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Stop drug war Richard Emmel wrote a superb letter, published in the Oct. 2 issue, about stopping the drug war as a more humane and less expensive way to deal with those who have become addicted to drugs. Where are the lawmakers that have examined this issue rather than proposing to build additional prison facilities? Ken Good Horseshoe Bend

Best pretenders Once again, the Republican Party has seduced Arkansas voters with those sweet, meaningless words: “Trust me, we arenʼt those other guys.” And, truly, they arenʼt. Never mind the details of who has done what or for whom, it has been enough merely to say that the grass is going to be greener on your side of the fence if you just open the gate and let me in. Maybe we forgot what it is that makes grass greener. If there is one thing our politicians have learned since that ﬁrst group of runaways landed on our eastern shore itʼs that selling tomorrow is a lot easier than actually doing some work today. The best pretenders got the most attention and now we have some slick sales people in jobs that arenʼt designed for selling. They are designed for people with compassion, empathy, understanding, devotion to law and the wisdom to know when they are just faking it. If you werenʼt paying attention before you voted, maybe itʼs time to start looking to see just whose feet that green grass is growing under. David Stedman Damascus

major promoter of “union avoidance.” The NRWC ad correctly claims that Tom Cotton is among the sponsors of the National Right to Work Act in the House (the Senate version was introduced by “libertarian” Rand Raul). But certain trivial details are left unmentioned. Like guess who are among the main backers of the NRWC? None other than Koch and Walton money. Was the Arkansas Times leadership aware of this jaw-dropping fact before taking in the NRWC’s business? Of course, the canned response will be that all sides should get equal time. But there is no

equality in this case. In fact, the term “right to work” is the result of a concentrated propaganda campaign (Arkansas’s right to work law dates to 1944). Furthermore, Wall Street is sitting on trillions in cash. “Big Labor” has spent upward of $400 million lobbying since the late 1990s while big business has spent billions. A little over 10 percent of the U.S. workforce is unionized (in 2010, it was something like 4 percent in Arkansas). There is an assault on all democratic institutions, including labor unions and the voting rights of people of color and the poor. Why isn’t Mark Pryor showing

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From the web On the Arkansas Blog post on former Democratic state Sen. Tracy Steele’s endorsement of Republican gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson: Mr. Steele is not alone. Annie Abrams has endorsed Asa as well, this past week (do a Facebook search). This seems to be the mantra of some of the connected folks in the African-American community. That should not be interpreted to mean all connected individuals. The struggle I have is that perceived trickle-down is not going to happen with the Republicans. We (because I’m African American) just are not their interest. A party that seeks to limit voter access, demonizes minorities, seeks to end healthcare access and seeks to treat me as less than a citizen in not working in my best interests nor is it a friend. Sadly Arkansas voters will get the government it will elect, the party of the Koch brothers and Stephens. Annie, Tracy, Richard, et al. will get their rewards. The rest of us can just get in line and hope for the best. Richard929293

Why NRWC ad? The editorial staff is to be congratulated for David Ramsey’s article (“A third and fourth way,” Oct. 30) on the vital, if unsung, role played by “third parties” in our electoral system. Kudos also to Ben Hardy for his piece on the corrosive influence of big money in state races (“Shadow parties,” Oct. 30). Both articles are a needy corrective to intellectuals who lack faith in the democratic process by considering a vote for the Green Party to be a waste and who have fuzzy notions about free speech. So imagine my shock and confusion when, in the very same issue, I saw a fullpage spread sponsored by the Virginiabased National Right to Work Committee with warnings about “forced unionization.” Inside the front cover to boot. For over 50 years now, this organization with an Orwellian-sounding name has been a

up the paper tiger Tom Cotton for what he really is, point-by-point? Why are state Democrats not drawing greater attention to the fact that a Republican like Leslie Rutledge seems to be guilty of the very thing her colleagues rail on about these day vote-fraud? In recent years, the Arkansas Times has been touting the notion that Arkansans should not think outside the two-party box. Which is fine for we all believe in free speech. But I resent attempts, intentional or not, to help powerful special interests undermine democracy. Organizations like the NRWC hurt working Arkansans. Which is one reason why I proudly vote as a Green. Anthony Newkirk North Little Rock

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In response to an article in the Oct. 30 issue about demagoguery, including Tom Cotton’s statement that Islamic rebels were training Mexican drug thugs to attack the U.S. and come to Arkansas: Years ago, Russell Baker wrote a column about the frustration of Soviet military leaders who had reports that there were missiles in a place called “Arkansas.” They could not find “Arkansas” on any map, so the missiles were safe. I suspect ISIS would meet with the same frustration. Debbie Hyatt

I AM THE AEA aura Montgomery has spent more than 27 years serving the students, families and teachers of Pulaski County Special School District. An education support professional (ESP), Montgomery serves as the bridge between a child’s home and school. “I help get kids ready for learning,” Montgomery said. “Whatever they need – from school supplies to healthcare to advocating for their parents in parent-teacher conferences – I make sure it happens.” According to the National Education Association, education support professionals are the first employees to see students when they enter school and the last to see them move on in the school community. Through their various careers they touch the lives of students and ensure student success. In fact, education support professionals make up more than 40 percent of the total K-12 education workforce. With a degree in social work, Montgomery worked with students at Landmark Elementary in the Landmark community for more than two decades. Today, she works alongside educators in The Pulaski County Special School District. “I’ve had students and parents I worked with from 1987 to this year come back to tell me what an impact the education support professional had on their lives,” Montgomery said. “I don’t go anywhere without being recognized.” Montgomery sees her job as her ministry and focuses on the importance of ensuring the children and adults she works with every day know they matter. “What an education support professional does is help those who can’t always help themselves,” she said. “A lot of times, a parent doesn’t understand what a teacher says in a conference. What I do is help them understand so they can help their child.” The vice president of the Arkansas Education Association and the president of the National Council of Education Support Professionals of the National Education Association, Montgomery strives to educate people within the community about the role ESPs play in the well-being of children and families. “We are on the front lines of K-12 education every day,” she said. “We know who is being bullied and why. My dream

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is to show our community that ESPs are people who support children at school and home. We take care of the whole student – his or her education, health, well-being and other needs.” Montgomery will participate with other education support professionals in the Build Communities Not Bullies event from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park in Little Rock on Saturday, October 25. The event is supported by ESPs from the Little Rock, North Little Rock and Pulaski County Special School Districts and encourages participants to take the pledge against bullying. “We have to create an atmosphere where everyone is treated with respect,” Montgomery said. “Students can’t learn in fear, and as children, they aren’t equipped to handle bullying situations. It’s up to adults to be present, aware and available to help children feel safe and cherished.”

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EYE ON ARKANSAS

WEEK THAT WAS

Quote of the week “Don’t you get tired of watching all these negative ads? And there is a reason they buy them. They work — people say they just hate them, but they get inside your brain.” — Bill Clinton, campaigning for Democrats last weekend in West Memphis

Un-American. That’s really the only word for the storm of shameful oppo ads this season demonizing candidates who had, as attorneys, represented clients in the past. None was more shameful than Stacy Hurst attacking Clarke Tucker for handling a single criminal case on a pro bono basis. A question for Hurst and others who seek to villainize attorneys working as public defenders or pro bono: When they read or watch “To Kill a Mockingbird,” do they think Atticus Finch is the bad guy?

For the sake of science “You’re being studied for scientific research during the upcoming general election! You were randomly selected to be a subject in a study that examines why people do or do not vote. There is no need to respond to this letter.” So says the latest round of unsettling flyers mailed out to voters in the Little Rock area by Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the opaque, Koch brothers-funded political nonprofit. The front of the mailers indicate they’re from AFP’s “Department of Voter

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Education.” Aside from evoking the cheerily diabolical voice of a medical researcher from “A Clockwork Orange,” what exactly is going on here? AFP campaigns aggressively on behalf of conservative candidates and causes in state elections, so it’s likely they reflect some sort of partisan calculation. Maybe they’re just targeting likely Republicans; maybe there’s another angle. Anecdotally, a number of people have received mailers addressed to someone who no longer lives at that address, or never did. Also anecdotally: Whatever the intent, they’re really pissing people off.

The GOP thinks it’s a gaffe when you tell the truth Republicans were furious when Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu said the following (Landrieu is in a difficult fight for re-election; the results are not yet in as the Times goes to press). “The main reason the president has struggled here is because his energy policies are not in line with the people of Louisiana. We are a pro-drilling, pro-oil, gas state. The offshore moratorium was extremely unpopular and, in my opinion, wholly unwarranted. It made a lot of people

angry and put many businesses at risk. In addition, the South has not always been the friendliest or easiest place for African Americans to advance, and it’s been a difficult place for women to be recognized as the leaders we are. Everyone knows this is the truth, and I will continue to speak the truth even as some would twist my words seeking political advantage.” Landrieu, to her credit, refused to apologize for simply telling the truth about how many Louisianans regard Obama.

Health care, by the numbers 3.2 million: Number of uninsured Americans who would have health insurance today if all states had expanded Medicaid. So far, 24 states, including most of the South, have refused; Arkansas expanded Medicaid via the private option. 35.5 percent: Decrease in uninsured patients visiting the ER since the private option was implemented, over the first six months of 2014, according to survey of Arkansas hospitals. 46.5 percent: Decrease in uninsured hospitalizations. $69 million: Amount through six months Arkansas hospitals saved on uncompensated care due to the private option.

The Scrooge branch of government Millionaire Jackson T. “Steve” Stephens Jr., who lost a court fight to remove a minimum wage increase from the ballot, is very, very sad about the coming threat to freedom of paying Arkansans $8.50 an hour. He said this week that he’s thinking about putting some of his inherited wealth into a judicial recall measure in Arkansas. Stephens is still weighing whether to threaten judges with recall if they don’t do what he says, or alternatively whether to buy off future candidates for judge — he is also considering a “Club for Growth model for judicial elections,” he said. You know what they say: If you can’t convince ’em in the courtroom, scare ’em with your millions. Stephens and Sen. Jason Rapert (R-Conway), who wants to recall judges w h o are nice to gay people, will make a fine pair … although no matter how much money he spent, Stephens might have a little trouble rousing populist fury against a wildly popular minimum wage hike.

OPINION

Looking ahead on ethics

write on election eve, with feelings of dread generally, but dead certainty about one ballot issue. Arkansas voters will defeat the legislatively referred amendment to strengthen ethics laws. Some wellintentioned people, chiefly Rep. Warwick Sabin, undertook this proposal in the 2013 legislature to offer some good government. To get it done, they agreed to add-ons that poisoned the measure — a nonpolitical way for legislators to get pay raises and an extension of term limits. For working in a bipartisan spirit, ethics reformers got smeared by editorial writers and doublecrossed by the Republican Party, which turned on a measure that couldn’t have made the ballot without Republican majority support. The measure will be defeated thanks to term limits money. Fine. The ethics measures were worthy, particularly a ban on direct corporate campaign contributions and a ban of lobbyist wining and dining of lawmakers. But reformers aren’t done. They will

try again to pass a clean ethics bill. The greedheads and special interests will beat it in the legislature MAX most likely. And BRANTLEY maxbrantley@arktimes.com that could be the springboard for an initiative campaign. Then Arkansas could have a truly meaningful ethics law. No more wining and dining. Stiffer criminal penalties for ethics law violations. (Why not a felony for converting campaign money to personal use, as in federal law?) The end to corporate contributions, both to individual campaigns and PACs. The current law’s contribution limit of $2,000 for an individual is meaningless, as demonstrated by nursing home magnate Michael Morton, who’s spent a quarter-of-a-million through multiple corporate entities to buy influence with judges by the carload and an attorney general (an office that investigates nursing home fraud).

No matter real progress, midterms change hands

ny postmortem of a midterm elec- — well, it just gets tion, like Tuesday’s, must begin weary of him. It’s with the president of the United rarely the economy States. This time it must focus on a nar- that drowns him rower question, the one issue that most — the country has Americans associate with President Obama, been experiencing ERNEST the notorious health care law to which his a relative boom this DUMAS year, but to no avail enemies appended his name. The president has been the central for either Obama or his party. issue in the big elections on the ballot — for The U.S. economy was finally beginning Congress and governor — in nearly every to hum for both Ronald Reagan in 1986 and midterm election for a century, at least George W. Bush in 2006, but weariness with in two-party states, which now include the scandals of the Reagan administration Arkansas and the rest of the South. and frustrations with two wars that the lies Much has been written about how of the Bush presidency produced and his the president’s low approval ratings — bungling of Hurricane Katrina cost the party indeed the deep hatred for him in a few congressional control. In 1986, Republicans Southern and Plains states — was dragging lost the Senate and Democrats sharply Democrats down this month, likely increased their majority in the House. Bush strengthening Republican control of the cost his party even more dearly. Democrats House of Representatives and perhaps in 2006 won control of both houses and giving the party a majority in the Senate as most governorships and state legislatures. well. I write before those results are known. It needs to be pointed out that the But if none or little of that did happen, it big exception to the midterm blueprint would be rare indeed. The president’s party was Bill Clinton’s second term, in 1998. nearly always loses Senate and House seats Although he was harassed by congressional in midterm elections like this one, and more and congressionally inspired investigations dramatically in presidents’ final terms, when and the Republican House had initiated foreign crises and domestic scandals always impeachment proceedings, the president’s seem to swarm on presidents, and the public party defeated Republicans in both the

Lots of other things are possible, including emulating states that make lobbyists wear nametags at the Capitol. The measure also could include independence for the state Ethics Commission, an underfunded, understaffed agency that depends on the people it investigates for its meager livelihood. An independent financing mechanism is necessary to ensure its protection from vengeful legislators. The Ethics Commission has had nine employees for 15 years and its appropriation for operations has actually declined in that time. This week, post-election, the Commission will ask for a modest increase of $28,000 annually for operations so it can afford an office with room enough to hold a commission meeting. It also wants to add two lawyers and a compliance specialist, which would cost about $176,000. They need that and more. The hyperpartisan political atmosphere has dramatically increased efforts to search for opponents’ ethical blunders. Nothing wrong with that, but it takes staff to investigate the rising number of complaints, which seem likely to be up

40 percent in 2014 over 2012, with a near doubling of citizen-initiated complaints. The complaints are also becoming more complex as the amount of money at issue grows. The agency has long had to be too reactive because of its small size. A bigger agency could systematically review filings and correct problems before they grow from simple ignorance or honest mistake to institutionalized corruption (the cases of Paul Bookout and Mark Darr, for example). Legislators talk a lot about good government. They could do something about it by stiffening the ethics law and strengthening the agency that enforces the law. The budget hearing Thursday will give you some idea of how many are willing to put money where their mouths are. Footnote: After four years of Secretary of State Mark Martin’s self-congratulatory reign, we still don’t have online access to all campaign finance filings (independent expenditure reports, for example, are not available online). Nor has he made a meaningful move toward database filing that would allow for easier and thorough searches of contributors. Money should be spent on that, too.

Senate and House of Representatives — the only time in the past 190 years that the other party did not increase its seats in Congress in the president’s second term. The year 2014 clearly was not going to be the second exception to history’s rule. Obama’s image has not been besmirched by scandals like Reagan’s and, unlike Bush, he pulled the country out of two wars and kept its troops off the battlefield in the sectarian firestorm that has spread across the Middle East. Still, Obama has been a drag on the party across most of the country. Even so, he was not the albatross for his party that Bush was in 2006, Reagan in 1986, NixonFord in 1974 (their party shrank by 49 seats in the House), or Truman in 1950. What history may distinguish about this election, aside from the extreme bitterness and the gargantuan amounts spent, much of it secretly, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s serial decisions that put elections up to the highest bidder, is the narrow exploitation of the president’s declining approval ratings. In the battleground states, typically the South and Midwest, Republicans ran for nearly every state and national office by linking their Democratic opponents with Obama. The cookie-cutter theme was that their opponents would implement “the Obama agenda.” Except for the Affordable Care Act, they were never more specific. In Arkansas, the Obama agenda meant Obamacare and a vague sense that he

wanted to socialize the country somehow. Arkansans have had two experiences with the Obama agenda — the health care law and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the infamous stimulus, which ended the Great Recession when the money began flowing to state projects in the fall of 2009. It repaired bridges and highways all over Arkansas and pumped $825 million into the state health budget, which, with a little help from Obamacare, saved state tax dollars and gave Governor Beebe a budget surplus for four straight years. You know what else Obamacare did. It extended health insurance to nearly 300,000 Arkansans. By the end of this year, it will have lowered the state’s uninsured rate to single digits. It has put tens of millions of dollars into the pockets of the insured through rebates and Medicare drug savings. But you won’t be hearing much about Obamacare in the next election. That’s over. Nationally (but not in Arkansas) Republicans largely stopped promising to repeal Obamacare. Its chief foe, Kentucky’s Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, fighting for re-election, told Kentuckians over the weekend that if Obamacare was repealed they could keep all the insurance they got under Obamacare and others could get it, too. It was, of course, a lie. In an election, that’s permissible. www.arktimes.com

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The second installment in Arkansas Times’ new film series collaboration with the Little Rock Film Festival at the CALS Ron Robinson Theater.

The good, the bad and the ugly of the election

The film weaves together two stories that attempt to humanize the immigrant experience: In one, officials try to identify a dead man found in the Arizona desert with a tattoo of the words “Dayani Cristal” and no other form of identification. The other narrative follows filmmaker and actor Gael García Bernal (above) as he portrays a migrant traveling from Honduras.

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ecause of our publication schedule, I write this just after casting my vote at Dunbar Recreation Center on Election Day morning before any results are known. Will Arkansas’s role as a curious regional outlier end, morphing into a glob of reliably Republican mid-South states? Will a surprising set of Democratic victories leave everyone shaking their heads at Arkansas’s continued defiance of electoral expectations? Or, will a mixed result suggest that the 2016 election cycle is the one that will determine Arkansas’s true political future? The answers to these questions are only guesses as I write, but will be clearer by the time you read. This momentary interlude seems a natural time to reflect upon the experience of living through the many months of election cycle 2014 — which showed equal parts of good, bad and ugly. The Good: Contemporary electoral politics, with its emphasize on a field operation powered by paid and volunteer staffers, finally arrived in Arkansas. It provided innumerable young people amazing opportunities for campaign leadership roles and political experiences like the ones I had when I was young. A new generation of smart political operatives has been birthed this election cycle in Arkansas. Mixed into the formulaic national media stories (synopsized by the Arkansas Times’ own David Ramsey) was some truly excellent reporting on the state of Arkansas politics. Some came from standout national reporters who provided insights on the field program in the state, the geography of Arkansas’s electoral dynamics, and the test of Bill Clinton’s potency as an Arkansas vote-getter a generation after he last appeared on a state ballot. But exceptional work also came from those experienced writers who know the state’s political history and contemporary dynamics the best. The highlight of the latter group: John Brummett’s moving column on Bill Clinton’s brief meeting with Dale Bumpers as the latter’s life moves toward its end. The Bad: This was the year that Arkansas firmly parted from the traditional, personal style of Arkansas campaigns in races at the top of the ballot. Because it creates the sort of unpredictability that could cost D.C.-

based handlers their jobs, candidates rarely left perfectly controlled environments to interact JAY with real ArkanBARTH sans. Instead, the air war created by millions in outside spending drove the race and created much more heat than light. While races down the ticket maintained more authenticity, each day of the campaign for the races at the top of the ticket felt rote and passionless. We are lessened as a state because we now know the personalities, gifts and quirks of our public servants less than in the past. As I saw in community forums, Arkansas’s voters are thirsting for the kind of information they need to feel confident in doing their job as policymakers at the ballot box. Other states with a robust system of direct democracy invest in official voter guides that allow voters to be thoughtful about their work as citizen-legislators before they go to the polls. Fact sheets with the arguments for and against ballot measures are already collected by the Cooperative Extension Service but few voters get the information. If we are going to continue to make laws via the ballot box, it’s time for Arkansas to fund official voter guides that go to every registered voter. The Ugly: Passion about campaigns and causes is healthy, but during too many moments of Election 2014, a real incivility and bitterness crept into politics in Arkansas with the worst offenders (and they span the political spectrum) using Twitter as their cudgel of choice. The good-natured spirit that has traditionally driven Arkansas politics was replaced by a dour humorlessness with moments of real meanness popping to the fore all too often. With Arkansas’s political activists interacting via technology rather than in person, I fear this ugly change to the Arkansas political landscape is the new normal. While the bad and ugly outweighed the good most days of Election 2014, I was left thankful that so many — candidates and workers alike, across the political spectrum — put themselves on the line in this election cycle. As Dale Bumpers put it, politics remains a noble profession.

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edge you have gained; what you have learned during your sojourn on Earth. And one of the TERRENCE more fascinating ROBERTS ways to learn is to read. Read about the options available to you as you seek to choose the best possible selections from life’s menu. Read about the lives of other people who look like you, see for yourself what strategies they employed to solve the mysteries of life. Read as if your life depended upon it; and in some cases that is very true indeed! If you are a person of color reading these lines, I urge you to consider yet another vital reason to develop a voracious appetite for reading. There are pernicious narratives embedded in the national psyche, mythological tales designed to convince you and all others in your universe that you and your kind are not worthy to be included in the mainstream of human endeavor. Through reading you will find counter-narratives; you will discover voices that speak a truth you need to hear. Immersed as we are in a society splashing about in the stale waters of racist ideology, we need to use every tool at our disposal to avoid being infected by the viral organisms of racial hatred and notions of white superiority. My assignment to groups of students I speak to around the country is for them to read one book per week, for life. Try it for yourself. See what a difference it can make in your ability to see through the fog of misinformation and obfuscation. Model for the universe the power of reading in your life; set the standard for those who will receive the baton from you as you finish your race. Please join me and other amazing writers as we share our stories and books at the upcoming National Black Children’s Book Fair Tour kickoff events Friday, Nov. 7, at the Central High National Historic Site and the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, and continuing Saturday, Nov. 8, at Rockefeller Elementary, 700 W. 17th St. For more details and inquiries call 501952-6169, email info@speakloudly.com or visit speakloudly.com. Dr. Terrence Roberts is a retired clinical psychologist who is most publically known as a member of the Little Rock Nine. Currently CEO of his consulting firm, Terrence Roberts is the author of two books: “Lessons from Little Rock” and “Simple Not Easy: Reflections on community social responsibility and tolerance (Our National Conversation).” He will be the keynote speaker Saturday at Rockefeller Elementary; the event runs 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

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he simple truth is I don’t remember when it was that I knew I could read; it seems as if reading was one of the apps included in my newborn starter kit. A stretch to be sure, but this habit of reading has been with me for a long time. The memory of me leaning against the cherry tree in our back yard with a book propped on my knees competes with another memory of me scrunched down under the dining room table with a glass of milk, a peanut butter sandwich and, you guessed it, a book! Books filled with majesty and wonder, the excitement of dramatic encounters, history, biography, autobiography, travel adventures; anything I could get my hands on qualified as acceptable reading. And then, I went to school. Here another dimension of reading was opened for my discovery. I learned that books could lead you to the headwaters of almost any flowing stream of information. If you wanted to know how and when about this or that, it was most likely to be found in a book. One of the more eye-opening discoveries came in high school, where Negro history was a required course. Now my reading became a more well-sculpted process. I learned about the man for whom our elementary school had been named; he was Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, who was, in the late 19th century, city judge for Little Rock. And about Paul Laurence Dunbar, the famous poet for whom our high school was named. Their stories were more than inspirational; their ability to navigate a terrain designed to crush them told me that I too could succeed. You see, I grew up in a time when racial discrimination was ordained by law. This meant that I was not able to gain access to all of the potential reading material available in Little Rock. The main library was deemed to be a “whites only” institution. The “Ivy Branch” library, located in an area where many black people lived, was the city’s concession to its black citizens. I became a regular patron at the Ivy Branch; I read just about every book they put on their shelves. OK, another stretch, but you get the picture! My friend Cleo, who now lives in Atlanta, told me last year that he would often rush to the library to check out a book before I got there but was more often than not chagrined to find my name already stamped on the sign-out card. Even if you are not as addicted as I have become, there is something about this notion of reading that bears close scrutiny. What is the one thing that truly serves to separate people into groups? It is most certainly not race, you can be sure about that, and it not about how much money you have. It is instead the amount of knowl-

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his was the one. Alabama? Meh. The Tide had just lost to Ole Miss. Georgia? Nope. Texas A&M? Well, it would’ve been a big one then, but it ended up being even more of a travesty of a loss thanks to the Aggies’ pitiful four-game stretch that followed. No, Arkansas needed to beat Mississippi State. The Hogs absolutely had to conduct a massive book burning at Davis-Wade Stadium on Saturday night, specifically torching the fairy tale that Dak Prescott & Co. had been assiduously scripting from week to week. Sixteen-game conference losing streak dating back to Obama’s first term versus sudden ordained Rock of Gibraltar in a swirling sea of inexplicable laydowns and whiffs by others. This was it. The moment for Arkansas to flip college football on its noggin, get loads of escalating frustration and concern pushed aside, and maybe even move into the by-God polls with a modest 5-4, 1-4 record. The Hogs were ball-hawking on defense and ball-deflating on offense, just like Bret Bielema wants it to be. The execution in the first half wasn’t perfect, but it didn’t have to be, because the Bulldogs were just ugly. Arkansas smacked home an early field goal and then got a touchdown run from Alex Collins a few plays after Jamoral Graham botched a punt return. The Hogs were composed, and the Bulldogs were rattled. That was, however, followed by a quickly efficient return to normalcy for Mississippi State, a scoring drive that made it 10-7, and the Hogs twice failed to take advantage of excellent field position. Brooks Ellis’ interception on third down in the waning minute of the first half may have ended up being the decisive play, because the Hogs had little time to engineer any kind of quick-strike offense with only 34 seconds left in the half. Three incompletions and a punt made the enormous turnover amount to nothing, and more or less stemmed all momentum. After halftime, the old self-inflicted wounds started piling up. A huge unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Drew Morgan took the thrust away from a developing drive. Once the Bulldogs tied it on a field goal afterward, the Razorbacks got a huge burst from Collins to stake themselves in the red zone ... and they backpedaled again thanks to a false-start penalty. That led to a missed field goal, and Mississippi State wasted no time taking the ultimate lead with a 69-yard chuck to Fred Ross for the easiest touchdown in Starkville this year.

Brandon Allen did what he could from there, inasmuch as Arkansas fans will be reticent BEAU to give him credit. WILCOX In the Hogs’ final two drives, he was a combined 7 for 15 and a couple of the incompletions were attributable to the receivers. Here again, a team terribly ill-equipped to either protect for more than mere moments or utilize receivers with separation ability or requisite speed did all it could in the face of those limitations. Allen reasonably and properly relied upon Hunter Henry for five big grabs on those last two marches, but ultimately a bewildering fourth-andgoal run by Alex Collins was predictably stuffed and Allen’s last toss for Demetrius Wilson in the end zone was underthrown, but also Wilson failed to turn defensive on it, so it was a game-killing pick. So there it was. Arkansas 10 (the same 10 points it had two hours prior) to Mississippi State’s 17. No. 1 stayed that way. The cellar-dwelling Hogs stayed there, too. Ho-hum. The bulk of this column is a recapitulation of events because at this point it almost belies much more commentary. You have to watch and sadly relive a Hog game now to truly appreciate the sheer amalgam of rotten luck, shabby execution and cruel teasing that goes down from week to week. If you like the films of Darren Aronofsky, oh man, is Arkansas football right in your wheelhouse. Just watch, rejoice in the occasional beauty, and then sit there numbed beyond movement as the credits roll. I’ve got a friend who remarked repeatedly early in the season that Arkansas had a chance to be the best 5-7 college football team in history, and hell, at this point he’s possibly on target, assuming Arkansas scares up a single SEC victory to hit that mark. The Hogs have suffered mightily for the few really awful episodes, and that serves to mask how by-god determined this bunch is. They’ve advanced well toward respectability and done and said so many things right. But it leaves Bielema facing inordinate pressure for the last three games and for the season after, and the Hogs’ nagging offensive inconsistencies beg for a reevaluation of Jim Chaney’s worth come December. There’s too much abundant talent on that side of the ball for a team to get stonewalled after 10 points, or for the offense to sputter like it did in the first half against Georgia after a terrific opening drive.

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he Observer got up to Eureka Springs with the family over the long Halloween weekend, a good spot for such ghoulishness. Walked the streets, sat through the zombie parade on Saturday night, marveled at the place and fell a bit more in love with it. We’ve haunted that town for many a year. Spent our honeymoon there in the Basin Park Hotel an age ago, in fact, after a long and ill-advised trip from El Dorado to Eureka via Scenic Hwy. 7. Wasn’t all that scenic by the time we pulled into town long after midnight, exhausted from white-knuckling up twisting mountain roads straight out of “The Shining.” In hindsight, we should have taken the freeway, though it did give Yours Truly time to bond with our new bride, and the idea that we were hitched. Back then, 1997ish or so (please don’t skin us alive for not knowing the exact year, Spouse), it wasn’t the refined Eureka Springs, full of lovely shops and lovely things, which you might know today. This was in the heyday of Tourist Trap Eureka, when the Passion Play was the hottest thing going and every store seemed stocked with the same assortment of corncob pipes, Booger Holler T-shirt castoffs, and ceramic thimbles recalling a visit to the concrete skyscraper Jesus on the mountain. The Newlywed Observer struggled mightily over the course of a week there to find something worthy to commemorate our nuptials, finally settling on a row of tiny brass cats sitting on a fence, their tails hanging down to create a series of key hooks. It’s home at The Observatory right now, in fact, screwed to the wall just inside the front door. It’s been there year upon year, just like Mrs. and Mr. Observer. In addition to the Halloween events, this was one of Eureka’s thrice yearly (count ’em!) Diversity Weekends, so the streets were full of happy gay and lesbian couples, doing what couples do in a strange and interesting town, which mostly amounts to walking in and out of shops with one partner looking bored as hell while the other demonstrates how incredibly interesting scented candles can be. The Observer was proud of

Eureka then — a little island of tolerance in Northwest Arkansas, parts of which don’t do tolerance all that well. That kind of thing goes a lot further with Yours Truly than Victorian charm. As we said: We love that place, that little time capsule lost in the mountains, where all manner of magic creatures might reside. You may chuckle, given how close Little Rock is to The Observer’s tormented heart, but Yours Truly could see moving there and opening The Northwest Observatory someday. Maybe write a quirky little column full of recipes, character sketches and homespun wisdom for the Lovely County Citizen. Work as the pilot of the town’s rare taxicab. Buy an accordion, learn one song (“I Only Have Eyes for You”) and play it over and over for tourists at Basin Spring. Order a fedora and become the village’s sole private detective, puzzling out The Mystery of the Bird Bath Drownings and Murder at the New Orleans Hotel and The Case of the Pinched Pomeranian (“Mr. Jones, I think if you’ll look behind the secret panel in the back of that chifferobe, you’ll find Princess Poochie von Cummerbund safe inside, along with your mother’s diamond brooch!”). Find a bar where everybody knows Yours Truly as Inky Dave. Walk home in February through streets where the light from the store windows plays on the unblemished blanket of new snow, winding back to where we belong through puddles of gold, to a little cottage where Spouse is waiting in the doorway in her robe, smiling, saying: “I was worried, my love.” What a dream. What a life that would be. Trouble in paradise, though: The Observer was sitting on a bench outside a corndog and cider stand on Eureka’s Main Street Saturday night, waiting for our bride to get her drink, when a kid ran up, snatched the stand’s tip jar off the counter, and hauled ass. Kinda weird that we left troubled Little Rock behind for the weekend, only to witness our first crime of the year in the Mountain Mayberry of Arkansas. If only they had a good private detective to solve The Case of the Purloined Pourboire. Hmmmmm ...

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Department of nonsensical analogies Dana Kelley’s bizarre column in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Oct. 31 argued that hooded sweatshirts, commonly known as hoodies, are a symbol of violence, which is equivalent to the symbolism inherent in the Confederate battle flag. Or something. It’s no easy task to parse such a bitterly confused diatribe. Kelley seems a bit bummed that “many people of the politically liberal persuasion” believe that “regardless of what historical merit or significance a Confederate battle flag might hold, they often argue that it is often viewed as a symbol of slavery, and that’s reason enough for polite people not to display it.” We’re not sure what “historical merit” means. Here is the history: What is now commonly known as the “Confederate flag” was one of the battle flags used by a treasonous army of men who seceded from the Union so that they might continue unfettered the enslavement of black people. In case you often wonder why people “often argue that it is often viewed as a symbol of slavery,” that’s the reason: The men fighting a war against the United States of America under that flag were fighting to preserve white supremacy and slavery. Don’t take our word for it! Here’s Alexander H. Stephens, the vice president of the Confederate States of America: “Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.” So that’s why some people (not just liberals!) are “sensitive” about folks displaying the Confederate battle flag. The problem runs a bit deeper than being impolite. But don’t worry, Kelley is feeling charitable: “Even when I disagree with their position, I do understand and support their compassionate approach — as long as it works both ways, which it usually doesn’t.” Here is the moment we’ve been waiting for: the worst analogy ever penned. According to Kelley, armed robbers often wear hoodies. Therefore, hoodies are “the uniform of choice for armed thugs and a ubiquitous symbol 12

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BRING CHANGE: In-state calls continue to cost more for inmates than state-to-state calls, which were significantly reduced by FCC order.

Hanging up Group seeks cheaper in-state phone rates, charges for prisoners. BY DAVID KOON

local group that advocates for inmates and their families has submitted a petition to the Arkansas Board of Correction, asking it to follow the lead of the Federal Communications Commission in reducing the rates and fees charged to inmates making phone calls from Arkansas prisons. But the Arkansas Department of Correction says that the commissions paid to the agency by prison phone providers pay for crucial monitoring, and contribute to projects and supplies that would never get paid for without that income. The ADC issued what’s called a Request for Technical Proposals, seeking bidders for a new inmate phone contract, on Oct. 8. The local group, the Arkansas chapter of Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants, or CURE, published the petition on the website moveon.org. The petition includes almost 300 signatures. CURE director Jean Thrash said the group presented the petition to the correction board earlier this month. As spelled out in the petition, CURE would like the board to make the rates and connection fees charged to inmates for in-state calls commensurate with those charged for state-to-state calls, as regulated in a recent order by the FCC. In August 2013, the FCC voted to cap rates on state-to-state prisoner

phone calls at 21 cents per minute on debit or prepaid calls, and 25 cents per minute for collect state-to-state calls. In addition, the FCC ruled that any rates, fees and ancillary charges attached to state-to-state inmate phone calls must be related to the cost of security directly related to inmate call monitoring, switching and cost of equipment, and should not include costs relating to commissions paid by phone providers to prisons and jails by phone providers. The ruling went into effect on Feb. 11. Under the ADC’s current inmate phone contract, signed with Alabama firm Global Tel-Link in February 2012, prisoners paid a $3.95 connection fee on every state-to-state call, then 45 cents a minute, meaning that a 15-minute call to another state would have cost an Arkansas inmate $10.70 before the FCC order. For in-state calls, the ADC phone provider currently bills a $3 connection fee on every call, then 12 cents a minute, meaning that a 15-minute in-state call by an inmate would be $4.80. Inmate calls to private parties are limited to 15 minutes, while calls to an inmate’s attorney are limited to 30 minutes. The FCC’s cap ruling did not affect the rates and fees charged on in-state calls. The ADC’s current phone contract returns 45 percent of the money spent on every inmate call to the ADC as a commission. According to the ADC’s

Oct. 8 bid request, between July 2011 and July 2014, the ADC reaped a commission of $5.86 million from inmate phone calls — about $1.5 million per year on average — with inmates making 32,745,796 minutes worth of in-state phone calls, 2,860,853 minutes of state-to-state calls, and 13,027 minutes of international calls. The ADC made just under $1.9 million in commissions from inmate phone calls last year, according to the document. CURE Director Thrash believes that’s too much, and that connection fees are hurting struggling families with an incarcerated loved one. “It’s terribly unfair as far as the costs go,” Thrash said. “You and I are paying pennies for long distance and local phone calls.” Thrash said that under the FCC order that went into effect in February, it’s now cheaper for an inmate to call California from Cummins Penitentiary than it is for the same inmate to call Conway. She said the goal of the petitions sent to the Corrections Board is to bring the rates charged on in-state calls in line with those charged on state-to-state calls while eliminating connection fees and lowering the commissions paid to the ADC. While $4.80 may not seem like a lot to most people, Thrash said that it can be the difference between inmates having a connection with their families and children or not. A sense of disconnection from families, Thrash said, leads former inmates right back to prison. “A lot of our families are struggling at best,” Thrash said. “Nobody will question the importance of maintaining family relationships when someone is sent to prison. ... That’s going to increase the possibility that they won’t return to prison — that connection.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 32

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Every week since September, we’ve been asking Arkansas musicians to make digital guest mixes for our Rock Candy blog. Check out a few of the lists, which you can hear at arktimes.com/guestmix, below. There you’ll also find more from the likes of The Coasts, CT (Rwake, Iron Tongue), Andrew Morgan (Country Florist, Chinese Girls) and Pepperboy. 8. Steel Pulse, “Your House” 9. The Clash, “Ghetto Defendant” 10. Shabazz Palaces, “Are You … Can You … Were You? (Felt)” 11. Femi Kuti, “Oyimbo”

Bonnie Montgomery I’ve never been a good DJ really, always throwing in a Rossini aria or some spoken word ballad by Johnny Cash at a late-night party, but I do listen to music constantly and had fun putting this list together. I narrowed it down to music I’m listening to a lot this week, some of my alltime favorites, and mostly (hopefully) a playlist that others might enjoy. I could go to the moon and back explaining each and every song, its instrumentation, lyrical structure, its meaning to me, its meaning in our culture, and so on. Maybe we can do that at a late-night party. 1. Johnny Cash, “Out Among the Stars” 2. Sturgill Simpson, “Life of Sin” 3. Dolly Parton, “Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8) 4. Isaac Alexander, “It’s Not True, It’s Just You” 5. Gram Parsons, “Still Feeling Blue” 6. Jesse Aycock, “Out to Space” 7. Eagles, “Journey of the Sorcerer” 8. Patsy Cline, “Back in Baby’s Arms” Romance ruins everything. It pervades into every fiber of our social tapestry and fills our minds with the mirage that is wholeness. We are obsessed with “having it all,” whatever that means Joshua Asante (Amasa individually. And when Hines, Velvet Kente) we cannot have it, we feel a varying sense of loss that often propels us toward self-injury. At many different points in my stumble I have felt this pang. For me, music has become the anti-venom; a place to sit down inside myself and find balance. A space to appreciate what my efforts could conjure without being bound to notions of completion and failure. So, here’s my mix, “Songs to Keep Me From Jumping From Tall Things.” Enjoy and share. Dance a step or two. 1. The Walkmen, “In the New Year” 2. Jay Electronica, “Exhibit C” 3. Bright Eyes, “I Will Be Grateful for This Day” 4. Adam Faucett, “Love” 5. TV On The Radio, “Wolf Like Me” 6. MF DOOM, “Lemon Grass” 7. Shuggie Otis, “Aht Uh Mi Hed”

This is my Saturday night/Sunday morning mix. At my house, marking the ebb and flow of days is almost ritual. For years, my wife, Robyn, and I did not officially end our week and signal the beginning of the weekend without dropping the needle Greg Spradlin on Hound Dog Taylor’s “Genuine House Rocking Music” LP. Still, when I hear Hound Dog say, “OK baby, look out honey, let’s go to town town …” at the beginning of “Gonna Send You Back to Georgia,” it feels like Friday night and a highball full of bourbon. Most of those nights, the record played through both sides before we were properly ready for whatever we had planned. If this record can’t rock your house, you live in a storm cellar. As important as it is to begin Saturday night right, I like bringing the weekend to a peaceful, recuperative close with some serious soul singing. One of the things my friend and fellow former member of the Southern Baptist Cult, Jim Dickinson, and I bonded over was the fact that good old-time gospel singing was the only church we could ever get behind and maybe the only keys to the kingdom you can hang your hat on. Nothing says some of these can’t be transposed from Saturday to Sunday and vice versa. No judgment. Saturday 1. Hound Dog Taylor, “Gonna Send You Back to Georgia” 2. Los Lobos, “Mas Y Mas” 3. Alvin Robinson, “Down Home Girl” 4. Bo Diddley, “I’m Looking for a Woman” 5. Treat Her Right, “I Think She Likes Me” 6. R.L. Burnside, “Old Black Mattie” 7. Bobby King and Terry Evans, “Bald Head” 8. Al Green, “Love and Happiness” Sunday 9. Staple Singers, “Freedom Highway” 10. Sam Cook and the Soul Stirrers, “How Far Am I From Canaan” 11. Sister Rosetta, “Up Above My Head” 12. Pops Staples, “I Shall Not Be Moved” 13. Mississippi Fred McDowell, “When I Lay My Burdens Down” 14. Mahalia Jackson, “Precious Lord”

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INSIDER, CONT. of crime” and “[t]hat’s reason enough to stigmatize hoodies and publicly shame” people who wear hoodies. Kelley thinks this is analogous to Confederate flags and racist nicknames. Kelley’s point is that a tiny subset of people use a completely neutral object — a hooded sweatshirt — and do bad stuff. Might that be different in kind from the historical battle flag of pro-slavery factions that made war with the United States and terrorized black Americans? Imagine Kelley was at a football game. If he waved a Confederate flag or did the Tomahawk chop, he runs the risk of offending others because those are symbols loaded with meaning. Their origin — the reason they are offensive — is part of a history that he can choose to confront or choose to ignore. “Heritage, not hate” sounds an awful lot like blinders to a hateful heritage. Meanwhile, if he puts a hoodie on at a football game, the symbolism is clear indeed: He’s keeping warm.

Money, money, money The story of Election 2014, after President Obama, is money. Gobs of money. Super money. A recent report from USA Today listed 42 people who together put $200 million into super PACS, accounting alone for almost a third of super PAC spending in the midterm elections. Those 42 major political players include two from Arkansas — Warren Stephens, the CEO of Stephens Inc., who has put $3.035 million into super PACS, and Ron Cameron, the Mountaire poultry magnate, who has contributed $2.35 million. Stephens is the 11th biggest contributor, just behind George Soros. A couple of the heavy hitters on the list — Robert McNair of Houston and Seth Klarman of Boston — put $600,000 into the Arkansas Horizons PAC that hammered Mark Pryor on behalf of Tom Cotton. The recently deceased Little Rock industrialist Ed Ligon also contributed $10,000. Remember this is just super PAC money. The 501(c)(4) “educational” nonprofits spent huge sums, too, and far less disclosure is required of them. These wealthy people also make direct contributions, PAC contributions and political party contributions. Top employees of such people also know to follow suit with similar giving. If Warren Stephens appears on a campaign list in Arkansas, you can bet his family and Stephens employees and contractors will turn up as well. www.arktimes.com

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ONCE A YEAR: The Razorbacks have dropped their annual football visits to Little Rock a sole trip.

WAR MEMORIAL’S DAYS ARE NUMBERED At least as a place where the Razorbacks play football. BY EVIN DEMIREL

it plays a home game at the 55,000-seat War Memorial Stadium, Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long told the Associated Press last year. Driving up the cost of select War Memorial tickets to $100, as the UA recently did with a mandatory $35 donation to the Razorback Foundation for nonmembers, can only absorb so much of the difference. Razorback home games at War Memorial are a 66-year-old tradition that reached a zenith in the 1970s when Arkansas often played more games in Little Rock (4) than Fayetteville (3).

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few weeks ago, the University of Arkansas’s football program released its 2015 schedule. Also released: any enduring hope among Razorback fans that Little Rock and its no-longer-grand-enough War Memorial Stadium will remain a second home. The process of ushering the doddering old man out the door has been ongoing for about 15 years now, ever since Fayetteville’s Reynolds Razorback Stadium expanded from 51,000 to 72,000 seats. This means Arkansas leaves nearly a million dollars on the table every time

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COSTLY TICKET: Even some seats in the end zones at War Memorial Stadium required a first-timeever $35 surcharge to go to the Razorback Foundation on top of the $65 regular ticket price of the Georgia game here. Conference games in Fayetteville are also $10 cheaper than the one game played in Little Rock.

Rock before Arkansas’s contract with War Memorial Stadium runs out. That foe could very well be a cellar-dwelling Vanderbilt, or a sorry-again Ole Miss. In the meantime, fans can look forward to the University of Toledo as the Hogs’ single War Memorial game in 2015, the first time since 1947 (when UA played North Texas) Arkansas hasn’t played a conference home game in Little Rock. This Mid-American Conference program, which plays against the likes of UMass and the University of New Hampshire, has lost all three games it has played against SEC competition. It is not a foe to get the blood pumping. Some are optimistic that the Sept. 12, 2015, matchup will still be a sellout; the Georgia game fell a couple hundred tickets sold shy of a full house. “I would be surprised if it’s not,” said Nancy Monroe, board member of the War Memorial Stadium Commission and Little Rock resident. “They’re early in the season.

The weather should be good.” Others aren’t so optimistic, given the opponent isn’t in one of the major conferences. “As far as I’m concerned, the debate is over and the games are leaving Little Rock,” ArkansasFight.com’s Doc Harper wrote. “We’re just running out the contract like when Prince released a couple of quick crap albums in the ’90s to get out of his Warner Bros. deal.” Plenty of fans feel remorse that Little Rock’s once central place in the Razorbacks’ schedule has been knocked down so many rungs. After the new one-gamea-year schedule was settled, “we were very disappointed,” Monroe said. Little Rock games are a “great unifying thing for us, for the state of Arkansas. There are a lot of people from Little Rock and southward who just logistically aren’t gonna make it to Fayetteville.” Still, it shouldn’t be forgotten the main motives behind this demotion — “brand building” and revenue generation — are

the same reasons Little Rock was used as a second home in the first place. In the early 1930s, Arkansas leaders knew if their program was ever going to become nationally competitive it needed to have more support from its entire state, to stop losing the likes of Ken Kavanaugh (Little Rock High grad) to LSU and Don Hutson (Pine Bluff High) and Paul Bryant (Fordyce High) to Alabama. So Arkansas leaders, like those at universities in Alabama and Mississippi, decided to take their team away from its rural campus and parade it in a bigger, in-state city in front of more media and fans. Oregon did the same by traveling from Eugene to Portland. Washington State traveled from Pullman to Spokane, while Ole Miss traveled to Jackson and Auburn traveled to Birmingham. Each of the programs pulled out of these metro areas at different times; one overriding reason was the same as in Arkansas’s case — the campus’ stadium simply outgrew

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the metro area’s stadium. This especially came to the fore in the late 1980s as Auburn jockeyed to stop playing Iron Bowl games at 75,000seat Legion Field in Birmingham, to take advantage of the 10,000 extra seats in Auburn’s expanded Jordan-Hare Stadium. Quoting former Auburn athletic director David Housel, the New York Times reported that, “It got to the point that even Auburn fans living in Birmingham were so ready to drive the 120 miles to campus, they would ‘refuse to buy tickets to the Auburn-Alabama game if it was in Birmingham.’ ” Every team, as you see in the chart accompanying this article, has dropped its dual home arrangement in the last 50 years. Programs like Oregon, Virginia Tech, Alabama and Auburn have gone on to contend for or win national championships since they stopped. Yes, War Memorialists, it’s true: Arkansas has become unique in the sense that it appears to be the only program still hanging on to this practice. But is that something to be proud of? It’s better to be proud of winning at a high level, a la Oregon, Auburn and Alabama. Hanging on to War Memorial hasn’t recently helped Arkansas get to this level. Its function was served in helping lift Arkansas to the nationally elite level it enjoyed through much of the 1960s through 1980s. But it will not serve in getting Arkansas to the level Jeff Long, Bret Bielema et al. expect it to reach in the later 2010s and 2020s. In the 1930s and ’40s, the smartest rural programs traveled 30, 50, 100 or 150 miles to the in-state stadiums that would give their teams the most bang for their buck in terms of exposure and revenue. In today’s world, where cable television and the Internet make distance far less of an obstacle for fans to follow their teams, the smartest programs realize that “neutral site” games in Texas metro sites often provide the best return. Do you think any Notre Dame fans complained in 2009 when their Fighting Irish decided to play Washington State not in Indianapolis, but in San Antonio? No, because a) Notre Dame is a national brand and caters to a national audience and b) no program can thrive in today’s competitive recruiting market without spreading its nets as wide as a Texas sunset. If Arkansas wants to be a national powerhouse, wants to sign the best players nationwide and wants nationwide respect, it has to better and more consistently take advantage of its proximity to Texas. That’s why Arkansas has started an annual series with Texas A&M in Arlington at the Dallas Cowboys’ masCONTINUED ON PAGE 18

OTHER SCHOOLS WITH MULTIPLE HOME STADIUMS OREGON Home campus: Eugene Home away from home: Portland Years played there: On and off until 1924, then every year through 1966. Last game: 1970 Distance between homes: 110 miles Big win: Oct. 5, 1957: 21-0 over a UCLA team that would finish 8-2 Sample decade: 1952-62: Record of 11-11* *Includes rivalry games with Oregon State

OREGON STATE Home campus: Corvallis Home away from home: Portland Years played there: On and off until 1941, then every year through 1973 (with exception of two WWII years in which team wasn’t fielded). Last game: 1986 Distance between homes: 82 miles Big win: Oct. 16, 1971: 24-18 over an Arizona State team which would finish 11-1. Sample decade: 1963-73: Record of 11-4

WASHINGTON STATE Home campus: Pullman No. 1 home away from home: Spokane* Years played there: 1950-1983 Last game: 1983 Distance between homes: 75 miles *In 1970, WSU’s home stadium burned due to suspected arson (possibly involving a perpetrator from the rival University of Idaho only eight miles away). As a result, WSU played all its home games in Spokane in 1970 and 1971. Big win: Sept. 23, 1978 — 51-26 over an Arizona State team that would finish 9-3. Sample decade: 1973-83: Record of 8-12 No. 2 home away from home: Seattle (the Seattle Seahawks’ stadium, Centurylink Field) Years played non-UW opponents there: 2002 through 2008; 2011; 2012-14* Last game scheduled: 2014 Distance between homes: 286 Big win: August 31, 2002: 31-7 over Nevada to set the tone for a 10-3 season that ended in the Rose Bowl. Record since 2002 at what’s now Centurylink Field: 6-5 *The campus of this program’s rival — the University of Washington — is in Seattle. So WSU often plays WU there. Washington State had also

played three home games in Seattle against out-of-state powerhouses (USC, Ohio State) in the 1970s. It lost them all.

OLE MISS Home campus: Oxford No. 1 home away from home: Memphis Years played there: 1935-1968 (except for during WWII in 1943 and 1964) Last game: 1996 Distance between homes: 83 miles Big win: Nov. 13, 1965: Gave Tennessee its only defeat of the season 14-13. The Volunteers finished with an 8-1-2 record. Sample decade: 1958-1968: Record of 12-1* *Includes games with the University of Tennessee and Arkansas. No. 2 home away from home: Jackson, Miss. Years played there: On and off until 1964, then 1964 thru 1993* Last game: 1996 Distance between homes: 163 miles Big win: Sept 17, 1977: 20-13 over a Notre Dame team that would finish 11-1. Sample decade: 1972-1982: Record of 16-23-1 *Includes annual rivalry game with Mississippi State; in 1973 and 1979, Ole Miss played five games in Jackson and two in Oxford. Also regularly played Southern Miss (with a campus 87 miles away) in Jackson.

MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY Home campus: Starkville Home away from home: Jackson Years played there: On and off until 1961, then 1961 through 1990* Last game: 1990 Distance between homes: 129 miles Big win: Nov. 1, 1980 — 6-3 over an Alabama team that would finish 10-2. Sample decade: 1975-1985: 18-18 Includes annual rivalry game with Ole Miss; in 1973 and 1979, MSU played five games in Jackson and two in Starkville. Also regularly played Southern Miss (with a campus 89 miles away) in Jackson.

ALABAMA Home campus: Tuscaloosa No. 1 home away from home: Birmingham Years played there: 1900-2003* Last game: 2003 Distance between homes: 57 miles

Big win: Oct. 21, 1989 — 47-30 over a Tennessee team which would finish 11-1. Sample decade: 1984-1993: Record of 21-11-1 *Includes annual rivalry game with Auburn and SEC championship games. In 1987, played all home games in Birmingham because of major renovation of home stadium. No. 2 home away from home: Montgomery Years played there: Annually 1922 through 1934; on and off until 1954 Last game: 1954 Distance between homes: 104 miles Big win: Nov. 14, 1925 — preserved an undefeated season by beating Florida (which would finish 8-2) 34-0. Sample decade: 1922-1931: Record of 10-1

AUBURN No. 1 home away from home: Birmingham Years played there: 1904 through 1988 Last game: 1998 Distance between homes: 112 miles *After 1974, only played rivalry games there with Tennessee and Alabama Big win: Sept. 39, 1972 — 10-6 over a Tennessee team which would finish 10-2. Sample decade: 1967-1975: Record of 10-7 No. 2 home away from home: Montgomery Years played there: 1920-1951 Last game: 1953 Distance between homes: 55 miles Big win: Oct. 19, 1935 — 23-0 over a 3-1 Kentucky team. Sample decade: 1931-1940: Record of 17-3

VIRGINIA TECH Home campus: Blacksburg Home away from home: Roanoke Years played there: Used almost exclusively as site of rivalry game with Virginia Military Institute until 1936, then through 1971. Last game: 1971 Distance between homes: 41 miles Big win: Nov. 30, 1922 — 7-3 over a VMI team that would finish 7-2. Sample decade: 1936-1947: Record of 4-8-3 All records according to jhowell. net, a historical college football database. Follow the history-centric author on Twitter @evindemirel. www.arktimes.com

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TAILGATING TRUMPS ALL: Little Rock backers of Razorback games in Central Arkansas like to note having a perfect tailgating setup on the War Memorial Park golf course.

sive AT&T Stadium. That series, which would encounter scheduling complications if Arkansas were to keep two games in Little Rock, is also a major factor why Jeff Long decided it was best to drop War Memorial games to one a year and gain flexibility. Arkansas is special in that it still clings to a 20th century business practice long ago abandoned by competitors. That fact in and of itself is nothing to waste a Hog Call on.

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The University of Arkansas pays War Memorial Stadium $75,000 of rent per game it plays there, but those payments will stop after 2016. It must develop other revenue streams. It still hosts small college and high school football games and

its renovated press box and luxury suites helped it attract about 200 events in the last year, including weddings, wedding receptions, business meetings, class reunions, hospital fundraisers and birthday parties, stadium manager Charlie Staggs said. While plenty of small events help pay the bills, the stadium’s blockbuster events appear to be dwindling. Last year, it was a candidate for a new bowl game but the bowl’s organizers opted instead for Montgomery, Ala., where next month it will debut in a 25,000-person stadium as the Camellia Bowl. In past decades, headliners like The Rolling Stones and Elton John performed at War Memorial but such marquee acts are waning, too. Staggs said he was optimistic a big concert was coming in May 2015 after an

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event company had told him to reserve a date for a not-yet-announced act, but recently “they called up and told us we’d been removed.” No reason was provided. Should soccer be a bigger part of War Memorial’s future? American and Mexican national teams, as well as internationally renowned clubs like Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, have proven to be hits at the University of Michigan, Birmingham’s Legion Field and AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Given Arkansas’s growing Hispanic population and the state’s growing number of soccer fans, bringing in a similar caliber of soccer stars might sell out War Memorial. Its staff has already begun preliminary discussions with some professional soccer clubs, but nothing has advanced beyond that, assistant stadium manager Jerry Cohen said. But to host major soccer matches, War Memorial needs to be permanently modified. Currently its field’s four corners, near the goal lines, are appropriate for football but aren’t wide enough for soccer. “We would have to take out a couple rows of seats to make a regulation soccer stadium in there,” Staggs said. Such a change made to the seats on the east and west sides would cost at least $500,000, he added. “Later on, I think this is a question the commission might want to look at so that we could get some high-profile soccer events in here since soccer is getting so popular now.” While War Memorial’s Razorback football glory days are fading, futbol might help it remain a major sports venue. This article originally appeared in modified form on the author’s site, thesportsseer.com.

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HEADLINE WEST: Kari Faux and Malik Flint (a.k.a. BLACK PARTY) are leaving Little Rock for L.A. and opportunity.

Exit interview: Kari Faux and BLACK PARTY Two Little Rock rappers say goodbye to Arkansas. BY WILL STEPHENSON

ast week I called Malik Flint, the rapper and producer who records under the name BLACK PARTY, and found him at home packing up all of his belongings as MTV Jams played softly in the background. An Army brat who moved all over the country before settling in Bryant in 2008, Flint has for the last few years been a scene-maker here in town, a tireless promoter and important force behind much of the radical creative energy in

the city’s youthful hip-hop community. Now he and his main collaborator, Kari Faux, are picking up and leaving, heading out to Los Angeles for bigger and better things (a management deal, for one). Their plane was leaving in three hours. “It feels weird,” Flint told me. “It feels bittersweet.” Flint and Faux, whose real name is Kari Johnson, met at a skating rink in Southwest Little Rock when they were 16 (they’re now 22). By then, both were

already making music and shooting videos that they’d post online, and they soon started working together. Flint went to J.A. Fair High School and networked relentlessly, a strategy he recommends (“If you’re in high school, capitalize on that,” he said. “Spread your music around, turn it into a movement.”) Faux went off to college in Atlanta and Flint stuck around, working odd jobs at places like McDonald’s and Goodwill and Walmart. He saved his checks to buy microphones and mixers, while Faux studied audio engineering in the hip-hop capital of the world. “Before us, young kids here didn’t do their own hip-hop shows,” Flint said. “There was no underground scene for younger people in rap. So we started our own.” In high school, Flint had regularly reached out to artists in town he looked up to, almost all of whom ignored him, “like I was just some dumb little kid,” he said. So he took inspiration from friends who’d been involved in the hardcore scene, accustomed to booking concerts and house parties, and began promoting shows for himself and Faux, who moved back to Little Rock after graduating, and

their friends, like the rappers in the local collective Young Gods of America. Faux served as the DJ for Flint’s first big group in those days, Weekend Warriors, and now he DJs for her. They dated briefly a couple of years ago, too, but these days they’re just friends. “We’re together all the time, so I can see how people think we date,” he said, adding that some people think it’s strange he can work so closely with his exgirlfriend. “I’m just a people person,” he said. As a production duo, they call themselves Ameyeinvited, and spend the bulk of their spare time working together on beats, song ideas and videos. This year something came together for them. Partly it was hard work, partly it was self-promotion and partly it was a song about cell phones. On two mixtapes, “Spontaneous Generation” and “Laugh Now, Die Later,” both coproduced by Flint and released a few months apart, Faux emerged as one of the most exciting artists in the city, energetic and hyper-confident and funny. It was as though, in the span of a couple of months, her greatness became very quickly and widely accepted as a CONTINUED ON PAGE 28

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BY LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK AND WILL STEPHENSON

THURSDAY 11/6

ATMOSPHERE

8 p.m. Juanita’s. $20.

Atmosphere is an underground hip-hop group (est. 1989) from Minneapolis, which these days and for most of its history has claimed two principal members: a DJ and producer named Ant and a rapper and front man named Slug. “Underground hip hop” has meant a number of different things

over the last few decades and the movement that Atmosphere embodied was certainly one of the stranger of these things. Jon Caramanica profiled them for Spin in 2004, right at the peak of their cultural resonance, and compared them to Bright Eyes and Death Cab for Cutie, describing their fans as “disaffected, middle-class and overwhelmingly white.” The title of the article was “Emo Rap: Up From

the Underground,” which is funny in hindsight only because as soon as it hit newsstands, one imagines, “Emo Rap” dove back down to the underground’s ocean floor never to return (unless you count Drake or, I don’t know, Macklemore). You also have to respect these guys: They founded the label Rhymesayers and are generally speaking (and maybe surprisingly) one of the most successful long-last-

ing independent hip-hop groups ever. Slug has been hailed as a great writer, too, even meriting a spot in Yale University’s controversial “Anthology of Rap.” As the “Emo Rap” tag implies, he often writes about failed relationships from the point of view of an aggrieved dude: “Most of this garbage I write that these people seem to like,” as he put it on “Fuck You Lucy,” “is about you and how I let you infect my life.” WS

told/I’d probably be/Lyrically Talib Kweli,” Jay-Z rapped in 2003, in what is often presented as a compliment (in profiles of Kweli) but one that’s about as back-handed as they come. And it’s not hard to see what he means. Critic Kelefa Sanneh once describe Kweli’s project as a struggle to “reconcile left-wing idealism with the anything-goes attitude of hip hop,” and in practice this has involved a balancing

act between style and didacticism, often tipping over into the latter for long stretches. He can come off as pedantic, musically conservative, forever fixated on the fundamentalist notion of returning rap to an imagined Golden Age, when its subjects were more high-minded (overlooking both the historical reality that this age never existed, and the aesthetic and moral complexity of rap’s treatment of its

favorite themes). “We need more responsibility in our music,” he told Vibe in 2001, though it’s difficult to listen to Kweli’s records without desiring exactly the opposite: less responsibility, less pedantry. Fortunately, these exact characteristics make him most likely an excellent lecturer, which is the context in which he’ll appear at Philander on Thursday, as part of the college’s Bless the Mic speaking series. WS

a children’s book and a New York Times bestselling short story collection, starred in a Quentin Tarantino film and “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” and served as an executive producer for two NBC shows (one of

which, “The Office,” he also starred in, and which came to be one of the most beloved shows on modern TV). All of that wasn’t enough for this particular brand of overreaching Harvard grad, though — he’s

insisted on a side hustle as a stand-up comic. He’ll give it his best shot at the Reynolds Performance Hall in Conway, thanks to the efforts of the University of Central Arkansas Student Activities Board. WS

THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE: Talib Kweli speaks at Philander Smith College 7 p.m. Thursday.

THURSDAY 11/6

TALIB KWELI

7 p.m. Philander Smith College. Free.

Talib Kweli grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn, the son of academics who sent him to boarding school in Connecticut. He studied at NYU, collaborated with DJ Hi-Tek and later, most famously, Mos Def, and over the course of a couple of decades has maintained a reputation as a politically conscious, technically gifted MC. “If skills sold/Truth be

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8 p.m. Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA. $15.

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‘BEETHOVEN AND BLUE JEANS’

7:30 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Maumelle Performing Arts Center. $19-$58.

FLATLANDER: Joe Ely performs at Revolution 8:30 p.m. Friday, $15-$25.

FRIDAY 11/7

JOE ELY

8:30 p.m. Revolution. $15-$25.

The most famous export from the city of Lubbock, Texas, was Buddy Holly, but Joe Ely is up there, too, as is Phillips 66 gasoline and the early UFO phenomenon sometimes called the “Lubbock Lights.” Ely had a thing about Buddy Holly: He bought a Cadillac once and painted it pink, with blue Naugahyde upholstery, just like Holly’s. On YouTube you can find video of a set he once played with Holly’s old band, The Crickets, for some PBS fundraiser. They played “Well … All Right,” and it’s incredible. They’re surrounded by neon musical notes and all

the other emblems of retro ’50s diner culture, and Ely is just leisurely tipping back and forth, looking hollowed out. He also looks sweaty, as is befitting of a country singer best known for collaborating with The Clash (that’s him singing backing vocals on “Should I Stay or Should I Go”). He also played with Springsteen, Guy Clark, Lyle Lovett and Uncle Tupelo, plus, of course, his longtime band The Flatlanders (Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock), all of them fellow Lubbock natives. He also once worked for the circus, Ringling Brothers. He led the world’s smallest horse in the parade, and fell in love with a Bulgarian acrobat. Or anyway, that’s what he said. WS

According to her Wikipedia page, classical guitarist Sharon Isbin began practicing transcendental meditation at age 17. Here is a list of her guitar-related accomplishments, none of which are made up: She founded the guitar department at Juilliard; she studied with Segovia and won a handful of Grammys; she has performed with, at one end of the spectrum, Steve Vai, and, at the other, the New York Philharmonic; she appears on the soundtrack for Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning “The Departed”; she performed at the White House in 2009; she has released albums with titles like “Guitar Passions” and “Dances for Guitar”; she has, on at least one occasion, won Guitar Player magazine’s “Best Classical Guitarist” award. In short, Sharon Isbin is a classical guitarist. She will be performing with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra as part of its “Beethoven and Blue Jeans” production, at which the ASO will play Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 and two compositions by Corigliano, one of which is intriguingly titled “Three Hallucinations from ‘Altered States.’ ” WS

SATURDAY 11/8

ARKANSAS CORNBREAD FESTIVAL

11 a.m. South Main Street. $7-$10.

I think we can all agree that besides cheese dip, cornbread is the other food that defines us, and it’s worth celebrating. So it’s back to South Main Street on Saturday, Nov. 8, for another good-time comestible competition: the annual Arkansas Cornbread Festival.

Yes, there may be a little cheese dip lingering in the pavers of the Bernice Garden from the recent World Cheese Dip Championship, but who’ll notice with so much variations on cornbread to taste? Only amateur bakers will be competing for cash prizes this year, so the pros can be unfettered and chancy in their recipes for this essential accompaniment to Southern cooking. Something new for this fourth annual event:

You can vote by text for your favorite cornbread. The festival runs down the middle of Main; a stage on the north end will feature music by the Chris Parker Trio, Bijoux featuring Onyx the Band, The Salty Dogs, Good Time Ramblers and Runaway Plant. Look for an article about the Cornbread Festival in the November issue of Food Network Magazine, featuring last year’s winning recipes. LNP

Organist Cameron Carpenter tours the world with an organ he designed himself, playing compositions by J.S. Bach and Cesar Franck, among others, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, 7:30 p.m., $10-$25. Comedian Kevin Bozeman is at The Loony Bin through Saturday, Nov. 8, with shows at 7:30 p.m. and (Friday and Saturday) 10 p.m., $7-$10. Renowned jazz vibraphonist Warren Wolf and his group Wolfpack play at South on Main as part of the Oxford American Jazz Series, 8 p.m., $20-$30. Nashville alt-country trio The Eskimo Brothers are at Stickyz, 9 p.m., $5.

FRIDAY 11/7 The FOCAL Book Sale kicks off Friday and runs through Sunday, Nov. 9, beginning at 10 a.m. in the basement of the Main Library. Benedict Carey, author of “How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens,” will speak at UALR at 11 a.m. Rodney Block and The Real Music Lovers return to The Afterthought at 9 p.m. White Water Tavern hosts Texas country-folk songwriters Adam Carroll and Owen Temple, 9:30 p.m. Austin EDM group The Nadis Warriors are at Stickyz with Big Brown, 9:30 p.m., $8.

SATURDAY 11/8 ReCreation presents The Little Rock Variety Society, featuring local circus and acrobatic performers, at the Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., $10. Arkansas’s Masters of Illusion Magic Show, a family-friendly variety show, will be at The Studio Theater, 7 p.m., $10. Vino’s hosts Kansas City group Conflicts, who share a bill with Descended From Wolves, Lucid and More Than Sparrows, 9 p.m., $6. The Cons of Formant are at The Afterthought, 9 p.m. Selfproclaimed “nerdcore” rapper MC Chris is at Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $13. North Mississippi Allstars play at Revolution, 9 p.m., $20. Birmingham country-rock group Banditos are at Stickyz with Swampbird, 9:30 p.m., $6.

SUNDAY 11/9 Andy Frasco and The U.N. are at Stickyz, 7:30 p.m., $8 adv., $10 day of. Roots reggae singer I Wayne is at Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $15. Uzala plays at Revolution with Mothwind, Seahag and Apothecary, 8:30 p.m., $6.

TUESDAY 11/11 The Little Rock Veterans Day Ceremony is at River Market Pavilions at 11 a.m. The Daisy Bates 100th Birthday Celebration, with Ernest Green of the Little Rock Nine, will be at the Clinton School of Public Service at 6 p.m. The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra presents “Italian Serenade” at the Clinton Presidential Center at 7 p.m., $23. Blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa is at Verizon Arena, 8 p.m., $79-$125. www.arktimes.com

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p.m., $10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

DANCE

Ballroom Dancing. Free lessons begin at 7 p.m. Bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 8-11 p.m., $7-$13. 12th & Cleveland streets. 501-221-7568. www.blsdance.org. Contra Dance. Park Hill Presby terian Church, first and third Friday of every month, 7:30 p.m.; fourth Friday of every month, 7:30 p.m., $5. 3520 JFK Blvd., NLR. arkansascountrydance.org. “Salsa Night.” Begins with a one-hour salsa lesson. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $8. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.littlerocksalsa.com.

THURSDAY, NOV. 6

MUSIC

Atmosphere. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $20. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com. Cameron Carpenter. Organist performs on organ he designed himself, playing compositions by J.S. Bach and Cesar Franck, among others. Walton Arts Center, 7:30 p.m., $10-$25. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. The Eskimo Brothers. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com. “Inferno.” DJs play pop, electro, house and more, plus drink specials and $1 cover before 11 p.m. Sway, 9 p.m. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582. Jam Messengers, Bloodless Cooties. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-3242999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. John Corigliano. Hendrix College, 7:30 p.m., free. 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. www.hendrix.edu. Karaoke. Zack’s Place, 8 p.m., free. 1400 S. University Ave. 501-664-6444. Krush Thursdays with DJ Kavaleer. Club Climax, free before 11 p.m. 824 W. Capitol. 501-554-3437. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Open Jam. Thirst n’ Howl, 8 p.m. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirstn-howl.com. Open jam with The Port Arthur Band. Parrot Beach Cafe, 9 p.m. 9611 MacArthur Drive, NLR. 771-2994. RockUsaurus. Senor Tequila, 7-9 p.m. 10300 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-224-5505. Stoney LaRue. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9 p.m., $15. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 7:30 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-370-7013. www.capitalbarandgrill.com. Tragikly White (headliner), Jocko (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com. Warren Wolf and Wolfpack. South on Main, 8 p.m., $20-$30. 1304 Main St. 501244-9660. southonmain.com.

COMEDY

Kevin Bozeman. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m., $7. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS

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GOOD VIBES: Jazz vibraphonist Warren Wolf and his group Wolfpack perform at South on Main at 8 p.m. Thursday as part of the Oxford American Jazz Series, $20. rants offer discounts, later hours, and live music. Hillcrest, first Thursday of every month, 5 p.m. 501-666-3600. www.hillcrestmerchants.com. Invite-A-Leader Night. Learn how to become a positive role model for girls in Girl Scouts. Juanita’s, 5 p.m., free. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com.

LECTURES

Talib Kweli. Bless the Mic Lecture Series. Philander Smith College, 7 p.m., free. 900 W. Daisy L. Gatson Bates Drive.

FRIDAY, NOV. 7

MUSIC

Adam Carroll, Owen Temple. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-3758400. www.whitewatertavern.com. All In Fridays. Club Elevations. 720 0 Colonel Glenn Road. 501-562-3317. Club Nights at 1620 Savoy. Dance night, with DJs, drink specials and bar menu, until 2 a.m. 1620 Savoy, 10 p.m. 1620 Market St. 501-221-1620. www.1620savoy.com. Joe Ely. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $15-$25. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www. rumbarevolution.com/new.

Katmandu. Another Round Pub, 9 p.m. 12111 W. Markham. www.anotherroundpub.com. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Nadis Warriors, Big Brown. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $8. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz. com. Rodney Block and The Real Music Lovers. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 9 p.m. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com. Route 66. Agora Conference and Special Event Center, 6:3 0 p.m., $5. 705 E. Siebenmorgan, Conway. Shari Bales (headliner), Richie Johnson (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-370-7013. www.capitalbarandgrill.com.

COMEDY

B.J. Novak. Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 8 p.m., $15. 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. Kevin Bozeman. The Loony Bin, 7:30 and 10

FOCAL Book Sale. Main Library, Nov. 7-9, 10 a.m. 100 S. Rock St. www.cals.lib.ar.us. LGBTQ/SGL weekly meeting. Diverse Youth for Social Change is a group for LGBTQ/SGL and straight ally youth and young adults age 14 to 23. For more information, call 244-9690 or search “DYSC” on Facebook. LGBTQ/SGL Youth and Young Adult Group, 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St.

LECTURES

Benedict Carey. The author of “How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens.” UALR, 11 a.m. 2801 S. University Ave. 501-569-8977. Sharon Isbin. Sturgis Hall, noon. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5200. clintonschool.uasys.edu.

BENEFITS

Wildwood Park’s Wine Reserve Dinner. Proceeds go to the Wildwood Academy of Music and the Arts. Chenal Country Club, 6:30 p.m., $200. 10 Chenal Club Blvd. 501-821-4141.

SATURDAY, NOV. 8

MUSIC

Arkans as Symphony Orches tra: “Beethoven and Blue Jeans.” With guitarist Sharon Isbin. Maumelle High School, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 9, 3 p.m., $19-$58. 100 Victory Drive. 501-851-5350. Banditos, Swampbird. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $6. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz. com. Club Nights at 1620 Savoy. See Nov. 7. Conflicts, Descended From Wolves, Lucid, More Than Sparrows. Vino’s, 9 p.m., $6. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com. The Cons of Formant. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 9 p.m. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com. Just Saying (headliner), Gregg Maddin (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com. Karaoke at Khalil’s. Khalil’s Pub, 7 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www. khalilspub.com. Karaoke. Casa Mexicana, 7 p.m. 6929 JFK Blvd., NLR. 501-835-7876. Zack’s Place, 8

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p.m., free. 1400 S. University Ave. 501664-6444. Karaoke with Kevin & Cara. All ages, on the restaurant side. Revolution, 9 p.m.12:45 a.m., free. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new. K.I.S.S. Saturdays. Featuring DJ Silky Slim. Dress code enforced. Sway, 10 p.m. 412 Louisiana. 501-492-9802. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. MC Chris. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $13. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com. North Mississippi Allstars. Revolution, 9 p.m., $20. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new. Pickin’ Porch. Bring your instrument. All ages welcome. Faulkner County Library, 9:30 a.m. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-3277482. www.fcl.org. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-370-7013. www.capitalbarandgrill.com.

COMEDY

Kevin Bozeman. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., $10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

DANCE

Little Rock West Coast Dance Club. Dance lessons. Singles welcome. Ernie Biggs, 7 p.m., $2. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-247-5240. www.arstreetswing.com.

EVENTS

Argenta Farmers Market. 7 a.m. 6th and Main St., NLR. 501-831-7881. www.argentaartsdistrict.org/argenta-farmers-market. Arkansas Cornbread Festival. With live music by The Salty Dogs, Runaway Planet, Good Time Ramblers, the Chris Parker Trio and more. South Main Street, Little Rock, 11 a.m., $7-$10. South Main Street. Arkansas’s Masters of Illusion Magic Show. A family variety show with magic and comedy. The Studio Theatre, 7 p.m., $10. 320 W. 7th St. Falun Gong meditation. Allsopp Park, 9 a.m., free. Cantrell & Cedar Hill Roads. FOCAL Book Sale. Main Library, through Nov. 9, 10 a.m. 100 S. Rock St. www.cals. lib.ar.us.. Hillcrest Farmers Market. Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, 7 a.m.-2 p.m. 220 0 Kavanaugh Blvd. Historic Neighborhoods Tour. Bike tour of historic neighborhoods includes bike, guide, helmets and maps. Bobby’s Bike Hike, 9 a.m., $8-$28. 400 President Clinton Ave. 501-613-7001. Pork & Bourbon Tour. Bike tour includes bic ycle, guide, helmet s and maps. Bobby’s Bike Hike, 11:30 a.m., $35-$45. 400 President Clinton Ave. 501-613-7001. ReCreation Presents: The Little Rock Variety Society. Featuring local circus performers. Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., $10. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www. cals.lib.ar.us/ron-robinson-theater.aspx.

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SUNDAY, NOV. 9

MUSIC

Andy Frasco and The U.N.,. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 7:30 p.m., $8 adv., $10 day of. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com. Arkansas Symphony Orches tra: “Beethoven and Blue Jeans.” With guitarist Sharon Isbin. Maumelle High School, 3 p.m., $19-$58. 100 Victory Drive. 501851-5350. I-Wayne. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $15. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas. com. Karaoke. Shorty Small’s, 6-9 p.m. 1475 Hogan Lane, Conway. 501-764-0604. www. shortysmalls.com. Karaoke with DJ Sara. Hardrider Bar & Grill, 7 p.m., free. 6613 John Harden Drive, Cabot. 501-982-1939. Know Lyfe. Vino’s. 923 W. 7th St. 501-3758466. www.vinosbrewpub.com. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Uzala, Mothwind, Seahag, Apothecary. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $6. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new.

EVENTS

Bernice Garden Farmer’s Market. Bernice Garden, 10 a.m. 1401 S. Main St. www.thebernicegarden.org. FOCAL Book Sale. Main Library, 10 a.m. 100 S. Rock St. www.cals.lib.ar.us.

MONDAY, NOV. 10

MUSIC

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Monday Night Jazz. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 8 p.m., $5. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com. Richie Johnson. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www. cajunswharf.com.

LECTURES

“The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures.” Sturgis Hall, noon. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5200. clintonschool.uasys.edu.

BENEFITS

An Evening with Gen. Wesley K. Clark. MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 5:30 p.m., $125. 503 E. 9th St. 3764602. www.arkmilitaryheritage.com. No Kid Hungry Dinner. South on Main, 6 p.m., $150. 1304 Main St. 501-244-9660. southonmain.com.

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Rock Young Life. Clear Channel Metroplex, 7 p.m., free. 10800 Col. Glenn Road. 501217-5113. Trivia Bowl. Flying Saucer, 8:30 p.m. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-8032. www. beerknurd.com/stores/littlerock.

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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12

MUSIC

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra: “Italian Serenade.” Clinton Presidential Center, 7 p.m., $23. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 3708000. www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org. Brian and Nick. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www. cajunswharf.com. Dead Soldiers. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www. whitewatertavern.com. Irish Traditional Music Sessions. Hibernia Irish Tavern, second and fourth Tuesday of every month, 7-9 p.m. 9700 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-246-4340. www.hiberniairishtavern.com. Jef f Ling. Khalil’s Pub, 6 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www. khalilspub.com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-3242999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Joe Bonamassa. Verizon Arena, 8 p.m., $79-$125. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 501975-9001. verizonarena.com. Karaoke Tuesday. Prost, 8 p.m., free. 322 President Clinton Blvd. 501-244-9550. willydspianobar.com/prost-2. Karaoke Tuesdays. On the patio. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 7:30 p.m., free. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www. stickyz.com. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Music Jam. Hosted by Elliott Griffen and Joseph Fuller. The Joint, 8-11 p.m., free. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com. Tuesday Jam Session with Carl Mouton. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbistroandbar.com.

COMEDY

Stand-Up Tuesday. Hosted by Adam Hogg. The Joint, 8 p.m., $5. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock. com.

DANCE

“Latin Night.” Revolution, 7:30 p.m., $5 regular, $7 under 21. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.littlerocksalsa. com.

EVENTS

100th birthday of Daisy Bates celebration. Clinton School of Public Service, noon. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5239. www.clintonschool.uasys.edu. Little Rock Green Drinks. Informal networking session for people who work in the environmental field. Ciao Baci, 5:30-7 p.m. 605 N. Beechwood St. 501-603-0238. www.greendrinks.org. Little Rock Veterans Day Ceremony. River Market Pavilions, 11 a.m., free. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www. rivermarket.info. A Little S’more Social. Presented by Little 26

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Acoustic Open Mic. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-3242999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Open Mic Nite with Deuce. Thirst n’ Howl, 7:30 p.m., free. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com. Steve Howell and The Mighty Men. South on Main, 7:30 p.m., free. 1304 Main St. 501244-9660. southonmain.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 7:30 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-370-7013. www.capitalbarandgrill.com.

COMEDY

James Johann. The Loony Bin, Nov. 12-15, 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 14-15, 10 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com. The Joint Venture. Improv comedy group. The Joint, 8 p.m., $7. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock. com.

DANCE

Little Rock Bop Club. Beginning dance lessons for ages 10 and older. Singles welcome. Bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 7 p.m., $4 for members, $7 for guests. 12th and Cleveland streets. 501350-4712. www.littlerockbopclub.

FILM

“396 Days: From Arkansas to America.” Clinton Library 10th Anniversary Movie Series, Ron Robinson Theater, noon, free. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals.lib. ar.us/ron-robinson-theater.aspx. “The War Room.” Clinton Library 10th Anniversary Movie Series, Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., free. 1 Pulaski Way. 501320-5703. www.cals.lib.ar.us/ron-robinsontheater.aspx.

LECTURES

“Opening the Clinton School: Reflections Looking Back.” Sturgis Hall, noon. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5200. clintonschool.uasys.edu.

POETRY

Wednesday Night Poetry. 21-and-older show. Maxine’s, 7 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-321-0909. maxineslive.com/shows.html.

NEW GALLERY EXHIBITS, EVENTS ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: George Fisher cartoons about Bill Clinton, lobby, Nov. 9-18; “Public

A r c h i t e c t u r e,” l e c t u re by J a n n e Te ra s v ir t h, par tner and CEO, AL A Architects of Helskinki, reception 5:30 p.m., talk 6 p.m. Nov. 11. Architecture and Design Network presentation. ardenetwork@icloud.com. ARTGROUP ARKANSAS, 11525 Cantrell Road: “Holiday Showcase,” 4-8 p.m. Nov. 7. Artgrouparkansas.com. BOSWELL MOUROT FINE ART, 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “Movement of Line,” paintings by Elizabeth Weber, sculpture by Andy Huss and pastels by Robin Hazard-Bishop, opening reception 6-9 p.m. Nov. 8, show through Nov. 29. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 664-0030. COX CREATIVE CENTER, 120 River Market Ave.: “Who Lives-Who Dies-Who Decides: The Art Event on Capital Punishment,” works by Kenneth Reams and Isabelle Watson, through December, reception 5:30-7:30 p.m. Nov. 13, tickets $20, purchase by contacting elanejudith@gmail. com. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 918-3093. GALLERY 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd.: 20th annual “Holiday Show and Sale,” work by more than 50 artists in all media, including paintings, pottery, jewelry, ornaments, sculpture and photography, opening reception 7-10 p.m. Nov. 8, show through Jan. 10. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 664-8996. RED DOOR GALLERY, 3715 JFK Blvd., NLR: Sculpture by Joe Martin, paintings by Amy Hill-Imler and Theresa Cates, ornaments by D. Wharton, landscapes by James Ellis, raku by Kelly Edwards. 753-5227. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. STEPHANO’S FINE ART GALLERY, 1813 N. Grant: “Holiday in the Heights,” 1-5 p.m. Nov. 9. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon., Fri.; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Thu.; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 563-4218. THEA FOUNDATION, 401 Main St., NLR: “Jon Shannon Rogers: Space Is the Place,” “The Art Department” young professionals show, reception 6:30-9 p.m. Nov. 7, $10, with music by Bonnie Montgomery, chance to win painting by Rogers, craft beer, show through November. 9 a.m.noon and 1-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 379-9512. BENTONVILLE C R Y S TA L B R I D G E S M U S E U M O F AMERICAN ART, One Museum Way: “State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now,” work by more than 100 contemporary artists, through Jan. 5; talk by “State of the Art” artist John Salvest of Jonesboro, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Nov. 7; talk by “State of the Art” artist James Lavadour 1 p.m. Nov. 8; permanent collection of American masterworks spanning four centuries. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon., Thu.; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed., Fri.; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat.-Sun., closed Tue. 479-418-5700. CONWAY UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS: BA /BFA “Juried Senior E xhibition,” through Dec. 4, reception 4-6 p.m. Nov. 6, 2-4 p.m. Nov. 16. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.Fri., to 7 p.m. Thu. 501- 450-5793. EL DORADO SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, 110 E. Fifth St.: “Carroll Cloar’s Arkansas,” Nov. 7-Dec. 19. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 870-

862-5474. HEBER SPRINGS BOTTLE TREE GALLERY, 514 Main St.: New silver collection by Mary Allison; also work by George Wittenberg, Judy Shumann, Priscilla Humay, April Shurgar, Julie Caswell, Jan Cobb, Johnathan Harris, Antzee Magruder, Ann Aldinger, Sondra Seaton and Bill and Gloria Garrison. 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 501-590-8840. HOT SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER, 626 Central Ave. and Prospect: 3rd annual “Photographic Competition,” through Nov. 29, reception 5-9 p.m. Nov. 7. 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 501-624-0489. ALISON PARSONS GALLERY, 802 Central Ave.: Clay sculpture by Lori Arnold, wire tree sculpture by Kevin Treeman Chrislip, metal truck sculpture by Brian Cowdery; mobiles by Gerald Lee Delavan; paintings by Alison Parson, reception 5-9 p.m. Nov. 7, Gallery Walk. 501-655-0604. ARTISTS WORKSHOP GALLERY, 610 A Central Ave.: Work by Beth Jones and Terry O’Dell, reception 5-9 p.m. Nov. 7, Gallery Walk. 50-623-6401. JUSTUS FINE ART, 827 Central Ave.: “Grounded: A Landscape Exhibit,” paintings by Matthew Hasty, Taimur Cleary, Rebecca Thompson, Steve Griffith and Dolores Justus, Gallery Walk reception 5-9 p.m. Nov. 7. 501-321-2335. PINE BLUFF HIGH COT TON EVENT SPACE, 220 Barraque St.: “100 Years of Light Through the Pines,” photographs and 15-minute documentar y of historic Hotel Pines’ grand past and poor present, noon-5 p.m. through Nov. 8, reception with photographers 2-5 p.m. Nov. 8. 664-0553. RUSSELLVILLE THE FRAME SHOP AND GALLERY, 311 W. C St.: Paintings and murals by Angela Anderson, opens with reception at 6 p.m. Nov. 8, show runs through Christmas. 479967-1398. YELLVILLE P.A.L. Fine Art Gallery, 300 Hwy. 62 W: 2nd annual “Quilt and Artisan Bazaar,” through November. 870-656-2057.

CONTINUING ART EXHIBITS (CENTRAL ARKANSAS) ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “William Beckman: Drawings 1967-2013,” through Feb. 1; “A Sense of Balance: The Sculpture of Stoney Lamar,” through Jan. 18, “Color, an Artist’s Tale: Paintings by Virmarie DePoyster,” through Feb. 15, Museum School Gallery. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000. ARKANSAS CAPITAL CORP. GROUP, 200 River Market Ave.: “People, Places and Things,” paintings by Kathy Strause and Taimur Cleary, jewelry by Christie Young. BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave.: “Johnny Cash: Arkansas Icon,” photographs and recorded music, Underground Gallery, through Jan. 24; “Echoes of the Ancestors: Native American Objects from the University of Arkansas Museum,” Concordia Gallery, through March 15, 2015; annual juried Arkansas League of Artists exhibition, West Gallery,

AFTER DARK, CONT. through Dec. 27. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 3205790. CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road: “Painting,” work by Megan A. Lewis, through the end of the year. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 224-1335. CHRIST CHURCH, 509 Scott St.: Mid-Southern Watercolorists’ 2014 “Special Juried Members Exhibition,” through Dec. 28. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 9 a.m.-noon Fri. sixthstreetlibrary. tumblr.com. CHROMA GALLERY, 5707 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Work by Robert Reep and other Arkansas artists. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 664-0880. CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER, 1200 President Clinton Ave.: “Chihuly,” studio glass, through Jan. 5, 2015; permanent exhibits on the Clinton administration. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $7 adults; $5 college students, seniors, retired military; $3 ages 6-17. 370-8000. THE EDGE, 301B President Clinton Ave.: Paintings by Avila (Fernando Gomez), Eric Freeman, James Hayes, Jerry Colburn, St. Joseph Thomason and Stephen Drive. 9921099. GALLERY 221 & ART STUDIOS 221, Pyramid Place: New works by Tyler Arnold, also work by Kathi Couch, Gino Hollander, Greg Lahti, Mary Ann Stafford, Byron Taylor, sculpture by Siri Hollander, jewelry by Rae Ann Bayless, Sean LeCrone, Emile and Brenda Fowler. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 801-0211. GINO HOLLANDER GALLERY, 2nd and Center: Paintings and works on paper by Gino Hollander. 801-0211. GREG THOMPSON FINE ART, 429 Main St., NLR: “Best of the South,” through Nov. 15. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 6642787. HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “All That I Am: A Retrospective,” works on paper by Aj Smith, through Nov. 8. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat. 372-6822. HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM, 200 E. 3rd St.: “Disciplined Inspiration,” photographs by Jack Kenner, art glass by Ed Pennebaker, through Nov. 9; “40 Years of the Arkansas Times,” through Dec. 9; “The Great Arkansas Quilt Show 3,” juried exhibit of contemporary quilts, through May 3; “A Beauty on It Sells: Advertising Art from the Collection of Marsha Stone,” 13th annual Eclectic Collector exhibit, through Jan. 1; “Arkansas Made,” ongoing. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351. LAMAN LIBRARY, 2801 Orange St., NLR: “The Rise of a Landmark: Lewis Hine and the Empire State Building,” photographs documenting the construction of New York’s famed building in 1930, through Dec. 28. 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. (closed Nov. 27-28 and Dec. 24-25). 758-1720. L&L BECK ART GALLERY, 5705 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “Still Life,” paintings by Louis Beck, drawing for free giclee 7 p.m. Nov. 20. 660-4006. LOCAL COLOUR, 5811 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Rotating work by 27 artists in collective. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 265-0422. M2GALLERY, 11525 Cantrell Road (Pleasant Ridge Shopping Center): “Laureate,” retrospective of engravings by Evan Lindquist, Arkansas’s first artist laureate; also works by Richard Sutton and Jennifer and Richard Cutshall. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 944-7155. MUGS CAFE, 515 Main St., NLR: “Energy & Elegance,” paintings and drawings by Steven Rockwell, Kelly Furr and Karlyn Holloway, through Nov. 18. 442-7778. SEQUOYAH NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER,

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UALR: “Toy Tipis and Totem Poles: Native American Stereotypes in the Lives of Children,” more than 1,500 objects and documents from the Hirschfelder-Molin collection, through Dec. 19. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 569-8336. SIXTH STREET LIBRARY GALLERY, Christ Church, 509 Scott St.: Photographs by Tim Hursley, including time-lapse photos of Christ Church, his broken silo series and polygamist community series, through December. sixthstreetlibrary.tumblr.com. STUDIOMAIN, 1423 S. Main St.: “Community Center Design Competition.” www.facebook. com/studio.main.ar. UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK, Fine Arts Building: Faculty biennial, Gallery I, through Dec. 12; “Perception/ Reality,” concrete furniture by Mia Hall, Gallery II, through Nov. 10. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat., 2-5 p.m. Sun. 569-8977. WILDWOOD PARK, 20919 Denny Road: “Art in the Park,” work by Vicki Kovaleski, Emily Moll Wood, Tom Tull, Robin Tucker, Gary Wayne Golden, Tim Jacob, W. Michael Spain and Mark Johnson, through Nov. 16. 821-7275. CONWAY ART ON THE GREEN, Littleton Park, 1100 Bob Courtway: Paintings by Harold Kraus, featured artist, also works by Patricia Wilkes, Nina Ruth Baker and Emelene Russell, through December. 501-499-3177. PINE BLUFF ARTS AND SCIENCE CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS, 701 S. Main St.: “SUB|URBAN: Work by Dennis and Jason McCann,” through January; “A Deep Sense of Place: The Arkansas Delta,” the 2014 Pine Bluff Art League Juried Exhibition, through Nov. 12; “Nanotechnology: What’s the Big Deal?” through Jan. 2. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.Fri., 1-4 p.m. Sat. 870-536-3375.

CONTINUING EXHIBITS (AROUND ARKANSAS) CALICO ROCK CALICO ROCK ARTISTS COOPERATIVE, Hwy. 5 at White River Bridge: Paintings, photographs, jewelry, fiber art, wood, ceramics and other crafts. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Thu., 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Fri.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun. calicorocket.org/artists. FAYETTEVILLE THE DEPOT, 548 W. Dickson St: “Oh Wow! Reverence for Nature,” landscapes by Adam Campbell, through November, reception 5-8 p.m. Nov. 6, First Thursday. mbuonaiu@ uark.edu. UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: “Luscious: The Body Adorned,” photographs, video by Lauren Kalman, tapestries by John Eric Riis, glitter covered panels by Jill Wissmiller, through Dec. 5, lecture by Kalman 5:30 p.m. Nov. 13, room 102, Kimpel Hall. 479-575-7987. GEORGE DOMBEK GALLERY, 844 Blue Springs Road: Open gallery and studio, includes work by wood sculptor Robyn Horn, 1-6 p.m. Sat.-Sun. through Nov. 16. FORT SMITH REGIONAL ART MUSEUM, 1601 Rogers Ave.: “An American in Venice: James McNeill Whistler and his Legacy,” through Jan. 4. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 479-7842787.

THE ARTIST: Self-portrait by William Beckman.

Beckman at the AAC Smoldering charcoals. BY LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK

nyone who has ever drawn with charcoal knows how tempting it is to draw outlines in soft, fat, black-as-night lines. It feels good. But it can really screw up what you’re drawing. Unless you are William Beckman. In that case, your fat black mark emphasizes the gorgeous contour of the human body without turning the figure into a paper doll. The most beautiful example (to my mind) of this in The Columbus Museum’s retrospective “Wiliam Beckman: Drawings” now at the Arkansas Arts Center is the reclining woman in “Bed Study,” 1991. Beckman’s charcoal traces the foreshortened back, rib cage, hip bones, thigh, knee, upturned foot of the nude, a flowing mark of ineffable beauty. Beckman’s drawing of his own figure, next to the exquisite rendering of the woman, is nearly extraneous. Who can take their eyes off the woman? All of Beckman’s drawings are on a larger-than-life scale. The retrospective features mainly dual portraits in which he and a woman stand side by side, staring out at the viewer. They are expressionless, indifferent and absorb-

ing. Beckman’s own figure in the pairs is somehow dominant, either because he is partially clothed (and less vulnerable) or standing while the woman sits or reclines, or is a bit taller. But where he really gets into power are his virile drawings of bulls, a line of them charging the viewer, heads down, horns huge, dewlaps and balls swinging, masculinity on the move, a contrast to the stock-still portraits. Some of the head portraits veer into graphic art, with outlined lips (one of those temptations mentioned earlier) and eyes without inner eyelids (“Dianne,” 2013), but perhaps here Beckman was taking a shortcut to the painting that will follow the sketch. I particularly liked Beckman’s more complete “Self-portrait in Sweater,” the artist in argyle. The Arts Center’s own collecting is focused on works on paper, and this is one of those exhibitions that illustrate the ability of drawings to be complete works in and of themselves. “William Beckman: Drawings” may, however, make you want to see the resulting paintings. The exhibition runs through Feb. 1. www.arktimes.com

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EXIT INTERVIEW: KARI FAUX AND BLACK PARTY, CONT. matter of course. And not just in Little Rock. Her songs started getting picked by national outlets like Spin, Complex and The Fader, and artists like Janelle Monae proclaimed themselves fans. Then last month, the rapper Childish Gambino (also known as actor Donald Glover from NBC’s “Community”) released a remix of Faux’s biggest song, produced with Flint, “No Small Talk.” “No Small Talk,” the song about cell phones, was the Little Rock anthem of the summer. You could find it on the Internet or see her play it live at the Good Vibes and Trill Clinton showcases she and Flint held in the River Market. But you could also find it in more unexpected places. Like on KABF, or after a screening of “His Girl Friday” presented by a film club downtown. Or at White Water Tavern, after a few sets of mostly indie rock and country bands; the crowd even seemed to know all the words. Since the remix, it’s taken on a life of its own far outside the city’s borders. Glover’s management, Flint told me, discovered the song on Flint’s Soundcloud page after Flint started following one of them on Twitter. It was an innocent, arbitrary gesture — it just happened to work. After listening to the rest of their music (including Flint’s own mixtape, “Prototype,” released last month), they got in touch and offered to manage the two of them, offering the use of a house they own in L.A. They even brought Glover to Little Rock to meet them and hang out for a day. They all piled into Faux’s mom’s car, a Kia Soul, and drove around the city. Glover told them he liked Little Rock, said it was like a “smaller Atlanta.” They took him to Chick-fil-A. On the phone, I asked Flint what he thought would happen to the scene he and Faux helped build once they’re gone. “I hope it continues to flourish,” he said. “At the end of the day, I honestly think it’s going to be the younger kids who keep the ball rolling here.” I asked what he planned to do first, once he got to L.A. “Probably gonna go to the bar,” he said. “I’ll want a drink.”

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A few days later I was on the phone with Kari Faux, who was talking about a party she went to the first night they spent in L.A., some dance night full of mostly Filipino club-goers; she doesn’t remember the name. She sounded tired. “It’s a little weird, but it’s cool,” she said of her time out west so far. There are things she’ll miss about Arkansas, she said, things she already

misses. “It’s authentic,” she said. “I like it cause the people are normal for the most part. There’s not too much going on in Little Rock, and it’s cool. Being in big cities is different. Everybody has something to prove. In Little Rock you can just be, and it’s OK.” “I love Arkansas,” she went on. “I’m a true Arkansan, I love Arkansas so much. If I could stay there, if there was real opportunity there, I would stay. But I have to be somewhere where I’m more accessible to more people.” After a pause, she said, “I will come back. A lot of people think, ‘Oh you’re never coming back.’ But all my family is there, I have to.” It’s a problem that anyone who lives in Little Rock and wants to pursue any kind of creative endeavor (and make a living) faces eventually: How can you stay? Or, maybe, why would you stay? After one local artist moved to the Bay Area recently, a friend phrased the question this way, on Facebook: “What would it take, realistically, for Little Rock to become a supportive city for artists and musicians?” No obvious answer presents itself, and Faux and Flint, understandably, didn’t feel like waiting around for one to emerge. And anyway, for Faux, the stakes have risen. She can’t help but notice there are scores of strangers discussing her on the Internet lately, arguing about her on message boards and comment sections. She doesn’t mind criticism. “As an artist, you have to know that if you can’t spark a debate or create a conversation, that means you’re boring,” she said. But this is something else, the random, unfeeling vortex of online hype. As Flint had darkly put it, “When the hype dies, you die.” “It’s hilarious,” Faux said, in a way that suggested she didn’t at all find it hilarious. “Guys are sitting around talking about me all day. You know me, I’m normal as fuck. You’ve seen me in real life. I’m from Arkansas. I’m just like, dude, I’m normal, please stop. Don’t treat me like that, I’m not like that. It’s the whole celebrity thing — people are like, ‘Oh, you’re a celebrity,’ and I’m not actually.” And she’s right, she isn’t. But who knows, she’s only been in L.A. for a week. Before I got off the phone, I asked her the same question I’d asked Flint a few days before: What do you think will happen with the Little Rock scene you guys helped build? “Honestly I don’t know,” she said after a while. “I’m just as interested to know as you are. I really don’t know.”

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Darkness at home ‘Wait Until Dark’ at The Rep. BY BENJAMIN HARDY

he first and most important thing you need to know about “Wait Until Dark,” which ends its run at The Rep this Sunday, is that it’s a very entertaining play. Those familiar with the 1967 film adaptation starring Audrey Hepburn will remember the pulpy premise: Susy Hendrix, a young blind woman who has accidentally come into possession of a child’s doll filled with smuggled heroin, is exploited by three criminals who concoct an elaborate ploy to lure her husband out of town and gain entry into their apartment in search of the drugs. As the con unfolds, the tension builds into a white-knuckled nightmare of home invasion. It’s a thriller, pure and simple. It’s also, surprisingly, a solidly feminist tale. We all know that gender and sex are about as essential to the suspense/horror genre as chocolate chips are to chocolate chip cookies, and the classic formula — female victim terrorized by seething male predator wielding knife or fangs or other phallic metaphor — propels much of the plot of “Wait Until Dark.” But the play digs a bit deeper than that, ultimately telling a story about abandonment, duplicity and feminine solidarity in the face of masculine menace. Rep veteran Amy Hutchins imbues Susy with a fluttery anxiety that transmutes into fierce resolve as the plot develops. We’re told that Susy has only lost her sight about a year ago, and Hutchins makes her clumsiness painful for the audience to watch. She fumbles with the phone, gropes for dropped objects on her hands and knees, and stumbles repeatedly over the same end table as she hurries through the confines of her living room. Susy also struggles to navigate human relationships in the context of her new disability. Her lifeline to the world is her husband, Sam, played by Nate Washburn, but early in the play he rushes out of the house in pursuit of work. He remains absent thereafter. Sam treats his wife with the glib kindness of the naturally privileged — not only is he sighted, he’s a man — while Susy’s blindness and mid-century housewife status both bind her to their shared apartment. “I want you home all the time,” she tells Sam as he departs, and there’s a note of desperation behind her smile. Susy has a dubious helpmate in the form of Gloria (Reagan Hodson), a young neighbor girl assigned to help her with chores when Sam is gone. But the two don’t

SPOOKED: Actress Amy Hutchins highlights Rep drama.

get along; Susy feels threatened by the disobedient Gloria and stoops to bickering with the child. Gloria’s own father is absent, we learn in passing, and there’s a sense that she and Susy feel a rivalry for Sam’s affection. Observing the subtle cracks in Susy’s life, one can almost imagine the narrative going in a completely different direction — like a Kate Chopin story, this could be the setup for a character study of a woman beginning to unravel internally in the face of an intolerable domestic situation. But instead we get something more fun: criminals! Susy is exploited by two downon-their-luck con artists, one of whom impersonates a police sergeant (Robert Ierardi) while the other earns Susy’s trust by claiming to be “Mike,” her husband’s old Army buddy (Craig Maravich). The men are in the employ of the sinister Harry Roat, who is played by Michael Stewart Allen with a gleefully over-the-top indulgence in movieland villainy: shades, handbag and strutting oratory. The con itself is both cleverly crafted and half-unbelievable, but suffice it to say that it involves duping Susy into thinking Sam has been unfaithful to her and is wanted by the police. As she panics, she falls into the narrative the crooks have created. “Mike” becomes a surrogate husband in Sam’s absence, her helper and friend in a moment of crisis. Maravich plays his part with precision, conflicted internally by his role in hurting a stranger, yet still coldly proceeding with the plan to use Susy for his own ends. By the time Susy — with essential help from Gloria, who develops from a rival into an ally — begins to unravel the lies, her real antagonist is revealed as Roat. And, as the conflict narrows to a physical struggle between the two of them for control of Susy’s domestic space, Roat also becomes CONTINUED ON PAGE 38 www.arktimes.com

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HANGING UP, CONT. Carrie Wilkinson, director of Prison Phone Justice, an arm of the Human Rights Defense Center in Seattle, agrees that keeping affordable lines of communication between inmates and their families is key to helping inmates reintegrate into society upon their release. “Family contact is so important during times of incarceration,” Wilkinson said. “All the studies show that the stronger the support group you have, the better chances you have for success upon re-entry into the community.” Wilkinson said her group would like to see inmate call rates capped at 5 cents per minute all over the country. She went on to call the fees and rates currently charged by inmate phone providers all over the country “gouging.” The families of the incarcerated bear the brunt of the financial cost, she said. “A lot of times, they’re the people who can least afford to pay that,” Wilkinson said. “We believe that elimination of the commissions would reduce the rates that prisoners and their families have to pay.” While state corrections departments usually say that changing the rates paid on phone calls would hurt their bottom line, Wilkinson pointed out that there’s proof in the data contained in the Arkansas Request for Technical Proposals to show that if prisons would lower the costs of inmate calls, volume would go up, offsetting any loss of revenue from lowering the rates. As Wilkinson points out: In February 2014 — the month when the new, lower rates mandated by the FCC went into effect — the volume of state-to-state inmate phone calls almost doubled, to 129,129 minutes, from January’s 58,893 minutes. By July 2014, the last month included in the ADC bid request to providers, state-to-state inmate calls had spiked to 208,435 minutes for the month. That’s proof that lower rates can be profitable, Wilkinson said. The spike would also seem to be proof that higher rates were, in fact, keeping inmates from communicating with the families and communities they left behind. Tyler said the recommendation of the committee looking at proposals from telephone providers was presented to the Corrections Board last Friday during a teleconference meeting. The committee’s recommendation was to accept the proposal by the Cary, N.C. provider Securus, Inc. The board voted to accept that recommendation, which Tyler said should mean rate negotiations will begin “very soon.” Tyler said that the ADC had taken steps in the past to make inmate calls 32

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more affordable to inmate families, including instituting a flat $3 per call connection fee on in-state calls. Before, Tyler said, there had been one fee for a call that was local to the prison, and a higher fee for in-state long distance. She said that the funds collected from commissions paid for monitoring and storage of inmate calls, but had also been used for other ADC needs, including the purchase of radios for guards, covered walkways, fences, exercise equipment for inmates, smaller and more easily managed barracks, and other purchases. Tyler said that all inmate calls, other than those between an inmate and his or her attorney, are recorded and archived, with some “spot checks” of calls by monitors. The archived calls can be checked if there is an escape, Tyler said, or an incident in the prison. “This money that [the phone commission] generates makes the conditions of confinement better,” she said. “We have used that money to make the place safer. ... These are things that, without the phone money, we would have had a very hard time paying for.” Tyler said the fees charged on calls were good for inmates because it made them “cost conscious.” “I understand there is still a cost, and the families bear that,” Tyler said. “But [families and inmates] can limit the calls. We still have the mail. You still have regular visitation, and we have the email service, too.” Tyler said that the rates charged for inmate phone calls weren’t “gouging” because they’re going to pay for the service itself and the security features that must be in place for inmate phone calls to continue. “You’ve got to remember,” she said, “you’re not calling a college dorm. These are prisons. We have security concerns. ... I think it’s easy to see it from the vantage point of, ‘well, this costs more than my phone at home.’ Well, your phone at home doesn’t have to do what these phones do.” The issue of rates and fees on in-state calls may soon be resolved by the FCC. On Oct. 17, the agency announced that, building on the reforms started in August 2013, it was seeking public comment on whether to ban or restrict certain fees and charges associated with in-state calls made by inmates, including placing permanent rate caps on calls, the elimination of per-call connection fees, prohibiting the payment of commissions that go beyond the cost of providing a secure inmate phone system, and capping ancillary fees, such as fees to open and maintain inmate calling-card accounts. The initial comment period closes Dec. 1.

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WHAT’S COOKIN’ LOST FORTY, THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED brewery from Yellow Rocket Concepts and the people who brought you Big Orange, Local Lime and ZaZa, should open by mid-December with a grand opening to follow in the spring, coowner Scott McGehee said. Large-scale brewing should begin this week in Lost Forty’s 19,000-square-feet space at 501 Byrd St. in the warehouse district east of Interstate 30. Meanwhile, McGehee is prepping the menu for Pint and Pantry, the brewery’s tap room restaurant. Brewmaster Omar Castrellon, coowner John Beachboard, Big Orange/ Local Lime bar manager Dylan Yelenich and others have been test brewing, mostly in Beachboard’s garage, for more than a year. They’ve come up with four standard brews: Bear Bones Pilsner (a “full-bodied Pilsner ... for someone who doesn’t like a lot of hops, a lot of bite,” McGehee said, adding he thinks it could be a “crossover beer” for people who usually drink domestic beers), Lost Forty Pale Ale (a “medium-hopped ... balanced with citrus notes”), Love Honey Bock (an Arkansas honey brown lager) and Rock Hound (a 9 percent alcohol by volume Imperial Pale Ale). Lost Forty is brewing on a 30-barrel system that will allow it to produce 3,000 barrels of beer a year (a barrel represents about two kegs of beer), but McGehee said the brewery could easily scale up to 20,000 barrels and has already purchased equipment that will allow it to put out 6,500 barrels annually. Three months after opening, the brewery will add a canning line. Pint and Pantry will be a “funfocused, beer-focused tap room,” McGehee said. “We don’t want to call ourselves a restaurant. ... If there’s a theme, it’s kind of beer hall food meets the Delta.” That means all sort of stuff that can be smoked and pickled — house-made brats and kielbasa, pickled carrots, green beans and peppers and, according to McGehee, “the most incredible brisket you’ve ever tasted.” It will be open 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. LITTLE ROCK’S DAMGOODE PIES IS moving into the space once occupied by Boscos at 500 President Clinton Ave., and the restaurant plans to brew its own beer on premises using the microbrewery equipment installed by the previous occupant. Damgoode owner Jeff Trine said

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A HIT: The Italian Sausage pizza blends sweet, spicy meat with a rich tomato sauce.

Terry’s does pizza Neapolitan style.

ut of all the pizza styles that exist, wood-fired Neapolitan might just be our favorite. Thin, crispy crust, fresh toppings, and just the right amount of char from the blazing oven makes for bite after delicious bite. This isn’t pizza for folks who like their pies two inches thick and piled with ingredients, but it’s a style that everyone should take a look at, especially when it’s done as well as the Pizzeria at Terry’s Finer Foods is doing. This quaint, cozy little pizzeria started life as a mobile pizza wagon, Pizzeria Santa Lucia, and quickly became known for constantly selling out at food truck events all around the city. The new partnership with Terry’s has given that delicious pizza a home — and replaced the fussy, dated French-style food that had been served from the fine food grocer for several years. The new dining room has been completely redone, and while it is small, it’s well-decorated and has an effortless, comfortable charm. Through two trips to the Pizzeria at Terry’s, we were impressed with the service and speed with which our pizzas hit the table, and while our second trip didn’t quite match the quality of the first, we still think that this is some of the best pizza in town.

On our first trip, we sampled the Margherita ($12), the Quattro Stagioni ($14) and a Pop Supreme calzone ($15), with the Margherita being declared the winner for best pizza due to its simplicity, the quality of the mozzarella and fresh basil, and the sheer airy delight of each bite of crust. The crust for the Quattro Stagioni was also very good, and the prosciutto and artichokes scattered on top made for a nice, salty punch that didn’t overdo things. The Pop Supreme will please anyone who loves a classic sausage and peppers pizza, with homemade sausage adding a ton of flavor. We did order one appetizer, a wood-fired Camembert ($14), but given how it turned to pure soup from the heat of the oven, we can’t really recommend it. On our second trip, we ran into a few small hitches — one of our calzones was accidentally made as a pizza, which didn’t bother us too badly when they let us have the pizza and remade the calzone anyway. Our mistaken pizza, the Italian Sausage ($14) was quite good, with a sweet, spicy sausage flavor that went well with the rich tomato sauce — and we actually wound up deciding that the style worked better as a pizza than as a calzone. Our second pizza, the Prosciutto Arugula ($12) was loaded with tasty pro-

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sciutto, but suffered from a large pile of arugula that could have been trimmed a little better before being added to the pizza. Our second trip saw a crust that was much thicker than our first trip, too, something that made for pizzas that were really chewy instead of light and crisp. It’s obvious that there are still some issues to be worked out at the Pizzeria at Terry’s Finer Foods, but we think that they’re an excellent addition to the Little Rock dining scene. Given the small space that the restaurant occupies, we predict that this will be a tough place to get into on the weekends, something that will surely be helped when they start taking call-in orders for pick-up. Crust consistency is the largest problem faced by the pizzeria right now, but that’s something that comes with time and training — and with ingredients as fresh as these, we’re willing to let them take all the time they need to get it right.

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WHAT’S COOKIN’, CONT. that the company signed a lease on the space last week. “We’re going to do a slice counter with their old hearth oven, and bring in a bunch of big pizza ovens for the back,” Trine said. “We’re hoping to be open by the first of the year. You never know, but we’re not doing a whole lot to the inside.” Trine said that having an oven dedicated to individual slices should speed things up considerably for those just looking to grab a quick lunch. “We’re fully aware that Damgoode has got a little bit of a reputation for not being super fast,” he said, “but with an oven that’s just dedicated to quick-service slices, I think we’ll be able to turn around lunch customers quickly.” Trine said that the microbrewery on premises will be churning out beers again by the time the restaurant opens, with Damgoode serving a few standard recipes of its own — to be called Damgoode Brews — plus recipes gathered from the local brewing community. He said the restaurant hopes to make the beers coming out of their taps “as communal as possible.” Former Boscos brewmaster Jeff Quattlebaum will stay on to run the operation for Damgoode, Trine said, and

will serve as “the focal point” between local brewers and the restaurant. “The ultimate goal ... is that we’ll come up with a unique recipe for our brewery with another brewer,” Trine said. “It won’t be one of their standard beers. The hope is that they’ll come in and we’ll develop a new recipe just for this brewery.” ARKANSAS FRESH BAKERY, THE Bryant-based wholesale bakery that supplies to 50 area restaurants and sells its baked goods at local farmers markets, is expanding. Sometime in late November or early December, Arkansas Fresh Cafe will open at 304 Reynolds Road in Bryant. Jonathan Wilkins, the much-respected former White Water Tavern cook, will run the kitchen, and the full range of Arkansas Fresh bread will be available for sale. Hours will be 7 a.m. until 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Meanwhile, Cocoa Rouge, Arkansas Fresh owner and head baker Ashton Woodward’s artisanal chocolate line, will start hitting retail stores in Central Arkansas, including Hillcrest Artisan Meats, this week. The Belgianstyle chocolates will initially be available in a variety box of 24 for $40.

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which varies in theme, home cooking being the most popular. Owner Dave Williams does all the cooking and his son, Dave also, plays saxophone and fronts the band that plays most Friday nights. 201 Center St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-372-3283. L Mon.-Fri., D Fri. DAVID FAMILY KITCHEN Call it soul food or call it down-home country cooking. Just be sure to call us for breakfast or lunch when you go. Neckbones, ribs, sturdy cornbread, salmon croquettes, mustard greens and the like. Desserts are exceptionally good. 2301 Broadway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-3710141. BL Tue.-Fri., L Sun. DELICIOUS TEMPTATIONS Decadent breakfast and light lunch items that can be ordered in full or half orders to please any appetite or palate, with a great variety of salads and soups as well. Don’t miss the bourbon pecan pie -- it’s a winner. 11220 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-225-6893. BL daily. DIZZY’S GYPSY BISTRO Interesting bistro fare, served in massive portions at this River Market favorite. 200 River Market Ave. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-375-3500. LD Tue.-Sat. THE FADED ROSE The Cajun-inspired menu seldom disappoints. Steaks and soaked salads are legendary. 1619 Rebsamen Park Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-9734. LD daily. FLYING SAUCER A popular River Market hangout thanks to its almost 200 beers (including 75 on tap) and more than decent bar food. It’s nonsmoking, so families are welcome. 323 President Clinton Ave. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-372-8032. LD daily. FOX AND HOUND Sports bar that serves pub food. 2800 Lakewood Village. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-753-8300. LD daily. FRANKE’S CAFETERIA Plate lunch spot strong on salads and vegetables, and perfect fried chicken on Sundays. Arkansas’s oldest continually operating restaurant. 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-2254487. LD daily. 400 W. Capitol Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-372-1919. L Mon.-Fri. FRONTIER DINER The traditional all-American roadside diner, complete with a nice selection of man-friendly breakfasts and lunch specials. The half-pound burger is a two-hander for the average working Joe. 10424 Interstate 30. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-565-6414. BL Mon.-Sat. GADWALL’S GRILL Once two separate restaurants, a fire forced the grill into the pizza joint. Now, under one roof, there’s mouth-watering burgers and specialty sandwiches, plus zesty pizzas with cracker-thin crust and plenty of toppings. 12 North Hills Shopping Center. NLR. Beer and wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-834-1840. LD daily. B Fri.-Sun. GIGI’S CUPCAKES This Nashville-based chain’s entries into the artisan-cupcake sweetstakes are as luxurious in presentation as they are in sugar quantity. 416 S. University Ave., Suite 120. No alcohol, All CC. $. 501-614-7012. BLD daily. GUILLERMO’S GOURMET GROUNDS Serves gourmet coffee, lunch, loose-leaf tea and tapas. Beans are roasted in house, and the espresso is probably the best in town. 10700 Rodney Parham Road. CC. 501-228-4448. BL daily. HONEYBAKED HAM CO. The trademark ham is available by the sandwich, as is great smoked turkey and lots of inexpensive side items and desserts. 9112 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, All CC. 501-227-5555. LD Mon.-Sun. (4 p.m. close on Sat.). IZZY’S It’s bright, clean and casual, with snappy team service of all his standbys — sandwiches and fries, lots of fresh salads, pasta about a

dozen ways, hand-rolled tamales and brick oven pizzas. 5601 Ranch Drive. Beer and wine, All CC. $$. 501-868-4311. LD Mon.-Sat. LITTLEFIELD’S CAFE The owners of the Starlite Diner have moved their cafe to the Kroger Shopping Center on JFK, where they are still serving breakfast all day, as well as plate lunches, burgers and sandwiches. 6929 John F. Kennedy Blvd. NLR. No alcohol. 501-771-2036. BLD Mon.-Sat., BL Sun. MARKHAM STREET GRILL AND PUB The menu has something for everyone, including mahi-mahi and wings. Try the burgers, which are juicy, big and fine. 11321 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-224-2010. LD daily. MCBRIDE’S CAFE AND BAKERY Owners Chet and Vicki McBride have been serving up delicious breakfast and lunch specials based on their family recipes for two decades in this popular eatery at Baptist Health’s Little Rock campus. The desserts and barbecue sandwiches are not to be missed. 9501 Baptist Health Drive No.105. No alcohol, All CC. $. 501-340-3833. BL Mon.-Fri. MOOYAH BURGERS Kid-friendly, fast-casual restaurant with beef, veggie and turkey burgers, a burger bar and shakes. 14810 Cantrell Road, Suite 190. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-8681091 10825 Kanis Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-313-4905. LD daily. NEWK’S EATERY 314 S. University Avenue, Suite 180. Beer, All CC. 601-982-1160. OLD MILL BREAD AND FLOUR CO. CAFE The popular take-out bakery has an eat-in restaurant and friendly operators. It’s self-service, simple and good with sandwiches built with a changing lineup of the bakery’s 40 different breads, along with soups, salads and cookies. 12111 W. Markham St. No. 366. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-228-4677. BL Mon.-Sat. BR Sun. PANERA BREAD 10701 Kanis Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-954-7773. BLD daily. RED DOOR Fresh seafood, steaks, chops and sandwiches from restaurateur Mark Abernathy. Smart wine list. 3701 Old Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-666-8482. BL Tue.-Sat. D daily. RENO’S ARGENTA CAFE Sandwiches, gyros and gourmet pizzas by day and music and drinks by night in downtown Argenta. 312 N. Main St. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-3762900. LD Mon.-Sat. RIVERFRONT STEAKHOUSE Steaks are the draw here — nice cuts heavily salted and peppered, cooked quickly and accurately to your specifications, finished with butter and served sizzling hot. 2 Riverfront Place. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-375-7825. D Mon.-Sat. ROBERT’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL If you’re looking for a burger, you won’t find it here. This establishment specializes in fried chicken dinners, served with their own special trimmings. 7212 Geyer Springs Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-568-2566. LD Tue.-Sat., D Sun.-Mon. RUDY’S OYSTER BAR Good boiled shrimp and oysters on the half shell. Quesadillas and chili cheese dip are tasty and ultra-hearty. 2695 Pike Ave. NLR. Full bar, All CC. 501-771-0808. LD Mon.-Sat. SHARKS FISH & CHICKEN This Southwest Little Rock restaurant specializes in seafood, frog legs and catfish, all served with the traditional fixings. 8722 Colonel Glenn Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-562-2330. LD daily. SO RESTAURANT BAR Call it a French brasserie with a sleek but not fussy American finish. The wine selection is broad and choice. Free valet parking. Use it and save yourself a headache. 3610 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. CONTINUED ON PAGE 38

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Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-604-7777. LD Mon.-Sat. CRAZY HIBACHI GRILL The folks that own Chi’s and Sekisui offer their best in a three-inone: tapanaki cooking, sushi bar and sit-down dining with a Mongolian grill. 2907 Lakewood Village. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-8129888. LD daily. FANTASTIC CHINA The food is delicious, the presentation beautiful, the menu distinctive, the service perfect, the decor bright. 1900 N. Grant St. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-663-8999. LD daily. GENGHIS GRILL This chain restaurant takes the Mongolian grill idea to its inevitable, Subwaystyle conclusion. 12318 Chenal Parkway. Beer and wine, All CC. $$. 501-223-2695. LD daily. LILLY’S DIMSUM THEN SOME Innovative dishes inspired by Asian cuisine, utilizing local and fresh ingredients. 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road. Beer and wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-716-2700. LD Tue.-Sun. MT. FUJI JAPANESE RESTAURANT The dean of Little Rock sushi bars offers a fabulous lunch special and great Monday night deals. 10301 Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-227-6498. L Mon.-Sat., D daily. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-227-6498. OSAKA JAPANESE RESTAURANT Veteran operator of several local Asian buffets has brought fine-dining Japanese dishes and a well-stocked sushi bar to way-out-west Little Rock, near Chenal off Highway 10. 5501 Ranch Dr. $$-$$$. 501-868-3688. LD daily. SKY MODERN JAPANESE Excellent, ambitious menu filled with sushi and other Japanese fare and Continental-style dishes. 11525 Cantrell Road, Suite 917. Full bar, All CC. $$$-$$$$. 501-224-4300. LD daily. SUSHI CAFE Impressive, upscale sushi menu with other delectable house specialties like tuna tataki, fried soft shell crab, Kobe beef and, believe it or not, the Tokyo cowboy burger. 5823 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-9888. L Mon.-Sat. D daily.

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Semifinalists will compete throughout January and February at Stickyz.

NAME OF BAND

Weekly winners will then face off in the finals at the Rev Room in March.

HOMETOWN

SEND THIS ENTRY AND DEMO CD TO:

DATE BAND WAS FORMED

Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase PO BOX 34010, Little Rock, AR 72203

AGE RANGE OF MEMBERS (ALL AGES WELCOME)

CONTACT PERSON

Enter online and upload your music files at showcase.arktimes.com

ADDRESS CITY, STATE, ZIP PHONE

For more info e-mail willstephenson@arktimes.com

E-MAIL

Please attach a band photo.

FACEBOOK LINK HAS YOUR BAND ENTERED THE SHOWCASE BEFORE? IF YES, WHAT YEARS?

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

ARKANSAS TIMES

❏ YES

❏ NO