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placed in a kind of foster care.” — U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, comparing criminals separated from their children in the U.S. to immigrants seeking asylum on radio’s “The Hugh Hewitt Show” on June 19. Cotton also lied about the Trump administration’s hands being tied on its policy of separating children from families.

Hutchinson still sending National Guard to the border Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, will not send his state’s National Guard to the border, in protest of the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from families seeking legal asylum in the U.S. Arkansas Governor Hutchinson is unmoved by the humanitarian crisis as far as the Guard is concerned. He said June 18 BRIAN CHILSON

“Forty-nine Democrats have now supported a bill by Dianne Feinstein that says children at the border are literally a get-out-of-jail-free card. If you show up at our border, you have to be released into our country never to be seen again. They are literally a get-outof-jail-free card, and a get-into-theU.S.-free card. … All across America, there are parents who are separated from their children because they have been arrested for a crime, or they’ve been convicted of a crime. And their children are placed with the next of kin, or their children are placed in foster care. That probably happened last night in Arkansas multiple times. Yet the Democrats aren’t crying for those American citizens. They’re willing to treat illegal immigrant criminals better than they treat American citizens who are charged with a crime. … “The Trump administration’s hands are tied by liberal judges and Democrats who have ruled over the years that children at the border can’t be detained for more than 20 days. That’s why when their parents bring them to the border, or just as likely, kidnap them or buy them from human traffickers to pose as parents at the border, the parent is taken into custody, the child can’t be detained for more t ha n 20 days, and t heref ore placed w it h a r e l a tive or

he still plans to send Arkansas troops The sentence includes restituto help with so-called border control. tion of $83,903, with interest waived, The supposed emergency need for and the judge set this requirement: state troops is belied by the fact that “Until the financial penalties are paid illegal entries are near a 45-year low. in full, defendant shall not incur any new debt nor establish any bank or credit accounts unless receiving prior approval from the U.S. Probation Federal Judge P.K. Holmes has sen- Office, and shall make any informatenced former Sen. Jake Files (R-Fort tion concerning his financial status Smith) to 18 months in prison for available to the U.S. probation officer scheming to divert state money into upon request.” his own pocket and his failing construction company. Files got 18 months for wire fraud, 18 months for money laundering and 18 The Veterans Health Care Sysmonths for bank fraud. The sentences tem of the Ozarks in Fayetteville has are to be served concurrently. In fed- announced the firing of a staff patholeral prison, you get scant time off for ogist and also said a patient’s death good behavior, meaning he’ll serve may be linked to a misdiagnosis. The most of the sentence, though the final VA has not disclosed the pathologist’s portion is often served in community- name. based halfway houses. Thousands of cases on which the He was also sentenced to three pathologist worked are being reviewed. years of supervised release after com- He was first suspended when found to pleting the sentence. be impaired, then terminated. He was The government had asked for a employed from 2005 until 2017. “We 24-month term, at the high end pos- are treating this like a national disassible for the charge to which Files ter,” Kelvin L. Parks, interim medical pleaded guilty. He must report to director at the VA in Fayetteville, said begin serving the sentence by Aug. 2. at a news conference Monday.

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OPINION

Where’s the outrage?

m I the only person, apart from neling the money federal prosecutors, outraged through a church about the criminal enterprise Wilkins pastored. that inveigled itself into a privileged po- T h e c o m p a n y sition as an Arkansas taxpayer-financed hired Eddie Coohuman services provider to the tune, per, a Democratic today, of $43 million a year? legislator, and he MAX BRANTLEY I refer to Preferred Family Health- joined the criminal maxbrantley@arktimes.com care Services, a Missouri-based non- conspiracy. profit that provides Medicaid-financed At least one other former legislator behavioral health services in dozens of was put on the payroll, but has not been places around Arkansas. charged. Its business is at the core of former Numerous legislators, as yet unaccompany executive/lobbyist Rusty Cran- cused of crimes, gladly signed their name ford’s guilty plea to a federal bribery to state handouts to Cranford’s organicharge that involves bribes, kickbacks zations. and illegal campaign contributions to A Pennsylvania lobbyist pleaded win legislative support and direct cash guilty to funneling PFH money to poligrants to PFH and affiliates. ticians in illegal campaign contributions. The scheme, the government says, A Springfield accountant committed included kickbacks to Republican Sen. suicide after pleading guilty to charges Jon Woods from a planned state handout. related to ill-gotten money from PFA. Former Republican Rep. Micah Neal also Three members of the nonprofit orgaadmitted to scheming with Cranford to nization’s leadership team were fired help PFH in return for kickbacks. after the Pennsylvania lobbyist’s guilty Cranford also bribed former Dem- plea, but at least two others stayed on. ocratic legislator Hank Wilkins, fun- One was just placed on leave last week

Inhuman America

ur history has included some evil passages — slavery and white supremacy, the forced removal of Native Americans from their homes, the imprisonment and dispossession of Japanese Americans during World War II, the torture of prisoners in latter-day wars — but it is also a part of our history that we came to officially regard them all with shame, as offenses to the human rights that were our original values. When will we regard the severance of immigrant children from their moms and dads with the same revulsion? Perhaps for most Americans it is right now, judging from the condemnations of so many people, including even a few from the governing party, like former first lady Laura Bush. The current first lady, herself an immigrant of once questionable status, also demands that the abuse of children and families stop, although she seems to embrace her husband’s ridiculous story that the completely impotent Democrats are somehow at least partly to blame. It has been the official position of the leadership of both houses that no bill is to reach a vote unless it can be passed without a single Democratic vote.

The policy of taking children away from parents who reach the border after fleeing the tyranny of government or drug lords and gangs in Guatemala, Honduras and other ERNEST Latin countries is DUMAS the sole work of Donald Trump, carried out by his attorney general and his director of Homeland Security, although the latter both defends it and sometimes denies that it is happening. In only the first weeks of this gruesome national policy, some 2,000 children have been orphaned at the border, placed in fenced compounds to await foster homes or unknown fate. The government has had no particular plan for what to do with them. The purpose of severing kids from their parents seems to be twofold: to send the message to desperate Central Americans that if they insist on trying to reach sanctuary in the United States they will lose their children and, secondly, to gain bargaining power to force Congress to appropriate money to build Donald Trump’s giant Berlin Wall along

after the Arkansas Times inquired about unflattering facts in Cranford’s guilty plea about an unnamed company leader. It appears to be the same man. Cranford has stipulated getting almost $4 million in illegal money from the operation. After all this, PFH still draws down $43 million in taxpayer money. State officials suggest it is too big to fail. Governor Hutchinson has said almost nothing. Coincidentally, his nephew, Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson (R-Little Rock), was paid $500,000 to help the company (legal fees, he says; something worse, the government intimates). Democrats, with some of their own knotted up in the scandal, have done little better in seeking accountability. The state put Ted Suhl’s behavioral health agencies out of business when he was caught in a bribery scheme. Can no one else replace PFH? The state owes a full explanation. The state also should have demanded long ago an audit of everything handed to PFH over the years, whether for Medicaid-reimbursed services or the badly abused General Improvement Fund grants and legislator-directed health

grants. Was the money spent for purposes described? If the organization could tap Medicaid for enough money to cover millions in bribes, kickbacks and illegal campaign contributions — not to mention fat salaries and high living on company credit cards — is it possible that payments now are too high? If PFH really is too important to be fired, it’s not too important to bypass thorough scrutiny. PFH has brass. It claims IT is a victim. Really? No one had a clue about Cranford? There was reason not to ask questions. The pay was damn good. In the most recently available tax filing, PFA pay to eight top officers ranged from $276,000 to almost $1 million. Cranford made a mere $276,000. But PFH also paid his private firm $547,000 for “public relations.” His expenses — bribes and such — did run high. The million-dollar head man, in charge while Cranford ran wild, is still in charge today, with no objection from the state Department of Human Services. Could we at least agree — innocent of crime though he may be — that he was a pisspoor supervisor?

the country’s southern border, the wall he promised that Mexicans would pay for. Give him the money and maybe he will stop terrorizing the children. Trump is turning the Republican Party into a reincarnation of the nativist American Party (aka, the Know Nothing Party), which almost became the governing party in the 1850s by alarming people about the great surge of Catholic immigrants from Ireland and Germany who were corrupting the culture of Eastern cities. It has always been a powerful strain in American life, but only occasionally approaching governing power, principally before the Civil War and after World War I. The uniting theme of both Trump’s campaign and his presidency is that us real Americans of good European stock must protect ourselves from all the others — their dark skins, their alien religions and manners, the cheap products they sell us, their unusual sexual proclivities. The bad people, criminals probably, are those who are either not pretty white women or do not have a vivid attraction to them. In the 1850s, the Trumpish American Party held nearly half the 237 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and many governorships. But it couldn’t take a stand on slavery and became irrelevant. The Republican Party arose from the

ashes of the American and Whig parties. Might Trump have read Thomas Whitney’s “A Defence of the American Policy” (1856), the magnum opus of the nativist movement? Nah; he doesn’t read. It revived after World War I with the renaissance of the Ku Klux Klan, with a broadened field of foes that included immigrants, Catholics and whiskey as well as blacks. In the 1920s, Arkansas politicians scrambled to join a klavern. In New York City, the KKK conducted big rallies. Donald Trump’s father, then 21, was arrested in 1927 when an immigrant protest got out of hand and the protesters attacked policemen. As Trump might say, the apple does not fall far from the tree. The housing developed by Fred Trump and his heir kept out dark-skinned people. They constantly fought housing discrimination charges. One human trait — conspiracy paranoia — always lies behind nativist movements: criminal plots by immigrants, foreign agents or the pope to cripple America. Trump constantly accuses immigrants of leading a crime wave. Those innocentlooking little toddlers, Trump said the other day, are anything but innocent. They are thugs in the making. The good news is that these nativist surges are short-lived. Maybe the suffering children are the crest.

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Trump doctrine

et’s face it: President Trump enjoys hurting and humiliating people, and that’s the thing some of his loudest supporters like about him. Making women and children cry makes him feel manly and powerful. The more defenseless, the better. He particularly enjoys punishing racial minorities. See, when his victims have no ability to respond, Trump can mouth off without hiding behind bodyguards, as he’s done all his life. The way he did with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — calling the leader of America’s closest ally “weak” before beating an early retreat on Air Force One. No way would he talk that way to the younger man’s face. Trump only bullies people he has power over. This president’s incessant lying is yet another expression of his sadism — playing people for fools, making them grovel. Does anybody actually believe that the heartbreaking result of the White House’s “zero tolerance” policy of tearing children from their mothers’ arms at the U.S./Mexican border is the fault of the Democrats? The Democrats who control neither the White House, Senate nor the House of Representatives and have no power even to bring an immigration bill to a vote, much less pass one? Those Democrats? “Democrats are the problem,” Trump tweeted. “They don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country, like MS-13. They can’t win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters!” In the next breath, Trump asserts that he’s holding the immigrant children hostage until Congress gives him his ridiculous wall — the wall Mexico was going to pay for. So who are you going to believe, Trump supporters? Him or your lying eyes? The president could stop this obscene charade exactly the way he started it last April, with an executive order. It’s purely up to him and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “The White House can fix it if they want to,” Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) said. “I don’t think there’s any question about that.” For the White House to pretend otherwise isn’t an exaggeration, a misunderstanding or a falsehood. It’s a sheer, brazen, indefensible lie, suggestive of Trump’s contempt for his own supporters. He knows that as long as he’s sticking it to black or brown people and

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antagonizing “elitists” like me, they’ll believe — or pretend to, anyway — damn near anything. The president says asylum-seeking refugees from Central America “infest” our country. He says they “could be murderers and thieves.” GENE Such as that wailLYONS ing little 3-yearold from Honduras in John Moore’s widely circulated photo, snatched away from her mother by Border Patrol agents. “They look so innocent. They’re not innocent,” Trump has said about “alien minors.” He’s been telling aides that the media cherry-pick images of sorrowful children to make him look bad. See, that’s another aspect of the president’s personality: He’s incapable of admitting error or taking responsibility. He’s always right, and somebody else is always to blame. Every single time. Meanwhile, have you heard the ProPublica audio of weeping children crying out for their parents? Give it a listen, Trump fans. Then get back to work on those emails suggesting that I leave the country or kill myself. Former first lady Laura Bush, bless her, may have said it simplest and best: “I live in a border state,” she wrote in The Washington Post. “I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.” America’s allies and friends, see, are beginning to wonder if maybe the Trump presidency isn’t some awful freak political error. Maybe this is who we really are. If the president gets his way, we could find out as early as November. Supposedly, Trump’s advisers have persuaded him that kidnapping immigrant children is a winning issue. One White House insider told The Washington Post that “if we’re having an argument on immigration, we always win because that’s our ground, no matter what the nuances of the argument are.” Supposedly Trump also told GOP senators that unless he gets everything he wants on immigration he’ll shut the government down come September — a barefaced case of extortion against our democracy. Polls suggest that this would be a political blunder of generational proportions, but who could put it past him?

The battle over Issue 1

he odds are that the most spend- politics out of the justice system” arguing in a statewide campaign in ment. A very different argument centers Arkansas this year will not be for on the courtroom as the place where the a constitutional office, but instead in a “little guy” still battle over a proposed state constitu- has a chance at a tional amendment. Issue 1, the amend- fair fight against ment that would impose “tort reform” economic elites in the state along with shifting ultimate who have done overview of the rules of court procedure wrong and sees from the state Supreme Court to the tort reform as an JAY General Assembly, will dominate the attack on fairness. BARTH airwaves in the months ahead. Accord- A final argument ing to filings with the Arkansas Ethics that has brought the Arkansas Family Commission, well north of $1 million Council into the debate over Issue 1 has already been invested by at least 10 focuses on the very specific value for a groups on both sides of an amendment “life” that Issue 1 would write into the that would overturn a state Supreme state Constitution. The question: Can Court ruling from 2011 invalidating a those arguments reach the right Arkanlegislative effort to impose limits on sans to pull it off? civil damages and fees and lock such While none would by itself move a limits into the state Constitution. majority of voters, there are audiences At last week’s annual Arkansas Bar in the Arkansas electorate for each of Association meeting, there was lots of these arguments: The lawyer class that chatter surrounding Issue 1, placed on came together at the Arkansas Bar Assothe ballot by the legislature last year. ciation meeting joins the decidedly less The biggest news was that Supreme relevant civics-teacher class in being Court Chief Justice Dan Kemp voiced deeply concerned about Issue 1’s wholehis personal opposition to Issue 1 and sale attack on separation of power. encouraged other Arkansas lawyers Arkansas’s populist tradition is ripe to spread the word about its potential for the argument that even those of limharms. ited means must have a fair shot in court. But it will be the voters of the state The New Yorker’s Nicholas Lemann showing up at the polls in early Novem- analyzed the trial lawyer’s role in the ber with information gleaned only from South years ago: “The South does … still the hundreds of television, radio and have a deeply ingrained underdog conweb ads and mailers produced in the sciousness, and one place where that lead-up to that election on both sides manifests itself is in the personal-injury of the issue. courtroom. Throughout much of the In a state where the phrase “trial South, trial lawyers are, in effect, the lawyer” is generally an epithet, the argu- left: an influential group that, instead ments in favor of Issue 1 are potent ones. of converting populist sentiment into These greedy attorneys are stifling eco- redistributionist legislation, converts it nomic growth and health care access into big rewards for a small number of in the state through their “frivolous people who have stories of having been lawsuits” that push opportunity to sur- screwed by powerful, uncaring figures.” rounding “tort reform” states and jack Finally, in the state with the fifthup the prices of medical malpractice highest rate of evangelical voters, the insurance. On its face, Issue 1 seems debate can be framed as a moral one like an easy win for the business com- where a pecuniary value is being placed munity and health care providers in a on a life. As the Family Council’s Jerry deeply conservative state. Cox puts it: The amendment is “one But, there is a 1-2-3 punch against more step in devaluing life in a culture Issue 1 that provides a pathway to defeat where we simply can’t afford any more of the amendment and makes this one slips down that slope.” of the most interesting items on the balNone of these arguments alone is lot this year. The first critique of Issue enough to defeat tort reform. Together, 1 focuses not on tort reform, per se, but however, they could beat Issue 1. The instead on the proposal’s undermining question then becomes whether the of the principle of separation of powers three different messages can be effecby shifting a key judicial responsibility tively targeted to the voters with whom to the legislature. The daily headlines they are most likely to resonate. That is highlighting ethical transgressions by the multimillion-dollar question to be legislative leaders empower this “keep answered in November.

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rkansas waited patiently for the forthcoming rains when he walked three years to get back to in the Hogs’ fifth run. The umpiring Omaha, so when the downpour crew called for the tarp to be unrolled there started just as the Hogs were at that point, and it felt a little bothergetting their sea legs beneath them, some because the Razorback momenwhat’s another three hours? tum was really just The Hogs burst into Nebraska as escalating at that one of the hottest teams in the eight- point. team field. Save for a slight hiccup The teams didn’t against South Carolina on Sunday in take the field again the Super Regional, which they quickly until 169 minutes rectified with a thorough beating of the had passed. Texas BEAU WILCOX Gamecocks the following night, Arkan- trotted out junior sas was in an offensive groove and the Chase Shugart for help, and he seemed bullpen had been doing its job in relief like a good candidate to put an end of some hit-and-miss starting pitch- to the threat, having blanked powering. When the Hogs drew No. 13 Texas, ful Tennessee Tech for six innings a their onetime Southwest Conference week earlier in the Super Regional. rival, it seemed like a bit of a godsend to But Arkansas’s two vaunted freshRazorback fans who trekked to Corn- men were unimpressed: First, Casey husker Country to see if this team was Martin drilled an RBI single to left the one that would give the Hogs their field to plate a run, and then Heston best shot at a national title in the front- Kjerstad roped one in the same direcline sports since Nolan Richardson tion to bring home two more. A prestalked the basketball sidelines. viously scuffling Dominic Fletcher After all, the Hogs had scheduled greeted the Horns’ fourth pitcher of the the Longhorns for a midseason non- inning with another two-run single and conference series and put two quick Shaddy brought across the eighth run wins on their building ledger. The of the frame with another hit, staking Hogs scored first on Sunday, but Texas Arkansas to an 11-2 lead and making the rebounded to take a very brief 2-1 lead Longhorns’ late-inning output of three when David Hamilton lofted a sacri- runs meaningless. The Hogs took the fice fly off Blaine Knight in the top of 11-5 decision in a businesslike fashion, the fifth inning. In truth, it was the dispatching the Horns so routinely that only time all day that Texas fans got even an ESPN broadcast crew that had to crow a little, and Razorback senior previously been obsessed with showing Luke Bonfield hushed the burnt orange nefarious cheat Roger Clemens watchnoise authoritatively in the bottom ing the action — his Golden Spikes half of the inning. With two outs, the candidate son, Kody, was a harmless New Jersey product authored the 1-for-5 with two strikeouts — started best moment of a solid, if understated, commenting openly about how poised, career in cardinal-and-white by rock- confident and comfortable Arkansas eting Nolan Kingham’s pitch into the looked. seats in TD Ameritrade’s cavernous The Hogs’ 45th win of the season left-center power alley, and Arkansas was something of a delayed bit of retwas back up, 3-2. ribution for Van Horn. This is his fifth Dave Van Horn curiously opted Razorback team to make it to Omaha to spell Knight, who was on his way in a 15-season span, and it’s easily his to a pristine 13-0 mark but had only best one from top to bottom. Knight tossed 81 pitches over five shaky but and Kacey Murphy form a potent 1-2 reasonably efficient innings. Barrett front-end pitching tandem, and the Loseke worked in and out of a minor lineup is locked in right now, having jam in the top half of the sixth, and accounted for nine runs per game in then the Hogs started bushwhacking the NCAA Tournament and hitting the Horns’ beleaguered relievers. King- double-digit run production in four ham yielded consecutive singles to Car- of the six wins thus far. Texas Tech is son Shaddy and Jared Gates, two play- a formidable second-game foe, but if ers who have really come alive in the the Hogs can stay away from the loser’s postseason, and Texas reliever Parker bracket, which bedevils even the best Joe Robinson was all over the place, teams that slip up once they arrive in walking back-to-back hitters on only 11 Omaha, then there’s a very discernible pitches before giving way to Josh Saw- path to the finals if the team’s focus yer, who failed to stop the bleeding or remains tight.

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The cult of Trump

early 40 years ago our country at least 80 percent was introduced to two major of them. Withphenomena centering around out listing them cults: namely, the Moonies and the Shi- all, here are some ite Muslims. There were others, as well, of the ones that I, and I soon became fascinated with the at least, found the dynamics of cults and cult leaders (both most interesting — EUGENE LEVY religious and secular) in general — lead- and troubling: ing me to read a number of books and • Requires excessive admiration from articles, some even written by those who his followers. had been deprogrammed after spending • Has a sense of entitlement, expecttime in a cult. ing to be treated special at all times. Recent statements from President • Is arrogant and haughty in his Trump have led me to go back and behavior or attitude. review some of these cult and cult leader • Is hypersensitive as to how he is characteristics, and a 2012 article in seen by others. Psychology Today reminded me, unfor• Anyone who criticizes him is “the tunately, of some uncanny compari- enemy.” sons between the • When critiprototypical cult In general, a cult leader is chariscized, he tends to leader and Trump. lash out not just This was echoed matic, commands adoring fans or with anger, but recently by U.S. with rage. Sen. Bob Corker members and sets himself apart • Habitually (R-Tenn.), who puts down others admitted, “It’s by demanding of his followers as inferior, as only becoming a culthe is superior. ish thing, isn’t it?” rules and restrictions that the cult • Believes he In general, possesses the a cult leader leader dismisses as guides for his a n s we r s a n d is charismatic, solutions to the commands ador- own way of life. The cult leader world’s problems. ing fans or mem• Has “magical” bers and sets could require his followers to rid answers or soluhimself apart tions to problems. by demanding themselves of personal wealth • Is frequently of his followers boastful of his rules and restric- and property, while he himself accomplishments. tions that the cult • Needs to be leader dismisses bathed in luxury. the center of as guides for his attention. own way of life. • Conceals The cult leader could require his follow- background or family (or tax returns?) ers to rid themselves of personal wealth that would disclose how plain and ordiand property, while he himself bathed in nary he is. luxury. He would forbid drugs and sex, • Doesn’t seem to feel guilty for anywhile indulging himself in these and in thing he has done wrong nor does he anything and anyone else he pleased. apologize for his actions. While these characteristics may or Lest we become callous to our “new may not specifically relate to our presi- normal,” we need to keep these (and dent, his base sees him as a strong leader the other 37 characteristics) in mind. protecting them and saving them, so that The Psychology Today article conhe is able to say and do things that might cludes this way: “When a cult or orgabe the downfall for anyone else. It does nizational leader has a preponderance not seem to matter if the statements are of these traits, then we can anticipate true or false (I recently heard that for that at some point those who associTrump “truth is an option”) — if they ate with him will likely suffer physiemanate from him, they must be true cally, emotionally, psychologically or and operative. financially.” The article in Psychology Today listed 50 characteristics of a cult leader, Rabbi Eugene Levy led Congregation and I was amazed (and appalled) to B’nai Israel in Little Rock from 1987 until discover that our president exhibited 2011.

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RUSTY CRANFORD: His guilty plea turned over a rock in the state legislature and at Preferred Family Healthcare.

Health care exec put on leave Matches description of anonymous person described in Cranford guilty plea agreement. BY DAVID RAMSEY

n a statement issued after the PFH — the nonprofit with a vast netrecent guilty plea of former Pre- work of service providers in Arkansas ferred Family Healthcare execu- paid with tens of millions of dollars in tive and Arkansas lobbyist Rusty Medicaid funds, state grants and conCranford, PFH spokesman Reginald tracts with the state’s Department of McElhannon said the plea “contains Human Services — has not been charged admissions and allegations which dem- with criminal wrongdoing, but it has onstrate clearly the extent to which Pre- been at the center of a number of indictferred Family Healthcare was victimized ments and pleas in federal corruption by the actions of former employees and cases involving lobbyists and former representatives of PFH.” Arkansas lawmakers. Cranford admitHowever, the criminal information ted to bribery, kickback and embezzledetailed by the government in the plea ment schemes involving PFH funds in describes the activities of a “Person his plea agreement announced June 7. 5,” believed to be Keith Noble, who According to the federal information, remained with the nonprofit until last Person 5 was a licensed psychologist week. According to Cranford’s plea, Per- who “was a consultant for the Charity son 5 was among those who “devised and before joining the Charity in 1994, and executed multiple schemes to embezzle, thereafter held the position of Chief steal, and unjustly enrich themselves Clinical Officer (CCO), responsible at the expense of [PFH].” Though the for overseeing clinical operations and information detailed by the government the provision of services.” During the seems to describe him, Noble has not period relevant to the criminal informabeen charged. tion, according to recent 990 tax forms The Arkansas Times asked PFH PFH submitted as a tax-exempt charabout Noble on June 11. The following ity, the chief clinical officer at PFH was day, PFH informed the Department of Noble. A PFH statement from last year Human Services that Noble had been described Noble, a psychologist, as a put on leave, DHS spokeswoman Amy “longtime executive”; a 2009 story in Webb said. On June 13, PFH released the Springfield (Mo.) Business Jourthe following statement to the Times: nal stated that Noble has worked for “Due to information obtained by Pre- the nonprofit (under its former name, ferred Family Healthcare relating to Dr. Alternative Opportunities) “since the Keith Noble, an internal review was con- early 1990s.” ducted by the organization. In response, According to the government inforDr. Noble was placed on administrative mation, Person 5 was “responsible for leave effective June 12.” overseeing clinical operations and the 12

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provision of services. Person 5 was Family has changed its leadership team responsible for quality control matters as a result of wrongdoing that occurred for the Charity’s services, assisted in some time ago,” Davis said. In a statedrafting the Charity’s grant proposals ment issued June 11, spokesman McElinvolving clinical and medical grants, hannon said the actions of “former and was a signatory on the Charity’s employees” of PFH did not represent the bank accounts.” “values, actions or behaviors of our curPerson 5 was a member of the rent leadership. ... Times have changed. “’Resource Team, often abbreviated ‘R.T.,’ We have changed as well. We have new ... used within the Charity to refer to the leadership and have enacted significant Charity’s highest level of executive lead- measures to enhance accountability and ership.” This description also matches compliance moving forward.” Noble, a member of PFH’s Resource However, the government inforTeam. mation suggests that the wrongdoing Several key executives at PFH were involved other executives, including fired in the wake of a plea agreement by Person 5: Pennsylvania lobbyist D.A. Jones last • The government information states year that implicated them in kickback that Person 5, along with Cranford, Tom schemes. Former Chief Financial Officer and Bontiea Goss, Nolan, and Eddie CooTom Goss, former Chief Operating Offi- per — a former state representative and cer Bontiea Goss and former Chief Exec- employee at PFH — “embezzled, stole, utive Officer Marilyn Nolan were placed obtained by fraud, and without authority on administrative leave in November knowingly converted to their own use, 2017 and terminated outright in January property worth at least $5,000 that was 2018. These executives have not been under the care, custody, and control of named by federal prosecutors, but infor- the Charity.” mation in federal court filings have made • Cranford’s plea identifies Person their identities clear. They are referred 5 as part of the group that “executed to as Person 1, Person 2, and Person 3 in multiple schemes to embezzle, steal, Cranford’s plea and federal information. and unjustly enrich themselves at the They have not been criminally charged expense of the Charity,” including misto date and deny wrongdoing. application of funds for unlawful conAfter Tom Goss, Bontiea Goss and tributions to political campaigns, illegal Nolan were put on leave, heading up use of charity funds for lobbying and the nonprofit was left to two longtime political advocacy, improper payments executives — Noble and PFH presi- to Cranford related to properties he dent Michael Schwend (who was later owned in Florida and Texas, improper named CEO) — according to a statement payments to Cranford’s lobbying firm, in December 2017 from PFH. Noble and kickback schemes, improper payment Schwend were tasked with overseeing of personal expenses with corporate more than 4,000 employees and 145 credit cards, and more. locations. When asked last week, McEl• The government information states hannon declined to say whether Noble that “other members of the Resource was co-leading the nonprofit. He did Team,” in addition to Cranford, Tom and note that in addition to naming Schwend Bontiea Goss, and Nolan, were involved CEO, PFH in April hired Betty Dickey, a in paying “bribes in the form of money former prosecuting attorney and chief and other things of value to Woods, [forjustice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, mer legislator Henry] Wilkins, Arkanas a special assistant to Schwend. sas Senator A [Jeremy Hutchinson] and State officials have suggested that others.” According to the information, the departure of Tom and Bontiea Goss, “The composition of the Resource Team Nolan, and Cranford represented a clean changed slightly over time, but throughhouse at PFH. Governor Hutchinson’s out the period relevant to this Informaspokesman, J.R. Davis, was asked in tion, the Resource Team included Person May about the state’s continuing to con- 1, Person 2, Person 3 and Person 5.” tract with the nonprofit after the conA recent listing (since taken down) viction of former state Sen. Jon Woods for a PFH affiliate, Decision Point, on a in another case that alleged kickback substance abuse resource website, stated schemes relating to PFH. “Preferred that “the executive leadership of Pre-

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ferred Family Care is comprised of five individuals who together form what is known as the Resource Team. ... Dr. Keith Noble, Michael Schwend, Bontiea Goss, Tom Goss and Marilyn Nolan comprise the Resource Team.” • Cranford’s plea states that “other Charity executives” in addition to Tom and Bontiea Goss, Nolan, and Cranford, paid bribes; that “by paying bribes ... other members of the Resource Team [in addition to Tom and Bontiea Goss, and Nolan] ... enriched themselves, the Charity, Cranford clients and others”; and that “one of the purposes for which the defendant bribed public officials was to send additional income to the Charity to enable ... other members of the Resource Team ... to embezzle; steal; obtain by fraud” funds under the control of PFH. In response to the Arkansas Times’ June 11 question about Noble’s role with the company and the allegations of wrongdoing connected to Person 5 and Resource Team members, McElhannon issued a one-page statement: “The questions you pose center around confirming, either directly or indirectly, information in the government’s court documents, so those questions are best posed to the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” the statement said in part. “As Mr. Cranford’s court documents show, the efforts of former employees and representatives to use and abuse PFH for personal gain were extensive. The company continues to cooperate fully with the government in its investigation.” McElhannon did not reply to specific queries asking whether PFH disputed that Noble was Person 5 or whether the nonprofit disputed that Noble was involved in the wrongdoing described in the government information. The statement likewise did not reply to questions asking whether it disputed the government’s statements that other members of the Resource Team (in addition to Cranford, Tom and Bontiea Goss, and Nolan) were involved in wrongdoing, whether those members were still employed by PFH, and whether any other employee other than Tom and Bontiea Goss, Nolan and Cranford had been terminated or left PFH in relation to the activities described in Cranford’s plea.

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Play in your car, while smoking a joint and sitting on a compressed bale of marijuana. 1) Last week, the Little Rock Police Department arrested two men near the junction of Interstate 430 and Colonel Glenn Road who police said had 37 pounds of marijuana with them. According to police, how were the cops tipped off to the fact that the men had a large haul of pot? A) Their van appeared to be made entirely of marijuana. B) The weed had turned several of their unfortunate customers into iguanas. C) Someone reported two guys smoking pot on a parking lot, and a search of their vehicle allegedly turned up the massive load of weed. D) A member of the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission ratted them out after they shortchanged him on a cash bribe. 2) Recently, a case came to light near the tiny Benton County town of Goshen that shocked local residents and resulted in two men being arrested. What, according to police, are real details of the case? A) The victim escaped wearing only a blanket and what police called a “chastity device.” B) One of the men arrested for allegedly holding the victim captive was reportedly 7-foot-2 — only two inches shorter than the late pro-wrestler Andre the Giant. C) When questioned by police, one of the men arrested said that he had a “puppy” persona, and answered a detective’s question about whether he understood his Miranda rights by saying “Woof.” D) All of the above. 3) Last week, the Arkansas Legislative Council endorsed new public school curriculum rules that eliminated a once-popular subject as an elective in Arkansas high schools. What subject was eliminated? A) Advanced Meth Cookery. B) Wizardry and Witchcraft. C) Home Wreckernomics. D) Journalism. 4) Economists with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture recently announced that if U.S. trading partners respond to President Trump’s vastly stupid tariffs on steel and aluminum with 25 percent tariffs on U.S. soybeans, rice, corn and sorghum, Arkansas farmers could take quite a hit. How much are we talking here? A) “MAGAAAAAAAAAAAA!” B) “LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP!” C) “Trade wars are good and easy to win.” D) $383 million. 5) Recently, in a case picked up by The Washington Post and other national outlets, a 25-year-old man from Scranton (Logan County) who was being sentenced on multiple counts related to drugs and possession of child pornography admitted to a Benton County judge that he had intentionally sought out and contracted the HIV virus so that he could attempt to infect others without their knowledge. Holy hell. Are we being serious right now? A) Damn straight. B) What the eff, man? C) Somebody stop this ball of dirt at the next asteroid and let us off, please. D) All of the above.

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Medication procedure again legal. BY LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK

GIVING PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOME LOVE: A June 1 rally drew supporters to the corner of University Avenue and 12th Street.

or more than two weeks, all women in Arkansas, and Arkansas alone, were denied access to a two-pill regimen to end an early pregnancy in the privacy of their homes. The three clinics in Arkansas that provided the pills were forced to stop May 29 after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by Planned Parenthood of a lower

court’s ruling that halted an injunction against a state law. But on Monday, U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker issued a temporary restraining order against enforcement of the law, Act 577 of 2015, and Arkansas women once again had access to a method of abortion available nationwide. Planned Parenthood clinics in Little Rock and Fayetteville, which had had to cancel 40 medication abortion appointments because of the Supreme Court’s ruling, have resumed scheduling them. 14

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The state law, passed in 2015, required providers of the pills — mifepristone (Mifiprex) and misoprostol — to contract with physicians with hospital privileges. It was a requirement legislators knew the providers could not meet, given the threats by antiabortion activists that doctors face, and it left women with one option to end a pregnancy: surgery. Planned Parenthood Great Plains filed suit in federal court, and Baker granted a temporary

restraining order in December 2015 and a preliminary injunction against the law in March 2016. In granting a new temporary restraining order Monday, Baker said Planned Parenthood had demonstrated a likelihood to succeed with its argument that the law

presents an undue burden to women’s legal access to abortions and did little to advance the state’s interest in protecting their health. “In regard to burdens,” Baker wrote, “considered cumulatively, the record evidence at this stage of the litigation demonstrates that the contracted physician requirement, given plaintiffs’ inability to comply with it, significantly burdens a large fraction of women in Arkansas seeking medication abortions.” The temporary restraining order is in force for 14 days, through July 2. In the meantime, Planned Parenthood Great Plains will file for a permanent injunction. Here are the facts: A. The drugs — mifepristone and misoprosBAKER

tol — are not dangerous, as 18 years in Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerof clinical evidence has shown. The stadt that a similar Texas law requircomplication rate is less than 1 per- ing admitting privileges was unconcent. A National Institutes of Health stitutional. study published in 2015 put the rate Planned Parenthood asked for a of infection requiring hospitalization rehearing by the whole court; that was at 0.01 percent. They are safer than denied in September 2017. The appeals Tylenol or Viagra, the latter drug you court agreed in October 2017 to stay will never see restricted by the legis- its ruling while Planned Parenthood lature. The chance of fatality from the petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to drugs is less than the chance of being hear its case against the 8th Circuit’s hit by lightning. Planned Parenthood ruling, so the law, which the legislahas a detailed protocol for dealing with ture intended to go into effect Jan. 1, complications. 2016, was still enjoined. B. Because of the drugs’ safety Planned Parenthood petitioned the record, the lawmakers who wrote the Supreme Court in December 2017 to legislation did not do so out of concern vacate the 8th Circuit ruling. for women’s health. It was part of their Unexpectedly, given the ruling in ongoing campaign to strip women of Whole Women’s Health, the Supreme the right to abortion granted by the Court declined, without comment, to U.S. Supreme Court under Roe v. Wade. intervene. Because the liberal wing of For some it is ideological. For others the court did not dissent, court watchit is political. ers have suggested that they may have C. During the two weeks the law held back for tactical reasons, perhaps was enforced, the patients of Planned because of the preliminary state of the Parenthood’s family health and repro- case. That meant Arkansas’s law could ductive health care clinic in Fayette- be enacted. ville had to make two round trips, each Planned Parenthood immediately longer than five hours, to Little Rock went to Judge Baker seeking another for consultation and surgery — or seek temporary restraining order, saying care in other states. there were numbers that would prove D. During the two weeks the law that the law was an undue burden. was enforced, women who’d been the Baker held a hearing on the TRO on victims of sexual abuse and trauma Friday, June 8, and instructed Planned and did not want to undergo a proce- Parenthood and state defendants to file dure that would require the insertion briefs on how Baker should proceed, of instruments into the vagina — well, which they did on Wednesday, June 13. it was their tough luck. E. The law meant that women for *** whom medication abortion was medically indicated because of uterine The state of Arkansas has argued abnormalities had to choose a proce- that Roe v. Wade did not grant women dure their doctor wouldn’t recommend. the right to a particular method of abortion. *** In their brief submitted to Baker last Wednesday, lawyers for the state The reason Arkansas women found cited a June 11 ruling in district court themselves in this predicament is in Missouri. There, a federal judge because of two startling court deci- agreed that while the contract physisions. In response to the state’s appeal cian rule had “virtually no benefit,” the of Judge Baker’s preliminary injunc- court would not grant a preliminary tion, a three-judge panel of the 8th Cir- injunction because women could get cuit Court of Appeals lifted the injunc- medication abortions in Kansas City tion in July 2017, and sent the case and St. Louis. Planned Parenthood is back to district court. The 8th Circuit discussing its next step in that case; it said the district court hadn’t provided cost rural Missouri women the same numbers to show that a “large fraction loss of access. of women seeking medication aborIn the Arkansas case, the appellate tions” would be unduly burdened by court has sought proof that a “large the state law. fraction” of women would be burThe 8th U.S. Circuit Court of dened. So what’s a large fraction? Appeals is one of the most conservaThat number, as estimated by tive in the country, with 10 of its 11 Planned Parenthood, is 25 percent of judges appointed by Republicans. women who wish to obtain a mediBefore the 8th Circuit’s ruling, how- cation abortion: Planned Parenthood ever, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled says the law would force them to carry

an unwanted pregnancy to term. Parenthood staff members in 2015 and Hundreds of Arkansas women 2016 contacted every OB/GYN they would be affected by the law: In 2017, could identify from medical board Planned Parenthood’s clinics in Little records in Arkansas, asking if they Rock and Fayetteville performed 843 would contract to provide the back-up medication abortions. Of those, 653 care. None agreed. In 2017, they wrote were in Fayetteville. If medication again and followed up with phone calls, abortion were again illegal, something explaining the law and offering comapproximating that number of women pensation. None agreed. would have to make two trips to Little “Some physicians or group practices Rock to exercise a constitutional right. informed us that they do not support a In the eyes of women wanting to woman’s right to access abortion and end a pregnancy at home by using would not help us,” Ho’s filing said. drugs and not on a surgical table, the “Others stated that they simply could burden is 100 percent. not work with us, and at some group

DR. STEPHANIE HO: Planned Parenthood’s Fayetteville clinic director.

Planned Parenthood noted in its court filings that the state’s lawyers have not pointed to a single case in which a contract physician would have made a difference in the woman’s treatment. *** To the state’s argument that there was no irreparable harm from enforcing the law, Baker noted that Planned Parenthood and Dr. Stephanie Ho, also a plaintiff, said the clinics were unable to comply with the law. As Dr. Ho explained in a filing in federal court, she and other Planned

practices, the front desk staff was so hostile once they heard we were calling from Planned Parenthood that they would not even let us speak to the physicians and refused to take messages,” the filing said. Lawyers for the state argued during Baker’s June 8 TRO hearing that doctors may have refused to contract with clinics because the clinics’ letters didn’t specify compensation and it could have been interpreted as only the minimum wage. Baker, however, rejected that: “[D]octors face threats to their livelihoods and physical safety if they attempt to provide abortions or act as contracted physicians to aborarktimes.com JUNE 21, 2018

tion providers. The Court is skepti- no one in Arkansas could. “She was, assault in Arkansas had to “have a procal that the compensation offered by ‘Wait, all of Arkansas?’ ” Ho said, and cedure that may worsen their emoplaintiffs would be enough to over- started to tear up. The patient, who’d tional well-being,” she said. come these obstacles. These obstacles been using contraception and did not There are physical reasons why, if very likely keep even those doctors in want to have a baby, also did not want a woman can use a medication aborArkansas who may not have a moral a surgical abortion. “We had to send tion, she should: abnormalities of the or ethical opposition to abortion from one of our own patients out of state” to uterine cavity. Previous C-sections providing abortions or serving as con- get a medical abortion, Ho said. that have thickened the uterine wall. tracted physicians.” Surgical abortion, like medication Uterine fibroids. These are patients, abortion, “is incredibly safe,” Ho said, Lori Williams of Little Rock Family *** calling that the “good news.” But just Planning said, that “are medically indibecause surgical abortion is safe, that cated” to receive medication abortions. The two-week enforcement of the does not justify making it the only Another patient of Ho’s during the law prohibiting medication abortions option, she said. There are reasons — two-week ban was a Spanish speaker caused women considerable distress, in addition to having to spend days of who the clinic could not reach by health professionals at Planned Par- travel back and forth to Little Rock, phone to cancel her appointment. enthood’s clinics said. arranging child care, time off work When she arrived and found out Soon after the Supreme Court’s and shouldering that expense — why Planned Parenthood could no longer order, a patient who’d become preg- women choose medical over surgical. provide the medicine, she “burst into nant because her IUD (an intrauterine Survivors of sexual abuse, for exam- tears,” Ho said. “She wanted things to contraceptive) had failed came to Dr. ple, “prefer medication over surgical get back to normal for her,” and knew Ho at the Planned Parenthood clinic in because metal instruments in the that abortion “was the right thing to Fayetteville for a medication abortion. vagina are invasive and can invoke do for herself and her family.” But she The woman couldn’t believe her ears symptoms of PTSD,” post-traumatic was afraid of surgery. “She did not when Ho told her she couldn’t pro- stress disorder, Ho said. Before the seem completely comfortable that vide the care she needed, and in fact new TRO, all survivors of sexual there would be instruments going in

and out of her vagina,” Ho said, and she feared the procedure meant she would be cut open. The clinic, which has a Spanish speaker, let her know she would not be cut open, that the procedure was safe, and helped calm her fears and worked with the Little Rock clinic, which has no translator, to help her. The surgery went well. But, Ho said, “The fact of the matter is the state of Arkansas took away her right to choose the health care that’s best for her.” *** The day after the Supreme Court’s ruling, 60 people showed up at Planned Parenthood to don pink T-shirts and hold up signs at the corner of University Avenue and 12th Street to show their support for the clinic. They heard from Planned Parenthood organizer Christina Mullinax and clinic manager Holly Salem how heartbreaking it was to call women

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A RALLY FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH: Ending legal abortion would not end abortion, supporters of the right note. It would end safe abortion.

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and thus less pain. But pain was the legislators’ goal and the law insisted on the higher dosage. Fortunately, after the law passed, the FDA, acknowledging the body of evidence that the dosage was unnecessarily high, lowered it, thus defanging that portion of the law. Act 383, the work of Rep. Robin

not provide patients the phone number of the Red Cross as an emergency contact. Why that was ever part of the law is unclear because there is nothing the Red Cross could do in a health emergency. At any rate, the clinic was inspected frequently before the passage of the

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*** If people doubt that Arkansas legislators’ anti-abortion measures are more to bring an end to a practice they abhor than to protect the health of women, they have only to look at what the laws would do. For example: The same law that requires the physician contracts also would have required that the drugs be administered at dosages recommended by the FDA. That doesn’t sound bad until you know that physicians, with two decades of experience administering the oral abortifacients, knew a lower dose was just as effective and caused less cramping,

Sanders (R-Little Rock), did not even pretend to address women’s wellbeing. Instead, it theoretically placed the rights of the fetus over the rights of the woman, by prohibiting the safest, and thus most common, type of surgical abortion, dilation and evacuation (D&E), which they likened to slaughter. No exception for rape or incest was made. So while one state law maintains medication abortion is unsafe and requires women wanting to exercise their constitutional right to have surgical abortions, another maintains that surgical abortions are butchery and should also be illegal. By doing away with D&E abortions, Mayberry, Sanders and supporters would subject women seeking a legal procedure to risky surgical alternatives highly likely to cause pain and sickness. The federal court in Arkansas has issued a preliminary injunction against the D&E law, which is on appeal before the 8th Circuit. In 2013, the state banned abortions after 20 weeks’ gestation. The law provides exceptions in cases of rape, incest or to save a mother’s life, but it does not include lethal fetal anomalies, some of which aren’t detected until after 20 weeks. The constitutionality of the 20-week ban has not yet been challenged in court, likely because of the difficulty of finding a plaintiff. BRIAN CHILSON

to cancel their appointments. They heard from the leader of the Arkansas Abortion Support Network that the organization gets 10 calls a week from women seeking financial help getting an abortion. Mullinax took it hard. “As soon as I learned” about the Supreme Court’s ruling, she told the Times later, “it was like a gut punch.” Mullinax said patients began calling the Little Rock clinic after the court’s order fearful the clinic would have to close and they would lose the services the clinic offers. “Our doors are open,” Mullinax assured them. Planned Parenthood provides much more than medication abortion: It offers the full range of reproductive health care services, from primary care to contraception to testing for sexually transmitted diseases. The clinic also has a new specialty transgender clinic, where OB/GYN Dr. Janet Cathey, who instituted a transgender clinic at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, sees patients. Planned Parenthood is “doing everything within our power to fight” in the courts bad legislation that impacts women’s health, Mullinax said last week. “In 2015, we asked our supporters to contact the legislature and governor” to stop the medication abortion restriction, Mullinax said. “There was no precedent for what the 8th Circuit did and what the Supreme Court did in not hearing” Planned Parenthood’s request for a hearing. “We’re in uncharted territory in Arkansas.”

AT THE WOMEN’S MARCH: The right to abortion was a subject at the January event.

Lundstrum (R-Elm Springs) and Sen. Scott Flippo (R-Bull Shoals), professed to benefit women’s health by subjecting clinics that provide abortions to stricter inspections. After it passed, the state Department of Health threatened to pull the Little Rock Planned Parenthood’s license because it did

law and continues to be. In 2016, it was cited for having discolored ceiling tiles. Some of the complaints come from anti-abortion picketers who daily seek to intimidate women entering the clinic. Act 45, sponsored by Rep. Andy Mayberry (R-Hensley) and Sen. David

Given such corrosive state laws, advocates of a woman’s right to make her own health decisions have counted on the federal courts to preserve that right. The Supreme Court’s refusal to hear an appeal of the preliminary injunction against Act 577 came as a shock to the many Arkansans who’ve fought in the courts and protested on the streets the Arkansas legislature’s attempts to make abortion illegal. Women have taken it for granted, Mullinax said, “that the courts are going to save us.” At the June 1 rally at the Little Rock clinic, men and women waved their signs of support of Planned Parenthood and women’s rights at the rush hour traffic. They got many approving honks. Only one driver, to the amusearktimes.com JUNE 21, 2018

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MORE SUPPORTERS: Planned Parenthood’s rally drew 60 pro-choice supporters, including former congressional candidate Gwen Combs (at right).

ment of supporters, was rude: The man made a gagging gesture at them. Had he ever been pregnant and not wanting motherhood, he might not have. *** Those who oppose a woman’s right to determine when she should have a baby argue that pregnant women should carry their fetuses to term and then put them up for adoption and hope for the best. Many would even require women to carry to term fetuses so impaired that they will die immediately after birth, despite the physical risk to the mother that delivery presents and the attendant emotional distress. The Times could find only two women who would discuss their abor18

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tions, and neither would do so using their real names for fear of being targeted by people who believed they’d done something immoral. One, a woman in Northwest Arkansas we’ll call Monica, had two medication abortions, both times at the insistence of the father. The father was physically and sexually abusive, she said, and told her if she carried to term he’d take the baby. She was a teenager. “I didn’t really understand,” Monica said. “I wish I would have had some legal advice.” Nevertheless, she does not regret the abortions. “Had that not been an option, my life would be completely different. I would have been bringing a child into that same abusive lifestyle.” Instead, she got some therapy, had healthy relationships, attended some

college classes and has a job teaching yoga. “I wanted to be a mom since I was little. Having to give up that baby was really difficult. But it seemed like the least selfish thing I could do,” Monica said. The baby would have had “a pervert for a father.” Monica said she’s “very at peace with the decision” and open to talking to women privately about her experience. Another woman, who lives in Little Rock, chose abortion after the man who’d impregnated her left her for another woman. The woman, who we’ll call Sarah, said she was in a new job, making only $16,000 a year, and neither emotionally or financially willing to bring a child into a broken family. It would have meant the end of her

employment. It would have meant poverty for the child, or an adoption that may or may not have taken place in a timely way. Worse, she could have suffered complications giving birth and been unable to have a wanted child in the future. Sarah said she never had a second thought about the abortion, and she does not believe that sweeping a sixweek fetus from her womb made her a monster. She was grateful for the option. She now has a husband and a healthy baby. Noting she is old enough to remember when abortion was illegal, Sarah said making abortion illegal will not end abortion. “It will only end safe abortion.”

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The new record starts with a song you’ve been playing live for a while, and one that — I’m sure I’m not alone in this — has ripped me to pieces. I mean, if there’s a darker opening line to an album than “Daddy died when I was 10, Momma soon there followed him … ,” it doesn’t come to mind. And that’s to say nothing of these ideas of displacement and wishing for invincibility. I have to assume you gave some thought to the album’s sequence. Why is this one first? It’s probably the gnarliest song on the record. You know, I kinda just saw this record — since it was so personal — and it was like, “Oh, this batch of songs is kind of a bummer.” … It deals a lot with death, and right out of the bag, [“King Snake”] just kinda shines a light on the tone of the rest of the record in the first two sentences. You know, a lot of people didn’t like “Sparkman” from the last record because it was really negative, so I kinda took that feedback and put it right out front. Get the ball rollin’ real quick, you know what I mean? 20

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ascara is expensive, and the way I figure it, Adam Faucett owes me roughly half a tube of it for the handful of times I’ve stood in the crowd, a perfectly adequate lash application wrecked by a fourand-a-half-minute exercise in cosmic humility called “Dust.” Like a lot of Faucett’s work, the tune is delivered “slow and loud,” as Faucett describes it, with drummer/vocalist Chad Conder and bass player Jonathan Dodson — Faucett’s musical telepaths for over a decade — as conduits, able to rise to a fever pitch and drop the bottom out the next moment. Faucett’s newest, “It Took the Shape of a Bird,” comes out Friday, June 29, and his full band Adam Faucett & The Tall Grass will celebrate that release with a show at the White Water Tavern Saturday, June 30, with Isaac Alexander. We talked with Faucett — deemed “Best Songwriter” by an esteemed board at our 2018 Central Arkansas Music Awards — ahead of the album release.

loved about your work is the way your obsession with history shines through — especially some of those darker, weirder corners of the past. The ship that a 24-year-old Clifford Crease sailed out to recover the bodies lost in the Titanic disaster, for example. A storied clairvoyant named Edgar Cayce. Where did your infatuation with history come from, and why do you think you gravitate to it when you’re writing?

Well, the song “Edgar Cayce” is not about Edgar Cayce at all, and the song “Mackay Bennett” is not about the boat. I just used the reference of the boat to illustrate continuing to help someone who will never be able to be helped. With history, I’m one of these kind of nerds where I love history not for the sheer historical weight, but I see a lot of parallels and a lot of continuations. And just some stuff is just cool. Not many people know what the Mackay Bennett is. I wrote a song on my first record called “John Carter 1927” and I was blown away by how many people in our town don’t know the story of the lynching of John Carter in 1927 down on Broadway Street. And the song, it’s not like, you know, a historical account, “The Wreck of the Edmund FitzgerA Q&A with Adam Faucett. ald,” Gordon Lightfoot. It’s just a nod BY STEPHANIE SMITTLE to things that I find incredibly parallel to what I’m trying to get across. I SONGSMITH: Adam Faucett’s latest record, “It Took The Shape of a Bird,” mulls dunno, I like history in the same way over death, loyalties and stardust. that I like singing about outer space, you know? It’s just there, and you can’t touch it. And unless you’re a nerd, a lot of people don’t really think about how Like a filter. If this is not for you, years, maybe closer to 150. In South that stuff actively plays a part in the maybe the rest of the record isn’t, Arkansas. I don’t know, I just kinda world we live in. either. feel like if you’re gonna tell a story, tell it on the stage that you know the Would you indulge us and name Yep. Turn back now. best. And really get the details right. a few singers or songwriters whose It’s kinda like Stephen King, you know, style you love? One thing that you have in com- most of his books are set in Maine. It’s mon with really great songwriters basically the same concept. It’s like, I Sure. Honestly, man, in my brain, I is a sense of place. Central Avenue know the seasons very well, no matter would like the music to sound somein Hot Springs pops up on the new how erratic they are. You just know a where in the realm of Mazzy Star and record. And Camden. And in the past, place, and you know what it feels like maybe some earlier Cat Power and Benton. Can you talk about your con- to feel good in Arkansas. You know some elements of Sonic Youth. And nection to Arkansas? what it feels like to feel bad in Arkan- then maybe take Hope Sandoval’s voice sas. Places and backgrounds, to me, are and switch it out with Percy Sledge. But Well, born and raised here. Both very important. I’m from Arkansas, so it’s gonna come sides of my family have been here for out soundin’ a lot more hick-y than all generations and generations. Over 100 The other thing I’ve always that shit.

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THURSDAY 6/21

RUTHA HARRIS 6 p.m. Clinton Presidential Center. Free.

‘IT GETS BETTER’: Catch the Turtle Creek Chorale on the chorus’ “friendship tour” through Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.

FRIDAY 6/22-SATURDAY 6/23

TURTLE CREEK CHORALE 7 p.m. Fri., Trinity Episcopal Cathedral; 10 a.m., Clinton Presidential Center; 7 p.m. Sat., Second Presbyterian Church.

Turtle Creek Cho- dral (310 W. 17th St.), 10 a.m. rale plays well with others. Saturday morning in an abWhen the predominantly breviated performance at the gay men’s chorus isn’t work- Clinton Presidential Center ing up 200-voice renditions or 7 p.m. Saturday at Second of “Santa, Baby” or Randall Presbyterian Church (600 Thompson’s “Last Words of Pleasant Valley Drive) with David,” it’s in constant col- the River City Men’s Chorus. laboration with other cho- “Though communities on this ruses and performing artists tour may hold social and pofrom around the globe. Their litical views different from performance in a YouTube ours,” Artistic Director Sean video titled “It Gets Bet- Baugh said on TCC’s website, ter” in 2010 at the Morton H. “we often share much more Meyerson Symphony Center than we acknowledge. The in their hometown of Dal- best way to bridge those diflas is a particularly poignant ferences is with conversation example. (Grab the Kleenex and shared experiences. We before you hit that “play” but- hope this tour does just that ton, y’all. This is not a drill.) by sharing musical experiNow, in the Chorale’s 39th ences these communities may season, they’re on a four-city not have previously known goodwill tour through Ar- via a huge chorus of primarily kansas, Texas, Oklahoma and gay men singing about peace, Louisiana, with local chorus- acceptance, love and commues hosting them (and joining nity.” The concerts are free, them on stage) along the way. but you’ll need to reserve Catch them at 7 p.m. Friday your seat at turtlecreekchoat Trinity Episcopal Cathe- rale.com/friendship-tour.

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“We were organized to tell the the civil rights movement as ambasstory of the struggle,” Rutha Mae sadors of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Harris said in a public service an- Coordinating Committee). By putnouncement by AARP. “Songs gave ting their voices and their bodies on you an energy, a willingness and a the protest lines — sometimes to their wantingness to be free. Without the peril; the singers’ vehicle was shot at music, there wouldn’t have been a in Alabama — they encouraged othmovement.” Harris — along with ers to do the same. Since those days, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Cordell Re- Harris has spent decades teaching agon, Charles Neblett and, later, Bill school in Albany and, as she’s seen doPerlman, formed The Freedom Sing- ing on a video from the University of ers, the group that would join Rita Pittsburgh, educating visitors to the Moreno, Sidney Poitier and Charlton Albany Civil Rights Museum by way Heston on a plane Harry Belafonte of a call-and-response anthem. Here, chartered to attend the 1963 March Harris gives a talk and a performance on Washington. The group, a quartet in conjunction with the temporary formed when its members were stu- Clinton Center exhibit “Louder Than dents at Albany State College in Geor- Words: Rock, Power and Politics.” It’s gia, used songs like “Ain’t Gonna Let free to attend, but organizers ask that Nobody Turn Me Around” and “Woke you RSVP at wjcf.co/ruthaharris or Up This Morning With My Mind on by calling 501-748-0425. Freedom” to mobilize action during

FRIDAY 6/22

DEAD BOYS 9 p.m. White Water Tavern. $15.

Marketing being the fickle mech- together a lineup for South by Southanism it is, The Sex Pistols get the west and they burned through the lion’s share of the credit for bringing entirety of their debut record, “Young sneering, lewd punk rock to the fore- Loud and Snotty.” And, according to front of disco-weary listeners’ minds Paste magazine critic Robert Ham, in the late ’70s. Unsurprisingly, the they did so “with sweat and fire, wipstory of punk rock’s birth was a little ing away all four decades of the past messier in real life, and the Dead Boys in the process.” The Dead Boys are are undoubtedly one of the bands here (in part, at least; vocalist Stiv who went down in history as a foot- Bators died in 1990 and Chrome told note when they should have been the Boston’s WBUR-FM 90.9 last year, “I stuff of whole chapters. Occasionally own the name and none of the other bloody and violent, always conten- guys were interested in being intious and snotty, the Cleveland out- volved with any of this stuff except fit burned fast and furious for a few for getting checks”) for a show at The short years on the strength of their White Water Tavern, a place that’s brutal live performances and a killer made a home for local punk rock with single, “Sonic Reducer,” before break- commendable consistency. As for the ing up in 1979. Guitarist Cheetah new Dead Boys iteration, as Chrome Chrome pins the dissolution squarely told the Huffington Post last Novemon Sire Records’ Seymour Stein. Forty ber, “It’s still just as loud and snotty, years later, drummer Johnny Blitz put we’re just old now.”

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THURSDAY 6/21

SATURDAY 6/23

MARTINA MCBRIDE 7 p.m. Magic Springs Theme and Water Park, Hot Springs.

For fans of Caro or setto and sudden changes Radiohead or Low Island, of mood, picture perfect for Move Orchestra could very pairing with cinematic or well be your new favorite visual projects playing on a local band. Three brothers screen behind the group, as based in Fayetteville cre- Move Orchestra often does ate loops that unfold slowly in live performance. Catch and bloom delicately from Ryan, Connor and Cuinn within a dense assembly of Brogan now (and for no bodies and cords and snare dollars) before the rest of drums and soundboard the world catches on and knobs — occasionally with they start getting asked to the aid of cellist Christian score screenings of 1928’s Serrano-Torres (see “Cu- “The Passion of Joan of Arc” ñao” below). It’s a charm- live at Lincoln Center on ingly hi-fi act laced with fal- the reg.

Excepting, perhaps, a million-dollar lawsuit from a former employee that landed her in the headlines about a week ago, Martina McBride’s fame is built on the stuff of country music dreams. Girl from Sharon, Kan., gets a big break offer to move from the merch table to an opening performance slot for Garth Brooks; scores big with tunes like “Independence Day” and “My Baby Loves Me”; drops a verse on a Kid Rock song featuring T.I.;

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MOVE ORCHESTRA 9 p.m. Maxine’s, Hot Springs. Free.

uses the wonders of modern technology to record a duet with a long-gone Elvis. The soprano darling of early ’90s country is in town as part of Magic Springs’ summer series at the onsite Timberwood Amphitheater. The price for admission to Timberwood ranges from free-$10, but also depends on what sort of park pass you have ($36.99$74.99), so it’s best to head over to magicsprings.com and suss that out.

NUEVA CANCIÓN: Cuñao performs in Crystal Bridges’ North Forest Saturday night, with an afterparty featuring Pete Rock hosted by Bentonville radio station KOBV-FM, 103.3.

Joshua Asante and Yuni Wa share a bill at The White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. The Loony Bin hosts a triple-feature comedy bill with Daryl Felsberg, Henry Coleman and DJ Sandhu, 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat., 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., $8-$12. Fingerstyle guitarist Eric Skye straddles bluegrass, jazz and country with an intimate show at The Joint Theater & Coffeehouse as part of the Argenta Acoustic Music Series, 7:30 p.m., $25. The Billy Jones Band plays a set at Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5, or come earlier and catch Chris DeClerk, 5:30 p.m., free. The Quapaw Quarter Association hosts a lecture by Mike Hood, “The Original City of Little Rock, Establishment of Pulaski County, 1818,” 6 p.m., Curran Hall, free. Austin-based country rocker Parker McCollum brings his band to the Rev Room, 8 p.m., $15. The UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture hosts trivia night at Stone’s Throw Brewing, 6:30 p.m., free. Big Silver plays for “Farm to Church,” a fundraiser benefiting the “Green Groceries” program at Christ Episcopal Church, 5 p.m., $60, see Eventbrite for tickets. Guitarist Matt Treadway joins the Clyde Pound Trio for jazz at The Ohio Club in Hot Springs, 7 p.m. Elsewhere in Hot Springs, “Leap!” screens at the Hot Springs Farmers Market, sunset (8:28 p.m.), free. The Meteor hosts a Harry Potter Trivia Night, 7 p.m.

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SATURDAY 6/23

CUÑAO 7 p.m. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville. $10.

Essex has Billy Bragg. Oklahoma has Woody Guthrie. Chile has nueva canción — the folk music movement that emerged from the Iberian Peninsula and served as a voice for dissent, speaking out against poverty, human rights infractions and totalitarian dictatorships in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s. Cuñao, a Los-Angeles based group that weaves nueva canción elements with African rhythms and European melody, brings that accordion-cajon-djembe mix to the North Forest at Crystal Bridges as part of the museum’s summer “Forest Concert Series.” After an opening set from cellist/

loop pedal artist Christian Serrano-Torres, the museum’s website reads, Cuñao “will feature two new works with a musical excerpt and live puppetry of their folk opera titled ‘Cancion Del Inmigrante’ (‘The Immigrant’s song’) and the song called ‘Niños del Desierto.’ ” For a primer, check out the band’s rendition of Puerto Rican traditional “Wepa, Wepa, Wepa” recorded or its submission for NPR’s Tiny Desk Competition, “Quita La Mano.” The legendary DJ Pete Rock performs for the afterparty at Record (104 S.W. A St., Bentonville), along with DJs/ performers Theronious Chunk, Crazy Ups, Abboriginal and Todd of North America. Bring an extra $20 to the afterparty, as it’s a benefit for Bentonville radio station KOBV-FM, 103.3.

The Main Thing comedy troupe kicks off its newest show, “Birthday From Hell,” at The Joint, 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat. through Aug. 31, $24. Club Sway hosts an Open Stage Night, 9 p.m. The Foul Play Cabaret explores the art of the tease at Maxine’s in Hot Springs, 9 p.m., $12-$15. Trumpet guru Rodney Block takes the stage at South on Main, 10 p.m., $15. Recognizer and The Dangerous Idiots get loud at Vino’s, 8:30 p.m. Nerd Eye Blind plays a show at Cajun’s, 9 p.m., $5. Dylan Earl & The Reasons Why brings their signature twang to Kings Live Music in Conway, 8:30 p.m., $5. Chinese Connection Dub Embassy gets the weekend started with reggae and dancehall music at Four Quarter Bar, 10 p.m., $7. West Bound Revival plays West End Smokehouse, 10 p.m., $7. Katrice “Butterfly” Newbill takes the stage at Stickyz, 9 p.m., $6. Secondhand Cannons perform at Hibernia Irish Tavern, 8 p.m.

SATURDAY 6/23 Axel Andrews performs at Discovery Nightclub with Roxie Starrlite, Crystal Beth and Queen Anthony Gerard, 9 p.m., $10. Landrest, Spirit

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TO-DO

LIST

BY STEPHANIE SMITTLE

ANDREA LUNEAU SELLEW

THE

BETWEEN MAIN AND MAPLE: Adrienne Collins and Bonnie Earleywine (A+B) perform for Beers & Queers, a National Pride Day celebration in the Argenta Historic District of North Little Rock.

SUNDAY 6/24

BEERS & QUEERS 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Flyway Brewing, North Little Rock. Free.

Rhiannon Cortez, A+B, Spirit Cuntz, John Burnette, Stone’s Throw Brewing, Bijoux, Count Porkula, The Clean Eatery, The Water Buffalo, Rock City Rescue and Flyway Brewing are teaming up with the Argenta Arts District and Kaleidoscope Film Festival to bring you a #sundayfunday of epic National Pride Day proportions, and all you have to do is show up in the name of equality and diversity. (And beer. And

glitter.) Fourth Street between Main and Maple streets will be blocked off for the celebration and, as it’s going to be in the neighborhood of 90 degrees, Flyway will be open should your fervor lead to a mandated cooling-off period. All ages are welcome, and if you’re equipped to support the cause with more than just your unfettered enthusiasm, you can break out the plastic and buy a sponsorship at beersandqueers.com.

SUNDAY 6/24

‘BRING IT! LIVE’ 7 p.m. Robinson Center. $35-$107.

Queen Bey can be credited with bringing a hip-hop majorette aesthetic to festival stages and football fields, but she certainly didn’t invent it. Under the mantra “half time is game time,” majorettes at historically black colleges have been stand battling and throwing hard shade for years, stealing the show from the players for a precious quarter hour and elevating the dance form to a height of intensity and athleticism that makes cheerlead24

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ing look like air traffic control. It is, as Jada F. Smith put it in an essay titled “How HBCU Majorettes Shaped My Idea of Black Womanhood,” the realm of the fierce — and the fiercely feminine: “She, who has mastered the fine art of pinning a full set of tracks into a performance-ready ponytail. She, who has ballerina moves with the swag of ‘Lackawanna Blues.’ She, who over generations has perfected the all-important bleacher routine,

aka ‘stands,’ aka ‘grandstands,’ and sees them popping up in music videos all over the world. Everything they do — from the way they sit to the way they stand to the way they walk out of a stadium — is sculpted and refined in a way that, to me, reflects a desire to celebrate and portray ourselves highly in a world that rarely does. The sequined headpieces that act as crowns, the cutouts in the leggings that embrace, not hide, large thighs,

the capes that add an extra side of drama just because.” That celebration, as portrayed (or caricatured, more likely) on Lifetime Television’s reality television show “Bring It!” has been turned into a touring dance show, and its stars — Jackson, Miss.’ “Dancing Dolls” troupe — bring those ensemble numbers and faceoffs to the stage at Robinson Center Performance Hall. See robinsoncentersecondact.com for tickets.

IN BRIEF, CONT. Cuntz, Karen Meat and Dana T share a bill at Maxine’s, 9 p.m., $7. Vocalist Crissy P celebrates her birthday with a bash and concert at Gigi’s Soul Cafe & Lounge, 9 p.m., $15-$20. Frankie Bones headlines a techno and EDM show on the Arkansas State Fairgrounds, 7 p.m., $18-$25. The Artisanals of Charlotte, N.C., wax psilocybin and popcorn ceilings with a breezy rock show at Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, with Nik & Sam, 8:30 p.m., $10. Former Razorback baseball star Brady Toops performs at Nexus Coffee + Creative, 6:30 p.m., $10-$13. Slaughters, Ky., balladeer Chris Knight brings bluecollar gospel to the Rev Room, 8:30 p.m., $20-$25. Harrisong, Liberty Bridge, Gil Franklin, Gene Reid and more pay homage to Bob Dylan for Dylanpalooza at Hibernia Irish Tavern, 7:30 p.m. The 2018 Great Arkansas Beer Festival kicks off at the Statehouse Convention Center, 4:30 p.m., $30-$60. John Neal takes his rock set to the stage at South on Main, 9 p.m., $10. Good Foot returns to the cozy stage at Four Quarter Bar, 10 p.m., $7. Walton Arts Center’s Artosphere Festival concludes with “The American Spirit,” a concert from the Artosphere Festival Orchestra, 8 p.m., $10-$49. Almost Infamous gives a performance at Thirst N’ Howl, 8:30 p.m., $5. Bluesboy Jag & Mudhead team up for a blues bill at Bar Louie in McCain Mall, 8 p.m. Singersongwriter Michael Prysock brings acoustic small-town tales to the White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. Catch Brian Ramsey for happy hour at Cajun’s, 5:30 p.m., free, or come later for a set from Unravelled, 9 p.m., $5.

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SUNDAY 6/24

TUMBLEWEED: Grace Askew rolls into town for a Wednesday night show at The White Water Tavern.

Over At the Statehouse Convention Center, the Little Rock Full-Figure Fashion Show kicks off, 6 p.m., $20$40.

WEDNESDAY 6/27

TUESDAY 6/26

GRACE ASKEW

A family-friendly adaptation of “Much Ado About Nothing” from the Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre goes up at The Joint, 6:30 p.m., $10. Riverdale 10 Cinema screens Quentin Tarantino’s “True Romance” (1993), 7 p.m., $9. Handmade Moments brings road-tested duets from the band’s newest, “Paw Paw Tree,” to White Water, 9 p.m., $10. Central Arkansas Library System screens George A. Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” as part of its Terror Tuesday series, 6 p.m., $2.

9 p.m. White Water Tavern.

Here’s hoping the televised audi- to. She’s been sweeping songwriting tions on NBC’s “The Voice” are half as competitions with tunes like “Proof,” blind as they purport to be. That way, rolling into the 200 stretch of a yearit’s much harder for folks to attri- long, song-a-day writing challenge bute Memphis native Grace Askew’s and generally proving her mettle as big break moment in 2013 to just her more than a “talent show artist” (as long Loretta Lynn locks and longer Askew said one Memphis reporter legs. The year 2013 was ages ago in disparagingly referred to her while music industry time, though, and introducing himself for an interview). Askew’s since proved she can actually Catch her here, in a working-class play that guitar that served mostly dive bar built perfectly to let the selfas a prop on the reality competition described “bluntry” (blues + country) show — which is to say nothing of that chanteuse channel her professed inbuttery rich alto that can flip into a fluences: Cat Power, Mahalia Jackson, high lonesome yodel when it needs Guy Clark.

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IT’S A VERY BEERY WEEKEND in the river cities as the Great Arkansas Beer Festival kicks off Saturday, June 23, at the Statehouse Convention Center, at 4:30 p.m. (for V.I.P. ticketholders) and 5:30 p.m. for hoi polloi. Then on Sunday, June 24, Argenta celebrates National Pride Day with Beers & Queers, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in front of Flyway Brewing in Argenta, hosted by Flyway, Kaleidoscope LGBT film festival and the Argenta Arts District. The dogfriendly event will include a stage with live music, vendors of local arts and crafts and other goods, food and craft beer. The Great Arkansas Beer Festival, or GARBF, will feature more than 400 beers from 150 breweries, including eight beers that were among the top 10 beers of 2017. V.I.P. tickets are $60; regular admission is $30 before June 22 and $40 at the door. Designated nondrinking drivers may get in for $10 (though why they would want to, we don’t know). There will be food for purchase at the event; tickets include all beer samples and a souvenir tasting glass. IT’S ALSO A SPIRITED weekend. On Saturday, Rock Town Distillery is celebrating its eighth anniversary in business and hosting a grand opening of its new distillery in SoMa, at 1201 Main St. There will be free tours of the distillery from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and craft beers and cocktails in Rock Town’s new tasting room. Food trucks in the parking lot will help celebrants soak up the alcohol. Starting at 6:30 p.m., founder and head distiller Phil Brandon will hold Rock Town’s “8th Anniversary Barrelhouse Masterclass,” a seated tasting of four Rock Town whiskeys: Its 8th Anniversary Bottled in Bond Rye Whiskey (which goes on sale at 11 a.m. in the tasting room, $49.99 a bottle), Arkansas Bourbon Whiskey, Arkansas Four Grain Sour Mash Whiskey and its Single Barrel Bourbon Whiskey. Tickets are $60 and space is “extremely limited.” THE AVENUE RESTAURANT inside the Waters Hotel in Hot Springs is hosting a five-course Art & Wine dinner on Sunday, June 24. The Art & Wine dinners, which began last fall and are held on the last Sunday of the month, feature local and regional artists. This Sunday’s artist is watercolorist Coni Hall, who’ll give a talk before the 7 p.m. dinner. Chef is Casey Copeland; he’ll pair wines with the courses. Tickets are $80 per person; reserve at 501-625-3850.

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CRABBY START: Lakewood Fish and Lounge offers creative go-befores, including stuffed crab cakes and such.

Now, Lounge in Lakewood Seafood spot adds to dining scene.

K, seriously: What’s happening to Dogtown? North Little Rock has historically played the role of Little Rock’s crustier cousin, albeit unwillingly. In Central Arkansas, Little Rock has always been the seat of state government, the home of the arts community and home to the best restaurants. Until lately, that is. North Little Rock is bringing it strong with a commitment to the arts, craft brewing and dining, and now has a restaurant scene that offers more than standard fare. An important catalyst for the improved eating in North Little Rock has been the team of Eric Greer and Kyle Ray Dismang. You may know them as the guys behind Park Hill’s newish and tasty North Bar, which goes beyond bar food to serves upscale and higher quality selections, such as its multiple

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vegan options, PB&J/bacon burgers and town Tijuana Mule” ($8.50), made with much more. Rocktown Grapefruit Vodka, ginger beer, Greer and Dismang have also opened lemon and lime. It was light and tasty, Lakewood Fish and Seafood Lounge, refreshing on a hot day. We also sampled in the spot previously occupied by the the “Tommy John Collins” ($8.50), a Garden Bistro (and previous to that, the delicious twist on the classic Tom Collovely Victorian Tea Room). While those lins with gin, bourbon, mint, sweet and older incarnations had that air of propri- sour mix and club soda, served on the ety that often accompanies the quiche- rocks in a tall glass. The bar also features and-hot-tea consumers, Lakewood Fish 12 wine selections by the bottle or glass, is considerably more relaxed. The mul- plus a solid selection of local, domestic tiple muted large televisions and dim and foreign beers. lighting create a sports bar feel, and one Lakewood Fish’s food menu got intercould easily be forgiven for expecting to esting right from the starters. Where else be handed an ordinary and limited menu. can one choose from an appetizer menu Happily, that’s not the case, starting that mixes crab claws, fried okra, cocowith the drinks department. Lakewood nut shrimp and nachos? Our table took Fish has a full bar and features five dif- a chance on the steamed shrimp (half ferent “Lake House Martinis” ($10) and pound for $10, one pound for $14) and 11 classic drink options, most of which the stuffed crabs (three for $8.50). The feature local spirits from Rocktown Dis- shrimp were much larger than expected, tillery. Our partner chose the “Rock- meaty and served hot, and were a sub-

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GREAT GATOR: Fried alligator bites make good chomping.

stantial choice. We were particularly happy with the stuffed crab option. The Lakewood Fish entrees also go beyond fried food, mixing in several healthier choices among the brown and crispy. The “Daily Fish” menu offers walleye ($22), grouper ($18), red snapper ($17.50) and arctic salmon ($16). You can get them grilled, blackened, “Southern corn-dusted” or buttermilk-battered. These entrees also include a choice of sides: smoked cheese grits, bacon-baked cabbage and mashed potatoes and gravy. A couple of friends who opted for the grilled walleye that evening said it was good, if salty (one approved, one did not), and was made better with the addition of lemon instead of the orange that was provided. They said the cheese grits were delicious. My dining companion opted for lighter fare, choosing a side salad that arrived fresh and crisp and a cup of “Coco’s Seafood Chowder” ($6.50, or a bowl for $9.50) that was the unquestioned highlight of her meal. The cup was large and the soup was buttery with a nice amount of seafood chunks. This chowder was so rich that a cup was just right. For the other entree, come on: How often does an Arkansan get to eat alligator? Turns out that the answer is “not nearly often enough.” The fried alligator basket ($19) came with crispy fries, two homemade hush puppies, cole slaw and piled bites of the basket’s namesake. Although we’re far from alligator connoisseurs, the choice was outstanding. The breading wasn’t too heavy; the texture of the meat was similar to the dark

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The seafood chowder is rich and excellent. Adventuresome eaters should try the fried alligator, and there are four “Daily Fish” options for those who are seeking nonfried options.

Hours

11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

portions of chicken. Additional fried entree offerings at Lakewood Fish include catfish ($14), oysters ($16), shrimp ($17, grilled or fried) and crab claws ($19). Those with a big appetite might consider the “Fried Seafood Platter with Chowder”: catfish, shrimp, oysters, stuffed crab, fries, hush puppies and slaw plus the aforementioned seafood chowder ($24.95). The menu also includes shrimp fajitas ($18), fish tacos ($13), the “Fish Burger” ($12), “Barrack’s Cheeseburger” ($10) and a variety of salads, including a “Chinese Salad” of tomato, onions and wontons. In sum: Lakewood Fish and Seafood Lounge is a welcome addition to the changing North Little Rock restaurant scene, offering a fine variety of dishes that will satisfy both the traditional fish house denizen and those who want to mix it up a bit.

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MOVIE REVIEW

RUNNING GAME: Cate Blanchett (left) and Rihanna star in “Ocean’s 8.”

‘Ocean’s 8’ runs the jewels And the future of sequels is female. BY SAM EIFLING

ne glance at the movie posters for (In hindsight “Ocean’s 11” was so 2001.) You’ll forget “Ocean’s 8” and you’ll realize how eas- it yourself until you see Cate Blanchett, in disguise ily a movie franchise can switch to an as a food truck cook, hard-stare at a customer who all-lady star ensemble, when it doesn’t has just called her “dude.” have “Ghostbusters”-level fanbabies attached to it. Theft isn’t gendered, but the job is, somewhat: The future of sequels is female, at least when you’re Debbie Ocean has her eyes on a $150 million diaworking with heist comedies. Here, George Clooney mond necklace, the sort of thing that women have appears only as a photo on a desk and his character, a more credible time wearing than gentlemen. The Danny Ocean, only as a name on a grave. In his place scene is to be the Met Gala, an actual party that goes is Sandra Bullock as his just-paroled sister; she has down at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in Cate Blanchett her Brad Pitt, a dashing No. 2 who each year, a fundraiser that mostly is an excuse for gets riled when she realizes the One Big Job has a per- famous people to play dress-up for Vogue. Robbing a sonal angle. And beyond that, the film doesn’t make museum that still offers pay-what-you-wish for locals a thing of swapping out a bunch of gents for women. doesn’t stir the same underdog espirit de corps that 28

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ripping off, say, a Vegas casino does. But moving a huge handful of diamonds sure is more inviting to watch than a slab of cash. How to get these diamonds out of a vault, into the open at the Met Gala, and past a security system we are constantly reassured is one of the best in the world? Funny you should ask, because it’ll take an expert jeweler (Mindy Kaling), a pickpocket (Awkwafina), an ultra-chill hacker (Rihanna), a fence (Sarah Paulson), a designer (Helena Bonham Carter) and an unsuspecting starlet (Anne Hathaway) to insist upon the designer who can insist upon using the jewels … and the rest sort of writes itself, right? Finding the kinks in the security, maneuvering past

cameras and guards, maybe you get to Games”) holds just enough beyond the wear some cool costumes, maybe you view of the audience for a few reveals get to watch Anne Hathaway throwing at the end, true to the “Ocean’s” form. up profusely. Somewhere in the mix If the characters are running game on is a weaselly ex of Debbie’s (Richard one another, the winking recap later Armitage) who happens to be on the always shows the audience that they, cover of GQ when she gets out of the too, were missing a con happening joint — doubly annoying, since he testi- under their noses. fied against her in a failed art swindle It could’ve been more fun with that got her sent away for five years about 10 percent more “Dog Day and change. Afternoon” thrown in. Debbie Ocean This is all fun stuff, far as it goes, and Blanchett’s surnameless Lou are and so many of the nouveau-Rat Pack almost too slick as a pair, too contained. flourishes are here, down to the bongo- A flash of anger here, a big chortle and-jazz-flute soundtrack that keeps there, could’ve gone some distance to the film light on its feet. But some- adding a high sense of play or discovery. thing feels oddly heavy here, which The performers doing the most work owes somewhat to the genre itself. It’s here are Bonham Carter and Hatha strange thing, to watch characters away, both of whom are clearly not closely script a job and then … watch in control of what’s going to happen that script go more or less precisely to next, and seem to be living the moment. plan. Satisfying, sure. Yet also a little The masterminds of this plan, though? flat, the Coke poured out of the two- They’re watching everything unspool liter that’s been sitting in the fridge just as they laid it out. Nothing can go for a few weeks. There’s a bit of a totally right, we find, when it feels like play-within-a-play at work, and direc- nothing can go wrong. tor/writer Gary Ross (“The Hunger

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ALSO IN THE ARTS

THEATER “Big River.” Argenta Community Theater stages the Roger Miller musical. 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 7 p.m. Tue-Thu., 2 p.m. Sun., through July 28. $20-$30. 405 Main St., NLR. 501-353-1443. “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.” 7:30 p.m. Fri. and Sat., 2:30 p.m. Sun. through July 8, with 8 p.m. curtain times on June 15 and July 6 at the Weekend Theater. $18-$22. 1001 W. 7th St. 501-374-3761. “Tuck Everlasting.” The Studio Theatre stages the musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s children’s novel. 7:30 p.m. Thu.Sat., 2:30 p.m. Sun., through July 1. $15$25. 320 W. 7th St. 501-374-2615. “Birthday From Hell.” The Main Thing’s summer production, a two-act “Fertle Family” comedy. 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., through Aug. 31. $24. The Joint Theater & Coffeehouse. 301 Main St., NLR. 501-372-0205. “Menopause: The Musical.” Murry’s Dinner Playhouse puts “the change” to the tune of hits from the ’60s and ’70s for this parody revue. 7:30 p.m. Tue.-Sat., dinner at 6 p.m.; 12:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. Sun., dinner at 11 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., through July 7. $15-$37. 6323 Colonel Glenn Road. 501-562-3131.

FINE ART, HISTORY EXHIBITS MAJOR VENUES ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: 60th annual “Delta Exhibition,” works by artists from Arkansas and contiguous states, through Aug. 26; 57th “Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition,” through July 22. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000. BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave.: “Delta des Refuses,” works in all media, through Aug. 25; “Mid-Southern Watercolorists Juried Exhibition,” through June 30; “Education in Exile: Student Experience at Rohwer Relocation Center,” through June 30; “Andrew Rogerson: Landscapes,” through Aug. 25. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 320-5790. 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.: “Louder than Words: Rock, Power & Politics,” through Aug. 5; permanent exhibits on the Clinton administration. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun., $10 adults, $8 seniors, retired military and college students, $6 youth 6-17, free to active military and children under 6. 374-4242. COX CREATIVE CENTER, 120 River Market Ave.: “Delta des Refuses,” works in all media, through Aug. 25. 918-3013. CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, One Museum Way, Bentonville: “The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe & Contemporary Art,” through Sept. 3; “The Garden,” works from the collection, 30

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through Oct. 8; “How Do You Figure?” figurative work, through Aug. 20; American masterworks spanning four centuries in the permanent collection. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon., Thu.; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed., Fri.; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat.-Sun., closed Tue. 479-4185700. ESSE PURSE MUSEUM & STORE, 1510 S. Main St.: “You May Kiss the Bride,” vintage wedding dresses and accessories, through Aug. 19; “What’s Inside: A Century of Women and Handbags,” permanent exhibit. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sun. $10, $8 for students, seniors and military. 916-9022.

and Holly Laws,” paintings and sculpture, through Aug. 5; “The Medium is the Message: Experimental Photography in Arkansas,” through July 8. Ticketed tours of renovated and replicated 19th century structures from original city, $2.50 adults, $1 under 18, free to 65 and over. (Galleries free.) 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351.

MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY, 500 President Clinton Ave.: Interactive science exhibits and activities for children and teenagers. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun., $10 ages 13 and older, $8 ages 1-12, free to members and children under 1. 396-7050.

HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM, 200 E. 3rd St.: “Secret Stories: Anais Dasse

MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, 9th and Broadway: “Don’t Touch My Crown,” artifacts that tell the story of the aesthetics and cultural impact of AfricanAmerican hair, curated by Stephanie Sims; permanent exhibits on African-American entrepreneurship in Arkansas. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 683-3593.

OLD STATE HOUSE MUSEUM, 300 W. Markham St.: “A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans,” through fall 2019; “Cabinet of Curiosities: Treasures from the University of Arkansas Museum Collection”; “True Faith, True Light: The Devotional Art of Ed Stilley,” musical instruments, through 2017, permanent exhibits. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9685. UA LITTLE ROCK, Windgate Gallery of Art and Design: Works in all media from the permanent collection, Brad Cushman Gallery, through July 20. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 569-8977.

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UA PULASKI TECHNICAL COLLEGE, 3000 W. Scenic Drive: “Champion Trees of Arkansas,” color pencil drawings by Linda Williams Palmer, through July 27, Windgate Gallery, Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHARTS), 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.Thu., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sat. 812-2760.

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