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The power of voting I just read your article about “America’s Worst Politicians” (July 3). When I read or hear about how terrible our politicians are I try to figure out just what it is that generates those complaints. Are those “worst politicians” really different from the rest of us? Our elected politicians must inevitably reflect who we are because we are the ones who vote for them and give them the opportunity to represent us. Of course, everyone isn’t happy with the outcome of every election because only one candidate can be elected and not everyone votes for the same candidate. Nonetheless, all eligible voters have an opportunity to cast a ballot for his or her chosen politician. Of all the responsibilities we have as citizens of this American republic, voting for a representative in our government is our most valuable and vital one. If we have any spark of interest whatsoever in local, city, county, state or national government every eligible voter must vote every time he or she has the opportunity. We must never allow inconvenience or some temporary hardship to disenfranchise any one of us. It’s easy to find fault with attempts to block voters from exercising our most vital right and to rail about the unfairness of it all. Such foolishness is no excuse for not voting. It’s even easier to whine that your vote doesn’t matter because someone else will just vote for the other candidate and “cancel” your vote. As Forrest Gump’s mom told him: “Stupid is as stupid does.” You are the only one who can “cancel” your vote and you do that every time you do not vote. Perhaps you are disgusted with partisan politics and like to say you don’t want to have anything to do with politicians. As a citizen of the U.S.A. you do not have that choice because citizenship carries responsibilities with it that must be exercised if you want to continue to enjoy your citizenship rights. Our country wasn’t formed and our Declaration of Independence from British tyranny wasn’t written by unanimous consent. Many more American colonists rushed to sign a pledge of allegiance to King George than ran to serve in the Colonial Army. We were born from extreme partisanship. The right to vote and have a representative government has always been the struggle of a few against the many. If you have any respect for the few who 4

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have carried that battle and passed its bounty freely on to you, you must take the easy responsibility of voting whenever it is offered. Hold your head up high; be proud of carrying out the most important and hard-won responsibility you have as a citizen of the U.S. Honor those who wore the bloody bandages and those who died for your right to vote. You don’t have to be on the front line to be part of the struggle. Otherwise, throw away your ﬂags and your ﬁreworks and your “Second Amendment remedies” and crawl back into your spider hole

and wait for those who want to keep you from voting to come for you. It won’t be to give you a medal. As a bonus, you’ll get to read more articles about “America’s Worst Politicians” and shake your head in shame. David Steadman Damascus

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deflect that very accusation from himself and his fellow Christian Dominionists. I’ve read the Chris Hedges book, “American Fascists, The Radical Christian Right and the War Against America.” I’ve read Jeff Sharlett’s book, “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.” Radical Christian conservatives like Huckabee are no joke. They are dead serious about taking control of all institutions of power: the government, the media, academia, the arts and the scientific community. They have a huge funding pool from the corporate world because, like most fascist movements, they support the suppression of the labor force and the protection of the corporate class. In America, this alliance dates all the way back to Fred C. Koch — father of Charles and David and a founding member of the John Birch Society — and his rabid support of the Mussolini regime for this reason. Like fascist groups before them, Christian Dominionists have a long hit list of enemies: Democrats, feminists, intellectuals, artists, scientists, homosexuals, non-gender conforming people, those of different religions and Christians of other denominations whose ideology they disapprove of. The Christian Dominionist movement is not a religion. It is a fascist political movement, a heresy that works in tandem with powerful corporate interests to achieve its goals. And it has achieved astounding success since the days of Jerry Falwell, one of its original architects. Representatives of this movement now occupy the highest positions of power in our government. Any fascist movement can only thrive in periods of severe or prolonged economic drought. That’s all that stands between the radical Christian right, which counts Mike Huckabee among its prominent members, and its complete ascendance to power. We ignore the threat these people pose to our democracy and our open society at our own peril. Brad Bailey Fayetteville

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Not complicated The crisis in the public school employee insurance system is complicated. The politics behind it are complicated. The solutions just passed by the legislature to once again shore up the troubled fund — those are complicated, too. But the underlying reason behind the fund’s insolvency is simple: The public isn’t paying enough for its share of school employees’ insurance. According to University of Arkansas researchers, the typical public school teacher in Arkansas pays 65 to 70 percent of his or her premium for family coverage. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that an average public school teacher in the U.S. pays for about 34 percent of his or her health insurance premium for family coverage.

“Global warming is not American warming,” Tom Cotton told the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce on July 2. “It’s not Arkansas warming. If we disadvantage manufacturers here in the United States, what are they going to do? They’re not going to shut down business. They may shut it down here in the United States, but they’re going to send it to other countries like China or India where they have lower pollution controls than we have here. This legislation [proposed EPA rules limiting carbon emissions] is going to drive up the cost of doing business in the United States.” In other words, if China won’t do anything, we won’t do anything. That’s being a responsible citizen of God’s green earth, isn’t it?

Injustice Last year, the Arkansas Claims Commission voted unanimously to award Gyronne Buckley $460,000 for spending 11 years in prison on wrongful convictions. On July 8, a legislative panel reversed and dismissed the commission’s award. Attorney General Dustin McDaniel went before the panel to argue that Buckley had not been harmed and paying him would set a bad precedent. Buckley originally got a life sentence in Clark County for supposedly selling $40 in crack to an informant in 1999. He had no prior criminal record. The informant was testifying to get out of a charge of his own. The state fought for years to keep from revealing evidence, a videotape, useful to Buckley’s defense. It showed the informant’s poor recollection of events. A federal judge found 38 places that the informant’s testimony could be impeached. Want to see a bad precedent? Here’s one: no consequences when the state puts a first offender in jail for 11 years for a drug deal based on a dubious witness protected from exposure by investigators and prosecutors. 6

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Stealth politics at grassroots

funny thing happened shortly before voteshort developer Dickson Flake got a threemonth delay from the Little Rock City Board on considering his widely panned proposal to install a MAPCO filling station and 24-hour convenience store at the dangerous Third and Broadway intersection, just a block and a half from a $70 million Robinson Center Music Hall redo. New opposition arose from the slick Facebook page of Smart Growth Little Rock, which also seems to have been behind robocalls urging residents to call the City Board to oppose the project. Who is Smart Growth Little Rock? Good question. No answers are readily available. Some of the social media work has been done, however, by a paid employee of the Markham Group, a political consulting firm. My reading of state law is that when you’ve spent $400 to attempt to influence government action, including at the city level, you have to register as a lobbyist. But, after talking with the Ethics Commission, it became apparent to me that there are potential loopholes, particularly since the law was written before social media existed. For example, a group can get together and buy a newspaper ad to urge approval or defeat of a city ordinance without registering as a lobbyist. The ad itself is proof of the lobbying. No further filing is required. Does that mean that putting together a Facebook page or a Twitter account is similarly exempt from reporting? It’s a question yet to be determined. The hows and whys of campaign spending need more study at every level and not just because of the arrival of sophisticated spending by wealthy interests at City Hall. Already, Koch brother money has had an unhealthy impact on efforts to control development in the Lake Maumelle watershed. Their anti-regulation zeal has helped translate into a concerted effort to weaken the county ordinance. But the lobbying has left few footprints for the public to follow in ethics filings.

At the state level, another loosely associated group is working to repeal a state law that prevents competition for phone companies from a state broadband network that otherwise could serve public MAX schools. The legislature is being BRANTLEY lobbied directly about this, but maxbrantley@arktimes.com nobody at FASTERArkansas has filed any lobbyist paperwork or made any meaningful financial reporting. They have conceded Walton money is one source of support. The Markham Group is again handling PR mechanics. FASTERArkansas is organized under favorable tax laws as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit. It may engage in political activities. It’s only required federal reporting is a sketchy annual tax return. This has become the preferred route to channel money into political campaigns without fingerprints. In Arkansas this year, such tax-advantaged organizations are spending millions in races from the Arkansas Supreme Court to governor and U.S. Senator. Sources of the money are not revealed. The people who call the shots operate from the shadows. Such organizations provided the lion’s share of money spent in a race for Supreme Court and a primary race for attorney general. Voters have no idea what motivated the fundamentally dishonest advertising they bought. This should be a bipartisan concern. I happen, for example, to agree wholeheartedly with Smart Growth Little Rock’s opposition to the MAPCO and am sympathetic with the aims of FASTERArkansas. But I’d still like to know who they are and where their money is coming from. Opponents of limits on contributions to political campaigns say the solution is to remove the limits but require full disclosure. You may judge their sincerity by the current spreading practice —unlimited spending with no meaningful disclosure.

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Lack of leadership, Oaklawn courtship: Legislative folly

t used to be ritual that the governor addressed lawmakers at the end of each regular and emergency session to reassure them that Arkansans were in their debt for again protecting the state from the ravages of fate. Unless the media failed to recount it, Gov. Mike Beebe had the decency not to do that when the First Extraordinary Session of 2014 adjourned after midnight last Wednesday. Most emergency sessions are monuments to the legislature’s past folly rather than some unforeseen crisis, and this little session had no other cause. Worse, the state and the legislators will very soon, probably this winter, have cause to rue the failings and lack of leadership of this session — failings, incidentally, that the governor must share. Beebe agreed to call the session to

fix three developments that legislators considered critical: a whopping increase in premiums that ERNEST teachers and other DUMAS school employees faced this fall to keep their health insurance; prisons and county jails overflowing with state prisoners, and the state lottery’s plan to start electronic-monitor gambling. The legislature quickly approved the three fixes and Beebe signed. Let’s review. School health insurance: Because premiums for years had risen so sharply that young and healthier teachers and school workers each year quit the program, premiums for the rest shot upward. They faced a 35 percent hike this fall, steepen-

ing the death spiral for the program. To “save” it, a legislative task force proposed lopping off even more employees (parttime workers and spouses who could be covered by their own employer plans) and stealing $4.6 million from starving school districts and giving it to insurance pools for public employees. That way, the average premium increase in the schools this fall might be no more than 3 percent. The authors of this plan said we need not worry about the people removed from the insurance rolls, who happen to be the ones most desperate for coverage, because many could get covered by Obamacare, either the private Medicaid option for those earning below 138 percent of poverty or the subsidized plans in Obamacare’s private market. Without a hint of artifice, the principal author of the fix, Sen. Jim Hendren, R-Gravette, acknowledged that he was also committed to killing the private option when the legislature reconvenes this winter. Only four months ago, the legislature stopped all federal funding to assist Arkansans in getting subsidized coverage in the Obamacare exchange. Well, you can’t save everybody.

But the problem all along was that the state treats teachers and other school workers as second-class public employees. It doesn’t fund their insurance at anywhere near the same rate that it does “state” employees like legislators. If it did, there would be no crisis. See, teachers aren’t considered state employees but local school workers. The state Constitution says otherwise — it makes public education the foremost financial obligation of the state — and if the lawyers had thought to include it in Lake View v. State the Arkansas Supreme Court would have ordered school insurance subsidies equalized 12 years ago when it told the legislature for the third time that the Constitution really meant what it said, that providing a good and equal school program for all kids was a solemn debt of the state. Legislators have not wanted to face that because it would jeopardize the tax cuts for corporations and high incomes enacted the past several years, which left no money for education benefits. Also, the public now is supposed to hate coddling government employees. CONTINUED ON PAGE 17

Opposing Obama with no context

f you pay too much attention to opinion polls, as most people do, doubtless you’ve heard that a plurality of voters has judged Barack Obama the worst president since World War II. Thirty-three percent, to be precise, which as it coincides almost exactly with the number of hard-core Republicans, merely tells you something you already knew: GOP partisans dislike Obama with irrational zeal. In short, the Quinnipiac University survey reveals more about them than about Obama. But hold that thought. A presidential poll whose results might be worth heeding would measure the opinions only of people who could actually name the 12 U.S. presidents since 1945. I’m guessing that’d be maybe 10 percent of the electorate, tops. Anyway, to put the bad news about Obama in perspective, back in 2006 when George W. Bush was in his sixth year in office — typically the nadir of a two-term president’s popularity — the same Quinnipiac poll found that 34 percent of Americans judged him the worst since 1945. Even the sainted Ronald Reagan’s job approval numbers took a sharp drop during his sixth year due to the Iran-Contra scandal — selling missiles to Iran to finance right-wing terrorists in Nicaragua.

hower, a judgment I wouldn’t dispute.) … [But] by now, the evidence is clear that Politically, the make-believe rancher millions of Obama voters really believed turned portrait painter has become The all that boilerplate rhetoric.” Man Who Wasn’t There. Because Bush’s Hence bitter disappointment on the senrecord is pretty much indefensible — asleep timental left. Oh, you wanted single-payer on 9/11, imprudent tax cuts, an unfinished health care? So tell me where Obama was This year, howwar in Afghanistan, weak jobs creation, supposed to get the votes. ever, a reported a financial meltdown that damn near However, the real believers in Barack 35 percent in the destroyed the world economy, trillion dol- the magic enchanter have been Republicans. Quinnipiac surlar budget deficits, an unjust, failed war and His presidency has driven a substantial provey judged Reagan unfolding geopolitical catastrophe in Iraq — portion of the GOP electorate completely the best president Republicans not named Dick Cheney make around the bend. To a remarkable degree, GENE since World War II. no serious effort to defend it. the party of Lincoln has metamorphosed LYONS Apparently all is forInstead, they insist that the world began into a Confederate-accented political cult given, forgotten or — equally likely — never anew with the inauguration of Barack on apocalyptic themes suggested by funknown. Obama. All references to the astonishing damentalist theology. “The unhinged versions of this sensibilBill Clinton came in second at 18 percent; mess his predecessor left behind are forJFK third with 15 percent. Democrats, see, bidden lest one be accused of playing the ity,” notes Jonathan Chait “held that Obama split their “best president” choices pretty “blame game.” had launched a sinister ideological assault evenly among Clinton, JFK and Obama. Rhyming slogans often prove irresist- on the Constitution and American freedom, Meanwhile, 66 percent Republicans chose ible to simpletons. OK, so Obama asked for perhaps in the name of Islamism, or socialReagan, a sharp rebuke to ex-presidents it. Mother Jones blogger Kevin Drum gets ism, or, somehow, both.” Mentioning Obama’s race as one cause named Bush. Indeed, some 28 percent in that part exactly right: the 2014 survey still think that Dubya estab“For years, I really didn’t believe the con- of GOP panic is even more forbidden than lished a new low in presidential ineptitude. servative snark about how Obama support- bringing up George W. Bush. You want to More significant, exactly 1 percent called ers all thought he would descend on Wash- argue about it? Check the comment lines to Bush the best. One percent! Even Nixon, ington like a god-king and miraculously turn any online article about Obama, and then who resigned the presidency ahead of us into a post-racial, post-partisan, post- get back to me. It’s in the Bible: “The guilty impeachment, got 1 percent. Gerald Ford, political country. Kumbaya! The reason I flee, where no man pursueth.” who pardoned him, got 1 percent. didn’t believe it was that it never struck me Along with existential panic goes an Historians agree about Dubya. A recent as even remotely plausible.” inability to keep things in proportion. BengSiena College survey of 238 “presidential Of course Obama promised to transform hazi equals invading Iraq. The IRS “scandal” scholars” called Bush the fifth worst in U.S. America. “That’s what presidential candi- equals Watergate. Forty-five consecutive history and the only chief executive since dates do,” Drum adds. “I believed then, and months of job growth and shrinking budget 1945 to make the bungler’s Hall of Fame. still believe now, that Obama is basically deficits get airbrushed out of the picture. (Only one post-WWII president made a mainstream Democrat who’s cautious, Over time, fear will abate. Then we’ll see the historians’ top 10: Dwight D. Eisen- pragmatic, technocratic, and incremental what we see. www.arktimes.com

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couple of weeks ago, I hinted that the time to prognosticate about Arkansas’s 2014 football season was inescapably here, and that such forecasting would be a comprehensive examination over the remainder of summer. With all the major publications expecting another months-long round of implosions, you’d think the die has been cast for the Hogs to be flailing away in the outhouse once more. You’d think I’m not particularly enthused about even drafting this, given that the subject matter seems about as effusive and bright as Sylvia Plath’s memoirs. Ain’t the case. I got a little room for unfettered, unapologetic and perhaps illogical optimism. Arkansas went 0-8 in SEC play last year and got one more nasty 52-0 beatdown from Alabama in the course of that. The Hogs also mustered some heart, too, and that got overlooked amid the losing. Nine losses, yes, but eight of those came at the hands of bowl-bound teams. The last month of the year, the Hogs improved on both sides of the ball, averaging 21 points per game on offense and surrendering 31 per outing. They taxed national runner-up Auburn, competed gamely on the road against Ole Miss and LSU, and let a win against Mississippi State slip away in Little Rock. Maybe it was a bunch of moral wins, but it was something to be comparatively stoked about after three October losses to Florida, South Carolina and Alabama netted all of 17 total points against 134 surrendered. Looking in reverse isn’t particularly enjoyable but it gives insight into deficiencies that the coaching staff seems to have taken to heart. Brandon Allen was injury-prone and sloppy throwing the ball, but it was a soft receiving crew and mediocre protection that often let him down. There have been some efforts to shore that up, and perhaps the least publicized but most encouraging news is that big-bodied wideout Demitrius Wilson is back after tearing an ACL last summer. With Keon Hatcher developing some swagger in the final few weeks of his sophomore campaign, it at least gives the Razorback perimeter size and experience, flaws notwithstanding. Suddenly, the defensive side of the ball has some anchors, too, which should help the pass rush and run stoppage. Darius Philon was high-impact

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at times last season, and seemed to strengthen as the laborious campaign wound down. New coorBEAU dinator Robb WILCOX Smith needs him to be a cog alongside senior defensive end Trey Flowers and the raw but gifted Deatrich Wise, and it will stabilize a line that had great potential last fall but lost a lot of its spirit when tackle Robert Thomas went down for good with a broken leg in October. The objective this fall is to simply grind. The paucity of passing game talent was amplified by mistakes last fall, so Jim Chaney cannot be so emboldened this year. In other words, if you hate conservative offense, don’t watch us much this fall. There is no reason for a team like Arkansas, so bereft of depth and skill position speed, to dare lengthen games in which they’re already fundamentally overmatched. Where the defense’s growth can be best measured is in the back end, of course, and the consensus is that these areas still suffer. Injuries never help, and Will Hines got roughly half of his promising sophomore stanza yanked away cruelly with a broken arm against Florida. The ball-hawking corner may have demonstrated his best asset when he returned from the alleged seasonender to log a few snaps in the meaningless finale against LSU. That anyone could shake off ailments to find the stomach to try to fend off a winless conference season was a facet of that game that was lost in all the postgame panic. Brooks Ellis grew into the middle linebacker role as well, and even if it’s hard to conceive of a scenario where the Hogs are defensively stout, consider the impact that the Korliss Marshall/ Alex Collins/Jonathan Williams triumvirate can have on the other side. Those three produced over 2,000 aggregate rushing yards last fall, but did it with only 357 combined totes. This fall, the emphasis will be placed on harder effort between the tackles and that can only come from more workload. Bret Bielema was an advocate for slowed offenses for a reason — he watched his own undermanned defense get victimized by it time and time again. These are some of the bright spots. We needn’t belabor the grim truths just yet. Keep smiling for a while.

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Nocturnal OVER THE LONG HOLIDAY WEEKEND just passed — a glorious and, dare we say it, chilly at times weekend, rarer in July in these parts than a politician with good sense — The Observer was able to get outdoors at night, just for the sake of being there, for an extended period of time. Usually in July, Yours Truly is parked under the AC with a cold one, mentally preparing our shriveled brain for the assault on Mt. Career the next day, hermetically sealed off from the skeeters and the moonlight and the big junebugs that drone like B-17s through the velvet dark. It’s that way for a lot of folks, we bet. Still, we love summer nights in Arkansas, and should really make the effort to get out there more often, our fear of stepping on a wily copperhead notwithstanding. It’s a different world out there at night. Time moves slower. Conversations in the dark, devoid of body language or facial expression, roll on and on, punctuated by laughter, the glowing tip of a cigarette or the wash of headlights from a passing car on the road, the tires of the car saying to the trees and moon and crickets and all the secret things in the underbrush: Shhhhhhhhhh. ... Eventually, inevitably, long after midnight, somebody will think to look down at his phone, face lit for a moment, and then he’ll say: “Damn. Look how late it is.” And with that, the spell of the night will be broken, time having stuck its nose where it doesn’t belong. Cigarettes will be stubbed. Beer cans will be drained and crushed. Then they will go back to the house, blinking their way into the air conditioning and electric light. The Observer works late some nights when we’ve put off a cover story to the point El Jefe Millar starts looking at us funny, and the city downtown is a different place as well in the summer dark, even with the streetlights burning to the point they blot out the stars. Young women stand on the corner in their tall, Gone

Clubbin’ shoes and smart skirts, staring at the walk sign on the opposite corner, waiting for the light to say that they can begin their lives. The streetcar rattles past and ding-dings, windows framing tourist faces. You know they’re tourists because they have that so-happy-to-be-here look to them, turning their heads, taking it all in like children. Down in front of the clubs and bars, the hard men lean on the seats of their lean and hungry motorcycles, smiles creeping out as they smoke and talk. The bouncers frown and eye IDs. The homeless people shuffle and turn, looking back in the direction they came sometimes, as if they don’t know what’s following them. The policemen roll past in their black and whites. Later on, the Last Call Brigade will stagger away, some singly, some with their conquests. Soon after, the signs will all go out, and then the cooks and bartenders and bouncers and servers will slouch to their cars, stinking of work, of flour and beer. That’s the time of the night The Observer really loves, by the way, though we rarely get to experience it: the dampness before the dawn, 3 a.m., 4 a.m. The Observer was a roofer growing up, and in the heat of the summer, Pa would roll us out to the jobsite at 3 a.m. so we could quit before the real heat came on in the afternoons. The Observer is no early bird, but we always loved that as a young man: seeing the world emptied and stilled other than the truckers and the nurses and the late-night bartenders shuffling home. At 3 a.m., the streetlights go green and red over empty intersections, allowing and restricting nothing. The garbage trucks clatter like mastodons. The world is still dozing, asleep and dreaming, the few cars on the streets piloted by the night shifters, the nocturnals, headed home, shuffling back to kitchens and beds, returning to sleeping lovers and sleeping children. They’ll be asleep themselves by daybreak.

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The legal community continues to buzz with rumors of tension at the Arkansas Supreme Court. The Arkansas Times wrote last week about numerous reports from well-placed sources on a split on the court regarding the selection of the new Supreme Court clerk and also of the emergence of a robust bloc of decision-makers in the persons of the female justices — Courtney Goodson, who plans a run for chief justice in 2016; Karen Baker, and Jo Hart. Baker reportedly took the lead in forming a four-vote group to override, by telephone, Justice Donald Corbin’s initial decision not to issue a stay in Judge Chris Piazza’s same-sex marriage ruling. The latest news is a report of unhappiness on the court about leaks to the Times and internal friction, including some sharp personal verbal exchanges. Four well-placed lawyers have related that two members of the court wanted to administer lie detector tests to Supreme Court employees to ferret out the source of the Times’ reports. The other five opposed mass polygraphs. Supreme Court conferences are not public meetings. The group’s inner workings are customarily secret. So there is no record of votes in conference apart from what might be indicated on official opinions. Goodson and Baker are the two justices most likely to want to know more about who’s passing along information.

MAPCO looks like a no-go MAPCO, a Nashville-based chain of convenience stores, got a second delay last week in a Little Rock City Board vote on its proposal to put a convenience store with several gas pump islands at Third and Broadway. A last-minute delay was requested by developer Dickson Flake, a powerful Little Rock businessman. It was a surprise to a roomful of opponents who’d come to the City Board to protest the development across the street from a county office building and within a block and a half of the county courthouse, City Hall and Robinson Center Music Hall, now undergoing a $70 million renovation. Flake and MAPCO wanted a delay because they couldn’t count six votes necessary for passage on the 10-member board. Background discussions later indicated they’ll have a hard time getting there. As City Director Brad Cazort said publicly: No CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 10

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BRAIDING WITHOUT A LICENSE: Earl and McLean braided each other’s hair at a press conference.

Hair braiders protest rules File suit, as did orthodontists, over licensing. BY DAVID RAMSEY

ast month, at a press conference at her shop on West Markham, Christine McLean braided Nivea Earl’s

hair. Because McLean is not a licensed cosmetologist, doing this simple act for compensation violates Arkansas law. “One of the more amusing forms of civil disobedience,” said J. Justin Wilson, spokesman for the Institute for Justice (IJ), a Virginia-based national libertarian law firm. McLean and Earl are plaintiffs in a lawsuit — the occasion for the press conference — filed last month in U.S. District Court in Little Rock by IJ, alleging that the licensing requirements for natural hair braiders in the state are unconstitutional. Those rules require that hair braiders get a license in cosmetology, which requires 1,500 hours of training (hair braiding itself is not included in the curriculum). It’s the second federal lawsuit IJ has filed against a state agency in Arkansas this year. In May, the law firm sued the state Board of Dental Examiners on behalf of Dr. Benjamin Burris and Dr. Elizabeth Gohl, orthodontists who want to offer low-cost teeth-cleaning. Though they are licensed dentists, state law

does not allow specialists like orthodontists to do basic dental work. The hair-braiding lawsuit is part of a national initiative by IJ, which filed suit on behalf of hair braiders in Washington and Missouri, along with Arkansas, on June 17. The firm has previously brought hairbraiding lawsuits in eight other states plus the District of Columbia, and it has a track record of success: two victories in court and six wins via legislative fixes in response to the lawsuit, with a ninth case still pending. IJ has waged legal battles against occupational licensing regimes it believes to be irrational or overly burdensome since the firm was founded in 1991. In addition to hair braiding, it’s contested licensing requirements for coffin-making, transportation, tax preparation and interior design, among others. The firm argues that licensing laws and regulations are often more about limiting competition and backing the financial interests of current stakeholders than protecting the public. “When IJ launched, our very first case was a hair-braiding case, representing a couple in Washington, D.C., running a hairbraiding salon,” said Paul Avelar, IJ’s lead

attorney on the Arkansas hair-braiding case. “One of our pillars here at IJ is defending economic liberty — that is the right to earn an honest living, free from irrational government regulation. And the hair-braiding case was perfect.” IJ’s suit against the state Department of Health and the Cosmetology Technical Advisory Committee, which enforce the state laws governing cosmetologists, alleges that the licensing requirement for hair braiders violates the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Under current jurisprudence, the government must have a rational basis for a licensing regime (IJ believes this “rational basis test” is actually not stringent enough for these sorts of cases, but has had success arguing to the courts that states have no rational basis for mandating that natural hair braiders complete intensive cosmetology training). “The only legitimate reason to license an occupation is to protect public health and safety,” Avelar said. “That’s it. So the question is, in any case where the government imposes these licenses, what is being regulated and how is it being regulated? There are some things, like hair braiding, that are so safe and common that the government really has no business licensing them.” The lawsuit defines “natural” or African-style hair braiding as “braiding, locking, twisting, weaving, cornrowing, or otherwise physically manipulating hair without the use of chemicals that alter the hair’s physical characteristics … typically performed on hair that is physically unique, often described as ‘tightly textured’ or ‘coily’ hair.” Rooted in traditional African techniques, the practice is increasingly popular in the United States, particularly in AfricanAmerican communities. In addition to the 1,500 hours classroom time at a state-sanctioned cosmetology school, to legally operate a hair-braiding business in Arkansas, braiders must pass two exams before they can be licensed as cosmetologists. IJ attorneys point out that this is significantly more training than is required of emergency medical technicians or firefighters. More to the point, none of the training in cosmetology schools includes anything at all about hair braiding (and the two exams don’t test it). Completing the necessary year-long training to get a license can cost more than $17,000, according to the lawsuit. The requirements for cosmetology CONTINUED ON PAGE 17

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PLAY AT HOME, WHILE FANNING YOURSELF WITH A MAGAZINE! 1. The Magnolia Reporter recently ran a story on a new use for the orange barrels seen in highway construction zones throughout Arkansas. What are they being used for? A) Sunk to the bottom of lakes for fish habitat. B) Blessed domes of silence for Tea Party members. C) Extreme Beer Pong cups at Kappa Sigma Sigma house at SAU-Magnolia. D) Bases for signs that say “Pothole Ahead.”

2. Republican 2nd Congressional District party chair Johnny Rhoda resigned on June 25 after giving a rather inflammatory answer to a reporter’s question about how he thought Hillary Clinton would do in Arkansas if she ran for president in 2016. What did he say? A) “OK, I guess, being that she’s a Terminator sent here from 2052 to kill the future leader of the human resistance.” B) “She’ll do pow’rful bad, ‘cause ain’t no damn fee-male ever gonna tell ol’ Johnny Rhoda what to do, I’ll tell you what by cracky, heckfire, dagnabbit and such!” C) “She’d probably get shot at the state line.” D) “She’s gonna kick our Republican asses. Individually. After giving each of us a firm handshake, a grin and 10 seconds to think about the error of our ways.” 3. Swimming areas in six counties have been recently closed by officials due to a danger to the public. What’s the issue? A) Gov. Mike Beebe recently bought a Speedo and a new jet ski, and insists he can kick up mad roostertails in the swimming area if he wants to. B) “The gatdang gays are gayin’ it up on public beaches like they own the place, and good Christian folk can’t help but stare at ’em.” — Sen. Jason Rapert. C) E. coli bacteria in the water. D) Smackover septuagenarian Edith Rae Johnson’s stubborn refusal to retire her circa 1961 bikini. 4. A Bryant man was recently arrested after police say he followed and harassed a couple driving through town. What, according to police, was his problem with them? A) They were a shade browner than “eggshell.” B) “Coexist” bumper sticker, so clearly terrorists. C) VW Beetle convertible they were driving “looked a little fruity.” D) He became convinced that their silver sports car was a spaceship. 5. The website vice.com, better known for reporting on violent Mexican drug cartels and life inside North Korea, recently published a video report about a visit to Arkansas. Why were they here? A) The Dobber Brothers of Snowball keep getting tanked, stuffing their washing machine with dynamite, and detonating it in the town square. B) Our pro-slumlord rental laws, including provisions that allow a property owner to evict tenants with as little as 10 days notice for being one day overdue on their rent. C) Guns, liquor and ignert people, man. D) Needed to shoot some B-roll to match footage shot in an impoverished third-world country, figured Marianna would do. 6. Recently on Craigslist-Little Rock, there was a post seeking volunteers to join a rather specialized community on 100 wooded acres in North Arkansas. What, according to the post, would be special about the community? A) Participants will replicate the customs, language, mating habits and social structure of the Ewoks, the small, teddy bear-like forest creatures from the movie “Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.” B) Citizens living on the property will be able to shoot any of their neighbors any time, for any reason, with a weapon of any caliber, as long as they just “wing ‘em.” C) It’s a town for dogs, to be called “Woofton.” Each dog will live in “a small, well-built house ... [with] meals served in a central dining hall shaped like a fireplug.” D) It’s an exact, half-scale replica of Little Rock, down to the last shell casing and warrant for failure to appear.

matter what design or operational changes MAPCO offers, it will still be building a 24-hour convenience store and gas station at a bad place. Here’s our figuring on the voting. Directors Cazort, Ken Richardson, Dean Kumpuris and Gene Fortson seem certain “no” votes, even though Fortson was willing to give the developer another delay. Directors Joan Adcock and B.J. Wyrick are believed to be inclined against it, more so after both publicly expressed unhappiness at the 11th-hour delay. Directors Erma Hendrix, Doris Wright and Lance Hines are counted as supporters, apparently because anything that’s bad for downtown is OK by them. That leaves Director Stacy Hurst, who seemed anxious not only for a board delay, but perhaps a further delay for reconsideration of any design tweaks by the Planning Commission. A four-month delay would put a final board decision after her November election for state House of Representatives. She’s running as a business-friendly Republican in a district with a liberal voting record. Hard to see her district liking the convenience store downtown given unanimous opposition from neighborhood groups, a smart growth group and other progressive Little Rock forces. She’s facing Democrat Clarke Tucker in a race that will be expensive and is already bitter on her part. Even if she falls in behind Dickson Flake’s plan, MAPCO is still short of votes. What, you ask, about Mayor Mark Stodola? He’s been AWOL in public on the issue. Sources say, however, if the board came to a 5-5 split on the issue, he would not cast a tie-breaking vote in favor of the proposal. He might not vote at all, but that would have the same practical effect as a “no.”

‘Big, fat, gay wedding reception’ Michael Walsh, who produces the Out in Eureka Springs website to encourage tourism in the city, tells the Arkansas Times of a big party the website is sponsoring. It’s called Married to Equality. As Walsh says, it’s a “big, fat gay no-cover-charge public wedding reception.” It will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Aug. 2 at the restaurant Farm to Table Fresh, as a highlight of the city’s Summer Diversity Weekend. It’s a public rebuke to those in Carroll County who wanted to shut down issuance of marriage licenses in Eureka in the immediate aftermath of Circuit Judge Chris Piazza’s marriage equality ruling. Guests of honor include Jennifer Rambo and Kristen Seaton, the couple first to be married in Arkansas. www.arktimes.com

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ittle Rock is today a city of two halves. One, to the east of I-30 and to the south of I-630, is predominantly black and poor. The other, to the west of I-430 and to the north of I-630, is predominantly white and more affluent. Anyone who drives across the city can see this with their own eyes, and anyone who takes the time and trouble to do so can examine the demographic data to confirm it. How did the city, 60 years after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision, and 50 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, end up this segregated? The answer lies in the incredible expansion of segregated neighborhoods since the mid-20th century. Some would suggest that this came about through a series of individual choices. But that is not true. The city’s current geographically segregated housing patterns have been consciously created by public policy, with private sector collusion, since the 1950s. Little Rock’s housing patterns did not always look the way they do today. From its

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earliest days, the city developed a reputation for having a more progressive racial climate than surrounding areas. The scarcity of labor in the pre-Civil War period meant that skilled black slaves were in demand and could bargain for better terms of employment and for more freedoms. Some were allowed to “hire out” their labor and keep a portion of their wages, and some even purchased their own living quarters. As a result, even during slavery, racially mixed housing patterns in the city were established. In Little Rock, unlike many other cities, there were no laws to prohibit blacks and whites living in the same area. As the city grew, discernible black residential areas did begin to develop just off West Ninth Street’s downtown black business district and toward the east of the city. This was due largely to economic constraints, the location of black institutions, and the practicalities of finding security in numbers. Yet there were also many “pepper and salt” (that is, mixed black and white) neighborhoods, too. As late as 1941, a study sponsored by the Greater Little Rock

Urban League noted that, “While Negroes predominate in certain sections ... in Little Rock, there are ... no widespread ... ‘Negro sections’ [of residence].” The passage of the federal Housing Act of 1949 changed all that. The act, designed to beautify cities in the post Second World War era, was used by Little Rock to begin an aggressive racial redistricting of the city. It initially held out the promise of better conditions for Little Rock’s black population by eradicating poor housing and replacing it with new public housing units. But white city planners had other ideas. Their focus was less on improving the conditions of the black community and more on using funds to perpetuate and even extend segregation in the city. B. Finley Vinson, head of the Little Rock Housing Authority (LRHA) and its slum clearance and urban redevelopment director, freely admitted that, “the city of Little Rock through its various agencies including the housing authority systematically worked to continue segregation” through its slum clearance and public housing projects.

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The intent of city planners to use federal housing policy as an instrument for achieving residential segregation was evident when black areas of residence were seemingly targeted for redevelopment because of their close proximity to white neighborhoods rather than their slum status. The first part of the city designated as a “blighted area” for demolition and clearance was a 10-block area of homes at the heart of the downtown Little Rock black community in the Dunbar neighborhood. Blacks viewed the area, resident Lola S. Doutherd said, as “the choicest area of the Negro residential section. ... It contains many churches, schools, completely modern homes, paved paid out streets, and it is within easy walking distance to the business section of the city.” Doutherd alleged that “coercion and intimidation” was used by the LRHA to force black residents to sell their properties in the area. The LRHA “threatened the owners by telling them if they did not sell at the appraised price, they would be ordered in court and given less, or evicted from their homes.” While the LRHA evicted black residents downtown it built black public housing on the edge of the city limits as far away from white neighborhoods as possible. The first public housing projects built under the redevelopment plans were the 400 units of Joseph A. Booker Homes in the far southeast city limits. Other housing projects followed a similar pattern. By 1990, the major public housing CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

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Early 1950s Public Housing Projects

AN URBAN RENEWAL DEMOLITION: On the northeast corner of Capitol Avenue and Center Street in 1967.

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projects of the 1950s had 99 percent black occupancy. Predominantly white areas had only 5 percent of the city’s public housing units and there were none at all in the far west of the city. Given this residential gerrymandering, it is hardly surprising that Little Rock’s first response to the Brown decision was to build two new geographically segregated high schools in the city. In addition to the existing centrally located white Central High and black Dunbar High, Horace Mann High was built in the predominantly black eastern part of the city, and Hall High was built in the predominantly affluent white western part of the city. From the outset this encouraged the school district to grow in a geographically segregated manner hand-in-hand with city housing policy.

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City residents clearly understood what was happening. A 1964 report by the Greater Little Rock Conference on Religion and Race titled, “Confronting the Little Rock Housing Problem: An Alarming Trend,” noted that, “The evidence indicates an advanced trend toward complete racial segregation in housing.” At one meeting of concerned citizens, Little Rock housing director Dowell Naylor was asked bluntly, “Is development in housing in Little Rock drawing racial groups together or silently drawing them apart?” Naylor answered, “Drawing them apart.” Private sector practices bolstered public policy in creating a geographically segregated city. “Restrictive covenants” were placed in property contracts to prevent resale to blacks. “Redlining” was used by banks and mortgage brokers to deny loans to black families in

white areas of residence. Real estate agents used “racial steering” to show white purchasers homes only in areas of white residence, and black purchasers homes only in areas of black residence. In a maneuver known as “block-busting,” real estate agents sometimes deliberately moved black families into centrally located white blocks of residence. Whites moving out were sold more expensive homes in the growing Little Rock western suburbs, while blacks paid high prices for the limited housing stock left available to them. Meanwhile, unwanted efforts by black families to move into white areas were resisted. In September 1965, lawyer John Walker purchased a home in the all-white Broadmoor addition in West Little Rock. A can of paint was hurled through his front window and his shrubbery was set on fire even before his family moved in. After they moved, white neighbors ostracized them. As one resident put it, “The policy in Broadmoor is to ignore the Walkers. If no one says anything to them I think it will be only a matter of time before they move somewhere else.” They were right. Walker moved north to the University Park development not long after. The area was one of the rare instances where middle-class blacks were able, through a concerted effort, to preserve a black presence in West Little Rock. In 1966, the Arkansas Gazette ran a series of articles by Jerol Garrison that assessed trends in “Race and Residence.” An editorial summed up the findings: “There has been a clear trend, a trend toward the

ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF LITTLE ROCK METROPOLITAN AREA HIGH SCHOOLS

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Pie charts scaled to school size. Central has 2,394 students, Pulaski Academy has 540 students and LISA Academy has 140 students.

NOTE: All private schools (Mount St. Mary excluded) declined their request for information regarding ethnic composition. Estimates of ethnicity for the other private schools have been derived through census data, school websites and the Arkansas Department of Education Data Center. Based on 2011 data.

concentration of Negroes in one large area centrally located, and of whites in newer residential areas to the west. ... The movement is away from the ‘pepper and salt’ pattern in which Negro and white neighborhoods are interspersed.” It concluded, “In such circumstances racial segregation becomes more obvious and all-encompassing, especially when schools desegregated by law become largely segregated in fact simply because of prevailing residential patterns.” In 1971, when busing threatened to overturn the purpose of residential segregation by forcing cross-city transportation of students to ensure integrated public schools, Little Rock witnessed a sprouting of new private schools. Their locations once again largely mirrored the city’s segregated housing patterns. The latest charge toward charter schools in West Little Rock can be viewed as simply another wave in the ongoing school building program in the city dating back to the mid-1950s that has sought to reflect and reinforce segregated neighborhoods. Other urban planning devices have created a divided city. Often viewed as the bogeyman of geographical segregation in Little Rock, the construction of I-630 in fact only drew a hard line across an already segregated city. I-630 is not the primary cause of today’s segregated neighborhoods. Their oriCONTINUED ON PAGE 16

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I-630 CONSTRUCTION: In 1979 near Chester Street in Little Rock.

gins go much deeper and wider than that. But I-630 nevertheless effectively cemented the existing demarcation between those neighborhoods. Since the 1950s Little Rock has successfully created a more residentially segregated city. This means that the current clamor for neighborhood schools will inevitably produce schools that are just as segregated as the purposefully segregated neighborhoods that surround them. And those segregated neighborhoods will not only have segregated schools, but many other segregated facilities as well, in practice if no longer by sanction of law. Residential segregation has now replaced Jim Crow segregation laws as the main instrument of racial division in the city in the 21st century.

John A. Kirk is the George W. Donaghey Professor and chair of the History Department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Jess C. Porter is assistant professor of geography in the History Department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. A longer version of this piece can be found in John A. Kirk, Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis (University of Arkansas Press, 2007).

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The dissimilarity index measures whether one particular group is distributed across sub-units of an area in the same way as another group. Higher values indicate the two groups live in different sub-units. A value of 60 means that 60 percent of one of the groups would need to move to a different sub-unit for the groups to be evenly distributed.

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HAIR BRAIDERS PROTEST RULES, CONT. schools include 80 hours for hygiene and opened up her Jacksonville shop — Twistsanitation, 120 hours of related science ykinks — in April. (including physiology, anatomy, neurol“I’ve been hair braiding for about 16 years, ogy and cosmetricity — related to electricity since I was a girl,” Earl said. “I saved up my used in cosmetology); 1,000 hours for hair money to step out on faith and open my dressing (including shampooing, haircut- own business. Braiding is my life and my ting, clipping, singeing, dying, bleaching, passion. … I think it’s just ridiculous that permanent waving and chemical relaxing); the Cosmetology Board requires us to have 100 hours for manicuring, and 100 hours for a cosmetology license when they don’t teach skin aesthetics. The plaintiffs argue that the or test hair braiding.” Both McLean and Earl said that in additraining that cosmetologists undertake has no relevance to hair braiding, either in terms tion to concerns about the time and expense of technique or in terms of health and safety of going to cosmetology school, they were concerns. Hair braiders, they note, use only uncomfortable handling the harsh chemitheir hands and combs. cals involved. “Natural hair braiding is a practice that Department of Health Cosmetology Secgoes back 5,000 years,” Avelar said. “It’s tion Director Kelli Kersey and the departtime-tested proven safe. It uses no chemi- ment’s legal counsel, Elizabeth Pitman, both cals, straighteners or dyes — nothing that declined to comment, citing the pending can really harm a person’s hair.” lawsuit, which is being handled by the attorAccording to IJ, Arkansas is one of 24 ney general’s office. The AG’s office also states that require braiders to get a full- declined to comment. blown cosmetology license with at least However, the Cosmetology Technical 1,000 hours of training. Other states have a Advisory Committee — a seven-member less burdensome licensing regime, requir- board charged with helping the Department ing 100 to 600 hours; some require just 8 to of Health regulate cosmetology and made 35 hours; 11 states don’t require a license for up of licensed cosmetologists, cosmetology hair braiding at all. school owners and others in the cosmetolMcLean emigrated to the United States ogy industry — has discussed potentially in 1998 from the Ivory Coast, where she easing the requirements for natural hair learned traditional hair braiding as a child. braiders at meetings over the past year, and She has been a professional hair braider Pitman has noted the potential legal issues. for 16 years — first in Florida, where she “What we have now … is hair braiding got a hair-braiding license after 16 hours falls under cosmetology and I don’t think of training, and then in Missouri. Her Little that too many of us sitting on the board think Rock shop, Labelle Professional African that the way it should stay,” Pitman said at a CTAC meeting last March, according to Hair Braiding, has been open for three years and her business is otherwise in good stand- the minutes. “I don’t think anybody thinks ing with the state (she pays $150 per year we should leave [it] to where you have to for a salon license). Twice, when inspectors get 1,600 hours for hair braiding.” from the state Department of Health visited At the same meeting, Pitman added, her shop, she was fined for braiding with- “The courts are finding that … finding hair out a cosmetology license. The fines totaled braiding to be part of cosmetology is not almost $1,850. Other than that, the inspec- reasonable. It’s not rational. … So without tors found no problems and complimented question I can’t sit here today and tell you the cleanliness of her shop. The fines have that we should leave it the way it is. We can’t escalated, and under the law, the Depart- do that. The question is, what can we do?” ment of Health could shut down her shop, Avelar said he was hopeful the state and McLean could face up to 90 days in jail. would change the regulations. “I think the Earl, the other plaintiff in the case, just Department of Health and the cosmetology

board understand that there is a problem here,” he said. “But understanding there is a problem and moving quickly enough to alleviate that problem are two different things.” The other IJ case in Arkansas involves the Dental Practice Act. State law disallows dental specialists from practicing outside of their specialty. Dr. Benjamin Burris, a Fort Smith-based orthodontist, ran afoul of this law when he began offering low-cost basic dental care (cleanings, X-rays and exams) at a number of offices he owned in Northeast Arkansas in June of last year. Burris, a licensed dentist who went through additional training to become a licensed orthodontist as well, supervised licensed dental hygienists and charged $69 for kids and $99 for adults, less than half the amount dentists in the state typically charge for those services, according to Burris. He said that he started the program both to increase access to care for lower-income Arkansans and to attract potential new patients. After dentists complained to the state Dental Board, Burris was called before the board for a hearing in September. After being told that both his licenses would be in jeopardy otherwise, Burris signed a consent order not to offer dental cleanings. “Even though I’m a licensed dentist who went on for three more years of formal training at dental school, I’m not allowed to do the most basic services, supervising a licensed hygienist,” Burris said. “The law says that as a specialist, I’m not allowed to practice out of my specialty. They don’t want competition, they don’t want downward forces on prices. The Dental Board for years has protected the primary care dentists’ business and profit. Instead of looking out for the public good, they look out for the dentist. That’s the way it’s always been done. And their answer to this is, ‘Well, that’s the law.’ ” Burris is particularly frustrated because while specialists — licensed dentists who had additional training — are disallowed from doing basic dental work, dentists are free to do specialty work, including orthodontics, oral surgery, dental radiology or

pediatric dentistry. Burris contacted IJ late last year and the firm agreed to take the case, filing suit in U.S. District Court in May. “Ben Burris is a dentist in good standing with the state of Arkansas,” said Matt Miller, the lead IJ attorney on his case. “The government has no interest in protecting the health and public safety from preventing a licensed dentist from supervising licensed dental hygienists from cleaning teeth.” The lawsuit has gotten some pushback from dentists in the state. A moveon.org petition started by Arkansas dental professionals defending the Dental Practice Act and the restrictions on specialists has gotten more than 300 online signatures. Billy Tarpley, the executive director of the Arkansas State Dental Association, said that the association “supports the Dental Practice Act.” Tarpley said that the law had evolved over time with input from the various relevant stakeholders, including specialists like orthodontists. He had no comment on the lawsuit or the particular rules regarding specialists. Officials from the Dental Board, as well as its legal counsel, declined to comment, citing the pending lawsuit. The lawsuit is being handled by the attorney general’s office, which filed a motion to dismiss in June; the attorney general’s office otherwise declined to comment on the case. Could other state regulations in Arkansas come up for legal challenge? It’s possible. A 2012 report by IJ found that the state ranked second in the nation in what IJ considers overly burdensome licensing requirements. “Part of the big-picture strategy is to use these lawsuits as examples of what can happen when we let occupational licensing get out of hand,” Avelar said. “If people in Arkansas or if legislators and executive branch officials in the state see these cases and take steps to fix the particular situation, that’s good. What’s better is if they move to address the larger problem — to pay much closer attention to the regulations they’re passing so that these sorts of problems don’t happen in the future.”

DUMAS, CONT. Continued from page 7 Jail crowding: Prisons have been packed for years and inmates are backed up in full jails so that county and city police are turning new prisoners loose. The legislature has refused to appropriate money to open new prison units or to build new prisons until local lawenforcement officials finally became insistent. The fix, proposed by Beebe, is to take $6.3 million from a fund for a variety of state agencies this fiscal year

and open a vacant prison unit. This failing goes back to 1977. That year, Arkansas housed roughly 2,500 prisoners and spent $6 million a year controlling them. After episodes of the legislature’s getting tough on crime in 1977 and at intervals of about every five years, by lengthening and stacking sentences and adding new crimes to the criminal code, the state inmate population, including those warehoused in local jails, now stands at nearly 19,000 and the annual cost to taxpayers, including supervising

parolees, has soared from $6 million to $500 million a year. Arkansas’s population has risen a mere 35 percent. You see the problem. The legislature will be back in January facing the same crisis: rising incarceration, no place to put new inmates and, thanks to last year’s tax cuts and plans for new tax cuts, no money to solve this or the school problems. Electronic gambling: Many legislators wanted to stop the state lottery from starting the electronic quick-draw games, which are supposed to be even more

addictive than standard lottery games. But it was not for perfectly appropriate moral reasons, but because the same legislators a year ago allowed online wagering at Oaklawn Jockey Club’s casino. Oaklawn lobbyists persuaded legislators they should protect the track’s monopoly on electronic betting. The legislature took the usual wimp’s course: block Oaklawn’s competition until March and declare yourself open for another round of bidding. Leadership, 2014 style. www.arktimes.com

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Arts Entertainment AND

MARISSA NADLER, LOOKING YOU IN THE EYE Singer-songwriter lifts fog in ‘July.’ BY BRIAN PALMER

he fact that a decade has already passed since singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler released her first studio record, “Ballads of Living and Dying,” is surprising enough, but her career longevity is even more interesting when you consider that music was never her plan. “I don’t think I expected to do this when I was growing up,” Nadler said, chuckling. “I think I thought I was going to be a famous painter, not a musician. But it’s the same thing, no matter what kind of art you’re doing; it’s the same time, dedication and work ethic involved even though it’s a different medium.” Over the course of 10 years and six albums — including her most recent release, “July,” which was released, a little confusingly, in February — the Boston-based art-pop singer has tirelessly engaged in a tricky balance between evolving stylistically while still sticking firmly to the Gothic-tinged folk music that her fans have come to love and expect. It has been a process for Nadler, who boasts a disparate and steadily expanding range of influences, from Edgar Allen Poe to Townes Van Zandt and Robbie Basho (and who has collaborated with the black metal artist Xasthur), and her ability to broaden her creative horizons while remaining in touch with her past work is something a lot of artists likely envy. “I think my writing has gotten more razor-focused over the years, but I still feel good about the back catalogue,” Nadler says. “ ‘July’ is inspired by real life, and I think because of that, these songs seem to be resonating with people more strongly. My earlier work at times was shrouded in mystery and fog to the point that some people may not have been able to see the door in through the haze. I’m interested right now in writing songs that ‘look people in the eyes,’ to quote a friend.” “It’s a journey,” Nadler says. “Artists will tell you that being an artist is a lifelong journey, and you just keep on going for it, keep trying to make something that you can be proud of.” Nadler has much to be proud of. It is not easy to remain familiar to your audience while still sounding fresh each time out, but Nadler has succeeded in doing so. “July” both maintains some of the darker sensibilities that have characterized much of her previous work and CONTINUED ON PAGE 26

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BEGINNING THIS WEEK, Splice Microcinema, the alternative/underground film series, will relocate its operations from Vino’s to Few, a new collaborative art and design space above Lulav at 220 W. Sixth St. Splice will show films on a biweekly schedule beginning Wednesday, July 16, with Ingmar Bergman’s “Persona” and continuing through the rest of the year with Howard Hawks’ “His Girl Friday,” Carol Reed’s “The Third Man,” Fritz Lang’s “M,” Francois Truffaut’s “Shoot the Piano Player” and other films. MEANWHILE, RAVE MOTION PICTURES, at 18 Colonel Glenn Plaza Drive, is hosting a Summer Classic Series of its own, with screenings at 2 p.m. Sundays and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesdays through Aug. 13. This year’s lineup includes “Pretty Woman,” “The Breakfast Club,” “Monty Python and The Holy Grail,” “The Big Lebowski” and “Beverly Hills Cop.” LOOKING AHEAD THIS SUMMER, eccentric-genius rapper and founding member of Ultramagnetic MCs Kool Keith will be at The Joint Oct. 9 (advance tickets available now). At Juanita’s, The Toadies will play Aug. 16, T-Pain Aug. 21, Mark Chesnutt Aug. 23 and Tony Joe White Sept. 14. At the White Water Tavern, Malcolm Holcombe will return July 31, Cary Hudson (of Blue Mountain) will perform Aug. 5 and Bonnie Montgomery will play a record release show Aug. 8. At Stickyz, Andy Frasco will perform Aug. 24 and Ben Kweller on the 29th. At Revolution !!! (chk chk chk) will perform Aug. 26. South On Main will host soul band St. Paul and the Broken Bones Sept. 27. www.arktimes.com

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THE TO-DO

LIST

BY DAVID KOON, LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK AND WILL STEPHENSON

THURSDAY 7/10

‘GLEN CAMPBELL … I’LL BE ME’ 7 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater. $25.

The Arkansas Motion Picture Institute will host a preview screening of the new documentary “I’ll Be Me ... Glen Campbell”

at the Ron Robinson Theater, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers (including director James Keach) and members of the Campbell family. Advance tickets are $25 and available at arkansasmpi.org.

The film, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Nashville Film Festival, focuses on Campbell’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease and his 151-show “Goodbye Tour,” and includes interviews with Bruce

Springsteen, Bill Clinton, Paul McCartney, Steve Martin and others. Campbell, born in Pike County, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2011. He resides in an assisted living facility in Nashville. WS

THURSDAY 7/10

PSYCHIC JOHN EDWARD

7 p.m. Embassy Suites Little Rock. $150-$225. Sold out.

I’m getting something. Yes, the visions are coming. I’m seeing a letter “M.” Has anyone passed on whose first, middle or last name starts with an “M”? Your grandmother’s name was Nancy? That’s it! N, for Nancy! I was only one letter off, and an N kinda looks like an M! I’m seeing lungs. Did she pass of a respiratory illness? A heart attack? Well, the heart is close to the lungs! She’s here with us now. She’s right behind you, pointing to your wallet. She wants you to make sure you buy several overpriced books on your way out of the event that’s being put on by “psychic” John Edward. She’s showing me a clip of Edward’s old SyFy TV show “Crossing Over,” in which Edward convinced grieving people that he was talking to their dead relatives, using many of the same “fish-’til-you-get-it-right” Jedi mind tricks that phony psychics have used since Harry Houdini was running around debunking them. Wait. I’m getting another vision. It’s dollar signs! I’m seeing your checking account balance shrinking by somewhere between $150 and $225, which is how much tickets to Edward’s show cost per person. Wait ... she’s leaving! Come back, Nancy! Quick, get out a hundred-dollar bill! The smell of hard currency is the only thing that attracts the dead, and you don’t want Grandma to go away before she can tell me to tell you how much she loves you, right? DK

ARKANSAS IS NICE: Mark Edgar Stuart will be at South on Main 8 p.m. Thursday, free.

THURSDAY 7/10

MARK EDGAR STUART

You’ve probably seen Pine Bluff native Mark Edgar Stuart playing bass alongside John Paul Keith or Cory Branan or Jack Oblivian or Alvin Youngblood Hart, but it doesn’t especially mat-

ter. He’s an impressive songwriter in his own right, author of maybe the best Arkansas anthem of the past couple of years: “Arkansas Is Nice,” off his 2013 solo record, “Blues for Lou.” The album followed a rough few years for Stuart, who was diagnosed with lymphoma in

2010 and lost his father the following year (“We laugh a while, but things ain’t fine,” as he puts it, summing it up on one of the album’s best songs, “Things Ain’t Fine”). The title track, an ode to his dad, is staggering, a Laurel Canyon take on unspeakable loss. WS

Arie (for which he won a Grammy) and having played keyboards for, oddly enough, Maroon 5 for several years, Morton has been signed by Lil Wayne’s Young Money label. He kicked things off last year with “New Orleans,” featuring guest spots by Wayne, Busta

Rhymes, Adam Levine and Steve Wonder (playing harmonica on the pretty good single “Only One”). It wasn’t bad, but there was something vaguely suspicious about the thing; it was too well funded, well connected and glossy to be so out-of-left-field. Still, you can’t

help but appreciate songs like “Work It Out” and the title track, the video for which features footage of an 8-yearold Morton messing around with keyboards with a dated, reverb-y voiceover by his dad, the gospel singer Paul S. Morton. WS

8 p.m. South On Main. Free.

THURSDAY 7/10

PJ MORTON

9 p.m. Juanita’s. $20.

PJ Morton is angling for that Frank Ocean career arc, the phantom songwriter-turned-R&B auteur. Having written and produced for Jermaine Dupri, LL Cool J, Jagged Edge, India. 20

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IN BRIEF

THURSDAY 7/10 The American Taekwondo Association will hold its World Championships at the Statehouse Convention Center through Sunday, July 13, $10. Lobolly Creamery will host a Happy Hour benefit for the Thea Foundation at the Green Corner Store, 4 p.m. Kansas City “Prohibition-era jazz” duo Victor and Penny will be at the Afterthought, $5, and The Deltatones will bring their “blues, cool jazz and rhythm and blues revue” to The Joint at 8 p.m., $7. Austin indie rock band The Eastern Sea will be at Stickyz with Houston’s Wild Moccasins, 9 p.m., $8.

FRIDAY 7/11

JEFF KOONS

7 p.m. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. $15 ($12 members)

Jeff Koons, he of the stainless steel inflatable bunnies, Popeye sculptures, balloon dogs (“Balloon Dog Orange” is the most expensive work by a living artist ever sold at auction — $58.4 million) and, at Crystal Bridges Museum, a big gold heart, will give a lecture on his work. You just don’t get any more famous in the art world than Jeff Koons. From Versailles to Bentonville! Crystal Bridges bought Koons’ “Hanging Heart (Gold/Magenta),” which hangs in Eleven, the museum’s restaurant, directly from the artist, so maybe Alice W. and Jeff are pals. You will need to sign up in advance (call 479-657-2335) to hear Koons because this event will be packed. A booksigning will follow. LNP

FRIDAY 7/11

BANALITY: Jeff Koons will speak at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art 7 p.m. Friday, $15.

FRIDAY 7/11

2ND FRIDAY ART NIGHT

5-8 p.m. Downtown galleries. Free.

While folks in Northwest Arkansas rub shoulders with one of contemporary art’s most controversial figure (see item above), art lovers here can hop the trolley to see the work of Arkansas artists at various downtown venues. Highlights: paintings by Katherine Strause; a group show by Matt McLeod, Tod Switch and Robert Bean, and a mixed media exhibit by Kateri Joe. In “Home Demonstration Clubs or How Women Saved the

South” Strause, chair of the department of art at Henderson State University, pays tribute to the home demonstration movement of the early part of the 20th century; see it at the Butler Center Galleries in the Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Blvd. “Bold Contrasts,” at the Arkansas Capital Corp., 200 River Market Ave., features paintings by McLeod, sculpture by Switch and ink drawings by Bean. Joe’s “Thank Your Lucky Stars,” at the Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St.,

draws on the artist’s background in psychology. She teaches at The Art School in Conway. Gallery 221 & Art Studios 221 will showcase new galleries on the second floor at its Pyramid Place location at 221 W. Second St., and the Old State House Museum will feature live music from Tim Anthony and Friends on the grounds. Also new at the HAM: “A Beauty on It Sells: Advertising Art from the Collection of Marsha Stone.” Nary an inflatable in sight, but plenty to enjoy. LNP

WEDNESDAY 7/16

lish the part about him tearing up, but I had to. Billing itself as both a “rock musical” and a starkly realistic take on bipolar disorder seems confusing to me, but I should also mention that it earned three Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize (only the eighth musical in history to have done so). So there’s your endorsement. WS

The Brandon Dorris Quartet will be at South on Main at 7:30 p.m. as part of the restaurant’s free Local Live series presented by the Oxford American magazine. Splice Microcinema will host a screening of Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 film “Persona” at 8 p.m. at its new location, Few, above LULAV at 220 W. Sixth St., Suite A. This week’s Movies in the Park, a free screening at Riverfront Park beginning at 8:30 p.m., will show “The Hunger Games.” Framing The Red will be at Juanita’s with Red Devil Lies, 9 p.m., $8 adv., $10 day of.

FRIDAY 7/11 – SUNDAY 7/27

‘NEXT TO NORMAL’

7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. Sundays. The Weekend Theater. $20.

I’m no musical theater expert, but a close relative happens to be, so rather than Wikipedia the thing and try to fake my way through an endorsement,

I asked his opinion on “Next To Normal,” which opens Friday at the Weekend Theater. “In my humble opinion,” he wrote, “it is the deepest, most thoughtprovoking and innovative musical in the past 10 years … I actually teared up the first couple of times I listened to the soundtrack and read the plot notes.” He probably didn’t expect I would pub-

Screenings from the 48 Hour Film Project will run at the Ron Robinson Theater July 11-13, 7 p.m. The North Little Rock Community Concert Band will give a free performance at the Lakewood Village Amphitheatre, 7 p.m. Peckerwolf will be at Vino’s with Duckstronaut and Mothwind, 9 p.m., $5. New Orleans funk spectacle Dumpstaphunk will be at Revolution at 9 p.m. with locals the Funkanites, $10 adv., $12 day of. Ezra Lbs will be at Maxine’s in Hot Springs with The Oxford Coma and Jumbo Jet, 9 p.m., $5, and Kevin Ridle will be at the Lightbulb Club in Fayetteville with Hollow Valley Funk and Handmade Moments, 9 p.m. Local favorites Tragikly White will be at West End Smokehouse and Tavern, $5.

SATURDAY 7/12 Platinum-selling, Grammy-winning country celebrity Miranda Lambert will be at the Walmart AMP, 7:30 p.m., $44$79. At War’s End will be at Revolution with Vail, Playing With Karma and the Jon Dunn Band, 8:30 p.m., $5. Houston country singer Jason Michael Carroll will be at Juanita’s, 10 p.m., $17 adv., $20 day of.

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AFTER DARK Odyssey Band. Town Pump, 9 p.m., $5. 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 501-663-9802. Peckerwolf, Duckstronaut, Mothwind. Vino’s, 9 p.m., $5. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www. vinosbrewpub.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Tragikly White. West End Smokehouse and Tavern, $5. 215 N. Shackleford. 501-224-7665. www.westendsmokehouse.net.

All events are in the Greater Little Rock area unless otherwise noted. To place an event in the Arkansas Times calendar, please email the listing and all pertinent information, including date, time, location, price and contact information, to calendar@arktimes.com.

THURSDAY, JULY 10

MUSIC

Deltatones. The Joint, 8 p.m., $7. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com. The Drummer Is In The House. Featuring Anthony Thompson, Yvette Preyer, Jonathan JJ Burks and more. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $10 adv., $15 day of. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501823-0090. revroom.com. The Eastern Sea, Wild Moccasins. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $8. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com. “Inferno.” DJs play pop, electro, house and more, plus drink specials and $1 cover before 11 p.m. Sway, 9 p.m. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582. Irish Traditional Music Sessions. Dugan’s Pub, 7-9 p.m. 401 E. 3rd St. 501-244-0542. www. duganspublr.com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Joe Sundell. Maxine’s, 9 p.m., Free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. www.maxinespub.com. Kingshifter, Mudlung, Iron Iris. The Lightbulb Club, 9 p.m. 21 N. Block Ave., Fayetteville. 479444-6100. Krush Thursdays with DJ Kavaleer. Club Climax, free before 11 p.m. 824 W. Capitol. 501-554-3437. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Mark Edgar Stuart. South on Main, 8 p.m., Free. 1304 Main St. 501-244-9660. www.facebook.com/ SouthonMainLR. Michael Eubanks. Newk’s Express Cafe, 6:30 p.m. 4317 Warden Road, NLR. 501-753-8559. newks.com. Natural Child, Adam Faucett. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com. Open Jam. Thirst n’ Howl, 8 p.m. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com. Open jam with The Port Arthur Band. Parrot Beach Cafe, 9 p.m. 9611 MacArthur Drive, NLR. 771-2994. PJ Morton. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $20. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com. RockUsaurus. Senor Tequila, 7-9 p.m. 10300 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-224-5505. www. senor-tequila.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 7:30 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Victor and Penny. The Afterthought Bistro & Bar, $5. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com. WAMA Faculty Recital. Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, 6 p.m., $15. 20919 Denny Road.

COMEDY

Mark Poolos. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS

Geocaching. Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 8:30 a.m. 602 President Clinton 22

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Mark Poolos. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m., 10 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

DANCE

PLAGUE: The Eastern Sea will be at Stickyz with Wild Moccasins 9 p.m. Thursday, $8. Ave. 501-907-0636. www.centralarkansasnaturecenter.com.

FILM

“Glen Campbell ... I’ll Be Me.” A preview screening presented by the Arkansas Motion Picture Institute followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and members of Campbell’s family. Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., $25. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals.lib.ar.us/ron-robinsontheater.aspx.

LECTURES

John Edward. The host of “Crossing Over with John Edward.” Embassy Suites, 8 p.m., $150. 11301 Financial Centre. 501-312-9000.

SPORTS

American Taekwondo Association World Championships. Statehouse Convention Center, $10. 7 Statehouse Plaza.

BENEFITS

Loblolly Creamery Happy Hour. A benefit for the Thea Foundation. The Green Corner Store, 4 p.m. 1423 Main Street. 501-374-1111. thegreencornerstore.

KIDS

Summer Art Camp. Emergent Arts. 341-A Whittington Avenue, Hot Springs.

Youth Day Camp. Ozark Folk Center State Park, through July 11, $60. 1032 Park Ave., Mountain View. 870-269-3851.

FRIDAY, JULY 11

MUSIC

The 1oz Jig, Oreo Blue. George’s Majestic Lounge. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479442-4226. Club Nights at 1620 Savoy. Dance night, with DJs, drink specials and bar menu. 1620 Savoy, 10 p.m. 1620 Market St. 501-221-1620. www.1620savoy.com. Crash Meadows. Oaklawn. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-623-4411. www.oaklawn.com. Dumpstaphunk, Funkanites. Revolution, 9 p.m., $10 adv., $12 day of. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com. Ezra Lbs, The Oxford Coma, Jumbo Jet. Maxine’s, 9 p.m., $5. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. www.maxinespub.com. Kevin Ridle, Hollow Valley Funk, Handmade Moments. The Lightbulb Club, 9 p.m. 21 N. Block Ave., Fayetteville. 479-444-6100. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. NLR Community Concert Band. Lakewood Village Amphitheatre, 7 p.m., Free. Lakewood Village, NLR.

Ballroom Dancing. Free lessons begin at 7 p.m. Bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 8-11 p.m., $7-$13. 12th & Cleveland streets. 501-2217568. www.blsdance.org. “Salsa Night.” Begins with a one-hour salsa lesson. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $8. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.littlerocksalsa.com.

EVENTS

Geocaching. Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 8:30 a.m. 602 President Clinton Ave. 501-907-0636. www.centralarkansasnaturecenter.com. Handcrafted Evening in the Park. Ozark Folk Center State Park, 7 p.m., Free. 1032 Park Ave., Mountain View. LGBTQ/SGL weekly meeting. Diverse Youth for Social Change is a group for LGBTQ/SGL and straight ally youth and young adults age 14 to 23. For more information, call 244-9690 or search “DYSC” on Facebook. LGBTQ/SGL Youth and Young Adult Group, 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St.

FILM

48 Hour Film Project Screenings. Ron Robinson Theater, July 11-13, 7 p.m. 1 Pulaski Way. 501320-5703. www.cals.lib.ar.us/ron-robinson-theater.aspx.

LECTURES

Jeff Koons. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 7 p.m., $15. 600 Museum Way, Bentonville. 479-418-5700. crystalbridges.org.

SPORTS

American Taekwondo Association World Championships. Statehouse Convention Center, $10. 7 Statehouse Plaza.

KIDS

Youth Day Camp. Ozark Folk Center State Park, through, $60. 1032 Park Ave., Mountain View. 870-269-3851.

SATURDAY, JULY 12

MUSIC

At War’s End, Vail, Playing With Karma, The Jon Dunn Band. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $5. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom. com. Boom Kinetic. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9 p.m., $10. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479442-4226. Brave Combo. “Second Saturday Music in the Park.” Basin Spring Park, 6 p.m. Downtown Eureka Springs.

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Club Nights at 1620 Savoy. See July 11. Comfortable Brother, Reacharounds. The Lightbulb Club, 9 p.m. 21 N. Block Ave., Fayetteville. 479-444-6100. Crash Meadows. Oaklawn Park. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-623-4411. www.oaklawn. com. Foulplay Cabaret, Engine. Maxine’s, 9 p.m., $10 adv., $12 day of. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. www.maxinespub.com. Jason Michael Carroll. Juanita’s, 10 p.m., $17 adv., $20 day of. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-3721228. www.juanitas.com. Karaoke at Khalil’s. Khalil’s Pub, 7 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com. Karaoke. Casa Mexicana, 7 p.m. 6929 JFK Blvd., NLR. 501-835-7876. Karaoke with Kevin & Cara. All ages, on the restaurant side. Revolution, 9 p.m.-12:45 a.m., free. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com. Kingsdown. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $8. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com. K.I.S.S. Saturdays. Featuring DJ Silky Slim. Dress code enforced. Sway, 10 p.m. 412 Louisiana. 501-492-9802. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Miranda Lambert. Arkansas Music Pavilion, 7:30 p.m., $44-$79. 2536 N. McConnell Ave., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. www.arkansasmusicpavilion.com. Mr. Happy. West End Smokehouse and Tavern, $5. 215 N. Shackleford. 501-224-7665. www. westendsmokehouse.net. Pickin’ Porch. Bring your instrument. All ages welcome. Faulkner County Library, 9:30 a.m. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www.fcl.org. Singer/Songwriters Showcase. Parrot Beach Cafe, 2-7 p.m., free. 9611 MacArthur Drive, NLR. 771-2994. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Wreckless Endeavor, Airport Novels. Vino’s, 9 p.m. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

COMEDY

Mark Poolos. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m., 10 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

DANCE

Little Rock West Coast Dance Club. Dance lessons. Singles welcome. Ernie Biggs, 7 p.m., $2. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-247-5240. www. arstreetswing.com.

EVENTS

Argenta Farmers Market. 7 a.m. 6th and Main St., NLR. 501-831-7881. www.argentaartsdistrict. org/argenta-farmers-market. Falun Gong meditation. Allsopp Park, 9 a.m., free. Cantrell & Cedar Hill Roads. Geocaching. Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 8:30 a.m. 602 President Clinton Ave. 501-907-0636. www.centralarkansasnaturecenter.com. Hillcrest Farmers Market. Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, 7 a.m.-2 p.m. 2200 Kavanaugh Blvd. Historic Neighborhoods Tour. Bike tour of

historic neighborhoods includes bike, guide, helmets and maps. Bobby’s Bike Hike, 9 a.m., $8-$28. 400 President Clinton Ave. 501-613-7001. Little Rock Farmers’ Market. River Market Pavilions, through Aug. 26: 7 a.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info. Pork & Bourbon Tour. Bike tour includes bicycle, guide, helmets and maps. Bobby’s Bike Hike, 11:30 a.m., $35-$45. 400 President Clinton Ave. 501-613-7001.

FILM

48 Hour Film Project Screenings. Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www. cals.lib.ar.us/ron-robinson-theater.aspx.

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American Taekwondo Association World Championships. Statehouse Convention Center, $10. 7 Statehouse Plaza. Freeverse. The Afterthought Bistro & Bar. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

SUNDAY, JULY 13

MUSIC

Big Bad Gina. George’s Majestic Lounge, 10 p.m., $10. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479442-4226. Karaoke with DJ Sara. Hardrider Bar & Grill, 7 p.m., free. 6613 John Harden Drive, Cabot. 501-982-1939. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Slaid Cleaves. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $18 adv., $20 day of. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com. Successful Sunday. Lulav, 8 p.m., $5-$10. 220 A W. 6th St. 501-374-5100. www.lulaveatery.com.

EVENTS

Bernice Garden Farmer’s Market. 10 a.m. 1401 S. Main St. www.thebernicegarden.org. Geocaching. Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 1 p.m. 602 President Clinton Ave. 501-907-0636. www.centralarkansasnaturecenter.com. “Live from the Back Room.” Spoken word event. Vino’s, 7 p.m. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www. vinosbrewpub.com.

FILM

48 Hour Film Project Screenings. Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www. cals.lib.ar.us/ron-robinson-theater.aspx.

SPORTS

American Taekwondo Association World Championships. Statehouse Convention Center, $10. 7 Statehouse Plaza. Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield. DickeyStephens Park, 6:10 p.m., $6-$12. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs. com.

MONDAY, JULY 14

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EVENTS

2014 Little Rock Fashion Week. Statehouse Convention Center, July 14-19. 7 Statehouse Plaza.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield. DickeyStephens Park, 7:10 p.m., $6-$12. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs. com.

CLASSES

Finding Family Facts. Rhonda Stewart’s genealogy research class for beginners. Arkansas Studies Institute, second Monday of every month, 3:30 p.m. 401 President Clinton Ave. 501-320-5700. www.butlercenter.org.

TUESDAY, JULY 15

MUSIC

Brian and Nick. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m. 2400

Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf. com. Jeff Ling. Khalil’s Pub, 6 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Karaoke Tuesday. Prost, 8 p.m., free. 322 President Clinton Blvd. 501-244-9550. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Marissa Nadler. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com. Music Jam. Hosted by Elliott Griffen and Joseph Fuller. The Joint, 8-11 p.m., free. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

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Tuesday Jam Session with Carl Mouton. The Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com. Walker Lukens. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $4. 107 Commerce St. 501-3727707. www.stickyz.com.

COMEDY

Stand-Up Tuesday. Hosted by Adam Hogg. The Joint, 8 p.m., $5. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

DANCE

“Latin Night.” Revolution, 7:30 p.m., $5 regular, $7 under 21. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501823-0090. www.littlerocksalsa.com.

EVENTS

2014 Little Rock Fashion Week. Statehouse Convention Center. 7 Statehouse Plaza. Geocaching. The Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 8:30 a.m. 602 President Clinton Ave. 501-907-0636. www.centralarkansasnaturecenter.com. Little Rock Farmers’ Market. River Market Pavilions, 7 a.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 3752552. www.rivermarket.info. “Tales from the South.” Best Impressions, 5 p.m. 501 E. Ninth St. 501-907-5946. www.bestimpressionsrestaurant.com. Trivia Bowl. Flying Saucer, 8:30 p.m. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-8032. www.beerknurd. com/stores/littlerock.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield. DickeyStephens Park, 7:10 p.m., $6-$12. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs. com.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 16

MUSIC

Acoustic Open Mic. The Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-6631196. www.afterthoughtbar.com. Brandon Dorris Quartet. South on Main, 7:30 p.m., Free. 1304 Main St. 501-244-9660. https:// www.facebook.com/SouthonMainLR. The Dirty River Boys. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $8 adv., $10 day of. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com. Framing The Red, Red Devil Lies. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $8 adv., $10 day of. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Karaoke at Khalil’s. Khalil’s Pub, 7 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Open Mic Nite with Deuce. Thirst n’ Howl, 7:30 p.m., free. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 7:30 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG.

COMEDY

The Joint Venture. Improv comedy group. The Joint, 8 p.m., $7. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

DANCE

Little Rock Bop Club. Beginning dance lessons for ages 10 and older. Singles welcome. Bess

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EVENTS

2014 Little Rock Fashion Week. Statehouse Convention Center, through July 19. 7 Statehouse Plaza. Geocaching. Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 8:30 a.m. 602 President Clinton Ave. 501-907-0636. www.centralarkansasnaturecenter.com.

FILM

“The Hunger Games.” Riverfront Park, 8:30 p.m., Free. 400 President Clinton Avenue. “Persona.” Splice Microcinema. Few, 8 p.m., Donations. 220 W. 6th St., Suite A. 501-628-9270.

POETRY

Wednesday Night Poetry. 21-and-older show. Maxine’s, 7 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-321-0909. maxineslive.com/shows. html.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield. DickeyStephens Park, 7:10 p.m., $6-$12. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs. com.

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“Always a Bridesmaid.” Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, through July 13: Tue.-Sat., 6 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., $25-$35. 6323 Col. Glenn Road. 501-562-3131. murrysdinnerplayhouse.com. “Next to Normal.” The Weekend Theater, through July 27: Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 2:30 p.m., $20. 1001 W. 7th St. 501-374-3761. www. weekendtheater.org. “Rent.” Studio Theatre, through July 27: Thu.Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m., $16. 320 W. 7th St. Summer Theatre Academy Project Night. Arkansas Arts Center, Fri., July 11, 6 p.m., Free. 501 E. 9th St. 501-372-4000. www.arkarts.com.

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ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “Inspiration to Illumination: Recent Work by Museum School Photography Instructors,” through Oct. 26, Museum School Gallery; 56th annual “Delta Exhibition,” works by 65 artists from Arkansas and surrounding states, through Sept. 28, “Susan Paulsen: Wilmot,” photographs, through Sept. 28; “Young Arkansas Artists,” artwork by Arkansas students K-12, through July 27. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000. ARKANSAS CAPITAL CORP., 200 River Market Ave., Suite 400: “Bold Contrasts,” paintings by Matt McLeod, sculpture by Tod Switch, high-contrast ink drawings by Robert Bean, 5-8 p.m. July 11, 2nd Friday Art Night. BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave.: “Home Demonstration Clubs or How Women Saved the South,” paintings by Katherine Strause, July 11-Sept. 11, 2nd Friday Art Night reception 5-8 p.m. July 11; “State Youth Art Show 2014: An Exhibition by the Arkansas Art Educators,” through Aug. 30; “Drawn In: New Art from WWII Camps at Rohwer and Jerome,” through Aug. 23; “Detachment: Work by Robert Reep,” through July 24. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.Sat. 320-5790. COX CREATIVE CENTER, 120 River Market Ave.: A Thousand Words Gallery features artwork by CALS employees, open 5-8 p.m. July 11,

2nd Friday Art Night. 918-3093. GALLERY 221 & ART STUDIOS 221, Pyramid Place: New galleries opened on 2nd floor. 2nd Friday Art Night reception 5-8 p.m. July 11. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 801-0211. HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM, 200 E. 3rd St.: “Kateri Joe: Thank Your Lucky Stars,” mixed media, July 11-Sept. 7; “A Beauty on It Sells: Advertising Art from the Collection of Marsha Stone,” 13th annual Eclectic Collector exhibit, July 11-Jan. 1; “So What! It’s the Least I Can Do …,” paintings by Ray Wittenberg, through Sept. 7, “Arkansas Made,” ongoing; 2nd Friday Art Night reception 5-8 p.m. July 11. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 3249351. LOBLOLLY CREAMERY, Green Corner Store, 1423 Main St.: Happy Hour to benefit the Thea Foundation, 4-7 p.m. July 10, with sidewalk chalk drawing and coloring contest to win art supplies, portion of sales to benefit Thea; also 10 percent of sales of blackberry sweet corn ice cream during July to benefit Thea. 379-9512. OLD STATE HOUSE MUSEUM, 300 W. Markham: Live music from Tim Anthony and Friends, 5-8 p.m. July 11, 2nd Friday Art Night; “Lights! Camera! Arkansas!”, the state’s ties to Hollywood, including costumes, scripts, film footage, photographs and more, through March 1, 2015. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9685. UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK, 2801 S. University Ave.: Julia Baugh, ceramics, Gallery II, through July 21; “Subtractive Sculpture: Marble, Alabaster & Limestone,” Gallery I, through Aug. 1; artist reception 5-7 p.m. July 10. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 569-8977. BENTONVILLE CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, One Museum Way: Inflatables artist Jeff Koons, lecture and booksigning, 7 p.m. July 11, $15 ($12 members), register online or at 479657-2335; “Art Talk: Speak the Language of Sculpture,” walk and talk with Nicole Howard, begins in 20th century gallery, 1-1:45 p.m. July 12; “Performance/Film: The Measure of All Things,” lecture, performance and film by Sam Green, 7:30-9 p.m. July 16, $7.50 ($6 for members); “Art Talk: Bringing Portraiture to Life,” Sam Green talks about his favorite works at the museum, 1-1:45 p.m. July 17; “Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie,” drawings, sketches, videos, photographs and scale models, through Sept. 1; “AngloAmerican Portraiture in an Age of Revolution,” five paintings, including works from the Musee de Louvre, the High Museum of Art, and the Terra Foundation, through Sept. 15; permanent collection of American masterworks spanning four centuries. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon., Thu.; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed., Fri.; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat.-Sun., closed Tue. 479-418-5700. RUSSELLVILLE RIVER VALLEY ARTS CENTER, 1001 E. B St.: Paintings paired with floral vignettes, sponsored by the Hoe and Hope Garden Club, through July, reception 1-3 p.m. July 13. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Fri. 479968-2452. YELLVILLE PALETTE ART LEAGUE, 300 Hwy. 62 W.: 6th annual “Art Expo,” closing reception and awards 4-6 p.m. July 11. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.Fri., 10 a.m.-noon Sat. 870-656-2057. CONTINUED ON PAGE 26

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MARISSA NADLER, LOOKING YOU IN THE EYE, CONT. Continued from page 18 injects chilling moments of realism into this album. “Dead City Emily,” for example, is an echo in the middle of a dream, an ambient folk ballad that lulls you into its gentle sway as Nadler delicately and hypnotically strums her guitar. “Drive” is a minimalist piece of Americana with a brutally honest opening lyric: “If you ain’t made it now/You’re never going to make it,” proving that Nadler has no interest in pulling punches. She lets loose on “Desire,” an achingly beautiful tale about two people who never get their romantic timing right. Her content tends toward the autobiographical, but through a filter. “I didn’t feel too exposed writing the record because I think the details are shrouded enough, and it’s not like a journal entry,” Nadler says. “People have to dissect the lyrics to get to the heart of the songs.” Despite her natural preference for personal writing, however, there is one song that stands out on the album for multiple reasons, one of which is its oth-

erworldly fictional storyline. “ ‘1923’ just came out of thin air, but it’s a story about time-traveling lovers,” Nadler said, laughing. “With the exception of that song, however, every other song on the album was very much about my own life.” When you sing about death and lost love, as Nadler does, your music is going

to connect with people in ways you cannot possibly imagine. Nadler’s music might not cheer you up, but it is exquisite in its sadness, and there is something to be said for being able to skillfully write such material. “My music has always had that darker element,” Nadler says. “My first record was called ‘Ballads of Living and Dying,’

so it’s not like a new look for me. It’s been pretty consistent the whole time.” But this is not to say that “July” is an exercise in wallowing in sadness or selfpity, or that Nadler seeks to go in these directions with her music — far from it. She might be choosing to shine a light on some of the more personal aspects of experiences she has gone through, but there are moments of respite and relief as well. “ ‘Drive’ is inspired by 10 years of touring, and the ups and downs that go along with that,” Nadler says. “But it’s actually a hopeful song about finding meaning in the simple things in life: in this case, the open road.” A decade into her journey, Nadler is digging deeper and looking for richer musical, vocal and lyrical textures to add to her work, and it’s never been more evident than on “July.” “I walked into this record with an open mind,” Nadler says. “I didn’t really come up for air until the end.”

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The Arkansas Arts Council is accepting nominations for the 2015 Governor’s Arts Awards to be made in February 2015. Deadline for nominations is Aug. 1. Nominees will be accepted in seven categories: arts community development, arts in education, corporate sponsorship of the arts, individual artist, folklife, patron and lifetime achievement. Nomination forms are available at arkansasarts.org or by contacting Cheri Leffew at 324-9767 or cheri@arkansasheritage.org. ArtsFest is now taking applications for booths for the “Art in the Park” event set for Oct. 4 in Conway’s Simon Park. Prizes will be awarded to non-student and student artists. For more information, contact kathrynoneal@gmail.com.

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CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road: “The Places in Arkansas That Keep Calling Me Back,” photographs by Paul Caldwell, through Aug. 14. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 224-1335. CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 509 Scott St.: Paintings by Dee Schulten, Dr. Lacy Frasier and Sue Henley. 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. COMMUNITY BAKERY, 1200 Main St.: Work by members of Co-Op Art, through July. THE EDGE, 301B President Clinton Ave.: Paintings by Avila (Fernando Gomez), Eric Freeman, James Hayes, Jerry Colburn, St. Joseph Thomason and Stephen Drive. 9921099. ELLEN GOLDEN ANTIQUES, 5701 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Paintings by Barry Thomas and Arden Boyce. 664-7746. 26

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GALLERY 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “Recent Works by Arkansas Society of Printmakers,” including Robert Bean, Warren Criswell, Debi Fendley, Melissa Gill, Jorey May Greene, Diane Harper, Neal Harrington, Tammy Harrington, Samantha Kosakowski, David O’Brien, Sherry O’Rorke, Jessi Perren, Shannon Rogers, Dominique Simmons, Tom Sullivan and David Warren, through July 12. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.Sat. 664-8996. GINO HOLLANDER GALLERY, 2nd and Center: Paintings and works on paper by Gino Hollander. 801-0211. GREG THOMPSON FINE ART, 429 Main St.: “Summer Show,” works by artists from Arkansas and the South, including Glennray Tutor, Kendall Stallings, Sheila Cotton, Robyn Horn, Ed Rice, Joseph Piccillo, William Dunlap, Guy Bell, Sammy Peters and others, through Aug. 9. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 664-2787. LAMAN LIBRARY, 2801 Orange St.: “Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow: Living with the Atomic Bomb,” objects, film, graphics about American culture of 1940s, ’50s and ’60s and the bomb, through Aug. 11. 758-1720. LAMAN LIBRARY ARGENTA BRANCH, 420 Main St., NLR: “Quiltmakers in Contemporary America,” 15 quilts, through Aug. 16. 687-1061. L&L BECK ART GALLERY, 5705 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “The Wild Ones,” paintings by Louis Beck, through July, drawing for free giclee 7 p.m. July 17. 660-4006. LOCAL COLOUR, 5811 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Rotating work by 27 artists in collective. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 265-0422. MUGS CAFE, 515 Main St., NLR: “Explore Arkansas,” juried “phoneography” (Instagram photographs taken and edited by mobile devices) exhibit, through July 15. 379-9101.

ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 1000 N. Mississippi St.: “Icons in Transformation,” 100 expressionist works by Ludmila Pawlowska, through Aug. 17, percentage of sales proceeds to Artist-in-Residence program at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. 225-4203. STUDIOMAIN, 1423 S. Main St.: “Community Center Design Competition.” www.facebook. com/studio.main.ar.

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CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL MUSEUM VISITOR CENTER, Bates and Park: Exhibits on the 1957 desegregation of Central and the civil rights movement. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily. 374-1957. CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER, 1200 President Clinton Ave.: “Chihuly,” studio glass, through Jan. 5, 2015; permanent exhibits on 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. ESSE, 1510 S. Main St.: “What’s Inside: A Century of Women and Handbags (1900-1999),” purses from the collection of Anita Davis, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Sun., $10-$8. 916-9022. MacARTHUR MUSEUM OF ARKANSAS MILITARY HISTORY, MacArthur Park: “American Posters of World War I”; permanent exhibits. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-4 p.m. Sun. 376-4602. MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, 501 W. 9th St.: “Arkansas’ African American Legislators,” permanent exhibits on black entrepreneurship in Arkansas. 683-3593. MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY, 500 President Clinton Ave.: “Wiggle Worms,” science program for pre-K children 10-10:30 a.m. every Tue., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun., $10 ages 13 and older, $8 ages 1-12, free to members and children under 1. 396-7050. WITT STEPHENS JR. CENTRAL ARKANSAS

NATURE CENTER, Riverfront Park: Exhibits on wildlife and the state Game and Fish Commission. 907-0636.

CONTINUING GALLERY, MUSEUM EXHIBITS AROUND ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE LALALAND, 641 Martin Luther King Blvd.: “Women of DAPA (Drawing and Painting Association of the UA),” Raven Halfmoon, Ashley Byers, Carrie Gibson, Mia Buonaiuto, Ashley Lindsey, Jessica Lynnlani Westhafer, Emily Chase and Natalie Brown. EUREKA SPRINGS EUREKA FINE ART GALLERY, 63 N. Main St.: Bob Harvey, paintings, through July, reception 6-9 p.m. July 12. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. 479-363-6000. HOT SPRINGS ALISON PARSONS GALLERY, 802 Central Ave.: “Big Bang,” ceramic sculpture created with fireworks by Lori Arnold, through July. 501-655-0604. ARTISTS WORKSHOP GALLERY, 610 A Central Ave.: Paintings by Jim Reimer, jewelry and watercolors by Bonnie Ricci, through July. 50-623-6401. BLUE MOON GALLERY, 718 Central Ave.: Work by Kay Aclin, Diana Ashley, Janice Higdon, Wendeline Matson, David Rackley, Tom Richard and others. 501-318-2787. GALLERY CENTRAL, 800 Central Ave.: Dennis McCann, paintings. 318-4278. JUSTUS FINE ART, 827 Central Ave.: “Summer Show,” landscapes by Dolores Justus, abstracts by Donnie Copeland, summer themed work by Rebecca Thompson and Emily Wood, through July 30. 501-321-2335.

MELISSA NADLER, LOOKING YOU IN THE EYE, CONT. Continued from page 18 injects chilling moments of realism into this album. “Dead City Emily,” for example, is an echo in the middle of a dream, an ambient folk ballad that lulls you into its gentle sway as Nadler delicately and hypnotically strums her guitar. “Drive” is a minimalist piece of Americana with a brutally honest opening lyric: “If you ain’t made it now/You’re never going to make it,” proving that Nadler has no interest in pulling punches. She lets loose on “Desire,” an achingly beautiful tale about two people who never get their romantic timing right. Her content tends toward the autobiographical, but through a filter. “I didn’t feel too exposed writing the record because I think the details are shrouded enough, and it’s not like a journal entry,” Nadler says. “People have to dissect the lyrics to get to the heart of the songs.” Despite her natural preference for personal writing, however, there is one song that stands out on the album for multiple reasons, one of which is its oth-

Marissa Nadler will be at White Water Tavern 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 15.

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MOVIE REVIEW

Women talking to women, not about men ‘Tammy’ a rarity among big-budget comedies. BY SAM EIFLING

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arely do we get the chance in mainstream multiplex fare to ask the question, so let’s do so here: What name would we give an inverted Bechdel Test? That shorthand for the pervasive masculine default in most movies looks for three criteria. First, a movie must have at least two female characters. Second, they must talk to one another at some point. Third, they must talk about something other than a man. For such a modest bar to equal treatment, it proves damn hard for a lot of movies (or novellas or graphic novels or plays) to pass. In “Tammy,” the new road-trip romp from romp-ready comedienne Melissa McCarthy, we have a script that almost inverts the formula. It includes a few male characters, so there’s that (a couple of them even introduce themselves with surnames!). Then, the only spoken interaction between two men, at least that I noticed, comes when a son (Mark Duplass) tries to roust his goat-horny father (Gary Cole, forever Lumbergh for “Office Space” fans) to leave the bar where the latter is pursuing Tammy’s grandmother (Susan Sarandon). The son argues that it wouldn’t be “fair to mom” for them to stay out late. You could make the case, then, if you take a wide berth, that the only time two men in “Tammy” talk to one another, it’s loosely about a woman, a real anomaly in big summer release fare. This is enough in itself to make “Tammy” an unusual movie — it is in fact a story about women, and not a story about women while actually talking about men. McCarthy stars, with a surprising amount of the spotlight, given that she’s sharing the screen with the likes of Sarandon, who’s funny and arch as a substance-abusing matriarch with a genial low-grade criminality about her; and with Kathy Bates, a brusque, pyromaniacal cousin who knows how to throw a summer party. McCarthy also produces a script that she co-wrote with director Ben Falcone — her husband of nearly 10 years and, in “Tammy,” a putz fast-food manager who fires her in the first few minutes. The pair also

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split producing credits with the likes of “Funny or Die” founders Will Farrell and Adam McKay. So what do we get for this lineup? Less than you’d probably hope, alas. “Tammy” is shaky, hurt largely by a slow start; the first belly laugh doesn’t arrive until about 20 minutes into the movie, by which point its main character has already been fired, had her car wrecked, found her husband carrying on with a neighbor, and in a bit of a meltdown, agreed to enlist her grandmother on a to-hell-with-it road trip from their tiny Illinois hometown. McCarthy in this brutal stretch plays beneath her talent, braying her lines and flailing her stout physique in what begins to feel like a bombastic, thinly written tantrum. McCarthy and the story find a rhythm, in less preachy fashion than you might expect, when Tammy and her

grandmother start bonding over drinks and conquests. When they treat each other shabbily, it’s played first for laughs and then treated with real emotional consequences. Sarandon’s great here, a graying but no less sexually aware throwback to her “Bull Durham” days a generation ago, who also treats her character’s alcoholism with a seriousness that gives the film a quiet acidic edge. In “Tammy,” unlike in most comedies, boozing is only funny until it spills into full-blown drunkenness, which gets ever harder to excuse. “Tammy” makes some bold choices and wanders into some genuinely funny moments. For some, it’ll be a pleasantly subversive, dude-friendly chick flick. For most, it’ll be a better-than-average comedy, once the lulls pass. Be patient. You’ve seen better, but it likely wasn’t this original.

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Dining WHAT’S COOKIN’ LOVERS OF PIE, BOTH SAVORY AND SWEET, should keep an eye out for the new food truck The Pie Hole. Formerly housed in a vintage Airstream trailer in Fayetteville, the rolling pie shop is now in a Little Rock-based van, and will be coming soon to an event or farmers market near you. Owner Lauren Harrison was trained as a pasty chef in Bentonville. After running the trailer-based Pie Hole in Fayetteville for a year, Harrison moved to Little Rock about a month ago when her husband got a job here. She said that getting through the red tape to join the city’s food truck roundup was “fairly painless” compared to her experience in Fayetteville, though she said it did take awhile to get her kitchen inspected. “Fayetteville has just barely started allowing food trucks around the city,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons why my Airstream was stationary. They really weren’t open to food trucks. They’ve started to ease up some on that. So coming to Little Rock, it was a completely different experience.” Harrison’s first day selling pies in the city was last Saturday at the Hillcrest Farmers Market, where she managed to sell out in short order. Walk-up sales at the truck are by the slice only, $4.50 per slice. With two days’ notice, Harrison also sells whole pies for $27. She said she generally brings about 10 pies with her to events, with three to four sweet varieties and one quiche or chicken pot pie. Her best seller is a coconut cream pie, though she said her homemade oatmeal pies are wildly popular as well. “[They’re] like the Little Debbies,” she said, “but they’re made from scratch, with a scratch-made marshmallow fluff filling. When I have those, I usually can’t even get them on the menu before I sell out of them.” Harrison said the menu at The Pie Hole will change with the season. Right now, she’s baking a lot of fresh-fruit pies and quiches made with local produce. For fall and winter she’ll start adding in more seasonal flavors like pumpkin, pecan, cheesecake and sweet potato. Harrison said she’ll be at the Hillcrest Farmers Market on Saturdays “for the foreseeable future,” and is trying out other farmers markets now. You can see where Harrison is going to be, book the truck for events or find contact information to order whole pies at facebook.com/ThePieHoleTruck. 28

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1620 Savoy 1620 Market St. 501-221-1620

QUICK BITE Savoy buys locally, getting herbs, squash and lettuce from Hardin Farms in Grady. HOURS 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. OTHER INFO Full bar, catering available, credit cards accepted.

PERFECT: 1620 Savoy’s Filet Mignon Bearnaise.

Seyer jazzes up Savoy Some great dishes at 1620, but ambiance a bit stuffy.

t was about a year and a half ago that the former Restaurant 1620 reinvented itself, rebranding under the name “1620 Savoy.” The name change was a nod to Harlem’s first integrated jazz club, an inspiration for the restaurant’s new (at the time) jazz-era decor. We visited that version of 1620 shortly after its opening, and left with the overall impression that we had a decent dining experience, but overall (especially for the prices they were asking) we would not be rushing back for more. In fact, until recently, we had not been back since this early visit. But earlier this year, owner and investor Rush Harding (of RH Cuisine) recognized that something needed to be done with Savoy. If ever there was a time to bring out the culinary “big guns,” this was it … and that’s essentially what Harding has done. Denis Seyer, a locally beloved restaurateur, was brought on as chief consultant for RH Cuisine to assist with menu development. Seyer, who was pulled out of semi-retirement, built quite a reputation in Little Rock with his work at the acclaimed, but now defunct, French finedining restaurant Jacques & Suzanne. He was later involved in Le Casse Croute and in the opening of the original 1620. Clearly, another visit to 1620 Savoy was in order if, for nothing else, to see if

Seyer’s touch could mean great things for this floundering restaurant. A group of us made our way there recently and we sampled a fairly sizable chunk of the new menu. We began with a smoked duck salad ($11) and the iceberg wedge ($9). The smoked duck salad was particularly good — tender and flavorful duck with a hint of smoke that came through with every bite. It was accompanied by almonds, spinach, parmigiano-reggiano and mushrooms — definitely one of the highlights of the night. Other appetizers included fried calamari ($12) and a warm goat cheese focaccia ($11). The limp calamari was less impressive. The focaccia was better — a flatbread smeared with tangy goat cheese baked with herbs and black olives, with a topping of fresh, peppery arugula. The bread was a little tough to chew through, but otherwise the dish was successful. We had a difficult time choosing our entrees as several dishes were intriguing. Among the more noteworthy dishes we settled on was the eight-ounce “Filet Mignon Bearnaise,” served with a side of “truffle scented” mashed potatoes, steamed broccoli and bell peppers. It was perfect. The steak was tender and cooked to a lovely medium-rare. The bearnaise sauce complemented the beef

rather than overpowered it. “Rush’s Homemade Fettucine” ($24) with shrimp, crawfish and Creole cream was another winning item at our table. The pasta was cooked well, slightly al dente, and the cream sauce was spicy, rich and in perfect proportion. It’s a fairly heavy dish, but something that should not be missed. Less successful were the “Lemongrass Scallops” ($26). The scallops were sliced to about a half-inch thick and poached in a green curry broth with sweet potato curls and bok choi. While the description made us salivate, in actuality the scallops were a bit disappointing. We missed that lovely golden sear seen with many of the best scallop dishes, and the green curry broth was watered down, making the entire dish fall flat. Desserts were probably the low point of the night. The Grand Marnier Souffle ($10) — such a hit at Jacques & Suzanne’s — was nothing spectacular. There was a rather plain chocolate creme brulee and an ordinary mango cheesecake. Nothing we’d be particularly keen on eating again. Compared to our last visit, 1620 Savoy’s menu has definitely seen some improvements, and we left with an assurance that Seyer’s talents for menu planning and restaurant development have not been entirely wasted here. But Savoy still faces obstacles: It’s not cheap. And when diners are shelling out a sizable chunk of change for dinner, there’s an expectation there that everything — from the service to the food to the decor — will be worth the extra expense. During our visit, the dining room was painfully empty … and this was a Friday evening at peak hours. It was difficult to determine if the ambience suffered more from the empty seats or the slightly stuffy decor. Only time will tell if Seyer is enough to save Savoy.

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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 Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-221-9400. LD Mon.-Sat. ASHER DAIRY BAR An old-line dairy bar that serves up made-to-order burgers, foot-long “Royal” hotdogs and old-fashioned shakes and malts. 7105 Colonel Glenn Road. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. 501-562-1085. BLD Mon.-Sat., D Fri.-Sat. 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. 11121 Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-716-2700. B-BR Sat.-Sun. BIG WHISKEY’S AMERICAN BAR AND GRILL A modern grill pub in the River Market with all the bells and whistles — 30 flat-screen TVs, whiskey on tap, plus boneless wings, burgers, steaks, soups and salads. 225 E Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-324-2449. LD daily. BOBBY’S COUNTRY COOKIN’ One of the better plate lunch spots in the area, with some of 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. D daily. BOOKENDS CAFE A great spot to enjoy lunch with friends or a casual cup of coffee and a favorite book. Serving coffee and pastries early and sandwiches, soups and salads available after 11 a.m. Cox Creative Center. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501- 918-3091. BL Mon.-Sat. THE BOX Cheeseburgers and french fries are greasy and wonderful and not like their fastfood cousins. 1023 W. Seventh St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-372-8735. L Mon.-Fri. BUFFALO GRILL A great crispy-off-the-griddle cheeseburger and hand-cut fries star at this family-friendly stop. 1611 Rebsamen Park Road. Full bar, CC. $$. 501-296-9535. LD daily. CATFISH CITY AND BBQ GRILL Basic fried fish and sides, including green tomato pickles, and now with tasty ribs and sandwiches in beef, pork and sausage. 1817 S. University Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-7224. LD Tue.-Sat. CHEERS 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. $$-$$$. 501-6635937. LD Mon.-Sat. 1901 Club Manor Drive. Maumelle. Full bar, All CC. 501-851-6200. LD daily, BR Sun.

CHICKEN KING Arguably Central Arkansas’s best wings. 5213 W 65th St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-562-5573. LD Mon.-Sat. CHICKEN WANG & CAFE Regular, barbecue, spicy, lemon, garlic pepper, honey mustard and Buffalo wings. Open late. 8320 Colonel Glenn Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-562-1303. LD Mon.-Sat. 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. 824 W. Capitol Ave. No alcohol. $. 501-372-8816. BL Mon.-Fri. DAVID’S BURGERS Serious hamburgers, steak salads, homemade custard. 101 S. Bowman

Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-227-8333. LD Mon.-Sat. 1100 Highway 65 N. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. (501) 327-3333. 4000 McCain Blvd. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-353-0387. LD Mon.-Sat. HILLCREST ARTISAN MEATS A fancy charcuterie and butcher shop with excellent daily soup and sandwich specials. Limited seating is available. 2807 Kavanaugh Blvd. Suite B. No alcohol, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-671-6328. L Mon.-Sat. THE HOP DINER The downtown incarnation of the old dairy bar, with excellent burgers, onion rings, shakes, daily specials and breakfast. 201 E. Markham. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-2440975.

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LASSIS INN One of the state’s oldest restaurants still in the same location and one of the best for catfish and buffalo fish. 518 E 27th St. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-372-8714. LD Tue.-Sat. MADDIE’S PLACE Owner/chef Brian Deloney has built quite a thriving business with a pretty simple formula — making almost everything from scratch and matching hefty portions with reasonable prices in a fun, upbeat atmosphere. Maddie’s offers a stellar selection of draft beers and a larger, better wine list than you might expect. 1615 Rebsamen Park Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-660-4040. LD Tue.-Sat. MARIE’S MILFORD TRACK II Healthy and tasty are the key words at this deli/grill, featuring hot entrees, soups, sandwiches, salads and killer desserts. 9813 W Markham St. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. 501-225-4500. BL Mon.-Sat. SLICK’S SANDWICH SHOP & DELI Meatand-two plate lunches in state office building. 101 E. Capitol Ave. No alcohol. 501-375-3420. BL Mon.-Fri. SPECTATORS GRILL AND PUB Burgers, soups, salads and other beer food, plus live music on weekends. 1012 W. 34th St. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-791-0990. LD Mon.-Sat. SPORTS PAGE One of the largest, juiciest, most flavorful burgers in town. Grilled turkey and hot cheese on sourdough gets praise, too. Now with lunch specials. 414 Louisiana St. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-372-9316. LD Mon.-Fri. THE TAVERN SPORTS GRILL Burgers, barbecue and more. 17815 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-830-2100. LD daily. VICTORIAN GARDEN We’ve found the fare quite tasty and somewhat daring and different with its healthy, balanced entrees and crepes. 4801 North Hills Blvd. NLR. $-$$. 501-758-4299. L Mon.-Sat.

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BENIHANA 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. $$-$$$. 501-374-8081. LD Sun.-Fri., D Sat. CHI’S DIMSUM & BISTRO A huge menu spans the Chinese provinces and offers a few twists on the usual local offerings, plus there’s authentic Hong Kong dimsum available. 6 Shackleford Drive. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-221-7737. LD daily. 17200 Chenal Parkway. No alcohol, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-821-8000. LD Mon.-Sat., D Sun. 3421 Old Cantrell Road. 501-916-9973. FAR EAST ASIAN CUISINE Old favorites such as orange beef or chicken and Hunan green beans are still prepared with care at what used to be Hunan out west. 11610 Pleasant Ridge Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-219-9399. LD daily. FORBIDDEN GARDEN Classic, American-ized Chinese food in a modern setting. Try the Basil Chicken. 14810 Cantrell Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-868-8149. LD daily. 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, BR Sun. IGIBON JAPANESE RESTAURANT It’s a complex place, where the food is almost always CONTINUED ON PAGE 30 www.arktimes.com

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hearsay ➥ KREBS BROTHERS RESTAURANT STORE is giving away a salt plate. Stop by the store July 10 and 11 to register and save 20 percent on regularly priced smallwares while you’re at it. ➥ BOX TURTLE’S summer sale is underway, with all clothing, shoes and bags 25 percent off. ➥ LITTLE ROCK FASHION WEEK is scheduled for July 14-19 with a full schedule of events that feature local and national designers’ fall/winter lines, exhibitions, industry networking events, and workshops for adults and kids. The week culminates with a fashion show headlined by Love R.O.C.S., LRFW 2014’s Clothing Line of the Year. Other featured collections include Cupani Fashion, Dair by Adair, iME, Merocki by Diva Styl, N’cholé Féroce, Richie Clark Clothing, ThurshPulKair and TrenDevian Couture. The show will be from 6-10 p.m. July 19 at the Statehouse Convention Center. Tickets for the July 19 only are $55 for VIP access and $40 for general admission. Passes are available for the entire week as well: $150 for exclusive VIP access and $100 for general admission. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.littlerockfashionweek.com. ➥ THE PROMENADE AT CHENAL will host its annual summer sidewalk sale July 18-20. Participating merchants include APRICOT LANE BOUTIQUE, BELLE & BLUSH, CRAZY 8, DSW, GEARHEAD OUTFITTERS, INDIGO, JUST DOGS! GOURMET, PAUL’S SHOES, W BY AZWELL AND WARREN’S SHOES. ➥ STUDIO ONE DANCE in North Little Rock is now enrolling students for the 2014-15 season. New classes include a Mommy and Me class for mothers and children ages 18 months to 3 years old to learn movement together, cheerleading basics for ages 9-13 and acting for stage for ages 9-16. There are also a variety of adult classes available, including a barre workout and stretching and strengthening sessions. Visit www.studio1dancenlr. org for more information. ➥ BARBARA/JEAN has spring clothing, shoes and handbags marked down 50-75 percent off. You know what to do.

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good and the ambiance and service never fail to please. The Bento box with tempura shrimp and California rolls and other delights stand out. 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-217-8888. LD Mon.-Sat. KIYEN’S SEAFOOD STEAK AND SUSHI Sushi, steak and other Japanese fare. 17200 Chenal Pkwy. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-821-7272. LD daily. KOBE JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE & SUSHI Though answering the need for more hibachis in Little Rock, Kobe stands taller in its sushi offerings than at the grill. 11401 Financial Centre Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-225-5999. L Mon.-Sat. D daily. NEW FUN REE Reliable staples, plenty of hot and spicy options and dependable delivery. 418 W. 7th St. No alcohol, All CC. $. 501-664-6657. LD Mon.-Sat. STAR OF INDIA The best Indian restaurant in the region, with a unique buffet at lunch and some fabulous dishes at night (spicy curried dishes, tandoori chicken, lamb and veal, vegetarian). 301 N. Shackleford. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-227-9900. LD daily. VAN LANG CUISINE Terrific Vietnamese cuisine, 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. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-570-7700. LD daily.

BARBECUE

CAPITOL SMOKEHOUSE AND GRILL Beef, pork 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. A plate lunch special is now available. 915 W. Capitol Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-372-4227. L Mon.-Fri. CROSS EYED PIG BBQ COMPANY Traditional barbecue favorites smoked well such as pork ribs, beef brisket and smoked chicken. Miss Mary’s famous potato salad is full of bacon and other goodness. Smoked items such as ham and turkeys available seasonally. 1701 Rebsamen Park Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-265-0000. L Mon.-Sat., D Tue.-Fri. 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. 14611 Arch Street. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-888-4998. L Mon.-Wed. and Fri.; L Thu. HB’S BBQ Great slabs of meat with a vinegarbased barbecue sauce, but ribs are served on Tuesday only. Other days, try the tasty pork sandwich. 6010 Lancaster. No alcohol, No CC. $-$$. 501-565-1930. LD Mon.-Fri. SIMS BAR-B-QUE Great spare ribs, sandwiches, beef, half and whole chicken and an addictive vinegar-mustard-brown sugar sauce unique for this part of the country. 2415 Broadway. Beer, CC. $-$$. 501-372-6868. LD Mon.-Sat. 1307 John Barrow Road. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-2242057. LD Mon.-Sat. 7601 Geyer Springs Road. Beer, All CC. $$. 501-562-8844. LD Mon.-Sat.

EUROPEAN / ETHNIC

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 Owner and self-proclaimed “food evangelist” Tomas Bohm does things the right

way — buying local, making almost everything from scratch and focusing on simple preparations of classic dishes. The menu stays relatively true to his Czechoslovakian roots, but there’s plenty of choices to suit all tastes. There’s also a nice happy-hour vibe. 11401 Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-353-1875. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat.

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. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-664-2239. LD daily. 6706 Cantrell Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-664-2239. LD daily. 10720 Rodney Parham Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-664-2239. LD daily. 37 East Center St. Fayetteville. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 479-444-7437. LD daily. GUSANO’S They make the tomatoey Chicagostyle deep-dish 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. $-$$. 501-374-1441. LD daily. 2915 Dave Ward Drive. Conway. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-329-1100. LD daily. JAY’S PIZZA New York-style pizza by the slice. 400 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-374-5297. L Mon.-Sat. VESUVIO Arguably Little Rock’s best Italian restaurant. 1315 Breckenridge Drive. Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-246-5422. D daily.

LATINO

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. $-$$. 501-280-9888. LD daily 18321 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-868-8822. LD daily 400 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. BL Mon.-Sat. CASA MEXICANA Familiar Tex-Mex style items all shine, in ample portions, and the steak-centered dishes are uniformly excellent. 6929 JFK Blvd. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-835-7876. LD daily. EL PORTON Good Mex for the price and a wide-ranging menu of dinner plates, some tasty cheese dip, and great service as well. 12111 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-223-8588. LD daily. 5201 Warden Road. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-753-4630. LD daily. ELIELLA You’ll find perhaps the widest variety of street style tacos in Central Arkansas here — everything from cabeza (steamed beef head) to lengua (beef tongue) to suadero (thin-sliced beef brisket). The Torta Cubano is a belly-buster. It’s a sandwich made with chorizo, pastor, grilled hot dogs and a fried egg. The menu is in Spanish, but the waitstaff is accomodating to gringos. 7700 Baseline Road. Beer, All CC. $. 501-539-5355. L Mon.-Sat. THE FOLD BOTANAS BAR Gourmet tacos and botanas, or small plates. Try the cholula pescada taco. 3501 Old Cantrell Road. Full bar, CC. $$-$$$. 501-916-9706. 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. LAS DELICIAS Levy-area mercado with a taqueria and a handful of booths in the back

of the store. 3401 Pike Ave. NLR. Beer, All CC. $. 501-812-4876. BLD daily. LAS PALMAS Mexican chain with a massive menu of choices. 10402 Stagecoach Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-455-8500. LD daily 4154 E. McCain Blvd. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. LD daily. MARISCOS EL JAROCHO Try the Camarones a la Diabla (grilled shrimp in a smoky pepper sauce) or the Cocktail de Campechana (shrimp, octopus and oyster in a cilantro and onion-laced tomato sauce). 7319 Baseline Road. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-565-3535. Serving BLD Fri.-Wed. MERCADO SAN JOSE From the outside, it appears to just be another Mexican grocery store. Inside, you’ll find one of Little Rock’s best Mexican bakeries and a restaurant in back serving tortas and tacos for lunch. 7411 Geyer Springs Road. Beer, CC. $. 501-5654246. BLD daily. MEXICO CHIQUITO Some suggest cheese dip was born at this Central Arkansas staple, where you’ll find hearty platters of boldly spiced, inexpensive food that compete well with those at the “authentic” joints. 13924 Cantrell Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-217-0700. LD daily. 11406 W. Markham. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-2170647. LD daily.; 4511 Camp Robinson Road. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-771-1604. LD daily. MOE’S SOUTHWEST GRILL A “build-yourown-burrito” place, with several tacos and nachos to choose from as well. Wash it down with a beer from their large selection. 12312 Chenal Pkwy. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-2233378. LD daily.

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