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An open letter to state Sen. Jason Rapert Sir! There once was a time when we publicly spoke together on behalf of the residents and fish of Lollie Bottoms, who had a nonnegotiable sewage plant imposed on them downstream from the Toad Suck Dam in Conway. At that time, I was very impressed that two citizens from opposing political extremes could work together for the health and safety of a community in a bipartisan manner. Since then, however, your deplorable Teabagger politics have become a rank embarrassment that reflects Arkansas as just another hick state to the rest of the country and the world. Your overzealous gun-nut antics and efforts to keep medicine from cancer patients and other sufferers aside, I’m talking specifically about your latest bill to rename the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, which is driven by the unquestioning, bovine urge to repeat, follow and Trumpup mis- and disinformation disseminated by career conspiracy theorists and professional reputation smearists. The Clintons are the most historically progressive public-serving politicians from the left that this state has ever been proud to embrace, providing a positive politi-

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cal identity to temporarily conceal the unsightly segregationist skidmark your fascist predecessors left on the American flag. Yet you are low enough to regurgitate and spread the vengeance seeking, muckraking, witch-hunt fabrications of the road-rage righteous to the point of incendiary insouciance — a misleading crime of humanity against your local flock for which you shall be ultimately judged and condemned to the fires you fear most (Matthew 7:12 NCV, Luke 6:31). It is fitting, then, that a petition campaign has been launched to rename the Conway Corp. sewage tanks in your honor — for you are human waste advocating human waste in a time of mass human waste. Such wormery, driven by hatred and lack of self-respect, is better off left in the chatrooms of the alt-right, a de-evolution of white supremacy that has no place in present-day culture except as a blight upon our landscape to rail against as a sickly vestige of indecency to be wiped out like a toxic pox. Sir, there is a scum in Bigelow, a putrid and deceiving film obscuring the integrity of our state. On behalf of those who value leaders who value their constituency (and especially on behalf of those who value the economic surplus President Bill Clinton left us with and the civil

rights work and activism on behalf of children Hillary accomplished), we are sickened and ashamed by your reactionary and ignorant “leadership” — which, if you had any integrity at all, you’d flush straight into the intellectual, septic-tank wasteland you are making of Arkansas. Mark Spitzer Conway

on the pursuit of true learning. Too many of us rely solely on social media for our information. We limit ourselves to exposure to beliefs and ideas that only match our preconceived notions. We simply can’t handle any suggestions from differing viewpoints. It’s a sad state of affairs. Rich Hutson Cabot

What about learning?

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Our public schools are not failing. What is failing is the American people. We are well on our way to becoming an idiocracy. The question isn’t whether our public schools are providing an adequate education. The question is this: Why do we no longer care about learning? What has so distracted us and led to such apathy? Could it be that pursuit of facts and evidence can no longer compete with the instant gratification of Facebook? We have been dumbed down by overexposure to entertainment, such as online gaming and social media. This is evident by the election of Donald Trump. How can an individual who spouts blatant falsities and displays such radical behavior become the elected leader of the free world? He’s the social media president, that’s how. Too many of us have given up

Reckon we oughta all send Leslie Rutledge some congratulatory cards. Now she gets to kill eight men and prove herself as tough as those menfolks! She ran for office as a “gun carryin’ Christian woman with a job description of fightin’ Obama.” Since election she’s continued to file expensive and frivolous lawsuits against the federal government’s “overreach.” Scripture says, “Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord, I will repay.” But Christianity and Republican “religion” are usually quite dissimilar. In her case it appears her God is either Donald Trump or the shade of Ole’ Strom Thurmond! Federal overreach is the battle cry of the Republican crew we have been presently plagued with. Of course, the state’s Republican intrusion into the innermost private parts of our lives they see as their “divine right.” They feel qualified to regulate doctors’ medical practices with not a scrap of medical training themselves. They are pushy enough to regulate the diets of the poor and destitute among us. They won’t hire black folks, but feel righteous enough to disparage them as being too lazy to work a steady job! Override college presidents and policemen with guns in your cereal box, practically! Hey, maybe Lord Asa can designate Stacy Hurst as official needle inserter in the death chamber? She likely doesn’t know a damned thing about doing that, but he’s put her in charge of lots of other folks who know a hell of a lot more about their work than she does! Can’t get control via the ballot, but with Sugar Daddy Asa as her patron, who needs an election win? Why are we paying agency directors exorbitant salaries? Any regulations they pass must be passed by the Republican legislative council or they’re void. Then if Lord Asa doesn’t accept them, he can cancel the whole shebang. Just as hundreds of other little dictators and rulers of feifdoms in small banana republics have done for years. Oh heck, just bypass all that and let Stacy Hurst run the show unchallenged! Karl Hansen Hensley

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WEEK THAT WAS

“Well, what kind of insurance do you have?” — A woman at U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton’s town hall in Springdale last Wednesday, after telling the Republican senator about her husband’s failing health due to Alzheimer’s and other conditions. She informed Cotton that she and her husband together pay less than $70 per month in premiums and challenged him to offer a plan that offered better coverage. For years, Cotton and other leading Republicans have promised the wholesale dismantling of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, but now that the GOP controls the White House and Congress, repeal is proving politically dicey. The raucous, angry crowd of some 2,200 hit Cotton with a stream of mostly hostile questions, often roaring its disapproval when he dodged a query or delivered an unsatisfactory answer.

LRSD tax election rescheduled for May 9 Little Rock School District Superintendent Mike Poore said last week he’ll propose May 9 as the new date for a special election to extend a construction bond millage in the LRSD that would pay for various facilities projects, including a new Southwest Little Rock high school. The election was previously scheduled for March 14, but that date was scrapped out of concerns about a lack of community support. 6

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Quote of the Week: IGNORED BY CONGRESSMEN: Indivisible Central Arkansas’s town hall Sunday at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church drew hundreds of attendees who wanted to express their concerns to their representatives in Washington, D.C. Congressmen in attendance: Zero.

Many Little Rock voters are loath to support a tax extension while the district remains controlled by the state Department of Education due to low academic performance in a scant three schools (out of the district’s 48 campuses). Johnny Key, the education commissioner, has indicated the LRSD won’t be returning to local control until all campuses are off the “academic distress” list. Meanwhile, Poore and Key are moving forward with a plan to close two elementary schools and an early childhood center, sparking fury from some parents and neighborhood residents. And, a bill sailing through the Republican-controlled legislature would force the district to sell closed buildings to charter schools, further harming the LRSD’s future prospects (see Arkansas Reporter, page 12). No wonder good will is in short supply.

Supreme Court tosses local LGBT protection In a setback for equality, the state Supreme Court unanimously reversed a circuit court decision upholding Fayetteville’s civil rights ordinance, which extends nondiscrimination protection to LGBT people. Arkansas Attorney

General Leslie Rutledge had challenged the Fayetteville law on the grounds it conflicted with a state law prohibiting local ordinances that protect classes of people not already protected at the state level. The state law was passed by the legislature in 2015 specifically to prevent progressive towns like Fayetteville from enacting such measures. The fight isn’t over yet, though. There’s still the question of the constitutionality of the state law itself, which the circuit court did not rule upon (and therefore the Supreme Court also declined to take up). The conservative legislators who authored the state law claim — disingenuously — that the statute was only intended to ensure uniform practices across the state, not to preserve discrimination against gay and trans people. But its opponents say the antiLGBT motivations behind the state law are clear.

The cruelest month Governor Hutchinson has again set execution dates for several inmates on death row — all eight of which are scheduled for the last two weeks of April. The action followed a U.S. Supreme Court refusal to hear a challenge from the inmates, though two

justices raised doubts about one of the drugs to be used in the process. There are still questions about expiration dates on the state’s supply of drugs, however.

Speak your mind on marijuana Draft rules that will govern Arkansas’s new medical cannabis industry were approved by regulators and are now subject to public comment. The Medical Marijuana Commission, which will license dispensaries and cultivation centers, will hold a public hearing at 2 p.m. March 31 at the UA Little Rock Bowen School of Law; its rules are available online, and comments should be sent to MMCAdmin@ dfa.arkansas.gov. Alcoholic Beverage Control, which will regulate the operations of those businesses, has also completed its rules and will hold a hearing at a date to be announced.

Wait, what about the ledge? With the legislative session in full swing, there’s too much ground to cover in this space. See the Arkansas Reporter, page 12, for a rundown of the past week’s Capitol highlights and lowlights.

OPINION

Supremely disappointing

he Arkansas Supreme Court last Court said. Indeed. week delivered a blow to civil It also was meant rights in Arkansas. It was another to ensure that disresults-oriented decision that gives a clue crimination against to how far the justices likely will go to gay people is legal appease the legislature. at every level of MAX The issue was a Fayetteville ordinance Arkansas govBRANTLEY maxbrantley@arktimes.com that extended protection to gay people ernment. But the from discrimination in housing, employ- drafters screwed ment and public accommodations. up. Opponents knew it at the time and The Supreme Court said Fayetteville they lay in wait to defeat the law by plain (and, by implication, several other local words of the statute. governments) could not adopt such ordiThere are multiple points in state law nances. They said a 2015 Arkansas law that contain protection based on sexual prohibited local ordinances that pro- orientation or gender identity — specifitected a “classification” on a basis “not cally an anti-bullying law, a domestic contained in state law.” violence law and the law relating to birth This required some dancing around certificates. The Supreme Court swept the rule of Arkansas law that says you that argument away, calling these laws cannot read intent into state law. You “unrelated” to anti-discrimination. It was must be bound by the plain language. of no concern to the court that these The legislature said the law was meant laws were specifically written to ensure to prevent a patchwork of civil rights law discrimination didn’t affect application and so that’s what it meant, the Supreme of each law to certain classifications of

Bullies

ow should we treat the millions of citizens who do not fit the standard physical, emotional and heterosexual expectations for males and females, often (we now know) because they have some variation of the XX and XY chromosomes identified as female and male or because of genetic mutations, hormone abnormalities or some other condition that God picked out for them and that biologists and endocrinologists keep discovering? A century of scientific progress has included research showing that children with nonconforming sexual attributes are headed for lives of unhappiness, discrimination, bullying and high rates of suicide. So do we shun and disparage them as of old, or give them the rights and equal protection that the Constitution guarantees for every human on American soil? Only two weeks ago, we seemed to be headed in the direction of human rights and equal protection. Now, it’s shun and disparage again. But not for long, thank goodness. Last week, reversing promises he made during his campaign and only

two weeks earlier to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, especially children, from bullying ERNEST and discrimination, DUMAS Donald Trump ordered the government to end its protection of them. He had said bluntly that all children should use the bathroom they felt comfortable using, but Jeff Sessions, the old Ku Klux Klan admirer he chose for attorney general, insisted that Trump not mock his white-men base by giving LGBTQ kids the same rights as others. A 1972 federal law prohibits sex discrimination of any kind in the schools. Trump’s explanation was that the matter needed more study. Closer to home, the Arkansas Supreme Court struck down a Fayetteville ordinance that protected LGBT people from discrimination in town. The court unanimously held that the 2015 ordinance violated a state law that prohibited local governments from trying to protect such people from discrimination.

people, particularly gay children, samesex couples and transgendered. All is not yet lost. The case goes back to circuit court, which now will consider the larger question of the constitutionality of the state law. It is, after all, aimed at protecting discrimination against gay people. In some states, that’s been deemed unconstitutional, including an important federal case from Colorado. Will the Supreme Court again take the legislature at its word when the case comes back? Is a uniform law (legal discrimination against gay people) good for business, as the law asserts? Or will the court heed the powerful amicus briefs filed by the ACLU and 31 businesses, including CVS Health and Delta Airlines, that asserted that discrimination is unconstitutional and also very bad for business. North Carolina provides very specific evidence. The unanimous decision in this case doesn’t hold out much hope for the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal rights under the law because the legislature rejects that. Justice Jo Hart wrote the opinion, which endorsed the legal argument of her former clerk and judicial campaign supporter, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge. Hart, something of a crusader against gay rights, also wrote the recent opinion that denied a presumption of parenthood

on a birth certificate to both partners in a same-sex marriage. She said it was a matter of biology. This conveniently overlooked the fact that the state assumes parenthood for heterosexual couples who benefit from egg and sperm donation, along with samesex adoptive couples. The legislative hypocrisy in the local ordinance legislation is worth a mention. The legislature, which wants local (meaning state) control on same-sex marriage, bathroom rights and such, doesn’t really want REAL local control if locals disagree with the Republican majority. See guns on campus, too, along with discrimination against LGBT people. It may be coincidental, but this case was decided while the legislature deliberates a constitutional amendment to put lawsuit-killing caps on damages in personal injury lawsuits as well as attorney fees. A part of that proposal is transfer of rulemaking power to the legislature from the Supreme Court. A court ruling against a legislative act would have further inflamed the legislature. If the Supreme Court is to be a rubberstamp of the legislature on its worst acts and an enemy of equal rights, I’m not sure it really matters if it does lose rulemaking authority. Checks and balances already lay in ruins.

It disregarded the fact that the ordinance aligned perfectly with other state laws guaranteeing protection and that their decision ran afoul of a whole passel of precedents both by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Arkansas Supreme Court going back well more than a decade. The court chose simply to duck the constitutional questions. In December, again endorsing statesanctioned discrimination against samesex couples, the state court said the state Department of Health was not violating the constitutional rights of same-sex couples by refusing to list both their names on their child’s birth certificate, making it a laborious task for the couples to receive the benefits and rights accorded heterosexual families. Justice Paul Danielson dissented, noting that the highest court in the land, in the 2015 Obergefell decision, ruled unequivocally that the U.S. Constitution did not allow states to deny same-sex couples the full constellation of benefits of marriage, specifically birth and death certificates that recognized the family relationship. “You want justice? Go to federal court,” the state court was saying. But this is just part of the American story, the laborious pace of delivering on the soaring promises of freedom, equality and full citizenship in our founding

documents, from the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights to the 26th Amendment. Delivering those rights to unpopular minorities has been slow as science and human understanding expanded our knowledge of one another and of the vast diversity of life. The resistance has been the belief called “originalism” that phrases like “all men are created equal,” equal protection of the laws and due process do not mean what they say but must follow the constraints of knowledge and superstition that regulated the white men who wrote and voted upon those great words. It has been two centuries and we’re still perfecting those words, in the courts if not by statute and referendum. This month, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the case of Gavin Grimm, a 17-yearold Virginia kid whose school board barred him from using the boys’ restrooms because he is transgender. “All I want to do is be a normal child and use the restroom in peace,” he told the school board. “Freak,” an adult shouted. The Supreme Court will soon settle Trump’s dilemma and that of the Arkansas legislature, which is working on a bill criminalizing transgender kids who try to use the bathroom conforming to their sense of identity.

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No love for pits

once kept eight beagles in my backyard. When my wife complained, I’d tell her to choose which ones needed to go. It was a pure bluff: Some were prizewinning field trial hounds, others house pets. However, they all had eager, loving hearts, and she knew all their names. But for all my foolhardy animal passions, I have never harbored a pit bull. Nor would I. Just as beagles are obsessed with tracking rabbits, pit bulls are preoccupied with fighting. It’s in their genes. They aren’t so much protective as simply belligerent. Alas, that’s what some people like about them. Others appear simply naive about what the animals are capable of. Statistics show that pit bulls are involved in four out of five — 80 percent — fatal human attacks. (Only beagles and basset hounds have never been implicated.) So here’s my story: Three weeks ago, I was walking my two big dogs in a city park. Jessie and Maggie are a Great Pyrenees and a Great Pyrenees/Anatolian cross. Both are shepherd’s dogs historically bred to fight wolves. Weighing roughly 120 pounds, mine spent their first eight years guarding our farm against coyotes and cow-chasing dogs. Mostly they guarded cats, of which they’re fond, and farm animals generally. Jesse appears to think he’s the king/ boss dog of the world, which in his quite limited experience seems true. I once saw him pitch into two coyotes pestering my neighbor’s goats. He shook one, threw it, and then started after the second, which took off at warp speed while its companion skulked away. Then Jesse picked up a goat kid and carried it unharmed to the herd. Another time, he protected my wife from a charging mama cow. She wanted no part of him. Nobody taught him these things; they’re what the Great Pyrenees breed does. Jesse’s consort, Maggie, fears just one thing: him. Otherwise, she’s equally powerful and more aggressive. Maggie simply will not abide a challenge. It’s the Anatolian in her, a Turkish breed inclined to be territorial. When they were younger, they spent a lot of time play-fighting — perfecting their moves. People they like in their aloof way; children, they love. Even so, everything else being equal, I wouldn’t keep these dogs in the city. But I couldn’t abandon them after nine years, and they’ve adjusted. Our backyard fence is impregnable, the gates padlocked shut. We walk several miles together every day. Maggie needed some persuading that dogs we encounter aren’t

looking for trouble, but she’s intelligent and I’m large enough to restrain them, so all is well. So there we were in Allsopp GENE LYONS Park near the end of our outing. As we passed a playground crowded with small children on a sunny afternoon, I saw a large pit bull, unleashed and dead-heading toward us with unmistakably aggressive intent. I called for somebody to control him. But nobody there owned him, so nobody acted. There were no preliminaries. The pit launched directly for Maggie’s throat. Wrong move. He got nothing but a mouthful of thick fur. In a flash, she’d seized his ear in her jaws, thrown her leg over, and pinned the crazy SOB to the ground. No way was she going to let him get back up. Jesse tore into his hamstring. A sane dog would have surrendered. But this was a pit bull. Ordinarily, I could have pulled my dogs away. But not with a furious death grip on an 80-pound dog. I was afraid they were going to maim or kill him in front of the children and their mothers. Luckily, one fellow took Jesse’s leash and tried to pull him away as I tugged Maggie in the opposite direction. Another young father grabbed the pit’s collar and lifted him off the ground without getting bitten — above and beyond the call of duty. A third guy produced a leash, and led the dog away with its terrified owner, a girl about 12 who’d left the front door open and had been chasing her dog across the park. Maggie’s face was covered in blood, none of it hers. Disaster had been averted. My dogs were excited and happy: Is it suppertime yet? But what if I’d been walking dachshunds or cocker spaniels? What if nobody was there to help? It wasn’t the poor girl’s fault; the blame lay with whoever left a child alone with a deadly weapon. So let the pit bull-fancier’s rationalizations begin. I believe I’ve heard them all. What they basically amount to, as one friend put it, is, “Gee, he never killed a child before.” Possibly this breed has a place in today’s world, although I can’t think what it is. Like smoking or riding a motorcycle without a helmet, owning a pit bull should be seen as anti-social and stupid. It wouldn’t trouble me if it were illegal.

Enough about civility

missed Sen. Tom Cotton’s town to confirm Betsy hall meeting in Springdale last DeVos as secreweek, although I was there in tary of education. spirit. I listened to the livestream The voices in while I rushed from work to pick up that town hall reminded me of my daughters at daycare. I cheered AUTUMN another part of and booed in my car along with the TOLBERT my job that is crowd and teared up with pride at the tough questions put to Cotton. It often uncomfortable and tough to hear: was rowdy, and it was perfect. In the the victim impact statement. Somedays since, I’ve heard people praistimes the victim is calm and collected and deliberate. More often, the victim ing him for appearing — I’m not sure how we got to a point where we are starts off being civil and calm but soon handing out congratulations to polihis or her voice is strained and breaking. There are moments of anger and ticians for showing up to meet with tears. It is messy. It is raw. It is real. their constituents — and criticizing the vocal crowd for being everything Who are we to tell those victims the from “feisty,” as described by CNN, to “proper” way to react and the “proper” disrespectful and hateful. way to have their voices heard? Are As a rule, I try to be nice and calm in we to tell them to be “more cheermy day-to-day life. I work as a crimiful,” as U.S. Rep. Steve Womack told nal defense attorney in an adversarial his constituents at a recent event in system. I interact with prosecutors West Fork? Are we to chastise them for 175ML SMIRNOFF RED $19.99 $16.99 and judges allMORGAN day long who disagree their passion and anger, as the North175ML CAPTAIN $24.99 $20.99 750ML HENDRICK’S GIN $00.00 $00.00 west Arkansas Democrat-Gazette did with me. That’s OK. If we cannot come 750ML KNOB CREEK $32.99 $24.99 BASIL HAYDEN’S on a case, my$31.99 $28.99 to an 750ML agreement client to activist and former candidate for 1.5L MERIDIAN WINE $12.99 $9.99 has a remedy through either a trial state representative Irvin Camacho 750ML FREIXENET BRUT, DRY $9.99 or $8.99 12PK HEINEKEN, MODELLO, CORONA $14.49 an appeal. No need to yell and$15.99 shout. in a recent, unsigned editorial? Are Our legal system isn’t perfect, but it we to tell Kati McFarland, the woman 12 YEARS AGED CIGAR ON SALE! allows for a public redress of wrongs who relentlessly questioned Cotton (that is until the legislature gets their about the Affordable Care Act, to be hands on it). sweeter to the man who has a hand in Politics are different. Sure, we have her health care? elections, but money tends to win at the No, Camacho and the immigrant ballot box. Between elections, we only community he represents; McFarland; have as much influence and contact with Toby Smith, the 7-year-old who asked about PBS; and many of the men and our elected officials as they will give us. Since the election of President Trump, women in the town hall all benefit from Cotton has ignored some of his constituprograms that are in the crosshairs. ents at every turn. He has responded to They and their friends and families are phone calls, letters and visits with closed victims or will soon be if we take the GOP at their word. Maybe not victims doors and patronizing form letters until in the exact sense as those who stand last week’s town hall meeting. up in a courtroom and confront their Many progressives in Northwest perpetrators, but what we saw in that Arkansas, as they are in much of the Springdale auditorium was the politistate, are mad. They show up to legiscal equivalent. lative forums and coffee meetings and engage in civil discussion. They make People are angry. People are scared. polite phone calls to congressional staffNo longer will there be town halls, cofers and legislative switchboard operfees with a congressman or legislative ators. The result? State Rep. Charlie forums where the crowd sits quietly Collins (R-Fayetteville) ignored pretty while another politician dismisses valid much his entire district and continued concerns with canned talking points. to push a bill taking control away from Progressives in Arkansas will do what we try to do in our everyday lives. We local college campuses, Sen. Uvalde Lindsey (D-Fayetteville) voted to pass will try hard to be civil. We will try hard SJR 8, the terrible tort reform and judito be deliberate. We will try to be nice. cial power grab resolution, and CotBut, moving forward, we will not try so ton voted, despite bipartisan objections, hard to be quiet.

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read cautiously, Hog fans — this kind of success as we head toward March, in two sports, feels a little ominous, doesn’t it? The basketball program’s remarkable resurgence carried onward during another 2-0 week of action, first with the Hogs avoiding a hangover after posting their two best efforts of the year in a win at South Carolina and a home rout of Ole Miss. They had to persevere a bit against Texas A&M, a team that has clearly faltered after a fine postseason run a year ago, before beating the Aggies 86-77 at Bud Walton Arena, boosted again late by a pretty raucous midweek crowd that numbered over 14,000 officially, which by modern standards constitutes an exceptional turnout. Balanced scoring was again the order of the day. Five Hogs went into double figures against the Aggies, paced by Jaylen Barford’s 16. The JUCO product’s explosiveness was well known when Mike Anderson secured him for the last two years of his amateur career, and he’s been in such a comfortable groove lately that it appears he’s vying for preseason All-SEC honors to start 2017-18. His 16 points were at the forefront of another stellar offensive showing, but as usual, Arkansas got help from atypical sources in pulling away. Manuale Watkins put home 13 points and Dustin Thomas was good for nine points, five rebounds and zero turnovers. And Daryl Macon’s newfound role as sixth man continues to reap benefits, as his 12 points off the pine led the Hogs to a 27-4 advantage for the reserves. Beating A&M was critical to sustaining momentum in a league that seems destined to only earn four berths in the NCAA’s field of 68. But the real test of this team’s sudden maturation was going to be at Auburn, a year after the perennially downtrodden Tigers knocked off the Hogs at home behind a three-point barrage from Bryce Brown. A year ago, that loss kept the Razorbacks in a nasty late-season swoon that left them at .500 when it all wrapped up in the SEC Tournament. There was no repeat to be had at Auburn this time, and there’s something to be said for the Razorbacks’ somewhat fickle defense being the key to the 79-68 win. This Tiger team is greatly improved over last year’s 11-20 mess, and promises to be even better next year with Bruce Pearl working his possibly unethical magic to land some top-end recruits.

But the Hogs were completely undisturbed by everything that went against them Saturday night on the BEAU Plains, including WILCOX the scattershot officiating and Moses Kingsley’s early foul trouble. Again, it was Barford who carried the squad through some choppy seas. His game-high 20 was a unique feat: The streaky shooter came up empty on all five of his three-point tries, but remained undeterred as a penetrator and playmaker, getting to the rim all night and to the line nine times as well. With Dusty Hannahs throwing in some clutch long-range daggers and Macon adding another 13-point bench effort, Arkansas (22-7, 11-5 in SEC) survived Kingsley’s extended absences. The senior was productive (eight points, six rebounds) in the scant 15 minutes of court time he got, but once again the lift in the paint came from Trey Thompson, who set career bests with 11 rebounds and 29 minutes of action, and he contributed six points and three assists for good measure. Arlando Cook also got a jolt of confidence with an eight-point first half. Oddly, this five-game streak and the potential to land a big momentum-building blow this week at Florida have barely moved the national needle concerning this team. They logged all of three combined votes in the AP and USA Today polls, good enough to be 38th in each. But rankings are indeed of no consequence if they are a distraction to the team, and what impresses us about the Hogs of late is that they seem unconcerned by the outside perception of how they’re faring. That closed-ranks way of thinking may reap major benefits as the calendar turns. On the baseball diamond, Dave Van Horn’s 15th campaign at the helm has begun in a fashion (6-0) that thankfully does not resemble the way his 14th ended. Arkansas is unranked after closing out the 2016 season with a woeful 12-game losing skid to finish 26-29, by far the worst season of the coach’s otherwise impeccable tenure. But the Hogs have so far done a fine job of trying to shed the various labels that they arguably earned last spring when it appeared that some players were ready to end the season with plenty still at stake.

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he lefties The Observer knows are coping with the Dorito Mussolini regime in different ways: working out, creating art, staying well away from Twitter and randomly driving in the countryside to scream bloody murder and throw crockery at the moon. Many are also, thank God, turning their frustration and worry into action by protesting, organizing, marching and such, and all without even knowing when or if the checks from George Soros, Barack Obama and Alec Baldwin will be in the mail. Sad! Friend of the Times Susan Elder, however, has taken to spinning the bitter straw of politics into poetic gold, buoying the spirits of her Facebook friends with bursts of comedy via expertly-written limericks. It’s either laugh of cry at this point, and it appears she has chosen the path of laughter. Lord knows most of the folks could use a laugh these days, what with the flaming, runaway manure wagon that is the Trump Era careening hither and yon, splashing dookie all over our most cherished American traditions. We offer a selection of Scribe Elder’s efforts here.

1 The Cabinet positions are bought. What fresh hell hath today wrought? Robotic folks scold “Believe what you’re told.” It’s all even worse than I thought. 2 The swamp was supposed to be drained But many things need to be ’splained When the going gets dicey They send out poor Spicey Till they get his replacement well trained. 3 So who knew of those Russian hacks? We’ve been given “alternate facts.”

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5 I’m afraid that he truly believes The alternate facts he conceives. Since his “landslide” election When he spies his reflection It’s George Clooney’s face that he sees. 6 It probably was a mistake To believe the muck that Fox rakes. Seems terror in Sweden Was a bit misleadin’ No wonder he thinks news is fake. 7 It’s no longer OK to be meek If it’s freedom of press that you seek. We need to join forces or the logical course is we’ll all be unable to speak. 8 The president has come to decide that health care is hard to provide. When he asks, “Who knew?” It’s “everybody but you!” Could this be what will turn the tide? 9 He must think it’s all a big game requiring mere fortune and fame. When something goes wrong it’s his same old song. He just finds somebody to blame. arktimes.com MARCH 2, 2017

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e’re at the point in the 2017 session of the Arkansas General Assembly in which most of Governor Hutchinson’s major legislative priorities have passed: tax cuts, changes to the higher education funding formula, a variety of “efficiency” measures. But a broad assortment of other proposals remains very much in play. It’s almost impossible to keep up with the blizzard of bill filings, amendments and committee and floor votes, let alone the ideological faults, transactional calculations, petty feuds and unlikely alliances that shape life at the Capitol. With that in mind, we’ve compiled a sampling of legislative action from the past week. It’s nowhere near comprehensive. The legislature also acted on bills to allow more guns on college campuses, to curtail the Freedom of Information Act regarding the Capitol police and to require greater transparency in campaign finance filings, among many other things. The legislature is scheduled to recess April 7, with a return for formal adjournment May 5. That leaves the next five weeks for all kinds of other mischief to gain traction, from a to-be-amended “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people to a sweeping school voucher program. There’s also some good legislation yet to be acted on, including a much-needed proposal by Rep. Clarke Tucker (D-Little Rock) to disclose shady political expenditures during campaign season and a bill, pushed by the governor, to end the state’s odious practice of celebrating Robert E. Lee’s birthday on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. And although both the House and the Senate have each proposed one constitutional amendment for the 2018 ballot, they could still refer out a third such measure by meeting jointly. For the gory details on all of this legislation and more, visit the Arkansas Blog (arktimes.com) or our partners at the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network (arknews.org).

So much for the Seventh Amendment Senate Joint Resolution 8 by Sen. Missy Irvin (R-Mountain View), the proposed “tort reform” amendment to the state Constitution, is almost certainly headed to the 2018 ballot. After being amended in a House committee last week, 12

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it passed the House on Monday and was re-referred back to the Senate. SJR 8 originally contained $250,000 caps on the noneconomic and punitive damages that may be awarded to a claimant in a civil suit, but the amendment, by Rep. Bob Ballinger (R-Hindsville), raised those caps to $500,000. There are exceptions on the punitive cap if compensatory damages are above a certain level or if the defendant intentionally harmed the claimant. As in the original measure, attorney fees would be capped at 33 1/3 percent of net recovery, and authority for judicial rulemaking would be transferred from the courts to the legislature (this drew opposition from the Arkansas Supreme Court). Ballinger and other supporters say SJR 8 would prevent unnecessary lawsuits and create a better climate for business, thereby spurring economic growth. Among the fiercest critics of the proposal was Rep. Douglas House (R-North Little Rock), who said SJR 8 abridged the constitutional right to a trial by jury. “If you brought up something to limit the Second Amendment, the right to carry arms, everybody would be up in arms,” he said in committee. “But the Seventh Amendment, which is also part of the Bill of Rights, so many people are willing to throw it in the trash can.” He said it was wrong to cap damages. “Would you take $500,000 if I was sitting here cleaning my pistol and I shot your privates off, so you couldn’t have a sex life? … Sorry, feel real bad about that. But that’s the limits,” House declared. Another GOP opponent, Rep. Jimmy Gazaway of Paragould, took to the House floor to proclaim SJR 8 protected “the wealthy, the powerful, the insurance companies, the nursing homes.” Establishing a cap on damages awarded in the event of a death should cause Republicans to ask whether they are “truly pro-life” he said. (House and Gazaway are both attorneys.) Nonetheless, it passed the House 66-30.

The public school building giveaway It’s a boon for charter schools and bad news for traditional public school districts. Senate Bill 308 by Sen. Alan Clark (R-Lonsdale) would grant Arkansas charters the right to use public school facilities that are unused or underutilized and give them right of first refusal to purchase those facilities at fair market value. Clark portrayed the proposal as common sense: “It’s to prevent empty buildings from sitting and falling down while we’re not using them. It’s as simple as that,” he told the Senate Education Committee. But traditional education advocates point out that charters and traditional public schools are in direct competition for students and dollars. Forcing districts to sell real property to a competitor gives charters quite the advantage, they say. “We keep talking about local control, but this is taking away local control,” Sen. Linda Chesterfield (D-Little Rock) said in committee. Some members of the Little Rock delegation see the bill as directly targeting the Little Rock School District, which will soon shutter at least two buildings (due to declining enrollment at those campuses) and which faces mortal competition from charter operators. Clark said his bill was motivated by a situation in Helena-West Helena, where a charter school’s attempts to buy a vacant elementary school were initially rebuffed. The bill passed out of committee on a voice vote and won passage in the full Senate, 25-4. It now heads to a House committee.

Incremental reform on criminal justice Arkansas’s prison population has grown faster than all other states’ in recent years, largely due to a massive influx of probation and parole violators. The omnibus criminal reform bill Senate

Bill 136 wouldn’t come near to fixing all that ails Arkansas’s troubled system, but it’s a good start. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson (R-Little Rock), would redirect parolees and probationers who commit minor violations of the terms of their supervision from long stays in prison to terms in the range of 45 to 90 days in community correction facilities. The bill would also require new law enforcement hires and some existing officers to receive crisis intervention training so they could better respond to someone having a mental health episode and de-escalate the situation, rather than carting them to jail. Governor Hutchinson has allocated $5 million in his proposed budget to support the creation of at least three Crisis Stabilization Units, where people suffering from behavioral health episodes would receive treatment. The sites of the CSUs haven’t been selected. The bill is the culmination of 18 months of research and analysis by the nonprofit Council of State Government’s Justice Center, which calls its project “Justice Reinvestment.” The idea is that this will allow the state to save money and those savings can be reinvested in the system to make Arkansas safer. State prosecutors held up SB 136 for weeks in the Senate Judiciary Committee, but they’ve now stood down. After clearing the Senate on Monday, 27-4, the bill is up for a vote in House Judiciary, possibly this week.

The great wine war Some legislative fights have nothing to do with ideology or principle and everything to do with the political brawn of dueling business interests. Senate Bill 284 by Sen. Bart Hester (R-Cave Springs) and Rep. Jon Eubanks (R-Paris) is such a bill: It would allow sales of all wine in grocery stores, rather than just Arkansas and smallfarm wine. In one corner are most of the state’s liquor stores, whose business models are built on Arkansas’s byzantine alcohol sales rules (including the silly

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prohibition on wine sales in grocery stores). In the other is an alliance between big grocery retailers, led by Walmart, and county line liquor stores. The huge county line stores, which rely on business from neighboring dry counties, broke from their brethren to join forces with the bill’s supporters in return for a purely self-interested deal. Their 30 pieces? Walmart and others would call an eight-year moratorium on efforts to spur local option alcohol elections in dry counties. The bill passed out of committee, but failed in the House on Monday, 47-33 (with 12 legislators voting present, a sign of its contentiousness). It will surely be back for another vote.

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Beautiful beards The throngs descended on South Main Street and the Bernice Garden on Saturday for the annual SoMa Mardi Gras Parade and the 5th Annual Root Cafe/Arkansas Times Beard and Mustache Contest. As usual, ace photographer Rett Peek was on the scene to capture handsome portraits of all the contest participants.

The winners were:

Barrier to the ballot On Thursday, the House approved a joint resolution to create a constitutional amendment to again require Arkansas voters show photo I.D. when casting a ballot. The vote on HJR 1016 by Rep. Robin Lundstrum (R-Elm Springs) was 73-21. If it wins passage in the Senate, it will be sent to voters in November 2018. A voter I.D. bill by Rep. Mark Lowery (R-Maumelle) has also passed the House and will likely soon win approval in the Senate as well. However, some Republicans remain concerned Lowery’s bill will be insufficient to withstand a court challenge, since a previous voter I.D. measure was overturned by the Arkansas Supreme Court. They feel a referred constitutional amendment is the only sure route to creating a permanent voter I.D. requirement in the state. Rep. Warwick Sabin (D-Little Rock) spoke against the bill in committee and asked Lundstrum for examples of the type of voter fraud that her measure would combat. When Lundstrum said she couldn’t give specific examples, Sabin replied, “We actually do have examples of people who have been disenfranchised as a result of voter I.D. being enacted previously, but we don’t have any examples of voter fraud occurring through impersonating a voter.” Lundstrum insisted that such examples exist. “I apologize, I didn’t bring a list of them with me today,” she said.

Best in Show and Lifetime Achievement Award for Best Groomed Beard: Patrick Otto Best DIY Created Beard: Kristin Alexander

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Lifetime Achievement Award for Best Mustache: Asa Harvey Lifetime Achievement Award for Best Natural Beard under 6 inches: Jonathan Freyer Most Original Beard: Mark McCluskey

Lifetime Achievement Award for Best Santa Claus: Mark Knoke Best Lifetime Achievement Award for Best Natural Beard over 6 inches: Adam Cocchiaro

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Max Brantley, Lindsey Millar and the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network’s Ibby Caputo contributed reporting. arktimes.com MARCH 2, 2017

Music

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he winter that never really happened is almost history. The days are growing longer. Our narrow window of pleasant weather before the oppressive heat comes is here, or soon to come. All of that of course means that it’s time to step out and see some music. Quality options abound. The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, fresh from a performance of Mahler’s massive “Resurrection Symphony,” pares things down a little for an Intimate Neighborhood Concert at St. James United Methodist Church featuring Britten’s “Simple Symphony” and Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” on March 9. Catch the final round of the Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase, featuring performances from DeFrance, Dazz & Brie, Rah Howard, Brae Leni & The Evergreen Groove Machine, The Inner Party and CosmOcean, at Revolution on March 10. Honky-tonker Sunny Sweeney returns to Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack on March 11, and that same day Dugan’s Pub hosts the music for a Third Street Block Party, with performances from Barrett Baber, Big Red Flag and Little Rock Pipes and Drum Corps. The women behind Rochester doom rock band Fox 45 join Adam Faucett and The Tall Grass for a show at Four Quarter Bar on March 12. On March 16, Argenta Community Theater hosts “Sing Out for the Buffalo,” a benefit for the Buffalo River Watershed Alliance, featuring the music of Isaac Alexander, Matt Treadway, Amy 14

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Garland Angel, Jason Weinheimer and more. Low Key Arts’ Valley of the Vapors Independent Music Festival, March 17-21 in Hot Springs, brings in a smart lineup to Maxine’s and at Low Key Arts: DTCV, Downtown Boys, Vodi, Ginsu Wives, Joan of Arc, NIL8, Big Piph and Tomorrow Maybe, Dangerous Idiots and more. Rodney Block & The Real Music Lovers bring the party to the White Water Tavern on March 17, and Revolution hosts Cape Fear’s self-described “weed metal” band Weedeater, with Beitthemeans, Iron Tongue and Tempus Terra March 18. Edward Simon and jazz ensemble Afinidad play the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville March 18, too. Patrick Sweany returns to the White Water Tavern March 18 and Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires play the Tavern on March 20. March 22 marks the release of the much-anticipated “Heartless” from Arkansas doom rockers Pallbearer, who celebrate with a show at Revolution with Sumokem, Colour Design and Auric. Italian rockers Nothing for Breakfast join The Federalis and Peckerwolf at Stickyz March 23. That same night, The Steel Wheels take the stage at South on Main and Jucifer shares a bill with Hell Camino at Vino’s. George’s Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville hosts a show from Shovels & Rope featuring guests Lowland Hum on March 25. On March 28, the ASO’s River Rhapsody Chamber Music

Series at the Clinton Presidential Center features Haydn’s “Emperor” String Quartet. Georgia Satellites frontman Dan Baird & Homemade Sin take the small but mighty stage at the White Water Tavern on March 29. Nora Jane Struthers and Joe Overton play a benefit for ACANSA at The Joint in Argenta on March 30, with an afterparty at Flyway Brewing. Pop-punk stalwarts Blink-182 land at Verizon Arena on March 31. April ushers in a show from Gladys Knight at the Robinson Center on April 3. On April 5, the Jazz in the Park series kicks off at Riverfront Park with The Funkanites. Mandolin player Sierra Hull follows an April 6 show at South on Main with an April 7 performance at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville. Alt-rockers Local H play at Stickyz on April 8. On April 14, Los Lobos makes a landing at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville. Mountain Sprout plays at King’s Live Music in Conway April 15. April 20 is a hallowed day for music — you can catch Indian guitarist Konarak Reddy at The Joint as part of the Argenta Arts Acoustic Music Series, Hayes Carll and Band of Heathens at Revolution and Terence Blanchard featuring the E-Collective at South on Main, just to name a few. It’s also a big week for Verizon Arena, with a concert from Brantley Gilbert on April 21, Red Hot Chili Peppers on April 22, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers on April 23 and

Boston on April 26. Delbert McClinton lands at Pulaski Technical College’s Center for the Humanities and the Arts on April 26. Sinkane returns to Central Arkansas to share his highart pop show at Stickyz on May 2, and Alice Cooper terrorizes Robinson Center on May 3. YouTube hitmakers Postmodern Jukebox give a show at the Clear Channel Metroplex on May 4, and gospel superstars The McCrary Sisters are at South on Main that evening. Opera in the Rock stages Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” at Pulaski Tech’s CHARTS May 19-21. The Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville hosts “An Evening with Buddy Guy” on May 23. ZZ Top is bad, it is nationwide, and it brings its time-honored Deguello riffs and formidable beards to the Robinson Center on May 26. Riverfest returns to the First Security Amphitheater June 1-4. No word yet on headliner. Country rocker Tracy Lawrence plays the Timberwood Amphitheater at Magic Springs on June 3, and elsewhere in Hot Springs, the Hot Springs Music Festival kicks off June 4 at various venues downtown. The Walmart AMP in Rogers hosts a string of summer shows: Third Eye Blind on July 12, Steve Miller Band and Peter Frampton July 18, Tedeschi Trucks Band on July 25, Lady Antebellum on Aug. 5 and Straight No Chaser on Aug. 6. Tim McGraw and Faith Hill play Verizon Arena Aug. 3.

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Bring on the hits ‘Driving Miss Daisy,’ ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch,’ ‘In the Blood’ and more. BY STEPHANIE SMITTLE

t’s probably a good thing that The Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s next drama, “Jar the Floor,” begins and ends before Mother’s Day 2017, lest lines like “Gal, I should have killed you when you was born” turn a bonding session seriously sour. Cheryl L. West’s play is dark and naturalistic. It’s the tale of four generations of African-American women who gather to celebrate their MaDear’s 90th birthday, but end up airing long-harbored grievances. It’s Gilbert McCauley’s eighth time directing at The Rep; “Jar the Floor” is a play he says he’s enjoyed the opportunity to direct more than once. “I get the sense that audiences enjoy it because the writing reflects an admiration for human resilience coupled with a compassion for human frailty,” he said. “While it is filled with raucous and often poignant humor, the playwright, Cheryl West, says her play is also about ‘making peace — with one’s scars, with one’s history and ... one’s mother.’ ” “Jar the Floor” runs March 29-April 16. That “Godspell” banner has been enticing pedestrians on the 600 block of Main Street for a while now, and it’s time: The Rep is ending its season with a “big top” take on the traveling circus musical with the help of 2 Ring Circus, the aerial artists behind the effects for The Rep’s production of “The Little Mermaid” last season. “I am overjoyed to be returning to The Rep ... as director of the newly conceived cirque/aerial version of ‘Godspell,’ a new and thought-provoking spin on an age-old story,” Director Donna Drake said. Plus, isn’t it rather timely to be putting on a play that reminds us about all those bits in the Christian ethos about kindness and brotherhood? “Godspell” runs May 31-June 25. Theater in Little Rock doesn’t begin and end with The Rep, of course, and while you’ll find plenty of Arkansasconnected talent among The Rep’s casts, locals are the mainstay of the theater community elsewhere. Here are a few highlights of the upcoming seasons in Central Arkansas at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, Argenta Community Theater, The Weekend Theater, Celebrity Attractions, The Joint Theater and Coffeehouse and The Studio Theatre. (Check our calendar

listings for touring shows landing at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Reynolds Performance Hall in Conway and at the Walton Arts Center as part of Fayetteville’s professional the-

Arlen made famous in the classic 1939 MGM film. The Studio Theatre (and adjacent watering hole, The Lobby Bar) is home to what may very well be one of the most exciting productions in the city this summer: John Cameron Mitchell’s and Stephen Trask’s rock ’n’ roll opus “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” It comes at the end of the summer, Aug. 10-20, but mark your calendars now, and in the meantime learn all the lyrics to “Wig in a Box” from the gorgeous film version , just in case a singalong is called for. More immediately, the company stages

Musical.” The Weekend Theater consistently brings shows to its season that tend to pop up concurrently at larger, savvy houses elsewhere — Lynn Nottage’s “Intimate Apparel,” for one, and that’s probably most evident in TWT’s season closer, Suzan-Lori Parks’ “In the Blood,” May 5-21, a reimagining of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter,” written before Parks went on to pen the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Topdog/Underdog.” Right now, TWT is finishing up a run of “Titanic: The Musical,” through March 12, then gearing up for a production of

‘PHANTOM OF THE OPERA’: Headed to Robinson Center thanks to Celebrity Attractions.

ater company, TheaterSquared.) Murry’s Dinner Playhouse turned 50 years old this year, and the company celebrated that milestone birthday with a play about a milestone birthday: “The Nerd.” The Playhouse puts on Alfred Uhry’s 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winner “Driving Miss Daisy,” one-third of Uhry’s socalled “Atlanta Trilogy,” Feb. 28-March 25. Lieber and Stoller’s musical revue “Smokey Joe’s Cafe” follows, March 28-April 29. “Southern Fried Funeral,” a new comedy set in New Edinburgh, Miss., from playwrights J. Dietz Osborne and Nate Eppler, is up next, May 2-27, not to be confused with “Southern Crossroads,” Warner Crocker and Steve Przybylski’s musical revue of Depression-era songs like “Tom Dooley” and “Keep on the Sunny Side,” May 30-July 8. Rounding out the summer at Murry’s is an adaptation of “The Wizard of Oz,” featuring the songs of Yip Harburg and Harold

a Shakespearean favorite, the magical comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” beating all the balmy June performances to the punch with a March 30-April 9 run. Next up, April 20-30, there’s Terry Johnson’s stage adaptation of the 1967 film “The Graduate,” followed by “Spring Awakening,” a lusty 2006 rock musical set in late 19th century Germany, a modern interpretation of the eponymous and often-censored Frank Wedekind play. The Community Theater of Little Rock holds shows at The Studio Theatre as well, and that company is in the final days of its run of Bernard Pomerance’s drama depicting the life of Joseph Merrick, “The Elephant Man,” through March 12. Next, CTLR puts up a production of “Life is Short,” a collection of short plays, May 11-21, followed by a finale that sounds like the title of a 1988 “Saturday Night Live” sketch — but is, in fact, an actual play — “Heathers: The

Maxwell Anderson’s “Bad Seed,” March 31-April 15, a dark drama that narrowly lost the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Drama to “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” The Main Thing, the comedy trio over at The Joint Coffeehouse & Theater, continues its run of “Naked People With Their Clothes On” through March 25, and follows that up with “Rough Night at the Remo Room,” March 31-June 17. Celebrity Attractions brings the heralded touring production of Disney’s “The Lion King” to its season in the spring of 2018, and in the meantime, is pleasing Andrew Lloyd Webber diehards with a touring run of “Phantom of the Opera,” March 8-19 at Robinson Center. Celebrity Attractions also brings the 20th anniversary world tour of “Riverdance” to Robinson on April 14-16, and “Motown: The Musical,” the story of famed record producer Berry Gordy, on June 21-25. arktimes.com MARCH 2, 2017

Film

Visual Arts

‘YAKONA’: The nearly wordless documentary film about the San Marcos River will be screened at the Ozark Foothills Film Fest

Spring’s cinematic scene Plenty of options for silver screen surfing. BY DAVID KOON

hile Oscar season and the joy of snuggling up to watch a movie while Old Man Winter howls in the eaves makes the cold months a great time for film, spring is really looking up when it comes to cinema and film festivals in Arkansas. First out of the gate this spring will be the 2017 Ozark Foothills Film Fest (ozarkfoothillsfilmfest.org), which runs on two consecutive weekends, April 14-15 and 21-22, in Batesville. Screenings will be held at the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville. One of the oldest film festivals in the state, this year’s festival will no doubt benefit greatly from a $10,000 “Challenge America” grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. “Reel Rural: Rural America in Independent Film” is this year’s theme; the festival will include a series of screenings and panel discussions about the way small towns and rural areas are portrayed in independent film. Also this year will be a screening of “Yakona,” a nearly wordless documentary that showcases the beauty of the San Marcos River in central Texas. The so-called “hybrid documentary” will be screened with live musical accompaniment from the film score’s composer, Justin Sherburn, and Montopolis, an experimental classical 16

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ensemble from Austin. Ticket prices and the full festival lineup have not been announced as of this writing, but last year an all-film pass to the OFFF was $25, or $20 for students. Next up is the Bentonville Film Festival, the big, well-funded fest that celebrates women and minority filmmakers, running May 2-7 at various locations in Bentonville (bentonvillefilmfest.com). Founded by Academy Award-winner Geena Davis and ARC Entertainment CEO Trevor Drinkwater, the festival requires any film submitted for competition to have been made by either women or minorities. A press release announcing this year’s event says the festival will expand its short film category for 2017, and will offer a packed lineup of narrative and documentary screenings, panel discussions and musical acts. In past years, the BFF has attracted Hollywood luminaries, including Robert De Niro, Meg Ryan, Bruce Dern and Nia Vardalos. Last year’s event screened 75 films. Ticket prices for 2017 have yet to be announced, but in 2016, weekend pass packages started at $75. Running the same weekend as the Bentonville Film Festival will be the third annual Fantastic Cinema and Craft Beer Festival, May 3-7 at the Ron Robinson Theater (fantasticcinema.com). As

the name suggests, the festival — hosted by the nonprofit Film Society of Little Rock (filmsocietylr.com) — focuses on films of the fantastic realm, including science fiction, horror, fantasy and animation; craft beers from breweries around the state will be offered. In addition to its regular slate of awards, the festival has partnered this year with Kodak and MovieMaker magazine to present the “Kodak Shot on Film” competition, for features and shorts shot on 8mm or 16mm film. Top prize for that competition is $2,000. Tickets aren’t on sale yet, but last year tickets ranged from $10 for a single screening and $20 for a day pass, up to $125 for an all-access pass. A very promising development for film in Argenta is the Argenta Drafthouse Film Series, which starts June 12. Presented by the previously mentioned Film Society of Little Rock, the series plans to screen narrative feature-length films at 7:30 p.m. the second Monday of each month at The Joint Theater and Coffeehouse, 301 Main St. in North Little Rock. The series takes submissions for films to screen on filmfreeway.com, with the stipulations that they must be an hour long and completed in 2015 or later. Tickets are $8 per screening. The Joint also offers, courtesy of the Film Society of Little Rock, the ongoing Monday Night Shorts, where films between one and 15 minutes long will be screened the fourth Monday of every month. The festival has open submissions on filmfreeway.com. Upcoming themes include “Microshorts” on April 24 and “Red Octopus Presents: Funny Suckers,” comedy shorts selected by the Little Rock sketch comedy troupe, on May 22. Tickets are $8.

POPPING UP IN BENTONVILLE: A Lichtenstein show at Crystal Bridges features this work from the permanent collection and loans from other museums.

Art for our time Sights and sounds of the border at Crystal Bridges, plus pop, glass, Ansel Adams and more. BY LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK

op art and glass aficionados should plan trips to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art this spring to see exhibitions by the two artists most closely identified with those genres: Roy Lichtenstein and Dale Chihuly. But first, see Crystal Bridges’ “Border Cantos: Sight & Sound Explorations from the Mexican-American Border,” an exhibition that ties closely to the immigration issue that President Trump has brought to a fearful boil. “Border Cantos” combines Richard Misrach’s large photographs of the Mexico-United States border with artifacts turned into musical instruments by sculptor-composer Guillermo Galindo. Misrach, working along

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the border for many years, captures scenes of vast desert bisected by the border fence, people peering through the fence, an altar hung from the fence. Galindo, working with border detritus — boots, tires, shotgun shells picked up by Misrach — has crafted sound-making sculpture. Northwest Arkansas art appraiser and consultant Shannon Mitchell describes the show as “the most powerful thing I’ve seen,” the photographs “haunting” and the instruments, some relating to daVinci machines, “poignant.” The museum offers special guided tours of the exhibition, along with films “The Borders Trilogy” by Alex Rivera (March 13) and “800 Mile Wall” by John Carlos Frey (March 17), a concert by La Elegancia (March 16) and a lecture by Luis Urrea, author of “The Devil’s Highway” (March 31). The exhibition runs through April 24. Find more at crystalbridges.org. Also on view starting Friday, March 3, is “Roy Lichtenstein in Focus,” five large early works by the artist famed for his comic-book imagery. The works come from both the collection of Crystal Bridges and loans from other museums. The Lichtenstein exhibition runs through July. Master glass craftsman Dale Chihuly, as co-founder of the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington, has spawned a whole generation of blown-glass artists who admire his ability to make glass forms that recall natural forms in startling colors along with subtle, milky vessels and seaform shapes. “Chihuly: In

the Gallery” will pair his slumped glass baskets with the artist’s own collection of Northwest Coast Native American baskets that inspired them; in the “Persian Room,” glassworks hung from above will swath the gallery in color. “Chihuly: In the Gallery” runs through Aug. 14. Outdoors, Chihuly glass sculptures will be installed along curving paved paths in the north forest of the museum grounds. “Chihuly: In the Forest” runs through Nov. 13. Ansel Adams photographs, lyrical modernist landscapes by Herman Maril and the annual Mid-Southern Watercolorists juried show continue at the Arkansas Arts Center through April 16. The Adams show features his early photographs of the Western landscape, capping an American school of art celebrating the monumental West in its pristine form. “Ansel Adams: Early Works” is accompanied by an exhibit of 25 blackand-white photographs from a bequest to the Arts Center by Little Rock photographer William E. Davis. Enhancing the viewer experience with the Maril show: Arts Center curator of drawings Ann Prentice Wagner, who has studied the Baltimore artist for eight years and who likens his work to that of Matisse, Cezanne and Braque, has authored the catalog for “Herman Maril: The Strong Forms of Our Experience.” The exhibition, organized by the University of Maryland Art Gallery in College Park in conjunction with the Arts Center, features both oils and works on paper.

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Spring Arts Calendar (Starting March 9)

GREATER LITTLE ROCK MUSIC March 9: “Peter and the Wolf.” Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s Intimate Neighborhood Concerts. St. James United Methodist Church, 7 p.m., $10-$25. March 9: Leopold and His Fiction, Howling Tongues, American Lions. Stickyz, 8:30 p.m., $7. March 10: Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase Finals. Revolution, 8 p.m., $5-$21. March 10: Hawtmess, Witchsister, Sabine Valley. Vino’s, 8 p.m., $6. March 10: John Paul Keith. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $7. March 10: An Evening with That1Guy. Stickyz Rock LEOPOLD AND ’N’ Roll Chicken Shack, 10 p.m., $12-$14. March 10: Greasy Tree. Four Quarter Bar, 10 p.m. March 11: Third Street Block Party: Barrett Baber, Big Red Flag, Little Rock Drum & Pipe Corp. Dugan’s Pub, 11 a.m. March 11: Knox Hamilton, Firekid, Joan. Revolution, 8 p.m., $12-$15. March 11: Sunny Sweeney. Stickyz, 8:30 p.m., $10-$15. March 11: Tyler Kinchen & The Right Pieces. South on Main, 9 p.m., $10. March 11: Urban Pioneers, The Whole Famn Damily. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. March 12: Toranavox, Revenge Bodies, Colour Design. Dogtown Sound, 7 p.m. March 12: Adam Faucett, Fox 45. Four Quarter Bar, 10 p.m. March 13: Sarah Shook & The Disarmers. Stickyz, 8 p.m., $7. March 14: Martin Sexton, Brothers McCann. Revolution, 8 p.m., $20-$30. March 16: “Sing Out for the Buffalo.” Watershed Alliance benefit. Argenta Community Theater, 7 p.m., $59. March 16: Peter Janson & Aaron LargetCaplan. The Joint, 7:30 p.m., $25. March 16: Jack Broadbent. South on Main, 8 p.m., $10. March 17: Rodney Block and the Real Music Lovers. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. March 17: Wade Bowen. Revolution, 9 p.m., $15-$18. March 17: Groovement. Four Quarter Bar, 10 p.m. March 18: Weedeater, Beitthemeans, Iron Tongue, Tempus Terra. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $15-$18. March 18: Ghost Town Blues Band. Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5. March 18: Patrick Sweany. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $7. March 20: Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. 18

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March 20: Ringworm, Tombs. Revolution, 7 p.m., $10-$12. March 22: Pallbearer, Sumokem, Colour Design, Auric. Revolution, 8 p.m., $12-$15. March 23: Aaron Watson, Ray Johnston Band, Trey Stevens. Revolution, 8 p.m., $20. March 23: Nothing for Breakfast, The Federalis, Peckerwolf. Stickyz, 8:30 p.m., $7. March 23: The Steel Wheels. South on Main, 8 p.m., $20-$32. March 23: Jucifer, Hell Camino. Vino’s, 8 p.m. March 24: Skillet, Sick Puppies, Devour the Day. Clear Channel Metroplex, 8 p.m., $25. March 24: Cedric Burnside Project. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $10. March 25: Jason Boland & the Stragglers. Revolution, 9 p.m., $12-$15. March 25: Ben Miller Band. Stickyz. 9 p.m., $10-$12. March 25: Objekt 25. Four Quarter Bar, 10 p.m. March 27: Like Moths to Flames, Becoming Saints, Census, Mortalus. Vino’s, 6 p.m., $13. March 28: Haydn’s “Emperor.” ASO’s River Rhapsody Chamber Music Series. Clinton Presidential Center, 7 p.m., $10-$23. March 29: Dan Baird & HIS FICTION Homemade Sin. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $15. March 30: Nora Jane Struthers, Joe Overton. The Joint, 6:30 p.m., $100. March 30: Welcome Home, Avoid, I Was Afraid, Hawtmess. Vino’s, 7 p.m., $7. March 31: Blink-182. Verizon Arena, 7 p.m., $30-$70. March 31: Rodney Block. Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5. April 1: Opera on the Rocks. Junior League of Little Rock Ballroom, 6:30 p.m., $75. April 1: Sad Daddy. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. April 3: Gladys Knight. Robinson Center, 8 p.m., $40-$65. April 5: Jazz in the Park: The Funkanites. History Pavilion, Riverfront Park, 6 p.m., free. April 5: An Evening with Chris Robinson Brotherhood. Revolution, 9 p.m., $20. April 6: Sierra Hull. South on Main, 7:30 p.m., $17-$25. April 8: Local H. Stickyz, 9 p.m., $10. April 8-9: “Beethoven and Blue Jeans.” ASO plays Beethoven, Sibelius, Bruch. Robinson Center, 7:30 p.m. Sat; 3 p.m. Sun., $14-$67. April 11: “Airs & Dances.” ASO’s River Rhapsody Chamber Music Series. Clinton Presidential Center, 7 p.m., $10-$23. April 12: Capital Hotel Informance. An educational happy hour concert from the ASO. 5:15 p.m., free. April 5: Jazz in the Park: Ramona. History Pavilion, Riverfront Park, 6 p.m., free. April 14: Filth, All Is at an End, A Fate Foretold. Vino’s, 8 p.m., $10. April 15: Stoney LaRue. Revolution, 9 p.m., $16-$20. April 17: Brian Nahlen, Nick Devlin. Markham Street Grill & Pub, 8:30 p.m., free. April 18: Jason Eady. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $10. April 19: Jazz in the Park: Tonya Leeks &

Co. History Pavilion, Riverfront Park, 6 p.m., March 22-25: Rick Gutierrez. Loony Bin free. Comedy Club, 7:30 p.m. Wed.-Sat.; 10 p.m. April 20: Konarak Reddy. The Joint, 7:30 Fri.-Sat. $10-$14. p.m., $27. March 26: Eric Schwartz. Loony Bin ComApril 20: Terence Blanchard, featuring edy Club, 7:30 p.m., $12. The E-Collective. South on Main, 8 p.m., March 29-April 1: Tony Tone. Loony Bin $25-$52. Comedy Club, 7:30 p.m. Wed.-Sat.; 10 p.m. April 20: Hayes Carll, Band of Heathens. Fri.-Sat. $8-$12. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $20. April 5-8: Tim Kidd. Loony Bin Comedy April 20: Michael Dean Damron, Cory Call. Club, 7:30 p.m. Wed.-Sat.; 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. $8-$12. April 22: Red Hot Chili Peppers. Verizon April 12-15: Tracy Smith. Loony Bin Comedy Arena, 8 p.m., $52-$102. Club, 7:30 p.m. Wed.-Sat.; 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat. April 23: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. $8-$12. Verizon Arena, 7:30 p.m., $40-$130. April 19-22: Zoltan Kaszas. Loony Bin April 26: Jazz in the Park: Sounds So Good. Comedy Club, 7:30 p.m. Wed.-Sat.; 10 p.m. History Pavilion, Riverfront Park, 6 p.m., free. Fri.-Sat. $8-$12. April 26: Boston. Verizon Arena, 7:30 p.m. April 20: Ron White. Robinson Center, 8 $36-$79. p.m., $43-$242. April 26: Delbert McClinton. Pulaski TechniApril 29. Rickey Smiley. Robinson Center, 8 cal College’s Center for Humanities and p.m., $35-$50. Arts, 7:30 p.m., $10-$200. April 28: James McMurtry. DANCE Stickyz, 8:30 p.m., $16-$20. May 1: Lany. Revolution, 8 April 14-16: “Riverdance.” p.m., $15-$18. Robinson Center, 7:30 p.m. May 2: Sinkane. Stickyz, Fri.-Sat; 2 p.m. Sat.-Sun. 8:30 p.m., $10-$12. $23-$72. May 3: Alice Cooper. April 21-23. Ballet ArRobinson Center, 8 p.m., kansas: Spring Mixed $44-$77. Repertoire Production. May 4: “Appalachian Arkansas Repertory TheSpring.” ASO’s Intimate atre, 7:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat.; 2 Neighborhood Concerts. p.m. Sat.-Sun., $35-$40. GARRISON KEILLOR Christ Episcopal Church, 7 p.m., $10-$25. FILM May 4: Postmodern Jukebox. Clear Channel Metroplex, 7:30 March 11: “Phantom of the Opera.” Ron p.m., $25-$30. Robinson Theater, 1 p.m., $5. May 4: The McCrary Sisters. South on Main, March 14: “The Real Inglorious Bastards.” 8 p.m., $25-$40. Documentary. MacArthur Museum of May 5: Old Dominion. Clear Channel MeMilitary History, 6:30 p.m., free. troplex, 8 p.m., $25-$129. March 18: “Red Dot Cinema: Asian Short May 12: Adam Faucett. The Undercroft, 8 Films, Vol. 1.” The Studio Theatre, 8 p.m., p.m., $10. $5-$7. May 13-14: “Back to the Future.” ASO March 21: “Bunny Lake Is Missing.” Arkanplays the film score live. Robinson Center, sas Times Film Series. Riverdale 10 Cinema, 7:30 p.m. Sat; 3 p.m. Sun., $14-$67. 7 p.m., $8.50. May 17: “Celtic Woman: Voices of Angels.” March 21-22: “My Scientology Movie.” Robinson Center, 7 p.m., $29-$69. Ron Robinson Theater, 6 p.m., $5. May 18: Clive Carroll. The Joint, 7 p.m., $27. March 31: “Dreamland.” Ron Robinson May 19, 21: “The Barber of Seville.” Opera Theater, 7 p.m., free. in the Rock. Pulaski Technical College’s April 8: “Dead Poets Society.” Ron RobinCHARTS, 7:30 p.m. Fri.; 3 p.m. Sun., $10son Theater, 1 p.m., $5. $50. April 11-12: “The Next Big Thing.” Ron May 20: The Newtown Blues Band. Robinson Theater, 6 p.m., $5. Markham Street Grill & Pub, 8:30 p.m., free. April 11: “The Invisible War.” MacArthur May 26: ZZ Top. Robinson Center, 8 p.m., Museum of Military History, 6:30 p.m., free. $61-$127. April 14-15, 21-22: Ozark Foothills FilmFest. May 27: Paradigm, Keeper Keeper, The University of Arkansas Community College Federalis. Dogtown Sound, 7 p.m. at Batesville. June 5: Brit Floyd. Verizon Arena, 7:30 p.m., April 18: “Sunset Boulevard.” Arkansas $43-$68. Times Film Series. Riverdale 10 Cinema, 7 June 11: “Stars and Stripes Celebration p.m., $8.50. for Flag Day.” Little Rock Wind Symphony. April 18-19: “Hotel Rwanda.” Ron Robinson MacArthur Museum of Military History, 7 Theater, 6 p.m., $5. p.m. May 9: “Time of Fear.” MacArthur Museum June 15: Justin St. Pierre. The Joint, 7 p.m., of Military History, 6:30 p.m., free. $27. May 15-16: “Mystery Science Theater Aug. 3: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill. Verizon 3000.” Ron Robinson Theater, 6 p.m., free Arena, 7:30 p.m., $70-$120. (registration required). May 17: “The Lego Movie.” Ron Robinson Theater, 6 p.m., free (registration required). COMEDY June 13: “Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery.” MacArthur Museum of Military March 8-11: Michael Mack. Loony Bin History, 6:30 p.m., free. Comedy Club, 7:30 p.m. Wed.-Sat.; 10 p.m. July 11: “My Vietnam, Your Iraq.” MacArFri.-Sat. $8-$12. thur Museum of Military History, 6:30 p.m., March 15-18: Shaun Jones. Loony Bin free. Comedy Club, 7:30 p.m. Wed.-Sat.; 10 p.m. Aug. 8: “Command and Control.” MacArFri.-Sat. $8-$12.

thur Museum of Military History, 6:30 p.m., free.

SPECIAL EVENTS March 23: “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.” Lecture by author Margot Lee Shetterly. Great Hall, Clinton Presidential Center, free. March 28: “Brain Candy: Live.” Robinson Center, 8 p.m., $33-$63. April 1: Springfest. Riverfront Park, 10 a.m., free. April 21: David Sedaris. Robinson Center, 8 p.m., $22-$43. May 4-7: “Disney on Ice.” Verizon Arena, 7 p.m. May 4-7; 11 a.m. May 6; 3 p.m. May 6-7. $16-$61.

THEATER Through March 12: “The Elephant Man.” The Studio Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat.; 2 p.m. Sun., $14-$16. THROUGH March 12: “Titanic: The Musical.” The Weekend Theater, 7:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat.; 2:30 p.m. Sun., $16-$20. THROUGH March 19: M ARGOT LEE “Phantom of the Opera.” Robinson Center, 7:30 p.m. Tue.-Sat.; 2 p.m. Sat.Sun.; 7 p.m. Sun., $33-$153. THROUGH March 25: “Naked People with Their Clothes On.” The Joint, 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat. $24. THROUGH March 25: “Driving Miss Daisy.” Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. Tue.-Sat.; 12:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. Sun., $15-$37. March 24: “Moving Forward.” A musical from itsjusbobby. Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., $10. March 28-April 29: “Smokey Joe’s Cafe.” Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. Tue.-Sat.; 12:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. Sun., $15-$37. March 29-April 16: “Jar the Floor.” Arkan-

sas Repertory Theatre, 7 p.m. Wed.-Thu., Sun.; 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat.; 2 p.m. Sun., $30-$65. March 30-April 9: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The Studio Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat; 2:30 p.m. Sun. $15-$20. March 31-April 15: “Bad Seed.” The Weekend Theater, 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat.; 2:30 p.m. Sun., $12-$16. March 31-June 17: “Rough Night at the Remo Room.” The Joint, 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat. $24. April 20-30: “The Graduate.” The Studio Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat; 2:30 p.m. Sun. $15-$20. May 2-27: “Southern Fried Funeral.” Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. Tue.-Sat.; 12:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. Sun., $15-$37. May 5-21: “In the Blood.” The Weekend Theater, 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat.; 2:30 p.m. Sun., $12-$16. May 11-21: “Life Is Short.” The Studio Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat.; 2:30 p.m. Sun., $14-$16. May 30-July 8: “Southern Crossroads.” Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. Tue.-Sat.; 12:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. Sun., $15-$37. May 31-June 25: “Godspell.” Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 7 p.m. Wed.-Thu., Sun.; 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat.; 2 p.m. Sun., $30-$65. June 8-25: “Spring AwakSHET TERLY ening.” The Studio Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat; 2:30 p.m. Sun. $20-$25. June 21-25: “Motown: The Musical.” Robinson Center, 7:30 p.m., $25-$75. July 12-Aug. 26: “The Wizard of Oz.” Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. Tue.-Sat.; 12:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. Sun., $15-$37. July 13-30: “Heathers: The Musical.” The Studio Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat.; 2:30 p.m. Sun., $16-$18. Aug. 10-20: “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” The Studio Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat; 2:30 p.m. Sun. $20-$25.

VISUAL ARTS Through March 18: “Once Was Lost.” Photographs by Richard Leo Johnson. Butler

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THEATER April 4: “Annie.” Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 7:30 p.m., $27-$40. April 18: “Sleeping Beauty.” Russian National Ballet Theatre. Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 7:30 p.m., $27-$40.

EL DORADO VISUAL ARTS Through March 29: BUDDY GUY “Brotherhood: Jason Sacran and John P. Lasater IV”; “Tammy Swarek”; “It’s Out There,” work by Michelle Jones. South Arkansas Arts Center, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.

EUREKA SPRINGS MUSIC May 4-6: “Phunkberry.” Music festival. 1 Blue Heron Lane. $55-$120. June 15: Blues Weekend. Venues in town and at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge. June 24-July 21: 67th “Opera in the Ozarks: ‘Carmen,’ ‘Susannah,’ ‘The Marriage of Figaro.’ ” Inspiration Point.

VISUAL ARTS May 1-30: 30th annual “May Festival of the Arts.” Galleries and other venues across town.

Music Lounge, 7 p.m. March 25: Shovels & Rope, Lowland Hum. George’s Majestic Lounge, 8:30 p.m., $18. March 25: Cranford Hollow. Smoke and Barrel Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. March 28: Janoska Ensemble. Walton Arts Center, 7 p.m., $10. March 30: The Victor Wooten Trio. George’s Majestic Lounge, 8:30 p.m., $25. March 30: Still on the Hill. Starr Theater, Walton Arts Center, 7 p.m., $8. March 31: Naturally 7. Walton Arts Center, 8 p.m., $20-$50. April 5: Mnozil Brass. Walton Arts Center, 7 p.m., $10-$35. April 5: Tauk. George’s Majestic Lounge. 8:30 p.m., $12. April 7: Sierra Hull. Walton Arts Center, 8 p.m., $10. April 9: The Jayhawks, Greg Vanderpool. George’s Majestic Lounge, 8:30 p.m., $20. April 13: Niyaz. Walton Arts Center, 7 p.m., $10. April 14: Los Lobos. Walton Arts Center, 8 p.m., $30-$60. April 14: Sean Fresh & The Nasty Fresh Crew. Smoke and Barrel Tavern, 10 p.m. April 15: Justin Kauflin Trio. Starr Theater, Walton Arts Center, 7:30 p.m., $30-$50. April 15: Scorned, Vague Vendetta, Reliance Code, Solidify. Nomad’s Music Lounge, 7:30 p.m. April 15: Doug Dicharry, Youth Pastor, The Toos. Smoke and Barrel Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. April 20: Marcia Ball. Starr Theater, Walton Arts Center, 7:30 p.m. April 28: Oran Etkin. Starr Theater, Walton Arts Center, 7:30 p.m. $30-$50. April 28: Josh Hoyer & The Soul Colossal. Smoke and Barrel Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. April 29: “Masterworks III: The Romantic.” Symphony of Northwest Arkansas. Walton Arts Center, 7:30 p.m., $10-$52. May 23: An Evening with Buddy Guy. Walton Arts Center, 7 p.m., $45-$75. June 3: “Pops: Music and Animation.” Symphony of Northwest Arkansas. Walton Arts Center, 7:30 p.m., $10-$52.

June 23: Jane Monheit. Starr Theater, Walton Arts Center, 7:30 p.m., $30.

COMEDY April 8: Cliff Cash, Comedians NWA. Nomad’s Music Lounge, 8 p.m., $5. June 9: JT Habersaat. Nomad’s Music Lounge, 7 p.m. Aug. 3: Dave Waite, Comedians NWA. Nomad’s Music Lounge, 8 p.m., $5.

THEATER March 8-12: “Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage.” Walton Arts Center, 7 p.m., Wed.-Thu.; 8 p.m. Fri.Sat.; 1:30 p.m. Thu.; 2 p.m. Sat.-Sun., $53-$84. March 22-April 16: “Intimate Apparel.” Nadine Baum Studios, Walton Arts Center, 7:30 p.m. Wed.-Sat.; 2 p.m. Sat.-Sun., $10-$40. April 4: “Taj Express: The Bollywood Musical Revue.” Walton Arts Center, 7 p.m., $35-$65. TOM PET T Y April 18-23: “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime.” Walton Arts Center. 7 p.m. Tue.-Thu.; 11 a.m. Thu.; 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat.; 2 p.m. Sat.-Sun., $35-$74. May 10-June 4: ‘The Dingdong.” Nadine Baum Studios, Walton Arts Center, 7:30 p.m. Wed.-Sat.; 2 p.m. Sat.-Sun., $10-$45. June 15-24: Arkansas New Play Festival. Nadine Baum Studios, Walton Arts Center, various times. June 27-July 2: “Motown: The Musical.” Walton Arts Center, 7 p.m. Tue.-Thu.; 1:30 p.m. Thu., 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat; 2 p.m. Sat.-Sun., $35-$74.

VISUAL ARTS Through April 24: “The Fabric of Nature,” work by Andrea Packard.

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FORT SMITH VISUAL ARTS Through April 2: “Liv Fjellsol: Art Says.” Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. Through April 16: “Heartbreak in Peanuts.” Fort Smith Regional Art Museum. April 7-May 28: “Through Darkness to the Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad.” Fort Smith Regional Art Museum. April 21-June 18: “Gloria Garfinkel: Vibrancy of Form.” Fort Smith Regional Art Museum. June 2-Sept. 3: “K. Nelson Harper: Lasting Impressions.” Fort Smith Regional Art Museum. BRIAN CHILSON

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HOT SPRINGS MUSIC March 12: “The Muses: Celtic Spring.” Anthony Chapel, Garvan Woodland Gardens, 3 p.m., $35. March 17-21: Valley of the Vapors Independent Music Festival. Low Key Arts, Maxine’s, various times, $10-$120. March 26: Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. Anthony Chapel, Garvan Woodland Gardens, 3 p.m., $35-$50. June 3: Tracy Lawrence. Timberwood Theater, Magic Springs Theme and Water Park, 8 p.m. June 4-17: Hot Springs Music Festival. Downtown Hot Springs National Park, various venues, $5-$150. June 10: Jeremy Camp. Timberwood Theater, Magic Springs Theme and Water Park, 8 p.m. June 17: R5. Timberwood Theater, Magic Springs Theme and Water Park, 8 p.m. July 15: For King & Country. Timberwood Theater, Magic Springs Theme and Water Park, 8 p.m. July 22: Marshall Tucker Band. Timberwood Theater, Magic Springs Theme and Water Park, 8 p.m. July 29: Rick Springfield. Timberwood Theater, Magic Springs Theme and Water Park, 8 p.m.

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ROGERS MUSIC April 22: Blink-182, The Naked and Famous, Wavves. Walmart AMP, 7 p.m., $31-$76. April 25: Boston. Walmart AMP, 7:30 p.m., $37. May 22: Train, O.A.R., Natasha Bedingfield. Walmart AMP, 7 p.m., $30-$90. June 9: ZZ Top. Walmart AMP, 7:30 p.m., $36-$76. July 12: Third Eye Blind, Silversun Pickups, Ocean Park Standoff. Walmart AMP, 7

p.m., $31-$76. July 18: Steve Miller Band, Peter Frampton. Walmart AMP, 7:30 p.m., $41-$76. July 25: Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Wood Brothers, Hot Tuna. Walmart AMP, 7 p.m., $31-$76. Aug. 5: Lady Antebellum, Kelsea Ballerini, Brett Young. Walmart AMP, 7:30 p.m., $38. Aug. 6: Straight No Chaser, Postmodern Jukebox. Walmart AMP, 7:30 p.m., $40$80.

SPECIAL EVENTS May 4-20: “Artosphere: Arkansas’s Arts & Nature Festival.” Walton Arts Center, various times, $10-$15. May 25: Garrison Keillor. Walton Arts Center, 7 p.m., $35-$75.

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he Arkansas Repertory Theatre is stable enough to have built a new Education Annex and recruited John Miller-Stephany as its newest director. It didn’t get there by ignoring its audience. Leaders like Bob Hupp and founder Cliff Fannin Baker seem to have sensed that the Little Rock audience is not a homogenous thing — that the same polished performance from Ethan Paulini in “Elf” in 2014 sent the crowd around me into wave after wave of uproarious laughter while I sat, eyes cut sideways, wondering if seasonal depression could be triggered by 90 minutes of exposure to punchlines like “Elfish Presley.” They’ve known when they could push the envelope a little and when they needed to bring in the high kicks and the schmaltz, and they didn’t underestimate how many different types of experiences audiences were looking for, programming “Angels in America” in the same season with “Little Shop of Horrors” and putting a production of Matthew Lopez’ “The Whipping Man” next to “Mary Poppins.” The Rep’s 2017-18 season, starting in August, is the first to be programmed by Miller-Stephany, and after a review of his selections, it’s safe to say that there is something for everyone who believes that theater has a power — that spectacular theater shouldn’t merely provide us with a break from the socio-politically charged environs of the newsfeed, but should fire off our synapses so that we return to the real world around us with an ever-so-slightly modified lens. That’s a pretty tall order, but this season is absolutely up to the task, whether that comes by way of Carson McCullers or ABBA. The season opens with “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,” to be performed Aug. 23-Sept. 10. Carson McCullers’ debut novel, which she described in a letter to a publisher as the story of “five isolated, lonely people in their search for expression and spiritual integration with something greater than themselves,” has been the subject of paintings, a movie and, in 2005, a play. Citing a longtime fondness for Southern writers, Miller-Stephany said he was “particularly thrilled to have The Rep produce the area premiere of Rebecca Gilman’s brilliant adaptation of Carson McCullers’ stirring masterwork.” Next up, there’s “The School for Lies,” David Ives’ snarky rewrite of Moliere’s “The Misanthrope,” which was already pretty snarky to begin with. It’s performed completely in rhymed couplets, and that will either soothe the bite of scripted vulgarities like “fecophile” or drive the nail of insult in even harder. Think: French aristocracy gets smack22

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Farther down the road Director John Miller-Stephany’s first season at the helm looks promising. BY STEPHANIE SMITTLE

MILLER-STEPHANY: Putting his stamp on The Rep with 2017-18 season selections.

talked, rap battle-style, but with words like “clitoris” and “LOL.” “The School for Lies” runs Oct. 11-29. Springtime is a favorite season for premiering new compositions, perhaps because the holiday that precedes it tends to be bubbling over with rewrites, sequels and 150 competing interpretations of Handel’s “Messiah,” and we’re ready for something new and fresh when the thaw sets in. (Or, in 2017’s case, the unsettling arrival of February mosquitoes.) In a refreshing move, lyricist Maggie-Kate Coleman, playwright Jeffrey Hatcher (“Tuesdays with Morrie,” “Compleat Female Stage Beauty”) and composer Andrew Cooke (on staff at The Rep’s Education Department) have created a new chamber musical based on

O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi,” to premiere Nov. 29-Dec. 24. “This beloved and ageless Christmas story has been copied, adapted and parodied countless times since it first appeared in print in 1905,” Miller-Stephany said. “Although there are a number of stage versions available for licensing, my colleagues and I are eager to create a brand-new musical specifically for The Rep’s loyal holiday audience.” And, if you’re a David Sedaris fan, it’s a good year to be in Little Rock. In addition to the humorist’s appearance at the Robinson Center April 21, The Rep has added Sedaris’ “Santaland Diaries” as a second holiday production, to be performed in the company’s Black Box Theater Dec. 6-24, concur-

rently with “The Gift of the Magi.” Curtain times for the two productions are staggered in case you want to make it a double feature. The Rep begins 2018 with “The Call,” a drama from Tanya Barfield that MillerStephany said “urges audience members to thoughtfully examine their established positions — both at home and as citizens of the world.” The drama explores the complexities of infertility and adoption, the plurality of black identities and firstworld ideas of how to define a family, and it will probably ask more questions of the audience than it will answer for them. It’s exciting — and maybe even crucial — that this play is being put on in a red state where the words “family planning” can prompt kneejerk reactions on either side of the political spectrum, and where conversations about nonconventional approaches to parenthood can be stigmatized or hushed altogether. “The Call” runs Jan. 24-Feb. 11. Joe Strummer, Brian Eno and Madonna have all confessed to a love for ABBA, and you can add MillerStephany to that list. “I love ABBA’s music,” he said, “and every once in a while, it’s important to just let go and have fun.” To that end, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus’ politely libertine jukebox musical “Mamma Mia!” runs March 14-April 8, 2018. It’s a confection of a pop piece that probably doesn’t require Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried to delight, especially with “Dancing Queen” and “Lay All Your Love on Me” in the mix. Don’t fight it; you’re gonna go, and you’re probably gonna love it. The Rep performed Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winner “Art” in its 200102 season, and Reza’s “God of Carnage” rounds out the 2017-18 season with a dark depiction of conflict resolutiongone-wrong, two couples wrestling with the socially tense aftermath of a playground scuffle between their two children. Miller-Stephany called it a “laugh-out-loud comedy of adults behaving badly,” saying, “Perhaps civilization is truly only skin deep.” Cliff Fannin Baker, who might very well know what Little Rock audiences yearn for better than anyone else, directs. Single tickets for shows at The Rep range from $30 to $65, and season subscriptions begin at $132. Tickets for the 2017-18 season, or for the two remaining productions in the current season — “Jar the Floor” and “Godspell” — are available by calling The Rep’s Box Office at 501-378-0405 or by visiting TheRep.org.

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Brave new host ‘Shoog Radio’ begins its seventh year with a veteran rocker at the helm. BRIAN CHILSON

he venerable KABF-FM, 88.3, music program “Shoog Radio” turned 6 years old this year. Since its birth in February 2011, the all-Arkansas radio show has gone from a simple idea to a ratings behemoth that airs on a 100,000watt station. The station’s signal reaches almost all of Arkansas — roughly 50,000 square miles — and is broadcast live 24/7. I co-hosted “Shoog Radio” from 2013 to 2016. One day, KABF’s board president, Toney Orr, recounted a story to my cohost, Kara Bibb, and me: While Orr was visiting the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, two women spotted his Arkansas Razorbacks T-shirt and asked if he was from Arkansas. “Do you listen to KABF?” they asked. “It’s a radio station out of Arkansas. You need to check out this one radio show, ‘Shoog Radio.’ ” From the beginning, “Shoog Radio” had a great ethos under its hood: that it should shine an unwavering spotlight on the state’s music scene. Its founders, Cheyenne Matthews and Christy Ewing, pitched the idea to KABF programming director John Cain, and in no time “Shoog Radio” was on the air. The show amassed a long list of guests (musicians, actors, writers and artists) and an even longer list of listeners, boosting Arkansas’s reputation as a Southern musical mecca with weekly playlists of tracks from the likes of Ginsu Wives, Sweet Eagle, The Big Dam Horns and Hector Faceplant. But, while the show’s philosophy has remained constant, its leadership has not. “Shoog Radio” has had many hosts over the years; and now in 2017, the show has a new driver behind the wheel: local rocker Scott Diffee. For newbies, Diffee is famous here in the Natural State, having fronted myriad great bands: Go Fast, The Shallows, The Martyrs. His credentials check out like a grocery list. Born and raised in Arkansas? Check. Brought up in the Arkansas music scene? Check. In fact, Diffee played Vino’s debut night show; it’s hard to get more ingrained in a town’s music scene than to be able to claim you played opening night at its version of CBGB. I was able to take some time to interview Diffee recently at his tattoo shop, The Parlor. Here is some of our conversation:

BY AARON SARLO NEW MAN IN CHARGE: Local musician Scott Diffee is now the host of ‘Shoog Radio.’

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What is your plan for the direction of the show? I want to branch out to everybody, all cities, all themes. The whole state, older stuff that shouldn’t be forgotten and what’s going on now. This is my chance to give back to the scene. You know, this scene has given me everything. If it wasn’t for the local music scene, my tattooing wouldn’t have been anything. I’ve been tattooing for 26 years, but I worked at Vino’s before I ever opened my shop.

Someone told me you painted the famous Vino’s logo on the stage? Yep. Me and my wife painted that thing with duct tape and newspaper. We got paid $100. I took that money up to the [state] health department and took the test to get my license [to tattoo]. Six months later, I had my license.

So, you’re from Little Rock? I was raised on Arkansas Avenue. I rode bicycles. That’s how I got to go downtown all the time. If I went this way, it was all hilly, so I’d ride downtown instead. That’s how I ended up at Vino’s. Next thing you know, I’m meeting skaters, artists, musicians. Then I got a guitar. I had a perm and a Stratocaster and a little amp. I was in the first band that played the first night at Vino’s — the

And now you’re opening a venue at your tattoo shop? What’s it called? Tell me about how it came to be. The Sonic Temple. So, we noticed that smaller venues are becoming more popular. Here [at The Sonic Temple], bands from out of town can play a show, then spend the night, wash their clothes, cook food, rehearse. We had Bask play here for the first time, and they loved it. We had kids outside watching them play by a bonfire. It was great. We want to be able to have a place where kids can come and hang out, some of the misfits who feel odd, out of place. We’re gonna

have some skateboard ramps out front and kids can come hang out and listen to records, watch bands. That’s why I took on the radio show because, you know, I want to help. *** “I want to help.” That probably sums up “Shoog Radio” best. The show, conceived in the spirit of friendship and idealism, toddles past its sixth year as a bona fide radio institution. It’s a testament to the blood, sweat and tears of generations of tireless Arkansas musicians, and embodies their desire to champion one another as brothers and sisters rather than compete against each other as contestants. In doing so, it attracts the very best in Arkansas music, which is why decorated music veteran Scott Diffee is now in charge of the show’s future. Good luck, Mr. Diffee. The “Shoog Radio” audience is listening. ‘Shoog Radio’ airs noon-2 p.m. Tuesdays on KABF-FM, 88.3. For a full program schedule, visit kabf.org.

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A&E NEWS THE OLD STATE HOUSE Museum’s newest exhibit, “Cabinet of Curiosities: Treasures from the University of Arkansas Museum Collection,” opens March 11, and showcases some special pieces that have been out of the public eye since 2003: a machine gun taken from Bonnie and Clyde’s car, a Chinese baluster jar vase from the Ming Dynasty, and the lower jawbone and shoulder of a Columbian mammoth found near Hazen during the 1965 construction of Interstate 40. The museum began as a geology cabinet in 1873, and when word spread to the public, residents began bringing in found archaeological objects for research and inquiry, informing the collection’s extra-geological scope. In a video introducing “Cabinet of Curiosities,” Old State House Museum Director Bill Gatewood said, “Each museum collects a different type of artifact or object, and if they didn’t have a collecting strategy that directed that, they would wind up being what some people would call ‘the community’s attic.” This collection focused specifically on items with connections to Arkansas’s archaeological history, thanks in part to the direction of curator and zoologist Sam Dellinger, who managed the museum from 1925 to 1957. Due to budget constraints, the University of Arkansas Museum closed in 2003, and the collections have been used by university classes and researchers under the direction of the Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences. MARK YOUR CALENDARS for the Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase Finals, to be held at Revolution starting at 8 p.m. Friday, March 10, $5-$21. The showcase features performances from the winners of each of four rounds: DeFrance, Dazz & Brie, Rah Howard, Brae Leni & The Evergreen Groove Machine, plus two “wild card” runner-ups who landed in a dead tie: CosmOcean and The Inner Party. MEANWHILE, NASHVILLE, TENN., band Dirty Fuss took the win in Discovery Nightclub’s first-ever Discovery Music Competition, scoring $3,300, a session at Blue Chair Recording Studio, a Shure vintage mic and a bottle of French champagne.

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THURSDAY 3/2

DROPKICK MURPHYS

Ken Casey started a charitable foundation, the Claddagh Fund, which by all accounts does meaningful work to help people with addictions. The band, formed in the working class neighborhood of Quincy, is stridently pro-union. It raised more than $100,000 for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings by selling a limited edition T-shirt. In 2013, when a fan jumped onstage in New York

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Dropkick Murphys, the beloved Boston Celtic-punk band that crossed over to the mainstream when Martin Scorcese used its raucous “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” in a pivotal section of his film “The Departed,” appears to be made up of some good dudes. Founder

and gave a Nazi salute, Casey beat him up. Thursday’s show marks Dropkick Murphys first appearance in Arkansas during its 20-year career. The band is touring behind its new album, “11 Short Stories,” which takes inspiration from the opioid crisis that’s taken hold in New England while still staying true to Irish instrumentation and foot-stomping anthems. LM

THERE’S ROOM FOR US ALL: Grammywinning zydeco artist Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience bring the music of St. Landry Parish to South on Main Thursday, 8 p.m., $25-$40.

THURSDAY 3/2

TERRANCE SIMIEN & THE ZYDECO EXPERIENCE

8 p.m. South on Main. $25-$40.

20 YEARS OF SUFFERING: Jay Vance has been Captured! By Robots for two decades now, and the android-human hybrid band touches down at Low Key Arts Thursday night with Ginsu Wives, 8 p.m., $8-$12.

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CAPTURED! BY ROBOTS

8 p.m. Low Key Arts. $8-$12.

Like most people at a Captured by Robots concert, I was drawn by the mere premise of the thing: Regular guy Jay Vance (JBOT) builds robots to be in a band with him after a series of fraught breakups with human band members; the robots become sentient and enslave JBOT, forcing him to wear a mask and play self-described “brutal pummeling music” in crusty dive bars across the nation. If that story had preceded a show from four guys with guitars playing a standard alt-rock set, I’d have been 26

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disappointed, but the whole affair is wildly true. Vance hooked himself up to a guitar-keyboard contraption and played the whole thing from under a leather mask appended with plastic eyeballs, alongside the horrifying mannequins that make up his android backing band. It’s performance art, and it’s loud, and sometimes they play “Mississippi Queen,” and you come away feeling like you can never really trust those animatronic characters from Chuck E. Cheese again — and maybe like you never should have trusted them to begin with. Once such crusty venue was Clunk Music Hall in Fayetteville in the late ’90s, where I

discovered the CBR debacle as a teenager, and over the course of the last 20 years, there have been countless others. Times have changed: Vance has shed the mask, and the band is reportedly “much more united in hating humanity” than ever. (“Stockholm syndrome?” the band’s website asks. “Or maybe you all just suck really really bad.”) Evidently, the people booking the show had a stroke of genius and asked Ginsu Wives to open. This is a band whose 2015 EP “Hospital Vibes” should leave no doubt that it’s the most appropriate choice to set the scene for monstrosities like GTRBOT666 and DRMBOT 0110. SS

Zydeco pioneer Terrance Simien is not smiling on the cover of his album “Across the Parish Line,” and for that, you can barely recognize the guy. He seems to have been born with a permanent grin, singing the words to “Zydeco Boogaloo” and “Don’t Mess with My Toot Toot” from the cradle. Simien is an eighth-generation descendant of a Creole family who settled in St. Landry Parish. He picked up his first accordion when he was 14 and, although I have to assume he eats and sleeps at some point, he doesn’t appear to have put down the squeezebox much since. When he and his band plays the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival this May, they’ll be doing it for the 31st consecutive time, and he’s received some deserved accolades for that tenure in the last decade or so. In 2009, Simien played accordion, frottoir (a rubboard) and triangle for Randy Newman’s “Gonna Take You There” as part of the soundtrack for the Disney film “The Princess and the Frog,” and in 2014, Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience were awarded their second Grammy. What’s more, they won that award for a recording of a live show not unlike the one they’ll put on at South on Main on Thursday night. Don’t miss this one. SS

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THURSDAY 3/2

FRIDAY 3/3

HOT SPRINGS GALLERY WALK

5-9 p.m., galleries on Central Avenue.

When the ponies run, Hot Springs galleries bet that horseracing paintings will be popular. For example, Gallery Central, 800 Central Ave., has lined up thoroughbred paintings by Trey McCarley and Bob Snider; for Gallery Walk, Snider will paint live. For something off the beaten track that evening, the gallery will also feature a demonstration by knife maker Claude Lambert, who’ll make a flint striker. Justus Fine Art, 827 Central Ave., opens “True to Form,” an exhibition of works on paper by Donnie Copeland, sculpture by Robert Fogel, wood sculpture by Robyn Horn and Sandra Sell and turned wood vessels by Gene Sparling. Legacy Fine Art, 804 Central

FRIDAY 3/3 Ave., is showing blown glass chandeliers by Ed Pennebaker and paintings by Carole Katchen. Pastel landscapes and florals by Sheliah Halderman and expression- TO BE FEATURED AT ist paintings by GALLERY WALK: Gene Amaryllis J. Ball Sparling’s wood bowl “Sea Surf,” at Justus Fine Art. will be featured in March at Artists’ Workshop Gallery cooperative, 610 Central Ave., which also is showing miniatures by Joanne Kunath and June Lamoureux. LNP

CAIRO AND SOUTHERN: Son Volt celebrates the Feb. 17 release of “Notes of Blue” with a show at Revolution Thursday night, 8:30 p.m., $20.

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SON VOLT

8:30 p.m. Revolution. $20.

Jay Farrar turned 50 last year. He’s been making music for about 29 of those years. First with Uncle Tupelo, the foundational altcountry band he formed with Jeff Tweedy in 1987 that fell apart seven years later after he and Tweedy, the band’s principal songwriters, couldn’t get along anymore. Tweedy of course went on to start Wilco, while Farrar put together Son Volt, a band that, over the course of nine albums and despite lineup changes and regular moves toward experimentation, has always been firmly in the alt-

country lane. Like Neil Young (aside from “Trans”), Farrar’s distinctive voice and songwriting sits up in front, whether he’s riffing on the Bakersfield sound (Son Volt’s 2013 album “Honky Tonk”), collaborating with Ben Gibbard to pay homage to Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” (on 2009’s “One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur”) or channeling bluesmen like Mississippi Fred McDowell (Son Volt’s new album, “Notes of Blue). Johnny Irion, grandnephew to John Steinbeck and son-in-law to Arlo Guthrie, opens with melodic, folk-flecked Southern rock. LM

SCOTT KELLY

9 p.m. White Water Tavern. $12.

Scott Kelly is a founding member of Oakland heavy music giants Neurosis, who got their start on Jello Biafra’s record label Alternative Tentacles. They toured the u nder g rou nd s cene relent lessly, event ually playing shows with troops like Biohazard, Pantera and even Black Sabbath. Around 2003 Neurosis sta rted its own record label, Neurot Recordings, and begin releasing its own material, including Kelly’s first solo record, “Spirit Bound Flesh.” “I started SBF in the winter of 2001,” Kelly told us. “It was right after I had gotten sober and my mind was just racing with ideas and I was anxious to find out if I could make substantial music without drugs and alcohol. I was — and still am — really attracted to the idea of creating these minimalist songs that still hold the emotional arc within them.” Kelly’s latest EP release, “Push Me On To The Sun,” is the darkest ever, and Kelly is certainly staking his own claim as a solo artist. It’s a rare opportunity for Kelly to be down this direction, and John Judkins (Rwake, Protomen) joins Kelly for this small, intense performance at the White Water Tavern. Arkansas’s own heart and soul, singer/songwriter Adam Faucett, will be sharing the stage, and we’ll get a small taste of Jeff Morgan’s (Rwake, Madman Morgan) new acoustic project, Light Inside The Woods. CT

Get a preview of what you’re in for at The Studio Theatre’s production of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” with Drageoke, 9 p.m. at Sway. The Old State House Museum hosts Arkansas-centric trivia at Stone’s Throw Brewing, 6:30 p.m., free. Pianist and songwriter John Willis plays a concert at Wildwood Park for the Arts, 7 p.m., $15 suggested donation. Alex Ortiz, the “Boriqua Bad Boy of Comedy,” lands at the Loony Bin 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat., 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., $8-$12. St. Louis blues rocker Jeremiah Johnson plays Stickyz, 8 p.m., $7. We Few plays King’s Live Music in Conway, 8 p.m.

FRIDAY 3/3 The Rodney Block Collective plays a “Runnin Back 2 the 90s Late Nite Jam” at Zin Urban Wine Bar, 9 p.m., $15. M2 Gallery celebrates its 10th anniversary in business with the exhibition “M2-X,” 6-9 p.m. Robin Ferriby of the Foundation for Detroit’s Future gives a noon lecture on philanthropy at the Clinton School’s Sturgis Hall, free. Blues scholar and guitarist Anthony Gomes plays a show at Stickyz, 9 p.m., $10. Twenty One Pilots play Verizon Arena, with Jon Bellion and Judah and the Lion, 7 p.m., $35-$45. Tiffany Lee and Brad Byrd share a bill at South on Main, 9 p.m., $10. Club Sway holds its monthly open stage night, Club Camp, 9 p.m. Seven-Toed Pete takes the stage at Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5. Pipe organist David Baskeyfield plays the Central Arkansas Chapter of the American Guild of Organists’ concert at the Cathedral of St. Andrew, 8 p.m., free. Queen Anne’s Revenge plays a show at Four Quarter Bar in North Little Rock, 10 p.m. The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program’s “Sandwiching in History” series conducts a free tour of the Old Central Fire Station, 506 Main St., NLR, noon. Kaliya and Murkryth share a bill at Vino’s, 9 p.m. Comedian Kountry Wayne, known to some as Wayne Colley, brings “Help Is on the Way: The Tax Refund Tour” to the Robinson Center, 7:30 p.m., $33-$39. Psychedelic Velocity plays at Markham Street Grill & Pub, 8:30 p.m., free. Erin Bernard, developer of the Philadelphia Public History Truck, gives a talk on how she developed the project, Arkansas Studies Institute, 4 p.m. Buh Jones performs at E.J.’s Eats and Drinks, 6 p.m. Henna Roso returns to Smoke and Barrel Tavern in Fayetteville, 10 p.m., $5. John Neal Rock and Roll plays a free show at The Tavern Sports Grill, 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY 3/4 The Wye Mountain Daffodil Festival is this weekend, starting at 9 a.m., through 5 p.m. Sun., free. Speaking of mountains, Mountain Sprout plays at Maxine’s in Hot Springs with Turtle Rush and AmyJo Savannah , 9 p.m. My Hands to War joins Couch Jackets for a cheap ticket at the Rev Room, 8 p.m., $3. “Disney on Ice Presents: Worlds of Enchantment” begins

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STARS ALIGN: Little Rock expat Natalie Carol’s project Valley Queen is making waves with vocal tremolo and frenetic video work, and the band plays at South on Main Saturday night, 9 p.m., $10.

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VALLEY QUEEN

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

Little Rock native Natalie Carol doesn’t get the airplay that other expats have enjoyed, but since she left for L.A. and connected with her band Valley Queen, Carol has been quietly releasing a handful of strange, self-assured 28

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tracks like “My Man” for a few years now. Check out the earnestly tender video for “Who Ever Said,” inspired on a plane ride Carol took from Little Rock to L.A. in the aftermath of the Arkansas Senate’s passing HB 1228, the so-called “Conscious Protection Act” that would have legalized discrimination against Follow us on Instagram: ArkTimes

LGBT people. Or “High Expectations,” a lament for the modern lover: “I’m not gonna fake it/Orgasms in texting conversations/It’s so easy to lie/But babe, the truth really is/I get myself off just fine/Maybe that’s why I’m all alone tonight.” Carol’s voice floats and lilts like Joni Mitchell, wavers like Iris Dement

and stretches one syllable into three like Lucinda Williams — and somehow, she doesn’t really sound like any of those women. The tracks mentioned here make up a good chunk of the band’s discography thus far, and here’s hoping they’re indicative of the direction of Valley Queen songs to come. SS

IN BRIEF

CEDELL DAVIS

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

Helena-born bluesman CeDell “Big G” Davis is a survivor. He’s such a survivor, he has survived many of those who have called him a survivor. Steeped in blues royalty through playing with Robert Nighthawk and childhood friend Dr. Ross the Harmonica Boss, wheelchair-bound Davis was late to the recording game. Now in his 90s, the turn of the century has been good to Davis, with the 2002 release of “When Lightnin’ Struck the Pine,” featuring members of R.E.M. and produced by Little Rock drummer Joe Cripps, and “Last Man Standing,” produced by Jimbo Mathus, in 2015. Davis celebrates the October release of his latest, “Even the Devil Gets the Blues,” at Capitol View’s White Water Tavern — where he’s played off and on for decades — for this rare Sunday afternoon show. Davis’ powerful vocals were long overlooked in light of his singular, cacophonic, upside-down slide guitar technique, which utilized a butter knife, a polio workaround. Following a 2005 stroke, he no longer yields guitar or knife, but remains a nonpareil blues shouter: “Nobody really plays guitar like I did. But when you can’t do it yourself, you get somebody else to.” What, you thought he would stop? SK

WEDNESDAY 3/8

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

7:30 p.m. Wed.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sat.Sun., 7 p.m. Sun. through March 19. Robinson Center Performance Hall. $33-$153.

Deciding whether to go to see a touring production of “Phantom of the Opera” is a little like deciding whether to ride the Gravitron at the state fair. There is no room for ambivalence. You’re either in or you’re out, no takebacks, and odds are good you’ve already made the decision by the time it comes around anyway. That said, know that favorites like “All I Ask of You” and

“Masquerade” will be performed by a cast and orchestra of 52 people, making the most of the technical assets in the new Robinson Center in a redesigned production from Cameron Mackintosh, the billionaire British producer who’s been producing shows like “Phantom” and “Cats” for nearly 50 years. The part of Christine Daae will be sung by Katie Travis, a soprano with a two-year “Christine” pedigree behind her, and the part of the Phantom will be sung by Derrick Davis, only the third man of color to sing the role, and the first to do so in a touring production. SS

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EVEN THE DEVIL GETS THE BLUES: The White Water Tavern rarely opens its doors on a Sunday, but it’ll be open this week for an early show from Helena-born bluesman CeDell Davis with Zakk and “Big Papa” Binns, 6 p.m., $10.

So we know the guys in Green Day aren’t considered local Arkansas boys made good by the rest of America, but the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees were considered warmly in Little Rock punk circles for their early area shows even before actual hometown hero Jason White came into the band’s fold some years ago. As Green Day, and its audience, slowly matured, so did the band’s message. Next thing you know, there’s a Green Day song playing at high school graduations and on “Seinfeld” clip shows — and it’s not a punk song about weed or jacking off. This culminated with “American Idiot,” which brought the band mainstream respect — and now, sadly recurring relevance; “Revolution Radio,” the band’s 12th studio album — recorded sans White as a three-piece — was released just before the election. Green Day’s European shows earlier this year featured lots of songs from “American Idiot,” the now 13-year-old album that’s sprung back up fresh as a daisy. And while Verizon Arena can’t compare to Vino’s back room for places to plot the revolution, it can hold a lot more revolutionaries. SK

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at Verizon Arena, 7 p.m. Sat.-Tue., 11 a.m.PRINT Mon., 3 p.m. Mon-Tue. through March 7, $16-$61. Fayetteville’s The Squarshers take the stage at Four Quarter Bar, 10 p.m. The Doo Wop Project brings tight harmonies to the University of Central Arkansas’s Reynolds Performance Hall in Conway, 7:30 p.m., $27-$40. Blake Goodwin plays The Tavern Sports Grill, 7:30 p.m. Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase contender DeFrance plays Smoke and Barrel Tavern with The Hudson Outfit, 10 p.m. Travis Bowman plays for the Saturday brunch crowd at Dizzy’s Gypsy Bistro, 10:30 a.m. He is Legend and I Was Afraid play the back room at Vino’s, 9 p.m. Strange Blue plays at Thirst n’ Howl, 8:30 p.m., $5. CosmOcean brings its danceable mix to King’s Live Music with an opening set from Samantha Campbell, 8:30 p.m., $5. Vocalist Jean Meilleur and the Jeans ’n’ Classics Band join the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra for “Imagine: The Music of John Lennon,” 7:30 p.m. Sat., 3 p.m. Sun., $14-$67. SeanFresh & The Nastyfresh Crew share a bill with Osyrus Bolly and the silver-tongued SA (501 SoloAct) at the White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $10. Former Cate Brothers members Earl & Them play at Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5. Rob & Tyndall play a free show at Markham Street Grill & Pub, 8:30 p.m.

SUNDAY 3/5 Revolution hosts “New Edition Chronicles Extravaganza Live,” a tribute concert, 8:30 p.m., $10-$15, with an after-party at Ernie Biggs Piano Bar. Breaking Wheel plays the early Sunday show at Vino’s, 7 p.m. Soprano Kristin Lewis holds a concert featuring the finalists from her vocal scholarship foundation, 3 p.m., Pulaski Technical College Center for Humanities and Arts.

MONDAY 3/6 Laman Library in North Little Rock opens an exhibition of watercolor and collage by Lisa Krannichfeld. A reception will be held 6-8 p.m. March 10. Ronel Williams hosts an open mic comedy evening at Cajun’s Wharf, 7 p.m., free.

TUESDAY 3/7 New York Times columnist Joe Nocera gives a talk at the Clinton School of Public Service’s Sturgis Hall, noon, free. The Ron Robinson Theater hosts a screening of Magnolia Pictures’ and XYZ Films’ “XX,” a horror anthology with films starring women and directed by women, 6 p.m., $5. East Nashville’s Amelia White shares a bill with Mark Currey at the White Water Tavern, 9 p.m.

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Aaron and Peter perform songs that cross genres and styles from americana and celtic, to classical and flamenco, 301 Main Street to world-jazz-fusion for an North Little Rock unforgettable musical Tickets $25 adventure. Available at the door or online at www.argentaartsacousticmusic.com or www.centralarkansastickets.com

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: Friends of Contemporary Craft Lecture by potters David and Becki Dahlstedt, 5 p.m. March 5, $5 for FOCC members, $10 for nonmembers. 372-4000. ARGENTA GALLERY, 413 N. Main St. Art in all media by gallery members Sue Henley, Dee Schulten, Suzanne Brugner, Ed Pennebaker and others. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sat. 258-8991. ARKANSAS CAPITAL CORP., 200 River Market Ave., Suite 400: “Subtle and Bold,” work by Susan Chambers and Sofia Gonzalez, by appointment. 374-9247. BARRY THOMAS FINE ART AND STUDIOS, 711A Main St., NLR: Works by impressionist artist Thomas. BOSWELL-MOUROT, 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Works by Delita Martin, Elizabeth Weber, Anais Dasse, Kyle Boswell, Jeff Horton, Dennis McCann and Keith Runkle. 664-0030. CANTRELL GALLERY, 8205 Cantrell Road: Work by regional and Arkansas artists. 10 a.m.5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 224-1335. CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 509 Scott St.: “The Watercolor Series of Kuhl Brown,” through March. 375-2342. CHROMA GALLERY, 5707 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Work by Robert Reep and other Arkansas artists. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 664-0880. CORE BREWING, 411 Main St., NLR: “Eye of the Beholder,” Latino Art Project exhibit of work by Luis Atilano, Luis Saldaña, Martin Flores, Carla Ramos, Susana Casillas, Matt Teravest, Toni Arnone, Hannah Hinojosa, Becky Botos, Chris James, and Vickie HendrixSiebenmorgen, through March 12. 3-9 p.m. Mon.-Wed., 3-11 p.m. Thu.-Fri., noon-11 p.m.

Sat., noon-9 p.m. Sun. DRAWL GALLERY, 5208 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “North of South,” work by Northwest Arkansas artists Alice Andrews, Dayton Castleman, Sam King, Linda Lopez, Ed Pennebaker and Kat Wilson, through March 18. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 240-7446. GALLERY 221, 2nd and Center Sts.: Work by William McNamara, Tyler Arnold, Amy Edgington, EMILE, Kimberly Kwee, Greg Lahti, Sean LeCrone, Mary Ann Stafford, Cedric Watson, C.B. Williams, Gino Hollander, Siri Hollander and jewelry by Rae Ann Bayless. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. weekdays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 8010211. GALLERY 360, 900 S. Rodney Parham Road: Third annual “IceBox,” work by Layet Johnson, Gillian Stewart, Stacy Williams, Matthew Castellano, Sulac, Woozle, Emily Parker, Tea Jackson, Ike Plumlee and Emily Clair Brown. HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “Intimate Spaces and Places,” new works on paper and canvas by Henri Linton Sr., through March 11. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat. 372-6822. 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. JUSTUS FINE ART GALLERY, 827 A Central Ave., Hot Springs: “True to Form,” paintings by Donnie Copeland, metalwork by Robert Fogel, wood sculpture by Robyn Horn and Sandra Sell, and woodwork by Gene Sparling. Opens with reception 5-9 p.m. March 3, the Hot Springs Gallery Walk. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 321-2335. L&L BECK ART GALLERY, 5705 Kavanaugh

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Blvd.: “Potpourri,” paintings by Louis Beck, drawing for free giclee 7 p.m. March 16. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 660-4006. LAMAN LIBRARY, 2801 Orange St., NLR: “Undomesticated Interiors,” work by Lisa Krannichfeld, March 6-25, opening reception 6-8 p.m. March 10. 225-6257. LAMAN LIBRARY ARGENTA BRANCH, 420 Main St., NLR: “Images in Pastel,” work by artists of the Arkansas Pastel Society. 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri.-Sat. 687-1061. LOCAL COLOUR GALLERY, 5811 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Artists collective. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.Sat. 265-0422. M2 GALLERY, Pleasant Ridge Shopping Cente, 11525 Cantrell Road: “M2-X,” 10-year anniversary exhibit of works by gallery artists Jason Twiggy Lott, Neal Harrington, Steve Adair, Robin Tucker, Catherine Nugent, Lisa Krannichfeld, Ike Garlington, Matt Coburn, Cathy

Burns, V.L. Cox and others, opens with reception 6-9 p.m. March 3. 944-7155. McARTHUR MUSEUM OF ARKANSAS MILITARY HISTORY, MacArthur Park, 503 E. 9th St.: “American Posters of World War I,” through March. 376-4602. MATT McLEOD FINE ART, 108 W. 6th St.: “Key Connections of Humanity,” paintings by Angela Davis Johnson, photography by John David Pittman, sculpture by David Clemons and Bryan Massey, through March 23. 10 a.m.6 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 725-8508. 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. MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, 9th and Broadway: “Arkansas Made, Black

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GET OUT: Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) stars in Jordan Peele’s (“Key & Peele”) horrific and challenging thriller about systematic racism.

This is not normal Peele’s directorial debut is a race relations thriller. BY SAM EIFLING

t’s hard to discuss “Get Out,” Jordan Peele’s wholly satisfying directorial debut, without trying to grope at its genre. The plot — or what of it you can explain without spoilers — is pretty straightforward: A city couple goes to the girlfriend’s upper-crust family home for the weekend. She’s white, he’s black, and what begins as a mere Olympics of awkwardness reveals itself as something more sinister over a couple of days. Because the script and all are Peele’s baby, it has the comic pace and sensibility of a longform “Key & Peele” sketch. Yet it also mashes in elements of horror, mystery, thriller, sci-fi and a plain ol’ romantic drama. The result might not be high art, but it’s almost certainly the unsettling instant cult classic that Peele was shooting for. One reason why: It’s among the smartest films on race that you’re likely to see this or any year. Daniel

Kaluuya plays the boyfriend, Chris, as the epitome of a dude just trying to be a dude. He’s a photographer with a hip apartment and a girlfriend of five months, Rose (Allison Williams, of “Girls”), who he learns before the trip to the family home hasn’t mentioned to her family that he’s black. But there’s no overt reason to think that should present a problem. After all, she assures him, her father voted twice for Obama and would’ve done so a third time. The script makes a habit of needling the pretenses of supposed white progressives with a host of white insecurities. Upon arriving at his house, we find that the family patriarch (Bradley Whitford), an affable if tone-deaf neurosurgeon, is particularly off-putting; his habit of raising race from a mere subtext to the let’s-just-get-itout-in-the-open straight-talk is plenty creepy in itself. The mother, Catherine

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Keener, is more tactful, but the brother (Caleb Landry Jones) does more than his share with an off-handed quasi-

compliment about Charlie’s “genetic makeup” as he encourages him to take up combat sports. “You could be a beast,” he says, before drunkenly trying to goad Charlie into a spot of dinner-table grappling. Even if they weren’t up to something (and they are) these people would make your skin crawl. You know in another few years they’re going to be the ones voting to instate the Purge. A buddy at the TSA named Walter (Lil Rel Howery) is Charlie’s best respite from the unbearable whiteness of being. He’s the voice of black reason on the other end of the cell phone when Charlie starts piecing together some of the weirdness around the house: the stilted way the black groundskeeper and housekeeper talk to him, the fact that the mother hypnotized him out of smoking, essentially against his will. You’ll see Howery get more work after this part; essentially unknown before “Get Out,” he grounds the movie firmly in the realm of comedy, even as he drives the suspicion that keeps the plot pacing forward. Charlie, too often defusing his own emotions (especially during a painful yard party sequence that sees him appraised by a series

of fawning older couples) to keep the peace. Walter, preferring that TSAbrand worst-case-scenario mindset, reminds him that This Is Not Normal. The next step, as we all know by now, is to resist. What stands out after the film is just how tightly it was made. Budgeted at something like $4.5 million, and advertised only minimally, it’s going to arrive as an under-the-radar hit. Word of mouth will be the driver here, as well as critical appreciation: Almost nothing achieves a 99 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and yet here we are, with a small-budget maybe-horror movie that deconstructs Trump-era race relations, written and directed by an under-40 dude best known as the shorter half of a Comedy Central sketch comedy duo. If you’re black, you’ll appreciate it as another high moment in a February 2017 that was, with the haul that “Moonlight” and “Fences” had at the Oscars, one hell of a month for black cinema. If you’re white, you’ll appreciate it for gently nailing your ass to the wall, and for leaving you slightly more woke than when you bumbled in expecting only a dark comedy.

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FOLLOW YOUR COMPASS north to experience what Kyle Dismang calls “true culinary genius” at the North Bar, which opened four weeks ago in the space formerly occupied by Ira’s Park Hill Grill in the Lakehill Shopping Center. Dismang is the front-of-house man. The genius comes from chef Eric Greer. Greer, his father, Jim Greer, and Dismang own the North Bar. Dismang said the establishment is “North Little Rock’s only gourmet bar,” with a varied menu that includes all kinds of burgers, vegan offerings and gluten-free ingredients, inspired by a family with special dietary needs. The meals are hearty here: The Trifecta, one of Dismang’s contributions, includes a Black Angus beef patty, grilled chicken and bacon topped with aioli and provolone, tucked in a brioche bun provided by Arkansas Fresh Bakery. The food is “big and messy,” Dismang said. “That’s our other slogan, ‘It’s not good unless it’s messy.’ ” The Greers also own the Garden Bistro, but at the North Bar, Eric is free to offer more offbeat dishes, like his peanut butter, jelly and bacon burger. “Everybody loves it,” Dismang said. Greer’s veggie patties are so good, Dismang said, “I’m almost off beef.” Besides the full bar, North Bar also sells local beers from Lost Forty, Diamond Bear and Flyway. North Bar is open Tuesday through Saturday; alcohol is served all day, lunch is served 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and dinner is 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. HE’S DONE IT again. Matthew McClure, executive chef at The Hive in Bentonville’s 21c Museum Hotel, has been named a semifinalist for the 2017 James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards in the Best Chef: South category. It’s the fourth year in a row McClure has been nominated. McClure was also a semifinalist in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and in 2016 was a speaker at the foundation’s conference. He’s also been named “The People’s Best New Chef” for the Midwest by Food & Wine magazine. The museum describes the menu as “High South,” McClure calls it “refined country.” CAPERS RESTAURANT HAS reopened after thawed sprinkler pipes made a mess of the ceiling and furnishings in the Cantrell Road restaurant. The ceilings have been raised to create a brighter look and there are new items on the menu, including grilled artichokes, crab cakes, Camembert with fig jam, crab fingers (crispy and sautéed), pear salad and snapper, among other items. Capers is open for lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday, and serves brunch on Saturday as well. 34

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A FEAST OF SPICES: Mattar paneer, peas and fresh cheese, and chicken tikka masala are on the menu at The India Feast.

A feast to go Indian food done right in the River Market.

hen you go to events that include dinner with a vegetarian, you see that he often ends up with the same meal as us carnivores, only with the entree excluded or even scraped off to the side. Or he gets some weak veggie lasagna or a portabella mushroom burger. Our former colleague is Indian, and he often told me that when it comes to meals, “vegetarian” doesn’t have to mean “boring.” To prove it, he invited our office crew of eight or so to his house for dinner. He, his wife and their daughter prepared six classic Indian entrees and even printed tent cards that explained each. Every dish was creative, flavor-

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ful, interesting, bold and anything but boring. No one missed the meat in the least. Indian food has been available in Little Rock since 1993, when Sami Lal opened Star of India, and there are a few other options today. The latest is The Indian Feast in the bustling River Market food hall, where it offers excellent Indian food to the downtown working and touristy masses. The restaurant was born out of the uber-successful India Fest, which will present its third culture- and foodfocused festival April 30 in the River Market pavilions and First Security Amphitheater. The crowds that overwhelmed the food booths at the inaugural India Fest must have suf-

ficiently proven locals’ interest in Indian food, because a couple of that festival’s organizers are behind The Indian Feast. And just like India Fest, The Indian

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QUICK BITE If you go to theindianfeast.com and click on the menu tab, you’ll see 17 entrees, six appetizers, five kinds of naan and four desserts. But that’s not what you’ll find at the restaurant, at least not at this point. Five of those entrees are offered daily, so if you want to know which those are, call ahead. HOURS 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday. OTHER INFO No alcohol, but you can get mango juice. Credit cards accepted.

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ROTATING OPTIONS: To choose from at The Indian Feast in Ottenheimer Hall.

Feast does Indian food right. Each day the chef prepares five entrees — always some with meat, usually chicken or lamb, and always at least two vegetarian choices. The daily special includes two entrees, a large serving of fluffy longgrain basmati rice and a large piece of grilled, perfectly chewy naan (Indian bread) for $8.95. Be warned: If you carry out your meal, your arms are likely to get tired before you reach your destination. It’s that much food. This past Saturday the five choices were Chicken Tikka Masala, Chicken Kadahi, Paneer Tikka Masala, Chana Masala and Saag Paneer. As there were two of us, we were able to sample four of the five, passing only on the Saag Paneer, as neither of us loves spinach. As we feasted, we came to the same conclusion we do every time we have Indian food — it’s boldly flavored, not the least bit boring and, in all these cases, pretty rib-sticking. There’s a

certain sameness to the spicing and the preparation, but we’re cool with that.

All dishes at The Indian Feast have plenty of spices, but that doesn’t mean

they’re necessarily hot. Both chicken dishes featured succulent hunks of meat in a spicy, but not hot, cream sauce. The Paneer Tikka Masala features plenty of cubes of paneer, a fresh white cheese common in southern Asia, particularly India and Bangladesh. The Indian Feast’s version includes lots of English peas, also in a spicy, creamy sauce. Chana is the Indian word for chickpeas, and Chana Masala features a sauce that includes tomato, onion, garlic and red pepper. Again boldly flavored, not boring and plenty hearty as a main course. The Indian Feast, by nature of its location, has the chance to expose many people to the wonders of Indian food. We can’t see how anyone with culinary curiosity and taste buds that enjoy some diverse stimulation wouldn’t quickly become a fan.

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PORK BRATWURST $10 One pound package

You can pick up your meat at our farm off Hwy 107 in North Pulaski County (about 25 miles north of downtown Little Rock) or we can meet you in downtown Little Rock weekdays. All meat is aged and then frozen.

HEARTS, LIVERS, KIDNEYS, $5 lb

$100-$150

(Our sheepskins are tanned in a Quaker Town, Pa. tannery that has specialized in sheepskins for generations.)

PORK TENDERLOIN BONELESS LOIN $12 lb TENDERLOIN $8 lb

$20 lb

LAMB BRATWURST LINK SAUSAGE

(one-lb package) $10 lb

NECKBONES

(for stew or soup) $5 lb

SPARE RIBS $9 lb BABYBACK RIBS $12 lb

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12407 Davis Ranch Rd. | Cabot, AR 72023 Call Kaytee Wright 501-607-3100 alan@arktimes.com

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STATE OF INDIANA COUNTY OF DUBOIS

HEALTH CARE POLICY FELLOW Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a non-profit advocacy organization, is accepting resumes for a one-year, full-time health care policy fellowship. The position requires a bachelor’s degree. Graduate-level study is preferred, but not required. The ideal candidate will have excellent analytical, writing, communication, and organizational skills. Full job description is available at www.aradvocates.org/ about-us/jobs/. Send cover letter, resume, writing sample, and references to dclark@aradvocates.org.

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MICHEL LEIDERMANN, President (Minority Business - AR State Vendor) mleidermann@gmail.com • Mobile: (501) 993-3572

ACXIOM CORP. – CONWAY, AR

Associate Solutions Developer (#JR002577) Apply online w/ job code above www.acxiom.com EEO/AA/W/M/Disability/Vet

) IN THE DUBOIS CIRCUIT COURT ) SS: ) CAUSE NUMBER: 19C01-1607-JC-00265

IN THE MATTER OF A Child ALLEGED TO BE A Child IN NEED OF SERVICES HR - DOB 2/9/2001 (Minor child) AND Katie Dodd, Mother Tony Ronnbeck, Father (Parents)

SUMMONS FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION & NOTICE OF child IN NEED OF SERVICES HEARING

TO: Tony Ronnbeck; NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the above noted parent whose whereabouts are unknown, that the Indiana Department of Child Services has filed its Verified Petition Alleging the child to be in Need of Services, in accordance with I.C. 31-34-9-3, and that an adjudication hearing has been scheduled with the Court. YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to appear before the Judge of the Dubois Circuit Court, 1 Courthouse Square, Jasper, IN 47546 - 812-481-7020 for an Initial Hearing on 4/17/2017 at 3:00 PM. At said hearing, the Court will consider the Petition and evidence thereon and will render its decision as to whether the above named minor child is a child in need of services and shall enter adjudication accordingly. Your failure to appear after lawful notice will be deemed as your default and waiver to be present at said hearing. UPON ENTRY OF SAID ADJUDICATION, A DISPOSITIONAL HEARING will be held in which the Court will consider (1) Alternatives for the care, treatment, or rehabilitation for the child; (2) The necessity, nature, and extent of your participation in the program of care, treatment, or rehabilitation for the child; and (3) Your financial responsibility for any services provided for the parent, guardian or custodian of the child including child support. YOU MUST RESPOND by appearing in person or by an attorney within thirty (30) days after the last publication of this notice, and in the event you fail to do so, an adjudication on said petition and a dispositional decree may be entered against you without further notice. Dated this 31st day of January, 2017 Bridgette Jarboe, Clerk Evan Biesterveld, 33960-63 Attorney, Indiana Department of Child Services, 1045 Wernsing Rd., Jasper, IN 47546 Office: 812-482-2585

City of Little Rock

CAREER FAIR Saturday, March 11 • 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. Southwest Community Center 6401 Baseline Rd. Little Rock, AR 72209

Join our City family • Competitive Compensation • Paid Health, Dental & Vision Insurance • Nine Paid Holidays • Great Retirement Plan

Visit with City of Little Rock representatives from: - Police Department - Fire Department - Parks & Recreation - Little Rock Zoo - Public Works - & All other departments

View all job opportunities & apply online at lrjobs.net

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Come shop and celebrate Arkansas and our world-class craftspeople AT WAR MEMORIAL STADIUM IN LITTLE ROCK

MARCH 31 & APRIL 1

Brought to you by War Memorial Stadium and the Arkansas Times

FRIDAY MARCH 31, 6 P.M. TO 9P.M.

SATURDAY APRIL 1 10A.M. TO 7 P.M.

Preview Party and Private Shopping event at War Memorial Stadium.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Visit with Arkansas artisans and see some of the finest work in America. Textiles, metal, glass, fine art, jewelry, wood, food and more!

Wine, Beer, Heavy Hor d’oeuvres and Silent Auction Tickets $25 at CentralArkansasTickets.com

Admission only $5 at the door! Food and drinks available for purchase.

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For more information call Vickie Hart, 501 529 7624 or email at arkansasmadearkansasproud@gmail.com 40

MARCH 2, 2017

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