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Open letter to AG Leslie Rutledge This letter is in response to your decision to join Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and nine other state legal officials in calling for President Trump to cancel the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Undocumented children have not committed any crime. The fact that I have to say this in 2017 when this battle was fought over five years ago is astonishing to me. These are people who are following the rules and actively trying to work in America and become citizens. You have consistently used your office to oppress and fight against the rights of Arkansas residents. The attorney general’s office is meant to protect and serve the interests of ALL residents of the state. Your actions constitute a dereliction of duty. Your previous efforts to prevent DACA recipients from obtaining Arkansas driver’s licenses show how malicious and meanspirited your use of the attorney general’s office has been. Undocumented people contribute to Arkansas’s economy. They work in agriculture, at Tyson, at Walmart. They came to this country to seek a better life for themselves and their children. As the Cato Institute has pointed out, immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than the general population of native-born citizens, and designating more people as “criminals” who have not committed any other offense increases government spending in detention infrastructure. You are actively opposing the cause of justice and hurting the local economy of your state by making these actions a priority. I grew up in Arkansas and was educated in the Little Rock School District. We were taught the civil rights history of our state. We learned about the Little Rock Nine and Daisy Bates. This is the civil rights issue of our time. You are choosing to side with the legacy of Orval Faubus, with the white families who spit on integrating students. History will be a harsh judge of your actions today. Connor Thompson Long Beach, Calif.

So, Finesse 2TYMES is a rapper out of Memphis. Quite a few lesser-known rappers make their way through Little Rock on tour. Little Rock is getting a serious rep for being where the “real s**t” goes down. We are almost back to early 1990 levels of infamy. Oh, and your sensibilities are disturbed by that concert poster. ... Why don’t you waltz over and Google “NRA Convention in Houston” and you will see much the same there, only with white faces. Artificial Inteligence

ing poster, what could have gone wrong? At 2:30 a.m. 16-year-olds in a bar where clearly no one under the age of 21 was permitted to consume adult beverages, what could have gone wrong? Then the excusemakers surface blaming the NRA, making excuses for the black face on the poster when the NRA had a white face on their poster (like a white face on this poster would have sold tickets), and of course the obligatory cheap shot at the attorney general. Is this a great country or what? Razorblade

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From the web In reaction to Arkansas Blog posts on the July 1 shootings at the Power Ultra Lounge concert downtown that injured 28 people, the poster advertising the concert that featured a gun, and the city’s response: Didn’t our Arkansas Legislature recently permit guns into places where alcohol is served? What could possibly go wrong? MysteryShopper 4

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I’m so confused. The article has an ad for the club that shows your typical white preppie Little Rockers enjoying themselves. The club brings in a rapper act and the ad shows him holding a gun. Guess what kind of people are going to show up at this venue? Rule of thumb: If an event is not going to be covered in Little Rock Soiree, don’t go! I mean, come on … . This crap never happens at Tabriz. jasonrob870 Would a police force made up of LR residents have more skin in the game to stop this kinda shit? Just askin’. Slithey Tove Mayor Stodola’s inept and impotent leadership in Little Rock concerning the continued violence in this city is just sad. There will be some shutdown of a few nightclubs, meetings and panel discussions on mentoring programs and “stop the violence,” and the city’s continued focused on West Little Rock. I would suggest the mayor drive through communities in Central Little Rock and witness the decay, sense of hopelessness and lack of city resources (except police) and economic development in urban areas, then he would understand why such events occur. #FireMarkStodola. ProfessorEmeritus Don’t worry about whether the guns are legal or illegal. That’s pretty much irrelevant when gun manufacturers have been pumping out the number of weapons that they’ve been doing for decades. Water seeks its own level and that avalanche of weaponry will find its ownership. The more guns that are manufactured, the more guns that are bought legally and illegally, the more guns that are stolen and distributed on the black market. Who’s the main beneficiary of all this mayhem and death? It’s the gun manufacturers, and they don’t care where their product ends up. They’re rolling in money, and most definitely not responsible or even responsive to the needs of society. Their weapons aren’t primarily used for hunting anymore — unless you include human hunting. The money is in semiautomatic handguns and military-style rifles and they keep getting deadlier and deadlier, more and more efficient. Translation: more and more profit for the gunmakers, who are protected by their lobby in Washington, the NRA. They’re like the man whom they got elected as president. They can do what they want. They’re stars. It’s the supply side that really needs to be curtailed. Fat cats. Fat chance.

Olphart In response to reporting on the Arkansas Blog that the Ten Commandments monument on the state Capitol grounds had been destroyed: Well, THAT didn’t take long. Given the legalized chicanery, shameless self-dealing, outright bribery, hypocritical assertions of piety and hatred of the poor by our so-called elected representatives at the Capitol, it’s quite possible that a message from “on high” is being sent. tsallenarng In response to the University of Arkansas System’s legal counsel saying that federal law does not require a gun-free zone to protect eStem charter High School on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock campus: So bullets that penetrate through home walls and hit innocent children who are asleep will magically stop at a charter school wall, window or door. More NRA magic? [State Rep.] Charlie Collins and his ilk won’t be the ones who are shot when this “magic” is shown to be more NRA BS! couldn’t be better

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BLOOD ON THE LOT: Blood splatter could be seen in a parking lot across from Power Ultra Lounge at 220 W. Sixth St. after a Saturday morning’s shooting.

“We must do more to keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people.” — Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola, speaking at a July 1 press conference held in the wake of a mass shooting early Saturday morning at Power Ultra Lounge on West Sixth Street that left 28 injured, including 25 with gunshot wounds. All were expected to survive.

Quote of the week II “There have to be significant changes in the current [Senate bill] draft in order to give states like Arkansas options for the future and to continue coverage and not have a $500 million per year gap in our economy.” — Governor Hutchinson outlining the ways in which he’d like to see the U.S. Senate bill to replace Obamacare changed. Among his suggestions: If the federal government moves to block grant funding for Medicaid, Hutchinson said the funding should include support of the Medicaid expansion population. If that block grant is based on a per capita figuring, Hutchinson said the elderly, blind and disabled should be exempt, and he said the state should be given “flexibility” on how to spend the money. Hutchinson also said Senate legislation must “redesign” the tax credits, or subsidies, for those covered in the health insurance marketplace to make it more likely that people would take advantage of them.

“I expect the Arkansas DemocratGazette and our newspaper media in this state to deliver news. When they use their columns to berate, belittle and intimidate people in their columns, using language that isn’t appropriate, you have to understand that has the ability to foment hatred.” — Sen. Jason Rapert (R-Conway), blaming the press for the destruction of a Ten Commandments monument fewer than 24 hours after it was installed on the state Capitol grounds. Rapert sponsored the legislation that enabled the erection of the monument. Michael Reed, 32, of Van Buren, has been charged with defacing an object of public interest, criminal mischief and criminal trespass. Reed, who was previously arrested for running over a Ten Commandments monument at the Oklahoma state Capitol, streamed to Facebook Live a video of him allegedly driving over the Arkansas monument. The driver said, “Freedom!” before smashing the tablet.

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Maggio conviction upheld by 8th Circuit The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction and 10-year sentence of Mike Maggio, the former circuit judge from Conway, for taking a bribe to reduce the verdict in a nursing home negligence case. The court held there was a factual basis for Maggio’s original guilty plea, which he had tried to withdraw. It said U.S. District Judge Brian Miller did not

err in refusing to permit him to withdraw his guilty plea. The court also said that Maggio’s actions in taking a bribe to make a ruling in the case made it significantly worse and supported an upward departure from sentencing guidelines. In 2013, Maggio reduced a $5.2 million unanimous jury verdict against a Greenbrier nursing home owned by Michael Morton of Fort Smith for failure to send a sick woman to a hospital as a doctor had ordered. She died in agony. Maggio made the reduction around the

time Morton was making campaign contributions through multiple PACs to Maggio’s planned race for the state Court of Appeals, donations arranged by former Sen. Gilbert Baker (R-Conway). A civil case against Morton and Baker over the verdict reduction is pending. It has been on hold awaiting the resolution of the appeal. Maggio was dismissed as a defendant, held immune because he acted in an official capacity. He could now be deposed as a witness in the case.

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Bangin’ in LR

bout 2:30 a.m. Saturday, with the others in less than Power Ultra Lounge downtown two weeks in prejammed for a rap show by Finese dominantly poor 2Tymes (Ricky Hampton of Memphis), and black neighgunfire broke out. Before it was over, 25 borhoods. The club, people had been wounded by gunfire and no stranger to gunMAX three others injured in the rush for safety. play, also is in the BRANTLEY As I write Monday morning, there have ward represented maxbrantley@arktimes.com been no arrests in the shooting. The rap- by one of the three, per was arrested after a club show the Erma Hendrix. next night in Birmingham, Ala., on unreI have no bright ideas. Dark humor lated federal gun charges arising in For- was inevitable. Thirty-five people shot rest City. Multiple weapons were seized in a dozen days and none dead? Mayor in his arrest. Not surprising for a rapper Mark Stodola was heard to crack an aside, who advertised his Little Rock show with “Bad shots,” when that point was mena photo featuring a gun. Not surprising tioned at the city news conference. Or for a rapper who, according to Memphis maybe we’re just not getting the best reports, had a show there interrupted guns and ammo into the hands of those who use them. by multiple gunshots a few months ago. Prayer vigils have been held. City offiHere’s one practical suggestion. Keep cials have expressed concern. Noticeably the police well-stocked with the emerabsent from a city news conference Sat- gency first-aid kits — the kind suitable for urday afternoon were the three black city military combat — that are credited with directors. Perhaps they were out of town. saving lives Saturday morning. Because I inject race because all 25 injured were violence is not likely to diminish anytime black and the shooting followed 10 or so soon, no matter all the sober talk and

Trusting

t is a Fourth of July ritual to appraise where we are in meeting the Declaration of Independence’s promise to institute a government that would, unlike King George, secure human rights equally for everyone who sets foot on American soil. Here at the 240-year mark, put me down as a historical Pollyanna with some mild alarm about a contemporary — and temporary — president’s antipathy to some of those rights. The country’s republican institutions and liberal democratic tradition have survived many such bumps and, regardless of his own inclinations, President Trump will never enjoy dictatorial power. The arc of history is long, as Rev. Martin Luther King said, and it bends toward justice and expanded human rights. Remember that the great institution of the Supreme Court created excuses, one after another, for more than a hundred years — in Dred Scott, Plessy and many other shameful cases — for not delivering on the most sweeping promise of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which was that black people, women, the disabled and, yes, even sexual minorities had to be treated

as humans and citizens and had to be accorded equal treatment under the laws. If he’s lucky, Trump will ERNEST fare no worse in DUMAS history than James Buchanan, who begged the justices in the Dred Scott appeal not to recognize slaves and blacks as humans and citizens. The court obliged and gave us the Civil War. Can we briefly review the government’s history of protecting equality and the rights given all people by their Creator, among them “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”? Mine is not the most common reflection today, which rather is that, by restraining industry and business and interceding occasionally for unpopular minorities, federal and state governments have eroded individual rights, especially of majorities. My notion, perhaps from personal experience in a segregated and profusely polluted region, is the opposite. Despite the soaring language, neither the Articles of Confederation nor the Constitution and its Bill of Rights gave America an egalitarian society and

prayers about youth intervention, edu- etteville) not only opened college camcation, poverty, the racial divide and the puses to concealed weapons, it opened violent culture of rap music. the state Capitol, courthouses, other govWhy? Because we live in a state, which, ernment buildings and even places where as a matter of law, endorses more guns alcohol is sold. Governor Hutchinson in more hands in more places. didn’t stand in the way and no advocate Harmonic convergence: The front of the bill seems to be facing political page of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette retribution. delivered as news was spreading of the The legislative intent is clear: More nightclub carnage. It recounted how guns make everyone safer. Think how gun advocate Sen. Trent Garner (R-El much safer everyone would have been Dorado) had persuaded University of had not off-duty cops prevented a few Arkansas officials of the correctness of more people with guns from entering his legal theory that the existence of a Power Ultra Lounge Friday night. Think state concealed carry permit is sufficient how much safer those two Little Rock to override federal law that would oth- children wounded by accidental gunerwise create a gun-free zone around fire over the weekend would have been the new eStem High School being built had only their home contained still more on the UA Little Rock campus. Garner guns. Think of the weekend dead in Little seemed right pleased with himself that Rock and Pine Bluff. If only they’d had you can stand outside a schoolroom win- more guns. dow and peer in, legally packing a pistol. There’s more legislative work to be When gun safety advocates began done. Why have background checks at social media chatter after the shootings all? Why limit sales of automatic weapabout legislative action, Rep. Bob Ball- ons? Why require permits to carry a coninger (R-Berryville) and others of his pro- cealed weapon? Why discourage open gun thinking were quick to say it would carry, whether derringer or bazooka? be political suicide for any who tried. As the NRA likes to say, what part of He may be right. The legislation by “shall not be infringed” don’t you underGarner and Rep. Charlie Collins (R-Fay- stand? Safety begins with a gun.

the promised free pursuit of life, health and happiness. Women and blacks and frequently the unpropertied could not vote or exercise the rights of speech and association. Regardless of the promise of a free and unfettered press, so strongly touted by Jefferson, Franklin, Washington and Madison, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts to jail prying reporters and shut noisy newspapers. But the founders’ words were always there and made more explicit by the 13th and 14th amendments. The story of America is the liberal democratic tradition: Every generation, whether through the courts or the elected divisions of government, breathed fresh life into the words. The resistance, starting with the simple ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, was always that the promises of rights and freedoms should not be taken literally. The founders, according to Justice Antonin Scalia and many others before and after him, did not really mean what they wrote. We must trace their words back to the prejudices, ignorance and political dilemmas of the authors, and stick to their agenda. First of all, the rights and freedoms were accorded to “men,” which had to refer only to the gender and not to mankind. The Supreme Court set up one enigmatic doctrine after another — “rational basis,” anyone? — to avoid recognizing rights

plainly proclaimed by the Constitution for unpopular minorities, like African Americans or gay, lesbian or transgender people. But time and knowledge eventually sets it all straight. The elected government also has advanced the cause of Jefferson’s unalienable rights of life (and health), liberty and the pursuit of happiness. When the greed of big business trammeled upon the health and happiness of individual Americans in the 19th century and later, government stepped in to establish health and safety standards to protect workers and consumers, halted child labor, regulated working hours, established a minimum wage, forced business to recognize the association rights of workers established by the First Amendment, guaranteed security and medical care for the aged and (some of) the poor, and, late in the 20th century, moved to protect the natural environment and the health and happiness of individual Americans and their grandchildren from industrial poisoning of the water, earth and atmosphere. Now, there is a common assumption, fed by corporate propaganda, that regulation of polluting industries abrogates human rights. Trump is rolling back every pollution and safety restriction on industry that he can, but it won’t last. Trust me, and our institutions.

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first thought the Sunday morning video clip of President Trump wrestling was something from one of the many parody accounts on Twitter. If you have not seen it, Trump attacks and punches the WWE’s Vince McMahon, only the CNN logo is superimposed over McMahon’s head. It is only a few seconds long, but the message is clear: Trump is giving CNN an old fashioned ass whoopin’. Immediately, Trump supporters began sharing and praising the video while his critics quickly and loudly denounced it, claiming it promoted violence against the media. Many of us wanted to crawl under a rock and hide from the world in shame. No question the video clip is inappropriate and completely lacking in dignity, but Trump supporters, both the enthusiastic and the reluctant, did not elect him for his dignity and class. Though they seem to forget losing their minds over former first lady Michelle Obama daring to wear sleeveless dresses. I guess either the definition of class has shifted for some in the past few years or suddenly the whole idea of dignity became unimportant. Either way, critics of Trump need to understand that many people are amused and entertained by wrestling. I sure was. As a kid growing up in Northeast Arkansas, Saturdays were spent watching Memphis wrestling or “wrasslin” as it was known. Jerry “The King” Lawler, Jimmy Hart, Junkyard Dog and “Ravishing” Rick Rude were superstars to me and my friends. We knew it was fake, but didn’t care. We wanted someone to root for and someone to root against. We needed the hero and we needed the heel. Although, much of the characterization of the left being elite and out of touch is part of a narrative that some pundits and politicians have played up to their advantage, I see signs of it in some of the backlash against the video. Some called the participation in wrestling “tacky” and “unpresidential.” But that’s where the two sides differ. If you know wrestling, then you know it’s fake. It’s violent, but considered by supporters to be in good fun, as much as violence can be in good fun. And don’t forget a lot of celebrities have spent time

in and around the ring in some capacity, including Alex Trebek, Aretha Franklin and Muhammad AUTUMN Ali. Top wrestlers TOLBERT make millions of dollars a year. Attacking the entire wrestling entertainment empire will get progressives nowhere. Standing alone, the video could be compared to Bill Clinton wearing sunglasses and playing the saxophone on “The Arsenio Hall Show,” Richard Nixon appeared on “Rowan & Martin’s LaughIn” to deliver the famous “Sock it to me” line, or President Obama appearing on the odd online show “Between Two Ferns” to promote the Affordable Care Act. All were designed to show a human side and all were criticized at the time as being “unpresidential.” When viewed in context along with all of the statements, social media posts and actions banning or belittling the press by the president and White House, it is clearly another blow in the current administration’s undemocratic and deeply concerning attempt to discredit mainstream media. To what end, we still don’t know. Trump’s attack on the press is downright terrifying. In light of Trump’s narrative that the media is an enemy he must battle, this video goes beyond something that would be played at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner for shared laughs. It is especially concerning coming so soon after Montana U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte admitted to assaulting a reporter. It also seems especially hypocritical after Trump and his supporters accused the left of inciting violence in the wake of the recent shooting at the Republican Congressional softball practice. Time will tell if we can ride it out or if the damage to our democracy is irreparable. As long as Trump is the hero to his base and the media, as in the wrestling world, is the “heel,” these attacks and baseless accusations will continue. Just like in wrestling, they will probably get more and more bizarre. As many fans of wrestling know, logic and reason just don’t sell. Wrestling is like politics: Theatrics and hyperbole rule the ring.

Trump’s attack on the press is downright terrifying.

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hile it is a little difficult to prognosticate on anything pertaining to college basketball anymore, short of the blue bloods getting bluer every recruiting season, what has happened to Arkansas since it finished off an accomplished 2016-17 campaign is probably as subtly bewildering as any offseason machinations you’ll see. Right after the Hogs’ season came to a controversial and undeniably painful end with a second-round loss to eventual national champion North Carolina, the locals’ attention turned to the future, with good cause. The departures of senior anchors Moses Kingsley and Dusty Hannahs, along with quiet floor general Manuale Watkins, meant that the Razorbacks were going to rely on their JUCO stalwarts Jaylen Barford and Daryl Macon in 2017-18. Or at least that’s how it appeared for a stretch. Macon, notably, seemed to be ill at ease with the idea of returning, which was really problematic because even with Kingsley’s demonstrable progress offensively over his last two years, the 6-10 center just went undrafted. That tells you that Macon, who is a pretty brilliant scorer and reliable shooter but is of a slight build and isn’t terribly ballyhooed for his defense, should have never entertained the idea of entering the draft (although in fairness, these days you can live and play quite well across the globe in any number of foreign venues). Barford and Macon both, ultimately, snuffed out any belief that they were bailing out early by penning fairly poignant missives that were posted to the program’s official website, which again sets the tone for how strange this oneand-done era has become. Two guys who played extremely well over the final weeks of the year but still had only one season of major college ball under their belts were compelled to announce their return to the program publicly, through carefully prepped statements, even though neither of them really showed up on the professional scouting radar. That’s not a knock on either player, and not to condemn them to a journeyman future on the periphery of the world basketball stage. Macon sort of reminds you of another short-term Hog of the past, Jannero Pargo, who toiled in Fayetteville for a couple of years after transferring from the junior college

ranks and then, after grinding his way through some camps stateside and dabbling in playing ball overBEAU seas, ended up WILCOX crafting a lengthy and fairly solid NBA career for himself on the strength of his quick-strike shooting ability. Barford recalls Patrick Beverley, who recently went west from Houston to the L.A. Clippers in the Chris Paul deal, with his tenacity on defense and his fearless style of play, and Beverley went into the pro game a little bit tainted after he was dismissed from Arkansas for academic misdeeds. In short, both of the current backcourt players have skills that could easily be embraced by general managers and scouts next summer, and they’re thankfully going to stay put for their senior years despite the flirtations, temptations, and rumors to the contrary. Of course, Coach Mike Anderson’s challenge from his arrival has been sustaining the talent pipeline, and it appeared that Macon and Barford would be the experienced nucleus for a program that would be transitioning to the likes of center Daniel Gafford and guard Khalil Garland. Both of those in-state prospects will be relied upon heavily, but those who paid attention to recent headlines know there’s some concern to be had when the lean and long Gafford had an allegedly “slight” meniscus tear to overcome, and Garland was cryptically said by Anderson to be tested for something undisclosed before he hit the practice court. The most bizarre and unsettling episode of all, though, was when Class of 2018 mega-prospect Reggie Perry fired off a one-word tweet — “Decisions” — a few days ago and sent much of Hog country into speculation and/ or panic mode. Perry’s parents tried to restore calm with a statement on their son’s behalf (and he deleted the social media flashpoint post pretty soon after it went up), but it likely created more cynicism about Perry, a 6-10, five-star prodigy from Thomasville, Georgia, who has been committed to Arkansas for months and would be the linchpin of another A-list class if he doesn’t deviate. Is he being courted by other teams? Absolutely, and you can bet that as his stock continues to rise, the pressure is going to rise exponentially.

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CRIME SCENE: Police block off the 600 block of West Sixth; the Ultra Lounge was in the red-brick building in the background.

Stopping the bleeding Police, EMS coordination at Power Ultra. BY LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK AND DAVID KOON

alcolm Steward, 23, of Brookhaven, Miss., was in town Friday visiting friends when they decided to go a concert at Power Ultra Lounge. Sometime after 2 a.m., as rapper Finese2Tymes performed, shots began to ring out and chaos ensued. Steward hit the floor, then bolted downstairs to the restaurant kitchen, where he stayed with employees of the club and a crowd of concertgoers. When he heard police sirens, Steward made his way to the street. He didn’t know he’d been shot through the left thigh, Steward said, until he was outside on the street. “I just started feeling a funny feeling in my leg,” Steward said. “I lifted up my pants and saw that I was bleeding. I realized I was shot. There was an officer right there and he put a tourniquet

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on my leg. After that I was pretty much fine. I could still walk and everything, and I’m walking right now.” Steward said he is expected to make a full recovery and hopes to be cleared to go back to work next week. Steward was one of 28 people injured, 25 by gunshot wounds, in the shooting at the club at 220 W. Sixth St. Thirty-six police officers responded to the incident, which Little Rock Police Chief Kenton Buckner attributed to “gang” activities. There were no fatalities, and partial credit has been given to Little Rock police officers’ use of their Emergency Casualty Care training to apply five tourniquets and one chest seal bandage. It’s not yet known if Little Rock police saved lives using the army-based training they received from Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services (MEMS) paramedics. MEMS personnel are following up on the medi-

CHIEF BUCKNER: In a press conference after the shooting, he attributed the shootings to gang activity.

cal outcomes of the injured this week. But what is known is that MEMS and the state Trauma System’s decision to develop training for law enforcement officers across Arkansas and work with police and fire agencies to create a new paradigm for reaching victims of mass attacks has produced results. “On Friday night, we had a very positive demonstration of that working [together] on a large scale,” Jon Swanson, MEMS executive director, said Monday. The major change: The police no longer wait until a scene is completely secured and no danger exists before calling help for the injured. The scenario now allows EMS responders to assume some risk so they can get to victims before they bleed out. In the case of a gunshot wound to the femoral artery, that would be three minutes. In the case of the brachial artery, 10 to 15 minutes. Five MEMS units and a supervisor responded to the early Saturday morning shooting, and only 31 minutes elapsed from the first call for help to the last victims transported to hospitals. “Traditionally, law enforcement would have gone in, secured the area and continued to put yellow tape up, and then call” for ambulances, said Clayton Goddard, special operations supervisor for MEMS. That could take a lot of time,

a point driven home by the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the Boston Marathon, Goddard said. “There were lives being lost because of blood loss.” Those incidents spurred training for civilian law enforcement and responders, training the U.S. military could provide using methods adapted from the battlefield. Goddard said MEMS sent him and other paramedics to Georgia to take a course in civilian tactical care “with the intention of coming back and developing more instructions to put in the hands of every law enforcement officer.” Goddard and Swanson are themselves both ex-military — Goddard a Navy seal for six years, Swanson an Air Force pilot for 28 years — and Goddard heads the Special Tactics Advanced Response (STAR) team that provides medical backup to local police departments, the State Police and the FBI. The military’s reintroduction of tourniquets reduced the death rate from bleedouts in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars from 24.1 percent to 3 percent. Tourniquets had long been considered taboo because if applied inappropriately they could cause nerve and muscle damage. In 2014, MEMS met with Little Rock’s police and firefighters at the Central Fire Station to draw up a coor-

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1) What’s this? A) A monument to the joys of double-finger digital penetration. B) The mysterious, vaguely humming monolith that recently appeared and bestowed the gift of tool use and higher-level thought on members of the Legislature. C) A monument to the Catholic and Lutheran version of the 10 Commandments, installed last week on the grounds of the state Capitol.

dinated response to active shooter and terror incidents. Previously, the LRPD had a policy on how to respond to school shootings, but that policy had not been shared with other first responders. Thanks initially to state Trauma System funds and since then to federal grants, MEMS has been able to outfit thousands of individual first-aid kits to provide to police. The IFACs include tourniquets, blood clotting agents and other medical aids. The scene in the wee hours of Saturday morning was chaotic. There was no time to put together a SWAT team; instead, patrol officers responded. “I’m so proud of the police department’s role in this,” Swanson said. In the past, when emergency medical services personnel arrived on the scene, “the police would have their heads down, focused on the threat, and not have the mindset to engage MEMS or the fire department until the situation was under control. [On Saturday] the supervisor was able to go to the police commander immediately and build on the scene a relationship. The commander engaged us and we formed a much more cohesive team than we would have seen in the past.” MEMS personnel will keep working with police departments. Starting in late summer, 900 public school nurses will begin training under the Stop the Bleed initiative.

2) What’s this? A) The scattered remnants of a giant pot brownie Arkansas Times contributor David Ramsey brought to a recent staff party. B) The perfect metaphor for Arkansas’s chances of getting inclusive, high-tech companies to move here with a bunch of Bible-beating, gay-hatin’ Republicans in charge. C) The Ten Commandments monument, after a man from Van Buren with a history of mental illness allegedly mowed it down with his Dodge Dart less than 24 hours after it went up. D) Advertisement for the new three-gallon jug size of Crazy Glue (now with 25 percent more unconstitutionality!).

3) What’s this? A) The cover of Black Sabbath’s new album, “Let’s Troll the Hicks.” B) U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, without the shoddily made rubber mansuit that conceals his true form. C) The sexy, naked goat beast that haunts every homophobic preacher’s erotic imagination. D) A 10-foot statue of the pagan god Baphomet, which the Satanic Temple wants to have installed on the Capitol grounds by federal court order once the Ten Commandments monument manages to stay up for more than 24 hours.

4) Who’s this? A) Satan’s unwitting emissary in his mission to drive as many people as possible away from organized Christianity. B) Somebody else’s spouse, thank God. C) Living proof of the old saying “It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.” D) Sen. Jason Rapert at his post-Ten Commandments destruction news conference, at which Rapert — who once posted on social media that a constituent wasn’t “smart” to bother him while the legislator was “#armed&ready” — upbraided the ACLU, the Freethinkers and his critics in the media for “fomenting violence.” ANSWERS: C, C, D, D

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D) A memorial to the nine brave miners who died in the ultimately futile attempt to excavate the head of Sen. Jason Rapert (R-Conway) from his own butt.

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FROM HALL HIGH TO HARLEM, AND BACK: Little Rock native Alvin Irby pioneered an early literacy program in barbershops all over New York City.

Barbershops, books and boogers How an expat Hall High graduate is creating an early literacy movement back home. BY STEPHANIE SMITTLE

lvin Irby’s big idea started with a haircut. As he sat in a barbershop across from P.S. 069 in the Bronx, N.Y., where he taught first grade from 2008 to 2010, one of his students walked in. “He sat down, and he was just sitting there,” Irby said. Irby might not have even thought much about it, except that the student in question was his own, and one he knew would have been well served to spend that idle time

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with his head in a book. He remembers wishing he had a children’s book to give him. And then it hit him. What if there was a bookshelf in the barbershop? That epiphany turned into a plan: Barbershop Books. Using funds and resources from organizations like The Neubauer Family Foundation, Campaign for Black Male Achievement, the Citizens Committee for New York City and The Chasdrew Fund, Irby and his

team launched the program at Denny Moe’s Superstar Barber Shop in Manhattan, then Big Russ Barber Shop down the street, then Jesse’s Barber Shop in the Bronx. Now there are more than a dozen barbershops with books in New York as well as others in Florida, Ohio, Washington, D.C., and Texas. The formula is simple: identify barbershops with the room, inclination and clientele to support a child-friendly reading space, and put in bookshelves. Barbershop Books has garnered praise from the likes of TV series “Reading Rainbow” and actors and rappers Ice Cube and Killer Mike. Irby, a 2003 graduate of Little Rock Hall High School, began to get attention in local news stories earlier this year, when the National Book Foundation awarded him its Innovations in Reading Prize of $10,000. With help from former Hall and Grinnell College classmate state Rep. Charles Blake (D-Little Rock), Irby plans to direct those funds toward implementing the program in a growing number of loca-

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BARBER/MENTOR: Salon 11.13 owner Lawrence Anderson gives Charles Blake III a trim as Charles’ father, state Rep. Charles Blake (right), watches. Rep. Blake will oversee the implementation of the Barbershop Books program in Central Arkansas.

tions — including 10 barbershops in Little Rock and North Little Rock. One of them, Salon 11.13, sits at 3925 John Barrow Road, south of Interstate 630. Parkview Arts & Science Magnet High School and the Sidney S. McMath Library are on that stretch of roadway, but otherwise, it’s dotted with a steadily alternating pattern of liquor stores and churches. The sign outside the salon is sleek, embossed with the slogan “Where YOUR hair is OUR business.” There’s an old-fashioned barbershop pole alongside those words, the kind with the candy cane stripes and the silver top. It’s the lone symbol of barbershops past; all else is new and spotless, from the crisp landscaping to the mixed stone and brick exterior of the building. Inside, owner Lawrence Anderson — whose November birthday gives the shop its name — stood with clippers in hand, making his way up the back of client David Mobley’s scalp, starting from the neck and working upward. “I’ve been cutting Dave’s hair about 10, 12 years,” Anderson recalled. Somewhere in Anderson’s memory bank, there’s a list of clients and their tenures. He remembers how long they’ve been

sitting in his chairs, and which ones have followed him from shop to shop. When you find a barber you trust, Mobley said, you stick with the routine. “I do this every Thursday at 12. I used to do it twice a week —” “Twice a month,” Anderson corrected him. “Twice a month,” Mobley repeated. “And,” gesturing to Anderson, “he would be like, ‘You can’t be going anywhere and not having your hair cut every week.’ ” Anderson cuts in. “My motto is: You should never look like you just got a hair cut. You should never look like you need a hair cut. You should just always have a hair cut. If you look like you just had a hair cut, that means you waited too long before you got it.” Anderson, who’s lived in Central Arkansas his whole life, spends much of his time outside the barbershop coaching sixth-grade basketball and fifth- and sixth-grade football at Episcopal Collegiate School. Anderson gestured to a young man in the anteroom. “Just to mess with him, I’m gonna tell you that the kid sitting up there in front is one of the kids

I used to try to beat,” Anderson said. He described a reconnaissance mission he made to suss out the future opponent’s tactics. The “kid” was Donavan Smith, 17. He’s a student at Little Rock Christian Academy. He’s large and athletic, and he’d been silent until now, affirming Anderson’s version of the tale to me at intervals with one soft-spoken “yes, ma’am” after another. Anderson’s spying on Smith in middle school, the story goes, was intercepted by Smith’s mother and grandmother who, Anderson said with a laugh, “tried to attack me ’cause I was scoutin’ their team. They told me, ‘You’re not playing, so go ahead and get out.’ That’s how I got him as a client.” Anderson came out unscathed, with another head of hair to trim.

rby’s resume boasts two master’s degrees and a litany of titles like “Education Director, Boys Club of New York.” He’s had years of experience teaching in public, private and charter schools. His work encouraging people to read books, though, predates those credentials. When he ran for Student Council president of Hall High in his

senior year, his platform was “It Takes 2,” a reading program he designed after becoming disillusioned with the curriculum in his 10th-grade English class. “After a semester,” he said, “the only thing I’d learned was that my teacher thought O.J. was innocent.” He was coasting, with a near-perfect grade in the class, but he was bored out of his mind. After that semester, Hall allowed him to transfer to a pre-AP class where he got his first taste of racial inequities in the public school system. “I just remember walking into the class,” he said, “and the first question that popped into my mind was, ‘Where did all these white people come from?’ In my regular class, it was all black and Latino students.” He devoured “The Great Gatsby” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and, fueled by a growing disenchantment with the disparity in reading level expectations, conducted a survey of 200 of his classmates to gauge reading habits across the school. He met with the community-relations manager for the Little Rock Barnes & Noble, who offered him $810 in the form of in-store gift cards for his peers to use toward extra-curricular reading. One day, he recalled, he was waiting in line to buy candy after school when his principal appeared beside him and said, “You know, Alvin, you’re gonna be a better principal than I ever was.” He responded with a “Never.” “But you know, I went off to college,” Irby said, “and I took one education course and I couldn’t sleep at night. My brain wouldn’t turn off. I’d think about all the things I would do if I had a classroom. And that’s when I decided to stop running from what I think has been my calling all along, which is to help inspire people and children to fall in love with learning.”

ven before the bookshelves have been installed at Salon 11.13, people in the community have already begun dropping off books of their own choosing; Anderson has short, tidy stacks of titles — among them, Margaret Musgrove’s “Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions” and Anna Kosof’s biography of Jesse Jackson. As well intentioned as those donations are, Irby and Blake aren’t likely to use those titles in this particular program. In fact, the list of approved titles for Barbershop Books is squarely focused on the program’s targeted audience, kids ages 4 to 8: Dav Pilkey’s “The Adventures of Captain Unarktimes.com JULY 6, 2017

creating ‘Gross Greg’ was about creating a character who depicts just being a kid, and this is something that really challenges a lot of adults and educators. ... There are books that will get kids excited about reading, but they may not be the books that you’re currently using or that you might even consider using.” What he’s found from his travels to confer-

“Fresh Fade Comedy,” a fundraiser for Barbershop Books. “Gross Greg,” for its author, is about giving kids room to be goofy. It’s about “affirming the humanity of children,” he said. “I know that might sound weird to think of a book about boogers affirming somebody’s humanity. When you think about the media, though, and the way

“Bam! Bam! Bam! Greg hears three loud knocks on his bedroom door. Now Greg knows he can’t sleep anymore. WAITING ROOM: Ari Blake, 7, and Charles Blake III, 8, read in the anteroom at Salon 11.13. ‘Out of bed!’ says his mom with a shout. We’ll be late for school. There’s no ences and symposiums on early literacy black boys are often depicted in public time to pout.’ spaces, they often are not allowed to be around the country, he said, “is that a lot ‘Ahhhhhhhhh.’ With a loud yawn, of adults are more concerned about what children. They have the whole world he’s up on his feet. they like than what will inspire kids to on their shoulders,” he said, “because fall in love with reading.” Greg’s eyes are still sleepy, but he everybody is looking at them expecting Irby could just as well add science to wants something to eat.” them to do this or do that. ... They’re that, too. “Gross Greg” has a set of online being suspended and expelled from preReviews posted on Irby’s website games adjacent to the story, teaching schools at disproportionately higher rates range from “My son can’t put it down, kids how to read graphs (“How many than their white counterparts. They’re being shot down in the streets because and he’s 23” to one from a New York City kids think mustard-covered pancakes somebody thinks that a 10-year-old is a first-grade student identified as Nathaly, is the grossest thing?”), how to think 16-year-old, or an 18-year-old.” who said, “I enjoyed your story Gross about fractions (“Color in 1/4 boogers!”) Greg because it was very silly. Can you and how to tell time (“Show the time on Over at Salon 11.13, Donavan rested make more books like Gross Greg eats the clock when Greg ate his boogers!”) his chin on his chest, allowing Anderson It should be said that Irby probably worms and Gross Greg eats his hometo clip, then brush the nape of his neck. thinks a lot about igniting a spark with “You remember earlier today when you work? You are ready to make more called me and I wasn’t here?” Anderson books,” she declared. And, gratuitously audiences, and not just in the context outing her own “Greg,” she added, “My of the classroom. He moonlights as a asked. I nodded. He gestured to Donabrother eats his boogers.” stand-up comic. On his “other” resume, van. “I was helping him jump his car off because he didn’t know how to do it.” I Far too often, Irby said, “the children’s the title of “comedian” is sandwiched asked Donavan why, faced with a dead books that feature black children often between “educator” and “entrepreneur.” battery on a hot day in late June, it was deal with these very serious topics — civil Irby was a finalist in the 2015 StandUp rights, for example. ‘Gross Greg’ is kind of NBC Competition, and spent time the Anderson he called. “I knew he could my effort to combat that kind of oppresfollowing year giving performances at fix something like that. And I trust him,” he said. sion narrative that’s so often the case colleges in Pennsylvania and upstate when it comes to children’s books that New York. Most recently, he’s recruited have black main characters. ... To me, some of his comedy peers to perform for 16

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ike the shop in the Bronx where Irby’s Barbershop Books idea was born, New Tyler Barber College in North Little Rock sits across from an elementary school. It’s a labyrinth of classrooms and workstations, and the walls are lined with visual aids that span disciplines: anatomy, geometry, health and hygiene, chemistry and conduct. Owner/operator and barber Ricky Bryant runs the place, and has since the ’90s, when his father, Daniel, developed colon cancer. Bryant, who was working hair shows as a platform artist for the Andis clipper company in North Carolina, returned to Arkansas and stepped into the family business. He spent his childhood working with his father at Smith Barbershop on Washington Avenue in North Little Rock, “folding towels, linens, whatever needed to be done,” he said, and at New Tyler after his father founded the school in 1979. Bryant practically emanates pragmatism and discipline, so it didn’t come as a shock when he said he starts his day at New Tyler at 6:45 a.m. “My dad always told me, ‘If you get here early and the water line’s busted, you might get it fixed before anyone walks in the door.’ ” Like Anderson, Bryant didn’t need a lot of convincing after hearing the pitch for Barbershop Books. “I remember the annual Barber Board meeting,” he said. “Growing up, and being here since ’79, I’ve had kids come in that know me, whose parents I’ve never seen. They walk to school, maybe come in here to buy a snack or come get a haircut by themselves.” He recounted Irby’s moment of inspiration, noting the spot in the school’s reception area where the elementary students from across the street tend to sit and wait. “Most of the older kids have a phone,” he said, “but the younger kids are just sitting there.” GRACE JONES

derpants,” Ezra Jack Keats’ “The Snowy Day,” Sonia Sanders’ “LEGO City: Calling All Cars!” To better understand why Irby’s vision doesn’t call for reading spaces brimming with copies of the “March” trilogy or illustrated histories of, say, Frederick Douglass or Shirley Chisholm, it’s helpful to note the subject matter of the book Irby authored himself: boogers. His debut, “Gross Greg,” is a rhyming picture book about a boy who loves to eat his boogers, published last September with pop-offthe-page illustrations by Kelvin Ntukula. (Would that boogers glittered like green “Ghostbusters” slime in the real world!) On the cover, a boy in sun-and-moon pajamas holds his left index finger up, perfectly poised to transfer the gleaming green blob from his fingertip to his open mouth. Behind him, his sister — also in pajamas — points at him, horrified. The first few lines of “Gross Greg” read like this:

he next day at Salon 11.13, Charles Blake’s two boys are huddled together in the anteroom. At first, they want the same book about the L.A. Lakers. That subsides. Maybe it was a little premature for them to pick up that particular one; at one point, it was being

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IDENTIFYING AS READERS: Cedric Riley stands outside Big Russ on Frederick Douglass Blvd., one of over a dozen shops in New York City to implement the program.

‘CHILD-FRIENDLY READING SPACES’: Big Russ Barbershop displays titles curated by Irby and his team, chosen for their ability to “help children fall in love with learning.”

read upside down. Blake, who was there to get his hair cut, chimed in. “That’s how you know it’s that fake reading,” he said. “When the book is upside down.” In 2010, a D.C.-based public school advocacy group called the Council of the Great City Schools released a report, “A Call For Change,” based on 2009 sta-

tistics from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Among other things, the study concluded that only around 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys were proficient in reading. Irby’s team rallies behind a close inverse of that statistic, quoted on the Barbershop Books website: “85 percent of America’s

black male fourth-grade students are not proficient in reading.” When people hear that statistic, Irby said, “a lot of times there’s blame on the kid. ‘The kid needs to put down this, they need to do this.’ What I like to ask people is, ‘What cultural factors, what social cues are present in their lives that will lead them to conclude that reading is something they should do?’ ” Put simply, he said, if you want to get kids to read a book, read a book yourself. “If you don’t have any men in your life who are modeling reading for you, if none of your friends are reading, if none of the books you like are being used for instructional purposes at school,” he asked, “then why would you conclude that you are a reader?” Barbershop Books aims, in Irby’s words, to “help young black boys and other boys of color identify as readers by connecting books to a male-centered space and by involving men and boys in those early reading experiences.” The word “identity” rolls across Irby’s tongue warmly, and often. It’s one he sees as the core of this program and, more broadly, at the core of a successful education system. What’s more, it’s an approach he believes has the potential to bear more fruit than teaching methods that emphasize skills. “I really try to push people to, instead of focusing on skills —

and the skills a child doesn’t have … to use an asset-based approach instead of a deficit-based approach,” he said. “To ask, ‘What are they interested in? What are the things that make them laugh? What are the things that are important to them?’ Then, let’s see if we can connect reading to those things.” For many of the children Irby’s taught, he said, “their first and early reading experiences in schools are them doing some sort of assessment where a teacher is telling them all the letters they don’t know, all the letter sounds they don’t know, all the words they don’t know. What kind of effect do you think that will have on their reading identity?” The real mark of progress, Irby observed, is when kids read in situations where reading is not required. “A lot of kids — and I’m sure this is the case in Little Rock — as soon as the school day ends, as soon as the school year ends, they do not touch books,” he said. “That has to do with identity, not reading skills. If a kid identifies as a reader, then they’re a reader whether school is happening or not.” As of now, there are 59 barbershops listed on the nonprofit’s website as part of the program, and that number doesn’t include the 10 reading spaces slated for implementation in Central Arkansas, which also include the Goodfellas Barbershops on Asher Avenue, Main Street, Green Mountain Drive and Stagecoach Road; World Champion on Daisy L. Gatson Bates Drive; Skillz Barber Shop on 12th Street, Headz Up Barber Shop on Geyer Springs Road and The Hair Show on Kiehl Avenue in Sherwood. When making choices about additions to the program, Irby considers a few criteria. “We want barbershops who have at least 40 kids a month coming in. We also want to have the space to accommodate the bookshelves, and we want the barbershop owners or managers to support, to be willing to host it. That’s pretty much it.” Irby and Blake plan to schedule a session in mentorship training, likely at St. Mark Baptist Church, where both Blake and Lawrence attend services. “There are thousands of barbershops in black communities across the country,” Irby said, “and there are also a number of barbershops that serve primarily Spanish-speaking clientele, who I think would absolutely benefit from the Barbershop Books program.” To recommend a book, volunteer to sponsor a reading space or find out more about the Barbershop Books program, visit barbershopbooks.org. arktimes.com JULY 6, 2017

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SONGWRITING AS AN ENTRY POINT: Correne Spero (on drums) in DOT, one of the all-girl bands that inspired Spero to head up a songwriting camp.

Making space Correne Spero heads up a summer songwriting camp for girls. BY HEATHER STEADHAM

irst things first: No one calls Correne Spero “Correne.” The musician, who’s been curating shows at South on Main during the month of June, is known almost exclusively as “Spero,” and one of the two Little Rock bands she’s in even bears her name (though it’s SPERO, in all caps — “the 18

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person is not in all caps,” Spero says). Spero has been on the music scene for quite a while; Northern State, the New York-based all-girl band she performed with previously, toured with groups like Cake, Tegan and Sara and Questlove and The Roots, and some of Northern State’s songs were fea-

tured on smash-hit television shows like “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Damages.” But these days, Spero is working on something much closer to her heart: a songwriting camp for girls. We sat down with Spero to get the goods on her unique plan to bolster the future of Little Rock music — and to help girls find out who they are and just what it is they’re capable of. So I have to ask, how did you end up in Little Rock after living in New York City and successfully touring internationally with Northern State? We were looking for an opening act

in the South — someone with a local draw. The co-producer of our last album was simultaneously working on an album with the American Princes out of Little Rock, which was a very random coincidence. We heard their album a bunch when he was working on it, so we reached out to them and asked if they wanted to open for us. We developed a great friendship on the road, and I stayed in touch with several of them. One of them — David Slade — convinced me to come to Little Rock and record some songs I’d been working on. About that time, Northern State came to a decision that, after 10 years, we were going to, at the very least, take

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A&E NEWS a break, and at the very most, disband. Then one of the girls moved and I was like, “You know what? I could move!” I hated living in New York. I hated every minute of it. I loved my band, I loved my work and I loved my friends, but as far as the day-to-day life in New York, I just hated it. I had developed a network of friends down here when I was recording, and I just felt so welcomed here. I felt like the town really reached its arms around me and kind of gave me a big hug. I’ve been here for seven years now.

sive, but I did want to carve away a little piece of the summer — one little week — and make it a girls-only space. ... In my experience as a songwriter and musician, I spent a lot of time in female-only spaces and groups with only girls, and I feel like working in an all-girls band, and learning and growing that way, just

Do you have plans to go back? Hell, no! I barely even visit. Let’s talk about what you have going on here in Little Rock this summer. What led you to wanting to host a summer camp? I was inspired by a lot of different music camps around the country. I follow a bunch of them on Instagram and I kept wondering, “Why don’t we have anything like that here? We need one.” And then finally I just got to the point where I was like, “Well, maybe I should do it.” But I didn’t want to do the standard “rock camp” model that I’ve seen; I wanted to do something a little bit different ... to narrow the focus to songwriting. I wanted it to be a very small group: sort of an intensive workshop. Songwriting is such a valuable way to express ideas. To metaphorically — and literally! — find your voice. To turn your ideas and your thoughts into words and music and start to sort of believe that those things can be valid enough to create a whole song! Because if you haven’t done that before, it can be really empowering. At least it was for me. What made you decide to focus on girls only? Well, I offer private sessions and workshops with anybody: kids, adults, boys, girls, whatever. With this camp, I don’t mean to be exclusive or not inclu-

gave me a sense of freedom to experiment and explore. It helped me build my confidence. You know, it is a fact that girls in the music business tend to get a later start, maybe don’t have as much encouragement, don’t feel as comfortable occupying traditionally male spaces, like the recording studio. I was in the music business for a full decade and music engineers would talk down to me, think I didn’t know what I was talking about. I went to audio engineering school! Guys at a show doing the sound check would make absolutely rude comments. There’s so much sexism in every industry, and it continues to be pervasive in music. I just found that one of the best weapons against this was to create a bond with other women. We can feel strong together, so we can begin to occupy some of the spaces with more confidence. … I wanted to provide a space for girls to create — free of all that other stuff, hopefully. It’s always hard to put yourself out there, creatively. It always feels risky. I’m trying to remove some

of the obstacles and create a really intimate space for sharing. I want to be empowering and also, hopefully, to help create another generation of women musicians here in Little Rock. Is that important to you? Contributing to the music scene here in Little Rock? Totally. I play in an all-girl band here called DOT, and we could count the number of women playing music in this town on one hand. OK, maybe two hands. I would love to help contribute to the next generation of girls who are going to come up and play music here. Little Rock has such a vibrant music scene! I would just love to see women play more fully in it. Is there anything else about the camp we should know? Yes! Girls don’t have to have instrumental experience to participate. The emphasis is on songwriting — not being a brilliant instrumentalist. ... Songwriting came first for me. I had the songs in my head, so I got a guitar and started learning it. Now I play keyboards, drums, guitar — I play a little bit of everything. If a girl who comes this summer has never really played an instrument, I’m going to give them choices. We have a piano, a keyboard, drums. If you want to bang out a simple beat on a tambourine and rap, you could do that. That’s songwriting. If you have a guitar and you want to play something on it, more power to you. If you’ve never played the keyboard before, I can show you the notes and you can hear what sounds good to you and write it down. And before you know it, you’re playing an instrument! ... My whole thing is: We’re in the trust tree. If you like how it sounds, that’s good enough for me. Spero’s songwriting camp for girls will be held July 24-28 in North Little Rock. Contact Correne Spero at 917202-6344 or spero44@gmail.com for more information. Tuition is $200, but scholarships are available for those who need them.

FOLLOWING ITS 2016 “Visions of the Blues” issue, the Oxford American magazine announced this week that its beloved winter edition will return to its state-specific formula, focusing on the music of Kentucky. “The Commonwealth gave us musicians like Loretta Lynn and Nappy Roots, Richard Hell and Bill Monroe — just to name a very few,” a press release read, “beloved writers like Crystal Wilkinson, Ronni Lundy, Silas House, and our own poetry editor, Rebecca Gayle Howell.” The issue hits newsstands Nov. 21, and readers can preorder the issue at oxfordamerican.org. THE LONGEST NINE months in the lives of Little Rock’s midnight boozers and bottle toss contenders are over. Owner Maggie Hinson and General Manager David Shipps have announced a reschedule date for the reopening of Midtown Billiards, closed last September after a fire. Originally set for Friday, June 30 and delayed to fulfill a city inspection, the bar will open its doors at 3 p.m. Friday, July 7. Midtown is one of the few bars in town left with a grandfathered-in 5 a.m. liquor license. Each ticketholder for the bar’s reopening day will be equipped with a Sharpie to, as Hinson told us in May, “mark their territory.” If you want to be among the first folks in the door, you’ll need an early bird “happy hour ticket,” or come at 8 p.m. for an extra $5 and commemorate the reopening with Midtown’s night owls. Tickets are available at centralarkansastickets.com, and any tickets purchased for the original date will be honored. FRIDAY, JULY 7, is the deadline to sign up for the Little Rock edition of the 48 Hour Film Project’s annual cinematic marathon, which calls for filmmakers of all levels to write, shoot and edit a 4- to 7-minute film in a single weekend. Filming and production takes place July 7-9, and the results will be screened for audiences at the Ron Robinson Theater Friday, July 21. “The film declared to be the overall ‘Best Film’ of Little Rock will be sent to the international 48HFP competition, Filmapalooza,” a press release read, “to be screened and judged with over 100 city winners from around the globe. From there, 12 films will be chosen to screen in the Short Film Corner at the Cannes International Film Festival.” For more information, visit 48hourfilm.com/ little-rock-ar.

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HEIST: Ansel Elgort (“The Fault in Our Stars”) is a heartthrob getaway artist in Edgar Wright’s “racecar opera.”

No retread “Baby Driver” is a quick-edit car chase mixtape. BY SAM EIFLING

n “Baby Driver,” writer/director Edgar Wright (“Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz”) has turned the heist movie inside-out. The jobs, as foisted onto our hero driver Baby (Ansel Elgort, in a bold graduation from his usual YA adaptations) are not the point — rather, the getaways are, and the faster his getaways, the faster he can get away from all of them. He owes a debt to greasy white-collar scumbag Kevin Spacey, and pays it off one urban rally car sequence at a time, while also pocketing sheaves of cash that stack like paperbacks under a board in his Atlanta apartment. He wants out, and can drive like a bat out of hell to make it happen. The last getaway-driver flick this fresh and moody and music-obsessed was 2011’s “Drive,” in which Ryan Gos20

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ling’s nameless driver, like Baby, played a taciturn and exceptionally skilled wheelman. But where “Drive” skewed sinister and slinky, “Baby Driver” goes bright and poppy and oddly upbeat. The soundtrack — and it’s huge; this is one of the most musical nonmusicals you’ll ever see — lives very much in the foreground. Baby suffered an accident as a youngster that keeps his ears ringing, so to drown out the tinnitus he keeps his iPod(s) cranked up. His inner monologue is mostly lyrics and beats. The persistent flickering between songs, set against quick-edit car chases and permeating even the mundane corners of Baby’s life, could have come off as painfully gimmicky. In Wright’s hands, it feels more like the extra-extended cut of a music video, or maybe some sort of

racecar opera. It starts in some sort of job we see from the car. Baby stays put while his accomplices — Jon Hamm and Eiza González, notably — commit a bit of the ultra-violence, then run back to the car ready to roll. Baby settles into the punkElvis-grunge sounds of John Spencer Blues Explosion’s “Bellbottoms” and promptly commits a couple of minutes of fast/furious stunt driving through Atlanta that belongs in any highlight reel of badass car chases you care to assemble. Later he manages to chat up a cute waitress (Lily James of “Downton Abbey”) by associating her name, Deborah, with a T. Rex song of the same name. (though we’re also treated to the Beck song about another Deborah and her sister). Atmospherically, then, you’ve got two broad thematic elements that instantly marry to music: danger and young love. Between them, where music lives, is exhilaration. That’s where driving comes in. When you slow down a bit, you can see some familiar tropes working throughout “Baby Driver.” The reluc-

tant criminal hero, the bitter call of One Last Job, the tension of a protective hero trying to keep his privacy, knowing it’s all that shields his loved ones. Give us a character who doesn’t use his words much, and we’ll start seeing old tropes and archetypes. Yet in the blender that is “Baby Driver,” it doesn’t feel like a retread. Wright lets the thrum of the action carry a plot that, true to his form, veers toward implosion more than once. It helps that he squeezes some vintage hardboiled performances out of Spacey and Jamie Foxx as a hired thug. Then there’s Elgort, doing a great deal by seeming to do very little. He’s young and heart-throbby and holds together this bubblegum version of a Tarantino flick by keeping his utmost cool. It’s a star turn for a kid who can wear shades and earbuds and still seem like the oldest pro on a crew of scumbags. You’re going to see more of him in the near future. And you’re going to see “Baby Driver” pop up on a lot of top 10 lists for 2017. It’s a blast, better than billed, and like any good concept album, begs for an immediate relisten.

ALSO IN THE ARTS

THEATRE “Annie.” The Weekend Theater’s production of the Tony Award-winning musical. 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat., 2:30 p.m. Sun., through July 16. $16$20. 1001 W. 7th St. 501-374-3761. “The Pervert and the Pentecostal.” The Main Thing’s summer musical comedy. 8 p.m. Fri.Sat., through Sept. 1. $24. The Joint Theater & Coffeehouse. 301 Main St., NLR. 501-372-0205. “Southern Crossroads.” Murry’s Dinner Playhouse presents the Depression-era revue. 7:30 p.m. Tue.-Sat., dinner at 6 p.m.; 12:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. Sun., dinner at 11 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., through July 8. $15-$37. 6323 Colonel Glenn Road. 501-562-3131. “Julius Caesar.” Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre’s retelling of the bard’s classic, performed with on-stage seating. 7:30 p.m. July 6, 2 p.m. July 9, Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, Conway. $25-$32. arkshakes. com/tickets. 501-450-3265. “Taming of the Shrew.” Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre’s retelling of the bard’s classic, performed with on-stage seating. 2 p.m. July 7, 10 a.m. July 8, Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, Conway. $10. arkshakes.com/tickets. 501-450-3265. “The Music Man.” Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre’s take on the Meredith Willson musical, performed with on-stage seating. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. July 8, Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, Conway. $25$32. arkshakes.com/tickets. 501-450-3265. “Love’s Labours Lost.” Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre’s retelling of the bard’s classic, performed outdoors. 7:30 p.m. July 7, University of Central Arkansas, lawn in front of McAlister Hall, Conway (patrons are encouraged to bring chairs or blankets). $15 suggested donation. arkshakes.com/tickets. 501-450-3265. “Comedy Yet Magic: An Evening with Scott Davis.” A 90-minute family production from Five Star Dinner Theatre. 7 p.m. dinner, 8 p.m. curtain Wed., Fri.-Sat., through Aug. 9. $17-$38. 701 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-318-1600.

FINE ART, HISTORY EXHIBITS Major venues ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: Architecture and Design Network talk by Jeff Shannon, UA architecture professor and editor of “Shadow Patterns: Reflections on Fay Jones and His Architecture,” 5:30 reception 6 p.m. lecture July 11; 59th annual “Delta Exhibition,” through Aug. 27; “56th Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition,” through July 23; “Drawing on History: National Drawing Invitational Retrospective,” through Sept. 24. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000. ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS, 701 S. Main St., Pine Bluff: “Color in Space: The Art of Justin Bryant,” through Sept. 9. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 1-4 p.m. Sat. 870-536-3375. BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave.: “Sammy Peters: Then and Now,” abstract paintings, through Aug. 26; “Historic Bridges of Arkansas,” photographs by Maxine Payne, through Aug. 26. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 320-5790. CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL MUSEUM VISITOR CENTER, Bates and Park: Exhibits on the 1957 desegregation of Central and the civil rights movement. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily. 374-1957.

CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER: “Xtreme Bugs,” animatronic insects, through July 23; permanent exhibits on the Clinton administration. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun., $10 adults, $8 seniors, retired military and college students, $6 youth 6-17, free to active military and children under 6. CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, One Museum Way, Bentonville: “Chihuly: In the Gallery and in the Forest,” through Aug. 14, $20; “Animal Meet Human,” 16 works, through Oct. 30; “Not to Scale: Highlights from the Fly’s Eye Dome Archive,” through March 2018; “Roy Lichtenstein in Focus,” through July; American masterworks spanning four centuries in the permanent collection. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon., Thu.; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed., Fri.; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat.-Sun., closed Tue. 479-418-5700. ESSE PURSE MUSEUM & STORE, 1510 S. Main St.: “Take Your Purse With You: The Reimagined Work of Katherine Strause,” paintings, through Aug. 27. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sun. $10, $8 for students, seniors and military. 916-9022. HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM, 200 E. 3rd St.: “Gordon and Wenonah Fay Holl: Collecting a Legacy,” through Feb. 4, 2018; “Traces Remain,” installation by Dawn Holder and works on paper by Melissa Cowper-Smith, through Aug. 6; “Portraits of Friends” by Dani Ives, through Aug. 6. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351. MacARTHUR MUSEUM OF ARKANSAS MILITARY HISTORY, 503 E. 9th St. (MacArthur Park): “Work, Fight, Give: American Relief Posters of WWII,” through Aug. 16. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.Sat., 1-4 p.m. Sun. 376-4602. MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, 9th and Broadway: “Not Forgotten: An Arkansas Family Album,” photographs by Nina Robinson; permanent exhibits on African-American entrepreneurship in Arkansas. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 683-3593. MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY, 500 President Clinton Ave.: “Human Plus,” low and high-tech tools that extend human abilities, through Sept. 10; also interactive science exhibits. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun., $10 ages 13 and older, $8 ages 1-12, free to members and children under 1. 396-7050. OLD STATE HOUSE MUSEUM, 300 W. Markham St.: “Cabinet of Curiosities: Treasures from the University of Arkansas Museum Collection”; “True Faith, True Light: The Devotional Art of Ed Stilley,” musical instruments, through 2017; “First Families: Mingling of Politics and Culture” permanent exhibit including first ladies’ gowns. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9685. UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: “Nasty Woman,” work by 35 women artists, through Aug. 25, closing reception 5-7 p.m. Aug. 25. Weekdays 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 569-8977. WILLIAM F. LAMAN LIBRARY, 2801 Orange St., NLR: Arkansas League of Artists 2017 “Members Show,” through July 28. 416-4729. Smaller venues ARGENTA ART GALLERY, 413 Main St., NLR: “Drip Drop,” 20 paintings by Morgan Coven Herndon, through July 14. CANTRELL GALLERY, 8205 Cantrell Road. “Chasing the Light, from Arkansas to California,” photographs by Paul Caldwell, July 7-Sept. 2, reception 6-8 p.m. July 7. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 224-1335.

It’s all here. Argenta Arts Foundation Night at The Theater presents

July 19, 2017 405 Main St., North Little Rock Tickets include a reception with hors d’oeuvres from Capers, free beer and wine.

Doors open at 6 pm

Show starts at 7pm

Tickets $50: available at centralarkansastickets.com

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BY GLEN HOOKS, STEPHEN KOCH, LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK, JACOB ROSENBERG

THURSDAY 7/6

LEE BAINS III & THE GLORY FIRES

touring trade with a zeal befitting its messianic moniker. More importantly, the band also comes through on the name musically, with a shaft of gospellike sincerity animating its throwback rock. With the band’s new LP, “Youth Detention,” just a week old, look for even more Springsteen-like fervor at the

9:30 p.m. White Water Tavern.

You’ve probably heard the name if you haven’t seen Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires — the Birmingham and Atlanta-based quartet does a brisk

band’s Thursday show at the venerable White Water Tavern. The album is an ever-timely rumination on the white power structure in the U.S.A. from a demographic heard from often within these pages but rarely in the media at large — young white males who crave more diversity and a more equitable

distribution of resources. That message is great; but again, more importantly, musically, the band — called “Birmingham punks revved up by the hot-damn hallelujah of Southern rock” by NPR — comes through. SK

FRIDAY 7/7

SANDWICHING IN HISTORY TOUR: ALBERT PIKE HOTEL Noon. 701 Scott St. Free.

‘GOD’S PROBLEM CHILD’: Willie Nelson joins Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit, Sheryl Crow, Margo Price and others at the Walmart AMP for the Outlaw Music Festival on Thursday night.

THURSDAY 7/6

OUTLAW MUSIC FESTIVAL

6 p.m. Walmart AMP, Rogers. $46-$156.

Willie Nelson is 84 years old, and when a folk hero gets to be that age, you start to get a little nervous when you turn on the radio and the station is in the middle of playing one of his songs. Look, making men-

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tion of the braided sage’s inevitable passing from this earthly realm might be a faux pas for the more superstitious among us if Willie didn’t bring it up all the time himself. His new single, “Still Not Dead,” ends with the lines “Last night I had a dream that I died twice yesterday/And I woke up still not dead again today.” He’ll bring that zen credo

— and other time-honored bits of wisdom and revelry — to the Walmart AMP this Thursday. He’s bringing a few friends, too: Sheryl Crow; Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, who are on the heels of an acclaimed new record, “The Nashville Sound”; Aledo, Ill., country darling Margo Price; and California rockers Lukas Nelson and the Promise of the Real. SS

Of all the myriad things in Arkansas with Boston native Albert Pike’s name attached to it, downtown Little Rock’s Albert Pike Hotel is surely the loveliest. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, the 175room Albert Pike operated as a hotel for decades after its opening in 1929. In 1971, the adjacent Second Baptist Church bought it for $740,000 and turned it into a residential facility. Built for $1 million in 1928 dollars, you can see this Italian- and Spanish Revivalstyle gem in detail as part of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program’s long-running “Sandwiching in History” tour. (The AHPP is part of the Department of Arkansas Heritage.) It’s just a shame the tour is not at night to better see the exterior’s classic swank neon light. Though now a bit overlooked, the Albert Pike has long been a Little Rock landmark, even rating mention in Arkansawyer Charles Portis’ 1966 novel “Norwood”: “She claimed descent from the usurper Cromwell and she read a long paper once on her connections at a gathering of Confederate Daughters, all but emptying the ballroom of the Albert Pike Hotel in Little Rock. This was no small feat considering the tolerance level of a group who had sat unprotesting through two days of odes and diaries and recipes for the favorite dishes of General Pat Cleburne.” Look for Friday’s free tour of the Albert Pike to be much more exciting. SK

IN BRIEF

THURSDAY 7/6 Knoxville, Tenn., alt-metal rockers 10 Years play at Revolution, 7:30 p.m., $15-$18, and fellow Knoxville natives The Black Lillies showcase their new lineup (sans vocalist Trisha Gene Brady) at Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8 p.m., $8-$10. Comedian Greg Morton lands at The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. Wed.-Sat., 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., $10-$15. The “All-American Freakshow Peepshow” gives a circus-style revue at Maxine’s, 9 p.m., $5. Stephen Winters entertains for the happy hour crowd at Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free, and later, Canvas takes the stage, 9 p.m., $5. Richard Linklater’s “School of Rock” screens at the Hot Springs Farmers Market, 121 Orange St., 8:30 p.m., free. Marshall, Texas-based songwriter Nick Brumley gives a performance at Four Quarter Bar, 8 p.m.

AND STEPHANIE SMITTLE

FRIDAY 7/7

‘AS WE GROW’: Atlanta-based quintet Little Tybee lands at South on Main Friday night.

FRIDAY 7/7

LITTLE TYBEE

9 p.m. South on Main. $10.

One could be forgiven for — at a glance — assuming the bespectacled, bearded and flannel-friendly members of Little Tybee were in town to start a new craft brewery, or perhaps an artisan cheese collective. I happily imagine their tour bus floor to be littered with vintage transistor radios, obscure haiku collections and a growing collection of flea market 45s. Late-night discussions of the importance of Yukio Mishima, perhaps. Maybe I’m right about

all that, maybe I’m wrong, but one thing is certain: Little Tybee’s music is unexpected and utterly captivating. The quirky six-piece outfit makes a sound that defies easy categorization. Are they folk? Yes. Kinda jazzy? Uh-huh. Maybe a little psychedelic, too. Oh, and while we’re at it, their sound is simultaneously twee, complex and captivating. Do I have your attention? Anchored by the eight-string guitar of Josh Martin and the haunting vocals of Brock Scott (imagine a quieter Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses),

Little Tybee constructs impressively intricate and intimate aural compositions rounded out by virtuosic cello, violin, xylophone and other surprises. Their songs are invitations to lean in and drink deeply. Expect to be more than a little bit enchanted. Now on the road in support of their self-titled fourth album, Little Tybee has toured over the last eight years with such diverse groups as Man Man, Macy Gray and Of Montreal. You’d be well-advised to get tickets to this show early. GH

FRIDAY 7/7

GOOD FOOT

10 p.m. Four Quarter Bar.

What makes a good bar band? Is it volume? Musicianship? Atmosphere for our conversations? Playing that one song our ladyfriend likes, which gives us an excuse to get on the dance floor? Or maybe it’s just a bunch of musicians onstage who do it well, make it look effortless and amplify our fun. Local favorites Good Foot fit the bill, man.

The shredders and wailers from The School of Rock stop at Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack with an opening set from DeFrance, 8 p.m., $5. Over at Oaklawn Racing & Gaming, Hwy 124 entertains at Silks Bar & Grill, 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., free. Survive and Arrive, Slick Grip, Go For Gold and Frenchie share an early bill at Vino’s, 7:30 p.m., $10. Junk Bomb, Iron Tongue and The Cunts perform at the White Water Tavern for the benefit of the Girls Songwriting Camp, 9:30 p.m. Brian Ramsey and Carey Griffith play a show at Markham Street Grill and Pub, 8:30 p.m., free. The North Little Rock Community Concert Band plays a program called “Happy Anniversary,” an ode to notable events in history that happened in July, with works from Stephen Foster, John Williams and John Philip Sousa, 7:30 p.m., Lakewood Village canopy, free, lawn chairs and blankets recommended. Psych rockers Vegas Verdes share a bill with S.M. Wolf and Tvveeds at Maxine’s, 9 p.m., $5. Lunarheadz and Elephantom kick off the weekend at Fayetteville’s Smoke & Barrel Tavern, 10 p.m., free. Buh Jones performs at Cajun’s for happy hour, 5:30 p.m., free, followed by a set or two from the Big John Miller Band, 9 p.m., $5. Vocalist Ken Goodman pays tribute to Broadway at Life Center Arts Venue, 315 Park Avenue, Hot Springs, 6 p.m., $24-$30. Handmade Moments performs at Kings Live Music, with a set from Tate Smith, 8:30 p.m., $5.

SATURDAY 7/8 Bringing a savory mix of rock, jam, a little reggae, all seasoned with funk, these guys make your average night good and your good night even better. They embrace the “jam band” vibe, sure, but there’s a lot more going on here. Good Foot is kind of an all-star collective of local talent (folks like Brian Oman, Matt Treadway and Nick Matson, for instance), so the lineup is everevolving and may change from night to

night. If you still find yourselves on the fence about attending, consider this: How often do you get to hear a band that proudly proclaims G. Love as an influence while also mixing in Grateful Dead covers when you least expect them? Not often enough! Whaddya say? I think it’s a pretty damn good reason to assemble your crew and head on down to Argenta on the 7th. GH

The Ben Miller Band performs at Delta Cultural Center’s Cherry Street Fair in downtown Helena, 5 p.m., free. Melissa Diaz De Leon, Elizabeth Rivera, Josh Edwards and Symone Ebony Enchantress perform for Club Sway’s “LatinX Night: Beach Bash,” 9 p.m. Bret Michaels performs at Magic Springs Theme & Water Park, 8 p.m., $35$55. Texas septet Whiskey Myers brings its rowdy, fiddle-driven tunes to the Rev Room, with openers Broken Witt Rebels, 9 p.m., $17-$20. Funk jam ensemble Brothers With Different Mothers plays a show at the White

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SATURDAY 7/8

TERMINAL NATION

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It’s only halfway through 2017, and Terminal Nation has already joined its fellow Little Rock native and sludge behemoth Pallbearer on Metal Injection’s “Our Picks for the Top Metal Albums of 2017 (So Far).” The album, which Metal Injection’s Christopher Luedtke calls “delicious old-school hardcore powerviolence,” is called “Absolute Control,” and the cover features a skeletal Lady Liberty strangled and submerged by throngs of snakes, tentacles and skulls. That’s a pretty accurate picture of where the band stands on the current state of affairs in the U. S. of A.: Check out its Facebook page for any of its tirades against police brutality, most recently a video subtitled “Justice for Philando Castile.” And, if that wasn’t transparent enough, its latest merch includes a line drawing of Trump’s decapitated head

‘INSTRUMETAL’: Austin’s Eagle Claw joins locals Tempus Terra for a heavy rock show at Revolution Friday night.

FRIDAY 7/7

EAGLE CLAW

9 p.m. Revolution. $7.

If you’ve ever cued up a new track from a metal band, dug it for the first eight or 12 bars and then been turned off by the style of the vocals, you’re 100 percent safe at this show. There might be some mike stands on the stage for Austin-based Eagle Claw’s show at the Rev Room this Friday, but they won’t need ’em. The band’s “instrumetal” set comes to you courtesy of drums, guitar and more guitar, all

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played at an artery-rattling volume, a la The Body or Manowar. The quartet’s been playing together for a decade now, and the band’s 2012 release “Timing of the Void” features slow-build, violent tracks like “Uzamaki Vortex” — which, though you’d never know it from the guerilla party music video, is inspired by a 1645 text on martial arts from swordsman Miyamato Musashi. Local heavy rockers Tempus Terra, featuring Drew Skarda (of Sumokem) and bassist Tracey Lynn Gregory, open the show. SS

hung from barbed wire. These guys get classified in the metal genre, and that’s totally fair; their guitars are heavy as hell, and the riffs are speedy, angular and biting. Their live vibe, though, is more akin to Downtown Boys or Black Flag — it’s anger with a specific, political direction, and it feels like it could pivot and morph into a coup at any moment. The quintet’s EP came out on Deep Six Records June 9, and this Vino’s show is the official release. It is going to get loud, it is going to get sweaty, people are probably going to slam themselves into each other with gusto, and you are probably going to leave pretty pissed off at the leader of the free world. Evidently, they’ve opted out of the obvious opening act, Kathy Griffin, and will headline the evening with support from Oklahoma City’s Shame; Kansas City’s Spine; Time Walk of Springfield, Mo.; and locals Squatch Dweller. SS

TUESDAY 7/11

ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN NETWORK TALK: JEFF SHANNON

5:30 p.m. reception, 6 p.m. lecture, Arkansas Arts Center. Free.

University of Arkansas architecture professor Jeff Shannon, who has edited a collection of essays by colleagues, clients and friends of famed Fayetteville architect Fay Jones, will give a talk about the book as part of the Architecture and Design Network’s series. “Shadow Patterns: Reflections on Fay Jones and His Architecture” includes

writings by Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa; Washington University architecture professor Robert McCarter; Shannon’s colleague Ethel Goodstein-Murphree; journalist Roy Reed; novelist Ellen Gilchrest and others on the modernist architect, an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright and winner of the American Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal. Shannon, a former dean of the Fay Jones School of Architecture, will give another talk at 6 p.m. July 20 at the Fayetteville Public Library as part of the UA Press Spotlight Series. LNP

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The Hot Springs Concert Band gives a free concert in Whittington Park titled “A Journey Across the U.S.A.,” 6:30 p.m., free. Brain Trust with Michael Brown, a live trivia show, lands at Jacksonville’s The Game Store, 8 p.m. Riverdale 10 Cinema hosts a screening of “It Knows,” 7 p.m., $9-$11. QC:

The temptation is to start with an overdone joke about weed, Mary Jane or the lauded sticky-icky. But, here’s the rub: Getting the health care you need in this country is a bureaucratic nightmare, getting potentially even worse. If you need medical cannabis, this event is an opportunity to learn how to jump through the proper hoops. You’ll get a step-by-step breakdown about Arkansas’s process for getting a medical cannabis card from experts. Note: While the state Department of Health’s website started taking applications for medical cannabis cards June 30, we’re still a bit away from the full rollout of medical marijuana.

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Dispensaries are going to likely open this winter, Storm Nolan of Arkansas Cannabis Industry Association says, and the cards will not be issued until 30 days before dispensaries open. But, Nolan says, you can still apply now, learn whether or not you’re approved and get a card from the health department when it starts sending them out. If you’re worried about your physician not giving you the prescription, there’s also a new doctor locator on ACIA’s website. Just type in a ZIP code to find a doctor who will provide the Rx pot. The event is open to everyone and will offer some motivation, too. Folks from Colorado — including Coltyn Turner, a 17-year-old patient who uses marijuana to treat Crohn’s disease, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis — will share their stories about receiving care. JR

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Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $7. Trey Flowers, defensive end for the New England Patriots, mentors up-and-comers at War Memorial Stadium for Pro Player Skills Camp, 1 p.m., $125. Greasy Tree brings loads of crunchy blues rock — and lots of hair — to Maxine’s, 9 p.m., $5. Chuck Pack plays the happy hour at Cajun’s, 5:30 p.m., free, and at 9 p.m., Almost Infamous performs, $5. Pineapple Beatz and Sleepy spin tunes in the DiscoTech at Discovery Nightclub, with G-Force in the lobby, 9 p.m., $10. The New Town Blues Band entertains at Markham Street Grill and Pub, 8:30 p.m., free. Mid-America Science Museum in Hot Springs holds its second Tesla Fest, 10 a.m., free-$10. Central Arkansas Library System’s Ron Robinson Theater screens “Bee Movie,” 1 p.m., free. John Neal Rock and Roll cranks up the volume at Kings Live Music in Conway, with an opening set from Ryan Sauders, 8:30 p.m., $5. MotherFunkShip brings its self-described “groove fusion” to Four Quarter Bar, 10 p.m.

TUESDAY 7/11 Francis Ford Coppola’s “Dementia 13” gets a screening at CALS’ Ron Robinson Theater as part of the “Terror Tuesday” series, 6 p.m., $2. Songwriter John Moreland takes tunes from his 2017 release, “Big Bad Luv,” recorded in Little Rock, to George’s Majestic Lounge, presented by the Fayetteville Roots Fest, 8:30 p.m., $12-$16. The MacArthur Museum of Military History screens “My Vietnam, Your Iraq,” Ron Osgood’s 2008 war documentary, a collection of stories from Vietnam war veterans and their children who have served in Iraq, 6:30 p.m., free. Riverdale 10 Cinema screens 1988’s “Beetlejuice,” 7 p.m., $8.50. Jamie Lou & The Hullabaloo join Eclectic Dance for a show at Bear’s Den Pizza in Conway, 10 p.m., free. ‘MUDDY ROOTS’: Liz Brasher and her band, the Gentlemen of Rhythm, play the White Water Tavern Wednesday night.

WEDNESDAY 7/12

LIZ BRASHER

9 p.m. White Water Tavern.

Sometimes a band doesn’t wear its influences on its sleeves, and sometimes it does. With a set of originals slated for release in October, according to Brasher’s website, and covers like “It’s a Man’s World” and “Jolene,” Liz Brasher and her Atlanta-based

band, the Gentlemen of Rhythm, channel strains of Lesley Gore and Dick Dale — and they look the part. Brasher’s a crooner, but her range is huge (dig “Starry Night” or “Maybe”). As for her rockabilly(ish) guitar style, think: Brian Setzer’s badass niece decides she’s going to follow in her uncle’s genre-bending footsteps. SS

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WEDNESDAY 7/12 South on Main’s Sessions, curated by vocalist Bijoux this month, features Dazz & Brie, winners of the Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase, 8 p.m., $10. Third Eye Blind brings its “Summer Gods” tour to the Walmart AMP in Rogers, with Silversun Pickups and Ocean Park Standoff, 7 p.m., $31-$76. Maxine’s in Hot Springs turns into a veritable hoedown with wild sets from Mountain Sprout and Dance Monkey Dance (Doug Dicharry, formerly of the Ben Miller Band), 9 p.m., $10. “Finding Dory” goes up on the big screen at the First Security Amphitheater, 8:30 p.m., free. The Arkansas Travelers kick off a series of games against the Springfield Cardinals, 7:10 p.m., $7-$13.

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KBIRD SINGS FOR your supper Saturday, July 15, when the restaurant presents The Thai Food Street Experience at Little Rock Urban Farming, 5910 G St., 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. If you’ve ever had chef Richard Glasgow’s green papaya salad or pad thai or curried dishes or anything else on the menu at kBird, you will want to be at this outdoor event, a benefit for LRUF’s Southern Center for Agroecology. Food will be served buffet style, and there will be fans to combat the heat. Tickets are $50 and limited; purchase at eventbrite.com (link on the Thai Food Street Experience page on Facebook). Parking is on H and Pierce streets. Find out more about the sustainable farming nonprofit at southerncenterforagroecology.org. The ice cream shop 8° Fahrenheit (a.k.a. 8 Degree) will open in the West Markham Shopping Center, 11321 W. Markham. 8° specializes in Thai-style rolled ice cream prepared at — guess what? — 8° F. The menu includes several flavors, including banana, kiwi, lychee and more traditional flavors, and toppings, including pocky sticks, gummy bears, sprinkles, shredded coconut and more. The chain has locations in Georgia and has plans to expand into California and Texas. A PLUMBING PERMIT has been pulled for Captain Hooks Fish & Chicken to open at 6725 JFK Blvd. in Sherwood, which last housed a Dunkin’ Donuts. It will be the second of the Chicago eatery chain in Arkansas; the first opened in Stuttgart in November 2016. ALSO ON THE fried chicken scene: The Zaxby’s Chicken Fingers and Buffalo Wings chain, which will open another Central Arkansas eatery at 10601 Kanis Road. 26

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MMMM, MOUSSAKA: The Terrace favorite is like shepherd’s pie and lasagna had a baby.

Greek classic It’s a hit parade at the Terrace Mediterranean Kitchen.

ew around here even knew what hummus was when Terry and Jerry Barakat started serving it when they opened the Terrace in 1981 in Breckenridge Village. Now it’s about as common as it gets — a staple appetizer with several varieties available at any grocery store. You can’t say the same thing about tabbouleh or baba ghanouj, but they’re not exactly “exotic” anymore. Those three traditional Greek dishes remain staples at the Terrace — or, to be accurate, the Terrace Mediterranean Kitchen — 36 years later, served now under the guidance of the Follow Eat Arkansas on Twitter: @EatArkansas

Barakats’ daughters, Susi and Sandy. They bought the restaurant from their father six years ago and have continued its long history of excellence. The first dip of soft pita into the Terrace hummus quickly reminded us the difference in this creamy, rich and light dip vs. typical grocery hummus. The equally rich and creamy baba ghanouj and the bright, citrusy, minty tabbouleh are served together as the Kitchen Sampler appetizer ($8.50), and it’s a must-get. We also adored the Warm Goat Cheese ($6.95), a rounded puck of soft chevre, lightly coated with bread

crumb dust and served with about a half-dozen cloves of roasted garlic, pesto made with sun-dried tomatoes, plenty of Greek olives and some crispy slices of toasted baguette. Combining the gooey, creamy cheese with the sweet garlic, the sharper taste of the sun-dried tomatoes and the thin, crunchy baguette is the way to enjoy

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it best. We are a sucker for osso bucco. While the classic version features braised veal shanks, it’s also made with pork or lamb. So when we spotted “lamb shank” ($22.50) on the menu we jumped all over it. The description called it “fall-off-the-bone lamb,” and that it definitely was. We’ve never had it this tender — essentially lamb pot roast, served with carrots and rice. It was such a huge shank we anticipated leftovers. But no. We’ve also always loved moussaka. It’s like shepherd’s pie and lasagna had a delicious Greek baby. This comfort food features thinly sliced eggplant layered with well-seasoned ground beef and loose, rich savory custard on top. The Terrace’s moussaka ($14.95) is a generous portion accompanied by roasted carrots and tasty rice. We have a friend who declares the Terrace’s chocolate creme bru-

lee ($6.75) the best in town, which is saying something, because there are some brulees in this town worth licking the ramekin clean. We think this brulee can hold its own, for sure. It is plenty chocolaty (some chocolate brulees are too stingy with the good stuff ). And it might be the first one we’ve had that didn’t come in a ramekin. Rather, it was a square-cut piece cut from a larger pan and plopped on a plate. It has a thick, less crunchy torched top and is as creamy as you could want. We could live without the fairly heavy drizzle of raspberry, but we easily fought through it. At 7:30 p.m. on a recent Wednesday, the small dining room was almost full, as were the few outdoor tables even though it was more than a little steamy outside. Service was fabulous, and we fully enjoyed our first trip back to this Little Rock classic in some time.

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HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “XXIX Prime,” anniversary exhibition, through Aug. 5. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat. 372-6822. JUSTUS FINE ART GALLERY, 827 A Central Ave., Hot Springs: “Summer Series II,” work by Taimur Cleary, Robert Fogel, Robyn Horn, Rebecca Thompson and others, opens with reception 5-9 p.m. July 7, Hot Springs Gallery Walk, show through July. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 321-2335. L&L BECK ART GALLERY, 5705 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “The Wild Ones,” July, drawing for free giclee 7 p.m. July 20. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 660-4006. LAMAN LIBRARY ARGENTA BRANCH, 420 Main St., NLR: “Entelechy,” watercolors by Brianna Peterson. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat. 687-1061. LEGACY FINE ART, 804 Central Ave., Hot Springs: Blown glass chandeliers by Ed Pennington, paintings by Carole Katchen. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri. 762-0840. LOCAL COLOUR GALLERY, 5811 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Artists collective. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.Sat. 265-0422. MATTHEWS FINE ART GALLERY, 909 North St.: Paintings by Pat and Tracee Matthews, glass by James Hayes, jewelry by Christie Young, knives by Tom Gwenn, kinetic sculpture by Mark White. Noon-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 831-6200. MATT McLEOD FINE ART, 108 W. 6th St.: Work by Arkansas artists. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 725-8508. MUGS CAFE, 515 Main St., NLR: “Nightflyers,” paintings and drawings by Greg Lahti and Robert Bean. 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 379-9101. THE HOUSE OF ART, 108 E. 4th St.: Mixed media work by Kesha Lagniappe and Lilia Hernandez. WALKER-STONE HOUSE, 207 W. Center St., Fayetteville: “Summer Art Exhibition,” works by Fenix artists Cindy Arsaga, Carol Corning, Michael Davis, Amber Eggleton, Jan Gosnell, Corey Johnson, Leilani Law, Ed Pennebaker, Meikel S. Church and Jason Sacran, reception 5-8 p.m. July 6, show through Aug. 5. Noon-7 p.m. Wed.-Fri., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sat. @ fenixfayetteville. Other museums JACKSONVILLE MUSEUM OF MILITARY HISTORY, 100 Veterans Circle, Jacksonville: Exhibits on D-Day; F-105, Vietnam era plane (“The Thud”); the Civil War Battle of Reed’s Bridge, Arkansas Ordnance Plant (AOP) and other military history. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $3 adults; $2 seniors, military; $1 students. 501-241-1943. LAKEPORT PLANTATION, 601 Hwy. 142, Lake Village: Antebellum mansion; exhibits on plantation life from before, during and after the Civil War. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. weekdays. $5 general admission. 870-265-6031. MUSEUM OF AUTOMOBILES, Petit Jean Mountain: Permanent exhibition of more than 50 cars from 1904-1967 depicting the evolution of the automobile. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 7 days. 501-727-5427. MUSEUM OF NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY, 202 SW O St., Bentonville: Native American artifacts. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 479-273-2456. PLANTATION AGRICULTURE MUSEUM, Scott, U.S. Hwy. 165 and state Hwy. 161: Permanent exhibits on historic agriculture. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $4 adults, $3 children. 961-1409. POTTS INN, 25 E. Ash St., Pottsville: Preserved 1850s stagecoach station on the Butterfield Overland Mail Route, with period furnishings, log structures, hat museum, doll museum, doctor’s office, antique farm equipment. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wed.-Sat. $5 adults, $2 students, 5 and under free. 479-968-9369. ROGERS HISTORICAL MUSEUM, 322 S. 2nd St.: “On Fields Far Away: Our Community During the Great War,” through Sept. 23. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 479-621-1154. SCOTT PLANTATION SETTLEMENT, Scott: 1840s log cabin, one-room school house, tenant houses, smokehouse and artifacts on plantation life. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Fri.-Sat. 351-0300. www.scottconnections.org.

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