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A&E NEWS THE LITTLE ROCK FILM FESTIVAL has announced that it will expand its programming to a full week of screenings for this year’s event, which will be held May 12-18, and for which passes are now on sale. For the first time, most films will be screened at the LRFF’s new flagship venue, the CALS Ron Robinson Theater, and according to the festival’s creative director, Brent Renaud, “All venues in 2014 are within biking or walking distance and are easily connected via the River Rail Electric Streetcar Trolley.” The festival has also announced its first two screenings: Sara Colangelo’s “Little Accidents,” an Appalachian-set drama starring Elizabeth Banks, Chloë Sevigny and (Little Rock-born) Josh Lucas, and the Sundance Grand Jury winning documentary “Rich Hill,” directed by Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo, about a rural Missouri town.
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THE ARKANSAS LITERARY FESTIVAL, set for April 24-27, has released this year’s schedule (available online at arkansasliteraryfestival.org), which includes appearances by Mary Roach, Mona Simpson, Kevin Brockmeier, John Lewis, David Finkel, Victor LaValle and presentations on lucid dreaming, paleontology and Arkansas legends from Johnny Cash, to Donald Harington, to Brooks Robinson. There will be concerts, art shows, open mics, dinners, parties and collaborative LEGO-building functions. Some events require tickets, which are now available online. THE LOONY BIN has announced that comedian Chris Tucker will perform in Little Rock for three nights later this month: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24, and twice that Friday and Saturday (at 7:30 and 10 p.m.). At one time the highest paid actor in Hollywood, having earned a reported $25 million for his role in “Rush Hour 3,” Tucker is returning to stand-up this summer for a series of dates at casinos in Las Vegas and Ontario. Tickets for the Little Rock performances are $35. CRAIG AND BRENT RENAUD, the Little Rock documentary filmmakers and cofounders of the Little Rock Film festival, have a new project out this month through VICE News. “Last Chance High” focuses on the Moses Montefiore Academy in Chicago’s West Side (the only therapeutic school in the Chicago public school system) and follows its students, deemed ‘at-risk’ for extreme behavioral or emotional disorders. The first episode was released last week, to be followed by seven more every Friday this month and next. Watch the series online at arktimes.com/vice. www.arktimes.com
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