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Politics today just entertainment Is anybody paying attention? What used to be about a year’s worth of media run wild that we euphemistically refer to as a national election started this past spring. The current gaggle of candidates is spilling over with escapees from the kindergarten playgrounds of politics that have become the sole focus of a flickering screen-obsessed, perpetually adolescent, self-absorbed congregation compulsively seeking salvation only at the ends of their fingers.

They call it social media while its realization screams for the prefix “anti” with the force of a Category 5 hurricane. Even a season of brain-busting sports won’t satisfy the lust for virtual floggings, torture racks and gore demanded for the price of one vote.

Entertain me, me, me and I’ll gladly squander my birthright mindless for any consequences.

The list of distractions is already embarrassingly jejune: She used e-mail!

Muslims are evil! Immigrants are evil!

Health care for everyone is evil! Up, up with fetus! Poor people are evil!

Abort immigrant fetuses — no, wait, that one hasn’t popped out yet. Build a giant wall to keep “them” out! Kill Obamacare! Bomb Iran! Bomb Korea!

Bomb Syria! Bomb — well, you get the idea. Meanwhile, the gun chorus sings loudly and long as bodies fall singularly and in clusters every day. Grandma rots away on a nursing home bed of sores.

Glassy-eyed children with sunken cheeks and distended bellies rummage empty kitchens and bare dirt yards for food. Your life savings crumbles like the highway you drive on under the weight of those who have too much.

Science and history are discounted in exchange for belief. High school graduates can’t count their own limbs and arrive at the same number twice.

Anxiety vibrates in every household amid constant fear that somebody else might get theirs before you can snatch it away. Pride, greed, envy, gluttony and wrath are worshiped as religious deities. Laws are replaced by dictates. Justice is only bought; it’s never achieved.

So what is it “we the people” look for when it’s time to choose the guardians of the public good? Amazingly, we want someone who can claim the least possible experience with governing and the political process. Would we look for someone who doesn’t know the difference between a chicken and a cow to operate our farms? Do we seek the most computer-illiterate to run our 4

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technology companies? What is the special kind of ignorance we want to see in our politicians and elected officials? Do we really believe that the less experience someone has with government, the better that person will be in managing the most complex arrangement for achieving the common good ever devised?

Perhaps someone has the skills and ability to work toward solutions for our real problems. I do know that person will not be someone with hate, anger, pride, greed and envy roiling within his heart until it bursts out in a vituperative belch at the rest of us. I guess that rules out most or all of the Republican candidates for public office, doesn’t it?

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Complaint of unfair treatment at Insurance Department Mike Pickens,a former Arkansas insurance commissioner, represents a client in an Insurance Department regulatory action. He thinks his client is getting harsher treatment than current Commissioner Allen Kerr got in a dispute with an insurance company when Kerr was in the insurance business. Dem-

ocrat-Gazette columnist Paul Greenberg mentioned Pickens and defended Kerr Aug. 19, based on his reading of an article in Arkansas Business. Pickens gave the Times a letter to the editor that he’s been unable to get published in the Democrat-Gazette.

Respectfully, I am not “suing Allen Kerr” as Paul Greenberg wrote. I am simply representing an insurance agent client (who never had a complaint filed against him in some 33 years of doing business) in an appeal where the Arkansas Insurance Department revoked his license. My client received much different, less favorable, treatment than did Kerr in a case of questionable jurisdiction and constitutionality. My client qualifies as a “little man” trying to protect himself from an over-reaching government agency’s unfairly discriminatory, arbitrary and capricious decision that adversely affects his ability to earn a living.

Although I cannot recall any significant piece(s) of legislation Kerr actually passed in his six years in the legislature, I did get to know him fairly well beginning in August 2014, when he contacted me to help him in his

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determined quest to be appointed state insurance commissioner.

I agree Mark Friedman’s Arkansas Business article was an excellent, objective one. However, the questions I have been getting from the folks who read it and are familiar with the insurance business are not favorable to Kerr. For example: Why would Mr. Kerr state on a commercial insurance application that Cregeen’s Pub was a “fine dining establishment”? It was this blatant misrepresentation and the death of a Cregeen’s patron in an auto accident who had been over-served alcohol that led to Farmers Insurance reviewing Kerr’s entire book of business and finding a large number of other material misrepresentations on insurance applications.

How is it that Farmers was able to produce applications and underwriting materials for 80 risks Mr. Kerr submitted for insurance coverage that contained a total of 78 misrepresentations made by Kerr? (AR DOI Order No. 2013-021 at Page 3, Paragraph 7) Why is it that there exists NO other order(s) allegedly “clearing” an agent in similar circumstances to Mr. Kerr’s in any of the public records of the Insurance Department?

Why would the Insurance Department intervene in a private contractual/termination dispute between an insurer and its captive agent?

Why did Mr. Kerr vote FOR the Insurance Department-sponsored private option legislation soon after the order allegedly “clearing” him in 2013, then vote AGAINST it in 2014?

If Mr. Kerr’s employer violated his employment agreement, why didn’t Kerr simply sue them in court rather than run to the Insurance Department for protection?

Why would Farmers fire a “successful agent” who was apparently selling many policies and making them money, especially when that agent was a sitting legislator who voted on laws affecting their business interests?

Is it fair or legal to hold a wealthy insurance agent who also is a sitting legislator to a different, and lesser, standard of conduct than a regular Joe agent?

Is it ethical, fair, and legal for a regulator to derive income, directly or indirectly, from a business his wife runs, and over which he has direct and ultimate regulatory authority of not only her business, but all of its competitors?

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WEEK THAT WAS

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Tweet of the Week: “No one’s being jailed for practicing her religion. Someone’s being jailed for using the government to force others to practice her religion.”

— Rachel Held Evans, an iconoclastic Christian writer supportive of LGBT rights, on the saga of Kentucky clerk Kim Davis.

Davis refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples or allow her deputies in the Rowan County, Ky., courthouse to do so either, for which a federal judge held her in contempt and sent her to jail last week.

Mike Huckabee, among others, rallied to her cause. Davis was freed on Tuesday but ordered to not interfere with her deputies’ issuance of licenses. It remains to be seen if she’ll comply.

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As the Times went to press on Tuesday, voters in Fayetteville were headed to the polls to vote on a city ordinance that would extend civil rights protections to LGBT residents of the city. It’s a reboot of a somewhat broader measure that was defeated, 52-48, by voters in a referendum last December. The “For Fayetteville” coalition organizing in support of the ordinance has won the endorsement of the Chamber of Commerce this time around, but will that be enough to overcome the intensive field work by conservative evangelical churches that wish to retain the ability to legally discriminate against sexual minorities? We’ll find out soon.

Havana bound Gov. Asa Hutchinson is leading a delegation to Cuba to promote trade later this month, according to a spokesman. This makes good sense: Arkansas agriculture is chomping at the bit to see Cuba’s borders open further as diplomatic relations normalize, considering the economic opportunities for the state’s rice industry and other

farmers. But Hutchinson’s approach contrasts with the rhetoric of U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, a fellow Republican, who’s called the restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba “a grave mistake” and has promised to “work to maintain and increase sanctions on the regime.”

you often hear Catholics talk about the sanctity of life in the context of abortion, so today I need to emphasize two obvious things: 1) life does not cease to be sacred once the baby is born, and 2) no one will be fully secure until we reject everything that threatens human life or degrades human dignity.”

Church to state: Halt executions

Joel Anderson to leave UALR

In the pages of the Arkansas Catholic, Bishop Anthony Taylor of the Diocese of Little Rock urged the legislature and the governor to abolish the death penalty in the state.

Taylor was prompted to write after Attorney General Leslie Rutledge sent a request to the governor asking that he set execution dates for the eight men on death row whose appeals have run out. Arkansas recently acquired a supply of execution drugs sufficient to resume lethal injections, which have been stalled in the state since 2005.

The bishop wrote, “I have experienced the death penalty from the side of innocent victims and the side of criminals executed, and what is violated in both cases is the sanctity of life: either by the criminal or by the state. I know

University of Arkansas at Little Rock faculty received a note from Chancellor Joel Anderson last week stating his intention to retire from the position after 45 years at the school, 13 of them as chancellor. It’s a shame: He’s been a force for good at UALR and the larger community and has skillfully navigated the challenges of running an urban university.

Anderson said in his memo that the time was right to step down because he felt his institution has “growing momentum,” including a recent gift of $20 million from the Windgate Foundation to build a new art and design building, a recently announced new partnership with the eStem charter school, increasing student enrollment and more.

OPINION

Huckabee’s Hail Mary

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ike Huckabee, who made a the U.S. Supreme credible run for the Republi- Court as the final can presidential nomination in arbiter on constitu2008, hasn’t done as well in 2016, despite tional matters. The — or maybe because of — his financially Supreme Court had rewarding turn as a hyperbolic media held it was unconMAX entertainer. stitutional to deny BRANTLEY maxbrantley@arktimes.com A conservative Republican judge in marriage licenses Kentucky gave Huckabee what he per- to same-sex couples. ceived as a needed opening last week. Coin- Davis took an oath of office to uphold the cidental to news that Huckabee was run- constitution. She would not do so. She even ning 10th in national polling in Iowa — the wanted to force her religion on unwilling others. She went to jail through Tuesday, critical first state in the nominating process and a state whose conservative religious when the judge was satisfied others were bloc backed Huckabee in 2008 — Federal fulfilling their legal obligations in her office.

Judge Jim Bunning sent County Clerk Kim The Supreme Court had also made clear Davis to jail for refusing to obey an order that acceptance of public office comes with upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. some limitations on personal preference if Davis said it would violate her reli- they trample on rights of others. gion to issue marriage licenses to sameEnter Huckabee, with his novel view sex couples. She also wouldn’t permit her that a Supreme Court ruling is not final. deputies — who were willing to issue the Citizens must only obey rulings they deem licenses — to do so. “right.” Which sounds a lot like anarchy. It To any legitimate legal commentator, wasn’t a new theory for Huckabee. When Davis’ position was futile. For better than governor, he denied Medicaid money for two centuries, U.S. law has recognized an abortion for a mentally disabled teen-

Silence on black shootings

BY AUSTIN PORTER JR.

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he shooting of Harris County, Texas, Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth was a tragedy. Police officers put their lives on the line for the people of this country every day. Many are underpaid and are not in policing for the money, but for the opportunity to make their communities and cities better. I am proud of the fact that my son is a police officer, and I pray for his safety constantly.

So far, no one really knows the motive of Goforth’s killer. Ron Hickman, sheriff of Harris County, wondered if the “national rhetoric” of “Black Lives Matter” was a contributing factor. Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson acknowledged that every profession has its “bad apples” and issued a plea to the public not to declare war on the police.

As a civil rights lawyer, I have tried many excessive force cases against the

police. My cases typically involve police beatings and shootings against AfricanAmerican citizens by white police officers. I, too, agree that every profession has its “bad apples.” Certainly, we have seen examples of bad actors within America’s law enforcement involving questionable shootings of unarmed African Americans.

Unlike their white counterparts, African Americans have been killed by police who have allegedly mistaken a cell phone or a wallet for a gun. These types of shootings have caused outrage within the African-American community. We have seen examples of white police officers shooting unarmed black men in the back while running away. We have also seen police officers shooting unarmed black men in the back while they were in custody. We have even seen examples of black children who have been killed by the police

ager raped by her stepfather. When he says Huckabee (now at least) doesn’t oppose today that no current state law requires mixed-race marriages. The situations Kim Davis to marry anyone — U.S. Con- are precisely the same. Racial bans were stitution aside — remember the rape case. built, too, on some people’s view of reliU.S. law then said explicitly that Medic- gion. The same with school desegregaaid could be used to pay for abortions in tion, the place where lawyer Huckabee case of rape, incest and to save a mother’s really falls short in his analysis.

No law — state or federal — backed life. The Arkansas teen qualified on two grounds. Huckabee refused.

President Eisenhower’s decision to send Huckabee is wrong about many other troops to Little Rock to enforce school things. Then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin desegregation under federal court deciNewsom didn’t go to jail when he allowed sions. As late as 1990, Arkansas still had marriage licenses for same-sex couples on its books a constitutional prohibition absent an authorizing state law. As New- against integration. By Mike Huckabee’s som pointed out on Twitter to Huck — legal theory, officials like Faubus had no who went silent — Newsom believed the obligation to obey the court until someban on marriages unconstitutional. The body passed a statute.

Supreme Court would eventually agree.

Arkansas also retains a criminal statBut in the interim, a court ordered New- ute for homosexual acts. It has been som to stop the issuance of licenses. Unlike overturned by courts, but ONLY by courts. In the Huckabee legal view, Davis, he obeyed the rule of law.

Then there are those “sanctuary cities” that ruling has no meaning without an that refuse to participate in enforcement of enabling statute. federal immigration laws. Why is no one in Huckabee is merely demagoguing to jail? Simple. No law requires cities to par- reach ultraconservative religious votticipate in federal enforcement. No court ers in hopes of jump-starting a morihas ordered a city to enforce immigration bund campaign in Iowa and South Carlaws, a constitutional responsibility of the olina. His arguments are so dishonest, U.S. government. so legally lacking (even Fox News legal Huckabee struggled Sunday with “experts” deride them) and so full of George Stephanopoulos to explain the dif- errors of omission and commission that ference between court rulings that ended they shouldn’t bear mention. bans on mixed-race marriages and sameExcept. What if they work on the sex marriages. The main difference is that gullible?

while holding toy guns. These horrendous police shootings have pushed this issue to the national forefront and provide fuel to the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Washington Post reported that 668 people have been killed by police this year, as of Tuesday. Most of the people who were killed by the police were armed.

The Post also reported that of these killings, there were 64 shootings by the police involving citizens who were unarmed. Of those involving unarmed citizens, African Americans and Latinos accounted for 64 percent of these police shootings. Of the total number of police shootings, African Americans account for 25 percent, nearly double the 14 percent that African Americans represent in the U.S. population.

Again, we do not know the motive behind the killing of Goforth, but let’s just assume that the killer committed this terrible act out of frustration over the killings of African Americans by the police. There are those who question why the black community shows more outrage over a black person being killed by the police rather than from black-on-black crime. One reason is that we pay the police to protect and serve us, not to kill us based on our race.

When police kill AfricanAmericans, under

circumstances that cause one to believe that race could have been a factor, then we are all at risk. When those in the black community see that police officers are not held criminally responsible for killing unarmed black men, women and children, this causes anger and disrespect for the police. When the majority remains silent over these questionable police shootings of unarmed black citizens, the message is that it is all right for the police to kill black citizens. We have seen examples, even in this city, where police officers have shot and killed unarmed black citizens, and juries have given their seal of approval for such killings by refusing to vote guilty in criminal cases and by refusing to hold the police officer legally liable in civil cases.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” When the majority remains silent in the face of injustice this places us all in danger — even the police.

Certainly, I recognize that the majority of our police officers are good people, trying to do the right thing. We all should be committed to see that “judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream,” because where there is “no justice,” there can be “no peace.” www.arktimes.com

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uzanne delivered her first calf in a sleet storm, with 40-mile-perhour winds. Fearful that the baby wouldn’t survive overnight, I took a big risk, lifting the heifer into my arms, backing out a gate and kicking it shut.

Many cows would have run me down.

But I trusted Suzanne’s sweet, obliging personality, and she trusted me. As if she’d read my mind, she ran around the barn and was waiting in a dry stall when I arrived with the calf, which we named Violet.

Although calves are as playful as puppies, it’s a rare cow with a sense of humor.

Suzanne, however, would approach and lower her head for petting. Then she’d toss her head, fling your hand up, and shuffle her feet in a little happy dance. The winter she kept Bernie the bull company in their private two-acre pasture, she imitated his habit of eating apple slices out of our hands.

By the time Violet was 16 months, you had to look twice to tell them apart. I never wanted to sell her, but somebody had to go — Violet or her 2,300-pound, charismatic father. The fellow who bought Violet also wanted Suzanne’s 8-month-old bull calf.

They left on the same trailer. If I were entirely sentimental about my animals, I wouldn’t have done that, because it left Suzanne alone in the herd.

She soon became pregnant. By then, Bernie’s passion for tearing up fences, shoving the neighbor’s bull around and breeding his cows became intolerable.

He also had three more daughters coming of age. The fellow who’d bought Violet couldn’t afford Bernie, but offered to return her as part of the deal. Sold. If you’d witnessed the mother-daughter reunion — they recognized each other at 100 yards and galloped joyously to be together — you might think about giving up beef.

They have strong emotions, cattle. And while they’re less interested in humans, hence less demonstrative toward us than dogs or even horses, their bonds are powerful. Anybody who doubts this should read Carl Safina’s extraordinary new book “Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel.”

A marine ecologist, Safina has written an impassioned and deeply reported meditation on Darwin’s observation that “Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.”

It is to me also deeply political: a plea

for humans to acknowledge the shared inheritance informing all complex animals from hummingbirds to GENE tortoises, and to LYONS relent in our collective desecration of the natural world.

Anthropomorphic? You bet. Safina argues persuasively that behaviorists who use the word as an insult have trained themselves to ignore the most obvious evidence in the world.

“So do other animals have human emotions?” he writes. “Yes, they do. Do humans have animal emotions?” he writes.

“Yes, they’re largely the same. Fear, aggression, well-being, anxiety, and pleasure are the emotions of shared brain structures and shared chemistries, originated in shared ancestry.”

Safina points out that the exact areas of the brain that produce rage in humans also do so in cats. How blind do you have to make yourself not to recognize primal emotions in fellow mammals? Centering his reporting upon large social animals — elephants, wolves, orcas and dolphins — he visits specialists who’ve learned volumes about their complex and mysterious behaviors.

How do elephants and orcas communicate at vast distances? Why do killer whales, nature’s most fearsome predator, observe a worldwide truce with human beings? Never mind why dolphins will break off feeding to rescue a drowning human miles out to sea. How do they agree?

Safina’s impassioned conclusion is that we’re all together on this earth, the only one we’ve got.

Suzanne’s next calf killed her, and liked to break my heart as people in Arkansas say. The baby presented upside-down and backward on a 99-degree day. By the time I got veterinary help, the calf had died and Suzanne was too weak to survive a C-section.

I talked about getting out of the cow business altogether.

Two weeks later, Ruby, a peevish, suspicious animal on her good days, delivered a heifer calf all alone. I hadn’t been certain she was pregnant. Yet there it was, tottering behind her.

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Arkansas pot politics

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any have noted the extraordinary shifts in attitudes about marriage equality in recent years, leading up to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision in late June. Somewhat overwhelmed by those waves in public opinion have been shifts in attitudes regarding marijuana legalization in the United States that are just as abrupt (and similarly generationally driven). While Arkansas has seen less change on marriage issue attitudes than all but a few states, recent polling suggests that movement in Arkansans’ attitudes regarding marijuana looks much more like national patterns. Because Arkansas is a direct democracy state, we may well see those attitudes translated into a change in the state’s drug laws relatively quickly, making the politics of pot central to Arkansas’s political debates in the coming years.

In the general election in 2012, a shift of just over 15,000 votes would have made Arkansas the first Southern state to legalize medical marijuana. The result was surprising because pre-election surveys had shown voter opposition to the measure. (Indeed, showing Arkansas voters’ hesitancy to confess their support for the measure, even a post-election survey indicated much wider opposition to the measure than on Election Day.) The nearly three years since Arkansas voters’ consideration of the ballot measure has seen continued movement nationally on issues related to marijuana. A number of additional states have legalized medical marijuana, with 23 states (all non-Southern) and the District of Columbia now having comprehensive medical marijuana laws.

An additional 17 states have taken a step in that direction through the adoption of laws allowing low THC, high cannabidiol (CBD) products for medical purposes. Finally, four states and the District of Columbia have approved the purchase and use of recreational marijuana. All these reforms at the state level have occurred with the Obama administration sending the clear signal that it will not enforce federal anti-drug

laws in locales that have taken steps to legalize through the democratic process.

JAY A Talk BusiBARTH ness-Hendrix College survey of Arkansas voters released last week indicates that Arkansans have become quite comfortable with the notion of medical marijuana in the state. Amazing considering the close 2012 vote, 84 percent of Arkansas adults now either “strongly” (56 percent) or “somewhat” (28 percent) agree that adults should be allowed to use marijuana for medical purposes if prescribed by a physician. There are two important caveats to what was good news for advocates of expanding marijuana accessibility: First, support for a concept is not a vote at the ballot box and, second, allowing patients to “grow their own” marijuana — a provision included in the 2012 proposal — remains a concern to Arkansas voters with a slight majority opposing that provision. Still, the overall attitudinal movement on the issue in such a short period is extraordinary.

A future debate in Arkansas is likely to be on the recreational use of marijuana. While the same survey shows that a majority of Arkansas voters continue to oppose the legalization of marijuana, the trajectory also seems positive for that concept. While voters do see marijuana as addictive, they believe it to be less problematic to health than either alcohol or cigarettes. Overall, 42 percent of Arkansans favor full legalization and a slight majority (51 percent) oppose it. Most important is an examination of different subsets of Arkansas voters by age. Just over two-thirds (68 percent) of the state’s youngest voters support marijuana legalization while the same percentage of the state’s voters 65 and older opposes it. Thus, with every passing day, sentiment toward legalization in Arkansas grows.

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n its 2015 debut, long awaited and anticipated despite it being a nonmarquee game in a virtual crockpot of a stadium, Arkansas dispatched UTEP as expected, 48-13, and more or less did all the right things. Even when the Miners strung together two nice scoring drives in the second quarter to draw within 21-10, it wasn’t one of those moments where the defense faltered.

UTEP is, of course, a Conference USA member that is projected to hover around the middle of that league, but for fleeting moments their minute quarterback Mark Leftwich and their workhorse tailback Aaron Jones did some great things. Play-calling was creative and got the Hogs a shade off-balance.

There really was no shame in surrendering a couple of innocent scores to these guys, particularly because the defense’s second-half adjustments were immediate and profound. Henri Toliver deflected a Leftwich attempt into the air right out of the gate in the third period, gathered it in, and the Hogs punched in a quick touchdown to balloon the lead to 25.

Alex Collins hit the 100-yard mark on the ground. Keon Hatcher did it through the air, and snared two touchdowns on Brandon Allen’s best two throws of a spectacularly efficient 308yard, four-touchdown performance.

There was a lot of electricity generated out of a new wide receiver screen game, namely Drew Morgan and Jared Cornelius turning the modest lateral throws into nearly a full field’s worth of yardage and 12 points. Rawleigh Williams got to grind out some yardage and lead the team in carries in his first collegiate action, and some other newcomers contributed impactful plays. Cole Hedlund popped in all his extra-point tries easily and a couple of short field goals for good measure.

It was a clean game, not too dynamic, but certainly the kind of contest that Arkansas needed. The Hogs escaped both injury and calamity, with no notable dings and no turnovers. The only penalties of note were overcome quickly by solid offensive execution the next down, and best of all, Dan Skipper didn’t draw undue officiating attention upon himself.

So there we have it, a 1-0 start as scripted. The Hogs essentially kept

a static position in the rankings, which is also fine, because the opening weekend of action only BEAU yielded a couple WILCOX of Top 25 upsets, neither of which constituted front-page news. Texas A&M did dismantle Arizona State to blow the Devils out of the rankings and thrust itself into the mix, so there’s reason to expect that the Sept.

26 matchup at Arlington will now feature two Top 15 teams unless something goes horribly awry the next two weeks.

For Arkansas, that shakeup shouldn’t occur this weekend, even if Little Rock is the venue. Toledo is the opponent, and the Rockets are reeling from suspensions and the same lack of manpower that afflicted UTEP. There’s no question that fans on the golf course can expect hell-hot conditions and a somewhat laissez-faire kind of game again.

Collins will likely take extended time off after halftime, and maybe the only thing that we’ll see changed in the running game is that Kody Walker takes a few more totes in the open field. Williams had a modest yards-per-carry average against UTEP’s smaller, outclassed line, and Walker’s entire 2012 season got whisked away in the LouisianaMonroe disaster of 2012 on a kickoff return at War Memorial. The fifth-year junior would probably enjoy, and richly deserve, a bit more action this Saturday to push those bad memories aside.

In the passing game, the only unanswered question after Week 1 was how much of a role rangy speedster Dominique Reed would play. Allen targeted him on some long throws, as expected, and just overshot him. Reed’s got raw speed and agility, but perhaps Dan Enos will take a different approach with him against the Rockets by letting him be on the receiving end of some screens or short slants so he can then take flight in open field. Cody Hollister also didn’t get much of a look against the Miners, and Hunter Henry and Jeremy Sprinkle may get additional targets underneath this week. The intermediate game was basically unneeded in Fayetteville, so this offers a chance to flex it.

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he Observer got out with the family and rambled a bit over the long holiday weekend. We get paid to do that, or at least reimbursed for our gas. It’s a pretty sweet gig sometimes, though you wouldn’t know it to hear us complain every once in a while. This time, we pointed the Mobile Observatory south toward Sheridan, then hopped over to Pine Bluff, where we visited the Arkansas Railroad Museum.

Like tens of thousands of people who once lived and worked there, we haven’t been to Pine Bluff in years. If we’re being honest, we must admit that we try to avoid it if we can. As you’ll find in a lot of cities that were once jewels of the American industrial economy, large swaths of Pine Bluff just look used up, hulled out and sad. The last time we were there was maybe 10 years ago.

The Observer had to visit for a story that took us to a building near the old Hotel Pines. It was raining that day; a cold day in the fall, the sky a depressing gray.

Peering through the windows into the once-grand lobby, The Observer got a sense that we were looking at a symbol of something or other; a reminder that even the best and most beautiful things we can make as human beings are destined to eventually fall to ruin.

When The Observer returned on Saturday to show Junior the old hotel, we found the street out front blocked by barricades and heaps of bricks, apparently salvaged from the collapsed and jumbled avalanche across the way, which had once been a building. Grown to an older and more cynical mind, we didn’t do any deep thinking this time.

Instead, we thought: It’s money that keeps things upright, dollars for termite inspections and roof patching and caulk. And there’s just not enough money in Pine Bluff anymore to justify spending it on old hotels and storefronts.

We weren’t expecting much from the Arkansas Railroad Museum. We’d heard about it in passing, of course, but figured it was going to be like dozens of little museums we’ve visited all over the state: a few dusty items in glass

cases, a retired volunteer dozing by the Coke machine. So it was a surprise when we pulled up to the place: a vast, 70,000-square-foot train shed, built in the 1890s of brick and American steel; mother church of a bygone age of steam and smoke.

They have some things in glass cases — railroad china, pocket watches, lead soldiers — but the joy of the place is the rolling stock. Giant engines and cars, their labors ended: five or six diesel locomotives, three restored cabooses, a black iron snowplow that looks like it belongs in “Mad Max: Fury Road,” a roofless 1940s Sebring firetruck, pumper handcarts and model trains and flashing lights and railroad-related signage by the ton. The grande dame of the collection is St. Louis Southwestern Engine No. 819, a 200-ton, steampowered behemoth that was the last locomotive built in Pine Bluff and the state. Completed during World War II, she ran the Cotton Belt Line until her retirement in ’53. After languishing in a park for decades, the engine was restored to working condition in the 1980s, and apparently still makes short nostalgia trips from time to time.

The best thing about the Arkansas Railroad Museum is that, other than a few spots blocked off with cones, it’s all open. You can stroll through the cabooses and train cars, imagining yourself rocked to sleep on narrow bunks. The Observer had our picture made behind the washtub-sized wheel of the fire truck. Scale the steel ladder welded to one of the diesel giants or the steps to the box cab of Engine 819, and you can plop down in the engineer’s seat and pretend you’re on the train they call the City of New Orleans, gone 500 miles when the day is done.

By the way: If you’ve got a kid who likes trains — run, don’t walk.

Seems like there’s another symbol of something in all that retired hardware. Or maybe not. Whatever the case, The Observer and family were having too much fun to think on such things. That’s a frown for tomorrow, if ever.

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Another week, another instance of Sen. Jason Rapert (R-Conway) going off half-cocked on social media. As usual, the tale turns on what Rapert sees as a fearful world.

From Facebook over the weekend, Lance White of Conway posted that he had introduced himself to Rapert in the parking lot of Lowe’s in Conway and asked him a question. According to White, Rapert said, “I don’t answer questions to smarty pants like you.” Then Rapert told a Lowe’s employee to hurry up and load his stuff into his truck, into which Rapert quickly retreated, according to White.

Later, Rapert posted on Twitter, “Not smart to come up and harass somebody in a parking lot who’s carrying a handgun. Better be glad you decided to walk away. #armed&ready.”

In response to Twitter questions from Arkansas Times’ Max Brantley about the incident, Rapert said in part, “Anyone crosses the line as a threat should expect to meet resistance in Arkansas.”

Do mere words cross the line into Rapert-will-blow-you-away territory? Safest advice seems to be don’t ask the senator questions on the Lowe’s parking lot. Later, Rapert took to Twitter to say the tweet about parking lot confrontations was not about Lance White.

He said he remembered that encounter and the person at Lowe’s was merely “rude, not threatening.”

Which doesn’t exactly explain what prompted the coincidentally timed remarks. Maybe being Rapert means getting questions on parking lots all the time.

Our reporting on the exchange on the Arkansas Blog went viral.

Later, on Facebook, Rapert blamed the attention the ordeal has gotten on Brantley, who he said “has actually been at the root of every single crazy political attack I have endured since being elected.”

“A proud moment,” Brantley wrote on the Arkansas Blog. “This is not the first time Rapert has claimed he could sue me for quoting him precisely.”

Now with columns Earlier this summer, folks con-

The 1968 Little Rock uprising The death of a black teenager inspired massive protests.

BY JOHN KIRK

leaving a trail of bricks and stones in their wake. Between 10th and 14th streets, as the marchers entered the black community, heated confrontations broke out.

Jeeps and trucks loaded with National Guardsmen pulled into vacant lots off 14th Street. They dismounted, loaded their rifles, and fixed their bayonets at the ready.

By around 7:50 p.m. most marchers had made it back to the Dunbar neighborhood. However, there were continued reports of stone- and bottle-throwing,

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arlier this year, Time magazine published an iconic cover in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody in Baltimore. A black-and-white photograph of a black demonstrator running away from charging police was accompanied by a caption that read “America, 1968” with “1968” struck through by spray paint and “2015” scrawled above it. The cover reminded readers that the “long hot summers” of black uprisings in the mid- to late-1960s had distinct echoes in the racial unrest in places such as Ferguson and Baltimore more recently. Like almost everything else that happened elsewhere during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, the same thing happened in Little Rock. Most people know the story of Little Rock’s 1957 school crisis. Far fewer know about the largest deployment of the National Guard after the school crisis in the city in 1968, when three nights of racial unrest, three nights of countywide curfews and the armed occupation of a large section of the black community occurred.

The trigger for the conflict was the death of 18-year-old Curtis Ingram at the Pulaski County Penal Farm in August 1968.

Ingram was arrested for a traffic violation and later charged with drug offenses when police claimed to have discovered barbiturates in his possession. He was sent to the Penal Farm to pay off his $110.50 fine at the rate of $1 a day, the terms dictated by an 1875 state law. At the Penal Farm, Ingram got sick from allergies. When he told a white trusty (a white inmate used as a guard, a common practice in the Arkansas prison system at the time) that he could not work any longer, an altercation broke out that ended with Ingram being killed after he was hit over the head with a 3-foot stick.

There followed a good deal of community debate about the incident. The

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BOBBY BROWN AND MARCHERS: Brown headed up Black United Youth, which rallied in protest over the killing of Curtis Ingram at the Penal Farm.

trusty was charged with manslaughter.

A local Little Rock organization, Black United Youth (BUY), held a community rally to protest Ingram’s death. BUY’s president and main spokesperson was Bobby Brown, the younger brother of Minnijean Brown, one of the nine students who desegregated Central High in 1957. On Friday, Aug. 9, BUY led a march from Dunbar Community Center at 14th Street and Wright Avenue, the heart of the African-American neighborhood, to the Pulaski County Courthouse, culminating in a rally attended by 300 people. A heavy police presence accompanied the march from the start and there were mobilized National Guardsmen stationed at Robinson Auditorium.

When the demonstration came to a close at 7:30 p.m., marchers headed south on Broadway to the Dunbar Community Center. Some marchers started to throw missiles at the police, newsmen and cars,

window-breaking, cars being attacked and even gunshots. At 8:15 p.m. the Arkansas State Police formed an armed cordon of about 80 square blocks bound by High Street (today Dr. Martin Luther King Drive), Broadway, 10th Street and Wright Avenue. At 8:45 p.m., with the situation still deteriorating, the National Guard was called into service. Fifty men were assigned to the area at 14th and Arch streets and another platoon was sent into the black neighborhood. A further 200 troops were stationed at undisclosed locations throughout the city, with another 300 on alert and 700 on standby.

The introduction of the National Guard did nothing to quell the disturbances. Quite the opposite, the violence only escalated as a result. “From this point on,” reported the Arkansas Democrat, “it was all bedlam, confusion and incidents.”

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Arkansas Times Recommends: Back to school edition Arkansas Times Recommends is a weekly series on our blog Rock Candy in which Times staff members (or whoever happens to be around at the time) highlight things we’ve been enjoying lately. This edition is for the hordes of students returning to classes this month:

I recommend rewatching the Rodney Dangerfield “Triple Lindy” diving scene in “Back to School” — which precisely predicts the pathos and comedy of the Donald Trump campaign for president that came almost 30 years later.

— David Ramsey Back to Hendrix College packing list: • 2 fifths Fireball cinnamon whiskey • 2 fifths Captain Morgan • 1 case Purple Haze Abita • 1 case PBR • 1 bottle Adderall • Bike shorts/shirt for dorm Tour de Franzia • 4 cases ramen noodles • 2 bottles Axe deodorant • some clothes — Leslie Peacock Amid a month of convalescing following a leg injury, I remembered something important: Coloring is a fun and soothing way to kill time. Especially if you have a grown-up coloring book. I highly recommend “Bun B’s Rap Coloring and Activity Book,” by Shea Serrano and Bun B, cofounder of seminal Houston rap duo UGK. It features more than 40 rappers in poses based, often, on iconic photos. I haven’t been happier in weeks than in the hour I spent on Biggie’s radiant Coogi sweater. — Lindsey Millar Here is the ultimate back-to-school recipe: Coffee mug eggs. You will need two eggs and a teaspoon of milk. Spray the mug with nonstick cooking spray, crack two eggs into the mug and add the teaspoon of milk. Place in microwave for 45 seconds. Stir. Heat for another 45 seconds. Stir again to make sure they’re cooked thoroughly and sprinkle some shredded cheese on top! — Kaya Herron You want to keep a journal? Wonderful! Spending hours writing passages that no one but yourself is ever allowed to read sounds like a great way not to live imprisoned inside the solipsistic hell of your own ego. I recommend you try the staplebound notebooks made by Italian manufacturer Fabriano, which are available at Michaels for about 4 bucks each.

I’ve kept a dumb journal for most of the past 10 years, and I’ve gone all over the map. There are those cow-colored composition books — 50 cents a pop at the dollar store — but I’m a self-conscious 30-year-old, and I don’t want

the girls in physics lab to laugh at me. A basic, collegeruled Five Star notebook was once a sensible option when I had more patience for pen and paper, but the endless hole of the Internet now makes longhand seem more and more like a special event. That means smallness is a virtue — and anyway, I like unruled paper because sometimes I want to doodle.

Then there are Moleskine notebooks, which are well made, attractive and obnoxiously overpriced. Also, every Moleskine comes with a small pamphlet describing the venerated history of Moleskine in the history of art and literature and … I just refuse to participate. The one time I bought a $15 Moleskine notebook at an independent bookstore, a beret instantly materialized on my head and couldn’t be removed for months.

Which brings me to these Fabriano “EcoQua” books.

They’re compact, flexible and slim. They’re affordable enough (yes, page by page it’s still an incredible rip-off, but let’s be honest — it’s going to take you months to fill the little thing). I buy the unruled kind, though there are also lined, dot and grid options available. And best of all, they’re only subtly pretentious. — Benji Hardy All students should be encouraged if not required to use flip phones. Not to go all Jonathan Franzen here, but nothing can warp your value system and wreck your relationships with nature and other humans faster than a smartphone. The Internet is an arena of bottomless despair developed by military-funded scientists and nurtured by libertarians and politicians — it’s the enemy. Nothing good will come of it, and it is plainly destructive, easily one of the great catastrophes of my life. — Will Stephenson I was going to make a joke about being sure to have a good pocket protector. And maybe a slide rule holster.

So I went to the web. And I learned the pocket protector lives! All sorts for sale. One carried a price tag of $250. WTF? Turned out that’s the price from one supplier for 500 pocket protectors, customized with the logo of your company or whatever. Come to think of it, this could be a great product for a student club fundraiser. Buy a wad of them and put the high school logo on it, then mark them up for resale. As the tout said: “An inexpensive yet practical item making a big comeback. Great to advertise your company or product. Corporate recipients will appreciate you saving their shirts from pen leaks.”

Do people still use pens? — Max Brantley

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INSIDER, CONT. tacted the Times to ask why the Department of Arkansas Heritage was removing the 1950s façade of the Muswick building at 1100 North St., where the agency is moving. Their concern was whether a heritage agency should be altering a facade that, while fairly ugly, was historic.

The agency response was that only the footprint of the Muswick building was being used, and that the facade was not considered a part of the building. The Times was given a drawing of the new look of the building, which now incorporates a Georgian Revival colonial entry: a pediment supported by columns.

Apparently, the idea to jazz up the entry was Heritage Director Stacy Hurst’s.

“When Stacy came on board in January, she asked for a fresh look at the design. The final concept was a result of several meetings that the DAH senior management team had with [Witsell Evans Rasco]. As DAH director, Stacy signed off on the final design,” agency spokesperson Melissa Whitfield wrote in an email replying to the Times’ inquiry on who made the decision.

When we asked Whitfield if we could talk to Hurst about the reason for the dramatically different look — because it is a heritage agency and the columns suggest history? because it added a needed grandeur to the design? — we were turned down. From Whitfield: “She doesn’t feel the need to talk to you about it. She is pleased with the work of the design professionals at WER.” When further pressed, Whitfield elaborated.

“We asked for a design that would stand the test of time and have a more distinctive look. After those discussions, WER presented the final design that was approved.”

When finished, the building, which sits on four acres, will be about 34,000 square feet. DAH currently occupies 27,915 square feet in the Tower Building at Fourth and Louisiana streets. Its location is next to DAH’s collection management facility (the former site of the Clinton archives preconstruction of the presidential library). www.arktimes.com

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Ten years later, Arkansans who lived through Hurricane Katrina talk about the storm, the aftermath and what remains when you lose everything.

BY BENJAMIN HARDY AND DAVID KOON

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He'd started to smell – the smell of fresh death. It's nothing you'll ever find in a funeral home. — Bruce Snow

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en years ago, when Hurricane Katrina blew a hole in New Orleans, about 75,000 evacuees f led north to Arkansas.

They came by car, bus and military transport. They came with a change of clothes, if they were lucky. Some, like Barbara Scorza, were fortunate enough to have a vehicle and escaped the city before the storm made landfall. Others, such as Bruce Snow, were among the thousa nds lef t stra nded in New Orleans with no food or water.

According to state officials, some 8,000 to 9,000 of the Katrina evacuees received by Arkansas had been trapped for days in the Superdome or the New Orleans Convention Center.

Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee, in one of his finer moments, mobilized resources from local governments, churches and aid organizations across Arkansas to tend to the victims. The governor rightfully condemned the slow response from federal authorities. “Quite frankly, I’ve been almost ashamed to see many of our American citizens sleeping on concrete for three nights without food and water, to see infants who didn’t have so much as something to drink. They deserve better than that,” he said at the time.

The failure was one of society itself as much as government. It’s hard to deny that the response to Katrina would have looked very different if the thousands trapped in the city had been predominately middle class and white. But despite the initial breakdown, an outpouring of aid followed in the subsequent months, including in cities and towns around Arkansas. That generosity and goodwill made a permanent mark on the tens of thousands of New Orleanians who landed here, a counterpoint to the trauma of the storm. Maybe that’s why some of them have stuck around the state, despite the pain of leaving home behind for good.

New Orleans lies seven hours south of Little Rock and a universe away. In some ways, the city is everything Arkansas isn’t: urban and pluralistic, libidinous and cosmopolitan. But a distant kinship

RIDING IT OUT: Bruce Snow, now a Metro Streetcar (formerly the River Rail streetcar) driver, settled in Little Rock in 2008 with his wife, but the couple plans to return to New Orleans next year.

lurks somewhere in there as well.

Like New Orleans, Arkansas knows poverty and dereliction, the sense of being apart from the rest of America. If the Gothic weirdness of the South finds its most potent concentration in the city of New Orleans, it has its headwaters in places like Arkansas. Under the right conditions, those currents can f low backward, upstream, in unpredictable ways.

A decade after Katrina, it’s time to remember the storm through the eyes of some of the people whom it brought here or otherwise touched.

BRUCE SNOW

It’s poetic that Bruce Snow wound up driving a streetcar in Little Rock.

In his native New Orleans, streetcars are an honest-to-God commuting choice. Here, he makes loops around downtown, usually working the evening shift, mostly carrying tourists.

Born to an Ecuadorian family in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans, Snow was 25 when Katrina hit. He’d lived through plenty of hurricanes before, Snow said, and he and his family weren’t evacuators.

“Katrina was coming, and yes, it looked bigger and scarier, especially as it got nearer and nearer,” he said. “But [evacuation] was never really brought up, except at the last moment, and we said: ‘I just don’t think it’s possible. We’re already committed.’ ” Snow, along with his mother, aunt, uncle and dog, rode out the hurricane in an interior hallway of his grandparents’ home on Mandeville Street. After the storm passed, Snow said, he and his uncle emerged into the windy tail of the hurricane to survey the damage. Other than some downed trees, most of what they saw seemed fixable. Then they noticed something odd.

“On our way back, we passed a manhole in the street,” Snow said.

“It was puking up water, a little mouthful at a time.” A little over a mile from their door, the levee along the London Avenue Canal had failed. Over the next few hours, the water rose inch by inch, covering the street, then the lawn, then creeping up the steps.

“Now you’re talking agony,” he said. “The front step goes under. The next step goes under. It just keeps getting a little bit higher. Now it’s like noon. Five steps are under, three more to go. How high can it go?...

That was the torture. Just watching it. This is my grandparents’ home.

They emigrated in ’63, they bought it in ’72. It’s their American Dream.

And it’s going under.”

They tried stuff ing blankets under the door, but water began bubbling up through the floorboards. It was ankle deep when they f led to the attic, leaving almost everything behind, including the jugs they’d filled in the bathtub. Snow’s mother, who suffers from seizures and who had recently had several surgeries, left her medicine downstairs.

“By the time we thought to go back for it, it’s all underwater,” he said.

“So we were up in our attic with two gallons of water, a two-liter of Diet Coke and a bag of Doritos, for four adults and a dog.”

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I just remember thinking, ‘This could be the day some of our soldiers actually might have to draw down on fellow Americans.’ — John Edwards tually reached 8 feet deep in the street out front, submerging large vans and SUVs. Though they’d hoped the water would begin to recede, it was still there in the morning.

“The wind is gone, and now it’s just hot,” he said. “Now it’s like a typical summer day. No tropical winds and racing clouds. It’s just dead still, calm, hot.”

After catching a ride on a neighbor’s boat and regrouping near a hardware store on a patch of higher ground, Snow and his family decided to try to make it to the Superdome, 6 miles away. They waded through water up to their necks and reached the Superdome on Tuesday evening.

Inside, they found a scene quickly devolving into something out of Dante’s Inferno: what Snow estimates at 20,000 people, many of them dehydrated and exhausted.

Lines for water and food were over three hours long. With the power out, the pitch-black bathrooms quickly became squalid, stinking bogs.

Snow said he saw frequent fights in coming days. Some people broke the legs off Army cots that had been distributed and began carrying them as clubs. At one point, Snow and his uncle were almost trampled on the field after a crowd panicked and ran from the sound of gunfire in the stands. The stress was so much that Snow’s mother had a seizure toward the middle of the week, blacking out.

He took her to a stadium seat and cared for her until it passed. When she came to, Snow said, the first thing she said was to comment on the smell. It was only then that he noticed the dead man a few seats away.

“We look and there’s this old man sitting in a chair, in a stadium seat, surrounded by other people, kids,” Snow said. “He kind of had this smile on his face. His skin was kind of yellow, kinda gray, sort of waxy. He’d started to smell — the smell of fresh death. It’s nothing you’ll ever find in a funeral home.”

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the stadium, where Snow said they waited for over a day, sweltering in the August sun. With no toilets near the line, they were soon standing in human waste.

“We’re standing like sardines in this valley of crap,” he said. “Sun shining. Summer. New Orleans. No cover. Nothing. Valley of shit. Standing there. The sun is killing us. People are dropping out left and right.

People are getting mosh pit crowdsurfed to the front, incapacitated.

Old people. Kids. Babies.”

On Saturday at around 5 p.m., Snow and his family were able to get on a bus. Originally told they were going to Houston, Snow said they were instead taken to the New Orleans airport, where they stood in another line, over a mile long, for 10 hours, before boarding a military transport plane.

They were f lown f irst to Ft. Chaffee, then to the Little Rock Air Force Base. Once there, Snow said, several soldiers and a man in a suit came aboard.

“What the hell is this? Bill Clinton?” Snow said. “That’s the only guy from Arkansas I’d ever heard of. No, it isn’t Bill Clinton. It’s Mike Huckabee, the governor at the time.

He’s personally boarding each plane as it lands to address us. … It was a really nice speech, but at the time, it was like: ‘Just shut the hell up, dude, and let me get off this plane. You can form a constituency another time.’ ” From there, they were taken by bus to the Pine Bluff Convention Center. Snow said the compassion he found there was like waking up from a nightmare. “As far as I can tell, the whole community of Pine Bluff and White Hall all showed up,” he said. “It’s Labor Day weekend.

This is Sunday morning. They gave up their Labor Day to volunteer. …

Before long, I had a team of middleschool-aged minions waiting on me hand and foot.”

A volunteer cut his knotted hair.

He showered in the gym locker room and changed into clothes provided by the Salvation Army. He was combing his hair in the mirror, he said, when his new reality dawned on him.

“It hit me: ‘I don’t even own the

clothes on my back anymore.’ That was a big eye-opener,” he said.

“What’s next? What happens next? I had no time during the whole Superdome thing to think about any of that. … There was only right now.”

Soon, Snow and his mother caught a f light to Florida to stay with his uncle. He didn’t go back to his family home in Gentilly until October.

He and his grandparents brought a U-Haul to move out their belongings, but found that everything worth saving fit neatly in a Toyota Tercel hatchback.

Snow moved back to the city around Christmas, working where he could over the next few years.

He was setting up the audio-visual equipment for a conference when he met Erin, a Heifer International employee who would eventually become his wife. He moved to Little Rock to be with her in the fall of 2008, and has been driving the streetcar since 2012. He recently finished a memoir about his Katrina experience and hopes to see it published. Most of his life is back to normal, he said, but he doesn’t do well with crowds.

“I went to a ‘Welcome Back to School Night,’ my step-daughter’s, at Mount St. Mary’s,” he said. “You’ve got hundreds of kids and hundreds of parents all running through this building, looking for different rooms, moving. I started pouring tears. I had to back up against a wall. I was shaking. It was the most overwhelming experience I’ve had since [Katrina]. I’m sure people were like: What the hell is wrong with this guy?

It just came out of nowhere.”

He and his wife plan on moving back to New Orlea ns next year. They’ve set a date: Labor Day weekend 2016. He has heard that the storms are getting worse. He knows that it could happen again.

As he makes his loops on the streetcar through Little Rock, surely he sees another great hurricane in the glass sometimes, grinding across the Gulf toward New Orleans and the familiar life he hopes to build there.

After what he’s seen, though, you get the sense that not much scares him anymore.

“Things will happen regardless,” he said. “I’ll evacuate this time for sure. I’m not going to stick around and ride it out again. But you can’t be afraid. You can’t be afraid of the what-ifs in life, or you’ll never do anything.”

JOHN EDWARDS

On the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005, Col. John Edwards was relaxing at Community Bakery on Main Street when he got the call to suit up and head to New Orleans.

Edwards, who lives in Little Rock, had returned in June from an 18-month tour of dut y overseas as a JAG officer with the 39th Infantry Brigade of the Arkansas Army National Guard. He’d been in Iraq throughout 2004, as a bloody insurgency expanded; that summer, Edwards was still “just trying to get back into the world,” as he put it. But Louisiana’s largest Guard unit, the 256th Infantry, was still deployed overseas, and so it fell to the 39th Infantry to bring belated relief to those stranded in New Orleans.

A little over 24 hours later, Edwards found himself aboard a C-130 en route to Louisiana, along with some 200 other Arkansas servicemen from the 39th Infantry.

“We essentially had the same equipment with us as when we rolled into Baghdad — our helmets, our body armor, our weapons,” Edwards recalled recently.

The transport planes landed just after nightfall at the Naval air station in Belle Chasse, where the 39th Infantry rendezvoused with the Louisiana National Guard. They tried to catch some sleep in a junior high school at the base, but Edwards lay awake most of the night, stretched out on a row of chairs in a counselor’s office and fearing what they might have to do the next day.

“The initial reports we were given [said] to expect, you know, hostile activity from the local population.

And we were issued live ammunition. I just remember thinking, ‘This could be the day some of our soldiers actually might have to draw down on fellow Americans,’ ” he said.

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FROM IRAQ TO NEW ORLEANS: John Edwards went to New Orleans with the 39th Infantry.

“As a JAG officer, one of my principal duties in wartime overseas [is to] give commanders guidance on the rules of engagement. When to shoot, when not to shoot, how you shoot. …

Almost all the soldiers we had with us in Belle Chasse were veterans of the war in Iraq. I was always very proud of the 39th’s discipline — we’d never had a soldier charged with an improper shooting while we were in Iraq. But this is different. This is different. You’re on American soil.”

Around 2 a.m., Edwards received orders concerning the “rules for the use of force,” or RUF — the stateside equivalent of rules of engagement — for the operation in New Orleans.

“The main point was that soldiers have the inherent right to defend themselves if someone is trying to kill or seriously harm you,” he said.

The “Louisiana RUF” card Edwards showed the Times — he kept a copy — allowed the use of deadly force to protect the life of others, but explicitly ruled out its use for protection of property.

Looking back at the rumors emerging from New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Katrina, it’s

not surprising the military distributed live ammo. Sensational stories mutated and multiplied: mass rapes, murders, heaps of hundreds of corpses piled inside the Superdome and New Orleans Convention Center, which had become shelters of last resort for thousands of people driven from their homes. The 39th Infantry was tasked with delivering aid to the crowds in and around the convention center, a hulking 3-million-squarefoot complex near downtown. They braced themselves for the possibility of violence.

At around 4 a.m. on Sept. 2, the soldiers climbed aboard buses and crossed over the Mississippi into the pitch blackness of a city without power. They disembarked at a freeway off-ramp near the Superdome and began making their way eastward just as the horizon began to brighten.

“Right about then, we see these people start moving towards us in the water,” Edwards remembered.

“I’m thinking to myself, ‘Is this going to be it? Are we going to have trouble?’ And as we get closer to them, we see they’re all foreign corre-

spondents. There’s someone from the BBC, someone from Le Monde, someone from a German paper.

“The guy from the BBC says, ‘Hello! Are you the chaps from ArKansas? ’ I say, ‘Yes, we are.’ And he says, ‘How do you feel about the governor’s shoot-to-kill order?’ ” No such order had been issued, but (unbeknownst to Edwards) Democratic Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco had suggested as much in her press conference the previous day announcing the deployment of the 39th Infantry.

“They have M-16s, and they’re locked and loaded. ... These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so if necessary, and I expect they will,” Blanco had said, which further abetted the rumors of chaotic violence.

A f ter Edwa rds a ssured t he reporters the unit had no directive to shoot looters, the soldiers paused for several hours in a parking deck as they waited for the arrival of a convoy of five-ton trucks carrying water, MREs and medical supplies. By noon, they continued on their way.

“I’ll never forget when we turned

onto Convention Center Boulevard and got a full view of the scene.

There was just this huge mass of humanity, as far as the eye could see,” Edwards recalled.

It’s estimated that as many as 20,000 people had been awaiting rescue at the convention center for days on end, with little or no food and water.

“Almost everyone was really young or really old — those were the people who had the hardest time getting out of town. I remember seeing a couple of young pregnant women and thinking, ‘Y’all could give birth any moment now.’ You’d also see [physically disabled] people on these electric scooters — wherever their power ran out, that’s where they were stuck.”

Although the crowd was suffering and desperate, the soldiers quickly realized the reports of hostility had been inaccurate.

“People were screaming with joy.

Everyone was friendly, everyone was very polite. So, after a couple of hours, [the commanding officer] allowed everyone to take off their helmets and body armor.

“There had been some looting, but I was expecting worse. You had some people who were drunk, but if I’d been stuck out in 105-degree heat, I might have been getting drunk, too. … And you did see a lot of the best of humanity. I remember a young black man in his late teens, early 20s, tending to an elderly white lady in a wheelchair. He was always there with her, making sure she was getting water and had shade. You saw a lot of things like that.”

By sundown, the soldiers had distributed food and water to everyone in the crowd, some of whom were so badly dehydrated they required immediate medical care. “We went through 400 IV bags in short order.

There was an elderly woman who died the day we arrived, I believe from dehydration. If the combat medics had not been with us, there would have been a lot more casualties that day.”

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When I tell you I think this is where I was supposed to be, beyond a shadow of a doubt, I believe that. — Barbara Scorza were wanting to give our soldiers stuff to drink. They meant it quite well, but … automatic weapons and alcohol is not a good combination, especially when you’ve got a bunch of guys who’d just come back from a year in a place where you weren’t supposed to drink at all. We had to have a lot of talks.”

Edwards, who served as a Democratic state representative from 2009 to 2014, blamed the delayed response on officials from the local level (he has especially harsh words for New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin) to the top of the chain of command.

“You had this perfect storm. Nagin, Blanco, President Bush … . There was all this misinformation about who was in charge. Everyone was losing.

People were suffering for it.” As for the military, “we couldn’t go [to New Orleans] until we got the order.”

BARBARA SCORZA

When the storm surge breached the levees of the Lower Ninth Ward, Barbara Scorza was left stranded in the attic with her mother. The waters rose high enough for Scorza to dangle her feet and play in the flood, or so she was told later. She was nine months old that September 1965, and the storm was named Hurricane Betsy.

Forty years later, almost to the day, Scorza locked the gate to that same house early one Sunday morning and pointed her Nissan Altima

toward Memphis, f leeing another hurricane. Her 82-year-old mother rode shotgun; in the backseat were her two sons, 11 and 25, wedged alongside three grandchildren ages 3, 5 and 7.

In the living room of her North Little Rock home on a recent afternoon, Scorza said she’s sure divine intervention guided her to Arkansas.

On Saturday night, she was still trying to figure out whether to leave or not. Mayor Ray Nagin’s order for mandatory evacuation didn’t come until 10 a.m. Sunday.

“Around midnight — and this sounds strange to people who don’t believe — I woke up thinking about this scripture in 2 Chronicles where Jehoshaphat was facing an army, and

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foam, and the men unrolled it for makeshift bedding. The next morning, Sept. 3, they began evacuating the crowds: “All day, it was a constant motion of assisting people onto buses.”

By the night of Sept. 3 — five agonizing days after the storm made landfall in Louisiana — the convention center had been cleared, and the 39th Infantry turned to providing security to clinics and other relief operations. The soldiers never encountered significant hostility in the following months. Just the opposite — one of the commanders’ biggest problems, Edwards said, was “the over-exuberance of the local populace.”

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She woke her older son, and together they packed the trunk of the car with three days’ worth of clothes for everyone, Scorza’s laptop and an ice chest filled with sandwich supplies. Then, they roused the rest of the family and were headed north on I-55 by 6 a.m.

Scorza chose Memphis only because they hadn’t gone there in past hurricane evacuations. (“We may as well go someplace new and see what it’s like,” she said.) But the hotel room was in bad shape, and she didn’t like Memphis, so she opened up her laptop and reserved the first hotel room she saw, a Days Inn in Cabot.

That Monday, Katrina slammed into New Orleans. Scorza spent the day making calls, checking up on the friends and family she could locate, still assuming she’d be back home in a few days. On Tuesday came the news: The levees had failed and the Lower Ninth was under 12 feet of water.

“That’s when things changed,” she sighed.

She bought a hot plate from the Family Dollar across the street and decided to extend her motel reservation until the weekend. But when she went to the front desk, she was told that a passing stranger who noticed her Louisiana license plate had already paid for her room through Saturday. As she walked back to her room, a man pulled up in a car and asked to pray with her — then handed her an envelope containing $300. Another man approached her and asked if he could take her family to dinner.

“Story after story after story,” Scorza marveled. A bank took a collection; an orthodontist fixed her braces free of charge. The Patrick Hays Center in North Little Rock provided her family with meals.

Within a week, she’d received a housing voucher from the Red Cross and was set up in an apartment in

North Little Rock. “When I tell you I think this is where I was supposed to be, beyond a shadow of a doubt, I believe that,” she said.

It wasn’t until the end of 2005 that Scorza was able to return to the Lower Ninth. She found her childhood home erased from the earth.

“The foundation was still there, but … it was as if someone had taken the house and ripped it away. The water meter that was on the side of the house was literally straight up in the air, as if someone had pulled it like that.” She made a yanking motion with one hand. The few items she found were maddeningly random: By the curb, a glass pickle jar filled with rice. A single blackand-gold shirt, tangled in a fence.

And, impossibly, a welcome mat still in place where the front door had been. In the backyard was her neighbor’s house, turned around almost 180 degrees, its front door facing the slab where her own home had stood.

“It was insane.”

Before the storm, Scorza worked for a housing nonprofit that assisted people with HIV/AIDS, and she continued to work remotely until the terms of a grant demanded she return home or lose the position.

Her younger son and her grandkids were doing well in North Little Rock schools, and she’d have to build from scratch in New Orleans, she said.

“That’s when I knew this was going to be home.” Scorza soon found a job as director of operations at her church, Fellowship North, where she works today with single mothers and people in need.

“I do miss New Orleans,” she admitted. “I miss the food. In the beginning, I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t get a po’ boy here. I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t get stuffed merletons.” Most people in Arkansas have never heard of the fruit, also known as chayotes. “We’re a state right above you! How can you not know merletons?”

She misses the people — the friends she grew up with, the culture of a city where neighbors swap stories and conversation as a daily matter of course. “I miss sitting outside on a porch, where you can hang out and just talk and watch

people. … I want to see that happen here,” Scorza lamented. Still, she said, “I feel like I’ve been embraced

by Arkansas.”

“I like seeing the snow, as long as I can stay home. I’ve grown to like watching the trees change. I don’t like raking the leaves, not at all,” she laughed. “And another thing that was really strange to me in the beginning: hills. Like, what are these things?”

Scorza’s family has seen its share of tragedy since settling here. Her oldest son, who had lupus, died in 2011 of a heart attack. Her mother died the next year. But she’s raising the three grandkids herself (now 13, 15 and 17), and her younger son, Kendrick, is a senior this fall at Ouachita Baptist Univeristy.

Despite all she’s faced, Scorza is thankful she had the resources to get her family out of Katrina’s path. “I had friends who were there in the Superdome. I had people in my neighborhood who did not get out. There was a mom who lived not far from us who died in her home with seven children,” she said. Most of those stranded, she pointed out, didn’t have a vehicle in which to escape to Arkansas or anywhere else.

“The areas hardest hit were predominately African-American, lowerincome. They were areas without transportation. Telling people to leave without any means for them to leave is ridiculous.

“I think the response time was horrible. … I do feel like race played a huge part, and the fact that they didn’t have money,” she said. “It’s unbelievable this was happening on American soil.”

LUTHER WILLIAMS

What brought Luther G. Williams to Arkansas in August 2005 was simple: A good friend had a friend in Little Rock who worked in a hotel.

With hundreds of thousands of evacuees headed west to Texas or north to Mississippi, Williams and his 92-year-old father decided instead to drive northwest, along with Williams’ friend and the friend’s family.

The question is why Williams, a child of the Creole-f lavored Seventh Ward, is still here a decade later.

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a man like Luther Williams — a jazz pianist of no small talent, a Biblical scholar, a former communications professor at Clark Atlanta, a bari-

tone singer who’s a veteran of gospel groups across NOLA — choose West Little Rock over New Orleans?

“I like Arkansas! Why are you still in Arkansas?” he exclaimed. “Look,

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man, my dad and I were walking in the parking lot [of our apartment building] shortly before his stroke.

I said, ‘Dad, you hear that?’ ” Williams paused for several beats to let the silence build. “He looked at me quizzically, and I said, ‘Exactly.’

“New Orleans is a noisy place.

Even the food makes noise. It’s so much sound! It’s an onslaught on the senses,” he said. “It’s a far cry from the Natural State. I’m at the stage of my life where I want quiet. I’m contemplative. I grew up playing music for myself. ... I just want to be left alone so I can write.”

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right after his father died in 2010 — he applies the same ecumenical vision he preaches on Sundays to the twists his life has taken.

“When you live in New Orleans for a time, you begin to take on this … aura,” Williams said, his hand sketching a loose circle in the air. “There are only two places in the world: New Orleans and everyplace else.

The smugness and self-centeredness begins to envelop you. One day, God will make an attitude adjustment, and you just live your life in the meantime.

“Well, on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, the attitude adjustment came, in a big way,” he said.

Ask him what he misses about home, and he won’t hesitate. “I miss singing in a quartet. … It’s hard to

of my life where I want quiet. — Luther Williams

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find a group. I can thrive individually, but I don’t find a lot of coordinated [artistic] consciousness in Arkansas,” Williams said. In 2013, he returned to New Orleans to record an album

RECENT ARRIVALS: Williams and his father in 2005 soon after fleeing New Orleans.

with the Zion Harmonizers, a venerated gospel group that’s been a part of the city for 75 years. (The weekend Williams spoke with the Times, he’d intended to be back home for the 10th anniversary of Katrina, singing in a celebration with another gospel group called the Masonic Kings. But duty called: “Nobody could take my place at church, so it didn’t happen,” he said cheerfully.)

“I miss my walks along Elysian Fields” — the broad avenue that runs through Gentilly and the Faubourg Marigny before terminating at the northeast corner of the French Quarter — “the whole length of Elysian Fields, and down to the lake, and by the lake, and back. … There’s something about it that says ‘Yes. You are here.’ It speaks to you when you walk down Elysian Fields. ‘This is what it’s meant to be.’

“I canvass the lake, and I canvass the levee, and if I want to jog or walk, I can. Here in West Little Rock, I don’t have that kind of terrain. What do I have, Markham?” He laughed.

“I’ve got to dodge traffic to walk in West Little Rock.”

Then there are the restaurants.

“I’m not talking about the food itself.

I’ve had great food here in Arkansas, some of the best burgers! Food is not the problem. With New Orleans, it’s the culture, it’s the atmosphere. ...

You sit down at a table with bleached white linen with fresh picked magnolia blossoms and the fragrance is wafting through the air as you listen to the piercing clarinet of Sidney Bechet.” He drew an ecstatic breath.

“Oh, my, you just want to lay in it, and it’s just so lush!”

“I miss that kind of thing tremendously,” he admitted. But Arkansas, he insisted, has its own treasures, neglected by the mainstream of the world.

“I’ve met some people here who have impacted my life like nothing else,” he said. “I don’t care if that’s an inverted experience! My sights have been broadened upon coming to Arkansas. ... My mind has expanded in a way that it never had in New Orleans.

“No more of that self-centered smugness about New Orleans versus everyplace else! I love it. I say to myself, ‘Until I get to heaven, Arkansas will have to do.’ ”

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THE SCOTTISH PLAYERS: Lady Macbeth (Correa) cradles Macbeth (Allen) (above); Macduff (Rabinowitz) will prevail.

hakespeare “is to be seen and not read,” says Michael Stewart Allen, who plays Macbeth in the Arkansas Repertory’s upcoming performance of the Scottish Play, and so we can cast away any trepidation left over from struggles with the Bard’s 16th century verse during high school English.

Even the actors in “Macbeth,” which opens Friday, Sept. 11, weren’t quite sure what their lines meant when they gathered for their readings of the play, Allen said.

But the play’s the thing, to quote another Shakespeare play: Once the actors started to speak the lines, act the lines — put the play “on its feet” as they say — the genius of the English-speaking world’s greatest writer emerges.

At any rate, “Macbeth,” the bloodiest of Shakespeare’s plays, about a man whose ambition to be king turns him into a murderer and then a madman, has so many familiar lines that one need not worry about grasping the words. The opening — the three witches — must be the most familiar theatrical scene there is. So screw your courage to the sticking post and dig in, because something wicked this way comes.

“I’m always excited when we can do Shakespeare,” producing artistic director Robert Hupp said. Hupp, who’s referred to the play as the “original ‘House of Cards’ ” in publicity, noted the great response that has CONTINUED ON PAGE 25

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It will be an extension of her short film of the same name, which was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival. Youssef has said she chose Little Rock because of the contemporary resonance of the Central High crisis — her main character is a Central High student. Find the film on Facebook at facebook.com/marjounandtheflyingheadscarf.

A NEW BOOK, “SCARS: AN ANTHOLOGY,” which aims to “examine the range and nuance of experience related to scars of the body,” features five writers from Little Rock, including Erin Wood (also the book’s editor), Jason Wiest, Phillip Martin, Andrea Zekis and Lea Clyburn. Released by Little Rock publishing outfit Et Alia Press, the book features 40 contributors on a wide range of topics: “self-mutilation, creating art, gender confirmation surgery, cancer, birth, brain injury, war, coming of age, pain, and love, all focusing on the central question of what it means to live with physical scars.”

New York Times columnist Lisa Sanders writes: “If scars are the memory of pain, then this volume is a body of those memories recollected as stories — stories as compelling, as vivid, as dramatic as the thing, the scar, itself.”

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it is cursed and that it brings such misfortunate that it is bad luck even to say its name aloud. (Sir Lawrence Olivier’s sword broke during one fight, sending a shard into the audience and giving a playgoer a heart attack. Another actor was stabbed with a sword during a performance and eventually died of his wounds. And so forth.) Some say it is the dim lighting often used to produce the drear ambiance that has helped rack up the injuries.

Whatever, the actors at The Rep don’t seem to be afraid of disaster. That might be because they will wear blessed shoes.

When they arrived, one of the first things they did was have their feet traced for moccasins to be made by FaeMoon Wolf Designs of Colorado. FaeMoon’s Katy and Crowwolf, a Lakota Sioux, blessed the completed moccasins with smoke before sending them here.

Allen has appeared in Rep productions “Wait Until Dark,� “Of Mice and Men,� “Romeo and Juliet� and “The Grapes of Wrath.� Rabinowitz is making his debut at The Rep, as is Jacqueline Correa, as Lady Macbeth. Mitch Tebo, who plays the doomed Duncan but gets to return in later acts in other roles, performed in “Henry V� at The Rep. The tragedy runs through Sept. 27 with public performances at 7 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Sundays. Opening night is sold out. Pay your age night, which provides four tickets for persons 40 and under, is Sept. 13. Hupp and the cast will talk about the play at noon Sept.

10 in Sturgis Hall at the Clinton School of Public Service. The Arkansas Times and Golden Eagle are sponsoring a preshow brew tasting of Goose Island at 6 p.m. Sept.

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met The Rep’s previous Shakespearean productions, which come roughly every two or three years — “Henry V� in 2012, especially; “Hamlet� in 2010; “Much Ado About Nothing� in 2005; “Romeo and Juliet� in 2004, and “The Tempest� in 2002.

This is Hupp’s first time to direct “Macbeth.� No matter; “Shakespeare gives you everything you need to know in the words,� he said. Rather than bringing it into contemporary times (an Australian production staged it as a gang war), he’s leaving it smack dab in the grim 11th century, with period costumes and wigs and so forth, and lets the language lead.

Though Macbeth’s “rise and fall is universal,� Hupp said, he thought it was important that it keep its evocative historical distance. Set designer Mike Nichols has created a minimal stage inspired by the standing stones of Scotland, to create the feel of both castle and battlefield.

A computer program being created by Aristotle will add a “surprise� element, Hupp said. Mark Binns has composed an original score for the season opener, using electronic keyboards, a violin, a viola, percussion and a French horn to mark the movement of time and providing each character with his own theme.

Geoffrey Kent is the fight director, choreographing the swordfights. Allen and Seth Rabinowitz (Macduff) “have fought on stage before,� Rabinowitz said, but with more directed choreography.

Kent, instead, has asked them, “What do you want to do with your sword?� so that they may play out their characters in how they choose to fight. “Their job,� Hupp said, “is to give the impression of danger, eight times a week,� without actually harming one another. (The swords are wooden, but heavy).

In fact, Hupp said, historically it is accidents with the swords that created the mythology around “Macbeth� that

Michael Stewart Allen (Macbeth) in Macbeth. Photo by John David Pittman.

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A&E FEATURE

MODERN GUILT: Liquid Skulls music is “grim, gorgeous and enigmatic.”

DARKWAVE A Q&A with Liquid Skulls.

WILL STEPHENSON

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iquid Skulls is the recording moniker of Little Rock native Jimmy Spice, who makes grim, gorgeous and enigmatic music using synths, obscured vocals and bursts of noise. Spice has a gift for wringing the personal and 26

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the expressive out of otherwise cold, forbidding and industrial material, and the result is a kind of deeply introspective, outsider pop — like the soundtrack to a true-crime mystery set in Antarctica, or a road trip on the moon. His full-length

“SEE GOD IN MISTAKES” was one of my favorite local records of last year, and his latest release is a split cassette EP with Austin’s LACHANE. Listen to his music at liquidskulls.bandcamp.com.

What is Liquid Skulls — where did the name come from?

Liquid Skulls was formed out of cobwebs, boredom, sloppiness, euphoria, joblessness, fleeting moments, liquid curses and lost responsibilities. I wanted a project that had no restrictions, no genre and was open to unplanned experimentation. It is an escape.

I saw on Facebook that a fan donated a computer to you recently.

That seems amazing and generous.

How did that happen?

My good friend and constant source of inspiration, Neil Lord, played some of my tunes at work. One patron connected with the music, reached out and we’ve become good friends and collaborators.

She donated a laptop so that I could score her film. Artistic synergy.

How did you end up on a French compilation?

I was lucky enough to collaborate and release material with two French labels, Anywave and Stellar Kinematic, via Facebook. After lengthy Facebook messages (and me unashamedly sending them countless songs), it became obvious that our tastes and artistic goals were similar and moving in the same direction.

Stellar Kinematics was kind enough to release a digital EP. A lot of your records seem indebted to that moment in the late ’70s or early ’80s when synthesizers and drum machines were first being introduced in rock music. That clunky, spacey, sometimes jarring, rudimentary electronic sound. What is it about that era or that sound that appeals to you?

To me, synthesizers are as important and now ubiquitous in music as the human voice. A pivotal moment in history was the 12-year period from 1971 through 1983 where synthesizers went from an obscure musical oddity to the defining sound of a decade. The way this era manipulated and constructed new sounds and tones from electronic devices created what are, to me, the most groundbreaking deconstructions of pop music.

Repetitive, sequenced synthesizer patterns have always inspired me for their total disregard for the traditional notions of length or song structure prevalent in pop music.

Sometimes your records sound like pop songs buried in noise, and other times they sound like noise songs buried in pop — do you think either of these descriptions is true?

Pop song, noise — it’s an ebb and flow in and out of structure, trying to express the emotional landscape of any particular moment. That can be grounded in more noise, or in more repetition of sounds, lyrics, etc. I enjoy playing with the structure, and generally don’t conceive of it intellectually. I want it to be open to any interpretation or experimentation.

Does your music have anything to do with living in Arkansas?

Growing up in Arkansas has definitely been an influence. I was fortunate to have met artists and musicians (Andrew Morgan and Everett Hagen, to name two) that have pushed and expanded my musical boundaries. Having said that, I wouldn’t necessarily associate Liquid Skulls with Arkansas, though I’m sure some of my personal experiences, along with my warped perception of Little Rock’s Southern decay, have bled through.

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Walk in the Woods’: Robert Redford (left) and Nick Nolte star.

‘Walk in the Woods’ a trudge Redford stumbles as Bryson.

BY JAMES MATTHEWS

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ourteen years ago this week, my best friend and I set out to hike a section of the Appalachian Trail.

By way of preparation, we had spent the summer walking across cotton fields in Mississippi (not by choice; it was our job, as cotton scouts) and reading “A Walk in the Woods,” Bill Bryson’s account of his own AT hike with his childhood friend Stephen Katz.

We read that book in the truck, bouncing over backroads and turnrows, sitting under pecan trees on our lunch breaks. My friend would read to himself until his snorting and laughing became unbearable to the rest of us and we made him read whole passages aloud.

When we did make it onto the Appalachian Trail that September, the book influenced how we experienced the trail.

Like Bryson and Katz, we were traveling as a pair, and like them we came away with our own trail stories — the conservative Lutheran who demanded a fresh shave and shower every morning, the bear we thought we almost saw. And the next-to-last day of our hike, the man running up a side trail to tell us planes had been flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

That hiking trip was a watershed moment for my friend and me. We were young men on an adventure, and we re-emerged on Sept. 12, 2001, into a different world from the one we had left days earlier.

Which is all a long way to say that if anyone was going to love the newly released “A Walk in the Woods,” it should have been us. And it seemed a fitting coincidence that, last weekend, after having lived in different states for almost a decade, my friend and I and his twin brother all found ourselves in the

same city, and on the very weekend the movie was opening nationwide.

And yet.

The movie version of “A Walk in the Woods” is all wrong, starting with the casting of Robert Redford as the lead character, Bill Bryson. (Redford is also a producer.) First of all, Bryson is a deeply funny man, and Redford has the comedic timing of a walrus.

But there is a larger problem with his portrayal, which some have chalked up to Redford’s being too old for the role.

That’s not precisely the problem. Redford is still lithe and ruggedly handsome enough to pull off adventure roles, as he proved in 2013’s “All Is Lost.” It’s more nagging than that: Redford is playing a real person, Bill Bryson. Bryson was in his mid-40s when he took his hike; in fact, he is today only 63. So somewhere, the 63-year-old Bryson is watching a 79-year-old Redford portraying his (Bryson’s) younger self. I found it all too much to wrap my head around and missed the first five minutes of the movie lost in an ontological haze.

The visual incongruities mount from there. The trees in a frigid early March already in full mid-summer leaf. Emma Thompson as Bryson’s British wife, spray-tanned to match New England fall foliage. The terrible green-screen backgrounds.

And the plot is a disjointed collection of scenes and cameos — including Mary Steenburgen as the proprietor of a family-owned hotel and Kristen Schaal as a know-it-all hiker. In the book, the spaces between episodes are filled with Bryson’s internal dialogue, his insights and humor. But the movie has none of this. In the book, for example, Bryson’s attempt to cross a multi-lane highway CONTINUED ON PAGE 36

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THE TO-DO

LIST

BY LINDSEY MILLAR, LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK AND WILL STEPHENSON

SATURDAY 9/12

ARKANSAS VS. TOLEDO

3 p.m. War Memorial Stadium. $55.

AS TIME GOES BY: "Casablaca" screens at the Ron Robinson Theater at 7 p.m. Friday, $5.

FRIDAY 9/11

‘CASABLANCA’

7 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater. $5.

“Casablanca” director Michael Curtiz was the Spielberg of his day, for better and for worse. One of the best-compensated of Hollywood’s mercenary, workfor-hire filmmakers in the 1940s and ’50s (“hack” might be too strong a word, or maybe not), Curtiz directed hundreds of World War II propaganda efforts (“Mission to Moscow”), top-shelf noir melodramas (“Mildred Pierce”) and, particularly, action films (“The Adventures of

Robin Hood”). He was never especially admired by film buffs — being less an auteur than an example of bureaucratic, studio-system competence — though his films were generally effective, unobtrusive and profitable. Which is what makes the enduring reverence for “Casablanca” so surprising. It didn’t seem like a classic right away. The New Yorker called it “pretty tolerable,” and Variety’s rave, that it’s “splendid anti-Axis propaganda,” hasn’t aged well. What has remained entertaining and relevant over the years is its all-pervading atmosphere of nostalgia

and light cynicism. It makes sense that we look back on it fondly, because the film is itself about looking back, fondly (“Play it once, Sam, for old times’ sake,” “We’ll always have Paris,” etc.). Bogart is bleakly funny and the bit players — Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt — are unusually inspired. The L.A. Times has cited “the purity of its Golden Age Hollywoodness,” and I think that’s right — it’s the platonic ideal of the old studio movie. Not revelatory or challenging, just comfortable and familiar and good. WS

FRIDAY 9/11

AN EVENING WITH DIANNE REEVES

7:30 p.m. Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. $50.

Dianne Reeves is a five-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer who has been called, by the jazz historian Scott Yanow, “a logical successor to Dinah Washington and Carmen McRae.” She’s 28

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toured with Harry Belafonte and Sergio Mendes and frequently works with the pianist Peter Martin (who’s performed at South on Main more than once in the past year). She’s recorded with Lou Rawls, Solomon Burke, Billy Childs, Lionel Hampton and many more. She has an honorary doctorate from Juilliard, and a longtime association with the

legendary jazz label Blue Note. But don’t take my word for it; take George Clooney’s: When the actor needed to cast a jazz singer for 2005’s “Good Night, and Good Luck,” he picked her. Rodney Block and the Real Music Lovers open, and all proceeds from the show will go to the Mosaic Templars’ various educational and outreach programs. WS

For curmudgeons like me, who don’t like getting up early to stake out a prime tailgating spot or drinking in the heat or sitting in the stands with your knees jammed tight next to sometimes-obnoxious strangers, the SEC’s TV deal with ESPN is a godsend. Every Razorbacks game is now available to me in beautiful HD from the comfort of my living room, where I only have to contend with my sometimes-obnoxious children. But! I remember days spent at War Memorial before I became a curmudgeon, and they were often magical: tailgate hopping, gawking at elaborate grilling and roasting rigs, owning folks at cornhole, witnessing the first flashes of brilliance from Darren McFadden and Felix Jones, losing it after the Miracle on Markham. So, if you haven’t yet crossed over to the dark side, by all means go. Even if just to do the tailgating business, go. Last year, the university extended its contract with War Memorial for one football game a year through 2018.

After that, the smart money says the number moves to zero. So four more opportunities to go Hog wild.

Make ’em count. LM

SATURDAY 9/12

3RD ANNUAL URBAN RAW FESTIVAL

3-9 p.m. Dunbar Community Garden Project.

The Urban Raw Festival is unlike most other Little Rock block parties in that, along with the food trucks and live music, it “seeks to nurture our creative and spiritual potential.”

It will do this with yoga (bring your mat), workshops on D.I.Y. screen printing and food co-ops, gardening tips, chakra balancing (bring your crystals), vegan food, fermentation (bring your mason jars) and music by 9th Scientist, Osyrus Tha God, Crystal C. Mercer & Buddy Case, CJ Boyd and The Cult of the Butterly Foddess & The Vudu Hippies (featuring Empress Rootwork). Most inspiring of all, it’s free. WS

IN BRIEF

THURSDAY 9/10

TUESDAY 9/15-WEDNESDAY 9/16

ACANSA ARTS FESTIVAL KICKOFF Various venues.

The five-day performing and visual arts festival ACANSA opens its second year with a pregame show at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at The Rep’s new Black Box Theater at 550 Main St. The Rep’s producing artistic director, Bob Hupp; Arkansas Symphony Music Director Philip Mann, and gallery owner Greg Thompson will talk about upcoming festival events, which run through Sept.

20. The event is free, but registra-

tion is requested (acansaartsfestival.org). Also on Tuesday, the exhibition “A Little Poetry: the Art of Alonzo Ford” opens at the Arkansas Arts Center as part of the festival. At noon Wednesday, artist Bob Snider will give a painting demonstration and talk at the Thea Foundation, 401 Main St. in North Little Rock, as the first of three Lunch and Learn Days (free). At 5:30 p.m. the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, hosted by First Lady Susan Hutchinson, will take to the middle of Main Street between Fifth and Sixth to perform,

and ReCreation Studios will provide entertainment (free). At 7:30 p.m., the Hi-Balls alt-country band will play at McLeod Fine Art at 108 W. Sixth St., around the corner from the Symphony “stage”; tickets are $25. A gold pass ($350) gets you into all festival events plus “Meet the Artist” receptions, a silver pass ($250) gets you into all events (but not “Meet the Artist” events) and a VIP ticket of $35 gets you into a Black Box party during the Symphony performance Wednesday.

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history of the genre, often credited for elevating the art of rare-groove sampling from a tired cliche to an introspective, visionary practice.

He died of an uncommon blood disorder in 2006, three days after the release of his now-canonized solo instrumental record “Donuts.” I can’t help preferring his beats with voices over them — he was at the center of the post-D.A.I.S.Y. Ageconscious rap axis, producing tracks for De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots, Common, et RAISE IT UP: Slum Village performs at Revolution at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, $10 adv., $13 day of. al. But he was close to his best with Slum Village, his high school friends, and particularly their album “Fantastic WEDNESDAY 9/16 Volume II,” full of warm and weird production (building entire songs this rap shit; I listen to classical.” from single words or phrases he 8:30 p.m. Revolution. $10 adv., $13 He was also diagnosed as schizofound on obscure ’70s jazz and funk day of. phrenic and manic depressive. “The albums) and guest appearances by Of the three Detroit teenagers confusion started verbally,” he once Busta Rhymes and D’Angelo. Today who founded Slum Village in the explained. “I would be angry and the group consists of T3 (the other early 1990s, two of them have since lash out and go crazy. I was like: Do original member) and producer died. There was Baatin, a memoraI got demons? I couldn’t control it.”

Young RJ, though their 2015 release ble and unpredictable rapper who He left the group in 2003 and died at “Yes!” features posthumous produccould lapse into loony impressions home in 2009 at age 35. The other, tion from J Dilla, and they remain Detroit’s best-loved rap group that in the middle of a verse. He had the better-known casualty was producer J Dilla, a crucial martyr-figure in the group’s most quotable line: “Fuck isn’t the Insane Clown Posse. WS

SLUM VILLAGE

Director Bob Hupp moderates a panel discussion on The Rep’s new production of “Macbeth,” at the Clinton School’s Sturgis Hall, noon. Comedian Mark Poolos is at the Loony Bin at 7:30 p.m., $7 (and at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, $10). Lex Norwood performs as part of the Music Innovators Series at The Joint in Argenta, 7:30 p.m., $20. Local H plays at Stickyz with locals The Dangerous Idiots, 8:30 p.m., $10 adv., $12 day of. Spero plays at the White Water Tavern with Isaac Alexander and Nathan Houser, 9:30 p.m.

FRIDAY 9/11 The Old State House Museum screens “War Eagle, Arkansas” as part of its Second Friday Cinema series, 5 p.m., free. Movies in the Park continues with “Guardians of the Galaxy” at First Security Amphitheater, sunset, free. Jonathan Tyler performs at Stickyz with Vintage Pistol and Van Darian, 8:30 p.m., $10. The Intruders play at the Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7-$12.

So This Is Suffering plays at Vino’s with Triumph Over Shipwreck, Roots Like Mountains and All Is At An End, 9 p.m., $10. Bonnie Montgomery plays at White Water with Palomino Shakedown, 9:30 p.m.

SATURDAY 9/12 Fayetteville jam band Goose plays at Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $10.

Foulplay Cabaret is at Maxine’s in Hot Springs, 9 p.m., $10-$12. Ezra Lbs plays with Bob For Apples at The Lightbulb Club in Fayetteville, 9 p.m. Country singer Frank Foster is at Revolution, 9 p.m., $20. Local punk band Trophy Boyfriends plays at White Water, 9:30 p.m.

MONDAY 9/14 Jeff Smith, urban policy professor and former Missouri state senator, gives a lecture titled “Mr. Smith Goes to Prison: What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America’s Prison Crisis,” at the Clinton School’s Sturgis Hall, noon. The Arkansas Repertory Theatre hosts a Grand Opening for the Main Street Creative Corridor at 3 p.m. Indie pop singer Zella Day performs at Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $12. Cult Nashville metal band Today Is the Day plays at Vino’s with Abigail Williams and Lifer, 8 p.m., $7. www.arktimes.com

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 10

MUSIC

El Campo, Jack Kerowax. Maxine’s, 9 p.m., free.

700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. www.maxinespub.com.

“Inferno.” DJs play pop, electro, house and more, plus drink specials and $1 cover before 11 p.m.

Sway, 9 p.m. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582.

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.

Lex Norwood. The Music Innovators Series. The Joint, 7:30 p.m., $20. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Local H, The Dangerous Idiots. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8:30 p.m., $10 adv., $12 day of. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com.

Mister Lucky (headliner), Byron (happy hour).

Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.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.

RockUsaurus. Senor Tequila, 7-9 p.m. 10300 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-224-5505.

Spero, Isaac Alexander, Nathan Houser. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-3758400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 8 p.m., free. 111 W. Markham St. 501-370-7013. www. capitalbarandgrill.com.

COMEDY

Mark Poolos. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m., $7. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www. loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS

The Unexpected Mural Festival. Downtown Fort Smith Farmers Market, through Sept. 13.

201 Garrison Ave., Fort Smith. 479-784-1001. www.GoDowntownFS.com/farmersmarket.aspx.

LECTURES

“Macbeth,” a panel discussion. Sturgis Hall, noon. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5200. clintonschool.uasys.edu.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 11

MUSIC

All In Fridays. Club Elevations. 7200 Colonel Glenn Road. 501-562-3317.

Bonnie Montgomery, Palomino Shakedown.

White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

Boom Kinetic. Revolution, 9:30 p.m., $10. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rum30

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SADNESS WILL PREVAIL: Cult Nashville metal band Today Is the Day plays at Vino’s with Abigail Williams and Lifer, 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14, $7.

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An Evening with Dianne Reeves. Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 7:30 p.m., $50. 501 W. 9th St. 501-683-3593. www.mosaictemplarscenter.com.

The Intruders. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 9 p.m., $7-$12. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com.

Jonathan Tyler, Vintage Pistol, Van Darian.

Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8:30 p.m., $10. 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.

Quintessential Octopus, White Kyle. Maxine’s, 9 p.m., $5. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. www. maxinespub.com.

Route 66. Agora Conference and Special Event Center, 6:30 p.m., $5. 705 E. Siebenmorgan, Conway.

Rustenhaven (headliner), R&R (happy hour).

Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com.

Shannon Boshears (headliner), Richie Johnson (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m.

2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com.

So This Is Suffering, Triumph Over Shipwreck, Roots Like Mountains, All Is At An End. Vino’s, 9 p.m., $10. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www. vinosbrewpub.com.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 8 p.m., free. 111 W. Markham St. 501-370-7013. www. capitalbarandgrill.com.

Upscale Friday. IV Corners, 7 p.m. 824 W. Capitol Ave.

COMEDY

“Lou Tells a Bog One.” An original production

by The Main Thing. The Joint, 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

Mark Poolos. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., $10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

DANCE

Ballroom dancing. Free lessons begin at 7 p.m.

Bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 8-11 p.m., $7-$13. 12th and Cleveland streets. 501221-7568. www.blsdance.org.

Contra Dance. Park Hill Presbyterian Church, 7:30 p.m., $5. 3520 JFK Blvd., NLR. arkansascountrydance.org.

“Salsa Night.” Begins with a one-hour salsa lesson. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $8. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.littlerocksalsa.com.

EVENTS

Fantastic Friday. Literary and music event, refreshments included. For reservations, call 479-968-2452 or email artscenter@centurytel. net. River Valley Arts Center, Every third Friday, 7 p.m., $10 suggested donation. 1001 E. B St., Russellville. 479-968-2452. www.arvartscenter.org.

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. LGBTQ/ SGL Youth and Young Adult Group, 6:30 p.m.

800 Scott St. The Unexpected Mural Festival. Downtown Fort Smith Farmers Market, through Sept. 13.

201 Garrison Ave., Fort Smith. 479-784-1001. www.GoDowntownFS.com/farmersmarket.aspx.

FILM

“Casablanca.” Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., $5.

1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals.lib.ar.us/ ron-robinson-theater.aspx.

Movies in the Park: “Guardians of the Galaxy.”

First Security Amphitheater, 5 p.m., free. 400 President Clinton Ave. Second Friday Cinema: “War Eagle, Arkansas.”

Old State House Museum, 5 p.m. 300 W. Markham St. 501-324-9685. www.oldstatehouse.com.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. NW Arkansas, Texas League Playoffs. Dickey-Stephens Park, Sept.

11-13, $6-$12. 400 W. Broadway, NLR. 501-6641555. www.travs.com.

BENEFITS

Stand Up for Veterans Resource Fair. Main Library, 10 a.m. 100 S. Rock St. www.cals.lib.ar.us.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 12

MUSIC

Ezra Lbs, Bob For Apples. The Lightbulb Club, 9 p.m. 21 N. Block Ave., Fayetteville. 479-444-6100.

Foulplay Cabaret featuring Russell Bruner.

Maxine’s, 9 p.m., $10-$12. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. www.maxinespub.com.

Frank Foster. Revolution, 9 p.m., $20. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www. rumbarevolution.com/new.

Goose. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $10. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

Karaoke at Khalil’s. Khalil’s Pub, 7 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com.

Karaoke. Casa Mexicana, 7 p.m. 7111 JFK Blvd., NLR. 501-835-7876. Zack’s Place, 8 p.m., free.

1400 S. University Ave. 501-664-6444.

Karaoke with Kevin & Cara. All ages, on the restaurant side. Revolution, 9 p.m.-12:45 a.m., free. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new.

K.I.S.S. Saturdays. Featuring DJ Silky Slim. Dress code enforced. Sway, 10 p.m. 412 Louisiana.

501-492-9802.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Lucious Spiller Band. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $5. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.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.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 8 p.m., free. 111 W. Markham St. 501-370-7013. www. capitalbarandgrill.com.

Trophy Boyfriends. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

COMEDY

“Lou Tells a Bog One.” An original production

by The Main Thing. The Joint, 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

Mark Poolos. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., $10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS

3rd Annual Urban Raw Festival. Dunbar Garden Project, 11 a.m., free. 1800 S. Chester. 501-5298520. dunbargarden.org.

Falun Gong meditation. Allsopp Park, 9 a.m., free. Cantrell and Cedar Hill Roads.

Hillcrest Farmers Market. Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, 7 a.m.-2 p.m. 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.

The Unexpected Mural Festival. Downtown Fort Smith Farmers Market, through Sept. 13.

201 Garrison Ave., Fort Smith. 479-784-1001. www.GoDowntownFS.com/farmersmarket.aspx.

SPORTS

Arkansas Razorbacks vs. Toledo Rockets. War Memorial Stadium, 3 p.m., $55. 1 Stadium Drive.

501-663-0775.

Arkansas Travelers vs. NW Arkansas, Texas

League Playoffs (if necessary). DickeyStephens Park, through Sept. 13, $6-$12. 400 W. Broadway, NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs.com.

BENEFITS

Hem/Onc Superhero Dash-N-Bash. Murray Park, 9 a.m. Rebsamen Park Road.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 13

MUSIC

Irish Traditional Music Session. Hibernia Irish Tavern, 2:30 p.m. 9700 N. Rodney Parham Road.

501-246-4340. www.hiberniairishtavern.com.

Karaoke. Shorty Small’s, 6-9 p.m. 1475 Hogan Lane, Conway. 501-764-0604. www.shortysmalls.com.

Karaoke with DJ Sara. Hardrider Bar & Grill, 7 p.m., free. 6613 John Harden Drive, Cabot.

501-982-1939.

EVENTS

Artist for Recovery. A secular recovery group for people with addictions. Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church, 10 a.m. 1601 S. Louisiana.

The Unexpected Mural Festival. Downtown Fort Smith Farmers Market. 201 Garrison Ave., Fort Smith. 479-784-1001. www.GoDowntownFS. com/farmersmarket.aspx.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. NW Arkansas, Texas League Playoffs (if necessary). DickeyStephens Park, $6-$12. 400 W. Broadway, NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs.com.

MONDAY, SEPT. 14

MUSIC

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Monday Night Jazz. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 8 p.m., $5. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com.

Open Mic. The Lobby Bar. Studio Theatre, 8 p.m. 320 W. 7th St. Richie Johnson. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf. com.

Today Is the Day, Abigail Williams, Lifer. Vino’s, 8 p.m., $7. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www. vinosbrewpub.com.

Zella Day. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $12. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

EVENTS

Creative Corridor Grand Opening. Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 3 p.m. 601 Main St. 501-3780405. www.therep.org.

Destination Downtown. A regional conference sponsored by Main Street Arkansas. Ron Robinson Theater, Sept. 14-16. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals.lib.ar.us/ron-robinsontheater.aspx.

LECTURES

Film History and Appreciation Mondays.

Hillcrest Hall: 6:30 p.m., $15. 1501 Kavanaugh Blvd.

“Mr. Smith Goes to Prison: What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America’s Prison Crisis.” A lecture by Jeff Smith, urban policy professor and former Missouri state senator. Sturgis Hall, noon 1200 President Clinton

Ave. 501-683-5200. clintonschool.uasys.edu.

CLASSES

Finding Family Facts. Rhonda Stewart’s genealogy research class for beginners. Arkansas Studies Institute, second Monday of every month, 3:30 p.m. 401 President Clinton Ave. 501-320-5700. www.butlercenter.org.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 15

MUSIC

Hozier. Walmart AMP, 7:30 p.m., $35.50. 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. 479-443-5600. www. arkansasmusicpavilion.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.

Music Jam. Hosted by Elliott Griffen and Joseph Fuller. The Joint, 8-11 p.m., free. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

Tuesday Jam Session with Carl Mouton.

Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com.

COMEDY

Stand-Up Tuesday. Hosted by Adam Hogg. The Joint, 8 p.m., $5. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

DANCE

“Latin Night.” Juanita’s, 7:30 p.m., $7. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.littlerocksalsa.com.

EVENTS

Arkansas Chef’s Culinary Classic. Statehouse Convention Center, 6:30 p.m., $45. 7 Statehouse Plaza.

Destination Downtown. A regional conference sponsored by Main Street Arkansas. Ron Robinson Theater, through Sept. 16. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals.lib.ar.us/ron-robinson-theater.aspx.

Trivia Bowl. Flying Saucer, 8:30 p.m. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-8032. www.beerknurd. com/stores/littlerock.

WWE Smackdown. Verizon Arena, 7 p.m., $17.50$102.50. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 501-975-9001. verizonarena.com.

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MUSIC

Acoustic Open Mic. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com.

Brian and Nick. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf. com.

Drageoke with Chi Chi Valdez. Sway. 412 Louisiana St. 501-907-2582.

Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7

In The River Market District 501.324.2999 sonnywilliamssteakroom.com

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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.

Slum Village, Cool Nutz. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $10 adv., $13 day of. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new.

Steve Hester and DejaVooDoo Trio. South on Main, 7:30 p.m., free. 1304 Main St. 501-2449660. southonmain.com.

Veridia, Drew Chadwick. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8:30 p.m., $12 adv., $15 day of. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. www. stickyz.com.

COMEDY

Not actual picture of the Epiphone, but correct model, anyway. Some of the best songs Arkansas has ever heard were written on this guitar. No joke.

Hypnotist Doug T. The Loony Bin, Sept. 16-19, 7:30 p.m.; Sept. 18-19, 10 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www. loonybincomedy.com.

The Joint Venture. Improv comedy group. The Joint, 8 p.m., $7. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

Both guitars and mandolin were in hard shell cases with stickers and the band name “Pity Sing” stenciled on the side.

It was my father’s and is one of the few things I have of his.

An Epiphone acoustic guitar with “sunburst” and light green tuning keys.

A Larrivee acoustic guitar with clear pick guard.

Not actual picture of our mandolin but very similiar.

An Oscar Schmidt Autoharp in a gray zip-up case.

A mandolin inside a black case, which also had “Pity Sing” stenciled on the case.

Samson C03U microphone

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.

EVENTS

ACANSA Arts Festival. Downtown Little Rock, Sept. 16-20. Downtown. www.acansaartsfestival.org.

Destination Downtown. A regional conference sponsored by Main Street Arkansas. Ron Robinson Theater. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals.lib.ar.us/ron-robinson-theater.aspx.

POETRY

CALL BRYAN AT 479-841-2629 WITH ANY INFORMATION!

Wednesday Night Poetry. 21-and-older show.

Maxine’s, 7 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-321-0909. maxineslive.com/shows. html.

ARTS ALSO

A Wacom Intuos 4 medium size tablet in the box.

THEATER

VOX acoustic amplifier Ampeg Portaflex bass amp.

THANK YOU! Please call 479-841-2629 if you have any information!

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“Amadeus.” Walton Arts Center, through Sept.

20: Wed.-Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Sun., 2 p.m., $10$39.50. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479443-5600.

“Deathtrap.” A production of Ira Levin’s “murder comedy,” presented by the Community Theatre of Little Rock. Studio Theatre, through Sept. 13: Thu.-Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m. 320 W. 7th St. “Macbeth.” Arkansas Repertory Theatre, through Sept. 27: Fri., Sat., 8 p.m.; Wed., Thu., Sun., 7 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m., $35-$45. 601 Main St. 501378-0405. www.therep.org.

NEW GALLERY EXHIBITS, EVENTS

ARGENTA GALLERY, 406 Main St.: Paintings by Angela Davis Johnson, part of the ACANSA Arts Festival, Sept. 16-Oct. 12, reception 5-9 p.m. Sept. 17.

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “A

Little Poetry: The Art of Alonzo Ford,” part of the ACANSA Arts Festival, Sept. 15-Oct. 25, reception 5 p.m. Sept. 15; “Start with Building,” Architecture and Design Network lecture

by Alex Gilliam of the Public Workshop, Philadelphia, 5:30 reception, 6 p.m. talk Sept. 15; “57th annual “Delta Exhibition,” 88 works by 84 artists from Arkansas and surrounding states, juried by George Dombek, through Sept. 20.

9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000.

ARKANSAS CAPITAL CORP., 400 River Market Ave., Suite 400: “infiniti no. 1,” woodcuts by Christa Marquez, sculpture by Patrick Fleming, opening reception 5-8 p.m. Sept. 11, 2nd Friday Art Night. 374-9247.

BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave.: “Gene Hatfield: Outside the Lines,” reception sponsored by the ACANSA Arts Festival 5-8 p.m.

Sept. 11, 2nd Friday Art Night; “Disparate Acts Redux,” paintings by David Bailin, Warren Criswell and Sammy Peters, through October; “Weaving Stories and Hope: Textile Arts from the Japanese Internment Camp at Rohwer, Arkansas.” 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 320-5790.

CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road: 6th annual “Arkansas League of Artists” juried show, opens with awards ceremony 5:30-6 p.m. and reception 6-8 p.m. Sept. 11, show through October. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 224-1335.

CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY: “Thea Paves the Way,” 10th annual chalk art event on the sidewalks of the library grounds for families, schools; art supply awards for registered school groups (register at theafoundation.org), participating includes free entrance to the library, 8 a.m.-noon Sept. 12.

COX CREATIVE CENTER, 100 River Market Ave.: “Art by Design,” works by Sandra Marson, through Sept., reception 5-8 p.m. Sept. 11, 2nd Friday Art Night. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 918-3093.

GALLERY 221, Second and Center streets: “Tyler Arnold,” paintings, reception 5-8 p.m. Sept.

11, 2nd Friday Art Night, show through Sept.; also work by Kathi Crouch, Jennifer “EMILE” Freeman, Tracy Hamlin, Greg Lahti, Sean LeCrone, Tracy Hamlin, Elizabeth Nevins, C.B. Williams, Gino Hollander and Rae Ann Bayless. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Sat. 801-0211.

HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “Beautiful Influences,” fired clay and mixed media by Chukes,” main gallery, through Oct. 17; paintings by Mason Archie and Dean Mitchell, Gallery II. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Sat. 372-6822.

HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM GALLERIES, 200 E. 3rd St.: “Growing Up … In Words and Images,” paintings by NBA AllStar Joe Barry Carroll, opening reception 5-8 p.m. Sept. 11, 2nd Friday Art Night, with gallery talk by the artist and book signing in the Museum Store; “Katherine Rutter & Ginny Sims,” paintings and pottery, through Nov. 8; “Pop Up in the Rock: The Exhibit,” through Oct. 4; “Art. Function. Craft: The Life and Work of Arkansas Living Treasures,” works by 14 craftsmen honored by Arkansas Arts Council; “Suggin Territory: The Marvelous World of Folklorist Josephine Graham,” through Nov. 29. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351.

OLD STATE HOUSE MUSEUM, 300 W. Markham: “War Eagle, Arkansas,” 2nd Friday Cinema with Ben Fry, 5-8 p.m. Sept.

11; “Different Strokes,” the history of bicycling and places cycling in Arkansas, featur-

ART NOTES ing artifacts, historical pictures and video, through February 2016. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9685.

RED DOOR GALLERY, 3715 JFK, NLR: Paintings by Matt Coburn, Paula Jones, Theresa Cates and Amy Hill-Imler, photographs by Adams Pryor, glass works by James Hayes, ceramics by Kelly Edwards, sculpture by Kim Owen. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 753-5227.

THE ART GALLERY, Pleasant Ridge Shopping Center: “Americana,” paintings by Seth Bailey, 6:30-8 p.m. Sept. 11.

CONWAY UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS: Sculpture by Dan Steinhilber, artist-inresidence, Sept. 10-Oct. 23, Baum Gallery, reception 4-6 p.m. Sept. 10; unveiling of outdoor art installation 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept.

12. 501-450-5793.

EL DORADO SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, 110 E. 5th St.: “Contemporary Folk Art: Four Decades of Creativity: My Way,” paintings by Melverue Abraham, Sylvester McKissack, Willie Earl Robinson, Sondra Strong and Kennith Humphrey, through Sept., curated by Garbo Hearne, reception 6-8 p.m. Sept. 10; “It’s About Time,” works by Melinda Dodson and Rhonda Hicks, through Sept.. 870-862-5474.

FORT SMITH REGIONAL ART MUSEUM, 1601 Rogers Ave.: “Patrick Angus: Paintings and Works on Paper,” opening reception 5-7 p.m. Sept. 10, $5 nonmembers, exhibition through Dec. 6. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 479-784-2787.

HOT SPRINGS OZARK CULTURAL CENTER, Ozark Bathhouse: “Arkansas Champion Trees: An Artist’s Journey,” colored pencil drawings by Linda Williams Palmer, closing reception 5-7 p.m. Sept. 10. Noon-5 p.m. Fri.-Sun. 501-620-6715.

SPRINGDALE ARTS CENTER OF THE OZARKS, 214 Main St.: “Sensory Iconoclasts,” film screenings, through Sept. 25, reception 6-8 p.m. Sept.

10. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Sat. 479-751-5441 BENTONVILLE CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, One Museum Way: “Twentieth Century Photography,” talk by assistant curator Ali Demorotski, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Sept. 11, $10; “Jamie Wyeth,” retrospective of the artist’s career over 60 years from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through Oct. 5; “Warhol’s Nature,” from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, through Oct. 5, $4; “American Encounters: The Simple Pleasures of Still Life,” 10 still-life paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries from the High Museum, the Terra Foundation, the Louvre and the Crystal Bridges collection, through Sept. 14; “Fish Stories: Early Images of American Game Fish,” 20 color plates based on the original watercolors by sporting artist Samuel Kilbourne, through Sept. 21; American masterworks spanning four centuries. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon., Thu.; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed., Fri.; 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Sat.-Sun., closed Tue. 479-418-5700.

Artists paint, sculptors sculpt and Thea Paves the Way A full arts schedule starts Friday.

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ike a glob of medium in a blob of woodcuts and pen and ink drawings paint, September has brought

by Christa Marquez of Taos, N.M., new vigor to the arts scene, “infiniti no. 1.” The Historic Arkanwith galleries bringing in new art in sas Museum opens a new exhibition, the expectation of a cooled-off clien“Growing Up … In Words and Images,” paintings by Pine Bluff native and NBA tele. A number of special events in upcoming days — including exhibitions All-Star Joe Barry Carroll (Golden tied to the ACANSA Arts Festival, 2nd State Warriors, Houston Rockets, New Friday Art Night Jersey Nets, Denver Nugreceptions, the gets and the installation of outdoor art — Phoenix Suns) should keep any from his memdevoted galleryoir. Carroll, goer busy. who is now a ACANSA, wealth adviser, which offiphilanthrocially kicks off pist, painter Wednesday, and writer, Sept. 16, with a will sign copperformance by ies of the book the Symphony at the opening.

Orchestra and Painter Tyler a party at Matt Arnold has a McLeod’s new show of new gallery at Sixth paintings at and Main streets, Gallery 221 and is hosting the Sandra Mar2nd Friday Art son is showing Night recepwatercolors at the Cox Cretion at the But- ‘MAKE A WALKING STICK’: And head to the Arkansas Arts Center to see “A Little Poetry: ative Center. ler Center gal- The Art of Alonzo Ford,” an ACANSA Arts The Old State leries, 5-8 p.m. Festival show.

Friday, Sept.

House Museum 11, and shows at the Argenta Gallery is showing “War Eagle, Arkansas” as and the Arkansas Arts Center. Angela part of its series, “2nd Friday Cinema Davis Johnson, whose recent work with Ben Fry.” includes portraits to address missAlso Friday night, Cantrell Galing women, is showing paintings at lery opens the sixth annual “ArkanArgenta starting Wednesday. “A Litsas League of Artists” exhibit; painter tle Poetry: The Art of Alonzo Ford” Carole Katchen was the juror for the at the Arts Center shows the work show. The awards ceremony is at 5:30 of the little-known but terrific selfp.m. and the reception runs 6 p.m. to taught artist from Lexa. The Butler 8 p.m. The Art Gallery in the Pleasant Center opens a new show of works Ridge Shopping Center also hosts an by a Conway iconoclast: “Gene Hatexhibition, “Americana,” paintings by field: Outside the Lines.” “Disparate Seth Bailey, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

In Conway, the Baum Gallery at the Acts Redux,” featuring monumental University of Central Arkansas hosts charcoals of David Bailin and paintings by Warren Criswell and Sammy a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. for its Peters, continues in the main gallery. new exhibition of sculpture by Dan Other 2nd Friday Art Night exhiSteinhilber. People who visited Crysbitions: The Arkansas Capital Corp. tal Bridges Museum of American Art’s kicks off a new program, “Beyond the “State of the Art” exhibition last year Natural State,” with an exhibition of will remember Steinhilber’s “Reflect-

ing Room” of mylar kept inflated by a fan. The university will unveil the Washington, D.C., artist’s outdoor installation at 11 a.m. Saturday.

Two other exhibitions open at more distant venues Friday night: The South Arkansas Arts Center in El Dorado opens “Contemporary Folk Art: Four Decades of Creativity: My Way,” paintings by African-American Arkansans Melverue Abraham, Sylvester McKissack, Willie Earl Robinson and Sondra Strong and Vickburg, Miss., artist Kennith Humphrey.

Garbo Hearne of Hearne Fine Art curated the show; the reception is 6-8 p.m. Paintings and works on paper by the late 20th century artist Patrick Angus, who was known for his paintings of the Gaiety Theater in New York (and dubbed the “Toulouse Lautrec of Times Square”), go on exhibit at the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum; the opening reception is 5-7 p.m.

Also on Saturday, from 8 a.m. to noon, the Thea Foundation hosts its 10th annual sidewalk chalk event, “Thea Paves the Way,” at the Clinton Presidential Center. Families and school teams will cover the walkways with art and get free admission to the library.

Please Join Us

12TH ANNUAL Public Awareness Event FRI, SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

11AM STATE CAPITOL ROTUNDA Let’s celebrate and thank our Greatest Natural Resource: Grandparent and Relative Caregivers.

For more information, contact Dee Ann Newell at 501-366-3647

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Dining

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MIDTOWN IS GETTING IN ON THE juice craze with a new restaurant called I Love Juice Bar, scheduled to open at 11 a.m. Oct. 1. Jim, Tommy and Jake Keet, owners of six Taziki’s Mediterranean Cafe locations in Arkansas, along with catering director Barkley Boyd are behind the new venture.

The juice bar will serve fresh fruit and vegetable juices, fruit smoothies, house-made salads, spring rolls and gluten-free treats. The partners say that sourcing local produce is a vital part of the juice bar’s business model.

ANOTHER JUICE BAR RECENTLY announced it will open: Roots Juices, to open at 5501 Kavanaugh Blvd.

Regular business hours will be 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday. For more information, visit ilovejuicebar. com or email info@ilovejuicebar.com.

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1515 CAFE This bustling, business-suit filled breakfast and lunch spot, just across from the state Capitol, features old-fashioned, buffetstyle home cookin’ for a song. Inexpensive lunch entrées, too. 1515 W. 7th St. No alcohol. $-$$. 501-376-1434. L Wed.-Fri., D Mon-Sat. 4 SQUARE CAFE AND GIFTS Vegetarian salads, soups, wraps and paninis and a broad selection of smoothies in an Arkansas products gift shop. 405 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-244-2622. BLD Mon.-Sat., L Sun. ANOTHER ROUND PUB Tasty pub grub. 12111 W. Markham. Full bar, CC. $-$$. 501-313-2612.

D Mon.-Thu., LD Fri.-Sun. THE BLIND PIG Tasty bar food, including Zweigle’s brand hot dogs. 6015 Chenonceau Blvd. Full bar, CC. $-$$. 501-868-8194. D Wed-Fri., LD Sat. BRAY GOURMET DELI AND CATERING Turkey spreads in four flavors — original, jalapeno, Cajun and dill — and the homemade pimiento cheese are the signature items at Chris Bray’s delicatessen, which serves sandwiches, wraps, soups, stuffed potatoes and salads, and sells the turkey spreads to go. 323 Center St. Suite 150. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$.

501-353-1045. BL Mon.-Fri. CAFE BRUNELLE Coffee shop and cafe serving sweets, tasty sandwiches and Loblolly ice cream.

17819 Chenal Parkway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$.

501-448-2687. BLD daily.

CAFE@HEIFER Serving fresh pastries, omelets, soups, salads, sandwiches and pizzas. Located inside Heifer Village. 1 World Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $. 501-907-8801. BL Mon.-Fri. CRAZEE’S COOL CAFE Good burgers, daily plate specials and bar food amid pool tables and TVs. 7626 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. 34

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Clinton Presidential Center 537-0042 dineatfortytwo.com QUICK BITE Forty Two presents its “Around the World” dinners the third Thursday of each month, with a different country’s or region’s cuisine featured through the three courses that are served for a very reasonable $27.95. Call well in advance if you hope to get in … or even very high up the waiting list: 501-537-0042.

HOURS 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

OTHER INFO Full bar, all credit cards accepted.

CRAFTY CONCEPT: Forty Two’s smoked catfish tamales.

Souped up at Forty Two Clinton Center restaurant a classy lunch spot.

W

e work just down the street, but we still somehow forget about Forty Two when pondering the daily “what’s for lunch?” question. But two recent lunches have pushed the classy lunch spot inside the Clinton Presidential Center up the list of places that will immediately come to mind.

Dining at Forty Two is a wholly civilized and almost elegant experience in a low-key way. The place just looks and feels good, and even if a visit to the center’s galleries isn’t in the plan, it’s still pleasant to cruise through the entry area and descend the stairs toward Forty Two. Chef Stephen Burrow is a good one, a young talent who keeps pushing to do creative things the right way. The bottom of the Forty Two menu lists the local produce and meat offered, as well as a statement from the chef about those choices, and you’ll see those locally-sourced items dotted across the menu.

Both of our lunches started with soup and ended with dessert, two areas where Forty Two shines brightly. Particularly tasty were the “pot-au-feu,” a classic French beef stew. It seemed an out-of-

season choice on a hot day, but was rich, thick and flavorful. The coconut chicken curry was a well-balanced, broth-based soup with neither the coconut nor the curry dominating. What’s crazy here is the low price, $4 for the cup or “half” as it’s noted, though it seems more bowllike in quantity.

The salted caramel cheesecake was a rock star. The sweet/salty contrast is the key here and plays throughout the pie, from the top — a pretzel, half covered in chocolate atop a mound of whipped cream — to the creamy, sweet filling to the fabulous, thick, salty nut crust. Another star was the classic vanilla creme brulee, with a thin, crisp sugar topping and subtle but oh-socreamy wonderfulness below. Also a bargain at $5.

Our entrees were more of a mixed bag.

We enjoyed the concept of the smoked catfish tamale ($12), but the spices made it hard to tell it was catfish we were eating, and the masa-to-meat ratio was higher than we like. The accompanying red beans were firm and tasty.

We love a traditional Cobb salad, but

Forty Two’s isn’t exactly that with ham vs. bacon and egg salad vs. hard-boiled egg. This huge Cobb ($11) features rows of cucumbers, tomatoes, blue cheese crumbles and chunks, smoked turkey, smoked ham and egg salad, from left to right. The menu bills the turkey as house-smoked and the ham as artisan; the turkey was very smoky, but the ham was nothing special. Each was very thinly sliced vs. being served in shards or chunks, giving them at least the look of deli meat. The egg salad was a little loose for us, and we really missed the Cobb’s usual bacon.

The tuna melt ($9) was also huge — two large slices of toasted Arkansas Fresh Bakery white bread topped with tuna salad (again a bit too loose for our liking) and topped with slightly melted smoked cheddar. Pickle was the dominant taste in the tuna salad. The accompanying house-made chips were excellent — thick, crunchy and not a bit greasy. We also chose the grilled corn ($2), a very sweet large ear grilled nicely with a dusting of Cotija cheese, a healthy squirt of lime juice and cilantro.

It was excellent.

Opinions about restaurants naturally are formed based on the dishes one orders. We didn’t love the Cobb or the tuna melt, but we’ve had so many great things at Forty Two that those won’t change our view of the place.

In fact, we’re already looking forward to our next lunch there — thinking the BLT (which features crispy pork belly, Duke’s mayo and AFB’s sundried tomato bread) and the smoked turkey salad (again with Duke’s and AFB bread) sound promising.

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DINING CAPSULES, CONT. $-$$. 501-221-9696. LD Mon.-Sat. DOE’S EAT PLACE A skid-row dive turned power brokers’ watering hole with huge steaks, great tamales and broiled shrimp, and killer burgers at lunch. 1023 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-376-1195. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. FLYING FISH The fried seafood is fresh and crunchy and there are plenty of raw, boiled and grilled offerings, too. The hamburgers are a hit, too. It’s counter service; wander on through the screen door and you’ll find a slick team of cooks and servers doing a creditable job of serving big crowds. 511 President Clinton Ave. Beer and wine, All CC. $$. 501-375-3474. LD daily.

GUS’S WORLD FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN The best fried chicken in town. Go for chicken and waffles on Sundays. 300 President Clinton Ave. Beer, CC. $-$$. 501-372-2211. LD daily. 400 N. Bowman. Beer. $-$$. 501-400-8745. LD daily.

HERITAGE GRILLE STEAK AND FIN Upscale dining inside the Little Rock Marriott. Excellent surf and turf options. 3 Statehouse Plaza. Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-399-8000. LD daily.

HOMER’S Great vegetables, huge yeast rolls and killer cobblers. Follow the mobs. 2001 E. Roosevelt Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$.

501-374-1400. BL Mon.-Fri. 9700 N Rodney Parham. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-224-6637. BLD Mon.-Sat., BL Sun. LOBLOLLY CREAMERY Small batch artisan ice cream and sweet treats company that operates a soda fountain inside The Green Corner Store.

1423 Main St. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. 501-3969609. LD Mon.-Sat., L Sun. LOCA LUNA Grilled meats, seafood and pasta dishes that never stray far from country roots, whether Italian, Spanish or Arkie. “Gourmet plate lunches” are good, as is Sunday brunch.

3519 Old Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$.

501-663-4666. BR Sun., LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. LOST FORTY BREWING Brewery and brewpub from the folks behind Big Orange, Local Lime and ZAZA. 501 Byrd St. Beer and wine, All CC. $$. 501-319-7335. LD Wed.-Sun. LOVE FISH MARKET Part fish market, part restaurant. Offering fresh fish to prepare at home or fried catfish and a variety of sides.

1401 John Barrow Road. No alcohol, CC. $-$$.

501-224-0202. LD Mon.-Sat. LULAV A MODERN EATERY Bistro-style menu of American favorites broken down by expensive to affordable plates, and strong wine list, also group-priced to your liking. Great filet.

Don’t miss the chicken and waffles. 220 W. 6th St. Full bar, CC. $$$. 501-374-5100. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. THE MAIN CHEESE A restaurant devoted to grilled cheese. 14524 Cantrell Road. Beer and wine. $-$$. 501-367-8082. LD Mon.-Sat. MILFORD TRACK Healthy and tasty are the key words at this deli/grill that serves breakfast and lunch. Hot entrees change daily and there are soups, sandwiches, salads and killer desserts. Bread is baked in-house, and there are several veggie options. 10809 Executive Center Drive, Searcy Building.

No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-223-2257. BL Mon.-Fri., L Sat. MOORE 2 U Deli sandwiches, salads, fruit bowls, burgers, fish, chili dogs, and chicken and waffles.

5405 Geyer Springs Road. No alcohol. 501-5621200.

POTBELLY SANDWICH SHOP Tasty, affordable sandwiches from fast-casual chain. 314 S University Ave. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. 501-6604441. LD daily.

RACK’UM SPORTS BAR AND GRILL 2817 Cantrell Road. 501-603-0066.

THE ROOT CAFE Homey, local foods-focused cafe. With tasty burgers, homemade bratwurst, banh mi and a number of vegan and veggie options. Breakfast and Sunday brunch, too.

1500 S. Main St. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-414-0423.

BL Tue.-Sat., BR Sun. SONNY WILLIAMS’ STEAK ROOM Steaks, chicken and seafood in a wonderful setting in the River Market. Steak gets pricey, though.

Menu is seasonal, changes every few months.

500 President Clinton Ave. Full bar, All CC. $$$.

501-324-2999. D Mon.-Sat. TERRI-LYNN’S BBQ AND DELICATESSEN High-quality meats served on large sandwiches and good tamales served with chili or without (the better bargain). 10102 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-227-6371.

L Tue.-Fri., LD Sat. (close at 5pm).

WING SHACK 6323 Colonel Glenn Road. No alcohol. 501-562-0010.

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ASIAN

A.W. LIN’S ASIAN CUISINE Excellent panAsian with wonderful service. 17717 Chenal Parkway H101. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-8215398. LD daily.

BIG ON TOKYO Serviceable fried rice, teriyaki chicken and sushi. 400 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-375-6200. BLD Mon.-Sat. HANAROO SUSHI BAR One of the few spots in downtown Little Rock to serve sushi. With an expansive menu, featuring largely Japanese fare. Try the popular Tuna Tatari bento box.

205 W. Capitol Ave. Beer and wine, All CC. $$.

501-301-7900. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat. KBIRD Delicious, authentic Thai. 600 N. Tyler. No alcohol, CC. $$-$$$. 501-352-3549. LD Mon.-Fri. MIKE’S CAFE VIETNAMESE Cheap Vietnamese that could use some more spice, typically. The pho is good. 5501 Asher Ave. Beer, CC. $-$$. 501-562-1515. LD daily.

MR. CHEN’S ASIAN SUPERMARKET AND RESTAURANT A combination Asian restaurant and grocery with cheap, tasty and exotic offerings. 3901 S. University Ave. $. 501-562-7900.

LD daily.

SHOGUN JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE The chefs will dazzle you, as will the variety of tasty stir-fry combinations and the sushi bar. Usually crowded at night. 2815 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-666-7070. D daily.

THREE FOLD NOODLES AND DUMPLING CO. Authentic Chinese noodles, buns and dumplings. With vegetarian options. 215 Center St. No alcohol, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-3721739. LD Mon.-Fri. TOKYO HOUSE Defying stereotypes, this Japanese buffet serves up a broad range of fresh, slightly exotic fare — grilled calamari, octopus salad, dozens of varieties of fresh sushi — as well as more standard shrimp and steak options. 11 Shackleford Drive. Beer and wine,

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DINING CAPSULES, CONT. All CC. $$-$$$. 501-219-4286. LD daily.

BARBECUE

CHIP’S BARBECUE Tasty, if a little pricey, barbecue piled high on sandwiches generously doused with the original tangy sauce or one of five other sauces. Better known for the incredible family recipe pies and cheesecakes, which come tall and wide. 9801 W. Markham St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-225-4346. LD Mon.-Sat.

CATFISH

SWEET SOUL Southern classics by the proprietors of the late, great Haystack Cafe in Ferndale: Chicken fried steak (just about perfect), catfish, collards, cornbread, blackeyed peas and fried chicken. 400 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, All CC. 501-374-7685.

L Mon.-Fri.

EUROPEAN / ETHNIC

ANATOLIA RESTAURANT Middle of the road Mediterranean fare. 315 N. Bowman Road. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. 501-219-9090.

LD Mon.-Sat. CREGEEN’S IRISH PUB Irish-themed pub with a large selection of on-tap and bottled British beers and ales, an Irish inspired menu and lots of nooks and crannies to meet in.

Specialties include fish ‘n’ chips and Guinness beef stew. Live music on weekends and $5 cover on Saturdays, special brunch on Sunday.

301 Main St. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-3767468. LD daily.

I S TA N B U L M E D I T E R R A N E A N RESTAURANT This Turkish eatery offers decent kebabs and great starters. The red pepper hummus is a winner. So are Cigar Pastries. Possibly the best Turkish coffee in Central Arkansas. 11525 Cantrell Road. No alcohol, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-223-9332. LD daily.

LITTLE GREEK Fast casual chain with excellent Greek food. 11525 Cantrell Road. Beer, All CC. $$. LD daily.

MUSE ULTRA LOUNGE Mediterranean food and drinks. 2611 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. 501-663-6398. D Mon.-Sat. MYLO COFFEE CO. Bakery with a vast assortment of hand-made pastries, house roasted coffee and an ice cream counter. Soups and sandwiches, too. 2715 Kavanaugh Blvd. Beer, CC. $-$$. 501-747-1880. BLD Tue.-Sun. ROSALIA’S BAKERY Brazilian bakery owned by the folks over at Bossa Nova, next door.

Sweet and savory treats, including yucca cheese balls, empanadas and macarons.

Many gluten-free options. 2701 Kavanaugh Blvd. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-319-7035.

BLD Mon.-Sat. (closes 6 p.m.), BL Sun.

ITALIAN

CAFE PREGO Dependable entrees of pasta, pork, seafood, steak and the like, plus great sauces, fresh mixed greens and delicious dressings, crisp-crunchy-cold gazpacho and tempting desserts in a comfy bistro setting.

Little Rock standard for 18 years. 5510 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$.

501-663-5355. LD Mon.- Fri, D Sat. CIAO ITALIAN RESTAURANT Don’t forget about this casual yet elegant bistro tucked into a downtown storefront. The fine pasta and seafood dishes, ambiance and overall charm combine to make it a relaxing, enjoyable, affordable choice. 405 W. Seventh St. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-372-0238. L Mon.-Fri., D Thu.-Sat. 36

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IRIANA’S PIZZA Unbelievably generous hand-tossed New York style pizza with unmatched zest. Good salads, too; grinders are great, particularly the Italian sausage. 201 E. Markham St. Beer and wine, All CC. $-$$.

501-374-3656. LD Mon.-Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM Popular high-end pizza chain. 16103 Chenal Pkwy. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-379-9157. LD daily.

PIRO BRICK OVEN AND BARROOM The South Main neighborhood’s renaissance continues with Piro, an upscale pizza joint that also features sandwiches and unique appetizers (think roasted bone marrow). 1318 S. Main St. Full bar, CC. $-$$. 501-374-7476. LD Tue.-Sat., L Sun. THE PIZZERIA AT TERRY’S FINER FOODS Tasty Neapolitan-style pizza and calzones from the people who used to run the Santa Lucia food truck. 5018 Kavanaugh. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-551-1388. Tue.-Sat. ROMANO’S MACARONI GRILL A chain restaurant with a large menu of pasta, chicken, beef, fish, unusual dishes like Italian nachos, and special dishes with a corporate bent. 11100 W Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-221-3150. LD daily.

LATINO

BAJA GRILL Food truck turned brick-andmortar taco joint that serves a unique MexiCali style menu full of tacos, burritos and quesadillas. 5923 Kavanaugh Blvd. CC. $-$$.

501-722-8920. LD Mon.-Sat. CANON GRILL Tex-Mex, pasta, sandwiches and salads. Creative appetizers come in huge quantities, and the varied main-course menu rarely disappoints, though it’s not as spicy as competitors’. 2811 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-664-2068. LD daily.

HEIGHTS TACO & TAMALE CO. Throwback Southern-style tamales, taco plates, enchiladas and more, all doused with a generous helping of cheese and chili. Hits just the right balance between nostalgia and fresh flavors.

5805 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $-$$.

501-313-4848. LD daily.

LAS MARGARITAS Sparse offerings at this taco truck. No chicken, for instance. Try the veggie quesadilla. 7308 Baseline Road. No alcohol, No CC. $. LD Tue.-Thu. LAS AMERICAS Guatemalan and Mexican fare. Try the hearty tamales wrapped in banana leaves. 8622 Chicot Road. $-$$.

501-565-0266. BLD Mon.-Sat. LOS TORITOS MEXICAN RESTAURANT Mexican fare in East End. 1022 Angel Court.

No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-261-7823. LD daily.

RIVIERIA MAYA Tasty, cheap Mexican food.

Try the Enchiladas con Chorizo. Lunch special fajitas are fantastic. 801 Fair Park Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 663-4800. LD daily.

SENOR TEQUILA Cheap, serviceable Tex-Mex, and maybe the best margarita in town. 2000 S. University Ave. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-660-4413. LD daily.

TAQUERIA KARINA AND CAFE A real Mexican neighborhood cantina from the owners, to freshly baked pan dulce, to Mexican-bottled Cokes, to first-rate guacamole, to inexpensive tacos, burritos, quesadillas and a broad selection of Mexican-style seafood. 5309 W. 65th St. Beer, No CC. $.

501-562-3951. BLD daily.

TAQUERIA SAMANTHA II Stand-out taco truck fare, with meat options standard and exotic. 7521 Geyer Springs Road. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-744-0680. BLD daily.

LYONS, CONT. lurked nearby. Had they killed her calf in the night? I searched in vain, shadowed

by Ruby — highly agitated and threatening. I couldn’t risk getting closer than 25 yards without being trampled.

Ruby stayed in the woods all day. That afternoon, she visited the herd briefly. I figured that was that. Accursed coyotes.

And then just before sunset, mother and

lovely, sparkling daughter emerged from the woods together. Oh, happy day! We’re calling her “Star.”

Her mother’s testy disposition had saved her life.

Bereft of her own mother, Violet has made Star her special friend. They’re together constantly.

I believe I know exactly how she feels.

BARTH, CONT. tem, the implications for tax coffers are clear. Colorado, for example, has raised $152 million in taxes and fees since the implementation of recreational marijuana (and the amount is growing year over year); because the revenues have exceeded projections, voters there will actually consider in November whether to keep the extra dollars in the state’s general revenues or return it to the voters under a “Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights” provision. While no exact projection in revenues has been established for the establishment of regulated (and taxed) recreational marijuana in Arkansas it would clearly have a benefit in the $10s of millions annually.

Those advocating the expansion of legal marijuana in Arkansas seem to have two strategic choices. First, they could gain a probable lay-up

by putting to the voters a carefully crafted (i.e. no “grow your own”) medical marijuana amendment, normalize a system of regulated marijuana in the state, and then add recreational marijuana to that system at a later date. Or, they could move forward sooner with the creation of a scheme combining medical and recreational marijuana in the same legalized system. Here, they would face an additional choice: Do they tie new tax revenues to funding a popular initiative (like roads or higher education) and pull in a coalition partner or do they allow funds to go to general revenues in return for quieting opposition from anti-tax political leaders looking for a pathway for more tax cuts?

Questions abound, but it’s clear that pot will be part of the future of the Arkansas political debate.

PEARLS ABOUT SWINE, CONT. depleted Toledo backfield, so Robb Smith can and should take more chances in an effort to cause havoc and maybe a giveaway or two. Jeremiah Ledbetter, Tevin Beanum, and Deatrich Wise could realistically get more shots at the Rockets’ quarterbacks (they’re likely to play two, at least) and that may spell more stray balls in the air for the secondary to gather. The Hogs certainly do not fear

the Rockets and will not be shaken if they get a couple of blows in like the Miners did.

Little Rock games, as it has been said here before, may not be long for this world. Go out and enjoy what should be the Hogs’ finest moment there in a good four years or so, because a 2-0 start and a possibility to inch forward in the polls is the payoff.

MOVIE REVIEW, CONT. to get to a K-Mart on the other side begets a send-up of car culture, but in the movie this scene is reduced to a shot of a busy street, a distant K-Mart and Redford slogging through mud.

The one bright spot in this whole lagging rough draft of a movie is Nick Nolte as Bryson’s long-lost friend, Katz, an Iowan straight out of a Denis Johnson short story.

He’s puffy and red-faced, and he limps and curses his way along the trail. I’m tempted to say that the movie is worth seeing just for Nolte, and especially for the laun-

dromat scene, in which Katz meets and woos a plus-sized lady named Beulah, whose plus-sized panties get stuck in the agitator. (“I’m a panty-ologist,” Katz says.) But not even Nolte’s lovable buffoon can make up for having turned a great book into a lackluster movie.

Allow me to offer a little advice. If you’re thinking of going to see this movie, don’t. Instead, get in touch with an old friend, talk about an adventure you once had, maybe even take a real walk in the woods. It will be time better spent.

THE 1968 LITTLE ROCK UPRISING, CONT. p.m., the Kerr Grocery at 900 Picron St. in the predominantly black east end of Little Rock caught fire. Gertie’s Liquor Store at 14th and Chester streets had its windows broken. Fires were reported at Sixth and Townsend streets and in the 700 block of Cornish Street in the east end.

A National Guard unit at 19th and Gaines streets reported “possible small arms fire.”

In the early hours of Saturday morning, Aug. 10, Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller, who returned to Little Rock after cutting short his stay at the Republican National Convention in Miami, which had also been beset by racial unrest, agreed to meet with a delegation of black leaders at the Governor’s Mansion. Their main request was “the lifting of the National Guard from the area.” Afterward, between 3:30 a.m. and 4 a.m., Rockefeller took his own tour of the affected area in an unmarked car with a couple of his aides. The black community cordon was finally lifted at 6 a.m. the next morning.

As Saturday afternoon wore on, rumors circulated of more violence to follow that night. At 7 p.m., Rockefeller announced that he was imposing a countywide curfew from midnight until 6 a.m. on Sunday morning. Rockefeller told the press the only people allowed on the streets during the curfew would be “medical and paramedical personnel, bona fide transients, required public service personnel and law enforcement personnel … All other citizens are requested to be in their place of abode. Unauthorized persons will be apprehended and booked by appropriate law enforcement personnel.”

Two hundred and twenty National Guardsmen were committed to Little Rock and another 300 others were on standby at Camp Robinson. Sixty state troopers were drafted into the city. Meanwhile, the city police were working 16-hour shifts. At 5:15 p.m., Little Rock Police Chief R.E. Brians ordered all liquor stores and bars closed by 6 p.m., along with private clubs and any restaurants selling alcohol.

Despite the impending curfew and call for reinforcements, violence flared again on Saturday evening. Between 8:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., Little Rock Fire Chief Jack D. Davis reported 12 fire alarms, three of which proved false. The other nine, he claimed, were all deliberately started.

The most serious incident was at 28th and Arch streets, where firemen discovered that homemade firebombs had been thrown at a house and a drug store next door. At 10 p.m., National Guardsman James C. Simpson was shot in the right foot at Wright Avenue and High Street.

Police said the shot came from one of the units in the Village Square apartments and they swarmed the building. Four sus-

pects were arrested, and one was later charged with assault with intent to kill.

When news of the shooting came in, the police ordered all cars carrying black passengers stopped and searched for weapons or firebombs. Early the next morning, Chief Brians conceded that such racial profiling was illegal and ordered vehicles searched only for cause.

Sunday was relatively quiet. Rockefeller announced an earlier curfew starting at 10 p.m. Yet there were more incidents than the night before. At 9:30 p.m. shotgun pellets hit policeman Lee H. Nelson at 10th and Picron streets. At 9:50 p.m. a group of black men sat on the church roof at 2600 E. Sixth St. and threatened to burn it down and shoot anyone who tried to stop them. At 10:15 p.m., a fire was reported at 724 Townsend St. One fireman attending the blaze was hit in the mouth by a rock thrown by an unknown assailant. The fire was the most serious of a total of eight arson calls the fire department dealt with that evening.

At 10:30 p.m., bullets hit a patrol car at Ninth and Kirspel streets, and rifle shots were reported at Roosevelt Street and Interstate 30. At 11:18 p.m., sniper fire was reported at 14th and Allis streets. There was sporadic gunfire at Wright Avenue and High Street, a persistent trouble spot.

Twenty-five arrests were made throughout the night, 15 for curfew violations, one for carrying a concealed weapon, one for resisting arrest and the others for drunkenness.

Later that day, Rockefeller extended the curfew one more night. On Tuesday he lifted the curfew, although teams of National Guardsmen and Little Rock police continued to patrol the city. “Last night was very peaceful,” Rockefeller told reporters, “and it is the judgment of the authorities that we are rapidly returning to a normal condition.” The whole episode cost the city $45,900 in overtime for the police and fire departments. In all, 163 arrests were made on 198 charges: three for assault with intent to kill, 26 for weapons possession, 50 for curfew violations, nine for loitering, eight for disturbing the peace, five for resisting arrest, one for refusing to obey a police officer, 75 for drunkenness and 21 on other charges.

The events prompted black community leaders to sue for better representation on the Pulaski County Grand Jury, which was charged with overseeing investigations at the Pulaski County Penal Farm.

Federal Judge J. Smith Henley ruled that the lack of black participation on the jury, stretching back to at least as far as 1953, was unconstitutional. Grand juries were ordered to become more representative in the future. The white trusty who killed

Curtis Ingram was sentenced to three years in the state penitentiary for involuntary manslaughter. BUY continued to press for black community concerns to be addressed in the criminal justice system, in store hiring practices, and in schools.

Little Rock’s uprising of 1968 was one of the last major civil rights demonstrations witnessed by the city in the 1960s.

Soon after, in the early 1970s, the gains of earlier national civil rights legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 began to make a greater impact. In 1972, Arkansas had the second largest number of black elected officials in any Southern state, and by 1976 the highest proportion of black registered voters. These changes opened up more mainstream representation and channels of griev-

ance to the black community. However, the recent rollbacks of civil rights gains that were achieved in the 1960s, coupled with a new resurgence of black community street demonstrations in the United States, is a timely reminder of how closely connected the relationship between open, fair and equal access to rights, representation and opportunities and social order has always been. As Martin Luther King Jr. put it in his presciently titled final book, “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” published in 1967, “a riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.”

John A. Kirk is the George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History and director of the UALR Institute on Race and Ethnicity.

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ANNOUNCING The 2015 ARKANSAS TIMES WHOLE HOG ROAST

WHOLE HOG

benefiting

Argenta Arts District

SATURDAY, NOV. 14 Argenta Farmers Market Events Grounds 5 until 9 PM

benefiting

Argenta Arts District

WE ARE STILL ACCEPTING:

AMATEUR TEAMS are considered individuals or businesses not connected to any particular restaurant, food truck or catering companies. Amateur teams will be preparing at least 30 pounds of pork butt. Amateur teams wanting to enter our People’s Choice “No Butts About It” will need to provide 30 pounds of options such as chicken wings, thighs, ribs, goat, stuffed jalapenos, anything besides pork butt - be creative. This is a separate award for amateurs only. Edwards Food Giant is offering 20% discount on meat purchases.

Entry fee: $150

Arkansas Times and the Argenta Arts District are now accepting both AMATEUR and PROFESSIONAL TEAMS to compete in our 3rd annual Whole Hog Roast

BEER & WINE GARDEN

Gated festival area selling beer & wine ($5 each).

Loblolly ice cream will be for sale.

PROFESSIONAL TEAMS are considered restaurants, catering companies and food trucks. Professional teams will be preparing a whole hog from Ben E. Keith Company Entry fee: $500 and includes the whole hog, pick up by Nov. 11.

Each team must provide two sides serving at least 50 people each.

CURRENT ROAST COMPETITORS AMATEUR TEAMS:

L.A. SMOKERS (LEVY AREA SMOKERS) COWBOY CAFE · SMOKIN’ BUTZ

• Ticket holders will cast all the votes via “Tokens” • Three tokens will be provided to all ticket holders, additional tokens are available for sale • Three Winners will be chosen: PEOPLE’s CHOICE FOR Best professional Team, Best Amateur Team and the Best Amateur “No Butts About It” Team.

ARKANSAS ALE HOUSE · COUNTRY CLUB OF ARKANSAS · MIDTOWN BILLIARDS SO RESTAURANT-BAR · CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER

Deadline to enter: September 25

To enter, contact Drue Patton dpatton@argentadc.org or Phyllis Britton phyllis@arktimes.com 38

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Arkansas Times has a position open in Advertising Sales. If you

have sales experience and enjoy a fast-paced work environment, then we would like to talk to you. Arkansas Times is published weekly and our arktimes.com website is one of the largest, most successful news websites in the state. You will be selling both print and digital advertising. The Arkansas Times is a fearless, editorially driven publication that stands up for tolerance, treating people equally and advocating policies that further the education, health and cultural advancement of the people of Arkansas. We have the best music, arts and cultural coverage in the state as well as aggressive news reporting.

This means readers are engaged with the Times and our advertisers get results. In addition you will be selling a number of annual and quarterly magazines including Arkansas Food and Farm, the Central Arkansas Visitors Guide, Heights, Hillcrest & Riverdale, Welcome Home, Arkansas Made and Block, Street & Building. This is a high-income potential sales position for a hard working sales executive. We have fun, but we work hard. Add to that, the satisfaction you get knowing that you are making something possible that is important in the cultural and political life of Arkansas.

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