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COMMENT

Thanks What can we say about your 20 impressive years? You have defied the odds, and kept a much-needed balance of news, business and social reporting alive in our beloved state. Your Arkansas spirit shines boldly in every issue, even when the topic is contentious.

Thank you for your tenacity. You are all an amazing example of true grit in the face of journalistic adversity. We wish you many more years of success.

Rita Mitchell-Harvey Little Rock

Hines doesn’t get it Little Rock City Director Lance Hines (Ward 5) is not very good with analogies. He is quoted in the May 16 Democrat-Gazette, saying, “I would equate [Occupy Little Rock] to a houseguest who had worn out his welcome ...”

He is equating a collective political movement in a public space with an open-ended invitation from the city manager to an invitation to a private house. He is overlooking First Amendment rights of speech, assembly, and petition. I wonder if he had a decent political science course; if so where?

Robert Johnston Little Rock

On racial profiling Your cover story and sidebar (“Treacherous intersections,” May 16) on driving while Latino was pretty good as far as they went. Your reporters did a pretty good job of seeming to indict the Bryant and Benton police departments for racial profiling.

But a little more investigative journalism would have helped if you were trying to show the Bryant and Benton police are guilty of racial profiling in their traffic stops. Your Hispanic sister newspaper must have enough Hispanic staff members that you could have sent a couple three-car teams to drive around with video cameras recording each car to show whether or not the police are making kosher traffic stops.

Nothing beats a visual record of people driving and how the police act.

If the stops were legal, then the arrests and detaining for ICE would be proper for someone without an Arkansas driver’s license or other proof of residence. Without a proper Social Security number or photo identification, how are lawmen suppose to track an illegal alien down if they skip a court date or don’t pay a ticket or fine?

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Southwest Little Rock, North Little Rock, Sherwood and Jacksonville, and maybe those in Northwest Arkansas. All these areas have growing Hispanic populations. How was the reader supposed to tell if the number of stops is out of line with other local areas?

As someone who has lived in San Antonio, Laredo and Del Rio, Texas, in the 1980s, plus Germany in the late 1970s — with visits to London, Paris and Amsterdam — I can testify that people from other countries have different driving habits and skills. What they consider OK driving was often

considered unacceptable by Americans, from military police on European bases to Hispanic police officers in South Texas. Does Mexico have high school driver’s education classes like many Americans take? Did the people you interviewed even study the driver’s license manual before they started to break the law and drive without insurance and a license? Why didn’t they get an international driver’s license before leaving their home country?

In many other countries, foreign economical criminals, which illegal aliens are, don’t have any rights. Getting

detained for ICE is nothing compared to the treatment Americans receive in those countries, especially in Latin America and the Middle East.

A story in the San Antonio ExpressNews the week of Mother’s Day detailed how the Del Rio sector of the Border Patrol is jailing and holding for trial all the illegal aliens they capture. Under a 1950s law, most of the illegal aliens serve time in prison after being convicted or just admitting to entering the country illegal. If they are arrested again, then they face a much longer sentence as a convicted felon. According to the story, the number of illegal aliens trying to cross in that section of the border has plunged dramatically.

Yes, it’s sad when illegal aliens get separated from their kids who are American citizens. But the parents are economical criminals. If they don’t want to take a chance on getting stopped in Saline County, then the simple answer is to move to Little Rock or south Pulaski County and avoid Saline County. And, to stop driving. ICE won’t ever capture all the undocumented aliens.

Nothing will change until the U.S. adopts a modified DREAM Act and constitutional amendment that provides that U.S. citizenship requires at least one parent to be a citizen. This would put an end to new anchor babies being born in the U.S. In short, to get Republican support, any new plan must also provide that any undocumented alien who remains in the country would be guilty of a felony offense.

For the Democrats, the only exception would be employed aliens who have a child or parent who is a citizen or has a green card. They would be issued a new ICE/IRS taxpayer ID number with photo identification but wouldn’t be eligible for welfare benefits and couldn’t apply for citizenship unless they served in the military for four years first. They could get the current green card status if they pay a fine and back taxes for however long they had been in the country as an undocumented alien.

With such a DREAM Act amendment, ICE could then concentrate more on stopping new aliens from crossing the border and ICE and the IRS could deal with single illegal aliens without kids and employers still hiring aliens without this new taxpayer ID number.

Keith Weber Jacksonville

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EDITORIAL

EYE ON ARKANSAS

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BRIAN CHILSON

“R

ick Santorum has now said openly that he doesn’t believe in the separation of church and state. He doesn’t believe, in other words, that Americans should have the freedom to pick their own religion or to have no religion at all, and as president, he’ll try to put a stop to it, the hell with the First Amendment. In Santorum’s America, people would be allowed to adopt Rick Santorum’s religion, and those who chose otherwise would be free to leave the country, or go to jail, or burn. Plenty of choices there.” — Arkansas Times, Feb. 29.

Rick Santorum has involuntarily retired from presidential politics, but his brutal vision for America lives on. Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is the point man now. In an interview with a worshipful Bill O’Reilly in March, Dolan said the idea of a wall of separation between church and state was “crazy, ludicrous” and “un-American.” Dolan was the spokesman this week when Catholic schools and dioceses sued the Obama administration for exemption from a federal law requiring employers to provide workers free birth control as a part of their health insurance. (Workers don’t have to use the birth control, of course.)

Dolan said the suit was about “religious liberty.”

This is the same argument the Catholic Church has made in Washington for years, seeking public money for the church’s parochial schools: “Our religion entitles us to special treatment.” As Americans United for Separation of Church and State has said, “To the bishops, ‘religious liberty’ has a very specific meaning.

The church hierarchy tends to use the term when seeking to have church dogma written into law for all Americans to follow or when they’re demanding exemptions from general laws that apply to all groups.” The argument is used against same-sex marriage too, even though no churches are required to perform such ceremonies.

Frighteningly, some right-wing fundamentalist groups have now joined the campaign for school vouchers, so they can get a school system like the Catholics have, and further undermine the public schools that most children attend, and that provide opportunities for low-income and minority students that will never be theirs in parochial schools. Frightening too, is the knowledge that two-thirds of the members of the U.S. Supreme Court are Catholics, and four of them are arch-conservative, Republican appointees almost sure to vote with their church’s leadership in a dispute with a liberal Protestant president. A fifth is likely to join them. This is a political lawsuit, and this Supreme Court is the most political in American history, the only one to override the people’s choice of a president, the only one to hold that rich people are more entitled to political free speech than poor people.

When this country tears down the wall between church and state, it will be a very different and poorer country. It will no longer be truly free.

CUFFED: Occupy Little Rock spokesman Greg Deckelman was arrested along with three others last Wednesday when they refused to leave the parking lot at Fourth and Ferry Streets that had been home to the Occupy Little Rock camp before their camping permit from the city had expired. Deckelman has said he’ll file a civil rights lawsuit.

A sit-in to re-Occupy LR

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obert Johnston, the former state legislator and Public Service Commission member and fulltime advocate for peace, the homeless and pedestrian safety, among other causes, has an idea.

It’s inspired by Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant.”

Remember it? Why, if just three people walked in singing “Alice’s Restaurant,” someone might think it was an organization. And if 50 started singing? “... friends they may think it’s a movement.”

So Johnston has invited sympathizers and Mayor Mark Stodola to join him in a few bars of what I’ll call the “Re-Occupy Little Rock Rag.” At 9 a.m. Thursday at Fourth and Ferry, the site from which Occupy Little Rock was recently evicted and four people were arrested, Johnson intends to plunk down on a lawn chair with a cool drink and sit for an hour.

He wrote the mayor: “I will be exercising my 1st Amendment Rights of free speech, free petition to the government and assembly (if at least one other patriotic soul joins me).”

He said he’ll leave at 10 a.m., but encourages others to stay and sit a spell longer. And he plans to return every Thursday.

“I hope one or more others will pick up the spot, the chair, the umbrella and the sign (supplemented by other signs perhaps).

“This is sometimes known as a protest, sometimes as a vigil, sometimes as a sit-in. It has a long tradition in America.”

If nothing else, it could be Little Rock’s own “Group W bench,” after the place where draft-era misfits like Guthrie were consigned. Out in Chenal Valley, City Director Lance Hines and his ilk can snigger in the men’s grill about such nonconformists and their unsightly demonstrations. But you know the lawn chairs will upset his delicate aesthetic sensibilities, just as OLR’s tents did.

What is Johnston protesting? How poorly the 1 percent fared compared with the 99 percent during

the recession, for one thing.

Also the imbalance in political power between the two groups.

He told the mayor he and OLR have other protests “most or all of which are legitimate and MAX deserve attention from the BRANTLEY maxbrantley@arktimes.com political powers in this country, including you.”

Just don’t call the Occupy camp or Johnston’s day camp an eyesore.

“You want eyesore?” he wrote Stodola. “I can take you to 47 worse eyesores in this city. “ Occupy’s camp was a “testimonial to American freedom and the U.S. Constitution,” Johnston wrote.

It made him proud of the country and city. Now he’s ashamed by the city’s eviction and feels strongly enough to risk arrest himself.

His letter asks Stodola to come down to his lawn chair Thursday and talk. I suspect Johnston understands that the city is through talking. The establishment has ruled, prevailed and moved on.

You might as well try to get Mayor Stodola to talk about the $22 million he gave the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce to throw dozens, maybe hundreds, of people out of their homes to make way for an office building for private enterprise. You might just as well ask him to allow non-establishment representation on the board of the chamber-created, publicly financed agency that will throw Little Rock residents from their home with their own tax money. You might just as well ask him for a full accounting of how the chamber spends the tax money he gives them.

The chamber certainly won’t be singing any choruses of “Alice’s Restaurant” with Johnston. But it will happily supply the muscle to elect candidates who’ll pull the plug on Johnston’s amplifiers. City leaders know that tune by heart.

OPINION

Romney may rue Bush involvement

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ou can appreciate Mitt Romney’s his name so assidudilemma. The economy is supposed ously the next day to be the win-or-lose issue in the that the media had presidential election, and your advantage to take notice. In a is that voters tend to forget fairly soon speech in Florida in how the bad times started and instead which he attacked ERNEST blame the man who inherited them. But President Obama’s DUMAS how do you avoid triggering inconvenient debt and spending memories? record, Romney alluded to Bush five times, George W. Bush, who left office only but each time only as the president’s “pre40 months ago with a 22 percent approval decessor.” He said Obama had justly critirating, has helped the cause by staying out cized the big deficits of his predecessor of sight and out of mind — until last week, but Obama’s were worse. when he told an ABC reporter as he was That has been Romney’s refrain for squeezing into an elevator that he sup- a long time. He can justify it by the raw ported Mitt Romney for president. numbers, as long as he doesn’t have to Romney has rarely uttered the name of explain them, but in a head-to-head camthe former Republican president whose paign with the president rather than with taxing and spending practices, including a choir of Republican candidates it will a fourfold increase in military spending, be unavoidable. Obama’s deficit and debt sent the national debt spiraling out of con- numbers are worse because the econtrol and whose regulatory and economic omy was in a free-fall when he took office. policies produced the worst economic Bush’s wars and the rising cost of income collapse since 1929. security in the recession meant necessarRomney called Bush to thank him for ily rising deficits and debt. the endorsement and then avoided using Yes, there was Obama’s big stimulus

program. It came to $815 billion, spread over three years. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office calculated that it added from 500,000 to 3.3 million jobs and raised GDP by up to 4.5 percent — better than Bush’s record the preceding three years.

Romney has two big problems with his argument about the failure of Obama’s economic initiatives.

First, when he was governor of Massachusetts and his state was failing to keep up with other states climbing out of the little Bush recession of 2001, Romney proposed stimulus programs with taxpayers’ money totaling $600 million, mostly bribes to corporations to hire workers. It would come to $30,000 a job.

Second, Romney’s oft-repeated charge that Obama inherited a bad economy and job situation and then proceeded to make it much worse will not withstand a minute’s debate.

When Obama took office the economy was losing an average of 750,000 jobs a month. The job losses shrank as the stimulus kicked in that summer until October, when the unemployment rate bottomed out at 10 percent. The jobless rate now is 8.1 percent and it may not get back to Bush’s ending rate of 7.6 percent before the election, but the reason for that is per-

verse for Romney, if he cares to pursue it.

The economy has regained about 4.3 million private-sector jobs so that there are more people employed in the private sector than when Bush was president. The jobless rate is still high because in the same period the number of government workers has fallen by 607,000 and governments are continuing to shed jobs. Republican orthodoxy is that eliminating government jobs is supposed to be a good thing.

That unpopular bailout that Romney sometimes subtly acknowledges was Bush’s? Obama modified it by making shareholders take a haircut and forcing $140 billion of private money to recapitalize the 19 largest banks and unfreeze the lending market. The result was the banks repaid taxpayers with interest. Under the predecessor plan, the taxpayers might still be out $700 billion.

Same story with the automakers. They were going under with the Bush bailout.

Obama re-engineered it, demanded that workers take a hit and put in more cash.

America now has a growing auto industry and most of the $80 billion has been returned to the treasury.

If George W. Bush will stay off the stage, maybe Romney can stick to the simple message and avoid those troublesome details.

Corporations cry foul

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orporations are people too, and people get their feelings hurt.

What’s more, the richer they are these days, the more sensitive they seem to be. It’s reminiscent of that Hans Christian Anderson story of the “Princess and the Pea.” You know, where the tender young virgin is so delicate that a single pea hidden under seven feather mattresses keeps her awake all night. That’s how the prince satisfies himself that she’s a real aristocrat.

So it is with Mitt Romney, GOP presidential candidate and one-time corporate buccaneer. When Romney’s not running around boasting about his enormous success running Bain Capital and accusing others of envying the vast wealth he’s got stashed in numbered accounts in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands, his tender sensibilities are constantly being offended by peasants whining about lost jobs and stolen pensions.

Why do they hate America?

Anyway, his thin skin is how you know Romney’s an aristocrat. Ever since reckless gambling by Wall Street investment bankers cratered the world economy back in 2008, their collective self-pity has been something to see. It’s not enough that taxpayers should bail them out, and then watch them go back to awarding each other multi-million dollar bonuses like

equated the ads with attacks on Jeremiah tal and other Wall Street firms donated Wright, the strident Chicago preacher $565,000 to his 2002 mayoral campaign.

President Obama had to explain away He comes by his understanding of Wall Street’s hurt feelings naturally. one of those childuring the 2008 campaign. dren’s athletic Now Booker says what should have So does President Obama. Bain Capital programs where been obvious all along: the Obama cam- donated more to Democrats than Repubeverybody gets a paign wasn’t condemning private equity licans in 2008. Indeed, the most notewortrophy. firms (much less capitalism). Rather, the thy thing about this latest kerfuffle is how Evidently, it’s ads pointed out that for somebody who mild Democratic attacks on Romney have GENE our patriotic duty boasts of being a job creator, Romney been. During the GOP primaries, Rick LYONS to pretend that and Bain Capital put an awful lot of peo- Perry derided him as a “vulture capitalnothing ever happened, and to reject ple out of work over the years, walking ist.” The Texas governor ran ads claiming attempts to regulate Wall Street both as away with millions in profits while leav- he’d “made millions buying companies an impediment to genius and an assault ing behind companies bankrupted by and laying off workers.” Newt Gingrich upon capitalism itself. Hence the Rom- debt, shuttered factories, jobless workers said Romney should “give back all the ney candidacy — yet another GOP prep screwed out of health care benefits, and money he’s earned from bankrupting school cheerleader, and a credit to his pensions left for the Federal government companies and laying off employees over social class. to pick up. his years at Bain.”

Because Romney was born rich and In his Washington Post column, E.J. A bit too late, Booker also says he made himself fabulously wealthy through resents the GOP making use of his ill- Dionne noticed Vice President Biden Bain Capital, to question how he did it is considered remarks to hurt Obama. making a broader argument than Obama akin to insulting his birthright. And that For what it’s worth, Newark’s mayor has yet permitted himself. Speaking in simply isn’t done. It appears to make him himself isn’t quite the person you might Youngstown, Ohio, Biden criticized ramhonestly indignant. Romney, you see, was take him for. He’s an IBM executive’s son pant “financialization” as an economic born qualified for the presidency. raised in the Manhattan bedroom com- strategy. For working people to prosper, At first glance, one wouldn’t expect munity of Harrington Park, N.J., a town he argued, what’s needed is an economy Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, New with a median family income of $124,376 “that’s built on making things rather than Jersey, for heaven’s sake, to be down with in the 2000 census — the kind of place on collateralized debt, creative creditthat kind of thing. Indeed, Booker’s been where you can’t swing a golf club without default swaps, [and] financial instruments walking back his ill-advised remarks on hitting a Wall Street banker. like subprime mortgages.”

“Meet the Press” about how “nauseating” An enormously talented fellow, Lest anybody in Ohio forget, Biden he found Democratic ads exposing the Booker holds degrees from Stanford, also reminded them that while Presidark side of Bain Capital.

Oxford University and Yale Law School. dent Obama saved the auto industry, Mitt “I have to just say from a very personal Rather like President Obama, he’s been Romney thought it would have been more level,” Booker had said “I’m not about to rubbing elbows with the Mitt Romneys efficient to break the labor unions and let sit here and indict private equity.” He’d of the world most of his life. Bain Capi- General Motors die. www.arktimes.com

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Who’s on first: I don’t follow professional basketball, but I look at the sports pages enough to know there’s a player now calling himself Metta World Peace (having changed his name from Ron Artest) and that he’s best known for committing acts of violence against fans and other players. Names like this used to be confined to professional wrestling; the Swedish Angel, you’ll remember, was hardly angelic. Basketball players must be developing their own sense of irony.

According to Peace’s publicist, “Metta” is a traditional Buddhist word that means “Loving kindness and friendliness towards all.” “World” and “Peace” are English words that normally mean “World Peace,” but that may not apply in basketball.

Peace recently was suspended for seven games because he delivered an elbow — “viciously,” USA Today said — to the head

of an opposing player. Peace says he chose his new name to inspire young people, but to do what? It’s DOUG probably for the SMITH better if they’re not dougsmith@arktimes.com watching. Peace seems less metta than anti-metta.

Since the elbowing incident, Peace has refused to shake hands and make up with the player he KO’d, explaining that the other player is only a substitute, while Peace shakes hands only with first-teamers. He’s gracious as well as peaceful.

A few years back, a football player in the old XFL called himself “He Hate Me.” He may have been more victim than aggressor, as his name suggests. At least I don’t remember Mr. Me being as belligerent as Mr. Peace.

Not a lot: “Two Rivers Bridge draws crowd …

‘We knew the numbers were going to be excessive, but I think even we were a little shocked,’ said the road and bridge director.”

Michael Klossner writes: “ ‘Excessive’ does not mean ‘a lot.’ It would have been an excessive number if it caused the bridge to collapse.”

WEEK THAT WAS

It was a good week for…

A BIG SCREEN. The Razorback football team is getting a $4.6 million new video screen (and related sign upgrades) for Razorback stadium, described as “one of the biggest in college football.” It’s 38 feet by 167 feet. One of? One of? Why not THE biggest?

A SMEAR CAMPAIGN. A flyer created surreptitiously has begun circulating in the Arkansas business community to encourage people not to sign petitions to improve Arkansas ethics law. The flyer falsely claims that the Campaign Finance and Lobbying Reform Act is aimed at limiting the influence of small business on Arkansas politics.

See more in The Insider (page 10).

It was a bad week for…

JERMAIN TAYLOR. The boxer was named in a sexual assault claim.

According to Maumelle police, officers responded to a reported disturbance at a Maumelle hotel on Friday, where they made contact with a 27-year-old woman who said she and Taylor fought after she arrived at the hotel to have sex with him for money.

After she was taken to a hospital to treat an ankle injury she said she sustained in the altercation, she claimed she was raped by Taylor. The investigation was ongoing at press time and no charges had been filed against Taylor.

CIRCUIT JUDGE SAM POPE. The Hamburg judge faces review by the state Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission for a physical altercation with his ex-wife and a male friend April 5 in the Crossett Walmart. A Crossett police report indicated that Pope, 58, greeted Bill Murray, 57, of Crossett, with the words “Hello, ass” when he saw him with Pope’s ex-wife Gale Zimmerman at Walmart.

Murray replied “Hello, ass” and the two began fighting. Pope complained that his ex-wife had struck him three times and he wanted to press charges. Walmart security separated Pope and Murray, the police report said, and when police arrived, Pope reportedly “kept trying to get to Bill Murray,” who “had blood on both sides of his face.” Police arrested both men at the store, but released them shortly after when both agreed to not press charges. No citations were issued.

THE ARKANSAS TIMES. Our weekly edition went to press on Tuesday afternoon, hours before primary and judicial elections polls closed. As usual, our daily news operation, arktimes.com, will have complete post-election coverage.

THE OBSERVER

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NOTES ON THE PASSING SCENE

The fall of Fourth and Ferry THE OBSERVER HEADED OUT to the

Occupy Little Rock camp at Fourth and Ferry last Thursday for the last time. It was the deadline, the last day, the Big Adios. Even though the City Fathers had told the OLR folks they could stay there as long as they liked if they’d get the heck off the lawn of the Clinton Presidential Library last year, they’d had a change of heart, basically telling OLR they didn’t mean FOREVER when they said forever, and yanking Occupy’s permit to stay. The city needed that lot for bus parking, don’t you know? Well ... overflow bus parking, anyway. At 7 a.m. that morning, the permit was officially kaput, and anybody who wanted to stand his ground at Fourth and Ferry when the cops chose to take it back was subject to arrest.

The Observer was there at 6:30 a.m., and we waited with 20 or so souls from OLR and maybe 15 other members of the Mainstream Media as the OLR folks cleaned up some, laughed some, complained a bit, and burned sticks and wads of twine in an old washing machine drum at the center of the lot. Talking to them, there was a sense that the lid was coming down on a place that meant quite a bit in their lives. There was a sense that, for a moment, they’d caught something real by the tail, but it was slipping away again into the dark, maybe never to be seen again. The Observer was there last fall when they marched on the Capital building, several hundred strong. Here, on a lovely, bluesky Thursday, was where that march ended.

Some we spoke to said that the OLR camp in Little Rock was the final original Occupation on public land in the nation. We haven’t had the heart to check out whether that was true or not. If it is true, it’s a testament to the fortitude of OLR and the evenhandedness of the City of Little Rock, no matter how you see the endgame.

Where some municipalities came in with dozers and riot gear within a few weeks of the Occupations in a lot of big cities, Little Rock at least

tried to let it play out and die a natural death. When OLR stubbornly held on through the winter and into the spring, they pulled the plug.

We sat there all day on Thursday, through lunch, finally moving a lawn chair into the shade of a tree as the day wore on. At one point, a truck rushed by on the Interstate and a man in the window shouted, “Get a job!” Most of the Occupiers didn’t even look up at that. They’ve surely heard that line enough that it has dissolved into the general noise.

At 2 p.m., the police arrived. First they blocked off the streets around the lot at 4th and Ferry, then started working their way around the perimeter of the lot — from tree to lamp post to tree — with a roll of yellow police tape. There had been quite a bit of speechifying earlier in the day about what would happen at that moment, but in the end, all but four of the Occupiers retreated outside the tape. Of the four who remained, two were Baby Boomers, old enough to be grandfathers. There’s a message in that, but we don’t know exactly what, and probably wouldn’t want to say if we had a suspicion. It’s hard to armchair-quarterback a thing like that. Who in their right mind, after all, wants to go to jail?

After a brief chat with the chief of police, who strolled over with a smile and a cup of coffee in his hand like he was greeting kinfolks at the family reunion, the four were cuffed. In short order, they were led to vans and driven away. As the remaining Occupiers watched from outside the tape, a dog and his handler began roaming the site, the dog pushing his nose into the piles of clothes and wooden pallets. By then, 30 or more cops had moved in. Some of them wore white haz-mat suits, the officers searching, stooping, picking up, taking photos of the lopsided and forlorn tents that remained.

The Occupiers began trickling away. After awhile, we followed.

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Who sent it? So far, nobody’s talking. It carried not even the name of an ad hoc committee, much less a person’s name, phone number or e-mail address. Spokesmen for the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce, the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Poultry Federation and the National Federation of Independent Business — all lobbies that might look critically at a law to reduce corporate influence in politics — all disclaimed involvement.

A grassroots group, Regnat Populus 2012, crafted the proposal to end direct corporate contributions to candidates, as federal election law does. It also would end gifts to lawmakers by lobbyists or anyone else and impose a two-year waiting period for a lawmaker hoping to become a lobbyist.

A newer committee, Better Ethics Now, was formed to raise money to pay petition canvassers to get the 63,000 signatures necessary to put the proposal on the ballot. Its members include a bipartisan list of well-known political figures, including Dale Bumpers, John Paul Hammerschmidt and Jim Keet.

The flyer claimed the initiated act would limit the influence of “small business” on government and argued it would limit First Amendment freedoms. Says who?

If the law makes the ballot, the backers of the surreptitious flyer will eventually have to identify themselves. The shape of the argument made on the flyer could be a tip to a coming court challenge.

Speaking of legal challenges Neighborhood opposition continues to be fierce to the idea of condemning private homes to acquire land on which to build the proposed Little Rock Technology Park.

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SOUTHERN PARAMEDIC: Ambulance couldn’t leave county to transport dying man.

For want of an ambulance Clinton man’s death puts spotlight on EMT woes.

BY LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK

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he death of former City Attorney Brett Blakney of Clinton May 4 for lack of transportation to a major trauma center played out against a history of legal battles in Clinton and Van Buren County over ambulance service.

Blakney, 43, the owner of the Black Dog Grill restaurant, was taken to Van Buren County Memorial Hospital at around 10 p.m. May 3 after a man punched him and knocked him to the ground outside the restaurant. Blakney was able to identify his attacker to police but later became unresponsive at the hospital and an emergency room nurse there told police that unless he was transported to a major trauma center “he’s going to lay here with that head injury and bleed to death.”

By the time the hospital determined that no helicopter would be available because of fog, Southern Paramedic

had sent one of its two ambulances in Clinton to Little Rock with another patient and regulations didn’t allow its second ambulance to leave the county, CEO Gary Padget said. Blakney died of head trauma at the hospital around 4 a.m. May 4.

A spokesman for the hospital said it “contacted multiple services” to transport Blakney but wasn’t able to find one “immediately available.”

Emergency Medical Services rules and regulations currently require that 911 calls take precedence over hospital-to-hospital transport, which meant Southern could not release its one ambulance in Clinton for out-ofcounty transfers until the second had returned to the county.

Southern Paramedic drove out another ambulance service, Vital Link, which had entered into an exclusive contract with the city of Clinton in 2005 and 2009. The Van Buren Quo-

rum Court passed a resolution in 2009 to use Southern for calls originating outside Clinton, but the service also responded to calls inside the city, in violation of the city’s franchise agreement with Vital Link. After a flurry of claims and counter-claims in court, the city’s suit against Southern ended up in circuit court, where Judge Rhonda Wood ruled that Southern qualified for an exemption from the city’s franchise as a “not-for-hire on a fee-for-service basis,” which the judge interpreted to mean the ambulance was not available for hire by the general public where payment would be per transport. The Supreme Court refused on appeal to rule on the case, saying Clinton’s release of Vital Link from its contract made the issue moot.

The city had released Vital Link after it threatened to sue, saying the county hospital’s insistence on using a competitor was costing it money.

Clinton Mayor Roger Rorie said this week that he predicted the day the city had to give up its franchise with Vital Link that “we will have a fatality due to the ambulance service.” Unlike Southern, Rorie said, Vital Link owns ambulances in neighboring counties.

Southern services Arkansas, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie and Woodruff counties, none contiguous to Van Buren County.

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I was at the state revenue office in Springdale getting a driver-license renewal. I saw a framed poster on the wall promoting the sale of the “Choose Life” license plate. There was only one other such poster on the wall in the entire place, one promoting the sale of so-called wildlife plates that benefit the Game and Fish Commission and the hunting industry. That one I can understand, seeing as Game and Fish is a state agency. The “Choose Life” poster says that it’s a way to “support adoption,” but it doesn’t say where the money goes. Presumably it’s not funding a state agency. It seems to me this is improper endorsement of a private charity — a politically controversial one, at that — by a state agency. What about it?

Whether it’s improper or not is debatable. It is not unique, according to the state Department of Finance and Administration. DFA authorizes about 100 of these “specialty” license plates, which are used as fund-raisers by various public and private groups.

The sponsoring groups provide the posters that are sometimes displayed on revenue office walls, according to Roger Duren, administrator of the state office of motor vehicles. “We try to accommodate people,” Duren said.

“We’ll put a poster up for everybody that requests one if we have room.”

Arkansas Right to Life Inc., a private group, requested a poster for its “Choose Life” plate. Would a poster for a “pro-choice” license plate be displayed? Yes, if there were such

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a plate, Duren said. He said that no “pro-choice” group had applied for a specialty plate, at least not since 2005, when the legislature gave DFA authority over specialty license plates. Before that, the legislature itself decided who could have a plate.

Applicants for a specialty plate must meet DFA standards for design and content — profanity is forbidden, for example — and post a certain amount of money or a certain number of signatures of potential buyers, or both. “We reserve the right to make the final approval,” Duren said. Some specialty plates are available only to designated people. The “Ex-Prisoner of War” license plate, for example, is available only to Arkansas residents who were prisoners of war while serv-

ing in the U.S. Armed Forces, and to the spouses of POWs. Only members of the “Most Worshipful Grand Lodge Community Outreach Inc.” can get a “Freemason” license plate. On the other hand, any motor vehicle owner is eligible for a “Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer” plate, or a “University of Arkansas” plate with a Razorback on it.

Typically, a specialty plate costs $25 in addition to the normal motor vehicle registration fee, and the proceeds go to the sponsor of the plate. In the case of colleges and universities, the DFA requires that 85 percent of the proceeds be used for academic or need-based scholarships.

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Now comes a resident of the neighborhoods between UAMS and UALR targeted for the work with some legal analysis that contends it would be unconstitutional for the Technology Park Authority to condemn people’s homes for a private purpose. The authority hopes to build a building to lure technology businesses.

Joseph Sugarman cites a 1967 Arkansas Supreme Court case that prevented the city of Little Rock from condemning land for an industrial park. It said that without the owner’s consent, “private property cannot be taken for private use, even under authority of the legislature.” He contends that a subsequent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Connecticut that allowed condemnation for a private economic development project didn’t override the stricter dictates of the Arkansas Constitution, which holds private property rights paramount.

Arkansas courts have given a much narrower definition of “public use,” an Arkansas attorney general’s opinion has noted. The theory has been widely circulated and others are reviewing it, including the Arkansas Public Law Center, which was formed to litigate matters of compelling public interest. As in 1967, a lawsuit could be filed for a declaratory judgment prohibiting taking of private property for sale or lease to private interests. At a minimum, the theory at least might encourage a broader look at potential sites by the Technology Park Authority and an openness to voluntary land acquisition, a strategy the Central Arkansas Library System followed in acquiring land nearby for a new children’s branch library.

Speaking of dirty politicking A website called Stop the Gas Tax in Arkansas! (stopthegastaxar. com), funded by the natural gas industry to oppose a ballot initiative to raise Arkansas’s severance tax on natural gas from 5 percent to 7 percent, now includes a map and a form that urges people to report, East German style, whenever they spot a someone gathering signatures for the ballot initiative. Then what? Will a drive-by kneecapping squad be dispatched? A counter-protestor with a Don’t Sign placard? Cameras to take photos for circulation?

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DON’T CALL ME LATE FOR SKYNYRD: Lynyrd Skynyrd requested an extra half hour for their Saturday night set at Riverfest. The band is now scheduled to go on stage at 9 p.m. and play for two hours.

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ate May approaches and with it the descent of thousands upon thousands of fun-seekers to Little Rock for music, food and good times at Riverfest. The annual festival has changed considerably since 1978, when the Junior League brought the Little Rock Wind Symphony down to Murray Park for The Summer Arts Festival, which would eventually move down the river a bit and become Riverfest.

The throngs — likely around 260,000, based on last year’s attendance —will gather this year for a diverse array of music that leans a bit toward the rock side of the spectrum. You’ve got your classic rock, with Lynyrd Skynyrd (who’ll play a two-hour set) and Joe Walsh, your virtuoso blues rock with Gov’t Mule and 12

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your contemporary rock with Staind, Chevelle, Third Eye Blind, Neon Trees and MuteMath. But there’s also big-name hip-hop, with Snoop Dogg and B.o.B. as well as one of the biggest R&B acts of all time, Boyz II Men. Country music might not be represented quite as heavily in 2012 as in years past, but country lovers can definitely get a fix with The Cadillac Black (recently in town supporting Dierks Bentley) and Nashville giants Little Big Town. “Some years it’s heavier on some genres and some years it’s not,” said DeAnna Korte, executive director of Riverfest. “My goal is to try not to book an act up against another act that somebody might want to see both of, but it does happen occasionally.”

Here’s something that’s been addressed in the Times before, but probably bears repeating if only because it’s such a perennial Riverfest refrain: “The lineup is subpar, they should really get such-and-such gigantically popular band.” Well, such-and-such gigantically popular band is also gigantically expensive, and with a 2012 entertainment kitty of between $650,000 and $700,000, booking one or two such bands would wipe out the budget.

“Our budget is very minimal in the grand scheme of things, when you look at festivals around the country and especially festivals that draw as large as we do,” Korte said. It’s also worth pointing out that for the money — somewhere in the range of $15-$30, depending on when you bought a ticket — you can see a bunch of bands that, on their own, would likely command ticket prices well above that relatively low price.

Of course, in addition to all the music, there are many more attractions at Riverfest. There are dozens of vendors and artists selling their wares along Merchant Row. The Dallas Cowboys on Tour is a mobile museum of Cowboys memorabilia and exhibits, including a locker room replica. Monster Energy Drink is bringing in a BMX team for some extreme bike stunts and tricks. The Sustainival is back, with an array of carnival-type rides that are all powered with vegetable oil.

The Familyzone, which is free to the public all weekend, features the Yarnell Family Stage, with a variety of music, dancers and more. There’ll be a weenie dog derby, a huge trampoline exhibition, The Rock-N-Stroll 5K fun run and walk, the Super Retriever Series and The Ruff on the River Pooch Parade at 3 p.m. on Saturday, which will benefit four animal rescue organizations.

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GOV’T MULE

7:45 p.m., Bud Light Stage (Clinton Center)

Since the mid ’90s, Gov’t Mule has been keeping the blues-rock flame alive. The band was founded by guitarist Warren Haynes and the late bass player Allen Woody, both of whom also played with The Allman Brothers. Haynes is still a member of the Southern rock stalwarts, and is also a frequent collaborator with various Grateful Dead members. Gov’t Mule’s crunchy, groove-heavy sound might not have broken through to mainstream success, but it’s got a dedicated following of diehards and live show tapers that’s probably comparable to a number of other jam band heavies. Expect plenty of virtuosic playing (Haynes is the No. 23 great-

est guitarist of all time, according to Rolling Stone scholar David Fricke), hand-clapping from the audience, a couple-three interesting covers and good vibes all around.

NEON TREES

8 p.m., Miller Light Stage (Riverfest Amphitheatre)

After 15-plus years and counting of enduring innumerable goateed postgrunge yarlers and agro Nu metal moshers, Provo, Utah’s Neon Trees gave rock radio lovers a catchy, bouncy, Strokes-y breath of fresh air. The band got an early dose of celebrity with a 2010 tour supporting alt-rock giants 30 Seconds to Mars (featuring that one famous actor — you know, skinny guy, real good looking? Yeah, him).

Neon Trees’ latest, “Picture Show,” is a romp through pop music that takes

cues from the years 1978-1983, but slaps on a thick, shiny coat of contemporary production sheen that keeps things from veering into the realm of too-perfect retro revivalism. So while the band isn’t exactly blazing off in any wild new musical directions, it hardly matters as long as it’s making music that’s this much fun. The tracks “1983,” “Animal” and “Everybody Talks” are delirious, unselfconsciously nostalgic slices of power-pop that will get stuck in your head for days.

BOYZ II MEN

9:30 p.m., Miller Lite Stage (Riverfest Amphitheatre)

Boyz II Men might have followed in the footsteps of great R&B groups like The Temptations, The Four Tops and New Edition, but the Philadelphia group arguably soared to greater

heights of popularity than any of their peers, becoming without question one of the most successful musical acts ever, regardless of genre. For much of the ’90s, you literally could not escape the group’s lush, honey-sweet harmonies, wholesome, clean-cut image and infectious hit singles. “End of the Road” had one of the longest stretches ever at the top spot on the pop charts — 13 weeks (though the group would later best that with “One Sweet Day,” which topped the Hot 100 for 16 weeks). In terms of chart success, no other Riverfest act past or present can touch Boyz II Men.

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9:45 p.m., Bud Light Stage (Clinton Center)

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the late ’90s/early ’00s heyday of Nu metal, but has proven to have quite a bit more staying power than many of their peers. The band was championed early on by none other than Limp Bizkit lead-grunter Fred Durst. Throughout the last decade, Staind took some detours into softer territory, and frontman Aaron Lewis even released a solo country EP espousing conservative political leanings and featuring guests like George Jones, Charlie Daniels and Chris Young. But on its latest, selftitled album, Staind went back to its heavier roots. This set will probably have the highest ratio of goatees and tribal tattoos at Riverfest, though that distinction will likely come down to a photo finish between Staind and Chevelle.

SATURDAY MAY 26

MUTEMATH

6 p.m., Bud Light Stage (Clinton Center)

New Orleans’ MuteMath manages the noteworthy accomplishment of wedding fussy avant-rock notions and post-rock atmospherics to what is essentially bombastic, catchy guitar pop, coming across like a brainier Coldplay or U2. Live, the band is known for switching up instruments and exuding manic energy and showmanship, especially from lead singer and keytarist (!) Paul Meany. When was the last time you saw a keytarist at Riverfest? I think I recall seeing one onstage during War’s set, long about 1998, but that might just be wishful remembering. For a taste of MuteMath’s live show, check out their appearance on Conan O’Brien.

After the song, you can just barely hear a clearly impressed O’Brien say, “That was the best thing I’ve seen in a while.”

CHEVELLE

7:45 p.m., Bud Light Stage (Clinton Center)

Chicago post-grunge trio Chevelle has spent the last 15 years and change laying down melodic yet heavy tunes built using the groove of Rage Against the Machine, the distorted guitar crunch of Helmet and the emotional vocalizations of acts such as Filter and Tool. The band struck platinum on its second outing, 2002’s “Wonder What’s Next,” which included the 14

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‘IT’S BEEN AWHILE’: But the dude-rock practitioners of Staind are in town again, playing on the Bud Light Stage Friday night.

modern rock chart-topping single “Send the Pain Below.” They went gold on the follow-up, “This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In),” and over the years, they’ve sold more than three million units. The group is no stranger to Central Arkansas, having performed several shows in recent years, including a spot opening for Evanescence at Verizon Arena.

LYNYRD SKYNYRD

9 p.m., Miller Lite Stage (Riverfest Amphitheatre)

Sure, there’s only one founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd left (guitarist Gary Rossington). And yes, the group’s last album — “God and Guns” — was a favorite of right-wing clown Sean Hannity (it played his 2010 “Freedom Concert.” Also, a funny bit

of trivia: in an early incarnation, the band was called The One Percent, a reference to bikers, not the economic elite). But consider the following: the band has requested an extra half hour on stage, for two hours total, so you know you’re gonna hear all the classics; this will most likely be the only chance you’ll get all year to yell “FREEEEECONTINUED ON PAGE 16

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hey, it was the go-go ’90s so, you know, whatever. The band took a break for a while in the ’00s but returned in 2009 with “Ursa Major,” which was a bit uneven, but had a good handful of tunes that recaptured the group’s good-time, party-like-it’s-1999 vibes.

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7:30 p.m., Miller Light Stage (Riverfest Amphitheatre)

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SUNDAY 5/27 Luke Williams Singletree Mandy McBryde Adam Faucett Little Big Town Joe Walsh

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Belair Amsterdam Holy Shakes Benjamin Del Shreve MuteMath Chevelle Third Eye Blind

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FRIDAY 5/25 The Kazoobie Kazoo Show with Rick Hubbard Monster Shop Bumpn’ The Doo Dads

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SATURDAY 5/26 The Kazoobie Kazoo Show with Rick Hubbard Birds of Prey from the Little Rock Zoo Wayne Francis the Ventriloquist Monster Shop Bumpn’ The Doo Dads The Kazoobie Kazoo Show with Rick Hubbard Monster Shop Bumpn’ Wayne Francis the Ventriloquist The Kazoobie Kazoo Show with Rick Hubbard The Doo Dads

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FRIDAY 5/25 The Alpha Ray Amasa Hines The See Sleeper Agent

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Swampbird 2:15 p.m.

Stephen Neeper Band 3:30 p.m.

Runaway Planet 5 pm.

The Blue Party 6:30 p.m.

Cadillac Jackson 8 p.m. Dikki Du & the Zydeco Krewe 9:30 p.m Rodney Block

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Interstate Buffalo 4:30 p.m.

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Kenya Safari Acrobats Jesse White Tumblers Kenya Safari Acrobats

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Little Rock School of Dance 12:15 p.m.

I Can! Dance 1 p.m.

O’Donovans School of Irish Dance 1:45 p.m.

Kenya Safari Acrobats 2:30 p.m.

Jesse White Tumblers 3:15 p.m.

Camyrn Neuner 4 p.m.

Ruff on the River awards and Weenie Dog Derby 4:30 p.m.

North Little Rock Parks & Recreation 5:15 p.m.

Kyla Horton 6 p.m.

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SUNDAY 5/27 Mexican Folklore Ballet McCaffertys School of Irish Dance Jesse White Tumblers Arkansas All-Star Cloggers Anderson’s Taekwondo Center Kenya Safari Acrobats Reflejos Mexicanos Kenya Safari Acrobats Jesse White Tumblers

MERCHANT ROW VENDORS AND ARTISTS The Merchant Row artists and vendors will be selling their wares at various locations throughout Riverfest. Depending on merchant, items may be purchased with RiverMoney, cash or credit card.

VENDORS INCLUDE: Nuke Doggie (airbrush tattoos); Native Arts (native American artwork); Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (newspaper subscriptions); Heifer Dog (airbrush tattoos); Henna Tattoos; Rock City Outfitters (clothing and T-shirts); Native Southwest (native American artwork); DeJaynes Outfitter LLC (dips and coolers); Sweet & Sour USA (candy sticks); Enjoy Lifestyle Center (skateboards and accessories) M & R Concessions (sand art); Rhinestone Rebel (rhinestone clothing); Scentsy Consultant (wickless candles); Native Crafts (clothing and jewelry); 3D Sunglasses; The Rhinestone Cow Girl (hats and sunglasses); A Fairytale Explosion (crowns and wands); Village Idiot Shop (tropical tiki bar signs, jewelry, bamboo chimes, gifts); Sportsman’s Trail (outdoor gear); The Octupus Garden (imports); Landers HarleyDavidson (accessories); Key West Island Wear (sundresses); Kodiak Mountain Saw Works LLC (chainsaw carver); Tindall Artistry (caricatures), The Ring Guys (personalized stainless steel rings); Inka Maki Kauzay (native American crafts); Puppet Pandemonium (puppets); Jordans Outdoor Fun Inc. (outdoor furniture); Sun Lizard (sunglasses); Mini Mausee (muscle stimulator and power balance bracelets); Bionic Bands (bionic bands); Sophisticated Urban (clothing and jewelry); Annette Allen (jewelry); All Kinds of Kinds (jewelry); Fayettechill Clothing Company (accessories).

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RIVERFEST FAST FACTS HOURS: 6-11 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday; 1-11 p.m. Sunday ADMISSION: Riverfest 2012 threeday discounted tickets will be available at select Walgreen’s locations around the state. These tickets will be sold for $20 plus a $.75 processing fee through May 27 (while supplies last). Admission at the gates will be $30 for a threeday pass, cash only. Online tickets can be purchased for $25. Online sales are offered as a convenience and therefore the discounted price is not available for online sales. Children ages 6 and younger get in free with a paying adult. There is a VIP package available for $500, which includes two full passes with access to VIP pavilions for the weekend, complimentary Bud Light, Miller Lite, Coca-Cola and wine throughout the weekend, complimentary dinner each evening, reserved seating in the Miller Lite Amphitheatre and a print/poster of the Riverfest 2012 Festival artwork.

PARKING/PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: Private parking is available around the festival area for various fees. The Little Rock Riverfest shuttle will depart from the east side of War Memorial Stadium at Markham and Van Buren streets in Little Rock and will drop off on La Harpe Avenue behind the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce Building. Riverfest return shuttles to War Memorial will pick up in Little Rock where they dropped off. The North Little Rock shuttle will pick up at the North Little Rock High School north parking lot and will drop off at Third and Kumpuris streets at the Clinton Presidential Center.

Return shuttles to North Little Rock will pick up at Third and Kumpuris where they dropped off. Shuttle price is $3 round trip, or $2 if you bring a nonperishable food item to donate to the Arkansas Food Bank Network.

PURCHASES: Most purchases require RiverMoney, which can be purchased with cash only at any Bancorp South RiverBank located throughout the festival site. RiverMoney is non-refundable and must be used for all Riverfest purchases except souvenir items, some artwork and River Market purchases.

WHAT NOT TO BRING: Coolers, outside beverages and food, audio recording equipment with an external microphone, cameras with detachable lenses, video recorders, skateboards, bicycles, rollerskates, rollerblades, cane umbrellas and any and all weapons. Unless specifically trained to assist the disabled, pets are not allowed into the festival.

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singles, “Little White Church,” was a rollicking bit of country rockin’. Two of the members — Phillip Sweet and Jimi Westbrook — have Arkansas connections. Sweet is from Cherokee Village and attended Arkansas State University and Westbrook was born in Jacksonville, though raised in Alabama. Although the group has been based in Nashville for

some time, they still feel a connection to small-town America, as evidenced on their Top 10 hit “Boondocks.”

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Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. — known

far and wide as B.O.B. — got his first big hit with 2007’s “Haterz Everywhere,” a glitch-y, electro-tinged nugget of prime dirty South rap. He put out a slew of popular mixtapes before releasing his first full-length, 2010’s “The Adventures of Bobby Ray,” on T.I.’s Grand Hustle label.

The record debuted at No. 1 on the

Billboard 200 and catapulted him to the next level. The album featured guest spots from a bunch of other prominent rappers — T.I., Lupe Fiasco, Eminem — but also with a slew of pop, rock and R&B performers, including Bruno Mars, Janelle Monae, Rivers Cuomo and Hayley Williams, of emo/pop-punks Paramore. B.O.B.’s latest, “Strange Clouds,” came out just a few weeks ago and lives up to its title, with genre-spanning tunes, like the globetrotting anthem “So Good” and the dubstep-flavored title track featuring Lil’ Wayne.

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Rapper, producer, actor, filmmaker, youth football coach, marijuana advocate extraordinaire: Snoop Dogg is that rare musician who has completely transcended the music industry to become a bona fide cultural icon, via his sui generis persona and instantly recognizable, appealingly laid-back drawl. Along with Jay Z, he’s easily the best-known rapper alive, and still puts out quality music on a regular basis. What else is there to say? It’s Snoop. So is his set the one do-not-miss performance at Riverfest? For sure.

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How many other rockers can lay claim to as many notable accomplishments as Joe Walsh? He was in the hard-rockers James Gang (whose infectious “Funk #49” remains a classic rock staple); he’s a soulful, dexterous guitar player; his solo albums were both critically lauded and popular (his 1972 LP “Barnstorm” is, for my money, one of the great post-hippie burnout albums, up there with “If I Could Only Remember My Name” and “After the Gold Rush”); he was in the frickin’ Eagles; he ran for president and, later, vice president; he’s toured with and produced albums for his brother-in-law, Ringo Starr; and he’s always seemed like a good dude who never took the whole rock star thing too seriously, apparent from his biggest solo hit, “Life’s Been Good.”

FOR WANT OF AN AMBULANCE, CONT. In the wake of Blakney’s death, the Clinton City Council passed a resolution asking the Quorum Court to work with it to find a solution to the ambulance problem. The Quorum Court responded with a resolution creating a 13-member committee made up of Clinton aldermen, Van Buren County justices of the peace, the mayors of Clinton, Fairfield Bay, Shirley and Damascus and EMT and fire personnel, giving it 90 days to come up with recommendations for improvement.

Though it wasn’t mentioned specifically, Blakney’s death prompted much discussion at the May 15 meeting of the state Trauma Advisory Council about the need for change in ambulance and trauma rules and regulations.

Dr. Todd Maxson, the state Health Department’s medical consultant, said the trauma system should create an urgent trauma transfer rule, adding, “The [trauma] patient has to have the same priority as a person calling 911.”

TAC member Dr. Clint Evans, an emergency room physician, also said that Level 4 hospitals — the lowest level of service in the trauma system — need “education” in which patients need ambulance transport and which do not. He said non-emergencies — he cited a three-hour transport for a broken arm — were wasting resources, and “they’ve got, on the hospital’s end, to do a better job.”

Evans recommended the council define an urgent trauma transfer rule immediately, but the council would have no regulatory authority to enforce it until the rule was adopted and approved by the state legislature, a process that takes months. The rule will be drafted by the council’s quality assurance group instead.

Dr. James Graham, chair of the Trauma Council, in an interview before the meeting, said ambulance service in rural areas of Arkansas was a “major challenge” and crucial to “making the system work right. If you had your druthers, you’d staff five or six [in a county] and never run out of one.” Instead, some ambulance services are volunteer — “they’re having a chili dinner to put gas in the truck.”

To assure ambulance back-up, the trauma system enacted a rule this year that transport services receiving trauma dollars have “backfill agreements” should they be unable to respond to emergency calls. Forms setting out the agreements were to have been filed with the state Health Department by March 31. The council learned that fewer than 50 percent —

41 out of 116 of the ambulance services getting trauma dollars — have filed their backfill agreements, also known as mutual aid agreements.

Graham expressed surprise that checks had gone out to ambulance services that had not filed their backfill agreements. If they do not do so by the end of the fiscal year, they will lose their trauma dollars in fiscal year 2013.

The Health Department said Southern Paramedic, which received $14,205 in fiscal year 2012 in trauma

funding, was one of the companies that had not filed its backfill agreements with the state. (Southern CEO Padget said the Health Department often loses forms and that he believes the company filed its backfill information.)

Southern uses its entire system as backfill. When Blakney needed an ambulance, the closest would have taken an hour and a half to reach Clinton, Health Department spokesman Ed Barham said. Clinton is an hour and 20 minutes from Little Rock.

Southern received a total of $92,071 from the state for the six counties it serves.

Clinton Mayor Rorie said the “city of Clinton is going to give it every chance possible,” referring to the work of the 13-member committee.

“We’re determined to solve this.” JP Dale James, who drafted the quorum court resolution, said the committee would study how other counties handle their ambulance contracts and said he feels “very positive” something will be worked out.

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SOUNDS OF THE SEE: Little Rock’s The See plays the Stickyz Music Tent Friday night.

RIVERFEST ROUNDUP

Lots of great local music at this year’s Riverfest.

BY ROBERT BELL

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long with all the marquee acts like Snoop, Skynyrd, B.o.B. and Boyz II Men, Riverfest features a boatload of great indie label up-and-comers and local standouts.

The Stickyz Music Tent will host quite a few of these performances (as well as providing a place to step out of the sun and the swarm of fest-goers), but the Miller Lite and Bud Light stages boast their share of Arkansas talent as well.

Here’s the lowdown.

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bers (Bryan Frazier, Robert Teague, Chris Avakian and David Stone) have played in various other outfits, including Landrest, Flameing Daeth Fearies, The Many Persian Z’s and others. Their debut — due out this fall on Thick Syrup — is currently being mixed by Posies co-founder Ken Stringfellow. While the term “supergroup” is admittedly kinda dorky, it’s a fitting description for Amasa Hines, which includes members of Velvet Kente, Romany Rye and saxophonist Norman Williamson. The band’s got an album in the works, and if the one track they’ve released so far — the smoldering “Earth and Sky” — is any indication, it’ll be the total jam.

They play the music tent at 7:15 p.m. Up

next at 8:30 p.m. are the local carriers of the guitar rock torch, The See, whose excellent long-player, “Pretending and Ending,” was just released. Headlining at 10 p.m. in the tent is Sleeper Agent, an infectiously catchy garage rock act out of Bowling Green, Ky. Over on the Bud Light Stage (at the Clinton Presidential Center), Weakness for Blondes opens for Gov’t Mule and Staind. The Arkansas jam-band specializes in Dead-style rock and takes to the stage at 6:15 p.m. Starting at 6:45 over on the Miller Lite Stage (a.k.a. the Riverfest Amphitheatre), Little Rock emo-pop act School Boy Humor opens for Neon Trees and Boyz II Men.

SATURDAY 5/26 Long about noon, Benton-based Red Dirt country specialists Dry County take to the Miller Lite Stage, followed by the nothing-is-sacred theatrical psych-country of The Frontier Circus at 1:15 p.m. About 2:45 p.m. on the Miller Lite Stage, The Good Time Ramblers bring the rock ruckus, followed by blues-bustin’ power trio of Michael Shipp at 4:15 p.m. and the

“Southern Fried Psychedelic Rock ’n’ Roll” of Jonesboro’s Starroy at 5:45 p.m. By about 7:15 p.m., Dallas rockers Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights bring the Black Crowesesque swagger, followed by headliners Lynyrd Skynyrd.

On the Bud Light Stage, the music kicks off at 1 p.m. with the upbeat poppunk of Belair, followed by the radioready alt-rock sounds of Fayetteville’s Amsterdam at 2 p.m. By 3:15 p.m., you’d probably better have your dancing shoes on for 2012 Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase winner The Holy Shakes. The Hot Springs quartet combines the angular guitar mangling of Drive Like Jehu with the rock bombast of The Who. The band’s debut, “Feast of Famine,” is out now. At 4:30 p.m., Fayetteville’s shaggy rock ’n’ roll swaggerer Benjamin Del Shreve lets it all hang out, followed by headliners MuteMath, Chevelle and Third Eye Blind.

The Stickyz tent has Brown Soul Shoes getting things rolling at 1 p.m. with a set of rock, soul and R&B originals and covers that span the decades.

Up next is blues-guitar wunderkind Stephen Neeper at 2:15 p.m., followed by long-running bluegrass favorites Runaway Planet at 3:30 p.m. At 5 p.m., “Ameriparty” outfit The Blue Party bring the goodtime vibes, followed at 6:30 p.m. by jam band/hip-hop hybrid Cadillac Jackson. Starting at 8 p.m., get a helping of southern Louisiana spice, with Dikki Du & The Zydeco Krewe, followed by the impeccable jazz stylings of Rodney Block & The Real Music Lovers at 9:30 p.m.

SUNDAY 5/27 Riverfest’s Sunday lineup waits until after church is out to get rolling, with 19-year-old country artist Luke Williams taking to the Miller Lite Stage at 1:30 p.m., followed by Russellville country act Jason Campbell and Singletree at 2:30 p.m. About 3:45 p.m., Little Rock’s Mandy McBryde will bring the rootsy, country-tinged pop to the stage, followed by the haunting folk sounds of singer/songwriter Adam Faucett at 5 p.m. At 6:15, The Cadillac Black is scheduled to play, followed by Little Big Town and Joe Walsh.

The music gets pumping at about 2 p.m. on the Bud Light Stage, with CONTINUED ON PAGE 37

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A&E NEWS THE LITTLE ROCK FILM FESTIVAL has scored a late coup, adding “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” the Sundance Grand Jury prize winner, to its lineup.

Set in a mythical Delta community that’s preparing to weather a Katrinaesque storm, the film is a key addition to a festival that’s focused on highlighting the best in Southern film. After winning Sundance and being rapturously received at Cannes, “Beasts” comes to Little Rock as the favorite to win the $10,000 Oxford American Eye on the South prize.

Another exciting late add: “Bernie,” the latest from director Richard Linklater, starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey and the late Rick Dial.

A RECENT FACEBOOK POST from

Adrian “607” Tillman that began, “as of today, I am no longer releasing music,” was widely interpreted in social media and elsewhere as a signal that the rapper was hanging it up. Six, who’s released 37 albums in the last 12 years, said he’s been flooded with calls and e-mails. He even got a voicemail from a fan crying. 607 “retiring from rappin is like Jesus being done with Christianity,” tweeted Osyrus Bolly, quoting another local rapper. But don’t trip, local rap fans. He’s not retiring, just refocusing.

“I can’t just keep putting out music like I have; it’s like throwing it out in the air and seeing what happens,” he said last week. “The money I make off of albums is increasing, but so is the cost of living.”

So rather than put out his 38th album in June as planned, he’s decided to go on a release hiatus, while he focuses on marketing and promotion.

“The only scenes that are sustainable are in Houston and Atlanta,” he said. “That’s because Houston and Atlanta sold a lifestyle.”

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WEDNESDAY 5/23

DOWN

8 p.m. Juanita’s. $25.

Down’s bruising stoner riffage is the ideal soundtrack for when you’re rollin’ down a back highway at a steady 42 MPH in a primer-covered ’86 Monte Carlo SS, burnt jernt in the ashtray, 24-oz. Mountain Dew in the cup holder, some Popeye’s trash over in the passenger floorboard, softball bat in the back seat, on your way to go break a bunch of some jerkoff’s expensive property. I suppose before I go too much further I should point out the whole supergroup element of Down (members of Crowbar, Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, Eyehategod). That’s cool and all, but Down has its own identity separate of those other, admittedly awesome, bands. That said, if you dig those groups and somehow haven’t checked out Down, well

you’d better just get on it, hoss. Begin at the beginning, with 1995’s “NOLA.” But anyways, whereas a lot of your doomy longhairs primarily focus on channeling only the most crushing and heavy elements of Black Sabbath (and to be clear, I’m way into that), Down is the rare band that says, “Hey dudes, wait a minute. Remember ‘Planet Caravan’?

Remember ‘Solitude’? How they’d get all cosmic ’n shit? Let’s go for a little of that for a sec.” And then they do, and it’s awesome and then they go back to that groove-heavy Southern Sabbathworship that so many of us love, and it’s awesome again. The opening act, haarp (all lowercase and with two “a”s like that) traffics in ultra-pained sludgy crushingness. The group’s forthcoming album was produced by Down’s Phil Anselmo. There’s a video online

NOLA METAL: That’s what is in store at Juanita’s Wednesday night, where supergroup Down headlines.

of Anselmo and haarp performing Pantera’s classic “Walk.” No telling if such a thing might happen at Juanita’s.

It could’ve been a total one-off, but who knows? There’s only one way to find out for sure. RB

WEDNESDAY 5/23

TY SEGALL, WHITE FENCE

9 p.m. White Water Tavern. $10.

These two dudes are primo practitioners of contemporary garage-pop, though on opposite poles on the fuzz-continuum.

Ty Segall is pure blonde buff-ness, all bludgeoning fun in the weird California sun.

White Fence — the solo handle of one Tim Presley — is more like that squirrelly nervous guy who spends a bit too much time in-of-doors, tinkering on a four-track machine and biting his nails while crafting perfect little psychedelic petits fours. They got together for an excellent collaborative album, “Hair,” released back in April via the good ship Drag City. It’s a major rager all right, a sweet-n-sour blend of Presley’s spindly jangle and Segall’s fuzz-ified over-

drive. There’s a total guitar meltdown on the track “Scissor People” that’s awesome and then before you know it, the whole thing takes a jarring turn into some weird cut-up territory. The rest of the album is great, too. “Time” is an easy-rydin’ anthem with some soulful jamming that evokes Crazy Horse, but man, “Scissor People” is a compellingly weird lil’ gem. Segall was last at the White Water back in 2010 and put on a furious set of originals and a couple bravura covers. This here’ll be a good’n.

Opening act is Useless Eaters, outta Tennessee (“Tennesseein’ is Tennebelievin’ ”).

The band makes twitchy power-pop for the unhealthy set, maybe like if Crime had been inclined to try out melodies every once in a while. RB GREAT EXPECTATIONS: Rising young rapper Diggy Simmons plays Barton Coliseum Friday.

THURSDAY 5/24

EPIPHANY

9 p.m. Revolution. $10.

Our man ’Piph has always been tireless — putting out mixtapes and singles, emceeing all kinds of shows and parties and performing live regularly. He’s been on a roll in recent months, though, releasing his long-awaited long-player “Such is Life,” as well as some excellent videos for “Untouchable,” and “Something to Tell Ya.” He’s been taking his show on the road lately too, playing dates around the region, including Fay30

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etteville, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Jackson and Hattiesburg, Miss., Memphis and Texarkana. This show represents a reunion of sorts, as Epiphany will be performing again with the band Tomorrow Maybe, which you probably saw providing that rock-solid live backing on the video for “Untouchable Unplugged.” Also performing with Tomorrow Maybe will be Bijoux and Dee Dee Jones. Openers include JWhite, Bully Gang and Duke Stigall, with host Sean Fresh. RB

FRIDAY 5/25

DIGGY SIMMONS

7 p.m. Barton Coliseum. $30-$48.

Daniel Wayne “Diggy” Simmons III is hip-hop royalty. This young man (born in 1995!) is the son of Joseph “Rev. Run” Simmons, co-founder of the legendary RunD.M.C., and the nephew of Russell Simmons. He might be young but he’s already on the rise courtesy of a run of mixtapes and freestyles. Check out his freestyle over

Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones” for proof; it’s got wit to spare (“y’all got Mickey D pockets and caviar taste”).

He’s a Kanye-approved, lightningspeed rapper who’s being mentored by Pharrell. Hell, he’s already got his own clothing line — Chivalrous Culture. His recent debut, “Unexpected Arrival,” boasted the Jadakiss-guest track “88,” a minimal, bass-heavy jam. RB

IN BRIEF

THURSDAY 5/24

FRIDAY 5/25

THE HOLY SHAKES 8 p.m. Maxine’s. $7.

OK, all you punkers and no-goodniks and lovers of rock ’n’ roll’s nasty underbelly, this here’ll be one for the battle-scarred scrapbook of your mind, assuming you still have one left. If you’ve not had the pleasure of trying out The Holy Shakes in a live setting, there is no better time and place than May 25, 2012, at Maxine’s in Hot

Springs. The band is set to release its debut album on an unsuspecting world, much like a wily hunter uncaging a ravenous bobcat onto the town square — an amusing if somewhat deadly prank, in other words. “Feast or Famine,” pressed up on 180-gram wax, will be made available for the very first time on this evening, so you should probably have some extra dollars with you (they’ll have it at Riverfest, too).

The opening acts include Fayetteville’s Fauxnz, Little Rock’s The Nigh Ends and Fort Smith’s A+ Setup. The Shakes take it on the road in early June, laying waste to squares, posers, prudes, scolds, nags, eardrums, outdated cultural mores, oppressive societal norms and what-have-you.

This will happen to Fayetteville; Chicago; Cleveland; Brooklyn; Manhattan; Greensboro, N.C., and Nashville, in that order. RB

SUNDAY 5/27

FLOW RIDER TOUR

Noon. Magic Springs. $20-$40 to register, $30-$45 for park admission.

Back in the late ’80s, Tom Lochtefeld first applied for a patent on a machine that would offer those poor souls residing in land-locked states something that approximated the feel of catching a wave. Soon, the

world witnessed the debut of the Flow Rider at — where else? — Schlitterbahn, the gigantic water park chain in Texas. The Flow Rider is essentially a machine that blasts water over a padded, stationary surface, allowing riders to surf or boogie-board atop the synthetic wave. It’s proved to be one of the more popular attractions at Magic Springs. There’s even

an official competitive league, the Flowboarding League of the World.

There will be actual, real-live professional flowboarders as well as amateur competitions in several categories.

Practice and registration are Saturday from 5-8 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m.-noon. There will be prizes awarded for the top four finishers in each division. RB

TUESDAY 5/29

LITTLE ROCK FILM FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT

6 p.m. Argenta Community Theater. $15-$250.

In their quest to get you to take off work for a week, Little Rock Film Festival organizers have moved the festival start-date this year to Tuesday, a day earlier than last year. As usual, the LRFF kicks its schedule off in style. The opening night film, “America’s Parking Lot,” focuses on a pair of subjects that will be familiar to Arkansans: Dallas Cowboys super-fans. And not just super-fans who own every piece of Cowboys merchandise and apparel and lead their face-painted brethren in cheers, but super-fans whose lives truly revolve around the Cowboys.

Super-fans like Stan “Tiger” Shults, who has a daughter named Meredith Landry and says when his first wife asked him to choose between her or the Cowboys, the choice was obvious. “I hate to say this because I love my children and my wife, but I think I probably think about the Cowboys more than I think about my kids and my wife. And that’s nothing against them,” he tells director Jonny Mars. You’ve seen obsessives like Shults in documentaries before, but Mars separates his film from the pack both by avoiding caricature and deftly pivoting from the super-fans’ per-

Murry’s Dinner Playhouse is staging “The Dixie Swim Club,” a comedy about five eclectic Southern women, 6 p.m. Tue.-Sat., $15-$33.

Author Cathy Urwin presents “Republican Reformer: Winthrop Rockefeller’s Legacy as Governor of Arkansas” at the Arkansas Arts Center, 5:30 p.m., $5 or free for AAC members. The Blaggards bring “Stout Irish Rock” to Hibernia Irish Tavern, 9:30 p.m., free. To celebrate the 35th Riverfest and the 90th anniversary of the Little Rock Junior League, festival organizers are hosting a wine tasting, led by Bruce Cochran. The event includes more than 30 wines from all over the world, as well as food from several local restaurants, 5:30 p.m. at River Market Pavilion, $30 (or two for $50) adv., $35 door.

This is the last week for the Rep’s production of “Next to Normal.”

It runs at 7 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m.

Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday, $45-$50.

FRIDAY 5/25

Mississippi bluesman Cedric Burnside brings some Hill Country sounds back to White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $10. If you’re up in Eureka Springs, Don’t Stop Please plays Chelsea’s Corner at 9 p.m., $5 (the band also plays Maxine’s on Saturday with Handmade Moments, 8 p.m., $5). Juanita’s has a free show from Knoxville metalcore outfit Straight Line Stitch, with openers Psychostick, 9 p.m. It’s that time of the month. You know the one, when the Cool Shoes dance party returns for a night of raging at Downtown Music Hall, 9 p.m. Lulav hosts “BLOW: Memorial Day Weekend All White Affair,” featuring DJs Klassic and Mike Blaze; all-white attire is suggested but not required, 10 p.m.

VJ g-force takes the helm at Tavern Sports Grill, 8 p.m., free.

SATURDAY 5/26

FOOTBALL FANATICS: The Little Rock Film Festival kicks off Tuesday at Argenta Community Theater with the documentary “America’s Parking Lot.”

spective to a broader look at the callousness of professional sports, where owners, like the Cowboys’ Jerry Jones, are gouging fans who attend games in order to pay for massive new stadiums, built partially with taxpayer dollars. The film screens at 7 p.m. The Argenta Community Theater holds around 250 people. All-access Gold Pass holders ($250) get first crack at seating, followed by Silver Pass holders ($100). Only Gold Pass holders will

be admitted to an opening reception at 6 p.m. At the after-party for the film at 9 p.m., the stars of “America’s Parking Lot” and some hardcore Razorback tailgaters will have their rigs fired up, Whole Hog and Ben E. Keith will be serving food and Montgomery Trucking will perform. Tickets are $15 or free to Gold or Silver Pass holders. Look for a complete guide to the LRFF in the May 30 edition of the Times or online at arktimes.com. LM

The Charlie Daniels Band is back in Hot Springs for a concert at Magic Springs’ Timberwood Amphitheater, 7:30 p.m., $30-$65.

Memphis madman Joecephus returns to Midtown Billiards to ask us (rhetorically, of course) “What Would Lemmy Do?” That show starts late, 12:30 a.m., and it’s $5.

If you missed its set at the Stickyz Tent, or just weren’t up to braving Riverfest, Amasa Hines plays White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $7. How’s about some live music and a good ol’ fashioned crawfish boil? Well Rip Van Shizzle’s got your classic rock covers and mudbugs, 9 p.m., free admission, Thirst n’ Howl.

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free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG.

COMEDY

Skip Clark. The Loony Bin, May 24, 8 p.m.; May 25, 8 and 10:30 p.m.; May 26, 7, 9 and 11 p.m.

10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23

EVENTS

MUSIC

Acoustic Open Mic. The Afterthought, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com.

Alternative Wednesdays. Features alternative bands from Central Arkansas and the surrounding areas. Mediums Art Lounge, 6:30 p.m., $5.

521 Center St. 501-374-4495.

Bolly Open Mic Hype Night with Osyrus Bolly and DJ Messiah. All American Wings, 9 p.m.

215 W. Capitol Ave. 501-376-4000. allamericanwings.com.

Down. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $25. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

Grim Muzik presents Way Back Wednesdays.

Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 8:30 p.m. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub.com.

Handmade Moments. Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road.

501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com.

Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

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

Karaoke. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com.

Karaoke with Big John Miller. Denton’s Trotline, 8 p.m. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-3151717.

Mike Pinto, Three Legged Fox. All-ages show.

Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $8 adv., $10 d.o.s. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.

Ricky David Tripp. Ferneau, 5:30 p.m. 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-603-9208. www.ferneaurestaurant.com.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Ty Segall, White Fence. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

The Woodies. The Tavern Sports Grill, 7 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. www. thetavernsportsgrill.com.

3 Lives Blood Drive. Remington College, 8 a.m. p.m. and 4 p.m. 19 Remington Drive. 501-3120007. www.remingtoncollege.edu.

LECTURES

Cathy Urwin. The author presents “Republican Reformer: Winthrop Rockefeller’s Legacy as Governor of Arkansas.” Arkansas Arts Center, 5:30 p.m., $5, free for AAC members. 501 E. 9th St. 501-372-4000. www.arkarts.com.

FRIDAY, MAY 25

MUSIC

CAVE MUSIC: That’s what Moon Hooch specializes in, defined on the Brooklyn band’s bio as “like House, but its more wild, more jagged, more free, more natural to live in.”

The group plays an 18-and-older show at Stickyz Thursday night, 9:30 p.m., $8.

free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. www. thetavernsportsgrill.com.

Blaggards: Stout Irish Rock. Hibernia Irish Tavern, 9:30 p.m., free. 9700 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-246-4340. www.hiberniairishtavern. com.

Brian Ramsey Trio. All-ages. Thirst n’ Howl, 8 p.m., free. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com.

D-Mite & Tho-d Studios. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 8:30 p.m. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub.com.

Epiphany, Tomorrow Maybe, JWhite, Duke Stigall & Bully Gang. 21-and-older show.

Revolution, 9 p.m., $10. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com.

Hot Brass. 10-member ensemble group of the United States Air Force Band of Mid-America.

MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 7 p.m., free. 503 E. 9th St. 501-376-4602. www. arkmilitaryheritage.com.

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

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

Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

Karaoke. Zack’s Place, 8 p.m. 1400 S. University Ave. 501-664-6444. www.zacks-place.com.

Mandy McBryde. The Afterthought, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com.

Mayday by Midnight. Markham Street Grill And Pub, 9 p.m. 11321 W. Markham St. 501224-2010. www.markhamst.com.

Moon Hooch. 18-and-older show. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $8. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.

Port Arthur Band. Parrot Beach Cafe, 9 p.m.

9611 MacArthur Drive, NLR. 771-2994.

St. Paul Concert Series. Featuring Bergen Christensen on viola and Andre Duvall on piano.

St. Paul United Methodist Church, 7 p.m., free.

2223 Durwood Road. 501-666-9429.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m.,

COMEDY

Skip Clark. The Loony Bin, 8 p.m.; May 24, 8 p.m.; May 25, 8 and 10:30 p.m.; May 26, 7, 9 and 11 p.m. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-2285555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

THURSDAY, MAY 24

MUSIC

7 Toed Pete (headliner), Dean Agus (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www. cajunswharf.com.

“After 7.” Includes open mic performances, live band, drink specials and more. Porter’s Jazz Cafe, 7 p.m. 315 Main St. 501-324-1900. www. portersjazzcafe.com.

Ashley McBryde. The Tavern Sports Grill, 8 p.m.,

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Afterfest. Performances by Blade, DJ PreSSha, DJ Lyft, Sgt Pyroman. MacDaddy’s Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., $3-$5. 314 N. Maple St., NLR. “BLOW” Memorial Day Weekend All White Affair. Featuring DJs Klassic and Mike Blaze; all-white attire suggested but not required.

Lulav, 10 p.m. 220 A W. 6th St. 501-392-4153. www.lulaveatery.com.

Bluesboy Jag and His Cigar Box Guitars.

Dogtown Coffee and Cookery, 6 p.m., free.

6725 John F. Kennedy Blvd., NLR. 501-833-3850.

Brick Fields Band. The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com.

The Cedric Burnside Project. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $10. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.cedricburnside.com.

Cool Shoes. Downtown Music Hall, 9 p.m. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownmusichall. com.

Crash Meadows. West End Smokehouse and Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. 215 N. Shackleford. 501-2247665. www.westendsmokehouse.net.

Diggy Simmons, The Real OMG Girlz. Barton Coliseum, 7 p.m., $30-$48. 2600 Howard St. www.arkansasstatefair.com.

DJ Silky Slim. Top 40 and dance music. Sway, 9 p.m., $5. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582.

Don’t Stop Please. Chelsea’s Corner Cafe, 9 p.m., $5. 10 Mountain St., Eureka Springs. 479253-6723. www.chelseascornercafe.com.

Ed Burks. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, through May 26, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

Exhale at RiverTop. The Peabody Little Rock, through July 6: 9 p.m., $8. 3 Statehouse Plaza.

501-906-4000. www.peabodylittlerock.com.

“The Flow Fridays.” Twelve Modern Lounge, 8 p.m. 1900 W. Third St. FreeVerse. Midtown Billiards, 12:30 a.m., $5.

1316 Main St. 501-372-9990. midtownar.com.

No Control (headliner), Darril Edwards (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www. cajunswharf.com.

The Quapaw Quartet. Capital Bar and Grill, 5:30 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Riverfest. Featuring Gov’t Mule, Staind, Neon Trees, Boyz II Men, Sleeper Agent and more.

Riverfest Amphitheatre, 6 p.m., $15-$30. 400 President Clinton Ave.

Food Truck Fridays. Three food trucks will set up on the corner of Main Street and Capitol Avenue. Main Street, Little Rock, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Main St. 501-375-0121.

LGBTQ/SGL Youth and Young Adult Group.

Diverse Youth for Social Change is a group for LGBTQ/SGL and straight ally youth and young adults age 14 to 23. For more information, call 244-9690 or search “DYSC” on Facebook. 800 Scott St., 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St. Table for Two. Classes begin at 5 p.m. and include a culinary demonstration, 4-course dinner, 1 night lodging and continental breakfast. Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, May 25, 10 a.m.; May 26, 11 a.m., $200 per couple. 1 Rockefeller Drive, Morrilton. 727-5435. www. uawri.org.

WAHL Mobile Barbershop. Part of Riverfest.

Riverfront Park, 6 p.m. 400 President Clinton Avenue. www.wahlnation.com.

SATURDAY, MAY 26

MUSIC

Amasa Hines. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $7.

2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.facebook. com/pages/Amasa-Hines/261646320565178.

The Charlie Daniels Band. Magic Springs’ Timberwood Amphitheater, 7:30 p.m., $30$65. 1701 E. Grand Ave., Hot Springs.

Chris Henry. Flying Saucer, 9 p.m., $3. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-8032. www. beerknurd.com/stores/littlerock.

Don’t Stop Please, Handmade Moments.

21-and-older event. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $5. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com.

Drew Henderson & Wolf Creek. Denton’s Trotline, 9 p.m. 2150 Congo Road, Benton.

501-315-1717.

COMEDY

Skip Clark. The Loony Bin, 7, 9 and 11 p.m.

10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-2285555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

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Red Carpet Event. Formal dance for grades 6-9. Clear Channel Metroplex, 6 p.m., $15$23. 10800 Colonel Glenn Road. www.showclix.com/event/redcarpetevent.

EVENTS

Argenta Farmers Market. Argenta, 7 a.m.-12 p.m. Main Street, NLR. Bass Reeves Dedication Day. Ross Pendergraft Park, 10 a.m. 200 Garrison Ave., Fort Smith.

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

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COMEDY

Ed Burks. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m.

500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

Exit Strategy. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 9 p.m.

314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub.com.

Hip Hop Showcase. Downtown Music Hall, 9 p.m., $10. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownmusichall.com.

If Looks Could Kill. West End Smokehouse and Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. 215 N. Shackleford.

501-224-7665. www.westendsmokehouse.net.

Joecephus. Midtown Billiards, 12:30 a.m., $5.

1316 Main St. 501-372-9990. midtownar.com.

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

Karaoke. Casa Mexicana, 7 p.m. 6929 JFK Blvd., NLR. 501-835-7876.

“KISS Saturdays” with DJs Deja Blu, Greyhound and Silky Slim. Sway, 10 p.m.

412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582.

Lucious Spiller. The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7.

2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com.

Mojo Stone (headliner), Ashley McBryde (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com.

Not in the Face. Juanita’s, free. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

Rip Van Shizzle. All-ages, with a crawfish boil.

Thirst n’ Howl, 9 p.m., free. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com.

Riverfest. Feauturing Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mute Math, Chevelle, Third Eye Blind and more.

Riverfest Amphitheatre, 12 p.m., $15-$30. 400 President Clinton Ave. “Rock After Riverfest”: Eddie and the Defiant, Mutations of Thursday. Vino’s, 10 p.m., $7. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www. vinosbrewpub.com.

Rodge Arnold. The Tavern Sports Grill, 8 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. www.thetavernsportsgrill.com.

Saturday night at Discovery. Featuring DJs, dancers and more. Discovery Nightclub, 9 p.m., $10. 1021 Jessie Road. 501-664-4784. www.latenightdisco.com.

Songwriters Showcase. Parrot Beach Cafe, 2-7 p.m., free. 9611 MacArthur Drive, NLR. 771-2994.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www. capitalhotel.com/CBG.

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Rodge Arnold. Flying Saucer, 9 p.m. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-8032. www. beerknurd.com/stores/littlerock.

Straight Line Stitch, Psychostick. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., free. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www. capitalhotel.com/CBG. The Holy Shakes, Fauxnz, Night Ends, A+ Setup. 21-and-older event. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $7. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com.

Thread. All-ages. Thirst n’ Howl, 9 p.m., free.

14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www. thirst-n-howl.com.

TNA Karaoke. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 9:30 p.m. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub.com.

VJ g-force. The Tavern Sports Grill, 8 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. www.thetavernsportsgrill.com.

White Collar Criminals. Markham Street Grill And Pub, 9 p.m. 11321 W. Markham St. 501224-2010. www.markhamst.com.

“YOLO.” Featuring four DJs and beach volleyball, 18-and-older. Flying DD, $5. 4601 S. University. 501-773-9990. flyingdd.com.

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AFTER DARK, CONT. Hillcrest Farmers Market. Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, 7 a.m.-12 p.m. 2200 Kavanaugh Blvd.

I-30 Speedway: 25th Annual Short-Track. I-30 Speedway, 7 p.m. 12297 Interstate 30. 501-4554567. www.i-30speedway.com.

Little Rock Farmers’ Market. River Market Pavilions, through Oct. 27: 7 a.m.-3 p.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 501-375-2552. rivermarket.info.

Ruff on the River. Dog walk and animal costume contest. River Market Pavilions, 2:30 p.m., $10$20. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www. ruffontheriver.com.

Table for Two. See May 25.

Unity Fest. Christian entertainment festival.

Riverside Park, 3 p.m., $10. Chaney Drive, Batesville.

FILM

“Faulkner County at Work: A Documentary Film.” Faulkner County Library, 7 p.m. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www.fcl.org.

SPORTS

8K Rock Run. Benefiting Easter Seals. Murray Park, 7:30 a.m. Rebsamen Park Road. 501-2273600.

Soul Spirit Zumba with Ashan. Soul Spirit Zumba fuses fun latin based rhythms with soulful inspirational music. Canvas Community Art Gallery, 9:30-10:30 a.m., $5. 1111 W. 7th St. 501-414-0368.

Walsh, Little Big Town and more. Riverfest Amphitheatre, 1:30 p.m., $15-$30. 400 President Clinton Ave. Sunday Jazz Brunch with Ted Ludwig and Joe Cripps. Vieux Carre, 11 a.m. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.vieuxcarrecafe.com.

COMEDY

Carl Kozlowski. Juanita’s. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

EVENTS

Bernice Garden Farmers’ Market. The Bernice Garden, through Oct. 14, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 1401 S. Main St. 501-617-2511. www.thebernicegarden.org.

Little Rock Fashion Week 2012 Model Search.

Model casting call for males and females of all ages and sizes. Wear a plain white T-shirt, jeans, no makeup and no accessories. Holiday Inn Presidential, 1 p.m. 600 I-30. 501-256-3784. www.littlerockfashionweek.com.

FILM

“Food, Inc.” Faulkner County Library, 7 p.m., free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www.fcl.org.

SPORTS

SUNDAY, MAY 27

FLOW Rider Tour. Official Flowboarding League of the World event, featuring pro and amateur divisions. Practice and registration are May 26 5-8 p.m. and May 27 10 a.m.-noon. Magic Springs, 12 p.m., $20-$40. 1701 E. Grand Ave., Hot Springs.

501-624-0100. www.magicsprings.com.

MUSIC

MONDAY, MAY 28

Bluegrass Festival. Includes live music and camping ($12 a night). Bring a chair. Cypress Creek Park, May 27-June 2; Sept. 15-22, $12.

Cypress Creek Avenue, Adona. 501-662-4918.

Chris Henry. Flying Saucer, 9 p.m. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-8032. www.beerknurd. com/stores/littlerock.

Gorilla. Downtown Music Hall, 6 p.m. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownmusichall. com.

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

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

501-982-1939.

Riverfest. Featuring Snoop Dogg, B.O.B., Joe

MUSIC

Hot Springs Concert Band Memorial Day Concert. Wittington Park, 3 p.m., Free. West Mountain Drive, Hot Springs. www.hotspringsband.org.

Irish Traditional Music Session. Khalil’s Pub, Fourth and second Monday of every month, 7 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com.

Karaoke. Thirst n’ Howl, 8:30 p.m. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com.

MeWithoutYou, Buried Beds, Imaginary Cities.

Downtown Music Hall, 7 p.m., $14 adv., $16 d.o.s. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownmusichall.com.

Reggae Nites. Featuring DJ Hy-C playing roots,

reggae and dancehall. Pleazures Martini and Grill Lounge, 6 p.m., $7-$10. 1318 Main St. 501-376-7777. www.facebook.com/pleazures. bargrill.

Touch, Grateful Dead Tribute. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.

TUESDAY, MAY 29

MUSIC

Brian & Nick. Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-3755351. www.cajunswharf.com.

Brian Martin. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com.

Jeff Long. Khalil’s Pub, 6 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com.

Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

Karaoke Night. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 8 p.m.

314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub. com.

Karaoke Tuesday. Prost, 8 p.m., free. 120 Ottenheimer. 501-244-9550.

Karaoke with Big John Miller. Denton’s Trotline, 8 p.m. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-3151717.

Lucious Spiller Band. Copeland’s, 6-9 p.m. 2602 S. Shackleford Road. 501-312-1616. www.copelandsofneworleans.com.

Richard James & The Special Riders with Jab Jab Suckerpunch. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

Ricky David Tripp. Ferneau, 5:30 p.m. 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-603-9208. www.ferneaurestaurant.com.

Tuesday Jam Session with Carl Mouton. The Afterthought, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

DANCE

“Latin Night.” Revolution, 7 p.m., $5 regular, $7 under 21. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-8230090. www.revroom.com.

EVENTS

Little Rock Farmers’ Market. River Market Pavilions, through Oct. 27: 7 a.m.-3 p.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 501-375-2552. rivermarket.info.

Tales from the South. Authors tell true stories;

schedule available on website. Dinner served 5-6:30 p.m., show at 7 p.m. Call for reservations.

Starving Artist Cafe, 5 p.m. 411 N. Main St., NLR. 501-372-7976. www.starvingartistcafe.net.

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

Wiggle Worms: “Local Foods Local Foods with Argenta Market.” Weekly program designed specifically for pre-K children. Museum of Discovery, 10 a.m., $8-$10, free for members.

500 Clinton Ave. 396-7050, 1-800-880-6475. www.amod.org.

FILM

Little Rock Film Festival. Film festival includes screenings and panel discussions. Riverdale 10 Cinema, -June 3. 2600 Cantrell Road. 501296-9955.

“Queen of the Sun.” Faulkner County Library, 7 p.m., free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-3277482. www.fcl.org.

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THEATER

“The Dixie Swim Club.” Five Southern women, whose friendship began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge their relationships. Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, through June 6: Tue.-Sat., 6 p.m.; Wed., 11 a.m.; Sun., May 27, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., $15-$33. 6323 Col. Glenn Road.

501-562-3131. murrysdinnerplayhouse.com.

“Next to Normal.” The Tony- and Pulitzer Prizewinning musical set to a contemporary rock score concerns a dysfunctional family trying to take care of themselves and each other.

Arkansas Repertory Theatre, through May 27: Wed., Thu., 7 p.m.; Fri., Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 2 and 7 p.m. 601 Main St. 501-378-0405. www. therep.org.

GALLERIES, MUSEUMS

NEW EXHIBITS, ART EVENTS

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “The Rockefeller Influence,” 57 works donated or loaned by the Rockefeller family, May 25-Aug. 19. 372-4000.

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MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY, 500 President Clinton Ave.: “Extreme Deep: Mission to the Abyss,” through July 29; “Astronomy: It’s a Blast,” through Sept. 17; “Wiggle Worms,” science program for pre-K children 10 a.m.10:30 a.m. every Tue., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun., $10 ages 12 and older, $8 ages 1-11, free to active military and children under 1. Closed May 25-28 for Riverfest. 396-7050.

EUREKA SPRINGS The May Festival of the Arts includes gallery walks from 6-9 p.m. every Saturday and other special events; read more at mayfestivalofthearts.com.

ARTIFACTS GALLERY, 37 Spring St.: Barbara Robinson, painting demonstration, 4-6 pm.

May 26; Jim Nelson, large scale wood sculpture, 6-9 p.m. May 26. 479-363-6660.

EUREKA THYME, 19 Spring St.: Ken Starbird, pottery, and Sandy Wythawai Starbird, fabric art, 6-9 p.m. May 26. 479-353-9600.

MAIN STAGE GALLERY, 67 N. Main St.: Plein air painters exhibit, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. May 26, Main Stage Community Center.

OUT ON MAIN GALLERY, 1 Basin Spring Ave.: Zeek Taylor, watercolors, reception 5-9 p.m.

May 26. 479-253-8449.

THE SPACE, 2 Pine St.: “Finding Nature—Art in the Landscape,” work by 23 artists, including several site installations in Carroll County, through May 26, closing ceremony and outdoor sculpture burning 5-10 p.m. May 27, facebook. com/findingnature for map.

FAYETTEVILLE FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY READING ROOM, 401 W. Mountain St.: Adam Grant Campbell, paintings, through May. adamgrantcampbell.com.

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: Faculty exhibition, through June 19, closing reception 4-5:30 p.m. June 28. Noon-4 p.m. Tue.-Fri. 479-5757987.

JACKSONVILLE JACKSONVILLE MUSEUM OF MILITARY HISTORY, 100 Veterans Circle: Heritage Day, May 26, all events free: “Stuff the Shelves” food pantry contributions accepted; used book sale 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; movie “Injury Slight … Please Advise” 9:30-11 a.m.; 20-minute taped interview by Beryl Wolfson, a liberator at Dachau Prison Camp, 1:30-2:30 p.m. with Q&A to follow; free food provided by Centennial Bank 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Also exhibits on D-Day; F-105, Vietnam era plane (“The Thud”); the Civil War Battle of Reed’s Bridge, Arkansas Ordnance Plant (AOP) and other military history. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon-Sat., 1-5 p.m.

Sun. $3 adults; $2 seniors, military; $1 students.

501-241-1943.

RB MCGRATH STUDIO AND GALLERY, 118 S. First St.: Paintings by RB McGrath. 985-2165.

LITTLE ROCK AREA ART CLASSES

The Thea Foundation is taking registrations for Thea’s Art Class, a summer art camp designed to utilize arts-infused education with teacher Sarah Elizabeth Miller. Session 1 is July 2-5 and 9-12, from 9-11 a.m. for third through sixth graders and 2-4 p.m. for seventh through ninth graders. Session 2 is July 23-26, 30-31 and Aug. 1-2 (same hours as above). Fee is $75 for 8 classes; class limit is 15 students. For more information, go to theafoundation.org.

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Deadline to enter the South Arkansas Arts Center’s 2012 Juried Art Competition is Friday, May 25. Artists 18 and older may enter work in any media, both 2D and 3D. Juror is Manuela Well-Off-Man, assistant curator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. For more information, go to www.saac-arts.org or call 870-862-5474.

CONTINUING EXHIBITS

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “11th National Drawing Invitational: New York, Singular Drawings,” through Sept. 9, curated

by Charlotta Kotik; “Young Artists 51st Annual Exhibition,” through May 27; “Still Lifes of Daniel Massad,” through June 10; “The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft,” through Aug. 5; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000.

THE ART LOFT, 1525 Merrill Drive: Work by Dan Thornhill, Catherine Rodgers, Patrick Cunningham, Rosemary Parker, Kelly Furr, Melody Lile and others, with music by Rico Novales. 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Sat. 251-1131.

BOSWELL MOUROT FINE ART, 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Inkstone and gouache by Astrid Sohn, pastels by Robin Hazard-Bishop, through June 2. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 664-0030.

BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute: “Arkansas Art Educators State Youth Art Show 2012,” through July 28; “Small Town: Portraits of a Disappearing America,” through Aug. 25; “Rockefeller Elementary Celebrates Governor Rockefeller,” through May 25; “Making a Place: The Jewish Experience in Arkansas,” through June 23. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.Sat. 320-5790.

CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road:

21st annual “Mid-Southern Watercolor Open Membership Exhibit,” through June 23. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 224-1335.

CHROMA GALLERY, 5707 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Work by Robert Reep and other Arkansas artists. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Sat. 664-0880.

GALLERY 221, 221 W. 2nd St.: “Intuition, Lies and Fortune Tellers,” oils by Catherine Rodgers; also work by Jennifer Coleman, Larry Hare, Cynthia Ragan and others. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.Fri. 801-0211.

GALLERY 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Katherine Strause, Jason Smith, paintings, through July 14. 664-8996.

GREG THOMPSON FINE ART, 429 Main St.: “Best of the South,” works by regional artists including Carroll Cloar, Theora Hamblett, Walter Anderson, William Hollingsworth, Noel Rockmore, William Dunlap, Philip Morsberger, Donald Roller Wilson, Gary Bolding, Robert Rector and others, through July 10. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sat. 664-2787.

HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “Off the Wall,” oil on canvas/paper and bas relief on masonite by Kennith Humphrey, through June 8. 372-6822.

HEIGHTS GALLERY, 5801 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Work by contemporary Arkansas artists, gifts.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 664-2772.

KETZ GALLERY, 705 Main St., NLR: “A Worn Path: Southern Reflections,” ceiling tin and canvas paintings by Cheri Peden, through June 9. 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

Sat. 529-6330.

L&L BECK GALLERY, 5705 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “Backyard Birds,” paintings by Louis Beck. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 660-4006.

M2GALLERY, 11525 Cantrell: “Five-Year Anniversary Show,” etchings by Evan Lindquist, new works by Jeaneen Barnhart, Cathy Burns and Dan Holland. 225-6257.

MARKET STREET CINEMA, 1521 Merrill Drive: “The Veterans Art Gallery,” art created in the VA Medical Center Health Care for Homeless Veterans and portraits of vets, through June 1.

1:30-10 p.m. daily. 257-4392.

OW PIZZA, 1706 W. Markham St.: Grav Weldon, photographs. 374-5504.

REFLECTIONS GALLERY AND FINE FRAMING, 11220 Rodney Parham Road: Work by local and national artists. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.Fri., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sat. 227-5659.

SHOWROOM, 2313 Cantrell Road: Work by area artists, including Sandy Hubler. 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Mon.-Fri. 372-7373.

STATE CAPITOL: “Arkansans in the Korean War,” 32 photographs, lower-level foyer. 7 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sat.-Sun. STUDIOMAIN, 1423 S. Main St.: “Student Perception,” UACDC architecture students re-envision South Main Street. info@studio-

main.org.

THEA FOUNDATION, 401 Main St., NLR: Artwork by students at King Elementary School, through May 23. 379-9512.

BENTON DIANNE ROBERTS ART STUDIO AND GALLERY, 110 N. Market St.: Work by Chad Oppenhuizen, Dan McRaven, Gretchen Hendricks, Rachel Carroccio, Kenny Roberts, Taylor Bellott, Jim Cooper and Sue Moore.

10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 860-7467.

BENTONVILLE CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, 600 Museum Way: “American Encounters: Thomas Cole and the Narrative Landscape,” six paintings, including two from the Louvre Museum, through Aug. 13; “The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision,” 45 paintings from the New-York Historical Society, through Sept. 3, American masterworks spanning four centuries. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon., Thu., Sat.-Sun.; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed.-Fri. Tickets free but timed; reserve at 479-418-5700.

CALICO ROCK CALICO ROCK ARTISTS COOPERATIVE, Hwy. 5 at White River Bridge: Paintings, photographs, jewelry, fiber art, wood, ceramics and other crafts. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Thu., 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Fri.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun. calicorocket.org/ artists.

EUREKA SPRINGS ARTIFACTS FOLK AND FINE ART GALLERY, 37 Spring St.: Third annual “Eureka Springs Invitational Art Show,” through May. 479-3636660.

ARTS AND CRAFTS MARKET ON MAIN, 296 N. Main St.: Every Sat.-Sun. through May. 479-244-5146.

BASIN PARK: “Electric Vision: Creative Energy Project,” 20 images made from light, through May. GRAND TAVERNE RESTAURANT/GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL, 37 N. Main St.: Calligraphic works by Charles Pearce, through May. 479253-6756.

IRIS AT THE BASIN, 8 Spring St.: 10th annual student art exhibit, “Art in Support of Clean Water,” work by area high school students, through May. 479-253-9494.

STUDIO 62, Hwy. 62 W.: 7th annual “Art as Prayer,” art as a vehicle to spirituality, through May. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily except Wednesday.

479-363-9209.

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virtuosic Interstate Buffalo at 3:15 p.m. and the Dead tribute masters Touch at 4:30 p.m. At 6:15 p.m., the blues/jam shred-meisters in Joey Farr & The Fuggins Wheat Band bring down the house (or tent, in this case). At 7:45 p.m., the mood shifts in a decidedly electro direction, with Zoogma, followed by a set from tireless local DJ Durden at 9 p.m. and self-described “electro soul” from festival closer Archnemesis at 9:45 p.m.

DU & KREWE: Dikki Du & The Zydeco Krewe play the Stickyz Music Tent Saturday night at 8 p.m.

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HARRISON ARTISTS OF THE OZARKS, 124 ½ N. Willow St.: Work by Amelia Renkel, Ann Graffy, Christy Dillard, Helen McAllister, Sandy Williams and D. Savannah George.

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thu.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun. 870-429-1683.

FORREST CITY EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 1700 Newcastle Road: “Small Works on Paper 2012,” traveling exhibit of juried show, through May 30. 870-633-4480.

HEBER SPRINGS BOTTLE TREE GALLERY, 514 W. Main St.: Work by Maeve Croghan, Jonathan Harris, George Wittenberg. 501-590-8840.

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MOVIE LISTINGS

MAY 25-26

THE MEN IN BLACK ARE BACK: The inevitable third installment of the “Men in Black” franchise is out and it’s probably about what you’d expect.

Market Street Cinema times at or after 9 p.m. are for Friday and Saturday only. Rave showtimes are valid for Friday and Saturday only. Riverdale showings were not available as of press deadline. Find up-to-date listings at arktimes.com.

NEW MOVIES Bernie (PG-13) – Based on a murder in smalltown Texas, starring Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey and Richard Linklater. Market Street: 2:00, 4:15, 7:00, 9:15.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) – British baby-boomers go to India and learn about poor people and that it’s OK to eat weird stuff and it’s all very heartwarming. Rave: 10:10 a.m., 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10.

Chernobyl Diaries (R) – Some terror happens to attractive young people at the site of the Chernobyl disaster, from the director of “Paranormal Activity.” Chenal 9: 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20. Breckenridge: 1:05, 4:25, 7:40, 9:50. Lakewood 8: 11:25 a.m., 1:30, 4:15, 7:30, 9:50. Rave: 9:45 a.m., 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 8:10, 10:30, midnight.

Men in Black 3 (PG-13) – This go-around, they’ve got to travel backwards in time or something.

Breckenridge: 1:00, 4:40, 7:00, 8:00, 10:30 (2D), 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:01, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:10 (3D).

Chenal 9: 11:30 a.m., 2:00, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 (2D), 11:00 a.m., 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 (IMAX 3D).

Lakewood 8: 11:30 a.m., 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 (2D), 11:00 a.m., 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 (3D). Rave: 9:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 5:30, 6:45, 8:15, 9:30, 11:00 (2D), noon, 2:00, 3:00, 6:15, 7:45, 9:00, midnight (3D), 10:15 a.m., 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 (3DX).

Monsieur Lazhar (PG-13) – A class of elementary school children mourn the sudden loss of their teacher, while their substitute must cope with their grief and his own painful past. Market Street: 1:45, 4:00, 6:45, 9:00.

We Have a Pope (NR) – Papal drama that tries and succeeds at not saying anything too critical of the Catholic Church. Market Street: 2:00, 4:20, 7:15, 9:15.

RETURNING THIS WEEK 21 Jump Street (R) – Buddy cop comedy starring Jonah Hill and former male stripper Channing Tatum. Movies 10: 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05.

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Avengers (PG-13) – Based on the Marvel Comics superhero series. Breckenridge: 12:15, 1:15, 3:40, 4:00, 4:45, 7:05, 9:00, 9:30, 10:10. Chenal 9: 12:30, 3:35, 6:40, 9:45 (2D), noon, 3:05, 6:10, 9:15 (3D).

Lakewood 8: 4:00, 10:00 (2D), 1:00, 7:00 (3D).

Rave: 10:25 a.m., 12:20, 1:00, 1:45, 3:40, 5:10, 7:00, 8:00, 8:30, 10:25 (2D), 11:45 a.m., 3:10, 4:30, 6:30, 9:50, 11:40 (3D).

Battleship (PG-13) – Action adventure film starring Rihanna, whose Battleship many people would no doubt like to sink. Breckenridge: 12:45, 1:25, 3:50, 4:50, 7:10, 7:45, 10:05. Chenal 9: 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 9:15. Lakewood 8: 11:00 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00. Rave: 9:40 a.m., 10:45 a.m., 12:45, 1:30, 2:10, 4:20, 5:20, 7:25, 8:25, 9:45, 10:45, 11:45.

Being Flynn (R) – Drama about an estranged father and son who navigate a new relationship, with Robert Deniro. Market Street: 1:45, 4:15, 7:00, 9:15.

Chimpanzee (G) – Beautifully shot documentary footage of majestic primates, but it’s narrated by Tim Allen. Rave: 10:40 a.m.

Dark Shadows (PG-13) – Kinda like Dracula goes to “Austin Powers,” starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, directed by Tim Burton.

Nah, baby. Breckenridge: 1:20, 4:30, 7:25, 9:35.

Chenal 9: 11:15 a.m., 1:55, 4:35, 7:30, 10:30.

Lakewood 8: 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:05.

Rave: 10:50 a.m., 1:40, 4:45, 7:50, 10:40.

The Dictator (R) – Sacha Baron Cohen is a dictator from a fictional foreign country and he has a funny accent and so forth. Breckenridge: 1:20, 4:30, 7:25, 9:35. Chenal 9: 11:25 a.m., 1:35, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25. Lakewood 8: 11:35 a.m., 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 9:45. Rave: 10:00 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 12:40, 3:20, 4:55, 5:50, 7:30, 8:50, 11:10.

The Hunger Games (PG-13) – Teen-lit version of “The Running Man,” starring Jennifer Lawrence.

Rave: 12:25 p.m.

John Carter (PG-13) – “Braveheart” goes to Avatarnia, based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. Movies 10: noon, 2:50, 5:40, 8:30 (2D), 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 (3D).

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) – When you were watching “Land of the Lost,” did you find yourself wishing they’d cast The Rock instead of Will Farrell? Well, here you go. Movies 10: 12:25, 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50.

The Kid with a Bike (PG-13) – French drama about a boy trying desperately to reconnect with the

father who abandoned him. Market Street: 2:15, 4:25, 6:45, 9:00.

The Lorax (PG) – A 3D CGI adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ classic tale. Movies 10: 12:20, 2:25, 4:45, 7:00, 9:25.

Mirror Mirror (PG) – Retelling of “Snow White” with Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen. Movies 10: 12:15, 2:40, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10.

Safe House (R) – A.k.a., “Doesn’t Denzel Washington Make a Scary Bad Guy?” Movies 10: 12:45, 4:00, 7:10, 9:45.

Think Like a Man (PG-13) – Based on Steve Harvey’s best-selling book. Breckenridge: 12:35 p.m. Rave: 9:30 a.m., 3:45, 7:05, 10:05.

A Thousand Words (PG-13) – Eddie Murphy becomes magically connected to a tree that loses one leaf for every word he says, and they’ll both die if all the leaves fall off, so he has to not talk.

Movies 10: 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:20, 9:35.

Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (PG-13) – Worlds collide for a successful businessman, who meets a down-on-her-luck single mom who cleans the office building where he works. Movies 10: 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:00.

What to Expect When You’re Expecting (PG13) – Film mines bestselling pregnancy book for attempt at comedy. If that’s what you were expecting, you were right. Breckenridge: 1:15 (open-captioned), 4:20, 7:35, 10:15. Chenal 9: 11:10 a.m., 1:45, 4:25, 7:15, 10:15. Lakewood 8: 11:15 a.m., 1:40, 4:10, 7:25, 9:55. Rave: 10:30 a.m., 1:25, 4:35, 7:20, 10:00.

Wrath of the Titans (PG-13) – A.k.a., “Is this a movie or a really long ad for a video game?”

Starring Liam Neeson as Zeus, because duh.

Movies 10: 12:30, 2:55, 5:15, 7:40, 10:15.

Chenal 9 IMAX Theatre: 17825 Chenal Parkway, 821-2616, www.dtmovies.com.

Cinemark Movies 10: 4188 E. McCain Blvd., 945-7400, www.cinemark.com.

Cinematown Riverdale 10: Riverdale Shopping Center, 296-9955, www.riverdale10.com.

Lakewood 8: 2939 Lakewood Village Drive, 7585354, www.fandango.com.

Market Street Cinema: 1521 Merrill Drive, 312-8900, www.marketstreetcinema.net.

Rave Colonel Glenn 18: 18 Colonel Glenn Plaza, 687-0499, www.ravemotionpictures.com.

Regal Breckenridge Village 12: 1-430 and Rodney Parham, 224-0990, www.fandango.com.

MOVIE REVIEW

A bad movie worth seeing

Where the Mississippi River meets the River Thames

Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘The Dictator’ explores well-trod territory.

BY SAM EIFLING

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aybe a quarter of the attempted laugh lines in “The Dictator” really land, but it starts onefor-one. Before the title screen appears, a somber opening graphic dedicates the film to the memory of Kim Jong-il.

The deceased North Korean dictator/ nutbar probably did serve as more than token inspiration for Sacha Baron Cohen’s titular tyrant. The “Ali G” creator plays Admiral General Aladeen, a monomaniacal brat who as a boy inherited control of the Republic of Wadiya, a sandpile atop an ocean of oil on the African side of the Red Sea. Aladeen runs his country as a mashup of North Korean cult-of-personality (he has changed multiple Wadiyan words to his own name) and Saddamesque opulence.

He beds a parade of paid celebrity schtups (Megan Fox obliges as synecdoche), festoons himself with military ribbon bars, taxis about in gold-plated SUVs and wins every athletic or acting contest he enters.

Life is all grapes and hosannas in his bubble of unaccountable narcissism.

Aladeen’s a big spender but could be doing more to exploit the oil reserves, so his fuming uncle, played by — whoa, is that Ben Kingsley? Anyway, his uncle schemes to have him whacked. On a trip to New York for a speech to the United Nations, Aladeen is kidnapped and replaced by a double who announces to the world that Wadiya will be a democracy, open for business. The real Aladeen, seeing this, aims to avert the disaster that would be democracy. Seeing him as a helplessly dispossessed Wadiyan, Anna Faris enters as a helpful co-op grocery manager who embodies every cliché about effete liberal well-meaners, down to the hirsute armpits and nauseating kindness. Thus is set in motion New York’s strangest romantic pairing since King Kong and Fay Wray.

The humor in “The Dictator” splatters an even broader blast zone than Cohen’s previous films, “Borat” and “Bruno.” Those took aim at Americans’ prejudice and vanity, both by dropping the Cambridgetrained Cohen into contrived situations with real people whose honest reactions lent a documentary air to the comedies.

“The Dictator” goes fully scripted but still plumbs the same setup for its laughs: ambiguously accented foreigner drops into America; locals, believing themselves

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broadminded, welcome his obvious maladaptations as cultural markers to be tolerated. This allows Cohen to make highly racist, sexist, xenophobic jokes under the guise of putting his characters (real or fictional) in position to react to racism, sexism and xenophobia. It’s amusing in “The Dictator” but it was funnier in “Borat” and “Bruno,” when average jerks on the street were confronted with this warped social experiment. When Cohen stacks the deck with a shrill granola-sprite like Faris, the audience no longer gets to cringe along with the unsuspecting mark. Instead we just feel mean.

Not all the jokes flop because they’re lazily cruel. Many flop simply because they’re not very funny. Larry Charles, the one-time “Seinfeld” writer and director of “Borat” and “Bruno,” paces much of the dialogue as if he’s expecting a laugh track to fill empty space. Several of the bits between Cohen and his deposed nuclear mastermind, played by Jason Mantzoukas, make two minutes feel like 10, like listless improv, while other montage gags hit or miss seemingly at random.

Even an inspired late speech comparing the American system to autocracy can’t rescue the preceding 80 minutes. By the obligatory end-credit outtakes, “The Dictator” has at turns tickled, offended and bored just about everyone in the house. www.arktimes.com

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AFTER DARK, CONT. HELENA DELTA CULTURAL CENTER, 141 Cherry St.: “Ni hao, Shalom: Treasures of the Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art,” through June 2. 870338-4350.

HOT SPRINGS ALISON PARSONS GALLERY, 802 Central Ave.: Paintings by Alison Parsons. 501-625-3001.

AMERICAN ART GALLERY, 724 Central Ave.: Paintings by Jimmy Leach, through May. 501624-055.

ARTCHURCH STUDIO, 301 Whittington: Artwork by studio and new artists. 655-0836.

BLUE MOON, 718 Central Ave.: Celebrating its 15th year in business with 15 percent discounts on all work throughout the month of May and an exhibit of work by Suzi Dennis, H. James

Hoff, Steve Lawnick, David Rackley, Jeanne Teague and Bart Soutendijk. 501-318-2787.

FINE ARTS CENTER, 626 Central Ave.: “Floral and Fauna Art Exhibition,” through May 28. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 501-624-0489.

GALLERY CENTRAL, 800 Central Ave.: Marian Kline, equine-themed paintings. 501-318-4278.

JUSTUS FINE ART, 827 Central A: New paintings by Dolores Justus and Vivian Noe-Griffith, fiber art by Jennifer Libby Fay. 501-321-2335.

TAYLOR’S CONTEMPORANEA, 204 Exchange St.: Still lifes by Daniel Mark Cassity. 501-6240516 VAN BUREN CENTER FOR ART AND EDUCATION, 104 N. 13th St.: “Relative Connections,” abstract paintings by Karen Hutcheson, sculpture and

drawings by Robyn Hutcheson Horn and oils by their mother, Dede Hutcheson, through May 25; “Medley of Art,” paintings and photographs by the Wednesday Lunch Bunch.

479-474-7767.

ONGOING MUSEUM EXHIBITS

ARKANSAS INLAND MARITIME MUSEUM, NLR: Tours of the USS Razorback submarine. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Wed.-Sat., 1-6 p.m. Sun. 371-8320.

ARKANSAS SPORTS HALL OF FAME MUSEUM, Verizon Arena, NLR: 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 663-4328.

CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL MUSEUM VISITOR CENTER, Bates and Park: Exhibits on the 1957 desegregation of Central and the civil rights movement. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily. 374-1957.

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CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER, 1200 President Clinton Ave.: “Play Ball! The St. Louis Cardinals,” memorabilia, including World Series trophies, rings and Stan Musial’s uniform, through Sept. 16; permanent exhibits about policies and White House life during the Clinton administration. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $7 adults; $5 college students, seniors, retired military; $3 ages 6-17. 370-8000.

HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM, 200 E. Third St.: “Creating the Elements of Discovery: Tim Imhauser, Jason Powers and Emily Wood,” sculpture, drawings and paintings, through Aug. 5, “Nate Powell: Cross Sections,” work by graphic novel illustrator, through June 3; “Doug Stowe: The Making of My Small Cabinets,” through July 8. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351.

MacARTHUR MUSEUM OF ARKANSAS MILITARY HISTORY, MacArthur Park: Exhibits on Arkansas’s military history. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat., 1-4 p.m. Sun. 376-4602.

MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, Ninth and Broadway: “Creativity Arkansas Collection,” works by black Arkansas artists; permanent exhibits on African-American entrepreneurial history in Arkansas. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tue.-Sat. 683–3593.

OLD STATE HOUSE MUSEUM, 300 W. Markham: “Battle Colors of Arkansas,” 18 civil war flags; “Things You Need to Hear: Memories of Growing up in Arkansas from 1890 to 1980,” oral histories about community, family, work, school and leisure. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9685.

WITT STEPHENS JR. CENTRAL ARKANSAS NATURE CENTER, Riverfront Park: Exhibits on wildlife and the state Game and Fish Commission.

ENGLAND TOLTEC MOUNDS STATE PARK, State Hwy. 165: Major prehistoric Indian site with visitors’ center and museum. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun., closed Mon. $3 for adults, $2 for ages 6-12. 961-9442.

HOT SPRINGS MID-AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM, 500 MidAmerica Blvd.: “Odyssey’s Shipwreck! Pirates and Treasure,” artifacts recovered from several wrecks, through Sept. 4. 501-767-3461.

MORRILTON MUSEUM OF AUTOMOBILES, Petit Jean Mountain: Permanent exhibit of more than 50 cars from 1904-1967 depicting the evolution of the automobile. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 7 days.

501-727-5427.

ROGERS ROGERS HISTORICAL MUSEUM, 322 S. Second St.: “Portraits in Gray: A Civil War Photography Exhibition Featuring the Collection of David Wynn Vaughan,” sponsored by the Southern Museum of Kennesaw, Ga., through July 21. 479-621-1154.

SCOTT PLANTATION AGRICULTURE MUSEUM, U.S. 165 S and Hwy. 161: Artifacts and interactive exhibits on farming in the Arkansas Delta. $3 adults, $2 ages 6-12. Open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 501-961-1409.

SCOTT PLANTATION SETTLEMENT: 1840s log cabin, one-room school house, tenant houses, smokehouse and artifacts on plantation life. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thu.-Sat. 351-0300. www.scottconnections.org.

More gallery and museum listings at www.arktimes.com.

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SUPREME EATS: Shitake blend stir-fry at Something Better in Fayetteville.

Something Better Fresh take on old standards

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ayetteville’s five-month-old Something Better occupies a corner of one of those stucco shopping complexes that are common on North College Avenue. It’s labeled with black and white lettering that blends so seamlessly into the surrounding mallscape that we make a full circle of the parking lot before we notice it. It’s one of two all-vegan restaurants in the state, and honestly, this location wasn’t quite what we’d pictured. We were thinking sunny and cutesy, maybe staffed with dreadlocked, gingham-aproned college kids. What we got was a large room of generic tan and black decor, and a wall full of computer-printed placards with quotes from satisfied customers. That’s because Something Better isn’t run by earthy hipsters; it’s run by devout Seventh-day Adventists, who, lucky for us, exhausted their creative impetus on the menu rather than the decor.

We ordered at the counter and in about 15 minutes, an amicable (everyone seemed to be) cook-cum-waiter delivered the goods. The basis of the Something Better menu is a low-sodium, small-batch manufactured product called Better Than Meat, invented and patented by owner Chef GW Chew. We don’t eat much meat. In fact, one of our group has been vegetarian for a full decade. So we’re on intimate terms with a wide range of meat substitutes — those made with wheat (seitan, bulgur), those made with soy (tofu, tempeh) and

Something Better

1466 N. College Ave., Fayetteville (479) 668-2366 QUICK BITE Chef Chew’s mission is twofold. In addition to serving vegan food, he is a vegan lifestyle educator. Chew thinks veganism is an essential key to health — that of the individual and of the local and global communities.

Next month Something Better will offer a 60-day introduction to veganism. For $120 a week, participants get two take-home meals a day, options to attend cooking demonstrations and home visits from a visiting team of vegan healthcare consultants.

HOURS 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday.

OTHER INFO No alcohol. CC accepted. Closed on Saturdays.

those made with clinical, freaky mush (textured vegetable protein, quorn). Better Than Meat (BTM for short) is definitely among the more satisfying options. Chew could probably make a fortune if he massproduced the stuff, but for now, it’s only available in Something Better dishes or pre-packaged from the Something Better cafe. There are different varieties of BTM. The “chicken” wings and ground “beef” have a brown rice base, while the shredded chicken and steak have a sturdier soy

base. But Something Better doesn’t just make BTM. If it’s at all assembled and it’s on your plate, Chew, his baker or one of his cooks made it from scratch. The breads, wraps and pitas are baked in-house. The vegan cheese is Chew’s own recipe. There are no mixes involved in the smoothies, carob brownies, salsa and hummus, and roughly half of all ingredients are organic.

The menu is divided into sandwich and wraps (with a brown rice option for the gluten-free), pita pizzas, stir-fries and salads. The sandwiches borrow from established flavor combinations — Honey BBQ Chicken, Asian Chicken and a Philly “Cheeze” Steak are among the offerings. We made the excellent decision to try the latter two and, while no one would be fooled into thinking there’s flesh involved, we don’t think that’s actually the point. Both sandwiches were served warm, with no sides, but at $6.95, they’re filling and affordable.

The BTM in the Philly had a chewy, melt-in-your-mouth texture that reminded us of perfectly tender pulled pork. It was loaded with juicy flavor, complements of the caramelized onions and sauteed bell peppers. The pinkish-orange “cheeze” was too creamy to resemble actual melted cheese, but it made a nice salty-sweet dressing. And it tasted much cleaner than the ultra-processed gloop used on non-vegan cheese steak sandwiches. The dense, toasted wheat bun tasted fresh, and the whole shebang was dressed with crisp lettuce, carrot shavings and tomato. The Asian Chicken wheat wrap was an altogether different experience — we’re hard pressed to say which we enjoyed more. This version of the BTM had a sort of scrambled egg texture, and the overall sandwich was wetter. In that first bite, we crushed juicy tomatoes alongside the BTM, spicy sauteed onions and green peppers. There was a generous dousing of housemade sweet and sour sauce, and the outer wrap was slightly grilled, so that it was both crusty and soft.

Though we’re sure these are some extensively engineered sandwiches made with thoughtful ingredients, they tasted simple — and that’s what made them delicious and satisfying. Their brilliance, the reason even carnivores probably devour them with gusto, is that they’re familiar enough to be comforting and novel enough to be interesting.

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THE RESTAURANT FORMERLY KNOWN as Ferneau is now 21, its

new awning declares. Which made us wonder: Why change the name of a successful restaurant?

Because the new owner, Frank Fletcher, wanted to name the restaurant after his racehorse that won the Breeder’s Cup last fall. That horse was Rocket 21, and if you look carefully at the awning, you’ll see a horse’s face with the word Rocket above it. So, according to co-owner Tom Roy, the real name of The Restaurant Formerly Known as Ferneau is Rocket 21.

No one is calling it that, and the restaurant’s courtesy car door omits the Rocket name from its logo. Donnie Ferneau is still chef at Ferneau, and that fact is also spelled out on the awning.

Roy said he called the famed 21 in New York City to see if there was a problem with naming the Arkansas restaurant Rocket 21 and was told there was none. Interestingly, the famous wrought iron gates at the entrance to New York’s 21 (at 21 W. 52nd St.) are lined with jockeys, gifts from the owners of horse farms.

Coincidence?

BRIAN CHILSON

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THERE’S A SWELL NEW ATTRACTION at the Little Rock Farmers

Market on Saturdays this year: Fried pies from Southern Fried Pies, headquartered at 998 Fox Pass Cutoff (is that a fried-pie address or what?), Hot Springs, 501-282-1061. Not everything sold as a fried pie these days is the real deal, but these are. As owner Kim Huchingson says, “We make them the old-fashioned, dried-fruit way.”

Some of the new-fangled places seem to think that fried pies have to be served hot, but with fried pie, as with meatloaf, the real test is what it tastes like cold. A rather elderly gentleman we know hadn’t had a peach fried pie that met his high standards in years until he discovered Huchingson’s. She sells them in 15 flavors, incidentally, although we suspect our friend won’t get much past the peach and the apricot. They’re $3 apiece and darned well worth it. Huchingson takes her fried-pie concession stand to various farmers markets and festivals around the state. She’ll be at the Farmers Market downtown this year every Saturday until the market closes.

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The stir-fries come with a choice of whole grain linguine or brown rice. We strongly recommend the homemade linguine, which had a fluffy texture and its own nutty flavor. Like all fresh pastas, it also had the added benefit of extra absorbency, making it a prime carrier for the meld of garlic and cooked veggie juices. There was broccoli, carrot, purple cabbage and some type of pungent leafy green, offset by the smokiness of the shitake mushrooms. Everything was moist, nothing was oily, and there were plenty of subtleties — such as the umami of the grain and a hint of garlicky warmth — hiding under the loud, earthy tones.

Something Better also sells party food, in the form of vegan chicken wings that go single serving or in bulk. We ordered them mild and ended up with childfriendly BTM cylinders, more akin to nuggets than wings, plastered with a sticky honey BBQ sauce. We can’t really picture these paired with beer and football, but they’re definitely preferable to a McDonald’s Happy Meal.

We also sampled a yummy Tropical Green smoothie, made from tart pineapple, kale and zesty parsley, and a couple of desserts. A carrot juice smoothie with kale (menu-touted as a digestive and antioxidant) was pleasantly surprising. It was thinner and much more drinkable than our previous experiences with fresh juiced carrot, and the glucose-laden carrot was neutralized by the bitter kale. The carob brownie (sans chocolate), sweetened with evaporated cane sugar, was our favorite dessert. It was moist, with a sweet, roasted coffee flavor and a hint of some other spice — nutmeg, maybe?

We didn’t try the salads, and honestly, we don’t know why they’re even on the menu. Vegans eat way too many restaurant salads as is, and we doubt many people would unnecessarily go that route.

Maybe they’re for the gluten-free folks?

The only thing that we didn’t unequivocally love was the Double-Cheeze-O-Lux pita pizza. Maybe if we’d ordered a pizza with more toppings, things would have gone a little better. The “cheese” was a bit gelatinous, particularly after it cooled, and we tend to prefer crispy pizza crust to pita. We know earlier we dismissed the whole suspension of disbelief thing but in this instance, we were hoping for something a little more recognizably pizzaflavored. But for the record, plenty of vegan pita pizza fans seem to congregate on Something Better’s Facebook page, and there are at least a dozen other menu options that, based on first impressions, we’re sure we will eventually love. Those are way better odds than at nearly any traditional restaurant. So yeah, for a pair of conscientious eaters like us, this place did turn out to be something better.

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ALLEY OOPS Plate lunches, burgers and homemade desserts. Remarkable Chess Pie. 11900 Kanis Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-221-9400.

LD Mon.-Sat. B-SIDE French toast wrapped in bacon on a stick, a must-have dish called “biscuit mountain” and beignets with lemon curd. 11121 Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, All CC. $$.

501-716-2700. BL Wed.-Sun. BIG WHISKEY’S AMERICAN BAR AND GRILL A modern grill pub in the River Market with all the bells and whistles. Plus, the usual burgers, steaks, soups and salads. 225 E. Markham. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-324-2449.

LD daily.

BOBBY’S COUNTRY COOKIN’ One of the better plate lunch spots in the area, with some of the best fried chicken and pot roast around, a changing daily casserole and wonderful homemade pies. 301 N. Shackleford Road, Suite E1. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-2249500. L Mon.-Fri. BOGIE’S BAR AND GRILL Menu filled with

burgers, salads and giant desserts, plus a few steak, fish and chicken main courses.120 W. Pershing Blvd. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$.

501-812-0019. D daily.

BUFFALO GRILL A great crispy-off-the-griddle cheeseburger and hand-cut fries star at this family-friendly stop. 1611 Rebsamen Park Road.

Full bar, CC. $$. 501-296-9535. LD daily. 400 N. Bowman Road. Full bar, Beer, All CC. $$.

501-224-0012. LD daily.

CATFISH CITY AND BBQ GRILL Basic fried fish and sides, including green tomato pickles, and now with tasty ribs and sandwiches in beef, pork and sausage. 1817 S. University Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-7224.

LD Tue.-Sat. CHEERS Good burgers and sandwiches, vegetarian offerings and salads at lunch and fish specials, and good steaks in the evening.

2010 N. Van Buren. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$.

501-663-5937. LD Mon.-Sat. 1901 Club Manor Drive. Maumelle. Full bar, All CC. 501-851-6200.

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Rock’s Argenta district. 314 Main St. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-374-1782. LD Mon.-Sat. DAVE AND RAY’S DOWNTOWN DINER Breakfast buffet daily featuring biscuits and gravy, home fries, sausage and made-toorder omelets. Lunch buffet with four choices of meats and eight veggies. 824 W. Capitol Ave. No alcohol. $. 501-372-8816. BL Mon.-Fri. DAVID’S BUTCHER BOY BURGERS Serious hamburgers, steak salads, homemade custard.

101 S. Bowman Road.

DOGTOWN COFFEE AND COOKERY Up-todate sandwich, salad and fancy coffee kind of place, well worth a visit. 6725 John F. Kennedy Blvd. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-8333850. BL Mon.-Sun., BLD Fri.-Sat.,.

E’S BISTRO Try the heaping grilled salmon BLT on a buttery croissant. 3812 JFK Boulevard.

NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-771-6900.

GREEN CUISINE Daily specials and a small, solid menu of vegetarian fare. 985 West Sixth St. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. Serving.

HILLCREST ARTISAN MEATS A fancy charcuterie and butcher shop with excellent daily soup and sandwich specials. Limited seating is available. 2807 Kavanaugh Blvd. No alcohol, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-671-6328. L Mon.-Sat. KITCHEN EXPRESS Delicious “meat and three” restaurant offering big servings of homemade soul food. 4600 Asher Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-3500. BLD Mon.-Sat., LD Sun. LYNN’S CHICAGO FOODS Outpost for Chicago specialties like Vienna hot dogs and Italian beef sandwiches. 6501 Geyer Springs.

No alcohol, All CC. $. 501-568-2646. LD Mon.-Sat. MADDIE’S If you like your catfish breaded Cajun-style, your grits rich with garlic and cream and your oysters fried up in perfect puffs, this Cajun eatery is the place for you.

1615 Rebsamen Park Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-660-4040. LD Tue.-Sat. RESTAURANT 1620 Steaks, chops, a broad choice of fresh seafood and meal-sized salads are just a few of the choices on a broad menu at this popular and upscale West Little Rock bistro. 1620 Market St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$.

501-221-1620. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat., BR Sun. SAY MCINTOSH RESTAURANT Big plates of soul food, plus burgers, barbecue and his famous sweet potato pie. 2801 W. 7th Street.

No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-664-6656. LD Mon.-Sat. L Sun. SLICK’S SANDWICH SHOP & DELI Meatand-two plate lunches in state office building.

101 E. Capitol Ave. 501-375-3420. L Mon.-Fri. SPECTATORS GRILL AND PUB Burgers, soups, salads and other beer food, plus live music on weekends. 1012 W. 34th St. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-791-0990. LD Mon.-Sat. SPORTS PAGE Perhaps the largest, juiciest, most flavorful burger in town. Grilled turkey and hot cheese on sourdough gets praise, too.

Now with lunch specials. 414 Louisiana St. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-372-9316. L Mon.-Fri. STARVING ARTIST CAFE All kinds of crepes, served as entrees or as dessert. Dinner menu changes daily, good wine list. 411 N. Main St. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-372-7976. L Tue.-Sat., D Tue., Fri.-Sat. THE TAVERN SPORTS GRILL Burgers, barbecue and more. 17815 Chenal Parkway.

Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-830-2100. LD daily.

UNIVERSITY MARKET @ 4CORNERS A food truck court where local vendors park daily.

Check facebook.com/4cornersmarket to see what carts are scheduled to be parked. 6221 Colonel Glenn Road. CC. $-$$. 501-515-1661.

LD daily. 6221 Colonel Glenn Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-413-3672. LD.

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BENIHANA JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE Enjoy the cooking show, make sure you get a little filet with your meal, and do plenty of dunking in that fabulous ginger sauce. 2 Riverfront Place. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$.

501-374-8081. BLD Sun.-Sat. CHI’S DIMSUM & BISTRO A huge menu spans the Chinese provinces and offers a few twists on the usual local offerings. 6 Shackleford Drive.

Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-221-7737. LD daily. 17200 Chenal Parkway.

No alcohol, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-821-8000.

FAR EAST ASIAN CUISINE Old favorites such as orange beef or chicken and Hunan green beans are still prepared with care 11600 Pleasant Ridge Drive. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-219-9399. LD daily.

FU LIN Quality in the made-to-order entrees is high, as is the quantity. 200 N. Bowman Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-225-8989. LD daily.

IGIBON JAPANESE FOOD HOUSE It’s a complex place, where the food is almost always good and the ambiance and service never fail to please. 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-2178888. LD Mon.-Sat. KOBE JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE & SUSHI Kobe stands taller in its sushi offerings than at the grill. 11401 Financial Centre Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-225-5999. L Mon.-Sat. D daily.

VAN LANG CUISINE Terrific Vietnamese cuisine, particularly the way the pork dishes and the assortment of rolls are presented. Great prices, too.

3600 S. University Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-570-7700. LD daily.

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CAPITOL SMOKEHOUSE AND GRILL Beef, pork and chicken, all smoked to melting tenderness and doused with a choice of sauces.

915 W. Capitol Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-372-4227. BL Mon.-Fri. CROSS EYED PIG BBQ COMPANY Traditional barbecue favorites smoked well such as pork ribs, beef brisket and smoked chicken. 1701 Rebsamen Park Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-265-0000. L Mon.-Sat., D Tue.-Fri. 1701 Rebsamen Park Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-2277427. LD daily.

FATBOY’S KILLER BAR-B-Q This Landmark neighborhood strip center restaurant in the far southern reaches of Pulaski County features tender ribs and pork by a contest pitmaster. 14611 Arch Street. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-888-4998. LD Mon.-Fri. HB’S BAR B.Q. Great slabs of meat with fiery barbecue sauce, but ribs are served on Tuesday only. 6010 Lancaster. No alcohol, No CC. $-$$.

501-565-1930. L Mon.-Fri. MICK’S BBQ, CATFISH AND GRILL Good burgers, picnic-worth deviled eggs and heaping barbecue sandwiches topped with sweet sauce. 3609 MacArthur Dr. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-791-2773. LD Mon.-Sun. SIMS BAR-B-QUE Great spare ribs, sandwiches, beef, half and whole chicken and an addictive vinegar-mustard-brown sugar sauce. 2415 Broadway. Beer, CC. $-$$. 501-372-6868. LD Mon.-Sat. 1307 John Barrow Road. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-224-2057. LD Mon.-Sat. 7601 Geyer Springs Road. Beer, All CC. $$. 501-562-8844. LD Mon.-Sat.

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KHALIL’S PUB Widely varied menu with European, Mexican and American influences. Go for the Bierocks, rolls filled with onions and beef. 110 S. Shackleford Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-224-0224. LD daily. BR Sun. THE PANTRY The menu stays relatively true to the owner’s Czechoslovakian roots, but there’s plenty of choices to suit all tastes. 11401 Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-353-1875. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. STAR OF INDIA The best Indian restaurant in the region, with a unique buffet at lunch and some fabulous dishes at night (spicy curried dishes, tandoori chicken, lamb and veal, vegetarian). 301 N. Shackleford. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-227-9900. LD daily.

TASTE OF ASIA Delicious Indian food in a pleasant atmosphere. Perhaps the best samosas in town. Buffet at lunch. 2629 Lakewood Village Dr. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-812-4665. LD daily.

TAZIKI’S Gyros, grilled meats and veggies, hummus and pimento cheese.

8200 Cantrell Rd. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-227-8291. LD daily 12800 Chenal Parkway. Beer, Wine, All CC. 501-225-1829. LD daily.

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VESUVIO Arguably Little Rock’s best Italian restaurant is in one of the most unlikely places – tucked inside the Best Western Governor’s Inn. 1501 Merrill Drive. Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-225-0500. D daily.

VILLA ITALIAN RESTAURANT Hearty, inexpensive, classic southern Italian dishes. 12111 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-2192244. LD Mon.-Sat.

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hearsay ➥ Stop by HILLCREST ARTISAN MEATS to get ready for your Memorial Day celebration! They’re stocking more than 20 different types of sausage, including Merguez, a heavily spiced North African lamb sausage. ➥ Thursday is Ladies’ Night at MADURO CIGAR BAR AND LOUNGE! Ladies will get 15% off everything — including cocktails, beer, wine, cigars and snacks. ➥ EDWARD’S FOOD GIANT has everything you need for cooking out this weekend! In addition to Edward’s selection of Boar’s Head cheeses and homemade Robbie’s salsa, the meat counter features burgers, steaks, seafood and house-made sausages. ➥ We hear that BOX TURTLE has received a shipment of summer dresses and shorts just in time for Riverfest or the long weekend. Stop by to check out the latest inventory and find some great deals! ➥ Make plans now to see the ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER Tattoo Witness: Photographs by Mark Perrott from June 22-Sept.

9. 25 large-format black and white photographs documenting 25 years of tattoo culture. If you’re a member, the opening night party on the 21st is a must-do as tattoo artists will be in attendance. There will be an after party at 7th Street Tattoo Parlor.

We’ll see you there. ➥ Tuesday, May 29th is the start of the Sixth Annual LITTLE ROCK FILM FESTIVAL! Buy your passes now at www.littlerockfilmfestival. org so you don’t miss anything. ➥ If you’re in the market for a great new swimsuit, head over to BARBARA GRAVES INTIMATE FASHIONS, where you’ll find the hottest summer looks. Don’t wear that shabby old one-piece from last season — strut your stuff! Check out their sale rack for lots of good deals on casual wear! ➥ Dress up that deck or patio for the summer, and this month KEN RASH’S CASUAL FURNITURE is celebrating 20 years in business. Join them on Saturday as they’re cooking ribs on the Big Green Egg. This is your opportunity to see (and taste) the Egg in action! They will also be open on Memorial Day. ➥ JUST DOGS! GOURMET! Will be barking their appreciation to their customers with a Memorial Day Sale from Thursday-Monday.

Take advantage of 20% off all clothing (except clearance), beds (including duvets and stuff sacks) and bowls and stands. Keep on woofin’!

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MAY 23, 2012

FIRE IT UP! May is National Barbecue Month

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ooking out with friends and family is an American tradition. To help you celebrate in style, we’re sharing the hottest trends in outdoor cooking.

A great barbecue starts with the grill, and Ken Rash’s Casual Furniture has you covered. They carry The Big Green Egg, a long-time favorite of Arkansans. The Egg’s unique shape, design and space-age ceramics of the cooker retain heat and moisture, meaning that your food won’t dry out. Cooking temperatures vary from 150 – 750 degrees, allowing you to grill, bake, or smoke on the grill. If you’re furnishing your outdoor kitchen and looking for the very best in grilling, check out the Saber line of stainless barbecue grills. Each Saber grill features an infrared cooking system, push-button ignitions on each burner and an attractive design. Saber grills heat from zero to 700 degrees in 10 minutes or less and will produce mouthwatering results every time.

Brandon Brown, owner of Hillcrest Artisan Meats, can help you select the perfect cut of meat. “We’re finding that our most popular cut is our hanger steak; we sell four times more of that than any other cut.” The hanger steak is a non-working muscle located behind the beef tenderloin and has a tender texture and grainy flavor. The hanger steak has become somewhat of a legend and it’s also easy to prepare, requiring no more than five minutes on each side. “Another cut that we’re selling a lot of is the teras major – which is the cow’s rotator cuff. It’s basically a mini beef tenderloin, very tender and full of flavor.” Savvy Arkansans choose HAM because of their commitment to locally farmed cattle and top-notch customer service.

Terry’s Finer Foods, a long-time tradition in the Heights, has an enormous selection of gourmet meats, including fresh veal daily, seafood, 30-day aged meat and a wide variety of cheeses.

Ask the butcher for steaks cut to order – that’s the kind of service that’s made Terry’s a favorite for Little Rock families for ages. Hours are 8 a.m.–6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Once you’ve selected your meat, it’s time to choose your

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Don’t worry. Be happy.

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h, yeah, the big crash is coming.

And don’t doubt when we go down, insufferably vain species that we are, we’ll take the creation with us. The last ding dong of doom clangs and fades, and the great dark descends. Civilization’s hopes and detritus sucked into the Hawking black so profound that not even light can escape from it. And no, no lizard will crawl up out of it a billion years hence to launch the Darwinian redux. The crash kills time, so there won’t be no nuther billion years.

“Fairly soon,” Krugman predicts. But the wheels already in motion, and too late to turn back. The economists and climatologists agree. All over but the posturing. The greenhouse melts the caps and slow roasts us like pigs with apples in our mouths. And ensuing — if there were an ensuing — el grande nada. Eternal starless night.

It might not start and finish in a flash. It might come like the tsunami, like a thief in the night. On little cat feet, and we might not feel its full force here until soon after the crazies take over finally in November.

Which they’ll do, of course. In your name.

With your consent and hollaback huzzah.

Then quickly. The whole shebang here unwrecked one moment then gone as the wild goose in winter, and it’s if it had never been, a dream unremembered, no surviving

flash drive preserving highlights for some curious future Roger Nobody’s smarmy review. No puny, inexhaustible BOB voice to sing, fatuLANCASTER ously, We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when.

Oracles speak in riddles, so when I consulted the Domino Guru and asked what to do, how to prepare, what the hell, why — asked how an old Goober Corner boy’s supposed to cope with the imminent end of all things, with oblivion gathering like nimbus bison on the horizon — the words that he told me were those in the headline above.

Don’t worry. Be happy.

I didn’t need riddles. I needed answers. I needed a game plan. I needed an exit strategy. I needed a Galactica ticket. I needed a tire tool. If I were Pat Robertson I could smartphone God and see what he recommended. If I were Oral Roberts’ boy, I’d try to sober up long enough to lay healing hands on Gaia. But I’m more of the Jonah disposition, hanging back, unsure I want to know even what I already know and can’t escape knowing.

But the guru wouldn’t elaborate.

Don’t worry, he said. Be happy.

“You mean that’s it?” I said, and he gave

me that gesture that’s part shrug and part meh, like, “What to you want from me?”

And I was left to mull it and puzzle over it. Don’t worry, be happy.

It’s like the pilot leaping aboard the stewardess as the plane’s going down and no parachutes and no hope. Going coming. But not exactly like that. You can keep your dignity right up to the Sopranos cutoff. Comfort others as best you can. You can not worry and be happy because there’s nothing to be gained by stewing over it, brooding, doing all that woeing and ai-ai-ai-ing like all those weird unhappy winged critters in Revelation.

Be happy to keep from being sad. Be happy to keep from being scared. Listing some reasons to be happy will make it easier.

OK then — Be happy knowing it’s them that are crazy, not you.

Be happy that you got to live before they ran out of ideas. (That happened the day they were writing the script for the “Happy Days” episode in which Fonzie jumps the shark.)

Be happy that global warming will henceforth and ever after be moot. All the issues will go moot. Abortion will go from preoccupation to moot. Mr. Justice Thomas’ pubes, which have mooted steadily toward the abyss of true moot for 25 years now, will moot on over into the void. Where everything was before, there’ll be only moot. Moot as far as the eye can see, if there were an eye left not to see it with. The underwear bomb-

ers of Yemen, the yodeling veterinarians of the Alps — moot. The ominous turmoil in Syria moots in the sense of ashes, ashes, all fall down.

Be happy there’ll be no further need for the Heimlich Maneuver.

Be happy that your ass never talked to you, as Baalam’s did.

Be happy remembering when the iceman cameth. (On Fridays. His name was Hugh Moore.) And remembering the Gopher Squat when he addressed a golf ball. And Tucker’s moody grass story. And Win at Wynne.

Be happy for having made up the considerable distance between a yam-sized upland shrew gnawing Junebugs while contemplating destiny to Jerry Jones oiled and rowdy autographing a barmaid’s aureole with a Sharpie.

Be happy that while there’s still time they’re fixing to round up the trolls, brand the letter T into their foreheads, and cut off their tails.

Be happy for poor old Harold Camping that he’ll have the one blinding flash of realization that was right but nobody left to brag to.

Be happy for the deer.

Be happy that the reckoning will give no consideration whatever to the question of whether you have to acquit if the glove don’t fit.

Be happy that you didn’t have to be John Edwards.

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FIELD WORkERS. 5 temp positions7 months; job to begin 7/1/12 and end on 1/31/13Duties:planting of sugarcane by hand, farm and field duties; able to work in hot, humid weather, bending or stooping to reach ground level crops and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Once hired, workers may be required to take a random drug test at no cost to the worker. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination. $9.30 per hour; 1 months experience in job offered required. All work tools provided.

Housing and transportation provided to workers who can not reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day; Transportation and subsistence expenses to worksite will be provided by employer upon completion of 50% of work contract or earlier if appropriate; _ hours guaranteed in a work day during contract. Employment offered by K & M Cane located in Bunkie, LA Qualified applicants may call employer for interview at 337- 945-9120 or call their nearest SWA office at 501-682-7719 using job #417255.

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NOTICE TO APPEAR, State of Georgia, County of Hall. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF HALL COUNTY. In the interest of Minor Children Chasity Marie Hill, William Thomas Lawson and Richard Loggins, Jr. File number 11-AD-51J. TO: Dallas Jack Lawson and any and all Unknown, Unnamed Putative and/or Biological fathers, whereabouts unknown. GREETINGS: You are hereby notified that a Petition for Termination of Parental Rights was filed in this court by William Henry Loggins and Beverly Loggins by and through their attorney, Judy D. Sartain, alleging that the whereabouts of the father are unknown, and asking that the Court terminate the parental rights and obligations of the father with respect to the child, and of the child arising to him from the parental relationship, including the right to inheritance, and that the child be committed to the custody of the adoptive parents, with the right to proceed for adoption by the Petitioners. A copy of the petition may be obtained by filing responsive pleadings with the Clerk of the Superior Court of Hall County, Hall County Courthouse, 116 Spring Street, Gainesville, GA 30501 on any day, Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Pursuant to O.C.G.A. 19-8-12 (c) et. seq., you will lose all rights to the child and will neither receive notice nor be entitled to object to the adoption of the child, unless, within 30 days of receipt of such notice, you file: (1) A petition to legitimate the child pursuant to Code Section 19-7-22; and (2) Notice of the filing of the petition to legitimate with the court in which the action under this Code section, if any, is pending and to the person who provided such notice to such biological father.

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DINING CAPSULES, CONT. 9888. BLD daily 18321 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-868-8822. BLD daily 400 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. L Mon.-Sat. CASA MEXICANA Familiar Tex-Mex style items all shine, in ample portions, and the steak-centered dishes are uniformly excellent. 6929 JFK Blvd. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$.

501-835-7876. LD daily.

COZYMEL’S A trendy Dallas-chain cantina with flaming cheese dip, cilantro pesto, mole, lamb and more. 10 Shackleford Drive. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-954-7100. LD daily.

EL PORTON (LR) Good Mex for the price and a wide-ranging menu of dinner plates, some tasty cheese dip, and great service as well.

12111 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$.

501-223-8588. LD daily. 5201 Warden Road.

NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-753-4630. LD daily. 5507 Ranch Drive. Full bar, All CC. $$.

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LA HACIENDA Creative, fresh-tasting entrees and traditional favorites, all painstakingly prepared in a festive atmosphere. Great taco salad, nachos, and maybe the best fajitas around. 3024 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-661-0600. LD daily. 200 Highway 65 N. Conway. All CC. $$. 501-327-6077. LD daily.

LA VAQUERA The tacos at this truck are more expensive than most, but they’re still cheap eats. One of the few trucks where you can order a combination plate that comes with rice, beans and lettuce. 4731 Baseline Road.

No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-565-3108. LD Mon.-Sat. LAS DELICIAS Levy-area mercado with a taqueria and a handful of booths in the back of the store. 3401 Pike Ave. NLR. Beer, All CC. $. 501-812-4876.

LONCHERIA MEXICANA ALICIA The best taco truck in West Little Rock. Located in the Walmart parking lot on Bowman. 620 S. Bowman. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-612-1883.

L Mon.-Sat.

MERCADO SAN JOSE From the outside, it appears to just be another Mexican grocery store. Inside, you’ll find one of Little Rock’s best Mexican bakeries and a restaurant in back serving tortas and tacos for lunch. 7411 Geyer Springs Road. Beer, CC. $. 501-565-4246. BLD daily.

RIVIERA MAYA Typical Mexican fare for the area, though the portions are on the large side.

801 Fair Park Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-6634800. LD daily.

SAN JOSE GROCERY STORE AND BAKERY This mercado-plus-restaurant smells and tastes like Mexico, and for good reason: the fresh flour tortillas, overstuffed burritos, sopes (moist corncakes made with masa harina), chili poblano are the real things. 7411 Geyer Springs Road. Beer, CC. $-$$. 501-565-4246.

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SUPER 7 This Mexican grocery/video store/ taqueria has great a daily buffet featuring a changing assortment of real Mexican cooking.

Fresh tortillas pressed by hand and grilled, homemade salsas, beans as good as beans get. Plus soup every day. 1415 Barrow Road.

Beer, No CC. $. 501-219-2373. LD and buffet daily.

TAQUERIA JALISCO SAN JUAN The taco truck for the not-so-adventurous crowd. They claim to serve “original Mexico City tacos,” but it’s their chicken tamales that make it worth a visit. They also have tortas, quesadillas and fajitas. 11200 Markham St. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-541-5533. LD daily.

TAQUERIA LOURDES This Chevy Step Van serves tacos, tortas, quesadillas and nachos.

Colonel Glenn and 36th Street. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-612-2120. LD Mon.-Sat. TAQUERIA SAMANTHA On Friday and Saturday nights, this mobile taqueria parks outside of Jose’s Club Latino in a parking lot on the corner of Third and Broadway.

300 Broadway Ave. No alcohol, No CC. $. D Fri.-Sat. (sporadic hours beyond that).

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