaning, he says. It will take a strong and committed governor — working with the legislature — to achieve ethics reform. Even then, it will be a hard sell to the sticky-fingered legislature. An initiated act would be a better vehicle and who’s going to do that?

I know this is a sound evaluation of the political realities of ethics reform. But it seems to me an utter surrender to cynicism to respond to sound — if difficult — goals by seeing them only as the cheap grandstanding of a candidate desperate for attention. Might you give life to such ideas by endorsing them? Might they be a reason to give a candidate a second look?

Who knows. If a candidate could actually inspire a continuing debate on such a worthy topic as ethics, it might even prompt a powerful incumbent opponent to adopt some of these ideas as his own. As tightly wired as Mike Beebe is to the lobby culture from his decades in the Senate, it seems a stretch, I admit. Ethics were low on his first-term agenda, for sure. But you never know.

There’s also this: I think we are heading to a sea change in the partisan makeup of the Arkansas legislature. If the growing Republican cadre adopts ethics as a battle cry, Democrats might dismiss this so-called cheap grandstanding at their peril.

Until now, legislators have mostly been right about the public’s disinterest in stricter ethics laws. But they can get interested. Ask Land Commissioner Mark Wilcox, he of the two state vehicles, recently rudely treated by voters.

What Weiner lacks n Weiner hasn’t changed much at all in the past two decades.

The Riceland dryers are still there, belching out fine dust that irritates some people but smells like money to most.

Penny’s Place still opens early and closes late, and the John Deere dealership still welcomes folks to town, though now it does so as “Greenway” instead of “Norsworthy and Wofford” as it did for a generation.

In the heart of town, past the co-op, is the school. The high school’s exterior hasn’t changed much, though subtle evolutions are apparent. The elementary school, a wonder of modern design when it opened in the early 1970s, looks much smaller now than it did to a newly minted fourth-grader. Of course, the gymnasium is still there, and in its rafters hang many banners recognizing successful basketball seasons.

Patrons won’t hang any more banners or listen to future valedictory speeches or buy holiday cases of oranges during the FFA fruit sale. The district will cease to exist, another victim of consolidation. Eventually, many of the young people will attend school in Harrisburg.

More than a few patrons — relatively speaking, of course — don’t like that one

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bit. Consolidation, How is a that is. Parents are student at a still fighting the merger of the small district school district with receiving Harrisburg and last week picked the same up a support from academic the Republican opportunity as candidate for a student at a governor.

But closing larger district?

Weiner School She’s not.

District isn’t about the school’s Period. patrons or its students. It isn’t even about the demise of the mighty, mighty Cardinals.

It’s about young people all across Arkansas who deserve the best shot they can get at a better life.

Advocates for keeping the school point

Into the GOP void — it’s Huckabee n There always was a Good Mike and a Bad Mike — Huckabee, that is.

It turns out that having a good side gives the Huckster a leg up on anyone else presumed to be prominent in today’s national Republican Party.

It’s like what happened the other day. I was imagining that I was the Republican presidential nominee in 2012. I don’t know why; I just was; I’m odd. It’s a worthy exercise for a pundit.

And I was trying to pick a running mate.

I couldn’t come up with anybody.

Sarah Palin is extreme and illprepared. Mitt Romney is phony. Tim Pawlenty is bland. Lamar Alexander is unctuous. Bobby Jindal blew that chance to deliver a Republican response to a State of the Union address.

Haley Barbour is a British Petroleum apologist and lobbyist insider. Mitch Daniels doesn’t want to fight the prolife battle, so he loses the base. John Thune? How many electoral votes does South Dakota bring, anyway? Fred Thompson is still sleeping.

It is Huckabee who leads among Republicans pitted against Barack Obama for 2012. That is to say he polls better against the president

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than any other Republican, but He’s preacher still loses.

Owing to third, this status, or politician conspicuousness, second and Huckabee landed a long and major unreformed profile last week teenage radio in no less than DJ first.

The New Yorker magazine.

It was mostly flattering and favorable, devoting far more words to the good side — the independent thought and interest-generating unpredictability, the communication and quipster skills — than to the bad, meaning the huffiness, ethical shortcomings, bad judgment on commutations and paroles, and the occasional meanness or poor taste or hyperbole of those quips.

We saw the independence and unpredictability in Arkansas when

to good test scores and the fine upstanding youth who represent the town and the school.

They have every right to be proud.

But those above-average young people, and those who came before them, didn’t all migrate in from Lake Woebegone. They do well on tests because their parents encourage them. They succeed in college because they work hard to prepare. They get ahead despite the shortcomings inherent in their school system. They are the lucky ones.

Compare the young people in Weiner to young people in areas where the support structure isn’t as healthy. Look at test scores in small districts that don’t have as strong a fiscal base. Note the career prospects for young people in other tiny little towns from Eudora to Armorel.

Only then is it possible to understand the stakes of the consolidation debate.

The state of Arkansas has a constitutional mandate to provide an adequate and equitable public school system. In recent years, the General Assembly, goaded for a number of years by former Gov. Mike Huckabee, has poured tens of millions of additional dollars into schools, helping improve their adequacy.

However, to the second point — equity — much remains undone.

There can be no serious argument that the academic opportunities at larger districts dwarf those of small districts, such

as Weiner. Examine the course catalogue of Little Rock Central or Fort Smith Northside or Jonesboro or Conway. Note the dozens and dozens of course offerings, far above the mandated floor of 38 basic courses. Small districts can scarcely offer the basics, let alone a richer curriculum featuring myriad advanced placement courses and specialized content.

How is a student at a small district receiving the same academic opportunity as a student at a larger district? She’s not.

Period.

Therein lies the constitutional problem of a system of public school haves and havenots.

Consolidating schools isn’t an exercise in punishing small districts that are doing an OK job by some measurements. It is a process to ensure that every boy and girl in this state has access to a comparable educational experience. What those students choose to do with the opportunity is up to them, but the state must give them an equal chance.

Until every child in every public school in this state has the same opportunity, the system is failing.

We’re allowing it to.

Huckabee stood for college scholarships for children of illegal immigrants and boldly proposed to consolidate nearly every rural school district in sight. He called extreme right-wingers “Shiite Republicans” and drinkers of “a different Jesus juice,” even as he allied with them more than not.

The nation, or the part watching, saw that independence and unpredictability in the Republican presidential race of 2008 when Huckabee, alone in a truly woeful field, and well before the economic meltdown, incurred the wrath of traditional business conservatives with his populist refrain extolling the working man and Main Street over Wall Street.

The New Yorker article casts him as a thoughtful religious evangelical, a man who says real Christians are devoted to the Jewish faith, and to the state of Israel, because there’d be no Christianity without Jews.

It also lets Huckabee show his humor, as if any examination of him could avoid that.

He says — not spontaneously, but in an e-mail to the writer that he could have thought about and deleted unsent — that he would rethink his opposition to same sex marriage if his only female choices were Nancy Pelosi and Helen Thomas.

Perhaps you’re laughing. Perhaps I’m grinning. But, really: That’s gratuitous and tacky and mean-

spirited and unworthy of presidential contention, if wholly worthy of Fox’s weekend answer to David Letterman.

Anyway, I’m not sure Huckabee is any matinee idol, especially with that regained poundage, which, as many of us know, can happen.

Huckabee also seemed to say that one component of his opposition to same sex marriage — or to somebody’s opposition to same sex marriage — is what he called the “ick factor.” That has landed him some criticism. But it is redundant to say that Huckabee granted an interview and incurred criticism.

The article leans in the direction of Huckabee’s not running in 2012. It suggests that life and the money are too good as a television celebrity.

I agree, of course, since I said all along that a show on cable TV was what he actually was running for in 2008. He’s preacher third, politician second and unreformed teen-age radio DJ first.

Who, then, might be the Republican presidential nominee in 2012? Oh, dear. The Republican prospects provide Obama’s best chance. Maybe the arrogant and displaced general would want to run.

Rick Fahr, publisher of the Conway Log Cabin Democrat, is a 1988 graduate of Weiner High School.

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Conway communal house La Lucha serves up food, music and social change.

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By Bernard Reed

Again, if you’ve never been to La Lucha, this can sound ridiculous. Even if you have been to La Lucha, and find it pleasantly not what you expected — clean, cozy, a kind of socialist salon — it can still seem hopelessly naive. Leyva and Goicoechea understand that what they’re doing is definitely a “struggle,” Continued on page 24

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f you’ve never been to La Lucha, it’s difficult at first to understand exactly what it is. You could call it a community space, which sounds a bit unusual, even to the more open-minded citizens of Conway, where it’s located.

First off, it’s a house — the home of Sandra Leyva and Shawn Goicoechea, 23 and 24, both of whom graduated from the University of Washington at Seattle in 2008 with degrees in Comparative History of Ideas. After leaving school they traveled for a few months before coming to Conway, where they moved into an ordinary house on the corner of Prince and Donaghey last summer.

Unlike most ordinary homes, however, Leyva and Goicoechea have opened up the bottom floor of their house to the public.

Among other things, they serve food, display works by local artists, and provide a place to play for bands that come through town. They say they’re not running a business, though; they consider La Lucha an effort to bring people together and raise consciousness about local and global issues.

“La Lucha” is Spanish for “the struggle,” and implies the everyday labor to make a living. The name was chosen in the hopes that La Lucha can make a difference in a broader struggle to provoke social change. “We want to find a way to get people together who have similar goals and worldviews,” Goicoechea explained. “Doing that will slowly allow people to form networks that help them accomplish their goals and expand their worldviews.”

TEATIME: Goicoechea and Leyva with their guests. www.arktimes.com • july 1, 2010 17

■ to-dolist

By Lindsey Millar and John Tarpley

TH U R S D AY 7 / 1

THE EAGLES

8 p.m., Verizon Arena. $47-$152

n “Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)” has sold 29 million copies to date.

They were the first band to sell a $100 concert ticket during their 1994 “Hell Freezes Over” tour. They’re inescapable on radio waves. For as successful as their storied career in rock music has been, The Eagles definitely do not rock.

Their spines don’t have LSD scars like Lennon or McCartney’s and there’s not a single Jagger swagger to be found in any of them. It seems the older generation has a tenuous grasp on their group fanaticism towards the band. The younger heads are beyond dismissive of the old, gritless M.O.R. outfit, all while embracing Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan and others from the Eagles’ ilk. What did the Frey, Henley, Walsh and friends ever do to deserve such apathy from so many? How can they be, arguably, the most successful touring act of the last 20 years and maybe the most successful band of the ’70s while still invoking so many shrugs and scoffs? After all, they never claimed to be anything but a troupe of California country musicians and they’ve been unapologetically so for four decades. Is it an overaccessibility that makes them so easy to dismiss and so hard to be fanatical about? I wish I had the answers about the questions that surround the legacy of one of the most bafflingly successful band that’s ever recorded. All I know is that if “Peaceful Easy Feeling,” “Get

SUNNY SIDE UP: Los Angeles architects of summertime pop, Rooney, gig at Juanita’s this Friday. can hit just the right chord in your own subconscious because they’re so deep within it. JT.

FRI D AY 7 /2

WHODINI

8 p.m., Revolution. $25 adv., $30 d.o.s.

n If the jam-packed crowd at the Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick concert in April at Revolution is any indication, Central Arkansas is hungry for old school rap heroes. That’s what local promoter Chris B ow e n i s t h i n k i n g anyway with Whodini, who along with the likes of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and The Fat Boys were among the first rap acts to enjoy a national FREY & CO.: Legendary act The Eagles return to Little Rock following. On one hand, for a show at Verizon Arena. the Brooklyn trio, of Jalil, Ecstasy (who, back Over It” or almost any other piece of in the day, always wore a Zorro-style their PG-rated pop comes over the airhat) and DJ Grandmaster Dee, sounds waves at just the right time, The Eaits age, all plodding and passe rhymes. gles, unlike any other easy-going act, But on the other, dudes had a keen sense 18 july 1, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES

for production and a hook. Even if today we’re growing weary of AutoTune, the vocorder and all other permutations of the robot voice, “Freaks Come Out at Night” remains a jam for the ages.

“Five Minutes of Funk,” too. Look for nostalgia to carry the show. And 607, who grows weirder and stronger as an MC by the minute, opens. Fifty bones gets you what Bowen calls “lavish” VIP treatment. LM

gaining notoriety as the guys behind the outro from “So You Think You Can Dance.” JT.

ROONEY

n I wish all of America’s nutcases were more like Ted Nugent: a ton of guitar feedback-loving, A.D.D. embracing, flaming-bow-and-arrow-shooting whackadoos. The Nuge is one of the most curiously likable guys to strap on a guitar. One part Frank Zappa, one part Jethro Bodine with rightist politics cranked louder than his amps, he’s best known currently as a firebrand for his offstage antics on the Outdoor Channel as host of “Spirit of the Wild” (one of this writer’s all-time favorite guilty pleasures) and his frequent stops on Fox News. But remember when the Motor City Madman was simply the charmingly sociopathic guitar virtuoso who inspired the masses of up and coming shredders? The guy whose hyperactive licks provided the guitar tones of the ’70s? He’s still around and just as fluid. Guitarists, maybe it’s time to pay some respect to the Cat. JT.

9 p.m., Juanita’s. $13 adv., $15 d.o.s.

n These guys are a Frankenstein of every genre you like from the last five decades. They’re a dollop of the ’60s British invasion jingle-jangle, ’70s post-hippie harmony, ’80s new-wave attitude, ’90s college-rock intuition and ’00s indie-pop bop. It’s an effortless melange of influence that’s kept them in studios and on the road since their debut in 2003, which, for the record, opened with one of the best pieces of California-dusted pop of the decade in their Ric Ocasek-produced, Mamas and Papas-in-the-garage single “Blueside.”

They’re joined by The Young Veins, a Kinks-biting (I mean that in the best way) ’60s psych act formed by two ex-pats from baroque emo superstars Panic! At the Disco, and Black Gold, a promising summer pop duo already

S AT UR DAY 7 /3

TED NUGENT

8 p.m., Timberwood Amphitheater. $29.99-$44.99

SAT U R D AY 7 / 3 - SU N D AY 7/4

INDEPENDENCE DAY FAMILY FESTIVAL

9 a.m., Clinton Presidential Center.

Free.

POPS ON THE RIVER

5:30 p.m., Riverfest Amphitheatre. Free

n Downtown Little Rock is bracing itself for what will be a packed weekend of Fourth of July festivities. It kicks off on Saturday at the Clinton Presidential Center with an Independence Day Family Festival. The free family festival on the library grounds features storytellers, magicians and inflatable games, all with a patriotic twist. In addition, the library and guided tours within are open to the public Saturday and Sunday at no cost. The park closes down at 5 p.m. Sunday to make way for the annual Pops on the River celebration at Riverfest Amphitheatre. In its 25th year, the event is expecting to bring out over 25,000 people to hear the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, 8:30 p.m., and see the fireworks show, 9:30 p.m., regularly the largest, loudest and brightest in the entire state. This year also features the finals of the “Oh Say Can You Sing” contest, in which five finalists try to out-Spangle each other for a $1,000 prize; an apple-pie bakeoff; and a dunking booth manned by staffers at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, who yearly sponsor the festival. The festival is free, but they’ll accept donations of cash and non-perishable foods to benefit the Arkansas Foodbank Network. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. JT.

and really have a positive effect. This message is healing people all over.”

LM.

■ inbrief

JOE NICHOLS

n George’s Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville takes part in a nationwide night of benefit shows to aid those directly impacted by the Gulf Coast oil spill. “Coast to Coast” will feature local jam act Mountain of Venus, the roots country of Matt Stell & the Crashers, driving rural pop from Bent Grass Green, neo-soul collective Black Pearl, singer/songwriter Sarah Hughes and tunesmith Tiffany Christopher, 7 p.m.

With songs like “Let’s Go Smoke Some Pot” and “Beertown U.S.A.,” New Orleans frat-bar rock act, Dash Rip Rock, is sure to get the Sticky Fingerz bar rocking, 9:30 p.m., $5. The Gettys headline Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., while acoustic duo Brett & Adam man the deck for the end of the day, 5:30 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m.

7 p.m., Next door to the East End Baptist Church, East End. Donations.

n Joe Nichols, the Rogers native who’s lately been tearing it up on the charts, isn’t exactly a throwback. He’s well coifed, wears an earring and, at least based on his videos, favors the kind of generic rocker-wear that rappers and country stars, but not rockers, love so much.

But in an era where just about every country star, regardless of style, aims for rock ’n’ roll in his sound, Nichols is the rare star who, even at his rowdiest GINGER RASTA: Joseph Israel stirs it up at (“Tequila Makes Her Clothes Revolution.

Fall Off”) or most anthemic his latest EP, will help you along: “This (“Gimme That Girl”), still sounds laid music is like a tree planted by the river back. Which is just what you want to hear of water that brings forth fruit in due at an outdoor show in a vacant lot adjaseason — fruits of Joy, Hope, Unity and cent to the East End Baptist Church. A Healing. I look forward to the day that few days before he plays Magic Springs, the Earth will be restored, no more war, Nichols comes to Saline County to help suffering or strife, only LIFE! I realraise money to rebuild the East End Fire ized instead of just talking about these Department, which was destroyed by a things I could share them through song tornado in May. LM.

W EDN E S D AY 7 / 7

JOSEPH ISRAEL

FRIDAY 7/2

n Taut, traditional bluegrass outfit The Crumbs take to Town Pump for the night, 10 p.m., $3. Downtown Music Hall celebrates new ownership with music from melodic Memphis metalheads Epoch of Unlight, loud, local favorites Iron Tongue, the hardcore metal of A DarkEnd Era and Fort Smith death metal act Macrocosm, 8 p.m., $5. Dance event promoters Allied Kreations invade Sticky Fingerz for “Rhythmic Fusion” with Swedish electro DJ/producer Peo de Pitte, dubstep tracks from Memphis’ N8, house bumpers from Crawley and School of Dub mixer Digital Love, 9 p.m., $10. White Water Tavern turns into a back porch juke-joint with a night of rural dance/party music with long-time local stompers Damn Bullets and their new cohorts, Sad Daddy, 10 p.m., $5.

SATURDAY 7/3

9 p.m., Revolution. $10.

n Bob Dylan, several years back, channeling Charley Patton, dressed like a gay Confederate general. That’s the last time I can remember a whiter display of black face than what Joseph Israel, the Fayetteville-based Rasta man, promises to bring on Wednesday, when he comes to Rev, swingin’ red dreads and singing about “Jah” in patois. Minstrelsy, of course, is one of American music’s oldest traditions, with much great art to show for it: the best of The Rollings Stones’ catalog, The Beastie Boys, Dylan’s latter years, “Porgy and Bess.” And, naturally, much racist, culturally insensitive and just plain silly art, too. Where you put Joseph Israel in that spectrum might depend on your opinion of reggae or your opinion of white jam culture’s embrace of it. Maybe this message, from Israel on his MySpace page about

THURSDAY 7/1

COUNTRY CLASSIC: Joe Nichols brings his understated hits to East End for a fundraiser.

n Heartfelt acoustic college rockers Clayton Jones leaves their native St. Louis for a show at Conway’s Soundstage alongside the James and Matthew Experience (better known as J.A.M.E.), 8 p.m., $5. Southerntinged singer-songwriter Greg Madden visits Town Pump, 10 p.m., $3. Modern rockers McCuin play West End Smokehouse and Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. The Afterthought brings in lady-charming, golden-voiced local soulman William Staggers, 9 p.m., $7.

Midtown Billiards brings in Memphisbased cowpunkers Josephus and the George Jonestown Massacre, 12:30 a.m., $8. Fresh off of an album release, locals Kingsdown head down to Maxine’s in Hot Springs alongside sunshine pop act Free Micah, 9 p.m., $5. The Ted Ludwig Trio wraps up its weekly four-night stint at Capitol Bar & Grill, 9 p.m., free. www.arktimes.com • july 1, 2010 19

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THURSDAY, JULY 1 Music

“Coast to Coast” benefit for the Gulf Oil Spill featuring Mountain of Venus, Matt Stell & the Crashers, Bent Grass Green, Black Pearl, Sarah Hughes, Tiffany Christopher.

George’s Majestic Lounge, 7 p.m. 519 W. Dickson Street, Fayetteville. 479-442-4226.

Dash Rip Rock. Sticky Fingerz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.

The Eagles. Verizon Arena, 8 p.m., $47-$152. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. The Gettys (headliner), Brent & Adam (happy hour). The Afterthought, 5:30 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-6631196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

J-One Presents: “In Too Deep.” Deep Ultra Lounge, 9 p.m. 322 President Clinton Blvd.

Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m., free. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-3242999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

Matt Lieblong. Grumpy’s Too, 9 p.m., free. 1801 Green Mountain Drive. 501-225-9650.

Sy Romallice. Electric Cowboy, 9 p.m., $5. 9515 Interstate 30. 501-562-6000. www.electriccowboy. com.

Silver Service. Town Pump, 10 p.m., $3. 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 501-663-9802.

Summer Solstice Dance Party with DJ Seth Baldy. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. 2500 W. 7th.

501-375-8400. www.myspace.com/whitewatertavern.

The Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free. 111 W. President Clinton Ave. 501-3747474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Thirsty Thursdays. 21 and up. Revolution, 8 p.m. 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090. revroom. com.

Trademark (headliner), Lyle Dudley (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www. cajunswharf.com.

coMedy

The Chinaman. The Loony Bin, 8 p.m., $6-$9.

10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. www.loonybincomedy.com.

events

Hillcrest Sip & Shop. Shops and restaurants offer discounts, later hours, and live music. Hillcrest, First Thursday of every month, 5 p.m. P.O.Box 251522. 501-666-3600. www.hillcrestmerchants. com.

Little Rock Multitap gaming night. A bi-monthly video competition night. ACAC, third Saturday of every month, 6:30 p.m.; first Thursday 20 july 1, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES

HE’S BACK: Arkansas’s king of pop, Kris Allen, is once again playing his home state, this time in his first post-Idol club gig in Arkansas. George’s Majestic in Fayetteville gets the honor the day after the Fourth of July. That’s 8 p.m. Monday, July 5. Tickets are $25 and, at least at press time, were still available. of every month, 6:30 p.m., $5 membership fee. 900 S. Rodney Parham Road. 501-244-2974. www.littlerockmultitap.com.

Miss Arkansas Outstanding Teen Pageant.

For information, visit missteenarkansas.org. Hot Springs Convention Center. 134 Convention Boulevard, Hot Springs. 501-321-2027. www. hotsprings.org.

FilM

“King Corn.” Faulkner County Library, 6:30 p.m., free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www. fcl.org.

RiverFlicks: “The Lovely Bones.” North Shore Riverwalk, 8 p.m., free. Riverwalk Drive, NLR. www. northlittlerock.org.

caMps

Summer Art Camp. Art specialist Mona Brossett will teach printmaking and mosaic to children ages 7-9 (before noon) and 10-12 (afternoon). Ketz Gallery, $110. 705 Main St., NLR, NLR. 501-5296330.

Kids

“Acting for the Singer/Singing for the Actor.” Part of the “Theatre 4 Days” workshop series, this installment teaches musical theater techniques, finding proper voice and how to “sell” a song. Ages 10 and up. RSVP to Angie Gilbert, angshann@comcast.net or 501-416-5463 The Public Theater, 10 a.m., $75. 616 Center St. 374-7529. www.thepublictheatre.com.

At Daybreak, Dig Derby. Vino’s, 7 p.m., $8. 923 W. Seventh St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub. com.

Big John Miller (headliner), Carl & Mia (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-3755351. www.cajunswharf.com.

The Crumbs. Town Pump, 10 p.m., $3. 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 501-663-9802. Midtown Billiards, 7/3, 12:30 a.m., $5 non-members. 1316 Main Street. 501-372-9990. midtownar.com.

Epoch Of Unlight, Iron Tongue, A Darkened Era, Macrocosm. Downtown Music Hall, 8 p.m., $5. 215 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownshows.homestead.com.

First Class Fridays. Bill St. Grill and Pub, 9 p.m.

614 President Clinton Ave. 501-353-1724.

Gin River Outlaws. Denton’s Trotline, 9 p.m., $5.

2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717.

Keith Lewis & Gil Franklin. The Honey Hut, 9 p.m. 3723 MacArthur Drive, NLR. Kepi Ghoulie, Pets. Low Key Arts, 9 p.m., $5.

118 Arbor St., Hot Springs.

Mr. Happy. Fox And Hound, 10 p.m., $5. 2800 Lakewood Village, NLR. 501-753-8300.

Paul Sammons. Underground Pub, 9 p.m., $5.

500 President Clinton Ave. 501-707-2537. www. undergroundpub.com.

Peo de Pitte, N8, Crawley, Digital Love.

Sticky Fingerz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $10. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.

Ramona & Carl. The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7.

2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

Reggae Fusion. Reno’s Argenta Cafe, 9 p.m., $5. 312 N. Main St., NLR. 501-376-2900. www. renosargentacafe.com.

Rooney, The Young Veins, Black Gold. 18 plus. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $13 adv., $15 d.o.s. 1300 S. Main St. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

Sideshow Tragedy, Jonathan Wilkins.

Maxine’s, 9 p.m., $5. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com.

Sky Eats Airplane, Safe to Shore, The Science of Sleep, Fear the Aftermath, My Hands to War. The Village, 7 p.m., $12 adv., $15 d.o.s. 3915 S. University Ave. 501-570-0300. www. thevillagelive.com.

Damn Bullets, Sad Daddy. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www. myspace.com/whitewatertavern.

The Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m. 111 W. President Clinton Ave. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Voodoo Sauce. Markham Street Grill And Pub, 9 p.m., $5. 11321 W. Markham St. 501-224-2010. www.markhamst.com.

White Collar Criminals. West End Smokehouse and Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. 215 N. Shackleford.

501-224-7665. www.westendsmokehouse.net.

Whodini, 607, Tawanna Campbell, Rodney Block. 18 plus. Revolution, 8 p.m., $25 adv., $30 d.o.s., $50 V.I.P. 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090. revroom.com.

coMedy

The Chinaman. The Loony Bin, 8 p.m., $6-$9.

10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. www.loonybincomedy.com.

events

Lights Over the Lake. Conway’s annual Fourth of July celebration brings fireworks and music by Loose Ends and the Conway Symphony Orchestra.

Lake Beaverfork Park, 7 p.m., free. Hwy. 25, Conway. 501-450-6186.

Mandolin Making Demonstration. Ozark Folk Center State Park, 10 a.m. p.m., $6-$10. 1032 Park Avenue, Mountain View.

Miss Arkansas Outstanding Teen Pageant.

For information, visit missteenarkansas.org. Hot Springs Convention Center. 134 Convention Blvd., Hot Springs. 501-321-2027. www.hotsprings.org.

Oaklawn Spa Blast 2010 Fourth of July Celebration. A patriotic celebration with fireworks, live music, mini-air show, rock walls and a family fun park. Oaklawn, 5 p.m. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-623-4411. www.oaklawn.com.

UpcOMiNg EvENTS Concert tickets through Ticketmaster by phone at 975-7575 or online at www.ticketmaster.com unless otherwise noted.

JUNE 16-JULY 3: Arkansas Shakespeare Festival. The annual festival presents “Comedy of Errors,” “Henry V,” “Dracula” and “Alice in Wonderland.” $20. UCA, Conway.

501-269-4815, arkshakes.com.

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

JULY 29: Justin Bieber, Sean Kingston.

7 p.m., $31-$51. Verizon Arena, NLR. 800-7453000, www.ticketmaster.com.

JULY 20: WWE Smackdown. 6:30 p.m., $17-$62. Verizon Arena. 800-745-3000, verizonarena.com.

AUG. 10: Built to Spill. 8:30 p.m. The Village, 3915 S. University. 570-0300, thevillagelive.com.

SEPT. 30: Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato.

7 p.m., $40-$93, V.I.P. Verizon Arena, NLR. 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com.

OCT. 7-9: Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival. B.B. King, Dr. John, Taj Mahal and many more. $25. Downtown Helena. bluesandheritagefest.com.

SATURDAY, JULY 3 Music

Alan Hunt Band. Fox And Hound, 10 p.m., $5.

2800 Lakewood Village, NLR. 501-753-8300.

Charles Woods & Jess Hoggard Band. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. 2500 W. 7th. 501-3758400. www.myspace.com/whitewatertavern.

Clayton Jones, J.A.M.E., Tate Smith.

Soundstage, 8 p.m., $6. 1008 Oak St., Conway.

Down 2 Five (headliner), Greg Madden (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m.

2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com.

Greg Madden. Town Pump, 10 p.m., $3. 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 501-663-9802.

Hickory Hill. William Carl Garner Visitor Center, 7 p.m., free. 700 Heber Springs Road, Heber Springs.

Jeb Harrison. Reno’s Argenta Cafe, 9 p.m., $5.

312 N. Main St., NLR. 501-376-2900. www.renosargentacafe.com.

Josephus and the George Jonestown Massacre. Midtown Billiards, 12:30 a.m., $5 non-members. 1316 Main Street. 501-372-9990. midtownar.com.

Keith Lewis & Gil Franklin. The Honey Hut, 9 p.m. 3723 MacArthur Drive, NLR. Kingsdown, Free Micah, Johnny Rocket.

Maxine’s, 9 p.m., $5. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com.

McCuin. West End Smokehouse and Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. 215 N. Shackleford. 501-224-7665. www. westendsmokehouse.net.

Ryan McCormack. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 8 p.m., $5. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub.com.

Stillhouse. Denton’s Trotline, 9 p.m., $5. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717.

The Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m. 111 W. President Clinton Ave. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Ted Nugent. Magic Springs-Timberwood Amphitheater, 8 p.m., $34.99-$40.99. 1701 E. Grand Ave., Hot Springs.

William Staggers. The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7.

2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

coMedy

The Chinaman. The Loony Bin, 8 p.m., $6-$9.

10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. www.loonybincomedy.com.

dance

“From the Wings” Dance Recital. The Center for the DansArts and the Tidwell Project Ensemble perform 28 dances, three of which are premieres by locals. Robinson Center Music Hall, 3 p.m., $11-$15.

Markham and Broadway. www.littlerockmeetings.

com/conv-centers/robinson/.

events

Argenta Foodie Festival. Some of Arkansas’ favorite restaurants and catering companies showcase their specialties, made with fresh, locally grown foods. Music from Steve Bates and Ricky D & the Swing Shift. Argenta Market, 9 a.m. 521 N. Main St., NLR. 501-379-9980. www.argentamarket.com.

Certified Arkansas Farmers Market. A weekly outdoor market featuring produce, meats and other foods from Arkansas farmers. Argenta Market, through Oct. 17. 7 a.m., free. 521 N. Main St., NLR. 501-379-9980. www.argentamarket. com.

Civil Rights in Little Rock Bike Tour. A seven-mile tour around important local civil rights landmarks. Visit www.nps.gov/chsc for more information. Central High School Museum Visitor Center, 10 a.m.. Daisy Bates and Park Sts. 501-374-1957.

Farmers Market. River Market Pavilions, 7 a.m.

400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info.

Independence Day Family Festival. The Clinton Center’s annual family festival returns, featuring storytellers, magicians, live music and more. Clinton Presidential Center, 9 a.m., free. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-370-8000.

Mandolin Making Demonstration. Ozark Folk Center State Park, 10 a.m., $6-$10. 1032 Park Ave., Mountain View.

Super Summer Saturdays. Programs and activities related to the Center’s Summer exhibit, “Nature Unleashed.” Clinton Presidential Center, 10 a.m., free. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-3708000.

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“Symphony For the Devil.” Downtown Music Hall, 9 p.m., free. 215 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownshows.homestead.com.

SUNDAY, JULY 4 Music

Gil Franklin and Friends. The Honey Hut, 9 p.m., free. 3723 MacArthur Drive, NLR. Jazz Extreme Big Band, David Rosen Orchestra. Arkansas School for the Blind, 6 p.m., donations. 2600 W. Markham.

Rob Moore. Cregeen’s Irish Pub, 9 p.m., free.

301 Main St., NLR. 501-376-7468. www.cregeens. com.

Successful Sundays with Tawanna Campbell and Dell Smith. Ernie Biggs, 8 p.m., $10 early admission. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Sunday Jazz Brunch with Ted Ludwig and Joe Cripps. Vieux Carre, 11 a.m.. 2721 Kavanuagh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.vieuxcarrecafe.com.

events

Fourth of July Picnic. Arkansas Women’s Action for New Directions and the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum host their annual July 4 picnic and silent auction. Music by Sad Daddy featuring Joe Sundell. Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum, 6:30 p.m., $25. 120 Riverfront Park Drive, NLR. 501-371-8320. www.aimm.museum/.

Fun on the Fourth. Park interpreters throw an Independence Day festival with watermelon seed spitting contests, water balloon volleyball, relay races and more. Pinnacle Mountain State Park, 10 a.m. p.m., free. 11901 Pinnacle Valley Road.

501-868-5806.

Pops on the River. The state’s largest Independence Day celebration features food, drinks, fireworks and a performance by the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. Riverfest Amphitheater, 5:30 p.m., free. 400 President Clinton Ave.

MONDAY, JULY 5 Music

Arkansas String Band Week. A four-day workshop for stringed instrument musicians featuring guests Clarke Buehling, Matt Brown, Dan Levenson and Lukas Pool. Orientation begins at 8 a.m. on Monday, July 5. Register at ozarkfolkcenter.com.

Ozark Folk Center State Park, $160 full admission.

1032 Park Ave, Mountain View.

Kris Allen. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9 p.m., $25.

519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226.

Richie Johnson. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free.

2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajun-

swharf.com.

Live Music

TUESDAY, JULY 6 Music

Arkansas String Band Week. See July 5.

Brian & Nick. The Afterthought, 5:30 p.m., free.

2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

Ivoryline. Vino’s, 7 p.m., $10. 923 W. Seventh St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m., free. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-3242999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

Karaoke Tuesday. The Prost, 8 p.m., free. 120 Ottenheimer. 501-244-9550.

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

501-315-1717.

Mary Bell’s Day of Doom. Downtown Music Hall, 8 p.m., $5. 215 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownshows.homestead.com.

Steele Jessup. Grumpy’s Too, 9 p.m., free. 1801 Green Mountain Drive. 501-225-9650.

Tequila Tuesdays with DJ Hy-C. Bill St. Grill and Pub, 8:30 p.m. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-353-1724.

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dance

“Latin Night!.” Revolution, 7 p.m., $5 regular, $7 under 21. 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090. www.revroom.com.

events

Certified Arkansas Farmers Market. See July 3.

Farmers Market. River Market Pavilions, 7 a.m..

400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info.

The ROOT Cafe “Canning Kitchen” Summer Workshop. ROOT’s third annual summer series of food preservation workshops. Christ Episcopal Church, 6:30 p.m., $10. 509 Scott St. 501-3752342.

UALR Children International Summer Camp’s “Goods for Good” Sale. Culmination of the annual “Mind Your Own Business” entrepreneurial summer camp. 150 campers will sell goods from their own businesses. All proceeds to towards scholarships at UALR. River Market Pavilions, 8:30 a.m. p.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info.

Books

Frank Jones. The local storyteller gives three of his stories, “How I Helped Win World War II,” “Revival at Antioch Church” and “The Possum Bird.” Faulkner County Library, 7 p.m. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www.fcl.org.

classes

TUESDAY, JULY 6 SeniorNet Computing Classes for Seniors.

Computer classes designed to teach seniors computer literacy to be held in the UAMS Institute of Aging, Room 1155. The courses include “Exploring Windows Vista,” 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.; “Quicken,” noon-2 p.m.; “Intro to Computers,” 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Call 603-1262 for more details. University of Arkansas Medical School, through July 29. UAMS Campus.

ThURSDAY, JULY 8 SeniorNet Computing Classes for Seniors.

See July 6.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 7 Music

40 Oz. to Freedom. 18 plus. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $7 adv., $10 d.o.s. 1300 S. Main St. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

Acoustic Open Mic with Kat Hood. The Afterthought, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd.

501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

Arkansas String Band Week. See July 5.

Becoming the Archetype, Before There Was Rosalyn, Believe The Hype, Legend Has It. Downtown Music Hall, 8 p.m., $8 adv., $10 d.o.s. 215 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownshows.homestead.com.

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Panda.” Also, River Flicks finishes earlier n There’s nothing wrong with a little — July 8 — with the rescheduled showing rivalry, especially concerning things that of “The Blind Side.” Movies in the Park don’t really matter in the long run. So it continues until Aug. 4. goes with Little Rock and North Little Expect on both sides, of course, the Rock’s free outdoor movie series, Movies usual riffraff that show up at events tagged in the Park and River Flicks, respectively. as “free” and “family-friendly.” Movies in They’re virtually the same, but if you the Park gets a win — or loss depending on want to tout one over another, here’s our your perspective — for teen-agers engaging nitpicking glance at both of them. in PDA, while River Flicks is overrun with Movies in the Park is decidedly on kids blindly wandering around with their top when it comes to size and attendance. phones out The Riverfest — sexting, no Amphitheatre doubt. There is simply larger, are lots of and Movies in wailing babies, the Park has too, but at least been around for the most longer to build part they stay up a reputaput. And don’t tion that helps mind the loose it bring thouchildren; both sands from far are popular and wide. Plus, spots for it’s in the River parents to drop Market, where them off when it can pull in they need some stragglers who alone time. were downAs far as town anyway concessions with nothing go, it’s a tie. else to do. River Golden Nugget Flicks doesn’t Kettle Corn have the same i s e n j oy i n g ease of access a monopoly. to wandering They sell a large pedestrians, and box of popcorn the space, in a for $5 and a grassy amphismaller one theater on the for $2, but you North Shore R i v e r w a l k , STILL TO COME: “Wedding Crashers” (top) at can bring your isn’t as big. Movies in the Park and “The Blind Side” at River own snacks and beverages It’s packed, but Flicks. as well. With with hundreds, what could have been the clincher, both not thousands. allow alcohol as long as it’s not in a glass The screen also appears to be slightly container. In other words, pre-game at The bigger at Movies in the Park. River Flicks Flying Saucer and bring along a flask. boasts the brightness of its projector River Flicks folks, it goes without saying, — 10,000 lumen — which is brighter be vigilant around the cops. than Movies in the Park’s 6,000 lumen For attendees not so involved in paying projector. The quality of sound is the attention to the movie, River Flicks has same at both, though audiophiles might one hard-to-beat bonus: a pretty nice view complain of subtle differences depending of the Little Rock skyline. At Movies in on whether they’re watching something the Park the only distraction is traffic on action-packed, relying on explosive sound the I-30 bridge. effects, or a plain old romantic comedy.

So which will you attend? Both, if Various genres of film are offered on you’re up for two outdoor movies in both sides of the river, when it comes to summer in Arkansas. Just don’t forget what you want to see. Both have familyabout your Netflix subscription. friendly lineups, but not so much so that Movies in the Park is every Wednesday stray college students might be repelled. night at the amphitheater; seating begins at Movies in the Park seems to cater to a 6:30 p.m. and the movie starts after dark. broader crowd, and includes “Wedding River Flicks is every Thursday at dark at Crashers,” which, though slapstick, is the North Shore Riverwalk, which opens perhaps a bit lewd for the same audience at 7 p.m. that would be delighted by “Kung Fu

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Continued from page 21 Fire and Brimstone. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-3755351. www.cajunswharf.com.

Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m., free. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-3242999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

Joseph Israel. All ages. Revolution, 9 p.m., $10.

300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090. revroom. com.

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

501-315-1717.

Lucious Spiller Band. Sticky Fingerz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.

Righteous Vendetta, Die to Yourself, Jerusalem, Harp & Lyre, Poisonwood, Still Reign. Soundstage, 8 p.m., $6. 1008 Oak St., Conway.

Sad Daddy. Maxine’s, 9 p.m., $5. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com.

The Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free. 111 W. President Clinton Ave. 501-3747474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG.

Comedy

Matt Davis. The Loony Bin, 8 p.m., $6-$9. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. www.loonybincomedy. com.

Film

Movies in the Park — “Sixteen Candles.”

Park opens at 6:30 p.m. Riverfront Park, free. 400 President Clinton Avenue. www.moviesintheparklr. net.

THURSDAY, JULY 8 musiC

Arkansas String Band Week. See July 5.

Carla Case Band. Town Pump, 10 p.m., $3. 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 501-663-9802.

Charliehorse, Sad Daddy. Sticky Fingerz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz. com.

Cheap Thrills. Markham Street Grill And Pub, 9 p.m., $5. 11321 W. Markham St. 501-224-2010. www.markhamst.com.

Chris Henry. Grumpy’s Too, 9 p.m., free. 1801 Green Mountain Drive. 501-225-9650.

Dirtfoot. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9 p.m., $5. 519 W. Dickson Street, Fayetteville. 479-4424226.

J-One Presents: “In Too Deep.” Deep Ultra Lounge, 9 p.m. 322 President Clinton Blvd.

Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m., free. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-3242999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

Nick Flora, Jarred McCauley. Maxine’s, 9 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com.

Dr. Rex Bell Jazz Trio. The Afterthought, 8 p.m., $5. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com.

The Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free. 111 W. President Clinton Ave. 501-3747474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Thirsty Thursdays. 21 and up. Revolution, 8 p.m. 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090. revroom. com.

Tyler St., Conway. www.fcl.org.

sports

A r k a n s a s Tr a v e l e r s v s . M i d l a n d RockHounds. Dickey-Stephens Park, 7:10 p.m., $6-$12. 400 W Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-7559. www.travs.com.

Classes

SeniorNet Computing Classes for Seniors.

See July 6.

GALLeRieS, MUSeUMS New exhibits, upcoming events ACAC GALLERY, 900 S. Rodney Parham: New paintings by John Kushmaul, opens with reception 6-9 p.m. July 2, closes July 31. 2-6 p.m.

Tue.-Fri., noon-4 p.m. Sat. 479-466-1235.

ARKANSAS INLAND MARITIME MUSEUM, NLR: New summer hours for touring the USS Razorback submarine are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Wed.-Sat.,

1-6 p.m. Sun. 371-8320.

BOSWELL-MOUROT FINE ART, 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd.: New work by 25 national, international and Arkansas artists, highlighting mixed media on canvas work of Darlyne Chauve, July 1-Aug. 31. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Sat. 664-0030.

CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER, 1200 President Clinton Ave.: “Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters,” interactive displays and animation on earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes and tornadoes from the Earth in the Field Museum, through Sept. 6; standing exhibits about policies and White House life during the Clinton administration. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m.

Sun. $7 adults; $5 college students, seniors, retired military; $3 ages 6-17. 370-8000.

HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM, 200 E. Third St.: “Frontier Fourth of July,” 2-4 p.m. July 4, living history performances, arts and crafts, reading of the Declaration of Independence, parade, watermelon and lemonade; “You Fit into Me: Works by

David Carpenter and Lindsey Maestri,” through Sept.

5; “Unprivate Mail: Arkansas Postcards and Cryptic Messages,” through Sept. 26; “John Chiaromonte and Maribeth Anders: The Responsibility of Internal Forces,” through Aug. 8. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $2.50 adults, $1.50, $1 children for tours of grounds. 324-9351.

MID-AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM, 500 Mid-America Blvd.: “Be the Dinosaur,” life-like animatronic dinosaurs, through Sept. 6. 501-7673461 or 800-632-0583.

SALON UNDERGROUND, 2821 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “More Selections from the Estate of Howard S. Stern,” paintings, prints and photographs by Leonard Baskin, Carroll Cloar, Selma Blackburn, Frank Freed, Hiroyuki Tajima, Sheila Parsons, Douglas Walton, Marjorie Williams-Smith, Jason Williamson and Stern, opens with reception 5-9 p.m. July 1, continues to July 31.

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Clinton Presidential Center Independence Day Weekend Free Activities Independence Day Family Festival Sat., July 3 – 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Features entertainment for children and adults alike with storytellers, magicians, inflatable games, and major toy giveaways.

Free Admission on Independence Day Weekend Sat., July 3 – 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. • Sun., July 4 – 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Admission at the Clinton Library and audio tours narrated by President Clinton are free. Enjoy the Center's newest exhibit, “Nature Unleashed: Earthquakes & Hurricanes.” Be the first to try the new Hurricane Simulator! Experience 78 miles per hour hurricane winds!

Comedy

Matt Davis. The Loony Bin, 8 p.m., $6-$9. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. www.loonybincomedy. com.

events

7th Annual National Shape Note Gathering.

A gathering of Sacred Harp singers and those interested in the unusual Appalachian technique. For more information, contact ozarkfolkcenter.com.

Ozark Folk Center State Park. 1032 Park Ave., Mountain View.

leCtures

“Conway’s Native Prairie: Past, Present, and Future.” Katherine Larson and graduate students from the biology department at UCA will describe the existing prairie at the Jewel Moore Nature Reserve. For more information, call 501-3277482. Faulkner County Library, 7 p.m., free. 1900

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n booknotes

By Lindsey MiLLar

n Conway writers Janie and Wyatt Jones have a new book that you should probably pick up if you appreciate oddball Arkansas factoids and have a high threshold for puns. Their “Arkansas Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff” ($15.95, Globe Pequot Press, paperback) leaves no quirky stone uncovered, with entries on everything from the Fouke Monster and the Sauropod footprint in Nashville to the world’s largest wind chime in Eureka Springs. But, really, get ready for corny jokes aplenty. On the first page, you’re greeted with this gem: “Batesville … home to the Scottish Festival, where men in kilts air out their differences — and their women hope for a good strong, wind.” n El Dorado’s Richard Mason will release “Lyin’ Like a Dog,” the sequel to his novel “The Red Scarf,” on July 15, through his own Gibraltar Press. Like the first book, “Lyin’” draws heavily from Mason’s childhood in Norphlet, “a time of brown, sunburned feet and shirtless summers, when a boy’s only entertainment was his imagination.” Mason plans to follow the new release with another novel, “The Warlord’s Daughter, Love and War

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A&E NEws in Afghanistan,” based on his son’s special forces missions in Afghanistan. n Little Rock historian and preservationist Mark Christ’s book “Civil War Arkansas 1863: The Battle for a State,” published in March by the University of Oklahoma Press ($34.55, hard cover), is the winner of the 2010 Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, an annual prize given to a work on Southern history. n The University of Arkansas Press celebrates its 30th anniversary this fall with a varied slate of offerings.

Among the highlights: “One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature,” which the press bills as the most comprehensive collection of Afghan American writers today; a contemporary boxing anthology, “Boxing Is …: Reflections on the Sweet Science” by Thomas Hauser, one of the sport’s most respected vo i c e s , a n d B r o c k Thompson’s provocative study of gay and lesbian life in Arkansas in the 20th century, “The Un-Natural State: Arkansas and the Queer South.” n If you’re still feeling sore that your nomination of Charles Portis’ name for the parapet of the Central Arkansas Library System’s Main Library 15 years ago wasn’t successful, here’s another chance.

The library is once again holding a nomination and election process to determine which writers will be incorporated, if not for eternity, for a long time, into the design of the soon-to-be remodeled fifth floor of the main library, which will become the library’s reading room. Nominations may be made online at www.cals.org or on forms available at all branches through July 31.

A committee of scholars will then whittle the list down to 100 writers, for whom the public will then have an opportunity to vote from Sept. 20 through Oct. 15.

The criteria for eligibility includes sensible things like “Must have been or be real.” Get the full list at cals.org.

New on Rock Candy

n Graham Gordy, the Little Rock screenwriter behind “War Eagle, Arkansas,” is close to selling a TV show to AMC. The cable network bought the pilot and, according to Gordy, is near making a deal for the entire show.

Here’s how The Hollywood Reporter described it last week: “ ‘The Wreck,’ set in the world of Southern college football, centers on the high-profile head coach of a once-legendary team that has just finished a losing season. The school gives the coach one last chance to turn the team into winners or he’s fired.”

Gordy co-created the drama with Michael Fuller, a writer for “The Soup.” John Lee Hancock, fresh from directing Sandra Bullock in an Oscar-winning role in “The Blind Side,” is on board as executive producer.

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Continued from page 17 and they have the 20-something gusto to make even just a splash of difference in a oceanic world.

And why in Conway? Leyva and Goicoechea originally considered small college towns all over the country, and almost decided on Fayetteville. Then they discovered Conway, and chose to move there because it had the lowest cost of living near a student population.

Experiments like La Lucha are probably far more common in bigger cities, where sustainable living efforts are more popular and easier to achieve. But Leyva and Goicoechea said that to get people interested and involved, they wanted to start with something small but still meaningful. In this case, food and music, and so far they’ve been successful.

“Food has a really good way of bringing people together, and it ties in with many of the bigger problems in the world,” Goicoechea said. Each day they offer a different dish, always tasty and varied — one day tempura vegetables, zucchini bread the next, and another day, blueberry pancakes. What’s more, the food is prepared with local and in-season ingredients.

“Serving food was one of our original intentions, and when we went shopping for ingredients, we wanted to make sure to buy products that agreed with our values,” Leyva said. Since it’s opened, La Lucha has become involved with Conway’s local food scene, and acts as an alternative pick-up location for Conway Locally Grown, a system that lets customers buy local produce and meat online. It’s also the meeting place for the Conway branch of Green Drinks, a group of people who take part in local environmental politics.

La Lucha is never crowded — Leyva said she typically only cooks meals for five or six people a day — although groups of friends will come in all at once to drink

GORDY: Pitching to AMC.

tea, flip through ’zines, and just hang out.

There are no set prices, but visitors are highly encouraged to give back, either by pitching in with money, time, or talent.

Another draw is the shows that La Lucha books. Touring bands are not paid to play, but there’s usually a crowd, and they are given food and a place to stay. La Lucha takes itself seriously as a venue, and wants the bands that perform to be able to have an audience that is willing to listen to their music.

“Music is another way to reinforce the sense of community, and we want to make sure that shows don’t become parties where the focus isn’t on listening to the band,” Leyva said.

This is also why La Lucha is not just another node on the house show circuit that is so popular in Little Rock. It’s not a place to come party – they can’t serve alcohol, since Faulkner County is dry, and they don’t let guests bring alcohol to events.

And although they appeal to a fairly hipster crowd, the types of people who come through the door are diverse. Groups like Green Drinks attract older, more professional types, and not all the music played there is from the scene that wears skinny jeans and V-neck tees. “We want a lot of different people,” Goicoechea said. “That’s the only way we can be successful.”

Community and consciousness: These are the two strongest ideas behind La Lucha.

It is a space where food, art and information can intersect. It is a space for people to learn about their roles as consumers in a world powered by big industries and fast food. “We don’t want people to have the illusion that they have unlimited choice or freedom when it comes to their purchasing power,” said Goicoechea. “We want them to realize that by being conscious of what they consume, they are able to understand their impact on the world.”

La Lucha, 2035 Prince St., is open noon to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. It’s on the web at laluchaspace.com.

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HALF PINT BRAWLERS Wednesdays at 10 p.m.

Spike TV n When Arkansas Times entertainment editor Lindsey Millar said he only had a small space for The Televisionist this week, I told him that was good, because I had a show about small people (rimshot!). Straight from Reality Show Hell — which, in recent years, has become more of a freak show than a documentary-style examination of anything approaching a normal person’s “reality” — comes Spike’s “Half Pint Brawlers.” The show follows the fortunes of a midget wrestling team (yes, I said midget, because that’s what they call themselves) that tours incessantly, putting on matches at bars and festivals all over. Though the concept sounds a little weird, the show actually turns out to be fairly entertaining.

The most interesting thing about their adventures might be how normal it all seems. Once you get over the fact that most of these guys aren’t tall enough to ride the roller coaster at Disneyland, they seem a lot like what you’d expect a group of unattached young men living on the road and performing before roaring crowds would be like — which is to say: Wild, horny, often naked, and willing to eat or drink just about anything. Though the current trend of scripting purportedly unscripted shows is clearly in effect in places here, the show’s leads have a real sense of self and that shines through. Watching them grab life by the cohones is a lot of fun, not to mention kind of inspiring for all us tall folks. Definitely a guilty pleasure. Check it out.

— David Koon

‘HALF-PINT BRAWLERS’: Midget wrestling takes center stage.

TRUCKIN’ ON: The DBTs sweated through at Rev.

‘Dracula’

Arkansas Shakespeare Festival June 25, Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA

n The Arkansas Shakespeare Festival has made a habit out of throwing curveballs in its annual salute to The Bard. One of this year’s examples was especially exciting to Yours Truly, given that I was a vampire lit freak long before anybody heard of “Twilight” or Sookie Stackhouse. Then again, it’s hard to think of a better pairing than Shakespeare and Bram Stoker. Both wrote well about bloodsuckers, though ol’ Bram’s were of the literal variety while Shakespeare’s were much more apt to be feeding on more figurative heartsmilk.

In short: All those hours drilling actors on Shakespeare leading up to the festival have paid off in spades for “Dracula,” which turns out to be a genuinely thrilling time at the theater.

Though the sets by veteran designer Doug Gilpin are spare, rich lighting and sound — along with a tiered stage and sometimes-transparent-sometimes-opaque curtains — make the production lush and more mysterious. That deep stage and gauzy curtain are used to great effect in scenes dealing with flashbacks to Jonathan Harker’s torturous sojourn in Transylvania as a guest of the Count.

The acting, as with all the Shakespeare Festival productions I’ve seen, is first rate.

One clear standout is Greyson Lewis as Renfield, who plays Dracula’s John the Baptist with a flailing, Puck-like glee. Also fine are Tracie Thomason as Mina and Paul Saylor as Harker, both of them navigating

the slippery slope from carefree and in love to terrified and hunted believably enough to create suspense. Nathan Hosner is also good as Count Dracula, though we don’t see much of him. As in the book, Dracula is often the imagined threat lurking just out of the edge of the light, and that works here to good effect.

The production could have been more adventurous with the character of Dracula.

Hosner is decked out in a version of the classic Dracula garb, with red waistcoat and black cape, and is clearly channeling Bela Lugosi’s famous performance. The effect, in this post-”Twilight” world, is to leave the Granddaddy of All Vamps looking dated and campy. A bit more of a dark and subdued look and mannerism could have added a new facet to the character without adding a word.

Even at that, “Dracula” is a good time at the theater, full of fine performances and satisfying stagecraft. Unlike its namesake, it definitely does not suck.

“Dracula” concludes at Reynolds Hall 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 1, and 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 3.

— David Koon

The Drive-By Truckers June 25, Revolution

n The Drive-by Truckers literally rocked the lights out last Friday night at the Rev Room. About four or five songs into the set, all the power to the band’s instruments shut down. The microphones and a few lights were the only thing on stage that had

power. Technicians and roadies clamored around behind the stage trying to figure out what went wrong while the band just stood around, not really knowing what to do. And did I mention the AC was out too?

You could feel the cool air being sucked out of the room as Mike Cooley, one of the band’s songwriter/guitarists, told the crowd to “just settle down, now.”

The band handled the situation very well though, keeping the increasingly hot/drunk crowd under control. Cooley let everybody know that “something blew the fuck up,” before asking, “All right, who wants to wrestle?”

After a couple of minutes of banter, the Truckers launched into an a cappella version of “Bulldozers and Dirt.” It was one of those live music moments that those in the audience will likely not forget, the crowd and the band singing as one big, harmonizing voice, beer bottles raised.

After a short break, the power came back to the amplifiers — but not the air conditioning — and the band soldiered through a sweat-soaked set including a number of tunes from their new album “The Big To-Do” and other crowd-pleasers like “Where the Devil Don’t Stay.” To say that it was hot in there was an understatement. Everyone wiped sweat from their brow between swigs of beer, but the humid air couldn’t damper their spirits, or the band’s. The Truckers seemed to feed off the heat, rip-roaring through a two and a half hour set that left the crowd drenched, but happy, after seeing one of the better rock shows to come through Little Rock since the last time the band was in town.

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NEW MOVIES Holy Rollers (R) — The true story of a young, Hasidic Jew who gets caught up in an international Ecstasy smuggling ring. Market Street: 2:15, 4:20, 7:15, 9:20.

The Last Airbender (PG) — M. Night Shyamalan adapts the hugely successful action cartoon about four magical defenders of the elements.

Breckenridge: 11:00, 11:30, 1:25, 1:55, 4:15, 4:45, 7:15, 7:45, 9:40, 10:10. Lakewood: 11:15, 1:45, 4:25, 7:15, 10:00. Rave: 1:45, 2:45, 7:15, 10:15 (2D); 12:00, 1:05, 2:45, 3:50, 5:30, 6:45, 8:15, 9:45, 10:45 (3D) Ondine (PG-13) — This modern fairy tale sees an Irish fisherman and his daughter finding themselves changed by a woman who may or may not be a mermaid. Market Street: 1:45, 4:00, 6:45, 9:00.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (PG-13) — The third installment of the “Twilight” series finds Bella graduating high school, torn between vampire Edward and werewolf Jacob. Breckenridge: 11:15, 1:10, 1:40, 2:10, 4:05, 4:35, 5:05, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:55, 10:25, 10:55. Lakewood: 10:50, 11:20, 1:30, 2:00, 4:10, 4:40, 7:00, 7:30, 9:45, 10:15. Rave: 11:00, 12:30, 1:200, 1:30, 2:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00.

RETURNING THIS WEEK The A-Team (PG-13) — Four former Special Forces soldiers look to clear their name with the U.S. military after finding themselves framed and on the lam. Breckenridge: 11:45, 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30. Lakewood: 7:25, 9:55. Rave: 1:20, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10.

Alice in Wonderland (PG) — Tim Burton’s 3D sequel to the Carroll classic finds Alice back in the rabbit hole as a rebellious 19-year-old. Movies 10: 2:35, 7:35.

Animalopolis (NR) — A half-hour film of goofy animals being goofy in enormous 3D. Aerospace IMAX: 11:00, 7:00 Fri.; 1:00, 3:00, 7:00 Sat. The Back-Up Plan (PG-13) — Jennifer Lopez stars as a single woman who meets the man of her dreams hours after artificially conceiving twins.

Movies 10: 12:05, 5:05, 10:05.

Clash of the Titans (PG-13) — Perseus, son of Zeus, leads a band of warriors into uncharted dimensions while attempting to defeat the evil Hades, God of the Underworld. Movies 10: 12:25, 2:50, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15.

Date Night (PG-13) — When a bored couple tries for a romantic evening in New York City, a case of mistaken identity sends them off into a night of danger. Movies 10: 12:30, 3:00, 5:20, 7:30, 9:55.

Death at a Funeral (PG-13) — A funeral for a family patriarch goes haywire, being constantly disrupted by a series of accidents, missteps, idiocy and blackmail. Movies 10: 1:00, 3:10, 5:35, 7:55, 10:20.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (PG) — Greg, a 6th-grade runt, can’t stand the ceaseless bullying, wedgies and swirlies he puts up with at school, so he retreats to his journal and his imagination. Movies 10: 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40.

Get Him to the Greek (R) — A dopey record company intern finds himself caught in a drug-andsex-fueled caper as he tries to bring an unruly British rock star to America. Rave: 8:10, 10:50.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (R) — When a shabby pair of investigators look into a decadesold missing person case, they discover grotesque family secrets. Market Street: 1:30, 4:15, 7:00.

Grown Ups (PG-13) — Five old basketball teammates act like kids again after their high school coach passes away. Breckenridge: 11:35, 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:35. Lakewood: 11:05, 1:35, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50. Rave: 11:05, 11:30, 12:40, 1:40, 2:40, 3:20, 4:20, 5:20, 6:40, 7:20, 8:05, 9:15, 9:55, 10:55.

Harry Brown (R) — A Marine veteran and modest Brit seeks vengeance after his best friend is murdered by a pack of thugs. Market Street: 2:00, 4:20.

How to Train Your Dragon (PG) — A timid young Viking, raised to slay dragons by his heroic father, ends up befriending one he tried to slay. Movies 10: 12:00, 1:05, 2:20, 3:25, 4:40, 5:45, 7:00, 9:05, 9:20, 10:25.

Just Wright (PG) — A physical therapist finds herself falling for the professional basketball player in her care. Movies 10: 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:50.

The Karate Kid (PG) — A reboot of the 1985 classic sees the Kid as a Detroit-transplant in China, learning kung fu from the hand of his apartment maintenance man. Breckenridge: 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15. Lakewood: 10:50, 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10.

Knight and Day (PG-13) — When a spy realizes he wasn’t supposed to survive his last assignment, he teams with an unassuming stranger to escape.

Breckenridge: 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20. Lakewood: 10:55, 1:30, 4:15, 7:30, 10:00. Rave: 11:50, 1:15, 2:30, 4:10, 5:10, 6:55, 7:55, 9:35, 10:35.

The Last Song (PG) — Miley Cyrus and Greg Kinnear star in this father/daughter tale in which

an alienated teen is forced to spend a summer in Georgia with her pianist father. Movies 10: 12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10.

Letters to Juliet (PG) — An American in Italy takes it upon herself to help a number of anonymous, lovelorn women who left letters at the fictional Capulet courtyard in Verona. Breckenridge: 1:15, 4:10, 6:55, 9:30.

Mother and Child (R) — Three women with lives all affected by adoption find common ground as their stories begin to overlap. Market Street: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (R) — Remake of the 1984 horror classic in which a murderer uses the dream world to take revenge on the children of the lynch mob that killed him. Movies 10: 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:05, 9:45.

Please Give (R) — A family in a Manhattan apartment complex try to bond with their stubborn, elderly next door neighbor. Market Street: 7:15, 9:20.

Shrek Forever After (PG) — The final movie of the series has the ogre stuck in Far Far Away, in which ogres are hunted and Rumpelstiltskin is king.

Breckenridge: 11:25, 1:45, 4:25, 6:50, 9:25.

Toy Story 3 (G) — Donated to a daycare center after their owner leaves for college, the beloved gang of toys rally together for one last escape.

Breckenridge: 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 7:05, 9:35.

Lakewood: 11:30, 1:55, 4:30 (2D); 11:00, 1:25, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 (3D). Rave: 12:35, 3:00, 5:45 (2D); 11:15, 12:15, 1:10, 2:20, 2:50, 3:45, 4:40, 5:15, 6:35, 7:10, 7:50, 9:10, 9:40, 10:20.(3D).

Wildfire: Feel the Heat (NR) — Discover how firefighters all over the planet fight the biggest, hottest fires on the planet. Aerospace IMAX: 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 8:00 (Sat.).

Chenal 9 IMAX Theatre: 17825 Chenal Parkway, 821-2616, www.dtmovies.com.

Cinemark Movies 10: 4188 E. McCain Blvd., 945-7400, www.cinemark.com.

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

IMAX Theater: Aerospace Education Center, 376-4629, www.aerospaced.org.

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.

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

n moviereview ‘E’-lohim ‘Holy Rollers’ goes nowhere.

AGONY AND ECSTASY: Jesse Eisenberg plays a young, Hasidic Jew whose rabbinical future falls to a career smuggling drugs in “Holy Rollers.” n Until watching “Holy Rollers,” it had been years since I thought about what a religion professor, appropriately enough here, told my prerequisite class years ago.

In his dense, old-world Brooklyn accent textured in and around the same neighborhoods featured in this movie, he said “if you walk away from a movie without reconsidering long-held ideas or finding yourself changed in even to a small degree, you’re probably just wasting your time.”

Don’t get me wrong, I unabashedly love a good robot apocalypse and seeing Rob Schneider slip in dog poop as much as the next guy, but when a movie falls in your lap about Hasidism and drug smuggling, it’s time to start loosening up your eyebrows for a good raise or two. Unfortunately, “Holy Rollers” fails to stimulate, but if

you’re looking for a fun time at the movies, you could do a lot worse than this little indie flick.

It’s a coming-of-age piece about Ben Gold (a surprisingly understated Jesse Eisenberg), an agonizingly shy 20-year old in a Jewish Orthodox neighborhood, studying to be a rabbi, freshly rejected from an upcoming arranged marriage.

It’s a culture-clash movie about the disparity between his familiar, devout community and the neon hedonism of Amsterdam.

And it’s a crime thriller about the unassuming Ben — payos (side curls), black hat and all — muling Ecstasy into the states.

All of this unexpected mayhem comes about due to Ben’s next-door neighbor, Yosef (Justin Bartha, the sun-stroked

groom of “The Hangover”), a porn-loving, cokeheaded, chain-smoking Goofus to our main guy’s Gallant.

To boot, the story’s based on a true story, set during the late ’90s MDMA boom. And the characters in the movie? You can thank those inconspicuous, real-life hustlers for a ton of wild parties probably even in farremoved Arkansas after they managed to smuggle in over a million pills of Ecstasy in only six months. That’s a lot of drugs, a lot of excitement and a movie-worthy sum by any count. But in spite of it all, “Rollers” never quite takes off the way you want it to.

Like the bulk of its other contemporary, hedonist, “based on true events” cautionary tales (“Party Monster,” “21”), this promising film leaves you just entertained enough but ultimately unnourished, with more questions about the eccentric source material than newfound insights about the characters behind it. It’s a fantastic premise, ripe with opportunity to explore issues of faith and hedonism, devotion and inhibition, nature and nurture — with fun, high sexiness throughout — but firsttime director Kevin Asch never bothers to ask any questions, so no answers are ever given. And the fun, high sexiness on screen just comes off as a typical Saturday night at an OK club.

Not to kvetch too much about the movie’s lack of introspection: I’ll admit the movie’s an altogether good time, jarring the viewer back and forth from Ben’s family house and synagogue — both filmed in the gorgeous, blacks and golden browns of Gordon Wills’ Corleone compound — to Manhattan basement parties and Dutch red-light districts. Jesse Eisenberg’s discreet performance was at once skillfully charmless and totally sympathetic which, by the end, got the ol’ heartstrings moving during his inevitable (and, yeah, formulaic) fall from grace.

— John Tarpley

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ARTISTS WORKSHOP GALLERY, 810 Central Ave.: Eletha Hise, Joanne Kunath, paintings, pastels, through July. 501-623-6401.

FINE ARTS CENTER, 626 Central Ave.: Ribboncutting at new location 3 p.m. July 2; “Sea of Love” themed exhibition reception afterward. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 501-624-0489.

GALLERY 726, 726 Central Ave.: Barbara Seibel, paintings, through July. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tue.-Sat. 501-624-7726.

GALLERIES, onGoInG ExhIbItS.

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “World of the Pharaohs: Treasures of Egypt Revealed,” artifacts from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through July 5, $14 on “Matinee Mondays” 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon. and also 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Tue.-Fri., otherwise $22 adults, $14 students, $5 off coupon at arkarts.com; “The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf,” through Aug. 22; “Currents in Contemporary Art,” “Masterworks,” “Paul Signac Watercolors and Drawings,” ongoing. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000.

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER COMMUNITY GALLERY, Terry House, 7th and Rock Sts.: “V.I.T.A.L. Artists Collective Inaugural Exhibit,” work

by Melverue Abraham, Rex Deloney, LaToya Hobbs, Ariston Jacks, Kalari Turner and Michael Worsham, through Aug. 28. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000.

ARGENTA ART MARKET, 510 Main St., NLR: Outdoor artists and crafters market, 8 a.m. to noon every Sat. CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road: “19th annual Mid-Southern Watercolorists Open Membership Exhibit,” through July. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mon.-Sat. 224-1335.

CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 509 Scott St.: “Summer Reflections,” acrylics and pastels

by Susan Harris and Lois Davis. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mon.-Thu., 9 a.m.-noon Sun. 375-2342.

CHROMA GALLERY, 5707 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Work by Robert Reep and other Arkansas artists.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 664-0880.

GALLERY 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “A Couple of Cut-Ups,” recent works by Amy Edgington and Byron Werner, through July 10. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Tue.-Sat. 664-8996.

GREG THOMPSON FINE ART, 429 Main St., NLR: Matt McLeod, paintings, through July 10.

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HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “Collaborations,” paintings and sculpture by Kevin Cole, Benny Andrews, Kennith Humphrey, Tonia Mitchell, Marjorie Williams-Smith, photographs by Ernest C. Withers, and other work. 372-6822.

HEIGHTS GALLERY, 5801 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Arkansas artists. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 664-2772.

KETZ GALLERY, 705 Main St., NLR: “Creative Expressions,” paintings by Dan Thornhill.

529-6330.

LOCAL COLOUR GALLERY, 5811 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Work by artists in cooperative. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 265-0422.

M2 GALLERY, 11525 Cantrell Road: Work by new artists Danny Broadway, Todd Williams, David Walker, Char Demoro and Morgan McMurry. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 225-5257.

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

SHOWROOM, 2313 Cantrell Road. Work by area artists, including Sandy Hubler. 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Mon.-Fri. 372-7373.

STEPHANO’S FINE ART GALLERY, 5501 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Work by area artists. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 563-4218.

THEA FOUNDATION, 401 Main St.: Arkansas League of Artists “Members Show,” through July 14. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 379-9512.

TOBY FAIRLEY FINE ART, 5507 Ranch Drive, Suite 103: Contemporary Arkansas artists. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Fri. or by appointment. 868-9882.

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: “Groovy Summer Show,” 1960s rock band posters from the permanent collection, through July 20, Gallery III, 2nd floor Fine Arts Building. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 569-8977.

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

Mon.-Thu., 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Fri., 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Sun. WILLIAM F. LAMAN LIBRARY, 2801 Orange St., NLR: “Draw Me a Story: A Century of Children’s Book Illustration,” 40 original illustrations by Maurice Sendak, Ralph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, William Steig, Lois Lenski, Tomie DePaola, Chris Van Allsburg and others, through Aug. 11. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri.-Sat. 758-1720. n Benton DIANNE ROBERTS ART STUDIO AND GALLERY, 110 N. Market St.: Area artists.

10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 860-7467. n Bentonville CRYSTAL BRIDGES AT THE MASSEY, 125 W. Central: “Transforming Tradition: Pottery from Mata Ortiz,” Field Museum exhibit, through Aug. 29. 479-418-5700. n Hot Springs ALISON PARSONS GALLERY, 802 Central Ave.: Paintings by Parsons. 501-625-3001.

AMERICAN ART GALLERY, 724 Central Ave.: Jimmy Leach, Jamie Carter, Govinder, Marlene Gremillion, Margaret Kipp and others. 501-6240550.

ATTRACTION CENTRAL GALLERY, 264 Central Ave.: Work in all media by Hot Springs artists. 501-463-4932.

BLUE MOON, 718 Central Ave.: Mosaic glass artwork by Cassie Edmonds, through July.

501-318-2787.

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

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

Tue.-Sat. 501-623-9906.

GALLERY CENTRAL, 800 Central Ave.: Sandy Hubler, paintings, and work by other Hot Springs artists. 501-318-4278.

HOT SPRINGS CONVENTION CENTER, 134 Convention Blvd.: “Hot Springs: A Journey Through History,” photos. Open daily. 501-321-2027.

JUSTUS FINE ART, 827 A Central Ave.: Michael

Ashley and Dolores Justus. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Wed.-Sat. 501-321-2335.

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

Mon.-Sat. 501-620-3063.

RICIANO ART GALLERY, 833 Central Ave.: Riciano, Lacey Riciano and other artists. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. daily. 501-339-3751.

TAYLOR’S CONTEMPORANEA, 204 Exchange St.: Area and regional artists. 624-0516.

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MUSEUMS, ongoing ExhibitS

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

MacARTHUR MUSEUM OF ARKANSAS MILITARY HISTORY, MacArthur Park: “Warrior: Vietnam Portraits by Two Guys from Hall,” photos

by Jim Guy Tucker and Bruce Wesson, through November; exhibits on Arkansas’s military history.

9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat., 1-4 p.m. Sun. 376-4602.

MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, Ninth and Broadway: Exhibits on African-Americans in Arkansas, including one on the Ninth Street business district, Dunbar High School, entrepreneurs, the Mosaic Templars business and more. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 683–3593.

MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY, 500 President Clinton Ave.: “Alice’s Wonderland,” hands-on science, math exhibit featuring characters from Lewis Carroll’s story, for ages 3 to 10, through Sept. 15; interactive science exhibits. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. Admission: $8 adults, $7 children ages 1-12 and seniors 65 and up, children under 1 free, “Pay What You Can” second Sunday of every month. 396-7050. www.museumofdiscovery.org.

WITT STEPHENS JR. CENTRAL ARKANSAS NATURE CENTER, Riverfront Park: Exhibits on wildlife and the state Game and Fish Commission. n Calico Rock CALICO ROCK MUSEUM, Main Street: Displays on Native American cultures, steamboats, the railroad, and local history. www.calicorockmuseum. com. n England TOLTEC MOUNDS STATE PARK, State Hwy. 165: Major prehistoric Indian site with visitors’ center and museum. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun., closed Mon. $3 for adults, $2 for ages 6-12. 961-9442. n Hot Springs MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, 425 Central Ave.: “Just a Way Out,” new photographs

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by Ansel Adams, through Aug. 1. $5. $5, $4 for seniors. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thu.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. 501-609-9955. n Jacksonville JACKSONVILLE MUSEUM OF MILITARY HISTORY, 100 Veterans Circle: Exhibits on D-Day; F-105, Vietnam era plane (“The Thud”); the Civil War Battle of Reed’s Bridge, Arkansas Ordnance Plant (AOP) and other military history. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $3 adults; $2 seniors, military; $1 students. 501-241-1943. n Scott PLANTATION AGRICULTURE MUSEUM, U.S. 165 S and Hwy. 161: Artifacts and interactive exhibits on farming in the Arkansas Delta. $3 adults, $2 ages 6-12. Open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 501-961-1409.

SCOTT PLANTATION SETTLEMENT: 1840s log cabin, one-room school house, tenant houses, smokehouse and artifacts on plantation life. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thu.-Sat. 351-0300. www.scottconnections.org.

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n Phil Brandon said last week he hopes to have Rock Town Distillery, which he bills as Arkansas’s first craft distillery, in production by mid-July and his 750 ML bottles of gin and vodka in stores and bars by August. Brandon’s bourbon may be ready in only six to eight months — Rock Town works in small batches so aging time is shortened.

Tasting tours at the factory, at 1216 E. Sixth, near Heifer International, should begin in September. Initially, including Brandon and his wife, Rock Town’s staff will be four. n Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt, a national self-serve chain that bills itself as the “fastest growing frozen yogurt chain” in the U.S., is now open in the Pleasant Ridge Town Center, 11525 Cantrell Road, from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. The phone number is 501-2274522 and the website is www.orangeleafyogurt.com.

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

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

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$ Inexpensive (under $8/person)

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

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ADAMS CATFISH CATERING Catering company with carry-out restaurant in Little Rock and carry-out trailers in Russellville and Perryville. 215 N. Cross St. All CC. $-$$.

501-374-4265. LD Tue.-Sat. ALLEY OOPS The restaurant at Creekwood Plaza (near the Kanis-Bowman intersection) is a neighborhood feedbag for major medical institutions with the likes of plate lunches, burgers and homemade desserts. Remarkable Chess Pie. 11900 Kanis Rd. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-221-9400.

LD Mon.-Sat. ATHLETIC CLUB What could be mundane fare gets delightful twists and embellishments here. 11301 Financial Centre Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-312-9000.

LD daily.

B-SIDE The little breakfast place in the former party room of Lilly’s DimSum Then Some turns tradition on its ear, offering French toast wrapped in bacon on a stick, a must-have dish called “biscuit mountain” and beignets with lemon curd. Top notch cheese grits, too. 11121 Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-554-0914. B Wed.-Fri.; BR Sat.-Sun. BEEF O’BRADY’S FAMILY SPORTS PUB The signature item is the wings, with a variety of sauces, plus burgers, specialty sandwiches, wraps, salads and fish dishes. 115 Audubon Drive. Maumelle. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-8039500. LD daily.

BILL ST. GRILL AND PUB Massive burgers, batter dipped French fries, inventive appetizers and other pub grub. 614

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It doesn’t get more home-style than Mr. Bell’s Soul Food. n There are homey restaurants. And then there’s Mr. Bell’s Soul Food Restaurant in Rose City. Eating at the recent Pine Bluff transplant feels like you’re in the back room of the Bells’ house. Handwritten signs advertising “Frog Legs” and “Cheesecake” share wall space with paintings of sailboats and angels in the small strip-mall storefront. Above the buffet hangs a glossy of the Original Blind Boys of Mississippi. More often than not, the Bells, Leon and Loretha, are minding the restaurant alone. Mr. Bell cooks, talks on the phone, greets familiar faces and repairs the TV (last time we were in, Quincy Jones’ “Sanford and Son” theme announced that he’d successfully gotten it working). Mrs. Bell smiles just about unceasingly, chatters amiably, serves from a buffet steam table, pours drinks, waits on tables and works the cash register.

Which means that it doesn’t take much to derail the efficiency of the place. A long line, a big takeout order, a phone call — all can spell a delay in service at the counter and table. But take a breath, good things come to those that wait.

Like baked chicken, breaded and juicy. Or fried pork chops, deliciously smothered in thick brown gravy. Or a smothered, surprisingly tender turkey leg, covered in the same gravy (it’s good on just about everything). Or slow-cooked green beans, a lighter shade of green than usual because of all the butter. Or cabbage, richly flavored, we’re guessing, with the not-so-secret ingredients of soul food — butter, sugar and some sort of pig parts. Or dessert-quality candy yams. Or, perhaps the jewel of the restaurant, the actual desserts: decadent white coconut cake ($2.99) topped with an inch of icing; moist, pink strawberry cake ($2.49), buttery peach cobbler ($2.99 for 8 oz., $5.89 for 16 oz.).

Like most of its ilk, Mr. Bell’s operates with a rotating daily buffet. For lunch, a meat and two veggies and a roll or hot water cornbread (both of which oddly come in plastic sandwich bags) cost $6.99.

Or, for $10.99 on weekdays or $11.99 on Sunday, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., you can do all-you-can-eat. But you’ll have to abide by 10 House Rules, printed on a large poster hanging on the wall, sensible all.

For instance, “No. 2 Advance payment must be made. No. 3 Only take what you can eat, and please eat what you take ...

No. 7 No Doggy Bags.”

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MR. BELL’S: Makes you feel right at home. ability to put all that away makes ours a special one. Portions are heaping. Mrs. Bell, like all good buffet minders, always digs deep into the compartments in her steam table to pull out the best of her fixin’s, the meatiest beef tips, the gooiest section of mac and cheese.

More than most popular down-home joints around Central Arkansas, Mr. Bell’s also serves up true soul food, just about any offal you’d want: chitterlings (“chitterlings every day,” the sign outside brags), chicken gizzards, pigs’ feet, turkey necks. None were available on the daily buffet when we stopped in, and we didn’t feel like waiting around for them to be cooked to order. A reason to return.

Be warned: The Bells aren’t lying with the “items subject to change” note on the takeaway buffet schedule, though every time we stopped in, the ever-reli-

able chicken and pork chops were on the menu. And what’s life without a little variety?

Mr. Bell’s Soul Food 4506 Lynch Drive North Little Rock 945-9000 Quick bite

Don’t miss Mr. Bell’s Arnold Palmer: half tea, half lemonade ($.99). A refill will cost you $.59, which seems a bit trifling, but don’t let it hold you back.

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LD Mon.-Sat. BOBBY’S COUNTRY COOKIN’ One of the better plate lunch spots in the area, with maybe the best fried chicken and pot roast around, a changing daily casserole and wonderful homemade pies. 301 N. Shackleford Road, Suite E1. No alcohol, All CC. 501-224-9500. L Mon.-Fri. BOGIE’S BAR AND GRILL The former Bennigan’s retains a similar theme: a menu filled with burgers, salads and giant desserts, plus a few steak, fish and chicken main courses.

There are big screen TVs for sports fans and lots to drink, more reason to return than the food. 120 W. Pershing Blvd.

NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-812-0019. BD daily.

CATFISH CITY AND BBQ GRILL Basic fried fish and sides, including green tomato pickle, and now with tasty ribs and sandwiches in beef, pork and sausage. 1817 S. University Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-7224.

LD Mon.-Sat. CHEERS IN THE HEIGHTS Good burgers and sandwiches, vegetarian offerings and salads at lunch and fish specials, and good steaks in the evening. 2010 N. Van Buren. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-5937. LD Mon.-Sat. 1901 Club Manor Drive. Maumelle. Full bar, All CC. 501-851-6200. LD Daily.

CRACKER BARREL Chain-style home-cooking with plenty of variety, consistency and portions. Multiple locations statewide. 3101 Springhill Drive. NLR. 945-9373.

BLD. DAVE AND RAY’S DOWNTOWN DINER Breakfast buffet daily featuring biscuits and gravy, home fries, sausage and made-to-order omelets. Lunch buffet with four choices of meats and eight veggies. All-you-can-eat catfish on weekend nights. 824 W. Capitol Ave. No alcohol. $. 501-372-8816. BL daily.

EL NOPAL Mexican American fare. 700 W. Capitol Ave. 501-372-9999. BL Mon.-Fri. FLIGHT DECK A not-your-typical daily lunch special highlights this spot, which also features inventive sandwiches, salads and a popular burger. Central Flying Service at Adams Field. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-375-3245.

BL Mon.-Sat. HEAVENLY HAM Fine hams, turkeys and other specialty meats served whole, by the pound or in sandwich form.

11121 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$.

501-225-2136. LD Mon.-Sat. (until 6 p.m.).

THE HOP DINER The downtown incarnation of the old dairy bar, with excellent burgers, onion rings, shakes and breakfast. Plus, daily specials and desserts. 201 E. Markham. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-244-0975.

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

Beer, Wine. $-$$. 501-954-8700. BLD daily.

JIMMY JOHN’S GOURMET SANDWICHES Illinoisbased sandwich chain that doesn’t skimp on what’s between the buns. 4120 E. McCain Blvd. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-945-9500. LD daily.

MADDIE’S If you like your catfish breaded Cajun-style, your grits rich with garlic and cream and your oysters fried up in perfect puffs, this Cajun eatery on Rebsamen Park Road is the place for you. 1615 Rebsamen Park Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-660-4040. LD Tue.-Sat. MIMI’S CAFE Breakfast is our meal of choice here at this upscale West Coast chain. Portions are plenty to last you through the afternoon, especially if you get a muffin on the side. Middle-America comfort-style entrees make-up other meals, from pot roast to pasta dishes. 11725 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-221-3883. BLD daily.

MR. BELL’S SOUL FOOD Rose City soul food spot owned by Leon and Loreta Bell serves typical meat-and-two options: smothered pork chops, pigs feet, yams, greens.

The desserts are delectable; the dinner menu includes an all-you-can eat choice (as long as advance payment is made and no doggy bags are expected). 4506 Lynch Drive.

NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-945-9000. LD Sun.-Fri. (closes at 6 p.m. Sun. and 7 p.m. Mon.-Fri.).

RED MANGO National yogurt and smoothie chain that’s appeal lies in adjectives like “all-natural,” “non-fat,” “glutenfree” and “probiotic.” 5621 Kavanaugh Blvd. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-2500. LD daily.

RESTAURANT 1620 Steaks, chops, a broad choice of fresh seafood and meal-sized salads are just a few of the choices on a broad menu at this popular and upscale West Little Rock bistro. It’s a romantic, candlelit room, elegant without being fussy or overly formal. 1620 Market St. Full bar. $$-$$$. 501-221-1620. D Mon.-Sat., BR Sun. SADDLE CREEK WOODFIRED GRILL Upscale chain dining in Lakewood, with a menu full of appetizers, burgers, chicken, fish and other fare. It’s the smoke-kissed steaks, however, that make it a winner — even in Little Rock’s beef-heavy restaurant market. 2703 Lakewood Village. Full bar. $$-$$$. 501-812-0883.

SAN FRANCISCO BREAD CO. Breakfast items, sandwiches, salads, soups and a hot cup of joe, or a iced glass of tea. Across from the Statehouse Convention Center.

101 Main St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-372-7322. BLD daily.

■ update LYNN’S CHICAGO FOOD Southwest Little Rock is all about immigrants these days, but not all of the noteworthy additions are Latinos. There’s also the Chicago family that left Illinois behind 15 years ago and opened this outpost for Chicago specialties and other familiar fare — burgers and fried catfish, chicken nuggets and wings. It’s just around the corner from a Salvation Army thrift store and prices are in keeping with the location — a classic Chicago hot dog with a fat sack of crisply finished fries and a fountain drink cost a mere $4.15. That dog: It’s built around one of the chewy Vienna brand dogs familiar to all Chicagoans.

Same for the polish sausage. You can get the hot dog topped many ways, including with chili, but we opted for the traditional Chicago dressing — neon green pickle relish, mustard, a slice of pickle, fiery sport peppers and some chunks of fresh tomato, all topped with a sprinkle of celery salt. We took points off for the standard hot dog bun, instead of the poppy seed variety. Be warned, it’s a mess, but in a good way. We also dug into another Chicago specialty, the Italian beef ($6.05 for the sandwich only). By custom, big chunks of meat are braised in a spicy broth, then sliced and served on a fat hoagie roll with lots of pan juice for dipping. We suspect the beef at Lynn’s comes pre-made from a Chicago supplier, rather than being cooked on premises. It’s a little dry. But a cup of the salty, herbed jus makes up for that. You can choose a mild, medium or hot blend of pickled vegetables and peppers for a topping (the giardiniera, if you want to get technical). We chose hot. It was.

This is a whopper of a sandwich, a meal. A companion liked her Philly cheese steak, though she was a little puzzled by the honey dipping sauce. Lynn’s is a spartan, self-serve place, but the folks are friendly and accommodating. You’ll feel like you’re eating with family. 6501 Geyer Springs Road. 568-2646. LD Mon.-Sat. CC $ No alcohol.

SAY MCINTOSH RESTAURANT Longtime political activist and restaurateur Robert “Say” McIntosh serves up big plates of soul food, plus burgers, barbecue and his famous sweet potato pie. 2801 W. 7th Street. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-664-6656. LD Mon.-Sat. L Sun. SPECTATOR’S GRILL AND PUB Burgers, soups, salads and other beer food, plus live music on weekends. 1012 W. 34th St. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-791-0990. LD Mon.-Sat. SPORTS PAGE Perhaps the largest, juiciest, most flavorful burger in town. Grilled turkey and hot cheese on sourdough gets praise, too. Now with lunch specials. 414 Louisiana St. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-372-9316. L Mon.-Fri. STARVING ARTIST CAFE All kinds of crepes, served as entrees or as dessert, in this cozy multidimensional eatery with a cultural focus, hence the name. You might catch a painter discussing his work, a writer with a new book, or a guitarist playing flamenco or finger-style at lunch or dinner while you munch on delicious shrimp crepes or sip on potato and leek soup like you’d find in New York. Dinner menu changes daily, and they have an intriguing wine list.

411 N. Main St. NLR. Wine, All CC. $$. 501-372-7976. LD Tue.-Sat. SUFFICIENT GROUNDS Great coffee, good bagels and pastries, and a limited lunch menu. 1401 W. Capital. No alcohol, All CC. $. 501-372-1009. BL Mon.-Fri. T.G.I. FRIDAY’S This national chain was on the verge of stale before a redo not long ago, and the update has done wonders for the food as well as the surroundings. The lunch combos are a great deal, and the steaks aren’t bad. It’s designed for the whole family, and succeeds. Appetizers and desserts are always good. 2820 Lakewood Village Drive,. $$-$$$. 501-758-2277.

TROPICAL SMOOTHIE Besides the 45 different smoothies on the menu, the cafe also serves wraps and sandwiches (many of them spicy), salads and “tortizzas.”

Good food, healthy drinks, long line at lunch but it moves fast. 10221 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-224-2233. BLD daily.

UMP’S PUB AND GRILL American food for folks enjoying the most American pastime, with game day specials of chicken wings and buckets of beer. 400 W. Broadway inside Dickey-Stephens Park. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-3242255. In season: LD all game days, L Mon.-Sat., D Fri.-Sat. Off season: LD Mon.-Sat. VICTORIAN GARDEN We’ve found the fare quite tasty and somewhat daring and different with its healthy, balanced entrees and crepes. 4801 North Hills Blvd. NLR. $-$$. 501-758-4299. L Tue.-Sat. WHITE WATER TAVERN Excellent, cheap pub food.

With vegetarian options. 2500 W. 7th. Full bar, All CC. $.

501-375-8400. 11 a.m until close Mon.-Sat.

AsiAn BENIHANA — THE JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE Enjoy the cooking show, make sure you get a little filet with your meal, and do plenty of dunking in that fabulous ginger sauce. 2 Riverfront Place. NLR. Full bar, All CC. 501-3748081. L Sun.-Fri., D daily.

CHI’S CHINESE CUISINE A huge menu spans the Chinese provinces and offers a few twists on the usual local offerings, plus there’s authentic Hong Kong dim sum available daily until 3 p.m. Multiple LR locations, including 5110 W. Markham St., 501-604-7777, with delivery; a Chi’s Express at 17200 Chenal Parkway, 501-821-8000, and the original: 6 Shackleford Drive. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$.

501-221-7737. LD daily.

EASTERN FLAMES Maki rolls and half rolls, fresh nigiri and sashimi, katsu, lunch boxes and a nice variety of sake grace the menu at this sushi bar. 7710 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-227-7222. LD Mon.-Sat. FU LIN Quality in the made-to-order entrees is high, as is

the quantity. 200 N. Bowman Road. Full bar, All CC. $$.

501-225-8989. LD daily.

HUNAN BALCONY The owner of New Fun Ree has combined forces with the Dragon China folks to create a formidable offering with buffet or menu items. 2817 Cantrell Road. 666-8889. LD. HUNAN ORIENTAL CUISINE Old favorites such as orange beef or chicken and Hunan green beans are still prepared with care in very nice surroundings out west.

11600 Pleasant Ridge Drive. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-2239966. LD daily.

IGIBON JAPANESE FOOD HOUSE It’s a complex place, where the food is almost always good and the ambiance and service never fail to please. The sushi is good, while the Bento box with tempura shrimp and California rolls and other delights stand out. 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road.

Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-217-8888. LD Mon.-Sat. KOBE JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE AND SUSHI Though answering the need for more hibachis in Little Rock, Kobe stands taller in its sushi offerings than the grill. 11401 Financial Centre Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-2255999. L Mon.-Sat. D daily.

P.F. CHANG’S Nuevo Chinese from the Brinker chain that has people waiting in line for hours; make a reservation instead and get seated immediately at a table and enjoy some terrific flavors and presentations. 317 S. Shackleford.

Full bar. 501-225-4424.

PANDA GARDEN Large buffet including Chinese favorites, a full on-demand sushi bar, a cold seafood bar, pie case, salad bar and dessert bar. 2604 S. Shackleford Road. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-224-8100. LD daily.

PEI WEI Sort of a miniature P.F. Chang’s, but a lot of fun and plenty good with all the Chang favorites we like, such as the crisp honey shrimp, dan dan noodles and pad thai.

You order from the cashier, get your own tea, silver ware and fortune cookies, and they bring you piping hot food to your cozy table. 205 N. University Ave. All CC. $$. 501-2809423. LD daily.

SUPER KING BUFFET Large buffet with sushi and a Mongolian grill. 4000 Springhill Plaza Ct. NLR. All CC. $-$$.

LD daily.

VAN LANG CUISINE Terrific Vietnamese cuisine, the best in town, particularly the way the pork dishes and the assortment of rolls are presented. Great prices, too.

Massive menu, but it’s user-friendly for locals with full English descriptions and numbers for easy ordering. 3600 S. University Ave. $-$$. 501-570-7700. LD daily.

BArBecue CAPITOL SMOKEHOUSE AND GRILL Beef, pork, sausage and chicken, all smoked to melting tenderness and doused with a choice of sauces. The crusty but tender backribs star. Side dishes are top quality. 915 W. Capitol Ave. All CC. $-$$. 501-372-4227. BL Mon.-Fri. CROSS EYED PIG BBQ COMPANY Traditional barbecue favorites smoked well such as pork ribs, beef brisket and smoked chicken. Miss Mary’s famous potato salad is full of bacon and other goodness. Smoked items such as ham and turkeys available seasonally. 1701 Rebsamen Park Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-265-0012. L Mon.-Sat., D Tue.-Fri. 6015 Chenonceau Blvd. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$.

501-227-7247. LD daily.

FATBOY’S KILLER BAR-B-Q This Landmark neighborhood strip center restaurant in the far southern reaches of Pulaski County features tender ribs and pork by a contest pitmaster. Skip the regular sauce and risk the hot variety, it’s far better. 3405 Atwood Road. No alcohol, All CC. $$.

501-888-4998. LD Tue.-Sat. HB’S BAR B.Q. Great slabs of meat with fiery barbecue sauce, but ribs are served on Tuesday only. Other days, try the tasty pork sandwich on an onion roll. 6010 Lancaster.

No alcohol, No CC. $-$$. 501-565-1930. L Mon.-Fri.

SIMS BAR-B-QUE Great spare ribs, sandwiches, beef, half and whole chicken and an addictive vinegar-mustardbrown sugar sauce unique for this part of the country.

Also on John Barrow and Geyer Springs. 2415 Broadway.

Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-372-6868. LD Mon.-Sat. 1307 John Barrow Road. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-224-2057. LD Mon.-Sat. 7601 Geyer Springs Road. Beer, All CC. 501-5628844. LD Mon.-Sat. SMOKE SHACK BAR-B-Q Another relative of the Shack, a legendary and long-gone Little Rock barbecue place. The beef and pork sandwiches are the best bet. Interstate 40 at Maumelle/Morgan exit (Exit 142). Maumelle. 501-8034935. LD Mon.-Sat. SMOKEY JOE’S BAR-B-QUE A steady supplier of smoked meat for many a moon. 824 Military Road. Benton.

501-315-8333. LD Mon.-Sat. L Sun. THREE SAM’S The Sams – a father-mother-son team all known as Sam – dish up impossibly huge piles of barbecue at this friendly joint in downtown Mabelvale. Everything here is homemade, including the skin-on potato salad and a stellar dessert lineup. 10508 Mann Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-407-0345. L Mon.-Fri., D Thu.-Fri.

EuropEan / Ethnic ALBASHA GRILL Mediterranean eatery that specializes in large portions of kebabs, gyros, and shawarma served up with a tasty minted Jerusalem salad and rice or hummus. More for the American palate than most. 302 N. Shackleford Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-217-3855.

LD Thu.-Tue. L Wed. KHALIL’S PUB Widely varied menu with European, Mexican and American influences. Go for the Bierocks, rolls filled with onions and beef. 110 S. Shackleford Road.

Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-224-0224. LD daily. BR Sun. THE PANTRY Bratwurst, wienerschnitzel, Czech dumplings and a “Rustic Bowl” one-pot meal are what set this restaurant apart from the town’s regular out-to-eat offerings.

The setting is more elegant than you might suppose from consulting the menu at www.littlerockpantry.com. 11401 Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-3531875. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. STAR OF INDIA The best Indian restaurant in the region, with a unique buffet at lunch and some fabulous dishes at night (spicy curried dishes, tandoori chicken, lamb and veal, vegetarian). 301 N. Shackleford. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-227-9900. LD daily.

TAZIKI’S This sole Arkansas location of the chain offers gyros, grilled meats and veggies, hummus and pimento cheese. 8200 Cantrell Rd. All CC. $$. 501-227-8291. LD daily.

italian DAMGOODE PIES A somewhat different Italian/pizza place, largely because of a spicy garlic white sauce that’s offered as an alternative to the traditional red sauce. Good bread, too. 2701 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$.

501-664-2239. LD daily.

GUSANO’S They make the tomatoey Chicago-style deepdish pizza the way it’s done in the Windy City. It takes a little longer to come out of the oven, but it’s worth the wait. 313 President Clinton Ave. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-374-1441.

LD daily. 2915 Dave Ward Drive. Conway. Beer, All CC. $$.

501-329-1100. LD daily.

LA BELLA LUNA Authentic Italian cuisine. 915 Front St. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. 501-205-0888. LD Mon.-Sat. LARRY’S PIZZA The buffet is the way to go — fresh, hot pizza, fully loaded with ingredients, brought hot to your table, all for a low price. Many Central Arkansas locations.

10312 Chicot Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-5656006. LD daily. 12911 Cantrell Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-224-8804. LD daily.

LUIGI’S PIZZARIA Excellent thin-crust pizza; whopping, well-spiced calzones; ample hoagies; and pasta with tomatoey, sweet marinara sauce. 8310 Chicot Rd. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-562-9863. LD Mon.-Sat. NYPD PIZZA Plenty of tasty choices in the obvious New York police-like setting, but it’s fun. Only the pizza is cheesy.

Even the personal pizzas come in impressive combinations, and baked ziti, salads are more also are available. 6015 Chenonceau Boulevard, Suite 1. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$.

501-868-3911. LD daily.

VILLA ITALIAN RESTAURANT Hearty, inexpensive, classic southern Italian dishes. 12111 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-219-2244. LD Mon.-Sat.

MExican BLUE COAST BURRITO You will become a lover of fish tacos here, but there are plenty of other fresh coastal Mex choices served up fast-food cafeteria style in cool surroundings. Don’t miss the Baja fruit tea. 14810 Cantrell Road.

Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-868-3770. LD Mon.-Sat, L Sun.; 4613 E. McCain Blvd. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-945-8033.

LD Mon.-Sat. 14810 Cantrell Road. Beer, All CC. $-$$.

501-868-3770. LD Mon.-Sat, L Sun. CACTUS JACK’S This inoffensive Mexican-esque effort on McCain has everything you’ve come to expect from the average Mexican restaurant. Ample portions, if not ample seasoning. 4120 East McCain Blvd. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-945-5888. LD daily.

CASA MANANA Great guacamole and garlic beans, superlative chips and salsa (red and green) and a broad selection of fresh seafood, plus a deck out back. 6820 Cantrell Road.

Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-280-9888. B Sat.-Sun., LD daily.

18321 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-868-8822.

B Sat.-Sun, LD daily. 400 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-327-6637. L Mon.-Sat. CASA MEXICANA Familiar Tex-Mex style items all shine, in ample portions, and the steak-centered dishes are uniformly excellent. 6929 JFK Blvd. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-835-7876. LD daily.

COZYMEL’S A trendy Dallas-chain cantina with flaming cheese dip, cilantro pesto, mole, lamb and more. 10 Shackleford Drive. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-954-7100.

LD daily.

EL CHICO Hearty, standard Mex served in huge portions.

1315 Breckenridge Drive. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-2242550. LD daily. 201 Skyline Drive. Conway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. (501) 327-6553. LD daily.

EL NOPAL Mexican American fare. 700 W. Capitol Ave. 501-372-9999. BL Mon.-Fri. EL PORTON Very good Mex for the price and a wideranging menu of dinner plates, some tasty cheese dip, and great service as well. 12111 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-223-8588. LD daily.

LA HACIENDA Creative, fresh-tasting entrees and traditional favorites, all painstakingly prepared in a festive atmosphere. Great taco salad, nachos, and maybe the best fajitas around. 3024 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$.

501-661-0600. LD daily. 200 Highway 65 N. Conway. All CC. $$. 501-327-6077. LD daily.

MI RANCHITO This growing Arkansas-owned chain offers great variety and super-sized meals with solid Tex-Mex, with the typical white cheese dip, only spicier, and more flavor to the regular entree fare. 1520 Market St. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. LD daily.

RIVIERA MAYA Typical Mexican fare for the area, though the portions are on the large side. 801 Fair Park Blvd. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-663-4800. LD daily.

SAN JOSE GROCERY STORE AND BAKERY This mercado-plus-restaurant smells and tastes like Mexico, and for good reason: Fresh flour tortillas, overstuffed burritos, sopes (moist corncakes made with masa harina), chili poblano are the real thing. 7411 Geyer Springs Road.

Beer. $-$$. 501-565-4246. LD daily.

SUPER 7 This Mexican grocery/video store/taqueria has great a daily buffet featuring a changing assortment of real Mexican cooking. Fresh tortillas pressed by hand and grilled, homemade salsas, beans as good as beans get.

Plus soup every day. 1415 Barrow Road. No alcohol. $.

501-219-2373. LD daily.

TAQUERIA SAMANTHA Arguably the best among the area’s burgeoning taco truck crowd. Tacos, burritos and other authentic fare. Unbelievably cheap. Geyer Springs and Interstate 630.

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EL ACAPULCO Tex-Mex served in hefty portions in a colorful atmosphere. 201 Highway 65 N. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-327-8445. LD. EL CHICO Tex-Mex and Ark-Mex favorites, a Central Arkansas tradition. Multiple locations statewide. 201 Skyline Drive. Conway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. (501) 327-6553.

LD daily.

EL HUASTECO Reasonably priced Mexican fare. 720 S. Salem Road. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-7641665. LD. EL PARIAN Traditional Mexican and Tex-Mex favorites are offered by this Arkansas restaurant chain. 2585 Donaghey.

Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-513-1313. LD. FABY’S RESTAURANT Nuevo Mexican and Continental cuisine meet and shake hands at Faby’s. The hand-patted, housemade tortillas are worth the visit alone. 2915 Dave Ward. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-329-5151.

THE GREAT AMERICAN GRILL Hotel restaurant. 805 Amity Road. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-3291444. BLD. HUTCH’S COUNTRY KITCHEN Country style lunch and dinner offerings. 605 Salem Road #10. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-205-0829. L Sun.-Fri., D Wed.-Fri. LA HUERTA MEXICAN RESTAURANT Standard Mexican fare with an emphasis on family favorites. 1052 Harrison Street. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-7620202. LD Mon.-Fri. LOS AMIGOS Authentic Mexican food where everything is as fresh and tasty as it is filling. At lunch, go for the $4.99 allyou-can-eat special. 2850 Prince St. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-329-7919. LD daily.

MARKETPLACE GRILL CONWAY Big servings of steak, seafood, chicken, pasta, pizza and other rich comfort-style foods. 600 Skyline Dr. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $$-$$$.

501-336-0011. LD Daily.

MIKE’S PLACE Delicious New Orleans-inspired steaks and seafood, plus wood-fired pizzas, served in a soaring, beautifully restored building in downtown Conway. 808 Front St. Conway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-269-6493.

LD daily.

NEW CHINA OF CONWAY Another buffet in the chain.

2104 Harkrider. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-7641888. LD. SLIM CHICKEN’S OF CONWAY Chicken in all shapes and sizes with sauces. 550 Salem Road. Conway. All CC. $$-$$$. 501-450-7546. LD. SOMETHING’S BREWING Coffee, pastries, sandwiches and such dot the menu of this longtime Conway favorite.

1156 Front St. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-3275517. BLD.

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Mediterranean Euro Delights share the menu with pizzas from our wood-burning oven, rich creative pastas and an array of the freshest of seafood dishes and innovative meat entrees.

Live music resumes on the patio this spring. Join us for live, local music through the week. Don’t forget our Sunday Brunch ($16.95 & only $13.95 for the early bird special, 10 am to 11 am). Reservations are preferred.

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Ump’s Pub & Grill

Whether the Travs are at home or on the road, come enjoy the unique Dickey-Stephens Park Atmosphere at Ump’s, an upscale sports pub and restaurant, featuring sandwiches, salads, steaks, seafood, good times and more! Come treat yourself to a meal prepared by Chef’s Ball award winning sous chef Richard Lindsey. Open 6 days a week for lunch, 11am-2pm. Open nightly for all Travellers home games. Regular dinner hours Friday and Saturday only.

Capers Restaurant

Indulge in the culinary creations and intimate environment that define Capers Restaurant. Food and wine enthusiasts agree Capers’ sophisticated approach to dining is key to it’s many accolades including receiving the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for six years running.

Copper Grill & Grocery

An endless array of delicious dishes available in the Grill or grab your Gourmet-to-Go from the Grocery. Offering products by French Farm, Bella Cucina & Bittersweet Herb that promise to turn any recipe into a memorable masterpiece Copper Grill & Grocery is a wonderland for the gourmand.

Gadwall’s Grill

Still serving up high-quality burgers and home-made fries.

Enjoy good food in a relaxed setting. Now offering outdoor seating on the deck. Serving cheese dip, nachos, platter meals, sandwiches and fried pies. Happy hour domestic draft beer from 3-6pm.

SO

This is a first class establishment. SO has some of the best steaks and seafood in the city, including oysters from the east and west coasts. Their menu has been updated and features a fantastic selection of cheeses like port salut, stilton, murcia and pecorino. Don’t forget to check out the extensive wine list.

Butcher Shop

Tremendous steaks, excellent service, fair prices and a comfortable atmosphere make The Butcher Shop the prime choice for your evening out. In addition to tender and juicy steaks, The Butcher Shop offers fresh fish, pork chop, 24 hour slow roasted Prime Rib, char grilled marinated chicken and fresh pasta. Ideal for private parties, business meetings, and rehearsal dinners. Rooms accommodate up to 50-60 people.

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Look no further…voted Best Asian again by the Arkansas Times readers. Lilly’s serves up extraordinary dishes made from the freshest, premium local and organic ingredients.

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Super King Buffet

One of central Arkansas’s largest Chinese buffets, we offer all your favorites with our sushi bar and Mongolian Grill included for one low price. Our dinner and all-day Sunday buffet include your lunch favorites as well as all-you-can eat crab legs, whole steamed fish, barbecue spare ribs, crispy jumbo shrimp and grilled steaks. Take-out buffet and menu available.

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If you have not been to Sonny Williams lately, get there immediately and check out the martini/wine bar. Now you can enjoy 35 wines by the glass, 335 selections of wine, 6 single barrel bourbons and all different kinds of Scotch from the many regions of Scotland. Of course, don’t miss out on the nightly entertainment by Jeff at the piano. Sonny’s is a River Market mainstay and perfect for intimate private parties; free valet parking! As always, Sonny Williams has the best steaks in town along with fresh seafood and game. No Skinny Steaks… Call ahead for reservations (501) 324-2999

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Featuring the Best Steaks in town with a New Orleans flair from a New Orleans native. Also featuring Seafood and Creole Specialties. As Rachel Ray says “This place is one of my best finds ever.” Back by popular demand…Soft Shell Crab and New Orleans Roast Beef Po-Boys.

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brew pub Vino’s Pizza•Pub•Brewery 923 West 7th Street 501/375-VINO (8466)

Beer, pizza and more! Drop in to Vino’s, Little Rock’s Original Brewpub! and enjoy great New York-style pizza (whole or by-the-slice) washed down with your choice of award-winning ales or lagers brewed right on site. Or try a huge calzone, our new Muffaletta sandwich or just a salad and a slice with our homemade root beer. The deck’s always open, you don’t have to dress up and the kids are always welcome (or not).

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This home at 730 Slope in Conway is truly one-of-a-kind. It has been completely redone from top-to-bottom and is simply amazing. It features four bedrooms, three bathrooms and plenty of extras. Attention to detail is what really sets this home apart from others. If you’re looking for a new home with a contemporary flair, this is the one for you. The living room has 14-foot ceilings and hand-scraped wide plank hardwoods. Hardwood floors can also be found in the master bedroom and the formal dining room. There is also recessed lighting throughout the home as well as the exterior.

Gorgeous is the best word to describe the kitchen. It features granite counters, beautiful cabinetry, under-cabinet lighting and contemporary faucets and fixtures.

All the appliances are top-of-the-line and the glass block backsplash completes the overall look of the space. Pantries are found in just about every kitchen but the pantry in this home goes beyond most. It is a walk-in and has a decorative glass door that fits perfectly with the rest of the kitchen.

Three bedrooms are on the same level, including the master, which is separate

The kitchen is spectacular.

Hardwoods are in the living room, dining room and master suite.

from the others. You’ll never want to leave the master bedroom suite. The bathroom here is incredible. The floor-to-ceiling custom tile shower, with its beautiful inlay, is impressive. There is also a jetted tub, double vanity and a three-tiered closet.

Transom windows above the master bathroom counter are another neat feature of this home.

A fourth bedroom, located downstairs, would make an excellent space as a teen or in-law quarters. In addition to the bedroom, a game room and two huge closets are also in this location.

There is so much more to this home, you have to see it to believe it. The exterior is landscaped and privacy-fenced plus there is a two-car garage with access to the backyard. You’ll enjoy the huge covered deck for entertaining or just relaxing. There’s recessed lighting and two ceiling fans should help beat the Arkansas heat.

This home is truly a must-see. It is offered for $279,900 and is listed with Linda Roster White Real Estate. Too see additional photos, visit www.LRWHomes.com.

Call Linda for a private tour or for more information at 501-730-1100.

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Wall sconces add to the master bedroom.

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26 VALMONT - GREENBRIER 3BR/2BA with huge kitchen, lots of cabinets & counter space, walkin pantry. Stained concrete floors, covered porch, walk kids to school. $149,900

MLS# 10254807 37 INDIAN SPRINGS - GREENBRIER New construction 3BR/2BA with gas FP, breakfast bar, tile backsplash, smooth top cooking surface, master jet tub, deck with view. $152,000

$212,000 Architectural design • Modern features • 12th Floor Skyline View Featured 4 times in At Home in Arkansas!

Call Gerald White, 680-3640 or Mary Johnson, 952-4318.

Visit www.LRCONDO.com for more pictures & info.

Gold Star Realty

MLS# 10253103 215 CHAPEL CREEK - CONWAY Energy star rated 3BR/2BA fantastic 10’ ceilings, stone fireplace, extensive trim, breakfast bar, hardwood floors, granite countertops. New Construction. $219,900

Land LOTS FOR SALE - Greenbrier. 1/31/2 acres starting at $23K. Trees, all utilities. Just 8 miles from Conway.

501-472-5807

Downtown QUAPAW TOWER Condo with architectural design, modern features and fabulous features. Shoji-style doors are a fantastic feature of the unit. Listed with Gold Star Realty. Call Gerald White at 501-680-3640 or Mary Johnson at 501-952-4318 for pricing or more info.

MLS# 10258240 31 BERNARD - CONWAY 3BR/2BA newly remodeled (paint, carpet, appliances, countertops, backsplash, kitchen sink & faucet, light fixtures). Huge LR with cathedral ceiling and fireplace, fenced yard. $153,000

MLS# 10253781

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Buying Lake Hamilton Condos!

Capitol View/ Stiffts Station 123 N. SUMMIT - Rare find close to ACH, UAMS, & Hillcrest. 2 BRs and a separate office, 2050 SF. Totally updated including cherry wood laminate flooring throughout, all new plumbing & electrical wiring, new kitchen counters, sink & dishwasher, new tank-less H2’ 0 heater, wired for computer network, audio/video and IR remote, a deck, fenced yard and oversized 2 car garage. A 21X17.6 ft sunroom w/vaulted ceiling, tile floor, water proof walls, lots of windows and sunken Jacuzzi hot tub. Located in Union Depot next to AR School for the Blind. Call Clyde Butler of CBRPM at 240-4300.

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3501 OAKWOOD RD. CONDO #3 $332,900. 2466 SF, 2-car attached garage. New roof. Private end unit.

2/3BR, 2.5BA, balcony overlooking pool, updated kitchen w/quartz countertops. Security system. FSBO 6665780 for appt.

Arkansas times presents PULASKI COUNTY Real Estate sales over $118,000 Benjmain C. McMinn, Betty M. Turner to Martin M. Rhodes, Patricia J. Rhodes, 8 Longfellow Pl., $1,030,000.

J. A. McEntire, III, Margaret M. McEntire, JAP Corp. to Carolyn W. Rogers Revocable Trust, Carolyn W. Rogers, L127, Overlook Park, $934,000.

Paul W. Schaller, Janice M. Schaller to Gary D. Dillard, Elizabeth J. Dillard, 107 Quapaw Trail, Maumelle, $596,000.

Mike F. Kuhn, Jamie R. Kuhn to Sergio Atilano, L32R B123, Chenal Valley Replat, $500,000.

Janice L. Jones to Brian H. Allen, Sharon Allen, 19820 Spillway Rd., Roland, $465,000.

Lisa M. Lang, Derek S. Lang to John Rafferty, Gina Rafferty, 24 Alton Ln., $410,000.

Don T. Barrow, Wanda B. Barrow to Charles W. Dicus, Catherine M. Dicus, 7 Valley Club Cir., $400,000.

Wanda R. Arnold to Matthew F. Bell, Valerie D. Bell, L49, Robinwood, $400,000.

Rollin G. Caristianos, Mary R. Caristianos to Jason Chrzanowski, Lisa Chrzanowski, 6 Equennes Dr., $395,000.

Michael S. Brower, Brandy Brower to Mink Y. Park, Lucille K. Park, 3305 Fox Den Trail, $380,000.

Sarah O’Connell, Sean O’Connell to Mohamed S. Nawaz, Fahimida S. Nawaz, 6 Noyal Dr., $375,000.

Cameron D. Gore, Deborah N. Gore to Catherine Porter Rayburn Revocable Trust, 139 Blackburn Dr., $355,000.

Cameron D. Gore, Deborah N. Gore to Catherine Porter Rayburn Revocable Trust, Catherine P. Rayburn, L21 B22, The Villages Of Wellington, $355,000.

Chenal Valley Construction, Inc. to Randal A. Erwin, Vicki D. Erwin, 14000 Fox Field Ln., $332,000.

Coburn Construction LLC to Prentice OGuinn, III, 639 Epernay Pl., $330,000.

Don R. Beavers, Mary F. Beavers to Steve & Julie Jenkins Living Trust, L12R B5, Overbrook, $320,000.

Danny W. Kell, Pamela L. Kell to Izoumroud Soultanova, 17 Bristol Ct., $310,000.

Brandon M. Bell to Monica G. Espinoza, Jude V. Espinoza, 22 Wellington Colony

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Dr., $309,000.

Debbie Thomason, Danny Thomason to Rajbeer Kaur, Lakhwinder Singh, Harpreep Kaur, Baljinder Singh, 8208 Brighton Dr., NLR, $300,000.

Michael Johnson, Charleen Francis to Donna J. Barnett, 453 Midland St., $294,000.

Stephen A. Weaver, Cynthia M. Weaver to Michael P. Israel, Beverly T. Israel, 3306 Fox Den Trail, $290,000.

C.J. Larmoyeux, Mary M. Larmoyeux to Walter D. Dodd, Kimberly C. Dodd, L1 B47, Pleasant Valley, $280,000.

Michael Cole, Shannon Cole to Billy Martin, 1733 Oakbrook Dr., Sherwood, $278,000.

Keith A. Snyder, Elisabeth A. Snyder to BAC Home Loans Servicing LP, Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP, L22, Piedmont, $277,928.

Edmund E. Zeneski, Jacqueline J. Zeneski to Matthew J. Koehler, 14608 Chambery Dr., 270,000.

Kerry E. Love, Patricia A. Love to Carl H. Varnell, Hilda G. Varnell, 127 Cabanel Dr., Maumelle, $267,000.

Billy Hartness Construction Co, Inc. to Brandon Vu, Hang T. Pham, 3 Willow Cove, $266,000.

Hillcrest Land Company LLC to Thomas A. Stramel, Mary B. Stramel, L18 B15, Midland Hills, $260,000.

Stephen G. Stanger, Tennille H. Stanger to Mickaila J. Johnston, Amanda B. Johnston, 7353 W. Ridge Cir., Sherwood, $255,000.

Ruth B. Owings to Stagecoach Land Company LLC, 8123 Stagecoach Rd., $250,000.

JM Ark Acquisitions LLC to PS Products Inc., Ls15-25 B2 & Ls1-5 B3, Remmel, $250,000.

Jeffrey D. Smith, Tonia L. Smith to Eric J. Lancaster, Amy J. Lancaster, 7609 Flintrock Rd., NLR, $245,000.

Dustin M. Mitchell to Laura Murray, Justin Murray, 9225 Johnson Dr., Sherwood, $240,000.

Hugh B. Setzler to Michael L. Roberts, Deidre J. Roberts, 125 Lagrue Dr., Sherwood, $240,000.

Suzanne S. Godwin, Suzanne S. McDonald, Edward F. McDonald, II to

Joseph W. Lampo, 407 Cambridge Place Dr., $240,000.

Gerald Hannahs to Millard Hyman, 15428 Hartford St., $235,000.

Graham Smith Construction LLC to Anne F. Pattillo, 18 Longleaf Cove, $235,000.

Jason S. Chrzanowski, Lisa M. Chrzanowski to Lori D. Josephson, Noel P. Josephson, 7091 E. Ridge Dr., Sherwood, $226,000.

CitiMortgage, Inc. to G&K Home Solutions LLC, 9106 Victoria Dr., $220,000.

Lillian Freeman to Wayne A. Norton, Jonzell M. Norton, L35RR, Fairway Woods PUD, $217,000.

Ebony Stewart, Roderick Stewart to Richard J. Moore, Mary B. Moore, 104 Antler Way Dr., Sherwood, $214,000.

Betty S. Fussell, James A. Patton, Lando T. Patton, Rosalie Patton to Benny Payne, Georgia Payne, SW SE 16-1N14W, $210,000.

Fuller Partners 2010 LLC to Oliver A. Bautista, Pinky B. Bautista, 12 Dauphine Pl., Maumelle, $201,000.

Billy R. Copeland, Sandra G. Copeland to Matthew J. Miller Special Needs Trust, L14 B37, Pleasant Valley, $199,000.

Thomas S. Ward, Mary L. Ward to Crystal G. Heard-Penney, 7 Arnold Palmer Cove, $198,000.

Matthew J. Koehler to Long Tong, Brooklynn B. Tong, 1725 Hidden Creek Dr., Sherwood, $196,000.

Stuart Bartlett, Lan Bartlett to Bank Of Little Rock Mortgage Corp., 10721 Misty Ridge Dr., Sherwood, $195,675.

Bank Of New York Mellon, Bank Of New York to Randell Stephen, Rhonda Stephen, 8520 Cantrell Rd., $195,000.

LaBerta Beasley-Russell, LaBerta L. Beasley, Randy Russell to Joshua Phillips, 112 Midland St., $194,000.

Richard M. Verbrugge, Molly K. Verbrugge to Allen Phillips, Jr., Alice C. Phillips, 18620 Fawn Tree Dr., $193,000.

First Security Bank to Harold H. Chakales, 42 Fairway Woods Cir., Maumelle, $192,000.

James C. McCaskill to Angela Boyd, 324 N. Woodrow St., $185,000.

David McNully to Julian D. Brown, 13825 Macarthur Dr., NLR, $184,000.

Darwin McKinney, Kimberly McKinney to Mark Lukas, 5700 N. Hills Blvd., NLR, $184,000.

Mary J. Williams to Nathan Tabb, Amanda Tabb, 3136 Shadyside Dr., Sherwood, $182,000.

Laurie L. Sinnett to Sarah E. Davis, 700 N. Palm St., $180,000.

Joseph C. Miller to Lillian Freeman Revocable Trust, Lillian Freeman, 7225 Park Meadows Dr., Sherwood, $180,000.

Arch T. Northcutt, Tammy Northcutt to Pamela S. Trevino, Crisostamo Trevino, 1911 Old Forge Dr., $179,000.

Jeffrey L. Gunnels, Connie J. Gunnels to Joseph D. Jimmerson, Stephanie Jimmerson, 3 Rocky Crest Ct., $179,000.

Bradley Stevens, Diana Stevens to Justin M. Fultz, Rachel L. Fultz, 5060 Willow Glen Cir., Sherwood, $177,000.

ERC Land Development Group LLC to Matthew R. Goodhart, Emily R. Goodhart, Warren D. Johnson, 139 Pleasantwood Dr., Maumelle, $175,000.

Eric J. Lancaster, Amy J. Lancaster to James L. Ratliff, 7114 Wildberry Cove, Sherwood, $175,000.

Front Porch Investments LLC to James K. Breaw, Vickie D. Breaw, 39 Ninth Fairway Loop, Maumelle, $175,000.

Benny E. Powell & Betty D. Powell Revocable Trust, Betty D. Powell to Cedric M. Konyaole, L133, Briarwood, $169,000.

Doris H. Gaiser to Martha White, 76 Westfield Loop, $168,000.

Kathey L. Gulley, Thomas B. Simpson to US Bank National Association, L1, Country Club Villas, $167,958.

Steve Fischer, Jr., Kelly H. Fischer to Federal National Mortgage Association, 6523 Kenwood Rd., $166,887.

Debbie Schulten, Jim Schulten, Dee A. Schulten to Bradley J. Mooy, 3724 Loch Ln., NLR, $166,000.

Carl J. Vogelpohl, Sharon T. Vogelpohl to Charles D. Shelton, Jennifer M. Shelton, 8206 Lowell Ln., $165,000.

Cope Homes Inc. to Karen D. Alara, 921 Mesquite Trail, Jacksonville,

$164,000.

Robert G. Diles, Mary E. Diles to Lisa D. Fletcher, Terry W. Fletcher, 4201 Mount Vernon Dr., NLR, $161,000.

Paige Smith, Paige S. Martin, Andrew Martin to Owen Kueser, Stacy Kueser, 1010 N. Tyler St., $160,000.

William W. Holtfort, Jr., Joslyn Holtfort to Sandra C. George, Chad Wilson, 7017 Ponderosa Dr., NLR, $160,000.

Louis E. Farris, Jr., Jeanne Farris to Robert S. Haas, 12 Eagle Rock Dr., Sherwood, $160,000.

Mary Koon, Ray Koon to Brittany L. Baughman, 1518 Breckenridge Dr., $159,000.

Sherry J. Finley, Lisa M. Kielbon to Anthony T. Mathews, Lisa G. Mathews, 30 Yazoo Ct., Maumelle, $159,000.

Mike King, Laura King to John T. Sherrill, 317 Ash St. N, $158,000.

Tony L. Meredith to BAC Home Loans Servicing LP, Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP, L36 B22, Maumelle Valley Estates, $152,846.

Kathleen Wikstrom, Kathleen Hiserodt, Carl V. Wikstrom to Ginger Y. Kimes, L6 B210, Park Hill, $150,000.

Regions Bank to Allison L. Stephens, 2200 Andover Ct., Apt. 401, $144,000.

David S. Heister, Mary Batson to Jason Wyatt, Ls18-19 B18, Lincoln Park, $142,000.

Misty Bona to Josh Wagner, 6306 Countryside Dr., NLR, $140,000.

Lucile Smith to Michael G. Keddie, Debra G. Keddie, L9 B16, Pulaski Heights, $140,000.

Paula W. Morris, Jessie P. Wyatt to Nancy J. Leaird, Hiram K. Leaird, 203 Stagecoach Village, $138,000.

Racheed J. Ghanami, Stacy Ghanami to Mark P. Wright, 1415 Mesquite Dr., $136,000.

Robert F. Hamilton, Julie B. Hamilton to Rodney M. Collins, Christina Collins, 116 Dennison St., $136,000.

Gerald Duckett, Yolanda S. Duckett to Bank Of America, L958, Fairway Woods Phase IV, $135,279.

Krystle Graybill, Nathan Graybill to Jun S. Espartero, Rhuby Espartero, 1101 Stevenson Cove, Jacksonville, $135,000.

Robert C. Ramey, Carmen Ramey to David DeSoto, Autum L. DeSoto, 8 Woodview Ct., $133,000.

Ted Beall, Carole Beall to BAC Home Loans Servicing LP, Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP, L108, Macon Heights, $132,278.

Beau Vue Estates LLC to Jeremy Wilson, Rebecca L. Wilson, 27 Beau Vue Ct., $130,000.

James M. Mueller, Connie Mueller to Paul G. Plemmons, Robin Plemmons, 24 Eagle Rock Dr., Sherwood, $130,000.

Willis Smith, Elaine Smith, Scott Smith to Penny A. Hardwick, 800 North St., , $127,000.

Leroy Franklin to Bank Of America, L535, Broadmoor, $126,441.

Kenneth H. Medlock, Janice Medlock to Alan W. Myers, Shannon Myers, 11119 Woods Rd., Sherwood, $125,000.

Pamela A. Carr, Joan Gauthreaux to Jennifer M. Hernandez, 2910 Ware St., $125,000.

Ann D. Shults, Ann L. Brackeen, Daniel W. Shults to Coburn Land & Leasing LLC, 10507 I-30 Rd., $125,000.

Kevin K. Declerk, Leonie C. Declerk to Olda M. Cannon, Brian G. Cannon, 1617 Erving Ridge Loop, Cabot, $125,000.

Bart Christine, Brooke Christine to Drew Beasley, 805 North St., #5, $124,000.

Virginia L. Blagg, Gene A. Blagg, William R. Nunnally, Phyllis A. Nunnally, Shirley Bassinger to Matthew E. Morrison, Mary A. Morrison, 7 Berrywood Cir., $124,000.

James L. Ricks, Evelyn Ricks to US Bank National Association, L13, Stone, $122,456.

Todd Underwood Construction LLC to Virginia Thomas, 304 Boston St., Jacksonville, $121,000.

Charles T. Knoedl, Dana R. Knoedl to Amanda J. Bryant, L1 HintergardtKnoedl Split Addition, $120,000.

Todd Underwood Const LLC to Danielle M. Clifton, 404 Boston St., Jacksonville, $120,000.

Wendy D. Simmons, Randall Simmons to Robert Wilson, Jodi L. Wilson, 4503 West Drive, NLR, $118,000.

Sam Carrasquillo to Melinda K. Hodge, 116 Spring Oak Dr., Sherwood, $118,000.

GREERS FERRY LAKE - Spectacular view! 5 acres. Utilities, covenants, seller financing. Owner/agent. 501825-6200

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Hillcrest

Conway

DUPLEX - $179,900. Over 2700 total SF. Buy now & have renter offset your mortgage payment. Main level is 2BR/2BA, 1500 SF. Upstairs studio rental is approx 550 SF ($525/mo.)

Also, has 700+SF walkout basement.

New Paint! Owner is licensed agent.

Call John, Pulaski Heights Realty, at 993-5442 for more info.

1440 BYRON - $219,000. Spotless!

4BR/2BA, large family room, lots of counter space & cabinets. Awesome backsplash, gorgeous landscaping.

MLS# 10252436 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-730-1100 or 501679-1103.

215 CHAPEL CREEK - Energy star rated 3BR/2BA fantastic 10’ ceilings, stone fireplace, extensive trim, breakfast bar, hardwood floors, granite countertops. New Construction. $219,900 MLS# 10258240 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-730-1100 or 501679-1103.

31 BERNARD - 3BR/2BA newly remodeled (paint, carpet, appliances, countertops, backsplash, kitchen sink & faucet, light fixtures).

Huge LR with cathedral ceiling and fireplace, fenced yard. $153,000 MLS# 10253781 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-730-1100 or 501679-1103.

730 SLOPE - $279,000. New Must See! 4BR/3BA, gameroom, computer area, custom tile shower, granite countertops, wood & tile. MLS# 10251178 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-730-1100 or 501-679-1103.

Greenbrier 712 N. WALNUT - $169,500. 2BR/1BA in the heart of Hillcrest. Just 1/2 block of Kavanaugh. Renovated kitchen w/ custom maple cabinets, tile floors, solid surface counters. Enter MLS 10257444 at www.PulaskiHeightsRealty.com 4101 C ST - $229,000. 3BR/2BA, 1836SF. Recently renovated!

Enter MLS# 10255320 on www.

PulaskiHeightsRealty.com for more photos. John Selva, Pulaski Heights Realty, 993-5442

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4924 HILLCREST AVE - $475,000.

3BR/3BA plus 3-car garage. 2600 SF. Recently renovated home on large corner lot. Call John Selva at Pulaski Heights Realty at 501-993-5442.

1313 SUNSET - $92,000. Well kept and close to schools. Surprisingly huge backyard. Beautiful garden, covered patio. MLS# 10257183 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-730-1100 or 501-679-1103.

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4214 C STREET - $149,900. 2BR/1BA starter home, 1166 SF. Walk to UAMS or shopping on Kavanaugh. Call John Selva at Pulaski Heights Realty at 501-993-5442.

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26 VALMONT - 3BR/2BA with huge kitchen, lots of cabinets & counter space, walk-in pantry. Stained concrete floors, covered porch, walk kids to school. $149,900 MLS# 10254807 Linda Roster White Real Estate,501-730-1100 or 501-679-1103.

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37 INDIAN SPRINGS - New construction 3BR/2BA with gas FP, breakfast bar, tile backsplash, smooth top cooking surface, master jet tub, deck with view. $152,000 MLS# 10253103 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-7301100 or 501-679-1103.

7 COLUMBINE COURT - Beautiful home on a cul-de-sac! 4BR, bonus room, remodeled kitchen, two living rooms & two-level decking on back.

Many great neighborhood amenities!

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5 COUNTRY COVE - $375,000.

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Ick

n Ex-Bro.-ex-Gov. Mike Huckabee, the Florida TV entertainer, was said last week to be icked out by some of the icky things that gay people do with their icky things.

I’m icked out by some of that, too.

And by some of the icky things that straight people do with their icky things.

And bi people with theirs. And transies with theirs, before and after.

And double-jointed people. And lepers.

And teen-agers. And drunks. It icks me out so bad when a drunk throws up on me that I almost want to go home and change clothes.

Make no mistake, as President Obama is always saying: I wouldn’t want either straight or gay people jailed or deported or branded or infected with deadly diseases or forced into tragic-for-all-concerned parenthood because of their sometimes icky behavior. Just don’t think you have to keep me up to date on the icky details. Don’t feel like you have to share pictures or descriptions without express written consent.

Because I’m pretty easily icked out, and it’s not one of my favorite things to be. It’s not as bad as being kicked in the haunch with a hobnailed boot, but it’s bad enough.

Quite a few things that the Ex.-Bro.Ex.-Gov. does ick me out. And I don’t just mean palling around with icky toesuckers like Dick Morris. Or his icky attraction to

Bob L ancaster old-style pulpit humor that features farm animals screwing, or someone stepping in ca-ca, or someone else’s richard going flaccid at just the notion of making out with Nancy Pelosi or Helen Thomas. Or his old Velveeta preoccupation, and all the icky Freudian implications of that.

Every one of his books that I read icked me out, each in a different way. Just the icky title of one of them was sufficient, I remember. And the shoddy binding of another. No prob with treatment or subject matter because predictable ick is tolerable ick. True ick requires at least a small element of surprise.

And so on. Just one ick after another with him, and they nearly all get back to the endless self-promotion and self-exalting of the most self-centered, self-righteous, selfabsorbed public person of this epoch, who came to prominence as advocate of a faith whose very first order of business is selfdenial. That kind of irony plays whaley on my ick hackles. Keeps me awake nights.

Or used to. Some nights. Not so much anymore, I guess.

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BTW, I don’t give credence to the rumor that sometimes after turning out the lights and pissing on the fire he and Glenn Beck go behind the set and give each other noogies.

Even if they did, it wouldn’t qualify as icky, at least by my standard. It might if Greta Van Susteren got involved, but then again it might not. Greta doesn’t need horseplay to conjure ick. It pretty much follows her around.

I don’t mean to pick on the ex-ex, as there’s no shortage out there of purveyors or curators or haberdashers of ick.

Case in point. On TV just now slimy old Pat Robertson advising matrons on how to recapture the lifted brows of their geezer mates who have gone to hitting on jailbait wait staff. If that doesn’t ick you out, you might need new icker AA’s.

There’s something ineffably icky about pop-’em-out Duggary.

Zombies ick me out, but I guess that’s what zombies do. They don’t do anything else as far as I can see. I’ve never heard of one of them bowling or training for a place on an Olympics gymnastic team.

Coprophagy icks me out, and I’m really icked having just looked in on an Internet gathering of practitioners, who range from defensive to enthusiastic, and who number in their pantheon two big-name yesteryear movie stars and one of the giants of early TV comedy, none of whom ever uncloseted, or unwatercloseted, you might say in this context, as far as I know.

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Field Workers-5 temporary positions; approx 4 _ months; Duties: to operate tractors during the preparation and maintenance of the sugar cane crop before, during and after the harvesting season. $9.10 per hour; Job to begin on 8/15/10 through 12/31/10. 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; _ guaranteed of contract. Employment offered by The Lacassne Company located in Lake Charles, LA. Qualified applicants should fax resumes to employer at (337) 436-5266 or apply during normal business hours by using job order number #356193.

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Field Workers-7 temporary positions; approx 8 _ months; Duties: to operate tractors during the preparation and harvesting of the crop. $9.10 per hour; Job to begin on 5/15/10 through 2/1/11. 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; _ guaranteed of contract. 3 months experience require in job offered. Employment offered

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Field Workers-5 temporary positions; approx 10 months; Duties: to operate tractors during the preparation and maintenance of the fields for the harvesting season and during the harvesting season. $9.10 per hour; Job to begin on 8/2/10 through 5/31/11. 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; _ guaranteed of contract.

Employment offered by A & S Farms, Inc. located in Jeanerette, LA. Qualified applicants should fax resume to employer at (337) 276-5440 or apply during normal business hours using job order #356395.

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It icks me out every time to see the clip of Rush Limbaugh doing the Watusi with his big old boobs flopping.

People ick me out who reek as Marilyn Monroe was said to, who apparently never in her life made even an across-the-room acquaintance with a tub of Mum. I can’t explain it but Jennings Osborne’s Christmas-lights extravaganza always icked me out. Glen Campbell’s DUI mug shot.

Death Row groupies. Boiled okra. Parrots.

The notion that his Peyronie’s might have had Bubba meeting himself coming and going. On the other hand, I actually liked the Icky Shuffle, so you never know.

And I really need to sell those goats, the milking having become such an icky daily hassle.

The worst ick I know: one-ply TP. Ick of the week last week was the local icky entertainment columnist using her local entertainment column to celebrate having safely escaped from a creepy Internet liaison with an apparent aspiring Mr. Goodbar. Reminded me of the old joke with this punchline: “I’m not sure I would’ve told that, brother.” Like most experiences involving ick, most appreciated unshared.

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