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Anything but Fox Last week I spent the better part of two hours in a waiting room at the VA hospital here in Little Rock. As in every VA waiting room, this one had a TV bolted high on the wall and spotwelded to the Fox News channel. The Fox team was doing their best to whip the viewers into a frenzy with steeply slated reports on both recent events and some going as far back as Benghazi. The dozen or so other patients in the room were all in a lather. A comfort animal cowered in the corner with his paws over his ears. I tried to offer the little fella comfort, but I felt as out of place as Plaid Shirt Guy at a Trump rally. Many veterans have stress issues, some related to combat, while others are related to previous encounters with the VA health care system. The suicide rate among veterans is appallingly high. The VA says they care, but running Fox News 24-7 seems to indicate otherwise. Sometimes I wonder if the VA views suicide as a problem or simply a way to cut down on the workload. I don’t know what would be a better TV choice for the captive audience

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COMMENT of veterans. Obesity is often an issue with this group so The Food Channel is out of the question. The Weather Channel once served as a peaceful oasis, but with constant reports of floods, earthquakes, fires, hurricanes and tornadoes, it now looks more like the Book of Revelations illustrated. With all the options available, surely the VA can find a better match for stressed-out vets. Anything but Fox News. David Rose Hot Springs

“We the People ...” The Preamble, the first words of the Constitution, shapes American democracy by laying out a blueprint for making this grand experiment of government work. Certain words within it are capitalized and much larger than the rest, intended by the Founding Fathers to emphasize their importance. Article I imparts legislative powers to a congress composed of a Senate and House of Representatives. Articles II and III

address the presidency and judicial system. The last four articles map guidelines for governance, citizen rights, matters of revenue and passage of amendments. Our Constitution was and is a noble and worthy endeavor: government of, by and for We the People, a more perfect union. Its Preamble is the idea, the heart. Everything else is detail. The first and most important detail is that power to make laws lies with a gathering of delegates chosen by and in service to We the People. Upon gathering, the Founding Fathers were not all of one mind as to how this dream should be made real. They wanted a country embracing the ideals of liberty and justice for all. They sat, stood, paced, talked, suggested, argued and worked it out. That’s the key; they got together and worked it out. We owe them and ourselves a sincere attempt to do the same. A true patriot is not necessarily someone who thinks the same as you. A patriot actively supports the details and ideals of our constitution. It shouldn’t be us against them, my way or no way. It was always meant to be We.

Earth has two poles. Opposites exist, but share an attraction. This gives balance, without which collapse is inevitable. Americans cannot allow themselves to become so polarized as to deny and refuse to consider everything in between. We must not fall into the trap of thinking that partisanship is patriotism. It’s not. United we stand, divided we fall. Not just words, these speak reality. America isn’t black or white, Christian or Muslim, right wing or left wing. Eagles can’t leave the ground, much less achieve great heights, with one wing. Two wings work together pursuing one goal. As citizens of the United States our goal should always be to insure life, liberty and justice for all, to provide for the common good. We. The People. Union. Give it real thought if you would be a true patriot. Jim Frey Witter

From the web: In response to the Sept. 29 Arkansas

Blog post “Brett Kavanaugh’s record raised questions long before the women came along”: The GOP waits 400 days on Garland and we need to rush this selection through? The GOP is devoid of decency and running scared from the orange blob. I am pleased that there will be an FBI investigation and hope they can clear the air. However, in the end, voters must get off their asses and vote ... period! How is it that almost half of eligible voters fail to get out and vote one day every two years? This is insane and leads us to the poop pile we have today. Wake up, folks, drive friends and family to vote. Our country is not this ugly and with greater turnout, things should get better as we avoid what is up until now quite possibly the most embarrassing and destructive president in our history. yapperjohn

Ford’s yearbooks are irrelevant. She may have been drinking at other times when she was underage but

that has no bearing on whether her allegations are true. A common tactic to discredit women who have been sexually assaulted is to look for behavior in their past to portray them as unreliable. That is why survivors of rape and sexual assault are afraid to come forward. Past drinking or sexual behavior in no way invalidates a report of sexual assault. Victim blaming is not a defense. NeverVoteRepublican I am 100 percent behind the #metoo movement and support the FBI investigating every charge of sexual aggression against women, men, girls and boys. If the FBI finds no evidence against Kavanaugh no matter what his future is, he won’t have a stain on his reputation concerning sexual abuse. But far more dangerous to U.S. families is what we don’t know ... what the Republican Party is hiding from us concerning Kavanaugh’s time working for Ken Starr, his time working for George W. Bush and his involvement in promoting torture in our wars without end. He is the man who could give us a Trump in the White House

for the next hundred years. The raising of millions of dollars to support a Supreme Court nominee is a brand-new thing and there shouldn’t be such a thing going on for a seat on the Supreme Court, a lifetime seat on the highest court of the land. What could go wrong? Everything for the next 40 straight years! Or forever! Deathbyinches

In response to Autumn Tolbert’s Sept. 20 column “No sympathy for Sarah Huckabee Sanders”:

Thank you for putting my thoughts into an acceptable language. You’re absolutely correct, and I must stop before I become uncivilized. Sharon Harris The press secretary has got to be the most thankless D.C. job imaginable. There hasn’t been a single one who could shake hands with the truth. The joke of Josh “Not” Earnest and his daily litany of deceit for the Obama admin comes to mind as a recent charade.

Still, Autumn makes the mistake, the cardinal sin of bemoaning Sarah and Trump as liars, while she partakes of the whopper of whoppers by calling Trump racist and sexist. While there is a case to be made for the chauvinist in Trump, he has enjoyed the accolades of women seeking his power and largesse. When he was talking of “pussy grabbing,” he was talking of women who would enter into that arrangement, would be movie stars, women using their ample assets to attract and gain an advantage for themselves. The hilarious thing to see are these vag-hatted heifers wearing signs claiming Trump cannot grab their pussy, ignoring the fact that many of these cretins have a hundred Happy Meals past being considered for groping by Trump. Maybe Autumn needs to talk with those women who support Trump, and the many more that will vote for Trump in 2020, helping him to a second term as prez.

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Tweet of the week

“Emmett Louis Till” — Sen. Missy Ir vin (R-Mountain View and @ ARSenMissyIrvin), tweeting in response to a statement tweeted by state Rep. Clarke Tucker (D-Little Rock), who is running for Congress in the 2nd District. Tucker said he commended Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and others for coming forward with their credible allegations of sexual assault and abuse by Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Till was infamously lynched in 1955 when he was 14 years old by Mississippi racists after he was falsely accused of flirting with a white woman. Irvin later deleted the tweet.

Rapert sued

The American Atheists nonprofit has sued state Sen. Jason Rapert (R-Conway) in federal court for his practice of blocking critics from his Facebook and Twitter accounts. The lawsuit contends the blocking is a violation of the U.S. Constitution and state law. It says people were blocked for expressing different viewpoints on his 6

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official social media accounts and also because the plaintiffs were atheists. “The senator’s conduct constitutes viewpoint discrimination, which is prohibited under the First Amendment. Government officials cannot take hostile actions — like limiting participation in public forums — against someone simply because they have different beliefs,” Alison Gill, American Atheists’ legal and policy director, said in a news release. “The Supreme Court has been clear that social media platforms are perhaps the most powerful mechanisms for citizens to make their voices heard,” Gill added. “And now multiple federal courts have ruled that blocking citizens from participating in this forum is an unconstitutional violation of their freedom of speech.” Matt Campbell of Little Rock is the lawyer in the case. He is also the man behind Blue Hog Report, a muckraking website. Said Campbell: “Sen. Rapert’s own comments demonstrate that his actions were motivated by animus toward atheists and those who support the constitutional separation of religion and government.” The suit seeks access to Rapert’s public forums, nominal damages, punitive damages and attorney fees.

End of the road for Suhl

The United States Supreme Court has denied a request to hear an appeal of Ted Suhl’s conviction for bribing an Arkansas Human Services Department official to help his behavioral treatment business. Suhl, who operated both residential and community-based services for youths, was convicted in July 2016 and sentenced to seven years for funneling money to Steven Jones, a former legislator and top DHS official. Jones pleaded guilty and served a federal sentence. The money passed through a West Memphis church and local politician. Suhl contended he’d just made charitable contributions. He argued that the government hadn’t proved a specific quid pro quo, though the trial court and 8th Circuit Court of Appeals said the jury was instructed under a law making it a crime to attempt to influence a public servant. Suhl’s case had drawn support from a prominent conservative lawyer, James Bopp, a key player in the Citizens United ruling on money in politics. The case against Jones and Suhl ended Medicaid funding of his businesses and they were forced to close.

Idiocy

The website NEA Report has a stunner for these times: Jonesboro Police Officer John Shipman, once a Republican candidate for Craighead County sheriff, said on social media that 80 percent of rape reports are false, a figure he produced in defense of his assertion that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, was “lying.” Shipman was suspended for 30 days without pay for the comments. Jonesboro Assistant City Attorney Jessica Thomason said statements like Shipman’s intimidate victims from coming forward. Second Judicial District Prosecutor Scott Ellington said, “An attitude like that is exactly why many victims don’t feel comfortable coming forward and reporting a sexual assault.” Shipman hasn’t responded to NEA Report about his Facebook comments. Studies put false reports of rape at about 5 percent (and that’s of reports, never mind all those that are NOT reported.) The article also says Shipman offered no evidence, other than his purported experience, for presuming Ford’s dishonesty.

The private prison swamp

OPINION

get much of that for $30 per inmate per day. The smell of politics is unmistakable. The prison industry gives big sums to politicians. In return, they reap big profits. How do they MAX BRANTLEY make money while spending less maxbrantley@arktimes.com per inmate? It’s not from big investtate Sen. Joyce Elliott (D-Little need. But the counties would Rock) last week exposed a plan strike a deal with the Correction ments in decent conditions, higher to begin privatizing Arkansas Department to hold 500 or so state prisoners. paid staff and the added-cost services that prisons without going through This is a bad idea. Prison conditions might discourage recidivism. the legislature. Smells like a swamp to me. aren’t great under the best of circumstances. Also, Jon Gilmore, a former deputy staff The occasion was a legislative commit- Counties have generally done worse. Private chief and campaign manager for Governor tee meeting at which Arkansas Department operators of state prison beds, in Arkansas’s Hutchinson is now in the political consultof Correction Director Wendy Kelley made past experience, were execrable. ing lobbying business. He relies heavily on a rare appearance. Elliott asked her about State law allows state contracts with his gubernatorial ties. The website of his rumors of prison privatizing. It’s more than counties to operate regional jails. But the political consulting firm describes him as rumor, Kelley was forced to admit. Negotia- counties admit this deal only works with continuing “to serve Governor Hutchinson tions are underway for a scheme to sidestep state prison participation. That’s where the in a consulting role as his Chief Strategist on real legislative oversight. money for LaSalle comes in. political affairs.” The Correction Department wouldn’t Google LaSalle and you’ll find the usual On his home page, right below a picture contract with the private prison operator concerns with private prisons, including of Gilmore and the governor heading to a LaSalle Corrections, based in Ruston, La. lawsuits over inmate deaths at the Bi-State helicopter, Gilmore lists his lobbying clients. Bradley and Drew counties would enter Justice Center in Texarkana. There’s also They include LaSalle Corrections. a contract with LaSalle to run a “regional an allegation this year of underpayment of Private prisons are about profits, not jail.” It would be more jail than the counties guards in Texas. Rehabilitation? You don’t criminal justice reform. Billy McConnell,

head warden at LaSalle, is a former nursing home owner who began building and then operating prisons. He’s been angling for Arkansas business at least since 2015, when then-Sen. Eddie Joe Williams was pushing his lockups as a solution for lack of space. At that time, McConnell claimed his prisons had rehabilitation and re-entry programs, but he also told KARK-TV, Channel 4, “We don’t sentence people. We don’t arrest people. We don’t release people. We just house people.” In the current Arkansas political climate, which is short on human concern, that might be enough. There is an alternative. Hutchinson’s Democratic opponent, Jared Henderson, announced a criminal justice plan this week that included a 20 percent reduction in prison population, in favor of community sentencing and more emphasis on re-entry and drug treatment. That would save Arkansas more prison construction and perhaps eliminate the need to provide windfall profits to a lobbying client of the governor’s former campaign manager.

Voter suppression

he history of voting in America and in our little corner of it has been the struggle to empower more and more people to have a say in how laws are made and are applied to them. From propertied white men, the franchise was extended by increments to all men, including African Americans, and in 1920 to women, and then Congress and states removed the artificial barriers to voting by the unprivileged. That was the trend until now. The other point of view — that too many people, or at least the wrong people, are voting — is ascendant. Next month, Arkansas will almost certainly join that march by changing its constitution to require people to leap another hurdle before they can vote. Even if every election official in the precinct knows them, they will need to present an official photo identification to get a ballot. For most of us, that is no hurdle, but it is for many — by prevailing standards, the least consequential people among us. That is one reason I say voters almost certainly will adopt the new requirement Nov. 6. The ballot question is Issue 2, the proposed voter ID law. Several Republicancontrolled state legislatures have adopted such laws. Arkansas has been trying for

some registered voter is not going The statute, which will be the enabling to vote that day, goes to the vot- law once Issue 2 is adopted, allows people er’s precinct, pretends to be that without a photo ID to cast a provisional person, signs the person’s voter ballot. They must step aside and sign an affidavit and casts his ballot for affidavit that they are who they say they him. He would have to match the are and will produce proof to the county voter’s signature on the affidavit. election commission within a few days ERNEST DUMAS four years, but the Arkansas He would have to figure that the after the election — a scene most people constitution, which prohibits precinct officials would not know would rather avoid. They must be warned such voting barriers, has stood in the way. either him or the real voter — in small that their affidavit is going to be turned Issue 2 will take care of that by installing precincts a virtual impossibility. If they over to the prosecuting attorney. But the the photo ID in the constitution. did, he would not be allowed to vote and law makes it clear that if the election comPhoto IDs will do nothing to protect the the prosecutor would be notified. Besides mission — Republican-controlled at the sanctity of the ballot or to remedy Arkan- a candidate’s brother-in-law, who would moment — just doesn’t want to count their sas’s and many other states’ vile history of take that huge risk for the sake of casting provisional ballot, it won’t. At the May prielection fraud, about which volumes have one vote? mary, at least 250 ballots went uncounted. been written, including “Waiting for the Requiring an official photo ID on top of Republican leaders have occasionally Cemetery Vote,” which I penned with the having to match your affidavit signature is admitted that the ID laws are intended late Tom Glaze. a deterrent to voting — not for you or me, to depress Democratic turnout but they That is because the photo ID laws are who intend to vote come hell or high water, say Democrats would do the same if they supposed to combat “voter fraud,” not but for those for whom voting is already a could find such a remedy and were in election fraud. Election fraud occurs when burden. Those are the poor, mostly black, charge. They are right. voting officials — sheriffs, county clerks, and the disabled and the elderly, for whom In fact, vote suppression has mostly precinct officials and anyone else who may just getting to a polling place is an ordeal. involved schemes perpetrated by Demohave control of ballot boxes and machines Why bother? crats, especially in the South. Jim Crow — manipulate the returns by destroying Remember that Governor Hutchinson, and all its voting constraints — white priballots, creating bogus ones, miscounting who favors Issue 2, couldn’t vote in May maries, the poll tax, the Australian ballot them or the scores of other schemes to because he didn’t have his driver’s license, and tests of literacy and civic knowledge produce a desired election result. Mod- and a state trooper had to drive him to the — were Democratic artifices. As the state ern reforms like permanent registration, Governor’s Mansion to get it. Many people representative from Craighead County, Dr. voting machines and joint primaries have wouldn’t have the luxury of time. Joe Meek, roared in 1888 when Jim Crow ended most of the fraud, although the peril The legislature last year passed a photo was being implemented: “The Caucasian of online manipulation of voting results ID statute and, although a circuit judge race must govern America!” is growing. ruled this spring that it was unconstituAfrican Americans got unfettered votVoter fraud, which Republicans prom- tional, the Supreme Court allowed it to be ing rights only upon the passage of the Votise that photo IDs will stop, is something used in the May and June primaries. The ing Rights Act, which the Supreme Court else. There is no known history of its hap- turnout, 312,000, was among the lowest in effectively quashed in 2013, clearing the pening or at least on any measurable scale. 50 years. It was 328,000 in the 1950 Demo- way for photo ID laws. As the dynamics It happens when an individual figures that cratic primary, when the poll tax still ruled. change, there will be more such ruses. Follow Arkansas Blog on Twitter: @ArkansasBlog

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ne of the best things about culed for vomiting living in Fayetteville is my because of his weak proximity to Dickson Street stomach or they Bookshop. If you’ve never been, I encour- know the truth and age you to make the trip immediately. It just don’t care that looks like a used bookstore should look he lied about it all. AUTUMN and smells like a used bookstore should Sen. Tom Cotton, TOLBERT smell. Pure heaven. Several years ago as I echoing a current was driving by, I noticed the window sign GOP talking point, accused the Demobeing removed. Panicked at the thought crats of moving the goalposts recently on of the shop closing, I rear-ended the car Twitter where he, showing how out of stopped in front of me. Luckily, no one was touch he is with Arkansas voters, used a hurt and the sign was just being repainted. soccer goal rather than a football goal to Thank goodness, because my collection of make his point. This was after he threw a Arkansas-related literature would be sorely tantrum and demanded a vote on the GOP lacking without the bookshop. nominee right away. Of course, Cotton, Recently, a good friend managed to who sees women as solely as either vicpluck a signed copy of George Fisher’s tims or villains, threw in with Kavanaugh. “All Around the Farkleberry Bush” from Back to the goalpost talk. Just a few the Arkansas aisle to give to me as a birth- years ago, we had to hear how scared day gift. For my younger readers, Fisher, a conservatives were that their wives and newspaper political cartoonist, provided daughters would be assaulted in public some of the most important and cutting toilets if the legislature failed to pass a bathpolitical commentary in Arkansas history. room bill. Now, they want to put a potential I’ve noticed, as I’ve looked through his assaulter on the highest court in the land. book, that the adage is true. The more When the first allegations against Kavanathings change, the more they do stay the ugh came out, Ford was called a liar. Then, same. Fifty years ago, Fisher was memo- as it became clear she was credible, she was rializing and lampooning the fight over just a Democratic Party pawn with a bad casinos, the exodus from the state of the memory. The latest is the accusation that educated young, efforts to protect the Buf- Ford was a party girl with no boundaries so falo River, racist politicians, public school she should not be surprised or upset about funding, a state attorney general hell-bent what happened. That groping and assault on limiting civil rights, inmate abuse in our are a normal part of flirting. This makes prisons, and women banding together to my blood boil. Sadly, many conservative defeat a conservative candidate after his women seem to support this viewpoint. I sexist remarks. Sound familiar? guess they see their sons and husbands The other thing that stood out to me and fathers in Kavanaugh. Powerful men from the book was nearly all of the politi- who must keep their public persona as a cians depicted in Fisher’s cartoons were pillar of the community intact while we white men. This isn’t a knock on Fisher. look the other way on their indiscretions. Not at all. He was drawing what he saw. Boys who get to be “boys” until they are Women were expected to support men 50 years old. This type of thinking has and raise the children. Men ruled the roost. gone on too long and not just with the Unfortunately, judging by the events of the GOP. Both parties are guilty of protecting past week, they still do. Watching GOP men in order to stay in power. It’s just the Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey GOP is willing to destroy the integrity and Graham stick up for obvious liar Judge credibility of the United States Supreme Brett Kavanaugh during his hearings and Court in a rush to elevate a mediocre man committee vote wore me out emotionally. with anger issues who may also be guilty Seeing Trump ridicule a female reporter of one or more sex assaults. earlier this week for no reason put me over It should probably give me some comthe top. Any bit of fear I carried after the fort that we face many of the same issues 2016 election has been transformed into in local and national politics today as we white-hot rage. did 50 years ago, but I can find none. As At Kavanaugh’s hearing we watched an attorney, I am horrified that such a vinold white men naysay a clearly credible dictive partisan such as Kavanaugh could accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, while potentially be confirmed to the Supreme at the same time accept ridiculous expla- Court. As a woman, I’m furious. I know nations for Kavanaugh’s yearbook entries. that with his ascension we move further I can’t decide if half the country actually away from abandoning the “boys will be believes the Devil’s Triangle is a drink- boys” mentality and closer to a future that ing game and that Kavanaugh was ridi- is too much like our past.

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f only steady improvement mat- audaciously productered much in the win column, tive performance, mind you, but Storey was Arkansas’s effort against Texas more than good enough to keep on holding A&M in the ill-described South- the job while Cole Kelley still manages to west Classic would have been one worth find the field here and there for a gimmick celebrating. or short-yardage play. Save for, yet again, a crippling special De’Jon Harris played one of his finest teams gaffe, the Hogs played the Aggies games yet on the defensive side, registerbasically straight up for just shy of 60 mining a game-high 16 tackles and a sack, and utes. That error, of course, was the open- yet again it was the leadership of Harris ing kickoff, which the Aggies happily took and Dre Greenlaw — who had two interfrom one goal line to the other without ceptions that the offense failed to convert much interference from a kickoff coverage into points — in the middle that kept A&M unit that had already been torched once from doing anything of note from a big-play the week before and which mysteriously standpoint. Trayveon Williams ran for 152 seems to do everything possible to make yards for the Aggies, but he had to work the opposing return man very comfort- for it, with 29 carries and none of them able settling into established return lanes. going for longer than 16 yards, and A&M The Aggies added a quick offensive quarterback Kellen Mond found it difficult drive to make it 14-0 early against the Hogs, to go downfield largely because the Hog and it looked like the rout was on. But a secondary did an admirable job blanketing funny thing happened after that, and I’ll some very good wideouts. Mond threw caution you right now that it’s the sort of for 201 yards, but no scores, and he found thing that might mean that components himself under duress plenty. of this seemingly lost season can and will What’s most frustrating about the 24-17 be recaptured by the woebegone guys in defeat is not that it extended the Hogs’ cardinal and white. current in-season skid to four games or The first point of emphasis is that quar- that the one against the Aggies has now terback Ty Storey was finally given a lit- reached an unthinkable seven losses in a tle more time, and a little more variety in row (four of those, mind you, have been the passing game. Afterthought tight end one-possession games), but that it was the Cheyenne O’Grady came up with three last game before a certain mercy killing is critical grabs to key the Hogs’ two touch- about to transpire at the Hogs’ renovated down drives in the second and fourth quar- home. Alabama is simply being unmerciters, and receiver Mike Woods showed out ful so far in 2018, and yet these Hogs actuwith two big catches, the latter of which ally managed to hold the Aggies to fewer was a well-throw seam route by Storey total yards than the Crimson Tide did the under duress that turned into a late score week before. that drew Arkansas back within 24-17 just That minor accolade will mean little as when it appeared A&M had taken over the Arkansas tries desperately to find a wrinkle game with its own scoring drive. that will work against the nation’s unquesSadly, Storey tried to go to the same tioned powerhouse. Tua Tagovailoa is the well for a big play later after the Hogs sharpest passer Nick Saban has had in his held on defense, and it turned into the decade-plus time in Tuscaloosa, and he Razorbacks’ only turnover of the game, has racked up video game-style numbers a pick that left a nasty final black mark in limited duty over the first five games, on an otherwise well-played game by the which has of course allowed onetime junior from Charleston. Storey once again starter Jalen Hurts plenty of chances to withstood a vicious pass rush — five Aggie prove he is still more than adept at leadsacks kept Arkansas behind the proverbial ing this team in the event of catastrophe. sticks much of the contest — to throw for It’s unfortunate given the measured 193 yards and the score to Woods, while advancement the Hogs made in Arlingalso hitting five other targets on a variety ton, but this weekend is just about keepof short slants and screens in a somewhat ing heads high and saving whatever bag futile bid to keep Jimbo Fisher from send- of tricks exists for a beatable Ole Miss ing his stout line straight at the Hogs’ back- team the following weekend in Little pedaling wall of protection. It wasn’t an Rock.

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emember when the world made something like sense, back in that long, dreaming summer of two years ago, before the coming of this walking, talking embodiment of the misshapen original sin America has held to her bosom since before Thomas Jefferson touched quill to parchment, manifested into a human being the way an idea might be hammered into a two-dimensional villain in the clumsiest of B-grade comic books? Remember when we had a president who was the president of us all? Not some. Not the folks and states who voted for him. Not only the disaffected and scowling mob, knives out, looking for revenge against the other survivors clinging to the seats in the same leaky lifeboat where they, themselves, have found refuge. Not only those who kissed his ring, jumped through flaming hoops and juggled chainsaws to placate and amuse him. But all? Remember when Air Force One swooped into Democratic strongholds and Republican bastions alike when tragedy stuck; even Arkansas, where the majority of our voters wouldn’t even admit the previous resident of the White House was a United States citizen, much less fit for his office, The Man Himself here not to swagger and brag, not to do an hour and a half on his own greatness, not to tell some guy with a Lincoln Continental sticking out of his sodden house like a dagger through his heart that at least he got a nice car outta da deal. Just a president without party other than the love that is supposed to bind us all together as Americans in times of trouble, come here to the darkest heart of the Confederacy to dole out encouragement and a pat on the back from a grateful nation for those suffering in the wake of the latest twister to chew through the state? That actually happened once. We recall it through the veil of years, before time went topsy-turvy and seconds became hours. For anyone who just read that paragraph and felt indignation at the idea that Barack Obama could be anything other than an opportunist at best and the scowling perpetrator of all the crimes the human heart is err to at worst: Remember what it was like before you felt this

way? Remember the days before a thousand culprits snuck that very profitable ball of radioactive indignation into your guts, the reverse operation seen in the legend of the person who wakes up in a motel bathtub full of ice, sans kidneys, the magic marker warning on the mirror saying not “Call 911” this time but “MAGA” and “They’re Coming For Your Guns”? Remember what it was like before you felt a warm, leaden glee at the idea that half your countrymen might be feeling fear, anxiety, anger or remorse? Remember when there was something on the TV and internet besides this crap? Remember when we could all agree that doughy, handsy, prep-school silverspoon polo shirt taintwipes were more in need of a swift kick in their well-padded asses than a seat on the Supreme Court? Remember when we all, regardless of party, prided ourselves on being able to spot an asshole from 10 paces? Remember when the most conservative among us were actually MORE prone than most to think the proper response to finding out a man was an abuser of women or fondler of children was not a ticker-tape rocket ride to higher office but a short trip out behind the dumpster for a dance lesson? Remember when the Rapepublican Party actually stood for something other than winning, retaining power and the daily Twitter-on-the-Shitter sessions of a 71-year-old phone-addicted toddler? Those were the days, we tell ya. The very days. The Observer remembers, in picture perfect hi-def 4K clarity, like it’s all being played on one of those TVs that’s so good it strips away the Hollywood magic and makes everything look slightly fake. We remember it all, even if others can’t or refuse to, not because living in the past is any way to live, but only because we have come to realize that living through history is more terrifying than we could have ever imagined. To tell you the truth, it feels good to escape for a while back to the days when things at least staked an honest claim to making sense. We hope against hope, here in this dim and haunted land, that we can all get back there someday. But we ain’t holding our breath waiting on it. That’s for damn sure.

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But the DHS says changes won’t reduce access to care. BY BENJAMIN HARDY ARKANSAS NONPROFIT NEWS NETWORK

group of behavioral health Hutchinson and GOP lawproviders and patients rallied makers intend to pass a new at the Arkansas Capitol last round of state tax cuts in the Thursday to protest reduc- 2019 legislative session. tions in Medicaid reimbursement rates Yet calls for reform in that they say threaten to drive mental behavioral health are not health agencies out of business. limited to budget hawks. Rate changes implemented by the Later this month, the largstate Department of Human Services est behavioral health agency on July 1 have resulted in an 11 percent in the state, Preferred Famacross-the-board cut for some providers, ily Healthcare, will withaccording to Luke Kramer, the director draw from Arkansas and of the STARR Coalition, the advocacy sell its 45 sites to another group that organized the protest. The provider. Former PFH execstate, he said, appears to be “system- utives are at the center of atically dismantling” the behavioral multiple federal criminal health system, endangering thousands investigations into alleged of Arkansans suffering from mental ill- bribery schemes that implinesses. cate several Arkansas legis“I don’t know what the endgame is for lators of both parties, four of the state,” Kramer said after the event. whom have pleaded guilty. “Is it to go to complete managed care? Is State investigators have DHS spokesBRACING FOR CUTS: Mental health advocate and former U.S. Rep. Patrick it to save money so you can have a press separately accused former woman Amy Kennedy addresses a crowd at the state Capitol on Sept. 27. conference saying, ‘We’ve added no one PFH employees of schemes Webb disputed to the Medicaid rolls, and we’ve saved to siphon millions of dolthe notion that the state X amount of dollars,’ and then lars from Medicaid through behavioral turn those dollars back into tax cuts for fraudulent billing practices. health reform other Arkansans?” (PFH, which was formerly called Alter- money out and having to take out loans.” efforts will reduce access for benefiGovernor Hutchinson has set a goal native Opportunities, does business in Still, the PFH scandal raises difficult ciaries. The agency is implementing a of achieving $835 million in savings in Arkansas under the names Dayspring, questions. Are some Medicaid spending long-term plan to overhaul the behavthe state Medicaid budget over a five- Decision Point and Health Resources categories in the mental health system ioral health system — an effort that preyear period. At an August press event, he of Arkansas; it is based in Springfield, being exploited by unscrupulous pro- dates the scandal at PFH. While rates celebrated the fact that the state’s total Mo.) According to federal investigators, viders? How can the state prevent such paid to large behavioral health agencies spending on the government-funded leaders at PFH embezzled millions of abuses from occurring in the future were reduced on July 1, Webb wrote in insurance program remained flat from dollars from the nonprofit, which was while also funding quality care for the an email, rates for individually licensed fiscal year 2017 to 2018. The reduced funded largely by public money. politically vulnerable population of providers rose by a significant amount. spending has resulted partly from a But while PFH’s former leaders may mentally ill Arkansans? ILPs, such as self-employed psycholovariety of “transformation” efforts and have engineered a way to unduly profit Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy gists or licensed clinical social workers, partly from a reduction in Medicaid from the system, other behavioral health (D-Rhode Island), a national mental can now provide Medicaid-funded serenrollment by over 60,000 beneficiaries. providers have been barely scraping by, health advocate who headlined last vices without being a part of a behav(The rolls will likely shrink by thou- according to Kramer and other advo- week’s rally, said it’s all too easy for ioral health agency, she said. sands more in the coming months as cates. “Most people are just breaking states to cut mental health services. Reimbursement rates for the two the DHS phases in the governor’s new even … but that was before [the] July “Just be honest. It’s easy to cut these types of providers have been equalized. work requirement for certain adult, [rate changes],” he said. “We’re talk- people, because they don’t rank too high Previously, ILPs were paid $39.28 an nondisabled Medicaid beneficiaries.) ing about people who are just bleeding in the list of constituent power groups.” hour for individual counseling, while 12

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behavioral health agencies were paid $109.20 an hour. Now, both types of providers are reimbursed at $92.76 an hour. “That has expanded the number of people who can provide behavioral health services,” Webb wrote. A fact sheet provided by the DHS said the number of ILPs in the state rose from 31 to 106 from July 2017 to September 2018. Another 61 are in the process of being enrolled. “The old Medicaid behavioral health system required people to get assistance through a single provider type — the big behavioral health agencies — and there was a moratorium in place for new providers,” Webb wrote. “It was a one-sizefits-all system … without independent checks, meaning that the same providers getting paid to provide services also decided what types of services people needed and for how long. The new system has expanded services, allowed for more providers to step up and offer care to beneficiaries, and now requires an independent assessment rather than having providers deciding what people need.” Webb also said the new system “provides all Medicaid beneficiaries access to substance abuse treatment for the first time.” Ro Garcia, the chief operating officer of Little Rock behavioral health agency Inspiration Day Treatment, said those arguments don’t hold up to scrutiny. ILPs in private practice are serving a much different population of clients, according to Garcia. “They’re seeing people who come in once or twice a month. We’re seeing our folks five or six times a week,” he said. “We’re talking about the clients that are so ill that they need to come to a day treatment center most days out of the week to stay out of the hospital.” Carol Witham, Inspiration’s CEO and founder, said her clients can’t afford disruptions in medication and services.. “Substance abuse does not substitute for treatment for the seriously mentally ill.” (Witham is also the chairwoman of the STARR Coalition’s board.) An independently wealthy philanthropist, Witham said she’s now forced to put her own money into Inspiration to keep the behavioral health agency afloat. Other providers don’t have that luxury, she said, CONTINUED ON PAGE 43

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Play at home, while wearing your taxpayer-funded camo pants and rubber boots.

1) While it may be hard to believe, we can assure you that something interesting happened in Blytheville last weekend. What was it? A) Breaking a four-year streak, not a single person in Blytheville contracted gonorrhea over the weekend.

B) Thanks to a freak solar flare, the CBS affiliate came in clear on local TVs for the first time since television was invented. C) Someone actually drove to Blytheville on purpose, without then continuing on to somewhere else. D) The Arkansas One-Mile Challenge, with the drivers of cars, trucks and motorcycles testing their nerve and horsepower on the 11,500-foot runway of the former air force base there, with some going over 220 miles per hour.

2) Arkansas treasure and blogger Matt Campbell of Blue Hog Report recently dug up a doozy: Back in 2014, the office of State Land Commissioner John Thurston spent a total of $28,777.55 in taxpayer funds on something you wouldn’t think the Commission of State Lands, which oversees sales of tax delinquent properties, would have much use for. On what, according to documents uncovered by BHR, was the money spent?

A) A War Eagle-brand bass boat costing $22,447.65, including $7,997 for an upgraded 115-horsepower Yamaha outboard engine.

B) $3,999.96 for boat-related gear from Bass Pro Shops, including a $2,299 electronic fish finder, two “Mustang Survival Bass Competition” flotation devices for $249.99 each, and two pairs of camouflage pants, plus $305.06 for still more boat-related gear from Walmart, including flashlights, needle-nose pliers and two pairs of rubber boots. C) $1,686.93 per year for a boat storage space in Maumelle. D) All of the above.

3) When Blue Hog Report asked Thurston’s office why the agency needed to spend almost $29,000 in taxpayer funds on what appears to be a fishing boat, what did chief counsel Diane Schwartz say was the reason for buying the boat and related gear?

A) “Winter is coming.”

B) The boat is for removing “debris” from waterways around the state, in keeping with a state law passed in 2013, with the $2,299 depth finder necessary “to ascertain the location and extent of the debris or other obstructions” underwater. C) Thurston left his laptop logged into Amazon while he went to the crapper, and his cat walked across the keyboard, hitting exactly the right sequence of keys to purchase the boat and several thousand dollars worth of fishing gear. D) The boat’s reinforced prow is needed to gently nudge aside the turdbergs floating in the Buffalo National River downstream of the hog farm.

4) The Arkansas Department of Health reported recently that it had found the culprit behind an outbreak of diarrhea and vomiting that struck 175 people who had visited a Fayetteville brewpub. What was the reported cause?

A) Beer. They like to drink beer. Sometimes they drank too much beer. Beery beer-beer. Beer. They like beer. Not so much that they blacked out though! Beer! Beer. B) Some kinda pumpkin spice bullshit. C) Norovirus, a highly contagious disease that causes intestinal distress. D) The inevitable mental images conjured up after Trump’s recent admission that he had “fallen in love” with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

5) Recently, fans of the late actor Burt Reynolds, who died Sept. 6, held a tribute to Burt that included an Arkansas connection. What did they do to pay homage to the world’s fastest mustache? A) They held a live re-enactment of “Deliverance” on the Buffalo River, complete with a bunch of toothless hillbillies making a Ned Beatty look-alike squeal like a pig. B) They jumped a Pontiac Firebird over the dome of the Arkansas state Capitol at dawn. C) They collected over 300 pounds of barbershop clippings for “Burt’s Kids,” youths who are tragically unable to grow their own thick, luxurious chest hair. D) A group of truckers recreated the 900-plus mile route from Texarkana to Atlanta seen in “Smokey and the Bandit,” led by a 1977 Pontiac Trans Am and a police car like the one driven on screen by Jackie Gleason’s character Buford T. Justice.

Answers: D, D, B, C, D

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A PROMISE OF BOLD, CREATIVE THINKING Warwick Sabin says he has the resume and ideas to move Little Rock forward. BY SETH BLOMELEY

hen Warwick Sabin was a kid growing up in New York, he won a trip to Arkansas. Colleges from across the country mailed the 17-year-old at East Hampton High School a bunch of brochures and fliers, talking about why they were more special than the others. But one stood out: the University of Arkansas. As a Boys State delegate in 1993, he got to meet President Bill Clinton during a ceremony in Washington. He soon contracted Clinton fever. A complimentary

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visit to Fayetteville to interview for a fellowship and a full scholarship helped seal the deal. Clinton confidante Diane Blair became his adviser at the UA, and her connections allowed Sabin summer work at the White House. His admiration for Clinton grew into a deep affection for The Natural State. The young New Yorker transformed himself into an Arkansan. The Arkansas allure didn’t dissipate after Clinton left the White House. Over the years, Sabin fully immersed himself in Arkansas’s politics and culture, working in several diverse roles, always in the middle of the action.

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“I love Little Rock. Arkansas is the first and only place I ever voted,” Sabin said, explaining why he stayed in Central Arkansas. “Everything for me has been kind of driven by trying to improve the place I live. Running for mayor is the best opportunity to make a difference.” Sabin is one of five candidates in the Nov. 6 election vying to replace Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola, who decided against seeking a fourth term. The others are Baker Kurrus, a businessman and former superintendent of the Little Rock School District; Frank Scott, a banker and former state highway commissioner; education consultant Vincent Tolliver; and activist Glen Schwarz. Sabin’s big issues are crime and education. He wants to re-establish a community policing program and return the Little Rock School District, which has been run by the state for several years, to local control.

He says the “elected political leadership has never really engaged” on schools. “It’s important for the mayor to be front and center,” he says, and he would “convene a citywide conversation” about schools, including on school facilities. He said the state’s school closure and building plan has been dictated from the state with little regard to what the people think. On crime, he said, “Wherever I go in the city, I come across people who are victims of violent crime or breakins, or they say they called 911 and got a slow response. I talk to police and they say, ‘Yes, it’s difficult for us to respond because we are undermanned and under-resourced.’ We had a [community police] officer in Capitol View [his neighborhood] for 14 years. A few years ago, for some reason, the city decided to end that. They pulled him out of the neighborhood as well as other [community police] officers throughout the city.”

It’s an example of why Sabin’s frustrated by the “dysfunctional” system of city government in Little Rock that requires the mayor to share authority with the city manager. “There is a lack of transparency in decision-making,” he said. “Nobody knows who is doing what and why.” What sets Sabin apart from the other candidates? “Quite a bit,” he said during an interview in his downtown campaign headquarters on Markham Street, an old brick building built in 1890 still containing various remnants from the numerous restaurants and bars that have occupied the space over the years. While fielding questions about his candidacy, he greeted volunteers and fiddled with a pair of needle-nosed pliers that happened to be lying in front of him on a worn and wobbly lunch table next to a stack of campaign yard signs. “I have experience in making things happen and taking the initiative to do

DRIVEN TO IMPROVE LITTLE ROCK: That’s been his m.o. for as long as he’s lived in the capital city, Sabin said.

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the job myself,” Sabin explained. “I don’t just have a resume where I’ve had jobs. I’ve created things from scratch. I offer new energy, new ideas — creative, innovative ideas with experience in getting them done. When you look at the competition in this race, on one side you have experience, but it’s very conventional experience, and on the other side you may have fresh ideas but no track record or achievement or accomplishments at getting things done.” (Sabin declined to say which candidates he was referring to.) Sabin, 41, works as senior director for U.S. Programs at Winrock International, the Little Rock-based international development nonprofit. His wife, Jessica, is political director for The NewDEAL, a national progressive political group. They met in 2009 at a fundraiser for the Arkansas Literary Festival. “All of a sudden this really gorgeous woman comes up to me and says, ‘Are you Warwick Sabin?’ We talked for a really long time. A week or two later I got smart and asked her on a date.” They married three years later. He’s nearing the end of his third term in the Arkansas House of Representatives for District 33, which includes the Hillcrest, downtown, Capitol View, Hall High and Leawood neighborhoods as well as parts of the 12th Street corridor. As an accomplishment in the legislature, he cites his sponsorship of Amendment 94 to the Arkansas Constitution, which limited gifts to lawmakers and lengthened legislative term limits. The ethics amendment has since received mixed reviews from some good government advocates for being insufficiently tough. The measure’s legacy also has been clouded somewhat by the fact that it was co-sponsored by former Republican Sen. Jon Woods of Springdale, who was convicted this spring on multiple federal corruption charges. Sabin said there was no indication that Woods would turn out like he did. “It was 100 percent business. We were not in any way close. We were put together [to work on the amendment] by the Speaker of House [Davy Carter at the time].” He also touts his sponsorship of legislation to facilitate public-private infrastructure projects and to eliminate antiquated regulations blocking charging stations for electric cars. He tried unsuccessfully to pass an earned income tax credit at the state level, which would have helped lowincome Arkansans, but hopes he’s laid the groundwork for its passage in the

future. He says that being a Democrat in a body dominated by Republicans is challenging but has helped teach him how to work with people with opposing views. He declined to run for reelection to the General Assembly this year and has taken a leave of absence from Winrock to run for mayor. “Obviously, I gave this a lot of thought,” Sabin said. “Obviously, I’m very proud of my record [as a legislator]. I feel like there is a more critical challenge to confront in Little Rock right now. Everyone sees the city at a critical junction where we can either go in a new direction or stagnate and possibly decline. I got into public service to make a difference. All of the innovative public policy is happening in cities. Arkansas needs new energy, someone who can make things happen, who can be creative and innovative and build consensus and work with all kinds of people.” Bobby Roberts, the retired longtime director of the Central Arkansas Library System, is supporting Sabin. They first met 20 years ago, when Sabin was student body president of the University of Arkansas. Roberts recalled that at the time he was opposing the proposed dissolution of the UA Press and “Sabin called me out of the blue and said, ‘What can I do to help?’ ” They were able to work with others to keep the university’s publishing arm intact. Now, he views Sabin as a visionary consensus builder who could get big things done in Little Rock, something he says the city has lacked for some time. “He’s a smart guy who knows policy and one of those people who studies the issues and listens to people,” Roberts said. “He’s got a lot of energy. He’ll put forth his positions, but he’ll modify his positions if he gets more information. He’s done a lot of things [professionally] I wouldn’t dare undertake. He worked to create a place for himself in Central Arkansas. Getting established is a challenge, but he’s got deep roots in Central Arkansas now.” Other supporters include David and Barbara Pryor. The former governor and U.S. senator recalls meeting Sabin when he was an assistant professor at the UA. “He came [to Arkansas] out of his own volition and wanted to pattern his life after President Clinton’s life,” David Pryor recalled. “I admired that very much. I think he’s truly a leader. I always encouraged him to run for something, and lo and behold, he did. I don’t believe I’ll be sorry.”

A CITY AT A CRITICAL JUNCTION: Little Rock needs new energy, Sabin says.

Sabin was born Nov. 19, 1976, in Manhattan, the son of Mark and Sharon Sabin. His father is an artist, producing “figurative and surreal” paintings, and his mother worked in journalism, writing for the Wall Street Journal and Fortune, and later entered corporate communication. When he was in middle school, his family moved to eastern Long Island. “It was a total change, from the big city to a small town,” he recalled. But he adjusted and was elected president of his high school class. His parents weren’t very political, so his first real exposure to politics came during his time at Boys State. He graduated from the UA as valedictorian with a political science degree

in 1998. He then spent two years at Oxford University, receiving a master’s in philosophy, politics and economics. While there, he would travel to London regularly to work as a speechwriter for the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom. He was considering staying in England to pursue speechwriting full time, but through Arkansas connections, U.S. Rep. Marion Berry, a Democrat from Gillett, asked Sabin to be his communications director. Sabin was bit by the Arkansas bug again and left Oxford in 2000. Two years later, he was hired as one of the first three employees of the Clinton Foundation. He worked as the director of development, raising money

for the presidential library and other programs. By 2004, Sabin embarked on his mother’s former profession, journalism, becoming an associate editor at the Arkansas Times. He wrote an opinion column and recalls writing candidate profiles during the 2006 Little Rock mayoral race. During this time, he also co-hosted a public affairs program on AETN called “Unconventional Wisdom.” In 2007, he was hired as vice president of communications at the University of Central Arkansas, and two years after that became publisher at the Oxford American literary magazine, which was housed at UCA at the time. arktimes.com OCTOBER 4, 2018

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He worked hard to get the magazine on solid financial footing. It moved to Little Rock in 2011, and Sabin counts as one of his major accomplishments establishing South on Main, the restaurant and entertainment venue on South Main Street in Little Rock where the Oxford American hosts regular concerts. Ready for another challenge, in 2013 Sabin helped establish and worked as the director of the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub in North Little Rock, a nonprofit that provides entrepreneurs access to technology and equipment. Three years later, Winrock International absorbed the Hub and Sabin went to work for Winrock. Earlier this year, Arkansas Business reported that anonymous former Innovation Hub employees had concerns about the merger, which included asking whether Sabin had “exchanged the Hub and its assets for a job” at Winrock. Sabin said last week that’s “not at all what happened.” He said the Hub’s board made the decision to merge after Winrock approached the Hub with the offer. He said he wasn’t on the board and didn’t have a vote. He said there was an opening at Winrock and he was fortunate enough to be hired. When he wanted to run for mayor, he said he was stymied by the Little Rock ordinance that prevents people from declaring as a candidate until the June before a November election. So, last year, in a move of “positive disruption” he formed an “exploratory committee” to raise money. The city sued him, but a judge ruled in his favor because he had set up his committee under state law, he said. Sabin says he’s not afraid to shake things up. He differs with the city on its acceptance thus far of the planned

Interstate 30 expansion through downtown. He said he went to all the public hearings on the project to understand the issues. He agrees with the need to replace the I-30 bridge and update the exit ramps for safety but has otherwise opposed the project from the start, he said. “What people call traffic here is just a little slowdown in the morning rush hour and in the other direction in the evening rush hour,” Sabin said. “Otherwise, it runs smoothly the other 22 hours of the day. [The project] is for people driving through Little Rock and not for people who live in Little Rock. It would impede development on the eastern part of downtown. We want livable, walkable, bikeable areas.” As mayor, Sabin said, he would use his influence on Metroplan, the regional transportation board for Central Arkansas, to slow down the project and instead invest in more public transportation. He plans a comprehensive budgetary analysis to assess whether the city needs more police officers and whether some wards should get more money for projects than others based on need. Among other things, he wants to find ways to increase neighborhood participation to make people feel they are part of a transparent and honest decisionmaking process. “Little Rock needs bold, creative thinking,” Sabin said. “I’m most proud when I’m able to do something that nobody else has done before and convince people that something that seems impossible is actually possible and do it in a way that’s efficient. “People are frustrated we’ve been stagnating [as a city]. All the answers are right in front of us. We just need to release the ideas.”

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HOT SPRINGS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL October 19-27, 2018 OPENING NIGHT SCREENING EVENT FRIDAY, OCT 19TH • ARLINGTON RESORT HOTEL AND SPA

OPENING NIGHT FILM: HILLBILLY Opening Night Film – Arkansas Premiere Directed by Ashley York & Sally Rubin, 87 mins This eye-opening ﬁlm deconstructs the “Hillbilly” stereotype and analyzes the media imagery and negative portrayals that has perpetuated a misconception of the rural Appalachian identity. The ﬁlm counters this stereotype by highlighting some of the positive celebrity role models like Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn and interviewing some of the real people who call the Appalachian region home. 6:00 PM - Traditional Popcorn & Champagne Toast in the Arlington Hotel Lobby * Open to everyone 6:30 PM - Doors open 7:00 PM - Screening of Hillbilly

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2018 FEATURE LINEUP HILLBILLY – OPENING NIGHT FILM – ARKANSAS

PREMIERE Directed by Ashley York & Sally Rubin, 87 mins Special Guest Ashley York & Sally Rubin in attendance. Hillbilly takes a political, philosophical, and personal journey into the heart of the Appalachian region to illuminate the point of view of a misunderstood population that are frequently mocked and blamed for America’s social ills, not to mention a driving inﬂuence in the 2016 Presidential Election which has widened the cultural divide in America. The ﬁlm counters this stereotype by highlighting some of the positive celebrity role models like Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn and interviewing

performance featuring: Charnay Cassadine (Fred Young), Felicia Blackhart (Allen Haines), Ginger Styles (Daniel Fose), & Missy Cline (Jeff Ellie). 200 miles away from Hot Springs is the other tourist mecca in Arkansas: the spa town of Eureka Springs…home of healing waters, a Christian Passion Play, gospel-themed drag shows, and an epic battle to pass a municipal law that would protect the LGBT citizens and visitors from discrimination. Eureka Springs has one of the highest per-capita gay populations alongside a large evangelical Christian population. As the vote for City Ordinance 2223 races towards its decision, the film poetically explores the surreal atmosphere of a town with such stark contrasts and conflicting opinions. Archival footage conjures up ghosts from the past including infamous anti-gay activists Gerald L.K. Smith, who commissioned the largest Christ statue in North America that overlooks the town, and singer Anita Bryant, who tried to stage a comeback concert in Eureka Springs. With their hopeful film, Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri present a miraculous vision of a Southern Utopia where two divergent populations co-exist peacefully and where religious themed attractions and diversity festivals may compete for tourist dollars.

DAUGHTERS OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION: THE UNTOLD STORIES OF THE DALLAS COWBOYS CHEERLEADERS – CLOSING NIGHT

Hillbilly some of the real people who call the Appalachian region home... an unexpectedly diverse group that includes artists, activists, intersectional feminists, queer musicians, and “Aﬀrilachian” poets. Some of them reveal how they are torn between their love for their land and the frustrating reality of the polarizing politics. Director Ashley York, takes a trip back to her home-town in Eastern Kentucky and confronts her own family’s opposing political beliefs. Her approach sets an example of civility when discussing and understanding diﬀerent political viewpoints and cultural identities. Hillbilly sets the tone of this year’s Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival as it reflects the complexities and complications of our collective human experience.

GOSPEL OF EUREKA – CENTERPIECE FILM

Directed by Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri, 75 Mins Special Guests: Stars of the Film, Walter Burrell, Roxie Howard & Earl Stuart. Following the screening the festival will host a special live drag

FILM, ARKANSAS PREMIERE Directed by Dana Adam Shapiro, 80 mins Special Guests: Director Dana Adam Shapiro will be in attendance along with members of the original Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders A light-hearted celebration and thought-provoking examination of the ground-breaking and earth-shaking phenomenon that was the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders during the 70’s and the 80’s. With amusing anecdotes from the former members and unprecedented interview access to Suzanne Mitchell, the director and “den mother” to the cheerleaders, their stories come alive in vivid detail from the high kicks to the low blows. From their TV guest appearance on the “Love Boat” to entertaining the U.S. troops on an aircraft carrier, they lifted spirits and tv ratings alike. Under the visionary leadership of Suzanne Mitchell, the team was a showcase for racial diversity and a display of liberating conﬁdence. Creating a paradoxical image of sexy and wholesome at the same time, the cheerleaders had a very strict set of rules which prevented them from cheapening their image.

US FILMS 93QUEEN

Dir. Paula Eiselt 90 mins Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, 93Queen follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their community by creating the ﬁrst all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York City.

BEHIND THE CURVE

Dir. Daniel J. Clark 96 mins Meet real Flat Earthers, a small but growing contingent of people who ﬁrmly believe that there is a centuries’ long conspiracy to suppress the truth that the Earth is ﬂat.

BIG TIME

Dir. Kaspar Astrup Shröder 92 mins This philosophical portrait follows the “starchitect,” Bjarke Ingles over a six-year period as he opens a New York oﬃce and starts to redesign the iconic Manhattan skyline through his biggest projects yet: the W57 skyscraper and Two World Trade Center.

BLOWIN’ UP

Dir. Stephanie Wang-Brea 94 mins Working within a broken criminal justice system, a team of rebel heroines work to change the the way women arrested and prosecuted for prostitution.

CHEF FLYNN

Dir. Cameron Yates 82 mins Ten-year-old Flynn transforms his living room into a supper club using his classmates as line cooks. With sudden fame, Flynn outgrows his bedroom kitchen, and sets out to challenge the hierarchy of the culinary world.

THE DEVIL WE KNOW

Dir. Stephanie Soechtig 88 mins A group of citizens in West Virginia challenges a powerful corporation to be more environmentally responsible.

DONS OF DISCO

Dir. Jonathan Sutak 85 mins A character-driven documentary about a 1980s lip-syncing scandal that escalates into a bitter war between an American singer and an Italian male model.

EATING ANIMALS

Dir. Christopher Quinn 94 mins Based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s best-selling memoir and narrated by Natalie Portman, this eye-opening ﬁlm eulogizes the billions of animals that lead lives of misery and mourns a world changed for the worse by factory farming.

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FARMSTEADERS

Dir. Shaena Mallett 60 mins A love story, a farm story, and a story of contemporary rural America. Set in the verdant foothills of Ohio, this intimate portrait about a young family and their independent dairy farm is as much a study of place as it is a study of persistence.

FAR FROM THE TREE

Dir. Rachel Dretzin 93 mins Based on the NY Times bestselling book by Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree examines the experiences of families in which parents and children are profoundly diﬀerent from one another in a variety of ways.

FREAKS AND GEEKS: A DOCUMENTARY

Dir. Brent Hodge 64 mins The creators and stars of the TV show Freaks and Geeks share their untold stories and pivotal moments from the making of the series that only aired for one season.

GENERAL MAGIC

Dir. Sarah Kerruish & Matt Maude 90 mins A documentary about a business that Forbes described as the “greatest dead company in Silicon Valley.” It is a tale of how great vision and epic failure changed the world as we know it.

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRÉ Dir. Kate Novack 93 mins From the segregated American South to the fashion capitals of the world, operatic fashion editor André Leon Talley’s life and career are on full display.

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Dir. Amy Scott 90 mins Director of the cult hits Harold and Maude, Shampoo, and The Last Detail, Hal Ashby was New Hollywood’s most countercultural and socially-oriented creative mind. This new documentary treats us to a treasure trove of archival footage and A-list recollections exploring Ashby’s tenure.

THE HEAT: A KITCHEN (R)EVOLUTION Dir. Maya Gallus 75 mins A look at the women currently at the head of some of the world’s top restaurants, and the next generation unwilling to submit to the brutal, macho conditions of the kitchen that were once considered the norm.

JOSEPH PULITZER: VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Dir. Oren Rudavsky 84 mins Joseph J. Pulitzer came to America as a penniless immigrant but he became a wealthy and inﬂuential publisher who fought for the freedom of the press and whose newspaper The World became known as “The Friend of the People.”

THE LAST RACE

Dir. Michael Dweck 74 mins A portrait of a small-town stock car racetrack and the tribe of blue-collar drivers that call it home, struggling to hold onto an American racing tradition as the world around them is transformed by globalization and commercialization.

PICK OF THE LITTER

Dir. Don Hardy Jr. & Dana Nachman 81 mins This adorable documentary follows a litter of puppies from the moment they’re born and begin their quest to become Guide Dogs for the Blind, the ultimate canine career.

QUIET HEROES

Dir. Jenny Mackenzie, Jared Ruga, Amanda Stoddard 68 mins Receiving care for HIV/AIDS in 1980s Salt Lake City was staggeringly diﬃcult due to the Mormon Church’s political and social inﬂuence. Kristin Ries and Maggie Snyder

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING

Dir. Tom Donahue 90 mins An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives, and artists in the Industry. Dir. Alexandra Shiva 91 mins Four Syrian refugee families attempt to resettle in Baltimore during the eight months before they become ineligible for ﬁnancial assistance.

TIME FOR ILHAN

Dir. Norah Shapiro 89 mins This inspiring and suspenseful political documentary follows the campaign of Ilhan Omar, a young Somalian Muslim immigrant woman who attempts to unseat a 43-year incumbent and other challengers.

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NO GREATER LAW

Dir. Tom Dumican 89 mins The state of Idaho takes freedom of religion to extremes with a law that protects the rights of a Christian sect to withhold medical treatment for their children in lieu of prayer and faith-healing.

OUR NEW PRESIDENT

Dir. Maxim Pozdorovkin 77 mins When it comes to fake news on steroids, Russia wins the Gold Medal. This nightmarishly distorted take on the 2016 Presidential campaign is told entirely through clips of Russian government-controlled news footage and the YouTube videos from mind-controlled Russian citizens.

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Dir. Matt Tyrnauer 98 mins Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism — a place that not only redeﬁned the nightclub, but also came to symbolize an entire era. A tantalizing glimpse into the real story behind the velvet ropes.

THIS IS HOME

A MURDER IN MANSFIELD

Dir. Barbara Kopple 87 mins In her latest documentary, Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple takes on the “true crime” genre to explore the after-eﬀects of tragedy when a convicted murderer is confronted by his son 26 years later.

STUDIO 54

Dir. Juliane Dressner 87 mins Three Brooklyn high school seniors pull double duty as they attempt to get themselves, as well as their peers, into college. Karoline, Christine, and Enoch struggle to break the barriers that prevent so many low-income students from attending and graduating from college.

were two crusading healthcare professionals who served as the area’s only means of medical support.

RBG

Dir. Julie Cohen & Betsy West 98 mins A portrait of the exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.

ROLL RED ROLL

Dir. Nancy Schwartzman 80 mins When social media, “boys will be boys.” and vigilante justice collide, Steubenville, Ohio will never be the same.

SCIENCE FAIR

Dir. Cristina Costantini & Darren Foster 90 mins Nine high school students from around the globe navigate rivalries, setbacks and, of course, hormones, on their journey to compete at The International Science and Engineering Fair.

UNITED SKATES

Dir. Dyana Winkler & Tina Brown 89 mins When America’s last standing roller rinks are threatened with closure, a community of thousands battle in a racially charged environment to save an underground subculture — one that has given rise to some of the world’s greatest musical talent.

WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?

Dir. Morgan Neville 94 mins An exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of iconic children’s television host, Fred Rogers, and a plea for more civility in this world.

THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET

Dir. Jeremy Workman 96 mins A sublime journey inside authentic New York City as seen through the eyes and adventures of “walker” Matt Green, who has taken on the personal project of walking every street and path in NYC.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 POLITICS AND POKER: A SPEAKEASY MOBSTER PARTY The Gangster Museum of America 510 Central Ave. (9:00 PM to 12:00 AM) Sponsored by The Gangster Museum of America Stella Artois, Tito’s Mixed Drinks, Wine, and Appetizers Open to All-Access Passholders, Filmmakers, & Sponsors. Limited Event Tickets available for purchase ($25)

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 EAT YOUR HEART OUT: THE HEAT - A KITCHEN (R)EVOLUTION AFTER PARTY Co-Hosted by The Lee Initiative & Mountain Valley Spring Water Superior Bathhouse Brewery 329 Central Ave. (9:00 PM to 12:00 AM) Tonight’s food will be prepared by up-andcoming female chefs mentored throughout

the day by Guest Chefs, Anito Lo and Edward Lee. Hot Springs’ hardest working crate-digger, DJ Courier Coleman, will be spinning records. Chef Anita Lo is one of the most respected female chefs in the country, earning numerous accolades for her inventive cuisine that reflects her multicultural upbringing and classic French training. Chef Edward Lee is a Brooklyn-born chef and restaurateur. He is the Creative Director and Mentor for the The LEE Initiative, an acronym for Let’s Empower Employment designed to identify a need for more diversity and more equality in the restaurant industry. Sponsored by Mountain Valley Water Tito’s Mixed Drinks, Superior Brewery Beer and Wine Open to All-Access Passholders, Filmmakers, & Sponsors. Limited Event Tickets available for purchase ($25) SCREAMING FEMALES AND KITTEN FOREVER - LIVE! (THE AFTER AFTER PARTY) Low Key Arts 118 Arbor Street (10:00 PM to 1:00 AM) Open to All Access Passholders, $15 at the door. All ages. Low Key Arts FOLK members are admitted free.

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EDUCATION WORKSHOPS VR WORKSHOP (FREE) A 1-2 hour workshop with seminar style and hands-on training in essential skills for producing virtual reality 360 video. Learn the fundamentals of immersive content and what type of content is best for 360 viewing. Hosted by Dylan Roberts with Freelance Society. HSDFF PRESENTS “LIVE STORYTELLING WORKSHOP” (FREE) “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” - Maya Angelou THE CLASS: Since prehistoric times we’ve have shared stories to connect and to attempt to understand the human condition. Stories are at the heart of all our lives and even if you don’t think of yourself as an artist, you’re certainly a storyteller. Recently, storytelling events like The Moth and RISK! have made the art of personal storytelling mainstream and offered opportunities to share our personal experiences with each other. As a filmmaker, Lena Rudnick discovered storytelling as an incredible tool in her own filmmaking process and she’s excited to teach you how to unleash your inner-storyteller! Learn how to craft your experiences into stories that are heartbreaking, hilarious, thought-provoking and keep people on the edge of their seat in this 2-week workshop culminating in a stage show at Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. CLASS OUTLINE: (All workshops held at the Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa) (must be available for all dates of the workshop to perform!) THURSDAY OCT 18th at 6 pm - 8 pm CLASS 1: Come to class with true story ideas! We’ll learn what makes a GOOD story and flesh out one idea into a rough 5 minute story. HW: Write your story down! Read it to someone! SUNDAY OCT 21st 1pm - 3 pm CLASS 2: Come share your story and receive constructive feedback! We’ll learn some tips to tune our personal storytelling compasses and how to memorize for stage. WEDNESDAY OCT 24th 6pm - 8 pm CLASS 3: We’ll do theatre exercises, unlock the secret performer inside and focus how to get the most out of our stories up on stage. THE SHOW!!! SATURDAY OCT 27th at 12 pm We’ll perform our stories with an audience at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival! APPLY ON THE WEBSITE WWW.HSDFI.ORG - SPACE IS LIMITED

PANELS REAL FACTS, FAKE NEWS Truth in Journalism vs. Fake News Saturday, Oct 20th 12:00 PM PANELISTS: Sharon Liese (director, Fight for the First), Maxim Pozdorovkin (director, Our New President), Oren Rudavsky (director, Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People. MODERATOR: Mimi Edmunds. THE ART OF THE PITCH Saturday, Oct 20th 2:00 PM Three filmmakers from the University of Central Arkansas will get the opportunity to pitch their films in front of a panel of industry professionals from New York and LA. The panel will give each project critical feedback in order to demonstrate how to hone your own pitches and make them the best they can be. I MADE A FILM. NOW WHAT? Sunday, Oct 21st 12:30 PM This panel will help demystify the next steps of your film’s journey from festival strategy to marketing and distribution. Our panelists will talk about how to find the best game plan for your specific film and how to navigate the ever changing distribution landscape.

EDWARD LEE & ANITA LO WITH THE SCREENING OF THE HEAT: A KITCHEN REVOLUTION.

REFINING YOUR MESSAGE: PRESENTING YOUR FILM IN THE BEST LIGHT Sunday, Oct 21st 2:30 PM This panel will show the importance of how we talk about our work and the effect it can have on Your project. STATE OF THE UNION: A SYMPOSIUM ON WOMEN IN THE INDUSTRY Sat, Oct 27th 10:30AM We’re going to hear from some women ﬁrsthand about whether they feel like the #metoo movement has changed things internally. And we’re going to hear about what it really means to be a woman in ﬁlm industry.

LIVING ROOM EVENTS

THE HOT SPRINGS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL VIRTUAL REALITY LOUNGE Films SUN LADIES VR - FIRST WEEKEND This immersive live-action documentary brings you face-to-face with a troop of Yazidi women fighters. After ISIS soldiers invaded the Yazidi community of Sinjar, killing all of the men and taking the women and girls as sex slaves, these brave women escaped and started a female-only fighting unit called the Sun Ladies. Together, their goal is to bring back their sisters and protect the honor and dignity of their people. MARIA BELLO - Executive Producer - Maria Bello is an internationally renowned actor, activist, author, and producer. She was voted one of Variety’s most powerful women in Hollywood for her activism with women in Darfur. Maria lobbied Congress to organize the first-ever hearing on rape as a weapon of war. CELINE TRICART - Co-Director and DP - Celine Tricart is a director, cinematographer, and founder of Lucid Dreams Productions—whose work was showcased at numerous top-tier film festivals and gathered international awards. She is considered a pioneer in both 3-D and virtual reality filmmaking. CHRISTIAN STEPHEN - Co-Director - Christian Stephen is a British war photographer, filmmaker, and writer. He is known for his coverage from Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Gaza, and more, as well as being a co-founder of Freelance Society. HOT SPRINGS, EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME The first tourism films in Arkansas using virtual reality (VR) technology to promote Hot Springs created by Visit Hot Springs and Freelance Society. CONTRAST VR Contrast is Al Jazeera’s Immersive Storytelling Studio. We explore underreported, diverse stories from and about marginalized communities and developing countries.

DIRECTOR BRETT MORGEN IS OUR 2018 HSDFF IMPACT AWARD RECIPIENT WITH A SCREENING OF THE FILM JANE Jane; Director Brett Morgen 90 mins. Using a trove of never before seen footage, the ﬁlm tells the story of Jane’s early explorations and research in Tanzania. Focusing on her groundbreaking ﬁeld work, her relationship with her cameraman and husband Hugo Van Lawick and the chimpanzees that were the subject of her study.

IMPACT AWARD RECIPIENT: BRETT MORGEN Dubbed the “mad scientist” of documentary film by the New York Times, Brett Morgen has been directing, writing, and producing groundbreaking documentary films for the past 15 years. His credits include ON THE ROPES (1999), THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE (2002), CHICAGO 10 (2007), NIMROD NATION (2008), JUNE 17, 1994 (2010), and CROSSFIRE HURRICANE (2012). Morgen has created and executive produced several television series and events. In 2008, he won his first Peabody Award for the Sundance Channel series NIMROD NATION. The film was hailed as one of the best series of 2008 by the Los Angeles Times and the Television Critics Association. In 2010, Morgen directed and produced JUNE 17, 1994 as part of ESPN’s 30 For 30 series. Morgen and the film received two Emmy nominations as well as a series Peabody Award.

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DAY BY DAY SCHEDULE 11:00-5:00PM Virtual Reality Lounge Open

FRIDAY, OCT 19TH

6:00PM Popcorn and Champaign Toast 6:15PM Doors Open

12:00PM “Fake News, Truth in Journalism” Panel

7:00PM Opening Ceremony and screening of Hillbilly

2:00PM “The Art of the Pitch” Panel

9:00-12:00AM “Heart of the Ozarks” Opening Night Party at Ozark Bathhouse (Sponsored by Arkansas Times)

9:00-12:00AM “Politics and Poker” Gangster Museum Party (Sponsored by Stella Artois and Tito’s Handmade Vodka)

SATURDAY, OCT 20TH CINEMA 1 9:30AM Big Time *Preceded by Thomas Fire Architect 12:00PM Dons of Disco 2:30PM Free Solo *Preceded by Look Up 5:00PM RBG 7:30PM Jane *HSDFF Impact Award Recipient CINEMA 2 9:30AM Our New President *Preceded by Fake News Fairytale 12:00PM Time for Ilhan 2:30PM Roll Red Roll 5:00PM Transformer 7:30PM Behind the Curve HSDFF “Living Room” *All events are free

CINEMA 2 9:30AM Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People *Preceded by Fight for the First

CINEMA 1 10:00AM Blowin’ Up

2:30PM Rodents of Unusual Size 5:00PM Whispering Truth to Power

CINEMA 1 9:30AM Chef Flynn *Preceded by A Butcher’s Heart 12:00PM The World Before Your Feet *Preceded by I Heart NY Guided walk following the screening 2:30PM (FREE!) Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable *Preceded by Zion (Followed by kid friendly mixed media workshop presented by Emergent Arts)

6:30PM HSDFF Emerging Voices Retreat Kickoﬀ and Toast (VIP LOUNGE)

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12:30PM Farmsteader *Preceded by The End of Weed

SUNDAY, OCT 21ST

5:00PM Won’t You Be My Neighbor

7:30PM The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution *Preceded by Zaza Rising

MONDAY, OCT 22ND

12:00PM The Next Guardian 2:00PM Hale County This Morning, This Evening 5:00PM Man on Fire *Preceded by The Changing Same

6:30PM HSDFF Emerging Voices Retreat Kickoﬀ and Toast (VIP LOUNGE)

7:00PM This Mountain Life

7:30PM No Greater Law

2:00PM Letters from Masanjia

HSDFF “Living Room” *All events are free 11:00-5:00 Virtual Reality Lounge Open 12:30PM “I made a film, now what?” Panel 2:30PM “Refining your message, presenting your film in the best light”

CINEMA 2 12:00PM Shorts Program 1 Bloodlines & Lifelines 5:00PM Shorts Program 2 Solutions or Revolutions 7:00PM Eating Animals 9:00-12:00AM “I Heart NY” Party at Deluca’s (Sponsored by Lost Forty Beer and Tito’s Handmade Vodka)

TUESDAY, OCT 23RD

4:00 Mixed Media Workshop (Kid Friendly) Inspired by screening of Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable

CINEMA 1 9:00AM Personal Statement *College application workshop following the film

9:00-12:00AM “Eat Your Heart Out” Culinary Event at Superior

1:00PM This is Home: A Refugee Story 3:30PM Make Room for Pie *Preceded by Deluca’s 4:30-5:30PM “Piece of the Pie” Tasting VIP Lounge (FREE) 5:00PM Ingrid *Preceded by Death Metal Grandma 7:00PM The Last Race *Preceded by 41x CINEMA 2 10:00AM Shorts Program “Made in Arkansas” Shorts 1:00PM AETN Student Select Shorts 3:30PM Too Beautiful: Our Right to Fight 4:30-5:30PM “Piece of the Pie” Tasting VIP Lounge (FREE) 5:00PM The Silence of Others *Preceded by A Night at the Garden 7:00PM (FREE) Southern Documentary Fund Presents: “Works in Progress” Fresh Docs Series Screening of KEVIN with moderated feedback

9:00-12:00AM “SOUTHERN ACENTS, Arkansas Filmmaker” Party at Grateful Head (Sponsored by Southern Documentary Fund, Lost Forty Beer and Tito’s Handmade Vodka)

WEDNESDAY, OCT 24TH

FRIDAY, OCT 26TH CINEMA 1 9:30AM America *Preceded by Adventure Before Dementia 12:00 93 Queen *Preceded by Rescate 2:00PM Jacks & Jills

CINEMA 1 10:00AM Quiet Heroes *Preceded by Matthew’s Gift

4:30PM This Changes Everything

12:00 The Gospel According To André

CINEMA 2 9:30AM Shorts Program 3 Borders Boundaries

2:30PM Call Her Ganda 5:00PM From all Corners *Followed by artist workshop 7:00PM Studio 54 *Preceded by Saul’s 108th CINEMA 2 10:00AM The Devil We Know *Preceded by The Water Slide 12:00PM Shorts Program 3 Borders & Boundaries 2:30PM Shorts Program 1 Bloodlines & Lifelines 5:00PM Ask the Sexpert *Preceded by Tungrus 7:00PM A Murder in Mansﬁeld 9:00PM-12:00AM “Studio 53 ½ Dance Party at Low Key Arts (Sponsored by Low Key Arts, Stella Artois and Tito’s Handmade Vodka)

THURSDAY, OCT 25TH CINEMA 1 9:00AM Science Fair *With Special presentation by Mid America Science Museum

7:00PM United Skates

12:00PM The Interpreters *Preceded by Rebuilding in Miniature 2:00PM Shorts Program 4 People vs Personas 4:30 Far From the Tree 7:00PM Hal 9:30PM-12:00AM “Wheels on Reels” Roller skate Party at Skate Land

SATURDAY, OCT 27TH CINEMA 1 9:30AM Wrestle 12:00PM Freaks & Geeks: A Documentary *Preceded by Tomnoddy 2:30PM Momentum Generation 6:30PM Final Night Awards Ceremony

12:00 Melting Souls

Final Night Film: Daughters of the Sexual Revolution: The Untold Story of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

2:00PM General Magic *Preceded by Hula Girl

CINEMA 2 9:30AM Pick of the Litter (FREE)

4:00PM While I Breathe, I Hope *Preceded by Let my People Vote

12:00PM Animated Shorts

7:00PM Gospel of Eureka *Preceded by Conway Pride CINEMA 2 9:30AM Patrimonio 12:00PM Facing the Dragon 2:00PM Shorts Program 2 Solutions or Revolutions 4:00PM Shorts Program 4 People vs Personas 7:00PM A Woman Captured 9:00PM-12:00AM “Drag Me to Church” Drag Review & Party Whittington Place (Sponsored by Stella Artois and Tito’s Handmade Vodka)

3:00PM Screening Committee Selected Shorts Memories & Mementos HSDFF “Living Room” *All events are free 11:00-5:00 Virtual Reality Lounge Open 10:30AM State of the Union: A Symposium on Women in the Industry 2:00PM Virtual Reality Workshop 9:00-12:00AM “Heart of the Ozarks” Opening Night Party at Ozark Bathhouse (Sponsored by Avant Mining)

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PLAYS IN PROGRESS

Rolling River Playwrights Collective helps sand the splinters of The Rep’s future.

BRIAN CHILSON

BY REBEKAH HALL

CONNECTING WITH LOCAL TALENT: That’s one of the reasons The Rep is working with the Rolling River Playwrights Collective, according to Anna Kimmel, the theater’s director of education.

his October, the Arkansas Repertory Theatre will launch its pilot series “Plays In Progress,” featuring lightly staged readings of new works by the Rolling River Playwrights Collective. Scripts by local playwrights Judy Goss, John Haman and Werner Trieschmann will be presented in The Rep’s Annex Black Box at 518 Main St. with feedback sessions following each reading. The Rolling River Playwrights Collective was formed by Goss, Haman

and Trieschmann as a way for the three authors to connect, share new work and receive helpful edits and feedback on projects. Anna Kimmell, The Rep’s director of education, said the Collective approached her after attending a listening session The Rep hosted with members of the Little Rock theater community after The Rep suspended operations earlier this year. The collective wanted to help The Rep move forward through its financial instability and uncertain future. From those conversations, the

Plays In Progress series was born. (After suspending operations in April because of funding troubles, The Rep announced in September that it had raised almost $700,000, which was matched by the John and Robyn Horn Foundation and the Windgate Charitable Foundation. The theater’s board continues to seek $1.2 million to help The Rep rebuild, but the show will go on: The theater’s 2019 mainstage season will be announced Nov. 13.) “It’s not only an opportunity for

these playwrights to test out their new work,” Kimmell said. “It’s also an opportunity for The Rep to engage new talent, local talent and also our audiences as a part of the process. It’s really helpful for a playwright to hear their plays read out loud. It’s on their brains, and it’s on the page, but the opportunities for adjustment and discoveries when a group of actors read it out loud, and the opportunity for feedback from the audience, is really cool.” While ticket sales from the Plays In Progress series will benefit The Rep’s efforts to move forward with operations, the series also signifies how the theater wants to prioritize connection with the Arkansas theater community. “Developing local talent has really been a part of our mission since the beginning. … It’s been a part of the foundation of The Rep, that we’re giving artists a space to grow and to learn and to practice their craft, whether that’s on stage or in design work or through internships or mentorships, or whether that’s in the classroom,” Kimmell said. “When we have these community feedback sessions, it seems like we’ve kind of lost that connection to our local artists and generally to community — not completely lost it, but that seems to be the perception. … I think that programs like Plays In Progress can really help bridge that gap and can give not just our community opportunities, but also The Rep opportunities for creating those really meaningful connections again.” The readings will provide audiences with a stripped-down look at a crucial beginning step in the playwriting process. Actors will have scripts CONTINUED ON PAGE 46

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ROCK CANDY Check out the Times’ A&E blog arktimes.com

A&E NEWS James Taylor and his All-Star Band, along with special guest Bonnie Raitt and her band, are coming to Verizon Arena on Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. Both artists have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and with a combined 15 Grammy Awards between them, their show is sure to be a big draw. Their 2019 winter tour will open Thursday, Feb. 7, in Knoxville, Tenn., and arrive in North Little Rock shortly after. Tickets for the show at Verizon Arena go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 12, and range from $69-$103, and they’ll be available online at ticketmaster. com, in the arena box office or by calling 800-745-3000. Last weekend marked the debut of a new instrument for the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra: a world-class Steinway concert piano, gifted to the ASO by Pat and Jim Wallis and hand-selected by concert pianist Tatiana Roitman Mann. “We were fortunate to be recruiting and attracting extraordinary talent from around the world to perform here,” ASO Music Director/Conductor Philip Mann told us on our entertainment podcast “No Small Talk” last week, “but we’ve never really had an instrument that was capable of fully translating their artistry to all of the welcoming ears of audience members. So this has been a little bit of a labor of love for me, to see this to fruition, to finally have a new instrument on our concert stage.” For more on the instrument — maintained by Stephen Wirges, the owner of a new Steinway Piano Gallery in Mayflower — check out the full podcast at arktimes.com/ rockcandy. Mark Givens, former talent booker at El Dorado’s Murphy Arts District, is facing felony charges of seconddegree battery, leaving the scene of an accident with injury, theft of property (motor vehicle) and robbery. The charges pertain to a Sept. 13 incident in which a taxi was called to transport Givens home from the Griffin Restaurant, after which Givens drove away in the taxi cab upon reaching his residence, striking the cab driver. Bob Tarren, chief marketing officer for the Murphy Arts District, told the El Dorado NewsTimes that Givens, who took on his role at the Murphy Arts District after 10 years as executive director of Main Street El Dorado, no longer works for the MAD nonprofit, effective Sept. 14.

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HOT WATER HILLS: Low Key Arts’ family-friendly fest features sets from Israeli musicians Lola Marsh (pictured), Larkin Poe, Rah Howard, Broncho, JD Wilkes and more.

MAKING WAVES: Core Dance Company joins spoken word artist Chauncey Williams and the HEARding Cats Collective for an underwater concert at UCA’s HPER Center, “ ‘Aqurld Waves’ at ‘The Water About Us.’ ”

THURSDAY 10/4, SATURDAY 10/6

‘AQURLD WAVES’ AT ‘THE WATER ABOUT US’

7 p.m., 7:45 p.m., 8:30 p.m. Thu. and Sat. HPER Center Swimming Pool, University of Central Arkansas. Free.

Water-human relationship status: It’s complicated. We’re made up of the stuff. We require it for survival. On the other hand, we can drown or get our cars fatally whopperjawed by a few scant inches of it. In an exploration of the watery ties that bind, the Atlanta/ Dallas-based Core Dance Company, the St. Louis-based HEARding Cats Collective and local spoken word artist Chauncey Williams (a Central High grad, now studying at the UCA Honors College as a freshman) have joined forces for an underwater performance called “Aqurld Waves,” in which they’ll perform on “special instruments and devices underwater, project video on the water and on poolside screens, and execute movement sequences in the water and poolside,” a press release reads. “Audience members, who can choose to sit poolside or float in the water along with the artists, will experience a full sensory awareness of water, not only how it feels but how it sounds and affects our movements.” ASL interpretation will be provided, and attendance is free, but you’ll need to reserve a spot at uca.edu/cfac/water-about-us/ aqurld. And if somehow the two words

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“underwater concert” don’t pique your interest, “Aqurld Waves” is part of “The Water About Us,” a weeklong celebration of our connection to water (which is, in turn, part of a series of events for Conway’s Eco + Arts Fest 2018; see the full schedule at conwayecofest.com) “The Water About Us” also includes a display of Adger Cowans’ “Water Photographs” — up in the Hallway Gallery at UCA’s McCastlain Hall through Oct. 12 — and collaborative works by Maya Gelfman and Roie Avidan, an Israelbased couple who have been climbing ladders and seaside driftwood and all sorts of other things for over a decade to make public art on Jekyll Island, Ga.; in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood; and in their native Tel Aviv, among other locales. They’ll build a water-themed installation at Laurel Park (2310 Robinson Ave.) and a ceiling mural called “Wishing Well,” meant to “to evoke the molecules and movement of water. Components from those installations will be created by UCA students, to be reused by the artists in a permanent ceiling mural in UCA’s Office of Diversity and Community.

FRIDAY 10/5-SATURDAY 10/6

HOT WATER HILLS MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL

4 p.m. Fri., Noon Sat. Hill Wheatley Plaza, 629 Central Ave., Hot Springs. $15-$25.

There is, as it turns out, absolutely no rule that parents must tolerate musical mediocrity in order to take their kids somewhere there’s a Cardboard House Construction project, a Custom Name Necklace workshop and something called Starstuff Storytime Theater. Hot Water Hills Music & Arts Festival, the kid-friendly fall counterpart to Low Key Arts’ beloved Valley of the Vapors, pairs raucous rock from Larkin Poe and J.D. Wilkes with mesmerizing pop riffs from the Tel Aviv-based Lola Marsh and Broncho this year, plus sets from Rah Howard, Mies Francis, The Violet Ultras, the Spa City Youngbloods, Reckless Saints, Modeling, Brian Martin and Bas Clas. See hotwaterhills. com for the full schedule. Tickets are $15/day pass, $25 for the whole weekend enchilada.

SATURDAY 10/6

AMASA HINES: ALBUM RELEASE PARTY

9 p.m. Rev Room. $12-$15.

Heralded in with the buoyant single “Zatoichi ” — followed by the measured unfurling of a meditation-turnedoutpour called “Life in the Wake of Eternal Noir” — is Amasa Hines’ newest EP, “Ivory Loving Glass.” The band is easily one of Arkansas’s chief musical exports over the last half-decade, and this marks Amasa Hines’ follow-up to a 2014 debut, “All the World There Is.” The new record, to our delight but not to our surprise, manages to reflect and rock out in equal measure. File between Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” and Curtis Mayfield’s “Curtis” and push repeat. Steward of electronic waves and beats Yuni Wa and venerable songwriter Isaac Alexander, two artists who could explode actual heads if they ever made an album together, open the show.

IN BRIEF

THURSDAY 10/4

FRIDAY 10/5, SUNDAY 10/7

ARKANSAS CHAMBER SINGERS: ‘THE SINGING HEART’

7:30 p.m. Fri., 3 p.m. Sun. Cathedral of St. Andrew, 617 S. Louisiana St., Calvary Baptist Church, 5700 Cantrell Road. $15-$18.

The Arkansas Chamber Singers, an auditioned choral ensemble that’s sneaking up on a 40th anniversary next year, has its spring 2019 concert devoted to Haydn’s “Creation Mass” and its holiday concerts devoted to, well, holiday music. So now’s the chance for the ensemble to perform three- and four-minute gems from the likes of Purcell and Martin Shaw, programmed alongside Dan Forrest’s “Always Something Sings,” a 2015 love song to nature and life set to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem “Music.” Add to all that Benjamin Britten’s “Hymn to St. Cecilia,” a rhythmically challenging three-movement ode steeped in mystery, and set to W.H. Auden’s “Three Songs for St. Cecilia’s Day,” later published as “Anthem for St. Cecilia’s Day (for Benjamin Britten).” No doubt, in part, because his birthday falls on St. Cecilia’s Day, Britten is said to have written in his diary as early as 1935 that he’d been seeking a Latin text worthy of marking the patroness’ day, and found it instead in his collaborator Auden’s three stanzas. After beginning composition of the piece in the United States, Britten had to reconstruct the manuscript’s first section from memory; he and his partner Peter Pears decided to return to England in the midst of World War II, and the customs inspectors in New York confiscated the work, lest the music contain some sort of encrypted code. Get tickets at centralarkansastickets.com; $15 in advance and $18 at the door. Student tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.

September Mourning blends hard rock, “dark culture” and visual theater at the Rev Room, 8 p.m., $10-$13. Won Run takes the stage at the White Water Tavern, with an opening set from Reade Mitchell, 8:30 p.m. Foul Play Cabaret performs a burlesque show with torch singer Sylvia Stems at The Joint Theater & Coffeehouse, 8 p.m., $10. Opera in the Rock’s “Divas in the Rock II: The Queen of Soul Tribute” pays homage to Aretha Franklin, featuring LaSheena V. Gordon and Off the Cuff, 6 p.m., South on Main, $15-$20. The Lewd Awakening Revue gives a ghoul-themed burlesque show at Maxine’s in Hot Springs, 9 p.m., $10. The Gil Franklin Project brings the blues to Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5, or come earlier, when Chris DeClerk plays for happy hour, 5:30 p.m., free. Comedian Ricky Reyes goes for laughs at The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat., 10 p.m. Fri.Sat., $8-$12. Country chanteuse Bri Bagwell entertains for the Thursday Night Live Series at El Dorado’s Griffin Restaurant, 8 p.m., free.

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FRIDAY 10/5 Forty paintings by Longhua Xu fill the north concourse of the Hot Springs Convention Center for “Soul of Arkansas,” through Feb. 1, 2019, free. Four Quarter Bar hosts an evening of ska punk from The Big News, 10 p.m., $7. Bluesman Gil Franklin performs at Markham Street Grill and Pub, 8:30 p.m., free. Indie Music Night showcases local hip-hop at the Rev Room, 9 p.m., $10-$12. Author Joe David Rice gives a talk at the Clinton School of Public Service titled “Arkansas Backstories: Quirks, Characters, and Curiosities of the Natural State,” noon, free. North Carolina rock sextet The Nude Party performs at Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8:30 p.m., $10-$12. Destroyer of Light, Celestials and Baker share a heavy bill at the White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. Austin rock quintet The Sun Machine shares a bill with Billy Ruben & The Elevated Enzymes and Avery Lee (of The Phlegms) at Maxine’s, 9 p.m. Venice Catherine Andrews hosts an Open Stage Night at Sway, 9 p.m. Ben Byers entertains for happy hour at Cajun’s, 5:30 p.m., free, or come later and catch Rock Candy, 9 p.m., $5. The Saint Mark Baptist Sanctuary Choir brings its acclaimed gospel set to Christ Church Episcopal, 7 p.m., $10 suggested donation. Opal Agafia & the Sweet Nothings take their sultry mountain rock to Kings Live Music in Conway, with Tyler Grady, 8:30 p.m., $5. Mayday by Midnight entertains at Oaklawn Racing & Gaming’s Silks

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3 p.m. CALS Ron Robinson Theater. $25.

MAKING THE MET: Legendary soprano Leontyne Price is at the core of Susan Froemke’s documentary “The Opera House,” to be screened at CALS Ron Robinson Sunday afternoon.

From a collaboration between the Arkansas Cinema Society, the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival and the Arkansas District chapter of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions comes a screening of the PBS documentary “The Opera House: Making the New Met.” The 111-minute film from Director Susan Froemke tells the story of how “the old Met,” the lavishly appointed Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and 39th St. in New York City, was laid aside to build a new home at Lincoln Center, a task that would prove as monumental as the House itself. Probably more importantly, though, it tells the story of the people that have fallen in love with opera, and of the voices that have built or graced The Met’s renowned stage;

voices like that of revered soprano Leontyne Price, or of longtime Met General Manager Rudolf Bing, or of architect Kyna Leski, the daughter of the man who designed the hall’s much-photographed crystal chandeliers. Diane Kesling, a world-class mezzo soprano who’s sung in the legendary House — not to mention at the Houston Opera, La Scala, Seattle Opera, l’Opera de Nice, and others — leads a Q&A session after the screening, and money raised benefits winners of the Arkansas chapter of the Metropolitan National Council Auditions through their advancement to the regional and national divisions of the annual competition.

SUNDAY 10/7

TRUST TREE: ROCKIN’ IN THE GARDEN’

HENRY ROLLINS: TRAVEL SLIDESHOW TOUR

4 p.m. Bernice Garden.

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KATIE CHILDS

If Wakky Babies, Jamee McAdoo and Hard Rhythm are not household names in your household, may I suggest your playlist could use a dose of Trust Tree? Those performers, among others, were the source of dropped jaws and elevated serotonin levels at a Capitol View Studio concert this summer, in which the fruits of Trust Tree’s 2018 songwriting camps for girls were put on stage in concert and celebration. This Saturday, Trust Tree throws a party to benefit its 2019 Arts & Leadership programming, with beer from Lost Forty Brewing, a photo booth, a pumpkin carving station with pumpkins from Motley’s Pumpkin Patch, a glamour booth with the staff of Southern Blonde and Co., face painting, a zinemaking table with zine masters Katie Osbourne and Lizzie Burnham, a poetry-writing station with poet Kara Bibb and performances from McAdoo, Wakky Babies and DOT — a trio comprised of Trust Tree Director Correne Spero and Trust Tree Music and Visual Art Program lead facilitators Melanie Castellano and Jordan Wolf. “At Trust Tree, we aim to provide a space where girls can bring their creative visions to life,” Spero told us, “and overcome self-limiting beliefs about what they can accomplish. Unfortunately, we find ourselves in a position in 2018 where it seems as important as ever to emphasize to girls that their ideas and creativity matter. Our programs use art and music to help girls strengthen their confidence and leadership skills and to empower them to know that they can create the positive changes that they want to see in

JOYFUL NOISE: Trust Tree alums Samiyah Hervey and Beatrice Robinson of Wakky Babies (above) and poet Jamee McAdoo (below) perform at Rockin’ in the Garden this weekend.

their communities.” Costumes are encouraged, and proceeds benefit a scholarship fund for next year’s songwriting camp, with supplemental funds awarded to girls who might otherwise not be able to attend Trust Tree programs.

Henry Rollins — former Black Flag frontman punk rock pioneer, spoken word artist, sometimes actor, always activist — has a scrapbook. It’s one he’s put together over the course of his travels as a performer and perpetual sojourner, and one that implies a very intentional process of perspective-broadening. A review from New York State’s The Alt recalls Rollins’ trademark live wire of a voice declaring, “I wanted to go to every ‘Axis of Evil’ country, get a snowglobe and come back intact and say, ‘They were cool to me!’” Recalled, too, are moments of great pause and mystery. Rollins, as the late Anthony Bourdain did, seems like he’d rather talk economics with the line cook at the hotel restaurant than take the recommended winery tour, and he seeks out humanity’s commonality and contention in the more dangerous nooks and crannies of Nepal, Sri Lanka, Siberia, North Korea, South Sudan and Iran. Here, on tour stops like this one, he guides you through some of those moments with candor, enthusiasm and, evidently, some first-rate impersonations of George W. Bush. Admission is $30, and a $155 VIP pass gets you some face time with Rollins and early access to a seat. See arkansaslivemusic.com for tickets.

IN BRIEF, CONT. Bar & Grill, 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Arkansas Arts Center Drawing & Painting Department Chair Robert Bean gives a talk at Hendrix College, Art Building A, 3 p.m., free. The 50th Annual Hot Springs Arts & Crafts Fair kicks off at the Garland County Fairgrounds, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Fri.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun.

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TUESDAY 10/9

24TH ANNUAL ‘TALES OF THE CRYPT”’

5:30 p.m. Mount Holly Cemetery, 1200 Broadway. Donations.

A lot of storied lives were led by those interred at Little Rock’s 175-year-old Mount Holly Cemetery, and nearly a quartercentury ago an English teacher at Parkview Arts and Science Magnet, Susan Taylor Barham, teamed up with playwright/educator Judy Goss, Fred Busey, the Arkansas Arts Center and the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program to tell some of those tales with a program called “Tales of the Crypt.” Student performers were outfitted with period-specific costumery and assigned the role of some Arkansawyer interred there to re-enact graveside, and instead of the expected 300 attendees, Mount Holly’s website reads, 1,200 people showed up. The event is still going strong, and Arkansas figures like Eleanor Counts, Quatie Ross and David O. Dodd are represented by drama students in dialogue and monologue along one of the event’s tours, which begin at both the north and south ends of the cemetery. Admission is free, but anything you can donate goes to the maintenance fund for the cemetery.

Legendary Shack Shakers frontman J.D. Wilkes takes his trademark country blues to the stage at the White Water Tavern, with Faulkner County minstrel Jim Mize, 9 p.m., $10. Arkansas Cinema Society screens Robert Scott Wildes’ “Poor Boy” at CALS Ron Robinson Theater, followed by a Q&A with Wildes and producer Kristin Mann, 6:30 p.m., $20 screening ticket includes afterparty at Copper Grill. Songwriter Kate Campbell performs at Hibernia Irish Tavern as a guest of the Little Rock Folk Club, 7:30 p.m., $15. The 8th Annual Paranormal Expo kicks off at 9 a.m. Sat.-Sun. at the MacArthur Museum of Military History, see arkansasparanormalexpo. com. In Perryville, the Arkansas Goat Festival celebrates all things Capra, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Perryville City Park, 801 Arkansas Highway 10, free. Nashville duo The Smoking Flowers takes its stellar rock set to Four Quarter Bar, 10 p.m., $7. Magic Springs Theme & Water Park extends its hours for “Magic Screams” attractions through the Halloween season, see magicsprings. com for details. The Mempho Music Festival kicks off at Shelby Farms in Memphis, with sets from Janelle Monae, Nas, Post Malone, Beck, Phoenix, Lucero and more, see memphofest. com for tickets and details. Tenth Mountain Division takes an electrified bluegrass mix to Stickyz, with Maybe April, 9 p.m., $8-$10. Lipstyck Hand Grenade takes its dance mix to Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5. Kings Live Music hosts a show from folk rockers Dawson Hollow, with Brother Bera, 8:30 p.m., $5. The High Cotton on the Bayou Festival at the Scott Plantation Settlement features sorghummaking, crafts, farm-produce vendors and more, 10 a.m., $3. In Bentonville, the Forest Concert Series continues with a show from Orchestral Pow Wow Project, with Cherokee singer Kalyn Fay, 7 p.m., $10. The Big Dam Horns take the stage at the Griffin Restaurant in El Dorado’s Murphy Arts District, 9 p.m., $10.

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Make plans to attend the first Arkansas Times R&B Cook Off from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, on Fourth Street, between Main and Maple streets, in North Little Rock. The R&B here holds a double meaning: pork ribs and butts, which you’ll eat, and rhythm and blues, which you’ll shimmy to while you eat. The former, along with a variety of sides, will come from more than 15 teams made up of barbecue cook-off veterans and chefs and cooks from local restaurants. The latter will be delivered courtesy of Lagniappe, the soulful local cover act led by Genine Latrice Perez. Advance tickets, available via centralarkansastickets.com, are $15; at the door, the price rises to $20. Atlas Bar is coming sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas to South on Main. Proprietor Tony Poe plans to use his love for travel and his family’s adventurous spirit to help “bring the world to Little Rock and spark and imagination for travel,” he said. At 1224 Main St., Atlas Bar will be a cozy, intimate space that Poe says he hopes will invite conversation. “I want it to be a bar that feels like it’s been there for a long time,” he said. “I want it to be a stimulating place for people who are curious about going places around the world.” Working with interior designer Larry West Jr., Poe says the bar’s art deco decor is inspired by his many international journeys and will include artifacts and relics from the travels of his father, the late Fred Poe of Poe Travel. “If my father walked into this place, he would glow with pride,” Poe said. “For me to share his artifacts with the community, that’s what would really make him happy.” “High-quality spirits from around the world” will stock the bar, according to Poe, as well as beer and wine. A focal point in the space will be the bar itself, as the back bar was originally behind the reception desk at the Albert Pike Hotel in downtown Little Rock. The cocktail menu will feature international drinks, including a Singapore Sling, and will regularly change to make room for new recipes. The bar will also offer small plates of global street food and comfort food, which will also change regularly. Tentative hours will start at 3 p.m., and last call will be at 11 or midnight because “nothing good happens after midnight,” according to Poe. The space will boast only one TV monitor playing anything from a Bollywood movie to camel wrestling, said Poe, in an effort to foster conversation among patrons and “make people wonder a little bit.” After working in the family business and in the travel industry in Fort Worth and in New York, Poe recently worked in sales for the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau. But he’s is now working full time on Atlas. Although he’s lived in many places over the years, Poe wanted to bring Atlas Bar to Little Rock. “I could have done it anywhere,” he said. “But I want to make an impact in my hometown.”

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WORTH A VISIT ALONE: The Black Spice Mojito at La Terraza in Hillcrest.

Mojitos hit the mark La Terraza delivers on drinks

n the first Saturday evening can be overpoweringly spicy instead chimichurri, but a bit lighter. of fall, is there anything of pleasing, but that’s not the case here. With our second round of drinks we more enticing than cocktails The sweet and tart notes are offset with enjoyed a bowl of Sopa de Mariscos ($13), on a patio? We found our- spice from the dark rum and cayenne a soup of shrimp, mussels, clams and selves on one of Little Rock’s best patios pepper, which leaves an enjoyable bit calamari rings cooked in a light tomato at La Terraza Rum & Lounge in Hillcrest. of lingering heat. cream broth. The portion was plenty At our corner table under the canopy of La Terraza’s mojito list has something for two to share. The soup was well balthe giant oak trees, we sipped on La Ter- to please every palate, and the food menu anced with sweetness from the cooked raza’s signature cocktail: mojitos. presents plenty of options. Our server, onion, spice from pepper, the acidity We could have gone with the giant, who was enthusiastic and knowledge- from the tomatoes, and saltiness from 48-ounce, Instagrammable mega mojito, able, gave us a tour of the menu, includ- seafood. For those who want to experiwhich is on happy hour all day. The cou- ing the page of vegan options, pointing ence this as a meal, try the Zarzuela de ple at the next table was braver than out traditional Venezuelan dishes as Mariscos ($28), a larger portion served we and sipped on the comically large well as those with Spanish and Italian with rice. martini glass the entire two hours we influences, which have a presence not The Pernil al Horno ($18) came were there. We opted instead for a Gin- only in Venezuela’s cuisine, but also in highly recommended and featured slices ger Mojito ($9). Bartenders at La Ter- its language and culture. of tender, oven-baked pork with a demiraza have mastered the art of balance. The Mini Arepas ($7), a fried mixture glace served with fried plantains and Ginger has a tendency to bully other of cornmeal and cheese, were the perfect Cuban-style rice and beans. While each flavors in a cocktail, but at La Terraza nibble to go along with our drinks. The component was enjoyable on its own, the ginger added just a bit of spice bal- guasacaca sauce, served on the side, is all together they were even better. The anced out by the fresh lime and mint. the star of the dish. Chopped avocados, plantains, which were smashed, lightly The Black Spice Mojito ($9) is another cilantro, bell peppers and garlic were battered and fried, offered a sweet comgreat option. We’ve found that some combined with oil and vinegar to cre- ponent to the dish, but we could have drinks with added jalapeno or pepper ate a sauce reminiscent of Argentinian done with a little less salt. The beans Follow Eat Arkansas on Twitter: @EatArkansas

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and rice, served mixed together in a bowl, had a rich, smoky flavor and would have been enjoyable as a standalone dish. The Pollo al Champiñon ($20), chicken in a mushroom cream sauce with “chef-style potatoes,” reminded us of chicken marsala. Boneless chicken breast pieces and mushroom were cooked and served in a brown sauce that was light in consistency but rich in flavor, soaked up by the au gratinstyle potatoes. The ambience at La Terraza is altogether enjoyable. The patio setting is hard to beat. Our server was downright enthusiastic to have us and came ready to recommend throughout every course. The word “thoughtful” comes to mind. Care has definitely been taken in creating the cocktail menu, and the porch outside is dotted with fleece blankets to keep diners warm should a chill come to visit. Our experience with the food was uneven. Menu items range from meh (the carpaccio) to inspired (the soup!) and the price tag was a bit higher than we expected, but we’ll return even if only for the mojitos.

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South on Main Divas in the Rock II, a Tribute to the Queen of Soul

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