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Suggs at Parkview Recently, Dr. Dexter Suggs, Little Rock School District superintendent, made a very bizarre appearance at Parkview High School. All Parkview seniors, including myself, were instructed to go to the auditorium where the superintendent led an assembly that quickly spiraled out of control. After instructing all teachers to leave us alone, Suggs gave us a vague lecture about picking our future path. It wasn’t until I left that I began to feel as if the assembly had been a strange kind of political theater. Suggs seemed very ill-informed about the college process or about high school in general. He did not understand teenagers and behaved more like a politician than an educator. He often averted our questions, only repeating over and over again the same mantra about setting life goals. When one student mentioned that he felt stressed, the superintendent changed the subject and conversationally asked, “How could a teenager be stressed, I mean you don’t pay bills?” to which the entire class erupted in frustration. Suggs seemed in over his head throughout the entire rest of the assembly as many students rose to tell serious stories about the stress they have in their lives. Eventually, students became angry and talked over one another. In what appeared to be desperation Suggs told the group his email address in case we needed anything. He later randomly promised to take the entire senior class out to lunch. Suggs’ appearance at Parkview felt more like the assembly in “Mean Girls” than the motivational talk that had been intended. Most of us left confused and annoyed that we had used our class time for his talk. Suggs seemed very overwhelmed by his position. We were much taken aback by the superintendent, who we felt was merely using us to fulfill his own agenda. Josie Efird Little Rock

Race conflicts with Jewish holy day I was greatly disappointed to learn that the Komen Race for the Cure is scheduled on Oct. 4, in direct conflict with Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year for the Jewish members of our community. It is the Day of Atonement, observed from sundown, Oct. 3, to sundown, Oct. 4. There is no way the Komen Foundation could not have known as it is listed on every calendar, including those on smart phones and tablets. Scheduling the Race for 4

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the Cure on that day deprives Jewish women, many of whom have supported the Foundation and the race itself since its inception, of the opportunity to participate in race activities. It is especially cruel to those Jewish women who are survivors or who have lost loved ones to disease. This is wrong. Other organization planners have scheduled the dates of their events so as not to be in conflict with Yom Kippur out of respect for these members of our community. As a human being, and a strong supporter of the race, I find the Oct. 4 date at the very least insensitive.

In response to inquiries, you state great attention was given to avoiding conflict with Razorback games. Really? Can this affront be more offensive? I think not. Mary Healey Little Rock

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rare media company? We’d be worse off, for sure. The Arkansas Times has improved our state in a unique way, and we are fortunate to have this business operating here. It is quite possible that it could survive for another 40 years, and I hope that happens. radical centrist In response to Gene Lyons’ Sept. 18 column “Reality sinks in: No answers in Middle East”: There were plenty of options, but this president played politics rather than Commander in Chief. Now he has created a situation that was worse for his incompetent handling. Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum is right that we should not have left. One of Obama’s generals told the president that leaving Iraq completely on its own would have consequences. Obama wasn’t worried about consequences, he was worried about politics. Now it is more difficult to go back. Several other Arab nations have made ISIL a priority, but ISIL is not a local problem. They held strategic territory, and are still holding towns. It isn’t over by a long shot. Add to that the fact that Obama is being dragged, kicking and screaming, into a situation where he cannot even get a proper coalition going spells more disaster for Barry the Bungler. StevenE About Max Brantley’s Arkansas Blog post, “Reviewing the Ross-Hutchinson gubernatorial debate”:

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View from afar: So, pretty much the same proud God, Guns, Gays visionary leadership that’s kept The Natural State neck-and-neck with Mississippi for last place since, oh, forever. That about it? Norma Bates The Republican Twitter machine is working to create a narrative that Ross was angry and frothing at the mouth while Asa! was measured and steady. I’m not sure which debate they watched last night — maybe they confused Kansas with Arkansas. Ross was superior on substance. I would prefer to see him relax a bit but he was nowhere close to angry or over-amped. I prefer substance over a guy that smiles a lot and can’t articulate a clear position on pre-K, private option and the minimum wage. Don’t be sucked in by the Asa grin and cute ads; he’s still the out-oftouch, hypocritical guy he’s always been. killingmesoftly

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Cotton pants on fire, cont. Hardly a week goes by without cause to note a dishonest ad from Congressman Tom Cotton’s campaign for Senate. The latest: Cotton’s attempt at cover over his vote against the Farm Bill (the only member of the Arkansas congressional delegation to do so), claiming that President Obama “hijacked the farm bill and turned it into a food stamp bill.” That’s just an outright lie. Lots of folks weighed in on this, including the fact-checking operation Politifact, which awarded Cotton its worst label: “[F]ood stamps have been part of every farm bill enacted since 1973. One could say that Cotton and his allies in the House, by seeking a farm bill stripped of food stamp provisions, were actually the ones taking a more radical step, one that Congress ultimately voted against. We rate this claim Pants on Fire.” The Washington Post quickly followed suit, awarding “four Pinocchios.” Cotton’s “pants on fire” moment came in a feel-good ad on his father’s cattle farm. Look closely and you might see some bullshit.

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Boston strong Remember when Rep. Nate Bell (R-Mena) foolishly sent out an offensive tweet in the midst of the manhunt for the Boston marathon bomber? If you forgot, it was, “I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine? #2A.” Boston remembers. District 7 Boston councilman Tito Jackson sponsored an event this week to benefit the Arkansas Federation of Democratic Women (AFDW), which Jackson credited as being the first organization to “call out the offensive statement made by Arkansas State Representative Nate Bell.”

Freedom’s just another word…

Exit strategy Best viral video this week: Anchorage, Alaska, television reporter Charlo Green revealed live, on the air, that she was the owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club, the state’s only medical marijuana collective. This came after she had just presented a story on the club. She said she would now be dedicating all of her “energy toward fighting for freedom and fairness, which begins with legalizing marijuana here in Alaska. And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but — fuck it, I quit.” Green then walked off the set, exiting stage right. 6

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A church-led group, Repeal 119, is seeking to repeal Fayetteville’s new civil rights ordinance to discourage discrimination in housing and employment. Because the classes of people protected included gay people, some conservatives have gone bananas and begun a petition drive to protect those who want to be able to discriminate. According to a statement on the group’s website, “While some intentions of the ordinance may be good, this law is bad for safety, bad for business, and bad for our individual freedoms.” The freedom for private businesses to discriminate is of course a long-standing issue in Arkansas. The new arguments sound depressingly familiar.

6 feet, 6 inches: average height. First: Likely rank in the Southeastern Conference in terms of average weight. Only Ole Miss comes close to being heftier. First: Where the Hogs would rank in the National Football League, according to ESPN’s Brett McMurphy. 324.5: The Razorbacks’ average rushing yards per game, ranking seventh in the nation.

pressure from a conservative Christian group and allowed football players to put Christian crosses on their football helmets. The Times’ Arkansas Blog asked Arkansas State officials whether players were also free to put, say, a Satanic symbol on their helmets. Or anything else for that matter. A-State declined to comment.

The not-so-great debate “A debate unlike anything Arkansas has seen before.” That’s what KARKTV, Channel 4, promised for Friday night’s gubernatorial debate between Republican Asa Hutchinson and Democrat Mike Ross. Actually, Arkansas has watched two slightly creepy men who are a bit awkward on television debate each other many times. An informal poll conducted by the Times found that zero people who watched the debate changed their minds about who to vote for. The margin of error was zero.

Sympathy for the devil

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Tiger style Earlier this month, a panicked woman in Bryant called police to report seeing a dead tiger on the side of the road. The Bryant Police Department approached with caution and discovered it was a stuffed animal. The BPD transported the friendly beast to the police department.

OPINION

Take these politics and…

’m taking a mid-election season vacation and glad of it. The gubernatorial TV debate last week typifies my seasonal weariness. Democrat Mike Ross and Republican Asa Hutchinson trotted out rehearsed talking points. Ross won on points. He’s committed to the private option, a minimum wage increase and a phased-in restructuring of the state income tax. Asa Hutchinson is dodgy. But even Ross supporters concede that, after three losing statewide races, Hutchinson has achieved more ease before the camera. Ross tries too hard. Fifteen debates won’t alter this landscape. The race for U.S. Senate? Mark Pryor is a nice guy, a centrist who has cast occasional tough votes in the public interest. Tom Cotton is a right-wing ideologue. If you want to strangle government — and some poor people with it — he’s your man. If you’d like to bomb a bunch of countries, particularly those inhabited by Muslims, Cotton is again your man. I can stand a two-week respite from

the barrage of their TV ads. Lost in the shuffle are races and issues worthy of closer inspection. MAX Nate Steel is far BRANTLEY more qualified to maxbrantley@arktimes.com be attorney general than political-patronage-job-hopper Leslie Rutledge, who was judged unworthy of rehire after a short stint at the Department of Human Services in 2007. She refuses to allow release of records that could explain why she’s unfit to work in juvenile court but qualified to be the state’s top lawyer. The ballot is loaded with bad legislative ideas. Beebe Republican Sen. Jon Dismang’s proposal to require legislative approval for all agency rules would consolidate still more power in an alreadytoo-powerful legislative branch. Then there’s the so-called ethics amendment. It would restrict lobbyist bribery of lawmakers with meals and drinks, but it

Single-payer is cheaper

he enemies of Obamacare and Arkansas’s peculiar version of it, the “private option,” exposed what they hoped would be a dirty little secret the other day: The government spends more on the private option than it would have spent on plain-vanilla Medicaid, the undiluted Obamacare that other participating states follow. That was not exactly what the Government Accountability Office set out to prove in a little report for Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), inveterate foes of Obamacare (although Hatch and 18 other GOP senators signed on as sponsors of its blueprint in 1993), but it served their purpose. That was to create the impression that the much-ballyhooed Arkansas plan is more expensive for the government and the taxpayers than it needs to be. Maybe it could even be the nudge that kills the private option next year when a new governor and a legislature with perhaps a diminished majority for the private option take a new look at it. Maybe it will help conservatives realize the goal of ending health coverage for some 225,000 poor Arkansans who until a year ago could not afford either insurance or medical care when they got sick. Hatch’s and Upton’s big objective was to discourage other red states from following Arkansas and jumping into the

Medicaid expansion. Look, they can say, the Arkansas plan is flawed and will have to be scrapped, so ERNEST you don’t want to DUMAS follow the lead of those treasonous Arkansas Republicans. The Republican authors of the private option aren’t deterred by the GAO report, nor are Gov. Beebe, the officials who run the Medicaid program or all the providers around Arkansas who think Obamacare, including the private option, is the best single development for public health in the state’s history, except for the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. But here is the truth they don’t want to admit: That dirty little secret is right. The private option costs the government and the taxpayers more than merely enrolling those 225,000 poor grownups in Medicaid. That was obvious from the first, although the authors of the option produced a formula for justifying it that suggests that it would cost no more than straight Medicaid and maybe much less. They harbor undying faith that the market (insurance carriers) will always do things cheaper and better than the government — pay much more for all the medical procedures than do

contains a well-hidden kicker. It loosens term limits substantially. By giving a legislator the ability to serve 16 consecutive years in House or Senate, it will bring back the day of despotic dinosaurs. Imagine what Rep. Nate Bell (R-Mena) could do if given 16 years in the House. Judicial politics also encourages flight. Will judges follow law — or tailor rulings to the perceived popular will — in a raft of pending cases? The court must decide: • If voters can decide whether all counties should allow alcohol sales, or whether checkerboard prohibition can be kept in place to enrich countyline liquor stores. • If voters can decide on raising the minimum wage, or whether an 11th-hour challenge by Jackson T. Stephens Jr., one of the state’s richest men (thanks to inheritance, not personal toil), can kill a few extra pennies for working people. • If the Arkansas Constitution means what it says — NO additional restrictions may be added to voting. Or will

the court approve the Republican Voter ID law, meant to discourage votes by the poor, elderly and minorities? From campaign spending, you’re encouraged to believe the court listens more attentively to special pleaders than precedent. Nursing home magnate Michael Morton has now bought a piece of a significant chunk of Arkansas judiciary. Then there’s Justice Cliff Hoofman, who hopes to get yet another patronage appointment to the Court of Appeals from his former Senate pal, Gov. Mike Beebe, when his Supreme Court term ends this year. Hoofman, we’ve just learned, chatted recently on several matters — including the pending same-sex marriage case — with Sen. Jason Rapert (R-Conway). Rapert has been trying to intimidate judges by threat of recall to uphold discrimination against gay people. Rapert’s approval would be necessary if Hoofman is to get another appointed paycheck when his Supreme Court term ends. Can you add 2 plus 2? Many questions. The likely answers aren’t encouraging. I’ll be in Budapest.

Medicaid and Medicare while keeping enough money for executive salaries, administrative overhead and promotion. The overwhelming evidence, at least in health care, is that it does not. The rationale they offered for the private option is that if Medicaid got doctors and hospitals to take all those poor patients it would have to substantially increase its low reimbursement rates, and if people instead used the government’s money to buy private policies the government would reap heavy premium taxes from the companies. Also, Arkansas’s private option carves off the sickest and costliest people — the medically frail — and assigns them to Medicaid, a huge saving for the companies. Medicaid hasn’t jacked up its reimbursement rates and who knows whether it would have if the state had implemented direct Medicaid? But the undeniable truth is that the expansion without the private option would not have been as successful so quickly in reaching so many Arkansans. Many people feel better about owning an insurance policy than accepting what they think of as welfare, and insurers, hospitals and doctors aided in signing people up for the better-paying insurance. Significantly, the heavy use of the private option drove down premiums for people in the private exchange. If saving a bundle of taxpayer dollars is all that matters to Hatch, Upton and those who seize on the GAO report

to say the private option must go, they logically ought to concede a larger point. A single-payer system of insurance like Medicaid and Medicare is the cheaper, more efficient way to go to guarantee access to health care for all Americans, which Republicans have always rejected, which is why we got the market-based systems of Romneycare and Obamacare. Have you read all the recent conservative idolatry of Canada? It is the new free-market, low-tax, low-spending paradise whose policies our government should be emulating. It has a bigger safety net than the United States but a budget that is in better control and business-friendlier tax policies. But there are good explanations for that beyond tax policy and a cheap currency. One is that Canada has a government-run single-payer health system similar to Medicaid that insures everyone, including visitors. There is a high quotient of happiness with it. Canada spends only 10.9 percent of its roaring GDP on health care, compared with our world-leading 18 percent. “If you want to do spending austerity, single payer is a powerful tool,” David Frum, President George W. Bush’s speech writer and conservative commentator, said the other day. If that’s where Orrin Hatch and other critics of the private option and Obamacare want us to go, they’ll get no quarrel from this quarter. www.arktimes.com

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A glimmer of hope

or those already ambivalent about the American football industry, the start of the 2014 season has only made a bad situation worse. I admit to spending more than a few hours weekly reading about, thinking about and watching football this time of year. But this focus on football comes with a deep unease because of the self-inflicted wounds that the sport has suffered at the start of the 2014 season. The Ray Rice domestic abuse case continues to fester with all parties except the victim now engaged in finger-pointing and cover ups. That case is only part of a wave of revelations and allegations of violence and denigration against women by NFL players and team officials. Thrown into this ugly mix is the lingering sense that Michael Sam’s sexuality has been a hindrance to a fully fair shot at making an NFL team. With all this muck opening the 2014 season, and the more fundamental challenges that face football at all levels, one tiny ray of hope shows itself. That is the sense that, because of the centrality of football in American life, the country is about to enter a much-delayed conversation about how children are disciplined in the United States. That conversation, of course, emanates out of the case of Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson. In mid-May, Peterson “whoop”[ed] his 11:08 AM 4-year-old son with a “switch” while the child was visiting Peterson’s home outside Houston. The “spanking” resulted in cuts and bruises across the boy’s lower body. The boy’s mother reported the harm done to her son upon Peterson’s return home to Minnesota and, ultimately, Peterson was indicted back in Texas for felony reckless or negligent injury to a child. Soon thereafter, Peterson’s strongarmed disciplining of another 4-year-old son was brought to light. Initially, the Vikings suspended Peterson for only a single game. Within hours, following a public outcry from the governor of Minnesota, key Vikings corporate sponsors and rank-and-file fans, Peterson was denied access to any team activities until the culmination of his case. Peterson has never denied the incident occurred. As his attorney put it, “He used the same kind of discipline with his child that he experienced as a child growing up in east Texas. Adrian has never hidden from what happened.” Others have come to his defense and to the defense of corporal punishment as an appropriate method of child discipline. NBA great Charles Barkley defended the action as a part of the culture where he and Peterson came of age: “Whipping is … we do that all the time. Every black parent in the

south is going to be in jail under those circumstances.” Unquestionably, for families across America of all races, JAY corporal punishBARTH ment is a reality. An ABC News survey last year found that spanking happens in about half of families with children and a deeper analysis of the General Social Survey data by FiveThirtyEight.com showed that about 70 percent of Americans approve of spanking as a method of discipline (with some fascinating demographic variations in approval rates). But, there is growing unease across the country about corporal punishment as more and more folks come to know that frustration with a child allows acts of corporal punishment to cross a line and lead to clear physical abuse. Too often those acts are often accompanied by abusive words that fosters a culture of violence within American homes. We also know that such punishment is institutionalized within key institutions within society, especially schools. While many states bar the use of corporal punishment in schools and, according to the ABC survey, 72 percent of Americans oppose it, a healthy number of schools across the country — including many in Arkansas — still rely upon it as a primary mode of punishment. According to a 2009 study by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union, Arkansas has the second highest rate of school-based corporal punishment in the country overall (just under 5 percent of all students annually). A recent report mandated by the state legislature shows that in five districts, more than one in five students is disciplined in this manner yearly. We also know that certain subpopulations of students are more likely to be paddled. The Human Rights Watch study found that Arkansas’s rate of corporal punishment among students with disabilities is decidedly higher than for other students, and a report last year from Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families found that African-American students were twice as likely to receive corporal punishment than their white peers in the state. As Barkley and others point out, this practice is deeply embedded in the culture of some parts of the country. But I have the real sense that we are about to see swift movement on opinion regarding the appropriateness of corporal punishment in the generation ahead. The conversations that the Peterson case is producing will mark a key moment in the debate that leads to social and policy change.

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f Bret Bielema was terribly dejected by his Arkansas team’s second-half showing against Auburn in the 2014 season opener, the ensuing three weeks of football prowess have likely done much to change his disposition. The Hogs have gone from sputtering clunker to lean muscle car in a matter of days, concededly dusting competitors that don’t race at quite the same circuit that we’ll see in October and November, but they are doing it with such casual efficiency that it’s become impossible to dismiss. After a triumphant and thoroughly dominant showing in Lubbock against presumed Big 12 upstart Texas Tech, the Razorbacks returned home to deal with what could have shaped up as the ultimate trap game. Northern Illinois has been the pride of the MidAmerican Conference for many years, and still seems poised to win a number of games with its hurry-up brand, but looked completely out of place from the first swing of its kicker’s leg Saturday night in Fayetteville. Korliss Marshall raced 97 yards untouched after receiving that boot, and Arkansas didn’t budge from the throttle the rest of the night in a 52-14 dismantling of a Huskies squad that might well find itself in the Top 25 by year’s end. The sole unknown from the drubbing of the Red Raiders was whether Brandon Allen could round out the offense, and that question got emphatically answered in the affirmative as the junior quarterback was on point the entire night. He tossed two beautiful scores, rolled up 199 yards through the air and again scrambled for a score. The degree of Allen’s maturation from dinged-up, uneasy thrower to self-assured leader is rather astounding. Yes, he has advanced as a player — his first scoring throw to Jared Cornelius against the Huskies was the acme of mobile marksmanship, an on-therun dart to where only the freshman could snare it — but the real beauty of this progress is the effect it has had on the surrounding cast. The running game was not as dynamic in the rout of the Huskies as it had been the prior two weeks, but Alex Collins, Jonathan Williams and Marshall all had highlight-worthy runs and amassed 188 yards on the ground. Balance was the order of the day this weekend, and with 215 passing yards and 212 rushing, it was well met.

Sidebar time: Keon Hatcher has rather nicely shaken off that dropped certain score from the BEAU Auburn game, WILCOX hasn’t he? The junior wideout was highly coveted by the Petrino staff for his blend of size and speed but had largely underperformed until now. After his first career 100-yard game against the Huskies, capped with him safely cradling a 44-yard bomb from Allen for six, Hatcher truly looks the part of a top target. The untold story thus far has been a reinvigorated defense putting in yeoman work. In this up-tempo age of college football, ebbing the likes of Texas Tech and Northern Illinois isn’t easy, but Arkansas has commendably checked both of those speed-driven units and lived by the credo “keep everything in front of you.” The Hogs have yet to be beaten by the deep ball or been badly out of position against the run, the tackling has been substantially better at all levels and Darius Philon, who scooped up Drew Hare’s fumble and dived across the plane early Saturday evening for his first career touchdown, has been nothing short of dynamic. Now what will all of this mean as the Hogs traipse confidently down to Arlington, Texas, to take on Texas A&M there for the first time since a splendid comeback win in 2011? The smart money says that the Aggies are still too powerful for Arkansas to overcome, but it’s worth noting that the initial betting line that heavily tilted maroon began coming back toward cardinal fairly hard and quickly. In short, there’s recognition outside the state that Bret Bielema’s methodology is working, and that’s evident even when stacked up against presumably lesser competition. The recruits are seeing it, too, and recent verbal commitments from the state’s upper-echelon prospects have breathed more life into the program as a result. Texas A&M looks like the better team right now, and may well assert that position on the JerryWorld turf this Saturday afternoon, but Arkansas can manage a big game this year in ways that simply evaded the program the past two, forgettable autumns.

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Apophenia

he Observer is a great and passionate lover of words, these bare squiggles that enable us to do what no other creature can do, which is, of course, to pass our knowledge on beyond the point of our own end and thereby potentially live forever, or at least until the sun burns out or all the paper crumbles to dust, whichever comes first. A great writer once called the written word the greatest practical joke mankind has ever played on itself, and a pretty good trick it is! We fall for it over and over, brought to rage, tears, giggles and fullthroated laugher by little marks on paper or (these days) screens. Connections, ladies and germs! Connections. Language is the razor you have been carrying since someone first leaned into your new, cherubic face and said “Ma Ma,” the edge stropped on the wide belt of experience every day since then. Yours Truly writes “apple,” and suddenly, projected on the crowded billboard of your mind, there it is: the waxy fruit that tempted Eve and Adam, shining red, the stem, the delicious curve, maybe even the taste and sassy crunch curling, like a phantom, into the vault of your mouth. Magic! The Observer, a greedy sort who is always trying to extend our share of that magic, loves it when we come across a tasty new word. This week’s word: Apophenia. It is, of course, the tendency of your brain to want to make order out of nothingness, the name for that thing that happens when you look at the clouds and see not puffs of water vapor buffeted by high-altitude winds, but babies and hippos, hot fudge sundaes and the H.M.S. Bounty. You knew there had to be a name for it, didn’t you? Now you know. It’s not really known for sure why we make those spooky connections of thought, where radio static might seem to become unearthly whispers in the dark watches of the night, but the best theory going is that it helped us survive back in the Bad Ol’ Days, the idea being that Caveman Ung, who readily convinced himself that every shadowy bush and snapping twig was a ravenous cave bear, would live longer than Caveman Monga, who blew off the little voice in his

head, believing it was always The Other Neanderthal who wound up as something’s lunch. Probably didn’t do a thing for Ung’s blood pressure, but at least he lived to nervously sire little cavelets, who begat and begat and begat unto the 99th generation and thus became you, good sir or madam. Congratulations. The problem is that, even though humanity has mostly outgrown the need to be always on guard for something that might eat us, a lot of us have still got ol’ apophenia hanging around our brains, making otherwise rational people more prone to believe in hokum and dark conspiracies that limit their trust of others and their world — everything from ghosts to 9/11 Trutherism to Caveman Ung’s steadfast belief that the dark and dripping cave just west of the rock that looks like a mastodon contains a Marxist Communist Socialist Kenyan Manchurian Candidate who time-traveled back to place a newspaper announcement about his birth in a Honolulu newspaper in 1961 so he could become president and thereby destroy America from within. The upside is that apophenia — in addition to being crucial to the success of Fox News — is crucial to artistic creativity, allowing artists to make the broad, poetic leaps between two seemingly unconnected things or ideas so that a raven is like a writing desk, a rose is as thy lady’s cheeks, and Lucy is up there in the sky with diamonds, whatever the hell that means. Ah, these brains of ours! Miracle of miracles. So full of mystery and wonder, most of it unconsidered by the vast majority of people, who are content to see their mind the same way they do their toaster and refrigerator and the Honda parked in the driveway: something that works and works well, so why wonder why it does so? Such a shame. Then again, too many of us live on the surface, dear traveling companions, never diving down into the murk of existence to touch the sandy bottom, where we might at last understand that there is, in fact, a bottom to this wide and swirling pool.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

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A complaint filed Monday with state judicial regulators says that Sen. Jason Rapert, R-Conway, had talked with multiple members of the Arkansas Supreme Court about the pending lawsuit challenging the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. Rapert said that’s mostly not true. The complaint, filed anonymously, says that Rapert spoke for an extended period with Associate Justice Cliff Hoofman. Hoofman recently recused from hearing the case, but did not give a reason. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza struck down the ban as unconstitutional. The state has appealed. Briefs are being filed. It’s unclear when the Supreme Court will reach a decision in the case. The complainant said not all judges agreed to speak with Rapert. In a telephone interview, Rapert said he talked with Hoofman shortly after the Piazza ruling May 9 and that the subject of the marriage suit might have been mentioned in passing. But he said he had not called Hoofman, Hoofman called him. He said Hoofman lives in his Senate district and wanted to talk with him about a need for a legislative solution to a perceived problem in the state Freedom of Information act that allowed somebody to gain personal information through a public utility. Rapert said he’d always talk with a constituent. But as to the marriage case, Rapert said: “Obviously he can’t discuss what he can or can’t do. Obviously I know that and would never ask him to do that.” Rapert said he couldn’t recall having talked to any other members of the court or rising Supreme Court justice Rhonda Wood, another resident of his district. He said he’d talked to Chief Justice Jim Hannah on occasion over the years, but he couldn’t recall if they’d talked in the last six months. He added about Wood, “I can’t tell you if Rhonda Wood and I have ever discussed it [the marriage case]. ... Rhonda is around the community. I see her at many different events. But she knows my opinion, definitely.” Rapert said he was sure all members of the court knew his opinion because he’d made sure the Bureau of Legislative Research had delivered a copy of the resolution he sponsored critical of Piazza’s ruling. He added that the Times should look into a “conflict of interest” on the part of Piazza, an apparent reference to his late uncle, the actor Ben Piazza, who was gay. Any suggestion that any of his actions could be viewed as intimidation of judges 12

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START OF SOMETHING NEW: A student at Alexander cuts the ribbon on the new sundial, an ideal A+ project.

Not just marking time Juveniles getting A+ learning at Alexander. BY LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK

t was a cloudy day last Wednesday, so the members of the Science and Math Club could not use the analemmatic sundial they had built in front of their school to tell time. It might be the only analemmatic sundial — in which a stylus (you, for example) stands in a particular place (on the September brick, for example) and looks to see where the shadow crosses an arc of numbers, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. — in Arkansas, and it works, teacher and students promised. The school, the Arkansas Consolidated

High School at the Arkansas Juvenile Assessment & Treatment Center in Alexander, whose students “have been invited to attend by the courts,” as Principal Amy Mejia put it, is also the first to implement the Arkansas A+ Schools teaching method at the state’s system of schools for juvenile offenders. The A+ approach, which uses the arts to teach across the curriculum, is a project of the Thea Foundation, which has trained Arkansas teachers in the arts-infused method since 2011. Math teacher Dan Long said the

sundial project required math skills (from algebra to pre-calculus), the creation of schematic drawings and construction, and students documented the project with scrapbooks, making it the kind of ideal multidisciplinary approach that A+ promotes. It’s a style that Long, who has taught for 47 years, the last five post-retirement at the treatment center, already embraced, one he considers a “fantastic” way to teach. He said the faculty came back from their A+ summer training “pumped up,” and that the experience had brought the faculty “closer together.” Mejia agreed: “It has energized our campus … we work better as a team.” The idea to try A+ was Superintendent Brett Smith’s. Now in his sixth year as superintendent of the Division of Youth Services’ Arkansas Consolidated High School, Smith was introduced to Thea Foundation director Paul Leopoulos soon after coming to CONTINUED ON PAGE 52

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SPEAK, ARKANSAS: Zabe Barnes In the latest edition of “Speak, Arkansas,” in which Arkansans tell their stories in their own words, we hear from Little Rock’s Zabe Barnes, a selfdescribed “master healing teacher, gifted channel, modern-day shaman and transformation catalyst.”

had what I think was fibromyalgia — it was never diagnosed, but I felt a lot of pain. I was not really able to function. My husband left, and I had this 4-year-old daughter, and I really didn’t know how I was going to take care of her myself. So I just started praying because that was all I knew how to do. I wanted to die, honestly, but I didn’t want to leave my daughter without a mother. I had this plastic glow-in-thedark rosary that a friend had brought back from Medugorje, in Yugoslavia. I wasn’t Catholic, but I taught in a Catholic school and I knew the Hail Mary because we said it every day in class. I didn’t even know the right way to pray the rosary, but I’m fumbling around with the beads and BARNES I’m saying the Hail Mary because I’m thinking, “Okay, Jesus must have been a handful because he was very precocious. It couldn’t have been easy to raise who they called the Son of God. So Mary was probably a really, really good mother, and I’m gonna pray to her and ask her to help me figure this out.” And I just started praying the Hail Mary over and over again, and the next thing I knew I’m seeing apparitions like these colored shapes and what I now know would be sacred geometry. I’m seeing these colored shapes: They’re lit up and they’re playing music, and now this happened without alcohol and without drugs. Some people have experiences like this when they take certain hallucinogens. This was just prayer. These colors, these shapes, I’m just completely mesmerized by them. Watching them and the patterns are changing and I’m not sure where they’re coming from, getting so wrapped up in them that I don’t care. The next thing I knew, it’s a “Star Trek” scene, and I’m flying through space just like when they go into warpdrive. And I’m seeing planets, and this is all happening in my bedroom. I was absolutely fascinated by it, just spiraling in and spiraling out and it was this wild ride. I had no idea, but three days went by. I didn’t eat. I didn’t have to go to the bathroom. To me it seemed like five minutes. And at the same time it was like all of this information was coming through my brain but really, really fast — faster than words, faster than an auctioneer could speak and certainly faster than you could grasp the language, and different languages, too, that I’ve never studied. It was like I knew what was being said. And I was being shown how everything in the universe fit together and kind of shown what’s behind what we see as physical reality. If you’re familiar with that Plato’s Cave allegory and there’s that story about the people who think they’re looking at reality, but really they’re looking at the shadows and

reality is something completely different. That’s what I was being shown — there’s so much more to reality than what we think there is. There’s more to everything. And there was this deep sense of peace, and this bright golden light at the end of the tunnel or whatever, and by the end of the three days it was just like all those things I thought I was worried about didn’t matter. I saw — I call it — the heart of God, the heart of all — that’s where I feel like I was taken in those three days. Now, coming out of it was a little bit hard. You go on a ride like that, it’s kind of hard to get back to physical reality, coming into the body. It was almost like I couldn’t breathe, but that’s when I started seeking out people who could answer what just happened. Shamanism kept coming up. A friend suggested I go study with Alberto Villoldo — he’s an Incan shaman, an archaeologist, well known in the community of shamans. I went and did a class with him, and he said, “You’re a healer, you’re a shaman.” And I’m still thinking I’m so broken still. It took a while to catch up to the fact that I wasn’t as broken as I thought I was. I thought I was not worthy somehow. I started taking classes and started learning, but not seriously — more dabbling, more curiosity — it was not something I could go into myself. And then I had an absolutely freak reaction to an injection of dye for a CT scan. It caused nerve damage from the sternum down to the feet. My hobby had been dancing and choreographing. I danced with an ensemble from New Orleans, so here I am — I can’t even walk. At a soul level, I think sometimes things like this happen as a wakeup call to jump us onto our path. I still have this child at home that I have to take care of, and I can’t walk, so I’m looking for answers. That’s when I started having energy healing sessions. After the first one I could move my big toe and I could move my ankle. Before, I couldn’t do that. That was just after an hour and a half. I went to different people and each time the feeling started to come back, more and more and more. Then one day one of the people I was going to said, “You know, I’d like to teach you how to do this yourself. I’d like to teach you Reiki. I’m happy to do it for you but I can teach you how to do it between appointments and I can teach your daughter how to do it also.” So she taught my 9-year-old daughter and me both how to do it to take the pain away. Once the nerves start to repair, it’s a good sign but it’s painful. It feels like fire. It feels like you’re walking on glass. So I would do Reiki when I would get to that edge when I couldn’t take it anymore. CONTINUED ON PAGE 52

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INSIDER, CONT. is “just a bunch of baloney,” Rapert said. Nothing prevents Rapert, who is not a lawyer, from attempting to talk to a judge, but it would be a clear violation of judicial ethics rules for a judge to have a discussion about a pending case with anyone except in a judicial setting in which all parties participated. Rapert is not a party to the case. But he has taken a leading role in criticizing Piazza’s ruling and is the author of a resolution adopted by the Legislative Council to encourage legislative action against judges who “negate the will of the people.” Impeachment and a law change to allow removal of judges by voters have been discussed by opponents of Piazza’s ruling. There are seven members of the Supreme Court currently, and two Arkansas Court of Appeals judges, Rhonda Wood and Robin Wynne, will take office on the Supreme Court in January as seats are vacated. Other court members are Chief Justice Jim Hannah and Justices Paul Danielson, Donald Corbin, Karen Baker, Jo Hart and Courtney Goodson. All were elected. Corbin is retiring at the end of the year. Hoofman, too, finishes an appointed term this year but is lobbying to get Gov. Mike Beebe to appoint him again to Wood’s Court of Appeals vacancy. Beebe, a former Senate colleague of Hoofman, has appointed him to two court terms as well as the Arkansas Highway Commission. An appointment to the Court of Appeals would require approval from Rapert, as the senator representing Hoofman’s district. Coincidentally, another complaint about judicial conduct was filed last week. Kathy Wells of Little Rock filed a citizen complaint over reports here that Justices Baker and Goodson had favored taking lie detector tests of court employees in an attempt to find the source of information reported here about dissension on the court, particularly pertaining to the hiring of a new Supreme Court clerk. The Times has learned subsequently that some justices also have talked about requiring certain employees to sign nondisclosure agreements about even routine on-thejob matters. That idea reportedly foundered at resistance. Wells’ complaint, which she provided to the Times, said it was “reprehensible” that justices would pressure employees to shield activities of the court from public scrutiny or punish those who might supply the public with information about court work. The confidentiality of court deliberations on cases was not at issue, she noted. www.arktimes.com

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Fall Arts 2014

DIAMONDS AND DIRT: Rodney Crowell will be at South on Main 8 p.m. Dec. 4, $25-$35

LEGENDS OF THE FALL Your guide to the rest of the year in live music. WILL STEPHENSON

ith summer come and gone, it’s time to mark your calendars for the best of the fall concert season, from Bret Michaels and Kool Keith to Justin Moore, Killer Mike, Slipknot and Rodney Crowell. It’s like William Cullen Bryant once said: “Autumn ... the year’s last, loveliest smile.” Or as Rick Ross put it, “Middle of December, I will melt your fucking snow.” The first weekend in October is a crowded one, with Minneapolis jazz trio The Bad Plus (Oct. 2), known for covering Neil Young, Aphex Twin, Stravinsky and whatever else they feel like, at South

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on Main as part of the Oxford American’s Jazz Series. Little Rock native and Nashville transplant Adam Hambrick (Oct. 2) will play at Stickyz with fellow local country singer Cliff Hutchison; Austin roots-rock group Band of Heathens (Oct. 2) will be at Revolution with Charlie Mars; and synth-pop band Polica (Oct. 2) will play Juanita’s with Web of Sunsets. The next night, local indie rock group Collin vs. Adam (Oct. 3) will play an album release show at White Water Tavern (free CD with the price of entry), while former Poison frontman, reality TV star and frequent

bandana-wearer Bret Michaels (Oct. 3) will play Juanita’s. Charlie Wilson (Oct. 4), the R&B legend and former lead singer of funk greats The Gap Band, will be at Verizon Arena. Local metal favorites Mothwind (Oct. 4) will play their long-awaited album release show at White Water Tavern alongside Peckerwolf and Jab Jab Suckerpunch. Brooklyn by-wayof Atlanta indie rock group Gringo Star will be at Maxine’s in Hot Springs (Oct. 4) and Stickyz (Oct. 5), and singer, producer and L.A. ratchet pioneer Ty Dolla $ign (Oct. 5) will be at Juanita’s. Mega-star Santana (Oct. 5) will play the Walmart AMP in Rogers. The King Biscuit Blues Festival, which this year features Sonny Burgess, Bobby Rush, Guitar Shorty, Delbert McClinton, James Cotton and more, will be held in downtown Helena Oct. 8-11. Remember 38 Special? Enjoy betting on horse races? Well, don’t miss the iconic arena rock group (“Caught Up In You,” etc.) at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs (Oct. 9). Everyone else should make their way over to the Joint in Argenta to see the legend Kool Keith (Oct. 9), formerly of the Ultramagnetic MCs and a genuinely bent, brilliant person. “In my real world,” Keith once rapped (under his Dr. Octagon guise),

“orangutans dance for Thanksgiving with skeleton bones and skunk tails.” Alt-country stalwarts Cody Canada and The Departed (Oct. 9) will be at Stickyz, and long-running Denton, Texas, punk group Bobgoblin will be at White Water. Blues harmonica legend James Cotton (Oct. 9), who’s won Grammys and toured with Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters, will be at Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, and indie pop group Foster the People (who made a very famous song called “Pumped Up Kicks”) will be at the Walmart AMP with Fritz and The Tantrums. The Arkansas State Fair is set for Oct. 10-19 and will feature a series of top-shelf concerts by the likes of George Thorogood, Travis Tritt, Dru Hill, Color Me Badd and more. The Arkansas Chamber Singers (Oct. 10) will, appropriately, perform Haydn’s “Mass in Time of War” at St. James United Methodist Church, and New Orleans brass funk group Bonerama (Oct. 10) will be at South on Main. Memphis redneck rocker John Paul Keith (Oct. 10) will return to the White Water Tavern, and New Orleans-based self-proclaimed “prog funk” band Earphunk (Oct. 10) will be at Stickyz. Electronic rock duo and Big Boi collaborators Phantogram (Oct. 11) will

Fall Arts 2014 be at George’s Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville, and Austin blues rock group The Sideshow Tragedy (Oct. 11) will be at White Water. Locals The Casual Pleasures (Oct. 11) will be at Maxine’s in Hot Springs with Landrest and Switchblade Razors. Big-time festival favorites and “livetronica” stand-outs Big Gigantic (Oct. 15) will be at Revolution with Manic Focus. Yonder Mountain String Band’s Harvest Music Festival, on Mulberry Mountain in Ozark (Oct. 16-18), will feature dozens of bands, including The Jayhawks, Trampled By Turtles, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Dumpstaphunk, Andy Frasco and Tyrannosaurus Chicken. Mysteriously popular Vegas metal band Five Finger Death Punch (Oct. 17) will stop by Verizon Arena with Volbeat, while Arkansas native, country superstar and occasional NRA spokesperson Justin Moore (Oct. 17) will be at First Security Amphitheater. Anyone looking to not pay anything that night can go to South on Main to catch Americana group The Easy Leaves (Oct. 17), or stop by Velvet Kente’s Reggae Dance Party (Oct. 17) at White Water Tavern.

Austin singer-songwriter Emily Wolfe (Oct. 20) will come to Juanita’s, and Killer Mike and El-P (Oct. 20) will bring their electro, frenzied brand of indie-rap to Stickyz. The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra (Oct. 21) will perform “Quartet for the End of Time” at the Clinton Presidential Center. Insane-sounding, anonymous Nashville funk band Here Come the Mummies (Oct. 22), whose existence I’ve only just learned of and who Wikipedia claims are “best known for their live performances in which band members perform in full mummy attire,” will be at Juanita’s. Bearded prophet Adam Faucett (Oct. 23), whom you may also recognize for his floor-quaking vocal range, will be at White Water Tavern with Iron Tongue and Them Witches. Later on in the month, raucous Alabama redneck rapper Yelawolf (Oct. 26) will be at Juanita’s, and beloved alt-country band Drive-By Truckers (Oct. 28) will come to George’s Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville. Seminal hardcore band 7 Seconds (Oct. 29) will play a rare show at White Water, and Amasa Hines’ Joshua Asante (Oct. 30) will play the Pow Wow Radio Show

launch party at The Joint with Big Piph and Sean Fresh. In November, Creed singer Scott Stapp (Nov. 1) will come to Juanita’s, and masked nu metal icons Slipknot (Nov. 4) will come to Verizon Arena with Korn. Barry Hannah-referencing Oxford, Miss., indie rock group Water Liars (Nov. 4) will return to the White Water Tavern, and enduring alternative hip-hop group Atmosphere (Nov. 6) will come to Juanita’s. The Blue Man Group (Nov. 3), which, for the uninitiated, is exactly what it sounds like, will be at Reynolds Performance Hall at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, and self-styled “nerdcore” rapper MC Chris (Nov. 8) will be at Juanita’s. The North Mississippi Allstars (Nov. 8), fronted by Jim Dickinson’s sons, will be at Revolution, and blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa (Nov. 11) will stop by Verizon Arena the following week. Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s Italian Serenade (Nov. 11) will be at the Clinton Presidential Center. Cincinnati indie-pop band Foxy Shazam (Nov. 15) will come to Juanita’s, and folk-rock singer-songwriter John

Kilzer (Nov. 20) will play a free show at South on Main. Locals Knox Hamilton (Nov. 20), who recently got a big-time record deal off the strength of a hugely catchy song called “Work It Out,” will play Juanita’s, and trippy blues-ish rock group Tyrannosaurus Chicken (Nov. 28) will return to Stickyz. In December, former pre-teen star Aaron Carter (Dec. 4), famously a better basketball player than Shaquille O’Neal, will be at Juanita’s, and Grammy-winning country legend Rodney Crowell (Dec. 4) will come to South on Main. Meanwhile, in Fayetteville, country star Clint Black (Dec. 4) will be at the Walton Arts Center. The Arkansas Chamber Singers will perform their annual Holiday Concert (Dec. 12-14) at the Old State House Museum, and the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra (Dec. 19-21) will present its Swinging Holiday Extravaganza at the Pulaski Academy Performing Arts Center. Lubbock, Texas, country songwriter William Clark Green (Dec. 19) will come to Stickyz, and, just in time for the holidays, yacht rapper Rick Ross (Dec. 21), a.k.a The Teflon Don, a.k.a. Ricky Rozay, will be at Barton Coliseum.

RUN THE JEWELS: Killer Mike and El-P will be at Stickyz 9 p.m. Oct. 20, $15. www.arktimes.com

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Fall Arts 2014

SING IT SISTERS: Alan Mencken’s music spices up “Sister Act,” coming to UCA Oct. 23.

From ‘The Game’s Afoot’ to ‘A Quiet End.’ BY JAMES SZENHER

hether you’re looking to hear “76 Trombones,” get drawn into a thriller, laugh yourself out of your seat, or catch some awardwinning dramas, you’ll most certainly find something up your alley with one of Arkansas’s many excellent production companies this season. Heading up the Broadway fare is the Meredith Wilson classic “The Music Man.” Shirley Jones, who played Marian the librarian in the original film, will be hosting and playing the role of Marian’s mother, while Jones’ son Patrick Cassidy will play the title role of Harold Hill. Celebrity Attractions will present the musical Oct. 3-5 at the recently christened Maumelle Performing Arts Center (inside Maumelle High School), which is hosting performances while Robinson Center undergoes renovations. Need more musicals? The University of Central Arkansas’s Broadway series at Reynolds Performance Hall will present a production of everyone’s favorite

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singing nun story, “Sister Act,” which features original music by eight-time Oscar winner Alan Menken, on Oct. 23, and the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville will show the throwback pastiche “Nice Work If You Can Get It” Oct. 21-26, which features several classics by George and Ira Gershwin originally heard in other films and plays. Finally, if you haven’t seen it yet, there are still a few days left to catch “Memphis,” which runs through Sept. 28 at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre. This Tony award-winning musical about Memphis DJ Dewey Phillips will have you dancing in the aisles with its 1950s R&B soundtrack. Also on the fall stage: The Rep’s production of Frederick Knott’s thriller “Wait Until Dark” (Oct. 22-Nov. 9). Knott is also famous for “Dial M for Murder,” which was later adapted for the screen and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The finale of the film version of “Wait Until Dark” was recognized by

hearted entertainment, TheatreSquared will also be presenting a stage adaptation of the screwball comedy-adventure “Around the World in 80 Days,” based on the Jules Verne classic. Phileas Fogg and company will be racing around the stage from Nov. 26 through Dec. 21. Even though it’s only September, Walmart has taught us that it’s never too early to think about Christmas. Theatergoers looking for yuletide cheer during the holiday season should mark their calendars to see “Elf” at The Rep (Dec. 3-28). Yes, it’s that “Elf,” a musical adaptation of the well-loved 2003 Will Ferrell film featuring music by the Tony-nominated team of Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin. And, if you’re still looking to find the true meaning of Christmas, check out UCA Broadway’s production of the Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol” on Dec. 7 at Reynolds Performance Hall. Perennial dinner-date favorite Murry’s Dinner Playhouse rounds out the fall theater season with three fun performances. Playing now through Oct. 4 is Tony- and Oscar-winner Tom Stoppard’s “Rough Crossing,” a romantic comedy play-within-a-play set on board a luxury liner in the 1930s. Later, Murry’s will present the Sherlock Holmes comedy-whodunit “The Game’s Afoot” (Oct. 7-Nov. 8) and the biographical Hank Williams tribute “Hank and My Honky Tonk Heroes” starring Jason Petty (Nov. 11-12).

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Bravo as the No. 10 scariest scene of all time, so you might want to bring someone along to cling to. The Halloween performance is sure to sell out so make sure you get your tickets early. The Weekend Theater promises a host of excellent dramas with a social justice bent this season, starting with “A Quiet End” by Robin Swados (Sept. 26-Oct. 11), a groundbreaking 1980s play that was one of the first to address the AIDS epidemic. It explores the lives of three men who live together in a Manhattan apartment and struggle in the face of their illness to find hope and meaning. Next up is Suzan Lori Parks’ Pulitzer-winning “Topdog/Underdog” (Oct. 31-Nov. 15), which follows two African-American brothers as they confront external racism along with internal demons. The heavy material is balanced with elements of dark comedy and exciting and dynamic performance. Closing out the season is Jon Robin Baitz’s “Other Desert Cities” (Dec. 5-20), about political divisions and long-forgotten secrets within a California family. Drama lovers in Northwest Arkansas will get a chance to see TheatreSquared’s production of Little Rock Hall High School graduate David Auburn’s “Proof” (Oct. 16-Nov. 2), which won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for Best Drama in 2001. The play is laced with themes of mathematical obsession and unconventional romance. For those looking for more light-

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CENTRAL ARKANSAS BOOK SIGNINGS OCT. 2: Charles Krauthammer, “Things That Matter.”Barnes & Noble, 1 p.m. OCT. 15: Roger Stone, “Nixon’s Secrets.” Barnes & Noble, 7 p.m. OCT. 29: Nathan Englander. Temple B’nai Israel, 7:30 p.m., free.

EVENTS OCT. 2: American Heart Association’s Festival of Wines. Dickey-Stephens Park, 6 p.m., $60 adv., $75 day of. OCT. 4: 4th annual Main Street Food Truck Festival. Downtown Little Rock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. OCT. 5: 2014 Little Rock Pride Fest. Clinton Presidential Center, 1-8 p.m. OCT. 9: Prentice Powell. Bless the Mic Lecture Series. Philander Smith College, 7 p.m., free. 18

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OCT. 10-19: Arkansas State Fair. With concerts from George Thorogood, Travis Tritt, Color Me Badd, Dru Hill and more. Arkansas State Fairgrounds, $2.99-$5.99. OCT. 18: The Weekend Theater’s Oktoberfest. Food, beer and karaoke and other outdoor fun. 2210 S. State St., 6-10 p.m., $20. OCT. 24: Arkansas Times Craft Beer Festival. With beer from nearly 50 craft breweries and food from local restaurants. 6-9 p.m., Argenta Farmers Market grounds. OCT. 25: 2014 Stand Up to Bullying Arts and Film Festival. Ron Robinson Theater, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. OCT. 25: 4th annual “World Cheese Dip Championship.” Bernice Garden, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., $10 (children under 10 free). OCT. 31: “On the Hunt for the Texarkana Moonlight Phantom.” Old State House Museum, noon, free. NOV. 6: Talib Kweli. Bless the Mic Lecture Series. Philander Smith College, 7 p.m., free.

BURN RUBBER: Charlie Wilson, who fronted the Gap Band of 1980s fame, will be at Verizon Arena, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4, $49.50-$82.50.

Fall Arts 2014 NOV. 8: Arkansas Cornbread Festival. With cornbread and side dish competitions, arts and homemade crafts, music and more. 11 a.m.-4 p.m., $310. South Main Street.

FILM OCT. 8: “The Earrings of Madame de ...” Splice Microcinema. Few, 8 p.m., donations. OCT. 10: “The Legend of Boggy Creek.” Second Friday Cinema. Old State House Museum, 5 p.m., free. OCT. 22: Maya Deren double feature: “Meshes in the Afternoon” and “Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti.” Splice Microcinema. Few, 8 p.m., donations. NOV. 5: “Shoot the Piano Player.” Splice Microcinema. Few, 8 p.m., donations. NOV. 19: “A Night of Short Narrative and Experimental Masterpieces.” Splice Microcinema. Few, 8 p.m., donations. DEC. 3: “Stagecoach.” Splice Microcinema. Few, 8 p.m., donations. DEC. 17: “The Great Dictator.” Splice Microcinema. Few, 8 p.m., donations.

MUSIC OCT. 2: The Bad Plus. Part of the Oxford American Jazz series. South on Main, 8 p.m., $20-$30. OCT. 2: Adam Hambrick, Cliff Hutchison. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $10. OCT. 2: Band of Heathens, Charlie Mars. Revolution, 9 p.m., $10 adv., $13 day of. OCT. 2: Polica, Web of Sunsets. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $15 adv., $18 day of. OCT. 3: Benjamin Del Shreve. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $7. OCT. 3: Bret Michaels. Juanita’s, 9:30 p.m., $40. OCT. 3: Collin vs. Adam. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. OCT. 4-5: Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s Acxiom Pops Live: Bill Conti’s Academy Awards. Pulaski Academy Conner Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m. Sat., 3 p.m. Sun. $19-$58. OCT. 4: Charlie Wilson. Verizon Arena, 7:30 p.m., $49.50-$82.50. OCT. 4: The Dave Matthews Tribute Band. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $10 adv., $12 day of. OCT. 4: Mothwind, Peckerwolf, Jab Jab Suckerpunch. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. OCT. 5: Gringo Star. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8 p.m., $7. OCT. 5: Ty Dolla $ign. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $15. OCT. 8: Radkey, Dead Anchors. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8:30 p.m., $7. OCT. 9: James Cotton. Wildwood Park for the Arts, 7 p.m., $35 general admission, $75 VIP. OCT. 9: Cody Canada and The Departed. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8 p.m., $10 adv., $12 day of. OCT. 9: Kool Keith. The Joint, 9:30 p.m., $20-$50. OCT. 9: Bobgoblin. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. OCT. 10: Arkansas Chamber Singers, “Mass in Time of War.” St. James United Methodist Church, 7:30 p.m., $22. OCT. 10: Earphunk. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $8 adv., $10 day of. OCT. 10: John Paul Keith. White Water

Tavern, 9:30 p.m., $7. OCT. 10: Bonerama. South On Main, 10 p.m., $17. OCT. 11: Ben Roy, Kris Pierce, Seth Dees. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $10 adv., $12 day of. OCT. 11: Brown Soul Shoes. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $5. OCT. 11: The Sideshow Tragedy. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. OCT. 12: For All Those Sleeping, Capture The Crown, Ice Nine Kills, Youth in Revolt, Palisades. Revolution, 8 p.m., $13 adv., $15 day of. OCT. 15: Big Gigantic, Manic Focus. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $23 adv., $25 day of. OCT. 16: Jantsen, Dirt Monkey. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $10. OCT. 16: Patrick Sweany, Joe Fletcher. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $10. OCT. 17: Five Finger Death Punch, Volbeat. Verizon Arena, 6:10 p.m., $51.50. OCT. 17: Justin Moore. First Security Amphitheater, 7 p.m., $25.50. OCT. 17: The Easy Leaves. South on Main, 7:30 p.m., free. OCT. 17: The Chris Robinson Brotherhood. Revolution, 9:30 p.m., $20 adv. OCT 17: Velvet Kente Reggae Dance Party. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. OCT. 18-19: Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s “Blazing Brass”: With Richard Jorgensen on trumpet. Maumelle Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m. Sat., 3 p.m. Sun. $19-$58. OCT. 18: Goose. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $8. OCT. 18: Boom Kinetic. Revolution, 9:30 p.m., $10. OCT. 20: Emily Wolfe. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $8. OCT. 20: Killer Mike and El-P. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $15. OCT. 21: Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s Quartet for the End of Time. Chamber series, Clinton Presidential Center. 7 p.m., $23 OCT. 21: Brown Sabbath. Revolution, 9 p.m., $10 adv., $12 day of. OCT. 21: Dana Louise. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. OCT. 22: Here Come The Mummies. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $15. OCT. 22: Marc Ford, Elijah Ford. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8 p.m., $8 adv., $10 day of. OCT. 23: Adam Faucett, Iron Tongue, Them Witches. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. OCT. 24: Reckless Kelly, Erik Dylan. Revolution, 9 p.m., $15 adv., $18 day of. OCT. 25: Tim Easton. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. OCT. 26: Yelawolf. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $20-$75. OCT. 29: 7 Seconds. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $15. OCT. 30: Joshua Asante, Big Piph, Sean Fresh, The Pow Wow Radio Show launch party. The Joint, 7 p.m. OCT. 31: J Roddy Walston and The Business, Fly Golden Eagle. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $12 adv., $15 day of. NOV. 1: The Floozies. Revolution, 9 p.m., $13 adv., $15 day of. NOV. 1: Scott Stapp, Cody Joe Tillman and The Wicked Truth. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $30. NOV. 4: Slipknot, Korn, King 810. Verizon Arena, 7 p.m. NOV. 4: Liz Longley. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $10. NOV. 4: Moon Taxi. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $15. CONTINUED ON PAGE 20

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Fall Arts 2014 NOV. 4: Water Liars. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. NOV. 6: Atmosphere. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $20. NOV. 6: Warren Wolf and Wolfpack. South on Main, 8 p.m., $20-$30. NOV. 6: The Eskimo Brothers. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $5. NOV. 7: Adam Carroll, Owen Temple. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. NOV. 8-9: Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s Beethoven and Blue Jeans. With Sarah Isbin on guitar. Maumelle Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m., $19-$58. NOV. 8: MC Chris. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $13. NOV. 8: North Mississippi Allstars. Revolution, 9 p.m., $20. NOV. 11: Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s Italian Serenade. Chamber series, Clinton Presidential Center, 7 p.m., $23. NOV. 11: Joe Bonamassa. Verizon Arena, 8 p.m., $79-$125. NOV. 15: Project 986, Living Sacrifice, The Agony Scene, Hollow. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $15. NOV. 15: Foxy Shazam. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $14. NOV. 20: John Kilzer. South on Main, 7:30 p.m., free. NOV. 20: Knox Hamilton. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $10. NOV. 28: Tyrannosaurus Chicken. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $6. DEC. 4: Aaron Carter. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $15 adv., $20 day of. DEC. 4: Rodney Crowell. South on Main, 8 p.m., $25-$35. DEC. 12-14: Arkansas Chamber Singers’ annual Holiday Concert. Old State House Museum, 7 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 3 p.m. Sun., free. DEC. 19-21: Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s Swinging Holiday Extravaganza. Pulaski Academy Performing Arts Center, 7:30 Fri.-Sat., 3 p.m. Sun., $19-$58. DEC. 19: William Clark Green. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $8 adv., $10 day of. DEC. 21: Rick Ross. Barton Coliseum, 7 p.m., $50-$120.

THEATER OCT. 3-5: “The Music Man.” Maumelle Performing Arts Center. OCT. 7-NOV. 8: “The Game’s Afoot.” Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m. Wed. and Sun., 5:30 p.m. Sun., $25-$35.

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OCT. 22- NOV. 9: “Wait Until Dark.” Arkansas Repertory Theater, 7 p.m. Wed., Thu. and Sun. 8 p.m. Fri. and Sat., 2 p.m. Sun., $20-$55. OCT. 24-NOV. 9: “Pinocchio.” Arkansas Arts Center, 7 p.m. Fri., 2 p.m. Sat. and Sun. $12.50. OCT. 31-NOV. 15: “Topdog/Underdog.” The Weekend Theater, 7:30 p.m. Fri. and Sat., $16, $12 students and seniors. NOV. 11-12: “Hank and My Honky Tonk Heroes.” Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6 p.m., $25-$35. NOV. 13-15: “An Evening With Eddie Miles.” Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6 p.m., $25-$35. NOV. 18-DEC. 31: “Don’t Dress for Dinner.” Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m. Wed. and Sun., 5:30 p.m. Sun., $25-$35. NOV. 28-DEC. 21: “The Velveteen Rabbit.” Arkansas Arts Center, 7 p.m. Fri., 2 and 4 p.m. Sat., 2 p.m. Sun., $12.50. DEC. 5-20: “Other Desert Cities.” The Weekend Theater, 7:30 p.m. Fri. and Sat. $16, $12 students and seniors. DEC. 3-28: “Elf.” Arkansas Repertory Theater, 7 p.m. Wed.-Sat., 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sun., $20-$55.

VISUAL ARTS OCT. 1-DEC. 12: “Faculty Biennial.” Gallery I, UALR. OCT. 6-NOV. 10: “Perception/Reality.” Work by Mia Hall, Gallery II, UALR. OCT. 10-JAN. 24: “Johnny Cash: Arkansas Icon.” Butler Center Galleries, Arkansas Studies Institute. OCT. 24-JAN. 18: “A Sense of Balance: The Sculpture of Stoney Lamar.” Arkansas Arts Center. OCT. 24-FEB. 1: “William Beckman: Drawings, 1967-2013.” Arkansas Arts Center. NOV. 14-JAN. 4: “47th Collectors Show and Sale.” Arkansas Arts Center.

BENTONVILLE MUSIC OCT. 3: Gina Phillips and Picnic, Mountain Shore. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 8:30 p.m., free.

VISUAL ARTS THROUGH JAN. 19: “State of the Art: Discovering American Art.” More CONTINUED ON PAGE 49

NOVEL IDEA: Thousands of romance novels make up John Salvest’s “Forever,” in the State of the Art exhibition at Crystal Bridges.

Art in America Converging at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. BY LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK

y now, everyone knows the story of how the exhibition “State of the Art: Discovering American Art” came to be. To bring dancing sombreros, an installation made of romance novels, dressed bird carvings and a room in which

the furniture is slowly sucked into a hole and 223 other works of art by contemporary American artists to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, two men traveled 100,000 miles and visited nearly 1,000 artists over the course of a year. The

Fall Arts 2014 reviews are anything to go by. (See Vanessa L. German’s “protection figures,” folk art assemblages that make use of white dolls painted black as a commentary on African-American imagery.) The exhibition is hung throughout the museum, both in the main galleries and the temporary gallery space, and spills out into the grounds. There are 54 male and 48 female artists in the show. The regions they come from are also nearly evenly represented: 26 artists were chosen from Western states, 27 from the mid-Atlantic, 25 from the

result is being compared to the Whitney Biennial and the achievement of the men — museum President Don Bacigalupi and curator Chad Alligood — to Alan Lomax’s thousands of recordings of American roots music. It is one of the biggest art exhibitions of the year, and we’re not talking just in Arkansas: Advance stories on Bacigalupi and Alligood’s travels and the idea for the show were covered in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the L.A. Times and arts magazines. While reviews from mavens abroad have been slightly critical of the non-shock of the new there (WSJ: “The result is a meticulously installed, technically impressive exhibition that looks like the world’s largest university faculty show”), anyone who can get to Bentonville to see it should. “State of the Art,” which opened Sept. 13 and will run to Jan. 19, features work by 102 artists, four of which are from Arkansas: printmaker Delita Martin, painter Guy Bell, conceptual artist John Salvest and ceramicist Linda Lopez. Martin and Bell are from Little Rock, Salvest (whose entry is the aforementioned work in which a zillion romance novels have been arranged to spell out the title of the piece, “Forever”) is from Jonesboro and Lopez teaches in Fayetteville. Bacigalupi and Alligood sought artists who aren’t yet known nationally and who they thought represented, of course, the state of American art. The work does not run to the really out there — nothing scatological, for example — but that doesn’t mean there’s not food for thought in the show, if the show checklist and

South and 24 from the East Coast. A postscript on the Wall Street Journal review: The writer took Salvest to task for being “obvious” by spelling out the word “forever.” It seemed essential to me, unless there otherwise would have been some sort of delicious ambiguity that I’m too — oh, Arkansan — to get. Is it so wrong to be wry?

n addition to its current exhibition of the calligraphic engravings by Arkansas artist laureate Evan Lindquist, the Arkansas Arts Center has two fine exhibits coming this fall: steel

and turned wood sculpture by Stoney Lamar and a retrospective of drawings by figurative artist William Beckman. Lamar’s show, “A Sense of Balance” (Oct. 24-Jan. 18), includes multi-axis-turned work from 1987 to present, creating surfaces and shapes of transcendent beauty. “William Beckman: Drawings, 1967-2013” (Oct. 24-Feb. 1) includes full-scale figures (and in some cases, cattle) drawn in charcoal and silverpoint, luscious works of realism. The annual “Collector’s Show and Sale” of work from New York galleries runs Nov. 14-Feb. 4.

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GOODBYE GLEN: The Campbell biopic “I’ll Be Me” opens the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Oct. 10.

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love film festivals, always have. Not the parties and the schmoozing, with tiers of variously colored festival badges conferring degrees of VIP. Just the fact that a whole bunch of movies are showing, and a whole bunch of people who love movies are going to see them. And not multiplex movies that have been so hyped and previewed that you feel like you’ve already seen them, that you are merely doing your mass-culture due diligence sitting through two hours of what you more or less know is coming. The great thing about film festivals is that they still baffle. They still surprise. Even the inevitable duds are part of the

wonder. It’s maybe what it feels like for a baseball scout to see unheralded kids play in some uncharted territory. You never know. The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival is a particular treat, partly because festival director Courtney Pledger and her team keep putting together impressive lineups, rangy and challenging and fun. Part of it too is Hot Springs itself. It’s just a good spot to watch films. One of those places where you walk out of the theater and feel like you’re still in a movie. There’s that veneer of splendor that has gotten a bit dingy. Hot Springs is like how Toontown might have looked

Fall Arts 2014 decades later if the bad guys won in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit.” Even its seediness has gone to seed. The 23rd annual festival opens Oct. 10 with a screening of “Glen Campbell … I’ll be Me,” directed and produced by James Keach. Keach was a producer on “Walk the Line,” so he has some experience putting together stories about music legends. Campbell, a Billstown (Pike County) native and country-to-pop crossover star, has sold more than 45 million records (hits include “Gentle on My Mind” and “Rhinestone Cowboy,” plus too many others to list here; he also played Texas Ranger La Boeuf in the original “True Grit”). “Glen Campbell … I’ll be Me” tells the story of his life and his 151-show “Goodbye Tour,” his last one in light of a 2011 Alzheimer’s diagnosis. The doc features interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Bill Clinton, The Edge, Paul McCartney, Jay Leno, Vince Gill, Steve Martin and Taylor Swift. Some other highlights to anticipate, including some big names in Hot Springs for the festival (the schedule of times hasn’t been finalized): George Takei will be in town for a Q&A after the documentary “To Be Takei,” which explores the life of the actor most famous for his role as Sulu on “Star Trek.” Takei, who spent part of his childhood in a Rohwer (Desha County) internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II, was one of the first Asian Americans to be cast in high-profile roles in film and television. “To Be Takei” covers not just his success on “Star Trek,” but the cringe-inducing stereotypical roles his agents pushed him to take in the years after the show. Takei, now 77, has also been active in LGBT issues (he came out publicly in 2005) and has developed a huge cult following on social media. Actor and filmmaker Luke Wilson’s short “Satellite Beach” will screen as part of the festival’s new sidebar showcasing mockumentary shorts. The whimsical short tracks the actual journey of the Endeavor space shuttle, which was transported through the neighborhoods of Los Angeles from the airport to the California Science Center. Co-directed with his brother Andrew, Wilson stars as Warren Flowers, who believes he is in charge of coordinating the move. The brothers had no clearance or permission and part of the joy is watching just how far Wilson/Flowers can get with no more than a clipboard and a

tie (reactions range from bemused to totally credulous). The shots are beautiful and the vibe as playful and wistful as Wilson’s Hollywood performances. Greg Louganis! Well, maybe this only counts as a big name if you, like me, spent a significant portion of the summer of 1988 glued to your television watching Olympic diving. “Back on Board” investigates the complicated life of Louganis, one of the greatest divers in the history of the sport, who eventually came out publicly as gay and HIV positive. Louganis will attend the screening along with filmmaker Cheryl Furjanic. “Back on Board” is part of the Spa City Sports Series, a unique hook to the programming that debuted last year. This year’s series includes screenings of two classics: A 20th anniversary screening of “Hoop Dreams,” the meticulously crafted look at a pair of Chicago high school basketball players that stands as one of the all-time best sports docs (hell, best movies). Arthur Agee, one of the film’s subjects (who went on to play basketball at Arkansas State University), and producer Gordon Quinn will be on hand for a Q&A. Also screening is the 1996 Oscar-winning documentary “When We Were Kings,” on the famous 1974 heavyweight bout in Zaire between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, with director Leon Gast as well as relatives of Ali on hand. Others we’re psyched to see: “Stray Dog,” the story of Ron “Stray Dog” Hall, a biker and Vietnam veteran, directed by Debra Granik, director of the critically acclaimed “Winter’s Bone” (Granik met Hall in Missouri while filming “Winter’s Bone” — both Granik and Hall will be in attendance); “Meet the Patels,” an acclaimed real-life romantic comedy about a 29-year-old first generation Indian American who decides to enlist his parents in exploring the idea of an arranged marriage (his parents will be in Hot Springs); “Kung Fu Elliot,” the Grand Jury Prize winner at Slamdance, on Elliot “White Lightning” Scott’s attempt to become Canada’s first action hero; “Songs for Alexis,” a coming-of-age love story featuring YouTube sensation Ryan Cassata, an 18-year-old transgendered musician. There are a dozen more movies I want to mention but I’ll stop here. We’ll have more information on the Rock Candy blog once the schedule is made official. The festival takes place Oct. 10-19 — check out the website at hsdfi.org for ticket info. I wouldn’t miss it.

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Recruiters at colleges and universities guide prospective students to help them achieve success while attending school and also to have that success translate to the job market. Recruiters for some of the most popular nursing programs in the state tell what they offer and more.

COURTNEY PRATT, AREANA LOPEZ, SAMANTHA HUGGINS & ELI FUENTEZ Recruiters Arkansas Tech University

At Arkansas Tech, we believe nursing is a caring relationship that facilitates health and healing.

JENN MCDANNOLD Enrollment Coordinator Baptist Health Schools Little Rock

Healthcare professionals in today’s world must be wellrounded individuals with a commitment to personal and professional excellence. The ideal healthcare professional has strong critical thinking skills and enjoys continued learning and growth. The individual has a personal belief in citizenship and makes healthy, responsible decisions about their lifestyle. Ultimately, being a healthcare professional is about caring for people, sometimes on their worst day. The ideal healthcare professional finds self-worth and joy in caring for others and making a positive impact in a patient’s life.

OSMONETTA MCRAE-BEARD Director of Recruitment University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Nursing

College recruitment starts early. My mission as the recruiter is to serve as the primary point of contact and to provide educational presentations at various events around Arkansas and the surrounding areas. My purpose is to assist prospective students with the admissions process and make them better prepared and more competitive when it is time to apply to UAMS CON. If anyone is interested please feel free to contact us at 501.686.5224 or by email at conadmissions @uams.edu.

KELLY BROSNAN, LEE ANN LOONE Y, DEBOR AH HENDERSON, ELIZABETH MCKINLEY Academic Counselors Eleanor Mann School of Nursing, University of Arkansas

Nursing program advisers assist you in navigating the path of prerequisite courses leading to admission to the Eleanor Mann School of Nursing. We are here to assist, guide, encourage and direct students. We care about our students and want them to be competitive for the program. Today’s complex patient needs require a nurse with a strong science background, excellent psychomotor skills, critical thinking ability as well as exemplary social skills and an empathetic nature. We provide direction as you develop lifelong strengths. Contact us at kbrosnan@uark.edu, lalooney@uark.edu, deborahh@uark.edu and elmckinl@uark.edu.

KATHRYN LAMMERS & SUSAN WOOD, ROSE SCHLOSSER Education Counselors, Department of Nursing University of Central Arkansas

We are here to guide you as you seek admission to the nursing program and throughout your educational experience at UCA. We are commit ted to each of our students and to their success. Your UCA nursing instructors walk beside you during your education, serving as role models and facilitating your learning. We seek students who are motivated, intelligent, caring energetic, and able to work well with others. More information on our programs can be found at uca.edu /nursing or contact klammers@ uca.edu, swood@ uca.edu or rschlosser@uca.edu.

AMBER STANDRIDGE, JON VICKERS Academic Counselors UALR Department of Nursing

Nursing is a rare career field that is as much ART as it is SCIENCE. For nearly 50 years the UALR Department of Nursing has educated and guided individuals towards this honorable profession. We offer an Associate of Applied Science (AAS), BSN, LPN/Paramedic to RN and BSN online completion program. My advice for students is to take ownership and get as much information as possible about the nursing profession and degree options. Do this early and often! For more information about a program with consistently high NCLEX pass rates, state-of-theart simulation hospital and clinical opportunities at over 30 healthcare facilities, visit ualr.edu /nursing or email anstandridge@ ualr.edu.

s decide to enter the field. Because of In recent issues we started asking what made nurse this year. We talked to several nurses to its popularity, we brought the feature back again caring for others. Look for their stories find out what made them decide to spend their lives I Became a Nurse” boxes. throughout the issue in the specially marked “Why

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I’ve always been one to nurture and comfor t and care. I always wanted to go into medicine, and I though t I could get more of the intimate experience as a nurse. Being there for the patient s on more than one level has drawn me to the career. Krista Covert, RN, Baptist Health Medical Center

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HOSPITALS

Nurse recruiters for hospitals sometimes have a difficult task of matching the right person with the right job. Recruiters at some of the state’s largest hospitals tell what they look for in a candidate, what they offer and also what makes their programs stand out among others.

JAMES SCOGGINS, RN, BA, JD & BRYAN HALL RN, BSN, MS Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), and Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON) Arkansas State Hospital

At the Arkansas State Hospital we are on the cutting edge of psychiatric nursing, providing a trauma informed environment for patient care. We are seeking nurses with an attitude of compassion, enthusiasm, and professionalism. If you’re seeking excitement and job satisfaction then a career in psychiatric nursing may be for you. Nursing personnel utilized to provide quality psychiatric care include: Registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, behavioral health aides, and unit safety officers. If you are a nurse looking to work in a great environment with competitive pay, benefits, and a sign on bonus then we may be the place for you. To learn more about employment opportunities with the Arkansas State Hospital Nursing Department, please give us a call at 501-686-94 00 or visit arstatejobs.com to apply.

APRIL ROBINSON Nurse Recruiter Baptist Health Medical Center

Our belief at Baptist Health is that we are a healing ministry. We provide quality patient care services to all Arkansans with a caring and comforting heart. That is why we are Arkansans’ choice for their healthcare needs. We have a variety of nursing opportunities, from a Level III NICU to 90-bed Critical Care area. Baptist Health offers top quality benefits for employees. We look for nurses who not only think critically but are compassionate and service-oriented. We want to offer a “World Class” environment for everyone. To view job opportunities, log on to: baptist-health.com.

TAMMIE DEATON Human Resources Director The BridgeWay Hospital

Nestled in 18 acres of wooded serenity, The BridgeWay Hospital offers beauty of natural surroundings and a caring approach focusing on the mental and behavioral health of children, adolescents and adults. Listed as Central Arkansas Best Regional Hospitals in Psychiatry for 2013-2014, our quiet campus stands ready to help people reconnect with families, friends and employers. The BridgeWay Hospital offers a flexible benefits plan including retirement savings plan with available match; Employee Recognition Program; professional development opportunities; and discounted meals. Owned by Universal Health Services, one of the nation’s largest and most respected health care management companies and recognized as a Fortune 500 corporation, we offer room for growth and professional development. For career opportunities, visit us at www.thebridgeway.com or fax HR at 501-771-8542.

MICHELLE ODOM Director of Recruitment and Retention Arkansas Children’s Hospital

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As Arkansas’s only pediatric health care center and one of the largest children’s hospitals in the country, we offer a wide range of opportunities for nurses from direct patient care to staff education, research, administration, nursing informatics, and much more. When you walk through the main entrance, you see a statement: “Fear not illness… this place of Care, Love and Hope is for you.” This statement reflects our culture and guides our practice each and every day that we enter the halls. When considering potential employees, we look for individuals who have a true passion for providing care, love and hope to the children and families we serve.

MELANIE CRNIC Professional Recruiter Conway Regional Medical Center

Come join the Conway Regional Team. In 2014, 131 employees were recognized as exceptional performers by Conway Regional. Are you an exceptional person who wants to be appreciated and recognized for your work in providing high quality and compassionate care? We are looking for high performers who can help us continue to deliver the care our patients deserve. Check out what Conway Regional has to offer you!

MEGGAN SPICER Senior HR Recruiter Practice Plus

At Practice Plus, we are constantly recruiting for quality MA, LPN, RN, PA and APRN nursing candidates who embody our five core values of Service, Honesty, Respect, Stewardship and Performance. With over 92 locations and 267 providers, we strive daily to achieve our mission of providing quality patient service which is responding to the changing health needs of Arkansans with Christian compassion. As a Baptist Health Affiliate, we offer competitive salary and benefit packages. If you are a nursing professional with a caring heart, we encourage you to apply online at www.practice-plus.com.

SUSAN ERICKSON, RN, MNSc, BC-NA, CHCR Nurse Recruiter, Retention Officer Facilitator, PNO Image Council University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

At the heart of patient and family-centered care at UAMS is the belief that nurses and families are partners, working together to best meet the needs of each patient. Excellence in health care happens when we work together and honor the expertise each individual brings to every health encounter. By working together, partnerships are strengthened and knowledge shared to provide the highest quality of care. It is what we expect from those who chose a career at Arkansas’s only academic medical center. We also offer unique opportunities combined with salary and benefits plus the personal satisfaction you receive working at UAMS – it’s hard to beat. That is why more than 11,000 employees enjoy a career for life. To join our team, log onto: www.uams.edu/jobs.

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of which is to increase the percentage of bedside nurses who have at least a bachelor’s degree. The report set a goal of having 80 percent of bedside RNs bachelor’s-prepared by the year 2020 — up from a current national average of about 50 percent. “There have been some research studies done that show that if you have BSN nurses, they are associated with better patient outcomes,” said Michelle Odom, RN, MSN, director of recruitment and retention at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. In Arkansas, the percentage of BSN nurses is low enough that 80 percent is not a realistic goal for the near future, but that doesn’t mean the state’s nursing schools and many hospitals aren’t doing everything they can to raise the percentage as high as possible. “To function at the level we need in healthcare, the registered nurse needs to be able to come to the table fully prepared,” said Tammy Jones, PhD, RN, associate chief nursing officer and director of the Center for Nursing Excellence at the UAMS Medical Center. Many nursing programs in Arkansas still do grant associate degrees in nursing, and RNs prepared at that level will be able to find jobs simply because the demand for nurses is so high. But some hospitals are instituting hiring practices that will either require new-graduate RNs to have a BSN upfront, or require them to agree as a condition of employment that they will complete a BSN within a certain length of time. Nurses who are already employed won’t have nearly as many opportunities to advance unless they complete a BSN. “The Institute of Medicine is not saying that there’s not a place for associate degree programs,” Jones said. “They’re saying it can’t end there.” ACH began changing its policies in 2011, when it put in place a requirement that nurses in all key leadership positions complete BSNs by December 2015. They’ve since put in additional policies affecting other leaders as well as nurses who are not

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ursing is evolving in response to changes inside and outside the field. Among the many qualities a person needs to be a good nurse is one you might not think of immediately: An openness to change. Nurses who entered the field 20 or even 10 years ago have seen enormous changes in how they do their jobs, what those jobs entail, and even the education they need to have to move up in their careers. The pace of change promises only to accelerate in the coming decade. In this article, we’ll look at some of the ways nursing is changing, and what forces are driving those changes.

’80 BY ’20’ One of the biggest changes is a push for more educational preparation for nurses, both at the entry level and as they progress through their careers. Many of today’s experienced registered nurses earned diplomas or associate degrees in nursing and found that was enough to land a good job and launch a successful career. In 2010, the Institute of Medicine released a landmark report titled “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” which called for a number of changes in the profession — one

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in leadership positions. Beginning this July, with the exception of current ACH team members who were employed before Jan. 1, 2014, and were currently enrolled in a non-BSN program, ACH will only consider BSN graduates as new-graduate RN hires. “Anyone who’s considering going to nursing school needs to be aware of that and consider the long-term impact,” Odom said. “They need to at least consider going ahead and getting a bachelor’s degree.” Conway Regional Medical Center has instituted a similar policy, said CJ Newton, MSN, RN, the hospital’s director of educational services. In January, Conway Regional began requiring BSN degrees for newgraduate nurses unless they are already employees of the hospital. “Our positions are competitive. We’re fortunate to have a large number of new graduate applicants,” she said. It can be tough to have to turn away applicants who did well in clinical rotations at the hospital during nursing school but don’t have bachelor’s degrees, she said, but at the same time the hospital does have a lot of applicants with BSNs, so they’re able to limit their hiring to that pool.

SUPPLY AND DEMAND “In Arkansas, if we don’t count the people who are going to retire, we’re going to need to increase the population of nurses by about 29 percent,” said Lorraine Frazier, PhD, dean of the UAMS College of Nursing. “That’s not even considering the average age of nurses, which is 55.” As those more experienced nurses begin to retire, the organizations that employ them will be losing not only warm bodies, but decades of accumulated wisdom and experience. “We need to be taking advantage of them now to mentor new nurses,” she said. “My advice to new nurses would be to get a mentor and learn all you can while those seasoned nurses are still there.” The shortage and loss of seasoned nurses is also going to affect nursing schools, Frasier said, and that will have an echoing effect on the graduates those schools send out into the world. So what’s driving the need for all these new nurses? One force is the Affordable Care Act — often referred to as Obamacare — which has given many people access to health care who would not have been able to afford it previously. “We’re going to have to have primary care providers,” Frazier said — and within nursing, that means more nurse practitioners. Nurse practitioners have advanced degrees and are able to provide some of the same basic health care services as a physician. Applications for UAMS’s nurse practitioner program have tripled, she said. Nurses will also have to face the unique needs of the part of the population that has long been unable to access health care, said Rebecca Burris, PhD, RN, chair of the nursing department at Arkansas Tech University. “People who are new to the health care system may not even know what they’re supposed to do with a prescription,” she said. “They may have to do more explaining about how the health care system works.”

MEASURING QUALITY Today’s nurses are required to document everything they do in a very careful and structured way. That’s because data has become a very important part of health care. The federal government’s Medicare program as well as private insurance companies are now pegging how much they pay hospitals to how well those hospitals perform in a variety of specific areas. “There’s never been a time when nursing has been more measured,” said Jill Massiet, vice president of patient care at Baptist Health. “People from the outside are looking at what we’re doing. Nursing care is really making a difference in patient

outcomes, and people are noticing that.” It’s something nurses should embrace rather than fear, Massiet said. “We need to make sure we’re doing it right the first time, and using evidence-based practice in what we’re doing.” Some of the “quality measures” that Medicare requires hospitals to track relate to antibiotic use, pressure sores and infections patients acquire after they’re admitted to the hospital for other reasons, and how well hospitals prepare patients to leave the hospital and transition to their homes or other care settings. “Sometimes we get afraid that there are people monitoring us, or we have to hit this particular number,” Massiet said. “But it’s really making a difference in the care the patient receives. We can’t forget the patient is at the center of that.”

AGENTS FOR CHANGE

at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. ACH is “on the Magnet journey,” or going through the process of preparing to apply for Magnet certification, Eddy said. “So those principles are influencing decisions that our leadership team is making.” The Magnet principles are supposed to bring discipline to the practice of nursing and patient care, Eddy said, as well as empower nurses to make decisions and advocate for change within their scope of practice. The Magnet program also requires nurses to use evidence-based practices rather than simply doing things a certain way because that’s how it’s always been done. “It means doing research and literature reviews, and finding resources to determine the best way to position a patient or administer a medication,” Eddy said. “It requires us to pay more attention to how we recruit and train new nurses.”

The days when nurses were expected simply to carry out a doctor’s orders and keep a patient comfortable are long gone. Nurses today are not only encouraged but expected to be able to take an analytical look at the needs of their patients and the care they’re providing and seek ways to make positive changes. “It’s a really exciting time for nurses to start changing things, and to have more of an impact on the actual delivery of the care that nurses give on a daily basis,” said Pegge Bell, PhD, director of the Eleanor Mann School of Nursing at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. One outgrowth of that trend is the growing popularity of the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. It’s a doctoral degree, on the same level as a PhD, but with a focus on the clinical care aspect of nursing — basically, what happens between nurse and patient. Four universities in Arkansas have recently instituted DNP programs, and their graduates will be the ones leading future innovations in nursing care. Nurses are uniquely prepared to take leadership roles because “we’ve got the big picture,” Arkansas Tech’s Burris said. “Our education is very broad. We look at the whole of health — not just when a person’s sick, but helping them have an optimal life.”

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Overall, this is an exciting time to enter the field of nursing, said UAMS’s Frazier. “Nursing education today is better than it ever has been,” she said. “Today we have a different model, and we’re just beginning to understand what that model’s going to look like. There’s never been a better time to enter this profession than today. I wish I could roll back the clock and start over.”‪

The American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet certification program is a voluntary program that requires hospitals to go through an extensive review and evaluation of their nursing practice and meet strict quantitative and qualitative standards for nursing practice and patient care. The Magnet program is playing a major role in standardizing nursing practice, said Lee Anne Eddy, chief nursing officer

As the Baby Boomer generation ages and health care improvements allow people to live longer and survive illnesses and injuries that in the past would have been fatal, nurses are going to be caring for a population of patients that are increasingly sick and frail, at the same time that insurance companies and Medicare are instituting policies that encourage treating patients in the least intense environment possible. “A patient that 10 years ago would have been in the intensive care unit is now on the regular hospital floor, and someone who 10 years ago would have been on the regular hospital floor is now with us,” said Diane Smith, MSN, RN, chief nursing officer at Baptist Health Extended Care Hospital. And because hospitals are under pressure to lower the percentage of patients who have to return to the hospital within a month of being discharged, there’s an increasing focus on making sure the transition from an acute-care hospital to the patient’s home, a nursing home, a rehab facility or other care setting is seamless, Smith said. “We need to be able to give the nurse in the next area enough information so she can care for the patient,” she said.

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WHY I BEC AME A

After the birth of my second child, who was born with a cleft lip and palate, I was so deeply and profoundly touched by the compassion and love we had been shown in his medical journey, I knew I wanted to provide the same sense of comfort to families. I wanted to learn more about the medical field, provide bedside care in the field of pediatrics and provide care, compassion, hope and love to patients and their families, so I chose to become a nurse — a neonatal intensive care nurse. I now take care of the tiniest of patients, but feel I am playing a significant role in the lives of not only the patients, but the families as well. I became a nurse for the tough times and all the small victories, remembering how our family was cared for during a period of rollercoaster emotions and uncertainties. Michelle Mollette, RN Arkansas Children’s Hospital I’ve known since I was a little girl I wanted to be in the medical field. It’s always been a passion of mine. As the older of two girls, I was always conditioned to take care of my younger sister. Also, I had always taken care of my grandmother, who is now 97 years young. My mother taught me empathy. She would always ask, “Nancy, how do you think that person feels?” I think this stuck, and I always find myself trying to put myself in other’s shoes. As an employee at UAMS, I couldn’t be happier with the experiences I have been part of. We are all touching someone’s life every day. Nancy Kemp, BSN, RN UAMS I became a nurse because my mom, who had passed away, started nursing school and never got to finish. So that was kind of my goal, to finish what she started and become a nurse. I always wanted to help people, and I always worked in the health care field — first a nursing assistant, then as an LPN, and then I went on to become an RN. I’ll finish my bachelor’s degree in nursing in December and will start my master’s degree next year. I’ve always wanted to help people who are hurting or have an illness get back to their regular selves. Angela Cleveland, RN Baptist Health

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t’s a deceptively simple word: “Nurse.” Just five letters that most likely call to mind the image of a woman in a white dress standing beside a hospital bed, maybe taking a patient’s temperature or giving medication. That image is both outdated and inaccurately limited. Nurses today rarely wear white dresses. Plenty of them are men. And while some nurses do take temperatures and give medications, many others don’t. Nursing today is an enormously diverse career field, and it’s common for nurses to move from one area to another throughout their careers.

certification. Part of that is focusing on protecting the patient’s skin and offering short-term guidance on dealing with incontinence. To become certified, Phares first had to have a BSN and several years of experience working as a nurse. Then, she attended an intense 8-week training program at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and completed 120 hours of clinical (hands-on) work back in Little Rock. “It’s a great job,” she said. “It gives you a lot of autonomy. You have the freedom to look at each patient and tailor their treatment to what they need.”

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PSYCHIATRIC NURSING

Take, for example, Lori Phares, BSN, RNP, CWOCN. She’s worked at the UAMS Medical Center since she graduated from nursing school in 1982, but in a number of very different areas: first in neurosurgery, then interventional radiology, nurse management, hospital nursing, and finally, wound/ostomy/continence nursing. “It was just one of those flying leaps,” she said of her last move. “I thought, ‘How much could there be to wound care?’ There is a ton.” As a certified wound/ostomy/ continence nurse, Phares works with patients who have pressure ulcers — commonly known as bedsores — and other wounds that may be the result of trauma or disease. “In the hospital setting, we’re consultants,” she said. “We go in and evaluate the wound and see what it needs. Treatment is based on the patient assessment.” The “ostomy” portion of her specialty is helping patients who have had diseases of the colon or bladder and use a surgically created route to void bodily wastes into a pouch outside the body. Phares mainly works to teach patients how to deal with their ostomy themselves and to help them accept it. Phares also works with patients who have trouble controlling when they urinate or have a bowel movement — the “continence” part of her

When James Scoggins first got out of nursing school, he gravitated toward critical care nursing because of its fast pace and exciting nature. But, he said, of all the clinical rotations he did in school, psychiatric nursing was the one that felt like the best fit. He’s now been a psychiatric nurse for 17 years and is currently the chief nursing officer at the Arkansas State Hospital. “Sitting and listening to patients’ stories, I realized there’s not a lot of difference between them and me,” said Scoggins, an RN who has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a law degree. “A couple of different life events and I could have been on the other side of that table. The empathy it takes came naturally to me.” Psychiatric nurses need the same skills as nurses in other settings, but they spend more time listening to patients and providing education and support, Scoggins said. “The medications used to treat mental health problems often come with a lot of side effects,” he said. So you educate the patient that they’ve got to take care of themselves physically as well, because that’s going to contribute to them getting better.”

FLIGHT NURSE For pure adrenaline, it’s hard to beat being a flight nurse. Latricia Maynard works for Baptist Health Medflight, traveling by helicopter to the scenes of car accidents and other traumas to

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transport patients back to the hospital as quickly as possible. Flight nurses must also be certified as, at minimum, emergency medical technicians (EMTs) — a very different field than nursing, Maynard said. “When nursing gets these patients, they’re all packaged up and stabilized the best way they can be,” she said. “On the scene, you’re getting them from scratch. Sometimes patients are still entrapped when we get there.” Maynard was a paramedic before she went to nursing school, and worked the required three years in a high-intensity area (ER, ICU, etc.) before becoming a flight nurse. She also had to get other certifications, such as advanced cardiac life support. Being a flight nurse has been Maynard’s career goal from the beginning. “If we’re launching on a scene we’re going for the sickest, most critical people out there,” she said. “That’s a really cool thing. To me it’s just the best job I could possibly have. I joke all the time that I can’t believe they pay me to do this.”

NURSING INFORMATICS Computers are a fact of life in nursing, just as they are in most other careers. That has led to the creation of the nursing informatics specialty, where people like Michael Hart, BSN, work to analyze data looking for clinical trends, help identify gaps in workflows, find ways to improve the use of technology at the hospital bedside, train other nurses in how to use new technology, and other tech-related tasks. “It’s a very broad field,” said Hart, Vice President of IT Applications at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. “Your role will vary depending on where the organization is” in its use of computerized systems. One hospital, for instance, may still be using all paper records, and nursing informaticists might help shepherd that organization through the transition to using electronic records. At hospitals that already use electronic records, nursing informaticists work to enforce and reinforce best practices to make sure employees are using the

technology in the best way. Nursing informaticists must have a nursing degree. Hart said many nurses who apply to work in his department might have taken some informatics classes in nursing school, but he said he looks for nurses who either have a computer science degree in addition to their nursing degree or have at least taken some specialized training in addition to basic nursing education or have previous experience in a techrelated job. Hart himself took an unusual route to nursing informatics: After graduating from UAMS with a bachelor’s degree in nursing, Hart worked as a bedside nurse for five years. The last two years of that time he also pursued a computer science degree, and before he completed it was offered a job as a programmer. After four years as a programmer, he saw a job listing for a nursing informatics position at the VA hospital, which required a nursing license and computer experience. After taking that job, he pursued a master’s degree in health care informatics through an executive program at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. “That opened the door for me to be an informatics executive at a higher level,” he said. Nursing informatics can be a difficult field to break into because the number of jobs still is not very large, Hart said, but it can pay very well and there’s a lot of growth potential for people who have a lot of experience and are willing to move. “The two things I tell people who call me are that I think it’s a great career if you can get in and find a stable position,” Hart said. “I really enjoy it and the people who like this kind of work will like it forever.”

INFECTION PREVENTION NURSING The recent Ebola epidemic in Africa put a spotlight on how easily diseases can be transmitted from one person to another, as well as some common precautions that can help keep them from spreading. As a certified infection control nurse at the UAMS

Medical Center, Connie Cavenaugh, BSN, works to educate patients as well as staff on the best ways to keep infections — or “bugs,” as they’re sometimes informally called — from spreading.

One of the HIGHESTDEMAND areas of the nursing field is NURSE EDUCATION. “We want to make sure that you do not get a hospital-acquired infection,” she said. “Our world revolves around that.” Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are, like the term suggests, infections that patients pick up while they’re in the hospital being treated for a separate, unrelated health problem. Hospitals have to track and report their HAIs to the state and federal governments. Minimizing HAIs has always been a moral imperative for hospitals, Cavenaugh said, but now it’s a financial one as well: Medicare and private insurance companies use HAI rates in calculating how much they pay hospitals. The specialty of infection prevention nursing is about 30 years old, Cavenaugh said. She’s been in it since 1988. “At first infection control was lowprofile, before the AIDS epidemic,” she said. “Now it’s more related to quality of care — looking through charts and giving a report. Some people would be bored to tears if they had to do it. To us it’s incredibly interesting — to see how this happened, to take it apart.” Preventing the spread of infection becomes a passion for infection prevention nurses, Cavenaugh said. “It almost becomes your mission in life — we’re not going to have anything happen to these people — transplant patients, NICU babies, people who can’t fight for themselves. You get to be a little soldier. A busybody. Boss. We get lots of names, which is OK with us too.” Cavenaugh has been a nurse for almost five decades, and in that time she’s worked with babies, the elderly, in the operating room, as a teacher, and in several other roles. “One of things that’s always been so cool to me is I have options,” she said. “You can do lots of different things. You can find your niche, find something you enjoy. I just happen to enjoy chasing bugs.”

NURSE EDUCATION

Nursing schools across Arkansas and the nation are expanding their programs to try to produce more graduates to meet the growing need for more nurses. As the assistant director of the Eleanor Mann School of Nursing at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Jacklyn Gentry, RN, MSN, has watched as the school doubled its enrollment. She said she loves teaching and planned to go into education from the time she started nursing school. “I really love to see it when the light bulb comes on for the students,” she said. “It’s really rewarding to see students come in with no knowledge, and leave here ready to be a nurse.” Gentry worked as a hospital nurse for three years before returning to school to get her master’s degree in nursing. She started teaching clinical courses part-time, and eventually got a full-time position on the UA nursing faculty. She’s now pursuing a doctorate in education, and still picks up occasional shifts at a local hospital. “That’s pretty common,” she said of nurse educators. “It’s really important that we keep our clinical knowledge and skills up so we can provide the best education.”

At Arkansas Tech University, you will gain the knowledge and skills that you need for a rich and fulfilling career in the field of nursing. If you are already in the nursing profession and are looking to take the next step in your career, our Master of Science in Nursing Administration and Emergency Management might be right for you. • Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in nursing programs available in Russellville. • RN to BSN online program available for registered nurses.

LEGAL NURSING Tonya Gierke, RN, BSN, JD, was a nurse first, a lawyer second, and now works in a job that combines the two: risk manager, corporate compliance officer and privacy officer at Conway Regional Medical Center. “My nursing background is significant in what I do for risk management,” she said. “Our focus is on keeping patients safe, making sure patients are protected and receive quality care. As corporate compliance officer, having the nursing background helps because our goal is to make sure we’re complaint with all the federal regulations and state health requirements, and the regulations for accreditation. I’m able to share with the nurses how this affects them and why it’s so important that they document everything correctly.” Gierke was working as a flight nurse in Memphis when she decided to go to law school. She graduated in 2003 and went to work for a Memphis law firm that defended doctors, nurses and hospitals in malpractice suits. She came to Conway Regional in 2005. “You can work for so many places – there are so many different things you can do,” she said of nursing. “If you decide you don’t want to take care of patients, you can still affect what their outcomes are in all different kinds of roles. There are just so many options when you’ve got that nursing background,” she said “I would never think twice about having gone to nursing school.”‪

For more information, call 479-968-0383 or visit www.atu.edu/nursing

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WHY I BEC AME A

I started college with little sense of what I wanted to do with my life. I majored in biology but I quickly realized that just having a biology degree didn’t mean that I would be able to find a job. Nursing seemed to be a field where I would get to apply the knowledge I had obtained to that point in my education and be able to make a decent living. In nursing school I learned a lot about the science behind nursing, but also what a diverse field nursing is, and more importantly, how much nurses do for patients. This profession has made me a more compassionate person, and it has made me stronger. I have found the job to be challenging, rewarding, and most of all, fulfilling. I am proud to be a nurse and can’t think of anything else I would rather do. Mark Tanner, MNSc, BSN, RN, clinical instructor, UALR My senior year of high school, my mom and I were talking about what I wanted to do with my life. She told me that she had always wanted to be a nurse but knew she would not be able to handle some of the unpleasantries required of nurses. There was a real shortage of them. I decided that I would attend St. Vincent’s School of Practical Nursing and give it a shot. I absolutely loved it and couldn’t wait to finish. At that time the nurses uniform consisted of an all-white uniform, white hose and shoes and a white hat. I lived for the day that I could work as a nurse and wear that professional-looking attire. The uniform got old fast, but the work did not. I was always learning something new and the bond you experienced with your patients, their families and your coworkers made it extra special. Jeanmaire Brunner, LPN, UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute Thirty-eight years ago, I went to nursing school so I could get a well-paid job fast. My teachers and mentors at UALR educated and inspired me to make a lifetime commitment to nursing. But it was patients who transformed me into a nurse by entrusting me with their care. Touching people this way has been a terrifying responsibility and an exhilarating joy every day of my career.

IN NURSING, WORK AND EDUCATION GO HAND IN HAND

ne of the best things about choosing a career in nursing is the ability to work in your field almost from day one — and to continue working as you pursue your educational goals. For most nurses, education is a career-long endeavor. It starts with the initial training to become a licensed practical nurse (LPN) or registered nurse (RN). This training can take anywhere from 9 months for an LPN to upwards of two years for an RN, but many nursing students find jobs in hospitals long before that working as patient care techs. These unlicensed nurses’ aides go through a few weeks of classroom training before going to work. They’re able to draw blood, take vital signs, and help with other basic tasks in hospitals. Many nursing students work as patient care techs while they’re in school. That’s where Jami Travis, RN, MNSc, got her start. Now a clinical service manager in surgical specialties at UAMS, Travis got a job as a patient care tech when she was in college and undecided about what she wanted to do. “I thought at least it would show me a little about the hospital and taking care of patients,” she said. As she finished her bachelor’s degree in nursing at UAMS, she worked full time, and stayed on as an RN when she graduated in 2000. “Working as an unlicensed staff person helped me more when it came time to take boards in school than school did,” she said. “You learn so much — you learn organization and time management. That’s a huge thing. It’s definitely something you are better at when you work and go to school.” Karen Wright, 45, decided to pursue a nursing career after 15 years as a

medical coder — someone who takes a doctor’s notes about a patient’s visit and translates it into numerical codes that insurance companies use to pay claims. She’s hoping to finish her associate degree in nursing from UALR in May, and then will continue working toward a bachelor’s degree. Her work as a coder has helped in nursing school, she said, because she’s already familiar with medical terminology and what tests and treatments are often done for certain diagnoses. Alexa Nation, who graduated from Arkansas State University in 2012 with a degree in health promotion, is also working as a patient care tech while she completes her associate degree at UALR. “It gives me a lot of experience,” she said. “Since I did it before I started nursing school, when I went to clinicals I already knew some of the stuff.” Nursing students who work as unlicensed staff at hospitals also have another advantage: Many hospitals will pay for part or even all of their tuition costs, usually in exchange for a commitment to stay with that hospital for a certain amount of time after graduation.

And finally, it’s good preparation for what is becoming reality in the nursing profession: when it comes to education, you’re never done. Today, a growing number of nurses go back to school after they start working to earn higher degrees and certifications to better prepare themselves for the increasingly complex world of health care. That’s being driven in part by the landmark “Future of Nursing” report from the Institute of Medicine, which recommended that 80 percent of registered nurses in the US have bachelor’s degrees or higher by the year 2020. The Arkansas Action Coalition, part of the national Future of Nursing Campaign for Action, has set a more modest goal for Arkansas: 40 percent of registered nurses with BSNs or higher by 2015, said Sandie Lubin, MA, RN, project administrator with the Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence

Jane Evans, PhD, assistant faculty, UALR Department of Nursing Nurse Jami Travis (right) worked her way up from patient care tech to a management position at UAMS. 10 Advertising Supplement to Arkansas Times - Nurses Guide 2014

at the UAMS College of Nursing. In 2008, 31 percent of Arkansas registered nurses had at least a bachelor’s degree. In 2012, 36 percent did. Some nursing students are able to finish a bachelor’s degree before they start working as an RN, but many others need or want to enter the profession in a shorter time period than it takes to earn a BSN. These students can become RNs through diploma programs and associate degree programs, and once they’re in the RN workforce, they can continue their educations through an RN-to-BSN completion program, which is typically all online. Arkansas Tech University graduates 70 to 75 students from its RN-to-BSN program each year. “We get great support statewide from hospitals,” said Rebecca Burris, PhD, director the school’s nursing program. “Some of them have told their nurses they’ve got to have a BSN or they’re not going to have a job there. There are lots of opportunities — we have

our program, and a number of other universities have RN-to-BSN programs as well.” Online education works so well for nursing degrees because nurses typically learn all the hands-on clinical skills they need in their initial RN training. After that, coursework focuses on other skills, such as leadership and management, cost analyses, community assessments, health care policy and research — knowledge that is essential for nurses to fulfill their potential as members of the health care team. Beyond the bachelor’s level, nurses can pursue a growing range of graduate degrees. For example, advanced

practice nurses (APNs), which include nurse practitioners, are nurses who have earned at least a master’s degree and passed an advanced practice licensing exam. In Arkansas, APNs can provide primary care to patients in collaboration with a physician but can also practice independently. APNs are becoming increasingly important as a way to ease the shortage of primary care providers, which is especially severe in rural areas. Nurses may also earn master’s degrees with the goal of becoming nurse educators or administrators. More and more nurses are going even further and pursuing doctoral degrees. Certification is another important

part of lifelong learning for nurses. There are a number of certifications that nurses can get in just about every area of nursing, such as labor and delivery, operating room, nurse education, oncology and many more. Nurses typically have to have worked a certain number of hours in their specialty area of certification, taken extra training and passed a certification exam, and be actively practicing in that specialty. Certifications usually are valid for two to four years, and nurses have to fulfill certain education and work requirements to renew certification. ‪

WHY I BEC AME A

I’ve been a nurse since 1985. My mother’s an RN, and I used to always say I’d never be a nurse, and I’d never do the things my mom did. My grandparents always said do it — you’ll always have a job. I was going to college to be a physical education major and coach basketball, and I got a job working as a nurse’s aide at a nursing home to help pay for school, and it just went from there. My roommate went to nursing school and I did to. I’ve not regretted it. I think it was just fate. My first year of nursing was on the [hospital] floor, and then I came to the ER and I haven’t left. I like the independence and the constant change. It’s always a challenge. Gwen Brunson, RN, CEN, Conway Regional Medical Center I wanted to make a difference in this world. I have been a patient, daughter, mother and wife of patients. Medical situations make a patient the most vulnerable that they will ever be. Being an advocate for my 15-year-old quadriplegic daughter created a fire in me to help others affected by chronic and acute illness. When she passed away in December, the empathy for my patients reached a whole new level. I am blessed to be a nurse. BJ Thorn, RN, BSN, care coordinator, Sherwood Family Medical Center, AHG/Practice Plus

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Competitive-admission, on-campus bachelor’s degree: Bachelor of Science in Nursing Flexible degree plans for working nurses: RN to BSN online Advanced degrees for leadership roles: Master of Science in Nursing online Doctor of Nursing Practice online The bachelor’s and master’s degrees are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, Washington, D.C., 202-887-6791.

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DEGREES OF

NURSING Whether looking to attend school for two years or four, part-time or full, Arkansas’s colleges and universities have a number of programs that will get you on the path to a nursing career.

ASSOCIATE DEGREE Associate degree programs, offered by two-year and four-year colleges and universities, must meet the requirements of a regional accreditation association and be approved by the Arkansas State Board of Nursing. At the completion of the program, the student is awarded an associate of science (AS) or associate of science in nursing (ASN) degree. The graduate is then eligible to take the National Council of State Boards of Nursing Licensure Examination (NCLEX) to become a registered nurse. BACCALAUREATE DEGREE Baccalaureate programs must be approved by the Arkansas State Board of Nursing and are usually offered by four-year colleges or universities. Students typically take four to five years to complete the degree requirements. At the completion of the program, the student is awarded the bachelor of science (BS) or bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) degree. He or she is then eligible to take the NCLEX to become a registered nurse (RN). MASTER’S DEGREE Master’s degree programs are offered by fouryear colleges and universities for students who have completed at least a bachelor’s degree. These advanced degrees prepare nurses to take on a variety of specialized roles, including nurse practitioner, nurse educator, and clinical nurse specialist. DOCTORAL DEGREE The doctoral degree is the highest educational degree available in nursing. Some programs require students to complete a master’s degree first, while others are designed for students who have completed only a bachelor’s degree. There are two main options for doctoral degrees. The Ph.D., or doctor of philosophy, focuses on preparing nurses to work in researchbased fields. The doctor of nursing practice, or DNP, is a clinical degree that focuses on nursing practice. NURSING LICENSE LEVELS Licensed Practical Nurse Both private and public two-year and four-year institutions offer practical nurse programs, which generally take 12 months to complete. Upon completion, the student receives a certificate and is eligible to take the NCLEX licensing exam and become a licensed practical nurse (LPN). LPNs typically work in long-term care, home health and doctor’s offices, although some hospitals employ LPNs as well. Registered Nurse Both two-year and four-year colleges and universities offer registered nurse programs that are divided into two categories: an associate’s degree and a baccalaureate degree. There are also diploma programs that prepare students to become registered nurses without earning an associate’s or baccalaureate degree. Before going to work, the graduate is required to pass the NCLEX examination. Advanced Practice Nurse Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) have at least a master’s degree in a specialized area of nursing practice. They may practice independently or in collaboration with a physician. APNs must pass an advanced licensing exam and may work as nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists, clinical nurse specialists or other specialty areas.

Arkansas College/University

Years/Public Private

Calendar

Degree Offered

Length Of Program

Livi

BACCALAUREATE Arkansas State University - Jonesboro • 870-972-3074 (nursing) • 870-972-2031 (admissions)

4 yr public

Semester

BSN, LPN TO BSN, RN To BSN, 2nd Degree Accelerated BSN

varies

on ca Jone

Arkansas Tech University, Russellville • 479-968-0383

4 yr public

Semester

BSN, LPN to BSN, RN to BSN, MSN, RN to MSN

BSN-4yrs, RN to BSN-1yr, MSN-2yrs

on ca

Harding University, Searcy • 1-800-477-4407, 501-279-4682

4 yr private

Semester

BSN, RN-BSN, LPN-BSN

BSN 4 yrs

on ca

Henderson State University, Arkadelphia • 870-230-5015

4 yr public

Semester

BSN

4 yrs

on ca

Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia • 870-235-4040

4 yr public

Semester

BSN, Online RN-BSN Completion and ADN

4 yrs BSN 2yrs/ADN, 2-4 yrs online RN-BSN on ca Completion program

University of Arkanasas, Fayetteville • 479-575-3904

4 yr public

Semester

BSN, LPN-BSN, RN-BSN (online program), MSN (online program), DNP (online program)

4 yrs for BSN, 3-5 semesters RN to BSN, 2 yrs on ca part-time MSN, 3 yrs full-time / 4 yrs part-time stude post-BSN-DNP, 2 yrs part-time post-MSN-DNP

UALR, Department of Nursing, Little Rock • 501-569-8081

4 yr public

Semester

BSN, RN-BSN Completion

7 semester BSN, 3 semester RN to BSN Completion

on/of

University of Central Arkansas, Conway • 501-450-3119

4 yr public

Semester

BSN, RN to BSN, RN to BSN/MSN, MSN & DNP

4 yrs/BSN, MSN varies, PMC varies, DNP 2yrs

on ca avail

University of Arkansas - Fort Smith • 479-788-7841, 1-888-512-LION

4 yr public

Semester

BSN

4 yrs for BSN/Varies for RN-BSN

on ca

University of Arkansas at Monticello • 870-460-1069

4 yr public

Semester

AASN (LPN-RN), BSN, RN-BSN, LPN-BSN

1 to 4 yrs

on ca

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Nursing, Little Rock • 501-686-5224

4 yr public

Semester

BSN, MNSc, PhD, DNP. Post Masters options available.

BSN generic: 2 yrs+1 summer/ RN to BSN: 1 on ca yr full time/ MNSC& PhD: students have up to 6 yrs to complete degree requirements.

Arkansas Northeastern College, Blytheville • 870-824-6253 • Paragould • 870-239-3200 • Burdette • 870-563-5110

2 yr public

Semester

AAS

2 year

comm

Arkansas State University - Jonesboro • 870-972-3074 (nursing) • 870-972-2031 (admissions)

4 yr public

Semester

LPN-AASN, Traditional AASN (Traditional AASN offered at ASU Mountain Home, ASU Beebe, West Memphis)

varies

on ca Jone

Arkansas Tech University - Ozark Campus, Ozark • 479-667-2117

public

Semester

AASN

varies

comm

East Arkansas Community College, Forrest City • 870-633-4480

2 yr public

Semester

AASN

2 yrs

comm

National Park Community College, Hot Springs • 501-760-4290

2 yr public

Semester

AS in Nursing

2 yrs

comm

Mississippi County Community College, Blytheville • 870-762-1020

2 yr public

Semester

AAS in Nursing

2 yrs

comm

North Arkansas College, Harrison • 870-743-3000

2 yr public

Semester

AAS in Nursing-traditional. LPN, LPN-RN

RN-2 yr; LPN-RN-1yr; PN-1yr

comm

Northwest Arkansas Community College, Bentonville • 479-636-9222, 800-995-6922

2 yr public

Semester

AAS, RN

4 semesters

comm

Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas, Helena, Dewitt, Stuttgart • Helena 870-338-6474 x1254; DeWitt 1-870-946-3506 x1611; Stuttgart 1-870-673-4201 x1809

2 yr public

Semester

AAS, technical certificate/PN

AAS 63 credit hrs, PN 54 credit hrs

comm

Southeast Arkansas College, Pine Bluff • 870-543-5917

2 yr public

Semester

AAS: RN, Generic RN & LPN/Paramedic to RN. Technical Certificate: PN

PN-1 yr, Generic RN-5 Semesters

comm

University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville • 870-612-2000, 800-508-7878

2 yr public

Semester

AAS-Generic RN and LPN to RN-traditional and online tracks, PN Program (Technical 11 mos, Generic RN program is 16 mos. Certificate) Generic RN Program

comm

University of Arkansas Community College at Hope • 870-777-5722

2 yr public

Semester

Associate/RN

12 months (excludes prerequisites)

comm

UALR, Department of Nursing, Little Rock • 501-569-8081

4 yr public

Semester

AAS/LPN to RN/BSN

4 semesters

on/of

Baptist Health Schools Little Rock • 501-202-6200, 800-345-3046

private, faithbased

Semester

diploma/LPN, diploma/RN

RN traditonal track 3yrs. RN express track 2yrs. LPN 1yr. RN Accelerated 1yr (LPNs or Paramedics).

comm

Jefferson Reg. Med. Center School of Nursing, Pine Bluff • 870-541-7850

private

Semester

Associate of Applied Science in Nursing

79 weeks

off ca

Arkansas Tech University - Ozark Campus, Ozark • 479-667-2117

public

Semester

AAS in Allied Health-Practical Nursing

3 semesters

comm

Baptist Health Schools Little Rock • 501-202-6200, 800-345-3046

private

Semester

diploma/LPN, diploma/RN

2 semester LPN

comm

Black River Technical College, Pocahontas • 870-248-4000

2 yr public

Semester

AAS/RN, Certificate/PN, Certificate of Proficiency/Nursing Assistant

AAS/RN 3 semesters, Certificate/PN 3semesters, Certificate of Proficiency/ Nursing Assistant 4 weeks.

comm

Cossatot Community College of the UA, De Queen, Nashville • 870-584-4471, 800-844-4471

2 yr public

Semester

LPN

De Queen 11 mos Day Program, Nashville 18 mos evening program

comm

Arkansas Northeastern College Blytheville • 870-824-6253 • Paragould • 870-239-3200 • Burdette • 870-563-5110

public

Semester

Certificate of Practical Nursing

13 months

comm

ASU Technical Center, Jonesboro • 870-932-2176

public

Semester

LPN

11 mos

comm

Arkansas State University - Beebe • ASU Searcy Campus 501-207-6214

public

Semester

Certificate LPN

11 mos

comm

Arkansas State University - Mountain Home • 870-508-6266

public

Semester

AAS-LPN/Paramedic to RN, certificate/PN, CNA

11-22 mos

comm

Arkansas State University - Newport • 870-680-8710

public

Semester

Technical Certificate in Practical Nursing

1 yr

comm

Northwest Technical Institute, Springdale • 479-751-8824

public

Semester

diploma/PN

3 sem. & 1 Summer session (includes Pre-Reqs)

comm

College of the Ouachitas, Malvern • 800-337-0266 ext 1200

2 yr public

Semester

Technical Certificate in Practical Nursing, Associate of Applied Science in Nursing, Certified Nursing Assistant, Medication Administration Program

1-3 semesters

comm

Crowley’s Ridge Technical Institute • Forrest City • 870-633-5411

public

Semester

LPN, CNA

LPN: 40 wks, CNA: 12 wks

comm

Ozarka College, Melbourne • 870-368-7371

2 yr public

Semester

LPN, LPN-RN

11-18 mos

comm

University of Arkansas Comm. College at Morrilton • 501-354-2465

2 yr public

Semester

LPN-certificates AAS-LPN, RN

3 semesters - 2yr

comm

Pulaski Technical College, North Little Rock • 501-812-2200

2 yr public

Semester

Technical Certificate in Practical Nursing/PN

11-month traditional track/22-month nontraditional track

comm

National Park Community College, Hot Springs • 501-760-4160

Public

Semester

Certificates in Practical Nursing

13 mos FT

comm

Rich Mountain Community College, Mena • 479-394-7622

2 yr public

Semester

certificate/PN, LPN, CNA, RN

11-12 mos

comm

SAU Tech, Camden • 870-574-4500

2 yr public

Semester

Technical Certificate

11 mos

comm on-ca

South Arkansas Community College, El Dorado • 870-864-7142, 870-864-7137

2 yr public

Semester

ADN,LPN

11 mos

comm

University of Arkansas Community College at Hope • 870-777-5722

2 yr public

Semester

certificate/PN

10.5 months (excludes prerequisites)

comm

University of Arkansas - Fort Smith • 479-788-7841, 1-888-512-LION

4 yr public

Semester

Technical Certificate

12 mos

on ca

University of Arkansas at Monticello College of Technology, Crossett • 870-364-6414

2 yr public

Semester

Technical Certificate in Practical Nursing

11 mos

comm

ASSOCIATE DEGREE

DIPLOMA

PRACTICAL NURSING

*** for basic nursing education; varies with previous coursework or nursing license; MSN program = 2 yrs

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MSN-2yrs

Living Arrangements

Aid Deadline

Scholarship Deadline

Required Exams

Application Deadline

Comments/Home Page Address

on campus housing for Jonesboro

July 1st

February 15th

ACT or SAT or COMPASS or ASSET

varies

Nursing programs are accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission. Graduate Degrees offered: MSN, MSN Nurse Anesthesia, and DNP Nursing Practice. www.astate.edu

on campus housing

varies

BSN-ACT or COMPASS, RN to BSN-None, MSN-GRE

March 1st and October 1st, other programs vary

RN to BSN can be completed in as little as 1 year. Excellent Faculty. www.atu.edu/nursing

on campus housing

June 1st

Rolling

ACT or SAT

Rolling/$50

Quality nursing education with a focus on Christian service and professionalism. www.harding.edu

on campus housing

June

varies

ACT, SAT, or COMPASS

Feb 15th

The school with a heart. Small classes. CCNE Accredited. www.hsu.edu

July 1st

Priority March 15, Final August

ACT, ADN HESI Admission

September 30 for LPN to RN Transition or February 28 for Summer 2014 LPN to RN Transition

SAUM has an LPN to RN track for current LPNs or Vocational Nurses. www.saumag.edu/nursing

March 15th

November 15th

SAT, ACT, GRE for the MSN and BSN-DNP

Jan 15th for Fall admission; June 15th for Spring (none for MSN)

We offer generalist and advanced nursing degree programs to prepare nurses to meet the health needs of the public in an ever-changing health care environment. nurs.uark.edu

s online RN-BSN on campus housing

RN to BSN, 2 yrs on campus housing for BSN e / 4 yrs part-time students me post-MSN-DNP

er RN to BSN

on/off campus housing

April 1st

February 1st

ACT/SAT for students with less than 12 credits.

Rolling

BSN completion for current RNs or recent graduates of an accredited nursing program. UALR students can Ladder into the online BSN and graduate within 4 years. www.ualr.edu/nursing

MC varies,

on campus housing available

July 1st

January 8th

see website

varies by program, see website for dates

CCNE Accredited BSN & MSN, RN Completion Program, www.uca.edu/nursing

N-BSN

on campus housing

Priority March 15th

June 1st

ACT/COMPASS

Oct 1st for Spring/ March 1st for Fall

RN-BSN is an Online Completion Program. www.uafs.edu/health/programs

on campus housing

contact financial aid (870) 460-1050 March 1st

none

March 1st

Achieve your nursing goals with us. www.uamont.edu/Nursing/academicprograms.htm

varies, visit nursing.uams.edu. Click varies, visit nursing.uams.edu on scholarships click on scholarships

TOEFL for int’l students, PhD-GRE, ATI TEAS V for BSN applicants.

BSN generic: March 1st/ RN to BSN: March 1st, July 1st & November 1st/ MNSC: September 1st & April 1st/ PhD: March 1st/ DNP-May1st

conadmissions@uams.edu • www.nursing.uams.edu

commuter campus

Priority April 15

Priority March 15

COMPASS or ACT and PAXRN

RN- March 31, PN- March 31

ANC offers the RN, LPN, and LPN to RN programs of study www.anc.edu

on campus housing for Jonesboro

July 1st

February 15th

ACT, SAT, COMPASS, or ASSET

varies

The mission of the School of Nursing is to educate, enhance and enrich students for evolving professoinal nursing practice. www.astate.edu

commuter campus

Priority April 15

varies

STEP

March 15th, October 1st

www.atu.edu/ozark

commuter campus

April 15th

varies

ACT, ASSET / Nursing Pre-entrance exams, COMPASS

varies

Allied health program offering RN-Nursing degree (basic students, LPN completion). www.eacc.edu

mer/ RN to BSN: 1 on campus housing students have up requirements.

commuter campus

open

ACT, SAT or COMPASS, TEAS

Last Monday in March

Options for LPN and new High School graduates. www.npcc.edu

commuter campus

Priority April 15 - Rolling

Priority April 15

PAX-RN

March 31st

www.mccc.cc.ar.us

commuter campus

Pell Grant June 30

June 15th

ACT, COMPASS

varies with program

Northark’s students receive excellent healthcare education leading to rewarding careers in nursing.www.northark.edu/academics/nursing

commuter campus

June 1st and November 1st

April 1st

ACT or COMPASS TEAS (Test of Essential Academic Skills) First Monday in March and First Monday in November

The college of the NWA community, member of Northwest Arkansas Nursing Education Consortium. www.nwacc.edu/academics/nursing

edit hrs

commuter campus

none

none for admission

RN June 1st, PN June 1st or Oct 1st

RN Program, ACEN accredited. www.pccua.edu

esters

commuter campus

open

none

ACT, COMPASS, PAX for PN,KAPLAN Admission Exam

Second Friday in March

Changing lives…one student at a time! www.seark.edu

m is 16 mos.

commuter campus

varies

March 1- High school Academic; July 15- Others; Nursing Scholarship- Dec. 1

ASSET, ACT, SAT or COMPASS**, KAPLAN Nurse Entrance Test

PN May 1 - LPN to RN July15 - Generic RN entry deadline is May 1st

UACCB’s nursing programs are among the top programs in the state. www.uaccb.edu

quisites)

commuter campus

none

ASSET, ACT or COMPASS

August 31st

www.arnec.org, www.uacch.edu

on/off campus housing

April 1st

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hellie Mollette was a crime scene investigator. Suzan Blair worked in telecommunications construction. Richard Lovell programmed computers. Suzanne Harris was a high school English teacher. Now, all four are nurses — among many who come to the profession after spending years, even decades, in other careers. “It’s a very popular second-career choice,” said Jon Vickers, academic counselor in the Department of Nursing at UALR. Nursing is attractive as a second career for a couple of reasons: It offers almost guaranteed job security, and while it’s a very difficult and stressful job, when nurses clock out at the end of their shift, they leave work at work.

“There are a lot of jobs where people take things home with them, and they bring that stress home with them,” Vickers said. “In nursing, when you’re done with your shift, you’re done.” Mollette, 35, the former crime scene investigator, said she left that career behind for nursing because she needed a job that had more positive outcomes. Because she already had a bachelor’s degree in her first field, she was able to get into UALR’s accelerated track and complete an associate’s degree in about 18 months. She’s now enrolled in the school’s online nursing bachelor’s degree program. She had to quit her CSI job when she started nursing school, but worked at Arkansas Children’s Hospital as a patient care tech — an unlicensed nurse’s aide — while she completed her degree. She now works as an RN in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit. “When I worked for the police department, it was everybody’s worst day that I saw,” she said. “Here in the NICU, they are there for a reason … but it’s just really fun to see the babies go all the way from very sick to normal infant and get to go home.” Mollette has two young children, and said family support was crucial for her to be able to

finish nursing school. “Nursing’s not like any other program,” she said. “It’s not like regular college. It’s so much more demanding.” Suzan Blair decided to change careers at the age of 41, after 23 years in telecommunications construction. “I call it my midlife crisis,” she said. “I found myself divorced with three kids, and I wasn’t passionate about what I was doing. I just felt like I needed to find something that was stable. You can pretty much always find a job as a nurse.” Blair chose to go to school full time and complete her BSN before she tried to find a nursing job. She got a lot of support from the Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Pulaski County, which helped her get a separate scholarship that paid for all her tuition and books, and also provided networking and support finding other resources. She graduated in August 2013 and went to work at UAMS. “It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” she said. “It was intense. But when your back’s against the wall you can do a lot of things you didn’t realize you had it in you to do.” Richard Lovell had already been thinking about making a career change when he was laid off from his job after 24 years in information technology. “I got a severance package, so it was a good time to do it,” he said. “I settled on nursing because there are so many things you can do.” Lovell, who was 46 at the time, had to take 16 hours of prerequisites before he applied to nursing school, and finished his associate degree in two and a half years. He said he may go back to finish his BSN in the future, but now is still trying to decide which direction he wants to take his nursing career. After he graduated he went to work for St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center, where he’s now a critical care nurse. “I really like taking care of my patients,” he said. “I get a lot of satisfaction out of helping people who are really sick.” Seven years teaching high school English was enough for Suzanne Harris, RN, BSN, MS, to figure out it wasn’t something she wanted to do for another 30. “It doesn’t offer a lot of diversity in what you do,” she said. “Nursing allows an enormous amount of diversity. It’s nice to have choices and options in a career that uses a lot of the same skills as teaching, and also makes a difference in people’s lives.”

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Harris, now the director of oncology, medical/ surgical, outpatient and wound services at Conway Regional Hospital, was 30 when she started nursing school. Like Mollette, she also worked as a patient care tech while she went full time to earn her BSN. “It gives you a complete different perspective when you go back to school” as an older student, she said. Whether someone who’s considering a career change to nursing should quit their current job first just depends on their situation, she said. “I’ve seen people do it both ways,” she said. “Through my position in management I’ve watched my staff transition — some go full time into nursing school, and some go a little at a time. It really depends on their home situation and financial situation. It can easily be achieved either way.” It typically takes about two years to complete the coursework necessary to become a registered nurse, Vickers said. That doesn’t include prerequisite courses, but many second-career nursing students already have at least some college credit. About 25 to 30 percent of UALR’s nursing students already have a bachelor’s degree in another field, he said. Paying for nursing school can be a challenge for those students, though, because federal financial aid programs are only available for students who don’t already have a degree. UALR offers the Willard and Pat Walker Foundation scholarships for students in that situation. The scholarships amount to about $100,000 each year and are based on financial need, academics, and professionalism. Vickers said it’s important for anyone considering nursing as a second career to first think through how they’ll get the support they need to put everything on the back burner while they complete school. Each nursing school does things a little differently, Vickers said. People should start looking at the various available nursing programs about a year ahead of when they actually want to start school, he said, because every school is a little different in terms of admissions criteria and prerequisites. “Some people are very nervous about going back to college,” Vickers said. “They need to know it’s a super-common thing, they’re not going to be alone, that’s for sure. Our demographic makeup is all across the board. We’ve had students in their 60s. We have an RN who’s finishing her BSN, and she’s over 75.” ‪

Schools & Hospitals Work Together To Promote The Profession

ursing is a great career, offering job security, challenging and interesting work, and the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of individual patients and the community as a whole. The member schools and hospitals of Arkansas for Nursing have been working together for 17 years to make sure as many people as possible get that message. “Our purpose is to promote nursing throughout the state of Arkansas and

encourage nursing as a career for high school and college students and second-career seekers,” said Michelle Odom, MSN, RN, director of recruitment and retention for Arkansas Children’s Hospital and president of Arkansas for Nursing. The group’s membership is made up of representatives of health care organizations and of colleges with nurse education programs. They meet twice a year to talk about issues that affect nursing and ways to promote it as a career choice. “It’s the dialog about what’s going on, the hot topics in nursing. People from health care organizations are able to talk about what they’re seeing with new hires, any challenges they’re having, new things going on in their organizations,

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and things that might impact people who come to their campuses,” Odom said. For instance, when several hospitals that host nursing students for their clinical rotations began transitioning from paper charts to electronic charts, members of the group were able to talk about the best ways to make sure nursing students and instructors could have the access they needed. Another issue the group’s members addressed was a delay the hospitals were noticing in the new nurses they hired getting their nursing licenses. By having educators, employers and someone from the Arkansas State Board of Nursing in the same room, they were able to pinpoint where the breakdown was in the licensure process and discuss ways to address it. “Everyone who needs to be there is talking,” she said. “That’s the benefit I see in it.” In between the meetings, the group’s board of directors works on products such as marketing campaigns and recruitment fairs. Arkansas for Nursing invites every school and health care organization in the state to attend meetings, and typically between 50 and 60 people attend, Odom said. “It’s a great opportunity for a lot of people with a lot in common to get together and exchange ideas,” she said. For more information, visit the group’s website, www.arkansas4nursing.org. ‪

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The simple answer is people. After 30 years of life experiences, I have come to realize that I love helping people, whether it be something concrete, as in completing a specific task, or a subtle gesture like giving someone a listening ear in an attempt to make their day a little better. As the child of a nurse who is also a cancer survivor, I was able to witness the skills required to be a nurse. I also saw the small moments that are exchanged between the nurse and the patient that are equally important. A smile or a touch on their hand at a difficult moment has the power of letting that patient know that they matter and that they are cared about. All of my life experiences have led me to have a heart for connecting with and serving people. I am able to do both through nursing and it is a great privilege. Stephanie Brown nursing student, UALR

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I’ve always considered myself to be a helpful person. Growing up as a child, I remember being so excited to help my mother with my younger sister. As I grew older, I remember deciding in junior high that I wanted to be in healthcare because I wanted to help those in need. I set off to college to do just that. Initially, I was a pre-med student. However, I quickly changed my major to nursing because I wanted to be more directly involved with patients. My life experiences have constantly reaffirmed that nursing is the career path for me. I believe I was meant to be a nurse. Today, I am a nurse and a nurse educator. I am truly blessed to be able to work in a profession I love. I am able to help, serve, and nurture others. These are the characteristics I see when I envision a nurse and what I believe nurses do best.

ursing education programs can provide clinical skills and knowledge, but there’s nothing like actually being responsible for a patient’s care and well-being. Experienced nurses are getting harder and harder to come by, nurse recruiters at several local hospitals said. Nurses from the baby boom generation are retiring in large numbers, and younger experienced nurses seem to be less interested in changing employers. Nurse residency programs, established in the past couple of years at hospitals around Central Arkansas, provide an innovative solution to this problem. These programs guide newgraduate nurses through the transition from school to working RN and try to streamline and accelerate the process of turning green recruits into seasoned professionals who feel invested in their jobs and are therefore less likely to leave for a position at another facility. Conway Regional Medical Center’s nurse residency program lasts for six months. New nurses meet twice a month to learn about aspects of working in a hospital that they might not have studied in school, such as the financial, security and legal reasons behind many of the rules and procedures they have to follow. “Then we go into other things that affect them personally, such as how to prioritize care and manage their time,” said Rae Rhodes, RN, BSN, Conway Regional’s critical care education coordinator. “We do a section on death and dying, because a lot of people have not had a lot of experience in that area, especially as a nurse.” Nurse residency programs are typically in addition to a new nurse’s regular orientation on the hospital floor, which can last for several months and typically focuses developing the clinical skills needed in that particular unit. Some, including Conway Regional’s, are mandatory. Others are voluntary, but tend to be popular all the same. “We’ve never had a nurse not want to participate,” said Pam McMahen, MNSc, RN-BC, staff/nurse educator for UAMS clinical programs, of UAMS’ year-long nurse residency program, called ACORN — for Achievement, Commitment and Opportunities for the Registered Nurse. “We try to fill in some of the gaps, and try to help them learn how to grow and develop at UAMS,” McMahen said. “They also get to find out that they

Larronda Rainey, PhD(c), MNSc, RN, director of RN-BSN program and APNF Project CoordinatorConway UAMS College of Nursing have a lot of the same concerns. We wanted them to feel supported among themselves so they can have a group they can grow with.” Baptist Health has a 14-week nurse residency program for new graduate employees at Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock, Baptist Health Extended Care Hospital and Baptist Health Rehabilitation Institute. It includes learning and clinical work experiences, and nurses learn about their own unit and as well as spend time in other areas of the hospital. Arkansas Children’s Hospital welcomed the first class in its new nurse residency program in July. It’s a year-long program that includes 18 weeks of classroom and clinical sessions that focus on skills that are specific to working with pediatric patients. Classes are taught by bedside nurses, educators, pharmacists, social workers, child-life experts and others. The year-long components include mentoring, which is focused on the new nurse’s professional development, and debriefing, which helps new nurses with the personal aspects of transitioning from school to the work world. ACH has partnered with a company called Versant, whose nurse residency program was first established at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in 1999. The company released a study a couple of years ago that looked at 10 years of data and concluded that a nurse who’d gone through the program’s 18-week classroom/clinical training functioned

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Experience is a valuable commodity in any profession, but in nursing it’s particulary important. at the level of a nurse with 18 months of experience. “It definitely expedites their learning and critical thinking process,” said Julie Bane, MS, BSN, RN, ACH’s RN nurse residency manager and clinical education specialist. The residency program is also proving attractive to potential new employees, she said. “It absolutely helps with recruiting,” Bane said. This is something that the nursing students are being taught to look for now.” At Conway Regional, the nurse residency program is also helping with retention, said CJ Newton, MSN, RN, the hospital’s director of educational services. Nationwide, about one in four new-graduate nurses leave their first jobs within a year of hire. Some leave the profession altogether, but most take a different nursing position. “I had a nurse in my office today who talked about how she left her first job as an RN in her first year just because she was scared to death,” Newton said. “She didn’t feel like she was adequately prepared, and she didn’t have the support she needed. That’s exactly what we’re trying to avoid.” ‪

Growing up, whenever my twin sister and I would play school, she was the teacher and I was the school nurse. So I had dreamed of becoming a nurse since I was a child. I chose nursing because it’s a rewarding, fulfilling position. I enjoy being a nurse in the emergency department. Each day is a new adventure with new patients/ families and learning opportunities. I am thankful I have the opportunity to make someone’s day better. Whether it be a smile, a handshake, or a life-saving intervention, it’s a feeling of accomplishment at the end of my shift knowing that I made a difference in someone’s life. Jessica Branham, RN, BSN emergency department Conway Regional Medical Center When I was 13 my best friend was diagnosed with leukemia. I saw what amazing care the nurses and medical staff provided and how they could make her smile even on the worst days. I was so moved by their compassion and the relationship they developed with her. My friend passed away at age 21, when I was in my last year of nursing school. I knew that I wanted to develop those relationships with patients, to be able to help them learn to manage what they were facing, to pray with them, to cry with them and to make them smile. Tiffany Calaway, RN Baptist Health Family Clinic Bryant, AHG/Practice Plus

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very nurse spends years in the classroom and on the hospital floor studying and training to learn all the complicated medical information needed to take care of all kinds of patients. But those clinical skills aren’t the only ones nurses need to be successful today. There’s an increasing focus in nursing on the “soft” skills — things like being a good communicator, treating patients and family members with genuine compassion and respect, working well as part of a team, and being a strong leader. These skills are a vital part of providing high-quality care to patients. “It takes a very special person this day and age to be a nurse,” said Julie Moretz, UAMS associate vice chancellor for patient- and familycentered care. “It’s more than just the technical skills that we’re looking for.” In fact, the soft skills are becoming such a focus that beginning in 2015, Medicare will determine how much it pays hospitals based in part on their scores on a standardized survey of patient satisfaction levels. The survey asks about topics like

communication with nurses, responsiveness of hospital staff, communication about medicines, and discharge information. The survey, known by the acronym HCAHPS, has been around since 2008 — long enough to show that how patients feel about the care they get makes a difference. “Patient engagement helps with hospital readmission scores,” Moretz said. “We know that nearly 20 percent of patients experience an adverse event within a month of discharge, and 75 percent of those can be prevented. If we are doing a better job to make sure the patient understands how to take better care of themselves, perhaps they wouldn’t have to be readmitted.” Nurses have to be able to express themselves clearly and respectfully to patients as well as to their coworkers. Nurses give patients a lot of information about their condition and their treatment, and it’s essential that patients understand what their nurses are telling them. Otherwise, there’s a risk that patients won’t know how to take their medicine

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when they’re back home, or won’t understand how important it is to avoid certain activities or come back to see the doctor in a certain length of time. “In days gone by, when families had to sit out in the waiting room, nurses didn’t have to communicate with them,” Moretz said. “It’s a new day, a new age, and families want to be engaged and understand what’s going on. For that to happen effectively, we need to make sure our nurses have that capability.” Compassion is also at the top of the list for nurses. Simply giving appropriate medical care isn’t enough. Nurses must be able to empathize with patients and their families, and provide emotional comfort as well as physical treatment. “We’re largely focused on end-oflife care in one of my units, and one of the things my nurses do well is being there for patients,” said Suzanne Harris, BSN, RN, clinical director for oncology, medical/surgical, outpatient and wound services at Conway Regional Medical Center. “There are times that scientific

medicine has nothing else to offer a patient, and at those times nurses have everything to offer: comfort, compassion, understanding and empathy.” Those are skills every nurse should use every day with every patient, she said. Many people come into the nursing profession precisely because they have compassionate hearts and want to help people, but there are ways to teach and model compassionate interactions with patients, Harris said. “A lot of it is mentoring, so they can learn by watching,” she said. “They learn what boundaries are, that touch is OK — that it’s encouraged to sit on the side of the bed and pat someone’s hand when you talk to them because it’s very reassuring.” Nurses absolutely must be able to work well as part of a team — to get along with their co-workers, be honest, and be open to what others have to say. Nurses today often practice as part of interprofessional teams, meaning they work alongside doctors, pharmacists, physical

therapists and other types of health care professionals to provide care to patients. “Your work team becomes your family, especially when you’re spending 12-14 hours with these people,” Harris said. Leadership ability is becoming an increasingly in-demand skill in nursing as well. In its “Future of Nursing” report, the Institute of Medicine called for nurses to take on roles where they could have a real impact on how hospitals are run and how health care is delivered in this country. “All the national nursing organizations are really encouraging nurses to become involved at some level, whether that’s supporting the organizations, writing letters to Congress, or something else,” said Dr. Cathrin Carithers, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at the UAMS College of Nursing. Fostering leadership skills is one of the main concentrations of the DNP degree, she said. “Leadership is woven throughout our curriculum,” she said. “What we have found is that that’s what nurses are coming back to school for. The DNP degree really helps provide education for the nurse who wants to advance her practice at the leadership level — not just with individual patients

but with whole populations, local to global. To lead health care innovation and influence policy — that’s how we envision the role of the DNP. So nurses can go and change the world.” These kinds of soft skills are much harder to test than, say, knowledge of anatomy or ability to insert an IV. But local hospitals’ nursing recruiters are finding ways to assess soft skills as part of the hiring process. At Baptist Health all applicants take a skills assessment at the beginning of the application process to give recruiters a picture of how their abilities and values align with Baptist’s emphasis on soft skills such as honesty, integrity and respect. If the survey results turn up any concerns, the interviewing supervisor can ask questions in the interview that are designed to get at the root of the matter. “We’re also asking certain questions to try to determine whether the candidate truly does have a passion for caring for people and a good work ethic, and if they’re someone who is going to be a good team player,” said April Robinson, a nurse recruiter at Baptist. UAMS and Arkansas Children’s Hospital both use a software product called SkillSurvey, which allows an applicant’s references to complete an anonymous online survey about the applicant’s competency and

behavior that looks at areas like professionalism, interpersonal skills, problem-solving, and alignment with patient satisfaction. SkillSurvey results are a reliable predictor of an applicant’s abilities in those areas. “When it works well, you get back a report on an individual that gives you can overall picture of how they work with a team? How do they communicate?” said Michelle Odom, RN, MSN, director of recruitment and retention at ACH. It’s also easier than trying to get references over the phone or in writing. “It’s quick and efficient — they can complete the survey on their smart phone,” said Susan Erickson, RN, MNSc, nurse recruiter and recruitment/ retention officer at UAMS. “We have to look at how well the nurse is going to do with patient satisfaction, because that is now part of our universe,” Erickson said. “We used to just look at competency and the level of skill they provide. Now we have to include patient experience and that human touch.” This past year, ACH also made a set of soft-skill behavior standards such as friendliness and taking care of one’s environment a major factor in job performance evaluations. “Those count for about 40 percent of the evaluation score,” Odom said. “That’s taking a big stand.” ‪

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I became a nurse because of the very wise words of my high-school best friend’s mother, who also is a nurse. I spent four years in the Army, and during my enlistment had the opportunity to become certified as an emergency medical technician-basic (EMT-B). My original intention had been to go to paramedic school after my enlistment ended. Near the end of my enlistment I was home on leave one weekend and staying with my friend. At some point the conversation turned to my plans following discharge and she said to me, “You could go to paramedic school and be out in the dark, the cold, the heat, the rain, and the snow. Or you could go to nursing school, work in the emergency room and have heat in the winter, air conditioning in the summer, and a roof over your head.” Having spent nearly the past four years in the infantry outside in the elements, that advice made a lot of sense to me! Fermin Renteria, MNSc, APRN, CPNC-PC, clinical assistant professor and specialty coordinator for Graduate Pediatrics, UAMS College of Nursing

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s Kerry walked across the parking lot from her car, she inhaled the brisk autumn air that filtered through the tall trees that surround the parklike campus of The BridgeWay. It had been nine years since she graduated with a degree in nursing but her nursing career doesn’t look like what she had imagined. “When I entered nursing school, I knew that I would have a chance to make an impact upon the health of others,” she said as she pulled her keys from her purse. “However, until I began working here — my first real job out of college — I had no idea that I would have the opportunity to help so many others change their lives for the better.” Like her classmates in nursing school, Kerry learned the hard skills of nursing. “I was taught how to assess and document the needs of patients, apply dressings, draw blood, work with doctors and provide patient care,” she said. Yet she separated herself from the others when she chose psychiatry as a specialty. “Although I don’t have to wear a crisp white uniform, I still do some of those other jobs,” Kerry said, “but my role is more patientcentered as opposed to task-oriented, and I truly spend more time with the patients. It took courage to broaden my horizons.”

A CAREER IN PSYCHIATRIC NURSING IS UNIQUE. Although the hard skills are important, especially when treating those who are medically compromised, interpersonal skills are the primary tools of a psychiatric nurse. Yet while some nurses are accomplished communicators, others are not. Caring for people whose illness often results in impaired communication requires careful listening skills, self-awareness,

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empathy, and respect. Additionally, most psychiatric nurses are capable of incorporating their knowledge about mental illness with their attention to the patients’ life stories. Working in a psychiatric hospital like The BridgeWay gives nurses opportunities to learn from observing and modeling experienced and effective clinicians. Also it is quite common for psychiatric nurses, as well as mental health associates, to learn from the experiences of the patients. Combined, these encounters tend to increase interpersonal skills, which are essential to psychiatric nursing. Considering that the National Alliance on Mental Illness reports that one in four adults (approximately 61.5 million Americans) experience mental illness in a given year, and approximately 13 percent of youth ages 8 to 15 experience severe mental disorders annually, psychiatric nurses have the potential to impact the lives of many people. But becoming a psychiatric nurse takes courage.

PSYCHIATRIC NURSING IS CHALLENGING YET REWARDING. “Of course, I stay in touch with my peers,” added Kerry while she walked through the brightly lit and colorful hallways of The BridgeWay. “As nurses, we are inspired to care for our patients, but they tend to do more to the patient while I do more for the patient. If you stop and think about it, it’s fairly daunting to guide a patient towards self-discovery so they may see solutions and make positive life choices.” Those processes are even more demanding when the illness is debilitating or the patient lacks the motivation or support from others, common circumstances in the state of Arkansas. “But I find it rewarding too,” she added before stepping into the shift-change meeting.

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COLLABORATION IS ESSENTIAL TO COMPREHENSIVE CARE. “This is actually my second career,” said Dan, who left the shiftchange session and walked towards the cafeteria. “I was a computer programmer but went to nursing school because I enjoy working with other people.” Because psychiatric disorders and addictions are multidimensional, they are often too complex to be treated successfully by one practitioner. As such, a team approach is often more effective. “Here, our team includes psychiatrists and physicians, nurse practitioners and nurses, psychologists, social workers and mental health associates, physical and art therapists, and registered dieticians.” In order to provide continuity of care for all patients, The BridgeWay provides a multidisciplinary approach. “You know,” Dan mused while looking out across the mountainous landscape, “it took courage to change career directions, but it’s fulfilling.”

EDUCATION IS AN ASSET. Established over 30 years ago, The BridgeWay remains as the first free-standing psychiatric hospital in Arkansas. “With such longevity, many regard us as the experts in treating children, adolescents, adults and seniors,” said Dan, “but we can’t do it alone. We rely on our longstanding partnerships with the leading nursing schools as well as sociology programs to provide up and coming students as well as best practices.” In addition to facilitating student rotations, continuing education programs are offered at no charge to students and employees alike year-round. ‪

26-year employee “I enjoy my role here because of the other nurses I work with, the support from administration, and working with patients that are dealing with mental health issues, but I am also able to use my medical nursing skills.”

Joe Williams, RN 3-year employee “I love my coworkers, respect their knowledge and professional judgment, and rely on them for advice. We are proud to work at the #1 psychiatric facility in Arkansas.” Vicki Weisman, RN 2-year employee “My supervisor is collaborative, open to questions and comments, always knows when to intercede and when to let us work things out. She respects and likes us, solves problems and is a strong, decisive leader.” Donna Bingley, RN 31-year employee “I like that I am not just working with the client, but also with their family. It is rewarding to see a patient’s progress from admission all the way to discharge. People are often afraid to work with this population because they have misconceptions that psychiatric disorders are a sign of weakness. We, as caregivers, see their progress first hand every day.” Gwen Jones, mental health associate, 15-year employee “Working at The BridgeWay is like working with family. The atmosphere is professional, but rewarding at the same time. We work together as a team to ensure the patients’ needs are met with understanding, compassion, empathy, and dignity. Working at The BridgeWay is rewarding because we see the changes in our patients on a daily basis.” Karen Waller, mental health associate, 1.5-year employee “Many patients come into the hospital that cannot function in the world around them. They may not even know where they are or recognize family members, but as time goes on; you start to see them improve. As they start treatment ordered by their physician, participating in therapy, and interacting with staff, we watch them become more coherent, talkative and actually asking questions about their illness and how to use coping skills to deal with stress that could be triggers for relapse.”

BEYOND

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High school students in UAMS’s HEALERS summer program get hands-on experience in the medical field.

oday’s hospital volunteers get an inside look at careers in health care Hospitals have always been a popular place for young people to volunteer. They could pass out magazines, water the flowers in patients’ rooms, serve snacks, and perform other helpful, if limited, tasks. Several local hospitals have upped their volunteer game in recent years, though, creating programs that give high school and college students an opportunity to get a more hands-on, up-close look at what it would be like to have a career in health care. In Baptist Health’s STAR Volunteens program, volunteers spend two days a week during the summer working in hospital units doing tasks that might include answering patient call lights and helping move patients from one location to another. Older volunteers — those in college, usually pursuing a degree in a medical field — can volunteer in the emergency room as well, said Jim Gibbons, Baptist Health’s volunteer services manager. “I can imagine you see anything and everything there, so I need people who really have a seriousness of purpose and who can take direction,” he said. “I get a lot of physician assistants and premed students in that role.” At UAMS, students going into their junior and senior years of high school can apply for the highly competitive two-week HEALERS summer volunteer program. Participants get to learn about a variety of medical careers, how to give first aid to accident victims and administer CPR, and about health issues that affect teens. They get to practice

their skills in UAMS’s simulation center and are allowed to volunteer in clinical areas that aren’t typically open to teen volunteers. “They get real hands-on experience, working right alongside nurses and physicians and learning the craft,” said Erin Gray, director of volunteer services and auxiliary at the UAMS Medical Center. “It’s great to get these kids in here on the front end and give them a realistic picture of what goes on.” Arkansas Children’s Hospital has an active volunteering program as well, but it also has a job shadowing program that gives high school students and adults an opportunity to spend up to several days closely observing nurses, doctors and other employees. The hospital has also started using some college-age and adult volunteers for non-traditional volunteer jobs that help ACH explore different quality-of-care initiatives, said Robin Reynolds, ACH’s director of volunteer services. This past summer, college students helped administer patient/ family satisfaction questionnaires, in addition to more traditional duties like checking on families and guiding families around the hospital campus. ACH also hosts full-time volunteers though Americorps and participates in alternative spring break programs with colleges around the country. “We have numerous opportunities to introduce potential health care workers to health care experiences,” Reynolds said. “It’s amazing the number of former volunteers who are now work in health care.” ‪

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The reason nursing appealed to me, especially emergency room nursing, is that when somebody has probably the worst day of their life — they’ve almost died or been in a car crash or been severely injured somehow — I get to be a good part of that, to be the thing that changes for them. It was kind of a calling for me to be the calm in the storm. I want to be the kind of nurse where when someone looks back and says “I remember the day Grandpa almost died of a heart attack, and how awful it was, but that nurse made it so much easier to get through the day.” I’m not the nurturing kind where I want to just rock babies all day. I like to stop the chaos and get some order back, and say “OK, yes, this terrible thing happened to you. Let’s fix it together.” Chelsea Holley, RN, BSN Conway Regional Medical Center

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NURSES on a MISSION LOCAL NURSES PUT THEIR SKILLS TO USE ALL OVER THE WORLD

Melinda Kaney, RN, with one of her patients aboard Mercy Ships in West Africa.

any of us see images or read stories about people in need in other countries and wish there was more we could do to help than say a quick prayer and send a few dollars. For nurses, that wish is reality: Their training gives them skills they can use to change and save lives in places where the kind of health care we take for granted in the United States is just a pipe dream.

Nurses who’ve gone on mission trips say the experience tends to affect them in two ways: by challenging their assumptions and making them more aware and appreciative of how good we have it in here, and by improving their problem-solving skills and creativity. Melinda Kaney, RN, knew she wanted to be a nurse who served on overseas mission trips years before she spent a month in Honduras at the age of 15. “That trip cemented it in my mind — I know I want to be a nurse and do this.” Two years after she finished nursing school she began applying to mission organizations, and between February 2011 and December 2013 spent a cumulative two years working for Mercy Ships, an all-volunteer

organization that provides health care both on the ground and on a hospital ship that docks in port cities along the coast of West Africa. The experience changed her life. “The expertise and availability of medical care we have here is so different,” she said. “It’s hard to see kids dying because they don’t have the medications or the equipment or the technology you have in the States.” Kaney said the two years of nursing experience she had before she volunteered with Mercy Ships helped immensely, but at the same she had no idea what she was getting herself into. “The majority of what I worked with over there in the rural villages were things like malaria, dysentery, typhoid — stuff you don’t see here,” she said. “There’s no way to prepare for that.” Kaney was offered her “dream job” as leader of Mercy Ships’ orthopedics team in the summer of 2012. She stayed through the end of 2013, when she came back to Little Rock to pursue her bachelor’s degree in nursing. She’s now at Arkansas Children’s Hospital working as a patient care manager in the surgical/orthopedics unit. “I want to do more in the future, but to what extent, I don’t know,” she said. “I’m open to whatever. It’s in my blood now.” Not every nurse is going to have the desire or ability to volunteer for months or years at a time, of course. Most go for a week or two, often with a churchsponsored team of doctors, nurses, and possibly a dentist and pharmacist. Rebecca Culver, RN, a medical/ surgical nurse at UAMS, has gone on 14 short mission trips — twice to Guatemala, and for the last 12 years to a small town in Romania with a group

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of 10 to 20 other medical personnel. Over the years their group has built a building in the town that houses a kindergarten and medical facilities for when the group visits. On each trip they spend a few days in the town, and then travel around to nearby villages that don’t have any medical facilities. “Usually someone lets us borrow their house or another building,” she said. “This last year, in five days we saw 520 patients. It’s pretty amazing.” Like many other groups, the members of Culver’s team all pack their suitcases full of over-the-counter medications, vitamins, and reading glasses, which are not readily available in the areas they travel to, and a pharmacist raises money to buy prescription medicine for common problems like high blood pressure. “Romania seems like a home away from home for me now,” she said. “Once I went I was hooked. Because even with the simplest little things you do for them, they’re very appreciative.” Mission nursing can also be frustrating, of course. For instance, it can be hard to treat a child who has an intestinal parasite knowing she’ll be going back to the same environment and will probably have the parasite again in a few months, said Meg Prince, ER nurse manager at Conway Regional, who’s made two mission trips to Guatemala through a local church. “You feel like you’re helping, but only for the short term,” she said. Still, it’s a rewarding experience, Prince said, and she’s really enjoyed it. Working in a country without the same resources as the United States can give nurses an important dose of perspective, said Rebecca Burris, director of the nursing program at

Arkansas Tech University. It can also improve critical thinking skills, she said. “You really are treating the person, their comfort, without necessarily knowing the cause of their distress or discomfort,” she said. Marti McNeill and her sister, Taylor, both nursing students at UALR, spent a week in Honduras last June. She said she was amazed how patient everyone was and what they were able to endure. “The dentist removed this man’s wisdom teeth without anesthesia,” she said. “He went through terrible pain and still thanked her when it was over. They wouldn’t do that here in America.” Not all mission trips require weeklong commitments and overseas travel. Becky Russell, RN, a staff specialist at Baptist Health-North Little Rock, volunteers through the Arkansas Southern Baptist Convention on oneday mission trips within the state. Groups of about 50 medical volunteers set up a clinic in an underserved area and open the doors to all comers. “I might do triage or assist a doctor with his assessment and diagnosis,” she said. She might spend time trying to help a patient understand his diagnosis and what changes he’ll have to make to live with it. “It’s very humbling,” she said. “It keeps me in perspective about how good I have it in my job here.” ‪

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I remember my mom going through nursing school when I was 8 years old. I was completely infatuated with her nursing books and hearing all about nursing. As I got older I felt the pull the “care” for people. Whether it was a friend or family member, I wanted to be the one to nurse them back to health. When I was 16 my great-grandfather, who had suffered multiple strokes over the years, became critically ill. I spent evenings sitting with him at the hospital. It was during this time that the desire of a little girl to become a nurse became me knowing that nursing was what God was calling me to do. Missy Chapdelaine, RN, Baptist Health Family Clinic Bryant, AHG/Practice Plus

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CONWAY BOOKS OCT. 2: Jericho Brown. University of Central Arkansas College of Business Auditorium, 7:30 p.m., free. OCT. 30: An Evening with Nathan Englander. Reves Recital Hall, Hendrix College, 7:30 p.m., free.

MUSIC NOV. 3: Blue Man Group. UCA’s Reynolds Performance Hall, 7:30 p.m. $27-$40. NOV. 6: John Corigliano. Hendrix College, 7:30 p.m., free.

THEATER OCT. 5: “The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley.” UCA’S Reynolds Performance Hall, 3 p.m., $10. OCT. 23: “Sister Act: The Musical.”

UCA’s Reynolds Performance Hall, 7:30 p.m., $27-$40. NOV. 15: “An Evening with Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood.” UCA’s Reynolds Performance Hall, 7:30 p.m., $27-$40. NOV. 17: Cirque Mechanics, “Pedal Punk.” UCA’s Reynolds Performance Hall, 7:30 p.m., $27-$40. DEC. 7: “A Christmas Carol.” UCA’s Reynolds Performance Hall, 3 p.m., $27-$40.

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EACH WEDNESDAY NIGHT, THE OXFORD AMERICAN PRESENTS LOCAL LIVE AT SOUTH ON MAIN. LANDERS FIAT OF BENTON SPONSORS THE FREE CONCERT SERIES THAT WELCOMES TOP LOCAL AND REGIONAL MUSIC TALENT TO THE SOUTH ON MAIN STAGE. ALL SHOWS START AT 7:30 P.M.

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Now on display at the UALR FINE ARTS BUILDING is PIRANESI AND PERSPECTIVES OF ROME in Gallery I through October 5. On Thursday, Sept. 25, in conjunction with the exhibit, are lectures by Dr. Carol C. Mattusch, Professor Emerita George Mason University, at 10:50 a.m. in Fine Arts Room 161 and by Dr. Richard S. Mason, Lecturer, University of Maryland-Baltimore County at 6 p.m. at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. Both lectures are free and open to the public. Don’t miss Teaching a Canary to Sing, a sculptural installation by Catherine Siri Nugent, in Gallery II through Sept. 28 and Small Works on Paper in Gallery III through Sept. 26. Fall gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; and Sunday 2-5 p.m. For more info, visit www.ualr.edu.

Oct. 1 – Dr. Barry McVinney and Banda Cabrito Oct. 8 – Chris DeClerk Oct. 15 – Isaac Alexander Oct. 22 – Opera in the Rock Oct. 29 – Sound So Good

THROUGH SEPT. 30

IT’S PINOT-PALOOZA. Come in and enjoy 20% off mix-and-match pinot noir by the case at O’LOONEY’S WINE & LIQUOR during the month of September. O’Looney’s is located at 3 Rahling Circle in Little Rock. Call 501821-4669 for more info or olooneys@aristotle.net.

OCT 13

RISTORANTE CAPEO hosts a MONTHLY WINE DINNER on the 2nd Monday of each Month beginning at 6:30 p.m. $55 per person includes 3 full courses and 3 full glasses of wine. Reserve your space now by calling 376-3463 or visit http:// capeo.us/

OCT 18

The annual POOCHES & PUMPKINS event is a free, fall-themed festival at THE GOOD EARTH GARDEN CENTER from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Local rescue groups will be on hand, raising awareness for their organizations, assisting in pet adoptions and selling concessions like popcorn and cotton candy to raise money for their organizations. If your group is interested in participating, call 501-868-4666. 50

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SEPT 27-OCT 29

OXFORD AMERICAN and ACANSA present ST. PAUL AND THE BROKEN BONES at South on Main on Saturday, Sept. 27 at 10 p.m. Tickets are $20. On Sept. 30, the OA and Central Arkansas Library System present The 78 Project Movie at the CALS Ron Robinson Theater at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10.

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OCT 22

It’s your last chance to catch MEMPHIS at the ARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE. The must-see musical is based on DJ Dewey Phillips, one of the first white DJs to play black music on the radio in the 50s. On Thursday, Sept. 25, it’s Beer Night with O’Fallon Brewery at 5:30 p.m. Join the Arkansas Times and Golden Eagle for a pre-show brew. For tickets, show times and more information, visit www.therep.org.

Shirley Jones hosts this 50th Anniversary Celebration of one of America’s favorite movie musicals, THE MUSIC MAN-IN CONCERT. Her backstories, both past and present, of this American classic, combined with a wonderful score including “Trouble,” “76 Trombones,” “Lida Rose” and “Til There Was You,” guarantees a very special event you won’t want to miss. The event takes place at MAUMELLE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. For tickets and showtimes, visit www.celebrityattractions.com.

OCT 5

Arkansas Times sponsors CENTRAL ARKANSAS PRIDE’S LITTLE ROCK PRIDE FEST at the CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER. The parade starts at 2 p.m. with the festival to follow from 3-7 p.m. More than 40 vendors will be on site. Check the Central Arkansas Pride Facebook page for updates.

OCT 7

THE GAME’S AFOOT opens at MURRY’S DINNER PLAYHOUSE. It’s a hilarious whodunit set in the Christmas season. The show runs through November 8. For tickets and show times, visit www. murrysdp.com.

OCT 8-11

THE KING BISCUIT BLUES FESTIVAL takes place in HELENA-WEST HELENA with performances by Bobby Rush, Delbert McClinton, Bluesboy Jag, Sonny Burgess and Guitar Shorty, among many others. Ride the Arkansas Times Blues Bus from Little Rock to Helena-West Helena on October 11 for $99. Price includes round-trip transportation and admission to the festival; it’s a fun way to travel with friends and includes a stop at Craig’s BBQ in DeValls Bluff for lunch. Reserve by phone at 501-375-2985.

OCT 10-19

Celebrating 75 years, the ARKANSAS STATE FAIR is back with great music, carnival rides, food, arts and crafts, livestock shows, PBR rodeo and more. This year’s headliners include George Thorogood (Oct. 10), Travis Tritt (Oct. 11) and Jagged Edge (Oct. 12). Concerts are free with price of admission. Visit www.arkansasstatefair.com for special fair promotions and more information. n The stars will align this year at the 23RD ANNUAL HOT SPRINGS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL to celebrate the best in documentary film from around the world, including visits by actor George Takei, actor-turned-director Luke Wilson, the family of Arkansas icon Glen Campbell, actresses Joey Lauren Adams and Tess Harper, former Olympic Diving Champion Greg Louganis, producer/director Harry Thomason, Arthur Agee of Hoop Dreams, illusionist James Randi and many more. For tickets, show times and more information, visit http://www.hsdfi.org/ and watch for our section in the October 2nd Issue for a full schedule and film reviews.

Sponsored by the Arkansas Humanities Council, MEET THE FUNDERS is a panel discussion on local grant making from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. at the RON ROBINSON THEATER at 100 River Market Avenue. The event is free. Nonprofits statewide are encouraged to attend. For more information, contact Jama Best at 501320-5761 or at jamabest@sbcglobal.net.

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JUANITA’S hosts salsa every Friday at 9 p.m. for $5. Upcoming performances include MAC POWELL (Sept. 27), JOSHUA JAMES (Sept. 29), TERRY BOZZIO (Sept. 30), ARUM RAE (Oct. 1), POLICA (Oct. 2), BRET MICHAELS (Oct. 3), MINIATURE TIGERS/SKIZZY MARS (Oct. 4), TY DOLLA $IGN (Oct. 5) and more. Check out Juanitas.com for the complete line-up. n BOSWELL MOUROT FINE ART opening reception: PROVOCATIVE SHAPES Friday, October 3 from 6-9pm. Free and open to the public. Show will be available for viewing until Oct 26. Located 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd in the Heights.

One of Little Rock’s favorite fall festivals is HILLCREST HARVESTFEST. The one-day block party along Kavanaugh is free and fun for the whole family. It’s a celebration of local art, food, music and fashion. This year’s musical lineup includes Kevin Kerby, The Sea Nanners, Isaac Alexander and Amasa Hines. For a complete schedule of events, visit www.harvestfest.us. n R&B crooner CHARLIE WILSON plays VERIZON ARENA at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $49.50 and $67.50 and available through Ticketmaster online at www.ticketmaster. com or by phone at 800-745-3000. Charlie Wilson will offer a $15 discount ticket if you purchase from the Verizon box office and say “Uncle Charlie Sent Me.” For details, visit www.verizonarena.com.

Now on display at LAMAN LIBRARY, HOUSE & HOME is a new exhibit made possible through the National Endowment of the Humanities that explores the many cultural meanings of the American home. Admission is free. For library hours and more information, visit www. lamanlibrary.org.

CHOCTAW CASINO EVENT CENTER hosts several upcoming shows, including MARTINA MCBRYDE (Sept. 26), the O’Jays and BRIAN MCKNIGHT (Sept. 27) and EXPERIENCE HENDRIX concert event (Oct. 3). For tickets and show times, visit www. choctawcasinos.com.

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THE ARKANSAS TIMES CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL pairs the best local food and music with a sampling of more than 250 American craft beers from 50 breweries. The event is from 6-9 p.m. at the ARGENTA FARMERS MARKET GROUNDS. Tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door while they last. If you were there last year, you know it draws a big crowd. Proceeds benefit the Argenta Arts District. Visit www.arktimes.com for more info.

OCT 9

Grammy Award winning blues musician JAMES COTTON, considered the greatest harmonica player in the world, is performing live in concert at WILDWOOD PARK at 7 p.m. Tickets are $35 for reserved seating and $75 for VIP and are available at wildwoodpark.org.

OCT 17

100.3 THE EDGE presents FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH and VOLBEAT live at Verizon Arena. Tickets are $51.50 and available at www.ticketmaster. com or by phone at 800-745-3000.

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Come to the LITTLE ROCK ZOO for BOO AT THE ZOO featuring rides, crafts and entertainment for the whole family. General admission is $10 and all-inclusive armbands are available for $25 excluding food. Hours are 6-9 p.m. with the last admission at 8:30 p.m. Adult Night is October 17 and has a $25 admission fee.

HEARTS AND HOOVES 14TH ANNUAL HOEDOWN Oct 25th at the HEART AND HOOVES RIDING ARENA located 2308 Kellogg Acres in Sherwood. Event is from 6-9pm. Craig O’Neil will Emcee. Live performance by Chuck Gatlin & Canvas. Fun Events, live and silent auctions, dinner and drinks will be available. For Tickets got to heartandhooves.com

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MUSIC O C T. 3 - 5 : M o o n Wa v e E x p o . C l a s s es, crafts and live music. Best We s t e r n I n n o f t h e O z a r k s . O C T. 4 : E u re k a p a l o o z a . B e n e f i t for Clear Springs Schools. Lake Leatherwood City Park, 11 a.m.10 p.m., $2-$5. O C T. 7 - 1 1 : 6 7 t h a n n u a l O z a r k F o l k F e s t i v a l . Va r i o u s e v e n t s a n d venues, Ozarkfolkfestival.com f o r m o re i n f o r m a t i o n . D o w n t o w n E u re k a S p r i n g s , $ 1 2 - $ 3 2 .

FAY E T T E V I L L E E V E N TS O C T. 1 7 : B i l l E n g v a l l . Wa l t o n A r t s C e n t e r, 7 a n d 9 : 3 0 p . m . , $ 3 7 - $ 6 7 . D E C . 5 - 6 : T h e S e c o n d C i t y ’s “ N u t C r a c k i n g H o l i d a y R e v u e . ” Wa l t o n A r t s C e n t e r, 8 p . m . , $ 1 5 - $ 3 5 . DEC. 12: “Mythbusters: Behind T h e M y t h s . ” Wa l t o n A r t s C e n t e r, 4 and 8 p.m., $30-$125.

MUSIC O C T. 3 : F u n k a d e s i . Wa l t o n A r t s C e n t e r, 8 p . m . , $ 1 0 - $ 2 5 . O C T. 9 : H o m e F re e . Wa l t o n A r t s C e n t e r, 7 p . m . , $ 1 5 - $ 3 5 . O C T. 9 : J o s h A b b o t t B a n d , B r a n d o n L a y. G e o rg e ’s M a j e s t i c Lounge, 9 p.m., $20. O C T. 1 1 : P h a n t o g r a m . G e o rg e ’s Majestic Lounge, 9:30 p.m., $20. O C T. 1 5 : D e v i l Yo u K n o w. G e o rg e ’s Majestic Lounge, 8 p.m., $15. O C T. 1 6 : C h r i s R o b i n s o n B ro t h e rh o o d . G e o rg e ’s M a j e s t i c L o u n g e , 9 p.m., $18. O C T. 2 8 : D r i v e - B y Tr u c k e r s . G e o rg e ’s M a j e s t i c L o u n g e , 9 p . m . , $25. O C T. 3 0 : P a u l T h o r n . G e o rg e ’s Majestic Lounge, 9 p.m., $20. N O V. 4 : F re d E a g l e s m i t h Tr a v e l i n g S t e a m S h o w. G e o rg e ’s M a j e s t i c Lounge, 8:30 p.m., $20. N O V. 5 : S T S 9 . F a y e t t e v i l l e To w n C e n t e r, 8 p . m . , $ 2 9 . 5 0 . N O V. 6 : C a m e ro n C a r p e n t e r. Wa l t o n A r t s C e n t e r, 7 : 3 0 p . m . , $10-$25. N O V. 6 : S t o n e y L a R u e . G e o rg e ’s Majestic Lounge, 9 p.m., $15. N O V. 1 3 : G a l a c t i c . G e o rg e ’s M a jestic Lounge, 9 p.m., $20. N O V. 1 4 : J a k e S h i m a b u k u ro . Wa l t o n A r t s C e n t e r, 8 p . m . , $ 1 0 - $ 2 5 . N O V. 2 1 : T h e D a n B a n d . Wa l t o n A r t s C e n t e r, 9 p . m . , $ 1 8 - $ 3 8 . D E C . 4 : C l i n t B l a c k . Wa l t o n A r t s C e n t e r, 7 p . m . , $ 3 2 - $ 6 2 .

T H E AT E R O C T. 1 6 - N O V. 2 : “ P ro o f . ” T h e a t re S q u a re d , 7 : 3 0 p . m . T h u . - S a t . , 2 p.m. Sat.-Sun. $15-$45. O C T. 1 6 : “ T h e A d v e n t u re s o f R o b i n H o o d . ” Wa l t o n A r t s C e n t e r,

7 p.m., $10-$20. O C T. 2 1 - 2 6 : “ N i c e Wo r k I f Yo u C a n G e t I t . ” Wa l t o n A r t s C e n t e r, 7 p.m. O C T. 3 1 : “ T h e R o c k y H o r ro r P i c t u re S h o w. ” Wa l t o n A r t s C e n t e r, 8 p.m., $13. N O V. 1 : “ P ro o f . ” Wa l t o n A r t s C e n t e r, 2 a n d 7 : 3 0 p . m . , $ 3 0 - $ 4 0 . N O V. 2 5 - 2 6 : “ E l f . ” Wa l t o n A r t s C e n t e r, 7 p . m . , $ 3 6 - $ 7 2 . N O V. 2 6 - D E C . 2 1 : “ A ro u n d t h e Wo r l d i n 8 0 D a y s . ” T h e a t re S q u a re d , 7 : 3 0 p . m . We d . Sat., 2 p.m. Sat.-Sun., 7 p.m. Sun. $15-$34. D E C . 1 9 - 2 1 : “ T h e N u t c r a c k e r. ” Wa l t o n A r t s C e n t e r, 2 p . m . a n d 7 p.m., $33-$47.

OCT. 10-19: Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. Film screenings, filmmakers, workshops, panel discussions and other events. The Arlington Hotel and Low Key Arts, $20-$200. OCT. 23-26: Hot Springs Horror Film Festival. Film screenings, panel discussions, Q&A sessions and awards at various venues and times, $25-$100.

M O U N TA I N V I E W MUSIC O C T. 1 1 : R i c k y S k a g g s . O z a r k F o l k Center State Park. $40.

OZARK MUSIC O C T. 1 6 - 1 8 : Yo n d e r M o u n t a i n S t r i n g B a n d ’s H a r v e s t M u s i c F e s t i val. Dozens of bands performing. Mulberry Mountain, $75-$145.

ROGERS MUSIC O C T. 5 : S a n t a n a . Wa l m a r t A M P, 7 p.m., $39-$129. O C T. 9 : F o s t e r t h e P e o p l e , F r i t z a n d t h e Ta n t r u m s . Wa l m a r t A M P, 8 p.m., $32.

V I S UA L A R TS N O V. 3 - D E C . 5 : “ A d o r n e d , ” w o r k b y J i l l W i s s m i l l e r, L a u re n K a l m a n and Jon Eric Riis. UA Fine Arts G a l l e r y.

FORT SMITH V I S UA L A R TS O C T. 2 : “ A n A m e r i c a n i n Ve n i c e : James McNeill Whistler and His L e g a c y. ” F o r t S m i t h R e g i o n a l A r t Museum.

HELENA O C T. 8 - 1 1 : K i n g B i s c u i t B l u e s F e s t i v a l . W i t h S o n n y B u rg e s s , B o b b y R u s h , G u i t a r S h o r t y, D e l b e r t McClinton, James Cotton and m o re . Va r i o u s v e n u e s , d o w n t o w n Helena, $50.

H OT S P R I N G S MUSIC O C T. 3 : T h e K i n k y F i n g e r s , K e v i n K e rby. Maxine’s, free. OCT. 3-5: Hot Water Hills Music and Arts Festival. Featuring art and live music by Amasa Hines, Kevin Kerby, Swampbird, Mandy McBryde and many more. Downtown Hot Springs, $10. OCT. 4: Gringo Star, Reece Sullivan. Maxine’s, $5. OCT. 9: 38 Special. Oaklawn Park, 7 p.m., $30-$40. OCT. 10: Goddamn Gallows, Zach and Big Papa Binns. Maxine’s, $10. OCT. 11: The Casual Pleasures, Landrest, Switchblade Razors. Maxine’s, $5. OCT. 18: Adam Faucett and The Tall Grass, Bo and The Locomotive, Jordan Morgan Lansdowne. Maxine’s, $7. OCT. 25: John Paul Keith, Tyrannosaurus Chicken. Maxine’s, $7. OCT. 30: The Federalis, Jacob Furr. Maxine’s, free. OCT. 31: Fart Resistor, Thelma and The Sleaze, Ginsu W ives, Hamberguesa. Maxine’s, $10. NOV. 7: The Jam Messengers, Bloodless Cooties. Maxine’s, $5. NOV. 8: Otis The Destroyer. Maxine’s, free. NOV. 15: Iron Tongue, Mothwind, Peckerwolf. Maxine’s, $5.

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— the average achievement improvement over a year is three grade levels. That doesn’t mean students come up to the grade level they should be in — but it’s big step. The AJATC school, which is part of the Arkansas Department of Education and uses the Common Core curriculum, is the pilot school for the implementation of A+; if it shows success, Smith said, it might be implemented at the five other schools DYS operates for children in the juvenile system. The AJATC school is “like a school ‘out there,’ a real public school,” Long said, with the math and science club, a newspaper, a AMY MEJIA: A+ has “energized” Alexander campus. choir, a drill team and a farm with plans for chickLittle Rock. A+ “sounded to me like ens and an orchard already planted. Long something our students would bensaid AJATC provides a “good foundaefit from. Our students are artistic and tion” for kids going back to their free they are kinesthetic learners — they world schools. Forty to 60 percent of the kids at learn by doing,” Smith said. “If they’d AJATC need special help with math. had this in my day, I might have been This year, students in the basic math able to learn algebra.” The A+ model requires an 85 perclass learned to read graphs by crecent buy-in among teachers at schools ating their own, assigning numerical that adopt it. That’s because A+ can values to their personal characteristics dramatically change a way a teacher (far more interesting than abstract numbers), thus creating “personalteaches. At Alexander, 100 percent of the teachers wanted to try it. Mejia ity assessments.” Students studying said she will assess the program’s sucMesopotamia in history class inscribed cess by measuring the year’s gains in letters from Sumerian alphabet into academics and student engagement plaster and created three-dimensional against the year previous. pyramids. Mejia proudly wears a twoBecause the school is in a condimensional pyramid made for her to trolled situation that provides conwear by a student; she was thrilled that sistency — “they get three meals a the student took the class exercise a step farther by creating something of day here, they get their medications her own from the lesson. here,” Mejia said by way of example

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BIG PIC, CONT. In an English class, students are making origami bears and boats and other objects referred to in the book they’re reading, “Touching Spirit Bear,” about a juvenile delinquent whose life is changed by a year he spends on an island in British Columbia. Teacher Catherine Blocker was showing them a video on a related subject when a reporter visited. Later, though a couple of students had their heads on their desks, three girls were eagerly doing origami (which also introduces math concepts) and talking about the book. Blocker’s always used supplemented reading with activity in her classes: “It gets the kids interested. … They don’t want to be here. They don’t want to be in school. And they don’t want to be in English class. … I always try to do what I can” to reach them. Arkansas Consolidated High School has been accredited for two years. “That’s part of what I was tasked to do” when he was hired, Smith said, “getting the curriculum up to speed and the building process and technology.” Thanks to stimulus funds, each campus has either a new schoolhouse or an updated one. The AJATC campus is the only one behind a fence; its 100 residents have been adjudicated for treatment based on all manner of crime, but Mejia stressed that the campus “is a treatment center, not a detention center.” Which school the students in the care of DYS are sent to is determined on individual needs; the school at Lewisville, in Southwest Arkansas, has a vocational focus with a large greenhouse and small engine repair shop; kids at Alexander are often in need of special education. Students who have their high school diplomas or GED attend career-focused classes and participate in on-the-job training in the World of Work program.

The big shift for me has been moving from teaching and working with traditional systems to developing my own work, and that’s my new passion. I love the Mayan classes that I teach. But there’s something about developing something that’s your own that you know from the inside out that I never have to worry about, “Did I say it right? Did I get it right?” Because I know. I just know. My whole life, people have given me seashells. That was my dream as a child; I wanted a seashell collection. And my favorite thing to play with was this seashell collection that a neighbor gave us. And then my whole life people have always given me jewelry and told me, “I don’t know why I’m giving you this shell, but I just feel like it’s yours,” and that’s happened for 50 years. I had this jar of seashells, this apothecary jar of seashells next to my bed. It was the first thing I’d see when I woke up in the morning, and it was the last thing I’d see when I went to bed. But I’d get lost in it. So then I figured out I could work with seashells and use them to teach people how to tap into that energy. I use the shells as visual tools. Each spiral has a different vibration. We can hear it. We can listen to it and hear a different harmonic frequency. So I do a thing with people’s hands where I stretch them into all those different spirals and I put it — it’s like their hands become that frequency so they can use it on their bodies however they want. I don’t understand how it works, I truly don’t. I just know that it does. And we know as children that, when somebody falls down on the playground, we run and we put our hand on our friend who just skinned their knee. It was such a natural instinct. Some part of us understands that if we take our hand and we put it there, they feel better.

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QUINTESSENTIAL DISFARMER: One of the iconic photographs of the late artist who is the subject of a play.

Behind the camera The strange case of Arkansas photographer Disfarmer, subject of a new play opening this weekend. BY WERNER TRIESCHMANN

he list of Arkansas artists who in the last 50 years have generated great amounts of attention and interest from the world beyond our borders is short — start, of course, with Johnny Cash and then slide (or is that jump?) over to Louis Jordan, and perhaps stop to ponder and grin at the great work of novelist Charles Portis. An underdog that absolutely belongs on this list is the late, eccentric Heber Springs portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer, who today has become something of a cottage industry. Disfarmer is the subject of a documentary, “Disfarmer: A Portrait of America,” released in 2010. Guitarist Bill Frissell released an album called “Disfarmer” in 2009 and, in the subsequent tour to support the record, played in front of projections of blown-up Disfarmer photos. Perhaps strangest of all, also in 2009, New York City was home to a well-regarded stage biography of Disfarmer performed entirely by puppets. This week I add to Disfarmerania with my own contribution — a play 54

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titled, not-surprisingly, “Disfarmer,” debuting in this weekend’s ACANSA Arts Festival with performances at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Argenta Community Theater. The play, directed by The Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s producing artistic director, Bob Hupp, and featuring Arkansas’s own Natalie Canerday, has been in the works for quite a while. It began some years ago as a commission from Fayetteville’s dynamic TheatreSquared company. The group asked if I had a play about an Arkansas subject. I didn’t, but because I am a desperate and craven playwright, I said yes anyway. At the time, my knowledge of Disfarmer was barely more than minimal. In 2005 I had written a feature story in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on how two New York City galleries were buying up original Disfarmer prints from Heber Spring families, so I had a surface understanding when I started the play, but I wasn’t aware of how little I really knew.

*** The art of Disfarmer consists of the thousands — possibly tens of thousands — of black-and-white portraits he made in his lifetime (1882-1959). Art critics are attracted to this work because of its break from the conventional portrait photography of his day. A quick glance at the photos reveals his unique approach. Disfarmer did not ask his subjects to pose stiff as statues or even to smile. The trappings of a common portrait photo — a painted backdrop or table decorated with an ostentatious bouquet of flowers — are not found in his shots. Instead, the citizens of Heber Springs and neighboring communities who paid a quarter or less for a photograph are captured in front of either a stark black backdrop or an odd white backdrop broken up by two black lines. Disfarmer only used natural light for his photos — his studio in downtown Heber Springs (which has since been demolished and replaced with a parking lot) had a specially designed skylight to make maximum use of northern sunlight. This singular approach allowed him to shoot his subjects in a way that stripped them of any pretense or artifice. Critics and regular viewers alike see the rural America of the Great Depression and pre-World War II years in these portraits. This, of course, adds to their value and only increases our desire to know more about the curious man who made them.

Disfarmer was born in Indiana in 1882 with the given name of Michael Meyer. He then moved with his family to Stuttgart, and eventually to a farm outside Heber Springs. Meyer’s early and clearly avid interest in the burgeoning field of photography certainly set him apart from his family members (who were primarily farmers), not to mention the rest of the citizens living in and around Cleburne County. That’s not to say portrait photography was an unusual activity in the early to mid-1900s — American towns, big and small, were filled with shutterbugs willing to snap mementos for a small fee. However, even if he’d never taken a photograph, Disfarmer would have been an unusual figure in the community where he lived and worked. The tag “recluse” readily applies, as the man never married and apparently didn’t take part in the various church and community gatherings that otherwise held together the small town of Heber Springs. Then there is the matter of the name change. After the death of his mother, Michael Meyer went to court to change his name to Disfarmer. This caught the attention of the local paper, which noted that Meyer wanted the change because he believed that when he was a baby he was picked up from his original family by a tornado and dropped on the Meyers’ doorstep. It’s believed that taking on the new moniker was a decidedly independent if not outright unhinged way for the photographer to distance himself from his farming roots. It is only thanks to a series of improbable circumstances that the legend and art of Disfarmer were not lost to history following his death in 1959. The contents of his photography studio, which also served as his apartment and included thousands of glass plate negatives, were purchased for five dollars in a bank auction after his death. In 1973, the prints made off the plates ran in Heber Springs’ “The Arkansas Sun,” a paper edited by Peter Miller (yes, the ubiquitous Little Rock lawyer). Miller, who happened to have an interest in photography, then sent a packet of Disfarmer photos to Julia Scully, an editor at

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A&E NEWS Modern Photography magazine. Despite having to sift through an avalanche of material, Scully was captivated by the work and partnered with Miller to exhibit and then publish the first book of Disfarmer photographs. The year was 1976, and the stark black-and-white photographs were instantly hailed as a treasure trove of lost American art. The story goes quiet for several years as it was believed that the photos produced from the glass plates were all that remained of Disfarmer’s work. Flash forward to 2004, when New York photography collector Michael Mattis is alerted to the existence of (and then promptly buys) 50 original Disfarmer photographs from a family that’s moved out of Heber Springs. This kick-starts the second Disfarmer frenzy, as Mattis and another New York collector scramble to find and purchase as many prints as they can. They recruit Heber Springs residents to go door-to-door offering to buy any originals they find. Remarkably, this works, as Disfarmer prints were stuffed away in old photo albums and stored in the attics of families all over the city. In 2005, two New York City galleries simultaneously hold exhibits of these newly recovered photographs. As they did in 1976, the press and art experts come out of the woodwork to hail the work of the once obscure Arkansas photographer. This recent golden kiss of the art market adds an almost irresistible allure to Disfarmer’s already mesmerizing life. My play is my own fictional take on the story, focusing on his life and on the 2005 treasure hunt for original prints. I will, of course, be excited to see actors attempt to illuminate what I have come to know of the artist and the emotions stirred up by his work. I’m sure I won’t be the last writer to try to capture this seemingly endlessly fascinating Arkansas tale. Tickets to “Disfarmer” are $10 for students, $30 for regular tickets, $50 for VIP tickets (dinner before the performance Sept. 25 only. Go to acansaartsfestival.org to purchase. See more ACANSA events on page 58.)

LARRY “GOOSE” GARRISON, the longtime Little Rock bar owner known for rebuilding White Water Tavern three times after three separate fires nearly destroyed it, died Saturday, Sept. 20. He was 63. “People who don’t know me call me Larry,” Garrison told the Times in 2011 in an oral history of White Water Tavern. “I got my nickname from a goose hunting experience. I killed some tame geese on a farm. I’m not proud of it — it was scounderlous.” Garrison owned White Water Tavern from 1979 until 2007, when he began leasing the building to current owners Matt White and Sean Hughes. Even after he wasn’t involved in the day-today of the business, he remained “the heart and soul of the place and our best buddy,” White said. In 1977, Garrison and David Corriveau opened Slick Willy’s World of Entertainment in Little Rock Union Station. It advertised “pool, shuffleboard, snooker, pinball, darts, chess, foosball, suds, checkers, miniature golf, air hockey, backgammon” and more in a 1977 Arkansas Times. Garrison sold his interest in Slick Willy’s in 1979 and purchased a stake in White Water Tavern. (A few years later, Corriveau and James “Buster” Corley, owner of the bar Buster’s, next door to Slick Willy’s, founded Dave & Buster’s in Dallas). A month after Garrison bought into White Water Tavern, arsonist Ron O’Neal burned it down. It took nearly two years to rebuild and reopen, during which time Garrison bought out his partners. In 1982, O’Neal burned the bar down again. Later in the ’90s, a drunk motorcycle rider ran into the back of the bar and busted a gas line, which sparked yet another fire that shut the bar for a long stretch. Garrison was beloved in the Arkansas music community. He championed bands from the Cate Brothers to Burger to The Salty Dogs. In the early 2000s, he opened his stage to local musicians of all genres who didn’t get opportunities to play at other venues. “I thought they were the weirdest and most fucked up people in the world until I got to know them, and shit, I loved them. I loved them,” he said in the 2011 interview of the musicians who started playing the bar during that era. A funeral service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, at RollerOwens Funeral Home Chapel, 5509 JFK Blvd. in North Little Rock. A memorial concert is planned for Oct. 11 at White Water Tavern.

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St. Paul and the Broken Bones’ Paul Janeway had given up on music, then opportunity knocked. BY BRIAN PALMER

t wasn’t long ago that Paul Janeway, who fronts the soul band St. Paul and the Broken Bones, was pursuing a very different career path. “When this started up I actually wasn’t singing — I was in accounting school,” he says. “I was trying to get my accounting degree while working parttime as a bank teller, so it was kind of nuts for me.” Janeway had previously played in a band with Bones’ bassist Jesse Phillips, and once that group broke up the two went their separate ways. For a while, music seemed like a pipe dream that neither person could afford to pursue. Phillips considered giving up, and Janeway actually did. “I was done with music, to be honest with you, because in my eyes, it was like, you’ve got one chance to get hit by lightning and be in a fairly successful band,” Janeway says. “I started thinking, ‘I’ve got to give up on this. It isn’t going to happen.’ That’s the truth. I just gave up.” But as Janeway notes, Phillips wasn’t quite ready to give up on a professional 56

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music career, and he had an idea that he thought would attract Janeway as well. So he called him up and gave him his pitch. Soon after, lightning struck. “He calls me up and says, ‘Why don’t you come in, I’ll write songs geared more towards your voice, and we’ll see what happens?’” Janeway recalls. “And we went in there and did ‘Broken Bones and Pocket Change,’ and then I went, ‘Uh oh. I have to pursue this,’ because there was something in me that would say, ‘You can’t do that,’ whenever I would think about giving up.” So the band quickly self-released a debut EP in 2013, “Greetings from St. Paul and the Broken Bones,” and followed this up with their Single Lock Records debut EP later that year, “St. Paul and the Broken Bones — Live and in Person.” And thus the groundswell of support for the Birmingham, Ala., band started, and once things got rolling, they didn’t slow down. The band released its first full-length album, “Half the City,” back in February, and it debuted at No. 62 on Billboard’s Top

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200 before peaking at No. 56. The record received raves from mainstream media, and they have since toured Europe and throughout North America in support of the album. Not bad for a group that was all but started on a whim. “I think we’re going to end up playing about 200 shows this year,” Janeway says in amazement. “It’s hard for me to fathom. People just seem to really like our music a lot.” “City” features 12 tracks of earth-moving, spell-binding soul. Janeway’s vocals on tracks like “I’m Torn Up” fuse the deep power of John Popper with the smoothness of Allen Stone, and a song like “Don’t Mean a Thing” plays at times like a modern send-up of the Righteous Brothers’ “Unchained Melody.” But they also show off their funky side on such numbers as “Like a Mighty River” and demonstrate a keen sense of rhythm and melody. All of this is done so well that you would probably be surprised to know that the band had only been together a handful of months when the songs for “City” were recorded. “It ain’t like I’ve been doing this professionally for 20 years, you know?” Janeway says, laughing again. “That was the first time I’d ever done it on that kind of level.” Janeway speaks in an easy-going, sometimes self-effacing manner that makes him instantly likeable. The way he carries himself bleeds into the band’s good-time vibe that is hard not to like. It is little wonder why the band’s fans enjoy Janeway and his music so much. He is not a prima donna rock star who thinks he deserves anything; quite the contrary, he views the whole situation with a sense of humor.

“I know I’m a white guy singing soul music,” he says with a laugh, “but it is part of my background. One thing I can say is people like authenticity, and I think that is something that is just true to our region, so that’s really worked in our favor.” But he also views “City” as a way to grow as an artist, because despite all the success it has brought to him and the band, he knows there are ways it could have been improved upon. “What I like about the record is there’s bumps and bruises in it,” he says. “The record breathes. I thought it was going to be the last time I ever recorded something like that, so I just went fullbore. I just let it rip. But there are parts of the record, listening now, where I go, “Ugh, why did I do that? Oh man, that’s too high or too gravelly,” so I’ve learned a little more about nuance.” Janeway may have learned a thing or two about reining in his performances a bit, but his passion for music remains unbridled. In fact, if anything, he is keenly aware that it could lead to marital problems down the road if he isn’t careful. “I’m getting married in December, and my fiancee always tell me, ‘I am never worried about you cheating on me with some broad; what I am worried about is you falling in love with music and never talking to me again,’” he says. “And music is kind of that thing for me. I live, eat and breathe it. There’s something about it that moves me like nothing else.” St. Paul and the Broken Bones will perform from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday at South on Main as part of the ACANSA Arts Festival. The event is sold out, though tickets may be available beginning at 9 p.m. Saturday at South on Main.

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BY LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK AND WILL STEPHENSON

THURSDAY 9/25-SUNDAY 9/28

ACANSA ARTS FESTIVAL

Various venues, prices. acansaartsfestival.org.

You’ve read elsewhere in the Times’ Entertainment section about ACANSA events “Disfarmer,” Werner Trieschmann’s play at the Argenta Community Theater, and musicians St. Paul and the Broken Bones at South on Main. (Disfarmer runs 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; St. Paul, which performs at 9 p.m. Saturday, is sold out.) But there’s more to the festival: Art events, dance, puppetry, singing, lunchtime talks and music by the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. On Thursday, Sept. 25, Anita Davis will discuss art displayed at the Bernice Garden in the garden, Daisy Bates and Main Street, at noon. That evening, the

ACANSA Gallery Hop (with trolley transport) will include stops at 14 galleries in Little Rock and North Little Rock from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. (see the Arts listings for details). There will be refreshments at the galleries; tickets are $20. International performer Hector Olivera will perform on his touring organ, “The King,” at Trinity United Methodist Church, 1101 N. Mississippi Ave., from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.; tickets are $20 (students $10). Mime Bill Bowers tells the story of his life and career at the Scottish Rite Temple Auditorium from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.; tickets are $20 (students $10). At noon Friday, UALR history professor Dr. Thomas E. Kaiser will discuss the exhibit “The Wartime Escape: Margret and H.A. Rey’s Journey from France” at noon at the Laman Public Library Argenta Branch, 420 Main St., North Little Rock.

Friday night, rock and R&B trio Bat-Or Kalo — bassist Mack McKinney, drummer Erick Worrell and Kalo — will perform at Vino’s from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. The Street Corner Symphony a capella group from Nashville will sing at the Connor Performing Arts Center at Pulaski Academy at 7 p.m.; tickets are $20 (students $10). Artists in the Park at MacArthur Park, with artist booths, a quick draw competition, live music and children’s events, runs from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday. The Dallas Black Dance Theatre, with a mixed repertory of modern jazz, ethnic and spiritual works, will perform from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at North Little Rock High School East; VIP tickets of $50 will include dinner with the dancers after the performance; other-

wise tickets are $20 (students $10). Phil Huber’s “Suspended Animation” puppetry show is 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Scottish Rite Temple; $50 VIP tickets include a reception with the performers; otherwise, tickets are $20. On Sunday, Ballet Arkansas and Arkansas Festival Ballet will perform in an event called “A Pointe of Chorus” at the Lucy Cabe Theater at Wildwood Park, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Musicians Finger Food will play between the ballet performances. There are $50 VIP tickets or $30 box lunch tickets available. Or you can skip the performances and join a box lunch picnic at the park from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. for $15. “Suspended Animation” repeats at 3 p.m. at the Ron Robinson Theater; tickets are $20 (students $10). LNP

FRIDAY 9/26SATURDAY 9/27

JR’S LIGHTBULB CLUB 25th ANNIVERSARY

10 p.m. JR’s Lightbulb Club, Fayetteville. Free.

EMOTIONALISM: The Avett Brothers will be at the Walmart AMP 8 p.m. Friday, $32-$53.50.

FRIDAY 9/26

THE AVETT BROTHERS

8 p.m. Walmart AMP. $32-$53.50.

The Avett Brothers are actually brothers, Scott and Seth, plus some other non-family, but the most interesting member of the group might be their manager, a tennis pro turned venture capitalist named Dolphus Ramseur. “While working at country clubs I 58

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learned the gift of gab,” Ramseur said, “and this has been a big benefit in the music business.” It’s Ramseur who spent hundreds of thousands in old-school marketing money to make the unknown North Carolina indie-folk band a widely known North Carolina indie-folk group. Since then, the group has performed with Bob Dylan, recorded with Rick

Rubin and been nominated for multiple Grammys. And Ramseur apparently did it without even signing a contract. “I know a lot of people think I’m crazy not to have a contract with the Brothers,” he told Billboard a few years ago. “But as my mother says, you’re only as good as the person signing the piece of paper.” WS

The JR in JR’s Lightbulb Club is Jimmy Rapert, who opened the Fayetteville venue, which plays an essential role in the city’s music scene, in September 1989. The rest of the name came from the bleakness of the space prior to its renovation, most of which Rapert handled himself. “When we first took over the place, we were downstairs and there weren’t any light fixtures,” Rapert recently told the Fayetteville Flyer. “There were just bulbs hanging down there from the ceiling. I think that’s where the name came from.” He goes on to say, “I never really liked it, to be honest.” This weekend, the space will celebrate its 25th anniversary with two consecutive nights of free local music, including a cross section of the state’s better emerging garage punk and indie rock bands. Friday’s showcase will feature The Good Fear, High Magic, The Airplanes and Family History, and Saturday’s will be May the Peace of the Sea Be With You, Doctor Nod, Pagiins and Monsterheart. WS

IN BRIEF

THURSDAY 9/25

SUNDAY 9/28

DR. JOHN AND THE NITETRIPPERS

7 p.m. Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville. $29-$59.

Dr. Malcolm John Rebennack, only a doctor since May of last year, when he received an honorary doctorate from Tulane University, was born and raised in New Orleans,

where he became addicted to heroin in high school and gave up guitar for piano after getting shot in the left hand trying to protect a bandmate. He moved to Los Angeles in the early ’60s and became a session musician, playing behind Sonny and Cher, Canned Heat and Frank Zappa, and inventing the voodoo-inflected psych-rock persona he called “Dr.

John, The Night Tripper.” As a solo artist, he’s made hit records and classic records and some bad records. He played in The Band’s “Last Waltz,” made a commercial jingle for Popeye’s Chicken, inspired a Muppet, toured with Ringo Starr. He invented a cartoon and eventually became the cartoon, and not too many people can say that. WS

Drink at the zoo from 6-9 p.m. at Zoo Brew, with live music by Jeff Coleman and the Feeders and Kevin Kerby and food trucks like Southern Gourmasian and Waffle Wagon, $25. The Arkansas Literary Festival and Arkansas Sounds are coming together to present “Perks, Missives and Lux Melancholia,” featuring a screening of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and a concert by Scoop Slone and The Infinite at Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., free. Comedian Steve Hirst will be at the Loony Bin through Saturday, Sept. 27, 7:30 p.m. Thu., $7; 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Fri-Sat., $10. KABF 88.3’s Shoog Radio will host locals The Casual Pleasures and Pockets at the Afterthought, 9 p.m., $5. Hot Springs roots rock band Moonshine Mafia will be at The Joint. El Paso folk-rock group The Dirty River Boys will be at Stickyz, 9 p.m., $10.

FRIDAY 9/26

THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE: “The 78 Project” will be screened at the Ron Robinson Theater 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, $10.

Arkansas Gospel Music Heritage Month will present the All-State Legends Concert, featuring The Eternal Light Singers, The Selvy Singers and the Gatewood Brothers, at Antioch Baptist Church, 7 p.m. Goatwhore, Napalm Christ, Ash of Cedars and Ozark Shaman will be at Revolution, 9 p.m., $10 adv., $13 day of. Tragikly White Band will be at Stickyz, 9:30 p.m., $10, and Mulehead will be at White Water Tavern with Swampbird, 10 p.m., $7.

TUESDAY 9/30

“THE 78 PROJECT MOVIE”

7:30 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater. $10.

Lavinia Jones Wright and Alex Steyermark, the producers and founders of The 78 Project, started the organization in the shadow of Alan Lomax, the folklorist and ethnomusicologist who traveled the country in the 1930s and ’40s recording performances by artists like Lead Belly, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters and countless others for the Library of Congress. Like

SATURDAY 9/27 Lomax, Wright and Steyermark went around the country cutting records by musicians they admired — in their case, a varied lineup including Rosanne Cash, Loudon Wainwright III, Richard Thompson, Justin Townes Earle, The Secret Sisters, John Paul Keith and more. Also like Lomax, they recorded them on a circa-1930s Presto direct-to-acetate recorder, which works on 78 rpm lacquer discs. It’s a cultural collision, then, “in which we discover,” as the author William Gibson wrote

of the project for the Oxford American, “that not only are dead media platforms not dead at all, but that they can be gateways into their own peculiarly new universes of creativity.” The movie, which documents their journey, will be presented by the Oxford American, and OA associate editor Maxwell George will lead a Q&A with the filmmakers after the screening. In keeping with the spirit of the project, the magazine’s also invited Adam Faucett to record a 78 live onstage. WS

ing with Kanye, or touring with Gaga.” This could very well be her lane as well: She’s had a song featured on the TV show “Nashville,” her most recent single was premiered by Entertainment Weekly, and she hasn’t even released an album yet. Also, her stuff is catchy

and ambitiously produced. She makes pop songs that just don’t happen to be famous yet, with anthemic choruses, uplifiting string arrangements and drum machines, all wrapped in professional gleam and gloss. Better to catch her now, then, when her shows only cost $8. WS

WEDNESDAY 10/1

ARUM RAE

8 p.m. Juanita’s. $8.

Everything so far written about Arum Rae notes that she attended Berklee College of Music. Her fellow classmates, as she recently told Vice, are currently, “either playing in the Roots, produc-

The Big Dam Bridge 100 Cycling Tour will begin at 7 a.m. at La Harpe behind the Statehouse Convention Center. The After Party will be at Stickyz, a Bike Cruisade fundraiser with live music by The Funkanites, 9 p.m., $10. Country singer Suzy Bogguss will be at the Ron Robinson Theater at 7 p.m., $25. The UCA Creative Writing program’s journal, Toad Suck Review, will hold a reading at The Locals in Conway, 7 p.m. The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will perform at Maumelle High School’s Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m. (and at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28), $19-$58. One Love’s “Jamaica Me Crazy” Reggae Show will feature Butterfly, Michael Walker and Tricia Reed at Revolution, 8 p.m., $10 adv., $12 day of. Ed Bowman and the Rock City Players will be at Afterthought, 9 p.m. Alabama Christian rock singer-songwriter Mac Powell will be at Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $15. Vino’s will host metal groups Marilyn Burns, Dose and After the Filth, 9 p.m., $5. www.arktimes.com

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AFTER DARK Tragikly White Band. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $10. 107 Commerce St. 501-3727707. www.stickyz.com.

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COMEDY

The Main Thing’s “Whatshisname?”. The Joint, through Oct. 25: 8 p.m., $20. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com. Steve Hirst. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., $10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-2285555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 25

MUSIC

The Casual Pleasures, Pockets. Presented by Shoog Radio. Afterthought Bistro & Bar. Shoog Radio Presents. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 9 p.m., $5. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com. Cypress Creek Park Fall Bluegrass Festival. Cypress Creek Park, through Sept. 27. Cypress Creek Avenue, Adona. 501-662-4918. www. cypresscreekpark.com/. The Dirty River Boys. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $10. 107 Commerce St. 501-3727707. www.stickyz.com. The Guitar Ripper Series. With Ted Ludwig, Stephen Neeper, Steve Struthers, Charles Woods, Tyndall Jackson and more. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $12 adv., $15 day of. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.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. Krush Thursdays with DJ Kavaleer. Club Climax, free before 11 p.m. 824 W. Capitol. 501-554-3437. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Marriage. Maxine’s, free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. www.maxinespub.com. Moonshine Mafia. The Joint. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.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. www.senortequila.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 7:30 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG.

COMEDY

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

EVENTS

ACANSA Arts Festival. With art events, theater and live music, including performances by St. Paul and the Broken Bones and the Arkansas Chamber Singers, photographs by Disfarmer (and a new production by playwright Werner Trieschmann based on the photographer’s life) and more. Little Rock, various locations, through Sept. 28, $250-$350. Markham Street. Business After Hours. The Promenade at Chenal, 5 p.m., $5. 17711 Chenal Parkway. 501-821-5552. chenalshopping.com. Geocaching. The Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 8:30 a.m. 602 President Clinton Ave. 501-907-0636. www.centralarkansas60

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DANCE

SHOOG RADIO PRESENTS: The Casual Pleasures and Pockets will be at the Afterthought 9 p.m. Thursday, $5. naturecenter.com. Zoo Brew 2014. Little Rock Zoo, 6 p.m., $25. 1 Jonesboro Drive. 501-666-2406. www.littlerockzoo.com.

FILM

“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and Scoop Slone and the Infinite. “Perks, Missives and Lux Melancholia,” a collaboration of the Arkansas Literary Festival and Arkansas Sounds. Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., free. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals.lib.ar.us/ron-robinsontheater.aspx. Reel Civil Rights Film Festival. Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 6 p.m. 501 W. 9th St. 501-6833593. www.mosaictemplarscenter.com.

BENEFITS

The Next Course. An instructional culinary event hosted by the chefs of the Clinton Presidential Center. William J. Clinton Presidential Library, 6 p.m., $150. 1200 Clinton Avenue. 501-374-4242. www.clintonlibrary.gov. A Vintage Affair for MS. An auction and wine tasting event to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Next Level Events, 6:30 p.m., $100. 1400 W. Markham St. 501-376-9746. www. nextleveleventsinc.com.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 26

MUSIC

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

The Avett Brothers. Walmart AMP, 8 p.m., $32$53.50. 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. 479443-5600. www.arkansasmusicpavilion.com. Bat-Or Kalo. Part of the ACANSA festival. Vino’s, 9 p.m., $20. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www. vinosbrewpub.com. Club Nights at 1620 Savoy. Dance night, with DJs, drink specials and bar menu, until 2 a.m. 1620 Savoy, 10 p.m. 1620 Market St. 501-221-1620. www.1620savoy.com. Cypress Creek Park Fall Bluegrass Festival. Cypress Creek Park. Cypress Creek Avenue, Adona. 501-662-4918. www.cypresscreekpark. com/. Doctor Nod, The Good Fear, Family History, High Magic. JR’s 25th Anniversary Weekend The Lightbulb Club, 10 p.m. 21 N. Block Ave., Fayetteville. 479-444-6100. Goatwhore, Napalm Christ, Ash of Cedars, Ozark Shaman. Revolution, 9 p.m., $10 adv., $13 day of. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Mulehead. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $7. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com. Route 66. Agora Conference and Special Event Center, 6:30 p.m., $5. 705 E. Siebenmorgan, Conway. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG.

Ballroom Dancing. Free lessons begin at 7 p.m. Bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 8-11 p.m., $7-$13. 12th & Cleveland streets. 501-2217568. www.blsdance.org. Contra Dance. Park Hill Presbyterian Church, first and third Friday of every month, 7:30 p.m.; fourth Friday of every month, 7:30 p.m., $5. 3520 JFK Blvd., NLR. arkansascountrydance.org. “Salsa Night.” Begins with a one-hour salsa lesson. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $8. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.littlerocksalsa.com.

EVENTS

ACANSA Arts Festival. See Sep. 25. Geocaching. The Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 8:30 a.m. 602 President Clinton Ave. 501-907-0636. www.centralarkansasnaturecenter.com. LGBTQ/SGL weekly meeting. Diverse Youth for Social Change is a group for LGBTQ/SGL and straight ally youth and young adults age 14 to 23. For more information, call 244-9690 or search “DYSC” on Facebook. LGBTQ/SGL Youth and Young Adult Group, 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St. Mya’s Madams Drag Show. Maxine’s, $7. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. www.maxinespub.com.

POETRY

Cowboy Poetry. Ozark Folk Center State Park, 2 p.m., free. 1032 Park Ave., Mountain View.

KIDS

“Go, Dog! Go!.” Arkansas Arts Center, through Oct. 5: 7 p.m., $10-$12.50. 501 E. 9th St. 501-3724000. www.arkarts.com.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 27

MUSIC

AGMHM Grand Finale. Part of Arkansas Gospel Music Heritage Month, with Brian Cole, Odis H. Richmond, Jr. and Anitta Smith. The Summit Church, 3 p.m. 6600 Crystal Hill Road, NLR. American Werewolf Academy. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www. whitewatertavern.com. Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. Maumelle High School, Sept. 27, 7:30 p.m.; Sept. 28, 3 p.m., $19$58. 100 Victory Drive. 501-666-1761. Butterly, Michael Walker, Tricia Reed. Revolution, 8 p.m., $10 adv., $12 day of. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com. Club Nights at 1620 Savoy. See Sep. 26. Cypress Creek Park Fall Bluegrass Festival. Cypress Creek Park. Cypress Creek Avenue, Adona. 501-662-4918. www.cypresscreekpark. com/. Dinosaur Feathers, Ghost Bones, Glittercore. Maxine’s, $5. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. www. maxinespub.com. K.I.S.S. Saturdays. Featuring DJ Silky Slim. Dress code enforced. Sway, 10 p.m. 412 Louisiana. 501-

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492-9802. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Mac Powell. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $15. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com. Marilyn Burns, Dose, After the Fifth. Vino’s, 9 p.m., $5. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com. Peace Of The Sea, Pagiins, The Airplanes, Monsterheart. JR’s 25th Anniversary Weekend. The Lightbulb Club, 10 p.m. 21 N. Block Ave., Fayetteville. 479-444-6100. 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. St. Paul and The Broken Bones. Part of the ACANSA festival. South on Main, 10 p.m., $20. 1304 Main St. 501-244-9660. southonmain.com. Suzy Bogguss. Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., $25. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals.lib.ar.us/ ron-robinson-theater.aspx. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG.

COMEDY

The Main Thing’s “Whatshisname?” The Joint, through Oct. 25: 8 p.m., $20. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com. Steve Hirst. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., $10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-2285555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

DANCE

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

EVENTS

14th Annual Sproo-Doo Model Show. Statehouse Convention Center, 8 a.m. 7 Statehouse Plaza. 40th Annual Little Rock Farmers’ Market. River Market Pavilions, through Oct. 25: 7 a.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info. ACANSA Arts Festival. See Sep. 25. Argenta Farmers Market. Argenta Farmers Market, 7 a.m. 6th and Main St., NLR. 501-8317881. www.argentaartsdistrict.org/argenta-farmers-market/. Big Dam Bridge 100. Big Dam Bridge, 6 a.m. 7600 Rebsamen Park Road. www.bigdambridge.com. Big Dam Bridge Ride After Party. A Bike Cruisade fundraiser with live music by The Funkanites. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $10. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz. com. Falun Gong meditation. Allsopp Park, 9 a.m., free. Cantrell & Cedar Hill Roads. Geocaching. The Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 8:30 a.m. 602 President Clinton Ave. 501-907-0636. www.centralarkansasnaturecenter.com. 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 Rocktoberfest 2014. A home brew and craft beer festival. War Memorial Stadium, 6 p.m., $30 adv., $35 day of. 1 Stadium Drive. 501-663-0775. Pork & Bourbon Tour. Bike tour includes bicycle,

guide, helmets and maps. Bobby’s Bike Hike, 11:30 a.m., $35-$45. 400 President Clinton Ave. 501-613-7001.

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Toad Suck Review Reading. The Locals, 7 p.m., free. 1024 Van Ronkle, Conway. 479-259-1727. www.thelocals.be.

KIDS

“Go, Dog! Go!.” Arkansas Arts Center, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., $10-$12.50. 501 E. 9th St. 501-372-4000. www.arkarts.com.

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SUNDAY, SEPT. 28

MUSIC

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. Maumelle High School, 3 p.m., $19-$58. 100 Victory Drive. 501666-1761. Dr. John and The Nite-Trippers. Walton Arts Center, 7 p.m., $29-$59. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

EVENTS

ACANSA Arts Festival. See Sep. 25. Bernice Garden Farmer’s Market. Bernice Garden, 10 a.m. 1401 S. Main St. www.thebernicegarden.org. Geocaching. The Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 8:30 a.m. 602 President Clinton Ave. 501-907-0636. www.centralarkansasnaturecenter.com.

MONDAY, SEPT. 29

MUSIC

Joshua James. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $10. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com. Kevin Kerby, Max Benson. Vino’s, 8:30 p.m., $5. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Monday Night Jazz. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 8 p.m., $5. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com. Richie Johnson. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf. com.

EVENTS

Better Community Development 10th Annual Recovery Jam. River Market Pavilions, 4 p.m., free. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www. rivermarket.info.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 30

MUSIC

Amasa Hines, The Dig. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com. Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. “Death and the Maiden” Clinton Presidential Center, 7 p.m., $23. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 370-8000. www. clintonpresidentialcenter.org. Brian and Nick. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf. com. CONTINUED ON PAGE 66

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Every person riding a bicycle or an animal, or driving any animal drawing a vehicle upon a highway, shall have all the rights and all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle, except those provisions of this act which by their nature can have no applicability.

overtaking a bicycle

The driver of a motor vehicle overtaking a bicycle proceeding in the same direction on a roadway shall exercise due care and pass to the left at a safe distance of not less than three feet (3’) and shall not again drive to the right side of the roadway until safely clear of the overtaken bicycle.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

One big night of fun, food, entertainment & tasting fine beer!

Local Live Music! and T-shirts!

Restaurants

Arkansas Ale House (Diamond Bear Beer), Cafe Bossa Nova, Cregeen’s Irish Pub, Crush Wine Bar, The Fold Botanas & Bar, Whole Hog North Little Rock, and

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