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n The historic YMCA building at 6th and Broadway in Little Rock, purchased in 2005 by California-based real estate developer Tower Investments, has been sold to a yet-to-be-disclosed buyer. Hank Kelley with Flake and Kelley Commercial Real Estate said that he brokered the sale for Tower, but wasn’t at liberty to reveal the buyer or redevelopment plans. The deed isn’t yet on file. Tower listed four Little Rock properties for sale with Flake and Kelley in June, including the YMCA, M.M. Cohn, Arkansas and Boyle Buildings. The M.M. Cohn, Arkansas, Lafayette and Boyle buildings were all part of a $3.87 million block-sized buy Tower made for a mostly unrealized mixed-use commercial/residential development. The 43,000-square-foot YMCA building was built in 1928. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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ENGAGED: Philander Smith College.
Social justice and Philander Smith n Philander Smith College, the historically black institution founded to educate blacks in the post-slavery South, got a big boost last week. The Kresge Foundation awarded it a $1.2 million grant to establish a center for social justice. Expect Philander Smith to be seeking your help. It must raise $300,000 as part of a challenge grant for the program. Philander President Walter Kimbrough says the college will infuse social justice into curriculum campus-wide, hire visting professors who focus on social justice and begin an incentive program to encourage students toward “civic engagement.” This has been a focus of the Kimbrough era already. He led a student group to a mass demonstration for the Jena Nine. The campus has also hosted a conference on the aftermath of school desegregation in education.
n It seems only right to give former Gov. Mike Huckabee, the Florida-based talk show host, credit where due. He did himself proud last week in an interview for National Public Radio. He defended his support as governor for legislation that would have allowed college assistance for Arkansas high school graduates who came into the country illegally as children. He also refused to join a growing Republican call for a change in the 14th Amendment to prohibit automatic citizenship for children born in the United States. He also said all children of illegal immigrants should have a path to citizenship. “You do not punish a child for something the parent did,” he told host Tom Ashbrook. “…I’d rather have that kid a neurosurgeon than a tomato picker.” Bravo, Mr. Huckabee.
Documentary filmmaker Josh Fox, whose “Gasland” chronicles the dangers of the hydraulic fracturing process for gas exploration, will be in town this week for screenings of his film in Arkansas’s Fayetteville shale territory. — By Gerard Matthews
11 Those liberal colleges
University of Arkansas faculty member Robert Maranto has written a book about liberal domination of college faculties. He happens to be in a prominent nest of exceptions at UA. — By Doug Smith
19 Young, blonde and gifted
Local singer/songwriter Elise Davis celebrates the release of a muchanticipated new album this weekend. — By John Tarpley
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Are things looking up? n The Institute for Economic Advancement at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock offered some hopeful news about the Arkansas economy last week. It said preliminary data indicated a 4 percent increase in taxable sales during the second quarter of this year, the third consecutive quarter in which data indicated a rise in retail sales. Better still, U.S. numbers showed a lag in the second quarter, but “in contrast, the preliminary data for Arkansas suggested ongoing expansion – at an accelerating pace.”
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IMMIGRANTS’ FRIEND: Mike Huckabee.
3 The Insider 4 Smart Talk 5 The Observer 6 Letters 7 Orval 8-14 News 16 Opinion 19 Arts & Entertainment 37 Dining 77 Crossword/ Tom Tomorrow 78 Lancaster
Words VOLUME 36, NUMBER 50
n A reader asks the origin of not all its cracked up to be, meaning “It’s disappointing, it doesn’t live up to its reputation,” as in “Reality is not all it’s cracked up to be.” According to American Heritage, crack up was used to mean “to praise” in the early 19th century. The usage survives today only in not all (or not what) it’s cracked up to be. n ’Tain’t Nobody’s Business: “The complex story of a 52-year-old gay professor who struggles with life after the sudden death of his longtime partner comes to the big screen tainted with raw emotion and stunning performances.” Tainted? Those performances must be stunningly bad. n Dailey Parker writes: “When I hit the ‘mute’ button on my 4 august 19, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES
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n Fish favor water: “Study: Wall Street favors GOP.” There’s a study that didn’t take long. I wonder if somebody got a grant for that.
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n Baptists big for britches: “We’re seeing people come who probably wouldn’t come [with Baptist in the name],” Jones said. “We’re busting out of the seams. It’s amazing.” As we’ve noted before, there are no real rules for choosing prepositions in cases like this. You just have to know which one is preferred, a knowledge usually acquired through extensive reading, although some dictionaries provide guidance on prepositions. Here, “busting out at the seams,” is correct. June, however, busts neither out of or out at. She busts out all over.
remote, the TV goes quiet, but the word ‘muting’ doesn’t appear on the screen like it used to. Instead, the word that appears is ‘sourdine’. What does that mean? What’s going on here?” Sounds like your TV is bilingual. Apparently sourdine is, or is derived from, an Italian musical term for “mute.” As to why your TV should start speaking Italian to you at this point, I can’t say. Be thankful it wasn’t Finnish, or Javanese. I don’t have dictionaries for those.
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brother (we just mistyped “bother,� but to paraphrase and vastly condense Freud, there are no typos) is an IT guy, one of those computer geeks at a company whose job description is to save us from our techno-illiterate selves. From hearing him talk about his job, it occurs to us that he could spare himself a lot of breath by simply having a T-shirt printed that says “Did you restart?� and then point to it every time he enters someone’s office. That said, he seems to genuinely enjoy what he does, even though the ones-andzeroes gene apparently skipped right over Yours Truly. That is not to say, however, that his job doesn’t make him slap his forehead so hard that he nearly blacks out sometimes. Take his recent account of dealing with an end-user over the phone: BRO: “Okay, go to My Computer.� GUY: “I’m at my computer.� BRO: “No. There’s a file marked My Computer.� GUY: “OK, I see it.� BRO: “OK. Now, go to C drive.� GUY: “I see several drives.� It’s like “Who’s On First� for the new age.
Have you ever wondered
where Riverfest buttons come from? It may not be the deepest question you’ve ever asked, but the answer is nonetheless a satisfying one. The Observer learned it last week on a visit to the United Cerebral Palsy of Arkansas headquarters, in West Little Rock. There at the headquarters is CP Buttons. It’s a workshop where people with cerebral palsy and other neurological afflictions make all kinds of buttons. Cerebral palsy inhibits a person’s ability to perform ordinary tasks. It can affect communication, cognition and behavioral skills. There is no cure. But though most people with cerebral palsy require assistance in their daily lives, CP Buttons shows they can still be productive. Pauline Piggee has been the floor supervisor of the workshop for 27 years. She says her workers, who include folks with Down syndrome and other forms of retardation, probably do a better job of making buttons than most people would. The mechanical equipment is simple to
use, and they are able to focus on the task in such a way that makes getting ready for Riverfest — when they’re contracted to make more than 100,000 buttons — a piece of cake. They also make buttons for the Miss Arkansas pageant, family reunions, churches — anyone who wants to use buttons as a promotional tool. Because of their intense concentration they can do their job very quickly; turnaround is typically three to five days. They also perform a variety of other odd jobs like putting together notepads and stuffing envelopes. The public gets its buttons, but there are more profound things at work. While efficiently providing a service, the workers are getting a handle on life skills. “The entire program is set up as a way to enhance their lives,� Piggee says. There’s fun time as well. Piggee’s workers are given time to surf the web, play video games, watch movies, and interact with one another. In her experience, no two days are the same. “Some days you have to be a psychologist. Some days you have to be a mother. Some days you have to be a doctor. And some days you have to be a peacemaker. That keeps it interesting for me.� Those of us who can are lucky to be able to drive a car, text a message. But there are different kinds of luck, even for those who are usually thought of as unlucky. A Riverfest button reminds us of that.
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get through the simple tasks of going to the grocery store and such during those days Little Rock’s temperature was like the surface of the sun’s — you know, just when the car air conditioner starts to work it’s time to stop and get out again — found ourselves thinking, for the first time, about desertification. What if all these shriveling trees in our once greenlyleafed town suddenly just keeled over, like we felt like doing on the asphalt in front of Kroger? What if palms ousted our oaks, and we had nary an ocean to escape to? And what if Canada, to stave off an invasion from the south, started building a wall along its border to keep out the hot, thirsty masses? For the record, for anyone reading this Observer column in the future, that’s how hot it’s been.
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After reading “In the crosshairs” from the Aug. 5 edition I found myself at a loss. I was both enraged for and sincerely empathetic to David Jones, who seems to be living a daily nightmare. Personally, his stamina for tolerating such abuse is beyond me. Unfortunately, the complete disregard for common decency, privacy, and community seems to be spiraling out of control lately. I, along with scores of others, find myself spending more and more time battling the constant onslaught of disrespect shown by renegade citizens. Consistent 3 a.m. calls to both property managers and police due to throbbing bass that resonates throughout my entire home has been my prize since my recent move into a new apartment. Really? Is it so hard to show minor compassion for the people who live around you? Is there really so much of a need to impose on those around you? People are quickly losing their sense of mutual respect for one another and go about their lives as though they are insulated from those around them, leaving a maddening wake of frustration and despair. Whatever reason the shooter has for the taunting
is simply not good enough, and I’m sure they haven’t even taken a moment to think of the real emotional and physical stress that the Joneses must deal with on a daily basis. If they did, common decency would AT LEAST compel a less aggressive and harmful manner of attack. Instead, some idiot child or wildly irresponsible adult is taking a perilously close chance at doing real damage to play a stupid game. I imagine that due to the ineffectiveness from both the Little Rock Housing Authority and the police in this matter, Mr. Jones would probably appreciate a more community-based movement to stop insidious and malevolent actions of unrepentant neighbors. I, for one, wouldn’t mind making a personal visit to the Parris Towers Apartments, anyone else? Ashley Scott Little Rock I am appalled at the nature of crime in the city of Little Rock. An Oklahoma native, I moved here in December of 2009 while my wife works towards her PhD at UAMS. Her family is from the area, so I have heard about the nature of crime, the lack of police response and the apathy of the general populace. It seems to me that most citizens of Little Rock continue expanding further and further west, down Highway 10 and Chenal, to escape the “dangers” of the urban area,
all the while allowing it to be someone else’s problem. Well, that is just what I see when I read “In the Crosshairs” in the Aug. 5 issue of the Arkansas Times. Not only has one family moved to a neighborhood known for its crime and misuse, but they have done their best to clean up the property and revitalize some of the less desirable areas of Little Rock. After having his home, his pets and his property vandalized by tenants of Parris Towers, a low-income apartment building catering to the poor and invalid, he attempted to talk to the manager of the establishment, which caused a chain-reaction of even more negativity towards him and his home. David Jones, I am on your side, sir. The Arkansas Times attempted to contact the Little Rock Housing Authority, which operates the building, and Parris Towers. Neither call was returned. Police say there is nothing they can do due to the apartment hierarchy and already excessive call load. How can the Chamber of Commerce or any other organization devoted to bringing in new tax-paying citizens hope to succeed when this is the kind of thing I have to read about on a continuous basis and see nothing done? Little Rock, for a capital city of a state, is not exactly big, and for that growth to begin, possible migrants need to feel safe, secure, and welcome. None of which this story
denotes to me. This is not the first time I have heard of unnecessary violence that should be easily preventable. I know of a handicapped woman living [in a nonprofit’s housing project near downtown] who has been raped repeatedly by people not living in the facility. This facility is supposed to be accessible only if you have a tenant card that allows access, although I have repeatedly entered the building by multiple entrances that were not closed, locked, or key carded. I have called the police when tenants at my apartment complex were outside smoking marijuana, playing the music so loud you could hear it in the street, and screaming and yelling all night while I have to get up the next morning. No police ever were sent to my location. I moved here after receiving my degree in journalism, and I am neither apathetic nor ignorant towards the atrocities occurring in my new home. If the Little Rock government doesn’t get their act together soon, I can guarantee being a voice of protest towards those looking to move here, be they individuals, families, or businesses. Who wants to live in a place where you never feel protected and where the law constantly replies to complaints with “our workload is too big”? Danny Groshong Little Rock
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The WEEK THAT was au g u s t 1 1 - 1 7 , 2 0 1 0 It was a good week for …
POLITICKING. With $3 million in his campaign bank, Gov. Mike Beebe put his mouth to work first, blasting Republican opponent Jim Keet for “trashing” Arkansas. The state has done pretty well in the midst of a recession, Beebe said. SWELTERING. Temperatures stayed on pace to set a summer record in Little Rock, with steady daily averages of the high and low temps around 90. The ECONOMIC OUTLOOK. UALR economists saw a third consecutive quarter of growth in Arkansas retail sales, a trend that accelerated in the latest quarter. CITY DIRECTOR MICHAEL KECK. The lame-duck director urged his colleagues to begin talking about next year’s budget NOW and the likelihood of budget shortfalls that could dictate more wage freezes and possibly furloughs or layoffs. Those running again this year would prefer to delay this discussion until AFTER the election. It was a bad week for …
DEBATING. U.S. Senate opponents — Republican John Boozman and incumbent Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln — appeared jointly in a forum at Hot Springs. They disagreed, mostly agreeably. The underdog Lincoln squandered an opportunity to draw sharp distinctions with her opponent. LOTTERY SCHOLARSHIPS. More than 25,000 students received notice of lottery-financed scholarships, but almost 30,000 were turned down and that set off a firestorm of complaints that worthy older students had been overlooked. Rules set priorities for awards to older students, however. The LITTLE ROCK HOUSING AUTHORITY. Its Parris Towers high-rise has been the source of persistent pellet gun sniping on a neighbor. Then, last Friday, he was subjected to a death threat by a Parris Towers resident. He was urged to fill out a police report. LAND COMMISSIONER MARK WILCOX. He was forced to amend an earlier story and admit he’d used office money to repair damage his wife had done to another vehicle in a hit-and-run during a shopping trip in a state-owned vehicle. He repaid $995. 8 august 19, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES
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This land is Gasland Filmmaker brings movie back to Arkansas. by Gerard Matthews
n The last time Josh Fox was in Arkansas he was just starting off an adventure that would take him through 25 states, filming a documentary on the negative impact of natural gas exploration and a new drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Now, he’s back to show and talk about the finished product, “Gasland,” which won the special jury prize for documentary at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. For those of you who’ve already seen the film on HBO, or even for those who haven’t, Fox’s appearances in Fayetteville and Little Rock on Thursday and Friday will include new footage, shot here in Arkansas, that ended up on the cuttingroom floor. “It was one of the hardest things I had to do, to cut the Arkansas section out of the movie,” Fox says. “It was really terrible. It could have been a six-hour movie. And we had to do something but it was always our intention to restore that segment on the DVD and then subsequently, when our deal allows us to, to put more of that online.” Fox started off shooting and interviewing folks in Booneville. Andy Cheshier, a member of the group Citizens Against Resource Exploitation (CARE), heard Fox was shooting a film on gas drilling and contacted him about coming to Arkansas. “He was only supposed to stay one day, but he ended up staying an extra two because there was so much to see and so much to do,” Cheshier says. “It was just everyday people living in the country. Some of them were farmers that had cattle that had died. Some of them had water problems, there were lots and lots of water problems. There was a lady that had a lot of health problems when they started drilling by her house. Anybody that wanted to go on camera we talked to them and got a lot of good stuff.” Fox was set to show the film in Arkansas later in the fall, but decided to come a little earlier after getting a call from Rep. Vic Snyder’s office. The congressman had seen the documentary at a screening in the Rayburn Building in Washington. Someone from Snyder’s office contacted the Clinton School of Public Service about hosting the event in Little Rock. Fox, whose family has land on the upper Delaware River basin on the border of Pennsylvania and New York, started
ILLUMINATING: Fox lights tap water on fire during filming. doing research on fracking after he was offered $100,000 by a gas company to lease his land — an offer he ultimately refused. Fracking is a process in which millions of gallons of water, combined with numerous chemicals (drillers don’t like to identify them), are pumped into the ground at very high pressure, fracturing shale formations and releasing natural gas. Fox interviewed people from all over the country who live near gas drilling operations and have had significant problems arise with their ground water, the use of their land and even their health. During a stop in Pennsylvania, which sits atop the Marcellus Shale formation, one man actually lit his tap water on fire. “The situation in Arkansas was pretty dire,” Fox says. “These people were just surrounded by drilling. They had water problems, they had significant air problems. The serious contamination that I saw was remarkably distressing. One thing that was so clear was the remarkable amount of frustration with ADEQ and any response from state and local government, especially local government. They were very upset and they were saying they felt that their county officials had been bought off.” Even with the extra footage he’ll show this week, there were still some things Fox wasn’t able to catch on tape. Like his account of a man whose dog was kidnapped by workers on a gas drilling pad on his property. “There was a whiskey party going on down at the drill site,” Fox says, “and
they were screaming at him all night and they screamed at him, ‘Hey, we’ve got your dog.’ So then he went down there and they pulled a gun on him and stuck it in his stomach. And they said, ‘This is what the foreman told us to do to deal with disgruntled landowners like you.’ ” Aside from the critical acclaim the film has garnered, local environmentalists feel it validates work they’ve been doing. Donna Adolph, a middle-school teacher from Bee Branch, started a blog in March called Arkansans for Gas Drilling Accountability after large trucks started spraying her road with a petroleum-based substance. She thinks “Gasland” is a great educational tool. “I think it’s a masterpiece,” Adolph says. “The heads of these corporations, their bonuses are based on the bottom line. So for them to put the investment into doing this right, they just don’t have the motivation. And the only way they’re going to get it is if we make them do it. The only way we can do that is educate our population on what’s going on, why it’s toxic and what alternatives we have to make it better.” According to Fox, the stories he heard in Arkansas set the tone for the entire film. He will be on hand when the film is shown at the University of Arkansas Continuing Education Center in Fayetteville on Thursday, Aug. 19, at 7 p.m. and at the Clinton School of Public Service on Friday, Aug. 20, at 6 p.m. Contact the Clinton School for reservations.
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obert Maranto considers himself a centrist Republican, but in academia, he’s often regarded as a raging right-winger. So he’s glad that David Horowitz is around, voicing opinions similar to Maranto’s own about the leftward tilt of American colleges and universities, but expressing them more forcefully. When Horowitz speaks, Maranto says, “I can play the moderate.”
A professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Maranto is the lead editor of a new book, “The Politically Correct University: Problems, Scope and Reforms,” published by the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Horowitz is the fiercest living critic of the liberal hegemony in higher education. The late William F. Buckley, who made his name by writing “God and Man at Yale” in 1951, was the godfather of the movement. Maranto knows Horowitz and says he’s “brilliant,” but too confrontational and given to overstatement for Maranto’s taste. Maranto also knows a professor who was fingered by Horowitz as one of “The 101 Most
Dangerous Academics in America,” in a book by that name. “I think he’s pretty good,” Maranto says of the professor in question. “He didn’t deserve a couple of hundred e-mails calling him un-American.” The first words of “The Politically Correct University,” under the byline of Maranto and his co-editors, Richard E. Redding and Frederick M. Hess, are: “After we launched this project exploring intellectual diversity in American higher education, a colleague of the lead editor [Maranto] playfully accused him Continued on page 12
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ing teacher unions under control, if not eliminating them entirely. There are some impressive resumes in the Department of Education Reform, Maranto HOROWITZ: said, and their own- Identifies the ers are conserva- “most dangerous” tive. “Without the professors. Walton money, I’m not sure the people on the far right would be here.” Their presence is making the university more diverse, he said. Maranto’s own resume is substantial. He’s taught at numerous colleges and universities and was at Villanova just before he came to Arkansas. He’s not without humor. His biographical entry in “The Politically Correct University” says that he’s “written or edited scholarly books which have sold dozens of copies and are so boring that his own mother refused to read them.” He’s also ginned out a bunch of op-ed pieces for major newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Baltimore Sun. Maranto’s co-editor Richard E. Redding is an associate dean and professor of law at Chapman University School of Law in Orange, Calif. The other co-editor, Frederick M. Hess, is director of education policy studies for the AEI, a conservative think tank in Washington.
of wasting time on ‘that stab-us-in-the-back book’ rather than producing ever greater quantities of conventional social science. The remark was a joke, but it hints at the academic culture that led us to undertake this project, a culture in which any departure from the politically correct norm is viewed with suspicion. Our goal in this book is to explore and finally offer remedies to this culture of political correctness, the bugaboo that has most bedeviled American higher education in recent years. We focus on the problem of liberal political orthodoxy in teaching and scholarship and seek to understand how ‘diversity’ — of race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, but not of ideas — has become the dominant ideology in higher education.” That playful colleague has piped down, evidently. Maranto said he’d heard virtually no comment, pro or con, from any Fayetteville faculty since the book appeared. He’s still relatively new on campus, arriving in 2008, which might contribute to the lack of response. He grew up in Baltimore, and he’s a political scientist by training, with degrees from the University of Maryland and the University of Minnesota. But at Fayetteville, he’s the 21st Century Chair in Leadership in the Department of Education Reform, part of the College of Education and Health Professions. “Political scientists and economists have been ANDERSON: doing some of the best work When UALR’s in education reform,” Maranto chancellor moved said in an interview. to administration “Education Reform” is he became a subject of particular internonpartisan. est to the Walton family, the Waltons of Wal-Mart, that is. A few years back, the WalMart Foundation gave the UA $300 million, the largest private contribution ever to a public university. There were strings attached. The establishment of the Education Reform Department was one of them. Other wealthy critics of the public schools, including Arkansas Democrat-Gazette publisher Walter Hussman, have also taken an interest in the department’s work. The kind of reform the department and its benefactors have in mind has to do with charter schools, vouchers, and keep-
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o over-condense and over-simplify, the theme of “The Politically Correct University” is that liberals and Democrats far outnumber conservatives and Republicans among university faculty; that this lack of diversity is harmful to students, their education suffering because of lack of exposure to competing ideas, and that there may be other ill effects, such as discrimination against conservative professors in hiring and promotion. Various writers contributed. Here are some excerpts: • “ [T]he lack of diversity in academia limits the questions we ask and the phenomena we study, retarding our pursuit of knowledge and our ability to serve society. We know, for instance, that the public had determined by the 1970s that the welfare program AFDC was not working, yet academic sociologists even now [after welfare reform] adamantly reject that conclusion and ostracize those who take it seriously. … Similarly, criminology professors have worked tirelessly to deny the success of the New York City Police Department’s reforms rather than encouraging other cities to adopt like reforms. Despite NewYork City’s fifteenyear decline in crime continuing through the tenure of three mayors and five police chiefs, criminologists still struggle to attribute increased safety to demographic shifts or even random statistical variation (which seemingly skipped other cities!) rather than to more effective policing. This failure to accept reality costs thousands of lives.” • “[C]onservatives and libertarians are becoming increasingly rare in academia, outnumbered by liberals and radicals by nearly 3 to 1 in relatively conservative fields like economics, more than 5 to 1 in moderate fields like political science, and 20 to 1 or more in anthropology and sociology.” • “I [Victor Davis Hanson, a contributor] once surveyed courses listed in the University of California at Santa Barbara catalogue, and found sixtytwo classes concerning Chicano history and culture, but not a single one devoted to the American Civil War … Recently, a popular survey of politicized university courses singled out a class on ‘Queer Musicology’ offered at University of California-Los Angeles. But why focus on UCLA when nearby Occidental College offers classes such as ‘The Phallus’ (stressing ‘the bRIAN chIlSoN
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Stalking liberals the old way n “Publish or perish” is the cry in higher education today. For professors in Arkansas in the late 1950s, it was “Sign or perish.” Even David Horowitz might have been shocked. During the Little Rock school integration crisis, segregationists decided that tolerance of integration might be the result of a liberal education. Attorney General Bruce Bennett proposed, the legislature approved, and Gov. Orval Faubus signed Act 10 of 1958. The law required state employees, including college faculty, to file as a condition of employment an annual affidavit listing every organization they belonged to. The idea was to identify members of the NAACP, the ACLU, the American Association of University Professors and other groups segregationists considered subversive. Most state employees signed the affidavit in the summer of 1959, but a handful refused, including Max Carr, a professor at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, and B.T. Shelton and J.O. Powell, schoolteachers in Little Rock. They became the plaintiffs in a suit challenging Act 10. In 1960, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the law, on a 5 to 4 vote. Justice Potter Stewart wrote for the majority, “Act 10 deprives teachers in Arkansas of their rights to personal, associational, and academic liberty, protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment from invasion by state action.” That didn’t quite end the matter, though. A number of faculty had been dismissed before the decision, and the UA Board of Trustees refused to rehire them. The AAUP placed UA on its list of censured administrations in 1964. The university compromised with the dismissed faculty in 1968, and the censure was withdrawn. Guerdon D. Nichols, dean of the college of arts and sciences, received the Meiklejohn Award for Academic Freedom from the AAUP for his opposition to Act 10.
relation between the phallus and the penis, the meaning of the phallus, phallocentrism, the lesbian phallus, the Jewish phallus, the Latino phallus, and the relation of the phallus and fetishism’), and ‘Blackness’ (with explorations of ‘new blackness,’ ‘critical blackness,’ ‘post-blackness,’ ‘unforgivable blackness’ and ‘queer blackness’)?” • “Spouses (mostly wives) of conservative professors report highly unpleasant experiences with other departmental spouses. As the wives have less need to be careful, what they say is more revealing of the general atmosphere of the academy. Many wives of conservatives have reported being berated for having husbands who voted for Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush. They have been made to feel as out of place as liberals in certain country clubs.”
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ike Robert Maranto, Joel Anderson was trained as a political scientist. Also like Maranto, he considered himself a conservative Republican, but not an ultra-conservative Republican. “I was a Winthrop Rockefeller Republican,” he says, and while teaching at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, he was active in the party. That ended when he left teaching for administration. He’s now the chancellor at UALR. “Once I moved into a position in the central administration of the university, I became scrupulously nonpartisan,” Anderson says. He didn’t want to give an officeholder of any party a reason to oppose UALR legislation. Anderson grew up on a farm east of Swifton, and did his undergraduate study at
Harding University, a conservative Church of Christ school in Searcy. He got his master’s degree at American University in Washington and his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. “I don’t doubt the research that says there are more Democrats than Republicans, more liberals than conservatives in the humanities and social sciences,” he says. “A Republican in a political science department may feel a bit conspicuous and carry some anxiety that being different may prove disadvantageous at some point in one’s career. I can say that my years in the department of political science at UALR were comfortable and lots of fun. My colleagues included two Democrats who were elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives, Cal Ledbetter and Robert Johnston, who to this day are warm friends I admire.” (The late state Sen. Robert Harvey, a conservative from Swifton, Anderson’s hometown, used to complain loudly about liberal professors like Ledbetter, and especially about liberal professors at state universities being allowed to serve in the legislature.) Anderson probably would have liked the department even better if most of his colleagues had been like-minded Republicans, he says, but “The fact is that Republicans were then and are now in short supply in all the social sciences.” “While I would say that my history of a decade of activity in the GOP and my conservative religious background have not been advantages, they obviously have not prevented my moving from assistant professor to chief executive in a public university.” Continued on page 14
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Continued from page 13 Anderson’s not alarmed that a majority of professors are liberal. “In any group that has continuity, there will be dominant points of view and dissenting points of view. Any church congregation almost always has some people in a minority, any civic club, any faculty. Typically, the minority feel that their points are unappreciated, that they don’t get the respect they deserve. In a way, they’re right. That’s why we have a bill of rights, so that people in a minority, religious or political, can have their rights protected.” And over time, the minority view may become the majority view. “Marxism has been fading for some years. Russia and China are adopting capitalism. Since the Second World War, we’ve seen the rise of the free market, and more skepticism about the central government running things. “I think sometimes when people complain that the other point of view is dominant, they’re implicitly arguing for 50-50 status. But that’s not how groups work. The idea is to remain open to minority views. I don’t think we want anybody rationing the time for different ideas. “The great thing about universities is that although they are not free of the subtle pressures that persons holding minority points of view will feel from the majority, in universities there is strong and conscious embrace of the proposition that people ought to be free to hold and advance ideas that are out of the mainstream, offensive ideas. If faculty in the mainstream of their disciplines become aware of any overt effort to suppress the expressions of their colleagues who are not in the mainstream, they will almost always come to their defense. I’m reasonably sure that a number of my colleagues will agree with what I’m saying here, and that others will not. Because they work at the university, they’ll feel free to say publicly whether they agree or disagree. In how many other organizations is that the case?” A distinguished professor of history at Fayetteville, Randall Woods, says there are “probably more liberals than not,” in the college of arts and sciences. “But that’s just one college. If you take business, engineering, agriculture, education, I’d say the overall faculty here is conservative.” In the department of education reform, Maranto’s department, “all those chairs are being filled by conservatives, by people opposed to public education, by voucher supporters.” Or at least the chairs are being filled by people who call themselves “conservatives,” Woods says. He believes that many self-described “conservatives” today, including those at Fox News, aren’t really conservatives. “They’re radicals. In the ’30s, conservatives were people who were opposed to government activity and wanted a balanced budget. These people today want an adventurous foreign policy, and they unbalanced the budget. Bill Clinton was the last conservative president.” The term “politically correct,” used in the title of Maranto’s book, is “just a kind of Fox News labeling,” Woods says. (Fox’s name comes up often in liberal v. conservative discussions. Somewhat enlightened conservatives like Maranto concede that Fox leans to the right, but
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they like to say that posture is balanced by NPR’s lean to the left. In fact, NPR carefully suppresses such liberal inclinations as it might feel. When the liberal historian Howard Zinn died recently, NPR’s coverage included an interview with none other than David WOODS: UA is Horowitz, who disparaged “committed to freeZinn as a fool and a knave. dom of inquiry and Angry liberals complained that freedom of thought.” when such as Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley and Jerry Falwell died, NPR didn’t invite their archenemies on the air to malign them. The complaints had little effect. NPR is terrified of criticism from the right; it bears up well to criticism from the left. But give Maranto credit: He sees the larger journalistic picture. “I think the media’s big bias is toward sensationalism.”) Of the Fayetteville campus, Woods says, “I’ve been here 40 years, and students up here are encouraged to think for themselves. The institution is committed to freedom of inquiry and freedom of thought. I’ve never seen any evidence that people have a political agenda in hiring. The history department hired two assistant professors last year. Both committees were chaired by women. Both the hires were white males. If there’s an agenda there, it escapes me.”
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nne D. Neal, president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, contributed a chapter to Maranto’s book, called, naturally enough, “The role of alumni and trustees.” She argues that the two groups should actively resist the advance of political correctness on campus: “Engaged alumni can press administrators and trustees to be accountable in ways no one else can.” If Neal’s name sounds familiar to Arkansas readers, it may be because she wrote an op-ed piece for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in May in which she criticized UAF plans to revise — “dumb down,” in Neal’s words — the core curriculum in arts and sciences. Chancellor G. David Gearhart replied in a D-G op-ed that the core curriculum was overdue for revision by arts and sciences faculty, that the revised curriculum would be more like the curricula at other universities, and that it would benefit students transferring from twoyear institutions to UAF. It’s hoped that revision would enable more of these students to obtain baccalaureate degrees. Arkansas ranks near the bottom of the states in percentage of college graduates. The alleged dumbing down of curriculum is a popular topic with conservative critics of higher education, but Maranto said UAF had no choice, because a law enacted by the legislature last year called for curricular revision. (Gearhart said the new law “played a small part,” but the university had begun work on a new curriculum before the law was passed.) “I think it would be great if we lobbied in the next session of the legislature to change that law,” Maranto said. Maranto agrees that trustees, alumni, parents of
n Robert Maranto acknowledges that one reason universities hire more liberal professors than conservative professors is because there are more liberals to hire from. He quotes a survey that found that conservative college and university seniors are substantially less likely to pursue doctorates than their liberal peers. This is not because the liberals are smarter than the conservatives (as some liberals would likely suggest) – the grade-point averages are identical – but because the two groups have different life priorities and career goals, Maranto said. “Getting a Ph.D. requires 5 to 10 years of additional study, moving away from family and friends, it probably means putting off getting married and having kids. Liberals are more comfortable with that, they value self-expression more. I think it makes sense that academia leans left. But not as much as it leans. “Relatively few professors try to indoctrinate students. But if you’re surrounded by people just like you, it’s hard to present a wide range of views.”
students, and potential contributors all should do more to see that a wider range of views is presented. He’s not so enthusiastic about state laws that would prohibit discrimination against conservative students and faculty. Horowitz has founded an activist group, Students for Academic Freedom, that seeks passage of such legislation. “State legislators don’t understand how universities work,” Maranto said. A prohibition against discrimination sounds harmless, “but potentially anybody who gets a ‘C’ in class could say it was because of ideology.” He says he’s more moderate than Horowitz, and to all appearances he is. (He says he’s more moderate than Bradley Gitz, too. A conservative political scientist at Lyon College in Batesville, Gitz is arguably Arkansas’s best-known academic, by virtue of a weekly column he writes for the state’s largest newspaper. Maranto and Gitz taught together at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, turns out.) “When you attack the whole institution, people tend to act in an us-against-them way,” Maranto said. His own proposals for reform are almost shockingly mild. For example: “Here is my pet positive idea for a state legislator or philanthropist. Offer a university some cash — $15,000 would probably be enough — to hold weekly debates on the issues of the day either as part of an ‘Introduction to US Government’ class or free-standing. Three requirements: All would have to agree to civility, both Democratic and Republican views would have to be represented, and at least half of those taking part on each side would have to be faculty from that campus, meaning there would have to be some left- and rightleaning faculty. That would be a very low-cost way to make universities more fun, and more tolerant of different ideas.”
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Editorial n A news release arrived this week headlined “Lincoln, Pryor, Snyder Announce $2.2M for Arkansas’s National Cemeteries.” Further reading revealed that only $55,000 of the federal money would be used for improvements at Little Rock National Cemetery, in the congressional district of Rep. Vic Snyder. The rest, more than $2 million, is headed for the veterans’ cemeteries at Fort Smith and Fayetteville, both in the district of Rep. John Boozman, whose name was not in the release. What’s wrong with this picture? What’s wrong, horribly wrong, is that Boozman would rather honor the Republican Party than the men and women who served their country in uniform. He did nothing to get this money for the cemeteries. Indeed, he voted against the national Recovery Act, the source of the funds. Following the standing order of the Republican National Committee (“No”), Boozman has stopped working on projects to benefit his district. Constituents seeking his help are referred to Arkansas’s two senators, Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor. Perhaps his staff advises callers that Boozman is running against Lincoln, and that if he succeeds, Arkansas will receive even less federal aid. What a difference there is between these two lawmakers. Boozman virtually relinquishes his House seat to be a fulltime campaigner for the Senate, though he probably still manages to work in a bit of foreign travel at taxpayers’ expense. He’s a dogged junketeer. Lincoln, on the other hand, sponsors and wins passage of historic legislation to provide nutritious food to low-income schoolchildren, and helps write and pass the most significant Wall Street reform bill since the end of the Great Depression. Can anyone remember an Arkansas senator accomplishing more in a comparable period of time? And she’s also obtaining federal money for the Third Congressional District, now effectively lacking representation in the U.S. House.
Apology awaited nAfter escaping indictment by the U.S. Justice Department, Tom DeLay said he hoped that Americans would look at his case and decide that “the politics of personal destruction is not beneficial to our country and hopefully it will stop.” When he was a congressman, nobody practiced the politics of personal destruction more vigorously than the partisan and vindictive Tom (The Hammer) DeLay, a leader in the effort to remove Bill Clinton from the presidency. If he’s apologized, we missed it. DeLay still faces criminal charges in Texas, where he and two associates are accused of money-laundering and conspiracy in connection with state legislative elections. An on-line biography of DeLay suggests that he’s best remembered as a contestant on a TV dance show. Not by everybody.
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Justice for juveniles n Lost in the daily reports on the use of state vehicles by elected officials and employees in the early days of August was some good news about Arkansas’s long-plagued juvenile justice system. For decades, the norm of indifference to the rehabilitation of youthful offenders has been regularly interrupted by reports of cruel abuse inside the walls of dank facilities. The outsourcing of these facilities to private companies makes the system exceptionally expensive compared to other states with little to show for the investment in bettering the lives of troubled youth. But, on Aug. 4, Governor Beebe and Division of Youth Services Director Ron Angel celebrated steps towards creating a genuinely rehabilitationfocused system. Most interesting was that Beebe and Angel shared the podium with a national advocate for juvenile justice reform who, just two years ago, co-authored a report scathingly critical of the Arkansas system. In that 2008 study, Pat Arthur of the National Center for Youth Law and co-author Tim Roche overviewed the archaic system and chronicled a laundry list of its flaws. But, that report also included a roadmap for reform. Arthur and Roche made the clear case that Arkansas needed to move away from secure facilities for non-violent offenders towards community-based services that have been shown in similar states to have success in rehabilitating youthful offenders and are now considered “best practices” for non-violent juvenile offenders. Such programs allow youth to remain in their home communities, continuing their educational progress, and focus on creating change within the youth’s home through alteration of the behavior of both parents and children across months of treatment. Community-based programs provide a system of care to these youth so that they can return to freedom with tools to deal with the challenges they will inevitably face and to escape criminality. At the press conference, Arthur noted the remarkable turnaround in the Arkansas system under the leadership of Angel (DYS’s ninth director in a dozen years), saying, “Clearly from your governor
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and judges all the way out to your local community providers, you have shown tremendous support for reform in Arkansas.” Even if Angel and others at DYS who seem fully committed to a reform model are able to build their vision and eliminate the bevy of problems that remain in the fragile system, true juvenile justice reform in Arkansas must also include a return to the norm of erasing records of youth who have paid for their mistakes. At present, Arkansas’s law related to the expungement of criminal records is quite limited, making it difficult for youth offenders to erase their criminal past without a pardon from the governor. A previous statute — Act 378 of 1975 — made expungement routine for most youthful offenders after the completion of probation. During my recent legislative campaign, I visited with a number of men in their early 20s who noted the costs of telling prospective employers about “something stupid” they had done in their past despite a clean record since. While employers’ decisions not to hire those seen as risks are logical ones, the result is hopelessness and an enhanced likelihood that these young people will see a return to crime as their only escape. Beebe has convened a task force to review the state’s corrections system with an eye to enhancing rehabilitation and reducing cost. Let us hope that their important work also includes a recommendation to our legislators to bring Act 378 back to life. That is a reform that will return hope to so many young men and women and to the communities that are relying upon them. Jay Barth is a professor of politics at Hendrix College.
The health lies n Here we are in the second battle of the health insurance war, where the enemies of reform reignite fears that the new federal law will close hospitals and small businesses, drive doctors from practice, ratchet up everyone’s insurance premiums and generally reduce the country to ruin. This phase should end the day after the general election and a new one will begin, when every economic mishap will be blamed on the health-reform law. The talking points in business forums, insurance company fliers, Republican speeches and news analyses generated by the critics mostly follow the themes of the campaign against the law last year, but now the opponents must deal with the phases of the law that are being implemented now, which are uniformly popular. So the strategy is to generate fears over things that the law might do years in the future. They adopt the debater’s strategy and attack the law’s strongest points. Thus they continue to try to scare us old folks by suggesting that it will one day take away Medicare benefits or make us pay much more for hospital and physician care. The truth is Medicare coverage is strengthened and the program’s solvency is assured another 10 years. The gap in drug coverage will be closed, drugs will be cheaper and people for the first time will get preventive care like cancer screenings at no cost. A seminar on the new law for Arkansas employers illustrated the strategy. The
Ernest Dumas new law, the participants said, was going to raise the premiums of everyone who is already insured and drive to the wall businesses that do not insure their workers. A big hospital executive fretted that the law would close single-doctor offices and small-town hospitals across the state. The imperiled community hospitals have been a lament all over the country since the health-care debate began. In his little session with county officials last week, U. S. Rep. John Boozman raised it as his big concern. He said the law would hurt hospitals in rural Arkansas and set back economic development. “In a situation where the economy is so fragile, why do you do these things?” he asked. Boozman ought to talk to his rural hospital administrators in north Arkansas. They were the biggest champions of the health-reform law. The Arkansas Hospital Association lobbied for it. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a lifesaver for small hospitals, and big ones, too. What the hospitals couldn’t stand, one Arkansas administrator told me, was for the country to do nothing. The uncompensated care at Arkansas hospitals rose 208 percent between 2000 and 2008 and bad debts are
They’re grading the teachers in LA n Did you hear about the Los Angeles Times? And did you hear about the teachers’ union? Let me educate you, so to speak. The newspaper took seven years of student test scores in elementary grades in the Los Angeles public schools, the nation’s second-largest district, and designed a value-added system for assessing the effectiveness of teachers. That is to say it ranked grade-school teachers over this period based on the relative improvement in the performance of their students on standardized tests. The paper reported Sunday — by name and with a picture of the underperforming teacher —on two fifth-grade teachers with classrooms down the hall from each other in an inner-city public school. One’s classes started each school year scoring a little higher on tests on average. The other’s classes ended the school year with higher test scores. Implicit is the notion that the teacher whose kids started behind and ended ahead is better and ought to be compen-
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sated on that outcome rather than years of experience and degrees held. The paper intends to publish on-line a database reporting the performances of 6,000 Los Angeles public school teachers in elementary grades. So what did the teachers union do? It organized robo-calls to teachers asking them to drop their subscriptions to the Times because of this attack on the profession. There’s even discussion of legal action against the paper, though I’m not sure how a public employee could devise a legitimate legal grievance from being held publicly accountable based on publicly reported data. All of this strikes even nearer the heart of the public education debate than the roiling charter school controversy among
accumulating faster every year, which hospitals recoup the best they can by raising the charges on insured patients. If they can hang on until 2014, most of the uncompensated care will vanish. Poor adults and children will all be covered by Medicaid and people above 133 percent of poverty will get private insurance, with government subsidies. This year, more than $600 million in charges for hospital care will go uncollected. That does not include the big charity hospitals, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the Arkansas Children’s Hospital, which get special federal help and huge appropriations from the legislature each year to cover their vast amount of uncompensated care. The health law will be a bonanza for community hospitals and the state-subsidized hospitals. But somebody will have to pay for all that charitable care, won’t they? Sure they will, but few of them are in Arkansas. One hospitals executive was shaking his head this week over the opposition. “Our current system is not sustainable and everyone knows it,” he said. “Companies cannot continue to absorb the rising costs, so more of them every year in Arkansas are dropping or reducing coverage or shifting more costs to workers. Over the long haul, hospitals are not going to be hammered by this law but they are going to be better off.” Hospitals are taking an immediate lick but not owing to the health reform law. Congress forestalled a long-scheduled reduction in Medicare payments to doctors by reducing hospital payments. The health reform law will eventually fix that. And those
small-town family doctors who will go out of business? Arkansas’s 2,900 overworked and underpaid primary-care doctors will qualify for a 5 to 10 percent bonus under the law. Boozman should ask them if they’d like to repeal the law. Arkansas has too few primarycare doctors in the rural reaches. The new law provides subsidies to increase the number of doctors, nurses and dentists in underserved areas, which embraces much of Arkansas. It is true that insurance companies may and probably will seek some increase because the law will end their most unpopular abuses. Companies can no longer deny coverage to chronically ill children, cap lifetime benefits, cut off offspring below the age of 26 or deny coverage based on preexisting conditions, so insurance companies will want to cover those extra costs. But they can’t pass on premium increases if they spend more than 15 percent of their premium income (20 percent for smallbusiness plans) on overhead and profits. Some now spend as little as 60 percent of premium income on actual care. Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, which writes about 75 percent of the private coverage in the state, analyzed the law in its latest brochure to its customers. A Blue Cross policy expert said the positives about the law were that the country finally had addressed the lack of access to health insurance by a large part of the country and that many people who cannot afford it will get help. He added: The biggest positive is that “we can now focus on other major issues, like cost and quality.” It didn’t sound like Blue Cross wanted the law repealed.
Arkansas business leaders and the Little Rock School District. In fact, the Arkansas business group pushing for more charter schools in Little Rock — the Waltons and newspaper publisher Walter Hussman, mainly — are at least as intense about value-added teacher assessments. Luke Gordy, the businessmen’s hired hand, didn’t know of the LA paper’s undertaking until I informed him Monday morning. “That’s just what we’re talking about,” he said. Look for his group to press the state legislature next year for a law by which nontraditional teachers could more easily obtain alternative certification and get a chance at showing quantifiably what they can do, by much the same principle that charter schools get a measured chance to show what they can do. The contention is that good teaching can be an art or craft transcending the often-dated formulae of teacher colleges. This issue tends to split liberals and center-leftists, some of whom side with teachers’ unions and some, including those running the Obama administration’s Education Department, who embrace further exploration and experimentation in performance-based pay for teachers. I’ve heard all the teachers’ objections to this kind of grading, but my sympathy
wanes, to wit: 1. They call this an attack on the profession, when, in fact, it’s an attack only on some in the profession. If you say some guy is a terrible newspaper columnist, you attack him, not all newspaper columnists. 2. They say a faculty works as a unit and that pitting one teacher against another for a monetary prize destroys any faculty teamwork. But any workplace is a team. Grading columnists based on readership shouldn’t have any effect on the morale or performance of an editor, a reporter, a photographer or a page designer. 3. They say assessing a teacher by student test performance is akin to judging a dentist based on the number of cavities his patients have. Actually, though, this value-added system for assessing teacher performance is more like judging dentists based on the relative number of cavities filled properly over nine months. The underlying point is that we need to get all our kids going to the best dentists available. John Brummett is a columnist and reporter for Stephens Media’s Arkansas News Bureau. You can read additional Brummett columns in The Times of North Little Rock. www.arktimes.com • AUGUST 19, 2010 17
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n a tucked away corner of a neighborhood in West Little Rock, through a code-entry gate and into an anonymous grid of garage door storage buildings, Elise Davis is back from an afternoon run, shrugging and laughing her way through another Friday band practice in an LRPD shirt, baseball cap and, disarmingly enough, makeup and earrings. Barely 21, she’s one of the most prolific, ambitious young songwriters in the state, writing since 12, recording since 15 and now set to release her fourth full-length album, “The Same Vein,” this Friday at a concert at Town Pump. But right now she’s leading the newest incarnation of the Elise Davis Band through a jaunty, thumping take of “Trouble,” a bass-driven, effortlessly
melodic three-minute slice of inspired pop that highlights her new release. Four days and literally dozens of spins later, I’m confident, excited and, to be completely honest, a bit shocked to say — in all sincerity — it’s the catchiest thing I’ve heard all year. It’s also a promising sign of Davis’ selfdescribed reinvention and maturation. With “The Same Vein,” she’s taking a step beyond the organic folk-pop of her teenage years, into a richer, brighter world of confident indie-pop; this, thanks to accompaniment from Josh Tate on drums behind Jordan Trotter and Trevor Ware, guitarist and bassist, respectively, for the now-defunct Grand Serenade. Sure, Davis’ songs are still written in the Southern, female singer/songwriter fashion a la Bonnie Raitt and Lucinda
Williams, but now, with her new backing band, they’re fleshed out with a new amplified, melodic weight that carries her 21st-century torch songs into new territory that recalls a femme-led Travis one minute (“Dust Bowl”) and Sara Bareilles the next (“Cold World, Hot Love”). This metamorphosis may have taken her into easy pop, ready for VH1 morning shows and Nicholas Sparks movie soundtracks, but don’t be fooled by her harmless accessibility. Or her age. Or her looks. Elise is a workhorse first and foremost. It doesn’t take much more than a quick glance at her acoustic guitar case to see she’s making no plans to slow her output. It’s bursting with sheets upon sheets of disparate pieces of dog-eared lyric sheets she’s collected over the year. To put it in perspective, with her first four albums
released in three and a half years, she’s outpaced the early years of the notoriously fruitful Guided by Voices. It’s a productivity that’s alluded to, blatantly, on the cover of her new album. It shows Elise seated in an antique chair, beside a scatter of ragged, bent and sketched-on composition books. But in the meantime, before we see how far her constant stream of readymade pop could take her, she and her new band seem at home while cramped into their practice space, learning and fleshing out the latest of a rapidly expanding catalog. Elise Davis releases her newest album, “The Same Vein,” this Friday, August 20, 10 p.m., $6 at Town Pump. In the meantime, sample her latest — including the terrific “Trouble” — at her website, www.elisedavis.com. www.arktimes.com • AUGUST 19, 2010 19
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DEFTONES
by Bernard Reed and John Tarpley
7 p.m., Robinson Center Music Hall. $36.60-$41.75
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n Those who regularly gander at the two pages of Times real estate that house the To-Do List may have noticed the occasional, hinted bias towards nu-metal in all its forms. Wait, no; who am I fooling? “Hinted bias?” I can’t stand the stuff, period. Never have, never will. But for the better part of 15 years, one band, Deftones, has remained a daring, creative exception to the rule that the subgenre has to be a tineared wasteland. Years after its release, the 11-track “White Pony” still stands as the defining moment of post-grunge: progressive and sophisticated, mixing in trip-hop ambience and Morrissey-inspired lyricism with the familiar, bitter chunk of the genre. Now, in 2010, front man Chino Moreno is still threading his cryptic tenor through the band’s ambitious complexity and, unlike most of their ’90s peers, Deftones still has a lot of fans. The band is joined by another celebrated, heavy, shockingly melodic outfit in Baroness, the rising sludge/prog group that, in spite of having released only two (stellar) albums, is one of the best metal has to offer. JT.
“THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE”
7:30 p.m., The Weekend Theater. $14-$18.
n Spelling bees are rife with drama. Remember “Spellbound?” “Akeelah and the Bee?” I know you remember when Rebecca Sealfon shook and shouted her way though “euonym” to clinch the tournament in the late-’90s. That was the egghead equivalent of Michael Jordan blasting off from the free-throw line in the ’88 Slam Dunk Contest. Now the Weekend Theater takes a shot at the nervewracking edu-sport with its new show, the Tony Award-winning, bee-centric musical comedy, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” which follows a troupe of eccentric, adolescent brainiacs on their way to A-B-C glory. If you think that watching a scripted spelling contest may seem a bit light on actual tension, audience members have the opportunity to test their own alphabetic aptitude by signing up to participate on stage. (Julie Andrews gave it a shot in 2007 and was booted after stumbling over the granddaddy of all stumpers, “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.”) The show runs through Aug. 29. JT.
“GRIDIRON: A VIEW FROM THE BAR”
8 p.m., Arkansas Repertory Theatre. $35-$40.
n The Arkansas Bar Association’s biannual comedy revue returns to the Rep stage
S AT UR DAY 8 /2 1 F-U-N-N-Y: “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” opens at the Weekend Theater on Thursday. to skewer local and national political and legal figures. The legal community makes up the cast, the Rep provides production support and Lori Isner of the Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre conducts an eight-piece orchestra. This year, the show is set at a meeting of the Arkansas Bar Association at the Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs, where the cast of the daytime talk
show “The View” is staying. The satire, written by lawyers whose names are kept secret, shouldn’t be so exclusive that folks outside the legal community don’t get the jokes, producer Judge Mary McGowan promises. “Gridiron” continues at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Tickets to the final Saturday performance are $25. BR.
CHINO AND THE MEN: Modern rock heroes the Deftones come to Robinson Center alongside critical darlings Baroness. 20 AUGUST 19, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES
BROOKS & DUNN
7:30 p.m. Verizon Arena. $25-$69.75
n For better or worse, a healthy chunk of Brooks & Dunn’s legacy is cemented in “Boot Scootin’ Boogie,” that line-dancing classic/earwig that lodged itself in everyone’s head back in 1991. But for better or worse, it was an untouchable opening statement for a band that would go on to sell more records than any other musical duo ever. Twenty-five million albums — including an unheard of five greatest hits compilations — sold in 19 years is no joke. With their astronomical commercial success and classic country songs like “My Maria” and “She Used to Be Mine,” they’re bound to leave one of the largest country music legacies ever after disbanding at the end of this, their “Last Rodeo” tour. And if last week’s announcement that Verizon Arena had to open up an extra 1,200 seats to accommodate the massive demand for tickets is any indication, the high-energy duo may leave the arena with a new attendance record as well (and “Boot Scootin’ Boogie” stuck in a record number of heads). The country megastars have the great Miranda Lambert along for the ride as well. Judging from the unbelievable string of albums she’s released since 2005 in “Kerosene,” “Gunpowder & Lead” (this writer’s pick for best country album of the last decade) and “Revolution,” the melodic, bad-ass, refreshingly authentic
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THURSDAY 8/19
n Eagles cover band Hotel California takes it to Hot Springs for a 7:30 p.m. show at Oaklawn, $15. Sticky Fingerz hosts a triple-bill night of local music with catchy, balls-out rockers Magic Hassle, harmonic summer pop outfit Whale Fire and buzzy new kids in town, Catskill Kids, 9:30 p.m., $5. The Village hosts popular Memphis hard rockers Tantric along with Adema and Burn Halo, 8 p.m., $15 adv., $20 d.o.s. The Ted Ludwig Trio does a doubleheader, playing its regularly scheduled set as Capital Bar & Grill’s house band, 5 p.m., free, then up the road to close out the night at The Afterthought, 8:30 p.m., $5. Jason Greenlaw leaves his backing band, the Groove, behind for a free solo show at Bill St. Pub and Grill, 7 p.m. At Cajun’s Big John Miller belts out blue-eyed soul, 9 p.m., $5.
SUPERDUO: Brooks & Dunn’s final tour brings the country music megastars to Little Rock. wunderkind stands a shot to become her own brand of country legend. JT.
SECONDHAND SERENADE
8 p.m., Juanita’s. $16 adv., $18 d.o.s.
n Still not fed up with being subjected to years and years of whimpering, hypersensitive singer/songwriters? Then boy howdy, are you ever in luck. This guy, Secondhand Serenade, the nom de sniffle of solo performer John Vesely, is swinging into town for a night of the old strum and whine at Juanita’s. Another Dashboard Confessional trope-alike, Vesely sings in a falsetto that makes Edward Cullen look like Randy Savage. And just like “Twilight” and professional wrestling, it’s meant for teen-agers. But he’s onto something: The kids love it. His rapid rise from anonymous Internet musician to MySpace’s number-one unsigned artist to full-fledged neo-emo stardom is a testament to the buying power of teeny-boppers and their appetite for sensitive, hormonal music about being sensitive and hormonal. Supply and demand: Someone’s gotta do it. He’s joined by melodic, pop-punk tour mates Runner Runner and Camera Can’t Lie. The show is, naturally, all ages. JT.
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GORDON LIGHTFOOT
8 p.m., Hot Springs Convention Center. $40-$60
n Robbie Robertson of The Band calls his fellow Canadian “a national treasure.” Bob Dylan still champions the beloved folkie at
every opportunity, saying “every time I hear a song of his, it’s like I wish it would last forever.” In the realm of folk music, few tracks are larger than the ones left by Gordon Lightfoot and his 12-string guitar. “Rainy Day People,” “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown” and, good God, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” solidified his place as one of the greats, not to mention one of the key architects behind the organic, pop-folk sound that defined the ’60s. Now the man’s back on stage after WHOA: The Body, an avant-garde metal duo rehabilitating from a six-week coma from Little Rock, brings its brand of experimental in 2002 that almost left his famous sludge to Juanita’s. picking fingers atrophied, now strumming and singing through a two-hour that I can’t fathom ever coming from a set of highlights from his expansive catalog human. It sounds closer to a sustained of songs. Young guns, don’t let the goofy dog-whistle or a GTO peeling out down name fool you. If you have acoustic aspirathe highway to hell than any other shriek tions, skip folks like Secondhand Serenade around. The music itself is a beat-heavy, and respect your elders: Lightfoot’s psychotic experiment in sonic intensity required listening. JT. more in vein with scary Scott Walker or Sunn O)))) than, say, Dio or Iron Maiden. Now based in Providence, R.I., drummer W EDN ES DAY 8 /2 5 Lee Buford and guitarist Chip King are bringing their assault to Little Rock for what should be a strange homecoming show; the two callused their hands in town, 9 p.m., Juanita’s. $5. playing in vaulted local acts like Hundred Years War, Class of 84, Generation of n When the opening track of The Body’s Vipers and other Towncraft-era thrashers. new album, “All the Waters of the Earth And these hometown boys? They’ve done Shall Turn to Blood,” changes from a well. “All the Waters” has been met with delicate, seven-minute choral piece to a near-universal praise everywhere from brain-rattling shock of cymbals and coyote dorm room blogs to Pitchfork. I’ll join the shrieking, it’s a jarring announcement that choir, too: three days into the album and you’re in for a proper, auditory brain liqueit’s already a cinch for my own “best of fier. And does it ever deliver. The album is 2010” list. The Body is set to be joined by 50 minutes of huge noise. Expansive noise. Iron Tongue, the relentlessly loud, heavierPainful noise, rounded out with sawing than-heavy Times favorites. JT. feedback, looping gibberish and vocals
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FRIDAY 8/20
n Camden-born guitar hero, the “Iron Man” Michael Burks shreds the blues at Sticky Fingerz, 9 p.m., $10. Former Squirrel Nut Zipper front man Jimbo Mathus returns to White Water for a night of throwback country music with his backing band, The Tri-State Coalition, 10 p.m. Local rockers Goldy Locks play the first of their two-night set at West End, 10 p.m., $5. Midtown Billiards gets a night of music from the “Apocalypse Now”-referencing bar rockers, Outstanding Red Team, 12:30 p.m., $8 non-members. The Arkansas Celtic Music Society brings Cork, Ireland’s, Fuchsia Band to Khalil’s Pub, 7 p.m., $15.
SATURDAY 8/21
n Local crooner Cody Belew sings for the Markham Street Grill and Pub, 8:30 p.m., free. White Water Tavern rocks out with the best-named show in town in Atlanta provocateurs, Whores, and Little Rock supergroup Sweet Eagle, 10 p.m. A whole slew of G.G. Allininspired acts take to Downtown Music with The Kill Crazies, The S.T.D.’s, Truckstop Hookers and more running through dark, catchy punk, 8 p.m. At Discovery, DJs g-force and Michael Shane man the ones and twos for the club crowd, 10 p.m., $10. Witty Texan singer/songwriter Charlie Robison returns to Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $10 adv., $12 d.o.s. Runaway Planet, the tightest bluegrass band you’ll find anywhere, is set to pick, strum and sing at The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. At the Town Pump, blues four-piece Unseen Eye hits the stage, 10 p.m., $3. www.arktimes.com • AUGUST 19, 2010 21
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 19 Music
Big John Miller (headliner); Tony, Tim and Scott (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com. Brian Nahlen, Nick Devlin. Markham Street Grill And Pub, 8:30 p.m., free. 11321 W. Markham St. 501-224-2010. www.markhamst.com. Brown Sole Shoes. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 9 p.m. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub.com. Charming Gardeners. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. DJ Chucky P. Denton’s Trotline, 9 p.m. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717. Hotel California. Oaklawn, 7:30 p.m., $15. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-623-4411. www. oaklawn.com. J-One Presents: “In Too Deep.� Deep Ultra Lounge, 9 p.m. 322 President Clinton Ave. Jason Greenlaw. Bill St. Grill and Pub, 7 p.m., free. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-353-1724. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m., free. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www. sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. “Little Rockin’ � Ricky D. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.myspace. com/whitewatertavern. Monoxide Project, Stereo Down. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $5. 1300 S. Main St. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com. “Posh.� Ernie Biggs, 9 p.m., $5 early admission. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Ryan Couron. Grumpy’s Too, 9 p.m. 1801 Green Mountain Drive. 501-225-9650. The Science of Sleep, My Hands to War, Believe the Hype, Medic Red. Revolution, 9 p.m., $6. 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090. revroom.com. Slimpickers. Town Pump, 10 p.m., $3. 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 501-663-9802. The Ted Ludwig Trio. The Afterthought, 8:30 p.m., $5. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com. Tantric, Adema, Burn Halo. The Village, 8 p.m., $15 adv., $20 d.o.s. 3915 S. University Ave. 501-570-0300. www.thevillagelive.com. The Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free. 111 W. President Clinton Ave. 501-3747474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Tucker Jameson and the Hot Mugs. Vino’s, 8 p.m., $7. 923 W. Seventh St. 501-375-8466. www. vinosbrewpub.com. Whale Fire, Magic Hassle, Catskill Kids. Sticky Fingerz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.
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TAKING IT BACK: Former Squirrel Nut Zipper, Jimbo Mathus, returns to lay down his brand of tight, rootsy country with his backing band, the Tri-State Coalition, at White Water Tavern this Friday night at 10 p.m. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. www.loonybincomedy.com. Red Octopus Presents “Beach Blanket Bingo.� The Public Theatre, through Aug. 21, 7:30 p.m., $10. 616 Center St. 501-374-7529. www.thepublictheatre.com.
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“After Work at The Afterthought� Wine Tasting. Local wine experts Bruce Cochran and James Cripps hold a tasting of four wines. The Afterthought, 5:30 p.m., $10. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.
Antique/Boutique Walk. Shopping and live entertainment. Downtown Hot Springs, third Thursday of every month, 4 p.m., free. 100 Central Ave., Hot Springs. River Cities Restaurant Week. River Cities Restaurant Week, a fund-raiser for Arkansas Hospice, features nearly 30 local dining establishments, many with exclusive prix-fixe specials for the event. For details, visit www.rcrestaurantweek. com. through Aug. 21.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 20 Music
Brave Soul, The Victor Ship. Vino’s, 8 p.m., $7. 923 W. Seventh St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com. Chant (headliner), Chris DeClerk (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www. cajunswharf.com. Chris Henry. Flying Saucer, 9 p.m., free. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-7468. www.beerknurd.com/stores/littlerock. Donna Massey & The Blue Eyed Soul. The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com. Eli Young Band, Corey Smith, Ingram Hill. Arkansas Music Pavillion, 7 p.m., $15-$75. 4201 North Shiloh Drive, Fayetteville. Elise Davis Band. Town Pump, 10 p.m., $3. 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 501-663-9802. Eugene Christopher. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 9 p.m., $5. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub.com. First Class Fridays. Bill St. Grill and Pub, 9 p.m. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-353-1724. Fuchsia Band. Khalil’s Pub, 7 p.m., $15. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub. com. Goldy Locks. West End Smokehouse and Tavern, Aug. 20-21, 10 p.m., $5. 215 N. Shackleford. 501-224-7665. www.westendsmokehouse.net. Jeff Coleman. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, Aug. 20-21, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-3242999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Jess Hoggard. Markham Street Grill And Pub, 8:30 p.m., free. 11321 W. Markham St. 501-2242010. www.markhamst.com. Jet 420. Denton’s Trotline, 9 p.m. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717. Jimbo Mathus and the Tri-State Coalition. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. 2500 W. 7th. 501-3758400. www.myspace.com/whitewatertavern. Jonn Dunn, Livid, Seasons of Evil. Downtown Music Hall, 8 p.m., $6. 215 W. Capitol. 501-3761819. downtownshows.homestead.com. Michael Burks. Sticky Fingerz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $10. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com. Mitch Wiltham. Reno’s Argenta Cafe, 9 p.m. 312 N. Main St., NLR. 501-376-2900. www.renosargentacafe.com. Mr. Happy. Fox And Hound, 10 p.m., $5. 2800 Lakewood Village, NLR. 501-753-8300. North Little Rock Community Concert Band presents “A Night of Nobility.â€? Lakewood Village Amphitheatre, 7 p.m. Lakewood Village, NLR. Outstanding Red Team. Midtown Billiards, Aug. 21, 12:30 a.m., $8 non-members. 1316 Main St. 501-372-9990‚ÄÊ. midtownar.com. Patterson and Danley. Capi’s, 8:30 p.m., free. 11525 Cantrell Suite 917. 501-225-9600. www. capisrestaurant.com. Peter Janson, Steve Davison. The Poet’s Loft, 8 p.m., $10. 514-B Central Ave., Hot Springs. PG-13. Underground Pub, 10 p.m., $5. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-707-2537. www.undergroundpub.com. Pope County Bootleggers. Grumpy’s Too, 9 p.m. 1801 Green Mountain Drive. 501-2259650. The Red Suite, Father Maple, Free Micah. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $7. 1300 S. Main St. 501-3721228. www.juanitas.com. Shot Heard Around the World, Allegon, Virtues, Creator Destroyer. Soundstage, 8 p.m., $6. 1008 Oak St., Conway. Steve Bates. Cregeen’s Irish Pub, 9 p.m., free. 301 Main St., NLR. 501-376-7468. www.cregeens. com. The Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m. 111 W. President Clinton Ave. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Vinyl Thief, The Vidrines. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $5. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com.
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UpcOMiNG EvENTS Concert tickets through Ticketmaster by phone at 975-7575 or online at www.ticketmaster.com unless otherwise noted. AUG. 20: Deftones. 7 p.m., $36.60-$41.75. Robinson Center Music Hall, 7 Statehouse Plaza. 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com. AUG. 21: Brooks & Dunn. 7:30 p.m., $35-$70. Verizon Arena, NLR. 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com. AUG. 27-28: Mulehead. 10 p.m. White Water Tavern, 2500 W. Seventh. 375-8400, myspace. com/whitewatertavern. SEPT. 4: Keith Sweat, Montell Jordan, Next, 7:30 p.m., $35-75. Riverfest Amphitheatre. SEPT. 23: The Hold Steady, $18. Revolution, 300 President Clinton Ave. 523-0090, revroom. com. OCT. 10: Nickelback. 6 p.m., $55.95-$80.35. Verizon Arena, NLR. 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com. OCT. 28: Al Green. 7 p.m. Statehouse Convention Center, 7 Statehouse Plaza. 376-4781, pollstar.com. 10:30 p.m.; Aug. 21, 7, 9 and 11 p.m., $6-$9. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. www.loonybincomedy. com. Red Octopus Presents “Beach Blanket Bingo.” The Public Theatre, through Aug. 21, 7:30 p.m., $10. 616 Center St. 501-374-7529. www.thepublictheatre.com.
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Arkansas Florist Association Annual Conference and Tradeshow. Florists from all over Arkansas gather for exhibits, workshops and conferences. For more information, call Steve Arrison at 501-321-2027. Hot Springs Convention Center, Aug. 20-22. 134 Convention Boulevard, Hot Springs. 501-321-2027. www.hotsprings.org. LGBTQ/SGL Youth and Young Adult Group. Diverse Youth for Social Change and Straight Ally Youth and Young Adults hold Friday evening meetings for youths age 14 to 23. 800 Scott St., 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St. River Cities Restaurant Week. See Aug. 19.
Film
Josh Fox. The director will screen and discuss his film, “Gasland,” about the rise in natural gas exploration in America as a result of new drilling technology. Clinton School of Public Service, 6 p.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5239. www. clintonschool.uasys.edu.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 21 music
Alan Hunt Band. Fox And Hound, 10 p.m., $5. 2800 Lakewood Village, NLR. 501-753-8300. Altercation Punk Comedy Tour wtih The Tired and True, We Still Dream. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $8 adv., $10 d.o.s. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. Brian & Nick. Flying Saucer, 9 p.m., free. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-7468. www.beerknurd.com/stores/littlerock. Charlie Robison, Culpepper Mountain Band. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $10 adv., $12 d.o.s. 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090. revroom. com. Clover Blue. Parrot Beach Cafe, 9 p.m. 9611 MacArthur Drive, NLR. 771-2994. Cody Belew. Markham Street Grill And Pub, 8:30 p.m., free. 11321 W. Markham St. 501-224-2010. www.markhamst.com. DJ g-force (lobby), Michael Shane (disco). Discovery Nightclub, 10 p.m., $10. 1021 Jessie Road. 501-664-4784. www.latenightdisco.com. Goldy Locks. West End Smokehouse and Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. 215 N. Shackleford. 501-224-7665. www.westendsmokehouse.net. Jason Greenlaw & the Groove. Bill St. Grill and Pub, 10 p.m., $5. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-353-1724. Jeb Harrison. Reno’s Argenta Cafe, 9 p.m. 312 N. Main St., NLR. 501-376-2900. www.renosargentacafe.com. Jeff Coleman. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7
p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Jet 420 (headliner), Greg Madden (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www. cajunswharf.com. Karaoke at Khalil’s. Khalil’s Pub, 7 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com. The Kill Crazies, A Disco For Fern, Truckstop Hookers, Followed By Static, What Army, The STDs. Downtown Music Hall, 8 p.m. 215 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownshows.homestead.com. Lord T and Eloise. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9 p.m., $10. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226. Pope County Bootleggers. Midtown Billiards, Aug. 22, 12:30 a.m., $8 non-members. 1316 Main St. 501-372-9990‚Äé. midtownar.com. Runaway Planet. The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com. Secondhand Serenade, Runner Runner, Camera Can’t Lie. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $16 adv., $18 d.o.s. 1300 S. Main St. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com. Shannon McClung. Cregeen’s Irish Pub, 9 p.m., free. 301 Main St., NLR. 501-376-7468. www. cregeens.com. Still Reign, Kid Nothing, Hey Bastard. Soundstage, 8 p.m., $7. 1008 Oak St., Conway. Sweet Eagle, Whores. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.myspace. com/whitewatertavern. The Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m. 111 W. President Clinton Ave. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Tragikly White. Sticky Fingerz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $5 early admission. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz. com. Typhoid Mary. Denton’s Trotline, 9 p.m. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717. Unseen Eye. Town Pump, 10 p.m., $3. 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 501-663-9802.
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Dan O’Sullivan. The Loony Bin, 7, 9 and 11 p.m., $6-$9. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. www.loonybincomedy.com. Red Octopus Presents “Beach Blanket Bingo.” The Public Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $10. 616 Center St. 501-374-7529. www.thepublictheatre. com.
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Arkansas Florist Association Annual Conference and Tradeshow. See Aug. 20. Certified Arkansas Farmers Market. A weekly outdoor market featuring produce, meats and other foods from Arkansas farmers. Argenta Market, 7 a.m.-12 p.m., free. 521 N. Main St., NLR. 501-379-9980. www.argentamarket.com. Falun Gong meditation. Allsopp Park, 9 a.m., free. Cantrell & Cedar Hill Roads. Farmers Market. River Market Pavilions, 7 a.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info. “Grants S.M.A.R.T.S..” A grant-writing workshop for beginners. Martin Luther King Heritage and Enrichment Center, 1 p.m., $40. 3012 Martin Luther King Drive. Little Rock Multitap gaming night. A bi-monthly video competition night. ACAC, third Saturday of every month, 6:30 p.m.; first Thursday of every month, 6:30 p.m., $5 membership fee. 900 S. Rodney Parham Road. 501-244-2974. www.littlerockmultitap.com. “Ride For the Fight” Poker Run. A 115-mile motorcycle poker run to benefit CARTI. Participating bikers will have a choice of separate courses with starting point options available at Riverfront Park in North Little Rock and Landers Harley Davidson Shop, 4446 Central Ave., Hot Springs. More information at carti.com. 10 p.m. River Cities Restaurant Week. See Aug. 19.
Film
“Fresh.” The final installment to the Urban Garden Project and CAAH! summer movie series celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing the food system. Faulkner County Library, 6:30 p.m., free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www.fcl.org.
Books
Janie and Wyatt Jones. The authors of “Arkansas Curiosities” sign books and chat. Barnes & Noble, 2 p.m., free. 11500 Financial Center Parkway.
kids
Breakfast with Lorikeets. Little Rock Zoo, 8:30 a.m., $12.85-$21.95. 1 Jonesboro Drive. 501-6662406. www.littlerockzoo.com.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 22 music
Junius Orbs, Underclaire, Anything or Everything. Juanita’s, 7:30 p.m., $10. 1300 S. Main St. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com. Successful Sundays. Ernie Biggs, 9 p.m. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs. com. Sunday Jazz Brunch with Ted Ludwig and Joe Cripps. Vieux Carre, 11 a.m. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.vieuxcarrecafe.com. The Tired and True, We Still Dream, Lasting Era, Kid Nothing. Soundstage, 8 p.m., $6. 1008 Oak St., Conway.
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Arkansas Florist Association Annual Conference and Tradeshow. See Aug. 20.
sports
Ronald McDonald Golf Classic. This annual four-person benefit scramble kicks off with a reception on the 22nd at 6:30 p.m. Tee times are at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. on the 23rd. Find more information at bit. ly/9ftjt9. Pleasant Valley Country Club, Aug. 22-23. 1 Pleasant Valley Dr. 501-225-5622.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 23 music
Alan Storeygard CD Release. The Afterthought, 8 p.m., $8. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com. Gordon Lightfoot. Hot Springs Convention Center, 8 p.m., $40-$60. 134 Convention Boulevard, Hot Springs. 501-321-2027. www.hotsprings.org. Johnny Roberts and The Rebels. Crowne Plaza, 7 p.m., $75. 201 S. Shackelford Road. Richie Johnson. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com. Traditional Irish Music Session. Khalil’s Pub, Fourth and second Monday of every month, 7 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www. khalilspub.com.
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Dave Anderson. The photographer will discuss and display photos from his new book, “One Block,” a photo essay which follows the reconstruction efforts of a single block in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Clinton School of Public Service, 6 p.m., free. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5239. www.clintonschool.uasys.edu.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 24 music
Brian & Nick. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf. com. Colbie Caillat. Arkansas Music Pavillion, 7 p.m., $20-$75. 4201 North Shiloh Drive, Fayetteville. The Deadstring Brothers. Sticky Fingerz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $7. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m., free. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www. sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Karaoke Night. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 8 p.m. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub. com. Karaoke Tuesday. Prost, 8 p.m., free. 120 Ottenheimer. 501-244-9550. Karaoke with Big John Miller. Denton’s Trotline, 8 p.m. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717.
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THE UNIVERSE: TIME TRAVEL 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 19 The History Channel
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TRUCKIN’: Tyler Florence hosts ‘The Great Food Truck Race.’ — and this is a made-a-C-in-physics brain trying to encapsulate this here — it is apparently, theoretically possible; an idea that gives me great hope that I can someday go back to my high school prom and tell 17-year-old me that I split my pants before my date was able to spot my bloomers. Who knows what avoiding that ultimate humiliation will bring me? Presidency of the Federation of Planets, here I come! But, to get back to my point: The History Channel show “The Universe” has been one of my faves for awhile now, full of easilyunderstandable explanations of stuff that left guys like Newton and Einstein
scratching their heads for decades. Lively, interesting, intriguing and often downright amazing, the show is the cure for all those drowsy hours you spent listening to some seat-filler drone on about science in high school. If you haven’t seen it, check it out. If you forget, I’ll see about coming back to remind you someday.
THE GREAT FOOD TRUCK RACE 9 p.m. Sundays The Food Network n The influx of Latinos into Southwest Little Rock has brought a lot of great things into our lives: horchata, tortillas in bulk, and butchers capable of selling you a whole goat among them. The best bit of sunshine Latino entrepreneurs in that vibrant little corner of the city have brought me, however — and I’m just nasty-nice enough to be a bit shocked that I’m typing this sentence — is the Continued on page 30
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n I’ve never been one to preach decorum at a rock concert. Especially at a club. Those standing shouldn’t have to move for those seated. Crazy dancing, super fans who pantomime lyrics, off-key drunken sing-alongers — it’s all part of it. So is talking. People pay to see music, but also for the privilege of drinking with friends, which invariably involves gabbing loudly. But generally even the drunkest of crowds understands to keep the yelling to a minimum near the stage. Not last week at Sticky Fingerz. Even within a few feet of the stage, people were hollering to each other during the music. Which made Alabama singer/ songwriter AA Bondy, whose songs are often little more than gentle guitar strums and a whisper of voice, all but impossible to hear. Too bad, because what I could hear was pretty good. Sort of like Cat Power for dudes. Bondy’s got a spooky voice that stays drenched in reverb and a backing band (a percussionist/lap steel player and a bassist/keyboardist) that stays in the pocket. And he’s got a predilection, which I wouldn’t have guessed
BONDY: Better with a quiet crowd. from listening to his latest album, “When the Devil’s Loose,” for effects-pedal trickery. Loops and distortion mainly. The keyboard, lap steel and looped, distorted guitar all came together to make sweet
noise near the end of the set. I remember it being silent then, but I think that was just one of the rare times I managed to tune out the gabbin’. — Lindsey Millar
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Continued from page 23 Nightmare River Band, Mandy McBryde. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $7. 1300 S. Main St. 501-3721228. www.juanitas.com. Tequila Tuesdays with DJ Hy-C. Bill St. Grill and Pub, 8:30 p.m. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-353-1724. Tuesday Jam Session with Carl Mouton. The Afterthought, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com. Underclaire, White Glove Test, San Antokyo. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. 2500 W. 7th. 501-3758400. www.myspace.com/whitewatertavern.
Dance
“Latin Night.” Revolution, 7 p.m., $5 regular, $7 under 21. 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090. www.revroom.com.
events
Farmers Market. River Market Pavilions, 7 a.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info.
Dickey-Stephens Park, through Aug. 27, 7:10 p.m., $6-$12. 400 W Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-7559. www.travs.com.
THIS WEEK IN THEATER “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser. The Weekend Theater, Aug. 19-21, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 22, 2:30 p.m.; Aug. 26-28, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 29, 2:30 p.m., $14-$18. 1001 W. 7th St. 501-374-3761. www.weekendtheater.org. “Gridiron.” Arkansas lawyers, politicos and public figures are sent up in this musical comedy by the Arkansas Bar Association. Reception 6 p.m. opening night. Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 8 p.m.; Fri., Aug. 20, 7 and 9 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 21, 7 and 9 p.m., $60 opening night, $40-$35, $25 final performance. 601
Main St. 378-0405. www.therep.org.
MUSEUMS, GAllERIES New exhibits, gallery events ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey,” large-scale ceramic figures, Aug. 20-Nov. 28, Rockefeller and Wolfe galleries; “Degrees of Density: Selections from the Flatfiles of the Kentler International Drawing Space,” 54 contemporary drawings, through Aug. 22; “The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf,” through Aug. 22; “Currents in Contemporary Art,” “Masterworks,” “Paul Signac Watercolors and Drawings,” ongoing. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000. LAMAN LIBRARY ARGENTA BRANCH, 506 Main St.: Painting demonstration and jewelry sale by Marlene Gremillion 5-8 p.m. Aug. 20, Third Friday Argenta ArtWalk. 687-1061. K E T Z G A L L E RY , 705 Main St., NLR: “Summertime Blues,” first anniversary celebra-
tion show and sale of work by John Kushmaul, Rene Hein, Michael Lindas and others, 5-8 p.m. Aug. 20, Third Friday Argenta ArtWalk; also continuation of “View from the Road,” paintings by Tim Jacob. Portion of sales from anniversary show go to KABF blues programming. 529-6330. THEA FOUNDATION, 401 Main St.: “Classroom to Canvas: An Art Teacher Exhibition,” featuring the work of Jenny Delgado, Lori Kirchner, Erica Jewell and Ashley Robinson, reception 5-8 p.m. Aug. 20, Third Friday Argenta ArtWalk, with performance by classical guitarist Devin Matthews (6-7:30 p.m.); also work by Austin Grimes, Morgan Coven, Catherine Burton and Robin Steves in studios in THEArtists Gallery (2nd floor). 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 379-9512. n Jacksonville JACKSONVILLE MUSEUM OF MILITARY HISTORY, 100 Veterans Circle: “The Battle of Arkansas Post,” lecture by Mark Christ, doors open 6 p.m. Aug. 26, $2; exhibits on D-Day; F-105,
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Lectures
“Women’s Stories from the Middle East.” UCA Creative Writing Professor Garry Craig will read excerpts from his fictional stories and will discuss gender and culture conflicts in the Gulf. Faulkner County Library, 7 p.m. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www.fcl.org.
sports
Arkansas Travelers vs. Tulsa Drillers. Dickey-Stephens Park, Aug. 24-27, 7:10 p.m., $6-$12. 400 W Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-7559. www.travs.com.
Books
Phillip McMath. Local attorney and author Phillip McMath discusses his new book “The Broken Vase.” Arkansas Studies Institute, 6:30 p.m., free. 401 President Clinton Ave. 501-320-5792.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25 Music
Acoustic Open Mic with Kat Hood. The Afterthought, 8 p.m. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com. The Body, Iron Tongue. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $5. 1300 S. Main St. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas. com. Brian Martin. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. In Fear and Faith, Confide, Upon a Burning Body, The Curse Follows. The Village, 7 p.m., $8 adv., $10 d.o.s. 3915 S. University Ave. 501-5700300. www.thevillagelive.com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m., free. 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. Karaoke with Big John Miller. Denton’s Trotline, 8 p.m. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717. Lucious Spiller Band. Sticky Fingerz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com. The Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free. 111 W. President Clinton Ave. 501-3747474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Tony, Tim and Scott. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-3755351. www.cajunswharf.com. Zoogma. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9 p.m., $8. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226.
Matt Youngblood ’10 Matt Youngblood of Rogers, Ark., has always been skeptical about supporting charities. Is his money being well used? Is it really helping people? So when he volunteered for the One Million Lights Global Ambassador program, Matt went to South America and saw for himself the impact of his gifts. What he experienced was breathtaking and life changing. Your Hendrix Odyssey: Engaging in Active Learning helped fund the project that took Matt
and classmates Harmony Hudson and Katie Jones to Peru to distribute more than 100 solar powered lights to children without electricity. Their service more than 3,000 miles away, allowing children to study after dark, is literally brightening the world. Through Odyssey, Hendrix students are pursuing their passions around the globe. What will your Hendrix Odyssey be?
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Tommy Blaze. The Loony Bin, Aug. 25-26, 8 p.m.; Aug. 28, 8 and 10:30 p.m.; Aug. 29, 7, 9 and 11 p.m., $6-$9. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. www. loonybincomedy.com.
events
Arne Duncan. Education Secretary Duncan will discuss the status and future of public education in America. Clinton School of Public Service, 6 p.m., free. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5239. www.clintonschool.uasys.edu.
sports
Arkansas Travelers vs. Tulsa Drillers.
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Have you been to one you might also be able to make out Stroman’s of our stores?’ ” If you’re not familiar with Stroman’s, otherwise illegible motto: “Where you get much less what Yates calls its “obvious” what you want.” Since the first incarnation of the ad late appeal, the coyness of the enterprise is last year — simple black lettering on a white supposed to inspire you to visit one of the background — there have been six versions: furniture and appliance business’ eight “duh” topped with snow, “duh” with potted outlets. According to Yates, it’s working. flowers in the foreground, “duh” over a back- Tying sales to advertising is a rough science ground of what appears to be St. Augustine at best, but Yates said Stroman’s is up about Birthdays are a triumph cancer patients Birthdays are for a triumph for cancer patients Birthdays are a triumph for cancer patients grass, “duh” on a red-checkered tablecloth 15% from where it was last year. Moreover, and their families. 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Or call 1-800-227-2345. Together we’ll stay well, get well, find getcures well,and findfight curesback. and fight back. Those similarly get well, find cures and fight back. blunt “JESUS” billboards that dot the interstates might make a fitting analogue if it wasn’t so easy to reconcile their message and motive. But “duh”? DUH: It almost makes sense. Regardless of the background or your knowledge of Stroman’s, be, people calling to let the store know that it’s as clear as a Zen koan, a “what’s the sound they understand. The concept now comes in of one hand clapping?” by comparison. button form, which Yates said are collectors’ What’s more, it’s a mean paradox, daring you items. Newly, Stroman’s sells “duh” T-shirts to consider a deeper meaning while mocking for $10 a pop. They come in Chinese takeyou for not grasping the obvious significance out containers. Next up for the campaign: Yates is trying in the same glance. Or at least that’s what I thought after to stage a contest in Little Rock schools, months of mornings driving past one of the where kids submit a painting or drawing of 30 “duhs” throughout Central Arkansas. what’s obvious to them. “It’s nothing to do with us,” Yates said. Then I had lunch with Butler Yates, who, despite claiming that he merely “meanders “We’re the vehicle for them. I’m the guy that’s about” at Stroman’s; that he doesn’t have dumb enough to give away a billboard.” With “duh” and the Stroman’s logo on a title (his ex-wife is a Stroman; “she takes pity” by keeping him around, he said), and it of course. Finally, about those candles. Yates started that he’s a candle maker and not an ad man (more on that later), is clearly the driving making them after he wrote a book of medieval aphorisms (yep, you read that right) force behind the campaign. Yates’ brand of self-deprecation, genial several years back called “The Oculatum: A smugness and casual charm make him what Book of Great Insight for Those Who Wish I think of as British in the best way: He’s a to See.” You can buy his candles, which are good talker. And when he talks about “duh,” created by “ancient apothecary aromatics,” and the book at oculatum.com. The introducit almost makes sense. The trick, Yates said, was to figure tion to the book offers these words of prepaout a strategy where a small, locally ration: “it is of no consequence that the reader owned business could compete with big remember, understand or comprehend the companies that bombard consumers with phrase; it matters only that it be read.” At lunch, Yates mentioned that a fan of constant advertising. “How many times does a car company the campaign suggested a book component: tell you that you can save $12,000 this week, “The Tao of Duh.” Surely, it’s only a matter or ‘We’re going to shoot this kid. 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in Oakland). Plus, the receiving corps was led by sterling upperclassmen. So Petrino can’t wriggle completely off the hook. But here’s where the comparison can be truly instructive: The 2005 Louisville Cardinals offense was considerably better than the 2009 Arkansas squad in most major categories — efficiency, turnovers, total offense — and they still weren’t good enough to win the Big East championship. The Razorback offense has to improve dramatically in third down conversions and passing efficiency to compete for the conference championship, which I think is the most reasonable and attainable goal heading into this season. That inefficiency lost more games than the defense last year. It’s the flipside of explosiveness, when you light the fuse on a dud: a three-andout doesn’t conjure the same adrenalized charge as a 70-yard touchdown reception. Inefficiency leaves the defense unduly exposed, breaks the back of otherwise fine performances (See: the Florida game). It will do the same again, no matter how the numbers add up. Look: I think we’ll be better. I hope we’ll be better. I know we’ll be better. But in the strange case that we are not better, it isn’t hard to imagine how reasonable analysts might look back and say that, yes, Petrino regressed in his third year with the Razorbacks, but 1) He was competing in a division dominated by the national champion, filled to the brim with young, rebuilt programs suddenly reaching their potential, and 2) He was coaching for the first time without his little brother on the sidelines. What? You forgot about the departure of Paul Petrino? The nominal offensive coordinator who has been a part of every team his big brother has coached? The receivers coach on the other end of 3,842 passing yards last season? The guy until recently in charge of one of the most fearsome receiving corps in the country? The man whose absence on the sideline and at practice is bound to have some (likely negative) effect, at least in terms of mojo? You forgot about him already? That’s what unguarded optimism will do for you. Follow A Boy Named Sooie throughout the week at ArkansasExpats.com and on Twitter at @aboynamedsooie.
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pantheon of Gods. Near the top — if not the Zeus Chair — has to be the surrealist laughs of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, with guys like Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin sitting in judgment over all. Recent years have seen the installation of another light on the Mount Olympus of Laffs: The Kids in the Hall. Though most didn’t know what to make of The Kids when they came to America in the late 1980s — thoroughly Canadian, welcoming of gay themes, prone to dressing in drag and mostly averse to hammering recurring characters in the “Saturday Night Live” model — principal players Dave Foley, Scott Thompson, Kevin McDonald and Mark McKinney have grown on me quite a bit over the years, both as individuals and as a group. Wry, smart and always funny, they’re the comedy troupe that might even give Monty a run for their money when they’re hitting on all cylinders. This Friday night, IFC brings them back to American television for their first new comedy since their cult-fave show was cancelled some years back: “Death Comes to Town,” an eight-episode miniseries about death in a small town. Each episode will be 30 minutes, and IFC plans to run them back to back on Friday. Less sketch-comedy than The Kids’ television show of yore, but still chockfull of the surrealism and off-kilter humor the group is known for, “Death Comes to Town” revolves around what happens when The Grim Reaper comes (by bus, no less) to the small Canadian town of Shuckton, Ontario. One of the town’s bright lights is discovered murdered soon after, and a mystery of sorts unfolds. I’ll be watching. If you want some chuckles, hee-haws and belly-laughs, you will too. — David Koon
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THE BIG ONE: With an estimated 23,000 nuclear weapons in the world, the threat of mass destruction spurred by international tensions, failed governments, misplaced arms or, simply, misunderstandings and mistakes looms heavily over the world. In “Countdown to Zero,” the History Channel partners with the creators of “An Inconvenient Truth” to trace this history of the atomic bomb from its origins to its present-day threat to everyday life. Chenal 9, Rave and Lakewood listings were unavailable at press time. Visit www.arktimes. com for updates. Market Street Cinema showtimes at or after 9 p.m. are for Friday and Saturday only. NEW MOVIES Countdown to Zero (PG) – A history of the atomic bomb from its origins to its role in present-day global affairs. Market Street: 2:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:00. Lottery Ticket (PG-13) – A young man in the projects has to survive a three-day weekend after his neighbors find out he’s holding a lotto ticket worth millions. Breckenridge: 1:20, 4:10, 7:25, 9:55. Riverdale: 11:10, 1:25, 3:45, 6:00, 8:10, 10:20. Nanny McPhee Returns (PG) - The grotesque but magical British nanny is back to tame seven out of control brats. Breckenridge: 1:45, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50. Riverdale: 11:00, 1:20, 3:40, 6:05, 8:30. Piranha 3D (R) – When an underwater tremor frees scores of deadly piranhas, strangers must band together to save the beach. Breckenridge: 1:25, 4:35, 7:05, 9:20. The Switch (PG-13) – Seven years after she’s given birth, a woman discovers her best friend switched her intended sperm sample with his own. Breckenridge: 1:40, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10. Vampires Suck (PG-13) – Another spoof movie, this time lambasting the “Twilight” craze. Breckenridge: 1:35, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40. RETURNING THIS WEEK The A-Team (PG-13) — Four former Special Forces soldiers look to clear their name with the U.S. military after finding themselves framed and on the lam. Movies 10: 1:25, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45. Animalopolis (NR) — A half-hour film of goofy animals being goofy in enormous 3D. Aerospace IMAX: 11:00, 7:00 Fri.; 1:00, 3:00, 7:00 Sat. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (PG) — The never-ending war between canine and feline comes to a ceasefire when they have to join forces to defeat a rogue cat spy. Riverdale: 11:35, 1:45, 3:55, 5:55, 7:55, 9:55. Cyrus (R) – A recent divorcee falls in love, but has to deal with his new girlfriend’s clueless, co-dependent son. Market Street: 1:45, 4:00, 6:45, 9:00. Despicable Me (PG) — A skittish criminal mastermind hiding in the suburbs plans to steal the moon, if only he can keep three orphaned girls away. Riverdale: 11:20, 1:30, 3:35, 5:40, 7:45, 9:50.
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Dinner for Schmucks (PG-13) — A rising executive finds the perfect dinner mate in a clumsy, dimwitted IRS agent. Breckenridge: 6:55, 9:30. Riverdale: 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30. Eat Pray Love (PG-13) – A woman takes an eating tour of the world after her marriage ends. Breckenridge: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00. Riverdale: 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 9:15. The Expendables (R) – Action’s biggest names band together in this movie about a gang of hired mercenaries out to overthrow a South American dictator. Breckenridge: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45. Riverdale: 11:05, 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:10, 10:20. I Am Love (R) — Turn of the millennium Milan sees the fall of the bourgeoisie. Market Street: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:00. Inception (PG-13) — A corporate spy enters competitors’ dreams to extract company secrets in this surrealist revision of heist films. Breckenridge: 1:30, 4:40, 7:50. Riverdale: 12:20, 3:25, 6:30, 9:30. Iron Man 2 (PG-13) — The libertine superhero returns, facing off with an evil Russian copycat, an old rival and the government. Movies 10: 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55. The Karate Kid (PG) — A reboot of the 1985 classic sees the Kid as a Detroit-transplant in China, learning kung fu from the hand of his apartment maintenance man. Movies 10: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00. Killers (PG-13) — Years after an undercover assassin settles down in the suburbs, he and his wife discover a plot to kill him. Movies 10: 1:45, 4:05, 7:15, 9:35. Knight and Day (PG-13) — When a spy realizes he wasn’t supposed to survive his last assignment, he teams with an unassuming stranger to escape. Movies 10: 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50. The Living Sea (NR) — An underwater tour of Palau, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Alaska, Nova Scotia and the Red Sea. Aerospace Imax: 10:00, 12:00, 2:00 (Thu.); 10:00, 12:00, 2:00, 7:00, 9:00 (Fri.); 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 7:00 (Sat.). Marmaduke (PG) — The funny pages’ Great Dane turns his family’s cross-country move into a never-ending series of disasters. Movies 10: 1:15, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:10. The Other Guys (PG-13) — Two polar opposite policemen in the NYPD take the chance to work with the street smart cops they idolize, but things go downhill fast. Breckenridge: 1:05, 4:45, 7:05, 9:20. Riverdale: 11:25, 1:50, 4:15, 6:40, 9:05. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (PG-13) — A prince must band with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a deadly, magical sandstorm. Movies 10: 1:10, 2:10, 3:45,
5:00, 6:30, 7:40, 9:05, 10:15. Ramona and Beezus (G) — Beverly Cleary’s famous Quimby sisters go through misadventures and mistakes to save their family. Breckenridge: 1:10, 4:05, 6:50, 9:25. Restrepo (R) – This Golden Rock-winner in the last Little Rock Film Festival takes the camera along for one year in Afghanistan’s deadliest valley. Market Street: 2:15, 4:20, 7:00, 9:15. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (PG-13) – A young musician must defeat his new girlfriend’s seven evil exes to win her over in this video game-inspired romantic comedy. Breckenridge: 1:50, 4:55, 7:40, 10:15. Riverdale: 11:15, 1:55, 4:25, 7:05, 9:40. Shrek Forever After (PG) — The final movie of the series has the ogre stuck in Far Far Away, in which ogres are hunted and Rumpelstiltskin is king. Movies 10: 1:05, 2:05, 3:20, 4:20, 5:35, 6:40, 7:50, 9:00, 10:05. Toy Story 3 (G) — Donated to a daycare center after their owner leaves for college, the beloved gang of toys rallies together for one last escape. Breckenridge: 1:55, 4:25. Thrill Ride (NR) — This IMAX movie takes viewers on some of the fastest, scariest roller coaster rides on earth. Aerospace IMAX: 1:00 (Thu.); 1:00, 8:00 (Fri.); 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 8:00 (Sat.). Wildfire: Feel the Heat (NR) — Discover how firefighters all over the planet fight the biggest, hottest fires on the planet. Aerospace IMAX: 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 8:00 (Sat.). Winter’s Bone (R) — A 17-year-old girl tracks her deadbeat father through the Ozarks after he abandons his family. 2010 winner of LRFF’s Golden Rock award. Market Street: 2:00, 4:20, 7:15, 9:20. Chenal 9 IMAX Theatre: 17825 Chenal Parkway, 821-2616, www.dtmovies.com. Cinemark Movies 10: 4188 E. McCain Blvd., 945-7400, www.cinemark.com. Cinematown Riverdale 10: Riverdale Shopping Center, 296-9955, www.riverdale10.com. IMAX Theater: Aerospace Education Center, 376-4629, www.aerospaced.org. Market Street Cinema: 1521 Merrill Drive, 312-8900, www.marketstreetcinema.net. Rave Colonel Glenn 18: 18 Colonel Glenn Plaza, 687-0499, www.ravemotionpictures.com. Regal Breckenridge Village 12: 1-430 and Rodney Parham, 224-0990, www.fandango.com. Dickinson Theaters Lakewood 8: Lakewood Village, 758-5354, www.fandango.com.
■ moviereview Sex and the sightseer
Richard Jenkins, almost reprising his role as the spectral irreverent-advice-doling father in “Six Feet Under.” Richard elects himself as Liz’s bullish life coach, encouraging her to just “deal.” Between Richard’s gift-shop platitudes and semi-tragic personal history and the plight of a young Brahmin girl who’s betrothed to a man she hardly knows, Liz begins to reconcile her relationships by re-imagining them. While much of the camera work and imagery is uninspired early, once the film reaches Calcutta, Liz’s memory-hallucinations capture the break-up recovery evocatively.
But onto Bali. There, Liz revisits the medicine man that first predicted her life change. She meditates every morning in an open-air cabana straight from a fashion magazine shoot. She befriends a domesticabuse-surviving single mother who tends her wounds (literally). And then Javier Bardem enters as an accidental suitor, rounding out our tour of quixotic browneyed men. There are moments of “Eat Pray Love” that come across as glossily as a magazine travel spread, but those superficialities are tempered by an earnest probing into the dynamics of a relationship, like a more ambitious, lady version of “High Fidelity,” minus the mix tapes — but then, Javier Bardem appears, bringing those sappy mix tapes along with him. A lot of women will view this movie as a reflective life-lesson. Others will argue that the bourgeois notion of traveling abroad to “find one’s self” is about little more than escaping one’s comfort zone. Either way, there are enough lush visuals (in both man and landscape) and digestible cultural relativism to make for an amusing jaunt through rom-com land. — Natalie Elliott
ciative barrage: “Batman”-style splashes of “ZAP!” and “POW!”; vanquished villains dissolving into piles of coins, with corresponding points; strength ratings for characters; an extra life gained (and used) by our hero. Even a trip to the bathroom is re-imagined with arcade graphics. All of the zippy chop cuts lend otherwise missing speed and movement to the lives of the film’s young losers. The characters seem half asleep (one thinks of the zombies from Wright’s earlier film “Shaun of the Dead”), emotionally decomposing into their second-hand furniture in the casually mannered malaise of half-clever slackers. Sample exchange: “This is gonna suck.” “At least it will give us something to complain about.” If the characters are slack, the film decidedly isn’t: In the long hot months of crappy summer movies, there is undeniable joy in the sheer surprise of a project this committed to its own mischievous instincts. Once you settle in to the hijinks, however, it’s hard not to grow disappointed with the story itself. Structurally, the film mixes fantastical style with humdrum drama in a manner that promises some allegorical punch: Imagine a teeny-bopper magical realism in which an imagined universe of cartoon dragons and kung-fu showdowns accents and complicates real human emotions. Unfortunately, the stakes in “Pilgrim’s” real world never rise to anywhere near the fevered pitch of the fantasy. For a movie so steeped in emo culture, there is a total void when it comes to actual emotion. The love stories fall flat — it’s difficult to care about characters who don’t
care about anything themselves. “Pilgrim” might have been a psychedelic “Breakfast Club” or an 8-bit “Annie Hall”; instead it’s just mild pixilated fun. Part of the trouble is Cera’s protagonist. After a while, his solipsistic crybaby routine — massively oversensitive but indifferent to the feelings of others — is just grating and mean. If Scott Pilgrim is facing off against the world, I’m rooting for the world. I’m guessing that the bet here was on Cera’s basic likeability, and he gamely stammers in his trademark wilting falsetto, but I’m afraid that the charms of his infantilized self-deprecation have passed their shelf life. If the story lacks heart, it also lacks the satiric bite of Wright’s previous work, riotous send-ups of zombie and cop movies set in his native England. Those films smartly tweak both the genres and the middle-class manners of their milieu; “Pilgrim” settles for wish fulfillment for its hipsters, right down to the covert misogyny of sex-averse indie culture. Gender dynamics in the film: females — endlessly patient, fundamentally kind, alluringly sweet, great outfits, acerbic humor, intelligent, wise, long suffering, hot but pure as Canadian snow. Males — weepy. Pilgrim’s quest in the film is to gain the self respect to believe that he’s good enough for the girls he likes, but one is forced to conclude that, in fact, he’s not. Am I just being no fun? Probably. But if Scott Pilgrim is allowed to dream up a world where he wins the girl by vanquishing a league of evil exes, allow me to dream up a film with characters that pop as richly as its cinematic tricks. — David Ramsey
Julia Roberts globe hops in ‘Eat Pray Love.’ n Apparently, there’s another demographic of the careerist, self-aware independent woman. You know, not the one that sleeps with every eligible bachelor in the greater metropolitan area and swaps stories about it with her besties over flirtinis. Rather, the kind who’s actually just looking for love without the misadventure. Author Elizabeth Gilbert, played in this film adaptation of her fantastically successful memoir, “Eat Pray Love,” by a buoyant Julia Roberts, is the poster girl for this latter type. After returning from a travel-writing trip to Indonesia, “Liz” gives up a fecklessly cute man-boy husband (Billy Crudup) and a copasetic but ill-suited May-December lover (James Franco) in search of “herself.” Heeding the portents of an elderly medicine man she met in Bali months prior, she leaves New York to understand why she’s so professionally successful but so
romantically bereft. Despite the magnificence of Rome, the first portion of the film feels like something we’ve seen before — “Under The Tuscan Sun II” maybe — but with fewer male companions. Liz’s dallying around Italy is captured in a tired montage of eating, wine “therapy” and gelato spooning, set to music that sounds like off-brand Burt Bacharach. A particularly low point is a scene where Liz sits down to tackle a plate of spaghetti, in a sauce-sucking farce better suited for a stain-remover ad than anything that should pass as a “hilarious female food indulgence” sequence in a romcom. But once Liz visits Calcutta to study under a guru, the film starts to get more realistic. Neurotic city Liz can’t seem to shut her mind off enough to meditate. She unwillingly befriends the show-stealing Richard from Texas, played by the fantastic
‘SCOTT PILGRIM’: Michael Cera stars.
■ moviereview ‘Scott Pilgrim’ v. himself A good concept gets undone by an unlikable protagonist. n The eponymous hero of “Scott Pilgrim v. The World,” played by Michael Cera, is a bassist in a crappy band who lives in a crappy apartment in Toronto and is still heartbroken over a breakup from more than a year ago. He wears tight-fitting thrift-store T-shirts and plays video games. His employment is oblique. So far, so Cera — who has become the Hugh Grant of the sort of modern indie rom-coms that feature cool rock soundtracks, heartsick boys and sassy girls, and lots of awkward stuttering. But this story has a snappy conceit: What if Scott’s so called life is re-cast as an epic old-school video game adventure? When he falls for the new girl in town, a mysterious punk-
rock scenester with big sheepish eyes and cotton-candy-colored hair, it turns out that in order to date her he has to defeat her seven evil ex-lovers via surreal battles, all lovingly filmed in a madcap, fantasycomic-gamer pastiche. Like levels in a video game! Awesome! “Pilgrim” is based on a graphic novel series by Canadian comic-book artist Bryan Lee O’Malley, and director Edgar Wright pulls off a mesmerizing job of transporting the antic energy and dream logic of graphic narratives to film. Time and physical space jilt and jolt, as one vibrant set piece after another flashes by in horizontal motion. Gimmicks from the world of cartoons, comics and video games fly by in a disso-
‘EAT PRAY LOVE’: Javier Bardem and Julia Roberts star.
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experience King Biscuit (doesn’t that sound so much better than the “Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival”?): 1. Get a room at a casino or nearby hotel. 2. Camp for $50. 3. Drive back and forth. But all have problems. Number one requires you to plan ahead. Good luck booking a room anywhere near the fest now. Number two means camping in the early fall heat with a bunch of drunks. And number three means you can’t enjoy too many tall cold ones with your turkey leg on the levee and be assured of getting home safely. This year, the Times has conceived a fourth way: The Arkansas Times Blues Bus. We’re chartering a touring bus to haul blues fans to and from Helena-West Helena on Saturday, Oct. 9. We’ll leave at 10 a.m. from our offices downtown, stop at Craig’s in DeValls Bluff for some barbecue on the way and get to the concert in time to catch the afternoon performers
n More details are emerging about “Voices for Justice,” the rally for the West Memphis 3 we told you about last week. Most crucially, organizers have moved the Aug. 28 rally, initially scheduled at the Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church, to Robinson Center Music Hall. And they’ve lowered the ticket prices to $25. The line-up includes Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, The Dixie Chicks’ Natalie Maines, QQUMC’s Rev. Thompson Murray and members of Arkansas Take Action. Vedder, Maines and other “special guests” are slated to perform acoustically. And new video messages from Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley are slated to be unveiled. “ ‘Voices for Justice’ will not only bring awareness to the case, but it will also be a chance for supporters to reflect and collectively send love and support to Damien, Jason and Jessie,” Echols’s wife Lorri Davis said in a press release. Tickets went on-sale yesterday via Ticketmaster outlets and at the Celebrity Attractions ticket office. Tickets are not tax deductible. TAJ MAHAL: Headlines the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival. You can catch a ride to go n There are typically three ways to see him via the Arkansas Times Blues Bus.
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Continued from page 27 Love” themed exhibition. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 501-624-0489. FOX PASS POTTERY, 379 Fox Pass Cut-off: Pottery by Jim and Barbara Larkin. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 501-623-9906. GALLERY 726, 726 Central Ave.: Caryl Joy Young, acrylics and pastels, through August. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 501-624-7726. GALLERY CENTRAL, 800 Central Ave.: Sandy Hubler, paintings, and work by other Hot Springs artists. 501-318-4278. HOT SPRINGS CONVENTION CENTER, 134 Convention Blvd.: “Hot Springs: A Journey Through History,” photos. Open daily. 501-321-2027. JUSTUS FINE ART, 827 A Central Ave.: “Art Studies,” small studies along with final works by Robin Hazard-Bishop, Donnie Copeland, Hugh Dunnahoe, Dolores Justus and Steve Griffith; also work by Kari Albright, Michael Ashley, Elizabeth Borne, Cynthia Bowers, Mike Elsass, Robert Frank, Robyn Horn, Tony Saladino, Rebecca Thompson, and others, through August. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 501-321-2335. LINDA PALMER GALLERY, 800 B Central Ave.: 34 AUGUST 19, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES
Linda Palmer, Doyle Young, Ellen Alderson, Peter Lippincott, Sara Tole and Jan Leek. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 501-620-3063. RICIANO ART GALLERY, 833 Central Ave.: Riciano, Lacey Riciano and other artists. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. daily. 501-339-3751. TAYLOR’S CONTEMPORANEA, 204 Exchange St.: Area and regional artists. 624-0516. WILLOUGHBY HOUSE, 1250 Central Ave.: Angie Stickels, pottery, through August. 501-625-7338. n Lake Village GUACHOYA CULTURAL ART CENTER, 1652 Hwy. 65 & 82 South: “Delta Ladies Exhibit,” multimedia by Kathy Davis Day, pottery by Rebecca Potter and Delta landscapes by Shelby Nunnery, through Aug. 27. 1-6 p.m. Tue., Thu., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri. 870-265-6077. n Pine Bluff ARTS AND SCIENCE CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS, 701 Main St.: “Pine Bluff Art League,” annual juried show, through Oct. 23; “GPS: Mapping Arkansas,” children’s science exhibit, through Sept. 27. 870-536-3375. n Springdale ARTS CENTER OF THE OZARKS, 215 S. Main St.:, McCuistion-Matthews and Smith galleries. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 479-7515441.
and, later, the great Taj Mahal. On the way down, Little Rock’s blues standard-bearer Bluesboy Jag will get us in the mood with a performance in the bus. The en route booze situation is BYOB whatever you squeeze into your seat area. There’ll be a bathroom on board. Publisher Alan Leveritt and A&E editor Lindsey Millar are riding along. Max Brantley said he’s definitely not going, but maybe if we crow loud enough we can get him TREME CO-CREATOR: Eric Overmyer to change his mind. (right) spoke to a big crowd at the Clinton Tickets, which, again, include a School last Wednesday. ride to and fro, the en route concert, Now that his character’s been killed off, lunch at Craig’s and a VIP ticket to the Overmyer said Goodman had so much concert, are $99. Charge by phone (all fun on the show that he’d e-mailed credit cards accepted) at 501-375-2985 or mail a check or money order to Arkansas Overmyer recently, saying, “I’ve lost Times Blues Bus, Box 34010, Little a ton of weight. I look like a totally Rock, AR 72203. different person. I’ll grow a mustache and I can come back as [his character] n More to look forward to: Black Creighton’s brother.” Rebel Motorcycle Club is coming to Most entertainingly, Overmyer Revolution on Friday, Sept. 24. reported that the scene with Elvis Costello and Steve Zahn in the bar watching Kermit n Eric Overmyer, the co-creator of Ruffins was born from legions of stories “Treme,” talked to a packed house of really famous people — Mick Jagger, at the Clinton School last Wednesday. Keith Richards, Tom Cruise, Nicole Once “The Wire” scribe and “Treme” Kidman — making the pilgrimage to co-creator got sufficiently mic-ed and Vaughan’s in the Bywater to see him and quit mumbling it was fantastic. his always failing to recognize them. The And newsy: Overmyer revealed that best story along those lines Overmyer next season of “Treme” will jump a year told had Ruffins and his band going to in the future from where last season Houston to open for Willie Nelson. After left off and focus on crime, the police their set, Kermit and co. walked into an force, New Orleans’ severely troubled alley for a “safety meeting,” which is to public school system and the disappearsay, they walked out for a joint. From ance of federal aid dollars to the city. somewhere nearby, Willie spotted the Other tidbits: Overmyer said when he weed circle and joined it. After a little bit and David Simon initially pitched to John of puff-puff-passing, he got called away, Goodman a starring role in the show, he and after he was gone, Ruffins asked said yes immediately (he has a house in his mates who that “cool-ass old white New Orleans), but only for one season. dude was.”
n Yellville P.A.L. FINE ART GALLERY, 300 Hwy. 62 W: Mother-daughter show of paintings and drawings by Beth and Heather Ivens, work by Sandy Barksdale, through August. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 870-4056316.
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ARKANSAS INLAND MARITIME MUSEUM, NLR: Tours of the USS Razorback submarine. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Wed.-Sat., 1-6 p.m. Sun. 371-8320. 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.: “Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters,” interactive displays and animation on earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes and tornadoes from the Field Museum, through Sept. 6; standing exhibits about policies and White House life during the Clinton administration. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $7 adults; $5 college students, seniors, retired military; $3 ages 6-17. 370-8000. HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM, 200 E. Third St.: “Aspects of Abstraction,” paintings by Donnie
Copeland, sculpture by Gene Sparling, through Oct. 31; “You Fit into Me: Works by David Carpenter and Lindsey Maestri,” through Sept. 5; “Unprivate Mail: Arkansas Postcards and Cryptic Messages,” through Sept. 26. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $2.50 adults, $1.50, $1 children for tours of grounds. 324-9351. MacARTHUR MUSEUM OF ARKANSAS MILITARY HISTORY, MacArthur Park: “Warrior: Vietnam Portraits by Two Guys from Hall,” photos by Jim Guy Tucker and Bruce Wesson, through November; exhibits on Arkansas’s military history. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat., 1-4 p.m. Sun. 376-4602. MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, Ninth and Broadway: Exhibits on African-Americans in Arkansas, including one on the Ninth Street business district, Dunbar High School, entrepreneurs, the Mosaic Templars business and more. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 683–3593. MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY, 500 President Clinton Ave.: “Alice’s Wonderland,” science and math exhibit for ages 3 to 10, through Sept. 15; interactive science exhibits. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. Admission: $8 adults, $7 children ages 1-12 and seniors 65 and up, children under 1 free, “Pay What You Can” second Sunday of every month. 396-7050. www.museumofdiscovery.org.
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4 SQUARE GIFTS Vegetarian salads, soups, wraps and paninis and a daily selection of desserts in an Arkansas products gift shop. 405 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-291-1796. L Mon.-Sat. D Mon.-Fri. APPLE SPICE JUNCTION A chain sandwich and salad spot with sit-down lunch space and a vibrant box lunch catering business. With a wide range of options and quick service. Order online via applespice.com. 2000 S. University Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-663-7008. ARKANSAS BURGER CO. Good burgers, fries and shakes, plus salads and other entrees. Try the cheese dip. 7410 Cantrell Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-6630600. LD Tue.-Sat. ASHLEY’S Little Rock’s premier fine dining restaurant. 111 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$$-$$$$. 501-374-7474. BLD Mon.-Sat. BR Sun. BONEFISH GRILL A half-dozen or more types of fresh fish filets are offered daily at this upscale chain. 11525 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-228-0356. D daily. BRAVE NEW RESTAURANT The food’s great, portions huge, prices reasonable. Diners can look into the open kitchen and watch the culinary geniuses at work slicing and dicing and sauteeing. It’s great fun, and the fish is special. 2300 Cottondale Lane. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-6632677. LD Mon.-Fri. D Sat. BUFFALO WILD WINGS A sports bar on steroids with numerous humongous TVs and a menu full of thirst-inducing items. The wings, which can be slathered with one of 14 sauces, are the staring attraction and will undoubtedly have fans. 14800 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-8685279. LD daily. BURGER MAMA’S Big burgers and oversized onion rings headline the menu at this down home joint. Huge $5 margaritas during happy hour. 10721 Kanis Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-225-2495. LD daily. BY THE GLASS A broad but not ridiculously large list is
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Press 1 provides cozy atmosphere, great pizza. n When you think about pizza and Little Rock, there are a few longtime favorites that come immediately to mind. You might think Larry’s for lunch, Damgoode for dinner, Iriana’s for the ranch dressing, ZaZa’s for something a little more gourmet or Pizza Cafe if the weather’s nice. But there are other joints that are perhaps a little less well known. Like Press 1’s Pizza in Sherwood. In terms of taste, Press 1’s fits in the hierarchy of local pizza places somewhere between Damgoode and U.S. Pizza. In terms of atmosphere it’s fairly unique. Located just off JFK Boulevard, it’s situated in a log cabin-looking structure that reminds you more of grandma’s house than a Pizza Hut. Tacked to the walls are newspaper clippings of old reviews, family pictures of smiling little kids and various other knickknacks. The night we visited, the big-screen was tuned in to the baseball game. In cooler times, the porch outside would be just about perfect. It’s covered and there’s plenty of picnic-style seating. A great place to enjoy a cold pitcher of beer, but not in August. There’s a lot on the menu: sandwiches, salads and pizzas. Racked with indecision, we figured an appetizer might go perfectly with our pitcher of cheap beer and tide us over until dinner came. We went with the cheese sticks, which come in orders of two ($2.75) or four ($4.75). Two will do the trick for two people. These don’t come fried like cheese sticks so often do. Rather, they’re breadsticks sliced longways, filled with gooey mozzarella and served with a side of marinara, similar to what you’ll find at a U.S. Pizza. If cheese sticks aren’t your thing, Press 1 also has chips and salsa ($6.95), chicken wings (six for $5.95; 12 for $10.95), pizza crust topped with garlic butter and mozzarella ($5.45) or nachos ($6.95). Appetizers are all well and good, but you go to a pizza place because you want a pizza. There are plenty to choose from here: The menu offers a host of specialty pizzas including south-of-the-border chicken, artichoke and roasted garlic or a vegetable medley. The 10-inch Italy’s Favorite ($13.95, $17.95 for the 12) sounded good to us. Garlic, chicken, spinach, jalapenos and spicy tomatoes sit on top of an olive oil and alfredo sauce. It’s smothered with feta, Parmesan, pepper jack and mozzarella cheese. The heft of this beast is something to behold. For a second we just stared at the cheese-covered heap, wondering how we ever thought we could eat the 12-inch version.
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n Boulevard Bread is moving its baked and catering productions from its Heights flagship to a new location on South Main Street. The 2,000 squarefoot space, at 1417 Main St., will also include a small storefront that will offer baked goods, coffee drinks and grocery items, but not the salad, sandwich and soup options found at other Boulevard locations. Owner Christina McGehee said last week she hopes to be in the new location by the first of next year. The move will allow Boulevard in the Heights to offer expanded service down the road, such as multiple dinner specials, more grab-and-go and expanded seating, McGehee said.
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LOADED: Press 1’s Italy’s Favorite (above) isn’t shy on toppings. The cheese sticks come packed with mozzarella. T h e c r u st i s fairly thick, what most places might call hand-tossed, but it wasn’t near strong enough to support the weight of what was baked on top of it. You’ll have to eat this one with a fork. It’s topped with a rich white sauce, a nice compliment to the spicy jalapeno peppers. And the cheese, oh man, the cheese. There’s plenty of it here, but you could taste the distinct flavor of each kind. There was enough mozzarella to make our table look like an old-school pizza commercial where the stringy-cheese never breaks from pan to plate. Our pie, piled up with toppings and baked brown around the edges, tasted like something you’d make at home. A couple of pieces each and we had to call it quits. The leftovers, however, made for great lunches throughout the rest of the week. In subsequent trips we tried the fourcheese ($11.95, $15.95) and the supreme ($13.95, $17.95). The four-cheese is topped with Parmesan, feta, cheddar and mozzarella. The combination was flavorful, if a little rich. This particular pie comes drizzled in olive oil and topped in “spicy tomatoes,” which works well in the place of your standard marinara, although we might just as well have the latter.
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The supreme was about what you’d expect, done well. The toppings aren’t gourmet but they work well together. Combine them with a healthy dose of cheese and a solid crust and this pizza was definitely one of our favorites and one that will keep us coming back.
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Restaurant capsules Continued from page 37 studded with interesting, diverse selections, and prices are uniformly reasonable. The food focus is on high-end items that pair well with wine – olives, hummus, cheese, bread, and some meats and sausages. 5713 Kavanaugh Blvd. Beer, Wine, All CC. 501-663-9463. D Mon.-Sat. CAFE HEIFER Paninis, salads, soups and such in the Heifer Village. With one of the nicest patios in town. 1 World Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-907-8801. BL Mon.-Fri., L Sat. CAPI’S Sophisticated yet friendly, the latest offering from the folks who created Trio’s features easy to share small bites in larger than expected portions. 11525 Cantrell Suite 917. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-225-9600. LD Tue.-Sun. CAPITAL BAR AND GRILL Big hearty sandwiches, daily lunch specials and fine evening dining all rolled up into one at this landing spot downtown. Surprisingly inexpensive with a great bar staff and a good selection of unique desserts. 111 W. President Clinton Ave. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-3747474. LD daily. CAPITOL BISTRO Formerly a Sufficient Grounds, now operated by Lisa and Tom Drogo, who moved from Delaware. They offer breakfast and lunch items, including quiche, sandwiches, coffees and the like. 1401 W. Capitol Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-371-9575. BL Mon.-Fri. CATFISH HOLE Downhome place for well-cooked catfish and tasty hushpuppies. 603 E. Spriggs. NLR. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-758-3516. D Tue.-Sat. CHEEBURGER CHEEBURGER Premium black Angus cheeseburgers, with five different sizes, ranging from the Classic (5.5 ounces) to the pounder (20 ounces), and nine cheese options. For sides, milkshakes and golden-fried onion rings are the way to go. 11525 Cantrell Rd. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-490-2433. LD daily. CIAO BACI The focus is on fine dining in this casually elegant Hillcrest bungalow, though tapas are also available, and many come for the comfortable lounge that serves specialty drinks until 2 a.m. nightly. 605 N. Beechwood St. Full bar, All CC. $$$-$$$$. 501-603-0238. D Mon.-Sat. COCK OF THE WALK Yes, the chicken and shrimp are great, but go for the unbeatable catfish. Plus, we say the slaw is the world’s best, 7051 Cock of the Walk Lane. Maumelle. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-758-7182. D daily. L Sun. CRAZEE’S COOL CAFE Good burgers, daily plate specials and bar food amid pool tables and TVs. 7626 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. (501) 221-9696. LD Mon.-Sat. DIVERSION Hillcrest wine bar with diverse tapas menu. From the people behind Crush and Bill St. 2611 Kavanaugh Blvd., Suite 200. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-414-0409. D Mon.-Sat. DOE’S EAT PLACE A skid-row dive turned power brokers’ watering hole with huge steaks, great tamales and broiled shrimp, and killer burgers at lunch. 1023 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-376-1195. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. DOUBLETREE PLAZA BAR & GRILL The lobby restaurant in the Doubletree is elegantly comfortable, but you’ll find no airs put on at heaping breakfast and lunch buffets. 424 West Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-372-4311. BLD daily. DOWNTOWN DELI A locally owned eatery, with bigger sandwiches and lower prices than most downtown chain competitors. Also huge, loaded baked potatoes, soups and salads. 323 Center St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-3723696. BL Mon.-Fri. DUB’S HAMBURGER HEAVEN A standout dairy bar. The hamburger, onion rings and strawberry milkshake make a meal fit for kings. 6230 Baucum Pike. NLR. No alcohol, No CC. $-$$. 501-955-2580. BLD daily. EJ’S EATS AND DRINKS The friendly neighborhood hoagie shop downtown serves at a handful of tables and by delivery. The sandwiches are generous, the soup homemade and the salads cold. Vegetarians can craft any number of acceptable meals from the flexible menu. The housemade potato chips are da bomb. 523 Center St. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-3700. LD Mon.-Fri. FIVE GUYS BURGERS & FRIES Nationwide burger chain with emphasis on freshly made fries and patties. 2923 Lakewood Village Dr. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-246-5295. LD daily. 13000 Chenal Parkway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-225-1100. LD daily. FLYING FISH The fried seafood is fresh and crunchy and there are plenty of raw, boiled and grilled offerings, too. The hamburgers are a hit, too. It’s self-service; wander on through the screen door and you’ll find a slick team of cooks and servers doing a creditable job of serving big crowds. 511 President Clinton Ave. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-3753474. LD daily. FRONTIER GRILL The well-attended all-you-can-eat buffet includes American, Mexican and Chinese food. 2924 University Ave. $-$$. 501-568-7776. LD. GRUMPY’S TOO Music venue and sports bar with lots of TVs, pub grub and regular drink specials. 1801 Green Mountain Drive. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-225-9650. LD Mon.-Sat. HOMER’S Great vegetables, huge yeast rolls and killer cobblers. Follow the mobs. 2001 E. Roosevelt Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-374-1400. BL Mon.-Fri. THE HOUSE A comfortable gastropub in Hillcrest, where
you’ll find traditional fare like burgers and fish and chips alongside Thai green curry and gumbo. 722 N. Palm St. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-4501. LD daily. JIMMY’S SERIOUS SANDWICHES Consistently fine sandwiches, side orders and desserts. Chicken salad’s among the best in town. Get there early for lunch. 5116 W. Markham St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-3354. L Mon.-Sat. KRAZY MIKE’S Po’Boys, catfish and shrimp and other fishes, fried chicken wings and all the expected sides served up fresh and hot to order on demand. 200 N. Bowman Road. Beer, All CC. $$. 501-907-6453. LD daily. LOCA LUNA Grilled meats, seafood and pasta dishes that never stray far from country roots, whether Italian, Spanish or Arkie. “Gourmet plate lunches” are good, as is Sunday brunch. 3519 Old Cantrell Rd. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-4666. L Sun.-Fri., D daily. LUBY’S CAFETERIA Generous portions of home-style food and a wider variety of meats and vegetables than most cafeterias. McCain Mall, 3929 McCain Blvd. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-771-4911. LD daily. LULAV A Mediterranean-California fusion eatery, and the delicious flavors are like none you’ll experience anywhere in the city. Good fish, veal, daring salads and much more. Plus, a hot bar to see and be seen. 220 A W. 6th St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-374-5100. L Mon.-Fri., D Tue.-Sat. MILFORD TRACK Healthy and tasty are the key words at this deli/grill, featuring hot entrees, soups, sandwiches, salads and killer desserts. 10809 Executive Center Drive, Searcy Building. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-223-2257. BL Mon.-Sat. NEW GREEN MILL CAFE A small workingman’s lunch joint, with a dependable daily meat-and-three and credible corn bread for cheap, plus sweet tea. Homemade tamales and chili on Tuesdays. 8609-C W. Markham St. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-225-9907. L Mon.-Sat. OYSTER BAR Gumbo, red beans and rice (all you can eat on Mondays), peel-and-eat shrimp, oysters on the half shell, addictive po’ boys. 3003 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-7100. LD Mon.-Sat. OZARK COUNTRY KITCHEN Football-sized omelets filled with the same marvelous smoked meats and cheeses that are heaped on sandwiches at lunch. Great biscuits and gravy, bacon, homestyle potatoes and a daily plate lunch special to boot. 202 Keightley Drive. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-7319. BL Mon.-Fri., B Sat.-Sun. PURPLE COW DINER 1950s fare — cheeseburgers, chili dogs, thick milk shakes — in a ’50s setting at today’s prices. Also at 11602 Chenal Parkway. 8026 Cantrell Road. Beer, All CC. $$. 501-221-3555. LD daily, B Sat.-Sun 11602 Chenal Parkway. Beer, All CC. $$. 501-224-4433. LD daily, B Sun. 1419 Higden Ferry Road. Hot Springs. Beer, All CC. $$. 501-625-7999. LD daily, B Sun. SALUT! Elevated pub grub that’s served late Wed.-Sat. With a great patio. 1501 N. University. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-660-4200. L Mon.-Fri., D Tue.-Sat. SCALLION’S Reliably good food, great desserts, pleasant atmosphere, able servers — a solid lunch spot. 5110 Kavanaugh Blvd. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-6468. L Mon.-Sat. SHORTY SMALL’S Land of big, juicy burgers, massive cheese logs, smoky barbecue platters and the signature onion loaf. 1100 N. Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-224-3344. LD daily 1475 Hogan Lane. Conway. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-764-0604. LD daily. SONNY WILLIAMS’ STEAK ROOM Steaks, chicken and seafood in a wonderful setting in the River Market. Steak gets pricey, but the lump crab meat au gratin appetizer is outstanding. Give the turtle soup a try. 500 President Clinton Ave. Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-324-2999. D Mon.-Sat. STAGECOACH GROCERY AND DELI Fine po’ boys and muffalettas — and cheap. 6024 Stagecoach Road. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-455-4157. BL daily. D Mon.-Fri. STOUT’S DINER American style diner featuring big breakfasts, burgers, catfish and monster fried pies. 26606 Highway 107. Jacksonville. No alcohol, All CC. $. 501-9830163. BL daily, D Mon.-Sat. TERRI-LYNN’S BAR-B-Q AND DELI High-quality meats served on large sandwiches and good tamales served with chili or without (the better bargain). 10102 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-227-6371. LD Tue.-Sat. (10:30 a.m.-6 p.m.). TROPICAL SMOOTHIE CAFE Besides the 45 different smoothies on the menu, the cafe also serves wraps and sandwiches (many of them spicy), salads and “tortizzas.” Good food, healthy drinks, long line at lunch but it moves fast. Creekwood Plaza (Kanis and Bowman). No alcohol. $$. 501-221-6773. BLD daily. WEST END SMOKEHOUSE AND TAVERN Its primary focus is a sports bar with 50-plus TVs, but the dinner entrees (grilled chicken, steaks and such) are plentiful and the bar food is upper quality. 215 N. Shackleford. Full bar, All CC. 501-224-7665. L Fri.-Sun., D daily. WINGSTOP It’s all about wings. The joint features eight flavors of chicken flappers for almost any palate, including mild, hot, Cajun and atomic, as well as specialty flavors like lemon pepper and teriyaki. 11321 West Markham St. Beer. $-$$. 501-224-9464. LD daily.
AsiAn ASIA BUFFET Massive Chinese buffet. 801 S. Bowman Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-225-0095. LD daily. CHINA INN Massive Chinese buffet overflows with meaty and fresh dishes, augmented at dinner by boiled shrimp, oysters on the half shell and snow crab legs, all you want
BarBecue BARE BONES PIT BAR-B-Q A carefully controlled gas oven, with wood chips added for flavor, guarantees moist and sweet pork, both pulled from the shoulder and back ribs. The side orders, particularly the baked potato salad, are excellent. 5501 Ranch Drive, Suite 4. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-868-7427. LD daily. CHIP’S BARBECUE Tasty, if a little pricey, barbecue piled high on sandwiches generously doused with tangy sauce. Better known for the incredible family recipe pies and cheesecakes, which come tall and wide. 9801 W. Markham St. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-225-4346. LD Mon.-Sat. DIXIE PIG Pig salad is tough to beat — loads of chopped pork atop crisp iceberg, doused with that wonderful vinegarbased sauce. The sandwiches are basic, and the sweet, thick sauce is fine. 900 West 35th St. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-753-9650. LD Mon.-Sat. PIG AND CHIK Well-smoked meat with a thick, sweet sauce, plus nachos, huge burgers, country vegetables and lots of other stuff. 7824 Highway 107. NLR. No alcohol. 501-834-5456. LD Mon.-Sat.
european / ethnic ALI BABA’S HOOKAH CAFE This eatery and grocery store offers kebabs and salads along with just about any sort of Middle Eastern fare you might want, along with what might be the best kefte kebab in Central Arkansas. Halal butcher on duty. 3400 S. University Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-379-8011. LD daily. CREGEEN’S IRISH PUB Irish-themed pub with a large selection of on-tap and bottled British beers and ales, an Irish inspired menu and lots of nooks and crannies to meet in. 301 Main St. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-376-7468. LD daily. ISTANBUL MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE This Turkish eatery offers decent kebabs and great starters. The red pepper hummus is a winner. So are Cigar Pastries. Possibly the best Turkish coffee in Central Arkansas. 11525 Cantrell Rd. Beer, Wine, All CC. 501-223-9332. LD daily. LEO’S GREEK CASTLE Wonderful Mediterranean food — gyro sandwiches or platters, falafel and tabouleh — plus dependable hamburgers, ham sandwiches, steak platters and BLTs. 2925 Kavanaugh Blvd. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-7414. BLD Mon.-Sat.
italian AMERICAN PIE PIZZA Handmade pizza on perfect thin crust with varied toppings, and inexpensive. We liked the olive-oil-based margherita and supreme, plus there are salads, sandwiches and appetizers, all for cheap. 9708 Maumelle Blvd. Maumelle. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-758-8800. LD daily. 4830 North Hills Blvd. NLR. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-753-0081. LD daily. CAFE PREGO Dependable entrees of pasta, pork and the like, plus great sauces, fresh mixed greens and delicious dressings, crisp-crunchy-cold gazpacho and tempting desserts in a comfy bistro setting. 5510 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-5355. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. CIAO Don’t forget about this casual yet elegant bistro tucked into a downtown storefront. The fine pasta and seafood dishes, ambiance and overall charm combine to make it a relaxing, enjoyable, affordable choice. 405 W.
Seventh St. Full bar, All CC. $$. (501) 372-0238. L Mon.-Fri., D Thu.-Sat. GRADY’S PIZZAS AND SUBS Pizza features a pleasing blend of cheeses rather than straight mozzarella. The grinder is a classic, the chef’s salad huge and tasty. 6801 W. 12th St., Suite C. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-1918. LD daily. IRIANA’S PIZZA Unbelievably generous thick-crust pizza with unmatched zest. Good salads, too; grinders are great, particularly the Italian sausage. 103 W. Markham St. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-374-3656. LD Mon.-Sat. OW PIZZA Good pizzas in a variety of ways, sandwiches, big salads and now offer various pastas and appetizer breads. 8201 Ranch Blvd. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 868-1100. LD Mon.-Fri. 1706 W. Markham St. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. LD Mon.-Fri. (closes at 7 p.m.). U.S. PIZZA Crispy thin-crust pizzas, frosty beers and heaping salads drowned in creamy dressing. Multiple locations: 4001 McCain Park, NLR, 753-2900; 3324 Pike Ave., NLR, 758-5997; 650 Edgwood Drive, Maumelle, 851-0880; 8403 Highway 107, Sherwood, 835-5673; 9300 N. Rodney Parham, 224-6300; 2814 Kavanaugh, 663-2198. 5524 Kavanaugh. Beer, All CC. $$. 501-664-7071. LD daily. 710 Front Street. Conway. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-4509700. LD Mon.-Sun. ZAFFINO’S BY NORI A high-quality Italian dining experience. Pastas, entrees (don’t miss the veal marsala) and salads are all outstanding, and the desserts don’t miss, either. 2001 E. Kiehl Ave. NLR. Beer, Wine. 501-834-7530. D Tue.-Sat.
Mexican CANON GRILL Creative appetizers come in huge quantities, and the varied main-course menu rarely disappoints, though it’s not as spicy as competitors’. 2811 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-664-2068. LD Mon.-Sat. COTIJA’S A branch off the famed La Hacienda family tree downtown, with a massive menu of tasty lunch and dinner specials, the familiar white cheese dip and sweet red and fiery-hot green salsas, and friendly service. 406 S. Louisiana St. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-244-0733. L Mon.-Sat. EL JALAPENO Less a taco truck than a snack bar that also has a few Mexican offerings, including tacos, flautas and mega-tortas. 9203 Chicot Road. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-772-7471. LD Mon.-Sat. LA MARGARITA Sparse offerings at this taco truck. No chicken, for instance. Try the veggie quesadilla. 7308 Baseline Road. No alcohol, No CC. $. LD Tue.-Thu. LA REGIONAL A full-service grocery store catering to SWLR’s Latino community, it’s the small grill tucked away in the back corner that should excite lovers of adventurous cuisine. The menu offers a whirlwind trip through Latin America, with delicacies from all across the Spanishspeaking world (try the El Salvadorian papusas, they’re great). Bring your Spanish/English dictionary. 7414 Baseline Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. BLD daily. TAQUERIA KARINA AND CAFE A real Mexican neighborhood cantina from the owners, to freshly baked pan dulce, to Mexican-bottled Cokes, to first-rate guacamole, to inexpensive tacos, burritos, quesadillas and a broad selection of Mexican-style seafood. 5309 W. 65th St. $. 501-562-3951. LD Tue.-Thu. TAQUERIA LAS ISABELES Mobile taco stand with great authentic tacos, Hawaiian hamburguesas (burgers topped with pineapple and avocado) and more. 7100 Colonel Glen Road. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-563-4801. L Mon.-Sat., D Sat. TAQUERIA SAMANTHA II Standout taco truck fare, with meat options standard and exotic. 7521 Geyer Springs Road. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-744-0680. LD Tue.-Sun.
General ARGENTA MARKET The Argenta District’s neighborhood grocery store offers a deli featuring a daily selection of big sandwiches for $6.99 along with fresh fish and meats and salads. Emphasis here is on Arkansas-farmed foods and organic products. 521 N. Main St. NLR. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-379-9980. BL Daily.
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AMERICA 13-50 An American restaurant specializing in the cuisine of the first 13 colonies as well as regional foods from across the country. Brunch on Sunday. 1020 Garland. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-327-5050. L Tue.-Fri., Sun.; D Tue.-Sat. BEAR’S DEN PIZZA Pizza, calzones and salads at UCA hangout. 235 Farris Road. Conway. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-328-5556. LD Mon.-Sat. BIG JOHN’S SUBS Submarine sandwich shop. 2100 Meadowlake. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-2050739. LD daily. BLACKWOOD’S GYROS AND GRILL A wide variety of salads, sandwiches, gyros and burgers dot the menu at this quarter-century veteran of Conway’s downtown district. 803 Harkrider Ave. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. 501-329-3924. LD Mon.-Sat. BOB’S GRILL Cafeteria style breakfast and lunch dining in downtown Conway with made-to-order breakfasts. 1112 W. Oak St. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-379-9760. BL Mon.-Sat. CASA MARIACHI Mexican fare. 2225 Prince St. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-764-1122. LD daily.
CROSS CREEK SANDWICH SHOP Cafe serves salads and sandwiches weekdays. 1003 Oak St. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-764-1811. L Mon.-Fri. ED’S CUSTOM BAKERY Bakery featuring pastry classics, rolls, cakes, doughnuts and no-nonsense coffee. 256 Oak St. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. 501-327-2996. B Mon.-Sat. EL MEXICANO Three types of stuffed fried avocado are on the menu, along with nachos and a decent white cheese dip. Good sopapillas. 2755 Dave Ward Drive. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-764-1113. L daily, D Mon.-Sat. FABY’S RESTAURANT Unheralded Mexican-Continental fusion focuses on handmade sauces and tortillas. 1023 Front Street. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-513-1199. L daily, D Mon.-Sat. 2915 Dave Ward. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-329-5151. LD Mon.-Sun. FU LIN RESTAURANT Japanese steakhouse, seafood and sushi. Good variety, including items such as yam tempura, Karashi conch, Uzuzukuri and a nice selection of udon. 195 Farris. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-329-1415. LD Mon.-Sun. HOG PEN BBQ Barbecue, fish, chicken 800 Walnut. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-326-5177. LD Tue.-Sat. HOLLY’S COUNTRY COOKING Southern plate lunch specials weekdays. 120 Harkrider. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $. 501-328-9738. L Mon.-Fri. LOS 3 POTRILLOS A big menu and lots of reasonably priced choices set this Mexican restaurant apart. The cheese dip is white, the servings are large, and the frozen margaritas are sweet. Try the Enchiladas Mexicanas, three different enchiladas in three different sauces. 1090 Skyline Dr. Conway. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-327-1144. LD Mon.-Sun. ORIENTAL KITCHEN Traditional, reasonably priced Chinese food favorites. 1000 Morningside Drive. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-328-3255. L Sat. D Mon-Sat. THE SALE BARN CAFE Breakfast and lunch for the sale barn crowd on Tuesdays. 1100 S. Amity Rd. Conway. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-548-9980. BL Tue. SMITTY’S BAR-B-QUE Meat so tender it practically falls off the ribs, and combos of meat that will stuff you. Hot sauce means HOT. 740 S. Harkrider. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-327-8304. LD Mon.-Sat. SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Hickory-smoked meats, large sides and fried pickles among other classics offered at this 40-year-old veteran of the Conway barbecue scene. 505 Donaghey. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-7644227. LD Mon.-Sat. TAQUERIA MICHO’S Breakfast and lunch are served daily at this inventive little Mexican restaurant on Dave Ward Drive. 2751 Dave Ward Drive. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-329-2142. BL daily. TOAD SUCK BUCK’S Juicy steaks, various fried things and cold beer in a dive that’s easy to love in the middle of nowhere, 12 miles west of Conway. 11 Roaring River Loop. Houston. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-759-2067. D Thu.-Sat.
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cheap. 2629 Lakewood Village Place. NLR. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-771-2288. LD daily. FORBIDDEN CITY The Park Plaza staple has fast and friendly service, offering up good lomein at lunch and Cantonese and Hunan dishes. 6000 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-9099. LD daily. FU XING Chinese buffet. 9120 N. Rodney Parham Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-223-0888. LD daily. GINA’S CHINESE KITCHEN AND SUSHI BAR A broad and strong sushi menu with a manageable and delectable selection of Chinese standards. 14524 Cantrell Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-868-7775. LD daily. HANAROO SUSHI BAR Under its second owner, it’s one of the few spots in downtown Little Rock to serve sushi. With an expansive menu, featuring largely Japanese fare with a bit of Korean mixed in. 205 W. Capitol Ave. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-301-7900. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat. KOTO Sushi and upscale Japanese cuisine. 17200 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-821-7200. LD daily. NEW CHINA A burgeoning line of massive buffets, with hibachi grill, sushi, mounds of Chinese food and soft serve ice cream. 4617 JFK Blvd. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-7538988. LD daily. 2104 Harkrider. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-764-1888. LD Mon.-Sun. 201 Marshall Road. Jacksonville. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-753-8988. LD daily. ROYAL BUFFET A big buffet of Chinese fare, with other Asian tastes as well. 109 E. Pershing. NLR. 501-753-8885. LD daily. SEKISUI Fresh-tasting sushi, traditional Japanese, the fun hibachi style of Japanese, and an overwhelming assortment of entrees. Nice wine selection, sake, specialty drinks. 219 N. Shackleford,. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-221-7070. LD daily. SHOGUN JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE The chefs will dazzle you, as will the variety of tasty stir-fry combinations and the sushi bar. Usually crowded at night. 2815 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. 501-666-7070. D daily. WASABI Downtown sushi and Japanese cuisine. For lunch, there’s quick and hearty Sushi samplers. 101 Main St. Full bar. $-$$. 501-374-0777. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat.
Fayetteville area CAFE RUE ORLEANS Top quality Creole food and a couple of Cajun specialties (a soupy gumbo, a spicy and rich etouffee) from a cook who learned her tricks in Lafayette, La., and the Crescent City. Best entree is the eggplant Napoleon. Oyster bar downstairs to make your wait for a dining table pleasant. 1150 N. College Ave. Fayetteville. 479-443-2777. LD. COMMON GROUNDS Billing itself as a gourmet espresso bar, this Dickson Street storefront cafe also serves up some tasty dishes all day, plus a new menu of salads, sandwiches and pizzas. 412 W. Dickson St. Fayetteville. 479-442-3515. BLD. COOLWATER VILLAGE CAFE This place for a big night out, with a meaty menu and the waterfall in the bar and all. The signature dinner offering is smoked prime rib, in sizes from 8 ounces to a full pound of meat. The less expensive lunch menu has good salads and barbecue (though the sauce is a little sweet). 2217 N. College Ave. Fayetteville. 479-571-3636. LD. CORNER GRILL Hearty sandwiches, a tasty and inexpensive weekend brunch, friendly staff in new location away from Dickson Street. Highway 112. Fayetteville. 479-5218594. BLD. ELLA’S Fine dining in the university’s vastly reworked Inn at Carnall Hall. A favorite — it figures on the UA campus — is the razor steak. Arkansas Avenue at Maple Street. Fayetteville. 479-582-1400. BLD. HUGO’S You’ll find a menu full of meals and munchables, some better than others at this basement European-style bistro. The Bleu Moon Burger is a popular choice. Hugo’s is always worth a visit, even if just for a drink. 25 1/2 N. Block St. Fayetteville. 479-521-7585. LD. JAMES AT THE MILL “Ozark Plateau Cuisine” is creative, uses local ingredients and is pleasantly presented in a vertical manner. Impeccable food in an impeccable setting. 3906 Greathouse Springs Road. Fayetteville. 479-443-1400. LD. JOSE’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT Epicenter of the Dickson Street nightlife with its patio and Fayetteville’s No. 2 restaurant in gross sales. Basic Mexican with a wide variety of fancy margaritas. 324 W. Dickson. Fayetteville. 479-521-0194. LD. NEAL’S CAFE An immense and immensely popular platelunch (and plate-dinner) joint with great homemade pie and an equally loyal breakfast crowd. 806 N. Thompson St. Springdale. 479-751-9996. BLD. www.arktimes.com • AUGUST 19, 2010 39
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SAM M. WALTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS “The Sam M. Walton College of Business combines classroom learning and real-world experiences to prepare students for all kinds of careers. As the state’s premier business school, the Walton College offers top faculty, modern facilities, and the latest in technology. Let us help you build a future — where you can make your mark no matter what path you choose.”
ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY “At Arkansas Tech University, we believe that higher education and economic development are irrevocably tied to one another. That is why everything we do is focused on a singular goal: producing high-quality graduates who can go forth and build a better tomorrow for Arkansas. We are committed to providing our students with every opportunity to persist to graduation and realize the life-changing benefits of a college degree. Visit www.atu. edu to learn more about Arkansas Tech University.”
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT PINE BLUFF “The University ofArkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB), as the second oldest institution of higher education in Arkansas, is one of two land-grant institutions of the state. Since 1873, we have provided opportunities for all people aspiring to improve their socioeconomic status. Thousands have benefited from our mission as we continue to contribute to the human capital of our nation and address societal challenges. We are now prepared to fulfill our mission more than ever before. If you have not seen UAPB lately, you should see it now.”
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WALTER M. KIMBROUGH, PH.D. PHILANDER SMITH COLLEGE “Philander Smith College has a lot about which we can boast: We are the only school in Arkansas with an emphasis on social justice, we are a founding member of the UNCF (the state’s only UNCF school), and we have had the largest increases in freshmen average ACT scores over the past five years. Not to mention we have new residence halls, excellent student-faculty interaction based on national surveys, two outstanding choirs, and the acclaimed Bless the Mic lecture series. But don’t take our word for it; come see for yourselves.”
ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITYBEEBE “Arkansas State University-Beebe is a comprehensive two-year college with strong associate degree transfer programs as well as certificates of proficiency and one year technical certificates that enable students to enter the workforce. Because our students come from 47 Arkansas counties and over 100 cities, we have two residence halls. ASU-Beebe has some unique associate degree programs, including the state’s only John Deere program and only veterinary technology program. Because most of ASU-Beebe students plan to pursue a baccalaureate degree, ASUJonesboro teaches 11 baccalaureate and three master’s degrees on the Beebe campus. ASU-Beebe strives to be a student-centered university that exhibits integrity, excellence, global diversity, and open access to education and opportunity for all.”
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UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS “University of Central Arkansas remains committed to its mission – the intellectual, social, and personal development of its students; the advancement of knowledge through excellence in teaching and research; and service to the community. This fall, UCA will open the first residential college in Arkansas with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Our goal is to train more math and science teachers and improve science and math education in the state. Students will be able to take advantage of undergraduate research opportunities and participate in service-learning opportunities. With more than 11,000 students, the university is large enough to offer academic diversity, yet small enough to show personal interest and support.”
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HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY “Exciting things are happening at Henderson. A growing enrollment, better relationships with our community and a focus on campus-wide collaboration are making us a stronger university. Students are enjoying the new 48,000-square-foot recreation center and we are looking forward to the opening of our new biological field station. Watch for the rollout of the new Henderson State Website this fall!”
HENDRIX COLLEGE “Your Hendrix Odyssey: Engaging in Active Learning, an innovative component of the curriculum that combines critical thought with action, is drawing national attention. It’s one of the reasons U.S. News lists Hendrix as the No. 1 “upand-coming” liberal arts college in America. Students compete for grants to fund Odyssey projects that can, and do, change lives. I invite you to visit the Hendrix campus and discover where Your Hendrix Odyssey can take you.”
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SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY “Southern Arkansas University is a quality, comprehensive, regional university. Founded in 1909, we are celebrating more than 100 years of educational accomplishments. Our outstanding graduates are having an important impact on our state, region, and beyond. We are particularly excited about the new Science Center and the impact this new facility will have on our already accomplished College of Science and Technology. The School of Graduate Studies is also offering a variety of new programs, both online and traditional. We believe this will offer significant added opportunities for our students to continue their educations and for our citizens to advance their careers. Our university theme is ‘Tradition of Success.’ We are here to serve students and help them develop to their full potential as they prepare to impact the future of us all.”
SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY TECH “Southern Arkansas University Tech is a two-year college accredited by the North Central Association’s Higher Learning Commission and provides a fully transferable twoyear general education degree. SAU Tech is unique in that it provides statewide technical training through the Arkansas Fire Training Academy and the Arkansas Environmental Training Academy. SAU Tech offers programs in graphic design, web design, film and video production, teacher education, nursing, aviation maintenance, industrial technology and more. We offer on-campus housing, online degrees and a comprehensive workforce training program. Located inside the Highland Industrial Park in East Camden, which is one of the largest privately owned industrial parks in the southern United States. For these reasons, and many more, SAU Tech is the perfect choice for YOU!”
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HERITAGE COLLEGE “We believe every student can succeed. Our job is to help them succeed. We do not accept the notion that some must fail. Our students make a commitment when they start classes at Heritage College. They commit to change their lives, and they commit to never give up. In return, we commit ourselves to their success. We make our students this promise: As long as you don’t quit, we will never give up on you.”
JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY “Established in 1919, JBU is a private Christian university offering a topquality education to more than 2,000 students from over 42 different states and 45 different countries. JBU offers 45 undergraduate degree programs, three degree completion programs, and six graduate degree programs. In every program, JBU educates the head, heart, and hand to prepare students to honor God and serve others, a mission that produces great results. JBU has the highest graduation rates in state, and it graduates students that are making a difference in the some of the best companies and graduate schools in the country.”
MID-SOUTH COMMUNITY COLLEGE “Mid-South is a learning college, dedicated to student access and goal achievement, and our mission is to facilitate transformations in the lives of the people and in the economy of our region. We are dedicated to offering quality, affordable learning opportunities strategically designed to prepare our students to capitalize on the latest technological advances.”
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT MONTICELLO “The University of Arkansas at Monticello is proud of its heritage as an open admissions university, providing educational opportunities to the people of the state and region. As we begin our second century, we remain committed to that legacy of opportunity. For more than 100 years, UAM has offered the chance for thousands of young people to achieve richer, more rewarding lives through higher education. Through teaching, research, and public service, UAM will continue to provide educational opportunities for future generations.”
DR. PAUL B. BERAN, CHANCELLOR
DR. JOEL ANDERSON, CHANCELLOR
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FORT SMITH “The University of Arkansas – Fort Smith serves the greater Fort Smith region and Western Arkansas as a leader in higher education, workforce development, quality of place opportunities, and economic development activities. The university is committed to educating individuals for the 21st century through internships and an international focus. Our faculty and staff are, first and foremost, committed to our students and their undergraduate success, giving them lifelong skills in critical and creative thinking and problem solving while preparing them for a fulfilling career when they graduate.”
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK “UALR serves the people of Arkansas, our country, and the world. It is known for excellent graduates, innovative research, bold ideas, and willingness to tackle tough community and state issues. Our students are wonderfully diverse and hardworking, and they leave UALR with a greatly expanded understanding of our complex world. Our faculty hold degrees from the finest graduate schools in the nation and the world including MIT, University of Michigan, Russian Academy of Sciences, Harvard, Duke, Stanford, and Yale. The faculty and staff at UALR stand ready to help you meet your highest goals. Our purpose is to help you come to value the process of learning and make it your own. Visit campus and find out for yourself how much UALR has to offer you.”
DR. G. DAVID GEARHART UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS OF FAYETTEVILLE “At the University of Arkansas, you get the educational experience of a lifetime and the opportunity to pursue virtually any dream. Nowhere else in the state can you find the range of majors, classes, research opportunities and access to worldclass faculty and cutting-edge facilities. Our graduates are governors, Fortune 500 CEOs, scientists and novelists. They’re nurses, teachers, architects, engineers and lawyers. We work harder and think bigger than anywhere else, and we put students first each and every day, reflected by our having kept tuition flat this year and our commitment to make an education accessible and affordable to any qualified Arkansas student. Come and see, we’ll put you and your dreams first, too.”
OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY “Ouachita Baptist University, a Christ-centered learning community since 1886, offers students a quality liberal arts education. U.S. News has ranked Ouachita as the No. 1 baccalaureate university in our region for three consecutive years. Our seven academic schools are impacting the lives of more than 1,500 students as we seek to build difference makers.”
STEVE COLE, CHANCELLOR COSSATOT COMMUNITY COLLEGE “Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas has steadily increased in enrollment each year. Part of that is because we try to be very attuned to the needs of our communities. An example of that is our decision to provide agribusiness certificates and degrees. We try to be an economic engine for our communities, being involved with any initiative that is designed to enhance the way of life in Southwest Arkansas.”
DR. BECKY PANEITZ NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE “NorthWest Arkansas Community College is proud to celebrate 20 years of serving and strengthening our community through learning for living. We promote positive changes in the individuals that we serve, and we’re dedicated to improving the lives of all the citizens of northwest Arkansas. Our caring and exceptional faculty and staff are committed to creating a learning environment that inspires our nearly 17,000 students to reach their highest potential. Student learning is what we’re all about. NorthWest Arkansas Community College is proud of our history, energized by the present, and excited about the future.”
DR. DAN F. BAKKE PULASKI TECHNICAL COLLEGE “PulaskiTechnical College plays a critical role in higher education in central Arkansas.A successful community college has to rise to the challenges of the workforce needs of the local economy. The changing demands of an uncertain economy make further education a necessity, and Pulaski Tech’s success is measured by the degree to which we can improve the lives of our students, families and the community.”
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ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY As ATU begins its second century, a new generation of the Tech family is meeting its future on campuses in Russellville and Ozark. With 8,814 students, Arkansas Tech boasts a 108% increase in headcount enrollment since 1997. But more significant are these numbers: 16,622 (number of graduates at Arkansas Tech from 19932009) and 15 (consecutive years that Tech’s freshman class has had an average ACT score above the national average). Those numbers demonstrate the university’s success in its most critical mission: producing high-caliber students capable of success both in the academic realm and in their chosen careers after graduation. A $161 million investment in the campus infrastructure since 1995 has revitalized Tech and helped make it the choice for many of Arkansas’s brightest students. Rothwell Hall, the Ross Pendergraft Library and Technology Center, the Doc Bryan Student Services Building, the Hull Building addition, Nutt Residence A Hendrix student — self-propelled and on the move. Hall, Baswell Residence Hall and the Robert and Best Colleges as the No. 1 “Up-and-coming” liberal arts Sandra Norman Center for the Fine Arts are just some of college in America. the new facilities that have helped Tech reshape its physiOne of the many things that sets Hendrix apart is Your cal presence in recent years. Hendrix Odyssey: Engaging in Active Learning, a proBaswell Techionery will open in 2011 and provide gram introduced in 2005. Since that time, it has generthe Russellville campus with a modern student union ated more than $1.4 million in grant funding to support that is sure to be a favorite gathering spot for generaengaged learning projects. And data suggests that Hendrix tions to come. enrollment has increased by 40% as direct result of this Arkansas Tech has purchased, renovated or constructed program. 15 student housing facilities since 1999. All of the changes Hendrix Odyssey has become the unifying ethic for have been made to accommodate a 188% increase in how Hendrix approaches liberal arts and sciences eduthe number of students living in Tech housing since 1995, cation. You learn more when you do more. That’s the when only 851 students lived on campus. During the educational philosophy behind Odyssey, an exciting 2009-10 academic year, 2,452 Arkansas Tech students component unique to the Hendrix curriculum. lived in campus housing. With six categories and plenty of flexibility, the Odyssey Overall, Tech offers more than 100 programs of study, Program encourages all Hendrix students to embark on including 25 master’s degrees, in its Colleges of Applied educational adventures that are personalized to their own Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Business, Education, interests and abilities. Natural and Health Sciences, Professional Studies and All students are required to complete three Odyssey expeCommunity Outreach and the Graduate College. All riences selected from the following six categories: Artistic of Tech’s academic programs that can be individually Creativity, Global Awareness, Professional & Leadership accredited have been or are in the process of completDevelopment, Service to the World, Undergraduate ing the requirements. Research and Special Projects. HENDRIX COLLEGE JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY Hendrix is nationally recognized as a leader in engaged JBU is a private Christian university, ranked second liberal arts and sciences education offered in a demanding by U.S.News & World Report in the Southern Region yet supportive environment. Hendrix was recognized in for baccalaureate colleges. JBU enrolls more than 2,000 the 2010 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s America’s
students from 42 states and 45 countries. They recently received a $563,789 grant from the National Science Foundation to provide approximately 16-24 four-year scholarships for students from low-income families majoring in chemistry, biology or biochemistry. In addition to funding scholarships, the grant also supports the Strengthening Undergraduate Curriculum and Community to Engage Science Students (SUCCESS) program, specifically targeted to increase retention, graduation, and the readiness of chemistry, biochemistry, and biology graduates to enter the workforce or graduate school. Dr. Carla Swearingen, assistant professor of chemistry and SUCCESS program director, says, “Talented future scientists are going to have access to the wonderful education we have at John Brown University.” Dr. April Moreton, director of foundations and corporate relations for JBU says, “These funds will help students who show great promise in the field of science attend JBU when they might not have been able to for financial reasons.” The goals of the program are to encourage more lowincome students and those from underrepresented groups to study science programs at John Brown University. In addition, the program aims to increase graduation rates for science majors. The program will start awarding scholarships in the 2011-2012 academic year. Campus expansion is also big news at JBU with three new facilities scheduled to open this fall and in 2011. They include the Bill and Donna Berry Performing Arts Center opening fall 2010, a 28,000-square-foot facility; the Bill George Arena, opening fall 2010, a 38,000-squarefoot multi-purpose arena; and the Engineering/CM building (opening 2011), a 40,000-square-foot facility that will house John Brown University’s growing engineering and construction management programs. JBU’s engineering program is one of its largest, with over 90 majors and six faculty members. “We’re proud of our engineering students and their successes,” says Dr. Larry Bland, head of the engineering department. “We have students working on federal grants building solar water heaters for the EPA and ‘lunabotics’ for NASA. Our undergrads have found jobs at firms like Texas Instruments, T.D. Williamson, Lockheed Martin and Boeing.” PHILANDER SMITH COLLEGE Philander Smith is a private, residential co-educational four-year undergraduate liberal arts college located on approximately 25 acres in downtown Little Rock. The 133-year-old college is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and a founding member of the United Negro College Fund. The college’s mission is to “graduate academically accomplished students who are grounded as advocates for social justice, determined to intentionally change the world for the better.” President Dr. Walter Kimbrough is particularly passionate about the school’s social justice initiative. He says, “The best definition for social justice
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THE COLLEGE ISSUE 2010 home for the College of Science and Technology, is the is that it promotes awareness of inequalities. We live in newest and one of the most up-to-date in the region. a world where inequality exists. What we hope to do is The Mulerider Activity Center is also currently under graduate people who are sensitive to them, and in some construction. When finished, it will include an indoor way, work to redress them. walking track, free weights, exercise equipment, a recIt could be as simple as PSC alumna Ellen Carpenter, reational gym and meeting rooms. An expansion to the whose funeral was yesterday, who worked in the East Mulerider baseball stadium—where the 2010 Mulerider End area to get street lights, paved roads and closed sewBaseball Team had a record-breaking season and launched age. Those conditions would have been unacceptable in professional baseball careers for seven Muleriders—will most areas of the city, but in that community which has house offices, locker rooms, concessions and press facililimited resources, opportunities, and influence, no one ties for the team. said a word. Harrod Hall has received a new roof that blends its She changed that community and became a major player in the city, as indicated by the presence of Governor Beebe, Senator Steele and City Manager Moore yesterday. She’s a great example of what social justice looks like from a practical standpoint.” In 2007, President Kimbrough led the charge to address the challenges faced specifically by Black men and to ensure their college success. The president pulled together a committee to explore new ways to engage the men at Philander Smith College, resulting in the formation of the Black Male Initiative (BMI). Through a series of special programming, events and activities, BMI provides opportunities for male students to connect with each other, faculty and staff and community role models with the goal of positively impacting these students’ college experience all the way up to graduation. “You have got to go the extra mile Go Muleriders! SAU students stroll the picturesque campus. to reach the guys on campus,” says architecture with that of the other Georgian-style buildMichael Hutchinson, executive assistant to the president ings on campus. Wilson Hall also had a cosmetic overand chairman of the initiative. “We want to create a sense haul. SAU’s landmark building, Overstreet Hall, had its of community so that they have a family-like atmosphere second floor renovated and upgraded for admissions and feel that they belong.” and advising. BMI strives to make a positive connection. Not only “New projects are taking shape on a regular basis,” does the group seek volunteer opportunities, such as says Rankin. “SAU is growing and transforming to meet reading to elementary students in the public schools, but the needs of our students and the region.” they are also charged with exploring ways to engage male students in a myriad of activities including a “Mid-term THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS Pizza Study Break” (providing tutors during a study sesExciting changes are afoot at UCA. For one, they sion where pizza is served), and “Real Talk...What Real announced in July that they will receive $24,134 from Women Want in a Man” (a dialogue session to discuss the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for male/female relationships). scholarships for low-income students enrolled in the BMI has also sponsored an oratory contest challenging undergraduate nursing program. the men to expound on the tenets of the “five wells” (well Dr. Julie Meaux, associate professor in the Department dressed, well spoken, well read, well traveled and well of Nursing says,“The additional money will allow us to balanced). The winner received an all-expenses paid trip provide larger scholarships and to provide assistance to to see hip-hop artist Jay-Z perform live in concert. more students.” The number of scholarships awarded will Additionally, BMI investigates opportunities for cultural depend on the number of students who qualify based enlightenment such as taking a group of students to attend on criteria set by the Department of Health and Human the Broadway production of “Stomp.” Services Health Resources and Services Administration. Also newsworthy, the Master of Arts in Teaching graduSOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY ate program received the 2010 Association of Teacher Continuing momentum from its Centennial milestone, Educators’ Distinguished Program in Teacher Education SAU continues its growth and investment in the future. Award. The national award honors outstanding teacher The campus landscape has undergone dramatic changes education programs that exemplify comprehensive and in the first 101 years. cohesive teacher preparation courses aligned with strong “Since the implementation of the Blue and Gold Vision collaboration between local school districts and instituin 2002, campus construction has virtually been nontions of higher education in program development. stop,” says Dr. David Rankin, SAU President. The College of Education offers the five-semester proThe $17 million Science Center, a 60,000-square-foot
gram for individuals without teaching credentials who have earned baccalaureate degrees and want to become classroom teachers within a short period of time. The program began in the fall of 2006 with 40 students and currently has more than 300 graduate students enrolled in the program with 112 of these students currently teaching in Arkansas schools, many in high-need geographic areas. UCA also offers a new linguistics degree and in January 2010, enrolled its first students. “Language is such a fundamental part of our daily lives that we rarely stop to think about all we rely on it to accomplish—to establish relationships with others, to make (and break) promises, to describe aspects of our internal and external worlds,” says Dr. Tim Thornes, assistant professor of linguistics. “All the more fascinating, from my perspective, is that there are nearly 7,000 distinct languages spoken in the world today, each one a testament to a long history of cultural development and expression.” The new program gives students an opportunity to explore the structures of both familiar languages, like English and Spanish, and “exotic” languages, like Marshallese and Klamath. A degree in linguistics can support a wide range of careers from language teaching to computer science. UCA’s Department of SpeechLanguage Pathology has been awarded an $800,000 Leadership Personnel Grant to support five doctoral students through their four-year program for their Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders. The grant is being funded by the Office of Special Education Programs within the U.S. Department of Education. The grant provides tuition, stipends and research support for the five doctoral students. “Most practicing speech-language pathologists cannot afford to stop work to pursue a Ph.D. degree full time. This grant enables them to do that,” says John Lowe III, chair of UCA’s Department of Speech-Language Pathology. “There is a severe shortage of Ph.D. speech-language pathologists in this country. This grant, as part of our Ph.D. Program, will assist in reducing that shortage.” This is the only Ph.D. training program in Communication Sciences and Disorders in Arkansas. UCA will also open the state’s first residential College for Science and Math this fall. The STEM Residential College will provide opportunities for greater student engagement and serve as a recruiting tool for students seeking a high-quality, learning environment in the areas of math, science, computer science, technology and secondary math/science education. It will also train more math and science teachers and improve science and math education in the state. UCA is the only public four-year institution that uses a residential college system of learning communities for first- and second-year students. The STEM Residential College is the fifth residential college at UCA. THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT FORT SMITH Each semester, approximately 7,000 students begin their futures at UA Fort Smith. The faculty specializes in
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Now UA Ft. Smith has expanded their already varied curriculum to include two new programs for the fall: a Bachelor of Arts in Media Communication and a Technical Certificate in Diesel Technology. According to Dr. Paul B. Beran, UA Fort Smith Chancellor, these programs were driven by the regional need for them. “We see the new bachelor’s degree in media communication as one which will serve individuals entering a number of the new and emerging fields in communications,” says Beran. “The certificate program in
diesel technology is designed to provide workers for diesel-related businesses in the area.” He says both programs show UA Fort Smith’s commitment to meeting educational needs and furthering the economic development of the region. “We have to stay in sync with what the demands are and how we can help meet those demands,” Beran explains, “and we believe both of these programs will be of service to regional employers and to the students seeking employment.” Wallace says that support for the diesel
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program has been driven by individuals in the Fort Smith area, including business owners and land developers. “We have also had $250,000 pledged to develop the program,” says Wallace, “which speaks to how serious the community is about making the program available. Others have also pledged to help raise additional funds to operate the program. We believe that speaks to how high the local need is.” The Bachelor of Arts in Media Communications degree falls in the College of Languages and Communications. The Technical Certificate in Diesel Technology program is in the College of Applied Science and Technology. THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK The primary mission for forward-looking, progressive universities is twofold— teaching and research—and with the opening of the new Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology (EIT) Building, UALR students and professors will have a new, world-class facility to help them excel in both. The six-story, 115,000-square-foot building features a 206-seat auditorium, 12 classrooms outfitted with a cutting-edge “thin client” based computer system, a wireless telecommunications laboratory, a networking laboratory, and dedicated space for use by 145 graduate students to conduct computer-based research. Another highlight is the 2,000-square-foot high-performance computing center that will be the second largest at a university in Arkansas. The new EIT Building will be as friendly to the environment as it is to the students and faculty members who will occupy it. It was designed to meet the U.S Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building rating system and is projected to save $34,675 in annual energy costs as compared with costs incurred if the structure were built merely to code. In other news, construction will soon begin on a one-stop shop for students, a nano-technology building, new on-campus housing and a track and field complex. THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT PINE BLUFF Unique career choices abound at the UAPB, The Flagship of the Delta. A Center of Excellence designate of the United States Department of Agriculture, the UAPB Bachelor Degree Program in Regulatory Science is the exclusive choice for that area of study in the nation. UAPB also offers the only Bachelor and Master’s Degree Programs in Aquaculture/Fisheries in Arkansas. Teacher education—a focus of UAPB
for 125 years—along with minority business development, mathematics and science, as well as student leadership development remain high priorities. Competitive athletics is also a priority, hence the excitement about a new $7.5 million complex. Two recent success stories include news of UAPB’s STEM program and debate team. The STEM Program assists students who want to complete a degree in the growing fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Key components include a summer academy, a mentoring program and research. More than 40 UAPB STEM scholars were recently awarded internships to more than 25 locations across the United States to work for laboratories, distributors, federal agencies, universities, resorts and university medical centers. The George “Doc� Jones Forensic UALR’s new EIT building. Association’s Debate team culat UAPB. The UAPB debate team is looking forward minated its 2009-2010 tournament season with great to next year when they will have debaters in two diviresults. “In the second year of the revival of the team, sions of debate. progress has been nothing short of amazing,� says The team finished the season with a total of 121 prelimiFaye Hawks, coach for the debate team and instructor
nary wins and achieved a national ranking of 12th place. The AQFI Center of Excellence— recognized as a leader in aquaculture/fisheries teaching, research and extension programs—continues to make headlines. It is the only comprehensive aquaculture program within the University of Arkansas System to support the state’s $167 million aquaculture industry. This industry has an economic impact of over $1.2 billion in the Delta region of Arkansas and has a growing natural fisheries component that provides scientific support to the recreational fishing industry that has an economic impact of over $440 million per year in Arkansas. The Center currently has a total of 47 faculty and staff including 17 Ph.D. scientists, 15 M.S., 10 B.S. degree staff and secretarial and maintenance personnel. This Program trains professionals in aquatic resources and fisheries management. The curriculum is designed for majors who wish to study aquatic ecology, fish biology, fish farming and other related areas.
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MID-SOUTH COMMUNITY COLLEGE This fall, MSCC will launch a grant-funded pharmacy technician training program that will prepare students for one of the fastest-growing professions in the country—pharmacy technology. “As is the tradition at Mid-South Community College, if we’re going to do something, we’re going to do it right,” says Jason Sparks, Allied Health & Life Sciences Program Coordinator. “We are going great lengths to ensure that our students have exposure to the most up-to-date and current technology that’s available in pharmacy practice.” Pharmacy technology is considered one of the fastest growing fields in the nation with projected job growth of more than 31% between now and 2018, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics. Beginning pharmacy techs in Arkansas and Tennessee can earn as much as $27,000 per year with many opportunities for advancement. “As the American population ages, the need for pharmacy services continues to increase,” Sparks says. “Additionally, as the role of the pharmacist OBU students take what they learn in the classroom out into the world. continues to evolve, there is an increasing demand and get a job. And if they want to stay here, they can do into a consultation room with a patient, the technician for well-qualified pharmacy technicians. Also, as scientific that too because there are plenty of career opportunities will have greater responsibilities behind the counter.” advances lead to new drugs and as more people obtain in our region.” “As pharmacists become more involved with personal prescription drug coverage, pharmacy workers will be Oberg says that MSCC’s program and facilities will be counseling for patients with chronic conditions, the techneeded in ever-increasing numbers.” conducive to producing sought-after graduates. nician will be expected to take on a greater role. They’re Ann Oberg, with more than two decades of pharmacy “We have a brand new building, and we have statenot just handing out prescriptions; they are actively partechnician and higher education experience, has joined of-the-art laboratory equipment,” she notes. “With what ticipating in the healthcare process.” the MSCC faculty as Specialist/Instructor. we’re going to be able to bring to the program in terms Pharmacy technicians assist in prescription prepara“It’s an evolving profession, and we’ve stepped much of technology and instruction, we will provide a level of tion, operations management, inventory management, farther ahead than anyone would have guessed 20 years training that you probably won’t see at any other school regulatory compliance and other duties in a variety of ago,” says Oberg. “Legislation currently under considerin the metro area. I can almost guarantee it.” healthcare settings. In addition, insurance companies often ation would allow pharmacists to receive reimbursement hire pharmacy techs because of their expertise related to for medication therapy management services, so if pharOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY prescription medications. macists are allowed to go out in front of the counter or Seeking to equip students for increased ministry opporOberg says MSCC’s tunities, Ouachita Baptist University now offers three program is designed new exciting majors in the University’s Pruet School of to train students for the Christian Studies. challenges of tomorTwo of the majors, Church Media/Production Arts and row as well as the ones Christian Media/Communications, are interdisciplinary of today. majors involving Ouachita’s School of Fine Arts and School “What we’re stressing of Humanities. The third major, Biblical Languages, will is preparation for the provide an academic foundation for students preparing to time to come because be biblical teachers, preachers or translators or those intertechnicians in the future ested in pursuing graduate studies in a related field. are going to face many Dr. Stan Poole, vice president for academic affairs, more challenges than explains that the deans of Christian studies, fine arts and the techs of today,” she humanities began with “conversations about putting says. “Our overall goal together an attractive program for students interested in is to prepare our stucombining Christian ministry with expertise in communidents so that they can go cations or production arts.” The Church Media/Production anywhere in the country MSCC’s new Allied Health Sciences building. 52 AUGUST 19, 2010 • ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT TO ARKANSAS TIMES • THE COLLEGE ISSUE 2010
Arts major combines foundational courses in theology, biblical studies and ministry with hands-on study of production arts and media in such areas as stage lighting and sound, graphic design and video production. The Christian Media/Communications major, which involves a partnership between Christian studies and humanities, includes a double major in Christian Media/ Communications and Mass Communications. It is designed to prepare graduates for media-related vocations in Christian organizations, institutions and other ministry settings. Dr. Danny Hays, dean of the Pruet School of Christian Studies, says each of the three majors will meet specific needs that have emerged in various ministry settings. Detailing the need for the Church Media/ Production major, Hays explains, “In the last 15 years, a new vocation has appeared in church ministry—media director. We view them as ministers and want them to be trained theologically. We also want them to have all the technical and artistic training and savvy they need for that particular vocation. It’s a unique combination of training and talent.” Dr. Scott Holsclaw, dean of the School of Fine Arts, says the impetus behind developing the Church Media/Production Arts degree was “the current trend in ministry and worship for expertise in technology with an understanding of Christian ministry, worship and theology.” Dr. Jeff Root, dean of the School of Humanities, credits current and former Ouachita students with sparking interest in a Christian Media/Communications major. “As often happens, our students led the way,” Root says. “We already had 15 students with a Christian studies and mass communications double major, and many of our graduates were telling us they had found media-related jobs in churches and ministries.” Emphasizing that the new majors are “vocationally-driven,” Hays says, “One of the strengths of Ouachita is that the different disciplines see education as a cooperative effort and are more than willing to work with each other to craft an interdisciplinary degree. It is an opportunity to draw on the expertise across campus and craft the degree to match the vocation. We feel this will enhance students’ options.” SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY TECH Lights, camera, learn! SAU Tech’s multimedia program is fast becoming known for the many talented students who graduate from the program in graphic, web or film and video production. Seth Tatum, who graduated in May 2010 with his Associate of Applied Science
in Multimedia, is one of those students. As a student in SAU Tech’s multimedia program, he worked as second assistant cameraman on the “Last Ride,” and as director of photography on the Arkansas Craft Guild Project and the Arkansas EMT Association Project. Seth worked on at least three other feature films as well as numerous other projects. These experiences put Seth at the forefront of the industry, and within a few months of graduating a production company in Los
Angeles, California, hired him full-time. With SAU Tech’s on-campus housing, students from all over the state, and some out-of-state, are now finding their way to this dynamic, exciting program. Of his decision to attend SAU Tech— and the road from his hometown, Rison, to sunny L.A.—Seth says, “It wasn’t until I talked with Steve Taylor and David McLeane [SAU’s multimedia Film/Video production instructor and recruiter, respectively] that I really started considering
going to SAU Tech. For most of my life I’ve had a great appreciation for film, so when Steve Taylor mentioned that if I came to SAU Tech I would be working with professionals from the world of television and film, I was intrigued. I would have a chance to enter a world I had viewed only as a remote possibility for a career. In the end, he was right; I was able to learn in the field, and while my goals have changed a little bit there’s nowhere else I would
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Have you got what it takes to be a Boll Weevil? He does! SAU Tech student Seth Tatum learning on a shoot. rather be than on set of a movie or television production.” Taylor, shares this about his standout student: “Seth came to me with lots of enthusiasm and a little head knowledge about production. He worked on every gig that came our way, never griping, never complaining . . . Gurney Production contacted me shortly before our 2010 graduation and asked if I had someone who could go to LA and intern without pay. I talked to Seth, and he quickly said yes not really knowing where he would stay or how he would get there. He really wanted to go, and he made it happen. After less than four weeks as an intern, Gurney offered him a full-time job!”
Joseph Lockwood, Senior, Stuttgart On Saturdays in the fall, Joseph spends his time catching passes as a wide receiver for the Boll Weevil football team. But during the week, he’s focused on his double major in biology and biochemistry with an eye toward medical school and becoming a doctor. Joseph Lockwood has what it takes to be a Boll Weevil. Do you?
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the uNiVeRsitY oF ARKANsAs At little RocK UALR continues to experience growth in many areas, and marked a record enrollment last year of over 13,000 students. A program quickly gaining in popularity is their Ph.D. program in Criminal Justice, the only one of its kind in the state. Dr. Jeffery Walker, Professor of Criminal Justice, explains that theirs is a traditional doctoral program focusing on research in criminology and criminal justice. Graduates are expected to be employed as professors at universities or as researchers at government (e.g. Arkansas Department of Correction) or non-profit (Urban Institute) agencies. “There are typically many more job openings across the US for people with Ph.D.s in criminal justice than there are people looking, so job opportunities are great,” says Walker. “This is a progressive and hands-on program with lots of mentoring. Students will be expected to have three to four publications and to have worked on at least one grant by the time they graduate.” Rather than the six to seven years required at many doctoral programs, the expected time to reach graduation in the UALR program is three years.
The program has drawn students from Ohio, Iowa, Little Rock and as far as the UK. the uNiVeRsitY oF ARKANsAs sAM M. WAltoN college oF BusiNess Part of the University of Arkansas system, the Sam M. Walton College of Business at Fayetteville offers its students a chance at world-class education. Dixie Kline, head of the college’s communication department, says undergraduates and graduates in the school “are serious about their careers,” and the college reflects their ambition. “Our goal is to help our students get ahead of the curve before graduation and to succeed,” she says. For instance, the Leadership Walton program offers a unique blend of academic, leadership and career development opportunities
specifically designed to guide the student toward professional success. Walton is also big on working with students outside the classroom. “We help students learn how to manage their time and live healthier life-styles,” Kline says. In addition, they help students with internships, learn how to form business connections and plan for graduation. The college’s technology is the latest and on par with what is found in today’s corporate offices. For example, in the recently opened Willard J. Walker Hall’s trading center (one of the three trading centers), students can buy and trade stocks. The high-tech Walker Hall was made possible by an $8 million gift from the Pat and Willard Walker Charitable Foundation. “Recruiters are interested in our graduates,” she says. Their students are finding jobs in a number of areas, including information systems, marketing, logistics and transportation and accounting. Business Week ranked Walton’s accounting department 19th among the top public undergraduate business schools. The college also offers a master’s degree in accounting, which is paying its undergraduates bonuses beyond school. Despite the challenges of the current job market, 72% of the MBA students who graduated last spring managed to find a job. That number jumped to 80% one month after graduation. Graduates saw a substantial increase in their paychecks once they had their MBAs in hand. The great thing about a degree in business is that it gives you the flexibility to go a lot of different directions after graduation. “It’s more ‘outside the box’ than people think,” says Autumn Parker, assistant director for Undergraduate Programs Recruiting at Sam M. Walton College. “Not everyone
is going to be a banker or an accountant or a marketing director. We want to give students the kind of education that will prepare them for wherever they choose to make their mark.” Take senior Samantha Francis, for instance, who studies transportation and logistics. She says, “It’s more than you think. It’s a company’s entire supply chain, all the way from procurement and purchasing the actual supplies to manufacturing and distributing out to the customer. It’s the beginning to the end.” 2008 graduate Katy Allen, wife of American Idol Kris Allen, says her job with the technology company Acxiom was the result of her being a student at Sam M. Walton College. Her student research enhanced her skill set as did her study abroad experience in Italy. A marketing management major, she admits that this background enabled her to relate to her husband’s career. Issac West majored in organizational leadership. In the summer of 2008, he participated in a University-sponsored community development project in Belize. When he came back, he mentored elementary-age students through Life Source International. He says, “This experience taught me about another side of business in non-profit work.” “Not everyone takes the same path,” says Parker. “At the Walton College, we try to give our students both a great classroom experience combined with exposure to real-world business. We give the tools and the means to continue an attitude of life-long learning, and they choose how they are going to make a mark on the world.”
The Sam M. Walton College of Business was ranked among the top 24 public undergraduate business schools by U.S. News & World Report’s 2010 America’s Best Colleges.
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Consider two-year colleges promotion, an increase in pay or supervisory experience. What’s more, its impact on lifetime earnings has been well-documented. At CCCUA, you can engineer your own success. Beginning in the fall, a new Associate of Applied Science in Engineering Technology degree will be offered at the COSSATOT COMMUNITY COLLEGE—UNIVERSITY College’s Little River campus in Ashdown. OF ARKANSAS Steve McJunkins, Chair of the Division of Skilled and There are many reasons why you should complete Technical Sciences, says, “The Engineering Technology your associate’s degree at CCCUA before moving Applied Science Degree is designed to meet the needs on—or up. of business and industry in Surveying, Computer Aided The most popular reason to obtain an associate’s degree Design and Drafting. This broad-based program will preis to complete a program and then successfully transfer pare a student to pursue job opportunities in any field of courses and credits to a university. Most community colengineering or continuing their education at a four-year leges now have articulation agreements with universities university.” Students will gain practical experience by that allow associate’s degree completers to transfer specific working in the field and in the lab with educators from each area of study. ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY— Be flexible! In January, CCCUA BEEBE announced they will offer a new Since its foundation in 1927, Arkansas method of delivering instruction to State University-Beebe has provided two students called FLEX courses. “We years of course work for those who wish call them FLEX courses because to transfer to senior institutions. It has also they are designed to fit into anyone’s offered associate degrees and certificate schedule,” says Vice Chancellor Steve programs that prepare students to enter Cole. “We are trying to meet students the workforce in two years or less. on their terms, which means offering Whether you are a first-time college courses outside the normal 16-week student or going back to school to finish fall and spring semesters. Students your degree, ASU-Beebe and its campuses may decide that they can take an have something for everyone. extra class— FLEX courses give them Colbie Falwell, Public Information the opportunity to do that, because Coordinator, describes some of what the academic credit is reported in the ASUB has to offer: same semester. This has the added “We offer associate degrees, technical advantage of helping our students certificates and certificates of proficiency graduate sooner.” and are the only college in the state to FLEX courses take material that have a veterinary technician program and is designed to be presented in 16 a John Deere program. We also offer an weeks and compress it into four or associate of fine arts in music and theeight weeks. ater and associate of applied science in Cole says, “We will, from time to time, pharmacy technician. In addition, we add new FLEX courses, as the needs have a hospitality program at ASU-Heber of our students warrant it. . . CCCUA Springs; training for the oil and gas indushas a reputation as a ground-breaker try at ASU-Searcy; and evening classes in in online education, and we want to Cabot at Cabot High School. ASU-Beebe make sure that anybody who takes a also offers 11 bachelors and three masters FLEX course gets the same content and from ASU-Jonesboro.” quality of instruction as someone who But it’s not just about academics. ASUB ASUB students strike a pose. They’re all smiles about their school’s new residence halls. sits at a desk on our campuses.” offers the complete university expericourses and programs nearly seamlessly. ence — in a smaller package. In April, Arkansas State NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE The value of a skills-rich Applied Science degree (A.A.S.) University-Beebe broke ground on two new residence NWACC is a comprehensive, public two-year college should never be underestimated. It’s an excellent gateway halls which will allow just over 100 additional students that serves and strengthens the community through learnto a brighter economic future. Whether you choose nursto live on campus. ing for living. NWACC continues to see an increase in ing, heavy equipment operation, truck driving, computThe residence halls will be two 28,610-square-feet enrollment since it opened its doors to 1,200 students in ing—or dozens of other programs—the career benefits buildings that will contain a combination of single and August 1990. It now has in excess of 6,600 college credit of such a degree cannot be overlooked. Your associate’s double suites to house a total of 248 students. Each floor students, making it one of the largest and fastest growdegree is also an important academic milestone, espewill have study halls, and each building will have a coming two-year colleges in Arkansas. An additional 7,000 cially if you’re the first in your family to attend college. In puter lab and a game room and lounging area. All rooms students are served by non-credit courses throughout the addition, if you already have a job, and many community will be Internet equipped. service area. college students do, the associate’s degree can mean a After a survey revealed that the students wanted to live wo-year colleges have a long history of responding to the workforce needs of the region’s employers. To that end, the Board of Directors of the 11-county Metro Little Rock Alliance (MLRA) recently voted to partner with the newly formed Central Arkansas Consortium of Two-Year Colleges. The goals are to help meet workforce, industry-training and economic-development needs, and to allow the colleges to pursue grants and other funding to address those needs. The Consortium is composed of: Arkansas State University—Beebe (ASUB), National Park Community College (NPCC), Ouachita Technical College (OTC), Pulaski Technical College (PTC), Southeast Arkansas College (SEARK) and University of Arkansas Community College-Morrilton (UACCM).
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closer to the Student Center, the new residence halls are being built just 50 yards to the east of the Student Center. Construction is scheduled to be completed for students to move in by fall 2011.
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The hallmark of NWACC is its quality of instruction. Students are taught by experts in small classes, providing for more personalized instruction. Transfer courses are taught by instructors with a master’s degree or higher. Other factors that make NWACC a desirable option is its low cost of only about $1,600 per year; its state-of-theart facilities and flexible scheduling; its accessibility; numerous online classes and certificate programs; and a free shuttle service through Ozark Transit. NWACC also offers 40 different scholarships that total around $130,000. The Corporate Learning Division is one of NWACC’s most successful and most popular arenas for study. Their goal is to develop talent from entry-level to executive leadership and to provide a competitive edge for everyone in the Northwest Arkansas community. They provide professional development certificates in several fields like certified fiber optics and human resource management. They have fostered corporate partnerships with some of the largest companies in the world like Tyson, La-Z-Boy, Glad Manufacturing and Unilever while also becoming one of the premier providers of training in green technology related fields like weatherization and energy efficiency. One of the more popular programs is Retail and Supplier Education in which students learn to become Certified Retail Analysts. There is even a fully functioning culinary and hospitality division with a state-of-the-art demonstration kitchen that sets it apart from anything else in the area. The program is open to all skill levels for training and offers catering services from bagged lunches to dinner for 100. Corporate Learning is also the proud home of the Institute for Corporate and Public Safety that develops and delivers certified courses all across the country for the Department of Homeland Security. The Institute is one of six national academic partners in the Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium and a part of the Emergency Response Leadership Roundtable.
County, with two satellite campuses in Saline County,” says Public Relations and Marketing Director Tim Jones. Their new Business Technology Center located at the Pulaski Technical College main campus in North Little Rock is an exciting new development for business majors and staff alike. It will house the college’s growing number of students who are pursing training in business-related fields, including accounting, management and supervision, office technology, entrepreneurship, paralegal technology, law
enforcement studies and medical office technology. The two-story, 20,405-squarefoot center provides space for 10 multipurpose classrooms, conference and meeting rooms, faculty and staff offices. “The new Business Technology Center will give us the opportunity to expand our course offerings and programs. The up-grade in facilities will help us to continue to provide a first class educational experience. The facility will be equipped with the latest technology, including smart boards, smart podiums and new comput-
ers. I believe the new facility will serve as a morale booster for students, faculty and staff,” says Interim Vice President for Instruction, Augusta Farver. Jones adds, “We’re very excited about the opening of the Business Technology Center which is scheduled for completion this fall.” Classes won’t be held there, however, until spring 2011. “It’s a very impressive facility, a very much needed one,” says Jones. He explains that, next to those students who pursue an associate arts degree, those who choose business
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2010) preparing to transfer to UAMS for a radiology degree, says, “When I was looking for a place to further my education, I wasn’t sure where I should attend. I toured a four-year university close to where I live, and I toured a two-year college, UACCM. I was transitioning from a very small high school and wanted to make sure I chose the best fit for me. After visiting UACCM, I was excited because it looked like a place I could be happy. I quickly discovered UACCM was the perfect fit for me. The classes weren’t much bigger than my high school classes
so I made friends easily and even shared some classes with people I knew. My professors were very kind and helped me adjust to the college lifestyle. My classes were challenging, but because they were small, I received the one-on-one attention that I needed from my instructors to excel in my studies. I wasn’t another face in the crowd; they knew my name, and I felt they genuinely wanted me to succeed. UACCM was also more affordable than a four-year university, and I feel that I received a quality education that will help me succeed when I transfer to UAMS.”
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School
Phone
YEARS/PRIVATE/ PUBLIC
ENROLLMENT PER SEMESTER
FEMALE
MALE
CALENDER
HOURS PER SEMESTER
TUITION PER SEMESTER
HOUSING PER SEMESTER
TOTAL SEMESTER COST
Arkansas Baptist College… Little Rock
501.370.4000/ 1.866.920.4.ABC
4-year Private
600
37%
63%
Semester
12-17 hours
$3,200
$3,803 (double occupancy: 19 Meals/week)
$7,003 (Tuition + room and board)
Arkansas State University • Jonesboro
870-972-2100/800-382-3030 (in-state only)
4-year Public
12,156
60%
40%
Semester
12 hours-full time undergraduate
$2,040 (in-state)
$3,272.00
$5,935.00
Arkansas Tech University • Russellville
479-968-0343/ 1-800-582-6953
4-year Public
8,800
54%
46%
Semester
15
$2,954.00
starting at $2,298 (includes meals)
Varies
Central Baptist College • Conway
501-329-6872/1-800-205-6872
4-year Private
625
47%
53%
Semester
15
$4,875.00
$2,900.00
$7,775.00
Crowley’s Ridge College • Paragould
870-236-6901
4-year Private
200
43%
57%
Semester
12 or more
$4,200.00
$2,890 (includes meal plan)
$7,845 for boarding students
Harding University • Searcy
800-477-4407
4-year Private
6,700
53%
47%
Semester
15
$6,795.00
$2,961.00
$9,981.00
Henderson State University • Arkadelphia
870-230-5028/1-800-228-7333
4-year Public
3,500
60%
40%
Semester
12-15 hours
$2,040.00
$2,417 (including room & board)
with fees approx $5,120
Hendrix College • Conway
800-277-9017/ 501-450-1362
4-year Private
1,460
56%
44%
Semester
4 courses/semester
$16,020 (including fees)
$4,543 (including meals)
$20,563.00
John Brown University • Siloam Springs
877-528-4636/ 479-524-7157
4-year Private
2,073
56%
44%
Semester
12-18 hours
$9,422.00
$3,593.00
$13,015.00
Lyon College • Batesville
1-800-423-2542/ 870-698-4242
4-year Private
600
55%
45%
Semester
12
$10,550.00
$3,670.00
$14,220.00
Ouachita Baptist University • Arkadelphia
1-800-DIAL-OBU/ 870-245-5110
4-year Private
1,500
53%
47%
Semester
up to 18
$9,910.00
$2,920.00
$12,830.00
FOUR- YEAR COLLEGES
Philander Smith College • Little Rock
501-370-5221
4-year Private
700
65%
35%
Semester
12-16 hours
$4,525.00
$2,275.00
$8,325.00
Southern Arkansas University • Magnolia
870-235-4040
4-year Public
3,226
60%
40%
Semester
15
$2,670.00
$2,320.00
$4,990.00
University of Arkansas at Little Rock • Little Rock
1-800-482-8892
4-year Public
13,000
64%
36%
Semester
12
$174.25/hr
$1,627.50 - $2,598.75
$2,642.00
University of Arkansas at Monticello • Monticello
870-460-1026/800-844-1826
4-year Public
3,500
59%
41%
Semester
12-15 hours
$120/credit hour
$745-$980
$7,352 including campus room and board
University of Arkansas Pine Bluff • Pine Bluff
870-575-8000
4-year Public
3,792
58%
42%
Semester
15
$1,875.00
$3,118.00 (20 meals)
$5,634.00
University of Arkansas • Fayetteville
479-575-5346/1-800-377-8632
4-year Public
19,849
49%
51%
Semester
15
$3,384 (including fees)
$4,021.00
$7,405.00
University of Central Arkansas • Conway
501-450-5000
4-year Public
11,781
59%
41%
Semester
15
$3,454.00
$2,515.00
$5,969.00
University of Arkansas at Fort Smith • Fort Smith
1-479-788-7120/ 1-888-512-5466
4-year Public
7,322
58%
42%
Semester
15
$159.40/credit hr- $68registration fee per semester
$500-$700 monthly
Varies
University of the Ozarks • Clarksville
479-979-1227/ 1-800-264-8636
4-year Private
650
55%
45%
Semester
12-17
$9,965.00
$3,150.00
$13,460 (not including books)
Williams Baptist College • Walnut Ridge
1-800-722-4434/ 870-759-4120
4-year Private
650
55%
45%
Semester
12-17
$5,600.00
$2,700.00
$8,300.00
TWO -YEAR COLLEGES Arkansas Northeastern College • Blytheville
870-762-1020
2-year Public
1,900
70%
30%
Semester
12
$54/hr
N/A
$648 plus fees
Arkansas State University • Beebe
501-882-3600/ 1-800-632-9985
2-year Public
3,000
58%
42%
Semester
12
$81/hr
$1,785.00
$1,785 plus tuition
Arkansas State University at Newport • Newport
1-800-976-1676
2-year Public
2,037
50%
50%
Semester
12
$78/hr
N/A
$1,200 (plus books and fees)
Arkansas State University at Mountain Home • Mountain Home
870-508-6100
2-year Public
1,296
66%
34%
Semester
12
$77/hr
N/A
$924 plus books and fees
Arkansas State University • Searcy (a technical campus of ASU-Beebe)
501-207-6200
2-year Public
480
45%
55%
Semester
18
$81/hr
$1,785 - Beebe campus
N/A
Baptist Health Schools Little Rock • Little Rock
501-202-6200 / 800-345-3046
Private
850
84%
16%
Semester
12
$3,200.00
No Campus Housing
Varies By Program
Black River Technical College • Pocahontas
870-248-4000
2-year Public
1,960
61%
39%
Semester
12
$70/hr **
N/A
Varies
Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas • De Queen
870-584-4471/ 1-800-844-4471
2-year Public
1,590
73%
27%
Semester
12
$50/hr **
N/A
$725-1,085
East Arkansas Community College • Forrest City
870-633-4480
2-year Public
1,447
60%
40%
Semester
12
$900 in county/ $1,020 out of county
N/A
N/A
Mid-South Community College • West Memphis
870-733-6722/ 866-733-6722
2-year Public
2,150
64%
36%
Semester
12-21 hours
$65/hr** $80/hr***
N/A
Varies
National Park Community College • Hot Springs
501-760-4222
2-year Public
4,000
66%
34%
Semester
12
$68/hr $1,224 max
N/A
Varies
North Arkansas College • Harrison
870-743-3000
2-year Public
2,429
60%
40%
Semester
12
$768 (in county) $1,032 (out of county)
N/A
N/A
North West Arkansas Community College • Bentonville
479-636-9222/ 1-800-995-6922
2-year Public
8,000
58%
42%
Semester
12
$840 in district/ $1,320 out of district
N/A
$1,555 in-dist, $2,035 out-dist (tuition/fees/books)
Ouachita Technical College • Malvern
1-800-337-0266/ 501-337-5000
2-year Public
1,600
55%
45%
Semester
12
$720
N/A
$720 plus books and fees
Ozarka College • Melbourne
870-368-7371
2-year Public
1,300
71%
29%
Semester
12-15 hours
$75/hr
N/A
Varies
Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas • Helena
870-338-6474
2-year Public
2,283
67%
33%
Semester
15
$57/hr
N/A
$1,515.00
Pulaski Technical College • North Little Rock
501-812-2200
2-year Public
11,167
66%
34%
Semester
Varies
$82/hr
N/A
$1,450 (approx) - If taking 15hr, fees included
Rich Mountain Community College • Mena
479-394-7622
2-year Public
1,000
70%
30%
Semester
15
$855
N/A
$855 plus fees & books
Shorter College • North Little Rock
501-374-6305
2-year Private
n/a
25%
75%
Semester
12-15
$1,380.00
$2,200.00
$4,380 including books
South Arkansas Community College • El Dorado
870-864-7142
2-year Public
1,774
70%
30%
Semester
15
$1,065/$1,200/$2,190
N/A
Varies
Southeast Arkansas College • Pine Bluff
870-850-8605/888-SEARKTC
2-year Public
2,300
70%
30%
Semester
1814
$68/hr
N/A
Varies
Southern Arkansas University Tech • Camden
870-574-4500
2-year Public
1,875
50%
50%
Semester
15
$88/hr in state $132/hr out of state
$1100/semester double; $1650/ semester single
Varies
University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville • Batesville
870-612-2000
2-year Public
1,745
70%
30%
Semester
12
$57/hr in district $69/hr out of district
N/A
Varies
University of Arkansas Community College at Hope • Hope
870-777-5722
2-year Public
1,300
69%
31%
Semester
12
$56.50 per credit hour
N/A
Varies
University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton • Morrilton
1-800-264-1094
2-year Public
2,423
61%
39%
Semester
12
$73/hr** $80/hr In-State
N/A
1,215 Plus books
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AID DEADLINE
% on AID
SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE
REQUIRED EXAMS
APPLICATION DEADLINE/ FEE
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION
CREDIT EXAM ACCEPTED
COMMENT/ HOME PAGE ADDRESS
Open
89%
None
ACT/SAT/COMPASS
None
Baptist
CLEP
Arkansas Baptist College . . . It’s a GOOD thing!
July 1st
69%
Feb. 1st
ACT/ASSET/SAT
1st day of classes/ $15-Undergraduate; $30-Graduate/Masters Specialist; $40 International Students; $50 Doctoral
None
AP/CLEP
In-state tuition available to out-of-state students residing in counties in contiguous states. www.astate.edu
Open
83%
Feb. 15th Priority
ACT/SAT
Open/ No Fee
None
AP/CLEP
Meet your future. www.atu.edu
July 15th
89%
Dec. 10th
ACT or SAT
Aug. 20/ $25
Missionary Baptist
AP/CLEP
Our strength is fostering an excellent education program with a Christian perspective. www.cbc.edu
Open
90%
Open
ACT/ASSET
Open
Church of Christ
CLEP/AP
www.crc.edu
August 1st
94%
August 1st
ACT/SAT
Open/ $40
Church of Christ
AP/CLEP/IB
One of America’s leading character-building colleges with a distinguished academic program. www.harding.edu
June 1st
90%
Feb. 15th Priority
ACT/SAT
None
None
AP/CLEP
A world-class education in a highly personalized environment. www.getreddie.com
Feb. 15 Priority
100%
Dec. 1 Priority
ACT or SAT
May 1 Preferred/ $40- waived before Dec. 1
United Methodist
AP/CLEP/IB
All students engage in “Your Hendrix Odyssey” – a unique array of active, real-life learning experiences that enrich every degree program. www.hendrix.edu
March 1 Priority
87%
March 1st Priority
ACT/SAT
Rolling/ $25
Interdenominational
AP/CLEP/IB
Strong liberal arts core curriculum. Alpha Chi Honors Chapter top 10% nationally. Nationally ranked “Students in Free Enterprise” (SIFE) team. www.jbu.edu
March 1st
98%
March 1st
ACT/SAT
Aug. 1/ $25
Presbyterian
AP and International Baccalaureate
More than 90% of Lyon Applicants are accepted into medical or dental school (national average: 47%). Winner of 14 Arkansas Professors of the Year Awards in 21 years. www.lyon.edu
June 1st
98%
Jan. 15th Priority
ACT/SAT
Open/ No Application Fee
Arkansas Baptist State Convention
AP/CLEP
Discover the Ouachigta difference – academically, spiritually, personally. www.obu.edu
March 1st
95%
March 15th
ACT/SAT
Open/$25
United Methodist
CLEP
Little Rock’s private liberal arts college. www.philander.edu
July 1st Priority
85%
February 15th Priority
ACT or SAT
Open/No Fee
None
AP/CLEP
Affordable, student-centered education. www.saumag.edu
March 1 Priority
70%
Feb. 1st
ACT or SAT
Enterting freshman 1 week prior. Alll others 1st day of classes/$40 Fee
None
AP/CLEP/PEP/Regents College Exams
Apply and register on-line at www.ualr.edu.
Rolling
83%
March 1st Priority
ACT/ASSET/SAT/COMPASS (for placement)
Rolling/No Fee - Except for international applicants
None
AP/CLEP
UAM consists of the main university campus in Monticello as well as the UAM Colleges of Technology in Crossett and McGehee. www.uamont.edu
April 15th Priority
90%
March 1st/ April 1st
ACT/SAT
Open
None
CLEP
UAPB is a comprehensive, 1890 Land Grant Institution that provides open-door liberal and professional education. www.uapb.edu
March 15th
73%
Feb. 1st (Freshman) March 1st (transfers)
ACT/SAT
Aug. 1
None
AP/CLEP/IB
The University of Arkansas is a nationally competitive, student-centered research university serving Arkansas and the world. www.uark.edu
Open
50%
Jan. 8th
ACT/SAT
None
None
AP/CLEP/IB
UCA is a comprehensive university offering students excellence in education. www.uca.edu
June 15 Preferred
69%
Varies
ACT/COMPASS/SAT
Open/ No Fee
None
AP/CLEP/Challenge
University of Arkansas - Fort Smith: Experience. Expert. Education. www.uafortsmith.edu
Feb. 15 Priority
94%
April 1st Priority
ACT/SAT/IB
May 1st Priority
Presbyterian
AP/CLEP
Ozarks’ mission is to provide the best education possible for each student every time. www.ozarks.edu
May 1st
97%
None
ACT/SAT
Open/$20
Southern Baptist
AP/CLEP
www.williamsbaptistcollege.com
Open
67%
April 1st Priority
ACT/ASSET/COMPASS/SAT
Open
None
AP/CLEP
www.anc.edu
Open
Over 50%
June 1st
ACT/COMPASS
Open/ No Fee
None
CLEP
Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees offered in certain areas at ASU-Beebe. www.asub.edu
Open
76%
April 1st
ACT/ASSET/COMPASS/SAT
Open/ No Fee
None
AP/CLEP
A great place to start! www.asun.edu
Open
80%
June 15th
ACT/ASSET/COMPASS/SAT
Open/ No Fee
None
AP/CLEP
Bachelor and graduate degrees are available in some areas. Nestled in the heart of Ozark Mountains. www.asumh. edu
Open
N/A
June 1st
COMPASS
Open/ No Fee
None
N/A
15 Technical Certificate programs are offered on the Searcy campus. www.asub.edu
May 1 / Nov 15
70%
May 1
ACT/SAT
Varies by program / No Fee
Baptist
CLEP
Baptist Health Schools Little Rock provides nine programs of study for students interested in entering the healthcare field. For more information please contact us at bhslr.edu. www.bhslr.edu
Open
70%
April 15th
ACT/ASSET/SAT/COMPASS
Open/ No Fee
None
Advance Placement
Dream it . . .Believe it. . . Achieve it. . . Black River Technical College. www.blackrivertech.org
Fall-May 1, Spring-Nov. 1, Sum.-April 15
70%
May 1st
ACT/ASSET/COMPASS/SAT
Open/ No Fee
None
AP/CLEP
CCCUA has 4 on-line associate’s degrees and more than 70 internet courses available. The college also offers a brand new agriculture degree, engineering degree, and rodeo team. www.cccua.edu
July 1st
75%
April 15th
ACT/ASSET/COMPASS
Open/ No Fee
None
AP/CLEP
EACC is an open-door institution of higher education serving the Arkansas delta since 1974. www.eacc.edu
Open
90%
Open
ACT/ASSET/COMPASS/SAT
Open/Free - $25 for international students
None
AP/CLEP
Mid-South Community Collegeis dedicated to student access and goal achievement. www.midsouthcc.edu
Open
70%
Open
ACT/COMPASS/SAT
Open/ No Fee
None
AP/CLEP/IB
Excellent academic 2-year community college in beautiful Hot Springs. www.npcc.edu
Varies
60%
June 15th
ACT/COMPASS
Open
None
AP/CLEP
North Arkansas College has strong programs in transfer, allied health and computer science. www.northark.edu
April 2nd Priority
47%
April 2nd
ACT/COMPASS/SAT
Open/ $10
None
AP/CLEP/DANTE
www.northark.edu www.nwacc.edu
Open
60%
May 1st/ Dec 1st
ACT/ASSET/COMPASS/SAT
Open/ No Fee
None
AP/CLEP
Is your time important to you? Try our online classes! www.otcweb.edu
Open
65%
March 1st
ACT/ASSET/COMPASS
Open/ No Fee
None
AP/CLEP
Providing life-changing experiences through education. www.ozarka.edu
Call 870-338-6474
60%
Call 870-338-6474
ACT/ASSET/COMPASS
Open/ No Fee
None
AP/CLEP
www.pccua.edu
Fall-May 15, Spring-Oct. 15, Sum-Mar. 15
74%
Varies
ACT/COMPASS
Open/ No Fee
None
AP/CLEP
For more information and a schedule of classes, visit our website at www.pulaskitech.edu.
March 1st
70%
April 1st
ACT/SAT/COMPASS
Open/ No Fee
None
AP/CLEP
A comprehensive college providing a varity of programs, services, and learning opportunities. Transfer, technical degrees and courses: professional workforce, personal development and adult basic education. English as a second language; student support and outreach programs; financial aid assistance www.rmcc.edu
Open
75%
Open
ACT/SAT/COMPASS
Open
African American Episcopal Church
CLEP
Serves traditional and non-traditional students with general, career and technical education programs. www. shortercollege.4t.com
July 1st
60%
March 1st Priority
ACT/ASSET/COMPASS/SAT
Open/ No Fee
None
AP/CLEP
Where students come first. www.southark.edu
May 1 priority
46%
April 30th
ACT/SAT/COMPASS
Open
None
AP/CLEP
Visit our website at www.seark.edu.
June 1st Priority
60%
April 15th
ACT/ASSET/SAT
Open/ No Fee
None
CLEP
Southern Arkansas University Tech is a two-year comprehensive college emphasizing technical programs and is commited to providing quality educational programs delivered through various technologies and methodologies to meet the needs of its service areas. It accomplishes this through technical career programs, transfer curricula, continuing education, workforce education, transitional education, and administrative, student, and community services. www.sautech.edu
Open
Varies
Contact Financial Aid
ACT/ASSET/COMPASS/SAT
Open/ No Fee
None
AP/CLEP
Student Centered. Community Focused www.uaccb.edu
April 1st
47%
April 1st
ACT/COMPASS/ASSET
Open/ No Fee
None
AP/CLEP
www.uacch.edu
July 16 Priority
68%
Nov. 1st/ April 1st
ACT/ASSET/COMPASS
Open/ No Fee
None
AP/CLEP
UACCM - A Journey with Meaning. www.uaccm.edu
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BE ON YOUR GUARD Looking for help paying for a college degree or additional training? The Army National Guard could be your ticket to a successful education. Their education benefits program and services can help you pursue associate, bachelor, master’s and professional degrees. The Guard can also help you receive vocational and technical certificates and You can serve and be a student at the same time. licensures. Office is located at Camp Robinson which The Guard has several programs designed means that you can get a degree from colto help students pay the bills while in colleges across the country while on base. lege, including: 100%Tuition Assistance—up to $18,000 over four years; the original THE SKY’S THE LIMIT Montgomery G.I. Bill; Post 9/11 G.I. Bill; Henderson State University offers Army National Guard Kicker; National Guard Arkansas’s only four-year, university-level Scholarships that can pay up to $10,000 a program in aviation. With experienced facyear plus a $1,200 book allowance; and ulty, 16 aircraft and 14 flight instructors, a student loan repayment program (the Henderson provides students the training Enlisted Loan Repayment Program). It’s a and education necessary for a career in great way to pay for college and put cash the professional aviation industry in the in your pocket. They can even help you safest environment possible. get your GED. You can take the ASVAB The program offers three different career (The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude tracks that lead to a Bachelor of Science Battery) as early as high school to go into degree, including: professional pilot, aviathe Guard. tion management and aviation maintenance “What programs you qualify for depends management. Students can learn to fly for on your military service,” Capt. Kevin the airlines, manage the airports they serve Truslow says. He encourages those conor manage the fleet they fly. sidering service to talk to a qualified high Flight training is conducted at the school or college counselor. Arkadelphia Municipal Airport in a new The Guard also offers job training in flight operations center. Henderson operates over 150 occupations and 11 career fields the airport’s fixed base operation and offers that will prepare students for careers in flight instruction, rentals, pilot supplies and technology, healthcare, aviation, engineerfuel services. Classrooms and flight simuing, communications and many more of lators are located in the Caplinger Airway today’s hottest fields. Some guard training Science Academic Center on campus. can be used towards college credit; if, for Starting this year, aviation students will example, you train as a medic, that traintrain on Henderson’s new state-of-the-art ing can go towards an RN degree. Redbird FMX flight simulator. In addition to Another plus: the National Education
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A student gets hands-on experience at UA’s Eleanor Mann School of Nursing. Gouner adds that they just finished their accreditation process and are fully accredited for eight years and that their program has received many honors, including the fifth pass rate in the state. The University of Arkansas Eleanor Mann School of Nursing—Fayetteville The Eleanor Mann School of Nursing offers both undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. By the time nursing students graduate, many have received three or four job offers. One hundred percent of Eleanor Mann School of Nursing graduates have found meaningful employment a year after graduation. The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.) provides students with extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in a wide variety of settings, offers small clinical class sizes and tremendous one-on-one support from professors. The program emphasizes nurses’ varied roles as caregivers, managers, teachers and researchers, and it prepares graduates to practice in the complex, exciting world of health care. The Master of Science in Nursing Online Clinical Program (M.S.N.) prepares graduates to serve as clinical nurse specialists for adults with medical/surgical health problems. The program is cohort-based and can be completed in 2 1/2 years as a full-time student or in 3 1/2 years as a part-time student. Lepaine Sharp-McHenry, RN, MS Assistant Director, says. “We currently have approximately 780 students who have declared nursing as their major. . . we have been approved for a new building which will help address our space issues and allow us to double our enrollment. In our new building, which will reside at the old University Health Center site on Razorback Rd., we have plans for a simulation lab to enhance training experiences for our nursing students. We are also excited to welcome three new faculty this fall.”
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The campus green chools all over the state are making an effort not only to teach energy efficiency but also to put it into practice. Here’s a look at just a few who are going green.
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HENDRIX COLLEGE According to the Arkansas chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, Hendrix College’s new $26 million Student Life and Technology Center has been certified as LEED-Gold by the Green Building Certification Institute, becoming the first college in Arkansas to receive this environmentally-friendly distinction. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is the recognizable industry standard for sustainability. There are several levels of certification including a basiclevel certification to platinum-level which represents the ultimate in environmental sustainability. The 77,000-square-foot building, which opened in January, includes the state-of-the-art Oathout Educational Technology Center and numerous specialized technology clusters throughout the building while incorporating
all student life elements of the college, from the dining room to The Burrow, a social gathering and activity place for students. “This is an honor that our entire community will celebrate, recognizing Hendrix’s desire to not only promote green-friendly initiatives, but to live them,” Hendrix College President Tim Cloyd says. Some of the most noticeable sustainable advances in the SLTC include: reducing water use by 60%, droughttolerant vegetation, quality air planning, green-friendly roof, natural light and energy consumption. The LEED Team, which included four students, was heavily involved in designing the educational components for LEED certification and advocated strongly for the optional measurement and verification for future research by Hendrix students.
JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY JBU in Siloam Springs now offers a Renewable Energy major. Student Amanda Reed is energized about the program. “I hadn’t heard much about renewable energy, but it sounded interesting,” says Reed. She took one class with instructor Fernando Vega, renewable energy program director, and was hooked. She now plans to double major in business administration and renewable energy. Reed joins a growing number of JBU students in the renewable energy program, launched as a pilot program in the 20092010 school year. The program focuses on wind, solar and biomass renewable energy systems [using organic matter to generate energy]. Dr. Cal Piston, natural science division chair, says the program proposal was generated after the Office for Academic Affairs sent out a request for new ideas that
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42!). &/2 ! #!2%%2 ). (%!,4(#!2% building’ is just another way for us to were innovative and fit JBU’s mission. demonstrate our social justice commitWhen approved in 2008, the renewable ment and, in this case, to increase campus energy program was one of the first fullawareness of issues of environmental jusfledged degree programs of its kind in the tice,� says President Walter M. Kimbrough, United States. Most other colleges offering Ph.D. “With our growing enrollment, our similar programs were engineering schools, new campus master plan expands our and none of them had a Christian focus. focus on topics consistent with our mis“Ten to 15 years ago, these ideas were sion.� The project’s expedited time frame not mainstream, but now they are,� Piston provided only 12 months of planning, says. Vega agreed that the time was right pre- and schematic design, construction for JBU to start the program because politidocuments and building. This created an cal, financial and environmental changes atmosphere of cooperation that lends itself in American society are bringing the idea to the integrative processes embodied in of renewable energy to the forefront of LEED, allowing measured and informed public discourse. “It’s a timely initiative,� decisions involving mechanical systems, he says. “Energy is an important part of green building materials selection and meetany business. We first need to learn how ing standards of a historic district. Once to avoid energy waste then start learning certification is complete, this building will how to use renewable energy.� be the first LEED certified college dormiThe renewable energy program is tory in Arkansas. Enrollment at Philander designed to provide students with a bachSmith College was up 13% for fall 2009, elors of science in renewable energy, and creating a shortage for on-campus housstudents are required to choose from one of three emphasis areas: design, international development or ENERGY IS AN IMPORTANT management. Piston explains that students in the major have PART OF ANY BUSINESS. WE a core number of about half a dozen classes and in addition FIRST NEED TO LEARN HOW TO take courses that develop their AVOID ENERGY WASTE THEN respective areas of emphasis. The design emphasis has a math START LEARNING HOW TO USE and engineering focus, and RENEWABLE ENERGY. students are trained to design and integrate the systems used to create renewable energy. The ing. In September 2009 the crunch was management emphasis combines business eased some when the College opened the courses with renewable energy. These doors of the newly renovated Barracksstudents may go into sales, marketing or Honors Hall to 19 honor students. The management—areas of the business that new Residential Suites A, now nearing don’t involve the more technical aspects. completion, is the first of four residenThe international development emphasis tial buildings to be constructed over the combines renewable energy courses with next five years. courses in intercultural studies. Students interested in international development PULASKI TECHNICAL COLLEGE can go on to help impoverished comTim Jones, Director of Public Relations munities develop better, safer water or at Pulaski Tech, says that the field of find energy sources that won’t harm their green jobs is rapidly growing, and that in communities. response to that trend, Pulaski Tech will The program is already growing, transsoon open a weatherization training cenforming and innovating. Vega says he ter. Weatherization skills are “green colwants to establish more labs with the lar� job skills and can become the base necessary equipment, including labs for on which participants can build additional solar/thermal energy, solar/electric energy, expertise to prepare for long-term career meteorology, a wind lab and a biomass/ opportunities in the growing fields of biofuels lab. energy efficiency. Jones describes the interior of the cenPHILANDER SMITH COLLEGE ter as follows, “There are a number of In late February, Philander Smith College structures inside. Think of them like little broke ground on a new dormitory dubbed houses.� There, students will learn about Residential Suites A. The 60-bed, threefoundation issues, insulation, duct work story, 19,770-square-foot building is and more. Essentially, they will learn to registered to achieve LEED Certification troubleshoot an entire house. “People can and provide much needed living space go through this in a relatively short period to meet the College’s ever-expanding stuof time and leave with a skill set. It’s another dent enrollment. tool in the box,� says Jones. “Building a LEED-certified or ‘green
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1. Arkansas Baptist College – Little Rock - www.arkansasbaptist.edu 2. Arkansas State University – Beebe – www.asub.edu 3. Arkansas State University – Jonesboro - www.astate.edu 4. Arkansas Tech University – Russellville - www.atu.edu 5. Central Baptist College – Conway -www.cbc.edu 6. Crowley’s Ridge College – Paragould - www.crowleysridgecollege.edu 7. Harding University – Searcy – www.harding.edu 8. Henderson State University – Arkadelphia – www.getreddie.edu 9. Hendrix College – Conway – www.hendrix.edu 10. John Brown University – Siloam Springs – www.jbu.edu 11. Lyon College – Batesville – www.lyon.edu 12. Ouachita Baptist University – Arkadelphia – www.obu.edu 13. Philander Smith College – Little Rock – www.philander.edu 14. Southern Arkansas University – Magnolia – www.saumag.edu 15. University of Arkansas / Walton College of Business - Fayetteville – www.uark.edu 16. University of Arkansas Fort Smith – www.uafortsmith.edu 17. University of Arkansas at Little Rock – Little Rock - www.ualr.edu 18. University of Arkansas at Monticello – Monticello - www.uamont.edu 19. University of Arkansas Pine Bluff – Pine Bluff - www.uapb.edu 20. University of Central Arkansas – Conway –www.uca.edu 21. University of the Ozarks – Clarksville – www.ozarks.edu 22. Williams Baptist College - Walnut Ridge – www.williamsbaptistcollege.edu
27. Arkansas State University – Searcy – www.asub.edu 28. Black River Technical College – Pocahontas – www.blackrivertech.edu 29. Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas – Ashdown – http://cccua.edu 30. Cossatot Community College of the Univeristy of Arkansas – De Queen - http://cccua.edu 31. Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas – Nashville - http://cccua.edu 32. East Arkansas Community College – Forrest City –www.eacc.edu 33. ITT Technical Institute – Little Rock – www.ITT-Tech.edu 34. Mid-South Community College – West Memphis – www.midsouthcc.edu 35. National Park Community College – Hot Springs – www.npcc.edu 36. North Arkansas College – Harrison – www.northark.edu 37. Northwest Arkansas Community College – Bentonville – www.nwacc.edu 38. Ouachita Technical College – Malvern – www.otcweb.edu 39. Ozarka College – Melbourne – www.ozarka.edu 40. Pulaski Technical College – North Little Rock – pulaskitech.edu 41. Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas – Helena – www.pccua.edu 42. Rich Mountain Community College – Mena –www.rmcc.edu 43. Shorter College – North Little Rock – www.shortercollege.4t.edu 44. South Arkansas Community College – El Dorado – www.southark.edu 45. Southeast Arkansas College – Pine Bluff – www.seark.edu 46. Southern Arkansas University Tech – Camden – www.sautech.edu 47. University of Arkansas Community College – Batesville – www.uaccb.edu 48. University of Arkansas Community College – Hope – www.uacch.edu 49. University of Arkansas Community College – Morrilton – www.uaccm.edu
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23. Arkansas Northeastern College – Blytheville – www.anc.edu 24. Arkansas State University – Beebe – www.asub.edu 25. Arkansas State University - Newport – www.asun.edu 26. Arkansas State University – Mountain Home – www.asumh.edu
50. Baptist Health Schools – Little Rock – www.BHSLR.edu 51. Heritage College
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For the salad lover, Dizzy’s is an absolute paradise. Its list of eleven “Ridiculously Large Entrée Salads” runs the gamut of what you can do with greens and dressing. For example Zilpphia’s Persian Lime Salad, featuring grilled turkey breast, tomato, cucumber, onion, lime and buffalo mozzarella over romaine. For another: Mary Ann’s Dream, with grilled chicken breast, baby spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, cranberries, mandarin oranges, bourbon pecans and bleu cheese. Don’t that sound good?
Sharing good things with good friends is the motto at Fantastic China. A Central Arkansas favorite offering the Freshest Chinese Food in town. It’s made to order with 100% Vegetable Oil. The presentation is beautiful, the menu distinctive, and the service perfect. Fantastic China is one of the heights most reliable and satisfying restaurants and a local favorite. Full bar.
mexican Casa Manana Taqueria
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Lilly’s Dimsum Then Some 11121 Rodney Parham 501-716-2700
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Layla’s
9501 N. Rodney Parham 501-227-7272
2701 Kavanaugh Blvd 501-614-6682 Tues-Sat 11am-9pm Sunday Brunch 10:30-2pm
Capers Restaurant
Indulge in the culinary creations and intimate environment that define Capers Restaurant. Food and wine enthusiasts agree Capers’ sophisticated approach to dining is key to it’s many accolades including receiving the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for six years running.
Copper Grill & Grocery
An endless array of delicious dishes available in the Grill or grab your Gourmet-to-Go from the Grocery. Offering products by French Farm, Bella Cucina & Bittersweet Herb that promise to turn any recipe into a memorable masterpiece Copper Grill & Grocery is a wonderland for the gourmand.
Gadwall’s Grill
Still serving up high-quality burgers and home-made fries. Enjoy good food in a relaxed setting. Now offering outdoor seating on the deck. Serving cheese dip, nachos, platter meals, sandwiches and fried pies. Happy hour domestic draft beer from 3-6pm.
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Contemporary metropolitan bistro meets Southern smalltown hospitality in a neighborhood bar. SO offers the best in fresh seafood and hand-cut rustic meats, complimented by an extensive and diverse wine list, recognized by Wine Spectator with their Award of Excellence. Whether casual dinners, special occasions, meetings with clients, or private parties, our service will impress. Open daily 11am.
Butcher Shop
Tremendous steaks, excellent service, fair prices and a comfortable atmosphere make The Butcher Shop the prime choice for your evening out. In addition to tender and juicy steaks, The Butcher Shop offers fresh fish, pork chop, 24 hour slow roasted Prime Rib, char grilled marinated chicken and fresh pasta. Ideal for private parties, business meetings, and rehearsal dinners. Rooms accommodate up to 50-60 people.
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Look no further…voted Best Asian again by the Arkansas Signature_______________________________________________________________Date__________________________ Times readers. Lilly’s serves up extraordinary dishes made PLEASE RETURN THIS SIGNED PROOF PROMPTLY! from the freshest, premium local and organic ingredients. ARKANSAS TIMES 304 N. Main St. P.O. Box 34010, Also enjoy warm and inviting ambiance as you dine on Little Rock AR 72203 North Little Rock any one of the tasty house specialties. Sundays are wine (inside Galaxy Furniture Store) day: all wine by the bottle, half off. 501-612-4754 Tues-Sat 10am - 6pm www. hunkapie.com One of central Arkansas’s largest Chinese buffets, we offer www.facebook.com/ hunkapie all your favorites with our sushi bar and Mongolian Grill
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Authentic North Indian Cuisine at its very best! Vegetable and Non-vegetable Buffet daily with Special. Saturday and Sunday Brunch. Mention this ad for a complimentary Indian Mango Drink.
Enjoy regional specialties such as Lentil soup, a huge serving of yummy Hummus, Baba Ghannnouj or Tabbouleh. And don’t forget about the Gyros, they’re sure to be heroes in your book!
Brazilian Café Bossa Nova
Whether the Travs are at home or on the road, come enjoy the unique Dickey-Stephens Park Atmosphere at Ump’s, an upscale sports pub and restaurant, featuring sandwiches, salads, steaks, seafood, good times and more! Come treat yourself to a meal prepared by Chef’s Ball award winning sous chef Richard Lindsey. Open 6 days a week for lunch, 11am-2pm. Open nightly for all Travellers home games. Regular dinner hours Friday and Saturday only.
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Voted Best Mexican 2007. Featuring authentic fare from the Puebla region of Mexico, the selections seem endless at your choice of 3 locations in the Little Rock area. You will find an array of dishes ranging from the salient Shrimp Veracruzana at La Palapa out west to great Guacamole in the River Market Taqueria. Or try tasty Tostadas that share the name of the original Cantrell location, Casa Manana.
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Try something different! Café Bossa Nova serves up cozy atmosphere and unique Brazilian dishes guaranteed to satisfy and served with that special Latin flare. Don’t deny yourself one of the delectable desserts prepared fresh daily or for an A+ apertif, drink in the authentic flavor of the country in the Caipirinha~a perfect blend of lime, sugar and Brazilian sugar cane rum. Dine with them tonight!
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HUNKA PIE
Hunka Pie specializes in premium hand-crafted pies. We welcome all pie lovers to come share a slice today! Call ahead for whole pie orders. Chocolate Peanut Butter, Velvet Lips Chocolate Cream, Strawberry Cream Cheese, Chocolate Pecan, Coconut Custard, key Lime, French Apple Pie & more. Now Serving Lunch! Monster Frito Pie, Spinach & Feta Greek Pie, Toasted Artichoke Sandwich.
steak Sonny Williams
If you have not been to Sonny Williams lately, get there immediately and check out the martini/wine bar. Now you can enjoy 35 wines by the glass, 335 selections of wine, 6 single barrel bourbons and all different kinds of Scotch from the many regions of Scotland. Of course, don’t miss out on the nightly entertainment by Jeff at the piano. Sonny’s is a River Market mainstay and perfect for intimate private parties; free valet parking! As always, Sonny Williams has the best steaks in town along with fresh seafood and game. No Skinny Steaks… Call ahead for reservations (501) 324-2999
Faded Rose
Featuring the Best Steaks in town with a New Orleans flair from a New Orleans native. Also featuring Seafood and Creole Specialties. As Rachel Ray says “This place is one of my best finds ever.” Back by popular demand…Soft Shell Crab and New Orleans Roast Beef Po-Boys.
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brew pub Vino’s Pizza•Pub•Brewery 923 West 7th Street 501/375-VINO (8466)
Beer, pizza and more! Drop in to Vino’s, Little Rock’s Original Brewpub! and enjoy great New York-style pizza (whole or by-the-slice) washed down with your choice of award-winning ales or lagers brewed right on site. Or try a huge calzone, our new Muffaletta sandwich or just a salad and a slice with our homemade root beer. The deck’s always open, you don’t have to dress up and the kids are always welcome (or not). Vino’s is open 7 days, lunch and dinner. You can call ahead for carry-out and even take a gal. growler of beer to-go. And guess what?? The bathrooms have just been re-done!
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If you’ve been searching for your dream home, the one at 155 Merlot in Conway is it. The house of your dreams won’t get any better than this. Built by Boone Custom Homes, it features four bedrooms, two bathrooms and approximately 1,870 square feet of space. Six-inch plank wood floors let you know this home is truly special. They add to the look of the foyer and living room, creating a cozy, homey feeling. The fireplace in this room will also be a natural place for family and friends to gather. It has a beautiful granite surround and makes a great focal point for the living room. Tall ceilings also tell you this home was built with attention to detail. The chef in the family will love this great kitchen. It’s roomy and has lots of great features like the tile backsplash, beautiful cabinetry and stainless appliances. There’s plenty of counter space and quick meals can be enjoyed around the break-
fast bar. There’s a separate breakfast room in addition to the dining room. All the bedrooms are on the same level, the master suite is separate from the others. The master suite is large and the bathroom features a jetted tub, private water closet and double sinks. All the bedrooms are carpeted. This home has many extras including elegant light fixtures, a floored attic, two-car garage and beautiful landscaping with a sprinkler system. Not sold yet? Make this home yours and the builder will pay up to $5,000 in buyer’s closing costs. There is so much more to this home that it must be seen to be appreciated. It is offered for $213,900 and is listed with Linda Roster White Real Estate. To see additional photos, visit www.LRWHomes.com. Call Linda for a private tour or for more information at 501-730-1100.
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REAL ESTATE by neighborhood TO ADVERTISE, CALL TIFFANY HOLLAND AT 375-2985 31 BERNARD
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Sparkles and shines with new paint, carpet, appliances, countertops, etc.! 3BR/2BA, huge LR with cathedral ceiling, oversized breakfast area, wood-burning FP, large bedrooms, 2” blinds thru-out. Fenced yard. $149,900
LOTS FOR SALE - Greenbrier. 1/31/2 acres starting at $23K. Trees, all utilities. Just 8 miles from Conway. 501-472-5807
7918 ILLINOIS - $174,900. Well maintained, one-level home in a great neighborhood. Updated kitchen has granite counters, stainless appliances & travertine floors. Bathrooms have marble countertops & travertine floors. Roomy bedrooms have hardwood floors. Many updates make this home move-in ready! Anna Kaye Roehrenbeck, The Charlotte John Company, 501-993-1834
MLS# 10253781 28 VALMONT Fantastic floor plan! 3BR/2BA new home. Large kitchen with hearthroom. Fireplace, beautiful floors and cabinets. Walk kids to school. $169,900
Buying Lake Hamilton Condos!
MLS# 10262566 37 INDIAN SPRINGS New construction! Charming 3BR/2BA home w/gas fireplace, breakfast bar, tile backsplash, smooth top cooking surface. Jet tub, stained & scored concrete floors. Deck with view. $152,000
MLS# 10253103 53 WIN MEADOW A little bit of country with all the modern amenities! 4BR/3BA with large kitchen w/oak cabinetry, double pantry, cook’s dream island, breakfast nook with large windows. Across from 55-acre lake. $229,900
501.664.6629
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Capitol View/ Stiffts Station 123 N. SUMMIT - Rare find close to ACH, UAMS, & Hillcrest. 2 BRs and a separate office, 2050 SF. Totally updated including cherry wood laminate flooring throughout, all new plumbing & electrical wiring, new kitchen counters, sink & dishwasher, new tank-less H2’ 0 heater, wired for computer network, audio/video and IR remote, a deck, fenced yard and oversized 2 car garage. A 21X17.6 ft sunroom w/vaulted ceiling, tile floor, water proof walls, lots of windows and sunken Jacuzzi hot tub. Located in Union Depot next to AR School for the Blind. Call Clyde Butler of CBRPM at 240-4300.
Arkansas times presents PULASKI COUNTY Real Estate sales over $102,000 Whitney C. Crater, 8 Sanibel Cove, $196,000. Traci L. Morgan to Regions Bank, Regions Mortgage, Ls11-12 B5, Cra wford, $195,379. Craig Custom Construction LLC to Everett L. Flowers, Debra A. Flowers, 13800 Smarty Jones Dr., Scott, $193,000. Timothy Board, Denise Board to Joshua A. McElderry, Lara L. McElderry, 8 Bjorn Borg Ct., $185,000. Mitzi G. Warren, Bryce A. Warren to Ron S. Jumper, 13208 Morrison Rd., $176,000. Neil Soules, Linzi Soules to Lara H. Sherrill, 49 Summit Ridge Dr., $172,000. Cliff Crowder, Katherine J. Crowder to Clay B. Hughes, Whitney Hughes, 5 Alanbrook Cove, Sherwood, $169,000. Donna S. Williams to James A. Dail, Donna R. Dail, 65 Rolling Oaks Dr., Maumelle, $161,000. Andrew F. Higginbothom, Jessica B. Higginbothom to Mickey A. Searcy, Joseph P. Searcy, 408 Pine Valley Rd., $156,000. James A. Patton to Betty S. Fussell, L51, Markham Manor, $155,000. Tracy J. Rowell to Jeffrey P. Hough, Amy P. Hough, L114, Cammack Woods, $151,000. Steven L. Kyle, Jennifer L. Kyle to Elton R. Payne, Beverly J. Payne, 10611 Stoneridge Ct., Sherwood, $151,000. Ellon L. Massey to Comment B. Murphy, L7, Reservoir Heights No.2, $150,000. Barry & Pat Solomon Family Revocable Trust, Barry L. Solomon, Patricia Solomon to Louis Gladfelter Revocable Trust,
Robert L. Gladfelter, NE 11-1N14W, $150,000. Vince T. Edgar, Tish Edgar to Secretary Of Veterans Affairs, 8522 Yellow Oak Dr., Jacksonville, $147,618. Arthur W. Hall, Sue A. Hall to Leonardo Moya, Tabitha Moya, 9 White Willow Ct., $147,000. Michael J. Motes, Leah Motes to Kenard D. Pegram, 3004 Miracle Heights Cove, Sherwood, $145,000. G&K Home Solutions LLC to Jonathan A. Steckbeck, Leslie C. Steckbeck, L5, Camelot Estates, $142,000. Matthew J. Foster, Heather L. Parker-Foster to Rachel M. Fitzhugh, Steven B. Fitzhugh, 2121 Pear Orchard Dr., $138,000. Corrie E. Crowley, Bryan W. Crowley to James M. Neu, Amanda M. Pratt, 13204 Teton Dr., $138,000. Gary C. Andrews, Michelle Andrews to Jonathon Ferricher, L33, Woodland Hills Phase 4, $138,000. Casey D. Daniel, Michelle Daniel to Matthew W. Breeding Trust, Kenny D. Breeding, Norman L. Breeding, L16, Rolling Oaks Phase 3, $135,000. Steven M. Williamson, Leah K. Williamson to Susan R. Langley Revocable Trust, Susan R. Langley, L3 B4, Lakewood, $133,000. Ron C. Smith, Regina A. Smith to Jason Payne, Toni A. Payne, L19-20, Ferncrest Estates, $130,000. John J. McGraw, Amber S. McGraw to Wells Fargo Bank NA, 603 Pembroke Dr., Sherwood, $128,669. Bosley Construction, Inc. to Myron A. Tate, Tory A. Tate, 59
Bracey Cir., $128,000. David W. Sandin, Deborah K. Sandin to BAC Home Loans Servicing LP, Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP, L81, Rolling Oaks Phase 1, $127,659. Regions Bank to 207 West 3rd Development LLC, Ls1-2 B83, Original City Of Little Rock, $125,000. A. B. Burney, Mary C. Burney to Janet A. Nelson, L62R, Chatham, $123,000. Gary W. Stone, Glenda R. Stone to Mary L. Range, 118 Greentree Rd., Sherwood, $123,000. Pearl E. Hanneman to George J. Myers, Vonnie Myers, L5 B2, Breckenridge 1st, $120,000. Keeton Properties LLC to June B. Blankenship, William F. Blankenship, 1808 Iris St., $117,000. Andrew D. Bell, Kimberly J. Bell to Chase Home Finance LLC, 5723 W. 50th St., $115,594. Stoney E. Glover, Jr. to Secretary Of Veterans Affairs, 4913 Batesville Pike, Sherwood, $114,569. James V. Satterfield, Penny A. Inman-Satterfield to Midfirst Bank, 17 Lee Oaks St., Sherwood, $114,036. Brian E. Barlow, Eva T. Barlow to Barlow Family Farms LP, SE NE 14-15S-4W (Drew County), $113,000. Bryan J. Arnold, Carina F. Arnold to Deric D. Wright, 97 Pinedale Cir., Mabelvale, $111,000. Maria T. Ruth, Gerson Lliran to Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., L7, Wedgewood Creek Phase 1, $106,659. Cartus Financial Corp. to S&K Holding & Investments Inc., L66 B724, Cliffs HPR, $102,000.
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Zulpo Rd., Roland, $265,000. Ryan W. Luedke, Lace E. Luedke to Steven Keller, L13 B9, Maumelle Valley Estates, $262,000. Warren M. Rodgers, Deborah H. Rodgers to Marli Azevedo, Walton Azevedo, L33G B20, Indian Hills, $250,000. James L. Workman, Jr. to Jeffrey P. Pulliam, Elizabeth A. Pulliam, L126, Waterside Replat, $250,000. Keathley Properties Inc. to Barbara J. Wood, 26 Kanis Creek Pl., $248,000. Douglas W. Loftin, Jr., Cindy C. Loftin to Amanda Hope, L32, Vista Pointe, $240,000. IberiaBank FSB to Xiang X. Lin, Jin Y. Lin, L4, A. G. C. Replat, $230,000. Welcome Home Enterprises Inc. to Willie J. Atkins, L1152, Fairway Woods, $230,000. Jepter L. Jordan, Mattie B. Jordan to Regions Bank, Regions Mortgage, L101, St Charles, $220,052. Elder Custom Homes Inc. to Todd L. Smith, Deven R. Smith, L218, Edgewater Phase 2, $214,000. Jason Garrett Construction, Inc. to Megan F. Stockinger, Douglas E. Stockinger, 401 Forest Glen Cove, Jacksonville, $204,000. Russell A. Johnson, Monica Johnson to Cary Maddox, Lori Maddox, 106 Pleasantwood Dr., Maumelle, $200,000. Charles E. Brown to Lisa A. Taylor, 110 Orchid Dr., Maumelle, $199,000. Davis Family Irrevocable Trust, Larry Davis to Yao J. Wang, Kathryn E. Wang, 3604 Loch Ln., NLR, $199,000. Fitzhugh Construction Inc. to
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Woodhaven Homes Inc. to Frank G. Swift, Jr., 2404 Hunters Chase Ct., Jacksonville, $492,000. Rickey D. Medlock to Andy C. Smith, Tracy S. Smith, 2200 S. Broadway St., $480,000. Sally Ederington to Jimmy N. Wilson, June D. Wilson, Lot D10 B13, Chenal Valley, $478,000. Elder Custom Homes Inc. to Darrel L. Ellison, Shonta Ellison, L11 B25, Maumelle Valley Estates, $408,000. Jana G. Strickland to Aaron R. Dawson, L10 B82, Chenal Valley , $380,000. James L. Morgan, Tonya M. Morgan to Bradley E. Hardin, Darlene C. Hardin, L24 B11, Woodland Edge, $363,000. James F. Kuntz, Joy L. Kuntz to Thomas H. George, Ruthie R. George, 18 Bayonne Dr., $323,000. James W. Norris, Susan L. Norris to Regina Hutson, Kyle E. Hutson, L62 B73, Chenal Valley, $322,000. Tara Amuimuia, Saivatia Amuimuia, George A. Crocker, Vonda J. Crocker to Jeffery Q. Melton, Kimberly A. Melton, L69, Westchester Phase 5B, $286,000. Keathley Properties Inc., Keathley Homes to Darlene Harrison, L24, Pinnacle Valley Court, $285,000. Charles E. Coleman, Laura M. Coleman to Curt Foxx, Ilyssa Foxx, 25 Hayfield Rd., $275,000. Kevin J. Keathley, Karen T. Keathley to Jeffrey W. Fisher, Cathianne Watkins, L59, Spring Valley Manor, $270,000. Willy J. Nowell, William E. Nowell to Terry W. Morrow, Tamelia B. Morrow, 19600 John
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31 BERNARD - $149,900. Sparkles and shines like new! 3BR/2BA, huge living room with cathedral ceiling, oversized breakfast area, woodburning fireplace, large bedrooms, 2 blinds thru-out. Fenced yard. MLS# 10253781 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-730-1100 or 501-6791103 730 SLOPE - $269,000. New - Must See! 4BR/3BA, gameroom, computer area, custom tile shower, granite countertops, wood & tile. MLS# 10251178 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-730-1100 or 501-6791103.
Greenbrier 4214 C STREET - $149,900. 2BR/1BA starter home, 1166 SF. Walk to UAMS or shopping on Kavanaugh. Call John Selva at Pulaski Heights Realty at 501-993-5442. 423 N. VAN BUREN - $174,900. Over 2700 total SF. Buy now & have renter offset your mortgage payment. Main level is 2BR/2BA, 1500 SF. Upstairs studio rental is approx 550 SF ($525/ mo.) Also, has 700+SF walkout basement. New Paint! Owner is licensed agent. Call John, Pulaski Heights Realty, at 993-5442 for more info.
4924 HILLCREST AVE - $475,000. 3BR/3BA plus 3-car garage. 2600 SF. Recently renovated home on large corner lot. Call John Selva at Pulaski Heights Realty at 501-993-5442.
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28 VALMONT - $169,900. Fantastic floor plan! 3BR/2BA new home. Large kitchen with hearthroom. Fireplace, beautiful floors and cabinets. Walk kids to school. MLS# 10262566 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-730-1100 or 501-6791103 37 INDIAN SPRINGS - $152,000. New construction! Charming 3BR/2BA home w/gas fireplace, breakfast bar, tile backsplash, smooth top cooking surface. Jet tub, stained & scored concrete floors. Deck with view. MLS# 10253103 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501730-1100 or 501-679-1103
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712 N. WALNUT - $162,500. 2BR/1BA in the heart of Hillcrest. Just 1/2 block of Kavanaugh. Renovated kitchen w/ custom maple cabinets, tile floors, solid surface counters. Enter MLS 10257444 at www.PulaskiHeightsRealty.com
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21854 WILLIAM BRANDON DRIVE - $168,500. Enjoy country living on five level acres only 15 minutes from downtown Little Rock! Like-new home with 4BR/2BA, wood-burning fireplace, granite counters, stainless appliances & more! Call Clyde Butler of CBRPM at 501-240-4300.
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53 WIN MEADOW - $229,900. A little bit of country with all the modern amenities! 4BR/3BA with large kitchen w/oak cabinetry, double pantry, cook’s dream island, breakfast nook with large windows. Across from 55-acre lake. MLS# 10257940 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-730-1100 or 501-6791103
Mayflower 1023 N. POLK - $209,900. 3BR/2BA, 1600 SF. Updated kitchen & bathrooms. New roof, gutters, energy efficient windows & exterior paint. Large corner lot w/privacy fence. Hardwoods & plantation blinds throughout. FSBO, 951-9051
10 FREDONIA CT - Beautiful 3BR/2BA home with cathedral ceilings and all the extras homeowners are looking for! Easy interstate access to Conway and Little Rock. Visit www.10FredoniaCourt.com to see additional photos of this beautiful property. Ray Scott, The Charlotte John Company, 501-240-1442
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Gloomy n Ah, man, I’m feeling gloomy this week. I don’t know what it is. Maybe the heat. Maybe suffering by people I care about that I can’t do anything to help. I think Why them? and feel bad toward the Grand Designer for the amount of chance that weaseled into the scheme, and how little merit counts for, and I wallow guiltily like an old slug at the thought of how evolution has cooked furiously for ages now to bring about a circumstance in which a Dick Morris finds fulfillment in sucking the red paint off of some old whore’s toes. It’s the dog days, it’s nut season, cranks and gasbags galore, when wells dry up and ponds scum over, snakes molt and skunks go mad, when the dog-peter gnats gather at dusk into great horrid clouds, and I’m needing a shot of kickapoo courage to finish out the string here. Some sort of Gatorade for the soul, or in this case more like Geritol. In brief, I need you to tell me something to cheer me up. Tell me the one again with the punchline, “Hey, Hugh, get off of McCloud!” Tell me, and make me believe it, that some bright morning when this life is o’er, I’ll fly away. And that they won’t charge me $30 a bag for my luggage.
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