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The Arkansas Times, in partnership with First Security Bank, will honor its fourth class of Women Entrepreneurs this October, and we want to know who you believe should be in the spotlight. Here’s what to keep in mind: • Your nominee must be a woman who started her own business or took over a business and is still the owner/operator. • She must be an Arkansan. • She must be in business currently and have at least one year in business by the time of your nomination. • We welcome nominees who are LGBTQ.

• She must fit in one of these industry categories: food, professions (teachers, doctors, attorneys, financial advisors, etc.), nontraditional, retail and design, and two new categories - trailblazers (women who do not have their own business but have led their profession to success – pastors, teachers, CEOs, writers, etc.), and those women entrepreneurs outside of Pulaski County.

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From the web In response to David Koon’s Aug. 10 cover story, “Farmer vs. Farmer,” on a murder linked to a quarrel over the herbicide dicamba and the herbicide’s effect on East Arkansas: Let the free market solve the problem. There should be NO regulations of any kind on any farmer. Corporations are people too, and they spent millions developing these products and deserve a return on their investment. The loss of a few farm-

ers’ crops is inconsequential when compared to the needs of a multibillion-dollar international corporation. Just because one farmer shoots another farmer, and just because millions of dollars of crops have been damaged, there’s still no reason for the government to get involved. Let the courts handle it. Ivan the Republican I have serious concerns on the safety of dicamba and its use. How safe is it to inhale, and is it readily washable off fruit and vegetables that it doesn’t kill in private gardens?

My dad is still dealing with health issues from chemicals that were used on our farm years ago that were later removed from the market as being too dangerous to use. Mark Hollis

In response to the Arkansas Blog post on the police dispersal of homeless people waiting for a meal at a church on West Markham St., who, according to a post by a nonprofit aid group, were called “an eyesore” by one officer:

A well-researched article, David. Very sorry for the Wallace family. It was disappointing to read Republican state Rep. Joe Jett’s comments about the state government not being able to do anything to help the farmers. ShineonLibby

“Eyesore” being the operative word here. Apparently it’s offensive to some with powertohavetoseewhathomelessnessand hunger look like. Out of sight, out of mind. The homeless are not the reason my hubby freaks out whenever I tell him I need to make a trip to Little Rock or the reason he calls or texts excessively from all parts of the world until I assure him I am on the way home. Homeless and hungry people are not the reason almost none of my girlfriends will make the trip with me anymore, despite attempted bribes of free lunch or a shopping spree. If only the police department and the city would do whatever it takes to hire a full staff and devote every accessible resource to fixing the real problems so folks can resume enjoying the pleasures our beautiful capital city has to offer without fear. I miss that a lot. There always have been and always will be homeless and hungry people. Hiding them doesn’t qualify as a Band-aid. The hungry and homeless don’t even appear on the radar of the image our country has right now of Little Rock, Arkansas. Mountaingirl

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One wonders why the city fathers keep talking about the number of open police jobs to justify not requiring cops living in Little Rock and crime … but they can place all these cops at this location instead of in the neighborhoods that are experiencing the problems, because Lance Hines does not like looking at them when he drives to City Hall? Or because the Republican legislators who eat at Doe’s and ran for office as Christians don’t want to see homeless people? Republicans don’t live by Jesus’ example. joanimal

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This city needs new leadership. The drifting and clueless City Hall needs to be cleaned out. And how come, when Little Rock has as many murders this year as Oakland, Calif., that the Little Rock Police Department is busy harassing the homeless and stopping people on Cantrell by Dillards going 5 mph over the speed limit instead of being out and stopping these murders and cracking down on hardened criminals? Rick 1 Follow the chain of command all the way back to who really authorized orders for the police to use excessive harassment tactics against people breaking bread together. Remember the RFRA? The Arkansas Senate voted to approve a bill that supporters said will protect religious freedoms: House Bill 1228, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act by Rep. Bob Ballinger, R-Hindsville. As an example of the protections the bill would provide, Sen. Bart Hester, R-Cave Springs, said “a church in Texas was granted the right to continue a program to feed the homeless under Texas religious freedom law.” I would suggest that a statue of Baphomet placed on the state Capitol grounds would more accurately represent the morals, character and laws of a majority of the Arkansas government. They will most likely claim they were not aware of this police action. Someone in authority ordered the police to place a surveillance camera across the street. ShineonLibby In response to an Arkansas Blog post on eStem charter school head John Bacon’s writings that the school’s success can be traced to its “demographics”: It is nice when he gets taxpayer money, plus funds poured on him by the Waltons, and then can go out and give a faulty rationale for their success. Since taxpayers aren’t represented in the Little Rock School District and apparently can’t have a vote to take the rate down to the state minimum, he is just another financial crook living off the efforts of others. These types just wear a business suit rather than a mask. Couldn’t be better In response to an Arkansas Blog post that the University of Arkansas made a list of 20 schools most unfriendly to the LGBT community: Husband and I have six weeks left before we leave Arkansas, and the South, for good! Hallelujah! cryptopagan

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WEEK THAT WAS

Quote of the week “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry of violence on many sides — on many sides. It’s been going on in our country for a long time.” — President Trump’s initial response to the violence in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, incited by white supremacists. An Ohio man, with ties to neo-Nazi groups, plowed his car into a crowd of people, killing one woman and injuring others. Two state troopers, who were monitoring the scene, also died in a helicopter crash on Aug. 12. At least 34 people were injured in the violence. On Aug. 14, Trump condemned the K.K.K, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups by name. On Aug. 15, Trump again blamed “both sides.”

“White supremacy has no place in America. When it turned violent in the 80’s, I prosecuted them as U.S. Attorney. #Charlottesville” — In sharp contrast of the president, Governor Hutchinson (@AsaHutchinson) offered an unequivocal Tweet at 12:30 p.m. Aug. 12. He’s was one of only a few Arkansas Republicans to explicitly and immediately condemn white supremacy for the violence.

Statement of the week “ As we watched the events and the response from President Trump over the weekend, we too felt that he missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together by unequivocally rejecting the appalling actions of white supremacists.” —Walmart CEO Doug McMillon on Aug. 15 in a statement responding to the violence in Charlottesville and Trump’s response. Amid the fallout, executives from Merck, Under Armour and Intel have stepped down from a presidential advisory council for manufacturing.

Womack accessible only by ferry U.S. Rep. Steve Womack is going to have one “town hall” of a sort in August, but it won’t be easy to get there. He’s scheduled a one-hour “coffee with the congressman” at 2:45 p.m. Aug. 21 at the Lazy Acres Fire Department, which has a mailing address in Missouri. Not to 6

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IN RESPONSE TO RIOTING: Chris Kingsby, president of the Arkansas State Conference of the NAACP Youth & College Division, led a rally Sunday at the state Capitol as a show of unity and solidarity with victims of the Charlottesville violence.

worry, it’s in Arkansas, if barely. To get there, most of Arkansas has only one ready way of access, the last publicly operating ferry, across an arm of Bull Shoals Lake at Peel (Marion County). The Peel Ferry will operate that day from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and departs every 20 minutes. The ferry can carry perhaps 12 cars each trip. Once you’ve crossed the lake on the ferry, you’re still not there. You’ve got to find Lazy Acres Road off Highway 125, take a right and then drive about 2.5 more miles, said a spokesman for the fire department. Tell the congressman we said howdy. I’m thinking the grassroots activist group Ozark Indivisible plans to greet him.

Tenants win rare victory Circuit Judge Alice Gray has given a partial victory to residents of the Alexander Apartments, forced to vacate the apartments around Christmas in 2015 after the

city found numerous safety code violations. The judge had earlier found the city of Little Rock had violated due process rights in removing tenants from the apartments without notice. Continuing was a claim by tenants and interveners for the Arkansas Community Organization that the landlord had breached rental contracts by failing to provide habitable housing. The judge said state law was clear, both in statute and court decisions. Arkansas (alone among the states) provides no warranty of habitability, explicit or implied, to people who rent housing. But, she said, the housing code of Lit tle Rock, with its requirement of safe and sanitary conditions, does become an implied part of a lease agreement and creates an implied warranty of habitability. She granted the tenant interveners partial summary judgment on that argument. The issues of breach of contract and damages will be

decided at trial, the judge said. If this notion prevails over time, it could mean there is some protection for tenants — at least in Little Rock, and perhaps other cities with similar housing codes — against the most anti-tenant law in the country.

The homicide tally Little Rock recorded its 43nd homicide of 2017 on Tuesday when Michael Davis, 19, died after he was shot along Asher Avenue on MOnday. That number is one greater than all homicides in Little Rock in 2016. That’s nearly an average of almost six homicides a month; at that rate, Little Rock could rack up 72 homicides by year’s end, which would just surpass the high of 70 in 1993, the subject of the “Bangin’ in the Rock” documentary. The Little Rock Police Department, meanwhile, added 18 new officers to its force Aug. 4. The agency had 67 vacancies in its officer force in June.

Charter secret

hese are hard times for those who believe in traditional public schools, run by democratically elected representatives, open to all on equal terms. The Little Rock School District seems likely to remain under state control permanently if its enemies on the state Board of Education prevail. If it survives at all. It seems more likely to be broken up piecemeal by the steady advancement of charter schools, propped up by Walton Family Foundation billions. Last week, the public learned after the fact that the Waltons had purchased, with the aid of a day-old state law giving charters first claim on vacant public school facilities, a former Little Rock district school, Garland, for a $425,000 pittance. It wasn’t revealed until Tuesday that it will become a charter school, to pull another 600 students from the surrounding Little Rock School District. In the regulatory process for rubber stamping, too, is yet another Walton-backed charter school in another former Little Rock school nearby. Also this week, the eStem privately operated charter school system — with plans for 5,000 enrollment — opened a new high

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rates and in college acceptance.” And what are demographics? Race and family income, to name two. In short, it seems like he’s school on land and buildings saying, poverty is destiny. Sure. provided by UA-Little Rock All professionals agree that famMAX and, again, the Walton Family ily income is the best predictor of BRANTLEY maxbrantley@arktimes.com Foundation. academic success and that expoThe occasion was heralded sure of poor kids to middle-class by John Bacon, the chief executive at eStem, kids is also a recipe for success for them. in an op-ed in the Arkansas DemocratBut, there are only so many middle-class Gazette. He said eStem’s proven methods kids to go around. And the situation is comare there for the replicating by the Little plicated by the fact of disproportionate povRock School District. erty among black families. Charter schools were supposed to be eStem may somewhat resemble the city laboratories of innovation and competition. of Little Rock in demographics, but not the To date, they’ve shown little in that area Little Rock School District, which doesn’t that isn’t already available in conventional include the mostly white, mostly higher schools. They have encouraged segregation. income western reaches of the city. Through smart marketing, they’ve attracted eStem’s enrollment last year was 46 perbetter-situated students, thus concentrating cent black. In the Little Rock School District, the hard cases in what’s left of the public it was 64 percent. The school-age populaschool system. tion in the LRSD is 36 percent white, about Bacon revealed one eStem secret. 50 percent in the city of Little Rock. “It starts with eStem demographics, Income is even more telling. At eStem, which are comparable to those in the city 30.4 percent of its students qualified for of Little Rock. free or reduced-price lunch based on fam“Regardless of race, religion or socioeco- ily income. In the Little Rock district, it was nomic status, eStem students attend school 70.8 percent. Some 36 percent of the black each day with a desire to learn. Represen- children in Little Rock live below the fedtative demographics yield higher student eral poverty line. achievement: in testing scores, in graduation In short, there are only so many middle-

The Klan’s man

verything that Donald Trump says is calculated to thrill his lustiest disciples. But he is discovering that what was brilliant for a politician is a miscalculation for a president, because it deepens the chasm between him and most Americans. It is forcing him to say things he never wanted to say and to rid himself of one aide after another — next perhaps his beloved white-nationalist advisers Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka. Even the right-wing owner of the Fox network and the Wall Street Journal tells him they must go. This week, his poll numbers sank to their worst ever, below 35 percent, just as the Russia investigation reaches the boiling point and he needs the bulwark of popular esteem. Pyongyang and Charlottesville, the capitals of August’s thermal wave, offer the sternest evidence. Trump’s political canniness and his power flow from one source: his bluster — the threats and invective he hurled at each of his Republican opponents in 2016 and then Hillary Clinton. All the media ate it up and so did millions of white men who had been waiting for someone to tell everything

like it is without the polite norms of public discourse. After Trump warned that North ERNEST Korea would never DUMAS fire an intercontinental missile, the kind that could deliver a payload to the United States, Kim Jong Un did just that. It could have hit Alaska. Another Trump warning and the little tyrant fired one that could hit New York City. So Trump promised that any more threats from North Korea and he would bring “fire and fury” on Pyongyang like the world had never seen. The little dictator laughed and threatened to drop some missiles into the ocean around Guam, where we have a military base. Now Trump says he will retaliate if North Korea attacks us or an ally and, meantime, he might attack Venezuela. North Korea is not going to attack anyone, so Trump need not worry about being humiliated again. North Korea finally has a stockpile of nuclear weapons, the ability to miniaturize them to fit atop a missile, and ICBMs that can strike the heart of his

country’s great enemy. Trump’s threats gave Kim what he needed most — a villain who would rally his desperate populace behind him. With many U.S. voters, too, it’s bluster, not action, that counts. But with most Americans, it was all a vacuous show and scary. No one but Trump’s alt-right advisers wants him to start or risk a war. Charlottesville was a bigger miscalculation. Trump had sewed up the angry-whiteman vote early, owing to his general bluster, news of his father’s connections with the Klan (he was jailed during a deadly Klan and fascist rally in New York City in 1927), or his reluctance to disavow the support of white-supremacy and alt-right groups led by the likes of David Duke, the former grand wizard and politician. Emboldened by Trump’s victory and his presidency, fascists, white supremacists like Duke and others under the altright banner rallied at the University of Virginia to begin the national movement to restore white control of America, which they thought Trump meant by “Make America Great Again.” With all the Klan and Nazi trappings — white robes, torches, assault rifles, clubs, Confederate flags and swastikas — they descended on the school for which Thomas Jefferson wanted to be remembered. The predictable riot ended

class kids left to go around. Who is likely to be able to figure out the charter school application process and find a way to get kids to a school that lacks a bus system and other elements of comprehensive public schools but also might lack an overabundance of poor kids? A higher income parent, for one. Also parents who have a stronger commitment to kids’ success. A little simple arithmetic with census data shows Bacon’s formula might not be so easy to replicate as he boasts. He also should be careful talking about how eStem kids come to school prepared to learn, as if others do not. It’s the kind of arrogance so often exhibited by the Walton Foundation, which is starting a new charter school on Battery Street within a half-mile of high achieving Little Rock classrooms on the insulting premise that there are no good neighborhood options. There are Little Rock schools that outscore eStem and there are some with high poverty populations that defy the odds. One was Wilson Elementary, closed along with other schools because of the declining district enrollment caused by the drain of students to charter schools and other places. A final capping irony would be for the Waltons to acquire it, too. For yet another charter school. Perhaps with Bacon’s “representative demographics.”

with an Ohio man who had told his mother he was going to a Trump rally speeding his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one and injuring more. Jubilant white nationalists plan more across the country. The event called for a powerful denunciation from the president, such as Reagan, Clinton, Bush II and Obama had delivered in similar assaults on American principles and safety. Trump’s aides scrambled to get him to respond and they — all but Bannon and Gorka — were dismayed when he did. He didn’t denounce white supremacy, Nazis, the Klan, their ideas or their weapons, but rather the intemperance of “many sides.” Just as during the election, he could not renounce people who had given his campaign its energy. It was a terrible day for his party, which was founded upon the principle of freedom for African Americans. Republican leaders, his vice president and his daughter filled the void until he could be persuaded to grumpily issue a statement denouncing the bigotry of the movement. To be safe, Trump ridiculed a black businessman who had quit his American Manufacturing Council and also announced he might pardon the Arizona sheriff who had been convicted of brutalizing blacks and Latinos. The lessons hadn’t quite sunk in.

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atching the Charlottesville spectacle from halfway across the country, I confess that my first instinct was to raillery. Vanilla ISIS, somebody called this mob of would-be Nazis. A parade of love-deprived nerds marching bravely out of their parents’ basements carrying tiki torches from Home Depot. The odor of citronella must have been overpowering. Was this an attack on the campus left or on mosquitoes? “Blood and soil!” they chanted. “Jews will not replace us!” Jews? Had Jews somehow prevented these dorks from getting laid? Deeply offensive, but also deeply ridiculous. The iconography of the torch-lit parade was straight out of “Triumph of the Will,” Leni Reifenstahl’s epic film glorifying Hitler. Deliberately so. These Stormfront geeks get off on trying to frighten normal people with Nazi imagery. “Hogan’s Heroes” is more like it. I mean Confederate flags are one thing, but swastikas? Politically, nothing could be dumber. Why not just have “Besiegte” tattooed on your forehead? That’s German for “loser.” Speaking for the overwhelming majority of Americans, Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah tweeted: “My brother didn’t give his life fighting Hitler for Nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home.” Then things went from laughable to tragic overnight. The University of Virginia has always been hallowed ground to me. When I first arrived, the sheer, serene beauty of Thomas Jefferson’s architecture affected me almost viscerally. Was the orderly life it implied even possible in this world? Well, certainly not in Jefferson’s own life, but art is art. I was first introduced to my wife in a serpentine-walled garden maybe 50 yards from where the would-be Nazis assembled around Jefferson’s statue. If I close my eyes, I can still see her standing there in her little shirtwaist dress — an Arkansas girl more exotic to me than anybody I’d known. The dean asked if I’d ever heard of Hendrix College, her Arkansas alma mater—a potentially embarrassing question. “No sir,” I said. “They must not play football.” She laughed because I was right; also because it was a cheeky way to talk to the graduate school dean. For that matter, I played several seasons worth of rugby games on Nameless Field, where the would-be SS-men lit their little torches. We got married

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in Charlottesville two years later. So, yes, it’s doubly distressing to see the university and city turned into a GENE stage set for fascist LYONS street theater. “Charlottesville,” wrote UVAprofessor Siva Vaidhyananathan, “is an ideal stage for them to perform acts of terrorism. This was the home of Thomas Jefferson, the man who codified religious tolerance in colonial Virginia and who declared ‘all men are created equal.’ It’s also the home of Thomas Jefferson, the man who owned, sold, raped and had whipped people he considered racially inferior to him. It’s the site of the University of Virginia, an institution steeped in conservative traditions that echo the Old South. And it’s the site of the University of Virginia, an elite, global research university with a cosmopolitan faculty and student body.” It’s definitely all that. Old South or not, Charlottesville is also a liberal college town that voted to remove an equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee from its courthouse square and relocate it to a park on its outskirts. Like many of the thousand or so Confederate monuments across the South, it was erected long after the Civil War, in 1924 — hence more an expression of white supremacy than Virginian ancestor worship, precisely as Stormfront wants to use it today. Lee himself steadfastly refused to be so memorialized in his lifetime. He would not contribute to the building of Confederate monuments and steadfastly advised white Southerners to leave it all behind. To an embittered Confederate widow, Lee once wrote, “Madam, do not train up your children in hostility to the government of the United States. Remember, we are all one country now. … Bring them up to be Americans.” Vaidhyanathan regrets that he and his wife stayed away Saturday for fear of precisely what happened: a mad act of violence by a deranged young man. He vows to bear peaceful witness when the wouldbe storm troopers march again. Maybe he can help to calm campus hotheads as well. Meanwhile, if Virginians need monuments, and they do, the state’s covered with Civil War battlefields. The Lawn at UVA remains; also Jefferson’s Monticello. For all the terrible ambiguity of his life, the man was the great genius of his age. For that matter, Appomattox Courthouse isn’t far away.

Home is where the hatred is

ccording to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Map,” a chapter of the Christian American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is headquartered in Hoxie, a small town in Lawrence County that also holds the distinction of being the first battleground of the segregationists in the fight to integrate Arkansas schools. I grew up in a nearly all-white town just down the road from Hoxie. I attended an all-white church and attended a nearly all-white school. I didn’t hear too many racial slurs, but I did hear racist jokes and stories. Lots of stories. The story of the black lady at the Memphis airport who would reach over the bathroom stall door and steal your purse. The story of the young black gang member in Blytheville who would flash his lights at you and then kill you when you stopped to help. The story of the Muslim student at Arkansas State University who would marry you and then take your children to the Middle East to be raised to worship Allah. I could go on and on. So many stories of people of color, portrayed as a boogeyman. These stories were told by adults and by the kids in my school and church. It has been pointed out by others before me: Racist kids often grow up to be racist adults. They also grow up to be teachers, supervisors and, most importantly, voters. I hope that many of them who made racist jokes or told racist stories look back in shame at their younger selves, but I know that some of them grew up and became bolder in their racism. At least one of those kids from my high school has posted a photo of himself with a White Power/KKK flag on social media. Not all racism is so blatant. Some of it takes the form of convincing allies to step back from the fight for equality in order to focus on jobs and less controversial issues. When young progressives are told to abandon “East Coast” or “West Coast” politics, what they are really being told is to not talk about immigration, LGBTQ rights or racial issues in order to not alienate the center. Well, if those in the center are turned off by equal rights, then let them go. On Friday night in Charlottesville, young men marched with torches on the campus of the University of Virginia. They looked ridiculous in their polo shirts and khaki pants carrying tiki torches straight from the Walmart gar-

den department, but what they stand for is no joke. The hatred AUTUMN on their faces was TOLBERT terrifying. Further terrifying is the lack of response by President Trump. On Saturday, Heather Heyer was killed and dozens of others were injured by a man who intentionally ran them down. On Monday, President Trump finally denounced the hate groups, only after his own party spoke out. I wish these men who marched in Charlottesville were just a small fringe group. It feels good to say what happened there does not represent America. It feels good to say the hateful acts of this past weekend aren’t who we are. However, that isn’t true. America is just as much hate and racism as baseball and apple pie. We are just as much violence and fear as we are summer picnics and fireworks. These men who marched with their torches are bold enough to go public with their fear and hate of their fellow man. They are the proxy for the millions more who keep a lower profile. Some of those people, at least based on Facebook likes, support the idea of running over protesters. They still are out there sharing stories of the black or Muslim boogeyman. For months, we’ve heard Trump won because of the economy. We’ve heard Hillary Clinton did not talk enough about jobs to working class voters. We’ve heard that those who voted based on racism were a small percentage of older, rural voters. The truth is we live in a country where, instead of being celebrated for their achievements and contributions, immigrants are portrayed by the president and our own U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton as leeches on society. Instead of transgender individuals being supported and treated as equal, they are accused of being bathroom perverts and unfit to serve in the military. Instead of being listened to, those who take a knee during the National Anthem to convey the message that the ideals of liberty and justice for all are not really for all are ridiculed and threatened with boycotts. I hope the events in Charlottesville this past weekend cause the scales to fall from the eyes of all those who still downplay the impact race and fear had on our election. Let the blind now see.

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alfway through the Hogs’ 2017 football season, which now will undoubtedly be played out in the memory of J. Frank Broyles, Pearls has the team sitting at 4-2, 1-2 after back-to-back road defeats against South Carolina and Alabama. In theory, the Razorbacks should be reeling, but there’s simply no cushion in this schedule to bemoan circumstance, because Oct. 21 is a day that Bret Bielema assuredly has circled with broad and aggressive red pen strokes on his literal or metaphorical calendar. Auburn comes to Fayetteville that Saturday, and the Tigers will have no shortage of confidence after drubbing the Hogs by 53 points on The Plains a year earlier. The preseason hubbub around Gus Malzahn’s team has been a little nauseating, frankly, with pundits falling over themselves to celebrate the newly anointed starting quarterback, Baylor transfer Jarrett Stidham, as the kind of savior that will resuscitate Malzahn’s stagnant passing offense. He’s an impressive physical specimen with a cannon, to be sure, but Stidham had only three starts at Baylor in 2015 and there remain questions about what his receiving corps can do. Auburn’s defense improved mightily under Kevin Steele’s direction, and will be athletic on the back end, but Arkansas players have welcomed this chance to exact retribution for what happened in 2016 for months. That passion will be on display early and often. Austin Allen clearly takes umbrage with the praise heaped on Stidham, and outshines his counterpart greatly with two passing touchdowns and a rushing score in the first half alone. A trick play allows T.J. Hammonds to run wild for a long third-quarter score as well, and the Hogs’ new 3-4 scheme really shows its mettle with Dre Greenlaw recording a sack, a fumble recovery and a late interception off a deflection. The Hogs don’t quite reverse the 56-3 score that Auburn pinned on them at Jordan-Hare last fall, but it’s still a solid win against a credible foe to get to 5-2, 2-2. Arkansas 34, Auburn 23. The Hogs go back on the road to square off against Ole Miss in Oxford, and they benefit greatly from the total mess that Matt Luke inherited by way of Hugh Freeze’s arrogance and ignominy. The Rebels still boast a little talent, but the disarray is obvious from the start, as the Rebels commit three silly penalties, lose a fumble and shank a field goal attempt in the first quarter. That allows the Hogs to get their footing. Devwah Whaley’s career-best 189

yards on the ground allows the Razorbacks to control the clock and frustrate an Ole Miss offense BEAU that still wants to WILCOX churn out play after play in rapid-fire sequence. Whaley’s two touchdowns help the Hogs build a 20-7 halftime lead, which is preserved when Shea Patterson forces a bad throw into the end zone in the last minute of the half, summarily picked by Santos Ramirez. The bleeding continues from there for the Rebels, who simply lack defensive depth. As Whaley continues to chew up yardage, Allen also finds Cheyenne O’Grady for a nifty touchdown pass on a tight end wheel route, and freshman tailback Chase Hayden cements the Hogs’ fourth straight victory over Ole Miss by barreling down the sideline for a fourthquarter touchdown run. Arkansas 41, Ole Miss 21. With the Razorbacks suddenly within range of the top of the SEC West, and hoping that Auburn can beat Alabama to cap off the regular season, they get a needed break after the rather taxing quartet of SEC games, three of which are away from home. Coastal Carolina, a burgeoning FCS power, makes its FBS and Sun Belt Conference debut this fall, and unfortunately the Chanticleers will be doing so with their cerebral head coach Joe Moglia away from the sideline (the TD Ameritrade exec is taking a health-related sabbatical after winning 51 games over the last five seasons). Even with Moglia around, this game was not going to be pretty, and especially with the Razorbacks surging after two big SEC victories before homecoming. Allen’s output is an impressive 12-14 for 201 yards and two touchdowns before he gives way to Cole Kelley, who is nearly as sharp (9-13, 165 yards, two TDs) in his best performance yet. The running game provides ample balance and the defense forces a season-high five turnovers, three of which are directly attributable to the work of defensive end McTelvin Agim, who has a strip-sack and recovery, a deflection of a low pass leading to a Dwayne Eugene interception, and then a jarring hit on the Chanticleers’ tailback to force another lost fumble. It is, as homecoming should be, a decided rout by the good guys, one that sets their season mark at 7-2, a high-water mark in Bielema’s fifth year on the Hill. Arkansas 52, Coastal Carolina 19.

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he Observer has, as of this week, been at this job for 15 years, long enough that if we’d been born in August 2002 instead of starting on this long journey, we’d have peach fuzz on our chin, a spray of acne and questionable taste in both fashion and music. What a long, strange trip it’s been so far, Dear Reader, the ins and outs, the ups and downs, the cans to cain’ts, reporting in everything from big cities to little hamlets so far back in the sticks that they have to get sunlight delivered parcel post. It’s been a life. The members of our newspaper family — as much the family of Yours Truly as those who we are connected to by marriage or blood — held a little shindig up here for The Observer on Monday, complete with a nice spread of wraps and dips and sandwiches somebody had been kind enough to cut the crust off of, all arranged out in the lobby on a table with a deep cooler of beer nearby. They didn’t make The Observer, notoriously gun-shy about public speaking, give a speech, and neither did El Hefe mount his soapbox to sing our praises, for which we were glad on both counts. It is, however, good to be noticed after a decade and a half. We hope you got some enjoyment or education out of our labors, Dear Reader. Lord knows we have. Until year 20: Onward and upward! *** And then, the struggles of the novice Observer. They come in flashes; shameful memories that make you want to crawl into a ball. Once, this Observer called the wrong source and conducted a whole interview before realizing it was actually the other person at that agency. Another time, it was going to the incorrect building and almost missing a public meeting. Then there are the consistently bad sentences fixed by a good editor. (That might be one.)

These examples are all when the novice Observer even figures out enough to go do something. Starting is hard enough. Especially with all that everyone else has already done. When the novice Observer discusses a topic for a new story — one that seems so perfect, finally a great story! — with the Veteran Observer (15 years of experiencing dripping from his pen) there is usually a little silence. “Oh, yeah,” the Veteran Observer says, “I wrote about that a few years ago.” Schools? Cops? Health care? Weirdos? Heroes? Well, the Veteran Observer has seen it all, and, damn him to Abaddon, has written the thing down better than would’ve been done by yours truly. (Just compare the floundering prose of these observations to his usual analysis and it’ll become clear.) After being thwarted, this neophyte pushes out into the world to look for something that has not caught a seemingly all-seeing eye. A tough task, as the Veteran Observer pumps out evermore stories while this beginner tries to learn the tricks. But, there is something to being new, too. There is something about having hopes, watching most of them be crushed by experience, but ... a few survive. They wiggle out into passions and become important leads, scoops, and new ideas. Luckily for this Observer, those hopes can be surrounded by experience. Trials by fire have burned away any pretension — people will tell you your idea is dumb. But, also, yelling around the office about an article, people will also pull facts ab aeterno about Arkansas and the lives of those with power that make your article. Had enough of the self-congratulations? The Observer has, too. Hopefully we won’t say a thing about this again until year 20 and the work will speak for itself. Until then, to mimic the Veteran: Onward and upward!

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overnor Hutchinson on Monday announced six juvenile treatment and correctional facilities taken over by the Arkansas Department of Human Services on Jan. 1 will be placed back in private hands as soon as next July. By the end of the year, the governor said, the state will issue a solicitation for one or more contractors to operate the youth lockups, with the winner or winners likely to be announced in March. For over two decades, the DHS’ Division of Youth Services (DYS) paid two Arkansas-based nonprofits to run the facilities, but in 2016 a political fight erupted over the state’s attempt to switch to an out-of-state company. Legislators sympathetic to the ousted nonprofits blocked the new contract in December, and the governor was forced to step in at the last minute to avoid a shutdown of the lockups. Hutchinson directed 12

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DYS to assume provisional management of the facilities, comprised of sites in Dermott, Mansfield, Lewisville, Colt and Harrisburg. (The state’s seventh and largest facility, the Arkansas Juvenile Assessment and Treatment Center in Alexander, continued to be managed by a separate private provider.) Hutchinson said today that the six facilities “have improved services” during the past seven months of DYS control, citing their provision of mental health and substance abuse therapy, a new virtual education program and a new family engagement initiative. The agency’s direct management of the lockups has allowed it to “get a better handle on the services that are delivered,” the governor said, “not just in an oversight role but in a more detailed fashion, so that they could determine and make recommendations in regards to the future and how those

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services would be delivered.” According to a letter sent to DYS in January by the advocacy nonprofit Disability Rights Arkansas, the state initially stumbled when it came to both therapy and schooling at the lockups. There were months-long lapses in mental health treatment following the takeover, the nonprofit group said, along with “a failure to provide required and necessary education.” Since then, however, DYS has contracted with community mental health centers — by way of the Division of Behavioral Health Services, a separate arm of DHS — and each lockup now has a therapist on-site. DYS has also initiated a partnership with Virtual Arkansas, a project of the Arkansas Department of Education that provides online coursework to public schools across the state. Following the governor’s announcement Monday, DYS Director Betty Guhman described the agency’s new family engagement efforts, including a July 30 “Family Day” event that welcomed parents and other relatives to each of the facilities for games and activities. Guhman said the event was the work of a new family advocate position created within the DYS central office, and “each of the facilities now have someone who’s focusing on families.” Asked later why he sought to relinquish state control of the lockups if DYS has made positive changes since the takeover, Hutchinson said that a private provider could make further improvements still. “Basically, he was pleased with what DHS and DYS were able to do but he also recognizes that there’s more to be done,” J.R. Davis, the governor’s communications director, said Monday afternoon. “In the private sector, there are those who have the capacity to do more and be more efficient.” Hutchinson and Guhman also announced several internal and external reviews of the agency. The governor said he is seeking a consultant to provide “an outside, independent look at not just facilities, but our whole system of youth services.” That study will resemble the 2015 report on the Arkansas child welfare system delivered by consultant Paul Vincent, the governor said; it’s not yet clear

who will conduct the review. Meanwhile, a security audit of the lockups, including the facility in Alexander, will be performed before the end of the year. A consulting firm retained by the DHS will identify ways the state can maximize its Medicaid funding for youth in DYS custody, thereby reducing the agency’s reliance on state general revenue. Guhman is initiating a broad internal review of DYS “programs and policies” to ensure that the facilities meet American Correctional Association standards. “That’s what we’re here to do,” she said. “We need to make sure we’re doing that, both in written policy and in actual practice.” And, she said, the agency is “looking at community-based programs at the same time we’re looking at our residential [facilities], so that we’re strengthening the services that judges have available to them.” Sharon Strong, an attorney for Disability Rights Arkansas, said many of those plans constitute “a step in the right direction,” such as ordering the independent review of the system. “To get a fresh set of eyes on it — I think that would be a really good idea,” Strone said. The DYS’ family engagement initiative is “commendable, a big positive,” she said. “They’re working on [youth] transition after they get released; I think that’s all very good, and an important piece that’s been missing.” Strong said she has concerns about the use of Virtual Arkansas. “My understanding is that that’s a tried-and-true tool that’s used throughout the state ... but it’s supposed to be used as a supplement, not the primary method of education.” She also noted that the state’s eventual contract with a new private provider, or providers, won’t necessarily look like its old contract with the nonprofits. “They’re still wanting to maintain the piece about behavioral health, community mental health, so it sounds like there will be some state involvement. … The governor said he wants the ability ‘to hold contractors accountable,’ so maybe they want to bid out the day-to-day operations but still manage pieces of it.” Scott Tanner, the state juvenile ombudsman at the Arkansas Public Defender Commission, was also cautiously optimistic. “Potentially, there could be some very positive outcomes to increased collaboration with [the Division of] Behavioral Health,” he

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said. “Behavioral health is a component that’s needed on the community level and also on the residential level, particularly for youth coming into DYS’ residential system and existing that system.” Tanner also said the state was correct to look into maximizing its use of federal Medicaid money. Under Arkansas’s Medicaid program, federal dollars match state dollars at a 70/30 rate. But while most youth remanded to DYS custody are eligible for Medicaid before they are confined, Tanner explained, their eligibility typically ends once they are locked up in a treatment or correctional facility. That means DYS must pay for a confined youth’s medical needs entirely out of state general revenue. “Placement in detention cuts off Medicaid funding, because they’re considered to be in a secure, confined area, and Medicaid dollars are only supposed to be spent on medical services and rehabilitation. So there’s just been a historic prohibition on using any Medicaid funds,” he said. “But, there has been some windows of opportunity for youth committed to DYS that do need a residential psychiatric placement, like at the [Arkansas] State Hospital, or Youth Home or Piney Ridge in Fayetteville. And so for those committed youth that are going into providers that can bill Medicaid, there needs to be some allowance.” Supplementing the DYS budget with additional Medicaid money, in places, could allow the state to make progress toward its long-stated goal of reducing reliance on confinement of youth and increasing community-based programs, Tanner said. “It’s a way of stretching our general revenue monies, because the mission is always greater than the budget. … The focus on making sure that we are being the wisest steward of both [state] general and federal resources is critical. If we hope to reduce reliance on secure incarceration, we absolutely have to increase capacity in the community to address those needs and issues.” As for the return of the lockups to a private contractor, Tanner said, the youth services agency must continue This reporting is courtesy of the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network, an independent, nonpartisan news project dedicated to producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.

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Play at home, while resisting with every fiber of your being the darkness spreading across our land. 1) Among the mob of white supremacists and neo-Nazis who recently marched by torchlight in Charlottesville, Va., one person seen in a widely circulated photo stood out because of his red T-shirt. What slogan was printed on the T-shirt? A) “Indiana Jones Punched Me In The Face, And All I Got Was This Dumb T-Shirt” B) “Arkansas Engineering” C) “I’m With Stupid” D) “Great Grandpa Obviously Didn’t Kick Nazi Ass Hard Enough in 1944” 2) A spokesperson for the Arkansas Department of Transportation said the agency has noticed a troubling issue with the new Broadway Bridge connecting Little Rock and North Little Rock. What is it? A) Every time a barge passes under the bridge, the toilet flushes in Pulaski County Judge Barry Hyde’s office. B) “From the right angle, it kinda looks like boobs.” C) Large amounts of trash are appearing nightly on the bridge’s bike/pedestrian lane. D) The Hungarian architectural firm/doomsday cult that designed the span recently informed ArDOT that during the solar eclipse on Aug. 21, the bridge will summon Gozer the Gozerian from “Ghostbusters.” 3) Activists hoping to talk to 3rd District U.S. Rep. Steve Womack about his support for repealing the Affordable Care Act during a “Coffee with the Congressman” event to be held Aug. 21 have noticed something odd about the location of the event. What is it? A) Without driving the long way ‘round through Branson, Mo. (over 85 miles), you have to take a boat to get there. B) Unless, of course, you want to swim. C) Specifically, you have to take Peel Ferry over Bull Shoals Lake, the last operating ferry in the state, which holds a maximum of 12 cars — a potential bottleneck for angry constituents who have been coming to events held by Arkansas’s representatives and senators since Trump was elected. D) All of the above.

4) Arkansas-based retail giant Walmart recently apologized for something that went viral after information about it was posted on social media. What was the issue? A) A photo of a case full of shotguns and rifles, topped with a sign that said: “Own the School Like a Hero.” B) Its refusal to institute an age cutoff of 50 on sales of men’s “banana hanger” swimsuits. C) A mass recall on 72-ounce tubs of “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Hemorrhoid Cream.” D) Lab tests confirming their store-brand frozen steak fingers are made of 100 percent whatever the hell this is:

5) In a clear case of one-upmanship following the recent wreck of a semi hauling thousands of gallons of whiskey, an 18-wheeler that recently crashed in Little Rock on Interstate 30 scattered its cargo all over the highway. What was the truck hauling? A) The latest load of black and swirling evil sucked from the person of presidential adviser Steve Bannon. B) 8,000 tiki torches headed to a Target store in Charlottesville, Va., after high demand from lame, dipshit Citronella-smelling ’burb Nazis too dumb to make a proper torch totally depleted their supply. C) 183 progressive-minded, college-educated Arkansans willing to flee to anywhere but here. D) Thousands of frozen pizzas, which blanketed the freeway from edge to edge.

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NICHOLS: Says he’s excited to give audiences “a deeper undertanding” of the hows and whys of the films screening at the Arkansas Cinema Society’s debut event.

Jeff Nichols never wanted to be an indie filmmaker.

Even before he made “Shotgun Stories,” his first feature film, he talked aspirationally not of winning Sundance, but of future blockbusters. He’s always seen artistic independence and mass appeal as mutually achievable. So perhaps its not surprising that the lineup for the first event from the Arkansas Cinema Society, the ambitious new film nonprofit he and fellow Little Rock native and filmmaker Kathryn Tucker co-founded and announced in March, includes actors, directors and producers who’ve successfully made movies big and small while maintaining a distinct voice or sensibility. The ACS’ “Premiere” runs Aug. 24-26 at the Ron Robinson Theater, with actor Adam Driver (Kylo Ren in the new “Star Wars” trilogy, Adam on HBO’s “Girls”) and director David Lowery (“Pete’s Dragon,” “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”) headlining. At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, the event kicks off with a screening of “Patti Cake$,” a 2017

Sundance hit that seems poised to cross- price. See more about the films and parover into the mainstream about a white ties on page 18. female New Jersey rapper. Nichols will The nighttime films will be followed by have an onstage conversation with pro- Q&As about that specific film, while the ducer Noah Stahl following the screening. daytime screenings with Driver and LowAt 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 25, Jim Jarmusch’s ery will cover “the breadth of their work “Paterson” screens. The critically acclaimed and the trajectory of their careers,” Nich2016 indie stars Driver as a bus driver and ols said. Some future Arkansas Cinema aspiring poet in Paterson, N.J. Following Society events may simply be screenings, the film, Nichols will have an extended he said. “But hopefully in most instances onstage conversation with Driver. “Star there will be a screening followed by a Wars: The Force Awakens” plays at 7 p.m. conversation, which is really where this on Friday, with Driver, who stars as the stuff starts to become unique and special. villain Kylo Ren, again talking about the I think it’s part of our core mission with film with Nichols. Both of the Driver films the Cinema Society to extend the screensold out quickly, though ACS organizers ings into a deeper understanding of what expected to release more tickets earlier the work is and how it actually got there.” this week. At 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26, Though this is Nichols first time proDavid Lowery’s 2016 reimagining of Dis- gramming a film event, the lineup reflects ney’s “Pete’s Dragon” plays, followed by the advantage of having someone of his an extended conversation with Nichols. stature (GQ recently grouped him in a That night, at 7 p.m. Lowery’s new, well- roundtable feature of 10 of the magareceived indie “A Ghost Story,” starring zines “favorite, freshest directors” called Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara screens, “The Directors Who Blew Up Hollywood). with Nichols again talking to Lowery Driver, who Nichols calls “one of the greatabout the film. Tickets, $35 per screen- est actors working today,” was the first ing, are available via the ACS Facebook commit. Nichols got to know him during page. Admission to parties following each the making of Nichols’ 2016 film “Midnight night’s screening is included in the ticket Special,” in which Driver plays an NSA arktimes.com AUGUST 17, 2017

analyst. Driver’s father also lives in Central makers and films and, coupled with some techArkansas. Lowery, who grew up and still lives nical adjustments to the projector, will make for in the Dallas area, has known Nichols since a markedly better viewing experience, Nichols early in their careers. They met through the and Tucker say. CALS Director Nate Coulter, actor Barlow Jacobs, who starred in Nichols’ who’s also a member of the ACS board, was suf“Shotgun Stories” and has a role in Lowery’s ficiently convinced by that argument to put up “A Ghost Story.” Dan Janvey, a producer for $20,000 toward the new installation; the ACS “Patti Cake$” and someone who Nichols knew will cover the balance, around $30,000. Coulter of through producer Sarah Green offered to bring his film to the Arkansas Cinema Society after the website IndieWire first reported on “We tried a lot of different the creation of the nonprofit. Nichols likened the scheduling to a combinations of things, and Rubik’s Cube. “We tried a lot of different a lot of it just came down to combinations of things, and a lot of it just came down to people’s schedules. The cool people’s schedules. The cool thing is everyone that we’ve reached out to that couldn’t make it this time expressed thing is everyone that we’ve interest about coming, so we’re really excited about you know the next 12 months.” Nichreached out to that couldn’t ols and Tucker aren’t ready to drop names make it this time expressed yet, but they might tease some of what they expect to be at least a monthly series of film interest about coming, so events at Ron Robinson during “Premiere.” One sign of their long-term commitment we’re really excited about to the Central Arkansas Library System’s theater: Under the ACS’ direction, Ron Robthe next 12 months.” inson last week installed a new perforated screen, which allows the theater’s center channel speakers to be placed behind the Jeff Nichols screen, a customary arrangement in modern theaters. The new setup will help the ACS draw more big-name film-

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said he expects that the ACS will build up such a trust with the community that people will come every time there is an ACS film, regardless whether they know anything about it. That can only help the library’s theater, which has struggled to find its identity since opening in 2014. New to the ACS team is Chris Robinson, a second year UA-Little Rock assistant professor, who’s serving as the ACS resident curator and programmer. Robinson had a varied career before entering academia, working in distribution for Cinecom Pictures, booking movies like “A Room with a View” and then later editing documentaries for HBO, ESPN and PBS. He also is a programmer for the Telluride Film Festival and the Turner Classic Movies’ Classic Film Festival. “I remember having a conversation with Katherine early on and saying, ‘You know it would be great if there was just somebody in Arkansas that had the skill set in terms of programming and the ability to talk to distributors,’ ” Nichols said. “And sure enough you start getting the word out and [Robinson] is right down the street, and he’s a bad ass.” Tucker said Robinson has provided crucial assistance in getting in touch with the studios that own the movies ACS is screening later this month. He also connected the ACS with Diana Caldwell, a Los Angeles-based film consultant who recently managed the assembly of special 70mm screens around the country for Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk.” Caldwell, who also worked at the Telluride Film Festival, will be the technical director for “Premiere,” ensuring that everything looks and sounds as it should.

Independent

It’s an interesting gray area. It’s not “my way Dragon,” but it was nice to function under a veil or the highway.” I know when I’m making a of anonymity. That was fun. I think it’s a useful film like “Pete’s Dragon” that it needs to appeal model. I don’t ever want to replicate anything I do. to a wider demographic than something like “A The next time I make a self-funded independent Ghost Story,” so I’m naturally going to be step- film, it’s probably not going to be done the same ping a little bit outside my stubbornly indepen- way I made “A Ghost Story.” But we’ll take things dent mindset in an attempt to embrace a wider we learned from “A Ghost Story” and apply that audience. That’s not a bad thing. That’s a won- to whatever we do in the future, whether it’s a big derful thing. studio movie or in tiny indie territory. My stubborn independence comes in with things like the tone of the movie, or the way the Have you finished shooting “The Old Man movie looks, or the soundtrack to the movie or and the Gun”? some formalist ideas that I tried to sneak in there. It’s done. I’m actually headed to my post-proThose are the things that I fight for and things duction suite now to finish editing. I look forward that make it feel like one of my movies. But I was to seeing what people think of it. On the subject of very clear from the beginning, when I sat down not repeating myself, it’s about as different from with Disney, that in spite of that, I wanted it “A Ghost Story” as you can get. But I watched it to feel like a tried-and-true classic Disney film. last night, and it still felt like one of my movies, It’s interesting because I’m writing “Peter for better or worse. It also felt like a great Robert Pan” right now; it’s one of the top five crown Redford movie, which I’m really excited about. jewels in the Disney animation library. I have to be a little bit more respectful of that than I Casey Affleck has been in nearly every one David Lowery has done it all in independent was with “Pete’s Dragon.” There are fans of the of your movies. Is it a goal to get him in everyfilm. He made an acclaimed short film, “Pioneer,” original undoubtedly, but there are not many of thing you do? It’s worked out that way. But I do like to work that won the Grand Jury prize at SXSW. He edited them in the grand scheme of things. So I was able the cult sci-fi favorite “Upstream Color.” And he’s to pretty much make my own movie with that title. with the same people repeatedly. I always admired written, directed and edited moody indie favorites With “Peter Pan,” it’s a little different, because it’s directors who have their ensembles before the “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” and “A Ghost Story,” falling into a category of films like “The Jungle camera and behind it and I’ve sought to do the both of which starred Casey Affleck and Rooney Book” and “Beauty and the Beast,” these live-action same. It’s fun. It fills this meta-continuity from one Mara. Meanwhile, and perhaps improbably, he’s adaptations that have been incredibly successful film to the next, and it also just makes the process become a go-to Disney director. After the suc- because they honor the original source material easier because you already have a shorthand with cess of his reimagining of “Pete’s Dragon” in 2016, but also bring it to the audience with a new tech- someone. There’s also value in pushing yourself outside that comfort zone, and I definitely will do he’s been tapped to write and direct a live-action nological, live-action spin. that in the future. But thus far, it’s made sense to adaptation of “Peter Pan.” Also coming soon: an How far along are you? cast Casey repeatedly and make him do ridiculous adaptation of New Yorker journalist David Grann’s We’re on the third draft right now, so it’s rela- things like talk in a Texas accent, wear a mustache story “The Old Man and the Gun,” starring Robert tively far along, but it’s something we have to be or put a sheet over his head. Redford and Casey Affleck. really careful with. You don’t want to screw it up. What follows is a Q&A with the filmmaker that’s You don’t want to have another “Peter Pan” movie that nobody likes. been edited for space and clarity.

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Do you think you’ll continue to bounce between doing indies like “A Ghost Story” and big-budget films like “Pete’s Dragon” and “Peter Pan,” or do you see it as “these are all just movies, I’m going do what feels right”? I have to make what feels right to me, or else I just want to make it. When I was 7 years old, I decided I wanted to spend my life making movies solely because I loved “Star Wars” movies. That’s always been a part of me. That big populist side of filmmaking has always appealed to me, and I’ve never shied away from it. But I’ve always been very stubborn in my personal life and career and that manifests itself in an independent streak that runs through my life and my work. I never want to limit myself to just being an independent filmmaker, but I do know that whatever I make, whether it’s big or small, will have what might be deemed an independent spirit just because of who I am. When you’re doing a classic story for Disney, like “Pete’s Dragon” or “Peter Pan,” how much freedom do you have to take the story where you want it to go?

You kept the shoot secret for “A Ghost Story” in case it didn’t work. Why did you think it wouldn’t work? It was very high concept. I find when you’re doing things for high concept there’s a high risk for failure. Because we were making this movie on such a small level, on such a small scale, I felt there was no upside to publicizing it. We didn’t have to publicize it to get money or find investors. We didn’t have to let anyone know we were making it because we were making it ourselves on our own terms with our own money. Because it was so out there conceptually, I knew that there was a chance it might not work. And I felt that it might be better to fail in silence. Also, I mean, there’s no denying that secrets are fun. Mysteries are fun, and I like surprises, so that played into it as well. Does this make you want to replicate doing it DIY, something that a lot of filmmakers at your level don’t often do? That must have been liberating. It was liberating, but it wasn’t as liberating as you might think. It didn’t feel that different from making “Pete’s

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“Patti Cake$” 6:30 p.m., $35

A Sundance hit that also drew raves at Cannes, “Patti Cake$” is about Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, a plus-sized rapper angling for fame in working-class Bergen County, N.J. It’s from first-time director Geremy Jasper, who was previously known for making music videos for the likes of Florence + The Machine and, in what might have served as an early prototype for “Patti Cake$”, the “Chunky Pam” series of rap spoofs for MTV during the early days of YouTube, starring Little Rock native Ashlie Atkinson as a New Jersey rapper. Jasper also starred in “Glory at Sea,” the short film from Benh Zeitlen that Zeitlen expanded into the Sundance-winning and Oscar-nominated “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” “Patti Cake$” producer Noah Stahl, of New Orleans, has worked with affiliates of Court 13, the film collective of which Zeitlen is a part, on the TV show “High Maintenance” and the documentary “Western.” He’ll talk to Jeff Nichols about “Patti Cake$” after the screening.

Opening night party

9:30 p.m., free for “Patti Cake$” ticket holders or $10

Beloved local singer/songwriter Adam Faucett, whose voice will make the hairs stand up on your arms, performs in the party area that Cache restaurant and the Ron Robinson Theater share.

SATURDAY 8/26

“Pete’s Dragon” 102 minutes 2 p.m., $35

A delightful reimagining of the 1977 Disney film of the same name, director David Lowery’s “Pete’s Dragon” tells the story of an orphaned boy raised by a friendly dragon that lives deep in the woods. When the feral boy is discovered by the daughter of a lumberjack foreman, his life is upended. “I challenge people who might be saying, ‘Pete’s Dragon’ is just a kid’s movie,” Nichols said. “Watch it and look at the camera movement and look at the way the film was directed and some of the choices that were made in that film and then watch ‘A Ghost Story’ and see what you can pick out.” After the screening, Nichols will have an hourlong talk with Lowery about his career.

“A Ghost Story” 92 minutes 7 p.m., $35

Lowery followed “Pete’s Dragon,” which had a budget of around $65 million, by filming “A Ghost Story,” a self-funded indie that he and his cast and crew made in secret for $150,000. Lowery regular Casey Affleck stars as C, a struggling musician married to M (Rooney Mara, another regular) and living in a small suburban house. Early in the film, C is killed in a car accident, but lingers behind as a ghost covered in a white sheet with two black holes for eyes. On RogerEbert.com, critic Matt Zoller Seitz writes of “A Ghost Story,” “I rarely see a movie so original that I want to tell people to just see it without reading any reviews beforehand, including my own.” Nichols and Lowery will discuss the film after it screens.

Closing night retro arcade party

9:30 p.m., Damgoode Pies, free for Saturday film ticketholders or $10

FRIDAY 8/25

“Paterson”

118 minutes 2 p.m., $35 (sold out)

Another rapturously reviewed indie from legendary director Jim Jarmusch, “Paterson” takes place in one week in the life of Paterson (Adam Driver), a bus driver and aspiring poet, who lives with his wife, Laura (Golshifteh Farahani), and dog, Marvin. This movie’s strengths clearly reside beyond its basic plot. Peter Travers, in Rolling Stone, said, “Adam Driver gives one of the loveliest and least likely to be rewarded performances of the year in ‘Paterson.’ Why least likely, you ask? Because Driver’s indelibly moving portrayal is so livedin and lyrical you hardly recognize it as acting.” The dog in the film also won the annual Palm Dog Award, given to the best performance by a canine at the Cannes Film Festival. Jeff Nichols will talk to Adam Driver about his career after the film.

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” 136 minutes 7 p.m., $35 (sold out)

The seventh — or first in a new trilogy, depending on how you’re scoring at home —“Star Wars” film series. Maybe you’ve heard of it. Driver, who expertly plays the mercurial villain Kylo Ren, will talk about the film afterward with Nichols.

Lost Forty party

9:30 p.m., free for Friday film ticketholders or $10

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Frank Broyles dies A giant in University of Arkansas athletics remembered. BY BEAU WILCOX

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cy to something quantitative. Officially speaking, Broyles had more than a half-century’s worth of public employment with the University of Arkansas (head coach from 1958 to 1976, and a 33-year tenure as athletic director that started in 1974 when he was still at the helm of the football program), but Broyles’ death on Aug. 14 came after a mostly private battle with the damnable Alzheimer’s disease against which he had become an impassioned fighter when it claimed his first wife, Barbara, 13 years ago. It marks the end of 92 years lived well, not entirely without controversy but absolutely without fear, and it signals that the forthcoming 2017 season will be one played in tribute for the only man to ever lead the Hogs to a national championship in the sport that, to fans and boosters alike, matters most. Further proof that Broyles’ impact on Arkansas athletics cannot be reduced to mere numbers: his 144 wins over 19 seasons remains a school record by a long margin, but that only nominally substantiates the acumen he boasted as a sideline general. Broyles cut his football teeth as a standout quarterback for Georgia Tech, winning 1944 SEC Player of the Year honors, so he actually wasn’t as passingaverse as many of his contemporaries. As a result, quarterbacks like Jon Brittenum, Ronny South, Bill Montgomery and especially Joe Ferguson got to enjoy a slightly more vertical attack than other signalcallers of the era. Arkansas was consistently one of the nation’s most efficient rushing teams, never turnover-prone, and along with a defense that could be suffocating over stretches of weeks at a time, Broyles regularly assembled a wellrounded unit. Save for the grave disappointment of losing the 1969 Game of the Century to Texas with President Nixon among the crowd in Fayetteville and a moribund final season in 1976, Broyles’

like Fayetteville expat floundered his way into multiple was shockingly contract extensions. Nutt’s decade-long acute. The facili- run as coach brought heat on the AD ties on The Hill are in other ways: Nolan Richardson, the first-rate across man who authored the Hogs’ basketball the board, and the success in the late 1980s and early to Razorback Foun- mid-1990s, publicly bristled at the favordation’s growth able treatment his football counterpart throughout his ten- received while he seemed to struggle ure was at least par- to curry favor with Broyles. Ultimately, tially attributable to Richardson sued the university followBroyles’ homespun ing his 2002 firing, and even as the lawSouthern charm. suit was deemed without merit, Broyles’ Baum Stadium genteel reputation took a few brutal hits became a cathedral amid allegations that he used racial epiof collegiate base- thets and had been unduly tough on the ball when it opened African-American firebrand he hired in in 1996; three short 1985 to replace a disillusioned, Kentuckyyears before that, bound Eddie Sutton. Bud Walton Arena Of course, Richardson’s animus opened and imme- toward the university has since softened, diately welcomed a Holtz and Hatfield never genuinely aired national champion their apparent grudges for long, and Suton the basketball ton later recanted his embittered statecourt. Donald W. ment about “crawling to Lexington” to Reynolds Razor- coach the Wildcats. For all his faults, Nutt back Stadium will did win 75 games over 10 years to place soon reach an atten- a distant second on the career wins list, dance capacity of John McDonnell made the track and field double what it was program an unparalleled national jugin Broyles’ final sea- gernaut, and Norm DeBriyn’s retirement BROYLES: No one more influential in University of Arkansas sons on the sideline, allowed Broyles to retain the services athletics. though in a bit of of Dave Van Horn, who has guided the morose irony, its latest baseball program to its greatest heights performance as coach was A-list material. expansion was facilitated by the level- over a 15-year tenure. It was Broyles’ deferential nature ing of the Broyles Athletic Center in the For all the upheaval, it was Broyles’ as head coach that arguably made him north end zone. boldest decision, to leave behind the iconic, and the creation of the Broyles His reign as athletic director was Southwest Conference, that served as Award in 1996 was inspired by that will- buoyed by smash-hit hires and threat- the catalyst for the program’s profitingness to delegate duties to coordinators ened by them all the same. Lou Holtz had ability and visibility to soar. A quarterand position coaches. For his nearly two an abbreviated run as Broyles’ immediate century in the SEC has had its share of decades as head coach, Broyles’ coach- successor as head football coach, includ- lowlights among all sports, but it also ing progeny could only be described as ing winning the 1978 Orange Bowl in a enhanced the school’s image across the exceptional. Jimmy Johnson and Barry memorable upset of Oklahoma, but the nation and served notice that Arkansas Switzer famously both joined the staff mercurial coach high-tailed it for the less athletics would not be stagnant. Arkanafter playing for Broyles in Fayetteville; glamorous Minnesota job in 1984 amid sas’s announced exit from the SWC hasHayden Fry and Joe Gibbs both spent a rumors of a falling out with Broyles (and tened that old conference’s demise and season under his wing before taking flight some apparent concerns over Holtz’s accelerated Broyles’ growth plan for the as head coaches elsewhere, and eventual Jesse Helms fetish). A hero of the ’64 department, which thereafter added new Tennessee and Pittsburgh boss Johnny championship team, Ken Hatfield came sports and expanded its campus footprint. Majors was on staff for four years in the onboard, won 55 games and two SouthThere will be some who express 1960s. Wilson Matthews rose from the west Conference titles in only six seasons, bewilderment at Broyles’ celebrity, nothigh school ranks to become a top aide to but left for Clemson abruptly after the ing he won but a single (and disputed) Broyles for a decade, and it’s no wonder 1990 Cotton Bowl due to perceived dis- national title as head coach and then the former Little Rock Central legend is cord with his former coach. That led to clashed with many that he hired. They depicted alongside his boss in the trophy the infamous decision to promote Jack might also point to the Hogs’ underhanded out annually to the top assistant Crowe to head coach, and the equally whelming performance on the football in the college football ranks. It’s also no infamous one to dismiss him after the field in the SEC era or the Richardson wonder that out of two decades’ worth of 1992 loss to the Citadel in the season lawsuit exposing unsavory goings-on recipients of the trophy, 14 have become opener. within the department. But Frank Brohead coaches with varying degrees of Broyles’ last football head coaching yles was inarguably one of the last of his success. hire was Houston Nutt, and in an era kind, too — he was old-school in his manAs an administrator, Broyles struck where message boards surfaced as a vis- ner and methods, but undeniably shrewd a more autonomous tone. He was a deft ible thermometer for fan discontent, it and forward-thinking in a cutthroat era fundraiser and his perception of what was a personnel decision that posters of college athletics. would and wouldn’t work in a place would decry at length as the onetime Hog arktimes.com AUGUST 17, 2017

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‘AUTONOMOUS DWELLING MACHINE’: After three decades in storage and a restoration by historian/curator Robert Rubin, Buckminster Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Dome is open for public viewing on the north lawn of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

The Fly’s Eye Buckminster Fuller’s work of genius at Crystal Bridges blends ‘nature’s geometry’ with economy and environmentalism. BY TARA STICKLEY

he Surrealists used to play a game vationist Robert Rubin. in which they used unsuppressed, “The whole idea … came from an actual automatic response, or automatism, fly’s eye, this idea of the exoskeleton, and to redefine common notions. Richard Buck- that architecture can look at natural forms,” minster Fuller, a self-titled “design scientist” curatorial assistant Dylan Turk said. whose creativity spanned the fields of poThe 50-foot-tall dome, which features etry, cartography, physics and engineering, 61 eyes (or “oculi”), would have created apparently didn’t need games to see the an astounding 4,823-square-feet of living world or its architecture in new ways. space on three levels and was intended Born in 1895 in Massachusetts to a fam- to be a single-family dwelling. “It’s really ily of activists, Bucky Fuller was both myo- pretty massive, but the geometry makes it pic and farsighted as a young child. His feel comfortable and relatable,” Turk said. early understanding of the environment “This was his idea for affordable housing.” was tactile, and he relied on his imaginaThat idea is also expressed in another tion to give shape to the blurry world he icon of architecture on the museum encountered: “What I saw wasn’t what grounds: The Bachman-Wilson House, everyone else was seeing,” he’s been quoted a Frank Lloyd Wright “Usonian” strucas saying. His primary question — the leit- ture that the museum transported from its motif of his life’s work — could be phrased, original location in New Jersey in 2014 to “What is a house?” Bentonville and reassembled. Wright used The final version of his answer can be the term Usonian — his abbreviation of found in the newly installed Fly’s Eye Dome, “United States of North America” — to refer sitting like a giant bubble on the north lawn to the simple, two-story structures that he of the Crystal Bridges Museum of Ameri- designed as “housing for the American can Art, where the link between architec- middle class,” Turk said. ture and social change is a sustained focus. The experience of standing inside the The museum acquired the glass and fiber- Fly’s Eye Dome is like time travel in both glass prototype, one of only three built by directions: It looks like it’s part artifact Fuller, in 2016 from historian and preser- from mid-century America and part 22nd 22

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century dream. Fuller designed the Fly’s Eye Dome in 1965 after a decade of working with architect Norman Foster and surfboard designer John Warren. “They failed a lot” along the way, Turk said, in their effort to “create a dome that wouldn’t be just metal with a skin on it [like Fuller’s previous geodesic domes], but in one solid material like fiberglass, which was strong yet pliable.” Fuller’s geodesic design was an “idea of synergy,” one based on the “strength of the whole rather than the individual parts,” Turk said. The vicissitudes of Fuller’s life informed his designs for autonomous dwellings. Booted from Harvard University twice (once for blowing his entire tuition on entertaining a line of Broadway chorus girls), he received much of his education working in abattoirs and cotton mills, contemplating machinery and distribution. His years in the military gave him an eye for efficiency and aeronautics. In 1927, during a personal crisis brought on by bankruptcy and the death of his first daughter, whose illness he believed was exacerbated by poor housing, Fuller went into seclusion. When he returned, he described himself as “an experiment,” one that would “discover what the little, penniless, unknown individual might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity.” He called himself “Guinea Pig B.” Fuller called the home the “the great economic problem of this age and all ages.” He thought shelter should be prefabricated and standardized, as automobiles had been, to reduce cost, and he agreed with his contemporary Le Corbusier that we should “eliminate from our hearts and our minds all dead concepts in regards to the house.” His ideas first found form in the “4D” house, which was intended to liberate its inhabitants from life’s drudgery and free their time. The homes would be light enough to be distributed by air — they were to be dropped in place from zeppelins into craters created by bombs, also dropped by zeppelins. They would include dustfree furniture and “O-volving” shelves that

would spin with books. Their prefabricated bathrooms fitted together like puzzles and would feature “fog guns” that would spray atomized water to clean the body with a single pint of water, and dry toilets that would package waste to be used as fertilizer. In the 1940s, Fuller’s experiments in 3D mapping and the strengths of geometric shapes fed into the evolution of his geodesic housing design. The polyhedron design — formed of equilateral triangles — allows the structure to be both self-supporting, strong and light. Fuller called it “nature’s geometry.” In 1970, the American Institute of Architects called the geodesic dome “the strongest, lightest, and most efficient means of enclosing space yet known to man.” Fuller’s brand of proto-environmentalism came from his desire to provide a comfortable microclimate in which all people could live off the grid in the most structurally sound way possible. “He asked everyone, ‘How much does your building weigh,’ ” Turk said, “because he truly believed if you understand the weight of your building … and you try to keep the weight as low as possible, that’s sustainability. Use the least to accomplish the most.” Fuller’s timeliness is remarkable: It’s no longer farfetched that our structures would need to withstand great amounts of wind-stress in an ever-changing climate, or survive flooding, or even float above the land, as Fuller mapped out in his most imaginative plans for shelter, the Cloud Nine habitat. Also on display are Fuller’s papers acquired by the museum: Coffee-splattered drawings, correspondence, photos of failed domes, a magazine clipping of an insect’s eye that inspired Fuller’s creation and writings from his notebooks. There is also a recipe for beer; Ozark Brewing Co. collaborated with Crystal Bridges to produce beer inspired by the recipe, which was introduced at an event at the museum in mid-July. “I think with this kind of a dialogue — that we’re continuing to push our architecture collection around housing — it’s at least hopefully having an impact and bringing awareness to the community so that they can see what [architectural] alternatives will be,” Turk said. The dome can be viewed from the north gallery bridge and north elevator tower.

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A&E NEWS We note the passing of Arkansas music pioneer Glen Campbell, who died last Tuesday at 81. Campbell’s multidecade career included session work with The Monkees, The Beach Boys, Ricky Nelson, Nat King Cole, Merle Haggard, Elvis Presley and Dean Martin; four Grammy Awards; “The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour,” which ran from 1969 through mid-1972; and two films based on fellow South Arkansawyer Charles Portis’ novels, 1969’s “True Grit” and 1970’s “Norwood.” In 2011, it was announced that Campbell had Alzheimer’s Disease. Campbell’s subsequent farewell tour through 2012 featured mostly older songs because of this, and he used a teleprompter for lyrics and chords. His final TV performance was at the 2012 Grammys, where he played “Rhinestone Cowboy.” Campbell’s 2014 song “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” was featured in the Campbell documentary called “I’ll Be Me.” He spent his 81st birthday in 2017 in the Nashville, Tenn., memory care facility where’d he’d been living. Campbell was buried in Delight in a private ceremony Wednesday, Aug. 9. Rosen Music Co., established by Marty Rosen in 1955, has relocated. The long-tenured full-service retail music store formerly at 716 Main St. is now situated at 7509 Cantrell Road, Suite 103, near the corner of Cantrell and Mississippi Avenue. When we called to confirm the relocation and ask about any changes, owner David Rosen replied, “Same as it’s been since 1955.” In other local music store news, count us among those disappointed to learn that Dogtown Sound, the Park Hill repair and consignment shop and micro-venue that won Best Local Music Equipment Shop in the Arkansas Times’ Best of Arkansas issue in 2016, has gone out of business. The shop’s instrument specialist, Adrian Bozeman, will continue to perform repair and customization work by appointment. To make an appointment, call 501-478-9663.

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RICHARD LEO JOHNSON

7:30 p.m. The Joint. $25.

The El Dorado native, self-taught guitarist and Blue Note alumnus was once called “the most innovative guitarist since Jimi Hendrix” by Playboy magazine. His music defies genre (especially, to his ear, the New Age label that he’s been tagged with), but his albums confidently tromp a deeper path set by other unclassifiable heavies like John Fahey and Arkansas’s own Moondog. It’s a music of found tunings and bizarre chord progressions that can draw out new hues of heebie-jeebies while evoking a weird Old South, untethered from history, where primitive, muddy religion shares an uneasy supper with the fantastical and science fictional. In Johnson’s case, it helps to have a few curious instruments to make such curious music. Recently, he has summoned up rich bells, haunting overtones and crystalline resonances out of instruments found, homemade and bizarre — listen to the 1930s National Duolian steel-body guitar of “The Legend of Vernon McAllister” (2006) or the inside-out Martin “Martian” guitar with a theremin in its guts that he used in 2014 for “Celeste.” This, the Nashvillebased Johnson’s latest return to his home state, is brought to us by the Argenta Arts Acoustic Music Series. Find tickets at centralarkansastickets.com. JT

‘UNTITLED’: The Dina Santos photo is part of the ‘Nasty Woman’ exhibit at UALR.

FRIDAY 8/18

‘NASTY WOMAN’ CLOSING RECEPTION

6 p.m. UALR Fine Arts Building. Free.

Listen, I’m no economist, but it looks like the closest thing millennials and those of us in the writers and artists caste will get to a WPA-style economic stimulus already happened that one fateful night in October when the words “nasty woman” plopped out of our future nutcase-in-chief. That was an instantly iconic and absurdist call-to-tools for craftswomen, artisans and subversives of all types to rally around the tag and get to work, turning the pathetic insult into all sorts of empowering wares to be crafted, sold and worn with pride. Ten months later, it’s still a clarion call. The “Nasty Woman” exhibition expands

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on an original “Nasty Woman” show curated at Henderson State University by that school’s photography professor, Margo Duvall, whose wonderful diptych of a woman considering a taro leaf that has been ripped, pierced and suffused with subtext greets visitors to this year’s Delta Exhibition. The pieces in “Nasty Woman” traverse time and mood, from the heavy (Joli Lavaudais’ body cast in a honeycomb shroud, “The Mother Exhumed”) to the hilarious (Dina Santos’ bright “Untitled” photo in which pink and teal color fields frame a tutu-wearing nasty woman in a defiant handstand against a storefront security shutter). This Friday’s closing reception kicks off at 5 p.m., with a curator’s talk at 6 p.m., and participating artists on hand throughout. JT

FRIDAY 8/18

THIRD FRIDAY ARGENTA ARTWALK 5-8 p.m. Downtown North Little Rock.

Works by some of Arkansas’s most distinguished artists, including the late Al Allen and Carroll Cloar, along with famed regionalist Thomas Hart Benton make up part of the offerings in “Southern Landscapes,” a new exhibition at Greg Thompson Fine Art (429 Main St.) opening with the monthly Third Friday Argenta ArtWalk. Also in the show: contem24

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porary Arkansas artists Mark Blaney, Dolores Jus- Pixels,” work by Miller B. “Eddie” Smith and Ed tus, Darrell Berry, Stephen Schneider and Charles Rhodes; Core Brewery, which is showing “Dance Harrington; Arkansas native Kendall Stallings; Your HeART Out,” art inspired by dance; and the watercolorist Stephen Scott Young; and South Caro- House of Art (108 E. Fourth), where Sulac, Everett lina painter Edward Rice. Other venues open Friday Gee, Woozel, Loogie, x3mex and Derek Simon are night: Mugs Cafe (515 Main St.), which continues showing. Claytime Pottery will have a 50 percent “Three Dollar Icon,” paintings by Melissa Wilkin- off sale; Argenta Gallery continues its “Film, Flash, son; the Laman Library Argenta Branch (420 Main Focus, Record” show of work by Michael Shaeffer; St.), which is showing “Paints, Pastels, Pencils and and StudioMain will host POP-UP Argenta. LNP

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7 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater. $10.

If you haven’t heard yet, Dazz & Brie are dominating Little Rock’s musical landscape and setting the latest standards for the forward-thinking musicians among us. The winners of the 2017 Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase traffic in pop and R&B sure, but have you heard “Indigo”? One of their newest tracks opens up with a vaguely sludgy, Pallbearer-style guitar sliding over a spoken lover’s appeal before a cymbal announces a high, lonesome holler that would land perfectly on any CMT fan’s ears. Then, suddenly, we’re taken to a gooey psychedelic plane that binds it all together. They say the test of a great song is that it can be performed in all genres, but what about a songwriting force that can unify a mosaic of styles like this in a single unit, and with natural ease? Where can you even go from there? We’re stumped, but looking forward to finding out where Dazz & Brie take us next. JT

10 p.m. White Water Tavern. $10.

Now six years running, the annual Summer Soulstice dance party has been one of the most reliably good-vibed parties in Little Rock, one that leaves you looking forward to the next year’s installment once the night has ended. As always, Seth Baldy, a.k.a. DJ Baldego, will be spinning a set of sticky, Memphis-heavy Southern soul. The Velvet Kente Arkestra is lined up to blast out a set of Afrobeat covers and originals, all aided by a roster of featured vocalists including Dazz & Brie fresh off of the aforementioned concert at Ron Robinson, poet and performer C.C. Mercer, post-punk mainstay Jeremy Brasher, emcee Osyrus Bolly and local shouting bearman Adam Faucett. JT

The Kaleidoscope Film Festival continues with a screening of Amat Escalante’s “The Untamed,” 7 p.m., Argenta Community Theater, $10-$350, see kaleidoscopefilmfestival.com for passes. Swedish folk artist Sofia Talvik plays a free show at the Faulkner County Library in Conway, 7 p.m. David Scott, the Guinness Book of World Records record-holder for Longest Stand-Up Comedy Show by an Individual (40 hours, eight minutes), performs a piece of his record-breaking material at The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat., 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., $8-$12. Joshua Black Wilkins, tintype photographer and Nashville songwriter, brings his tales to the White Water Tavern, with an opening set from Kevin Kerby, 9 p.m., $5. Leopold and His Fiction, sort of a parallel universe Perry Farrell outfit, returns to Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8:30 p.m., $8-$10. Raising Grey play for the happy hour crowd at Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free, and First Impressions takes the stage at 9 p.m., $5. Folklorists and pickers Cindy Woolf and Mark Bilyeu of the Creek Rocks play an early show at Four Quarter Bar, 6 p.m., free. Thirst N’ Howl Bar & Grill hosts an open mic-style Jazz Jam, 8:30 p.m. Here Come the Mummies brings some undead, funk-informed rock to George’s Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville, 8:30 p.m., $25-$30.

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KRISTIN DIABLE

8:30 p.m. Kings Live Music, Conway. $5.

‘MAGNOLIA’: New Orleans’ Kristin Diable lands at Kings Live Music in Conway Saturday night.

In the video for “I’ll Make Time For You,” the opener to Kristin Diable’s 2015 release, “Create Your Own Mythology,” a young boy discovers an electronic gadget delivered to his backyard by a comet. The gadget shoots a rainbow laser beam into his eyes and transports him to an alternate universe, where he is of drinking age and situated in a glittery bacchanale that looks like what might happen if the members of Polyphonic Spree supervised a revived “Soul Train” in the year 2099. It’s a perfectly apt introduction to Diable’s style, which probably points to the blend of the bizarre and the utterly familiar in her music. “Create Your Own Mythology” polished that sound to a shine courtesy of Dave Cobb, the guy who produced Jason Isbell’s “Southeastern” and Sturgill Simpson’s “Metamodern Sounds in Country Music.” Diable wears her roots on her sleeve (check out her latest single, “Magnolia,” a love letter to her native Louisiana) and borrows freely from the smoke and raucousness of a bygone soul era, but her delivery is more Ma Rainey than Leon Bridges — she’s able to do so without veering into parody territory. For fans of Amy Winehouse or Erin McKeown, I suspect this one will be well worth the trip to Conway. Preston Palmer opens the show. SS

Legends of Arkansas hosts its annual LoA Trolley Party, with a tour of Argenta and the River Market district, starting at 6:45 p.m. at the River Rail Trolley Barn, $25, includes open bar on trolley. Selfdescribed “veteran anti-establishment rockers” Bobgoblin take the stage at Vino’s, with Secondhand Cannons, 8 p.m. Austin-based country artist Bart Crow takes his pop-tinged tunes to Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $10. Recognizer and Brother Andy and His Big Damn Mouth share a bill at Rebel Kettle Brewing Co., 8 p.m. The Little Rock Trojans women’s soccer team takes on the University of Central Arkansas Bears, 7 p.m., Coleman Sports & Recreation Complex, free. The Hoodoo Blues Revue takes the stage at Four Quarter Bar, 10 p.m., $7. Goodfoot plays a late-night-early-morning funk set at Midtown Billiards, 1 a.m. Thirst N’ Howl hosts a show from Intruder, 8:30 p.m. The Big Dam Horns kick off the weekend with horns, horns and more horns, 9:30 p.m., Stickyz, $8. Southern rockers Magnolia Brown take the stage at Maxine’s in Hot Springs, 9 p.m., $5. Steve Boyster kicks off the weekend at Cajun’s, 5:30 p.m., free, followed later with a set by the Memphis Yahoos, 9 p.m., $5. Jeff Coleman and The Feeders play a show at TC’s Midtown Grill in Conway, 9 p.m. The Kaleidoscope Film Festival screens “The Death and and Life of Marsha P. Johnson,” 5:30 p.m., followed by a showing of Damon Cardasis’ “Saturday Church,” 7:30 p.m., Argenta Community Theater, $10-$350. The Apple Kahler Band gives a free

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is probably most famous for his film “You and the Night,” from 2013, which revolved around an orgy but mainly showed off an auteur’s (and, let’s be honest, a French) sensibility for poetic cinema. “The Untamed,” a 100-minute featurelength film, screens next. After Escalante won the best director award at Cannes in 2013 for “Heli” — a gruesome and horrifying dive into drug violence in Mexico — people were a bit unsure what to think of him. “Heli” was called “nihilistic,” and, though moving and technically masterful, it felt hopeless in its conclusions. I would not expect the newest work to have anything particularly uplifting to say either, but it may be more strange than brutal. “The Untamed” is working with a larger budget than “Heli” and pulls from horror motifs in an attempt to tackle the filmmaker’s “outrage about institutionalized homophobia and misogyny in Mexico,” and does this with a sci-fi bend. To avoid spoilers, I’ll just say if you watch, expect to see some intergalactic sex stuff (Indiewire review’s headline is: “This Surreal Thriller Is the Second-Best Movie Ever ‘THE UNTAMED’: Amat Escalante’s new feature film screens at Kaleidoscope. Made About Tentacle Sex.”) That should be enough to get you to the theater. But you should THURSDAY 8/17 - SATURDAY 8/19 opportunities to make up for it. The remaining also know that the movie is stunningly beautiful, highlight is on Thursday night, at Argenta Com- and worth watching on the big screen. Manuel munity Theater, a double feature of sorts: “Islands” Alberto Claro — who shot Lars Von Trier’s hauntby Yann Gonzalez and “The Untamed” by Amat ing “Nymphomaniac” — worked on the film. In Various times. Argenta Community Theater. South on Main. Crush Wine Bar. Free-$350. Escalante. First up is “Islands,” a French short our surreal times, creative nihilism seems apt. If you missed out on the first week and a half running at around 23 minutes that won the Cannes There’s tons more to check out. Visit kaleidoof the Kaleidoscope LGBT Film Festival, the Queer Palm Best Short Film Award and is making scopefilmfestival.com for the full schedule. JR tail end of the film festival is offering a bevy of its North American premiere. Director Gonzalez

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MONDAY 8/21

CALS SOLAR ECLIPSE WATCH PARTY

11 a.m., Peabody Splash Park in Riverfront Park.

There’s something spellbinding and energetically unsettling about an eclipse, as if all of time since the Big Bang is momentarily folding in on itself, making our corner of the universe feel at once enormously weighty and small when the cosmic alignment momentarily scrambles our deepest internal clocks. Annie Dillard, in her classic essay “Total Eclipse,” describes that primal sensation as the slam of a “hatch in the brain.” Or, conversely, it’s kind of like when the DVD logo in the screensaver hits the corner of the TV juuust right. Next week, when the moon’s 70-mile shadow zooms at 1,000 miles per hour from Salem, Ore., to Charleston, S.C., you’ll have the chance to see the first total solar eclipse visible in the continental U.S. since 1979, which is notable, but let’s get really weird: first, by acknowledging that through all of recorded time, solar eclipses — when something small and dead can “put to shame” the sole giver of light and life — have been a harbinger (or cause 26

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of?) major, power-shaking events, down to the sensation of everyone walking outside from their birth of Muhammad and the death of Jesus. And offices, schools and homes to come together to hang with me here: This is the first eclipse that’s stare (in safety glasses) at the sky in unison and exclusively visible from the U.S. since — get this — awe, and hope that’s the only time in this weighty 17-freaking-76. And we’re not done yet. The current and tense month we all do that. JT president was born a mere three hours after a lunar eclipse, which many say makes people much more sensitive and susceptible to the energetic influence of an eclipse, feasibly even more with this one in the house of Leo, that sign of kings. But put all that out of your mind and join the Central Arkansas Library System staffers at the splash park as they give out free eclipse glasses to sunwatchers of all ages. The eclipse begins at 11:48 a.m., reaches its maximum coverage (90 percent, for 2 minutes) at 1:18 p.m. and DON’T FORGET YOUR ECLIPSE GLASSES: On Monday, Aug. ends at 2:47 p.m. So join with your 21. community in sharing that creepy

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White Water hosts a Celebration of the Life of Jason Adams (Mojo Depot, Weakness for Blondes) 7 p.m., donations. Kaleidoscope Film Festival hosts a Drag Queen Brunch at South on Main featuring Rhiannon, artists from The House of Cortez and a screening of “Cherry Pop,” 10 a.m., $17-$350. Following that, catch screenings of “Jesus,” 2:30 p.m.; “The Revival,” 5:30 p.m.; and “Princess Cyd,” 7:15 p.m., Argenta Community Theater, $10-$350, followed by an afterparty at Crush Wine Bar to close out the festival, 9:30 p.m. Jake Dexter and The Main Street Sound take the stage at Four Quarter Bar, 10 p.m., $7. DeFrance performs at Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, with an opening set from King Corduroy, 9 p.m., $6. Verizon Arena is home to Wingstock, an all-you-can-eat chicken wings competition and beer festival, 11 a.m., $20. Tragikly White takes the stage at the Rev Room, 9:30 p.m., $10. The femmes of Foul Play Cabaret wage a burlesque takeover at Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $10-$15. Lynn Robertson plays a set for happy hour at Cajun’s, 5:30 p.m., and at 9 p.m., Rustenhaven takes the stage, $5. Country singer Donnie Lee Strickland performs at the Outlets of Little Rock, 11201 Bass Pro Parkway, 2 p.m., free. Acapella Rising brings its barbershop set to UA Pulaski Technical College’s Center for the Humanities and Arts, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Admission to the Clinton Presidential Center is free in honor of Bill Clinton’s birthday. AE: QC:

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lousness of the 1960s and ’70s watching the video. It’s a fantasy that we’ve replayed over and over as Americans, and yet it’s still intoxicating. It makes you want to say words like “delightful.” I cannot promise you the same flashback joy will occur during the “Happy Together Tour” at Oaklawn. But, maybe you can catch some of that memorable strangeness and beauty for yourself. You can see The Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie, The Association, Chuck Negron (of Three Dog Night), The Box Tops, The Cowsills and The Archies (starring Ron Dante). They are among the bands that you might not remember by name, but they’ve got a staggering 50-plus Billboard hits under their collective belt, so at least one of the songs will stand out. Personally, I think watching The Box Tops without their famous lead singer, Alex Chilton — who went on to change pop music with Big Star and died in 2010 — could be a high point. Supposedly, when recording The Box Tops hit “The Letter,” Chilton smoked a bunch of cigarettes to make his teenage voice sound like gravel. Could be a bit of the reverse now for the band, trying to stay young despite all the wear and tear. JR

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concert at Markham Street Grill and Pub, 8:30 p.m. Greasy Tree brings tight, crunchy blues to King’s Live Music in Conway with an opening set from Edward Briggler, 8:30 p.m., $5. Oaklawn Racing & Gaming’s Finish Line Theatre in Hot Springs hosts the Happy Together Tour, a revue of “upbeat music produced in the 1960s and 1970s,” 7 p.m., $45-$55. Later, Moxie entertains at Oaklawn’s Silks Bar & Grill, 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., free. Tragikly White takes its party set to West End Smokehouse, 10 p.m., $7. A Year and a Day performs at Thirst N’ Howl, 8:30 p.m.

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The Museum of Discovery hosts “Science Before the Dark,” an “eclipnic” to celebrate the solar eclipse, with bag lunches encouraged and pizza for sale from Damgoode Pies, 11 a.m., $5 admission includes eclipse glasses. William F. Laman Library in North Little Rock hosts a Solar Eclipse Preview, with free eclipse glasses while supplies last, 10 a.m. The Fine Arts Center at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville opens the exhibit “A New Subjectivity: Figurative Painting after 2000,” work by women artists.

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The Fayetteville Flyer reports that JAMES AT THE MILL in Johnson, perhaps the first restaurant in Arkansas to offer haute cuisine that was truly haute — stacked high, that is — has closed. The restaurant was part of the Inn at the Mill, which, when it opened in 1994 was in a bucolic setting on a little two-lane road. Times have changed; it is now hard to distinguish Fayetteville from Springdale from Johnson from Rogers from Bentonville. The property has been bought by the Northwest Hospitality Group, which intends to expand the hotel. Founder Chef Miles James told the Flyer that he is working to open a new restaurant, his second MJ PIZZERIA, on Crossover Road in Fayetteville, across from the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks. James opened his first MJ Pizzeria in Springdale. The Fayetteville pizzeria will also have a coffee shop, to be supplied by Anonymous Coffee of Springdale, with pastries by James. GIGI’S SOUL CAFE AND LOUNGE at 10840 Maumelle Blvd., where the Nashville Rockin Grill was located, opened July 28 and co-owner Darrell Wyrick said the restaurant is “bringing back the spirit of some of the places that have gone, like Porter’s and The Afterthought” with its soul food and “old school R and B vibe.” Gigi’s is open for lunch and dinner, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. or 10 p.m., “depending on the traffic,” Tuesday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday; and 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday). The lunch menu includes burgers, beef brisket, meatloaf, hot dogs, smoked wings and more; the dinner menu adds, among other things, barbecue, burgers, pork chops, ribs, catfish and fried chicken. The house band, the Blue Candle, named for a jazz lounge in the Bay Area that Wyrick’s wife, Helen Andrea Wyrick, used to visit, plays Friday and Saturday nights. In the future, Gigi’s may add nightly music and Wednesday night karaoke, Darrell Wyrick said. REBEL KETTLE BREWING CO. at 822 E. Sixth St. will release its first canned beer on Saturday, Aug. 19: Headbangers Ball, a double India Pale Ale first brewed for Woo Pig Brewey! blogger Scott Parton’s 50th birthday. There are 40 cases available; limit is a four-pack per person for the “super hazy Double IPA juice bomb” with “aromas and flavors of ripe mango, fresh citrus peel, juicy stone fruit and dank pine.” LITTLE ROCK RESTAURANT MONTH finishes up its Midtown deals Aug. 20 and moves to Southwest Little Rock, with (for example) such bargains as $1 tacos and $2 draft beers at Eliella Ristorante on Baseline Road; $1 off the daily lunch special at Downhome Restaurant and Catering on Stagecoach Road; 15 percent off your meal at El Alamo Mexican Grill on Geyer Springs Road; and 10 percent off at Taziki’s on Bass Pro Parkway. See the LR Restaurant Month guide in this issue for all the deals. 28

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YAYA’S OUTSIDE: The filet mignon had a Chianti-Gorgonzola demi-glace; the hummus (next page) was creamy.

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he buzz at the Promenade was contagious on a recent Saturday night. It was unseasonably cool, so what better place to have dinner than on a patio? The outdoor seating at YaYa’s was inviting and a three-piece band played lively, jazzy tunes. All diners looked relaxed and were clearly having a good time. The house-made hummus ($8) and charcuterie flatbread ($14) kept our appetites in check while we sipped our wine and perused the dinner menu. The hummus was creamy with a hint of lemon. The chili oil gave the dip a welcomed kick. The charcuterie flatbread was a table favorite. Pear jam and apples balanced out the salty, thick-cut prosciutto. The spice from mustard seeds was cut by the subtle lavender honey. The bread itself was soft with crisp edges, having been run through an oak-fired brick oven. This really was a standout dish and a perfect appetizer for four or even more. We highly recommend. The wait staff was a bit hither and thither, but our server was friendly. She was able to guide us through the menu and offer a few suggestions, but didn’t have it down pat. This is completely forgivable, although establishments with $20-$30 plates usually expect servers to have the menu memorized. She recommended the filet mignon ($35) for dinner, so we

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didn’t argue. The 8-ounce steak was grilled in the woodfired oven, topped with a Chianti-Gorgonzola demi-glace, and served with potato puree and green beans. We ordered our steak medium, but it came out underdone. After a couple more minutes on the grill, it was a perfect medium. The sides were solid, but nothing special. The mashed potatoes were creamy and buttery, and the green beans were crisp and lightly salted. The star of the dish was the demi-glace. It accented all the right flavors. The acidic Chianti cut the richness of the meat and Gorgonzola. We paired the filet with a couple of glasses of Senda 66, a sultry Tempranillo from the La Mancha region of Spain. It was fruity and spicy and went well with the steak, although it would have been great on its own. The Shrimp Linguini ($20) was delightfully savory with a hint of sweetness. Tiger shrimp were served over linguini pasta with oven-roasted tomatoes, spinach and the kicker: a luscious sweet vermouth-sage sauce. Big hunks of roasted garlic provided bursts of flavor. It was nice to find a tasty pasta dish that wasn’t so heavy or creamy as to make us uncomfortably full. By the time we ordered dessert, it was obvious that the wait staff was ready to wind down. The check came

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unprompted and servers were harder to food and a great atmosphere (on the patio, find. We passed our order of peach bread at least). The food was fresh and flavorpudding around the table. The gener- ful, and we left very little on our plates. ous portion was easily shared among the The menu is a little short on creativity or four of us. The rich caramel-bourbon flare, though, and presentation wasn’t a sauce and vanilla bean ice cream made strong point. If that’s what you’re lookfor delicious toppings, but the real star ing for — especially at this price point — was the bread pudding itself. Stocked you’re likely to have a more inspired expewith big chunks of baked-in peaches, it rience elsewhere in town. If it’s steady was bouncy, sweet and cinnamony. We and solid you’re after, YaYa’s won’t let can see ourselves having this on a fall you down. evening with a shot of amaretto or a cup of coffee. Dinner at YaYa’s was solid: decent arktimes.com AUGUST 17, 2017

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