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COMMENT or subversive. At what point will the power structure of this city stop their silencing of opposition? What other forms of gathering and protest will be disallowed by this city government? Will a preacher who dares to speak out against the neglect of our urban core or a neighborhood association board member who speaks out against seizure of their home for the new tech park find themselves facing the full force of City Hall? Where is the line for Mssrs. Hines and Stodola? What is the litmus test for what is and what is not radical, revo-

lutionary or subversive? Is our city government so weak and its vision so shallow that it cannot withstand citizen protest? There are some principles of the OWS and by extension OLR movements with which I sympathize. There are some I do not share. Agree or not, what I cannot do is remain silent when a citizen’s right to assemble, speak and petition his or her government is silenced simply because that government does not like what it hears. Mssrs. Hines and Stodola should be ashamed of their actions in the treatment of

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I have watched with interest the reaction of LR city government to the Occupy Movement in general and particularly the treatment of OLR in recent weeks. The motivation for evicting the OLR protesters from their downtown encampment as articulated by City Director Lance Hines is their association with what Hines considers a “Revolutionary Anarchist” movement informed by Saul Alinsky’s writing. It is my profound hope that I am not the only person deeply disturbed by this horrifying move by city government. Peaceful protesters disallowed from gathering in protest because of the content of their beliefs. Yes, they were camped on city property but they were there with the blessing of city government. It is only when they became a potential political liability during Riverfest that their presence became problematic to the power structure of the city. The implication that OWS and OLR protesters are somehow dangerous or, to use Mr. Hines language, “revolutionary,” is questionable. He may not agree with their point of view and they may oppose what he stands for politically, but there have been no indications that this small group of protesters posed a clear and present danger to the governance of the city much less the nation. Mr. Hines’ justification to break up the protesters is the very means used by the likes of Bull Connor and Orval Faubus to break up NAACP and SCLC protesters half a century ago. We have reached a dangerous point in our political culture when opposition to those in power is deemed criminal 4

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From the web In response to the Arkansas Blog’s reporting on Riverfest workers disallowing persons from gathering signatures on ballot initiative petitions: I don’t understand why the Riverfest folks would want to keep the ballot initiative folks out. Why not rent booth space within the festival grounds to the petition groups? There are thousands of Arkansans who support their issues and would seek them out in order to get a chance to vote on the proposals in November. If you missed a chance to sign a petition on the medical marijuana issue, their website (arcompassion.org) lists businesses around the state where you can sign their petition, and I suppose some of the other issue websites do as well. There are only six more weeks left to get the needed signatures. Mystery shopper It is odd that hateful demonstrators at a private funeral cannot be arrested, but police dutifully threaten petitioners at a public event on public grounds at the behest of a private entity. Constitutional rights are auctioned off to the highest bidder. Petitioning has been a part of the American political process since before the American Revolution (for the Faux News acolytes, that was more than 200 years ago). Certainly, by now there should not be any confusion over where petitioning can be done. But considering the anti-civil liberties attitude of many tea-bagger elected officials, clarification needs to be made. Free speech and petitioning disputes have been litigated over and over again. Federal, state, and municipal attorneys should be well aware of the precedents, but choose to ignore them. Maybe a state legislator will request that the state Attorney-General compile a comprehensive guide about free speech rights to be disseminated to all elected officials — not that they will read it. Yossarian Minderbinder

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EYE ON ARKANSAS

He’ll be missed

MAY 30, 2012

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BRIAN CHILSON

t’s disturbing to recognize that Mike Ross is now the best Arkansas has in the U.S. House of Representatives. It’s devastating to ponder his impending replacement by somebody worse. A Blue Dog (that is, part-time) Democrat, Ross is stepping down at the end of the year, and he’ll almost certainly be succeeded by a Republican of the same type as Arkansas’s other three House members — Rick Crawford, Tim Griffin and Steve Womack. That means, another far-right friend of the privileged, madly partisan, resistant to reason, contemptuous of compromise. On several House roll calls lately, Ross’s was the only honorable vote cast from Arkansas. There was a proposed escalation of the Republican War on Women, for example. Purportedly extending the 1994 Violence against Women Act, the House Republicans’ bill would omit provisions found in a bipartisan bill approved by the Senate. Those provisions would expand protection for battered women who are aliens; for American Indians who are assaulted on reservations, and for lesbian and transsexual victims. (The Republican War on Minority Women is particularly intense.) Ross was the only Arkansas congressman to vote against the House Republicans’ dreadful budget bill, drafted by the dreadful Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. Wisconsin has long been a Jekyll-andHyde sort of state in its selection of public officials. The Hydes are firmly in the saddle at the moment. Ryan’s bill would privatize Medicare and raise the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67; repeal the new health care act that was sponsored by President Obama and is now aiding millions, and slash spending for most domestic programs, including subsidized child care (so that parents can work) and Meals on Wheels. A poorer, sicker and hungrier America seems to be the goal. While punishing the needy, the Ryan budget would permanently extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the rich, giving the average millionaire an additional tax cut of $150,000 a year. Ross sounded like a fulltime Democrat in explaining his vote: “We need to cut spending, but I will not vote for any budget that punishes seniors in the process. The Republican budget shifts the rising costs of health care onto the backs of our seniors who did nothing to get us into this mess in the first place. When the Republicans tried to privatize Medicare last year with their budget proposal and when they tried to partially privatize Social Security under President Bush, I fought them every step of the way because Social Security and Medicare are valuable programs that keep half of all seniors out of poverty. Now that the Republicans are coming after Medicare again, I will continue to fight their efforts.” After Jan. 1, the fight to save Medicare and Social Security will probably be even more one-sided, sad to say, at least in Arkansas.

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LR needs to think big

took a long walk around War Memorial Park recently. Across the freeway, I marveled at the children’s branch library under construction and the fact that the Central Arkansas Library System had saved a Craftsman-style house, as well as a stone storage building. The library builds monuments. On the north side of the freeway, I had a nice walk around the park perimeter. Careful on Monroe Street. It lacks sidewalks. More walking paths are also needed in the northwest sector of the park. The perimeter of the Little Rock Zoo could use some improvement, particularly the raggedy picnic area. The derelict Ray Winder Field needs to be razed. But all is not depressing. There’s a new walking loop. Work continues on improvements around the creek and fishing pond, near the new children’s playground with a water feature. The $1.2 million spent in the park has helped, though I don’t know how you’ll ever create a Central Park-level city lung with a football stadium in the middle of it. Mayor Mark Stodola in touting park work and other projects from the new city sales tax, commented to the Democrat-Gazette, “These are the kinds of things that make people want to stay and put down roots … make them want to bring their families and move to Little Rock.” He’s so right. But the city does so little to act as if it believes it. To kick off spending of the new capital spending tax, the city called in the press last week for a symbolic first project — improvement to a drainage ditch within “Fore!” distance of the Country Club of Little Rock. This symbol will make people move to Little Rock? A group from Bicycle Advocacy of Central Arkansas did a ride-in to remind assembled city leaders “Little Rock can do better than lining a ditch with concrete. ... Drainage projects may be necessary, but we need more inspi-

rational symbols of what the City hopes to accomplish in the next 10 years to put it back on sound financial footing while improving the lives of everyone who calls Little Rock home or comes here MAX to work, shop, or play.” BRANTLEY maxbrantley@arktimes.com Amen. Enough with the old school Little Rock real estate developer thinking. You know: If we build an office building some tech companies might come. We have buildings and land aplenty — the old Alltel campus in central Little Rock and the warehouse area around the Clinton School to name two — perfect for new business without neighborhood removal. The $50 million in public spending planned for the tech park building would be a huge step toward, for example, building a new Arkansas River bridge at Chester Street. Then we really could push for the mayor’s idea to convert the existing Broadway bridge into a grand plaza between the ballpark in North Little Rock and the Robinson Auditorium. It would attract people, musicians, food carts, sightseers. It would be a landmark and a reason, like New York’s High Line, to visit a city. You could hop from it to our riverside bicycle trail and ride out to two certifiable monuments — the Big Dam Bridge and Two Rivers Bridge. They are aesthetic exclamation marks for the proposition that good things happen here. If only Mayor Stodola could muster the political savvy to actually complete that river bike trial by filling the missing link along Cantrell Road. This would require overcoming the old school thinking of the powerful Stephens and Dillard families, who control land along that corridor. Some things are just not done in Little Rock. Talk about symbolic.

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First District: Dems’ ray of hope

rkansas’s Republican Party is poised to make a lot of history in 2012. Odds are good that the party will be able to take control of at least one of the chambers of the General Assembly for the first time since Reconstruction. Just as historic, the GOP has been on track to control the state’s entire U.S. House delegation after November. The surprisingly strong performance of Jonesboro prosecutor Scott Ellington in the First Congressional District’s primary, however, suggests that the Democrats’ dreams of unseating first-term incumbent Rick Crawford and maintaining a place in the House delegation aren’t illusory. Until a few weeks before the primary election, most Democrats believed that holding the newly designed Fourth Congressional District would provide their best chance of congressional success, particularly if 2010 GOP nominee Beth Anne Rankin snuck through a lowturnout primary. But, Rankin’s candidacy was blown away by Tom Cotton’s heavily financed campaign that effectively introduced him in a saturation television buy. No matter the winner

of that district’s Democratic runoff, Cotton is in strong shape to easily win the general election JAY and — through BARTH his geographical base outside of northwest Arkansas, his educational and military background and his likeable personality — to immediately become a promising statewide candidate. After Cotton’s performance last week, national Democrats are only going through the motions in voicing their commitment to investing in the Fourth in coming months. That money will be best spent in the First District. Ellington filed at the last minute in early March and it appeared for most of the primary that the late start had allowed Rep. Clark Hall to gain such an advantage in endorsements and fundraising that Ellington could not overcome it. Despite being outspent, Ellington came within a whisker of winning the primary without a runoff by running up big margins in the vote-rich territory north of Interstate

48 Hours: Two handoffs, one child

he scene plays itself out dozens of times every Friday evening and Sunday afternoon. It occurs in the parking lot at convenience stores and Walmarts, parks and truck stops. It’s not something you would pay attention to as you drive by, but there is gravity — and no small amount of tension — in each and every instance. At first glance, there’s nothing unusual about what’s going on. In reality, it’s far too common, and if you allow yourself to think about it as you bounce along the highway, it’s depressing. A vehicle arrives at the appointed place at the named time. Another pulls up close by. Routine, if there can be anything routine about the commodity of young life. A woman, usually 27ish and not in a talkative mood, will unbuckle her

child from the safety seat in her car. A man, 27ish and not too talkative either, will retrieve the small RICK FAHR backpack or bag GUEST WRITER of some sort that has a favorite toy and extra clothes. He’ll put the bag in his truck while the woman says good-bye to the child. Then she hands over the little one with barely more words than, “Sunday at 5.” The man nods his head and holds the child close. It’s been just a few days, but too long. Then the man and woman go their separate ways. They’ll meet again 48 hours later. Forty-eight. Not 47. Not 49. The man will usually head toward the nearest fast-food place for an ice-

40. In primary elections in the South, a “40 + 5” rule generally holds; that is, if a candidate wins 40 percent of the first primary vote and has a 5 percentage point lead over the other runoff candidate then, barring an odd set of facts, he or she will win the runoff. Ellington is likely to win easily on June 12 and could be a viable general election candidate if provided resources he has lacked to date. Just as in the primary, the bulk of general election votes will be in Craighead County and those surrounding it that Ellington has represented as prosecuting attorney. Thus, Ellington is in a position to neutralize Crawford’s geographical advantage in 2010 in that region. Moreover, the area below I-40 includes a large swath of counties that were not part of the district in 2010 and thus are as new to Crawford as to a Democratic challenger. Because of its large African-American population, this area is also the most loyally Democratic region of the state outside of Pulaski County, providing Ellington an additional advantage. Ellington’s hope for November success rests on overcoming several challenges: Can his campaign move aggressively to define the still ill-defined Crawford (42 percent of the districts’ voters had no opinion of Crawford in a September 2011 Talk Business-Hendrix College

poll) through highlighting his voting record that includes cuts to federal programs popular in the district, flip-flops on major issues such as income taxes on millionaires, and a personal financial history of which Democrats failed to take full advantage in 2010? Can Ellington elegantly distance himself from President Obama among white rural voters in the district without being perceived as dissing the president by the district’s African-American voters and the smaller number of white progressives (who gravitated to third-place finisher Gary Latanich in last week’s voting)? Can Ellington build legitimate relationships with African Americans in the district not grounded in the patronizing tactic of paying “walking around” money to community leaders, a tradition happily showing a weakening impact with each election cycle? Most importantly, will national Democrats remain engaged for the long haul in the district touching four major media markets or will the party’s resources be diverted to other promising pick-up opportunities or suddenly vulnerable incumbents? Clearly, a number of forces must come together for the Democrats to hold on to a piece of the House delegation. However, those hopes seem decidedly better than just a week ago.

cream cone or some other treat, while the woman speeds away. Alone. On Sunday, reverse the actions. Now, it’s the man’s turn to drive away with an empty car seat, a new memory and maybe a twinge of regret. Maybe that goes both ways. It’s impossible to know from 70 miles per hour and a figurative world away. Arkansas has the second-highest divorce rate in the nation, behind only Nevada. (What happens in Nevada often unhappens there, too, apparently.) Caught in the middle of all these divorces are the children who get shuffled between parents one weekend or holiday at a time. Some of them, the older ones, know why Mom and Dad don’t live together anymore. The younger ones have no idea what’s going on. They just know they get to see Daddy or Mommy for a little while, before it’s time to go “home.” How divorces affect children varies as much as the children themselves. Economics can play a part. The particular circumstances that led to the divorce can play another. A child’s age also helps determine how he or

she processes the new reality. But there is no doubt that parents who work together despite their marital differences are helping ease the pain of the broken family. In some cases, the separated parents work together to raise the child or children. They both take interest in school work and activities and share the responsibilities that come with the decision to bring a child into the world. For the others, though, there are those uncomfortable Friday and Sunday hand-offs and driveaways, big smiles in one vehicle and an all-too familiar quiet in the other. There will be next weekend. Another exchange. And then another. This year it’s Thanksgiving here and then Christmas there. Next summer is still up in the air. The child will find out where “home” will be when Mommy and Daddy decide.

Rick Fahr is publisher of the Log Cabin Democrat in Conway. This column first appeared there. Ernest Dumas took the week off, but will return next week. www.arktimes.com

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I relayed the question to the reliable Eifling. He responds: “I was thinking of martial arts, DOUG trying to suggest SMITH a person who has dougsmith@arktimes.com some nerd bonafides but who isn’t a third-degree blackbelt sensei of nerdiness. A dilettante with a nerd streak, in other words.” That’s how I had it figured, or would have if I’d known what a sensei was. I’ve now learned from Wikipedia that sensei is a Japanese word for “master” or “teacher.” Continuing to mine this movie review for material, gobsmack may be unfamiliar to some cinema buffs. It’s come into American usage from British slang only in recent years. I’ve seen it in print, never heard anybody say it. If Sam Eifling continues in his constancy, he may come to be known as “Old Reliable,” like Tommy Henrich, a Yankees outfielder of the 1940s. The Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis used to call itself “the Old Reliable,” but I don’t think anybody else did.

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SURGEON GENERAL JOE THOMPSON. He avoided a trial or any punishment for charges filed against him by Little Rock police following a dispute with officers at his home after Thompson confronted Jacob Farque, a member of the Stephens Inc. private security force, when he found Farque parked outside his house. Suggestions by the police that Thompson was intoxicated and otherwise out of control didn’t seem to be borne out in audio and video tapes eventually unearthed from police records. Prosecuting Attorney Larry Jegley declined to prosecute a charge of attempting to influence a public servant. Charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest were passed for six months. Thompson entered no plea. No cost was assessed. Absent further problems, those charges will be dismissed.

MARK JONES AND RANDALL ROBINSON. Little Rock police officers and half-brothers, Jones and Robinson were arrested for allegedly providing protection — in uniform and patrol cars — for marijuana shipments set up by an informant.

JERMAIN TAYLOR. Maumelle police said no charges will be filed against the boxer as a result of an assault complaint lodged against him by a woman he allegedly met at a motel to have sex for money.

RIVERFEST. On Friday, Little Rock police prevented canvassers for various initiative petitions from gathering signatures on public streets near, but outside, the entrance to gated grounds of Riverfest. David Couch, a lawyer representing the ethics petition gatherers, said police were acting on the orders of Riverfest officials. A day later Riverfest officials said the issue stemmed from a case of miscommunication.

RIVERFEST. Snoop Dogg in a Go Hogs, Go T-shirt, steady sunshine (if perhaps a bit too much) and big crowds — another strong year for Arkansas’s largest festival. (See more on page 35.)

SYMBOLIC GESTURES. The city of Little Rock invited the press to see the very first capital project that’s going to receive new sales tax revenue. Ta da — improvements to a drainage ditch at Beechwood and Club Road. If you don’t know, this is within a Tiger Woods drive of the Country Club of Little Rock on one of the most expensive residential streets in the city. Of course, the sales tax wouldn’t have passed without overwhelming voter support in a tiny handful of precincts, several of them covering this very neighborhood.

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in to Sonic for a big ol’ Diet Coke and some fries, paid in cash, and got a handful of change. Later on, fumbling with our coins as we sometimes do in order to give our restless hands a job when we’re sitting still, we noticed that one of the quarters in there was from 1967. That’s a heck of a long time ago, kids (nine presidents ago!) even more vintage than Your Ol’ Pal, in fact. The quarter wasn’t pretty to look at, scuffed, worn and nicked. The Observer’s dear old Dad used to say that you knew times were hard when you started seeing old coins in your change — pennies, nickels and dimes older than Grandpa, raided from dusty Mason jars and coffee cans. It’s why, when Yours Truly was a kid, we kept our own jar filled with the oddities dad brought home in the change he dumped every night on his dresser: wheat pennies, buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes, and the rare Canadian something-or-other, festooned with moose, beaver and maple leaf. The oldies were a connection to the world Dad grew up in. But the jar was really a chance to sit in our room, look at those coins and ponder over where they’d been before they made their way to the hands of a boy who’d never really been much of anywhere. The Observer, as if it wasn’t abundantly clear already, was not a normal child. That all came back to us on Saturday, sitting there looking at the timeworn ’67 quarter, the oldest we’ve seen in awhile, among the brighter slugs. The Observer is a fan of slowing down enough to let the interesting nuances of life catch up to us, and that was definitely one of those times. Ye gods, how we wish we could have flipped that quarter over and had George explain to us what he’d seen and where he’d been in the past 45 years: peep show booths and collection plates; fetid gutters and the silk-lined pockets of millionaires; barmaid’s tips and convenience store tills; swapped for a baby tooth or a cuppa java or a gumball or three. That quarter has seen and heard enough, we’d wager, that it could surely put “In God We Trust” to the test, so it’s probably a good thing

that the things that come into and out of our lives aren’t like us, which is to say: collectors of memory, time-travelers all. Long since grown to manhood, we should have learned by now there’s no sense guessing about what you’ll never know for sure, though The Observer must admit we’ve become an expert at it after all these years. Speculation is what keeps life interesting in lieu of understanding. Our treasured jar of wheat, Mercury and buffalo is long gone, though, and we’re too forgetful these days to ever keep up with a Lucky Quarter, so the next time we bought something, we made sure to pay in change. Godspeed, George. On to the next dreamer. THE OBSERVER HAS TO TAKE a bit of

time out to congratulate our old friend and former Deputy Observer Warwick Sabin, who pulled out a decisive win in his recent race to represent Arkansas House District 33. We hate to see him committed to the asylum on the hill, but he’s determined to go, and if there’s anybody who can help out there, it’s him. Even better, he’s still providing grist for this column. After the ballots were counted, Warwick posted a heartfelt thanks to the voters and one of his newly-minted constituents posted in reply: “I like your pubic education improvement plans.” Children, on the day The Observer gets so old and bitter that the public/ pubic typo doesn’t make us giggle like an idiot, we want to be sewn in a bag and dumped in the river, because on that day, we shall truly be dead. After The Observer clucked about the comment and our love of the public/pubic typo on our own Book o’ Face page, The Representative-Elect himself was kind enough to weigh in. “In the end, both kinds of education need to be improved, so it’s really a moot issue,” he wrote. “Still, I will probably start with public education and see how that goes first.” Rimshot! Dedication, brains and a sense of humor, too? That’s change we can believe in.

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Former Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham, currently serving an eight-year sentence for bribery and tax evasion, has written a federal judge begging for restoration of his gun rights on his release. Why? He’s moving to Arkansas. He’s not afraid of us Arkies. But from the letter: “I will live in a very remote part of Arkansas, and not much threat (sic) from people but they do have a lot of black bears, cougars, and history of rabies.” The letter says he’ll come to a halfway house in Little Rock in December. Then, he said, “I plan to live in a cabin near Greer’s Lake [sic] in the Ozarks and write books.” He will be “away from the (San Diego) Union-Tribune,” which exposed the 70-year-old’s sleazy ways. Seth Hettena, who first reported the story, provided the perfect conclusion. The federal judge who received the request said he couldn’t be of help. An ATF review of such applications is required. “You should be aware, however, that every year since 1992 [including many years when Cunningham was in Congress], Congress has refused to provide funding to the ATF to review applications from the federal firearm ban. And the United States Supreme Court has ruled that inaction by ATF does not amount to a ‘denial’ of the application within the meaning of section 925(c),” the judge wrote. “So unless Congress changes course and decides to fund ATF’s review of applications for relief, it appears you are stuck.” Greer’s Lake would, presumably, be Greers Ferry. Any word from readers in those parts of the felon’s plans to become an Arkie? Cougar problem up there? Rabies? Bear attacks? With federal prisoners does the state have the right, as it sometimes does in state cases, to refuse admittance? Maybe Cunningham can enlist the resident gun nut over at the DOG to bring his arsenal up to the cabin and clear the surrounding acreage to ease Cunningham’s mind about the safety of book-writing in the Ozarks. Make a good outdoor page story if he could get with The Duke and cap a few critters — “Fear and Loathing in Fairfield Bay.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 10

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Cosmetic lenses do damage A Hot Springs woman could lose an eye. BY CHEREE FRANCO

r. Robert Berry, a corneal specialist at Baptist Eye Center, is fighting to save the eye of a 33-year-old woman who purchased green tinted, non-prescription contact lenses from a Hot Springs convenience store and contracted a severe corneal infection. If the infection spreads, her entire eye might have to be removed. In the best-case scenario, Berry will be able to clear up the infection with medication. But even then, the woman’s cornea will be irreversibly scarred, and a corneal transplant will be necessary to restore her vision. The patient, who doesn’t want to be identified by name and declined through her lawyer to be interviewed, purchased the lenses in late March but didn’t take them out of their packaging and try them out until May 5. It was her first time to wear cosmetic contacts, so she left them in her eyes for only a few hours. Three days later, she went to the emergency room with excruciating light sensitivity in one eye. She was sent to a Hot Springs ophthalmologist, who immediately got her an appointment with Berry. The woman had developed a rare but serious corneal infection so painful that at one point she begged a doctor just to take her eye out. She has missed three weeks of her job managing a fast-food restaurant, and she spends her days wearing sunglasses in dark rooms. If someone opens a door, letting in a crack of light, she groans and drapes a coat over her head. She’s facing mounting medical bills and, according to Berry, a one- to six-month wait for a donor cornea. Her lawyer, James Street, is trying to trace the lenses to a manufacturer and distributor, to figure out if legal action is appropriate. This is the first time he’s handled a case related to contact lenses. Non-prescriptive over-the-counter lenses, some under the brand name Freshlook, are sold at gas stations, flea markets, convenience stores, nail salons, wig shops or costume suppliers and other

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retail outlets, to people wishing to change their eye color. But selling over-the-counter lenses is illegal, and a subject of growing concern to the medical community, said optometrist Dale Morris of Forrest City, the president of the Arkansas State Board of Optometry. For several years, optometrists and ophthalmologists have been seeing patients with infections due to illegal contacts. “But recently, in the past six months or so, it’s become a crisis situation,” Morris said. “Lenses come in different shapes. We take measurements of the eye to determine the curvature, so the lens will sit on the eye comfortably. If the lens is too tight, it causes a decrease in oxygen to the cornea, which causes it to lose transparency.” OTC lenses may contain carcinogens or other toxins, and buyers may clean them improperly or even share them

with friends. Arkansas eye doctors have treated corneal abrasions, ulcers, trauma and infection resulting from the lenses. In Morris’ experience, the buyers are often young women or teen-agers who want to dress up for an event, such as Halloween or prom, or who simply want to change their eye color. “All contacts are a risk,” Berry said. “We see problems even with patients who are prescribed lenses. The doctor looks at you, talks to you and determines if you’re a good candidate, but sometimes there are still complications. Of course, the risk is far greater if you just buy contacts from a gas station. No one knows whether those contacts were made by a reputable manufacturer, if the package was sterile, if they were worn, returned, repackaged and resold ...” In 2005 Congress passed an amendment to the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act regulating the sale of contact lenses as medical devices. Sen. John Boozman (then a U.S. representative), an optometrist, led a bipartisan charge to make illegal the purchase of any contact lenses without a prescription. Arkansas law further specifies that only optometrists and ophthalmologists are allowed to sell the lenses. At a recent meeting, the Arkansas Board of Optometry urged eye doctors to question their patients, in an attempt to compile a list of illegal contact vendors. There are no statistics to gauge the extent of the problem, but at his Forrest City practice, Morris has seen four cases involving these lenses so far in 2012. “There are over 300 eye doctors in the state,” he said. “So assuming they’ve all seen at least one case, that’s a pretty big problem.” The Board of Optometry provides the names of illegal lens vendors to the state Department of Health’s Pharmaceutical Services, which may send an investigator to the seller to attempt to purchase the lenses. Pharmaceutical Services reports any illegal sales to the Optometry Board, which can compel the vendors to come before it. Sellers may be fined at least $1,000 but more often in the neighborhood of $5,000, “depending on the extent of their involvement, the amount of lenses being sold,” Morris said. In the past year, six vendors have been fined across the state, including two Citgo stations, in Malvern and Pine Bluff; a Shell station in Pine Bluff, a BP Food Mart in Benton, a sunglasses store in North Little CONTINUED ON PAGE 25

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Are bicyclists exempt from the traffic laws that automobile drivers must obey? They seem to think so in Hillcrest, where I share the streets with a growing number of cyclists. I frequently see them running stoplights and stop signs. I honked at one who blatantly ran a light, and he gave me the finger in return. Sometimes they slow down to look around before they run the light. I also see people riding their bikes on the sidewalk. Isn’t that supposed to be illegal? You seem stirred up. If so, you’re not alone. From San Francisco to Philadelphia, from Canada to Singapore, motorists are complaining about aggressive bicycle riders. To answer, your last question first, some cities say that bicycles can only be walked, not ridden, on sidewalks. That’s not so in Little Rock, which prohibits riding a bicycle on a sidewalk within a business district, but not in residential areas. There, cyclists are supposed to yield the right of way to any pedestrian and to give an audible signal before overtaking and passing a pedestrian. Generally, cyclists are subject to the same laws and penalties as drivers. A Little Rock city ordinance says:

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“Any person operating a bicycle shall obey the instructions of official traffic-control signals, signs, and other control devices applicable to vehicles, unless otherwise directed by a police officer. Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no right or left or U-turn is permitted, no person operating a bicycle shall disobey the direction of any such sign, except where such person dismounts from the bicycle to make any such turn, in which event such person shall then obey the regulations applicable to pedestrians.” Unlike motorists, cyclists are not required to have licenses on their vehicles. That makes it harder to track down wrongdoers.

Heads up, budget-conscious tipplers. The Arkansas Times is proud to unveil version 2.0 of our free bar guide app, Cocktail Compass. Now available for Android users and updated for the iPhone, the app is an essential tool for a night on the town. Select Little Rock as your city and within moments you’ll see a list of the nearest happy hours, along with their address, distance from your current location and how long until their happy hour ends. To get more info, tap the bar’s address to see a map, tap the bar’s phone number to call it or share it with friends. Or tap the new map icon to see all the bars in Central Arkansas and which ones have a happy hour going. Or maybe you’re looking for a bar with outdoor seating, shuffleboard and sports on TV in the River Market? Search by all those criteria and more. Or simply browse our expansive list to find an old favorite. If you find a hidden gem, make it a favorite, and even if your memory’s a bit blurry, you’ll be able to find your way back next time. Speaking of blurry, at the end of the night, hit the Cabs icon and get home safely. Restaurants and bars, easily add or update your happy hour info in the app in the Extras tab. And readers, download the new version of Cocktail Compass by visiting arktimes.com/cocktailcompass or searching for Cocktail Compass in the App Store or in Google Play. iPhone users who’ve previously downloaded the app will need to download the new version.

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Eye in the sky One new thing we saw at Riverfest this year was actually looking back at us: a 25-foot-high hydraulic skylift where Little Rock police observers in a 5-by-5-foot cab had a bird’s-eye view of the crowd. The skylift, a piece of surplus military equipment, was on loan from the city of Bryant. It was positioned in the middle of Markham Street in front of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce building. DeAnna Korte, executive director of Riverfest, said before the festival began that the lift was in place to keep the area near the Riverfest main gate trouble free, adding that she wanted to give “huge kudos” to the LRPD for bringing it in. “When you have 250,000 people and they’re all face to face, you may not be able to see who is 20 feet away,” she said. “This is going to give the police the ability, at our main gateway, to be able to see up over the crowd and see what’s going on. We’re really excited they’re doing it.” Why the city of Bryant needs a skylift is still a question that remains to be answered. Our calls to the Bryant police department had not been returned by our press deadline.

Headed north Arkansas State University is about to experience a double loss. Or triple loss, if you consider that one of the people involved holds two rather important positions at ASU. That would be Dr. John Zibluk, a journalism professor who is also president of the faculty senate. Zibluk is moving to Cape Girardeau, Mo., where he has been named chairman of the Department of Mass Communications at Southeast Missouri State University. He’ll be accompanied by his wife, Sara McNeil, who is the director of communications at ASU. She’s unsure what she’ll be doing at Cape Girardeau. www.arktimes.com

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LITTLE ROCK FILM FESTIVAL

MOVIES HEAD SOUTH Word is out, nationally, about the Little Rock Film Festival. BY LINDSEY MILLAR

ast week, on a day off from shooting aboard a boat on the Atlantic Ocean for a “60 Minutes” segment he’s not at liberty to discuss, globetrotting documentary filmmaker Brent Renaud talked about timing. His was bad, he said. The film festival that he and his brother and filmmaking partner Craig Renaud have taken, in half a dozen years, from an idea to one of the most respected in the South was mere days away, and Brent, coartistic director and chief program- ‘BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD’: The Sundance winner is a favorite to win the Oxford mer of the Little Rock Film Festival American Best Southern Film Award. It screens at Riverdale 10 at 8:30 p.m. Thursday and 4:15 p.m. Friday. (LRFF), had more time bobbing on the Atlantic ahead of him. This sort of inopportune, but impossible-to-turnticket to fly to the festival, a free downbest Southern film helps with that push. down assignment has become something town hotel room, personal car service, The prize money, for example, was likely of the norm for the Renauds. Last year, free booze and food — and there are masa draw for a late add to the LRFF schedthey were in Juarez days before the fessive parties every night. ule, “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” One of tival covering the drug wars. The year “It’s funny how word spreads with the most celebrated indie films in recent before, around the same time, they were filmmakers across the country,” said years, it’s coming off a Grand Jury Award in Chicago, shooting a segment on the Craig Renaud, co-artistic director and at Sundance and a rapturous reception at Cannes last week. Vice Lords gang for Dateline NBC. But the chief festival event planner. “We get calls Cannes again will keep Arkansas ristiming of the festival — personal conflicts from people coming from Sundance after aside — couldn’t be better, Brent said. winning awards and saying, ‘We’re coming star Jeff Nichols from screening at “We put our festival exactly where it ing. You guys doing that riverboat party the LRFF. On Saturday, his Arkansasis for a reason. It falls right on the heels again?’ ” shot “Mud” was the last film screened of Tribeca, Sundance and SXSW. They Tribeca, Sundance and SXSW are in competition for the Palme d’Or at all insist on world premieres, and we’re Cannes; it’s likely to follow a similar “media crazy festivals that can feel like a bit of a whirlwind,” Brent Renaud said. getting most of those films as submispath as “Take Shelter,” which last year At the LRFF, “filmmakers get to relax a sions.” The number of films from the won the Critics Week Prize at Cannes little more and interact with audiences.” three festivals adds up, “So we’re actually and didn’t play another festival until the having to reject many of the films those This year, more filmmakers than ever Toronto International Film Festival in festivals show.” before will be on hand to visit with audiSeptember. Still, the filmmaker himself Why are the most promising films in ences. Of the more than 100 films screenwill make an appearance. He and vetindependent cinema targeting Little Rock ing, the Renauds expect filmmakers (and/ eran filmmaker Jay Russell (“End of the so early in their promotional runs? The or actors and producers) to be around for Line,” “My Dog Skip,” “The Water Horse: LRFF’s track record, for one. Films like post-film Q&As for 90 percent of the films. Legend of the Deep”) from North Little “Winter’s Bone” and “Restrepo” reaped After trying out a number of mottos Rock will be presented with the LRFF awards at the LRFF long before they got in previous years, the LRFF stuck with Diamond Award at the Arkansas Timesmainstream attention and Oscar nominaone for two years in a row for the first sponsored Closing Night Awards Gala tions. Even more of a draw for the film time this year: “Head South.” It’s meant at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 3, at the Clinton Presidential Center. world: What the Renauds call “Southern to encapsulate the festival’s Southern hospitality,” an antidote to the grind of welcome, its goal to become the premiere A wrap party at Crush Wine Bar at the film festival circuit that the brothers film festival in the South and its focus on 10:30 p.m. Sunday officially closes the know well. The LRFF caters to movieSouthern film. That, for the third year, festival. It’s the 13th party of the festival makers as do few, if any, other festivals. the Oxford American is sponsoring a schedule. Earlier highlights: On WednesFilmmakers get at least one free plane $10,000 Eye on the South prize for the day, May 30, at 7:30 p.m. at the Arkansas 12

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Arts Center, there’s a reception for Russell, followed by a program, moderated by the Arkansas DemocratGazette’s Philip Martin, at which Russell will show clips from his films and talk about his career. Naturally, an after-party follows at the Arts Center, where Adam Faucett will perform and complimentary drinks and food will be provided (open to silver, gold, sponsor and filmmaker passes). Thursday marks the return of the annual Music Video Competition and Show at 9 p.m. at Stickyz with a new twist this year — the competition includes videos from beyond Arkansas. Local superstar DJ/VJ g-force will spin an audio-visual mix (silver, gold, sponsor and filmmaker pass-holders get in free; otherwise it’s $5). At 10:30 p.m. Friday, the famed party aboard the Arkansas Queen riverboat will launch from North Little Rock. Locally renowned rock ’n’ soul act Velvet Kente performs. It’s only open to silver, gold, sponsor and filmmaker pass-holders and on a first-come, first-serve basis. Get there early. At 10 p.m. Saturday, after hosting a screening of the excellent documentary “Tchoupitoulas,” the Oxford American shows off its new space on South Main, where Cotham’s fried chicken and fried pickles and drinks will be served and the Best Southern Film Award will be announced (open to silver, gold, sponsor and filmmaker pass-holders). There’ll be a big food spread and more free booze on Sunday at the gala. It’s free to gold, sponsor and filmmaker pass-holders, or $75. Speaking of passes. Here’s a breakdown: The bronze festival pass is $40. It gets you into all the films. The $100 silver pass includes access to all of the films and most of the parties. The $250 VIP gold pass includes priority seating, access to the LRFF filmmaker lounge, the gala and more. Visit littlerockfilmfestival. org for more info and to take advantage of an interactive feature that lets you plan your schedule.

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TEN TO WATCH BY CHEREE FRANCO AND LINDSEY MILLAR

‘LOLA VERSUS’

Directed by Daryl Wein Five reasons to see this indie comedy: 1) You might remember director/ writer Daryl Wein and writer/star Zoe Lister-Jones from “Breaking Upwards,” the 2009 film they wrote and starred in (and Wein directed), which won the audience award at the LRFF. 2) While the premise of “Lola Versus” may sound tired — jilted woman (Greta Gerwig) tries to navigate single life in New York as she approaches 30 — the execution, based on the 3-minute trailer and early reviews, promises to be stronger than the rom-com norm, particularly thanks to snappier-than-usual dialogue. 3) Greta Gerwig, already beloved by indie film fans, is supposedly the next big thing, or at least the best candidate to supplant Zooey Deschanel as the object of affection of that subsection of mainstream culture that appreciates “quirk.” “Lola Versus” marks Gerwig’s first starring role in a studio film. 4) For those who appreciate seeing actors play against type: Joel Kinnaman, who looks (and sometimes talks like) a white Snoop Dogg to great effect on “The Killing” and will take on the title role in the “Robocop” reboot, plays the jilter. 5) The flip side to number two: If your film tastes tilt more towards traditional fare, this will probably look and feel like the movies you enjoy. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Riverdale. LM.

‘LOLA VERSUS’

‘PILGRIM SONG’

Directed by Martha Stephens

‘AMERICA’S PARKING LOT’

Directed by Jonny Mars This documentary, which opened the festival on Tuesday, focuses on a pair of subjects that will be familiar to Arkansans: Dallas Cowboys superfans. 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

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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 pivot-

ing from the super-fans’ perspective 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. 3 p.m. Thursday, Riverdale. LM.

“Pilgrim Song,” which premiered at SXSW, is a well-crafted study in being. It’s contemplative, graceful and sparse. Tim Morton plays James, a middle school band teacher whose job just has just fallen victim to budget cuts. He’s been in the same relationship for years, he’s bored with his life, he’s numbly searching for anything more. So he sets off on a two-month solo journey, hiking the Appalachian Trail. He has a few chance encounters with locals, including a single father and his young son, who live in a camper in the woods. After spraining his ankle, James stays with them for a few days. That’s when he begins to reconnect, both with others and with long ignored aspects of himself. It’s like Kelly Reinhart’s “Old Joy” (which, director Martha Stephens acknowledges, was an influence), but with (slightly) more plot. CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 www.arktimes.com

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awarded it the Camera d’Or for the best first film in competition. That “Beasts’” filmmakers elected to screen for the third time in Little Rock is a feather in the LRFF’s cap, especially considering “Beasts” won’t play New Orleans until July 4. 8:30 p.m. Thursday, 4:15 p.m. Friday, Riverdale. LM

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 The characters are believable and the acting is suburb. Stephens co-wrote the film, her second feature, with one of its stars, Karrie Crouse. Stephens will be around to answer questions after the LRFF screenings. 5:30 p.m. Thursday, 11:45 a.m. Saturday, Riverdale. CF.

‘BAY OF ALL SAINTS’

Directed by Annie Eastman

‘FUTURE WEATHER’ Directed by Jenny Deller

“Future Weather” is a dreamily shot, if occasionally heavy-handed, drama, about a 13-year-old eco-activist named Laduree (stunningly played by Perla Haney-Jardine) and her incongruously tawdry guardians. When her young mother (Marin Ireland) disappears to L.A. to become a “make-up artist to the stars,” she leaves Laduree $50 and instructions to call Greta (Amy Madigan), her grandmother. Instead, precocious Laduree chooses to fend for herself in their trailer in the woods, and she manages commendably — until she doesn’t. This is a coming-of-age story, with a quiet plot and a near overdose of sentiment. Like all bildungsromans, the ultimate theme is survival. But in “Future Weather,” Laduree’s individual survival is set against the broader concepts of familial and planetary survival. Stellar cinematography and fantastic acting make this an engaging watch, and the inclusion of the loblolly pine, Arkansas’s state tree, as a plot element, may enhance local appeal. “Future Weather” premiered at Tribeca earlier this year, and writer/director Jenny Deller will be around after the Thursday night screening to talk about her debut fea-

‘FUTURE WEATHER’

ture. 6:15 p.m. Thursday, 3:50 p.m. Saturday, Riverdale. CF.

‘BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD’

Directed by Benh Zeitlen I missed the film festival last year to go to a bachelor party in New Orleans, where, after a long night of crawfish eating and bar hopping and shirtless dancing, my crew ended up in an ancient swimming pool behind a dilapidated, termite-ridden mansion in the Bywater. A “half-feral” girl was asleep somewhere in the bushes by a distant pool house, we were told. In a hedge maze near the pool, I almost tripped over a sleeping pig that looked like a small buffalo. The next morning one of our group asked if he’d hallucinated the end of the night. Six months later, I recognized our host’s picture online. It was Benh Zeitlen, director of “Beasts

of the Southern Wild,” a film that has, itself, been described as hallucinatory. Which seems fitting considering the premise: a 6-year-old girl named Hushpuppy (Quvenzhane Wallis) lives in a mythological part of southern Louisiana named The Bathtub, a ramshackle Delta community where a small band of people live by their own rules. When an environmental catastrophe releases a herd of prehistoric creatures called aurochs (which, at least in the trailer, look a lot like the pig from the hedge maze) and threatens to wash away The Bathtub, Hushpuppy lights off on a quest to find her mother. Few indie films in recent memory have been as well received. The New York Times’ Manohla Dargis said it was among the best films in two decades to play at Sundance, where it won the Grand Jury award. And last week, the French went bonkers for it at Cannes and judges

FIVE MORE TO SEE ‘TEDDY BEAR’

dir. Mads Matthiesen A Danish character study of Dennis (Kim Kold), a superheavyweight bodybuilder, who lives with his suffocating mother and can’t overcome his crippling shyness to find love. After an uncle suggests that women in Asia are less standoffish, Dennis travels to Thailand, where he begins a flirtation with a widowed owner of a gym. Matthiesen won a World Cinema Directing Award at Sundance for the film. 2:15 p.m. Thu., 12:30 p.m. Fri., Riverdale.

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‘BOOKER’S PLACE: A MISSISSIPPI STORY’

dir. Raymond De Felitta A documentary about Booker Wright, a black waiter in Greenwood, Miss., who dared tell a documentary crew for NBC News in 1966 how he felt when white customers treated him cruelly. For that comment, Wright lost his restaurant job, which he’d held since he was 14, and was beaten by a local police officer. De Felitta, whose own father directed the 1966 documentary, explores what Wright’s story, and his own, say about the legacy of intolerance. 3 p.m. Thu., 12:10 p.m. Fri. Riverdale.

‘JOURNEY TO PLANET X’

dir. Myles Kane, Josh Koury A documentary about a pair of mild-mannered scientists — Eric Swain and Troy Bernier — who live to make elaborate, DIY sci-fi movies. A trailer suggests that there is some humor to be found in the tension between their earnestness and the films they produce. LRFF audiences will have a chance to find out. The documentary filmmakers and the sci-fi filmmakers will both be in attendance and the latter’s “Planet X: Part II — The Frozen Moon” will screen after the doc. 8 p.m. Thu., 1:20 p.m. Sat. Riverdale.

“Bay of All Saints,” the winner of the audience award for documentary at SXSW, is among the most anticipated LRFF offerings. It was shot and directed by Annie Eastman, who worked with disenfranchised populations in the Bahia state of Brazil for a year and a half in 1999, and then went back more than a dozen times, from 2004 to 2010, to document the impact, or lack thereof, of a major housing project funded by the World Bank. The project was supposed to move thousands of people — largely single mothers and their children — from the shacks they’ve constructed on stilts in a bay-cum-landfill to a freshly constructed apartment complex on land. We meet a handful of water dwellers — a single mom who work in pizza cafes and doubles as an activist, a grandmother supporting her family through trashpicking, a pregnant 15-year-old and her mother, both waiting on rescue from an elusive Prince Charming. These women defy the stereotypes. They’re not prostitutes and drug addicts. They’re determined and charismatic, and they’re actively struggling for change. More than anything, this film is a well-crafted anthropological study. It doesn’t deeply probe what was or wasn’t accomplished with the World Bank’s $49 million.

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A beautifully shot and strongly acted crime film about a professional shoplifter who’s pushed towards higher-stakes crimes after his older brother is arrested for armed robbery. Recommended if you liked Ben Affleck’s latest projects as a director, “The Town” and “Gone Baby Gone.” 8:30 p.m. Thu., 1:50 p.m. Sat., Riverdale.

A personal documentary that programmers hail as deeply affecting, “A Sister’s Call” tells a 14-year story of Schaper’s relationship with her schizophrenic brother Call, who she’s trying to help confront the pain of his hallucinations and past homelessness. 4:45 p.m., 11:20 a.m. Sun., Riverdale.

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Instead, it focuses on documenting a unique, slowly disappearing community. It’s the kind of film that inspires questions, and luckily, Eastman will be around to answer them after the screening. 2:30 p.m. Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday, Riverdale. CF.

‘GIMME THE LOOT’ Directed by Adam Leon

In Adam Leon’s SXSW winning feature debut, Bronx teens Malcolm (Tysheeb Hickson) and Sofia (Tashiana R. Washington) are a mini graffiti crew, teen-aged friends trying to establish themselves in the culture by tagging rooftops and bridges across the city. Dispirited after a rival crew writes over their art, they resolve to up their game by tagging something everyone will see — the big apple that rises in center field of Citi Field when the Mets hit a home run. To get access, they’ll need to

raise $500 to pay off a security guard. In another filmmaker’s hands, such a plot might yield a message movie, a portrait of disaffected youth searching for transcendence from the mean streets maybe. But we’ve seen that movie. Instead, and without sacrificing any of the grittiness, Leon’s made an endlessly charming comedy that feels like a truer reflection of a certain part of New York adolescent life than we’ve seen in years. Low-level criminality lingers in the background throughout, giving the film a caper feel, but Malcolm and Sofia’s rapid-fire dialogue moves the film along. Their charisma and the way in which Leon lets their innocence peak through makes this the sweetest movie about street culture you’ve ever seen. 6 p.m. Friday, Riverdale, 8:15 p.m. Saturday, Riverdale. LM. CONTINUED ON PAGE 21

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eff Nichols, en route to the Little Rock Film Festival (LRFF) days after screening his new film at Cannes for the second time in as many years, couldn’t have made his debut film, “Shotgun Stories,” which launched him into national acclaim, without financial help from family and friends. His parents supplied most of the small shooting budget and, while his finished film sat for months in a film canister deteriorating, Nichols hit up every friend and family member he came across to help him pay to process the film. It’s a model of fundraising that’s probably as old as filmmaking. But glad-handing may be giving way to crowd-funding with the rise of fundraising websites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo that have especially taken hold in the film world. A survey of this year’s LRFF lineup reveals that more than half of the featured films used Kickstarter or Indiegogo for at least a portion of funding. The sites provide a platform for wouldbe filmmakers (or anyone with a creative project in need of funding) to offer a pitch through pictures, video and a mini-essay. Fundraisers name a dollar goal, a deadline and offer tiered gifts to donors based on the size of their donations. For film projects, fundraisers usually put up things like limited-edition DVDs and posters of the film as potential gifts for donors. Annie Eastman, the director of “Bay of All Saints,” who’ll meet with LRFF filmgoers after the Friday and Saturday

CROWD-FUNDER: Martha Stephens, director of “Pilgrim Song,” raised more than $8,000 on Indiegogo.

screenings of her film, turned to Kickstarter when her documentary was chosen to premier at SXSW. It ultimately won the Audience Award for Best Documentary there. “There are so many big costs that come at the end of a project, like the original score and color correction, audio mix and sound design and other finishing aspects that we need to do to get the film ready for a festival-type screening.” Crowd-funding through sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo can be particularly helpful for documentarians because foundation money is drying up and fewer networks are commissioning films than in years past, according to Little Rock Film Festival co-artistic director Brent Renaud, a documentary filmmaker. “A lot of people want to acquire finished films. It’s a little bit cheaper for the networks to do that.” Partnering with Kickstarter is simple,

according to Eastman, requiring little more than filling out a form, setting a deadline and fundraising goal and requesting approval. Within 48 hours of her request, Kickstarter had approved “Bay of All Saints.” Eastman exceeded her $10,000 goal before her deadline, ultimately raising more than $16,000. Martha Stephens, director of the narrative feature “Pilgrim Song,” also screeing at the LRFF turned to Indiegogo instead of Kickstarter because the former guaranteed that even if she failed to meet her goal, she would get at least a portion of the money donated towards her film. With Kickstarter, if a fundraiser doesn’t meet her goal, donors get their money back. When a donor gives money to a film on Indiegogo, the money is taken out right away. If a director does not reach her goal, she gets around 70% of the money donated, and the remaining 30% goes to Indiegogo. Fortunately, Stephens reached her funding goal of $8,440 at the last minute. Stephens had to rely on crowd-sourcing because she had no other way to fund the movie. “I didn’t have enough clout to find backers or find someone who wanted to invest solely. I come from a pretty basic middle-class family. A lot of filmmakers have well-off parents and there’s nepotism involved and I didn’t have any of that,” said Stephens. Her previous film, “Passenger Pigeons,” was made from a small budget of $8,000. She made the film using money from her

savings account and borrowing money from relatives. Without Indiegogo, Stephens would not have been able to produce “Pilgrim Song.” When asked if she thought these grassroots movements were a new trend for filmmakers, Stephens said, “I think every filmmaker should be able to make one movie on a Kickstarter or Indiegogo, and then after that I think they need to find another way to do it,” adding that while she has donated to films in the past, it is difficult to donate on a regular basis. “When you’re trying to make multiple movies, I think you’re asking too much from your friends and your family. ‘Pilgrim Song’ will be the only movie I’m going to crowd-source, and I’m going to try to find investors from here on out. But I think it is important that everyone gets that one time,” said Stephens, acknowledging that it may be easier for her to make one movie after “Pilgrim Song,” but after that, finding funding will be very difficult. “There’s just not a lot of really rich people out there who want to invest in something that’s probably not going to make its money back,” said Stephens. The crowd-funding sites will stay around “as long as there are people around with a vision who want to raise money,” said Eastman. “It is such a democratic platform; you don’t have to be born in the right corner of the earth to go on the Internet and attract a bunch of attention to raise money.” The growing popularity of the sites may be self-defeating, though. “Every day, local filmmakers are popping up on Facebook with a Kickstarter or Indiegogo project,” said local filmmaker Levi Agee, who helped program the Little Rock Film Festival.

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‘TCHOUPITOULAS’ Directed by Bill and Turner Ross

No matter how many times you’ve stumbled down Bourbon or partied on Frenchmen, this cinema verite portrait of the Crescent City will still feel like a revelation. Initially conceived as the story of one night in New Orleans, the Ross brothers, Bill and Turner, felt like their footage wasn’t cohering. Then they spotted three young brothers — Kentrell, Bryan and William — walking past their house in New Orleans and found, they told the Wall Street Journal,

ARKANSAS FILMS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 tale of a Civil War vet’s search for the bushwhackers who killed his wife; and “Ruthless,” a ’70s crime/exploitation homage directed by Robert Kirkpatrick (8:20 p.m. Thursday, 11 a.m. Saturday, Riverdale). James Greeson’s “Conlon Nancarrow: Virtuoso of the Player Piano” documents the life of the Texarkana, Ark., native, who went from Southwest Arkansas to the rarified world of avantgarde music, with stops along the way in the Spanish Civil War and in Mexico, where he emigrated to escape harassment from the U.S. government for his affiliation with the Communist Party. The film screens with “Running the Distance,” Jonathan Engle’s documentary about Arkansas State champion mile runner Jake Sanders, and Keith Clements’ short doc “Go the Distance: Helping End Homelessness” (4:30 p.m. Friday, 4 p.m. Sunday, Riverdale). The common elements in “Arkansas Shorts: The Road Most Traveled” are the various complications of family life in the 21st century. Christy Ward’s “Tree” concerns a freelance writer who struggles to negotiate relationships past and present; “John Wayne’s Bed,” from

their “surrogates.” With the brothers as the main characters, “Tchoupitoulas” (say it together now: “chop-ih-TOOLus”) became a child’s perspective of the adult playground that is the French Quarter. That perspective, with the youngest brother, William, often taking the lead and steadily babbling to hilarious effect — “If you could bring back anyone from the dead, who would it be? Michael Jackson! Michael Jackson! Michael Jackson!” — fits nicely with the Rosses’ dreamy photography and languid pacing. Like the films of Terrence Malick or Frederick Wiseman, this is an immersive experience. The conflict is light, forgettable. But the sights and sounds — of strippers casually singing “Iko Iko” backstage; of bluesman Little Freddie King coolly walking down the street; of a burlesque dancer taking heaving breaths backstage after an aerobic performance; of William’s eyes going big as a street-performer, a woman dressed as an angel, shows him how to play the flute — will linger. This film, produced by the same guys who produced “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” could be a dark horse candidate for the Oxford American prize. 8 p.m. Saturday, Oxford American, 1:35 p.m. Sun., Riverdale. LM.

director Sarah Jones, is the story of a man overcoming illness for the love of the outdoors; Joe Dull’s “The Proposal” follows Daniel, whose proposal to the woman he loves is complicated by her 1-year-old daughter; and Allison Hogue’s “Still Life,” which offers a glimpse of a man in the wake of losing everything (6:15 p.m. Friday, 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Riverdale). Sharon LaCruise’s documentary “Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock” illustrates the life of the Arkansas civil rights leader (4:45 Thursday, 6:20 p.m. Friday, Riverdale). “Clean Lines, Open Spaces” examines the mid-century modern school of architecture around the state (8 p.m. Friday, Studio Main, 11 a.m. Saturday, Riverdale). The stereotypical hillbillies in the 1940s hixploitation flick “I’m From Arkansas” get lampooned live, courtesy of LRFF programmer Levi Agee and ImprovLittleRock members Matt DeCample and Katie Campbell, who are hoping to make the “Mystery Science Theater 3000”-type screenings a monthly event (5:15 Saturday, Riverdale). “The Gleaning” is the feature-length debut of filmmakers Brian White and Christopher S. Thompson. The film concerns a cultural clash and deadly secrets in the dying Southern town of Halcyon (8:20 p.m. Saturday, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Riverdale).

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‘TCHOUPITOULAS’ Present,” 15 min.; “Chutes and Gates,” dir. Michael Gunter, 8 min.; “The Bloodstone Diaries, Thief of All Things,” dir. Gerardo Bruno, 23 min.; “Good Guys vs. Bad Guys,” dir. Jesse Daniel, 6 min. Riverdale 10. 7:50 p.m.: World Shorts: “Closing In.” 82 min. Five films, Riverdale 10: “The Carnival is on Fire,” dir. H.R. McDonald, 6 min.; “Infinity,” dir. Randy Crowder, 14 min.; “Abigale,” 16 min.; “Homecoming,” dir. Gursimran Sandhu, 26 min.; “The Darkness is Close Behind,” 20 min., Riverdale 10. 8 p.m.: “Journey to Planet X,” dir. Myles Kane and Josh Koury. 78 min. Filmmakers present. Riverdale 10. 8 p.m.: Music Video Competition and Show. 240 min. Stickyz. 8:20 p.m.: “High Tech, Low Life,” dir. Stephen Maing. 87 min. Riverdale 10. 8:20 p.m.: Ark Shorts: “Warm-Blooded ColdHearted.” 85 min. Seven films, Riverdale 10: “Shattered,” 14 min.; “Cain and Abel,” dir. Mark Thiedeman, 20 min.; “Greed,” dir. Trenton Mynatt, 9 min.; “Children of the Mother Beaver,” dir. Burcham Erwin, 16 min.; “Fowl,” dir. Jesse Burks, 17 min.; “Cold Tracker,” Leon Tidwell, 12 min.; “Ruthless,” dir. Robert Kirkpatrick, 11 min., Riverdale 10. 8:30 p.m.: “Booster,” dir. Matt Ruskin. 75 min. Filmmakers present. Riverdale 10. 8:30 p.m.: “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” dir. Benh Zeitlin. 91 min. Riverdale 10. 10 p.m.: “It’s in the Blood,” dir. Scooter Downey. 81 min. Filmmakers present. Riverdale 10. 10:30 p.m.: Music Video After Party at Peabody Hotel. 150 min. Peabody Hotel Arkansas Ballroom.

FRIDAY, JUNE 1 Noon: “In My Mother’s Arms,” dir. Mohamed Al-Daradji and Atia Al-Daradji. 85 min. Riverdale 10. 12:10 p.m.: “Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story,” dir. Raymond De Felitta. 90 min. Riverdale 10. 12:30 p.m.: “Teddy Bear,” dir. Mads Matthiesen. 92 min. Riverdale 10. 12:45 p.m.: “The Eyes of Thailand,” dir. Windy Borman. 62 min. Riverdale 10. 1 p.m.: LRFF Talks: Stories for the Web Screen. 45 min. Arkansas Film Commission Filmmakers Lounge. 2 p.m.: “The Trouble with the Truth,” dir. Jim Hemphill. 96 min. Riverdale 10.

2:15 p.m.: “The World Before Her,” Nisha Pahuja. 91 min. Riverdale 10. 2:25 p.m.: “Once in a Lullaby: The PS22 Chorus Story,” dir. Jonathan Kalafer. 89 min. Riverdale 10. 2:30 p.m.: “Bay of All Saints,” dir. Annie Eastman. 75 min. Riverdale 10. 2:35 p.m.: World Shorts: “True to Life.” 66 min. Four films, Riverdale 10. “Mr. Christmas,” 15 min.; “Idle Hour,” 13 min.; “This is Our House,” 11 min.; “Beneath the White City Lights,” dir. Christopher Kai Olsen, 27 min. 3 p.m.: “Eating Alabama,” dir. Andrew Beck Grace. 62 min. Riverdale 10. 3:30 p.m.: LRFF Talks: A Conversation with Director Jay Russell. Filmmaker and Gold Pass holders admitted. 60 min. Arkansas Film Commission Filmmakers Lounge. 4:15 p.m.: “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” dir. Benh Zeitlin. 91 min. Riverdale 10. 4:25 p.m.: World Shorts: “Other Worldly.” 82 min. Six films, Riverdale 10: “Golden Ears,” dir. Jonathan Rosen, 5 min.; “Man in Fear,” dir. William Jewell, 11 min.; “HWY,” 18 min.; “Animeditation,” dir. Jonathan Rosen, 3 min.; “Bunker 731,” dir. Kerrie Scher and Jacob Scarpaci, 21 min.; “The God Phone,” 24 min. 4:30 p.m.: “Andrew Bird: Fever Year,” dir. Xan Aranda. 80 min. Riverdale 10. 4:30 p.m.: “Conlon Nancarrow: Virtuoso of the Player Piano,” dir. James Greeson. 57 min. Screens with “Running the Distance,” dir. Jonathan Engle, and “Go the Distance: Helping End Homelessness,” dir. Keith Clements. Riverdale 10. 4:30 p.m.: Filmmaker Reception. Filmmaker, Gold, and Sponsor passes required. Arkansas Film Commission Filmmakers Lounge. 4:35 p.m.: “Town of Runners,” dir. Jerry Rothwell. 86 min. Riverdale 10. 4:45 p.m.: “A Sister’s Call,” dir. Rebecca Schaper and Kyle Tekiela. 76 min. Riverdale 10. 6 p.m.: “Gimme the Loot,” dir. Adam Leon. 81 min. Filmmakers present. Riverdale 10. 6:15 p.m.: Ark Shorts: “The Road Most Traveled.” 74 min. Four films, Riverdale 10: “Tree,” dir. Christy Ward, 20 min.; “John Wayne’s Bed,” dir. Sarah Jones, 21 min.; “The Proposal,” dir. Joe Dull, 4 min.; “Still Life,” dir. Allison Hogue, 29 min. 6:20 p.m.: “I Am Not a Hipster,” dir. Destin Daniel Cretton. 91 min. Riverdale 10. 6:20 p.m.: “Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock,” dir. Sharon La Cruise. 78 min. Riverdale 10.

8 p.m.: “Clean Lines, Open Spaces.” 56 min. Filmmakers in attendance. Studio Main. 8:05 p.m.: “First Winter,” dir. Benjamin Dickinson. 91 min. Riverdale 10. 8:15 p.m.: “The List,” dir. Beth Murphy. 82 min. Riverdale 10. 8:15 p.m.: “Supporting Characters,” dir. Daniel Schechter. 87 min. Riverdale 10. 8:45 p.m.: “On Down the Line,” dir. Casey Barteau and Jonathan Schmalz. 70 min. Filmmakers present. Riverdale 10. 10:30 p.m.: Sync or Swim Riverboat Party. 120 min. Live music from Velvet Kente. DJ Poebot and Baldego on the roof deck. Silver, Gold, Sponsor, and Filmmaker passes accepted. Arkansas Riverboat Queen. Boards promptly at 10:30. 11:59 p.m.: Argenta Arts District Rooftop Party. 120 min. Gold, Filmmaker, and Sponsor passes required. Nabholz Argenta Rooftop.

SATURDAY, JUNE 2 10:30 a.m.: “Welcome to Arkansas” Filmmaker Brunch. 120 min. RSVP required. The House. 11 a.m.: Ark Shorts: “Warm-Blooded ColdHearted.” 85 min. Seven films, Riverdale 10. “Shattered,” 14 min.; “Cain and Abel,” dir. Mark Thiedeman, 20 min.; “Greed,” dir. Trenton Mynatt, 9 min.; “Children of the Mother Beaver,” dir. Burcham Erwin, 16 min.; “Fowl,” dir. Jesse Burks, 17 min.; “Cold Tracker,” Leon Tidwell, 12 min.; “Ruthless,” dir. Robert Kirkpatrick, 11 min. 11 a.m.: “Clean Lines, Open Spaces,” 56 min. Filmmakers present. Riverdale 10. 11:15 a.m.: “The Mayor,” dir. Jared Scheib. 68 min. Riverdale 10. 11:30 a.m.: “Supporting Characters,” dir. Daniel Schechter. 87 min. Riverdale 10. 11:45 a.m.: “Pilgrim Song,” dir. Martha Stephens. Filmmakers present. 113 min. Riverdale 10. 12:15 p.m.: “Europa,” dir. Bruce Hutchinson. 60 min. Riverdale 10. 12:20 p.m.: World Shorts: “In the End Let’s Feel Good.” 81 min. Five films, Riverdale 10: “Busted Walk,” dir. Steven Tanenbaum, 13 min.; “Die Beobachtung (The Observation),” 19 min.; “Happy Voodoo,” 8 min.; “Chin Up,” 14 min.; “The Assignment,” dir. Scott Brignac, 27 min., Riverdale 10. 1 p.m.: “High Tech, Low Life,” dir. Stephen Maing. 87 min. Riverdale 10. 1:20 p.m.: “Journey to Planet X,” dir. Myles

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Kane and Josh Koury. 78 min. Screens with “Planet X: Part II — The Frozen Moon,” dir. Troy Bernier. Filmmakers present. Riverdale 10. 1:45 p.m.: “Leave Me Like You Found Me,” dir. Adele Romanski. 80 min. Filmmaker present. Riverdale 10. 1:50 p.m.: “Booster,” dir. Matt Ruskin. 75 min. Riverdale 10. 2 p.m.: LRFF Talks: A Conversation with Photographer Brent Stirton. 60 min. Arkansas Film Commission Filmmakers Lounge. 2:30 p.m.: World Shorts: “True to Life.” 66 min. Four films, Riverdale 10. “Mr. Christmas,” 15 min.; “Idle Hour,” 13 min.; “This is Our House,” 11 min.; “Beneath the White City Lights,” dir. Christopher Kai Olsen, 27 min. 3:15 p.m.: “On Down the Line,” dir. Casey Barteau and Jonathan Schmalz. 70 min. Filmmakers Present. Riverdale 10. 3:30 p.m.: “Once in a Lullaby: The PS22 Chorus,” dir. Jonathan Kalafer. 89 min. Riverdale 10. 3:45 p.m.: “The Dynamiter,” dir. Matthew Gordon. 73 min. Filmmaker present. Riverdale 10. 3:50 p.m.: “Future Weather,” dir. Jenny Deller. 100 min. Riverdale 10. 4 p.m.: LRFF Talks: Crowdsourcing Independent Film. 60 min. Arkansas Film Commission Filmmakers Lounge. 4:10 p.m.: Ark Shorts: “Tricks and Treasures.” 72 min. Five films, Riverdale 10: “The Man in the Moon,” dir. Kim Risi, 20 min.; “The Birthday Present,” 15 min.; “Chutes and Gates,” dir. Michael Gunter, 8 min.; “The Bloodstone Diaries, Thief of All Things,” dir. Gerardo Bruno, 23 min.; “Good Guys vs. Bad Guys,” dir. Jesse Daniel, 6 min. 4:30 p.m.: World Shorts: “Let’s Talk About It.” 86 min. Four films, Riverdale 10: “Crossing,” dir. Gina Atwater, 18 min.; “Lost Night,” 19 min.; “Contra el Mar,” dir. Richard Parkin, 20 min.; “The Sea is all I Know,” dir. Jordan Bayne, 29 min. 4:30 p.m.: Filmmaker reception, Arkansas Film Commission Filmmakers Lounge. 5:15 p.m.: “I’m From Arkansas,” dir. 1944. 70 min. Riverdale 10. 5:45 p.m.: “WOLF,” dir. Ya’Ke Smith. 86 min. Riverdale 10.

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6 p.m.: “The Trouble with the Truth,” dir. Jim Jemphill. 96 min. Filmmaker and actress present. Riverdale 10. 6 p.m.: “I Am Not a Hipster,” dir. Destin Daniel Cretton. 91 min. Riverdale 10. 6:30 p.m.: “Think of Me,” dir. Bryan Wizeman. 103 min. Filmmaker present. Riverdale 10. 8 p.m.: “Tchoupitoulas,” dir. Bill Ross. 80 min. Oxford American Magazine. 8 p.m.: “Bay of All Saints,” dir. Annie Eastman. 75 min. Riverdale 10. 8:15 p.m.: “Gimme the Loot,” dir. Adam Leon. 81 min. Filmmaker present. Riverdale 10. 8:20 p.m.: “The Gleaning,” dir. Brian White and Christopher S. Thompson. 101 min. Filmmakers present. Riverdale 10. 10 p.m.: The Oxford American’s Best of the South Soiree, Exclusively Presented by the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas. 180 min. The OA Silver, Gold, Filmmaker, and Sponsor passes admitted. Oxford American Magazine.

SUNDAY, JUNE 3 11 a.m.: “Some Kind of Wonderful,” dir. Howard Deutch. 95 min. Actress present. Riverdale 10. 11 a.m.: “Town of Runners,” dir. Jerry Rothwell. 86 min. Riverdale 10. 11:10 a.m.: Best of the Little Rock 48 Hour Film Project. 120 min. Riverdale 10. 11:20 a.m.: “A Sister’s Call,” dir. Rebecca Schaper and Kyle Tekiela. 76 min. Riverdale 10. 11:30 a.m.: Ark Shorts: “The Road Most Traveled.” 74 min. Four films, Riverdale 10: “Tree,” dir. Christy Ward, 20 min.; “John Wayne’s Bed,” dir. Sarah Jones, 21 min.; “The Proposal,” dir. Joe Dull, 4 min.; “Still Life,” dir. Allison Hogue, 29 min. 11:30 p.m.: “Eating Alabama,” dir. Andrew Beck Grace. 62 min. Filmmaker present. Riverdale 10. 1 p.m.: Family Day at the Downtown Central Arkansas Library. 180 min. With “Curious George” screening at 2 p.m. Darragh Center, CALS Main Library. 1:20 p.m.: World Shorts: “Closing In.” 82 min. Five films, Riverdale 10: “The Carnival is on Fire,” dir. H.R. McDonald, 6 min.; “Infinity,” dir. Randy Crowder, 14 min.; “Abigale,” 16 min.; “Homecoming,” dir. Gursimran Sandhu,

26 min.; “The Darkness is Close Behind,” 20 min. 1:20 p.m.: LRFF Youth Shorts. 120 min. Riverdale 10. 1:20 p.m.: “Leave Me Like You Found Me,” dir. Adele Romanski. 80 min. Filmmaker present. Riverdale 10. 1:30 p.m.: “The Dynamiter,” dir. Matthew Gordon. 73 min. Riverdale 10. 1:30 p.m.: “The Gleaning,” dir. Brian White and Christopher S. Thompson. 101 min. Filmmakers present. Riverdale 10. 1:35 p.m.: “Tchoupitoulas,” dir. Bill Ross. 80 min. Riverdale 10. 2 p.m.: “Curious George,” dir. Matthew O’Callaghan. 88 min. CALS Main Library. 3:10 p.m.: LRFF Talks: Lea Thompson presents “Women in Film.” 60 min. Arkansas Film Commission Filmmakers Lounge. 3:20 p.m.: “First Winter,” dir. Benjamin Dickinson. 91 min. Riverdale 10. 3:30 p.m.: World Shorts: “Let’s Talk About It.” 86 min. Four films, Riverdale 10: “Crossing,” dir. Gina Atwater, 18 min.; “Lost Night,” 19 min.; “Contra el Mar,” dir. Richard Parkin, 20 min.; “The Sea is all I Know,” dir. Jordan Bayne, 29 min. 3:30 p.m.: “Think of Me,” dir. Bryan Wizeman. 103 min. Filmmaker present. Riverdale 10. 3:40 p.m.: “WOLF,” dir. Ya’Ke Smith. 86 min. Riverdale 10. 3:50 p.m.: “The List,” dir. Beth Murphy. 82 min. Riverdale 10. 4 p.m.: “Conlon Nancarrow: Virtuoso of the Player Piano,” dir. James Greeson. 57 min. Filmmaker present. Screens with “Running the Distance,” dir. Jonathan Engle, and “Go the Distance: Helping End Homelessness,” dir. Keith Clements. Riverdale 10. 4:30 p.m.: LRFF Talks: A Conversation with Director Jeff Nichols. 45 min. Arkansas Film Commission Filmmakers Lounge. 4:30 p.m.: Filmmaker reception, Arkansas Film Commission Filmmakers Lounge. 6 p.m.: Arkansas Times Closing Night Awards Gala. 120 min. Gold pass party. Clinton Presidential Center. 8:30 p.m.: “Stella Days,” dir. Thaddeus O’Sullivan. 100 min. Riverdale 10. 10:30 p.m.: Crush Wine Bar Wrap Party. 210 min. Crush Wine Bar.

Rock’s McCain Mall and a clothing store in Hot Springs. “We’re fining and stopping these people, but they don’t communicate with each other or educate each other — there’s no association to disseminate information, so we’re not sure how effective our method is,” Morris said. The Arkansas Optometric Association has started an awareness campaign, and the state board has discussed the problem with the attorney general, though, attorney general’s office spokesman Aaron Sadler said, the office has not received any consumer complaints and has no plans to begin an awareness campaign. Often vendors testify that they didn’t realize selling the contacts is illegal. Thus far local suppliers have all been based out of state — some out of the country. The board has no jurisdiction to fine the suppliers and no way to keep the contacts from entering Arkansas. Ted Mitchell, the owner of Party City stores in Little Rock and North Little Rock, said one of his managers purchased several cases of the lenses at a buying market in Houston. “They’re called theatrical lenses. All the temporary Halloween stores have them. We’d been getting a lot of requests,” he said. The lenses made it to the Party City shelves by March, and a few weeks later, the store sold its third pair, to an undercover member of the Pharmaceutical Services investigation team. Party City didn’t get fined. Instead, it threw out the lenses and turned over supplier details. Mitchell had no idea the lenses were illegal. “How would we know?” he asked. “They were everywhere at the buying show. We were told they’re just theatrical, they don’t have prescriptions.” A manager at No Clothes, a clothing and accessory boutique in Hot Springs that caters to teen-agers, wasn’t so lucky. She was fined $3,000 for selling the lenses. “I had no idea they were illegal, obviously,” she said. “If I did, I wouldn’t have sold them. They’re sold all over the place. Everyone’s got them.” The lenses are easy to find. With no leads, it took the Arkansas Times only four stops in roughly two hours to locate a vendor. After trying a few stores in North Little Rock’s McCain Mall, we stopped at a Citgo station, where the cashier directed us to a beauty shop at Broadway and Rogers streets in Rose City. The beauty shop didn’t have them, but at the adjoining Hess station, right beside the register, we found a plastic display case full of Freshlook cosmetic contacts. They’re like something out of a sci-fi film, dozens of violet and seafoam green orbs floating eerily in small packets of liquid. They sell for $19 and don’t come with instructions. The cashier claimed that they’re safe. He didn’t know if they were legal, “but if they put a price on something, I’ll sell it,” he said. www.arktimes.com

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JUSTIN VERNON’S ‘SUBDUED MIDWESTERN THING’ Bon Iver frontman on his hometown, working with Kanye West and being just a dude. BY ROBERT BELL

he Times recently spoke with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, whose 2011 album “Bon Iver, Bon Iver” was a critical favorite and won Grammys for Best Alternative Music Album and Best New Artist. Bon Iver plays Riverfest Amphitheatre at 7 p.m. June 3, with opening act The Staves.

How would you describe Eau Claire and the surrounding area to someone who’s never been to Wisconsin? I think the longer you live in a place, the less equipped you are to accurately describe it. There’s 65,000 people, there’s a university, there’s a lot of music education, and it’s not big enough to have a continuing thriving music scene, but it pops up and down. It’s just a lot of hills and lakes and rivers. I don’t know, it’s home for me. How has that place informed your art? In every way imaginable I’d say. I grew up in the country and my studio is only two miles from the house I grew up in. I think there’s a general stillness out there. There’s no mountains or oceans, it’s just lakes and hills and small features, and I think there’s a sort of subdued Midwestern thing that perhaps my entire life has been engaged in. You live there now, correct? Yes sir. Are people cool about it or does it ever get weird? Do you get recognized around town? I’ve been there long enough that it’s mostly cool. There might be some college kids that move into town that aren’t used to seeing me at the coffee shop or something, but it’s almost never weird, it’s pretty chill, and everyone doesn’t give a shit, kind of. They’re excited, but they know that it’s not some celebrity thing. What was the first song you remember hearing that gave you goose bumps? “Hello in There,” by John Prine. 28

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You covered “Bruised Orange” right? Yeah, yeah. Big Prine fan? Humongous. He’s the beginning of songwriting for me. What was a song you heard recently that floored you? Good question. All I’ve been listening to is like metal and shit lately. I’ve been listening to this band Liturgy, which I think is a really creative and emotive band. They’re probably my most listened-to band of late. And then a lot of strange Minneapolis bands, you know, Albert [Elmore], Moonstone Continuum and a lot of Minneapolis stuff I’m into. Poliça is probably the most listened-to of other bands. They were here recently. I dug their tunes quite a bit. Yeah, they’re fuckin’ awesome. This is a variation on a question that a friend of mine asked when he was interviewing the chef Anthony Bourdain. He asked him if he would rather cook a great meal or eat a great meal. Would you rather play a great show or see a great show, and why? Wow, that’s almost an impossible question. I would say that, being a musician, and now that I’ve realized that my life is sort of destined to create, I get that gift, to create. So I’d have to say that for the most part I’d rather be creating. But they go hand-in-hand. You don’t get to create if you don’t get to be taken aback by something or inspired by something. But if I had to inch out, I’d answer that I’d inch that way. Does an artist owe anything to his fans? I’m not sure. What do you mean? It could be anything. Do you owe them another album? Do you owe them access? Honesty? Artists now can be more readily available and accessible by their fans than ever before, so maybe

we could look at it from that angle. I think the only thing that you truly owe a fan is to create what you want to create for yourself and if that overlaps with what the fans want to hear, great. But the death of art is that first step taken in that direction of trying to appease — and it’s true of anything in life, really — I think your first step toward appeasing a situation and appeasing something that isn’t necessarily bold truth or destiny, you’re headed in the wrong direction and it’s very hard to return the other way. So I think that’s the only thing that you really owe anybody. It’s hard with autographs and pictures and stuff. I’ll oblige somebody, you know? But it’s hard because I don’t really understand exactly what’s going on there. Do you know what I mean? Sure. You feel like you’re just a dude? Yeah, for sure. And I don’t feel that way, I am that. So that’s a strange thing to navigate. You’ve said in the past that you learned a lot from working with Kanye West. What’s one specific thing that you learned from that experience? Well, I think that the thing I’ve recognized about what skills I have most readily accessible is the ability to find good in other musicians. And working with Kanye and working with this producer out of Minneapolis, Ryan Olson, I think being around people like that, who are bringing people in that they not only enjoy but that they can steer in a direction of discovery of new music and help them down a creative path and creating camaraderie that way. I think that’s the biggest thing I learned from Kanye, is that the folks he had out there were all working on a Kanye record, but they were all being asked to give up themselves and express just what he liked about their own shit. When you were recording the last album, what were you listening to

and did any of it influence the record? It’s kind of hard, whenever I was working on the record, because it was on and off for quite a long time, I find it hard to listen to stuff. But I would go off and do a Volcano Choir thing [Vernon’s collaboration with Collections of Colonies of Bees] or I’d go off and record with Kanye and on long plane rides and stuff, I guess I was mostly listening to James Blake. That was mostly what I listened to that winter. But the record took two and a half years to record, and so when I was working on it, I was in an insular space for a couple weeks at a time, so I wasn’t really listening to a lot of stuff. So when you’re in that process, do you kind of shut out other things to focus solely on your own stuff? Not on purpose, I just think it’s hard to jump out of that space and transition. Outside of music gear, what are some of your tour essentials? My iPod, that’s the obvious one. And then… I don’t know, that’s a good question. It’s mostly just shoes and pants and underwear and T-shirts (laughing). Just the essentials? Yeah, just the essentials. The rest is just sort of whatever. I just like getting to the gig early and starting to play the guitar or fucking around with something. It’s kind of like a constant vacation. That’s nice. The iPhone helps, you can figure out where to go to eat and drink good coffee. That’s pretty essential. Along the same lines, there’s often a lot of drinking that goes on on a tour. Do you have any unconventional or novel hangover remedies you’d care to discuss? Usually it’s just eating as much breakfast/brunch style as possible. If it’s really bad, some bitters and soda.

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WEDNESDAY 5/30

BROTHER’S KEEPER BENEFIT SHOW

8:30 p.m. Revolution. $10.

This is a benefit show for longtime local horn player Gerald Johnson, who has incurred significant medical bills for treatment of an infected spider bite. This show was put together by Butterfly of New Orleans to raise money not only for Johnson’s medical costs, but also the day-to-day expenses of life, so that he can get by long enough to recuperate. Besides being a benefit, it’s also a chance to honor a stalwart musician who’s played with many local performers. There’s a ton of folks playing this show — a who’s who of local musicians, including Butterfly and Irie Soul, Nicky Parrish, Tawanna Campbell, Velvet Kente, Tim Anthony, Tufara Waller Muhammad, First Impressions, Tanya Leeks, Yvette Preyer, Julia Buckingham, Steve Huddleston, Steven Bailey, Twylite Jones, Clifford Hawkins, Saabor Saalam, Dave Williams, Steve Coldy, Darril Harp Edwards and more.

THURSDAY 5/31

LAUNDRY FOR THE APOCALYPSE

9:30 p.m. White Water Tavern. $5.

Laundry for the Apocalypse might be relatively new in the Central Arkansas musical milieu, but the band has wasted approximately no time in carving out its own sonic territory. The group’s blend of dramatic rock and catchy, buzz-saw pop earned it a spot in the finals at the 2012 Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase. Frontman Aaron Sarlo is a veteran of many other fine Arkansas rock acts, and the rest of the guys in the band (Matt Rice, John David Hilliard, Drew Wilkerson and Adrian Brigman) are all excellent players who have an intuitive grasp on that whole quiet-loud-quiet dynamic that The Pixies pioneered. LFTA has already recorded several tunes for their debut album, “I Killify You,” which should be out sometime soon. The opening acts include the melancholic, minimalist rock of Collin vs. Adam and the catchy postpunk trio Color Club. 30

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LOOK INTO THE LIGHTS: Pretty Lights headlines this year’s Wakarusa festival at Mulberry Mountain, near Ozark.

THURSDAY 5/31

WAKARUSA

Noon. Mulberry Mountain. $109$194.

This is year No. 4 that the music and camping extravaganza known as Wakarusa has been hosted up on Mulberry Mountain, just outside Ozark (the festival started in 2004 outside Lawrence, Kan., but moseyed south a bit in 2009). The four-day festival has always generally favored the extended noodlings of scores of jam bands, but unlike some of the headliners in the past (Wilco, Flaming Lips, Black Keys, My Morning Jacket) this year’s fall more toward the indie rock side of things. The lineup is heavy on the digital end of the jam spectrum, with DJ/ producer Pretty Lights, mashup maestro Girl Talk, the glammed-out electro rock of Ghostland Observatory,

the glitchy dub-trance of EOTO, and lots more rave-y thumping. But there is also no shortage of good ol’ fashioned folk, blues, country, rock, neosoul, reggae, bluegrass, impossible-tocategorize weirdoes and more. Some of the headlining acts this year are the Weir, Robinson, Greene Acoustic Trio (that’d be Bob Weir, Chris Robinson and Jackie Green), Primus, Slightly Stoopid, The Avett Brothers, Umphrey’s McGee, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Fitz & The Tantrums. There’ll also be many Waka veterans: Matisyahu, Perpetual Groove, Keller Williams, Railroad Earth, Tea Leaf Green, Split Lip Rayfield, Animal Liberation Orchestra and, well actually there are just way, way too many more to list. Personally, I have a strong suspicion/

hope that many, um, herbally loosened minds will be blown away by Malian Tuareg group Tinariwen, whose desert blues are some of the most hypnotic, haunting and gorgeous guitar music ever made. Surely they’ll get the “who-came-from-farthest-away” award. Point of Arkansas Times pride: The excellent Little Rock four-piece and 2012 Times Musicians Showcase finalist War Chief is kicking off the whole shebang, with a set at noon on Thursday. Also, just as a side note and presented with no commentary whatsoever, I must point out some of the band names I wasn’t familiar with that jumped out at me while I was perusing the Wakarusa schedule: Dank Sinatra, Dangermuffin, Lance Herbstrong, Papadosio, SunSquabi, Dumptruck Butterlips.

IN BRIEF

THURSDAY 5/31

FRIDAY-SATURDAY 6/1-2

VALIENT THORR

KEITH SYKES HOT SPRINGS WEEKEND

9 p.m. Revolution. $10 adv., $12 d.o.s.

Valient Thorr took the bluesy swagger of ZZ Top, the whisky-blistered vocals of AC/DC and the triumphant fist-pumping-ness of Van Halen and combined them with the melodic shredding and galloping guitars of the best of the NWOBHM (new wave of British heavy metal for those not in the know) bands, creating a magical hybrid that’s nod-and-a-wink funny while also being utterly dedicated to mindlessly rocking the eff out. “One Tough Customer” is a prime example of this: It’s an unhinged rager, reminiscent of Angus and Co.’s blistering “Riff Raff.” The video for “Sleeper Awakes” is pretty metal (points for the “Dune” reference) and its depiction of the heavy metal lifestyle seemed pretty realistic until it showed one of the guys taking a shower, but it’s

1 p.m. Arlington Hotel. $60.

THORR’S HAMMER: The hard-rockin’ metal warriors in Valient Thorr play Revolution Thursday night.

still a good tune and a good video. I guess this is my takeaway after listening to a whole bunch of Valient Thorr songs: Remember how “Kill ’Em All” ruled because it was kick-ass, take-noprisoners thrash metal, and many of the songs were about being in a kickass, take-no-prisoners thrash metal band? Well Valient Thorr keeps that proud tradition going in the 21st century. Opening acts are The Kickass and The Holy Grail.

THURSDAY 5/31

WALK OFF THE EARTH 8 p.m. Juanita’s. $13.

The Ontarians in Walk off the Earth are probably best known for their cover of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know,” which was a bona fide viral hit on YouTube. It featured the five young musicians performing the song on a single acoustic guitar, with each member plucking, strumming, slapping, tapping or fretting a different part of the instrument. They took this act on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” back in January. The affable host seemed blown away by the 30 million YouTube views the video had

garnered in just a couple of weeks. As of Tuesday, it was just shy of 113 million views and back in February the group announced it had signed a deal with Columbia Records. It’s even earned all kinds of spoof versions with one quintet of smart alecks doing the act on a ukulele. In April, the band uploaded a video of a cover of Adele’s “Someone Like You” that had the members switching off instruments on the fly. So is Walk off The Earth simply a very talented novelty act? I’m inclined to think no, but we’ll get a better idea after its debut full-length is released.

This two-day shindig is definitely a “songwriter’s songwriter” type of affair, headlined by John Prine, one of the greatest songwriters ever. Good Lord, what do you even say about Prine? The man is unquestionably in the most rarified circle of songwriters, up there with Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Billy Joe Shaver, Townes Van Zandt and maybe a handful of others. He’s one of those guys who you call by his last name only, like, “Yeah man, I mean, I love Dylan of course, but Prine just hits me on a different level.” This festival was put together by Keith Sykes, who has written songs for Prine, Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett and more. After wandering around the country for a while in the late ’60s and early ’70s, Sykes eventually settled in Memphis, where he’s hosted songwriter showcases for many years. This one also includes Richard Leigh, Larry Joe Taylor, Roger Cook and Jed Zimmerman. In addition to the concerts, at 1 p.m. Friday and 8 p.m. both nights, there’ll be a “Bloody Mary Morning” show with Zimmerman and Delta Joe Sanders, and at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sykes will interview Prine, which should be fascinating.

After the game. Dickey-Stephens Park. $6-$12.

These Central Arkansas up-andcomers have probably gigged around as much or more than any of their peers. There’s no better way to get good than by playing all the time, and Don’t Stop Please has certainly been putting in the hours, including making it to the final round of this year’s Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase. The six-piece traffics in a folksy kind of indie rock that reminds me quite a bit of the Philadelphia retro-

pop experts Dr. Dog, whose Beatles/The Band amalgamation has proven to be influential. DSP’s everything-includingthe-kitchen-sink approach to instrumentation lends an eclectic air to the proceedings, but it doesn’t bog down the songs, which shuffle and shamble along charmingly. For example, a stray trombone line adds a woozy punctuation to “Long List of Numbers,” rather than feeling like an unnecessary flourish. This show kicks off the Post Game Concert Series at DickeyStephens Park (hey — DSP at DSP!), which continues with Texan roots-rockers Band of Heathens on June 15.

FRIDAY 6/1 Memphis retro-rocker extraordinaire John Paul Keith comes to Maxine’s with his ace band, The One Four Fives, as well as Laura Stevenson and The Cans and Sean Ashby, longtime guitarist for Sarah McLachlan, 8 p.m., $5 adv., $7 d.o.s. The Hats in Hot Springs Festival includes live music, activities and more in Downtown Hot Springs, 5 p.m. and Saturday at 11:30 a.m., free if you’re wearing a hat. Toubab Krewe has a globe-trotting sound that incorporates everything from reggae to African desert blues to New Orleans funk, all fused into a remarkably cohesive sound. Opening the 18-and-older Stickyz show is The Heavy Pets, 9:30 p.m. $11. Georgia-bred country singer/songwriter Luke Bryan comes to The Arkansas Music Pavilion in Fayetteville, with Craig Campbell and Chancie Neal, 7:30 p.m. $32-$37. Bryan plays Little Rock’s Riverfest Amphitheatre on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The Winthrop Rockefeller Institute Philanthropy Conference highlights the Rockefeller family’s role in the development of philanthropy over more than a century and the role Winthrop Rockefeller played in stimulating philanthropy in Arkansas, Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, featuring many speakers and panel discussions, 12:30 p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m.

SATURDAY 6/2

FRIDAY 6/1

DON’T STOP PLEASE

The Eureka Springs Blues Weekend kicks off Thursday. The annual festival features Ruthie Foster, Tommy Castro, Kenny Neal, The Cate Brothers, Lazy Lester and many more, including a tribute to the late, great Arkansas bluesman Michael Burks, who passed away suddenly in early May. The main venue is The Auditorium, but there will be shows all over town through Sunday, $15$75. The Lantern Theatre in Conway opens its production of the Sam Shepard classic “True West.” It runs through Saturday, with performances at 8 p.m., $10. It’s recommended for adult audiences.

PRIME PRINE: John Prine plays at the Keith Sykes Hot Springs Weekend at the Arlington Hotel.

Satisfy your inner dance-party freak at Zodiac: The Wobble Edition 2.0, featuring Sniq, MC Kreepa, Platinumb and Explicit, Revolution, 9 p.m., $5 before 11 p.m. Le Tour – Exploring the Gardens of Chenal is the 12th annual Greater Little Rock Council of Garden Clubs tour. It will be at various locations in West Little Rock starting at 9 a.m and at 1 p.m. on Sunday, $20 adv., $25 day of. More info is available at www. glrcgc.net. For some women’s full tackle pro football, don’t miss The Arkansas Banshees taking on the Memphis Belles, J.A. Fair Magnet High School, 6 p.m., $5. Country superstar Trace Adkins is at Magic Springs’ Timberwood Amphitheater, 7:30 p.m., $30-$65.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 30

MUSIC

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. Bluegrass Festival. Includes live music and camping ($12 a night). Bring a chair. Cypress Creek Park, through June 2; through Sept. 22, $12. Cypress Creek Avenue, Adona. 501-662-4918. Brother’s Keeper Benefit. Benefit show to raise money to cover medical and other expenses for musician Gerald Johnson. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $10. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-5417436. revroom.com. Chris Henry. The Tavern Sports Grill, 7 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. www.thetavernsportsgrill.com. Featuring Dj Epic. Flying DD, 10 p.m. 4601 S. University. 501-773-9990. flyingdd.com. Grim Muzik presents Way Back Wednesdays. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 8:30 p.m. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub.com. Ricky David Tripp. Ferneau, 5:30 p.m. 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-603-9208. www.ferneaurestaurant.com. Some Guy Named Robb. Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com. Sons of Bill. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $8 adv., $10 d.o.s. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG.

COMEDY

Scott White. The Loony Bin, 8 p.m.; May 31, 8 p.m. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-2285555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

DANCE

Beginning Dance Lessons. Ages 10 and older. Singles welcome. Bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 7 p.m., $4 for members, $7 for guests. 12th & Cleveland Streets. 501350-4712. www.littlerockbopclub.

EVENTS

British Car Week National Meet. Held at locations throughout the city. Downtown Hot Springs, through June 2. 100 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 870-763-9043. www.britishcarweeknationalmeet.org. Brown Bag Lunch Lecture: “A Look Back at Arkansas Politics a Century Ago.” Participants are encouraged to bring a sack lunch; beverages are provided. Old State House Museum, 12 p.m. 500 Clinton Ave. 501-324-9685. www. oldstatehouse.com. Political Animals Club: Sheffield Nelson. Nelson will discuss the natural gas industry in Arkansas. Wyndham Riverfront Hotel, 7 a.m., $20. 2 Riverfront Place, NLR. 501-378-0843. sedwards@arkindcolleges.org. Science After Dark: Wine and Chocolate. Ages 21 and older, cash bar available. Museum of

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BRAVE SOLO: Bubba Hernandez, Grammy-winning musician and longtime member of the Texas polka greats Brave Combo, plays an upbeat blend of polka and Latin styles, perhaps best summed up by his solo debut’s subtitle: “Fiery Bilingual Cumbia-based Latin Pop Rock songs of Intrigue, Naughtiness, Heartbreak and Other Steamy Delights.” The show is Saturday at 9:30 p.m. at White Water Tavern. Discovery, 6 p.m., $5, 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, through June 3. 2600 Cantrell Road. 501-296-9955.

LECTURES

Justice John Paul Stevens. The retired U.S. Supreme Court justice will discuss his work. Statehouse Convention Center, 6 p.m., free. 7 Statehouse Plaza.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Corpus Christi Hooks. Dickey-Stephens Park, 7:10 p.m.; May 31, 7:10 p.m. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs.com.

THURSDAY, MAY 31

MUSIC

“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.

Arkansas International Music Video Competition. Little Rock Film Festival-affiliated event, with music video screenings and live music from Randall Shreve & The Sideshow, Epiphany with BMore Mike, Life Size Pizza and Messy Sparkles. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $5 21 and older, $7 18-20. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com. Bluegrass Festival. See May 30. Canvas. The Tavern Sports Grill, 8 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. www. thetavernsportsgrill.com. Chase Pagan. 21-and-older show. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. Chris DeClerk and Friends. The Afterthought, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com. Eureka Springs Blues Weekend. Featuring Ruthie Foster, Tommy Castro, Kenny Neal, The Cate Brothers, Michael Burks, Lazy Lester and many more. The Auditorium, -June 3, $15-$75. 36 Main St., Eureka Springs. “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. Laundry For The Apocalypse w/ Color Club & Collin Vs. Adam. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m., $5. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.reverbna-

tion.com/laundryfortheapocalypse. Mr. Lucky (headliner), Steve Bates (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. Port Arthur Band. Parrot Beach Cafe, 9 p.m. 9611 MacArthur Drive, NLR. 771-2994. Soundcult, The Next Best Thing, Derivative. Downtown Music Hall, 8 p.m., $6. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownmusichall.com. The Supporting Cast , Alice Sweet Alice, Sesh, The Monastics. 21-and-older show. Vino’s, 8 p.m., $7. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www. alicesweetalice.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Texarkana Band. All-ages. Thirst n’ Howl, 8 p.m., free. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www. thirst-n-howl.com. Valient Thorr, The Kickass, The Holy Grail. 18-and-older show. Revolution, 9 p.m., $10 adv., $12 d.o.s. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-8230090. revroom.com. Wakarusa. Music and camping festival featuring The Avett Brothers, Primus, Pretty Lights and many more. Mulberry Mountain, -June 3. 4117 Mulberry Mountain Loop, Ozark. Walk Off the Earth. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $13. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com.

COMEDY

Scott White. The Loony Bin, 8 p.m. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www. loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS

Member Preview Party: The Rockefeller Influence. Members-only preview, with live music, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Arkansas Arts Center, 6 p.m. 501 E. 9th St. 501-372-4000. www.arkarts.com. Mid-America Bike Week. Veterans riding to help veterans. Open rides, motorcycle Olympics, poker run, Texas hold ‘em poker competition, pro-am show, “biker chick boxing” and 8-ball competition. Summit Arena, May 31-June 2. 134 Convention Blvd., Hot Springs. 501-463-8841. www.mid-americabikeweek.org.

FILM

Little Rock Film Festival. See May 30.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Corpus Christi Hooks. Dickey-Stephens Park, 7:10 p.m. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs. com.

CLASSES

Cooking Class with Lee Richardson. Learn to perfect your crawfish with Louisiana native and Capital Hotel chef Lee Richardson. Eggshells Kitchen Co., 6 p.m., $50. 5501 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-664-6900. www.eggshellskitchencompany. com.

FRIDAY, JUNE 1

MUSIC

Bluegrass Festival. See May 30. Bluesboy Jag and His Cigar Box Guitars. Dogtown Coffee and Cookery, 6 p.m., free. 6725 John F. Kennedy Blvd., NLR. 501-833-3850. www.facebook.com/pages/Dogtown-Coffee-

and-Cookery/221280641229600. Chris Henry. Flying Saucer, 9 p.m. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-8032. www.beerknurd. com/stores/littlerock. D-Mite & Tho-d Studios. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 8:30 p.m. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub.com. Dead Fingers, First Baptist Chemical. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. 2500 W. 7th. 501-3758400. www.deadfingers.com/fr_home.cfm. DJ Silky Slim. Top 40 and dance music. Sway, 9 p.m., $5. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582. Don’t Stop Please. Performance at Hook Slide Corner immediately after the 7:10 p.m. Arkansas Travelers game. Dickey-Stephens Park, $6-$12. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www. travs.com. Ed Burks. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, June 1, 7 p.m.; June 2, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. 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. FOS Project (Headliner) and Rob & Tyndall (Happy Hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 cover after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com. Hot Springs Weekend Songwriters Festival. Featuring Keith Sykes, Richard Leigh, Jed Zimmerman, Larry Joe Taylor, John Prine and Roger Cook. Arlington Hotel, 8 p.m., $60. 239 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-623-7771. John Paul Keith & The One Four Fives, Laura Stevenson & The Cans, Sean Ashby. 21-andolder show. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $5 adv., $7 d.o.s. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. Killing Souls, Season of Evil. Downtown Music Hall, 8 p.m., $5. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownmusichall.com. Luke Bryan, Craig Campbell, Chancie Neal. Arkansas Music Pavilion, 7:30 p.m., $32-$37. 2536 N. McConnell Ave., Fayetteville. www. arkansasmusicpavilion.com. More Than Sparrows, Transcend, Three Sixteen, Cinders to Ascension. Vino’s, 8 p.m., $10. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com. RVS. The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com. Sean Ashby (guitarist with Sarah McLachlan for 12 yrs). Maxine’s, 7 p.m. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. www.seanashby.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Toubab Krewe. 18-and-older show. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $11. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com. Trey Hawkins Band. The Tavern Sports Grill, 8 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. www.thetavernsportsgrill.com. “YOLO.” Featuring four DJs and beach volleyball, 18-and-older. Flying DD, $5. 4601 S. University. 501-773-9990. flyingdd.com.

COMEDY

Scott White. The Loony Bin, 8 and 10:30 p.m. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS

Food Truck Fridays. Includes three food trucks 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. Hats in Hot Springs Festival. Includes live music, activities and more. Downtown Hot Springs, 5 p.m., free. 100 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501321-2027. 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. Mid-America Bike Week. See May 31. Mike Lawn. Reception and gardening presentation from the former executive groundskeeper for the White House. Laman Library, June 1, 6-8 p.m.; June 2, 10 a.m., free. 2801 Orange St., NLR. 501-758-1720. www.lamanlibrary.org. Sandwiching in History: Arkansas Baptist College Main Building. Arkansas Baptist College, 12 p.m. 1621 Martin Luther King Drive. Winthrop Rockefeller Institute Philanthropy Conference. This annual event will highlight the role of the Rockefeller family on the development of philanthropy over more than a century and the pioneering role Winthrop Rockefeller played in stimulating philanthropy in Arkansas. Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, June 1, 12:30 p.m.; June 2, 9 a.m. 1 Rockefeller Drive, Morrilton. 501-727-6220. www.uawri.org. Zoo Story Time. Little Rock Zoo, through Aug. 31: 10 a.m. 1 Jonesboro Drive. 501-666-2406. www.littlerockzoo.com.

FILM

“Hops and Docs.” Fundraiser for the Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute, with beer and documentary films. Malco Theater, 7 p.m. 817 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-623-6200. Little Rock Film Festival. See May 30.

SPORTS

5th Annual Rock City Summer Basketball. Basketball tournament held at various locations throughout Little Rock, featuring 300 games and teams from across the south and midwest. Philander Smith College, June 1; June 2; June 3. 900 W. Daisy L. Gatson Bates Drive. www. rockcityclassic.com. Arkansas Travelers vs. Corpus Christi Hooks. Dickey-Stephens Park, 7:10 p.m. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs.com.

SATURDAY, JUNE 2

MUSIC

Adam Faucett and The Tall Grass, Iron Tongue. 21-and-older show. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $5 adv., $7 d.o.s. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. Bluegrass Festival. See May 30. Brent Stroud. The Tavern Sports Grill, 8 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. www. thetavernsportsgrill.com. Bubba Hernandez (of Brave Combo). White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. 2500 W. 7th. 501-3758400. www.whitewatertavern.com. Charlotte Taylor. The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com. Ed Burks. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www. sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. FOS Project (Headliner), Jeff Madden (Happy

Hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 cover after 8:30pm. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com. Gunfish. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 9 p.m. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub.com. Hi-Balls. Thirst n’ Howl, 9 p.m. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com. “KISS Saturdays” with DJs Deja Blu, Greyhound and Silky Slim. Sway, 10 p.m. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582. Luke Bryan. Tickets on sale at ticketmaster.com. Riverfest Amphitheatre, 7:30 p.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. www.lukebryan.com. Pat Anderson. Flying Saucer, 9 p.m. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-8032. www. beerknurd.com/stores/littlerock. Rackensack Society of Pulaski County. Old-time and mountain music. MacArthur Park, 7 p.m., $10 adults, $25 family ticket. 503 E. Ninth St. Scale The Summit, Today I Caught Plague, FWWC, Seamless & Veridium. Downtown Music Hall, 7 p.m., $10. 211 W. Capitol. 501376-1819. downtownmusichall.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. Trace Adkins. Magic Springs’ Timberwood Amphitheater, 7:30 p.m., $30-$65. 1701 E. Grand Ave., Hot Springs. A Tribute to Michael Burks. 18-and-older show. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8 p.m. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com. Zodiac: The Wobble Edition 2.0. Featuring Sniq, MC Kreepa, Platinumb, Explicit. Revolution, 9 p.m., $5 before 11 p.m. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com.

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Scott White. The Loony Bin, 7, 9 and 11 p.m. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

DANCE

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

EVENTS

Argenta Farmers Market. Argenta, 7 a.m.-12 p.m. Main Street, NLR. Falun Gong meditation. Allsopp Park, 9 a.m., free. Cantrell & Cedar Hill Roads. Hats in Hot Springs Festival. Includes live music, activities and more. Downtown Hot Springs, 11:30 a.m., free. 100 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-321-2027. Hillcrest Farmers Market. Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, 7 a.m.-12 p.m. 2200 Kavanaugh Blvd. Le Tour — Exploring the Gardens of Chenal. The 12th annual Greater Little Rock Council of Garden Clubs tour. West Little Rock, various locations, June 2, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; June 3, 1-5 p.m., $20 adv., $25 day of. Chenal Parkway. 501-663-7515. www.glrcgc.net. 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. Mid-America Bike Week. See May 31. Mike Lawn. See June 1. CONTINUED ON PAGE 34

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AFTER DARK, CONT. Scott Connections Spring Dinner. Proceeds benefit preservation of the Scott Settlement. Lake house of Bill and Kay Bevis, 4 p.m., $60. 12124 Sweetwater Run, NLR. 501-416-2253. Unitarian Universalist Church Live and Silent Auction. Unitarian Universalist Church of Little Rock, 6:30 p.m., entrance donation is $5. 1818 Reservoir Road. 501-442-6623. Winthrop Rockefeller Institute Philanthropy Conference. See June 1.

FILM

Little Rock Film Festival. See May 30.

SPORTS

5th Annual Rock City Summer Basketball. See June 1. Arkansas Banshees vs. Memphis Belles. Women’s full tackle pro football. J.A. Fair Magnet High School, 6 p.m., $5. 13240 David O. Dodd. 501-447-1701. www.lrsd.org. Arkansas Travelers vs. San Antonio Missions. Dickey-Stephens Park, June 2, 7:10 p.m.; June 3, 6 p.m.; June 4, 7:10 p.m. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs.com. Cheetah Chase. 5K race and 1M family fun walk Little Rock Zoo, 8 a.m., $25-$35. 1 Jonesboro Dr. 501-666-2406. www.littlerockzoo.com. 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.

BENEFITS

“Another Time, Another Place.” Fundraiser for The Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute features U2 tribute act UZoo at the Rockefeller Cancer Institute lobby. Includes food, drinks, door prizes and more. UAMS, 7:30 p.m., $50. 4301 W. Markham St.

SUNDAY, JUNE 3

MUSIC

Bon Iver, The Staves. Riverfest Amphitheatre, 7 p.m., $39-$49. 400 President Clinton Ave. Hot Springs Music Festival XVII. More than 200 performers from around the world will gather for 20 concerts and hundreds of open rehearsals at venues all over Hot Springs. Downtown Hot Springs. Central Avenue, Hot Springs. Irish Traditional Music Session. Hibernia Irish Tavern, first and third Sunday of every month, 2:30 p.m. 9700 N Rodney Parham Road. 501246-4340. www.hiberniairishtavern.com. Little Rock Wind Symphony: “Sunday Serenade.” The LRWS Chamber Players present sarabandes, serenades, and soliloquies of works for chamber winds. St. Paul United Methodist Church, 3 p.m., $8-$10. 2223 Durwood Road. 501-666-0777. Saving Abel, Fall From Grace. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $15 adv., $17 d.o.s. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com. Sunday Jazz Brunch with Ted Ludwig and Joe Cripps. Vieux Carre, 11 a.m. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.vieuxcarrecafe.com.

EVENTS

9th Annual Conway Pride Parade and Festival. Includes vendors, food, a prize for best float, drag queens and more. Parade starts at The Pink House, 1605 Robinson. Simon Park, 1 p.m. Front and Main, Conway. 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. Central Arkansas Buddy Walk. A one-mile walk across the Big Dam Bridge and back, to promote acceptance and inclusion of people with Down

Syndrome. Big Dam Bridge, 4 p.m., $8-$15. 7600 Rebsamen Park Road. www.bigdambridge.com. Le Tour — Exploring the Gardens of Chenal. See June 2.

FILM

Little Rock Film Festival. See May 30. “Lost Camera.” Market Street Cinema, 9:15 p.m., $5. 1521 Merrill Drive. 501-312-8900. idreammax. ticketleap.com/lostcamera.

SPORTS

5th Annual Rock City Summer Basketball. See June 1. Arkansas Travelers vs. San Antonio Missions. Dickey-Stephens Park, June 3, 6 p.m.; June 4, 7:10 p.m. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-6641555. www.travs.com.

MONDAY, JUNE 4

MUSIC

Glass Cloud. Downtown Music Hall, 7 p.m. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownmusichall.com. Jazz@Afterthought with Nathan Hood on baritone sax. The Afterthought, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.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. 501376-7777. www.facebook.com/pleazures.bargrill. Richie Johnson. Cajun’s Wharf, 5 p.m., $5 cover after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com. Touch, Grateful Dead Tribute. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.

EVENTS

Museum School Workshop. Four-day advanced oil painting workshop focuses on painting the figure from life. Not for beginning or intermediate level painters. Terry House, June 4, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; June 5, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; June 6, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; June 7, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. 7th and Rock Streets. 501372-4000. www.arkarts.com. Salty Old Editor: An Adventure in Ink. Charlotte Tillar Schexnayder will discuss her new memoir. Book signing to follow. Clinton School of Public Service, 12 p.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5239. publicprograms@clintonschool. uasys.edu.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. San Antonio Missions. Dickey-Stephens Park, 7:10 p.m. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs.com.

CAMPS

An Asian Summer: Journey to the Far East. Camp for ages 9-11 explores Asian culture and art. Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, June 4-8, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., $140-$150. 20919 Denny Road.

KIDS

Junior Arts Academy. For ages 6-9. Arkansas Arts Center, June 4-8, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; June 11-15, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 501 E. 9th St. 501-372-4000. www. arkarts.com.

TUESDAY, JUNE 5

MUSIC

Brian & Nick. Cajun’s Wharf, 5 p.m., $5 cover after 8:30pm. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www. cajunswharf.com. Brian Martin. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. CONTINUED ON PAGE 37

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Promises from Lynyrd Skynyrd of a two-hour show on Saturday night in the amphitheater proved to be as much BS as Skynyrd’s entire approach to Riverfest 2012. Event insiders told us the iconic Southern man’s band wouldn’t participate in any pre-show media, nor did band members want to indulge in the backstage hobnobbing with Riverfest supporters that most acts have done in the past. So, when Skynyrd’s guitarists were fingered the familiar opening chords/ notes to “Sweet Home Alabama” at about 10 p.m., barely an hour into the show, then headed off stage, we wondered if something was amiss. Or maybe this was Skynyrd’s version of a two-set show, like Widespread Panic, with a pipe break in between. Moments later the band was back on stage, thanking the Little Rock fans and offering up a rote version of “Free Bird” before heading back to its bus (the one with the “stars and bars” flag and “Gods and Guns” emblazoned on the side), Skynyrd had done its obligatory 75 minutes. Surely there was more in the band’s catalog to play, if the guys had really cared to. Promises, promises ... — Jim Harris

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Riverfest recap A look at some of the highs and lows and highs of Riverfest 2012 the original. Neon Trees ended its set with the irrepressible “1983” and their mission statement single “Animal.” — Robert Bell The lawn adjacent the Bud Light stage was packed by 9 p.m. Saturday night in anticipation of Third Eye Blind. The group catered to the diverse audience, even telling the crowd at one point to turn to the stranger next to you and say, “Hello, I hope you have a beautiful night.” The band’s encore, the ’90s mega-hit “Semi-Charmed Life,” rang true to everyone regardless of its literal meaning, as the lyrics mixed with the sounds of the carnival rides nearby. Whether you were conceived in the ’90s or conceiving in the ’90s (perhaps to a soundtrack that included “SemiCharmed Life”), the Third Eye Blind concert was the place to be. As the sun set on the amphitheater Sunday night, the crowd became increasingly filled with oversized cowboy hats, leather boots, duck calls, and shirtless men. The band members of Little Big Town appeared at home as the fans became increasingly excited and swayed, sweaty arm against sweaty arm, in the humid Arkansas evening. “I hope you’re having a water for every beer you have, but something tells me you’re not,” said Kimberly Schlapman, as a range of hollers answered her on

BRIAN CHILSON

he Stickyz Music Tent kicked off a great array of local and indie bands Friday night, but because of some extenuating circumstances, I unfortunately missed the opening set from The Alpha Ray, who were just wrapping up as I got there. That’s a drag, because I was looking forward to their set, but with an album due out this fall on Thick Syrup, I’m sure the band will be playing more shows in the coming weeks. I did catch local supergroup Amasa Hines and most of the set from powerhouse guitar-rockers The See. Amasa Hines is, as the French might say, “le hot shit.” They opened their set with a cover of “The Model,” a bold move and one that managed the seemingly unthinkable feat of making Kraftwerk sound sexy. The See opened with “Storytelling” off their recent full-length. Their set lived up to my expectations of the band: triumphant, anthemic rock with plenty of chiming guitars, pounding drums and “whoa-oh!” choruses. I would’ve certainly stayed for all of The See’s set, but I wanted to catch some of this Neon Trees band, and I’m glad I did. After listening to several of the group’s singles, I’m prepared to say that what Motley Crue was to The New York Dolls, Neon Trees is to The Strokes. That is to say: a glossy and undeniably derivative — but also totally enjoyable — facsimile, delivered about 10 years after

NEON TREES

stage. But nothing compared to the crowd’s excitement when the first few lines of “Boondocks” echoed across the crowded lawn. Later Sunday night, Joe Walsh proudly took the amphitheater stage as the firework smoke wavered in the sky, reminding the crowd that it was Memorial Day weekend and it was appropriate to “remember the people who have given their lives so we can do this.” He announced that his new album — his first in 20 years — comes out June 5. Before singing from his album, Walsh said, “I was gonna sing blues for ya, but I feel great and nothin’s wrong, so it’s gonna be hard.” He then sang the title track, “Analog Man,” as he mellowed the crowd with his smooth, Midwestern tone, calmly carrying his fans into the final hours of Riverfest. — Kim Lane

After the Jennings Osborne Memorial fireworks display and the concluding anthem by Lee Greenwood, the occasional sounds of Snoop Dogg’s soundcheck became audible. There were a couple of rounds of calling the Hogs, then an unrecognizable disembodied voice asked who, if anyone, in the crowd liked to smoke weed. At that moment, everyone around us, even the middle-aged black ladies to my right, screamed. The invisible emcee promptly directed us to “blaze it up,” as the explosive sound of Carmina Burana played and we were treated to a dramatic montage of Snoop video clips on the jumbotrons on either side of the stage. For the most part, a Snoop set appears to be like a breathless revue of his most beloved songs, pausing only between numbers to remind us where he was playing (“Little Rock, Arkansas!”) and reminding us to smoke our weed. Once, he introduced a song simply by stating matter-of-factly, “This is what we do every day,” and then went into “Gin and Juice,” which was actually kind of funny. Then a costumed man wearing a plush puppy-head started parading around with a giant prop joint, easily the size of a grown man’s arm. Scandalous props aside, seeing Snoop was like one of those moments that’s almost required for American citizenship. — Natalie Elliott www.arktimes.com

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EVENTS

Frank Jones Farewell Party. Faulkner County Library, 7 p.m., free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www.fcl.org. 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. Museum School Workshop. See June 4. The Future of Food. A film that offers an indepth investigation into processed foods. Faulkner County Library, 7 p.m., free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www.fcl.org. “Voluntary Simplicity.” Discussion course hosted by the Ecumenical Buddhist Society of Little Rock. Ecumenical Buddhist Society, June 5, 7:15 p.m.; June 12, 7:15 p.m.; June 19, 7:15 p.m.; June 26, 7:15 p.m.; July 10, 7:15 p.m.; July 17, 7:15 p.m.; July 24, 7:15 p.m., $35. 1015 W. 2nd St. 501-376-7056. arkansasearth. org/2011/voluntary-simplicity.

CAMPS

An Asian Summer: Journey to the Far East. Camp for ages 9-11 explores Asian culture and art. Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, through June 8, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., $140$150. 20919 Denny Road.

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Auditions for “Hairspray.” Cold readings from the script. Prepare a musical number to sing and bring two sets of sheet music. An accompanist will be available. The Public Theatre, June 2-3, 2 p.m. 616 Center St. 501410-2283. www.ctlr-act.org/. Curtain Call for a Cause. Benefiting AEDD. Argenta Community Theater, Tue., June 5, 6 p.m., $100-$150. 405 Main St., NLR. 501-8013646. www.aeddinc.org. “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., $15$33. 6323 Col. Glenn Road. 501-562-3131. murrysdinnerplayhouse.com. Sam Shepard’s “True West.” The play is recommended for adult audiences only. Lantern Theatre, Thu., May 31, 8 p.m.; Fri., June 1, 8 p.m.; Sat., June 2, 8 p.m., $10. 1021 Van Ronkle, Conway. 501-733-6220. www.conwayarts.org/index.html. “Southern Fried Funeral.” Gala fundraiser

preview is May 30 and is $35 per couple. All other performances are pay-what-youcan. Call for reservations. Pulaski Heights Methodist Church, Wed., May 30, 7:30 p.m.; May 31-June 2, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., June 3, 2:30 p.m. 4823 Woodlawn Drive. 501-218-6636.

GALLERIES, MUSEUMS

NEW EXHIBITS, ART EVENTS

CHRIST CHURCH, 509 Scott St.: “Art Musings,” work by clients of the Creative Expressions program of the Arkansas State Hospital, June 1-July 3. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.Thu., 8 a.m.-noon Sun. COMMUNITY BAKERY, 1200 S. Main St.: Work by LifeQuest oil painters Lana Bethune, Susie Henley, Suzanne Warren, Sam Caruthers, Bruce Schratz, Bonnie Bartleson, Mary Lu Arrington, Nancy Irving Smith, L. P. Frasier, Jim Conard, Anne Crow, Linda Martz, Dee Schulten, Herb Monoson, Glenda Josephson, Barbara Hawes, Jai Ross and Scotty Shively, through June. 2256073. LAMAN LIBRARY, 2801 Orange St.: “The White House Garden,” Smithsonian traveling exhibition, through July 21, reception 6-8 p.m. June 1 with Mike Lawn, former executive groundskeeper for the White House; presentation by Lawn and Janet Carson 10 a.m. June 2. 758-1720. MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY, 500 President Clinton Ave.: “Science After Dark,” on wine and chocolate, 6-8 p.m. May 30, $5, 21 and older; “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 under 1. 396-7050. STUDIOMAIN, 1423 S. Main St.: “Clean Lines, Open Spaces,” documentary film on “MidCentury Modernism” in Arkansas architecture, 8 p.m. June 1. info@studio-main.org. FAYETTEVILLE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: “Scarcity,” ceramics by Shih Hwa Lee, Fine Arts Center hallway cases, reception 4:30-6 p.m. June 7, show through June 11. 479-273-5305. HELENA DELTA CULTURAL CENTER, 141 Cherry St.: “Ni hao, Shalom: Treasures of the Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art,” through June 2; “Small Works on Paper,” June 6-25. 870-338-4350. HOT SPRINGS June 1 is Gallery Walk; galleries open until 9 p.m. FINE ARTS CENTER, 626 Central Ave.: “American Icons Art Exhibition,” June 1-30, open 5-9 p.m. June 1. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.Sat. 501-624-0489. GALLERY CENTRAL, 800 Central Ave.: Pat Walker, paintings, reception 5-9 p.m. June 1. 501-318-4278. JUSTUS FINE ART, 827 Central A: Emily Wood, paintings, also work by Dolores Justus, Donnie Copeland, Steve Griffith, Rebecca Thompson and others, open 5-9 p.m. June 1. 501-321-2335. TAYLOR’S CONTEMPORANEA, 204 Exchange St.: Still lifes by Daniel Mark Cassity, through June, reception 5-9 p.m. June 1. 501-624-0516. More gallery and museum listings at arktimes. com.

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MOVIE LISTINGS

JUNE 1-2

GRIMM SCENARIO: “Snow White and the Huntsman,” starring Charlize Theron, is the second Snow White live-action film of the year and has a darker feel than the one from a few weeks ago.

JUNE 1-2 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. Breckenridge, Chenal 9, Lakewood 8, Movies 10 and Riverdale showings were not available as of press deadline. Find up-todate listings at arktimes.com. NEW MOVIES Battlefield America (PG-13) – Uh, it’s like a bunch of kids having a dance-off that’s supposed to be some kind of social commentary or something? Rave: 10:45 a.m., 1:25, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50. Crooked Arrows (R) – Lacrosse version of “Hoosiers” set on an Indian reservation. Rave: 10:55 a.m., 1:55, 4:55, 7:35, 10:35. For Greater Glory (R) – Andy Garcia is a retired general who leads a ragtag bunch of Catholic soldiers in a fight against the totalitarian Mexican government of the late 1920s. Rave: 10:00 a.m., 1:05, 4:10, 7:25, 10:40. The Hunter (R) – Willem Dafoe is a bounty hunter seeking a rare Tasmanian tiger. Rave: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15. Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) – Dark and foreboding Snow White reboot No. 2 for the year, this time with Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron. Rave: 10:30 a.m., 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 (Xtreme), 9:45 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 12:45, 2:15, 3:45, 5:15, 6:45, 8:15, 9:45, 11:15, midnight. Sound of My Voice (R) – A pair of investigative journalists infiltrate a religious cult, but wind up getting sucked into the secretive group. Market Street: 2:15, 4:25, 7:00, 9:00.

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RETURNING THIS WEEK Avengers (PG-13) – Based on the Marvel Comics superhero series. Rave: 9:40 a.m., 1:00, 2:20, 4:25, 7:45, 8:45, 11:10, midnight (2D), noon, 3:20, 7:00, 10:25 (3D). Battleship (PG-13) – Action adventure film starring Rihanna, whose Battleship many people would no doubt like to sink. Rave: 10:55 a.m., 2:05, 5:05, 8:25, 11:45. 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 seniors go to India and learn about poor people and that it’s OK to eat weird stuff and it’s all very heartwarming. Rave: 10:20 a.m., 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20. Chernobyl Diaries (R) – Some terror happens to attractive young people at the site of the Chernobyl disaster, from the director of “Paranormal Activity.” Rave: 10:10 a.m., 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:40, 11:00. Chimpanzee (G) – Beautifully shot documentary footage of majestic primates, but it’s narrated by Tim Allen. Rave: 9:50 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. Rave: 1:50. The Dictator (R) – Sacha Baron Cohen is a dictator from a fictional foreign country and he has a funny accent and so forth. Rave: 9:35 a.m., 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:05, 9:30. The Hunger Games (PG-13) – Teen-lit version of “The Running Man,” starring Jennifer Lawrence. Rave: 1:20. Men in Black 3 (PG-13) – This go-around, they’ve

got to travel backwards in time or something. Rave: 9:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 12:30, 2:00, 3:30, 5:00, 6:30, 8:00, 9:15, 10:45 (2D), 10:15 a.m., 11:30, 1:15, 4:15, 5:45, 7:15, 10:00, midnight (3D). 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. Think Like a Man (PG-13) – Based on Steve Harvey’s best-selling book. Rave: 10:50 a.m., 4:50, 7:50, 10:50. 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. What to Expect When You’re Expecting (PG-13) – Film mines bestselling pregnancy book for attempt at comedy. If that’s what you were expecting, you were right. Breckenridge: Chenal 9: Lakewood 8: Rave: 10:35 a.m., 4:40, 7:40, 10:35. 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.

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hernobyl Diaries” doesn’t exactly dote on story, so in that spirit of austerity, here it is in one sentence. Six tourists take a ride out to the Ukrainian town that was instantly abandoned when Chernobyl exploded in 1986 and then all sorts of awful things happen to them. None of the characters have last names, which hints strongly that the writers — chief among them, Oren Peli, the father of the “Paranormal Activity” movies — never conceived of them as real people. All they needed were some dupes who could be dropped into a remote, desperate setting to be tormented and killed one by one. What results is exactly the sort of horror movie that people refer to when they say they hate horror movies: cheap, loud, dark, cruel and dumb. In all, it could be better. At least it got the setting right, and in a fright flick, that goes a long way. The tourists — four Americans plus an Aussie and a Norwegian backpacking — are driven out to the town of Prypiat by a thick-necked ex-military “extreme tour” operator (Dimitri Diatchenko). Guards turn them away from one checkpoint into the town (because of “maintenance,” the guide explains, which sounds odd to everyone expecting to drive into a deserted town), so he finds a back-road entrance. Apparently the movie was filmed in Serbia and Hungary, but the likeness to recent photos out of Prypiat (a terrific single-word search to undertake on Google Images) is truly unnerving, down to the Brutalist concrete buildings and the desiccated Ferris wheel. Even after the credits roll on the suitably insipid and lazy ending of “Chernobyl Diaries,” the deserted town, with its stink of desertion porn, will linger in the imagination. Prypiat was the company town for the Chernobyl power plant that suffered a reactor explosion and then Febreezed the entire planet with radiation. Today

it’s safe enough to serve as a real, active tourism site, so the haunted ghost-town premise is a bit of a reach. All seems manageably macabre for our tourists until they find their van disabled, and have to spend the night amid packs of feral dogs and some other menace in the dark that turns out to be people, or radiation zombies, or something. One of the hazards of riding shotgun in a Peli movie is that backstory — that is to say, a coherent rationale that drives the events of the film — doesn’t interest him as much as what happens on screen at any given moment. Hence the action, and the moments of kidney-churning fright, that “Chernobyl Diaries” serves up never evolve. The scares stop at the autonomic, as the tourists are stalked and attacked and maybe eaten or something through a series of dark buildings and hallways and tunnels. If your goal is to scare audiences, yes, putting your protagonists into confined, dark spaces and sending something to get them is a fine way to accomplish that. This is a film in which you’ll yell at the characters for doing stupid things, but doesn’t give them any plausible options for you to suggest. We could debate the existence of the supernatural until the Second Coming. Radiation poisoning carries no such question. While we watch Fukushima burn, and when we look at old nuclear test videos from the American West, we realize how fertile a ground radiation becomes, a semi-scientific stand-in for fairy tale horrors. The ghoulish cannibals in “The Hills Have Eyes” seem scarier because they seem more plausible than zombies and more familiar — they were just hicks in the wrong zip code during the Trinity tests. The very title of “Chernobyl Diaries” suggests the lives snuffed and disrupted when the eponymous reactor went nuclear. Too bad the writing and direction don’t follow suit.

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Times bestselling author, visited Fayetteville to speak at the Walton Arts Center. While he was in town, he must have sampled the local fare, because in an interview with the New York-based shop and blog Lot 18, he said, “There’s always one local restaurant that gets it. In Fayetteville, Arkansas, there’s a restaurant called Greenhouse Grille, where they buy grass-fed beef, pastured poultry, vegetables from local farmers. They keep a seasonal menu. And it’s become the locus of the food movement in that community.” Pollan is the man behind the “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants” directive. He’s written seven books, but he’s best known for “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual,” “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto,” “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals” and “The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World.” Here at the Arkansas Times, we already knew Greenhouse Grille is a big deal. But it’s always nice when a food celeb takes public note, as well. THE FAYETTEVILLE FLYER re-

ports on the newest entry in Fayetteville’s burgeoning craftbeer scene: Fossil Cove Brewing Co., a new brewery scheduled to open June 2 at 1946 N. Birch in Fayetteville. Owner Ben Mills, a graduate of the brewmaster school at University of California at Davis, plans to start out selling kegs of a Belgian wit, a Tripel, an IPA and a brown ale to local bars. If those are hits, he’ll move on to bottling. Keep up with the Fossil Cove Facebook page for more information.

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4 SQUARE CAFE AND GIFTS Vegetarian salads, soups, wraps and paninis. 405 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-244-2622. L daily. D Mon.-Sat. ARGENTA MARKET Daily selection of big sandwiches along with fresh fish and meats and salads. 521 N. Main St. NLR. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-379-9980. L daily, D Mon.-Sat., B Sat., BR Sun. ARKANSAS BURGER CO. Good burgers, fries and shakes, plus salads and other entrees. 7410 Cantrell Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-0600. LD Tue.-Sat. ASHLEY’S The premier fine dining restaurant in Little Rock marries Southern traditionalism and haute cuisine. 111 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-3747474. BLD Mon.-Sat. BR Sun. 40

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BRIAN CHILSON

A FEW WEEKS AGO, MICHAEL POLLAN, foodie and New York

A HEAPING HELPING: Chicken Cacciatore piled high at Dona’s Little Italy.

Great marinara, but … The pleasure of Dona’s is not quite total.

he marinara sauce at Dona’s Little Italy is some of the best we’ve had, and they bring it to you with bread for dipping while you study the menu. This is most enjoyable. One of our group suggested that Dona’s marinara is made with fresher tomatoes than other places’, accounting for its superiority. Another theory was that secret Albanian herbs and spices were at work, because, as we learned after we’d eaten, Dona’s owner-chef — or owner-chefdishwasher, as he described himself — is Albanian, not Italian. (Had we learned earlier, one of us would have ordered the Chicken Albanese.) This is not as strange as it may sound. Albania and Italy are neighbors on the Adriatic — not always friendly neighbors, but neighbors — and anyway, it turns out that our man learned a lot of his trade after he migrated to this country, and went to work in the Italian kitchens of New York City. At any rate, marinara-dipping at Dona’s is an almost total delight. We’ll get back to that “almost.” Dona’s is new on the Little Rock restaurant scene. It’s located where one of Little Rock’s oldest and best-known restaurants was found in its final days. That was Bruno’s Little Italy, and one wonders if the “Little Italy” part of Dona’s name is intended as a reminder. But

Dona’s Little Italy

315 N. Bowman Road 225-6168

QUICK BITE A substantive addition to Little Rock’s Italian dining scene. HOURS 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday. OTHER INFO No alcohol yet; application has been made. CC accepted. Closed on Mondays.

there’s no other connection. The family that owns Dona’s is not the family that owned Bruno’s. “Dona” is the owner’s daughter, incidentally. We recommend the stuffed mushrooms as an appetizer. They’re filled with crab, cheese, bread crumbs and garlic, and served in a rich, creamy, tomato sauce that the menu calls simply “pink sauce.” We took some home. The shrimp in the Shrimp Scampi were large, as the menu promised, but once again, it was the sauce that made this dish memorable: lemony, garlicky, white-winey. Seven chicken-or-veal entrees are on the menu. We took the Chicken Cacciatore: large pieces of sauteed chicken breast with mushrooms, bell peppers and onions over spaghetti, with, of

course, the great marinara. Portions are generous at Dona’s; we took some of the Cacciatore home too, and we’re not big taker-homers. We couldn’t tackle dessert. One of the more refined members of our group suggested that Dona’s presentation could have been better, that the food had sort of a piled-on-the-plate look. Some people notice that kind of thing. Some do not. And now back to the “almost.” Our table was the only one occupied on a Wednesday night, and we got a clue why when the waitress first came to our table and bravely announced that our beverage choices were soft drinks and iced tea. Dona’s has applied for a liquor license, but doesn’t have it yet. This is a rather serious drawback for an Italian restaurant. Iced tea may be the wine of the South, but it’s not the wine of Southern Italy. We hope the license comes through soon. Business at Dona’s will increase enormously when it does. Dona’s has an appealing pizza menu that we didn’t get around to. In our conversation with the chef as we were leaving, he said that the pizza he learned to make in Brooklyn is the best pizza in Little Rock, no contest. We told him, truthfully, that we’ll be back to put that claim to the test as soon as we can get a beer with it. Maybe sooner.

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BELWOOD DINER Traditional breakfasts and plate lunch specials are the norm. 3815 MacArthur Drive. NLR. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-753-1012. BL Mon.-Fri. BRAVE NEW RESTAURANT The foodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great, portions huge, prices reasonable. 2300 Cottondale Lane. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-2677. LD Mon.-Fri. D Sat. BURGER MAMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Big burgers and oversized onion rings headline the menu at this downhome joint. 7710 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-225-2495. LD daily. CAFE HEIFER Philly cheesesteak, turkey clubs, pizza and other American fare in the Heifer Village. 1 World Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-907-8801. BL Mon.-Fri., L Sat. CATFISH HOLE Downhome place for wellcooked catfish and tasty hushpuppies. 603 E. Spriggs. NLR. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-758-3516. D Tue.-Sat. CHEEBURGER CHEEBURGER Premium black Angus cheeseburgers, with five different sizes, ranging from the Classic (5.5 ounces) to the pounder (20 ounces), and nine cheese options. 11525 Cantrell Rd. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-490-2433. LD daily. CIAO BACI The focus is on fine dining in this casually elegant Hillcrest bungalow, though tapas are also available. Happy hour all night Wednesday. 605 N. Beechwood St. Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-603-0238. D Mon.-Sat. CRAZEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COOL CAFE Good burgers, daily plate specials and bar food. 7626 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-221-9696. LD Mon.-Sat. DOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S EAT PLACE A skid-row dive turned power brokersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; watering hole with huge steaks, great tamales and broiled shrimp. 1023 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-3761195. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. EJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S EATS AND DRINKS The friendly neighborhood hoagie shop downtown serves at a handful of tables and by delivery. The housemade potato chips are da bomb. 523 Center St. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-3700. LD Mon.-Fri. FLYING FISH The fried seafood is fresh and crunchy and there are plenty of raw, boiled and grilled offerings, too. 511 President Clinton Ave. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-375-3474. LD daily. HOMERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Great vegetables, huge yeast rolls and killer cobblers. Follow the mobs. 2001 E. Roosevelt Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-374-1400. BL Mon.-Fri. THE HOUSE A comfortable gastropub in Hillcrest, where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find traditional fare like burgers and fish and chips alongside Thai green curry and gumbo. 722 N. Palm St. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-4501. D daily, BR and L Sat.-Sun. KRAZY MIKEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Poâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Boys, catfish and shrimp and other fishes, fried chicken wings. 200 N. Bowman Road. Beer, All CC. $$. 501-907-6453. LD daily. LOCA LUNA Grilled meats, seafood and pasta dishes that never stray far from country roots, whether Italian, Spanish or Arkie. 3519 Old Cantrell Rd. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-6634666. L Sun.-Fri., D daily. MILFORD TRACK Healthy and tasty are the key words at this deli/grill that serves breakfast and lunch. 10809 Executive Center Drive, Searcy

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Building. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-2232257. BL Mon.-Sat. OYSTER BAR Gumbo, red beans and rice, peel-and-eat shrimp, oysters on the half shell, addictive poâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; boys. 3003 W. Markham St. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-7100. LD Mon.-Sat. OZARK COUNTRY RESTAURANT Specializes in big country breakfasts and pancakes plus sandwiches and several meat-and-two options for lunch and dinner. 202 Keightley Drive. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-7319. B daily, L Mon.-Fri., D Thu.-Sat. PURPLE COW DINER 1950s fare â&#x20AC;&#x201D; cheeseburgers, chili dogs, thick milk shakes. Also at 11602 Chenal Parkway. 8026 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-221-3555. LD daily, BR

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Sat.-Sun 11602 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-224-4433. LD daily, BR Sat.-Sun. 1419 Higden Ferry Road. Hot Springs. Beer, All CC. $$. 501-625-7999. LD daily, B Sun. SALUT BISTRO This bistro/late-night hangout does upscale Italian for dinner and pub grub until the wee hours. 1501 N. University. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-660-4200. L Mon.-Fri., D Tue.-Sat. SCALLIONS Reliably good food, great desserts, pleasant atmosphere, able servers. 5110 Kavanaugh Blvd. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-6468. L Mon.-Sat. SONNY WILLIAMSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; STEAK ROOM Steaks, chicken and seafood in a wonderful setting in the River Market. 500 President Clinton Ave.

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Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-324-2999. D Mon.-Sat. UNION BISTRO Casual upscale bistro and lounge with a new American menu of tapas and entrees. 3421 Old Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-353-0360.

ASIAN

CURRY IN A HURRY Home-style Indian food with a focus on fresh ingredients and spices. 11121 North Rodney Parham. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-224-4567. LD Tue.-Sat. HANAROO SUSHI BAR One of the few spots downtown to serve sushi. 205 W. Capitol Ave. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-301-7900. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat. LEMONGRASS ASIA BISTRO Fairly solid Thai bistro. Try the Tom Kha Kai and white wine alligator. 4629 E. McCain Blvd. NLR. Beer, Wine, All CC. 501-945-4638. LD Mon.-Sun. PHO THANH MY It says â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vietnamese noodle soupâ&#x20AC;? on the sign out front, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what you should order. The pho comes in outrageously large portions with bean sprouts and fresh herbs. 302 N. Shackleford Road. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-312-7498. SEKISUI Fresh-tasting sushi chain with fun hibachi grill and an overwhelming assortment of traditional entrees. 219 N. Shackleford Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-221-7070. LD daily. SHOGUN JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE The chefs will dazzle you, as will the variety of tasty stir-fry combinations and the sushi bar. 2815 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-6667070. D daily. WASABI Downtown sushi and Japanese cuisine. For lunch, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quick and hearty sushi samplers. 101 Main St. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-374-0777. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat.

BARBECUE

CHIPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BARBECUE Tasty, if a little pricey, barbecue piled high on sandwiches generously doused with the original tangy sauce or one of five other sauces. 9801 W. Markham St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-225-4346. LD Mon.-Sat. DIXIE PIG Pig salad is tough to beat. It comes with loads of chopped pork atop crisp iceberg, doused with that wonderful vinegar-based sauce. 900 West 35th St. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-753-9650. LD Mon.-Sat.

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ARABICA HOOKAH CAFE Kebabs and salads along with just about any sort of Middle Eastern fare you might want. 3400 S. University Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-379-8011. LD daily. CREGEENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S IRISH PUB Irish-themed pub with a large selection of on-tap and bottled British beers and ales, an Irish inspired menu and lots of nooks and crannies to meet in. 301 Main St. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-376-7468. LD daily. ISTANBUL MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE This Turkish eatery offers decent kebabs and great starters. 11525 Cantrell Road. No alcohol, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-223-9332. LD daily. L E O â&#x20AC;&#x2122; S G R E E K C A S T L E Wonderful Mediterranean food plus dependable hamburgers, ham sandwiches, steak platters and BLTs. 2925 Kavanaugh Blvd. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-7414. BLD daily. CONTINUED ON PAGE 42

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MICK’S BAR-B-Q One of the best-loved and least-known eating places in the area. There’s great barbecue here, great catfish, great fried pies, great deviled eggs, great onion rings, and a whole lot of other things, like fried chicken and turkey legs, that we’re confident will be great when we get around to trying them. The crust on the fried pies is flaky, the filling generous. Some commercial fried-pie makers tend to skimp. The ribs were among the meatiest and tenderest we’ve found. Mick’s calls them “St. Louis style,” which in this case means they’re prepared without sauce. The sauce comes on the side, if you want it. We didn’t. (Although the sauce on a big barbecue pork sandwich was nice and tangy, with a little sweetness but not too much.) We’re crazy about deviled eggs, and so were delighted to find them as a side order here. You can order them singly or in boxes of five. So why isn’t Mick’s crammed with customers every day? Well, those customers wouldn’t fit in the tiny hut that is Mick’s, and if they got inside, they’d have to stand up. Mick’s is essentially a take-out place, un-fancy in the extreme, and the only seating is at two outdoor picnic tables. In the winter, you’re cold. In the summer, you’re hot and must fight off waves of flies. So you get your food to go at Mick’s, and the North Little Rock location is not real convenient for people from south of the Arkansas River. But the food is worth the trip, and worth warming up when you get it home, if necessary. 3609 MacArthur Drive, NLR No alcohol $ 791-2773 LD Mon.-Sat.

ZOGI’S EURO ASIAN BISTRO Our reviewers were impressed by soups, including the borscht (beets, beef, carrots, sour cream), and some of the main courses, including the Tsuivan — steamed wheat noodles stir-fried with beef, fried potatoes and veggies. 11321 W. Markham St. All CC. $-$$. 501-246-4597. LD Mon.-Sat., L Sun.

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CAFE PREGO Dependable entrees of pasta, pork, seafood, steak and the like, plus great sauces, fresh mixed greens and delicious dressings, crisp-crunchy-cold gazpacho and tempting desserts in a comfy bistro setting. 5510 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-5355. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. CIAO Don’t forget about this casual yet elegant bistro tucked into a downtown storefront. The fine pasta and seafood dishes, ambiance and overall charm combine to make it a relaxing, enjoyable, affordable choice. 405 W. Seventh St. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-372-0238. L Mon.-Fri., D Thu.-Sat. IRIANA’S PIZZA Unbelievably generous hand-tossed New York style pizza with unmatched zest. Good salads, too; grinders are great, particularly the Italian sausage. 201 E. Markham St. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-3743656. LD Mon.-Sat. PIERRE’S GOURMET PIZZA CO. EXPRESS KITCHEN Chef/owner Michael Ayers has reinvented his pizzeria, once located on JFK in North Little Rock, as the first RV entry into mobile food truck scene. With a broad menu of pizza, calzones, salads and subs. 760 C Edgewood Drive. No alcohol, No CC. $$. 501-410-0377. L Mon.-Fri. ZAFFINO’S BY NORI A high-quality Italian dining experience. Pastas, entrees and salads are all outstanding. 2001 E. Kiehl Ave. NLR. Beer, Wine, All CC. 501-834-7530. D Tue.-Sat.

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Arkansas Travelers Home Games Root Root Root for the Home Team

All home games are played at Dickey Stephens Park in North Little Rock.

June 1 vs. Corpus Christi Hooks, 7:10 p.m. June 2 vs. San Antonio Missions, 7:10 p.m. June 3 vs. San Antonio Missions, 6 p.m. June 4 vs. San Antonio Missions, 7:10 p.m. June 14-16 vs. Tulsa Drillers, 7:10 p.m. June 17 vs. Tulsa Drillers, 6 p.m. June 18-21 vs. Springfield Cardinals, 7:10 p.m. June 29-30 vs. Midland RockHounds, 7:10 p.m.

Food, Music, Entertainment and everything else that’s MAY 29-JUNE 3

The 6th Annual Little Rock Film Festival continues through

MAY 30

June 3 with screenings, panel discussions and parties in Little Rock and North Little Rock. View a complete list of films and events and purchase festival passes online at www.littlerockfilmfestival.org. The festival concludes with the Arkansas Times’ Closing Night Gala and Awards Ceremony on June 3 at 6 p.m. at the Clinton Presidential Center Great Hall.

Little Rock’s Museum of Discovery presents Science After Dark – the last Wednesday of each month - Wine and Chocolate from 6-8 p.m. There is a mysterious allure surrounding wine and chocolate. Discover the chemistry between the two and what they actually do to the brain at this tasty event. Admission is $5 per person. Members are free. Cash bar is available. Open to guests 21 and older only. For June 27 theme, visit www.museumofdiscovery.org.

JUNE 2

The Little Rock Zoo hosts the 5K/1M Cheetah Chase in celebration of the grand opening of the Little Rock Zoo’s new Laura P. Nichols Cheetah Outpost. Race participants are encouraged to dress in festive attire with prizes awarded to the best “big cat” costume. The 5K starts and ends at the Zoo where race participants will receive FREE admission to the Zoo for the grand opening of the cheetah exhibit. For more information, visit www.littlerockzoo.com.

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This year’s Eureka Springs Blues Weekend will honor Arkansas legend Michael “Iron Man” Burks who died suddenly on Sunday, May 6. There will be a tribute performance with proceeds benefitting the Michael Burks Generation Blues Scholarship. Festival line-up includes notable acts, such as The Cate Brothers, Tommy Castro, Kenny Neal, Lazy Lester, Marquise Knox and Ruthie Foster, among others. Shows will take place in venues across town. For tickets and a schedule of events, visit www.eurekaspringsblues.com.

Grammy Award-winning indie folk act Bon Iver, fronted by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon, takes the Riverfest Amphitheatre stage on Sunday, June 3 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $38.50-$49 and available through Ticketmaster at www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets will also be on sale at the Riverfest Amphitheatre box office the day of show beginning at 2 p.m.

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This season the Conway-based Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre will present the Bard’s Twelth Night, Richard III and The Tempest as well as the Tony Award-winning musical, Big River adapted from Mark Twain’s classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with music and lyrics by Roger Miller. Performances will be held at Reynolds Performance Hall on the UCA campus, the Village at Hendrix and Wildwood Park for the Arts in Little Rock. Visit www.arkshakes.com for ticket prices and show times.

JUNE 9-10

Hoop Jams is a two-day event

featuring a premiere statewide threeon-three basketball tournament on the grounds of the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock. It will be a fun and family-friendly event. Teams must pay registration fees. The event is free for spectators. For more information, visit www. hoopjamslr.com.

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Join the LGBT

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THe Hot Springs Music Festival

will take place June 3-16, 2012, and feature over 20 concerts and 250 free, open rehearsals. For more information or to purchase tickets, call (501) 623-4763 or visit www.hotmusic.org.

The Delta Cultural Center located on historic Cherry Street in Helena-West Helena hosts its annual Mother’s Best Music Fest. Enjoy music by the Kenny Neal Band, Tony Joe White, Jimbo Mathus, the Sarah Hughes Band, Blue Mother Tupelo, the Sterling Billingsley Band and Tyrannosaurus Chicken. For more information, visit www.deltaculturalcenter.com.

JUNE 13

Closing out the Arkansas Rep’s season is a very special treat by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Picnic and Bus Stop. A Loss of Roses, a little-known William Inge masterpiece, bravely tells the story of two women struggling to make their lives bearable in a small Kansas town. Preview performances are Wednesday, June 13 and Thursday, June 14 at 7 p.m. Opening night is Friday, June 15 at 8 p.m. and includes a post-show reception with the cast. Complementary champagne and light hors d’oeuvres will be served. For tickets, visit www.therep.org or call 501-378-0405.

The Promenade at Chenal and the Arkansas Travelers baseball team are asking you to tell us “Why is Your Dad Rad?”. Beginning June 1, submit at www.chenalshopping. com/contest and tell what makes your Dad so Rad to get entered to WIN a great package of goodies for Dad from The Promenade at Chenal. Plus, take Dad to a game of baseball at Dickey-Stephens field on Father’s Day, June 17, where you and Dad get to throw the games first pitch! Join The Promenade at Chenal on June 15, from 10:30AM-Noon for an Arkansas Traveler’s team baseball signing, games and we’ll announce the Dad’s Rad Winner! Sponsored by Crain Ford. For contest details go to ChenalShopping.com and look under the Events tab. http://www.chenalshopping.com/events/the-promenade-at-chenal-2012-events/

JUNE 1

The Joint, a new coffeehouse and comedy club in North Little Rock’s Argenta district, presents its first performance, “Little Rock & a Hard Place,” an original two-act play about a man who dies in a car accident, is banished from the Pearly Gates and sent back to Little Rock, where he died, to help the city and earn his wings. The show will run all summer, before the fall election-themed show, “Electile Dysfunction.” Tickets are $20. For show times, visit www.thejointinlittlerock.com.

Don’t miss the shops and galleries that are open late for Hillcrest’s Shop & Sip, JUNE 7; 2nd Friday Art Night, JUNE 8; Argenta Art Walk, JUNE 15; Heights Happy Hour, JUNE 21.

JUNE 22-SEPT 9

The Arkansas Art Center presents “Tattoo

Witness: Photographs by Mark Perrott,” featuring large-scale black-and-white photographs documenting 25 years of tattoo culture. In these stark potraits of both the tattoos and their owners, photographer Mark Perrott investigates the very personal and public nature of tattoos. For more information, visit www.arkarts.com. Arkansas Times presents an AfterParty at 7th Street Tattoos featuring Scott Diffee of Go Fast on June 21 - from 8 until...

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One of Broadway’s most enduring and successful romantic comedies, Barefoot in the Park, opens at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse. This Neil Simon hit sparkles with charming characters who find joy amid inspired lunacy. For show times and prices, visit www.murrysdinnerplayhouse.com. Call 501-562-3131 for reservations. www.arktimes.com

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hearsay ➥ The ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH is looking for healthy restaurants in Arkan� sas. Restaurants can apply online at www.ark.org_lhraa/lhraa.aspx. ➥ Join the LGBT community of�� Lit� tle Rock and Chad Griffin, a native Arkansan and the new President of the Human Rights Campaign for an evening of great conversation, hors d’oeuvres and wine on June 11 at 7 p.m. at BOSWELL MOUROT FINE ART located at�� 5815 Kava� naugh Blvd. ➥ L&L BECK ART GALLERY is proud to announce that they will be offering giclées (digital repro� ductions) made to order from Louis’ original works. One lucky patron will win a giclée at each month’s HAPPY HOUR IN THE HEIGHTS, which takes place on the third Thursday of the month. The June 21 giveaway will be “Ladybug”. ➥ The PROMENADE AT CHENAL and the Arkansas Travelers baseball team are asking you to tell us “Why is Your Dad Rad?” Begin� ning June 1, submit your dad at www.chenalshopping.com/contest and tell them what makes your Dad so rad to get entered to win a great package of goodies for Dad from The Promenade at Chenal. The winner will also get to take Dad to a game of baseball at Dickey-Stephens field on Father’s Day, June 17, where you and Dad get to throw the game’s first pitch! For contest details go to Che� nalShopping.com and look under the Events tab. ➥ The QUAPAW QUARTER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (QQUMC) is expanding its wedding and reception options to provide affordable, unique and accessible opportunities for cou� ples searching for both traditional and nontraditional venues. Couples, brides and wedding planners can find out more information about the church’s facilities online at http:// qqumcweddings.com. For specific questions or to schedule a wedding or reception at QQUMC, contact Lori Marvin, Church Liaison, at 501375-1600 or e-mail info@qqumc� weddings.com. ➥ If you haven’t stopped by THE JOINT yet, you should. The Joint, located on Main Street in Argenta, features specialty coffee, beer, fine wines, live comedy, and entertain� ment. The professional comedy team, THE MAIN THING, which opens Friday, June 1st, will be an original comedy about Little Rock’s recent history. 44

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’m bored. Me 2. Boreder now than when I … well, u no. Yeah. Me 2. A minute’s passed. Still bored. Yeah. 20 more secs. Still bored. OK. 20 more secs. I get the point. Tick tick tick tick tick. Remember that time…? Nah, never mind, it was boring. Which time? That time when we… No, the other time. Yeah, that was boring. They were both boring. Yeah. All the boringness is boring. Somebody kill me now. Amazing how nearly equally boring all the boringness is. Tick tick tick tick tick. Wonder if Justin is bored. Twit him & C. He never answers. Yeah, won’t answer me either. Prolly 2 bored. Do they get bored? They? U no, them. O, them. The them them. Yeah, they do. Can’t imagine Willow bored. All that hair

to whip. OL says nobody got bored her day. They didn’t know how. ;o), a good one. BOB Says they knitted. LANCASTER Conversed. Told stories. Had gardens. Went when they had what they called destinations. Read out of what they called books. BOOMM. Chased fireflies. ??? ???2. Sounds boring. No mall or WM? GM sang to me why she never got bored. ‘Got a hotrod ford and a $2 bill & I know a spot right over the hill, got soda pop and dancing is free, so if u wanna have fun come along with me…’ & that means? … ???, but GM is kinda cool. For somebody that old. What she, 40? Tick tick tick tick tick. Wanna see new Brandi pix? She changed any since pix this a.m.? Who. Your dog. O! Her tail gnawed redder. OM says means she bored. I saw that on Dog Whisperer. I want to time travel to future where everybody pair-a-lies with boredom and

steal their stuff and bring it back. What stuff. Like, text where you just think it & it sends. We have that. Ur phone. Soldiers’ chorus: Yo, dipwads, we died so u could live like this? Uh-oh, easedroppers. Who u? Soldiers’ chorus: We who are about to die salute you, is the last we remember. Epic. Awesome. Is dead as boring as this? It’s not boring. It’s not anything. Except a wispy regret sometimes that it had to be given up so u could be bored. Can’t u just restart the game? No. Game Over. Mal. Our way to say mal is TFB. Gnarly. Yes, it is. U r from the old time. Yes. Too scared 2 B bored. And if we got out alive, ambition sufficed to keep us unbored. What happened to ambition? I’m ambitious to be unbored. I’m bored to be unambitious. No, what happened to ambition on a larger scale? The American Dream was another name for it. Make money till u don’t need any more then go on making it so some other dude won’t beat u out of it. Dude less deserving. U don’t need it; he does. But U get it cose you can; you get it cose them that has gets.

That’s what it’s come to, then? Hog it all or big fail is our motto. On our coins. Anything u can screw the less unfortunate out of. So just another game. Like Monopoly. ??? ???2. A board game when we were extant. Board game??? I think they mean bored. What happened to idea of sacrifice? Of selflessness? Of service ??? ???2. Some one said courage is grace under pressure. What that mean 2 u? The title of a song? A boring song. Here’s a Memorial Day story. One time most of the peeps in a whole lot of countries decided that peace was boring. So they had the first whole-world war and for a while it wasn’t boring. A lot of mal & gnarly but not boring. But then it got boring. And they quit when it looked like they might run out of people to kill in it. It was peace then till they got bored with peace again shortly, so they had WWII. That might not be real boring if you had a good teacher. Yeah, it would. It’s all boring. U r right. It’s all boring. War is boring. Peace is boring. Dead is boring and so is alive. Tick tick tick tick tick. Bored on top of bored.

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DENTON’S TROTLINE Saline county-ites love the buffet dining that, besides great catfish, offers shrimp, chicken, gumbos and snow crab legs. 2150 Congo Road. Benton. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-315-1717. D Tue.-Sat. ED AND KAY’S The pies alone are worth a stop at this Benton-area mainstay. “Mile-High” pies topped with meringue and including coconut, chocolate and the famous PCP (pineapple, coconut, pecan) are dang good; plate lunches feature Arkansas-grown produce like PurpleHull peas and fresh garden tomatoes. Breakfast is pretty good, too -- try the Everything Omelet, and don’t pass up on the home fries. 15228 Interstate 30. Benton. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. (501) 315-3663. BLD. TAQUERIA AZTECA The best authentic Mexican in the Benton/Bryant area. Try the menudo on Saturday. 1526 Highway 5 N. Benton. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-794-1487. LD Mon.-Sat. TOUCHDOWN SALLY’S A family oriented sports bar and pizzaria with an emphasis on “manfood” like appetizers, wings and seafood. 17332 I-30 North. Benton. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-778-9444. LD daily.

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FLYING FISH The fried seafood is fresh and crunchy and there are plenty of raw, boiled and grilled offerings, too. 109A Northwest 2nd St. Bentonville. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 479-6576300. LD daily. TUSK & TROTTER It’s not just barbecue and pigs feet, despite the name. The dinner menu has everything from french fries (pommes frites) to burgers to duck confit. At lunch, find a lamb sandwich from local growers to hot dogs. Microbrews, too. The man next to us at the bar raved over his pigs’ ear nachos -- crispy pigs ears topped with jalepeno, sausage, pico de gallo, sour cream and cheese. We took the coward’s

way out, ordering a hamburger, which came on a house-made brioche bun; the hamburger was cooked perfectly, the bun was delicious. The french fries are cooked the way we like them, really crispy, they came either glazed with herbs du Provence, truffled or with salt and pepper. The manager asked us to try the ice cream, and we didn’t want to hurt his feelings, so we had a bowl of Trot on Over Here, sticky pudding cake with coffee, medjol dates and brown sugar and topped with toffee sauce and maple bacon brittle ice cream. Terrific. 110 S.E. A St. Bentonville. Full bar, All CC.

BRYANT

HOME PLATE DINER This teal-and-chrome soaked diner in Bryant has drawn quite a following for generous breakfasts, great lunches, big burgers and an ever changing range of desserts each day. 2615 N. Prickett Road. Bryant. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-847-3331. B Mon.-Sat. L Mon.-Fri. TASTE OF D’LIGHT The dinner entrees are gigantic; the $8.50 Chicken Delight contains a full portion of General Gau’s, Chicken with Vegetables and Lemon Chicken and is easily enough for three people. Home of the fattest cheese rangoon in Arkansas (purportedly). 3200 N. Reynolds Rd. Bryant. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-847-6267. LD daily.

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BEAR’S DEN PIZZA Pizza, calzones and salads at UCA hangout. 235 Farris Road. Conway. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-328-5556. LD Mon.-Sat. BLACKWOOD’S GYROS AND GRILL A wide variety of salads, sandwiches, gyros and burgers dot the menu at this quarter-century veteran of Conway’s downtown district. 803 Harkrider Ave. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. 501-329-3924. LD Mon.-Sat. BOB’S GRILL This popular spot for local diners features a meat-and-two-veg cafeteria style lunch and a decently large made-to-order break-

fast menu. Service is friendly. 1112 W. Oak St. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-379-9760. BL Mon.-Sat. DAVID’S BUTCHER BOY BURGERS Burgers, fries, shakes and drinks -- that’s all you’ll find at this new Conway burger joint. 1100 Highway 65 N. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. (501) 327-3333. DUE AMICHE ITALIAN RESTAURANT Stromboli, pasta, pizza, calzones and other Italian favorites. 1600 Dave Ward Drive. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-336-0976. LD Mon.-Sun. FABY’S RESTAURANT Unheralded MexicanContinental fusion focuses on handmade sauces and tortillas. 1023 Front Street. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-513-1199. L daily, D Mon.-Sat. 2915 Dave Ward. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-329-5151. LD Mon.-Sun. FU LIN RESTAURANT Japanese steakhouse, seafood and sushi. Good variety, including items such as yam tempura, Karashi conch, Uzuzukuri and a nice selection of udon. 195 Farris. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-329-1415. LD Mon.-Sun. GREEN CART DELI Self-billed as “The World’s First Biocompostable Solar-Powered Gourmet Food Cart,” this hot dog stand serves up Sabrett-brand links with all sorts of inventive toppings. Simon Park. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-908-1656. L Mon.-Sat. HOG PEN BBQ Barbecue, fish, chicken 800 Walnut. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-326-5177. LD Tue.-Sat. HOLLY’S COUNTRY COOKING Southern plate lunch specials weekdays. 120 Harkrider. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $. 501-328-9738. L Mon.-Fri. ORIENTAL KITCHEN Traditional, reasonably priced Chinese food favorites. 1000 Morningside Drive. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-3283255. L Sat. D Mon-Sat. PITZA 42 You’ll find pizza made on pita bread and a broad salad menu here. 2235 Dave Ward Dr. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-2051380.

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Hickory-smoked meats, large sides and fried pickles among other classics offered at this 40-year-old veteran of the Conway barbecue scene. 505 Donaghey. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-764-4227. LD Mon.-Sat.

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CORNER GRILL Hearty sandwiches, a tasty and inexpensive weekend brunch, friendly staff in new location away from Dickson Street. Highway 112. Fayetteville. 479-521-8594. BLD. DOE’S EAT PLACE This may be the best Doe’s of the bunch, franchised off the Greenville, Miss., icon. Great steaks, and the usual salads, fries, very hot tamales and splendid service. 316 W. Dickson St. Fayetteville. 479-443-3637. D. ELLA’S Fine dining in the university’s vastly reworked Inn at Carnall Hall. A favorite — it figures on the UA campus — is the razor steak. 465 N. Arkansas Ave. Fayetteville. 479-582-1400. BLD. HUGO’S You’ll find a menu full of meals and munchables, some better than others at this basement European-style bistro. The Bleu Moon Burger is a popular choice. 25 1/2 N. Block St. Fayetteville. Full bar, All CC. 479-521-7585. LD Mon.-Sat. JAMES AT THE MILL “Ozark Plateau Cuisine” is creative, uses local ingredients and is pleasantly presented in a vertical manner. 3906 Greathouse Springs Road. Fayetteville. Full bar, All CC. 479-443-1400. PENGUIN ED’S BAR-B-Q Prices are magnificent and portions are generous at this barbecue spot with an interesting menu, a killer sausage sandwich, burgers, omelets and wonderful lemonade. 2773 Mission Blvd. Fayetteville. 479-587-8646. BLD. PESTO CAFE This nice little Italian restaurant in, yes, a roadside motel offers all the traditional dishes, including a nice eggplant parmesan. 1830 N. College Ave. Fayetteville. Beer, Wine. $. 479-582-3330. LD Mon.-Sun. www.arktimes.com MAY 30, 2012 www.arktimes.com MAY 30,47 2012 47