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Marko Monroe on Styling Pop Culture’s Feel-Good Goddess Lizzo As the stylist for rapper and singer Lizzo, Marko Monroe has had a front row seat to the artist’s meteoric rise to fame over the past year and a half. Along with Lizzo’s creative team, Monroe is the inventive force behind the star’s dramatic red carpet looks and bold, colorful costumes for her high-energy live performances. Monroe, a Little Rock native, is also a co-founder of House of Avalon, a group of party crafters known for turning looks at campy, tongue-in-cheek bashes they once threw at Club Sway in Little Rock and now host at Micky’s in West Hollywood. While traveling the country with Lizzo’s “Cuz I Love You Too” tour, Monroe spoke with the Arkansas Times about styling the star and the freedom of creativity.
For a shorter performance, we can go a little more extreme with what she wears, material-wise, because it’s not going to live as long. But when we’re on tour, [the outfit] has to withstand an hour-and 15-minute set. … Right now the biggest challenge is how to consider silhouettes that are different, especially in terms of shorter performances. For long-term performances, it’s more about comfort, it’s more about what looks good and sexy on her, that’s easy and that’s not hot. She’s doing full choreography, the dancers are going in so hard the entire time. I’ve seen other stars’ sets, and they’re going in hard, but in comparison, the girls are working their asses off every night on stage, including her.
How does it feel to be working with such a high-profile star for your first job in the styling industry? It’s interesting. I’m a maker of sorts, so I just kind of adapt and push forward. I consider myself an artist. But it’s been kind of weird to navigate the styling world, just because it is so established. … And I don’t even like to use that word [stylist] when I talk about myself, just because I have such a negative connotation of people moving to [Los Angeles] and wanting to be a “stylist” — it’s just cheesy, and not my cup of tea. Technically [I] am a stylist, but I’m a costume designer, I’m a creative coordinator. ... What’s cool about [Lizzo’s] creative team is that it’s all very collaborative, so I don’t really like to put labels on it. It’s where I am right now, what we’re doing. And it’s fun. We get to play. And right now, we get to play with clothes.
What has been the most fulfilling aspect of your work with Lizzo and her team? I get excited about live performances, and really about her concert stuff, when it comes to design, because that’s when real impact happens. … When people come to her live shows, they’re not on their phones, they’re actually living life. To actually be a part of something like that, where it’s a shared experience, is kind of in the same philosophy that Keith [Haring] had about bringing art to the public and making it more accessible, and reachable, and not being snooty, and not [confining] the conversation of art within the art world, but giving it to everyone. And it’s the same thing with her live performances and anything that we do in front of an audience. … When I look back at old Madonna tours, or old Janet Jackson tours, or Michael Jackson tours, [those were moments] where people had a shared experience and love of music, and that sort of vibe is high art. … That’s what really gets me excited and keeps me trekking forward and pushing myself to go further.
How does your personal relationship with Lizzo affect your ability to style her? With the growth of [our] relationship, of course, [I] have a better understanding of what she likes. I think the biggest thing I try to take into my work with her is that I just like to listen. Maybe something she casually drops in a conversation as we’re living our lives, I try to hold on to [that] and remember, and apply that when I’m designing or helping to put together the next look. … I’m just trying to be sensitive to things that come up organically, and that’s how we all are as a team. And that comes from knowing each other well, and knowing what we like and what we don’t like. At the end of the day, she wants to be sexy. She wants to be glamorous and fun. So if those things can come up in different variables, then that’s what we’ll try to do. Lizzo’s appearances already feel so ingrained in the pop culture lexicon. What are the challenges of putting together a look that you want to be memorable, but which can also keep up with her movement during live performances?
Name: Marko Monroe Hometown: Little Rock Age: 30 Instagram handle: @marko_monroe Inspirations: Keith Haring, Jean Paul Gaultier, “the original Franco Moschino,” Ann Hamilton, “pop culture in general,” Madonna, Dolly Parton and “all the greats.”
Do you have any advice for other creative people who dream of getting a larger platform for their work? Follow your intuition, and don’t box yourself into a certain creative category. If you’re creative, you’ll make ways to adapt to whatever is thrown your way. Don’t limit yourself to being one thing, because creativity isn’t one thing. It’s everything. Just play, have fun, make sure it makes you happy, laugh. Maybe I’ll just quote Kacey Musgraves: Follow your own arrow, wherever it may point, because that’s really what it is. I never thought I’d be in this position, but here I am. I’ve done everything under the sun, and I feel like if you’re a creative, you’ve got to just float with what the world and the universe gives you. … And even though it may not be exactly what you want, as long as you’re having fun while you do it in the moment, don’t judge where you are or what it is. Just keep going. — Rebekah Hall ARKANSASTIMES.COM
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“Forget It, Jake. It’s Marion County” Edition
Play at home, while making yourself a delicious meth sandwich! 1) A 19-year-old woman arrested in Hot Springs in October on a DWI charge told the arresting officers something surprising about why she might have methamphetamine in her system if she was drug tested. What was her explanation? A) As a resident of Garland County, her body naturally produces a low level of meth. B) She had recently swallowed acetone, anhydrous ammonia, lithium and a cold medicine containing ephedrine on a dare, and feared the chemicals had mixed with the acid in her stomach to create meth. C) Earlier in the evening, she’d been given “Tropical Punch Pop Rocks” by a bald man in a porkpie hat whom she knew only as Heisenberg. D) Her brother had tricked her into eating a sandwich sprinkled with meth, which she said he often did. 2) In other meth-related news, a 38-year-old woman, who already had five outstanding warrants for her arrest, caught a charge of possession of meth when she was pulled over by police in Flippin (Marion County). According to police, how did the arresting officer learn the woman was allegedly carrying the drug? A) The city’s drug dog kept humping her leg. B) It’s Marion County, man. Who ain’t carrying? C) She was wearing a backpack that was smoking and smelled like burning mothballs. D) He noticed she had fashioned a small baggie full of meth into a bow that she was wearing in her hair. 3) A recent story in the Arkansas Traveler, the student newspaper of the University of Arkansas, highlighted a new effort to unionize by a surprising group of workers in Arkansas. According to the story, what group is saying, “Union, Yes!” A) Professional union-busters for Walmart. B) The International Brotherhood of Donut Hole Makers. C) Meth cooks. D) Prostitutes, who recently banded together to form the Arkansas Sex Workers Union.
4) Before a historic October vote that expelled him from the Arkansas legislature after his no-contest plea to felony charges of failure to pay state income taxes, disgraced state Rep. Mickey Gates (R-Hot Springs) rose to ask his soon-to-be ex-colleagues to not boot him out. Which of the following was included in Gates’ speech? A) A rambling recitation of events in American history, including the Civil War, the 1957 Crisis at Central High and the Duke lacrosse rape scandal. B) He told the body “I stand before you today an innocent man,” even though he pleaded no contest to the charges he failed to pay his income taxes from 2012 to 2017. C) He likened himself to the Old Testament figure of Daniel in the lion’s den, pointing out that in that story, “conniving politicians” made false accusations against an honest man. D) All of the above. 5) A recent story in the Wall Street Journal examined the ill-fated Arkansas Works program, which required those on Medicaid to perform at least 80 hours of work a month to keep receiving their health-care benefits, with recipients summarily booted off if they failed to report enough eligible hours to the state. Which of the following were real points made in the story? A) In February 2019, only 0.4 percent of Medicaid recipients who were required to report their work for the month met the requirement and successfully reported working 80 hours or more. B) During the 10 months the program was operational, 18,164 Arkansans, including many poor and disabled people, were kicked off Medicaid, with only 32 percent of those people regaining their coverage as of this writing. C) By June 2019, one-third of Medicaid recipients in the state still didn’t know about the Arkansas Works work requirement. D) All of the above.
6) A federal judge recently ruled that a lawsuit against a rehab called Christian Alcoholics and Addicts in Recovery and Siloam Springs-based chicken company Simmons Foods can move forward. Which of the following are allegations of the lawsuit? A) That those who were sentenced to a year in the “rehab” by a drug court in lieu of jail sentences were basically used as unpaid slave labor in Simmons-owned chicken processing plants in Oklahoma. B) That those in the program were fed a diet of “daily bologna sandwiches.” C) That those in the program were constantly threatened with being sent to prison if they failed to work hard enough or got so hurt on the job they couldn’t work. D) All of the above. 7) In mid-October, the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office put out an alert that an unlikely critter had been seen lurking in Sherwood near Warden Road, with deputies warning nearby residents via Facebook to secure their pets. What was the creepy crawly? A) Pygmy Kardashian. B) Ozark GowGow. C) Lesser Trumpkin. D) A large and apparently well-fed alligator, sightings of which have been confirmed by Sherwood Animal Control.
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How much of downtown real estate should be devoted simply to parked cars? Not so much, city planners across the country write. Beside the fact that parking lots aren’t the highest use of urban property, asphalt expanses create unappealing dead zones. But, as Little Rock Planning Director Jamie Collins said recently, “Arkansas is a strong property rights state,” meaning it’s unlikely Little Rock is going to restrict surface parking except in designated historic areas. The most recent demolition to allow for more parking came this summer, when buildings at Second and Louisiana streets, including the 1931 Trip Building that featured playing card suits as architectural features, were leveled for a parking lot for Stephens Inc. employees. When the building permit came before the Planning Commission, a couple of members of the Little Rock Planning Commission noted their objections. “No one hangs out and chats around a dark parking lot at night,” commissioner Craig Berry said. The city could not provide a percentage of surface parking versus buildings. However, the pink blocks in the map at left, provided to the Arkansas Times by the Planning Department, appears to show that at least three-fourths of downtown real estate is dedicated to parking, surface and deck. The department did provide the following information from a 2017 parking inventory report: Estimated surface parking spaces downtown: 19,746. Estimated parking spaces in parking decks downtown: 7,960 Number of parking spaces on privately-owned parking lots downtown: 1,559 (verified in 2019 via aerial photos). The estimates were based on a ratio of lot size to spaces at sampled lots. Collins told the Arkansas Times that his department is seeking funding to do a downtown master plan that would address surface parking. “But the situation is that we are the state capital. We are a city that people commute to. … there’s going to be areas where there’s a need” for surface parking, he said. Department staff advised the commission in September that the parking lot proposed for Second and Louisiana streets was appropriate for the Urban Use district zoning, writing, “The property is located in the downtown area which contains a number of surface parking lots serving surrounding buildings and uses. The parking lot should be compatible with surrounding uses.” According to city zoning regulations, UU zoning “is designed to help create a compact, dense, distinguishable core area.” Collins said there have not been “official discussions” on the issue of demolishing buildings for parking lots. “There is a concern. I wouldn’t say a strong concern, as far as not allowing [demolition]. We would rather see development happen” in UU districts.” ARKANSASTIMES.COM
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Gates out; greyhounds, too
STUDY: CORPORATE TAX CUTS TO HURT STATE REVENUES A report by Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families predicts that major corporate tax cuts enacted by the 2019 legislature will cause a decline in state revenue beginning in 2022. Arkansas Advocates said the state should respond not by cutting spending, but by closing a corporate loophole that allowed Walmart alone to avoid $350 million in taxes over a period of a decade in 23 states. The report recommends that Arkansas should follow the practice of 27 states plus the District of Columbia to require corporations to combine their company and subsidiary incomes for tax purposes, which would prevent corporations from shifting profits to subsidiaries to reduce their tax burden. Cuts in the top rate of the corporate income tax, from 6.2 percent to 5.9 percent, will reduce state revenue by $39 million when fully implemented, the report said. That and other cuts, included in a bill to require online sellers to remit sales taxes on purchases made by Arkansas buyers, will not be made up by the anticipated revenues from remitted taxes. 16 NOVEMBER 2019
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ENDING GREYHOUND RACING Animal rights activists cheered Oct. 17 when Southland Casino told the state Racing Commission it will end greyhound racing by Dec. 31, 2022. Until then, the track will reduce racing in the months to come to accommodate the shutdown of kennels and rehoming of the dogs. Southland’s move follows the recent vote in Florida to ban greyhound racing in that state, which was a major center of the sport. Steve Lancaster, Southland’s attorney, told the commission that independent polling showed that Arkansans would approve an outright ban, so it decided to act first to allow a gradual reduction. Southland, established as a dog track in 1956, saw attendance drop in recent years until the state approved “electronic games of skill,” allowing it to open a casino. Southland was required to maintain the dog track until the recent passage of Amendment 100 expanding casino gambling at Southland and Oaklawn Racing and Gaming, and new casinos in Pine Bluff and Pope County. GREY2K USA, a group formed to call attention to injuries at dog tracks and stop the practice of racing greyhounds, released a statement calling the end to greyhound racing “a victory for everyone who cares about dogs.” GREY2K noted that 1,361 greyhound injuries had been reported at Southland over the last 10 years, including 828 dogs with broken bones and 42 greyhound deaths. PULASKI COUNTY GOING GREEN Pulaski County signed a contract with Today’s Power Inc. to install solar power plants on 40 acres at the Little Rock Port and 12 acres at the county jail. The 20-year agreement calls for the county to pay for electricity generated by the TPI-owned solar arrays, which should provide an estimated 8 megawatts of power, at 4.9 cents per kilowatt hour. County Judge Barry Hyde also announced the county will mix recycled rubber tires into asphalt for the repaving of 1.2 miles of Lawson Road. The rubber-asphalt mix will be tested for wear.
TRADER JOE’S OPENS IN LITTLE ROCK It might not be big news elsewhere, but Trader Joe’s, a national chain of “neighborhood grocery stores,” opened its first Arkansas store in West Little Rock, in a former Toys “R” Us store on Financial Center Parkway. A line of customers stretched for yards, from the front door past the Barnes and Noble storefront next door to Autumn Road, at the store’s 9 a.m. opening Oct. 22. The store, which features murals depicting cheeses lined up on the Junction Bridge, “Rockin’ Refreshments” and a River Market trolley driven by bacon and carrying vegetables, will be open daily, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. BACKWARD JONESBORO The Jonesboro City Council, unable to break a stalemate that would have allowed it to change the name of Commerce Street to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., created a public works committee to come up with a compromise. The so-called Unity committee proposed that a new segment of Commerce to be built by the state Department of Transportation be named in honor of King, but not the street as it exists “for the purpose of postal designations.” The head of the Craighead County NAACP called the Unity committee’s work a waste of time and another member of the committee said “there was so much hostility, so much hatred, so much bigotry” among its members. The ordinance, which did not get a second reading, will come up for a vote Nov. 19. The imbroglio was followed by a right-wing protest of a library reading of a novel for teenagers by trans author Meredith Russo. The editor of the Jonesboro Sun said the actions by the committee and the anti-reading protestors were shameful and “putting the city in a bad light.”
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TAX CHEAT BOOTED FROM LEGISLATURE The Arkansas House of Representatives, in an 88-4 vote, expelled state Rep. Mickey Gates (R-Hot Springs) for his no-contest plea to felony charges of failure to pay state income taxes. Gates, who paid no state income taxes for 15 years, was finally charged with a crime last year; he was given no jail time as a first offender and was ordered to pay $74,000 in back taxes, something he’d refused for years to do. If he completes probation successfully, his record will be expunged as a first offender. In his defense before the House, Gates invoked Jesus, the American Revolution, loss of a sibling in Vietnam, Martin Luther King Jr., the invasion of Normandy, Gov. Orval Faubus, the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling and the arrest of Duke lacrosse players. The theme seemed to be lauding those who’d stood up to legal wrongs — people who’d stood up against prosecutions against “innocent citizens.” He also claimed as exculpatory his easy re-election, with 59 percent, after charges were filed.
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GHOST ATTIC BY KATIE CHILDS
the TO-DO list By STEPHANIE SMITTLE, REBEKAH HALL, STEPHEN KOCH AND LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK
TRUST TREE: ROCKIN’ IN THE GARDEN The next generation of artists and musicians is growing and learning even as we speak. Trust Tree, a nonprofit music and art camp for girls, wants to ensure that girls are part of — and can see themselves as — that creative power. Trust Tree’s songwriting workshops and visual art camps offer girls ages 9-16 the opportunity to form bands and friendships, write and perform songs, and work with a team of female musicians and educators. As part of Trust Tree’s second annual fall fundraiser, Rockin’ in the Garden, supporters of the nonprofit will get a chance to see performances by Trust Tree campers Victory Divine and Sadie Evans as well as sets by local bands Better Get Your Britches and Waco Kids. Admission for the family-friendly event is free; donations help Trust Tree pay for supplies and equipment for the summer camp as well as scholarships and financial assistance for campers. Halloween costumes are encouraged for those still celebrating the spooky holiday, and one lucky raffle prize winner will be the proud new owner of an Aloha ukulele. The Museum of Discovery’s Tinkering Studio will be on site for busy hands, along with face painting, zine-making, vinyl record painting and more crafting. There will also be a photo booth, and snacks, refreshments and beer. The event starts at 4 p.m., rain or shine, at the Bernice Garden, 1401 Main St. RH
THE BODY, DEADBIRD, PINKISH BLACK, SUMOKEM
DEADBIRD BY ADAM PETERSON
SATURDAY 11/2. 4-7 P.M. THE BERNICE GARDEN. FREE.
FRIDAY 11/1. 8-11:30 P.M. CALS RON ROBINSON THEATER. $10. There are a few especially delicious byproducts to having a stellar heavy music scene in Arkansas. First, there’s the sheer accessibility; having band members of Pallbearer and Sumokem and Terminal Nation as neighbors means metalheads and heavy music fans get to partake of That Which Shall Always Be Earplugged more often than we deserve, at ticket prices we can afford. Second, the ground is fertile for inventive pairings of music with venue — thanks largely to Christopher Terry (CT, of Rwake and Deadbird), a tireless advocate for heavy genres who’s always on the hunt for a new set of walls to fill with dark and dystopian sounds. Take this slam dunk of a bill, for one, wherein Central Arkansas Library System’s flagship theater will be home to sets from experimental drums/synth duo Pinkish Black; Arkansas expats/darklords of drone Chip King and Lee Buford’s project The Body; sludge sages Deadbird; and stoner doom purveyors Sumokem. If this lineup were anywhere else besides Arkansas, it would probably be dubbed a mini-festival on account of the sheer strength of the roster; here, it’s just a perk of living in the same town as folks who see the aesthetic value in giving metal genres the high-art treatment. Get tickets at cals.org. SS ARKANSASTIMES.COM
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BEETHOVEN & BLUE JEANS: THE MUSIC OF WILLIAM GRANT STILL AND FLORENCE PRICE
KAREN WALWYN, COURTESY OF ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
SATURDAY 11/9, 7:30 P.M.; SUNDAY 11/10, 3 P.M. ROBINSON PERFORMANCE HALL. $10-$70.
As Arkansas Times contributor Kally Patz put it in a 2018 piece on Little Rockborn composer Florence Price, “when the winners of the Rodman Wanamaker Contest in Musical Composition for African-American composers were announced, newspapers described the results as if a once-in-a-century meteor had dropped to earth. Florence Price had won not only first place in the competition’s most prestigious category for her symphony, but also honorable mention in that category, first place in a different category, and honorable mention in that category as well. Even in the song category, which she’d not entered, she had, in a sense, won: [Margaret] Bonds, her student, had taken first place.” Problem was, she had to leave Arkansas to get proper recognition; a brutal lynching and an abusive marriage drove her to Chicago, where a flourishing career for a composer of color — and a woman, no less — was within the realm of possibility. Her “Piano Concerto in One Movement” is the anchor for this concert from the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, with pianist and Price scholar Karen Walwyn at the center. Beethoven’s beloved “Eroica” is also on the bill, along with William Grant Still’s “Festive Overture.” With the African-American trailblazers’ pieces, the performance will be historically symbolic; Robinson Performance Hall, a segregated facility during Price’s and Still’s lifetimes, now has an atrium and a grand ballroom named for the two Arkansas composers. Get tickets at arkansassymphony.org. SS
PRISON PORTRAIT PROJECT RECEPTION
FRIDAY 11/1. 5-8 P.M. NEW DEAL STUDIOS & GALLERY. The Compassion Works for All nonprofit, which works with the incarcerated to teach such self-help tools as meditation and conflict resolution, created this exhibition of essays by prisoners paired with works by more than 20 Arkansas artists. Prisoners from across the country submitted photos and writing to Compassion Works; Arkansas painters, printmakers and sculptors selected the stories they wished to interpret. Among the participating artists are Alice Ayers, Diane Page Harper, Laura Brainard Raborn, John Kushmaul, Katherine Strause, Dominique Simmons, Jennifer Perren, Jose Hernandez, Omaya Jones and Zina Al-Shukuri. A reception opens the show as part of SOMA After Dark. Light refreshments will be served, and attendees will get a chance to hear the artists speak about their pieces. The show continues 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at New Deal, 2001 S. Louisiana St. RH
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CHRISTONE “KINGFISH” INGRAM FRIDAY 11/8. 8:30 P.M. STICKYZ ROCK ’N’ ROLL CHICKEN SHACK. $15.
When you’re a 20-year-old prodigy of a blues player from the same soil on which Robert Johnson proverbially cut a deal with the devil to play guitar, the temptation to mythologize yourself must be great. Not for Clarksdale, Miss., native Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, evidently, who explains his fount of talent in decidedly more pragmatic terms. “I just practice all the time,” Ingram said in a press release. “That’s the only deal I made, and it’s with myself.” He’s been on the second season of Netflix’s “Luke Cage,” he recorded an NPR Tiny Desk Concert with rap legend Rakim, and he’s coming to Central Arkansas for what’s probably the biggest, baddest blues show on the books this year. The Cerny Brothers open the show; get tickets at stickyz.com. SS
BALLET ARKANSAS: “DEBUT”
JOHNNY VIDACOVICH
MONDAY 11/11. 7:30 P.M. THE JOINT THEATER & COFFEEHOUSE. $30. New Orleans jazz drummer Johnny Vidacovich will bring his Big Easy energy and drumming prowess to The Joint Theater and Coffeehouse in Argenta. Vidacovich is a staple in the New Orleans jazz scene both as a solo artist and as a member of the contemporary jazz group Astral Project. His eccentric personal style — he often performs wearing beanies, tie-dye hoodies, beaded necklaces, bucket hats or fedoras — and lanky frame, coupled with his high-energy performances, make the drummer seem larger than life. In addition to his work as a performer, Vidacovich is a percussion instructor at Loyola University and the University of New Orleans, and he regularly hosts music workshops for young students. Vidacovich and his music also appeared on the second season of AMC’s bizarre dark comedy “Preacher” in 2017, in which God pays a visit to an earthside strip club to hear the legendary percussionist sling tunes. As the hardened club owner recounts to the Preacher, “God didn’t come for the girls, you idiot — he came for the jazz.” So, too, can you come for the jazz. If you’re still on the fence about attending, take Vidacovich’s own recommendation to heart: In a Facebook comment the musician left on a flyer for a 2018 show, the musician declares, “You think you babes can take it? It’s gonna freak you!” RH
DEFRANCE BY BRIAN CHILSON
Though Ballet Arkansas has been busy with its performances of classical ballets — including October’s run of the spooky, dramatic “Sleepy Hollow,” the holiday season delight that is the “Nutcracker Spectacular,” and the enchanting “Cinderella,” upcoming in February — the dancers will have an opportunity to showcase more contemporary styles of dance at the company’s “Debut.” The series of performances highlights the choreography skills of the dancers and allows the audience to compare and contrast multiple modern works while getting insight into the creative process of each choreographer. “Debut” runs for two nights only at Argenta Community Theater, 405 Main St., North Little Rock. Tickets are $25 in advance on balletarkansas.org, and tickets are $30 at the door, subject to availability. RH
JUSTIN BRYANT PAINTING AT THE THEA FOUNDATION
FRIDAY 11/8-SATURDAY 11/9. 8 P.M. ARGENTA COMMUNITY THEATER. $25.
THIRD FRIDAY ARGENTA ARTWALK: JUSTIN BRYANT, BRANDON MARKIN
FRIDAY 11/15. 5-8 P.M. DOWNTOWN NORTH LITTLE ROCK. The monthly after-hours art event in the Argenta Arts District features, among other events, exhibitions by painter Justin Bryant, at the Thea Foundation, and photographer Brandon Markin, at Laman Library’s Argenta Branch. Bryant, recently named a 2019 Interchange Artist Fellow for the Mid-America Arts Alliance, is showing paintings inspired by the Paul Laurence Dunbar poem “We Wear the Mask,” partially hidden portraits of African-American figures. The show runs through Nov. 26. Markin’s show, “Songs for the Broken Hearted,” his first solo, includes silver gelatin prints that represent “a period of tumultuousness and unsettled longing,” the photographer said. Markin’s exhibition runs through Dec. 13. LNP
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SOUTH WORDS: NATE POWELL, VAN JENSEN
CHRIS MAXWELL BY BOBBY FISHER
TUESDAY 11/19. 6:30 P.M. CALS RON ROBINSON THEATER. FREE. When you inaugurate your new author series with none other than Sarah M. Broom (“The Yellow House”), as Oxford American did with “South Words,” you’re going to need a brilliant follow-up. Enter National Book Award winner and Little Rock native Nate Powell, whose collaboration with Andrew Aydin and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) on the “March” trilogy looks vividly and unblinkingly at the civil rights movement. Powell’s latest, “Two Dead,” is a graphic novel noir set in Little Rock in the 1940s, and a collaboration with author Van Jensen, a former crime reporter at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Jay Jennings, author of “Carry the Rock,” moderates the discussion. Get details at oxfordamerican.org/events. SS
THE JOE CRIPPS FOUNDATION PRESENTS: AN EVENING WITH CHRIS MAXWELL
A lauded Arkansas songwriter and Morrilton native, Chris Maxwell is making a homecoming to celebrate a new album release and to honor a fallen bandmate. How influential is Maxwell to the Central Arkansas music scene? Billboard magazine, in a 1994 cover story, lauded Maxwell’s band Jubilee Dive for providing “the fuel and sense of purpose for many in the local music community,” and a Jubilee Dive side project became the beloved Gunbunnies, which signed to Virgin Records and released “Paw Paw Patch” in 1990, produced by Little Rock native Jim Dickinson. But the Maxwell songs you are likeliest to hear have been sung in cartoons. As part of the duo Elegant Too with Phil Hernandez, Maxwell found writing music for TV and movies a more consistent revenue stream than rock ’n’ roll. His primary muse these days is the Belcher family of TV’s “Bob’s Burgers.” “It’s such a privilege to make a living making music,” Maxwell said. The “day job” of “Bob’s Burgers” has allowed Maxwell — who relocated from Little Rock to New York in 1994 and then to Woodstock, N.Y., in 2000 — to resume his original musical practice of recording and singing his own songs. “Arkansas Summer” was released in 2016 on Little Rock’s Max Recordings. Its follow-up, “New Store No. 2,” featuring guests like Cindy Cashdollar and Amy Helm, is coming out in early 2020. While this event serves as both a release party for “New Store No. 2,” and a homecoming, this show goes even deeper for Maxwell: The evening is a fundraiser for the Joe Cripps Foundation, which supports percussion lessons and more and is named for the Grammy-winning Little Rock percussionist who disappeared three years ago this October. To participate, Maxwell said, “was a given.” He and Cripps attended McClellan High and UA Little Rock together, and performed music together for years. “It’s difficult to talk about someone who disappears,” Maxwell said of Cripps. “It’s difficult to grieve. But the foundation is a great idea to honor Joe and help kids out.” The $25 general admission tickets to the show include a digital download key of “New Store No. 2”; the $75 premium ticket includes the download plus a signed vinyl copy of the album. With special guests Ambrosia Parsley, Brent Best (of Slobberbone fame) and former members of the Patios and Gunbunnies, this show will cover a lot of ground, with the common thread being Maxwell’s invitingly clever songs. SK 22 NOVEMBER 2019
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SATURDAY 11/23. CALS RON ROBINSON THEATER. $25-$75.
ARKANSAS TIMES FILM SERIES: “BABETTE’S FEAST”
TUESDAY 11/19. 7 P.M. RIVERDALE 10 CINEMA. $9. Arkansas Times Film Series curator Omaya Jones is doing it again: taking a movie you’ve barely heard of and putting it up on the big screen as proof of its beauty and depth. This time around, it’s “Babette’s Feast,” Danish director Gabriel Axel’s 1987 drama/food movie about a French housekeeper who uses the lottery money she’s won to serve up an exquisite seven-course meal — one that ends up fostering a spiritual and social transformation for those who eat it. It won an Oscar in 1987 — the first Danish film to win Best Foreign Language Film — and restaurants recreated its lavish menu in tribute thereafter. Get tickets at riverdale10.com, and pull up a recliner. SS
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Race and Unions 1957, MEET 2019. BY ERNEST DUMAS
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he rivers of history tend to flow parallel and from time to time they intersect with calamitous effect, as the government this fall taught us in Arkansas once again. The course of events in Arkansas’s long and simultaneous struggles to achieve racial, educational and economic parity intersected again — as they have on momentous occasions in the past — when the governor, after four years of failure, capitulated in October and had his education agency promise to return the capital city’s public education system to a board elected by the citizens, but only upon the condition that teachers and other school workers will be rendered powerless to ever again have any say about their wages and working conditions. Sixty years ago this fall, Little Rock’s citizenry seized control of their schools from another governor who had closed the city’s public high schools so that white children would not have to sit in classes with a few black boys and girls. The motives all around are different now only in nomenclature. An amazing confluence of memories, from the Elaine race massacre exactly 100 years ago to the tumultuous events preceding and following the great integration crisis in the Little Rock schools in 1957, should have reminded us of what was at stake in the school-takeover movement and the inevitable flop that it would produce. (Four years of state control by the Hutchinson education czar actually raised the number of “F” schools from six to eight.) We will get back to those now ancient events in a moment. Abolishing “the teachers union” was the clear but unstated purpose of the state takeover of the city’s schools in 2015, after Governor Hutchinson’s election, but two superintendents handpicked by the Hutchinson administration to get rid of the bargaining contract and separate more youngsters into charter schools found the union to be an asset more than a hindrance. The administration fired its first superintendent, Baker Kurrus, after he defied directives about the union and more charter schools,
but it hasn’t yet fired the second, Michael Poore. The governor’s people took care of the union for him, so he may be allowed to stay. Little Rock’s is the only one of the state’s 269 school districts that has a bargaining agreement with a union, although the Walton family powers that directed the state takeover of the capital’s schools and dozens of ringing editorials in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette blamed sorry teachers for all the Arkansas schools that do poorly on a universally repudiated (except in Arkansas) test. Cowed school administrators and school boards, see, are supposed to be so terrified of the local classroom teachers association that they won’t fire or even reprimand a teacher whose pupils — always poor and usually black — are failing the silly test. It is a superstition based entirely on ignorance. Teachers unions in Arkansas never had any power over the hiring, firing or disciplining of teachers. School administrators, often teachers who hated the drudgery or low pay of classroom teaching, do what they want to do in regular public schools just like they do in charter and private schools. There is virtually no record of teacher representatives in any of the seven Arkansas school districts that ever had bargaining agreements intervening to stop administrative actions. The editorial writers and Walton acolytes, who mourn how the union bosses are keeping these schools from educating the poor and black kids from scoring passing grades by protecting lazy and incompetent teachers, might contemplate another statistic that compares all Arkansas schools on a universally accepted test — the PSAT, which measures knowledge and skills of graduating seniors. Fifteen students from the unionized Central High School scored high enough in 2019 to be National Merit scholars, while all the charter schools, the two traditional Catholic schools, all the private and Christian schools that sprang up when the public schools had to integrate, and all the public schools in the county that are unfettered by union contracts produced a grand total of 13. That is 15 scholars in one unionized school to 13 in all the rest. How did ARKANSASTIMES.COM
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the union bosses let their school outperform all the educators in the county combined? What I set out to do is not recapitulate these familiar arguments, but to put it all into historical perspective. So often before, we have been at this juncture — the collision of race, poverty and labor-management stresses — although the governor, his education team, the Walton powers, newspaper management and the chamber of commerce all would deny it, as they have in the past. Last month, the white leadership in Phillips County erected a monument to the hundreds of African Americans who were slaughtered exactly 100 years earlier when destitute sharecroppers gathered at night at a black church to talk about a union to seek higher payments for the crops they produced. Two white men fired into the church to break up the union meeting and one was killed by return fire. Lawmen, joined by vigilantes from both sides of the Mississippi and eventually by the governor and the militia, slew men, women and children on the road and in the fields and canebrakes. No more than five white men were killed, two by friendly fire. Eventually, scores of black men were rounded up and prosecuted and jailed, 12 of them receiving the death penalty, an injustice that disgusted even the conservative U.S. Supreme Court of that day. White leaders put out the preposterous story that the poor blacks were plotting the massacre of whites to take over all the farmland. Newspapers, including the big Little Rock dailies, the Gazette and Democrat, went along agreeably with the yarn for much of a century. Both papers decried the union movement that followed the Great War and a couple of decades later supported a constitutional amendment that restricted the growth and power of organized labor. By coincidence, University of Arkansas professor Michael Pierce, writing in the fall issue of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly in October, traced those tensions to tumultuous events that are nearer to the matters at hand — city and state politics and the Little Rock schools. They were the municipal and state elections in
1955 and 1956, which laid the groundwork for the historic clash over the reality of the Bill of Rights at Little Rock’s Central High School in the fall of 1957. (The Arkansas Times ran an excerpt of Pierce’s article in its March issue.) A couple of strikes — at the bus company and a mill — roiled the city. A strikebreaker shot and killed a striker, but the prosecuting attorney prosecuted union leaders, not the killer, because a state law said union leaders should be held responsible for any violence associated with union activity, regardless of the actual perpetrator. In the following city election, an alliance of African Americans, who had just begun to vote, and union members swept the mayoral election by a landslide, won by labor sympathizer Woodrow Mann, and elected a majority on the city council because all the councilmen were elected by wards. They gave the bus franchise to a cooperative owned by the union, which promptly removed all the signs requiring blacks to sit in the back of the bus, making Little Rock the first city in the South to integrate its transportation system. They defied a state law requiring segregated transportation systems — blacks, of course, relegated to the back. That had two immediate effects. It energized the nascent white-supremacy and anti-labor extremists led by Amis Guthridge and Wesley Pruden, who had joined the business leadership against Mann and the union-black coalition and who would strike a bargain in 1957 with the previously liberal Gov. Orval Faubus to support his re-election if he would halt the approaching integration of Central High. It also energized the business leadership, including the owners of the Little Rock dailies. They proposed abandoning the traditional bifurcated system of government and substituting a city-manager system, where the legislative branch would hold executive power by appointing a professional manager who served at the board’s discretion. At-large elections restored power to the white business leadership, where it has rested ever since, except the power never extended to the schools. You know the rest. The unfortunate pawns are the poor children of the city.
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The state won’t let Little Rock schools and teachers out from under its thumb. By Lindsey Millar Photography by Brian Chilson 28 NOVEMBER 2019
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UPRISING: Several thousand LRSD supporters gathered at Central High School on Oct. 9 to protest the state’s treatment of the school district.
LITTLE ROCK IS A CITY ON EDGE. Nearly five years after the State Board of Education voted to remove the democratically elected school board and take control of the Little Rock School District, the capital city is bracing itself for its first teachers strike since 1987. The State Board took control of the district in 2015, ostensibly because of chronically low test scores at a handful of Little Rock schools, and it continues to cite test results for why it won’t return the district to a locally elected board with full authority. But standardized tests merely reflect family income, experts say, and poor black kids make up the majority of LRSD students. The membership of the State Board has changed since it voted to remove Little Rock’s majority black school board, but the same sense of disregard toward Little Rock and its black students and heavily black teacher corps remains. A new wrinkle is the convergence of that disregard with big money targeting Little Rock that favors putting market principles to work in public education. Some of those same big money interests despise labor unions, and they recently won a huge victory when the State Board moved without warning or explanation to cripple the Little Rock teachers union. Feeling betrayed and disrespected, Little Rock’s nearly 1,600 teachers are contemplating a work stoppage. LRSD ADVOCATES have been speaking out on the state’s mistreatment of the district since the State Board of Education took control. But what had been a simmering protest over often arcane issues boiled over into mass public outrage after the State Board, on Sept. 20, approved a plan that would split the LRSD in two. The plan would return all the schools attended by whiter and wealthier children to a locally elected school board, while putting schools with low standardized test scores that serve poor brown and black children under unspecified different leadership. At the same meeting, with advocates still reeling over the scheme to divide the district, State Board of Education member Sarah Moore made a surprise motion to direct Education Secretary Johnny Key to end recognition of the Little Rock Education Association teachers union. The audience in the State Board meeting room erupted in outrage. Jim Ross, a UA Little Rock history professor and a member of the LRSD School Board that was removed from authority by the State Board in 2015, repeatedly shouted, “You’re a criminal, Dr. Moore!” LRSD Superintendent Mike Poore told the board that he had a good working relationship with the union and that ending recognition of the group would throw the community into disarray. He suggested he might quit. The State Board agreed to table the motion. Republican politicians and powerful business interests, including Arkansas Democrat-Gazette publisher Walter Hussman and heirs of Walmart founder Sam Walton, have long had the Little Rock teachers union in their crosshairs. The LREA is the last local teachers union in the state with a negotiated contract, and it has been a powerful political force in Little Rock and in the state legislature for decades. The Little Rock union’s contract has been in place since 1966 and many of the working conditions it established — including guaranteed teacher planning time, duty-free lunch, limitations on class size and due process rights — later ended up enshrined in state law. Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr., the city’s first elected black mayor and an LRSD alumnus, entered the fray Oct. 7. Flanked by five city directors, Scott proposed that the state scrap its framework plan and instead return the full district to local control. He said consequential decisions about the future of the district — including whether to continue negotiating with the LREA — should be left to a locally elected board to decide. He said the city would redirect some $5 million in funds to partnerships with the LRSD, including establishing community schools that the LRSD would run with assistance from the state, under terms outlined in a memorandum of understanding to be drawn up later. ARKANSASTIMES.COM
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PUSHING BACK: Former State Board of Education member Mireya Reith (top) told the crowd gathered at Central High on Oct. 9 that her former colleagues think they know better than the Little Rock community. Stacey McAdoo (middle), the Arkansas Teacher of the Year and a longtime teacher at Central High School, has been a powerful advocate for local control. Teachers refute the narrative pushed by the state that low test scores at a handful of schools mean the district is “failing.” They gathered on Oct. 7 on an Interstate 630 overpass (right) to demand local control.
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Meanwhile, advocates were protesting and evoking the legacy of the 1957 desegregation crisis, when Gov. Orval Faubus sent the Arkansas National Guard to keep nine black children from attending Central High. Signs and T-shirts emerged that showed the outline of the iconic front of Central High and read “THE SECOND LITTLE ROCK CRISIS” and “SEPARATE IS STILL NOT EQUAL.” The famous Will Counts photo of whites jeering at Elizabeth Eckford as she tried to walk to school in 1957 was Photoshopped to include Education Secretary Key and State Board members as members of the mob. Many began referring to Governor Hutchinson, who appointed eight of the nine State Board members and ultimately directs state policy, as “Asa Faubus.” On the evening of Oct. 9, Central High was once more the setting for an emotional public outcry. More than 2,ooo people, wearing red and lighting the night with electric candles in vigil, gathered to stand against the State Board’s plan to divide the district. Teresa Knapp Gordon, president of the Little Rock Education Association, which organized the gathering, summed up the stakes for the crowd: “Either we accept segregation, or we stand and fight.” An elderly white man in a wheelchair held signs that said “History repeats” and “Sent in ’57, back in ’19.” Preston Clegg, a white pastor at Second Baptist Church in downtown Little Rock, read to the crowd a letter he’d sent state officials: “There is a proper descriptor for policies and decisions that have an inequitable impact on black and brown people. The phrase is systemic racism, even when it is couched in the language of educational metrics and legal jargon. The plan before you is based on data and metrics, but it does not surround that data and those metrics with honest narratives about education, which does not happen in a vacuum. Students in struggling schools most often come from disadvantaged backgrounds, needing more grace, support and assistance, not less. And the schools that have largely been failed are labeled as ‘failing,’ which doesn’t tell the truth about the work of the teachers or the promise of the students in those schools.” Another speaker was Mireya Reith, executive director of Arkansas United Community Coalition, a former State Board of Education member and the first Latina to serve on the board. “The perspective of my colleagues is the following,” she told the crowd. “They don’t think they’re racist. They don’t think they have racism in their hearts. They go to church on Sundays. They do the best they can to live their best life for their children and families. But they think they know better than us.” The next day, an overflow crowd packed the State Board of Education room for the board’s monthly meeting. Chad Pekron, a newly appointed board member and a lawyer with deep Republican Party ties, moved to scrap the part of the state’s plan to divide the LRSD and echoed Scott’s call for an MOU between the city and state for handling schools with low letter grades in the state accountability system. He found unanimous support among his colleagues, though consequential details about the state’s continued involvement in the district were left unaddressed. Pekron then made a motion to refer the decision on whether to end recognition of the teachers union to Education Secretary Key, who acts in place of the school board for the LRSD. District advocates in the audience loudly objected, pointing out that Pekron was merely seeking cover for the board. So Pekron withdrew his motion and Moore revived her more explicit move to direct Key
to end recognition of the union. The board unanimously approved it, and the audience chanted “Shame! Shame! Shame!” as the meeting ended. monthly meetings, Stacey McAdoo stood at a podium at the Arkansas Department of Education auditorium and drew a stark comparison. McAdoo, a veteran teacher at Little Rock Central and the 2019 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, told the board that its action reminded her of 1958. Rather than continue with the desegregation that started in 1957 despite his efforts, Faubus ordered Little Rock’s high schools closed. As Teacher of the Year, McAdoo holds an hon-
segregation case required the consolidation of Pulaski County schools within the city limits of Little Rock into the LRSD. That year, she was forced to transfer to Cloverdale Elementary (now a middle school). She was later bused to midtown’s Hall High. All of the schools McAdoo attended have been flagged in recent years by the state for low achievement on standardized tests. As a student, McAdoo said, she wasn’t especially engaged. She remembers reading history textbooks and “in my spirit, knowing what I’m reading is not true.” More generally, she said, “I was not part of the curriculum.” She was devastated after she got her first black female teacher in seventh-grade English, only to have
word poetry collective. After she was named Teacher of the Year in October 2018, McAdoo said she sat down with state officials to make sure they hadn’t made a mistake in picking her. Her father-in-law, C.E. McAdoo, was a member of the LRSD’s school board in 2015 when the State Board of Education voted to remove it. C.E. McAdoo was later a plaintiff in an unsuccessful lawsuit challenging the takeover. Stacey’s husband, Leron McAdoo, is a longtime art teacher at Central High. Their two children are recent Central graduates, and they are both LREA members and have been active in grassroots protests of state takeover and state oversight of the district.
orary nonvoting seat on the State Board. She told her colleagues that 1958 was “a time when the government was unhappy with what was happening in the Little Rock School District, so they decided to shut down the high schools,” likening the board’s decision to cripple the teachers union to Faubus’ move. Little Rock’s history has been largely defined by race and schools. Over the years, whites have left Little Rock for surrounding suburbs, the city’s residential areas have grown more segregated, and efforts to fully integrate the school district, often required by long-running federal court cases, have largely failed. The LRSD’s majority-black schools have historically had fewer resources than majority-white schools within the district. Whites represent about 50 percent of Little Rock’s population, but only 19 percent of the LRSD. Stacey McAdoo has lived experience with that history. She grew up in Southwest Little Rock and attended Baseline Elementary, which was part of the Pulaski County Special School District until a 1987 federal court ruling in a de-
the teacher quickly recognize that McAdoo belonged in honors English and direct the school to move her to that class. “Ultimately, I wanted to be a teacher to be what I needed,” McAdoo said. “To do things that teachers didn’t do.” She remembers rewriting lesson plans as a child for her dolls and her brother, Craig, who was four years younger. “Whenever he didn’t understand something in school, I’d re-teach it to him and we’d incorporate music and art, and I’d do whatever I needed to do for him to get it.” At Central, she teaches communication and Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID), a college readiness program aimed at students who would be the first in their family to attend college. As state Teacher of the Year, McAdoo received a $14,000 award sponsored by the Walton Family Foundation while she completes a year of service away from the classroom. Her platform is “Using Passion and Poetry to Close the Opportunity Gap,” which builds upon her experience leading the Writeous Poetry Club, a spoken
McAdoo is the first black Arkansas Teacher of the Year in 16 years. The last one, Katherine Wright Knight, was also the last LRSD teacher honored. At an event at the Clinton Presidential Center early in her Teacher of the Year tenure with Governor Hutchinson and other teachers from around the state, McAdoo said she kept getting incredulous questions from people, like, “How did you become Teacher of the Year?” She told the State Board about hearing that skepticism, which she said she encounters often, the same day she told the board its action invoked Faubus and 1958. “Prior to coming into this role, I knew in my spirit that there was a lot of ugliness out there in the world,” she told the board. “I didn’t have proof to pinpoint. But I will say that in my journey, I have seen ugliness. I have felt ugliness.” A few days later, she told me she regretted sanitizing the sentiment. “If I could redo it, I would have called it what it was: racism.” Of course, she also gets praise. “I go places. People clap for me. If I fly, they make announcements and the whole airplane erupts in ap-
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plause. But I’m constantly putting that against knowing what my colleagues, my husband, my family members are feeling on a daily basis. They’re not being celebrated. I’ve often wondered and thought and said how great if every teacher could be celebrated like this. People will say, ‘Thank you for your service.’ I like that. I also know lots of teachers who need to hear that message.”
IN 2018, Education Secretary Key demanded
that the LREA agree to a contract that included a waiver of the Teacher Fair Dismissal Act in schools that earned a “D” or “F” under the state accountability system. The state law provides
Sen. Joyce Elliott (D-Little Rock) suggested that Ballinger was being disingenuous about his aims: Why would the LREA push to reduce planning period time or take away duty-free lunch? she asked. Moore and other critics of the district and the LREA have pointed out that the LRSD has one of the lowest starting teacher salaries in the state. But the district’s average salary and contribution to employees’ health insurance are among the highest in the state. Those are products of negotiations, the LREA says.
MOORE TOLD ME in a recent interview that
she decided to get her doctorate in education policy from the University of Arkansas after
70 percent of LRSD teachers are dues-paying members. Moore said the LRSD would be better served to operate like every other district in the state, with a Personnel Policy Committee, a group of teachers and administrators elected from teacher ranks that make advisory recommendations on policies and pay to their local school board. But only a union gives teachers actual power. Unlike the LREA’s negotiated contract, district leadership can ignore the recommendations of a Personnel Policy Committee. It’s akin to moving from a representative democracy to a dictatorship, where the leader asks for input, but is free to ignore it. Moore and other LREA critics have tried to frame a Personnel Policy Committee as more democratic than a union, but her motion stated that an outside consultant would conduct the personnel committee election. State law requires that the elections be conducted exclusively by teachers. After earning her doctorate, Moore served as Governor Hutchinson’s education policy adviser until her family returned to Stuttgart. She said Hutchinson appoints state board members and then allows them freedom to act on their own, but critics see her actions as fulfilling the governor’s promise to the Democrat-Gazette’s Walter Hussman and others to kill the LREA.
UNDER STATE CONTROL, neither the
AT ODDS: State Board of Education member Sarah Moore (right) has made crucial motions that have outraged the LRSD community, including parent Kacky Fuller (left). due process rights for teachers. When asked to cite an instance of an LRSD teacher who deserved to be fired but was not because of Fair Dismissal requirements, Key could not. The move was widely viewed as an effort to scrap the contract with the LREA. Community outcry and an emotional marathon December 2018 State Board of Education meeting nearly killed the proposal, but at the last minute, Sarah Moore made a motion to end fair dismissal protection for all LRSD teachers. Her motion carried. In October, along with the motion to direct Key to end recognition of the LREA, Moore also successfully asked the board to reinstate the Teacher Fair Dismissal Act for Little Rock teachers, a move widely seen as a PR concession. In moving to end recognition of the teachers union, Moore cited Act 728, a new state law sponsored by Sen. Bob Ballinger (R-Berryville). It makes mandatory the creation of Personnel Policy Committees in all districts, where the law had previously allowed an exemption for districts that collectively bargained with teachers associations. In testimony earlier this year, Ballinger said the change was all about ensuring that the exemption didn’t lead to teachers duty-free lunchtime or planning periods being reduced or taken away and said multiple times that it wasn’t an attack on collective bargaining. 32 NOVEMBER 2019
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being a teacher and feeling like teachers’ opinions weren’t valued. She attended the LRSD for 11 years. In high school, she left Little Rock and Central High School to move with her family to North Carolina. (Her father, Wesley Burks, is dean of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and was recently a finalist for the top job at UAMS, but withdrew from consideration.) “I certainly had excellent teachers and went to excellent schools,” she said, but she noticed “inequities” in the district even then. “When I sat in at AP classes [at Central High], I wondered why students in the class came from similar socioeconomic backgrounds. What were the factors that led to that and why was that the case?” Those observations led her on a trajectory to be a teacher, she said. She attended Duke University, where she majored in African-American studies, focusing, she said, “on the American South and learning the history and the complexities of the South over time and what led us to where we are.” After college, she joined the Teach for America program and took a job in Stuttgart, where she met her husband. Moore described her motion to end recognition of the union as an effort to allow “all teachers to have a voice instead of just one group.” The Little Rock Education Association says
State Board nor the Arkansas Department of Education have articulated a plan for improving the district, and teachers and administrators in the district say that education department officials have only been actively working in schools in the district in the last six months. Initiatives state leaders have pointed to as improvements, such as forcing the district to adopt state computer systems for accounting and tracking students, haven’t been as successful as the state has portrayed them, district insiders say. Perhaps because of the LRSD’s size — 21,500 students — the new systems crash often. Teachers also resent that the state forced new reading curriculum on them without providing adequate support. Meanwhile, it’s difficult to know if the district’s academic health has improved under state control because the state’s method of judging schools’ performance has changed — and both methods are deeply flawed. Student enrollment has declined in Little Rock schools over the last five years, fueled in part by the state’s approval of a dramatic expansion of charter schools, which operate with public dollars but through private management. Charter schools receive dozens of waivers from state education laws, often including teacher certification, and are favored by so-called education reformers who believe that applying market forces like choice, competition and accountability to public education will improve academic outcomes. The Walton Family Foundation is a leading backer and financial supporter of charters in Arkansas and throughout the country. The Walton foundation has also provided significant funding to groups that have been advocating against the LREA and the LRSD. Arkansas Learns is a group led by Gary Newton, who is paid nearly $250,000 in salary and benefits to advance the charter agenda in the state, which means regularly lobbying decision-makers to take action that supports the “choice” agenda and undermines the LRSD. The Arkansas State
Teacher Association, started with a three-year $362,000 start-up grant from the Walton foundation, is a group that purports to represent teachers throughout the state, but has largely worked to weaken the LREA and the Arkansas Education Association. ASTA president Michele Linch was the lone voice at the Oct. 10 State Board meeting speaking against the LREA. At the same meeting, Charles Zook, an LRSD substitute teacher and husband to a longtime LRSD teacher and union member, told the board that high-stakes testing and school grades were being used “as pretexts for the billionaire-backed systematic destruction of public education in order to break unions and usher in privatization.” He noted that his father, Randy Zook, CEO of the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce, sits on the board of the Arkansas Public School Resource Center, a Walton-funded charter advocacy group. Randy Zook is married to State Board of Education chairwoman Diane Zook, who has been the most vocal and aggressive critic of the LRSD since she joined the board in 2013. Her nephew is Gary Newton. Charter schools have long figured into the debate over the LRSD’s future. In 2015, Education Secretary Key hired Baker Kurrus, a businessman and former LRSD School Board member (and later mayoral candidate), as LRSD superintendent. But less than a year into the job, Key fired Kurrus after Kurrus publicly challenged the dramatic expansion plans of Little Rock’s largest charter schools, eStem and LISA Academy. Kurrus presented data that showed that Little Rock charter schools enrolled fewer kids who lived in poverty, who have special needs or who speak English as a second language and said the expansion would only concentrate children with the highest needs in public schools. The State Board ignored Kurrus’ data and approved the expansion, and is likely to approve a merger between LISA and a low-performing charter school in Little Rock later this year. As a result of declining enrollment, since 2017 the LRSD has closed several schools and adopted an ambitious plan to close and reconfigure about a dozen others, most of which are situated south of Interstate 630 and largely serve poor children. They are significant moves that will dramatically reshape the district — in which locals had no meaningful say. State law requires the state to create “exit criteria” for districts under state control. If, after five years of state control, a district hasn’t met the criteria, the law requires the state to annex, consolidate or reconstitute the district. Neither annexation or consolidation is considered a viable option for the LRSD, the state’s second-largest school district and one that adjoins two other large districts, the North Little Rock and Pulaski County Special School districts. According to education department lawyers, reconstitution isn’t defined in applicable state law. Attorney and Little Rock Democratic state Sen. Will Bond and other legal experts say that education department lawyers should be relying on a definition of reconstitution that appears elsewhere in state law. That statute says the only reconstitution options are removing and replacing a district superintendent or removing and replacing a school board. The state didn’t set exit criteria for the LRSD until February 2019, and advocates believe that the education department designed the criteria to ensure that the LRSD would fail.
ZOOKS AT ODDS: Subsitute teacher Charles Zook told the State Board of Education that high-stakes testing was being used as an excuse for “the billionaire-backed systematic destruction of public education in order to break unions and usher in privatization.” He said his father, Randy Zook, CEO of the Arkansas Chamber of Commerce, and stepmother, Diane Zook, chairwoman of the State Board, were active in that agenda.
Even if state officials returned the LRSD to a locally elected board with full authority, the state could intervene in board decisions or limit board powers at any time. The state can retain ultimate authority over the LRSD indefinitely. The criteria focused on eight LRSD schools that earned an “F” under the state accountability system in 2018. It took into account standardized test achievement and growth — how a student improves or doesn’t year to year based on expectations — as well as some districtwide “qualitative” factors. The LRSD did not meet the criteria in October. The Arkansas Educational Support and Accountability Act, passed by the state legislature in 2017, changed the state’s accountability system and gave massive power to the State Board of Education and the education secretary. The law divides state involvement in school districts into five Levels — from Level 1, which is general support, to Level 5 intensive support, which allows the state to take total control of the operation of a district, as it has in Little Rock. According to the law and education department rules, once a district is under Level 5 support, it remains there until exit criteria is met. Reconstitution could trigger the state to create new exit criteria, Department of Education spokeswoman Kimberly Mundell said. That means, even if state officials returned the LRSD to a locally elected board with full authority, the state could intervene in board decisions or limit board powers at any time. The state can retain ultimate authority over the LRSD indef-
initely. It controls the entire process. Lawsuits challenging aspects of the law and the state’s reading of it may be coming.
STATE OFFICIALS and other LRSD critics
have repeatedly described the district as “failing” because a handful of its schools have regularly scored a “D” or “F” under the state accountability system (see the sidebar on page 35 for an explanation of how the grades are calculated). Amid State Board discussions on the future of the LRSD, a critique of the way Arkansas measures student and school success came from an unlikely place: the state. On Sept. 10, the nonpartisan Bureau of Legislative Research presented a report on school accountability to a joint Education Committee meeting as part of the committee’s annual adequacy review of public education in the state. The BLR report notes, as many critics of the state’s treatment of the LRSD have mentioned, that mountains of research show that test scores strongly correlate to demographics. (Stanford research released last month confirms that poverty is entirely to account for the racial achievement gap in the U.S.). “These factors include such things as little to no access to nutritious meals or health care, living in violent neighARKANSASTIMES.COM
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A GLIMMER OF HOPE, THEN OUTRAGE: Kimberly Crutchfield (left), a Central High School teacher, spoke movingly to the State Board about the support LRSD teachers gave her as a teenage mother. She and other advocates, including Ali Noland (right), were outraged after the State Board voted to end the recognition of the Little Rock Education Association teachers union. There was a brief sense of relief earlier when the Board moved away from a plan that would have divided the district and voted to work with the city of Little Rock and Mayor Frank Scott (middle) to establish a plan to collaboratively run schools with low test scores. But advocates worry that the state will continue to exert its authority indefinitely. borhoods, and less availability of stimulating learning opportunities outside the classroom,” the report outlines. “Therefore, demographics are input measures that for the most part are not within the schools’ control … .” The report said that using a single school grade can “mask the differences of both the inputs and outputs of school.” In other words, if students come to school hungry or dealing with trauma or homelessness, we shouldn’t expect the same test results from them as we do from others. Stacey McAdoo and others have called the letter grades “psychologically damaging.” McAdoo has a cousin in third grade in the LRSD who, she said, “comes from a very troubled household background,” but now lives with McAdoo’s mother. She missed a lot of school in earlier grades, so she has gaps in her knowledge. “She wouldn’t perform well on a standardized test,” McAdoo said. “But what a standardized test would never show is how brilliant this child is. My cousin is aware that she’s not academically up to par. She’ll call herself stupid. Those are the messages she’s getting from everywhere else.” At the Oct. 10 State Board of Education meeting, Kimberly Crutchfield, a psychology and sociology teacher at Little Rock Central, told the board she wouldn’t be standing before them without her LRSD teachers. Crutchfield had a baby at 13 while she was attending Mabelvale Middle School. “I didn’t have the support of my family,” she told the board, “but let me tell you who I did have support from: my teachers.” She said she would walk down Geyer Springs Road with a bookbag in one hand and a baby carrier in the other to drop her child off at daycare before hurrying to catch a bus to school. Her teachers pushed her to come to class and stay active. She was on the volleyball team, a mem34 NOVEMBER 2019
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ber of the student council, part of the band and in advanced placement classes. At McClellan High School, she told me later, she remembered her counselor telling her, “You can be whatever you want to be. Just because you have this baby, don’t sell yourself short.” Crutchfield went on to graduate college and later earned her master’s degree in school administration. She taught in West Memphis for 13 years before deciding to return to teach at McClellan after reading a newspaper article that portrayed the school negatively. “Teaching is so much more than academics,” she told me. “I think that’s what they’re missing about teachers. I think that’s what [the state accountability system] is missing in how they compute what a student amounts to. Those teachers, without them, I wouldn’t be sitting here today. I wouldn’t have a master’s degree. I’d have been another stereotypical young teenage parent living in the projects.”
IF TEACHERS STRIKE, they will say that
Hutchinson and his allies want to privatize Little Rock public schools. Charter schools in Arkansas are nonprofits, but they often pay for-profit management companies to run the schools or provide consulting. The teachers will say that the governor, Johnny Key and the State Board of Education are ignoring the strongest advocates for students — the teachers. They will echo calls made by Mayor Scott and other elected officials for the state to embrace programs with proven track records: expanded pre-K, after-school programs and in-school health and social services. Meanwhile, state leaders and education reformers will say that teachers are putting an adult power struggle ahead of kids who are already academically behind. They will say that a strike harms the kids who need help the most. Many have already complained that years of
state desegregation payments and Little Rock’s high millage rates have been frittered away. They will cite infighting among past LRSD School Boards and the frequent turnover of superintendents. Mike Poore, who has been on the job since July 2016, is the longest tenured LRSD superintendent since Edward Kelly, who served in the position from 1982 until 1987. They will make the anti-democratic argument that past dysfunctional local governance should keep the district under state control. Teachers, who have agreed to pay cuts and reductions in district health insurance contributions in recent years, feel like they have nothing left to lose. Hutchinson and other state leaders may welcome a strike, confident their messaging will find more public support. They may view a strike as an opening to exert further “reform” on the district and an opportunity to crush the union once and for all. There are other reasons to worry about the LRSD’s future. Who will oversee the district from January until after a November 2020 election? Will they have power? Mayor Scott suggested a new group of members nominated by the city and the state. Several State Board members disagreed and said they believe the existing Community Advisory Board, a group approved by Secretary Key from names put forward by local Republican legislators, should oversee the district. The advisory board, as its name suggests, has no real power and rarely have all seven members been present at meetings. The most vocal members — board chairman and lawyer Jeff Wood and businesswoman and former LRSD board member Melanie Fox — are both s0-called education reformers who have been sympathetic to the state’s actions in the district. Whoever makes decisions in the near future will have consequential issues to consider. A desegregation lawsuit settlement requires
“I think about what this city could be if we get this right. I think what it would do to our city, our schools and our children if we get this wrong. We have an opportunity right now, not just to shape our public school district, but the values we teach our children.”
the district to redraw high school attendance zones using a “race-neutral rationale” by 2020. Years ago, the LRSD School Board extended Central High’s attendance zone through the middle of the city into the Heights and parts of northwestern Little Rock in an effort to capture more high-achieving white kids. A move to change that gerrymandered zone and direct more white kids to Hall High School is likely. The State Board has indicated that it wants to weigh in on the planning, which could make an already fraught process toxic. The state legislature recently changed the law to make school board elections coincide with primary or general elections. Republicans and education reformers have long pushed to move school board elections away from special elections, when only those engaged in a district are likely to vote. With presidential, congressional and statewide elections likely to capture most voters’ attention, the idea is that outside groups might be able to influence an election by putting money behind a school board candidate to buy name recognition. Members of the Walton family have spent heavily on school board elections around the country. But there are more advocates pushing for local control and against the forces of privatization than ever before. Grassroots Arkansas, led by Anika Whitfield, a local podiatrist and minister, has been fiercely active since early in the takeover. More recently, more students, teachers, parents and other community members have gotten engaged (Full disclosure: I helped start the OurLRSD group of parents and community members and have been occasionally involved in its outreach). Those showing up to meetings and protests have been young and old, and black, white and Latino. At the Central High rally, Ali Noland, a white parent and advocate who has been a leader in the fight for local control, spoke to the diversity of the coalition fighting for the future of the LRSD. “The Little Rock Nine got us this far,” she said. “In this same space, 62 years ago, people who looked like me hit and kick and spit on children who were trying to get an education. Right now, we are standing shoulder to shoulder fighting for an equitable education for all students. ... “I think about what this city could be if we get this right. I think what it would do to our city, our schools and our children if we get this wrong. We have an opportunity right now, not just to shape our public school district, but the values we teach our children.” Noland said she’d been thinking about how, at the end of her daughter’s first-grade school year last year, her daughter stood in the parking lot crying and clinging to her teacher because she didn’t want the school year to be over. “If I don’t stand up and fight for the teachers who are fighting for my kids, what am I teaching my kids?” she asked.
SCHOOL GRADES NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND, the federal legislation passed in 2001 un-
der President George W. Bush, first codified the idea that schools should be held accountable for low standardized test achievement. Arkansas’s school letter grades are part of the state’s system for complying with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, the Obama-era accountability system that replaced No Child Left Behind. The state’s ESSA School Index takes into account a number of factors: standardized test achievement, standardized test growth, graduation rates (for high school students) and a composite “School Quality and Success Indicator,” which includes a number of factors, including grade-level reading levels, science achievement, absenteeism and, for high school students, “postsecondary readiness,” computer science coursework and community service/service-learning. For grades K-8, 35 percent of the index comes from achievement, 50 percent from growth and 15 percent from “School Quality.” In upper grades, 35 percent comes from achievement, 35 percent from growth, 15 percent from “School Quality” and 15 percent from graduation rates. In grades K-8, aside from absenteeism, every point of data comes from the ACT Aspire test, administered once annually over the course of about four hours. (Students earn 1 “point” in the absentee portion of the “School Quality” score for being absent, for any reason including sickness, less than 5 percent of the year, or 8 days — which all parents of snotty elementary school kids know isn’t much — and 0.5 for being absent 5 to 10 percent, or 9 to 18 days.) In high school, more than 70 percent of the school “grade” comes from the ACT Aspire or, for 11th and 12th graders, the ACT test. Arkansas is the only state in the country to use the ACT Aspire as its state assessment test. Liberals and school reformers on the State Board of Education were unified in opposing switching to the ACT Aspire in 2015; experts said then (and say now) that it’s not aligned with the state’s standards and yet the board pushed it through anyway after Hutchinson appointees entered the picture. A 2019 report from the nonpartisan state Bureau of Legislative research found that school letter grades obscure the range of student test performance. There’s a lot of overlap between the students in A, B and C schools and B, C, D and F schools, the report found. A 2019 state law allows students in “F” schools to utilize school choice and transfer to a different school. So, as the report notes, parents might mistakenly believe that they’re moving their child from a “failing school,” when they’re actually leaving a school where many students are performing above expectations. Sarah McKenzie is the executive director of the University of Arkansas’s Office of Education Policy, a group that generates research and writing that often favors school choice initiatives. She agreed that school grades are reductive. “Some of us in education feel like the letter grade is an oversimplification of all the things that go on in a school,” she said. “We know achievement is so highly correlated with the demographics of students that attend the school, particularly poverty and race,” she said. The school report cards are largely defined by achievement scores on the ACT Aspire. How a student performs from year to year is represented as a growth score, which is generally seen as a fairer way to measure school success. “Growth, just because the way it’s calculated, it’s really hard to get the same bang for your buck even if you’re growing really, really well,” McKenzie said. “Achievement is still the main driver.” Eight LRSD schools are ranked “F” this year. Three are high schools: Hall, J.A. Fair and McClellan. Students at the latter two schools are slated to move into the new Southwest High School next year along with the English language learners who now attend Hall. The other “F” schools are Henderson Middle School and four elementary schools: Baseline, Meadowcliff, Washington and Watson. The students who now attend Henderson are slated in 2020 to merge with those who attend Dodd and Romine in a new K-8 school in what’s now J.A. Fair. There are also plans to merge the students who now attend Baseline and Meadowcliff, along with Cloverdale Middle School, into a new K-8 school that will be built in place of a demolished McClellan, but LRSD Superintendent Michael Poore said the earliest that school would be ready would be 2022, and it will require new money, either from a millage increase or another second-lien bond issuance. ARKANSASTIMES.COM
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ROBERT F. THOMPSON Branch, Thompson, Warmath, & Dale 870-239-9581 414 West Court Street Paragould
GARY D. CORUM Corum-Law 501-375-6454 200 River Market Avenue, Suite 600 Little Rock
BRETT D. WATSON Brett D. Watson, Attorney at Law 501-281-2468 P.O. Box 707 Searcy
AMBER WILSON BAGLEY Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue,Suite 200 Little Rock
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TERESA M. WINELAND Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock
DONALD B. KENDALL Kendall Law Firm 479-464-9828 3706 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 201 Rogers
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JESS L. ASKEW Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock
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FLOYD M. THOMAS Thomas Law Firm 870-866-8451 1615 North Calion Road El Dorado
JIM LYONS Lyons & Cone 870-972-5440 407 South Main Jonesboro
JOSEPH R. FALASCO Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock
TIMOTHY O. DUDLEY Timothy O. Dudley 501-372-0080 114 South Pulaski Street Little Rock
JOHN KEELING BAKER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock
CHAD W. PEKRON Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock
JASON H. WALES Wales Comstock 479-439-8088 3608 North Steele Boulevard, Suite 101 Fayetteville
R.T. BEARD Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock M. SAMUEL JONES Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock LYN P. PRUITT Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock BRUCE E. MUNSON Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock BEVERLY A. ROWLETT Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock CASEY CASTLEBERRY Murphy Thompson Arnold Skinner & Castleberry 888-902-5580 1141 East Main Street, Suite 300 Batesville HARRY S. HURST Parker Hurst & Burnett 870-268-7600 3000 Browns Lane Jonesboro JULIE DEWOODY GREATHOUSE PPGMR Law 501-603-9000 101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock BRIAN H. RATCLIFF PPGMR Law 870-862-5523 100 East Church Street El Dorado BRANDON B. CATE Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200 4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale VINCENT CHADICK Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200 4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale
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DAVID M. DONOVAN Watts, Donovan & Tilley 501-372-1406 Arkansas Capital Commerce Center, Suite 200 Little Rock
CONSTRUCTION LAW JOHN M. SCOTT Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville M. STEPHEN BINGHAM Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock CYRIL HOLLINGSWORTH Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3700 Little Rock
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GARLAND W. BINNS Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3700 Little Rock
H. WILLIAM ALLEN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock
JEFFREY H. MOORE Jeffrey H. Moore 501-414-6894 One Carrolton Little Rock
JAMES C. MCCASTLAIN Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3700 Little Rock
PHILIP S. ANDERSON Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock
SUSAN K. KENDALL Kendall Law Firm 479-464-9828 3706 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, S uite 201 Rogers
STEVE L. RIGGS Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3700 Little Rock
RICHARD N. WATTS Watts, Donovan & Tilley 501-372-1406 Arkansas Capital Commerce Center, Suite 200 Little Rock
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EDWARD T. OGLESBY Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock JOEL HOOVER Newland & Associates 501-221-9393 2228 Cottondale Lane, Suite 200 Little Rock RICK WOODS Taylor Law Partners 479-316-6300 303 East Millsap Road Fayetteville DAVID M. POWELL Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock DAVID L. JONES Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock COPYRIGHT LAW HERMANN IVESTER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock KATHRYN BENNETT PERKINS Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock
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JACK T. LASSITER Lassiter & Cassinelli 501-370-9300 813 West Third Street Little Rock
FLOYD M. THOMAS Thomas Law Firm 870-866-8451 1615 North Calion Road El Dorado
BOBBY R. MCDANIEL McDaniel Law Firm 870-336-4747 400 South Main Street Jonesboro
TIMOTHY O. DUDLEY Timothy O. Dudley 501-372-0080 114 South Pulaski Street Little Rock
DOUG NORWOOD Norwood & Norwood 479-636-1262 2001 South Dixieland Road Rogers
DUI/DWI DEFENSE RALPH J. BLAGG Blagg Law Firm 501-745-4302 168 Court Street Clinton
WARNER H. TAYLOR Taylor Law Partners 479-316-6300 303 East Millsap Road Fayetteville CHAD L. ATWELL The Atwell Law Firm 476-521-2423 3853 North Crossover Road Fayetteville TIMOTHY O. DUDLEY Timothy O. Dudley 501-372-0080 114 South Pulaski Street Little Rock SHANE WILKINSON Wilkinson Law Firm 479-273-2212 700 South Walton Boulevard, Suite 200 Bentonville CRIMINAL DEFENSE: WHITE-COLLAR BILL W. BRISTOW Bristow & Richardson 870-935-9000 216 East Washington Avenue Jonesboro GARY D. CORUM Corum-Law 501-375-6454 200 River Market Avenue, Suite 600 Little Rock
JOHN C. COLLINS Collins, Collins & Ray 501-575-1030 912 West Fourth Street Little Rock DOUG NORWOOD Norwood & Norwood 479-636-1262 2001 South Dixieland Road Rogers DAVID H. WILLIAMS The Law Office of David H. Williams 501-372-0038 211 South Spring Street, Second Floor Little Rock CHRISTINA D. COMSTOCK Wales Comstock 479-439-8088 3608 North Steele Boulevard,Suite 101 Fayetteville ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LAW MICHAEL O. PARKER Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3700 Little Rock JAMES M. SAXTON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock
J. BLAKE HENDRIX Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200 Riviera Tower, Suite 205 Little Rock
EDUCATION LAW KHAYYAM M. EDDINGS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock
JEFFREY M. ROSENZWEIG Jeff Rosenzweig 501-372-5247 Spring Building, Suite 310 Little Rock
CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock
JOHN WESLEY HALL John Wesley Hall 501-371-9131 1202 Main Street, Suite 210 Little Rock
CLAYTON R. BLACKSTOCK Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers & Sneddon 501-378-7870 1010 West Third Street Little Rock
JACK T. LASSITER Lassiter & Cassinelli 501-370-9300 813 West Third Street Little Rock
ELDER LAW RAYMON B. HARVEY Raymon B. Harvey 501-221-3416 650 South Shackleford Road, Suite 400 Little Rock
BOBBY R. MCDANIEL McDaniel Law Firm 870-336-4747 400 South Main Street Jonesboro
ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT LAW KAREN SHARP HALBERT Roberts Law Firm 501-821-5575 20 Rahling Circle Little Rock
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JOHN L. BURNETT Lavey and Burnett 501-376-2269 904 West Second Street Little Rock
KHAYYAM M. EDDINGS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock
JOHN D. COULTER McMath Woods 501-213-3556 711 West Third Street Little Rock
CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock
JANET L. PULLIAM Pulliam & Muskheli 501-436-0010 2209 Cantrell Road Little Rock
DANIEL L. HERRINGTON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock
DENISE REID HOGGARD Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500 801 Technology Drive Little Rock
MICHAEL S. MOORE Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock
PAUL D. WADDELL Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro
ELIZABETH ROBBEN MURRAY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock
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SPENCER F. ROBINSON Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson & Raley 870-535-9000 Simmons First National Bank Building, 11th Floor Pine Bluff TIM BOE Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock DAVID P. MARTIN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock PAUL D. WADDELL Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro BONNIE JOHNSON Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock PHILIP E. KAPLAN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock MARK MAYFIELD Womack Phelps Puryear Mayfield & McNeil 870-932-0900 Century Center Jonesboro JOHN D. DAVIS Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock WILLIAM STUART JACKSON Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock MICHELLE M. KAEMMERLING Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock JANE A. KIM Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock ENERGY LAW LAWRENCE E. CHISENHALL Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock STEPHEN K. CUFFMAN Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800 Simmons Bank Tower, Suite 3800 Little Rock DAVID R. MATTHEWS Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure & Thompson 479-282-2586 119 South Second Street Rogers
G. ALAN PERKINS PPGMR Law 501-603-9000 101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock
G. ALAN PERKINS PPGMR Law 501-603-9000 101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock
STEPHEN N. JOINER Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock
BRIAN ROSENTHAL Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock
SCOTT C. TROTTER Trotter Law Firm 501-353-1069 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 216 Little Rock
FAMILY LAW BARRY E. COPLIN Coplin & Hardy 501-707-0300 One Union Plaza Little Rock
N. M. NORTON Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock ENERGY REGULATORY LAW THOMAS A. DAILY Daily & Woods 479-782-0361 58 South Sixth Street Fort Smith ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CHARLES R. NESTRUD Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock JOHN R. ELROD Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville MARK H. ALLISON Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3700 Little Rock STEPHEN K. CUFFMAN Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800 Simmons Bank Tower, Suite 3800 Little Rock SAMUEL E. LEDBETTER McMath Woods 501-213-3556 711 West Third Street Little Rock SHERRY P. BARTLEY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock WALTER G. WRIGHT Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock
DAVID W. KAMPS David W. Kamps 501-708-2911 The Centre Place Building, Sixth Floor Little Rock
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Recognized in the 2020 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America© For Construction Law, Litigation - Construction, and “Lawyer of the Year” for Construction Law in Little Rock. JACK EAST III, PA 1100 N. University Ave., Suite 140 • Little Rock, AR 72207 501-372-3278 • jackeastlaw.com
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STEPHEN C. ENGSTROM Stephen Engstrom Law Office 501-375-6453 200 River Market Avenue, Suite 600 Little Rock JACK WAGONER Wagoner Law Firm 501-837-8850 1320 Brookwood, Suites D & E Little Rock FINANCIAL SERVICES REGULATION LAW H. WATT GREGORY Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock DONALD H. HENRY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock FIRST AMENDMENT LAW JAMES M. SIMPSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock JESS L. ASKEW Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock JOHN E. TULL Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock PHILIP S. ANDERSON Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock PHILIP E. KAPLAN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock FRANCHISE LAW WILLIAM A. WADDELL Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock ROGER D. ROWE Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet 501-376-6565 Cantrell West Building, Suite 201 Little Rock
HEALTH CARE LAW ELIZABETH ANDREOLI Andreoli Law 501-690-5069 72 Pine Manor Drive, Suite 190 Little Rock
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW N. M. NORTON Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock
AMBER WILSON BAGLEY Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock
INSURANCE LAW OVERTON S. ANDERSON Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2400 Little Rock
BRUCE B. TIDWELL Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock DONALD T. JACK Jack Nelson Jones 501-375-1122 Riverfront Plaza, Building One Little Rock BRYAN G. LOONEY Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville DEBBY THETFORD NYE Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville DAVID L. IVERS Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers & Sneddon 501-378-7870 1010 West Third Street Little Rock MICHAEL W. MITCHELL Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers & Sneddon 501-378-7870 1010 West Third Street Little Rock CHARLES B. CLIETT Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock HAROLD H. SIMPSON The Health Law Firm 501-221-7100 5224 Sherwood Road Little Rock WILLIAM T. MARSHALL William T. Marshall 501-372-1322 2 River Glen Circle Little Rock
DAVID M. POWELL Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock
LEE J. MULDROW Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS PRACTICE T. ARK MONROE Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock
IMMIGRATION LAW MISSY MCJUNKINS DUKE Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock
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MARIAM T. HOPKINS Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2400 Little Rock MICHAEL P. VANDERFORD Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2400 Little Rock SCOTT M. STRAUSS Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock JAMES C. BAKER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock FREDERICK K. CAMPBELL Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock DOAK FOSTER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock T. ARK MONROE Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock SCOTT D. PROVENCHER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock JEFFREY H. THOMAS Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock TIMOTHY L. BOONE Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock MARK BREEDING Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock JOHN E. MOORE Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock
BEVERLY A. ROWLETT Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock EMILY M. RUNYON Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock STEVEN W. QUATTLEBAUM Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock JERRY L. LOVELACE Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood 479-756-8510 2706 South Dividend Drive Springdale LABOR LAW - MANAGEMENT J. BRUCE CROSS Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock RICHARD A. RODERICK Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock CAROLYN B. WITHERSPOON Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock OSCAR E. DAVIS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock DANIEL L. HERRINGTON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock MICHAEL S. MOORE Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock MICHAEL R. JONES Gilker & Jones 479-369-4294 9222 North Highway 71 Mountainburg SUSAN K. KENDALL Kendall Law Firm 479-464-9828 3706 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 201 Rogers JAMES M. GARY Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock JOHN D. COULTER McMath Woods 501-213-3556 711 West Third Street Little Rock
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BYRON L. FREELAND Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock KATHLYN GRAVES Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock SPENCER F. ROBINSON Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson & Raley 870-535-9000 Simmons First National Bank Building, 11th Floor Pine Bluff TIM BOE Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock DAVID P. MARTIN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock JOHN D. DAVIS Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock LABOR LAW - UNION SUSAN K. KENDALL Kendall Law Firm 479-464-9828 3706 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 201 Rogers JOHN L. BURNETT Lavey and Burnett 501-376-2269 904 West Second Street Little Rock JANET L. PULLIAM Pulliam & Muskheli 501-436-0010 2209 Cantrell Road Little Rock LAND USE AND ZONING LAW RANDAL B. FRAZIER Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock SCOTT SCHALLHORN Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock
DONALD H. BACON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock EDWIN L. LOWTHER Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock LEVERAGED BUYOUTS AND PRIVATE EQUITY LAW PRICE C. GARDNER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock H. WATT GREGORY Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock LITIGATION - ANTITRUST JAMES M. SIMPSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock PHILIP S. ANDERSON Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock LITIGATION - BANKING AND FINANCE MARSHALL S. NEY Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers WILLIAM A. WADDELL Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock RANDAL B. FRAZIER Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock DONALD H. HENRY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock JOHN E. TULL Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock
TIMOTHY W. GROOMS Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock
DAVID B. VANDERGRIFF Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock
J. CLIFF MCKINNEY Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock
RICHARD T. DONOVAN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock
LEGAL MALPRACTICE LAW DEFENDANTS G. SPENCE FRICKE Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock
H. WILLIAM ALLEN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock
PHILIP S. ANDERSON Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock
DAVID A. GRACE Hardin & Grace 501-378-7900 500 Main Street, Suite A North Little Rock
PHILIP E. KAPLAN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock
JAMES F. DOWDEN James F. Dowden 501-324-4700 212 Center Street, 10th Floor Little Rock
KIMBERLY WOOD TUCKER Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock
KEVIN P. KEECH Keech Law Firm 501-221-3200 2011 South Broadway Street North Little Rock
LITIGATION - BANKRUPTCY WILLIAM M. CLARK Cypert, Crouch, Clark & Harwell 479-751-5222 111 Holcomb Street Springdale
LANCE R. MILLER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock
CONSTANCE G. CLARK Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain Street Fayetteville
STAN D. SMITH Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock
CYRIL HOLLINGSWORTH Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3700 Little Rock
GEOFFREY B. TREECE Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock
DAVID A. GRACE Hardin & Grace 501-378-7900 500 Main Street, Suite A North Little Rock
CHARLES T. COLEMAN Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock
JACK EAST Jack East III 501-372-3278 2725 Cantrell Road, Suite 202 Little Rock
HARRY A. LIGHT Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock MARSHALL S. NEY Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers
LITIGATION - CONSTRUCTION JOHN DEWEY WATSON ADR 501-376-2121 1600 Dorado Beach Drive Little Rock JASON J. CAMPBELL Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2400 Little Rock H. DAVID BLAIR Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350 500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville JOHN M. SCOTT Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville
JUNIUS BRACY CROSS JB Cross Construction Law 501-374-2512 308 East Eighth Street Little Rock
DAVID M. POWELL Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock
RUSSELL C. ATCHLEY Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville
STEPHEN R. LANCASTER Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock
EDWARD T. OGLESBY Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock
LITIGATION - ENVIRONMENTAL JOSEPH HENRY BATES Carney Bates & Pulliam 888-551-9944 519 West Seventh Street Little Rock
JAMES G. LINGLE Lingle Law Firm 479-636-7899 110 South Dixieland Road Rogers RICHARD T. DONOVAN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock JASON H. WALES Wales Comstock 479-439-8088 3608 North Steele Boulevard, Suite 101 Fayetteville RICHARD N. WATTS Watts, Donovan & Tilley 501-372-1406 Arkansas Capital Commerce Center, Suite 200 Little Rock
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JOHN R. ELROD Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville
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JOHN E. TULL Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock PHILIP S. ANDERSON Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock PHILIP E. KAPLAN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock TROY A. PRICE Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock LITIGATION - HEALTH CARE PHILIP E. KAPLAN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock LITIGATION - INSURANCE M. STEPHEN BINGHAM Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock BARRETT DEACON Deacon Law Firm 479-582-5353 100 West Center Street, Suite 200 Fayetteville MICHAEL G. SMITH Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3700 Little Rock WILLIAM MELL GRIFFIN Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock DONALD B. KENDALL Kendall Law Firm 479-464-9828 3706 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 201 Rogers MARK W. DOSSETT Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville EDWARD T. OGLESBY Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock SCOTT TIDWELL Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure & Thompson 479-282-2586 119 South Second Street Rogers MARK BREEDING Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock 50 NOVEMBER 2019
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JOHN E. MOORE Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock BRUCE E. MUNSON Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock BEVERLY A. ROWLETT Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock SHANE STRABALA Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock H. WILLIAM ALLEN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock DAVID M. POWELL Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock JEFFREY W. PURYEAR Womack Phelps Puryear Mayfield & McNeil 870-932-0900 Century Center Jonesboro LITIGATION - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MARSHALL S. NEY Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers MARK MURPHEY HENRY Henry Law Firm 479-695-1330 240 North Block, Suite 101 Fayetteville HERMANN IVESTER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock H. WILLIAM ALLEN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock N. M. NORTON Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock LITIGATION - LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT SUZANNE G. CLARK Clark Law Firm 479-856-6380 244 West Dickson Street, Suite 201 Fayetteville
J. BRUCE CROSS Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock MISSY MCJUNKINS DUKE Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock CYNTHIA KOLB Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock CAROLYN B. WITHERSPOON Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock DANIEL L. HERRINGTON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock MICHAEL S. MOORE Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock ELIZABETH ROBBEN MURRAY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock MARSHALL S. NEY Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers FREDERICK S. URSERY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock H. WAYNE YOUNG Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock DANIEL R. CARTER James, Carter & Priebe 866-716-3242 500 Broadway, Suite 400 Little Rock SUSAN K. KENDALL Kendall Law Firm 479-464-9828 3706 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 201 Rogers
JAMES M. GARY Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock JOHN L. BURNETT Lavey and Burnett 501-376-2269 904 West Second Street Little Rock EVA C. MADISON Littler Mendelson 479-582-6100 The Fulbright Building, Suite 204 Fayetteville JOHN D. COULTER McMath Woods 501-213-3556 711 West Third Street Little Rock KATHLYN GRAVES Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock JANET L. PULLIAM Pulliam & Muskheli 501-436-0010 2209 Cantrell Road Little Rock E.B. CHILES Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock DENISE REID HOGGARD Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500 801 Technology Drive Little Rock SPENCER F. ROBINSON Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson & Raley 870-535-9000 Simmons First National Bank Building, 11th Floor Pine Bluff ALFRED F. ANGULO Robertson, Beasley, Shipley & Robinson 479-782-8813 315 North Seventh Street Fort Smith BENJAMIN H. SHIPLEY Robertson, Beasley, Shipley & Robinson 479-782-8813 315 North Seventh Street Fort Smith DAVID P. MARTIN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock PAUL D. WADDELL Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro PHILIP E. KAPLAN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock
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JOHN D. DAVIS Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock WILLIAM STUART JACKSON Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock MICHELLE M. KAEMMERLING Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock LITIGATION - MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS SUZANNE G. CLARK Clark Law Firm 479-856-6380 244 West Dickson Street, Suite 201 Fayetteville LITIGATION - MUNICIPAL MISSY MCJUNKINS DUKE Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock LITIGATION - PATENT MARK MURPHEY HENRY Henry Law Firm 479-695-1330 240 North Block, Suite 101 Fayetteville LITIGATION - REAL ESTATE SUZANNE G. CLARK Clark Law Firm 479-856-6380 244 West Dickson Street, Suite 201 Fayetteville THOMAS A. DAILY Daily & Woods 479-782-0361 58 South Sixth Street Fort Smith CONSTANCE G. CLARK Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain Street Fayetteville DON A. EILBOTT Don A. Eilbott 501-225-2885 Redding Building, Suite 112 Little Rock EDWIN N. MCCLURE Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure & Thompson 479-282-2586 119 South Second Street Rogers JOHN KEELING BAKER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock L. KYLE HEFFLEY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers
M. SAMUEL JONES Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock JOSEPH R. FALASCO Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock TIMOTHY W. GROOMS Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock DAVID B. VANDERGRIFF Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock STEPHEN R. LANCASTER Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock LITIGATION - SECURITIES KERRI E. KOBBEMAN Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville KEVIN A. CRASS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock M. SAMUEL JONES Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock RICHARD T. DONOVAN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock H. WILLIAM ALLEN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center Street, Suite 2200 Little Rock LITIGATION TRUSTS AND ESTATES SUZANNE G. CLARK Clark Law Firm 479-856-6380 244 West Dickson Street, Suite 201 Fayetteville WILLIAM JACKSON BUTT Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain Street Fayetteville ALLISON J. CORNWELL Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock SARAH COTTON PATTERSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock
RICHARD F. HATFIELD Richard F. Hatfield 501-374-9010 401 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 502 Little Rock
E.B. CHILES Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock
RITA REED HARRIS Rita Reed Harris 870-633-9900 208 North Izard Street Forrest City
STEVEN W. QUATTLEBAUM Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock
ADAM H. CROW Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock
JOHN E. TULL Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock
ROBERT S. JONES Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro
SCOTT A. IRBY Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock
STEPHEN R. LANCASTER Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock
EDWIN L. LOWTHER Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock
LITIGATION AND CONTROVERSY - TAX MICHAEL O. PARKER Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3700 Little Rock
GORDON S. RATHER Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock
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Straight Outta Westark ‘GHETTO EXPRESSIONIST’ RUDY RAY MOORE HUSTLED AND CURSED HIS WAY TO UNDERGROUND FAME— AND ABOVE-GROUND CULTURAL INFLUENCE. BY STEPHEN KOCH ‘50 YEARS OF CUSSING’: Fort Smith native Rudy Ray Moore sang, danced, emceed and starred in his own action movie.
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“Without Rudy Ray Moore, there would be no Snoop Dogg.” – Snoop Dogg “[Moore] shaped a lot of black men, including myself, with his strength and his ability to just show us how we are.” – Ice T
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ou rat-soup-eating mother******* may know Dolemite, but who the **** is Rudy Ray Moore? “Nobody ever became popular or famous where I was from,” he told interviewers Billy Miller and Miriam Linna in 1999. But Rudy Ray Moore did. Moore danced, sang, emceed, and told the filthiest jokes onstage and on vinyl, all on his way to producing and starring in his own movie, “Dolemite.” His Dolemite character became a cult phenomenon, and he’s become a hero to rappers, musicians and comedians alike. A Moore biopic starring acolyte Eddie Murphy called “My Name Is Dolemite” was released Oct. 25, with the day being declared “Dolemite Day” by marketing reps and fans alike around the world. Moore was born March 17, 1927, in Fort Smith. The family lived on North Oak Street; Rudy was the oldest of seven children. He also lived in nearby Paris in Logan County, where his mother moved them after marrying. After living in Paris, he returned to Fort Smith. But it wasn’t until Moore moved to Cleveland, Ohio, that he considered getting into show business. No “Dolemite Day” celebrations were held in Fort Smith or Paris; in fact, no civic leader contacted for this story had any knowledge of Moore’s existence at all, much less in their towns. Moore mentioned in later interviews that his hometown of Fort Smith was planning to name a street after him, but there is no sign, and no record of it ever happening. “Was he a marshal?” asked the Fort Smith Convention and Visitors Bureau in response to queries.
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‘HARLEM HILLBILLY’: Moore, shown here in a scene from “Dolemite,” churned out ribald rhymes and an anti-establishment pimp persona.
‘I don’t want to be referred to as a dirty old man,’ he said. ‘Rather, a ghetto expressionist.’ Similarly, when “Dolemite” became a mid1970s cinematic hit of cult proportions, it must have seemed to mainstream, especially white, movie audiences that Moore came out of nowhere. But he’d been hustling for a long time. As a kid, Moore sold snacks to servicemen at nearby Fort Chaffee. In the mid-1940s, he sang and danced in a variety show called Stepp’s AllStar Revue, wearing a turban and calling himself Prince DuMarr. Comedians, flash dancers, musicians and more appeared in the shows, and Moore assimilated it all into his own act. He idolized R&B pioneer (and fellow Arkansas native) Louis Jordan, who was white-hot through the 1940s; Moore always wanted to be an R&B singer himself. In November 1950, Moore was drafted into the Army, but he didn’t stop performing. He got involved in entertaining his fellow troops, and was soon singing, emceeing and promoting shows on bases where he was stationed in Fort Campbell, Ky., Korea and Berlin. He asked for an extension, and was in for nearly three years. Upon discharge, he toured with Huey “Piano” Smith and the Clowns, famous for songs like “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu,” the original “Sea Cruise” and “Don’t You Just Know It.” Moore was valet for the Clown’s 64 NOVEMBER 2019
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lead singer, Ohio-born Bobby Marchan, who had gotten his start as a female impersonator in drag shows while he was still a teen. “The way Bobby picked me up was he was from Youngstown and he came to Cleveland with the Clowns,” Moore said in the 1999 interview. “Nobody in the band could drive that well and I could drive, so I followed them away. When someone in the Clowns couldn’t perform, I would perform in their place.” *** Moore’s first recordings weren’t as a comedian, but as a singer. His initial releases were on the well-regarded Federal record label. Moore did most of his own songwriting. “They called me the Harlem Hillbilly, because I did country songs with an R&B flavor to them,” Moore recalled to Miller and Linna. Moore had single releases on several different labels, sometimes billed as Rudy Ray Moore and the Raytones, mostly self-financed. Those who came to know Moore for his raunchy comedy wouldn’t recognize the straight R&B singer on these 45 rpm records. “During the Little Richard era, Richard had ‘Tutti Frutti’ and I had ‘Robbie Dobbie,’ ” he said. There were a few near-misses and some regional sales for his songs, but nothing really
hit. Or, as Moore succinctly put it to Miller and Linna: “I did not have success in those years.” Moore moved to Los Angeles in 1959. He recorded a handful of more traditional-leaning comedy albums, along with his fairly traditional take on R&B vocalizing, through the early 1960s. “For my act then, they’d expect me to do a standup comedy show that was clean,” he told Miller and Linna. “They’d expect me to sing songs like ‘Mule Train’ and some of the old blues songs like ‘Teardrops from My Eyes.’” But by the hippie era, he’d distilled his time onstage as a dancer, singer and especially as an emcee down to a more singular style of standup comedy with sexually explicit routines, often done in toasting-style rhymes and in the filthy “dirty dozens” tradition. They could be found on his so-called “party” records that were sold under the counter at record stores and at performances. A pioneer of perversion, Moore’s routines were bluer by leaps and bounds than anything innuendo-reliant Redd Foxx ever committed to record. And his album covers usually featured him naked alongside several unclad women with titles like “Let’s Come Together,” “The Cockpit,” “I Can’t Believe I Ate The Whole Thing,” “Close Encounters of the Sex Kind” and “This Pussy Belongs To Me.” A 2009 memorial
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THE DOLEMITE EXPLOSION: “Dolemite” became a mid-1970s hit of cult proportions. album was titled “50 Years of Cussing.” “I wasn’t saying dirty words just to say them. It was a form of art; sketches in which I developed ghetto characters who cursed,” Moore explained in a 1997 interview with the Miami Herald. “I don’t want to be referred to as a dirty old man,” he said. “Rather, a ghetto expressionist.” *** Moore debuted his Dolemite routine on his 1970 breakthrough album, “Eat Out More Often.” “It busted overnight; Dolemite on a record,” he recalled to Miller and Linna in 1999. Outrageous in every way — especially sexually — the tale of Dolemite follows the tall-tale tradition found in societies worldwide. It’s been noted in early African-American communities as well as the early European-American communities in the Ozarks. However, Moore appropriated the Dolemite routine from a man named Rico who performed it for spare change on the streets of Hollywood. Moore and Dolemite eventually became synonymous. Other comedy albums by Moore, full of similar profane braggadocio, followed in its wake. And after the “Dolemite” movie hit, so did other films: In 1976, he starred in a Dolemite sequel called “The Human Tornado” and costarred in “The Monkey Hustle.” The next year, he starred in “Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil’s Son-In-Law.” (“Petey Wheatstraw” somehow had nothing to do with the 1930s Cotton Plant bluesman of the same name who also used the nickname “the Devil’s Son-In-Law.”) By 1979’s “Disco Godfather,” though, Moore had ridden his unlikely cinematic wave to shore. However, a generation later, nostalgia dictated Moore — or, rather, Dolemite — return. In the interim, he’d inspired comedians, been heavily sampled during the Golden Age of Hip-Hop, and known as one of the forefathers of rap. Beyond Moore’s ribald rhymes, his anti-establishment pimp persona dovetailed especially nicely with the “gangsta rap” subgenre of the late 1980s and 1990s with its misogyny and violent imagery as embodied by N.W.A., Geto Boys and 2 Live Crew. (N.W.A. called it “reality rap.”) By 1999, Dolemite was back on the scene and onscreen. He appeared as Monk Ru-Dee in “Shaolin Dolemite”; the next year, he reprised his Dolemite role in “Big Money Hustlas,” starring Insane Clown Posse. The year 2002 saw another sequel, “The Return of Dolemite,” also known as “The Dolemite Explosion.” Most of the actual Dolemite explosion was financed by Moore himself, manifested through his canny self-promotion and desire. But Moore really wanted to sing rhythm and blues. After Moore found success as Dolemite, he again tried to launch a singing career. But the public maintained its lack of enthusiasm for his singing. In 1999, he admitted, “The only reason I turned to comedy was I couldn’t get a hit otherwise.” Known to the world as “Dolemite,” Rudy Ray Moore of Sebastian and Logan counties — the man who said he could stick his finger in the ground and turn the whole world around; the man who used an earthquake to mix his milkshake — died Oct. 19, 2008, in a nursing home in Akron, Ohio. 66 NOVEMBER 2019
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HOW BAD WAS DOLEMITE? At the age of one, he was drinking whisky and gin, At the age of two, he was eating the bottles it came in. He got run out of South America for f*cking steers, He f*cked a she-elephant until she broke down in tears. He swam across muddy rivers and ain’t never got wet, Mountains fall on him and he ain’t dead yet. He rode across the ocean on the head of his d*ck, He ate nine tons of cat sh*t and ain’t never got sick. – As told by Rudy Ray Moore
‘DOLEMITE’: THE MOVIE THAT MADE THE MAN THAT MADE THE MOVIE As the 1970s dawned, Rudy Ray Moore’s touring and salacious albums helped solidify both Moore and his newfound alter-ego, Dolemite. Meanwhile, so-called blaxploitation films targeting black America and usually made by black filmmakers had struck box office gold in America. The twin juggernauts of 1971’s “Shaft” and 1972’s “Superfly” helped set the standard: car chases, sex, funky music and deals gone sour, usually through the hands of a corrupt white power elite. At their worst, many of these films played on easy racial and gender stereotypes, but did often feature African Americans, and sometimes women, in rare strong leading film roles in America. However, the genre had largely peaked by the time Moore secured financing for a Dolemite movie. He spent a year on the road and got an advance from his record distributor to put together more than $100,000 himself. It wasn’t very much for a motion picture, even by 1970s blaxploitation budgetary standards. Expectations were low, as reflected in the new Moore biopic starring Eddie Murphy, “My Name Is Dolemite.” But since its April 1975 release, “Dolemite” has become part of the culture. The “Dolemite” soundtrack took up very little of the already meager budget. The musicians hired were given the name the Soul Rebellion Orchestra. Future Grammy winner James Ingram plays on the soundtrack, as well as appearing in the film. (Ingram duetted with Michael MacDonald, Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton and had his own solo hits in the 1980s and 1990s.) The sessions were recorded at studios in Los Angeles owned by Ted Brinson, best known for recording the enduring doo-wop hit “Earth Angel” (co-written by Texarkana doo-wop pioneer Jesse Belvin), and where Moore had previously recorded as a singer. The shooting schedule was six weeks. The director was D’Urville Martin (played by Wesley Snipes in the Moore biopic). In addition to making his directorial debut in “Dolemite,” Martin played the villain Willie Green. He’d starred in similar genre films, such as 1972’s “Hammer,” 1973’s “Black Caesar” and its sequel, “Hell Up In Harlem.” He’d had minor roles in the late 1960s mainstream studio films “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” and “Rosemary’s Baby.” But Martin was not a careful director, and reportedly had no respect for the project. Boom mics and crew shadows can often be seen intruding in the frame. There are technical glitches. The plot is convoluted, and the acting is marginal, even from our titular hero. But all that was apparently part of the charm for audiences: Jet magazine (owned by fellow Arkansas native John H. Johnson) reported that “Dolemite,” with its $100K budget, made $12 million. —S. Koch
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NOV. 23-DEC. 31 Garvan Woodland Gardens Holiday Lights 2019, 550 Arkridge Road. Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas days. Gates open at 4 p.m. for Holiday Lights. We’ve got some great new opening week festivities planned! Free hot chocolate as always. The Chipmunk Cafe will be open nightly until 9 p.m. serving gourmet soups, sandwiches and snacks. Members free with current membership card. Nonmember adults $15, ages 4-12 $5, age 3 and under free. Note: Dogs are not allowed in the gardens during Holiday Lights.
THURSDAY, NOV. 21 The 20th Annual Taste of the Holidays at Mid-America Science Museum, 500 Mid-America Blvd. This year we plan to have over 20 food and beverage vendors, science activities and demonstrations, a silent auction and our fourth annual Student Scholarship Award. For more information visit midamericamuseum.org or call 501-7673461 68 NOVEMBER 2019
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MONDAY, NOV. 25 Tom Daniel Holiday Chili Cook Off at Exchange Street Parking Plaza, 121 Exchange St. Join us for the 17th annual Tom Daniel Chili Cook-Off in the Exchange Street Parking Plaza at 4:30 p.m. for a flavorful evening with memories you’ll savor throughout the season. Come hungry! $5 for all you can sample! There are over 30 competitors. Vote for your favorite. Ticket and drink sales go toward funding the Christmas lights downtown. For more information about the event visit hotspringsdowntown.com/chili/.
DEC. 5-7 The Nutcracker Ballet, presented by the Hot Springs Children’s Dance Theater Company at LakePointe Church, 1343 Albert Pike Road. A holiday celebration to share! Dancing toys, mischievous mice and sparkling snowflakes dance to Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous score. Tickets to the Nutcracker are $30 adult and $20 student for seating on the first four rows of the theater or the first 50 seats. General seating is $20 for adults and $10 for students. For tickets, go to hscdtc.org or call 501-655-6815.
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A PIG TRAIL INQUIRY: Martin Philip took to the hills with his questions — and his biscuits.
“What does bread baking smell like in heaven? It smells like bread baking. How could the afterlife possibly improve on the aroma of 540 identified volatile chemical compounds that defy scientific imitation creating the most universally accepted and loved smell in the world?” — Martin Philip, “Breaking Bread: A Baker’s Journey Home in 75 Recipes”
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f you’d been driving around Franklin County in October 2018, just south of where the Mulberry River meets the Pig Trail Scenic Byway, you might have seen him — a lithe white man in a newsboy cap and overalls with a banjo strapped to his back in a gunny sack, steering a 1930 Elgin bicycle up winding hills, with an attached wicker basket containing some flour, molasses and buttermilk. His mission? To find people who, in his words, did not live, think, vote or pray the way he did, and to feed them. By the time Martin Philip set out on this venture — dubbed the “Baker Maker Roadshow” — it had been a couple of decades since Philip set foot in Franklin County. He’d grown up just northwest of those mountains, in Fayetteville, and left in 1988 for a spot at the prestigious Oberlin Conservatory on a pre-professional path in vocal performance. In the interim, he’d
met his wife, Julie Ness — a fellow voice student at Oberlin. They’d carved out a pre-professional living in the Bay Area, riding on the crest of their vocal talents — and on the rare securities of young artist programs like the one at Opera San Jose, ones that actually paid their singers. They’d moved to New York City to find agents and auditions — the next logical steps for two young singers in pursuit of stage careers. They’d kept afloat for a while, despite student loans, little to no health care and, as Philip put it, “years of dealing with poor solvency as a singer.” Philip finally turned to lucrative but soul-sucking corporate work at a Wall Street firm, punching in for a 5:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. shift in which he transformed investment bankers’ Excel spreadsheet data into sleek graphs and refined pitches. Philip and Ness, too, had endured the ash and grief and chaos of 9/11 as residents of the city, still raw from having lost their
first child during pregnancy only six weeks earlier — a tribulation Philip describes in detail in an essay called “We Slept in That Day.” They’d mourned. They’d kept working. Philip filled in “the cracks of his week” with classes at the Art Students League of New York. And Philip and Ness started a family, with the arrival of two children. And then, Martin Philip pivoted. Hard. “I was about 30,” he told me, “maybe early 30s, when I started having this recurring thought. It was like, you know, I’m gonna go back to doing everything I did when I was 16. That was some good stuff. There was some stupidity, for sure, but there was also some pretty good stuff. I’m not gonna grow a mullet, but yes, I’m gonna get a damn banjo.” His mother had “intuited,” he said, that what a 16-year-old Philip needed was a five-string banjo. “It came in a box for my birthday, and I played it and played it and played it. And then I put it aside and I went to college and I tried, in a way, to access the culture of every country but my own.” So, he remedied that. He found an instrument and played Scruggs-style at first, then shifted to the modal tunings of the clawhammer style — quintessential mountain music, and about as geographically and stylistically distant from his classical baritone repertoire as they come. And he started baking. “My mother had always baked. My grandmother baked,” he said. “I just started returning to those things.” With some kitchen experience at a Cleveland woodfired pizzeria behind him — and a cache of sensory memories from the whole wheat loaves his parents cranked out in bulk every weekend during his childhood — Philip devoured the craft. “I think that people don’t quite understand that if you have worked in classical music,” he said, “everything else is freaking easy.” He took bread-making classes. He built a portfolio of sorts. And, unlike his vocal studies or his art classes, he found himself able to commit without “working the fun out of it.” “It’s a staple,” he said. “Baking can be a staple in your life. Music can be a staple in your life, too. But it’s like, can an aria from ‘Rigoletto’ be a staple in your life? I don’t know. … Somehow baking was different. You can eat your mistakes.” Evidently, most of those mistakes were stepping stones to triumphs of flour and fermentation; after applying three times, Philip landed a job at the oldest and most widely respected flour company in the United States: King Arthur Flour, est. 1790. He threw himself into his work, wearing a path between shaping bench and mixer and oven — and spending astronomical amounts of time perfecting five bread recipes for a chance to compete in the Coupe de Monde competition held every three years in Paris, often called the “baking Olympics.” He didn’t make it, but it didn’t really seem to matter. Philip was a refiner and a perfecter, a marathon runner, and the exacting process of recipe development suited him well, anyway. If he had made the Coupe de Monde, though, one of his secret weapons would have been the boxcar loaf, which he describes in his 2017 book “Breaking Bread: A Baker’s Journey Home in 75 Recipes” as follows: “Cracked corn, toasted rye berries, and smoked barley malt are swelled with whiskey and molasses and mixed with caramelized pecans and whole wheat flours. Searching for a
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wisp of smoke, I use the smoked Chinese tea, Lapsang souchong, for its intense pine smoke character.” He’d taken the name and inspiration from a boxcar he and his five siblings played in one day while attending an auction in Northwest Arkansas, and the things he imagined it once carried — “a marriage of wood, smoke, whiskey and leather.” Then, “in 2016, the election happened,” Philip said. He’d been at the Macdowell Colony in New Hampshire that summer, working on what would become “Breaking Bread.” He returned home to Norwich, Vt., where King Arthur is headquartered. It’s quaint and picturesque, with a link to the grand Appalachian Trail, the Montshire Museum of Science and a historic inn. The county it sits in, Windsor, voted for Hillary Clinton by a 61.5 percent margin. “I came back from [Macdowell],” Philip said, “and we were in full swing of the election. And everything was incredibly divided. And each day on the news you’d see some clip of some person in the South spewing something that’s biased and horrible as it relates to any number of things — against women, against people of color. Like, everybody was getting torn up. And the divide 74 NOVEMBER 2019
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was just sort of … divide-ening. And I was like, ‘OK, how do I understand this? Because I see in it that the culture that I came from is spiraling downward.’” So, he thought, “I’m gonna go down there and see what’s going on.” “I had this idea, like, I’m not gonna go in a car. A car is aggressive, if you pull into someone’s driveway. It’s like you’re there to collect a bill or something. And I thought, well, I could walk, but walking also in some ways could be an inconvenience for someone because then they think, ‘Oh, I gotta give this person a ride,’ or something. So I decided to do it on a bicycle. And I needed an offering; I couldn’t just roll in with my hand out or my ears open. So I decided that I would take the ingredients to bake with.” And so it was that Philip found himself on the front porches of Jethro and Red Star and Brashears, eager to secure an hour or two with residents of an Ozark Mountain culture from which he felt increasingly alienated. People who — were it left to the sophisticated filtering mechanisms of Facebook algorithms — Philip might not have ever encountered. He considered his route. He took out an ad
in the Huntsville newspaper. He put up flyers to let the locals know, as he put it, “Hey, this guy is out there, and it might even be all right if you let him into your home.” There was the wardrobe to be considered, too. “If you show up with a Dallas Cowboys jersey on, that says one thing. If you show up in Mossy Oak from head to toe, that says something. And if you show up and you’ve got an ‘Act Up’ T-shirt on, that says something. And I thought, how can I be generic, in a way? Like, what is generic at this point? There’s really nothing. What could I do to sort of strip away anything that would give me away as being part of a place North or South, East or West? Part of a time — now or a hundred years ago? What could I do to be neutral, but without being invisible?” He settled for the overalls and newsboy cap, with a jacket, “like I rolled out of some Steinbeck thing. … Neutrality is not plausible, but I just wanted to not peg myself as being part of a tribe that would create some sort of a wedge.” But nobody bit. Maybe he was naive, Philip admitted, to think a waving hand and a biscuit would unlock the doors of rural Franklin County for such a feat of inquiry. Instead, as he put
it in a yet-to-be-published essay: “I knock at the door, the dogs go nuts, I see movement — a flick of a curtain, a shadow jumping behind the house — but then … nothing.” It was difficult to imagine that the Martin Philip who was rendered a conversational pariah along the hairpin curves of the Pig Trail and the Martin Philip I reached via telephone were one and the same. Ten minutes into our interview, he’d covered substantive and varied ground — about his wife Julie’s current project covering Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” from start to finish. About how his dad ended up in the military during Vietnam, having enlisted to make good for some minor teenage mischief involving beer cans and a local golf course. We’d traded memories of growing up without much money in picturesque Benton and Washington counties — taking family vacations at Devil’s Den State Park instead of Disneyworld, driving the backroads as entertainment. Talk drifted, as it often does, to the brisk reshaping of the landscape of Northwest Arkansas over the last decade. New, treeless subdivisions line state Highway 264 near Lowell, and my cloistered, bucolic hometown of Cave Springs has been outed, its name emblazoned across a giant green ArDOT exit sign for state Highway 612, est. 2018. “It’s weird,” Philip said. “It’s almost like, it can access a part of the world that we shouldn’t have a fast road for.” Eventually, Philip unlocked those doors. Within an hour of setting up a banjo in front of Turner Bend Outfitters — a camping and convenience store near the Mulberry River — he’d booked his entire week. Even then, though, it was hard. Showing up to cook in someone else’s kitchen meant you were on “posted land,” as Philip put it, every new topic of conversation to be navigated gently, and with deference. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, the thrust of those talks ended up being about how to cook beaver and backstrap more often than they touched upon political divisions. “People wanted to talk about their families,” Philip said, “and the challenges that they have.” The Ozark stops are, he hopes, the first chapter in a set of five, in which biscuit-fueled conversations are to occur at a series of waypoints along the Arkansas River, from headwaters to the confluence with the Mississippi. He’ll document those experiences and, if all goes as planned, follow up his Vermont Book Award-winning “Breaking Bread” with another book title. “Biscuits for Strangers,” maybe. “Food, I felt, like, is where we can come together. It’s what we all do. And we have to restore some of that common ground, just to get back to treating each other with some level of humanity. And also, we have to have some willingness to acknowledge that bias is deep, and even invisible. So the project was really about that,” he said. “And I found that it’s really not us and them. It’s all us. We are all us. And that sounds a little bit trite. But if you strip back all the ways in which we identify ourselves, there’s something that is deeper. There’s a place we can connect. And I believe it’s the first community. The first community was food. It was the way we came together over a fire or over a meal.” Follow Martin Philip’s work at breadwright. com and find his book “Breaking Bread: A Baker’s Journey Home in 75 Recipes” at breadwright. com/martins-book. ARKANSASTIMES.COM
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FRIDAY NIGHT Start off in the Edge district, where you can snap some photos outside Sam Phillips’ studio, maybe catch a verse or two of Lucero’s band practice and then tour the legendary Sun Studio. The tour guides, many of whom are musicians — like Mark Edgar Stuart — are top-notch and the tour only lasts about 30 minutes. Sing a few bars into the microphone Elvis used and learn a little about Memphis’ amazing musical history before diving headfirst into drinking and eating. Edge Alley is a short walk from Sun Studio and offers breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner. Everything is made from scratch and is on the healthy side. Try an incredible house-roasted cup of coffee, a signature cocktail, a glass of wine, or a locally crafted beer from the adjacent High Cotton Brewing Co. before heading to Beale Street. Yes, Beale Street. While most locals avoid it, there’s really no good reason to. It is the one place that you can count on hearing live blues seven nights a week. Should you arrive before sunset, head to B.B. King’s Blues Club and take the back stairs up to Itta Bena eatery and enjoy the magnificent blue light from the bar. After dark, your best bets for real-deal blues are Blues City Cafe, Mr. Handy’s Blues Hall and the Rum Boogie Cafe. The Absinthe Room, above King’s Palace Cafe, is a lesser-known spot and a great place to escape from the crowd and enjoy the view. The truly adventurous can walk back over the pedestrian and rail Harahan Bridge across the Mississippi River to CJ’s Blues & Sports Bar on East Broadway in West Memphis. Tell Clem I sent you. And take cash. Hit Earnestine & Hazel’s on South Main before you call it a night. This former brothel is the closest thing we have to an old-school juke joint downtown outside of Beale Street. If there’s not live music, you can count on their jukebox for Bobby “Blue” Bland’s “I Smell Trouble” and Jimmy Reid’s “Aw Shucks Hush Your Mouth.” Don’t forget to check out the upstairs and have a drink at Mr. Nate’s bar. Of course, get a famous Soul Burger to soak up a little of the night’s alcohol before hitting the sack.
END THE NIGHT: With a visit to Earnestine & Hazel’s and its jukebox.
SATURDAY Wake up early and head to the Arcade Restaurant for breakfast. Sit in Elvis’ booth and get a big order of sweet potato pancakes, eggs, bacon, hash browns and a locally brewed Wiseacre Gotta Get Up to Get Down coffee milk stout. If there’s a wait, hop over to the Blues Hall of Fame on Main Street just a few blocks down. It opens at 10 a.m. and is the perfect 30-minute detour to see clothing, instruments and other memorabilia of famous musicians from Mavis Staples to Johnny Winter. (The annual International Blues Challenge ARKANSASTIMES.COM
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MORE IN MEMPHIS: (From top) Stax Museum of American Soul is touristy, but don’t skip it; enjoy pancakes in Elvis’ booth at the Arcade Restaurant; buy LPs at Shangri-La Records in Overton Square; wind down with dinner and a drink at Coletta’s.
Can’t go wrong at Payne’s. Jan. 8-Feb. 1, 2020, is an excellent time for music lovers to plan a visit.) Spend the rest of the morning knocking out one more “must do” touristy thing: Stax Museum of American Soul Music. The intro video is 20 minutes long and the self-guided tour takes about an hour. Experience a modest country church, a dance floor with disco lights, a legendary recording studio, every record ever recorded at Stax and Isaac Hayes’ glittering custom Cadillac Eldorado. The gift shop is a great place to load up on records, books and T-shirts. Other nearby attractions include Willie Mitchell’s Royal Studios, one of the oldest continuously operating recording studios in the world and home to the famed Hi Records and the Hi Rhythm Section. You may catch Boo Mitchell on his way in or out, but it’s not open to the public. However, across the street is Hattie’s Tamale & Grocery, where the tamales are made fresh every day. (Between the store and the four trucks, Hattie’s sells about 2,000 a day!) Made from beef and wrapped in paper, the Delta-style tamales come hot or mild. Get some to put in your cooler or your hotel fridge. They taste great cold, and are a little less messy. Next, drive into Midtown and browse through a few homegrown record stores. Goner Records in Cooper Young has its own label and puts on one of the best festivals of the year — Gonerfest — the last weekend in September. After you stock up on new and used vinyl, walk a few blocks and snap a photo with the newly erected Johnny Cash statue, right next to the church where he held his first public performance. This will put you within a few blocks of Payne’s, the favorite barbecue stop of Sonic Youth when they recorded with Doug Easley. Payne’s is known for its mustard slaw and barbecue bologna, but you can’t go wrong with anything on the menu. Shangri-La Records, in nearby Overton Square, buys, sells and trades LPs, CDs, DVDs, 7”/45s, 78s, books and magazines, sheet music, musical and stereo equipment, turntables, and music and pop culture memorabilia. There’s also a decent chance it’s having a party with live bands in the parking lot. Just a few blocks away is Ardent Studios, where some of the best music in modern history was and is still being produced. Overton Square has plenty of dining options, but in keeping with the weekend’s theme, try Coletta’s or Mortimer’s for dinner. Coletta’s is one of the city’s oldest Italian restaurants and another favorite of Elvis’. It’s known for its barbecue pizza, and the South Parkway location has one of the best old-school bars in town as well as an Elvis Room. Mortimer’s requires a quick trip east, but is a must for Big Star fans. The owner is Chris Bell’s sister, and there’s a dedicated Big Star room just next to the bar. Known as the Berclair Country Club, Mortimer’s will give you a taste of blue-collar class. The fare leans toward Cajun, but the menu has a little something for everyone. Saturday night should offer a number of opportunities to experience live music. In the summer and fall, the Levitt Shell in Overton Park hosts a free outdoor concert series that’s popular among locals and visitors alike. (Fun fact: The Shell is credited with the “first-ever rock ’n’ roll show,” thanks to a 1954 performance by Elvis.) 78 NOVEMBER 2019
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SPEND THE NIGHT: (Clockwise from top) After a nightcap a beloved dive bar Alex’s, turn in at music-themed Central Station or Dale Watson’s Little Graceland Airbnb, complete with Jungle Room. Wake up Sunday with coffee and music at Low Fi.
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The Green Room in Crosstown Concourse is another great option for a low-cost/high-interest performance. What was once a Sears Tower is now a bustling vertical urban village full of creative offerings. With art galleries, restaurants, a bar and a brewery, it is a great place to spend the evening. Be among the first to breathe life into an old haunt. Dale Watson recently restored Hernando’s Hide-a-way, which was once referred to as Jerry Lee Lewis’ “office” because he played there so often. Happy hour, live music, great burgers and fried catfish are on the bill. Night owls should head to either the Hi Tone, B-Side or DKDC for late-night live music. Wild Bill’s is another old-school, cash-only juke joint for more blues and guaranteed dancing. The nearby Alex’s Tavern is a beloved dive bar with two jukeboxes, lots of televisions, a famous Greek burger and equally popular Greek wings, a great staff and no official closing time. SUNDAY MORNING We recommend sleeping in, and then sipping a pour-over at Low Fi, which spins vinyl on Sunday mornings. Around 11 a.m., head to the Full Gospel Tabernacle, better known locally as Al Green’s church. The congregation is more than welcoming, as tourists and music-loving locals are frequent visitors to the Sunday service. Rev. Green, who arrives around noon or noon-thirty, will either be dressed in a colorful robe or a dark suit and sunglasses. Don’t expect him to bust out any of his top 40 hits, but he will most assuredly break into song with his seven-piece band (drums, piano, guitar, bass, keyboard, bongos, maracas) and color-coordinated choir backing him up. Tithing is encouraged. ($20 per person is a good rule.) Al’s church isn’t too far from Graceland, so pop over for a selfie at the front gates, write your name on the wall, or hey, take the tour! Before heading home, be sure to fill your belly with some soul food. The Four Way Inn or Jim & Samella’s House are both solid bets. They’re both likely to be crowded, but definitely worth the wait. If you’ve made it to Sunday and realized you didn’t eat enough barbecue, make your last stop Cozy Corner, about a mile from the Interstate 40 bridge, for one of its famous barbecued Cornish hens or some rib ends for the road. WHERE TO STAY The new Central Station Hotel (by Hilton) was designed with music lovers in mind. The lobby features a massive album cabinet for vinyl records, each of which is connected to Memphis in some way. A live DJ spins a selection of the 40,000 songs from afternoon to night. Songs can also be heard in the guestrooms — a playlist for the day and live music show listings are left outside the door each morning instead of a newspaper. (Call for availability before Dec. 22, book online afterward.) Around the corner from Graceland is singer Dale Watson’s Airbnb, Little Graceland, which rents for $160 a night. It features a Jungle Room and “WatSun Studio” in the basement. There’s a solid ’50s feel at the Airbnb, but it has all of the amenities a modern traveler needs: comfy beds, plenty of plugs and TVs, and even Alexa. Ask about the two Airstream trailers in the backyard if the dates you want are booked. Watson and his wife, Celine Lee, have lots of tourists staying there as well as bands coming through to record. Coming with a group? Check out another Airbnb listing: “A gift from Elvis to his doctor” sleeps 14 guests to the tune of $800 a night.
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HISTORY
Pecks’ Past
A LOOK AT OLD LITTLE ROCK VIA THE HOTEL SAM PECK. MEMOIRS BY HENRYETTA PECK AND ROBERT PECK
VINTAGE POSTCARD: The Sam Peck’s modern wing, opened in 1941 and shown at top left, was designed by famed architect Edward D. Stone.
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ity Director Capi Peck, who also owns and operates Trio’s Restaurant with partner Brent Peterson, spoke at a “History is Served” meal at the Historic Arkansas Museum in the summer. The museum’s special meals combine cultural history with culinary history, and Peck embodies both. She’s the granddaughter of Sam Peck, who with his wife, Henryetta, moved to Little Rock in 1935 to run the Hotel Freiderica, which they soon purchased and renamed the Sam Peck Hotel, and its restaurant. (Before moving to Little Rock, the Pecks lived in Fayetteville, where they ran the Hotel Washington, owned by the Fulbright family and located on the southwest corner of the square.) The Hotel Sam Peck restaurant’s famous Bing Cherry Jell-O Mold lives on at Trio’s. Peck shared a little history of the hotel, at 625 W. Capitol Ave., and her family at the dinner, reading excerpts of writings by her grandmother, Henryetta Peck, and her father, Robert Peck. The Arkansas Times’ own excerpts of those writings, along with a transcript from Harry Reasoner’s 1967 broadcast on the CBS program “Dimension,” were selected to provide 82 NOVEMBER 2019
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a hint to what life in Little Rock and Fayetteville in the first half of the 20th century was like. From Henryetta Peck, written around 1980: The Washington Hotel was an old building, but when we came [in 1929], the Fulbrights made a lot of improvements and the rooms were good values at $1.50 and $2 a person. The $2 rooms were corner ones looking out to the beautiful Ozarks, and when someone would rent one of those, it was cause for excitement. If I happened to be on the desk, as I usually was in the morning, I would locate Sam at once and announce, “He took a $2 room!” A little later, when we decided to raise these rooms to $2.50, it gave us a lot of worry as we just didn’t know whether people would pay that much or not. During this period, we served a delicious dinner for 50 cents. Besides the regular fare, we always passed something extra, such as hot spoonbread or relishes. Occasionally someone would ask us to substitute a T-bone steak for the meat on the dinner and we usually did this, another proof of our ignorance but also our eagerness for good will. Those depression days made permanent guests
very desirable, and we were able to get a number of attractive people to live at the Washington. We would all have great fun and joke together. One of the women who could not afford a room with a bath always said that after a few weeks, she learned to turn over in the lavatory. Helen Hurd was a single woman who lived with us and she was the most popular member of our little clique. At the time, the Veteran’s Hospital was being built in Fayetteville, and the workmen saved the day financially for us. … Our beloved permanents, several of whom had a living room and a bedroom adjoining, always joked and said that whenever Sam had a new prospect he would move some of the furniture out of their rooms into the new tenant’s. This was done when we were preparing for the arrival of Henry Rudd, and thereby hangs another tale. Arkansas, at this period, had a quick divorce law and attracted a number of people for this reason. One who caused the greatest excitement [called herself the] Princess Ami de Cherami, estranged wife of Prince Umberto, an Italian nobleman. The story went that the prince had kicked Ami down 106 steps, no more, no less, when she was pregnant. She was really a most glamorous
young woman, although in those days glamorous was not a word in common usage. Without the title, she would have caused a hubbub, but with the title she was totally irresistible. Saturday night we threw “shindigs” in our banquet room and called the room for this night only The Orchid Donkey. The princess was the star of the parties, and I am sure that we had to thank her for the big attendance we usually had. Shortly before her time was up, she asked me to take her to the post office for a package, which I gladly did. In the meantime, she’d confided in me that Mr. Henry Rudd, who had introduced dry ice on the market, would be arriving and that she would marry him the day her divorce became final. Well, the package turned out to be underwear she had ordered for her trousseau, but when I found that it was insured for $4,200, I could hardly deliver the princess and her package back to the apartment. … Well, Mr. Rudd arrived, the wedding took place, the happy couple left and all of the permanents got their furniture back so they didn’t have to sit on their beds anymore. From Robert Peck’s “Remembering Sam Peck,” unpublished, 1995, about the family, the hotel and the restaurant: Trips around the country provided the inspiration for many of the innovative dishes Arkansans sampled at the hotel. For instance: Caesar salad, not an uncommon salad on today’s menus, but unknown to Arkansas in the early 1940s. Several years before the war, Mother and Dad traveled to California via train. … My parents stayed in the Bel-Air Hotel in Hollywood, where they first watched the waiter prepare Caesar salad at the table. Sam brought the idea back to Little Rock, and Arkansans tasted their first Caesar salad at the Freiderica. Contrary to the tastes of the day, the Caesar met with moderate success. Arkansans at the time preferred a salad of head lettuce with Thousand Island dressing or French dressing. Unlike the Peck’s Special Salad, a variation from another trip, which was met with immediate and immense popularity. Today, Capi carries on the Peck Salad tradition at her restaurant, Trio’s. … Incidentally, the Bel-Air inspired the fern-covered stone wall with its dripping water and fireplace in the hotel’s Terrace Room. … Oh, about the name Freiderica. My parents had a lease-purchase agreement with Fred Allsopp, owner of the Arkansas Gazette [Allsopp was briefly a minority shareholder; he was its business manager for decades]. … His wife’s name was Freiderica. When the contract was paid in the mid 1940s, my father changed the name to the Sam Peck Hotel. … The Garden Room lived three lives: one at the Freiderica, the Washington in Fayetteville, and my favorite, on Fourth and Main Street, the Peacock Room. Emily Garwood sold the Peacock’s lease to Mother and Dad when she opened the famous Ole King Cole at Fifth and Broadway. The pre-Civil War building, red brick with long, narrow arched windows, also housed Dorothy Donelson Dance Studio up on the third floor. The structure often vibrated with those juvenile hoofers, registering low on the Richter Scale. … The Peacock was up a steep flight of stairs from the street: bright, airy, a space with high ceilings. Floors [were] painted brown splatter-dash and [there were] white enameled tables with legs of fluted columns and Chinese fretwork. … The Peacock enjoyed mid-day popularity. It was Mother’s responsibility; Dad kept the Freiderica
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THE HOTEL FREIDERICA: The predecessor to the Sam Peck Hotel opened in 1914. going. Only open for lunch, the restaurant was unprofitable. … The Peacock’s significant landmark was a large octagonal sign some twelve to fifteen feet tall made of Tiffany glass that hung from stout iron chains in front of the old building. In vibrant colors strutted a peacock. My father gave the unusual sign away. It ended up in Washington, D.C., transformed into a garden gazebo. … The hotel went through many remodelings, one of the most extensive being the forty-room addition, or annex, which Edward D. Stone designed. Luckily, the building was finished December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor Day and my dad’s birthday. What a splash the annex made! It was the only new and innovative construction in Little Rock for years. For open house, my father coached me until I memorized my speech about the Finnish Alvar Aalto furniture: slick, bentwood birch, Scandinavian stuff never seen in Arkansas. Ed Stone and my father designed much of the other furniture of bleached birch with copper wire wound legs and topped in a dark blue Formica, a new product at that time. The annex was a sawtooth shape, each room on a south corner, from where our prevailing breezes blew. Important before the days of air conditioning! Now the Freiderica had 100 rooms! … Ed stayed at the hotel with his mistress, Gwen Lux, the sculptor. She made a small terra cotta head of me and I fell in love with her. She did those terrific Shakespearean plaques in the Fine Arts Theater up in Fayetteville. I’ll take you back now to Little Rock in the mid-thirties, then a community of less than 80,000. The South was stagnant with limited opportunity. Life was hard for many people and prospects poor until the war broke out in 1941. One of the special landmarks was the Five Fifty Five building, also called 555. The monstrosity was a silver stucco building covering the entire block between Second and Third on Broadway. This Texaco station claimed to be the biggest filling station in the world. Two Model T Fords sat on the roof along with the Rainbow Garden, a dance place where I heard the famous trombonist Jack Teagarden. Of other curious note were two Sin-
clair Gas stations, shaped like mushrooms, that flanked the north and south ends of the State Capitol. Down on Markham, as the street reached Main, were a number of old brick buildings dating to the middle of the nineteenth century. Much of that part of town was a slum. … The hotel neighborhood was largely residential except for my school, Peabody Elementary [at Fifth and Gaines streets], directly across the street. The square bloc of playground surrounded another nineteenth century structure of granite, brick and stucco. … Down the street a block was the Coca-Cola Bottling Company with its large plate glass windows. My friends and I were fascinated, almost mesmerized, watching the conveyor belt scour and fill the bottles. On special days we were invited to tour the plant and receive a free Coke. … Many Peabody friends were undernourished. Each day I took a different boy to the hotel for lunch, for many the only square meal of the day. Saturday afternoons, I’d ride the streetcar down to Main Street. They were breezy, swinging affairs that cost three cents to ride. … In the opposite direction and much further was Fair Park swimming pool. … In the same direction was the scary insane asylum, a collection of Gothic buildings on a knoll. … The Central High crisis indirectly brought fame to the Sam Peck. During that time, news men from all over the country came to Little Rock, including Harry Reasoner. Reasoner stayed at the hotel. Several years later in a televised special about hotels, Reasoner stated at the end of his program that of all the places he had stayed through his travels his favorite was the Sam Peck. We got a lot of mileage from that. Another way the hotel achieved local fame was the year, around 1956 or so, that Winthrop Rockefeller lived in the penthouse. … Rockefeller had just gone through a messy divorce with Bobo. All the tabloids made a lot of it, and he was ready to get out of Dodge for the nondescript hinterlands. … My father … reported “Win” loved the apartment. It was nicer than anything on Park Avenue and so on. The only thing that bothered him were
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From Harry Reasoner’s April 11, 1967, televised comments: There are a lot of efficient and comfortable hotels and motels in the country now — it may be one area of most dramatic change and improvement in the United States since World War Two. But, there are only a few great ones — hotels with all the efficiency you need plus an indefinable personality. The Sam Peck is one of them, and I assume the credit was Sam’s. I remember one of my first stops there: I went down to the dining room for dinner and the special on the menu was Roast of Veal Financiere; I’m not knocking Arkansas when I say that’s not the item you expect to find in a dining room there. Furthermore, it was delicious. The waitress explained to me that every year when Mr. and Mrs. Peck come back from Europe, they worked out new daily French specials for the menu, and worked with the hotel chefs to make sure they would be right. That’s the way the hotel is run. … Sam Peck died last week at 62. Hotel-keeping, in the old and splendid sense, obviously satisfied him, and he had a fine life. One nice thing about being a great hotel-keeper is that you build your monument before you die, whether or not it carries your name. I have no idea what the plans are now in the Peck family, but I know there must be hundreds of their former guests who hope the hotel stays the way it was. It’s the kind of place we all need. *** The Pecks sold the hotel in 1972. There have been several owners since. The hotel, operating under the name Hotel Frederica, was closed in September after the recent owners, SHG Management LLC, failed to pay their state taxes.
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CANNABIZ OPENING IN FAYETTEVILLE: An artist’s rendering of the Arkansas Medical Card clinic that will help certify patients for medical marijuana.
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Another multi-doctor clinic opened in Arkansas within the past year: AR Cannabis Clinic. AR Cannabis Clinic’s website lists clinic locations accepting appointments in Little Rock (at 1121 S. Bowman Road), North Little Rock, Texarkana and Bentonville, as well as clinics “coming soon” in Fort Smith, Hot Springs, Fayetteville, Jonesboro, Pine Bluff, West Memphis, Clinton and El Dorado. AR Cannabis Clinic did not return calls for more information by press time. To obtain a state medical marijuana card, a person must have a doctor’s certification that he or she has at least one of 18 qualifying medical conditions approved by the Arkansas Department of Health. Shore said some patients may be reluctant to get a card because of what they may encounter when seeking the physician’s certification. The clinic “allows patients that are seeking treatment for medical marijuana to
ijuana card, but added that “if a patient, for example, doesn’t get approved by one of our physicians that we know tends to be more strict, we would let them have a free evaluation with a different physician to see if that might do it, because we don’t put pressure on the physicians.” Any medical doctor or doctor of osteopathy licensed to practice in Arkansas with a current DEA number — meaning they’re allowed by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to write prescriptions for controlled substances — is authorized to sign the physician certification form for a patient seeking a state medical marijuana card. Shore said Arkansas Marijuana Card is working with two physicians who do “other part-time work” in the state, but he expects the number of doctors employed by the clinic to increase as Arkansas’s medical marijuana program expands. In Ohio, Shore said, a “wide
Shore said clinic doctors are knowledgeable and understanding. do so from a doctor that is compassionate and understanding and knowledgeable about how marijuana works. They don’t need to go through the process of asking, or being nervous about asking, their primary care provider. … Many primary care providers are not familiar with marijuana or not open to recommending it.” Parent company Ohio Medical Alliance opened its first clinic in May 2018 after the Ohio legislature legalized medical marijuana in 2016. Since then, the company has opened nine more clinics in Ohio and seen “over 20,000 patients.” Shore said that in Ohio, “over 90 percent” of patients who brought in their medical records were approved by a physician for a card. Shore said patients “usually” bring their medical records to the clinic to provide evidence of their qualifying condition. “It’s hard for the doctor to confirm they have a diagnosis without any medical records,” he said. To help patients who come to Arkansas Marijuana Card without a referral from their primary care doctor, or for those without access to records from past treatment, Shore said the clinic has a medical records team that helps patients track down the information. “We don’t want to waste the doctor’s time, we don’t want to waste the patient’s time taking a trip out to our office, so we speak to them [before their visit] and make sure they have a qualifying condition,” Shore said. “If they’re 20 years old, they’ve never been to a doctor, and they have back pain, they’re probably not going to get approved.” Shore said it is “each physician’s discretion” to approve or deny a patient for a medical mar-
range” of doctors work for the state’s 10 clinics. “We’ve got people who had a career in hematology in Ohio, or are anesthesiologists. Some are retired, some still work part time, and we have a few physicians who work with us full time,” Shore said. “So I imagine it will be the same in Arkansas, with a mix of people doing part time, some people starting their career doing this full time, or retired physicians working part time after they’ve already sold their private practice. It’s a nice, diverse group.” Arkansas Marijuana Card does not accept insurance. Shore said no physician or clinic offering evaluations on a patient’s eligibility for a medical marijuana card can accept insurance “because there’s no billing code for an evaluation for the purposes of obtaining medical marijuana.” Shore said some clinics take insurance and bill the evaluation as a “normal consult,” but Arkansas Marijuana Card — and all of Ohio Medical Alliance’s clinics — wants to “stay on the safe side of not misleading by omission when dealing with the insurance companies.” Shore said Arkansas Marijuana Card charges patients a fee of $260, which covers patients for a year. Follow-ups with a doctor after an initial appointment are free. Shore added that the company “understands that’s a lot out of pocket for some people,” so patients have the option to split the $260 fee into two or three payments. AR Cannabis Clinic’s website lists a $250 fee for “new patient certification” and a $100 follow-up appointment fee. Pure Care Clinic’s website lists its 30-minute “medical marijuana patient recommendation” service for $150, which includes the physician evaluation as well as
assistance submitting the ADH application for a state medical marijuana card. The state also charges a $50 application fee. Before its opening in October, a press release from Arkansas Marijuana Card said the clinic had already scheduled appointments with “hundreds” of patients. Shore said the clinic was able to “get in front of the right audience” largely through “organic search and social media,” which he said was also key to the company’s launch of its first clinic in Ohio. He added that “advertising is very restrictive” in the industry: Companies that sell cannabis products can’t run ads on Google, Facebook or Instagram because of the platforms’ terms of service, so Ohio Medical Alliance has to rely on “great content and great information” being shared by patients who use their services. While advertising within the cannabis industry can be tricky, Shore said Ohio Medical Alliance was able to open its Fayetteville clinic without having to navigate the layers of red tape faced by marijuana cultivators and dispensaries, who must work closely with the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission. “Everything else is so heavily regulated — the dispensaries, the cultivators, the processors, the testing facilities — but ... the program sets out rules for doctors to recommend [and] how they should recommend, and then we employ doctors that are certified to do so,” Shore said. “We just employ physicians that happen to provide a specific service.” Shore said the company has “reached out” to the state Medical Marijuana Commission, and it expects to have more interaction with the commission once patients at the Fayetteville clinic submit their applications to the state. The president added that Ohio Medical Alliance has a “very good working relationship” with the Ohio Board of Pharmacy. In addition to the company’s 10 clinics in Ohio, the Ohio Medical Alliance has opened three clinics in Missouri. Shore said the company decided it was going to enter Arkansas “maybe three or four months ago.” It began the process by researching existing clinics in Arkansas and examining the medical marijuana amendment to ensure the company would be able to “effectively help patients in the state.” Shore said some states require that patients have an existing three- or six-month relationship with the doctor who signs their physician certification form, which “makes it impossible for our specialized clinics to come into those states.” The company signed its lease for the Fayetteville office “about a month ago,” Shore said. Shore said Ohio Medical Alliance hopes to open Arkansas Marijuana Card locations in Fort Smith, Little Rock, Hot Springs and Jonesboro by the end of 2019. The president acknowledges this is a “big push,” but he feels “pretty confident” they’ll be able to do so: Shore said the company opened six clinics in Ohio within three months. As of Oct. 18, the ADH has approved 25,905 medical marijuana ID cards, and as of Oct. 22 the state’s 10 dispensaries have sold over 2,159 pounds of cannabis, totaling $15.36 million in sales.
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nd now, The Observer’s Big Idea for Little Rock, which we fully expect to go nowhere, even if it would be crazy fun and cool and bring to our burg one of those things that we always hear folks complain only happens in other cities where things actually happen. Still, we figger if we’re not going to actually use this precious space in the marketplace of ideas to push for the stuff that would actually make this city we love into a city we love even more, we prolly oughta hang up our spurs and call it quits. So here goes: It’s probably November where you are now, reading this, all the Halloween candy eaten and the skeletons packed away for another boring 364 days, a full winter and spring and summer to go before the blessed month of October rolls round again. October has always been our favorite month. Call us an old fart if you must, but by Oct. 1, The Observer is always sick and gatdamn tired of hot weather in every way possible, ready to stuff those sunbunnies who live for summer, margaritas and suntan oil into a barrel and push them down a boat ramp in their flipflops and cutoff shorts. October! Now that’s a month! After the wholesome, back-to-school goodness of August and September, but before the schmaltzy, sugarplum sweetness of Thanksgiving and Christmas (the latter of which The Observer never took much a shine to other than as an opportunity to eat more pie), we get one bare month of the year when it’s OK to be a bit moody and dark, to contemplate the mysterious and the spooky and those things that move by night. Back when Junior was a lad, we celebrated our love of Halloween and October in 98 NOVEMBER 2019
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grand style in the front yard of The Observatory, along with a blowout Halloween party to which we invited a truckload of our kin. There for a solid decade in the 2000s and early 20-teens, our yard sprouted anybody’s definition of an attractive nuisance the last weekend of September, complete with a 15-occupant graveyard of lovingly crafted foam headstones, a rickety black picket fence, and a set of leaning cemetery gates with the word “CEMETERY” above, set off in glowing red neon. One year, we even had a ghost on a wire, powered by the motor from an old box fan we’d cannibalized, our captive spook zipping back and forth from tree to tree trailing an appropriate length of cheesecloth shroud. Another October, The Observer built a wooden crate for one corner of the veranda that, when activated by a pressure plate hidden under the welcome mat, shook and rattled, the chained lid banging up and down while monstrous growls — recorded by Yours Truly in our cozy, echoing bathroom — issued forth. For us, Halloween has become the greatest thing one can do with underpants on, a chance for adults to be kids again and for kids to consider an insulated-by-fun glimpse of all those things that you must confront as an adult: the unknown, the macabre, the unsettling. Don’t tell anybody, lest they think Spouse and Her Loving Man as oddballs, but to this day, the dining hall of The Observatory, which also does duty as a library, cat rumpus room and Junior’s computer cafe, is decorated year-round in Halloween style, with foam pumpkins and skulls and great Halloween decorations of yore that we cooked up once upon a time. And so, a modest — and not altogether un-
selfish — proposal for Little Rock: Let’s start the tradition of decorating Hillcrest, Stifft Station and/or Capitol View for Halloween with the same vigor other Little Rock neighborhoods decorate for Christmas. In a city that always seems to be looking for ways to set itself apart as something other than a place to stop for gas and a pee break on the way somewhere else, a bit of Halloweentown Spirit could quite quickly become a major claim to fame. Hand out some awards from City Hall for Best Halloween Decorations. Get some attention from the folks with satellite vans. You know, the important stuff. Already in Little Rock, there are a few weirdoes like The Observer who have shown us the way, doing up Halloween right every year at two houses at Markham and Mississippi with a platoon of skeletons warring on the lawn and creepy lighting galore. How fun it would be to have houses like that for block upon block! The Observer gets positively giddy at the prospect. #HauntHillcrest2020 and #SpookifyStifftStation is a long shot, but worth a shot. Next year, we’ve already decided, we’re going to lead by example, dragging all the foam headstones and Halloween goodies out of mothballs and setting them up again out front of our little house on Maple Street, in the way we haven’t since Junior was a lad. It’s the least we can do, we figure, for a month that gives us an obscene amount of joy. And if others want to join in, who are we to stop ’em? Maybe it’ll even become A Thing. This is, after all, the month when witches and spirits are said to walk the gloom, and tens of millions of strangers hand out free candy to any little beggar who wants to ring the doorbell. Given that, we figure anything is possible.
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