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Well, now, here goes the radical right again with their dire predictions of the future! Obama is going to declare martial law following the election. Is that like he was going to take away your guns? He didn’t. Is that like he is Muslim and is going to impose Sharia law on our land? He isn’t and didn’t. And despite this over-
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that she was proud of her conservative roots as a Barry Goldwater Democrat; no, wait, she’s a progressive. She supported family values through DOMA; no, wait, she believes that the LGBT community deserves equal rights. She supported every single aggression the U.S. had undertaken since she was first elected to office; no, wait, she made a mistake about the Iraq war (among others!). The situation is frightening, yet I won’t vote for the major party candidate who appears more closely aligned with my personal values. In truth, neither of them is. I refuse to be driven by the fear that my vote will help elect the other candidate; indeed, I reject this view entirely. Voting for the lesser of two evils still begets evil. I don’t buy that a vote for anyone other than a major party candidate is tantamount to voting for one of them. While such a vote may not — indeed, will likely not — result in my choice being elected, my vote has also not contributed to the ongoing evil. In my opinion, that’s what counts. Similar dire warnings were issued during the Bush II vs. Gore vote when I voted for Nader. Even though Bush II got in because of some serious shenanigans, his presidency did not bring about the cataclysmic events predicted by the left. Was his presidency bad? Most definitely. But again, it wasn’t the Apocalypse. We survived. We will also survive whoever wins this election. Leeann Bennett Little Rock
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Mr. Sniffles’ ardent fans often attempt a diversionary tactic to deflect each and every criticism of their much-prayed-for sweet potato. It’s an old debating trick to ignore the critics and instead demand an immediate and compelling explanation of why the alternative candidate is the better choice. The tactic usually follows this erudite and genteel form: “You better give it up, right now. Splain why Hillary would be a better president or shut your dang pie hole!” How should one respond to such devastating brilliance? The recent words of a life-long Republican and Birmingham lawyer suggest the answer. Here, shared with his permission, is his take-no-prisoners response to an unfortunate soul named Louis: “Actually, no, Louis, I don’t have to give it up. Nor do I have to explain why Hillary would be a good president; I don’t particularly think she will be. On the other hand, for me to advise you to eat Cheez Whiz rather than lye does not require me to explain why Cheez Whiz is good for you; it simply requires me to remind you that lye is poisonous and Cheez Whiz, whatever its flaws, is not. Which is sort of analogous to what I’ve been doing ever since it became apparent that Trump would be the Republican nominee.” He then adds ... “Hillary, I think, is an uninspiring person who will likely be a fairly mediocre president (others disagree, and I’m not debating that in this particular post). Trump, on the other hand, is a racist, illinformed xenophobe who speaks without regard for the truth or, as the game show would have it, the consequences either. There is simply no comparison between the two, and the suggestion that, well, in order to speak against Trump, I must be a fan of Hillary’s is without foundation.” And finally, he concludes ... “I speak against Trump because I’m a fan of the survival of humanity and of the survival of basic American principles.” Drop the mic, Mr. Birmingham Lawyer, sir. Debate over. Huzzah, huzzah ... John Ragland Hot Springs
a view is a load of paranoid bunk that has been promulgated by well-meaning and/or ill-advised and/or manipulative people of both political stripes. There is no doomsday. Some people refer to voting outside the two major parties as a protest vote. In some cases, I suppose it is. But for many of us, it is something else entirely. Neither major party candidate speaks for us. Trump is a racist, sexist, classist, egomaniacal liar who believes that he knows everything and can fix everything. I need provide no more proof here because he does so on a daily basis. Clinton is a well-polished politician (read someone who changes opinions according to the political winds) who believes that more of the same ol’ same ol’ is what we need. One look at her record shows
whelming evidence contrary to their paranoia, adherents to the radical right continue to spew doomsday. I chalk this up to a combination of things — increased fundamentalism, decreased quality public education and this ubiquitous culture of fear that seems to be uniquely American. Couple those with a nearly unlimited access to guns and ammunition, and you have the makings of a very scary, deadly state of affairs. Namely, we are looking at a sadly uneducated, highly armed ogre afraid of its own shadow. This is the stuff of which nightmares are made. The rest of you, hear this: Voting for a candidate other than those supported by the two majority parties is not a vote for the other candidate. Does that seem like a non sequitur? It isn’t. Such
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In response to an Arkansas Blog item on Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s televised defense of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns: My question is when did her Southern accent become so drawn out and pronounced? I don’t remember it being that thick when she campaigned to be attorney general, if any at all. But when she gets on national TV she has an accent to rival Gomer T. Pyle. It was great when [Bob Schieffer] asked if opinions would hold up in court and he said that she has seen more courtrooms than him. Oh Bob, you don’t know Leslie like we do. She has about as experienced in legal matters as the aforementioned Gomer T. Pyle. She just lets her minions do all the real court work, and then just attaches herself to already existing cases to make herself look busy. I hope the next election rids us of Mrs. Gomer. Conway Michael
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Quote of the Week “It is ill-advised to viciously attack women, or anyone for that matter — and that’s why, when you look back at how Hillary Clinton treated those women during the 1990s and went to destroy them, Donald Trump’s actions pale in comparison to Hillary Clinton’s actions. … What Mr. Trump is saying — he’s trying to focus on jobs and the economy, but Hillary Clinton is the one that took us into this, this dumpster of politics, and it’s out of the Democrats’ playbook, and it’s really a shame. … What we should be talking about is how we can help women, and what we’ve seen is that Donald Trump has promoted women throughout his thousands and thousands of jobs that he’s created. How many jobs has Hillary Clinton created? Zero is the answer. Zero jobs for any woman.” — Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, responding to questions on MSNBC about Donald Trump’s treatment of Alicia Machado, winner of the Miss Universe pageant in 1996. Trump, as an executive producer of the pageant, had scolded and shamed a teenage Machado for gaining weight; after Clinton brought up the topic, Trump tweeted, “Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?” When pressed to justify the GOP nominee’s remarks, Rutledge circled back again and again to Clinton’s alleged responses to her husband’s dalliances.
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state Board of Education’s takeover of the Little Rock School District and its decision to allow the expansion of charter schools in the city. The plaintiffs, led by civil rights attorney John Walker, had argued the state board’s actions were racially discriminatory. Marshall agreed with the plaintiffs that “there’s no real question about [the] disproportionate effect” of the state board’s decisions, considering the elected local school board had been majority African-American and the charters in question serve a smaller proportion of black students than does the LRSD. However, the judge added, “the settled precedent is clear; discriminatory effects alone are insufficient to show discriminatory intentions” in regards to the racial balance of students in public schools. Walker has indicated he may appeal.
No charges in Walker arrest Walker also landed in Little Rock news last week for his arrest after attempting to film a routine police traffic stop; another lawyer at his firm, Omavi Shukur, was arrested as well. The police afterward announced
they’d drop an “obstructing governmental operations” charge against Walker but not Shukur. However, after viewing police dashcam video of the arrest, Pulaski County Prosecutor Larry Jegley said there wasn’t sufficient evidence to charge Shukur either. The dashcam shows Walker filming the traffic stop from across the street (well, attempting to — Walker, who is 79, admitted later that his limited technology skills prevented him from actually capturing footage on his phone). Two white police officers cross the street to ask him what he’s doing; Walker, who is a state representative, correctly says that he doesn’t have to explain himself. The officers get angry, and an argument ensues, in which one of the cops calls Walker “a race baiter” and a “thorn in the side” of police. Things go downhill from there.
Paddling together Governor Hutchinson announced an interagency effort to share information and coordinate “voluntary action” regarding the protection of the Buffalo River watershed — a hot
topic of concern ever since a hog farm established itself next to a tributary stream several years ago. The Beautiful Buffalo River Action Committee will include the departments of Environmental Quality, Health, Agriculture, Natural Resources and Parks and Tourism. Though unmentioned by the governor, the move may have been sparked by recent concerns over large algae blooms in the waterway. It’s an encouraging step, but it remains unclear what actions, exactly, the action committee might take.
Where’s John Boozman? Republican U.S. Sen. John Boozman last week skipped another opportunity to debate his challenger, Democrat Connor Eldridge. Boozman was a no-show at a Sept. 16 debate at the University of Arkansas, after which he claimed he hadn’t received an invitation. This time, Eldridge’s camp sent the senator a certified letter and delivered a personal invitation to his campaign office in Little Rock. Boozman still dodged the event, leaving Eldridge to debate Libertarian Party candidate Frank Gilbert alone.
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eral health care for women. • Though the law prohibits lobby• Attorney General Leslie Rutledge had time to attempt to get a judge to overing by legislators, turn a state civil rights law in Washingit has not preMAX ton. She sent papers to Washington to vented Sen. JerBRANTLEY defend a florist who wants to discrimiemy Hutchinson maxbrantley@arktimes.com nate against gay people. She has not yet from essentially had time to move to enforce Arkansas lobbying the legislature and regulatory law against payday lending, in which agencies on behalf of putative “legal” poor people are charged triple-digit clients on issues ranging from governinterest on small loans. This so-called ment youth services contracts to an federalist wants to kill a Washington outfit trying to win legal protection for gambling machines. state law and won’t enforce Arkansas’s. • More legislators are getting into the • Governor Hutchinson, and all his administration, joined hands with the “consulting” business. They include a pharmaceutical industry to fight mediretired railroad worker and a part-time cal marijuana, a proven benefit to sick rock musician. What do they “consult” people. He claimed science is on his about? Who pays them? They won’t say. side. This from a governor who ignored Did they have consulting businesses science in forcing an unsafe drug probefore they became legislators? They tocol on women seeking an early-term did not. Suddenly, their consulting is abortion and in limiting access to genvaluable to someone.
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llicit sex has invaded the White House since Tom Jefferson’s days and sometimes also the public aspects of presidential elections, but Donald Trump threatens to make sex the central issue of a presidential election. Angry about the first debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump said from here on he will make a big issue of President Bill Clinton’s infidelities, and he wondered whether she might have been unfaithful, too, though he conceded that she would have been justified. That is a first for any presidential election, and it comes, oddly, from the most debauched political candidate in the history of public licentiousness. Trump once arranged for his future — and third — wife to pose nude for the British girlie magazine GQ handcuffed to his gold-plated briefcase on a fur rug in his private jet at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, clad only in huge diamond bracelets and earrings. He said he did it to promote her modeling career. This campaign will move us closer to the day when raw pictures of political wives and girlfriends will be common
in the daily press, if any still exist, and not just pornographic publications. Some staid daily journal may break the mold this year or on Jan. 20 and print one of the Melania poses on the Trump jet. Trump may renege, but last ERNEST week he promised DUMAS to write a whole new chapter for the annals of the sexual revolution. His chief surrogate, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, explaining his and Trump’s many infidelities and multiple marriages, pronounced marital infidelity to be universal. Asked if he was the right person to question either of the Clintons’ unfaithfulness since he had kept a paramour in Gracie Mansion when he was mayor, he replied: “Everybody does [it].” America’s Mayor and Trump are sort of right. Presidential infidelity is not new, having long predated Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Jefferson fathered illegitimate children. John F. Kennedy was reputed to have had sex with Judith Exner, Mari-
• Have you seen that TV ad featuring old codgers indignant that out-of-state people are trying to get into the casino business in Arkansas through a constitutional amendment? The current monopoly on casinos in Arkansas is held by families from Missouri and New York. • Nursing home owners have a constitutional amendment to insulate them from lawsuits for abusing or neglecting old people. They title this effort “Health Care Access for Arkansas.” Really. • Nursing home owners put their employees to work getting residents, no matter their state of dementia, to sign petitions for an amendment against their interest. • The Waltons’ local school lobbyist picked a slate of candidates for the reconstituted Pulaski County Special School Board and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette rubberstamped them. It’s designed as another nail in the coffin of conventional public school districts in Pulaski County (and, in time, Arkansas.) The Billionaire Boys Club envisions, over time, white-flight transfers, more segregating charter schools of questionable educational value, splintered suburban districts (Maumelle
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and Sherwood) and privatization of the Little Rock School District. Republicans dusted off an old Say McIntosh story, debunked by a DNA test years ago, that Bill Clinton fathered the child of a black prostitute. It will get worse before it’s over Nov. 8. Police agencies in two states gave chase over more than 30 miles from Kennett, Mo., to Paragould and killed one innocent motorist in pursuit of ... a stolen car. Leaked tax returns showed that Donald Trump cratered several businesses and used a tax code gimmick to reap almost $1 billion in income tax offsets, though he’d suffered no personal losses in his companies’ bankruptcies. His defenders called him a genius. California enacted a law prohibiting state government-paid travel to states with anti-gay laws. These include laws that prohibit local civil rights ordinances. Arkansas has just such a law, along with a law allowing a religious excuse to discriminate against gay people. Reaction in Arkansas to the news from the prevailing political power: “Who cares?” Or, “What does California have that we want anyway?” Uh, Apple maybe? Google? I could go on, but …
lyn Monroe, Blaze Starr, Angie Dickin- he said was far superior to Ronald Reason and others. Madeline Brown claimed gan’s and said Clinton should never have to have had a long affair with Lyndon admitted any relationship with Lewinsky Johnson, who was alleged also to have an and instead taken the Fifth Amendment. affair with Alice Glass until she got mad Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment over the Vietnam War. Franklin Roos- rights against self-incrimination 97 times evelt’s long romance with Lucy Mercer in his divorce trial with Ivana Trump ended with his death when they were — every time Ivana’s lawyer asked him together at Warm Springs, Ga. Warren whether he had had sex with girlfriend Harding was a bull around the White Marla Maples (his next wife) or other House, taking women into a closet. Both women. Publicly, he and Maples had President Bushes endured scurrilous sto- acknowledged the affair, but he refused ries about affairs, in and out of the White in court. A New York judge refused last House. Grover Cleveland never denied week to unseal the file on the Trump that he fathered a son with Maria Halpin, divorce without his permission. which triggered the most famous slogan As coarse and uncensored as the media of presidential campaigns, in 1884: “Ma, have become, they have reported only Ma, where’s my Pa? Gone to the White generally on such things as Trump’s raunHouse, ha ha ha.” chy conversations about “buying vaginas” Gary Hart doesn’t count. So disgraced on shock jock Howard Stern’s radio and was he by a journal’s disclosure that he TV show. It was on a Stern show that was seeing a blonde named Donna Rice, Trump joked that his personal Vietnam who was pictured sitting on his lap on (he got repeated deferments from the the yacht Monkey Business, that he quit draft) was his long battle to avoid getting the race for president in 1988 and never venereal disease from all the women he ran for office again. That seems so quaint slept with. today. His vast evangelical following won’t When Clinton was impeached for acknowledge it, but Trump is moving fudging in his testimony about his rela- public discourse on free sex and promistionship with Lewinsky, Trump said it cuity to the horizon of public acceptance was a shame. He praised Clinton as a that the famous sex therapists of the 1960s great president for an economic record only dreamed about. arktimes.com
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wo weeks ago, a woman from New Jersey approached me in The Spaniard, a pub and restaurant in Kinsale, Ireland. “You look Irish,” she said “but you sound American.” “That’s easily explained,” I answered. All eight of my great-grandparents immigrated to the United States from Cork and Kerry during the late 19th century. Over there, I’m an ethnic stereotype: a burly fellow with thick white hair wearing a collarless blue shirt from a local shop. Everybody looks like my cousin. Frankly, we’d decided to spend time in Kinsale, a fishing port and resort town on Ireland’s southern coast, to try it on for size. When we’d visited there 10 years ago, I’d felt very much at home. If push came to shove, how might it feel to live there? A man could certainly do worse than hiking Kinsale’s harbor trail out to Charles Fort for an afternoon, stopping en route to have Sinead or Fiona serve him a Guinness and a bowl of their ambrosial fish chowder. Alternatively, a man could wake up to find himself in a country governed by an irascible, egomaniacal bully — a thin-skinned pathological liar and cheat. A race-baiter and serial womanizer who boasts about the friends’ wives he’s seduced and has even phoned newspapers pretending to be a press agent crowing about all the nookie Donald J. Trump gets. Trump is the world’s oldest middle school punk, incapable of governing his own big mouth, much less the world’s indispensable democracy. One minute he brags that paying no income taxes “makes me smart.” The next he brazenly denies saying it, although 80 million viewers heard him. I not only wouldn’t buy a used car from the guy, I wouldn’t trust him to walk my dogs. I wouldn’t let him in my front door, nor leave him alone with a 13-year-old girl. Would you if the child were your daughter? No, you wouldn’t. I trust I have made myself clear. Anyway, the good news is that emigration to Ireland won’t be necessary. A Trump presidency is almost certainly never going to happen. When we left the country three weeks ago, some Democrats were beginning to panic over The Donald’s seeming climb in the polls. Even somebody as skeptical as I am of the TV networks’ ratings-driven need to promote the presidential contest as a nip-and-tuck struggle couldn’t help but
be mildly alarmed. But only mildly. For all the huggermugger, as Kevin Drum keeps calmly pointGENE ing out, Trump’s LYONS aggregate poll numbers have never topped 43 percent nationally. He trails convincingly in almost every must-win “swing” state except Ohio. And then came the first presidential debate. Say anything you like about Hillary Clinton. The mismatch between the former secretary of state’s intelligence, self-discipline and command of the issues and Trump’s bluster couldn’t have been more dramatic. If it had been a prizefight, Trump would have taken several standing eight-counts. Faced with an opponent he couldn’t rattle, the GOP nominee appeared helpless: an angry, befuddled old man. Next came what NBC News’ Benjy Sarlin and Alex Seitz-Wald described as “the Worst Week in Presidential Campaign History.” Try to imagine the next president of the United States getting baited into a 3 a.m. Twitter war with a former Miss Universe over her weight problems. Urging his 12 million followers to check out her seemingly nonexistent sex tape. Interestingly, BuzzFeed turned up a soft-core Playboy video featuring a Tuxedo-wearing Manhattan manabout-town Donald J. Trump introducing naked identical twins demonstrating the same kinds of Sapphic entanglements later exhibited by, yes, Melania Trump in a photo shoot you may also have seen. Who could possibly make this stuff up? Then Trump launched a bizarre attack upon Hillary Clinton, mimicking her pneumonia-induced stumbling. “I don’t even think she’s loyal to Bill, you wanna know the truth,” he told a Pennsylvania audience. And really folks really, why should she be, right? Why should she be?” “In other words,” Amanda Marcotte aptly noted in Salon, “he hit the Big Six of misogynist slurs: Ugly, slutty, crazy, disloyal, deceitful and weak.” The Trump campaign now promises to hit Hillary hard on the critical Gennifer Flowers/Monica Lewinsky “issue.” That’ll definitely bring back wavering Republican women, won’t it? Don’t kid yourselves: It’s all over but the counting.
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he worst week in modern presidential campaign history: That’s what many are calling a 7-day period during which Donald Trump was outgunned in the first debate and transitioned immediately into his meltdown over former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, only to be followed by the New York Times bringing to light his abnormal income tax history over the weekend. Hillary Clinton is now in a markedly advantaged position with only five weeks until Election Day. The enthusiasm gap between Trump and Clinton voters, which has showed the Republican’s voters more excited about casting their votes, has also closed in post-debate polling. Despite all these decidedly positive signs for the Clinton campaign, one fundamentally important challenge remains for her campaign: millennial voters. Trump is actually slightly underperforming the relatively weak performance of Mitt Romney in 2012 with this youngest group of eligible voters, but a chasm exists between Clinton’s showing with those under 30 and that of Barack Obama in 2012 in two respects. First, millennials remain relatively disengaged in the voting process this year, suggesting turnout will be low. Second, as shown in the most recent CBS News/New York Times survey released on Monday, only 40 percent of voters under 30 are committed to Clinton. A signficant portin of the rest are leaning towards support for either Libertarian Gary Johnson (21 percent) or Green Party candidate Jill Stein (5 percent). As a college professor, I get the good fortune of spending lots of time with these voters who remain deeply dubious about a vote for Clinton. At the core of this hesitancy is the strong perception that Clinton is both substantively and stylistically inauthentic. This also drove Sen. Bernie Sanders’s extraordinary margins with this group of voters in the Democratic nomination battle with Clinton. Clinton came to the national scene at a much more moderate era in American politics in an emphatically more moderate Democratic party, heavily influenced by the Democratic Leadership Council (a movement within the party that the Rev. Jesse Jackson famously termed “Democrats for the Leisure Class”). American politics has shifted significantly to the left, and Democratic activists, with younger voters leading the pack, have moved even more emphatically. Thus, because of her survival over a period of significant political change, Clinton is inherently per-
ceived as inauthentic among those who lack a firsthand experience with the shifts in the national mood. JAY Moreover, as has BARTH been much discussed, Clinton’s public steeliness resists the spontaneity and human touch that are at the core of political authenticity. How can Clinton close this “authenticity gap” with young progressives? First, she is fortunate to have figures in her stable of surrogates that show particular promise with millennials, including Sanders, President Obama, Michelle Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren. They all make an appearance in a lively web ad released last week and a segment from Obama’s emphatic speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation is excerpted in a sharp ad developed by the superPAC supporting Clinton. As popular as these political elites are, the campaign really needs to move toward nontraditional messengers with particular credence with millennials to enhance the authenticity of the message. Younger actors and musicians are a start in this direction, but vloggers (those with popular video blogs) are even more likely to connect with millennials who share their worldviews. Second, the Clinton campaign has over-relied on traditional television advertising. While many of the ads are effective, they too often recount Clinton’s long career in public service (which has the downside mentioned above) and have little ability to connect with a generation watching television less and less. Web ads are one step in that direction, but the focus in these ads has primarily been Trump’s troubling statements attacking veterans and women rather than positive messaging about Clinton’s plans for the future. The most successful effort in this arena was Clinton’s well-done appearance on Zach Galifianakis’s “Between Two Ferns.” Finally, she needs to shift to content that centers on those issues — including climate change and student debt — that matter enormously to millennials. The joint appearance with Clinton and Sanders on access to higher education last week worked particularly well as Sanders validated her message on an issue that was a hallmark of his campaign. In the closing weeks of the campaign, such events on such issues must be the norm for Clinton.
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ith War Memorial Stadium’s mystique and alleged efficacy dying by the year, it was at least comforting to watch Arkansas finally devour a purported cupcake there. Bret Bielema boosted his Little Rock record to 2-3, with those two wins coming against Football Championship Subdivision schools, after the Hogs pummeled Alcorn State 52-10 on Saturday. The game’s predictable outcome and snoozer pace at 11 a.m. on a gorgeous fall day didn’t come without benefits. Noah Johnson, the Braves’ deft redshirt freshman quarterback, did gash the Hogs on the ground a couple of times, proving that the Trevor Knight Lesson Plan still hasn’t been fully adopted by Robb Smith & Co. It’s been a persistent murmur among the fan base for a while now — “Mobile quarterbacks kill us!” — but it takes on a heightened sense of importance this weekend. And it’s not just because Alabama is, you know, the best damn team on the planet, yet again. Jacob Coker and Blake Sims were both reasonably mobile, and A.J. McCarron before that could surprise with an occasional bit of good footwork, but the Tide’s new frosh signal-caller, Jalen Hurts, is the most pure “dual-threat” quarterback that Lane Kiffin has had to work with. He’s of average build at 6-foot-2, 215 or so, but he’s elusive and unafraid to extend plays with his speed. The Hogs have been ultra-competitive the last two years against the Kiffin-led offense. The Tide’s last trip to Fayetteville had them stinging after a loss to Ole Miss, and the Razorbacks were mired in a lengthy conference losing streak, but the game ended up 14-13 because Arkansas was nowhere near figuring out how to close a game. A shanked point-after and an early fumble out of the end zone kept that from becoming an upset of substantial magnitude, but it also buoyed the Hogs for the rest of the year as they unleashed the same physical defense on LSU and Ole Miss in consecutive home shutouts, and then pummeled Texas for the program’s first bowl win in three years. Last year in Tuscaloosa, Dan Enos’ offense had not yet taken flight, so the Razorbacks again struggled to make headway against a Tide defensive front that has simply stripped the run game away from a team that relies so heavily upon it. That said, a game effort again by Robb Smith’s defensive unit had Arkansas within shouting distance of another monumental upset until a long scoring bomb from Coker to
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Calvin Ridley late in the third quarter gave Bama a lead it would not relinquish in a 27-14 victory. BEAU What Arkansas WILCOX has learned from these losses, at least theoretically, is that Kiffin is stubborn as a play-caller. He took a deep shot despite the Hogs having a pretty salty pass rush and Coker having been erratic downfield to that point. With Hurts being more adept at moving in and out of the pocket, it affords the brash offensive coordinator a bit more slack in the leash, especially because Hurts does have a stable of reliable targets led by Ridley and tight end O.J. Howard, who unleashed two seasons of frustration on Clemson in the national championship game and seemingly won’t be regressing to afterthought status. Thus presents a quandary for Smith as he tries to game-plan. This Bama team lacks backfield experience but is again imposing along the line, and strong on the edges. Seeing how Brooks Ellis and Dre Greenlaw struggled to spy or stay in their so-called lanes against Texas A&M, it is scary as hell to think what a guy like Hurts can do if he gets to the edge on designed runs or scrambles. Defensively? Well, stop me if you’ve read this before, but the Tide are big, fast, nasty and smart. They have depth, too, which means that they are hustling five-star guys in and out of the lineup commonly, and that affords Nick Saban an incredible luxury, which is changing the scheme almost on the fly. Enos can obviously anticipate that blitzes at Austin Allen will be a regular thing, from multiple positions, because the Hogs’ OL has been a source of consternation and instability so far. Against Alcorn, it looked like Brian Wallace was gaining comfort in his post, but make no mistake, this will absolutely require the best effort by both lines yet, because that is the core of the modern Alabama dynasty. It’s a night game on ESPN, and it will boast the Hogs at No. 16, the highest ranking they’ve attained under Bielema. A sellout crowd will be throaty and impactful, much as it was two years ago when a team struggling just to escape the SEC West cellar nearly upended the Tide. That kind of zealous turnout and that kind of inspired effort would do the trick this time around.
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There but for the grace of God A vote for medical marijuana this November is the right prescription for Arkansas. Real patients tell you why. BY DAVID KOON
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“She’s having about 30 to 40 seizures a day now. It’s a 75 percent reduction. For her quality of life, it’s unbelievable … . There’s nothing in [cannabis oil] that makes her high. You could give her the whole bottle of this and it wouldn’t matter.”
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he simplest thing would be to do the horserace story on the effort to bring medical cannabis to Arkansas: the two competing proposals that will very likely be on the ballot before the voters in November; the pros and cons; the ins and outs; the numbers of dispensaries and the grow-your-own option; the lawyering up and infighting between the two camps that has flared behind the scenes; Governor Hutchinson’s full-court press against the idea of marijuana as medicine, with press conferences backed by a handful of doctors and business leaders who say that cannabis legalization, even for sick people, is not only bad for our collective health but will harm the state’s workforce. The story that will do the most good, however, is to listen to the voices of some of the people who have been helped, or believe they could be helped, by legalization of medical marijuana in the state. It’s no secret that the Arkansas Times is in favor of the effort to legalize medical cannabis (this writer is planning on voting for both proposals, just to boost the
chances that one passes). You could probably go a long way toward wallpapering the governor’s office with the number of prescriptions for opiates written in this state every year, drugs that demonstrably lead to addiction, desperation and death for tens of thousands of Americans. Meanwhile, a plant that critically ill patients say helps them lead fuller, less painful lives — a plant that couldn’t kill you unless you were physically crushed by a compressed bale of the stuff — remains illegal. There’s clearly something wrong with that. Over the past few weeks, we sought out some of those Arkansans who know what it’s like to be so sick or so desperate to help someone they love that breaking the law is preferable to staying within it. Their stories need to be heard before we all go to the ballot box — mostly because any one of these people could, with a simple twist of fortune, be us someday. ERIKA Alexander resident Erika Nicholson knows
that medical marijuana works well on her conditions — a migraine disorder that causes nausea and loss of appetite, an anxiety disorder, fibromyalgia and insomnia that sometimes forces her to go to work bleary-eyed — because for years, she broke the law to treat herself with illegal cannabis. “Unfortunately, I work at a place where they started doing random drug tests,” she said. “I got popped on a drug test, and needless to say, I had to determine whether to choose the medical marijuana or my job. I had to quit [marijuana] about three years ago.” The decision to quit was hard, she said, but it was a have-to. Because she has so many conditions, she needs her health insurance. In order to make up for what she lost, Nicholson said she had to be put on three additional medications, including an appetite stimulant, an antidepressant and a sleeping pill. “I’ve always had a lot of issues with my appetite and being able to eat, eating enough and maintaining weight,” she said. “They also had to put me on Ativan, which, of course, is very
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addictive. But that was preferable to them, that I be on that.” Nicholson said she hopes medical marijuana is legalized in Arkansas, because she knows it’s safe and works for her. She believes it would allow her to back off many of the medications she is taking for other issues, in addition to helping her live with less pain. She is being evaluated for epilepsy after suffering a seizure earlier this year, and believes cannabis might be able to help with that. She also hopes it might help her mother, who has multiple sclerosis. “The things I’ve heard about what it can do for MS is amazing,” she said. “I’ve seen what it can do for people. It’s not just what it would do for me. It’s what it would do for them, and what it would do for so many other people who have to make the same decisions — who have to decide whether to live with the pain, suffer, or break the law.” LANA Bella Vista native Lana Sparks, 61, has a triple whammy when it comes to her health: fibromyalgia and other conditions that leave her in near constant, debilitating pain; a severe allergy to the vast majority of most available prescription pain killers; and surgery several years back that removed a 16-inch section of her colon, leaving her body unable to absorb most of the pain relievers she can take. Desperate for a legal solution to her pain, she researched and found Marinol. A synthetic version of THC, the drug is often touted by those opposed to medical cannabis — including Governor Hutchinson, most recently at a September press conference featuring several Arkansas doctors — as a legal, FDA-approved alternative that negates the need for cannabis legalization. Though Marinol is officially for nausea and loss of appetite due to AIDS and cancer treatment, Sparks in 2005 was one of an initial group of 10 Arkansans approved to receive the drug for pain. Though it had some mind-altering side-effects, she said, Marinol worked well for her. Now, however, Sparks is on CANNABIS WORKS: Erika Nicholson says marijuana helped her health conditions. Medicare, which only covers Marinol for the original label use: loss of appefor a while, then started herself on legal hemp tite or nausea caused by AIDS or cancer and “we can’t afford medications like that, so oil, which she said helps her sleep and is begintreatment. essentially I have no choice. I have no pain manning to dial back her pain. She hopes the voters agement option because Medicare won’t cover “This is where the real problem comes in,” she of Arkansas will approve medical cannabis this said. “I can get the medication with a prescripit.” When Hutchinson says that Marinol is an fall so she can find more lasting relief. A child of tion, without Medicare coverage. But a 30-day available alternative to medical cannabis, Sparks the ’60s, she said she smoked pot when she was supply costs me $10,000 — right around that said, he’s telling the truth, but there is quite a younger, but said that for patients like her, it’s area. Between $9,000 and $10,000. It depended difference between “available” and “attainable,” not about recreation. depending on your health insurance. on which pharmacy we were going to.” Sparks Sparks went back to Ibuprofen for her pain said she and her husband live on fixed incomes “That isn’t what this was about,” she said. “We
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did that back then to get high. We don’t do it to get high. We do it for the benefits of cannabis. Cannabis can change a lot of things, and the drug companies don’t want it to happen.” “MARY” A lifelong Arkansan, Mary (who asked that we protect her identity because she owns a company that does business in Arkansas) had to make a decision a few years back: help her daughter, who is now 11, or flee the state where she was born to find help for her. Mary’s daughter has a rare seizure disorder, and since she was 3 years old, she’s been to hospitals from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., to Arkansas Children’s Hospital, and been prescribed pharmaceuticals and special diets. “All the places you would imagine, we have been with her,” Mary said. “They have basically given up on her. She has tried nine or 10 pharmaceutical drugs at this point. The last one they gave her, we had to sign a piece of paper that said if they killed her, we wouldn’t sue them. She had an allergic reaction to it and was in ICU for three weeks, on a ventilator. She burned from the inside out. She was 7 at the time.” By the time Mary decided to move her family to Colorado, where marijuana is legal, to treat her daughter with a cannabis oil that has helped other children, the girl was having 150 seizures a day. Most were 10- to 15-seconds-long “head drops” that sometimes caused the girl to hit her face on a table, or fall from a chair. Medications only seemed to make things worse, resulting in everything from rashes to vomiting to an increased severity of her seizures. “She rides a bike, she swims, she hikes mountains, she rock climbs. She’s a very functional child except for this weird seizure thing,” Mary said. “Here’s what I hear: ‘I can’t believe you’re giving your kid pot … ’ You have a child who has zero options from the medical community. The only option we’ve got is to drill into her brain with an experimental deep brain stimulator, which the Mayo Clinic has only ever done on like 18 kids, and it’s not meant for seizures; it’s for Parkinson’s. When that’s your only option at 10 years old, you start looking for things.” Once they were in Colorado, after obtaining the girl’s medical cannabis card with a doctor’s approval, Mary started her daughter on cannabis oil. The girl takes 0.5 milliliters of the low-THC oil twice a day. Even though she no longer takes other prescribed medications, the changes have been dramatic. “She’s having about 30 to 40 seizures a day now,” Mary said. “It’s a 75 percent reduction. For her quality of life, it’s unbelievable … . There’s nothing in it that makes her high. You could give her the whole bottle of this and it wouldn’t matter.” Mary said she hopes medical cannabis is legalized in Arkansas this fall not only because she wants other parents of children with seizure
disorders to have the option to try it, but because it will allow her daughter to return to the state. She can’t travel without being able to take her medicine. “When I come back, I can’t bring her there. I can’t bring [her medicine] across state lines. I can’t let her see her grandparents. I can’t let her go to her cousin’s birthday party, which is today. There are lots of things we gave up by doing this, but it was her life we were playing with.” Even if medical marijuana does become legal in Arkansas, Mary said it will be a hard question as to whether she moves back home, saying that Hutchinson’s efforts at defeating the measures would always make her feel as if she and her daughter weren’t truly accepted. For the good of desperately ill people in Arkansas, however, she hopes the voters will pass one or both of the measures. “I think people, especially people in my position, deserve to be able to at least try it as an option,” she said. “When you’re going to a doctor and having to sign a piece of paper that says they might kill your kid? This is a much safer option. I’m all for trying [conventional medicine] and going through that process. But if you’re out of options, this is another option.”
A devout Christian, she says God is the reason she’s alive today, but she believes cannabis was put here by Him to help her fight. She’s been cancer-free for a little over two years now. Asked what she’d say to those in opposition to the ballot measures that would bring medical marijuana to the state, she said: What is Arkansas so afraid of? RAVEN Little Rock resident Raven Thompson, 34, had been suffering with unexplained pain for years by the time doctors discovered a 12-millimeter mass in her pelvis in 2013. It turned out to be synovial sarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of soft tissue cancer that occurs in only one in 3 million people. “They told me that I was going to lose my right leg, I was going to have to have a colostomy bag and a full hysterectomy,” she said. “The mass was starting to push everything to the left. They told me that if I didn’t do the chemo, my lungs would collapse, I would suffo-
cate and die. I was like, ‘Danged if I do, danged if I don’t …’ I can remember when I was first diagnosed. One of my co-workers said, ‘Raven, you’re good people. You’re not a bad person. Why?’ All I could say was, ‘It doesn’t matter if you’re young, old, bad or good. When it’s for you, it’s for you. If it happens, you’ve got to take it on and fight and keep going. We all have to go from this world someday, but we still have to fight.’ ” At her doctor’s urging, Thompson started on an equally aggressive form of chemotherapy, which she heard referred to as “Red Devil.” During her treatment, she had to be admitted to the hospital for up to a week at a time, receiving the medicine 22 hours a day. She’d go home for two weeks, be assessed, then start another round. Only 125 pounds at the time of her diagnosis, the chemo killed her appetite and created horrible nausea. She eventually wasted to 87 pounds. “To drop down to that, I was almost like a walking skeleton,” she said. “I was just that small. I’m a petite lady, but to lose that much weight, that’s a lot. Of course, I couldn’t help it. … But, I kept fighting because everyone else had killed me off. My own family wrote a eulogy for me. Everybody just kind of gave up on me in a sense. It’s sad to say that, but I’m just trying to be honest.” Knowing she would die if she couldn’t get her appetite back, Thompson broke the law and turned to illegal marijuana. “At that point,” she said, “I was thinking to myself, ‘I’m a criminal? I’m a criminal then. I’m a criminal with cancer. What else can you do to me?’ ” Within an hour of smoking cannabis, she said, her appetite returned enough for her to eat. “It helped with nausea, it helped with pain, anxiety,” she said. “It definitely gave me an appetite. I wanted to eat everything. With the pain meds, it was a mess.” Thompson continued to use cannabis through her chemo, six weeks of radiation treatment, and during the recovery from a 9-and-a-half-hour surgery in which she was sliced from her navel to her lower back, the incision requiring over 30 staples to close. A devout Christian, she says God is the reason she’s alive today, but she believes cannabis was put here by Him to help her fight. She’s been cancer-free for a little over two years now. Asked what she’d say to those in opposition to the ballot measures that would bring medical marijuana to the state, she said: What is Arkansas so afraid of? “If people could just come up to the hospital,” she said, “and come on the floor and see what we have to go through with that [chemotherapy] medicine going into our bodies — throwing up, weak, stumbling, falling and pooping on themselves, it’s just a mess. If this helps me, I’ve got to have it. I’m sorry. … It’s real, and it can happen to everyone.”
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he sad truth is that the state electoral map in 2016 isn’t terribly dynamic: Republicans are firmly in control and look to stay that way. The real action this cycle is to be found in the seven questions to be placed directly before Arkansas voters, three of which were referred to the ballot by the legislature and four of which were initiated by citizen petition. Well, maybe seven. All four of the citizeninitiated proposals are being challenged at the Arkansas Supreme Court, which will rule on them sometime this month. Should any or all of the initiatives be disqualified by the court, votes for the measures will not be counted — although they’ll still remain printed on the ballot, zombie-like. One wrinkle that’s already presenting itself: new, stringent rules for paid canvassers in the signature collection process. Both of the special masters the Supreme Court appointed to review signatures for Issues 4 and 5 (which concern tort reform and casinos, respectively) have said the canvassers were likely out of compliance with the law, though the court itself will need to weigh in on the matter. If the court does not invalidate any of the initiatives before Election Day, the 2016 ballot will be Arkansas’s most crowded in decades in terms of questions presented directly to the electorate. That could affect voter psychology, according to University of Arkansas political science professor Janine Parry. “It overwhelms people,” she told the Arkansas Times. “Because of the density of the proposals, and the density of the language — these are complicated measures — you’re probably going to see a lot of ballot roll-off.” Voters, after all, often find themselves pondering a question for the first time while standing in a small booth at the head of a long line. When confronted with an overly long litany of questions, they may respond by simply skipping them all, Parry explained. Around 20 percent of voters can be expected to “vote for Trump or Clinton and Boozman or Eldridge and maybe a local race or two … [and] leave a significant portion of the rest of the ballot blank. Sometimes it’s called ballot fatigue.” The interesting question about ballot issues, she said, is “what people feel like they have enough information to make a decision about and what they leave to everyone else to decide.” Issue 1: Gives longer terms to county officials. Popular name: “An Amendment to the Arkansas Constitution Concerning the Terms, 16
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A guide to the seven (or fewer?) questions facing Arkansas voters. BY BENJAMIN HARDY AND DAVID KOON
Election, and Eligibility of Elected Officials” What it does: Currently, elected county officials serve two-year terms. This measure would change those terms to four years for most positions: county judge, sheriff, circuit clerk, county clerk, assessor, coroner, treasurer, surveyor and collector. Justices of the peace would still serve two-year terms. It would also prevent county officials from simultaneously holding certain other public positions and would better define laws applicable to both state and local elections in regard to (1) candidates who run unopposed and (2) criminal convictions that bar eligibility for office. Why it matters: It’s an academic question as to whether more frequent elections are better. In theory, shorter terms hold officials accountable by giving voters more chances to weigh in. On the other hand, elections take time and money — and really, how many of us are so heavily invested in county politics that we’d miss voting on the sheriff and the assessor twice as often? We’re neutral on this one. Issue 2: Ensures the governor retains power when traveling. Popular name: “A Constitutional Amendment to Allow the Governor to Retain His or Her Powers and Duties When Absent From the State.” What it does: Arkansas’s Constitution currently says the lieutenant governor assumes the powers and duties of the governor’s office whenever the governor travels outside of the state. This amendment would ensure the governor remains in charge. Why it matters: Once upon a time, it made some sense to have a replacement on hand when the state’s chief executive left on a trip. Times and technology have changed, however, and the governor is now easily reachable anywhere. It no longer makes sense to hand off symbolic power to the lieutenant governor in the governor’s absence. This issue arose in 2013 after former Lt. Gov. Mark Darr unexpectedly signed a bill when then-Gov. Mike Beebe was on a trip to Wash-
ington, D.C. Beebe had on principle declined to sign the bill — which exempted concealed carry gun permits from the Freedom of Information Act — but he also declined to veto it, meaning the bill would have become law without anyone’s signature. Darr, as acting governor for those few days, seized the chance to grandstand and sign the legislation. The practical effect was nil, but it highlighted the silliness of this anachronistic provision. (Our only reluctance about this proposal is that the Arkansas lieutenant governorship is a meaningless post. Why not simply get rid of it altogether?) Issue 3: Boosts public tax dollars for private businesses. Popular name: “An Amendment to the Arkansas Constitution Concerning Job Creation, Job Expansion, and Economic Development” What it does: This proposal would remove a cap on the issuance of bonds by the state and loosen rules on the use and service of bonds by local governments. Why it matters: If you like welfare for corporations, you’ll love Issue 3. The measure would remove the limit on general obligation bonds the state can issue to pay for economic development projects, such as the tens of millions in tax credits Arkansas has given to Big River Steel in recent years to coax it into building a major new plant in Northeast Arkansas. Right now, the state can’t issue bonds that exceed 5 percent of net general revenue; currently, net general revenue is around $5.2 billion, which means the maximum permissible bond issue is capped at about $260 million. That’s a lot of debt — and remember, it’s debt financed by tax dollars — but this proposed amendment would allow the state to issue much more than that. The legislators who crafted this proposal say this is all in the name of job creation. Things get even worse at the local level. In 2015, a Pulaski County judge said grants made by cities to chambers of commerce (or other local economic development institutions) should be considered payments to private corporations, which is prohibited by Article 12 of the state Constitution. One section of this proposed amendment is a response to that suit: It would explicitly allow such payments to resume. The measure would also allow counties and cities to use general tax revenue to service bonds. In other words, this amendment
makes it easier for state and local government to steer public money toward private businesses. There’s plenty in there for both the left and the right to dislike, which is why we find ourselves in rare agreement with conservative groups like Conduit for Action in arguing for a “No” vote on Issue 3. Issue 4: Caps medical malpractice damages (i.e., tort reform). Popular name: “An Amendment to Limit Attorney Contingency Fees and Non-Economic Damages in Medical Lawsuits” What it does: This amendment requires the legislature to set a cap on the non-economic damages a jury may award in a medical lawsuit. The cap cannot be lower than $250,000 per defendant. The measure also caps attorneys’ fees in such suits at one-third of the net recovery awarded in a suit. It does not cap other types of damages. Why it matters: The measure would have a chilling effect on lawsuits against medical providers whose patients have been injured (or killed) due to negligence. Non-economic damages are awarded for harms that are hard to quantify, such as pain and suffering — as opposed to the “economic damages” awarded for things such as medical expenses or lost income due to injury. Considering the high cost of litigat-
ing malpractice cases, attorneys would have little incentive to take them on if awards were capped at just $250,000. And given our legislature’s friendliness to moneyed interests, it likely would indeed set the cap at $250,000, meaning this would effectively be the upward limit on the value of the life of a patient in the eyes of the law. Arkansas’s nursing homes are the key players behind this measure, having poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into getting it on the ballot. Attorneys and patient advocates are fighting it. Two lawsuits have been filed against Issue 4: The Arkansas Bar Association argues the amendment would effectively abridge citizens’ constitutional right to a trial by jury, and a group called the Committee to Protect AR Families alleges that the backers of the proposal failed to get the requisite criminal background checks for their paid canvassers during the signature-gathering process earlier in the year. To review evidence in the second case, the Arkansas Supreme Court appointed retired Judge Jake Looney as a special master. Looney has found problems with a number of signatures, but it’s ultimately the Supreme Court’s call whether those problems will disqualify the proposed amendment entirely. Issue 5: Rewrites the state constitution to authorize new casinos in three counties.
Popular Name: “An Amendment to Allow Three Casinos to Operate in Arkansas, One Each in the Following Counties: Boone County, Operated by Arkansas Gaming and Resorts, LLC; Miller County, Operated by Miller County Gaming, LLC; and Washington County, Operated by Washington County Gaming LLC” What it does: The name says it all — specific corporations would be allowed to open casinos in Washington, Boone and Miller counties. The casinos would be allowed to operate all day, any day, and serve alcohol. The measure provides for the creation of the Arkansas Gaming Commission to regulate the businesses. Why it matters: It’s casinos vs. casinos in this fight. The amendment is being pushed by Missouri investors and the Cherokee Nation, which hungers to break into the Arkansas gaming market. It’s opposed by the state’s two existing gambling interests: Oaklawn Racing and Gaming in Hot Springs and Southland Gaming in West Memphis, which are currently guaranteed an effective duopoly on casinos in Arkansas by a law permitting “electronic games of skill” at certain establishments offering pari-mutuel betting. At Oaklawn and (especially) Southland, the racing business has become secondary to blackjack, craps, roulette and so on. Those opposing the upstart out-of-staters include a bipartisan group of 40 legislators, for-
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mer-Gov. Beebe and anti-gambling forces such as the Family Council. The funding for the “Committee to Protect Arkansas Values/Stop Casinos Now,” however, is coming from Oaklawn and Southland. Each gave about $50,000 to the cause in August. The committee has sued to disqualify the amendment, arguing that its ballot title is defective and that canvassers did not follow the law in signature collection. The special master appointed by the Supreme Court in this case, John Jennings, agreed that the signatures were insufficient under the new state law; however, the Supreme Court itself must still weigh in later this month. Supreme Court Associate Justice Courtney Goodson has recused from the case and the governor has appointed Jonesboro lawyer Warren Dupwe to sit in her place. Issue 6: Writes medical marijuana into the state constitution. Popular name: “The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment of 2016” What it does: Issue 6 would legalize the use of medical marijuana for patients suffering from any of 17 specified ailments (cancer, Crohn’s disease, fibromyalgia, HIV/AIDS and Alzheimer’s disease, to name a few) along with conditions that result in certain symptoms (such as seizures or severe nausea). The Arkansas Department of Health could add other conditions as well. Between 20 and 40 dispensaries would be established statewide. The dispensaries could cultivate some amount of marijuana, but there would also be four to eight potentially larger scale “cultivation facilities” in the state. A five-member Medical Marijuana Commission would oversee operations of both dispensaries and grow centers under regulations provided by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division. There would be no
“grow your own” clause for patients in remote locations. Cities and towns would be allowed to ban dispensaries and grow centers by local election. Half the tax revenue generated would fund vocational training; the other half would go toward general revenue, workforce training, the Health Department and the ABC. Why it matters: Significantly narrower than the Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act, Issue 6 has been the better funded of the two campaigns by a large margin, leading to worries that backers have the interests of the robber barons at heart. Still, if it were really all about the money, you’d think backers would have cast a wider net than 17 conditions. As a constitutional amendment, Issue 6 could only be amended by the legislature with a two-thirds vote and could be repealed only with another citizen initiative — but the trade-off is more finagling from the ABC, which has been overly complicating booze regulations in Arkansas for decades. Still, beware splitting the Yes vote between Issues 6 and 7 over inside baseball. You can bet the stone hearts and hippie haters will be voting No on both. Arkansans Against Legalized Marijuana, a group which has the backing of the Arkansas Farm Bureau, the state Chamber of Commerce and others, is suing to disqualify the amendment. Issue 7: Makes medical marijuana legal under state law. Popular name: “The Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act” (AMCA) What it does: The AMCA would legalize medical marijuana. It explicitly names 56 specified ailments, as well as conditions that result in certain systems. The Health Department could add other conditions to the list. Unlike Issue 6,
the AMCA would make medical cannabis legal under state statute rather than by a constitutional amendment, meaning the law could be more easily changed by the state legislature once passed. Like Issue 6, the law would establish about 40 dispensaries; unlike in Issue 6, these would be nonprofits only. Each would have a dedicated grow center attached. Dispensaries would be overseen by the Health Department rather than the ABC. The AMCA would give approved patients who live more than 20 miles from a dispensary a right to grow a limited amount of cannabis for their personal use — or to name a “caregiver” to obtain the substance from a dispensary or cultivate plants. Tax revenue would cover the cost of administering the program and assist low-income patients. There is no provision for a city or county to prohibit dispensaries, but local governments can limit their number and regulate their location Why it matters: Between the two marijuana proposals, this one is the winner when it comes to being a patient-centered law with sick people in mind. The AMCA covers three times as many illnesses as Issue 6, including migraines, Parkinson’s disease, lupus and traumatic brain injury. Other pluses include low-income protections and the “grow your own” clause for patients far removed from dispensaries. The ability of the ledge to more easily meddle makes us nervous, but bonus points for keeping regulation where it belongs: in the hands of the Health Department, not the Sin Cops at the ABC. Arkansans Against Legal Marijuana sued to disqualify the ballot title of the AMCA, but the Supreme Court has rejected that challenge. A second suit mounted by Kara Benca, a Little Rock lawyer, challenges the validity of signatures on the AMCA.
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FEEDING THE HORDES: Nineteen professional and amateur teams will compete in the hog roast; festivalgoers get to eat their efforts.
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t’s fall. Before long, the leaves will fall and the days will grow short and it will be cold. To prepare you emotionally for that dark reality and also because you probably need to start putting on a few pounds to keep you better insulated in the winter, you owe it to yourself to reserve a ticket to the Arkansas Times Whole Hog Roast on Sunday, Oct. 23, at the Argenta Plaza in North Little Rock. This is the fourth edition, and like a seasoned pit master who’s
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The Arkansas Times Whole Hog Roast returns on Oct. 23. BY LINDSEY MILLAR, LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK AND STEPHANIE SMITTLE
always tweaking his methods to achieve smoked meat perfection, we’ve updated our formula to ensure that this is the best fest yet. For one, we’ve got more teams competing than ever thanks to event wrangler Brian Kearns of Simply the Best Catering and the newly opened Canvas restaurant at the Arkansas Arts Center. So far
there are 19 teams participating, including 12 headed by professional cookers (all those below, plus teams from Maddie’s and SO Restaurant and Bar, which we weren’t able to reach before our deadline) and nine amateur teams (all those below, plus a team from Onebanc, which we also weren’t able to reach). Pro teams will cook whole hogs raised
humanely by Farm Girl Meats near Perryville, while amateurs will cook pork butts provided Edwards Food Giant and two side items. Festivalgoers will be able to sample food from all the teams until it’s gone, as well as sides from Ben E. Keith. In addition to manning a pro team, Lost Forty Brewing is sponsoring the beer and wine garden, where drinks will be available for purchase. Local food bloggers will judge both divisions. The pro teams should be especially moti-
vated. First prize gets $1,000. Argenta Plaza is at Sixth and Main streets in downtown North Little Rock. Doors open at 1 p.m. and food will be served at 2 p.m., rain or shine. Local honky-tonk heroes Bonnie Montgomery and The Salty Dogs will perform throughout the day. Tickets are $18 in advance via centralarkansastickets.com or $22 at the door. Proceeds benefit the Argenta Arts District. And make sure you wear your finest bib: The Cooking Channel’s “Big Bad BBQ Brawl” will be on hand to film. P.S.: Don’t despair, stragglers; we can still accommodate more teams. Call Phyllis Britton at 501-492-3994 or email her at Phyllis@arktimes.com to sign up.
PROFESSIONAL TEAMS 1836 CLUB “Don’t ever open a healthy restaurant in Arkansas, no matter what anyone tells you,” Donnie Ferneau volunteered when we called him up to see if he knew how he’s cooking his whole hog. (He’s leaning toward using a La Caja China Box, but otherwise doesn’t know.) Before he became chef at the new, private 1836 Club, he owned Good Food by Ferneau in Argenta, which had a menu aimed at health-conscious diners. Now that he’s heading up a supper club, he knows how many people he’s cooking for on any given night, and he’s gotten back to his roots using classic techniques as well as quality, local ingredients. The trend of highend fast casual food is great, Ferneau says, but he’s happy to be once again using his chef training for people who appreciate fine dining. LM @ THE CORNER At the Corner is a family affair. Sisters Helen Grace and Leila King co-own and manage the downtown diner with their soon-to-be sister-inlaw, Chef Kamiya Merrick. The Kings’ mother, Helen King, is the financial backer and a regular behind the register. Merrick is Canadian — she got to Little Rock through a soccer scholarship at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock — which is why you see poutine (french fries, cheese curds and brown gravy) and real Cana-
dian bacon on the menu. Those items and the rest of At the Corner’s menu have been well received in the restaurant’s 18 months in business. Lunch is regularly packed (the diner is directly below the Times and this writer orders the best-in-town turkey burger at least once a week) and patrons have lined up outside for weekend brunch service. For the roast, Merrick plans on brining the hog for a few days, injecting it with Canadian Maple syrup and then smoking it, maybe using a Rock Town barrel if she can secure one. LM CORE BREWERY Jeff Wetzel went to culinary school at the Art Institute of Houston and worked in a handful of area country clubs before moving to Bentonville in 2015 to open Blu Fresh Fish Market. When that didn’t work out and Wetzel’s wife nixed returning to Houston, Wetzel opened a food truck, Le Bouvier (French for “The Cowboy”), where he could pair his fine-dining training with street food. The truck was a hit, and now Wetzel has formed a partnership with Core Brewery, where he rents kitchen space in the brewery’s pubs in North Little Rock and, shortly, in Springdale. Bad news for Northwest Arkansas food truck lovers: Wetzel is ready to get out of the mobile food business. His Le Bouvier food truck will function as the permanent external kitchen for yet another Core Public House soon. If that wasn’t enough, Wetzel continues to operate a full-service catering company and often does in-home cooking classes, and he’s starring in a Food Network pilot that will begin shooting soon. As for the hog roast, Wetzel plans on keeping it simple. “I’m going to brine it and then throw it on my trailer smoker and cook her ’til she falls apart.” LM COUNTRY CLUB OF LITTLE ROCK Blaine Burgess has two Hog Roast titles under his belt, and he’ll be going for a third with teammate and Country Club of Little Rock chef Paul Frintrup, recently named Arkansas Chef of the Year by his peers in the American Culinary Federation. Burgess, a former chef who is now the general manager and chief operating officer
of the club, trained at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y.; Frintrup trained at the Culinary Hospitality School at St. Louis Community College. They will prepare this year’s pig “low and slow” (12 to 14 hours at 220 degrees Fahrenheit in a cinder-block pit) in a variation on the Cuban-style Burgess won with last year. They’ll inject their hog with mojo criollo, a sour orange, garlic and lime concoction, and also mix a little of that into the vinegar and tomato-based basting sauce. Burgess and Frintrup will be “taking our act on the road” next spring, Burgess said, going to New Orleans for the Hogs for the Cause event. LNP CRUSH WINE BAR AND FLIGHT THYME CATERING Joe St. Ana is inching close to the 10-year anniversary of Crush, the wine bar he opened in the River Market district in 2007 and moved to Argenta three years later. St. Ana, who’s been in the business for 26 years, including 16 years at Colonial Wines, has enough of a reputation that many of his customers don’t request to see a wine list, they simply ask what he suggests. His everyother-Monday tastings, a staple since the beginning, remain popular, especially now that the weather is ideal for hanging out on Crush’s back patio. For the hog roast, he’s partnering with Flight Thyme Catering and roasting their hog in traditional barbecue style, in a pit with a fire made of aromatic hardwoods. LM FOUR QUARTER BAR Conan Robinson has been a participant in the Hog Roast for the last three years, but always with Midtown Billiards, where he worked for more than 15 years. This year, he’s representing his own bar and restaurant, Four Quarter, located just down Main Street from the event (after-party!). Like Midtown, Four Quarter serves a late-night clientele. Its kitchen stays open later than just everywhere else, serving food from late afternoon until 1:30 a.m., 30 minutes before closing time. With Robinson’s long association with Midtown, he knows how to make a burger, and those remain popular, perhaps only rivaled by the barbecue. Robinson gets all his humanely raised and chemical-free meat from Brown
Chicken, Brown Sow in Mountain Home. Look for a new menu coming soon featuring his roast pork, including pork nachos, a Cuban and an Asian honey barbecue sandwich. And also keep an eye out for bigger acts playing music in the bar. Squirrel Nut Zippers played a sold-out show recently. For the hog roast, he’ll use his signature rub on the pig and go from there. LM LOST FORTY BREWING Lost Forty regulars and those who follow the brewery and taproom on social media may have noticed a recent trend: more barbecued meat. That owes to a recent investment — a 1,000-gallon, custom-built propane smoker that now resides out back. Brewery co-owner John Beachboard says it can fit as much as 25 racks of ribs or 30 briskets at one time. Once or twice a week, Lost Forty has been offering specials on brisket, pork shoulder or ribs. Look for it to become an even larger component of the menu in the not-too-distant future, Beachboard says. For the hog roast, Beachboard says he’s planning on doing it over open coals. “It’s a little more complicated [than in the smoker], but it’ll be fun to try that method,” he said. LM SAMANTHA’S TAP ROOM AND CHEERS IN THE HEIGHTS Chris Tanner, owner of Cheers and Samantha’s, wasn’t able to participate in the Hog Roast last year to defend the title he earned in 2014. Now that he’s back he figures why mess with a good thing. He’s going to season his pig with fresh rosemary, coriander, sage and lemon zest and serve it Italian-style, as porchetta. Life is good, Tanner says. Business at Cheers, which underwent a significant remodel earlier this year, is growing (patio weather like we’ve been having always helps), he said. And through Oct. 15, Samantha’s is running a delectable-sounding special on bronzed black grouper, lemon grass custard, lump crab, Coursey’s smoked bacon with a Kent Walker Cheese rice cake and Arkansas salsa (cantaloupe, watermelon, jalapeno, tomato and yellow bell pepper). It’s the dish Samantha’s chefs John Munday and Marshall Smith won runner-up with at the Great American Seafood Cookoff in New Orleans in arktimes.com
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PIT ROASTED: Look for pro teams to use a variety of methods to cook their whole hog.
August. LM SOUTHERN REEL OUTFITTERS Southern Reel Outfitters on Highway 10 may be a haven for fisherman, with 2,400 square feet of outdoor apparel, kayaks, tackle and hunting equipment, but Jon Bobo is turning his attention toward the pig for the Hog Roast. Bobo, executive chef at Fox Ridge Assisted Living, will use an electric smoker with a pellet-feed from Smokin’ Brothers, blending hickory, cherry, oak, mesquite and applewoods. Bobo, along with his culinary schoolmate Brian Kearns, won the Whole Hog Roast in its inaugural year, but this year Bobo’s striking out on his own, and plans to “stick with the oak and then add something fruity at the end to finish.” SS BOUDREAUX’S GRILL AND BAR AND SWINETOLOGY 101 Matt Morris is the mastermind behind the meat at Swinetology 101, sponsored by friends at Boudreaux’s
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Grill and Bar, for whom he roasts the occasional hog for pre-Razorback game tailgating parties. The result of 12 years of barbecue competitions, Morris’ approach is to infuse the pig with a blend of juices, spices and liquors and roast it bellyup, keeping the natural juices of the hog from escaping. He uses a traditional smoker — using his own sense of timing rather than digital monitors — and a blend of apple, cherry and hickory wood that he says results in a “savory sweet heat, with a sweetness on the front end and some heat on the back end.” SS
AMATEUR TEAMS ARGENTA BUTT RUBBERS Josh Mills wants another shot. Last year, the Kansas City native did one butt in the style of his hometown and another with Asian flavors. He and his partner, Ricky O’Rourke, are both vets of other cook-offs, includ-
ing Hot Springs’ Great Park Avenue BBQ Cookoff. Once again, they’re sponsored by the Argenta Neighborhood Boosters, and they’re counting on the new judging method to bring home the bacon this year. LM BILLY BOB’S SMOKIN’ BUTTS Steve Glaze of Billy Bob’s Smokin’ Butts cooks ribs and pork butt when he’s out camping with friends and family routinely, but says he doesn’t do many competitions. “I tried doing one over in Kansas City and didn’t do too well — they said my barbecue was too tender!” That’s likely to be a strength rather than a demerit for him at this year’s Hog Roast, where he’s smoking a pork butt with a blend of pecan and oak woods for about six to eight hours. Glaze is keeping the sides — cole slaw and beans — traditional, and plans to have plenty of help on hand to allow him to make the rounds sampling what’s smoking at the other pits, something he says he didn’t get to do nearly enough when
he competed last year. SS GOLDEN EAGLE OF ARKANSAS Richard McKinnie is alcohol distributor Golden Eagle’s resident barbecue professional. He and his dad and two sons have participated in a handful of cook-offs around the area. “We try,” McKinnie says. “We’ve got some trophies. But we’ve messed up a lot of pigs in the process.” He’ll cook his butt in a custom smoker he built out of a 200-gallon propane tank, dry rub the butt and use injectable marinades of his own creation. Black-eyed peas will be one side, he said. LM KERMIT’S EX! Michael Reiser and teammates and co-workers Paul Russell and Heath Netzley had never done a pork cook-off before last year’s Arkansas Times cook-off. They work in IT for a software company. But their butt, with homemade rub, injection and sauce and, as Reiser describes, “a rustic flavor,” took home the top prize
last year in the amateur division. Then earlier this year, they won the People’s Choice prize at the much larger Buzz B-Q cook-off in North Little Rock. So how serious is this hobby becoming? “You never know what the future holds,” Reiser said with a chuckle. “You’ve got to give the people what they want.” LM POP SMOKE BBQ Fresh off winning grand cham-
pion at Jacksonville’s Grill in the Ville cook-off, Rashad Pippen plans to stick to his traditional formula from last year’s Hog Roast: a pork butt rubbed with brown sugar, salt and pepper and injected with a mixture of vinegar, apple juice and salt and sugar. For sides, the National Guardsman is planning to serve bacon macaroni and cheese and dill potato salad. LM RB2
RB² — that is, Rebecca Brosius, Randy Schroeder, Bussie Robinson and Brenda Hopper — are not merely participating in the amateur division of the Arkansas Times Whole Hog Roast, they say; they’re “going to win.” The four friends, who met at Lake Norrell in Saline County, were cooking together for an event when Rebecca came across the hog roast announcement. “I handed it to Randy and said, ‘We should do this,’ ”
Rebecca said. Randy — a former hog farmer and once-owner of the state fair favorite The Pork Chop Shop — agreed, and the quartet is bringing what Rebecca calls an “uncommon” treatment to the pork butt, as well as some secret sides. “We are striving not to be ordinary. We don’t want ours to look like anyone else’s, we don’t want it to taste like anyone else’s. Call it the Saline Redneck Gourmet approach.” SS
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tarting Monday, Oct. 10, Little Rock will celebrate the weeklong Central Arkansas Pride celebration of diversity and inclusion, a festival not just for the local LGBTQ community, but for all Central Arkansas residents. Zack Baker, executive director of Central Arkansas Pride, has been working with the festival since its first iteration in 2013. “That first year, we just had a parade, and there were about 700 that came out. Then in 2014, when we added the festival aspect, we had almost 1,500 people come.” The festival has continued to grow with over 2,500 attendees in 2015. Organizers are preparing for an even larger crowd this year. Just Communities of Arkansas Director Ruth Darrow Shepherd is the Grand Marshal. The culminating event on Sunday afternoon, Pridefest, will feature over 60 vendors, up from fewer than 30 in 2014. “We’ve just seen such huge growth every year, in the number of floats and walkers in the parade, to everything else. It’s been so great to see the community come together around this event.” One of the most important ways in which the community has embraced the 24
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festival is through sponsorship. “Our first year,” Baker said, “we had just enough sponsors to make everything work, but now, for the first time, we’re having businesses approach us unsolicited asking to be involved. That’s really changing the nature of what we’re able to do and offer at the festival.” Many businesses in the River Market district, through which Sunday’s parade route runs, will be “going rainbow” to celebrate the event, hanging Pride flags and banners in celebration. The week’s highlights include a burlesque show at Club Sway at 7 p.m. Monday and, for the second year in a row, an evening of onstage storytelling at South on Main, presented by the Human Rights Campaign at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Local members of the LGBTQ community and their allies will share stories of love, hardship and acceptance at the sure-to-sell-out event. The official Pridefest pre-party will be at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at Club Sway, where international drag superstar Bob the Drag Queen will make an appearance. She is the first reigning winner of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” to
visit Arkansas. Known for her pop-artmeets-camp stylings, she’ll participate in a ticketed post-show meet and greet on Saturday and will be emcee for Sunday afternoon’s festival. The festivities on Sunday, Oct. 16, begin at 1 p.m. with the signature parade, which starts at the Clinton Presidential Center (participants begin lining up at noon by Heifer International) and continues down President Clinton Avenue through the River Market district. The festival proper kicks off at 2 p.m. on the grounds of the Clinton Presidential Center, with food trucks, vendors, a children’s area and performance stage. This year’s festival will see the growth of the festival’s Pride Talks program, in which LGBTQ friendly businesses and nonprofits are given a platform to speak to festivalgoers. This year’s Pride Talks features speakers from the Arkansas Transgender Equality Coalition, Planned Parenthood, the Stonewall Democrats and Lucie’s Place, among others. The Family Zone will feature face painting, a bouncy house and an inflatable obstacle course. Entertainment at the festival will be anchored by a bevy of local talent in the form of dancers, musicians and drag queens. Local musician John Willis will take the stage with his six-piece band the Late Romantics, as well as the winner of Pride Idol, the monthlong singing contest sponsored by Club Sway, for which Willis was a judge. Drag king and queen performances from both Club Sway and Club Triniti will take place
throughout the afternoon, and there will be a beer garden. The festival closes with a performance by the Chicagobased queer rock band Yoko and the Oh No’s. Dancers from the Center for Artistic Revolution’s Latinx Revolution LGBTQ program will present a gender queer performance of Latin American folk dances. Members of the Gamma Mu Phi fraternity will present multiple step performances throughout the afternoon. After a string of legal advances for LGBTQ rights, it’s natural for some to ask if Pride celebrations are still necessary. But in the wake of June’s terroristic hate crime in Orlando, in which 49 people were gunned down in a gay bar, safe spaces like Pride festivals are as important now as ever — especially so in a state in which the lives and liberties of LGBTQ citizens are often demonized and politicized. “Pride is so important here in the South, where so many people don’t have the sense of community that people in more liberal areas have,” Baker said. “It sends the message to people who are struggling with their sexuality that there’s a community waiting to embrace them once they come out.” Pride is also an important part of being visible to the non-LGBTQ community. “After Orlando,” Baker adds, “we need to stand up and remind people that we’re here and we’re an essential part of this city.” A complete listing of Pride Week events is available at centralarkansaspride.com.
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OUT IN ARKANSAS Candidates express LGBT support Melissa Fults, a Democrat who is seeking the District 27 seat in the state House of Representatives, told a crowd at the “Donkeys and Drinks” happy hour Sept. 29 at Club Sway that she decided to seek office when she realized how diverse her district is. “When I first started thinking about running, I said, ‘No way,’ ” Fults, of East End, said. “But then I realized that people [in her district] weren’t as conservative as I thought.” Fults, who faces conservative Republican Andy Mayberry, said she saw that the LGBT minority in her district was not being represented and needed a voice. The “Donkeys and Drinks” series is being sponsored by the Progressive Arkansas Women PAC, which is seeking to increase the number of women in the legislature, and the Stonewall Democrats. Susan Inman, the Democratic candidate for the House District 32 seat, told the crowd that the LGBT community deserved equal standing in Arkansas law, and voiced support, along with Fults, for legislation to end employment discrimination against LGBT people. Inman faces Republican Jim Sorvillo in the race. Both candidates vowed to vote against any so-called “bathroom bills,” which discriminate against transgender people, that might be introduced in the next legislative session that begins in January 2017. Inman, who lost her race for secretary of state to Mark Martin in 2014, was asked about the data error by Martin’s office that caused a number of Arkansas voters to lose their eligibility to vote in error. She called the mailout, that went to the state’s county clerks, the “most horrible, unethical, wrong thing the office could have done.” Representatives of Victoria Leigh, who is seeking the House District 38 seat in North Little Rock, and state Rep. Camille Bennett, who represents House District 14 in Lonoke, spoke on behalf of the candidates, who could not attend. Fults is also the campaign director for Arkansans for Compassionate Care, which is sponsoring one of two medical marijuana proposals on the November ballot. The next “Donkeys and Drinks” will be held on Oct. 27; the speaker will be Judge Wendell Griffen.
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THURSDAY, OCT. 6
MUSIC
Amanda Shires. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8 p.m., $12-$14. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. stickyz.com. Anderson East. With Brent Cobb. George’s Majestic Lounge, 8:30 p.m., $15. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226. georgesmajesticlounge.com. Billy Kemp. Faulkner County Library, 7 p.m., free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. fcl.org. Doug Strahan & The Good Neighbors. South on Main, 9 p.m., $10. 1304 Main St. 501-2449660. southonmain.com. Drageoke. Hosted by Queen Anthony James Gerard: a drag show followed by karaoke. Sway, 8 p.m. 412 Louisiana. clubsway.com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Karaoke. Zack’s Place, 8 p.m., free. 1400 S. University Ave. 501-664-6444. Kenny Rogers. Verizon Arena, 8 p.m., $68-$88. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 501-975-9001. verizonarena.com. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Mayday by Midnight. Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. cajunswharf.com. Open Jam. Thirst n’ Howl, 8 p.m. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com. Open jam with The Port Arthur Band. Parrot Beach Cafe, 9 p.m. 9611 MacArthur Drive, NLR. 771-2994. Pride Idol. An “American Idol” style competition in conjunction with Little Rock Pride Week. Sway, 9 p.m. 412 Louisiana. clubsway.com. RockUsaurus. Casa Mexicana, 7 p.m. 7111 JFK Blvd., NLR. 501-835-7876. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 8 p.m., free. 111 W. Markham St. 501-370-7013. www. capitalbarandgrill.com/. Unknown Hinson. Smoke and Barrel Tavern, 10 p.m., $30. 324 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479521-6880. smokeandbarrel.com.
COMEDY
Louis Johnson. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m., $8. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. loonybincomedy.com.
EVENTS
ArkiePub Trivia. Stone’s Throw, 6:30 p.m., free. 402 E. 9th St. 501-244-9154. stonesthrowbeer. com. Hillcrest Shop & Sip. Shops and restaurants offer discounts, later hours, and live music. Hillcrest, first Thursday of every month, 5 p.m. 501-6663600. www.hillcrestmerchants.com.
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“Screenwriting, Race and Being Creatively Maladjusted.” A talk from “Chi-Raq” screenwriter Kevin Wilmott. Hendrix College, 7:30 p.m., 26
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HALL OF FAMERS COME HOME: Hot Springs native Randy Goodrum, who has penned a No. 1 hit every decade for the last four, he shares a bill at the Ron Robinson Theater on Oct. 7 with Wayland Holyfield, author of “Arkansas, You Run Deep in Me,” as part of the Arkansas Sounds music series, 7 p.m., $15.
free. 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. hendrix. edu/events.
KIDS
Garden Club. A project of the Faulkner County Urban Farm Project. Ages 7 and up or with supervision. Faulkner County Library, 3:30 p.m.,
free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www. fcl.org.
FRIDAY, OCT. 7
MUSIC
All In Fridays. Envy. 7200 Colonel Glenn Road.
501-562-3317. Amy LaVere. With Will Carlisle. Kings Live Music, 8:30 p.m., $5. 1020 Front St., No. 102, Conway. kingslivemusic.com. Avett Brothers. Verizon Arena, 8 p.m., $50-$64. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 501-975-9000. verizonarena.com. Bluesboy Jag. Core Brewing & Distilling Co., 8 p.m. 411 Main St., NLR. 501-372-1390. corebeer.com. Cody Johnson. With Dalton Domino. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9:30 p.m., $17. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226. georgesmajesticlounge.com. David Ramirez. A live album recording. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $12-$14. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. stickyz.com. DeFrance. Markham Street Grill and Pub, 9 p.m., free. 11321 W. Markham St. 501-224-2010. markhamstreetpub.com. “The Halloween Tree.” A shadow puppet performance with original score by composers Paul Dickinson, Karen Griebling, Cory Winters and Michael Pagan. University of Central Arkansas, Oct. 7-8, 8 p.m., $10-$15. 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. www.uca.edu. “In Paradisum.” A concert from the Arkansas Chamber Singers, featuring works by Ola Gjeilo and ĒEriks Ešenvalds. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 7:30 p.m., $10-$15. 1000 N. Mississippi Ave. archambersingers.org. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Mobius Trio. A trio of classical guitarists who perform exclusively commissioned work. The Fowler Center, 7:30 p.m., $18-$28. 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro. 870-972-3471. www.astate. edu/tickets. The Peterson Brothers. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $7. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. whitewatertavern.com. Real Live Tigers, Nature & Madness. Smoke and Barrel Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. 324 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-521-6880. smokeandbarrel.com. Richie Johnson. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. cajunswharf. com. Salsa Dancing. Clear Channel Metroplex, 9 p.m., $5-$10. 10800 Col. Glenn Road. 501-217-5113. www.littlerocksalsa.com. Shaman’s Harvest, Texas Hippie Coalition. Revolution, 7 p.m., $14-$16. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 8 p.m., free. 111 W. Markham St. 501-370-7013. www. capitalbarandgrill.com/. Thread. Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. cajunswharf.com. Upscale Friday. IV Corners, 7 p.m. 824 W. Capitol Ave. Wayland Holyfield & Randy Goodrum. Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., $15. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. arkansassounds.org.
COMEDY
“Electile Dysfunction.” The Joint, through Nov. 19: 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501372-0205. thejointargenta.com. Joker and Jester Comedy Tour: Justin Rivera and Jake Daniels. With guests Jay Jackson, Aldrich Teruel, Doug Gillon, Amanda Walker and Josh McClane, and live music from Andrew Raines and The Paradigms. Vino’s, 8 p.m. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. vinosbrewpub.com.
VINO’S 7th and Chester All ages*all the time Louis Johnson. The Loony Bin, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m., $12. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501228-5555. loonybincomedy.com.
DANCE
Ballroom dancing. Free lessons begin at 7 p.m. Bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 8-11 p.m., $7-$13. 12th and Cleveland streets. 501-221-7568. www.blsdance.org. Contra dance. Park Hill Presbyterian Church, 7:30 p.m., $5. 3520 JFK Blvd., NLR. arkansascountrydance.org.
EVENTS
LGBTQ/SGL weekly meeting. Diverse Youth for Social Change is a group for LGBTQ/SGL and straight ally youth and young adults age 14 to 23. For more information, call 501-244-9690 or search “DYSC” on Facebook. First Presbyterian Church, 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St.
FILM
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. Featuring appearances from Brad Bostwick (“Rocky Horror Picture Show”), Ed Asner (“Mary Tyler Moore Show”) and music from Chris Thomas King and CeDell Davis. Downtown Hot Springs, Oct. 7-16, $8-$250. hsdfi.org. “Slavery By Another Name.” UALR William H. Bowen School of Law, 6 p.m., free. 1201 McMath Ave. 501-324-9434. www.law.ualr.edu.
SATURDAY, OCT. 8
MUSIC
Animals. A Pink Floyd tribute. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9:30 p.m., $12. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226. georgesmajesticlounge.com. Arkansas Times Blues Bus to King Biscuit Blues Festival. Price includes round-trip bus transportation, tickets into the gated concert area, lunch at a Delta favorite, live blues performances en route to Helena, plus beverages on board. Downtown Helena, 9 a.m., $109. Cherry and Main Streets, Helena. centralarkansastickets.com. Brother Andy and His Big Damn Mouth. With Spirit Cuntz and Carondelet Guy. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. whitewatertavern.com. Chris Henry. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. cajunswharf.com. CosmOcean. Fox and Hound, 10 p.m., $5. 2800 Lakewood Village, NLR. 501-753-8300. www. foxandhound.com/locations/north-little-rock. aspx. David Ramirez. George’s Majestic Lounge, 7 p.m., $12. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479442-4226. georgesmajesticlounge.com. DeFrance. Four Quarter Bar, 9 p.m. 415 Main Street, NLR. 501-313-4704. fourquarterbar.com. Earphunk. With Gravy. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $10-$12. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. stickyz.com. Eric Sommer. Markham Street Grill and Pub, 8:30 p.m., free. 11321 W. Markham St. 501-224-2010. markhamstreetpub.com. Ghost Town Blues Band. Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. cajunswharf.com. Green River Ordinance. Revolution, $12-$15. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com. “The Halloween Tree.” See Oct. 7.
Karaoke at Khalil’s. Khalil’s Pub, 7 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com. Kaliya, Throne of Pestilence, Murkryth. Vino’s, 8 p.m., $7. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. vinosbrewpub.com. Karaoke. Zack’s Place, 8 p.m., free. 1400 S. University Ave. 501-664-6444. Casa Mexicana, 7 p.m. 7111 JFK Blvd., NLR. 501-835-7876. Karaoke with Kevin & Cara. All ages, on the restaurant side. Revolution, 9 p.m.-12:45 a.m., free. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Pickin’ Porch. Bring your instrument. All ages welcome. Faulkner County Library, 9:30 a.m. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www.fcl.org. Sad Palomino, The Uh Huhs. Smoke and Barrel Tavern, 10 p.m., free. 324 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-521-6880. smokeandbarrel.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 8 p.m., free. 111 W. Markham St. 501-370-7013. www. capitalbarandgrill.com.
COMEDY
“Electile Dysfunction.” The Joint, through Nov. 19: 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501372-0205. thejointargenta.com. Louis Johnson. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., $12. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. loonybincomedy.com.
Friday, Oct 7th The Joker and Jester Comedy Tour w/ Justin River and Jake Daniels
Saturday, Oct 8th Kaliya, Throne of Pestilence, and Murkryth
Friday, Oct 14th FIREROOM VI: feat. YOUNG GODS
Saturday, Oct 15th Angwish, 3 Miles From Providence, and Torch the Beast for more info www.vinosbrewpub.com
EVENTS
Arkansas Paranormal Expo. MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, Oct. 8-9, 9 a.m., free$15. 503 E. 9th St. 376-4602. arkansasparanormalexpo.com. EcoFest. A festival focused on sustainability. Conway, 11 a.m. Falun Gong meditation. Allsopp Park, 9 a.m., free. Cantrell and Cedar Hill Roads. Hillcrest Farmers Market. Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, 8 a.m.-noon. 2200 Kavanaugh Blvd. Historic Neighborhoods Tour. Bike tour of historic neighborhoods includes bike, guide, helmets and maps. Bobby’s Bike Hike, 9 a.m., $8-$28. 400 President Clinton Ave. 501-613-7001. Little Rock Farmers’ Market. River Market pavilions, 7 a.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info. Pork & Bourbon Tour. Bike tour includes bicycle, guide, helmets and maps. Bobby’s Bike Hike, 11:30 a.m., $35-$45. 400 President Clinton Ave. 501-613-7001.
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FILM
“Casper.” Ron Robinson Theater, 1 p.m., free. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. cals.org. Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. See Oct. 7.
KIDS
“Lil’ Wild Ones.” An exploration of nocturnal wildlife. The Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 2 p.m., free. 602 President Clinton Ave. 501-907-0636. centralarkansasnaturecenter.com.
SUNDAY, OCT. 9
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DO NOT RESIST: Craig Atkinson’s 2016 Tribeca Film Festival winner about police militarization screens twice at the Arlington Hotel as part of the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11 and 5:40 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13.
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Various times. Arlington Resort Hotel and Spa and other venues. $8-$250.
It’s time again for cinephiles to descend on Hot Springs for 10 days of documentary films and parties. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the festival, a notable accomplishment on its own — the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival is the oldest all-documentary festival in North America — but one that’s especially impressive considering the festival was on the brink of financial ruin just a few years back. But under the leadership of Executive Director
Courtney Pledger, and thanks, in part, to the festival’s unloading the historic Malco Theatre, which cleared away a mountain of debt, the HSDFF has flourished in recent years. And befitting a silver anniversary celebration, organizers have put together another sterling lineup and slate of special guests this year. “Command and Control” (7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7), the documentary adaptation of Eric Schlosser’s book of the same name about the Titan II missile crisis in Van Buren County in 1980, opens the festival with special guests Robert Kenner, the director, and Schlosser. “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise” (4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8) tells the
story of the famed poet, activist and Stamps (Lafayette County) native; festival honorary co-chairman Louis Gossett Jr., who appears in the film, will attend the screening. Norwegian director Aslaug Holm’s documentary diary “Brothers” (3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11; 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12) tracks the lives of her sons over the course of a decade. It won the top jury prize at Hot Docs and has been favorably compared to Richard Linklater’s feature film “Boyhood.” No festival film is more of the moment than “Do Not Resist” (6:45 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11; 5:40 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13), an examination of the militarization of police. It’s won
wide critical praise and earned a top prize at the Tribeca Film Festival. The delightful “Good Ol’ Freda” (11:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 15), about the Beatles longtime friend and secretary Freda Kelly, returns to the festival because Kelly is the special guest for Ron Howard’s “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years” (1:30 p.m. Oct. 15). Shot over the course of four years, “Company Town” (4:20 p.m. Oct. 15) documents Crossett residents’ battle with a Koch brothers-owned factory over pollution. On Sunday, Oct. 16, you can watch the winners of the festival’s various awards. See a full schedule and buy tickets at hsdfi.org. LM
cooling fans for the transmitter at KAAY-AM, 1090, and they emanated from transistor radios in Communist Havana City, Cuba, where only 20 percent of radio programming was allowed to be in English. An atypically relaxed announcer took requests for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young from listeners in Iowa and, as the “Arkansongs” program on KUAR-FM, 89.1, details, “let-
ters arrived in Little Rock bearing farflung postmarks and exotic stamps requesting songs, posters or anything from bands like Frigid Pink or Savoy Brown or Quicksilver Messenger Service.” Clyde Clifford, the voice of that nighttime underground radio ambassador “Beaker Street,” gives a keynote speech accompanied by a barbecue dinner at the 20th annual gathering
of the Grassroots Radio Coalition in Hot Springs Oct. 7-10. It’s hosted by the solar-powered community radio station KUHS-FM, 97.9, which features sessions throughout the week preceding on “solar power installation, open source software, FM transmit chains, grant writing, live remote broadcasts and station management.” For tickets and a full schedule, visit grc2016.net. SS
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GRASSROOTS RADIO CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEECH: CLYDE CLIFFORD OF ‘BEAKER STREET’ 7 p.m. Low Key Arts. $10.
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ARKANSAS STATE FAIR
Arkansas State Fairgrounds. $3-$28.
The beauty of the State Fair is certainly in the eye of the beholder, but there’s no denying the crowds that line the midway and visit the wonders to be found in the Hall of Industry and the adjacent displays of blue-ribbon prizes for quilts, birdhouses, fig jams, charcoal drawings, spun wool, poems, etc. Former Poison front man-turned-reality-TV-star Bret Michaels kicks off the music lineup
Oct. 14, followed by Trapt and Saliva on Oct. 15, fresh off the “Make America Rock Again” tour; New Orleans rapper Mystikal on Oct. 16; Rick Springfield on Oct. 18; R&B singer Al B. Sure on Oct. 19; country radio mainstay Clint Black on Oct. 20; blues shredder Kenny Wayne Shepherd on Oct. 21; Arkansas’s own Collin Raye on Oct. 22 and the newly revived soft-rock R&B group After 7 on Oct. 23. Here’s a rundown of the special promotions: $2 off gate admission for
Arkansas Federal Credit Union members on opening day; free admission for adults with children 6 and under and free Kiddie Rides for those kids from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Oct. 17 and Oct. 21; free parking and free gate admission from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 14 and Oct. 17 to 21; admission, rides and parking for $1 each on Oct. 17; free admission for those with military I.D. Oct. 18; free adult admission with the donation of four canned food items and free child admission with the donation
of two canned good items Oct. 18; free admission for women from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Oct. 19; free admission with a college I.D. from 6 p.m. to closing time Oct. 20; $3 admission for FFA, FCCLA, 4-H and Boy and Girl Scouts Oct. 22 until 5 p.m.; KIPR Power 92’s 92 minutes of free admission for kids 12 and under from 11 a.m. to 12:32 p.m. Oct. 22, and on most days, $28 armbands entitling the wearer to unlimited rides. For tickets and details, visit arkansasstatefair.com. SS
SATURDAY 10/17
‘RAD’ ON THE RIVER
3 p.m. First Security Amphitheater. Free-$10.
BOOKS, BOURBON AND BOOGIE: Jerry Douglas’ Flatt & Scruggs revivalists, The Earls of Leicester, headline the evening at South on Main for Oxford American’s 2016 gala, 7 p.m., $200.
FRIDAY 10/14
BOOKS, BOURBON AND BOOGIE: OXFORD AMERICAN GALA
7 p.m. South on Main. $200.
There’s a comfort in getting what you bargained for, musically speaking, but every now and then, a concert is a complete surprise, as it was during the 2015 version of Oxford American’s annual fundraising ball, when patrons who probably attended on the promise of a performance from film star Mary Steenburgen or to hear Kim Carnes sing “Bette Davis Eyes” left completely stupefied by the charged energy of native son Shawn Camp. The limp, overpolished version of Camp’s song “Would You Go With Me” that Josh Turner brought to the airwaves in 2006 was given a glorious
jolt by Camp’s ever-forward momentum and swagger, and Camp’s rendition of “Sis Draper” — a rollicking piece he and Guy Clark wrote about a fiddler Camp knew when he was young — picked up steam like a locomotive going downhill. It’s that sense of frenzy, of impossibly fast bluegrass picking, that Jerry Douglas’ The Earls of Leicester — the Flatt & Scruggs tribute supergroup of which Camp is a member — has showcased to a world audience since its formation in 2013. Chef Matt Bell is serving up familystyle barbecue, a silent auction out back raises funds for the Oxford American magazine, and the bar will be responsible for the caliber of signature cocktail that helped last year’s audience stomach the possibility of collectively calling the hogs with nary an eyeroll. SS
According to 2013 analysis from The Guardian of 10,000 movies in the Rotten Tomatoes database, the 1986 BMX teensploitation movie “Rad” has the widest disparity between critical and audience opinion. Ninety-one percent of Rotten Tomatoes users have given it 3-and-a-half stars or more; no critics at the time of its release gave it a positive review. About as good as it gets, from the New York Times: “The bicycle acrobatics behind the credits at the opening of ‘Rad’ are so spectacular that you wonder what the movie can do to improve on them. The short answer is, nothing.” But critics don’t matter when it comes to nostalgia or appreciation of so-bad-it’sgood kitsch. That’s why the 30th anniversary screening of “Rad” at the First Security Amphitheater should bring out the hordes. If, like me, you grew up in the 1980s with at least a vague interest in BMX bikes, you pestered your mom to rent this movie over and over, but unless you own a vintage VHS or Laserdisc copy, you haven’t been able to see it in 25 years. For everyone else, how can you resist a movie made up of mostly BMX montages, where taking the SATs
vs. racing a bike to win cold cash and a Corv e t t e is a central conflict, with a soundtrack that includes a song with the chorus “ ’Cause there’s thunder in your heart / Every move is like a lightning” and with a young Lori Loughlin (of “Full House” fame) as the love interest and Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Bart Conner as a “Karate Kid”-style villain who goes everywhere with his arms around two super-permed blonde ladies? Downtown Little Rock Partnership Executive Director Gabe Holmstrom, firmly in the nostalgia camp, organized this free screening (7 p.m.), and built it into an afternoon of festivities. At 3:30 p.m., there’s a meet-and-greet with actor Bill Allen, the star of “Rad,” and BMX pioneer Martin Aparijo. It costs $10; everything else is free. From 4 p.m. to 6:15 p.m., there’ll be a stunt show and jam session by Southern BMX. Then — must-see alert! — at 6:15 p.m. there’ll be a re-enactment of the romantic BMXdance Allen and Loughlin’s characters do in the movie. There’ll be food and drink for sale. LM arktimes.com
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SATURDAY 10/15
MÖMANDPÖP
10 a.m. Hillary Rodham Clinton Children’s Library. Free.
In the briefest of musical critiques, Dillania Jackson described Mömandpöp thusly: “I thought my head was going to explode, it was so good.” Now, Jackson’s no Peter Guralnick — because she’s still in elementary school — but her sentiments are fairly representative of reactions from the Eureka Springs audiences for whom Bobby Matthews and Virginia Ralph have been workshopping their live performance as duo mömandpöp. In the span of the 13 tracks that make up the duo’s eponymous debut album, the pair name-checks Play-Doh and Duran Duran while exploring the
virtues of listening to your elders in “Old People Are Cool,” teaching the color spectrum in “Roy G. Biv,” delving into the difficulties of creative expression in “The Big Water Number” and emphasizing the crucial role of stockings in “Socks and Shoes,” in which sock-wearers are rewarded for their diligence with feet that smell like “toffee apples.” The concert at the Hillary Rodham Clinton Children’s Library celebrates the release of the album, recorded by Jason Weinheimer at Fellowship Hall Sound, complete with album art by the ever-inventive Isaac Alexander. Weinheimer’s and Alexander’s children join Bobby and Virginia’s daughters to form the album’s children’s chorus. SS
tional and unsuitable act, has chosen a movie about Iran that has presented an unrealistic face of the achievements and results of the glorious Islamic Revolution in some of its parts.” According to Marjane Satrapi, though, the author of the two eponymous graphic novels from which the animated film springs, its intention is broader. “If we used real images, it would be a few Arabs in a country. Right away it would be an ethnic film. It becomes the problem of those people who live over there and are crazy about God; but drawings, with their abstract quality, emphasize the univerBILDUNGSROMAN: Arkansas Times and Film sal.” With the help of Marc Quotes Film present a screening of “Persepolis,” the Jousset and a team of anifilm adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s comic novels mators working in pencil, depicting her coming of age in Iran against the backdrop of the Islamic Revolution, 7 p.m., Riverdale 10 Satrapi lifted the images of Cinema, $8. her 9-year-old self growing up in Iran amid the upheaval of the Islamic Revolution TUESDAY 10/18 and set those images into motion, detailing her scandalous fandom of Iron Maiden; the death of her uncle 7 p.m. Riverdale 10 Cinema. $8. Anoush, a communist revolutionary Whether “Persepolis” is an essenhero; and her eventual departure from tially Iranian film depends on whom Iran to a French high school in Vienna you ask. In a letter to the French to avoid arrest. See riverdale10.com Embassy in Tehran preceding the for tickets, and be sure to check out the accompanying podcast from our film’s showing at Cannes, the Iran Farabi Foundation wrote, “This year the film series’ partner, Film Quotes Film, Cannes Film Festival, in an unconvenon Soundcloud the day before. SS
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THURSDAY 10/6 Amanda Shires, who Rolling Stone magazine called “the First Lady of Americana,” brings her first solo album in three years to Stickyz with Rod Picott, 8 p.m. $12-$14. The King Biscuit Blues Festival kicks off in Helena with performances from Willie Cobbs, Charlie Musselwhite, the Hughes Singers, Sonny Landreth and John Mayall, to name a few, through Oct. 8, $30-$75. Kenny Rogers stops at Verizon Arena on “The Gambler’s Last Deal,” his farewell tour, 8 p.m., $68-$88. Austin’s Doug Strahan and The Good Neighbors land at South on Main, 9 p.m., $10. Unknown Hinson, the voice of Early Cuyler on “Squidbillies,” performs his comedic country routine at Smoke and Barrel Tavern in Fayetteville, 10 p.m., $30.
FRIDAY 10/7 Singer, songwriter and upright bass player Amy LaVere plays a show at King’s Live Music in Conway with an opening set from Will Carlisle, 8:30 p.m., $5. Isaac Alexander plays a solo set at The Undercroft, 8 p.m., $10. Acclaimed guitar ensemble The Mobius Trio plays at Arkansas State University’s Fowler Center in Jonesboro, 7:30 p.m., $18-$28. The Avett Brothers bring their banjo-backed harmonies to Verizon Arena, 8 p.m., $50-$64. Young Austin bluesmen The Peterson Brothers play the White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $7.
SATURDAY 10/8 Kaliya, Throne of Pestilence and Murkryth make up the night of metal at Vino’s, 8 p.m., $7. Self-described “New Orleans prog funk” band Earphunk plays Stickyz with Gravy, 9 p.m., $10-$12. The sixth annual Arkansas Paranormal Expo haunts the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 9 a.m., free-$15. Philander Smith College hosts a discussion and screening of “Not My Life,” a documentary about human trafficking, 10 a.m., free.
SUNDAY 10/9 Film festival favorite “Command and Control,” about the Titan missile explosion in Damascus, gets a screening at the Ron Robinson Theater, 6 p.m., free. The Arkansas Chamber Singers present their fall concert, “In Paradisum,” featuring works by Ola Gjeilo and Eriks Esenvald, First United Methodist Church, $10-$15, 3 p.m.
MONDAY 10/10 “Author: The J.T. Leroy Story” tells the story behind Laura Halpert’s literary hoax, Ron Robinson, 6 p.m., $5. Clutch comes to town with Zakk Sabbath and Kyng, Clear Channel Metroplex, 8 p.m., $29-$30.
TUESDAY 10/11 South on Main hosts “Out Loud Sto-
rytelling” in conjunction with Little Rock Pride Week, 7 p.m., $10-$15, admission includes one-year membership to the Human Rights Campaign Arkansas.
THURSDAY 10/13 Brian Nahlen and Luke Johnson provide accompaniment for the Arkansas Arts Center’s Fountain Fest, 5:30 p.m., $25. The Central Arkansas Library System’s “Sounds in the Stacks” series features Del Smith at the Sue Cowan Williams Library, 6:30 p.m., free. Stars of the hidden camera show truTV’s Impractical Jokers come to Verizon Arena with The Tenderloins, 7 p.m., $52.50. Texas country icon Ray Wylie Hubbard performs at George’s Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville, 8:30 p.m., $20. Sam Demaris and Roger Keiss star at the Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. Thu., 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., $8-$12. The Hillberry Festival kicks off with a weekend lineup that includes Railroad Earth, The Ben Miller Band, Mountain Sprout, Sad Daddy and Greensky Bluegrass and The Farm at Eureka Springs, $55-$165.
FRIDAY 10/14 Bob Newhart brings his signature deadpan delivery to Oaklawn’s Finish Line Theater, Hot Springs, 7 p.m., $40-$50. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis gives a talk at the Clinton School of Public Service’s Sturgis Hall at noon, free. The “Fireroom VI” series features rap collective Young Gods of America, Vino’s, 7:30 p.m. Banditos ride into Maxine’s in Hot Springs with The Cordovas and Redmouth, 9 p.m., and The Uh Huhs share a bill with Pagiins at White Water, 9:30 p.m.
SATURDAY 10/15 The KABF-FM, 88.3-sponsored “Blues House Party” hosts the Big Dam Blues Party on the Argenta Plaza, 4 p.m., $10$15, featuring music from Kenny Neal, Earnest “Guitar” Roy & The Clarksdale Rockers, The Michael Burks Project, Arkansas Brothers, Trey Johnson & Jason Willmon, Blues Boy Jag and The Juke Joint Zombies, The Big Dam Blues Party All-Stars, Cecil Parker and The Spa City Youngbloods, noon, $10. Later that evening in Argenta, Brian Nahlen plays a set at Cregeen’s Irish Pub with Stephen Winter, 9 p.m., free. The Little Rock Wind Symphony plays “Winds and Pipes,” with works by Eric Whitacre, Camille Saint-Saens and Freddie Mercury, 7:30 p.m., free-$10.
TUESDAY 10/18 Verizon Arena hosts Five Finger Death Punch and Shinedown with Sixx A.M. and As Lions, 6:05 p.m., $53-$73. Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson return to Arkansas as Heart plays Arkansas State University’s Convocation Center, Jonesboro, $55-$347, 7:30 p.m.
AFTER DARK, CONT. “In Paradisum.” A concert from the Arkansas Chamber Singers, featuring works by Ola Gjeilo and ĒEriks Ešenvalds. First United Methodist Church, 3 p.m., $10-$15. 723 Center St. ar-chambersingers.org. Irish Traditional Music Session. Hibernia Irish Tavern, 2:30 p.m. 9700 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-246-4340. www.hiberniairishtavern.com. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Magdalena Ryszkowski. Hendrix College, 7:30 p.m., free. 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. hendrix.edu/events.
EVENTS
Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Open Mic. The Lobby Bar. Studio Theatre, 8 p.m. 320 W. 7th St.
FILM
“Author: The J.T. Leroy Story.” Ron Robinson Theater, 6 p.m., $5. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. cals.org. Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. See Oct. 7.
CLASSES
Finding Family Facts. Rhonda Stewart’s genealogy research class for beginners. Arkansas
Arkansas Paranormal Expo. MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 9 a.m., free-$15. 503 E. 9th St. 376-4602. arkansasparanormalexpo. com. Bernice Garden Farmer’s Market. Bernice Garden, 10 a.m. 1401 S. Main St. www.thebernicegarden.org.
Studies Institute, second Monday of every month, 3:30 p.m. 401 President Clinton Ave. 501-320-5700. butlercenter.org. Scottish Country Dance Classes. Park Hill Presbyterian Church, through Dec. 5: 7 p.m., $60. 3520 JFK Blvd., NLR. arkansasscottishcountrydancing.com.
TUESDAY, OCT. 11
MUSIC
DeFrance. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. whitewatertavern.com. Jeff Ling. Khalil’s Pub, 6 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com.
Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Karaoke Tuesday. Prost, 8 p.m., free. 322 President Clinton Blvd. 501-244-9550. willydspianobar.com/prost-2. Karaoke Tuesdays. On the patio. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 7:30 p.m., free. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.
COMEDY
“Punch Line” Stand-Up Comedy. Hosted by
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FILM
“Command and Control.” Ron Robinson Theater, 6 p.m., free. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. clintonschool.uasys.edu. Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. See Oct. 7.
MONDAY, OCT. 10
MUSIC
Clutch. With Zakk Sabbath and Kyng. Clear Channel Metroplex, 8 p.m., $29-$30. 10800 Col. Glenn Road. 501-217-5113. metroplexlive.com. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu.
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12
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MUSIC
Bear Hands. George’s Majestic Lounge, 8:30 p.m., $15. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-4424226. georgesmajesticlounge.com. Brian and Nick. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf. com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Karaoke at Khalil’s. Khalil’s Pub, 7 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com. Karaoke. MUSE Ultra Lounge, 8:30 p.m., free. 2611 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-6398. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Open Mic Nite with Deuce. Thirst n’ Howl, 7:30 p.m., free. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com. RockUsaurus. Senor Tequila, 7 p.m. 10300 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-224-5505.
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Audubon Arkansas Open House. Audubon Arkansas, 4:30 p.m., free. 4500 Springer Blvd. 501-244-2229. ar.audobon.org. Little Rock Farmers’ Market. River Market pavilions, 7 a.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info. Little Rock Green Drinks. Informal networking session for people who work in the environmental field. Ciao Baci, 5:30-7 p.m. 605 N. Beechwood St. 501-603-0238. www.greendrinks. org. Out Loud Storytelling. In conjunction with Little Rock Pride Fest. Admission includes a one-year membership to the Human Rights Campaign Arkansas. South on Main, 7 p.m., $10-$15. 1304 Main St. 501-244-9660. southonmain.com. “Robinson Reimagined.” A panel discussion on the transformation of Robinson Center as part of the June Freeman lecture series. Arkansas Arts Center, 6 p.m. 501 E. 9th St. 501-372-4000. arkansasartscenter.org. Trivia Bowl. Flying Saucer, 8:30 p.m. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-8032. www.beerknurd. com/stores/littlerock.
FILM
Spooky true tales on the grounds, live music and #ArkansasMade beer by Ozark Brewing Co.
MATTHEWS FINE ART GALLERY
Brett Ihler. The Joint, 8 p.m., $5. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.
2nd friday art night
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The Joint Venture. Improv comedy group. The Joint, 8 p.m., $8. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com. Sam Demaris, Roger Keiss. The Loony Bin, Oct. 12-15, 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 14-15, 10 p.m., $8-$12. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. loonybincomedy.com.
DANCE
Little Rock Bop Club. Beginning dance lessons for ages 10 and older. Singles welcome. Bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 7 p.m., $4 for members, $7 for guests. 12th and Cleveland streets. 501-350-4712. www.littlerockbopclub.
COME IN AND SEE US! 108 W 6th St., Suite A (501) 725-8508 www.mattmcleod.com
FILM
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. See Oct. 7.
POETRY
Wednesday Night Poetry. 21-and-older show. Kollective Coffee & Tea, 7 p.m., free. 110 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-321-0909. maxineslive. com/shows.html.
ARTS
THEATER
“Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.” Arkansas Arts Center, through Oct. 9: Fri., 7 p.m.; Sat., 2 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m., $10-$12.50. 501 E. 9th St. 501-372-4000. arkansasartscenter.org. “Boy Hero: The Story of David O. Dodd.” Royal Theatre, Oct. 6-8, 7 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 9, 2 p.m., $5-$10. 111 S. Market St., Benton. theroyalplayers.com. “Exit Laughing.” A play by Paul Elliott. Pocket Community Theater, through Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 9, 2:30 p.m., $5-$10. 170 Ravine St., Hot Springs. pockettheatre.com. “Lincoln’s Dream.” A play by Philip H. McMath, presented in a dramatic reading format. The Weekend Theater, Sat., Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m., $20. 1001 W. 7th St. 501-374-3761. weekendtheater.org. “Tales of the Crypt.” Parkview Arts Science/ Magnet High School portray historical characters from Arkansas history. Mount Holly Cemetery, Tue., Oct. 11, 5:45 p.m., donations accepted. 1200 Broadway. mounthollycemetery.com.
NEW IN THE GALLERIES, ART EVENTS ARGENTA GALLERY, 413 Main St., NLR: “Indigena,” Latino Art Project exhibition of work by Anthony Samuel Lopez, Sabrina Zarco, Mark Clark, Susie Henley, Vickie HendrixSiebenmorgan, Bobby Martin, Lisandra di Liberto Brown, Michelle Moore, Sergio Valdivia and x3mex, reception 6-9 p.m. Oct. 7, show through Nov. 6. ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “Little Dreams in Glass and Metal: Enameling in America, 1920 to Present,” 121 artworks by 90 artists, and “Glass Fantasies,” retrospective of work by Thom Hall with 40 enamels, opening reception 6:30 p.m. Oct. 7 (free to members, $10 nonmembers; “Defying Gravity: Enameling in the Round,” workshop with visiting enamel artist Harlan W. Butt, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 7-8, register at arkansasartscenter.org/museum school; Friends of Contemporary Craft lecture by Butt, 5-7 p.m. Oct. 9, $5 for FOCC members, $10 for nonmembers; Architecture and Design Network presentation “Robinson Reimagined,” panel discussion on the renovation of the Robinson Center, reception 5:30 p.m., talk 6 p.m. Oct. 11; 4th annual Fountain Fest, installation of art contest winner, raffle, food, beer, music by Luke Johnson and Brian Nahlen, 5:30-8 p.m. Oct. 13, $25; “Jon Schueler: Weathering Skies,” abstract paintings and watercolors, through Oct. 16; “Cut, Pieced and Stitched: Denim Drawings by Jim Arendt,” through Oct. 23. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000. CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 509 Scott St.: “The Fourth of July and Other Things,” paintings by Diana L. Shearon, Oct. 7-Dec. 31, reception 5:30-8 p.m. Oct. 14. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 9 a.m.-noon Fri., all day Sun. 3752342. HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “Landscapes Unmasked,” watercolors and oil
paintings by Mason Archie, Wade Hampton, Dean Mitchell, Edward M. Bannister and Robert S. Duncanson, through December, receptions 5:30-8 p.m. Oct. 14, Nov. 18 and Dec. 9, artists talk 3-5 p.m. Oct. 15, Nov. 19. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat. 3726822. L&L BECK ART GALLERY, 5705 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “Portraits,” paintings by Louis Beck, through October, giclee giveaway 7 p.m. Oct. 20. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 660-4006. M2 GALLERY, 11525 Cantrell Road: Work by Marcus McAllister, Richard Sutton, R.F. Walker and Eric Freeman, opening reception 6-9 p.m. Oct. 7. Noon-5 p.m. Mon., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 225-6257. THEA FOUNDATION, 401 Main St.: “Blue Plate Special,” fundraiser for Thea’s scholarship programs catered by local chefs and mixologists, 6-9 p.m. Oct. 17, Capital Hotel mezzanine. $75. UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: Metalsmithing and jewelry lecture by Marlene True and Bob Ebendorf, 6-7 p.m. Oct. 6; “WAR-TOYS: Israel, West Bank and Gaza Strip,” photographs interpreting children’s artwork by Brian McCarty, through Oct. 20; “Arkansas Women to Watch: Organic Matters,” work by Sandra Luckett, Katherine Rutter, Dawn Holder and Melissa Wilkinson, through Oct. 20, talk by Luckett 6 p.m. Oct. 13; all in Fine Arts Center room 157. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-5 p.m. Sun.
Come join us at Ristorante Capeo and enjoy the flavors of Tuscany! Chef Eric Isaac will prepare a 4-course meal accompanied with wine that will transport you to a hillside villa in Italy. All proceeds with benefit P.A.T.H (Partners Against Trafficking Humans)
Sunday, October 9th • 6pm Ristorante Capeo • 425 Main St. North Little Rock $100 per person Get tickets at partywithaheart.org/tickets/
EL DORADO SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, 110 E. 5th St.: “American Watercolor Society’s 149th annual International Exhibition,” through Oct. 27, reception 5-6:30 p.m. Oct. 13. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. 870-862-5474. FAYETTEVILLE OLD POST OFFICE, 1 W. Center St.: “Print Gala,” sale of artwork to benefit the AbleTalks nonprofit for young adults with autism, with music and refreshments, 6-9 p.m. Oct. 6. abletalks.org. HOT SPRINGS ALISON PARSONS GALLERY, 802 Central Ave.: Paintings by Polly Cook and Patrick Cunningham and photographs by Jim Pafford. Gallery Walk reception 5-9 p.m. Oct. 7. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 655-0604. GALLERY CENTRAL, 800 Central Ave.: Sculpture by Rod Moorhead, watercolors by Doyle Young, glass ornaments by James Hayes. Gallery Walk reception 5-9 p.m. Oct. 7. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 318-427 GARLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY LIBRARY, 1427 Malvern St.: “Macros and Minis,” large and miniature paintings, Oct. 7-Nov. 26. JUSTUS FINE ART, 827 A Central Ave.: “Fall Color,” works by Virmarie DePoyster, Robert Fogel, Matthew Hasty, Dolores Justus, Tony Saladino, Rebecca Thompson, Dan Thornhill and others, Gallery Walk reception 5-9 p.m. Oct. 7, show through October. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 321-2335.
NEW IN THE MUSEUMS
MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, 9th and Broadway: “Creativity on the Spectrum,” for persons with sensory processing difficulties, 6:30-8 p.m. Oct. 11, for more information call Liz Marg, 683-3592 or email her at liz.marg@arkansas.gov; “Treasured Memories: My Life, My Story,” debut of new works in museum’s 2016 Creativity collection by Barbara Higgins Bond, Danny Campbell, LaToya Hobbs, Delita Martin, Aj Smith, Scinthya Edwards and Deloney, through December; permanent exhibits on African-American entrepreneurship in Arkansas. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 683-3593.
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WHAT’S COOKIN’ F3 VELO LLC, a newly incorporated Little Rock business whose co-owner founded Intelligentsia coffee, has partnered with Spokes bicycle shop in two ventures that will offer a jolt for cyclists and others: a coffee bar in the Spokes shop at 1001 Kavanaugh Blvd. (at Stifft Station) that will take up a third of the shop after a remodel, and a cafe plus coffee bar at 1509 Rebsamen Park Road, in the building formerly owned by Marshall Clements. In a news release, Spokes partner Tony Karklins, whose plans for local manufacture of high-performance bikes were recently featured in the Arkansas Times’ Visionaries issue, said the Stifft Station Spokes will be “the most thoughtful bicycle retail concepts in the country.” Spokes is also opening a second location, Giant Bicycles of Little Rock, in the Pleasant Ridge Shopping Center later in the year. The cafe and coffee bar in the 11,000-square-foot former Marshall Clements store will serve beer and wine as well as food, and will include a bicycle shop featuring bicycles made in Little Rock by Karklins’ new company, HIA Velo. A spring opening date is set, but owners are still pondering the name. Partners in F3 Velo LLC include Doug Zell, who founded Chicago-based Intelligentsia, and Little Rock lawyer Chris St. Peter. Spokes Enterprises partners besides Karklins are Mat and Regina Seelinger and Michael and Nancy Chaffin. SAMI LAL, OWNER of Star of India restaurant at 301 N. Shackleford Road, said the expansion of his eatery into the space south of his restaurant should be completed in two weeks. The expansion will add 1,400 square feet and will add 60 seats to the restaurant. Lal said the new dining area will be available for private parties and will otherwise be open to the main dining room, which can seat another 60 or 65 people. Star of India, which serves a buffet lunch and dinner a la carte, has been open “since 1993, God bless America,” Lal said. BRIAN KEARNS, WHO has been chef at Ya Ya’s Euro Bistro, Kemuri and the Country Club of Little Rock, among other places, is now overseeing Canvas, the restaurant at the Arkansas Arts Center formerly known as Best Impressions. Canvas launched last Thursday with a menu that includes a Boursin cheeseburger with Grass Roots Farmers CoOp ground beef, blackened chicken salad and shrimp and grits with local cheesemaker Kent Walker’s cheddar. Hours are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. GOURMET POPCORN OUTFITTER Pop Pop Shoppe opens Saturday, Oct. 8, at 416 S. University, Suite 130, the company has announced. Pop Pop offers a fundraising package that allows sellers 40 percent of the proceeds. The shop sells popcorn in a 34
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hen you walk into Fayetteville’s Vetro 1925 Ristorante, you get the feeling that you’re in for something special. The sleek illuminated bar, track lighting and abstract paintings tell you that you’re somewhere sophisticated and modern. The rich hardwood floors and exposed brick walls make you feel that you are somewhere comfortable and familiar. From the decor to the cocktails and cuisine, by chef Alan Dierks, Vetro 1925 excels in balance. At 8 p.m. on a Thursday night, the restaurant was lively. We were seated at a table next to an Italian family who were engaged in an animated conversation in their native tongue with one of the servers. Later, an Italian couple was seated at the table on the other side of us. This had to be a good sign. We perused the menu over cocktails recommended by our server, the Spanish Harlem and Milano Cocktail. The Spanish Harlem ($12) reminded us of a stripped-down margarita — no saccharine sweet-and-sour mix or syrup, but
a few simple ingredients combined to make a drink that was both familiar and one-of-a-kind. At Vetro 1925, the sweet, woodsy tequila (Hussong’s) is enhanced by fresh lime juice and balanced by Cointreau. The Italian vermouth Cinzano rosso and bitters help round out the flavors of this strong, smooth cocktail. The Milano Cocktail ($12) was a great drink to have at the end of the long day. With its combination of Woodford Reserve, Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur and bitters, it was similar to an old fashioned. It’s a punch to the throat but goes down smoothly with a delightful little burn. It is served “up” so there is no ice to get in your way. It’s now one of our favorite cocktails. For an appetizer, we selected the house-made mozzarella ($12). The cheese was fresh and spongy and sat on a bed of greens in a pool of rich, nutty olive oil. The milky flavor of the mozzarella was enhanced by Maldon sea salt. Sharing the plate was a mixture of chopped fresh tomatoes, basil and juicy,
sweet local baby tomatoes, offering one last taste of summer. For the main affair, we ordered a fall dish from the pasta menu, Gnocchi e Pollo ($21). The sweet potato gnocchi were a bit denser than traditional gnocchi made from white potatoes, which we liked, and they were flavored with a hint of cinnamon. The smoked chicken, woodsy shiitake mushrooms and pancetta offset the gnocchis’ sweetness. Brandy butter sauce and fresh shaved ricotta rounded out the dish. The gnocchi were by far our favorite part of this entree, but there were not enough of them. The dish was mostly chicken with just a few sweet potato dumplings, and the pancetta, while very good on its own, overpowered some of the more interesting flavors on the plate. We also sampled the Tortellini di Granchio ($32). Having a bite makes you want to chew in slow motion, to savor every flavor for as long as you can, because you know it will probably be a long time before you have another dish this incredible. Two large baconwrapped scallops, seared on the outside, tender and bouncy in the middle, were served with rich blue crab tortellini, pesto, aged balsamic vinegar, pan-fried pancetta and freshly grated Parmesan. Classic Italian flavors came through per-
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fectly in the sweet-tart aged balsamic reduction and nutty pesto. No Italian dinner is complete without a dessert, or two if you ask our wife. The Tiramisu ($7) was a must since it is her favorite dessert. With one bite, we knew Vetro’s would be at the top of our list. Balancing the rich, bitter espresso were lady fingers soaked in sweet liqueurs — neither flavor overpowering but rather complementary. The mascarpone layers were mildly sweet and the cocoa flavor was subtle. A garnish of dark chocolate piped into “1925” was a fun touch. Vetro 1925 succeeds at marrying traditional Italian flavors with modern presentation. As Little Rock residents, we don’t get to Fayetteville often, but having dinner at this eatery is a reason to go in and of itself.
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QUICK BITE Vetro 1925 knows how to do dessert. Aside from having some of the best tiramisu around, their Torta All’Arancia was citrus bliss. The flavors are reminiscent of a traditional Italian olive oil cake. Vetro’s version is a gluten-free blood orange and ricotta cake (made with almond flour) drizzled with creme anglaise and topped with powdered almonds. The cake is dense and moist with fresh orange flavor that is perfectly tart-sweet. HOURS 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday. OTHER INFO Credit cards accepted, full bar.
WHAT’S COOKIN’, CONT. variety of flavors, from butter to spicy conferno and butterscotch. Other flavors, like cherry and blueberry, are available by special order. There’s also a Pop Pop Shoppe in Texarkana. Hours are 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
OTHER RESTAURANT OPENINGS to come, according to plumbing permits filed with the Arkansas Department of Health: Dairy Queen Grill & Chill, at 12th and University; and a Nestle Toll House Cafe, serving baked goods, coffee, frozen yogurt and smoothies, at 3629 McCain Blvd.
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The Downtown Little Rock Partnership is inviting amateur digital photographers to submit their best photograph of Little Rock to the DPLR for its first “Alley Party” on Oct. 20. Winners will have their photos displayed at the party. Deadline to submit is Oct. 14. Instagram, Snapchat, iPhone shots and other digital shots by amateurs are welcome. For more information, call 375-0121. The Central Arkansas Library System is seeking a qualified artist to create a permanent, non-figurative outdoor artwork for the Thompson Library at 38 Rahling Circle. The work should represent the late Central High valedictorian Roosevelt Thompson’s love of learning and public service. Budget for the project is $45,000; deadline to submit a model and other information about the sculpture is Nov. 1. For more information and the Request for Proposals form, contact Colin Thompson, colint@cals.org, at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies. The Arkansas Arts Council is accepting applications for Arts in Education Mini Grants and Arts for Lifelong Learning Mini Grants, residency programs, through August 2017. Artists must match the grant award of $1,000 with either cash or an in-kind contribution. For more information, go to the Available Grants section of arkansasarts.org. The Arkansas Arts Council is seeking nominations for the 2017 Arkansas Living Treasure Award, which recognizes a craftsperson who has significantly contributed to the preservation of the art form. Deadline for nominations is Oct. 21. Nomination forms are available at Arkansasarts.org or by calling 324-9766. For more information, call Robin Muse McClea at 324-9348 or email her at robin.mcclea@arkansas.gov. The Argenta branch of the William F. Laman Library invites Arkansas art teachers to enter the 2nd annual Juried Arkansas Art Teacher Exhibition, to be held Nov. 18-Dec. 10 at the library. Guy Bell, artist and owner of Drawl Gallery, will be juror. Deadline to apply is Oct. 28. Cash prizes will be awarded. For information on how to enter, email Rachel Trusty at rachel. trusty@lamanlibrary.org. Wildwood Park for the Arts invites printmakers to submit works with a theme of nature for the February 2017 “Nature in Print” exhibit. Deadline to submit proposals online is Dec. 1. Find more information at wildwoodpark.org/art.
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BOSWELL MOUROT FINE ART, 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd.: New works on paper by Anais Dasse. 664-0030. BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave.: “Arkansas League of Artists,” juried show, through Oct. 22; “From the Vault,” work from the Central Arkansas Library’s permanent collection, including works by Win Bruhl, Evan Lindquist, Shep Miers, Gene Hatfield, Ray Khoo and Jerry Phillips, through Oct. 22. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 320-5790. CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road: “Always Coming Home,” new paintings by John Wooldridge, through Oct. 29. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 224-1335. CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 509 Scott St.: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 9 a.m.-noon Fri., 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Sun. CHROMA GALLERY, 5707 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Work by Robert Reep and other Arkansas artists. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 664-0880.
GALLERY 221, 2nd and Center Sts.: “Resurrecting Memories,” paintings by Sean LeCrone, through October; also work by William McNamara, Tyler Arnold, Amy Edgington, EMILE, Kimberly Kwee, Greg Lahti, Mary Ann Stafford, Cedric Watson, C.B. Williams, Gino Hollander, Siri Hollander and jewelry by Rae Ann Bayless. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.4 p.m. Sat. 801-0211. GALLERY 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “Binary,” works by Michael Church and V.L. Cox, through Oct. 29. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 6648996. GINO HOLLANDER GALLERY, 211 Center St.: Paintings and works on paper by Gino Hollander. 801-0211. GREG THOMPSON FINE ART, 429 Main St., NLR: “Best of the South,” through Nov. 12. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 6642787. HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM GALLERIES, 200 E. 3rd St. “Heinbockel, Nolley and Peterson: Personal Rituals,” watercolors by Amanda Heinbockel, fiber art by Marianne Nolley and mixed media by Brianna Peterson; “Walter Arnold and David Malcolm Rose: Modern Ruins,” constructions from Rose’s “The Lost Highway,” photographs by Arnold; “Tiny Treasures: Miniatures from the Permanent Collection,” through Nov. 6; “Hugo and Gayne Preller’s House of Light,” historic photographs, through October. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351. LAMAN LIBRARY, 2801 Orange St., NLR: “Nature and Nurture,” mixed media artwork and sculpture by Carol Corning and Ed Pennebaker, through Nov. 4. 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri.-Sat. 758-1720. LAMAN LIBRARY ARGENTA BRANCH, 420 Main St., NLR: “Seeing with the Artist’s Eye: The Monday Studio Exhibit,” paintings by Shirley Anderson, Barbara Seibel and Caryl Joy Young, through Oct. 8. 10. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat. 687-1061. MCLEOD FINE ART GALLERY, 108 W. 6th St.: “Home is Where the Art Is,” designed spaces by Adam Smith furnished by White Goat, Lucas Strack and gallery artwork.10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 725-8508. MATTHEWS FINE ART GALLERY, 909 North St.: Paintings by Pat and Tracee Matthews, glass by James Hayes, jewelry by Christie Young, knives by Tom Gwenn, kinetic sculpture by Mark White. Noon-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 831-6200. MUGS CAFE, 515 Main St., NLR: “Rorschach’s Buddy,” ink paintings by Diane Harper. 7 a.m.6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 379-9101. PULASKI TECHNICAL COLLEGE, 3000 W. Scenic Drive: “Shadows in the Water,” mixed media paintings by Brad Cushman, through Nov. 9, Windgate Gallery, Center for Humanities and Arts. 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri. 812-2715. RED DOOR GALLERY, 3715 JFK, NLR: “Spiritual Journey,” new work by Paula Jones, 10 percent of sales benefit Pulaski Technical College and will be matched by the Windgate Foundation; also work by Jeff McKay, C.J. Ellis, TWIN, James Hayes, Amy Hill-Imler and Ellen Hobgood.10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.4 p.m. Sat. 753-5227. ROCK CITY WERKS, 413 Main St., NLR: Work by Michelle Moore, Debby Hinson, Doug Gorrell, Sheree King, Kimberly Leonard Bingman, Theresa Cates, Vickie Hendrix Siebenmorgen, Ed Pennebaker, Nancy McGraw, Hannah & May pottery. (RCW). 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tue.Sat. 258-8991. THE HOUSE OF ART, 108 W. 4th St.: “Stigmatized: The Journey to Black Sovereignty,” featured artist Tobechi Tobechukwu. WILDWOOD PARK FOR THE ARTS, 20919 Denny Road: “Shades of Green: Land and Cityscapes of Arkansas,” paintings by John CONTINUED ON PAGE 55
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with the seamstresses and tailors they employ in Ghana. RNB Ghanaian Fashions debuted with accessories, like earrings and bracelets, mostly hand-carved wood bought by RNB directly from Ghanaian artists. “It’s authentic, it’s real wood, it’s not plastic or whatever that stuff is. If you were able to go and you got to see these people working, you would be moved to tears. It’s so beautiful. So for me to have my pieces from there it’s means so much to me,” she says. “I know what it’s like to make a whole bunch of stuff and have it sitting around your house and it’s eating up your cash flow and you can’t feed your kids. So we buy a lot from them and then anything that needs to be customized, tailored or whatever, I’ll do some of those things there.” The fabrics, styles and techniques she sells as finished products are authentic Ghanaian. “I feel there are a lot of people out there who would love to go there and get an authentic piece and they just can’t afford that. You can get imitations but if you want the real deal, that’s us. When you are buying from us, you are buying a piece of history,” she says. “I’m authentic, too, because I was born there but I want people to remember that they are also feeding somebody from there, that they are blessing somebody. They’re helping that one person who’s going to help someone else who is helping someone else.”
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“I started with $50 dollars,” laughs McReynolds, but these days, Crave Fuel offers a weekly rotating menu, complete with full meals, snacks, desserts, and condiments comprised of high-quality seasonal and local ingredients, with an emphasis on ethically and health-consciously raised meats. Meals are available for on-site pickup or Monday delivery. “One of the most rewarding things every week, when we do deliveries, is getting feedback from clients,” says McReynolds, who thinks of food as medicine. “A lot of clients are dealing with serious illnesses and long recoveries, so when I hear they’re enjoying the food and at the same time their bodies are healing…that’s what I love.” Not to mention seeing her son Braden’s health flourish. Much of McReynolds’s work is motivated by her aim to provide the best diet she can for her growing boy. (He loves the Crave protein bars packed with nutrient-dense Arbonne protein powder.) “Food is such an important aspect of health,” she says, in tandem with other holistic healing techniques, including exercise. She says,“We are daily researching and reading and trying to help clients with their own problems. We’re trying to spread knowledge and tools for healing.” One meal at a time, she’s doing just that.
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omestic Domestic, a trendy men’s lifestyle store in Little Rock, isn’t Heather Smith’s first retail rodeo. Not even close. “This is my sixth start-up,” she said. “I think I’m just a natural-born salesman. I love the work.” As a matter of fact, Smith can step out onto the sidewalk, look left and see one of the businesses she started — Eggshells Kitchen Co. — just a couple of doors down. She can also look around the neighborhood and around the community to see how unique the independent business community has become. “In so many other communities, everything is cutthroat,” she said. “And here [entrepreneurs] just truly want to see each other succeed. No one is looking to edge out the competition. We all realize the better I do, the better my neighbor does down the street and vice versa.” Smith, 37, has lived enough places to know the difference between a welcoming small business environment and the notso-friendly variety. It’s one of the things that drew her and her partner, attorney Sarah Ort, back to Central Arkansas. She launched Domestic Domestic as an online store in 2013 — half of the store’s sales are still online — and opened her brick-andmortar location in the Heights in 2014. “In other communities where I’ve lived, people are quite selfish and they look out for No. 1 and No. 1 only,” Smith said. “It might not be the best business model for us to say we all cooperate but those relationships make [Little Rock small merchants] very unique.” At each stop along her entrepreneurial journey, Smith has demonstrated an eye for opportunity, of which Domestic Domestic is a prime example. One of the few shops of its kind anywhere in the city, it creates a vibe that’s palpable from the first step through the front door. “It definitely has that masculine, kinda woodsy feel,” she said. “There are just so many great feminine boutiques in town, and there wasn’t really anything for guys. People have a real easy time finding a place
to get gifts for women and we wanted to be able to complement that with gifts for men.” Smith not only stepped into this underserved niche, but did so with a commitment to feature only American-made products, something many people didn’t even know was possible, let alone find a market for them. But that’s precisely what she’s done, including a fair number of Arkansas-made products. “When I owned Eggshells Kitchen Co., my personal buying habits and buying habits for the store started to shift to higher quality,”she said.“I wanted products that were more generational, that could pass down more like heirlooms, that sort of thing. And I started noticing that a lot of those products were manufactured in the United States. That aesthetic was really appealing to me and so that was the concept for this store.” Now expecting her first child, Smith hasn’t slowed down much and is generally front and center in the showroom most days. “I find that my success comes from being an owner-operator and not just an owner,” she said. “I’m in the business on a daily basis and not just in the back, but on the sales floor. That’s the part that really drives me. I love the customer interaction.”
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o look at Javonne Jordan’s business now, you would think her timing was practically clairvoyant, perched as she is in one of the trendiest neighborhood in Little Rock. The truth is, as she’ll gladly tell you, bringing Inretrospec Recycle*Regift*Reuse to life was as much about adjusting to changing tides as having an ironclad master plan. “You always have a tendency to set out with what you think is the plan and then the plan always gets altered,” she said with a chuckle. Jordan, 40, had no intention of getting into retail when she purchased two decrepit apartment buildings on the corner of 12th and Center Streets, well ahead of the development and new affluence that would eventually come to the South Main area. “We bought these two properties that had been dilapidated for years, around 2005,” she said. “I had every intention of renovating the apartment buildings. The bank gave us the loan to get the property, [but] when we went back to the bank to say ‘Here’s what we need to renovate,’ the bank said no, the market crashed on us. “After a couple of years trying to get funding, we also lost a battle with the city. They gave us so many days to knock the buildings down.” Owning little more than a commercially zoned patch of mortgaged grass, Jordan looked for ways to generate income while she pondered her next move. She found inspiration in a long-held talent she shared with her mother. “As a kid, my mom and I would go shopping and we could shop all day long,” she said. “I mean, our eyes would be bloodshot red and we would leave the mall and then rush to TJ Maxx because they closed 30 minutes later.” Jordan turned her inexhaustible spirit — and her knack for finding bargains — toward picking antiques which she’d flip at outdoor flea markets. She was so good at it, in just a few years she was able to build Inretrospec on her site in SoMa.
“The furniture and clothing and antiques here are all hand-picked,”she said “We take a lot of pride in finding really good things.” To see Jordan at work today is to see a woman pursuing her true calling, as well as a family affair. Her children — James, 13, and Nia, 6 — often work in the store with her and she’s extended her reach for picking antiques with a little help from her husband and fellow entrepreneur, Darryl Jordan. Darryl’s moving company takes him to all corners of the U.S. and when the client’s load drops, Javonne is more than happy to fill the homebound trucks with more locally picked treasure. Meanwhile, the neighborhood has caught up to Inretrospec. Sandwiched as it is between some of the city’s best restaurants, shops and reviving neighborhoods, the store looks like it’s always been there and moreover, that it was meant to be there, Jordan, for one, doesn’t disagree. “I definitely know that God has been in this the whole way,” she said. “Sometimes, we think that because something is not great that it’s simply that, it’s not great. But it’s really just his way of showing you that he knows what’s best. And it may not feel good right now but you’ll be able to see a result in the end.”
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ay you’re throwing a party for your daughter’s eighth birthday. Or having friends over to watch the Hogs game. Maybe you’re looking for the perfect host gift for a friend who loves to cook. Naturally, you head over to Eggshells, knowing you’ll find the perfect item, thanks to Little Rock native Lindsey Gray, whose unique taste and savvy management make the Heights kitchen store the homiest place you’ll find outside your own kitchen. Gray comes by her entrepreneurial spirit naturally. Her family has run the Little Rock fixture Ace Glass since opening it in 1986. “I watched that growing up and I always knew that my dream would be to have my own store,” she says. “Gifts are my love language, so I always thought it would be something in that area.” When she heard through the grapevine in 2013 that Eggshells was for sale, it was an easy decision. She started making calls, and three weeks later, she was the owner. With years of experience in her family’s store, a degree in accounting, and a passion for cooking and entertaining — but no formal culinary training — Eggshells was the perfect opportunity to break out of her shell (pun intended). For someone who describes herself as a former “behind-thescenes” worker, Gray is now at the center of not only a thriving business, but a food community of which Eggshells is the hub. Drop by and you might catch her trying out her latest idea in the full-size kitchen on the rear wall of the space. (Her most recent success? Champagne-infused gummy bears.) If you check the schedule ahead of time, you can sign up for one of the three or four themed cooking classes she holds every month, hosting a local chef for a relaxed evening of tasty education. Or just stop in to ask her advice on a party favor or a new project. She keeps the store stocked with a seasonal rotation of one-of40
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a-kind items and is always happy to chat: “The fun side of the business is to be out on the floor talking food and barware,” she says, adding that she loves the tight-knit feel of the walkable Heights community. “It just feels so good to know people, get to know their story over time.” To give back to that community, Gray is an active volunteer. With three small boys of her own, ARKids Read is close to her heart, so she donates time weekly to practice reading with area students. A former president of the Junior League of Little Rock, she now serves on the Children’s Hospital Auxiliary Board. Between these efforts, being in the store every day, and wrangling aforementioned young children, Gray has her hands full. Now that her work life is so food-oriented, she enjoys trying new projects and recipes in the kitchen at the store, and her husband is her partner in the kitchen at home helping with dinner. Still, when it comes to having company and entertaining, Lindsey is the one to plan the menu and details to create a special event. It’s that innovative spirit that makes Eggshells a magical place — and its proprietor a community treasure.
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today the company’s tagline is Homesick Cajun Headquarters, stocked as it is with gumbo ingredients, boudin and other Louisiana delights. They say success is its own reward, but as Lisa tells it, she got one better than that. “I told the story at my dad’s wake that Dad always said “Well, that’s not gonna work, don’t do this, don’t do that,” she said. “And, like a typical early twentysomething, I ignored my parents and went and did exactly what I wanted to do and it turned out to be the best thing I could’ve done. “And bless his heart, my dad said, ‘Well you know, I see that you’re on the right path and I’m never gonna tell you don’t do this, don’t do that again because what you’re doing is working.’” Most of the year, Lisa and her fiancée, Larry Gordon, run the shop single-handedly, but crawfish season is a different story. The store takes on extra help to keep up with mudbug demand — 88,000 pounds worth by last year’s numbers. Watching her work is to observe someone doing what she was born to do in the kind of store you rarely see anymore — and winning. “The big box stores are governed by the suits up in their ivory towers and they have to do what the suits tell ‘em to do, even though the suits have never been in business and they don’t know what they’re doing,” she said. “Me, I’ve got my hands all the way up to the shoulders in this. This is my baby.”
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people really like that,” says Sikkema. She takes her food truck to events around Central Arkansas, though she is open to venturing further out into the state. “Some of the churches are inviting food trucks monthly as an outreach kind of thing,”she says. “Businesses do it, generally for employees when there’s no cafeteria, but it’s open to the public. Those are really successful. I try to do as many events as I can, some big ones and some small ones. It’s a hard slog, the food truck business.” Food trucks are at the mercy of the weather and the changing seasons. The Velvet Whisk’s food truck allows her to follow her dream of owning a business without the risk of signing a lease. “It sure as heck is a lot more economical to do food that way than it is to have your own restaurant. For people who want to do food and want to do it less expensively, this is a good way,” she says. Sikkema’s son, Christopher, is a senior at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, S.D.; their daughter, Nicole, lives in Little Rock. Having grown children makes it easier for Sikkema to focus on her food truck business, and having the food truck business makes it possible for her to spend time with her 1-year-old grandson. “You can choose to do certain events or not, you can work it around your schedule. There’s a certain amount of flexibility that gives you.”
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oftspoken she may be, but René Hooper is all about explosivity. In the two years since opening CrossFit Align, the North Little Rock CrossFit training center, Hooper’s been making it her mission to provide quality physical and mental training to people from all walks of life. “I might have a woman in her 60s on one side of me and a high school baseball player on the other. We’re all pushing each other to be better,” says Hooper. After running competitively in college at UCA, Hooper was at a loss as to how to exercise once she graduated.“I got used to being on a team and having that outside drive, always having a goal and a coach,” she says. She was already working as a personal trainer at the Little Rock Raquet Club when she discovered CrossFit. Like many people, she’d always been skeptical of the exercise program, but upon looking into it further, she was drawn by its multifaceted and practical approach to fitness. “CrossFit is about getting you doing what you’re already doing really well,” Hooper explains. “It’s about building a better quality of life, whether that’s being more competitive in your sport, more agile in your workplace or simply staying out of the nursing home.” Hooper brings an impressive educational background in dietetics and physical therapy to her coaching, along with years of experience. Working in a variety of settings as a physical therapy technician, “I discovered my passion was more in teaching people how to move really well so they don’t hurt themselves,” she says. As a certified CrossFit coach since 2012, Hooper teaches athleticism as a way of life, focusing on the everyday benefits of improved strength, flexibility, endurance, and other principles built into the CrossFit program: “Whether it’s balance and reaction time on an icy walk, the UPS man using proper lifting technique, or training for the baseball season, we’re retraining movement patterns so you don’t hurt yourself.” Added bonus: it’s a LOT of fun. Hooper
refers to the gym as their “adult playground.” “Right now we’re all trying to get better at walking on our hands,” she says of her current training gang. Turns out the physical principles involved in handstands are beneficial all around. Because CrossFit is personalized to each practitioner, finding a knowledgeable and intuitive coach is paramount. Hooper is constantly self-educating based on her clients’ needs. “It’s very interactive work, consulting with other coaches and with students,” she says. Ultimately, CrossFit Align is a place of healing for both the body and the mind. Alongside Collin McReynolds, Hooper is building a safe space where people can develop according to their personal goals in a nonjudgmental, teamwork-centered atmosphere. “We try to instill in people to be OK with failure, to face it head on and break it down into bite-size pieces and figure it out,” she says. “That applies to every part of your life, so people come out of here more confident in general.” Providing reliable nutritional guidance, physical training, and unflagging personal support, Align has proven to fill a vital role in the area. “We got into it just trying to do the right thing,” Hooper says. Clearly, she’s succeeding.
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COMMAND AND CONTROL Special guests Author Eric Schlosser and Director Robert Kenner D: Robert Kenner | USA | 92 min | ARKANSAS PREMIERE From Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning Director Robert Kenner and best-selling author Eric Schlosser comes a chilling nightmare that plays out at the Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas in September 1980 when a worker accidentally drops a socket, puncturing the fuel tank of an intercontinental ballistic missile carrying the most powerful nuclear warhead in the U.S. arsenal. The incident ignites a series of frantic efforts to avoid a deadly disaster. Command and Control is a white-knuckle telling of this long-hidden story as eyewitness accounts – from the man who dropped the socket, to the man who designed the warhead, to the Secretary of Defense – chronicle nine hours of terror that prevented an explosion 600 times more powerful than Hiroshima.
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STARRING AUSTIN PENDLETON – ARTIST FORUM Special guest Austin Pendleton D: Gene Gallerano, David H. Holmes | USA | 19 min The most famous actor you’ve never heard of: Austin Pendleton reflects on his life and craft while his A-list peers discuss his vast influence and what it means to be an original in a celebrity-obsessed world. Includes interviews with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Olympia Dukakis, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Austin Pendleton will be on hand to for talkback with audience.
MIDNIGHT RETURN: THE STORY OF BILLY HAYES AND TURKEY Special guest Billy Hayes D: Sally Sussman Morina | US/Turkey/United Kingdom | 99 min | English | SOUTHEAST REGION PREMIERE Midnight Return explores the enduring and emotional power of film as seen through the lens of the blockbuster success, Midnight Express. When Billy Hayes, one of the most infamous names of his generation and on whom the picture is based, returns to Turkey thirty years after his daring escape from prison, he faces a country still haunted by the film. Turkey suffered tremendous economic and psychological damage as a result of Midnight Express and more than thirty years later they are still trying to escape the stigma.
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UNDER THE RADAR: THE MIKE EDMONDS STORY Special guest Mike Edmonds D: Simon J Frith | UK | 58 min | NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Since his first break in Ken Loach’s Black Jack (1979), Mike Edmonds has stolen scenes in some of cinema›s biggest movies (Return of the Jedi, Harry Potter, Time Bandits) and has worked extensively in theatre, TV and radio. A true “actor’s actor” who is also a huge hit with fans, he has met the challenges imposed by achondroplasia (or dwarfism) with his immense talent and a true dedication to the craft. This fascinating and warm-hearted documentary follows Mike from his early life in rural Essex, U.K. (and his dreams of joining the circus) to a life-changing decision to answer an advert for “midgets” in the British show business publication, The Stage. What followed has been a truly remarkable career.
MAYA ANGELOU AND STILL I RISE Special guest Louis Gossett, Jr. D: Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack | USA | 114 min | ARKANSAS PREMIERE The first documentary about Maya Angelou, the iconic writer, poet, performer and activist, who overcame racism and devastating abuse while growing up in the deep south, to become one of American culture’s greatest voices. Rare footage and photos unveil an intimate and often unknown view of her public and personal life with the power of her own words. Reflections and perspectives come from figures such as former President Bill Clinton, whose inauguration
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Special guest Jose Xtravaganza D: Ester Gould, Reijer Zwaan | Netherlands/ Belgium | 83 min | SOUTHEAST REGION PREMIERE In 1990, seven young male dancers joined Madonna on her most controversial world tour. Their journey was captured in Truth or Dare. As a self-proclaimed “mother” to her dancers, 6 gay and 1 straight, Madonna used the film to make a stand on gay rights and freedom of expression. The dancers became paragons of pride, inspiring people all over the world to dare to be who you are. Twenty-five years later, the dancers share their own stories about life during and after the tour. What does it take to express yourself?
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TEMPEST STORM Special guest Tempest Storm D: Nimisha Mukerji | USA/Canada | 82 min | U.S. PREMIERE Tempest Storm was mistress to both Elvis and JFK, and became an international star on the stage and screen in the 1950s. At the age of 88, she is considered to be the greatest living burlesque dancer, but her success came at great personal cost. Exploring her dramatic rise to fame as an entertainer and her swift fall from grace after an interracial marriage, Tempest Storm bares the heart and soul of an American icon in the telling of her controversial life story.
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CROSSING THE LINE Special guest Olympian Danny Harris D: David Tryhorn | UK | 94 min | WORLD PREMIERE The powerful story of the rise, fall and eventual redemption of athletic prodigy Danny Harris, exposing the fine line between sports greatness and addiction. Harris was an orphan at 14, Olympic hurdler at 18, crack cocaine addict at 22, world number-one at 25, and finished at 30. Featuring some of the biggest names in track and field including Carl Lewis, Edwin Moses and Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
THE HEART OF NUBA Special guest Kenneth A. Carlson D: Kenneth A. Carlson | USA | 86 min | WORLD PREMIERE Welcome to the war-torn Nuba Mountains of Sudan, where Dr. Tom Catena, the only surgeon within 200 miles, does his best to save lives in the midst of carnage and terror, treating as many as 400 patients a day at Mother of Mercy Hospital. He selflessly and courageously serves the needs of a forgotten people, as the region is bombed relentlessly by an indicted war criminal, Omar Al-Bashir. Surrounded by a country at war, living under the constant shadow of aerial bombardment, two things remain constant: Dr. Tom’s faith and his enduring love for the Nuba people.
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HAROLD AND LILLIAN: A HOLLYWOOD LOVE STORY Special guest Daniel Raim D: Daniel Raim | USA | 94 min | SOUTHEAST REGIONAL PREMIERE A fascinating and deeply moving account of the romantic and creative partnership of storyboard artist Harold Michelson and his wife, film researcher Lillian Michelson. Harold and Lillian were a talented couple once considered “the heart of Hollywood.” Although the couple was responsible for some of Hollywood’s most iconic examples of visual storytelling, their contributions remain largely uncredited. Through an engaging mix of love letters, film clips and candid conversations with Harold and Lillian themselves, Danny DeVito, Mel Brooks, Francis Coppola and others, this warm and engaging documentary chronicles a remarkable relationship and two extraordinary careers spanning six decades of movie-making history.
THE JONESES Special guests Jheri Jones and two of her sons D: Moby Longinotto | USA/UK | 80 min | SOUTHEAST REGION PREMIERE Jheri Jones, is a 74-year-old transgender divorcee in Bible Belt Mississippi. Reconciled after years of estrangement, and now living with two of her four sons in their trailer park home, Jheri embarks on a new path to reveal her true self to her grandchildren, while her son Trevor begins a surprising journey of his own. Director Moby Longinotto’s
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BRIGHT LIGHTS: STARRING CARRIE FISHER AND DEBBIE REYNOLDS Special guest Todd Fisher D: Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens | USA | 95 min | SOUTHEAST REGION PREMIERE An intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty in all its eccentricities, featuring Debbie Reynolds and her offspring Carrie Fisher and Todd Fisher. Frank, funny and revealing, the project began when Carrie Fisher enlisted her friend, actor and documentarian Fisher Stevens and Stevens’s wife Alexis Bloom, to chronicle the final performances of her
mother’s nightclub act. What emerged was an intimate look inside a Hollywood family, enlivened by Carrie Fisher’s sharp wit and brutal honesty, and by Debbie Reynolds’s determination to fly in the face of her own mortality. Bright Lights is an unfailing look at a mother and daughter who are polar opposites but for whom love is clearly a bond, a warm salute to a remarkable pair of women and the people around them.
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CLOSING NIGHT: MY FRIEND ED Special guest Ed Asner & Robert Walden D: Sharon Baker | USA | 56 min | SOUTHEAST REGION PREMIERE Ed Asner is one of the most celebrated actors of his generation, delighting audiences of all ages, fromThe Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant to Elf and Up. But he’s also an all-American activist who refuses to budge on his ideals, no matter what anyone thinks. Beneath the tough skin of this crotchety 85-year-old crusader lies the heart of a true warrior for justice. My Friend Ed is a funny and poignant exploration of the notion of “hero” versus “celebrity” and the role of this artist as activist.
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THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Special guest Barry Bostwick D: Jim Sharman | USA | 100 min In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf ) and a creepy butler (Richard O’Brien). Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named Rocky. It is definitely not a documentary, but it is the return of an HSDFF tradition.
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For the Love of Spock Memories of a Penitent Heart Starring Austin Pendleton Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey Obit Under the Radar: The Mike Edmonds Story Breaking Point: The War on Democracy in Ukraine Maya Angelou and Still I Rise Jackson Strike a Pose They Call Us Monsters Tempest Storm
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12:00 PM Shorts Block “Risky Business” Snails; Tommy and David; Up or Out; Welcome to the Last Bookstore 12:10 PM Hotel Dallas 1:40 PM Two Trains Runnin’ 1:45 PM Hit it Hard 3:00 PM Brothers 3:15 PM Wings of Change 4:45 PM Seven Songs for a Long Life 5:00 PM The Last Laugh 6:40 PM The Heart of Nuba 7:00 PM First Lady of the Revolution 8:30 PM I Am Sun Mu 8:40 PM Looking for Exits with short film, Shift
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10:00 AM Naledi: A Baby Elephants Tale 10:00 AM Shorts Block: Instruments of Change Joe’s Violin; Julian; Piano; Soy Cubana 12:00 PM Shorts Block: You Can’t Go Home AgainAmerican Baghdad; High Chaparrel; The Island of All Together; My Aleppo; Resident Alien; Zain’s Summer: From Refuge to American Boy 12:15 PM Shorts Block: All Creatures Great and Small The Festival ; Life at a Snail’s Pace; Penelope: A Rescue Story, Pickle; Pien, The Queen of the Bees; The Shining Story of Losers Everywhere 2:00 PM Shorts Block: Field of Vision The Black Belt; Concerned Student 1950; Peace in the Valley; Speaking is Difficult; The Surrender/The Release 2:00 PM Shorts Block: You Can’t Go Home AgainGood White People; A House Without Snakes; The Last Blintz; Mulberry 4:00 PM The Caged Bird: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price 4:00-5:30 PM (93 min) 4:00 PM Sonita 5:40 PM Do Not Resist 6:00 PM Le Moulin 7:30 PM Seed: The Untold Story 8:50 PM Juanicas 9:10 PM The Founders
FRIDAY, 10/14
10:00 AM Phenomenon Preview:Rocky Horror Picture Show 10:00 AM Wings of Change 11:00 AM 11:30 AM 1:15 PM 1:30 PM 3:15 PM 3:45 PM 4:30 PM 6:00 PM 6:45 PM 7:50 PM 9:10 PM 10:00 PM
Following Seas Burden City of Trees I Am the Blues Small People. Big Trees Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race, and America Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story The Joneses Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds Off the Rails: The Darius McCollom Story Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown Rocky Horror Picture Show
SATURDAY, 10/15
9:50 AM 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 11:30 AM 12:30 PM 1:30 PM 2:15 PM 4:20 PM 4:30 PM 7:00 PM
I Am Sun Mu Hit It Hard Small People. Big Trees Good Ol’ Freda Two Trains Runnin’ The Beatles: Eight Days a Week- The Touring Years Following Seas Company Town The Big Flip: Stories from the Modern Home Front My Friend Ed
SUNDAY, 10/16
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10:00 AM Award Winner: Best Stories of the South 10:00 AM Award Winner: Deltic TImber Corporation Best Environment Story 12:00 PM Award Winner: Best International Documentary 12:00 PM Award Winner: Best U.S. Feature 2:00 PM Award Winner: RIser Best Sports Documentary 2:00 PM Award Winner: Audience Award followed by Best Documentary Short
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GOOD OL’ FREDA Special guest Freda Kelly D: Ryan White | UK/USA | 86 min The story of Freda Kelly, a shy Liverpudlian teenager hired to work for a young local band with ambitions to make it big. As the fame of the Beatles multiplies, Freda bears witness to music and cultural history but never exploits her insider access. Their loyal secretary from beginning to end, after 50 years, Freda finally tells her tales for the first time. One of few documentaries with the support of the living Beatles and featuring original Beatles music, the film offers a
unique perspective on the beloved band that changed music forever.
THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK – THE TOURING YEARS Special Ticket Screening Event, open to All-Access Passholders at no additional charge With special guest Freda Kelly D: Ron Howard | USA | 129 min | ARKANSAS PREMIERE The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years is based on the first part of The
Freda Kelly Beatles’ career (1962-1966) – the period in which they toured and captured the world’s acclaim. Ron Howard’s film explores how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr came together to become this extraordinary phenomenon, “The Beatles.” It delves into their inner workings – how they made decisions, created their music and built their collective career together – all the while, highlighting The
Beatles’ extraordinary and unique musical gifts and their remarkable, complementary personalities. The film will focus on the time period from the early Beatles’ journey in the days of The Cavern Club in Liverpool to their last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966. Contains 30 minutes of remastered footage from the Beatles’ Shea Stadium Concert, not available on non-festival cuts.
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SPECIAL GUESTS AND APPEARANCES LIST ED ASNER
TEMPEST STORM
MIKE EDMONDS
Closing Night Special Guest Versatile, committed, eloquent and talented are all adjectives that describe actor/activist and 7-Time Emmy Award-winning actor ED ASNER. Asner is best known for his comedic and dramatic talent as the gruff but soft-hearted journalist Lou Grant, the role he originated on the landmark TV news room comedy The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Festival Special Guest Born Annie Blanche Banks and dubbed the”Queen of Exotic Dancers” Tempest Storm is a burlesque star and motion picture actress. Girlfriend to Elvis and mistress to JFK.
Festival Special Guest Mike Edmonds grew up in rural Essex, UK. His career has encompassed cinematic blockbusters, iconic TV series, extensive stage work (including a stint at the Royal Shakespeare Company), radio plays, music videos and, inevitably, a lot of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Quickly making the leap from “specialist extra” to soughtafter character actor, Mike has stolen scenes in some of cinema’s biggest movies.
BEAU BRIDGES Honorary HSDFF25 Co-Chairman BEAU BRIDGES is an award-winning actor, the recipient of a 2 Golden Globes, an Emmy and a Grammy Award, while portraying a myriad of characters during a successful career spanning more than six decades.
LOUIS GOSSETT, JR. Honorary HSDFF25 Co-Chairman LOUIS GOSSETT, JR is one of stage, film and television’s most recognized and lauded actors, with over three hundred roles to his credit. Perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman, and his Emmy Award-winning role as Fiddler in the 1977 ABC television miniseries Roots.
BARRY BOSTWICK
TESS HARPER Festival Special Guest Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated actress TESS HARPER, a very special friend of the festival, was born in Arkansas and worked hard to shed her Southern accent. Nevertheless, some of her best movies have been set in the American South.
AUSTIN PENDLETON Festival Special Guest AUSTIN PENDELTON is an actor, director, playwright, and teacher of acting. He has acted on and off and off-offBroadway (his most recent Broadway appearance was in The Diary of Anne Frank, with Natalie Portman, and he originated the role of Motel the Tailor in Fiddler on the Roof ), and in about 200 movies, including Wall Street Two, My Cousin Vinny, A Beautiful Mind, What’s Up Doc, Catch-22, and Mr. and Mrs. Bridge.
ROBERT WALDEN
Festival Special Guest From his portrayal of the quintessential all American Brad Majors in THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW to the hilarious Mayor Randall Winston on ABC’s Spin City, actor BARRY BOSTWICK has had an expansive career spanning all genres and mediums of show business.
Festival Special Guest Method trained, and while still an undergrad, Robert studied with Lee Strasberg, Frank Corsaro and Charles Nelson Reilly. Upon graduation from CCNY, he was accepted into the famed Actors Studio. With over 40 feature film credits including Oscar winners The Hospital and All the President’s Men.
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TODD FISHER Festival Special Guest Todd Emmanuel Fisher is an American actor, director, cinematographer, and producer of television films and documentaries. He is also a business executive, known as the former CEO, President, CFO, and Treasurer of the Debbie Reynolds Hotel & Casino (DRHC), Debbie Reynolds Management Company, Inc.
FREDA KELLY Festival Special Guest Longtime, trusted secretary to the Beatles.
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PRIDE GUIDE Central Arkansas
Pride Week Events Monday | Oct. 10 What? Burlesque Show with Raven Rose and more! Where? Club Sway at 7 PM.
October 10th - 16th, 2016
Pride Fest MC: Bob the Drag Queen,, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8!!
The mission of Central Arkansas Pride is to raise awareness of diversity in the community and, through celebration and education, recognize the positive contributions of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community in Arkansas, teach tolerance and acceptance, eliminate prejudice and bias both internally and externally, and honor our sexuality, our culture, our families, our accomplishments, our individuality, and our ongoing struggle for equal rights.
Tuesday | Oct. 11
Wednesday | Oct. 12 Friday | Oct. 14
What? What? OutLoud Story Telling Pride Week Trans Night. hosted by the Human Where? Rights Campaign. Firehouse Hostel and Where? Museum at 6 PM. South on Main at 7 PM.
Central Arkansas Pride
Thursday | Oct. 13
What? Pride Idol Finale! Where? Club Sway at 10 PM.
Saturday | Oct. 15
What? Pride Kickball Game. Where? Interstate Park Softball complex at 6:30 PM. What? Bear and Leather Pride Night. Where? 610 Center at 9 PM.
What? VIP Trolley Party. Where? Trolly Barn in North Little Rock at 8 PM. What? Pre-pride Party with Bob the Drag Queen. Where? Club Sway at 10 PM. A Drum roll please...
THE MAIN EVENT
Sunday | Oct. 16 What?
The 2016 Little Rock Pride Fest!
Where?
At the Clinton Presidential Center & Park from 1-6 PM.
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PRIDE TALKS Sunday | Oct. 16 Talks are on the Pride Fest grounds at the Clinton Presidential Library.
ArTEC – Transform Health
Speaker Dani Archie Time 3:00pm
Planned Parenthood
Overgaard & Speaker Suzanne Ashley Wright Time 3:00pm
What’s Going on in Politics
Speaker HRC Time 3:30pm
Stonewall - Local Level
Speaker Tippi McCullough Time 3:45pm
Mental Health Stigma
Speaker Rachel Pinto Time 4:00pm
Vet. Affair’s Suicide Prevention
Speaker Jennifer Price Time 4:15pm
Lucie’s Place
Speaker Penelope Poppers Time 4:30pm
Safe Zoze
Speaker Katy Allison Time 4:45pm The Pride Guide is proudly sponsored by Out in Arkansas and the Arkansas Times!
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PRIDE FEST Schedule Pride Parade Route Map
Scott Street to the Clinton Library!
Pride Parade
SUN, OCT 16, 2016 AT 1:00 PM
1:30-2:00 PM
DJ Sleepy 2:25 PM
Drag performances
from the Queens from Club Sway.
Lost Forty, Stone’s Throw, and Diamond Bear brewerys will be serving!
Pride Fest Venue Map
Don’t forget! Pride Fest MC: Bob the Drag Queen,, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8!!
Festival staff
Whitney Lee Entertainment Director/River Market Liaison Trasa Spillyards Vendor Coordinator/Family Zone Coordinator Ashley Vickers Beer Tent Supervisor Lorraine Stigar Pride Talks Coordinator Traci Berry and HL Moody Parade Announcers
Legendary A.T. local hip-hop artist.
Step Performance from Lambda Chapter of Gamma Mu Phi Fraternity Inc.
3:00 PM Pride Idol Winner Performance. Could be you!!
3:30 PM
4:25 PM
Drag Performances
Late
Drag King
from Queens from Trinity.
Romantics.
Performances.
4:40 PM
5:00 PM
5:15 PM
folklórico
Step
performanc, Latinxs Revolución LGBTQ.
Drag performances
from Drag Queens Performances. from Sway.
THE BIG MUSIC FINALE: 5:30 PM- Yoko & the Oh No’s!
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Want to be in the Pride parade? Register at CentralArkansasPride.com!
2:45 PM
2:15 PM
3:15 PM
Gender Queer
National Anthem sung by Mary Ann Hansen
2:00 PM
Opening Remarks: Zack Baker, Executive Director, Kathy Webb, LR City Director, Ruth Shepard, 2016 Grand Marshal.
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Please support the amazing sponsors who make the Pride Guide possible!
Central
Arkansas Pride
Board of Directors Zack Baker
Executive Director/President
LakewoodHills-NLR.com
Trasa Spillyards
Festival Chair/Board Member
Caleb Oyler
Financial Director/Board Member
James Rector
Director of Volunteer Engagement/Board Member
Rob Thompson
Parade Chair/Board Member
Jason Wiest Board Member Nov 6, 2016 Walk to Prevent Suicide in Arkansas Register at ARWalk.org
CONTACT US Email
info@centralarkansaspride.com
Address
P.O. Box 250096 Little Rock, Arkansas 72225 Phone: 501-404-8498
Facebook:
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Twitter:
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Special thanks to friends of pride: Arkansas Society of Free Thinkers, Esse Purse Museum, Dallas and Aaron Yarnell-Anderson, Russ Matkins, Stephen Stone, Pride Corp, Thom Jacobs, Lawson Allen, and Mitchell Meurer.
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AFTER DARK, CONT. Kushmaul, through Oct. 9. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Fri., noon-4 p.m. Sat.-Sun. 821-7275. Benton DIANNE ROBERTS ART STUDIO AND GALLERY, 110 N. Market St.: Work by Dianne Roberts, classes. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed.-Fri., 10 a.m.5 p.m. Sat. 860-7467. BENTONVILLE CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, One Museum Way: “Shaking Hands and Kissing Babies,” campaign advertising artifacts, through Jan. 9; American masterworks spanning four centuries in the permanent collection. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon., Thu.; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed., Fri.; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat.-Sun., closed Tue. 479-418-5700. CONWAY UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS: “Curious Devotion,” paintings by Danielle Riede, ceramics by Dawn Holder, installation by Langdon Graves, through Oct. 20, Baum Gallery. FAYETTEVILLE GEORGE DOMBEK, 844 Blue Springs Road: “Open Studio and Gallery,” paintings and works on glass by George Dombek, every Sat.-Sun. through Oct. 30. 479-442-8976. FORT SMITH REGIONAL ART MUSEUM, 1601 Rogers Ave.: “The Art of Transcendence,” RAM annual invitational, through Oct. 16; “Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs,” through Oct. 30. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 479784-2787. HOT SPRINGS GARVAN WOODLAND GARDENS: “Traditional Art Guild,” work by local artists, through October, Magnolia Room. JONESBORO ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: “Night Women,” mixed media printmaking by Delita Martin; “Dinner Table,” installation by Martin; “Seat Assignment,” photographs by Nina Katchadourian; “Continual Myth,” drawings by Tad Lauritzen Wright; “Arkansas Neighbors,” photographs by Andrew Kilgore, through Oct. 9, Bradbury Art Museum. Noon5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 2-5 p.m. Sun. 870-972-2567. PERRYVILLE SUDS GALLERY, Courthouse Square: Paintings by Dottie Morrissey, Alma Gipson, Al Garrett Jr., Phyllis Loftin, Alene Otts, Mauretta Frantz, Raylene Finkbeiner, Kathy Williams and Evelyn Garrett. Noon-6 p.m. Wed.-Fri, noon-4 p.m. Sat. 501-766-7584. YELLVILLE PALETTE ART LEAGUE, 300 Hwy. 62 W: Work by area artists. Noon-6 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 870656-2057.
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THE ARKANSAS MEDICAL MARIJUANA AMENDMENT 1. LEGALIZES THE MEDICINAL use of marijuana for an individual that suffers from certain specified medical conditions. Permits the Arkansas Department of Health to add additional conditions in the future. The legalization of medical marijuana cannot be changed by the General Assembly unlike an initiated act. 2. ALLOWS A PHYSICIAN TO CERTIFY that an individual who suffers from one of the specified medical conditions is entitled to a medical marijuana card and requires the Department of Health to issue a medical marijuana card to those individuals. 3. PERMITS AT LEAST 20 but no more than 40 dispensaries to be licensed. Each dispensary can grow up to 50 mature marijuana plants. No dispensary can be located within 1,500 feet of a school, church or daycare. No person can own more than one dispensary. 4. PERMITS AT LEAST 4 but no more than 8 cultivation centers to grow marijuana and supply it to dispensaries. No cultivation center can be located within 3,000 feet of a school, church or daycare. No person can own more than one cultivation facility. 5. PROVIDES THAT THE DISPENSARIES and the cultivation centers are to be regulated and inspected by the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Every individual who works at a dispensary or cultivation center must be licensed and must be at least 21 years old.
6. SETS UP A COMMISSION OF CITIZENS to decide who is awarded the licenses to operate the dispensaries and cultivation centers. The majority of the ownership interest in a dispensary or cultivation centers must be citizens of Arkansas. 7. SETS US A SYSTEM TO CONTROL AND TRACK the dispensing of medical marijuana to make sure that only those legally entitled to it have access. Requires dispensaries and cultivation facilities to have and maintain a comprehensive inventory system. Patients can purchase medical marijuana from any of the licensed dispensaries.
11. ALLOWS COUNTIES AND CITIES TO ENACT REASONABLE zoning regulations. Allows counties or cities to prohibit dispensaries and cultivation facilities with a local option election. 12. PROVIDES THAT THE SALE OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA is subject to all state and local taxes. 13. PROVIDES THAT THE STATE SALES TAXES and fees are to be used to cover the cost of the program so that it is revenue neutral to the state of Arkansas. City and counties keep all the local sales tax revenue generated.
8. DOES NOT PERMIT INDIVIDUALS to grow their own marijuana. All medical marijuana must be obtained from a licensed dispensary. Permits dispensaries to deliver medical marijuana to patients.
14. PROVIDES THAT A PERCENTAGE OF THE STATE SALES TAXES collected are dedicated to workforce training programs and vocational and technical training institutes. The remaining sales taxes are to be deposited in the general revenue fund.
9. PROHIBITS THE USE OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA at daycares, schools, colleges, universities, correctional facilities and all public places. Does not require employers to allow employees to use medical marijuana at work or to work under the influence.
15. PROVIDES FOR CIVIL AND CRIMINAL penalties for individuals who violate the terms of the amendment. 16. CREATES A THOUSAND NEW JOBS and millions of dollars in economic development and tax revenue.
10. PROVIDES THAT ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ESTABLISHMENT is permitted to not allow the use of medical marijuana on their property. Provides that a landlord may forbid the smoking of medical marijuana in any leased property.
VOTE FOR AMENDMENT 6
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