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Route non-locals around city Across America, city after city has spent millions of dollars expanding interstate highways through their midsections only to discover that they quickly become recongested. We need only look at our nation’s capital or Los Angeles to see the folly of this approach. By and large, people recognize and accept congestion in downtown areas. It’s simply not realistic to expect that travel through downtown will not be slowed during rush-hour traffic. That being the case, does it really make sense to add more lanes to I-30 downtown? Isn’t that just throwing more fuel on the fire? The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department tells us that over 40 percent of the traffic on I-30 between I-530 and I-40 is destined elsewhere. To reduce this load, why not simply: 1) relabel this section of I-30 as a U.S. highway only; and 2) redesignate I-430 as I-30W and I-440 as I-30E? Locals would continue using the relabeled, existing I-30 segment, but interstateloving nonlocals would be effectively redirected to these less-traveled and more-modern interstate segments. If, for whatever reason, lanes are added to this existing I-30 segment, doubledeck them and make the new lanes for through-traffic only. Avoid duplicating the horrible mistake of I-35 in downtown Austin. Dale Pekar Little Rock

nosis. About 20 percent of people with ALS live five years or more and up to 10 percent will survive more than 10 years and 5 percent will live 20 years. A total of 5,600 people in the U.S. are diagnosed each year. Breast cancer: Approximately 232,340 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 39,620 breast cancer deaths are expected to occur among U.S. women in 2013. Women who are diagnosed with breast cancer before age 40 have slightly poorer prognoses than older women: Their five-year survival rate is about 82 percent, com-

pared with 85 percent among women ages 40 to 74, according to the American Cancer Society. Ebola: There have been more than 3,700 reported human cases and more than 2,300 deaths since the discovery of Ebola in 1976. Ebola has a mortality rate between 60 percent and 96 percent. While Ebola, the deadly disease spreading through parts of West Africa, has no cure, specific treatment or vaccine, there are several experimental drugs being tested in U.S. labs. Now the FDA has lifted its hold on one of those drugs. The current outbreak

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From the web In response to the feature on lawyer and petition drive supporter David Couch in the Aug. 28 cover story, “Visionaries”: My hat is off to David Couch. I moved to Illinois and it disgusts me that Illinois does not allow binding resolutions to be put on the ballot. I hope I am remembering/understanding correctly. Example: A group can collect signatures to put an issue on the ballot and even if 60 percent or say 80 percent of the people approved the issue, the Illinois legislature doesn’t have to enforce the new law. This is great for issues like, say, gay marriage if the people DON’T want it, the legislature can pass same-sex marriage anyway. On the issue of, say, raising the minimum wage, allowing recreational marijuana, etc. ... it’s not such a great idea. The people are at the mercy of crooked/corrupt legislators. I’m proud of my home state of Arkansas in many ways. No state is perfect, though. Wishing my home state the absolute best and I will forever consider Arkansas home. SocialistArkie In response to Benjamin Hardy’s report on the legislative hearing on merging teacher and state employee insurance, Arkansas Blog, Aug. 26:

Pulmonary fibrosis awareness I have pulmonary fibrosis as do 100,000 other people in the U.S. Fortythousand new cases are diagnosed in the U.S. every year. Forty-thousand people die each year from IPF. There are no FDA-approved drugs for the treatment of it. The death rate is 100 percent usually within 3-5 years after diagnosis. Right now I am stable and trying to cope with my future. The FDA originally requested more tests for a drug in 2010 that shows promise for slowing the progression of PF and may finally get approval as well as another drug in early 2015. Even though this disease is widespread and fatal, very few know about it. September is Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month. Join us in our fight. While these other diseases are terrible and I pray for those suffering, here are few comparisons: ALS: More than half of all patients live more than three years after diag-

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Appropriate that this weirdly wet summer might birth the amendment that ends dry counties in Arkansas. Last week, the secretary of state’s office announced that the organization Let Arkansas Decide had turned in enough signatures to place before voters an item to allow retail alcohol sales in all counties statewide: over 87,000 verified so far, with others being counted. Arkansas is one of the few remaining states with a significant number of dry counties. Earlier this summer, local petitions to end the alcohol ban in Faulkner and Craighead counties failed to gather the requisite number of signatures, but no matter: If voters approve on Nov. 4, this statewide vote would supersede those efforts. That sounds like the End Times to certain evangelical teetotalers and the big county line liquor stores that currently sop up all the weekend beer business from thirsty students from ASU, UCA and Hendrix (among tens of thousands of other dry county Arkansans). To most of the rest of us, it just sounds like modernity.

Cop drama Seems like the news lately is filled with stories of law enforcement misusing its authority in ways big and small. There’s the Mayflower officer who falsely accused a local woman, Melissa Brown, of skimming items from relief 6

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OVERBOARD: Traci Berry with the Arkansas Boathouse Club recovers her boat after a mishap at the finish line of an individual time trial last Saturday in the Six Bridges Regatta on the Arkansas River.

supplies she’d gathered for the town’s tornado victims, which may or may not have been related to the fact that Brown was once romantically involved with the cop’s son. Brown spent a night in jail and had her truck impounded before the charges were dropped; the officer was fired. Then there’s Jonesboro, where nowformer police Chief Mike Yates took to Facebook to post a series of defamatory comments about police beat reporter Sunshine Crump of the Jonesboro Sun, including the memorable line, “dealing with ole Sunshine is like trying to pick up a dog turd by the ‘clean end.’ ” Of the paper itself, Yates wrote, “I intend to help that ship sink ... torpedoes away!” Crump quit her job, saying she felt intimidated by the comments, and the paper called for Yates to be fired. The mayor of Jonesboro suspended Yates for 30 days without pay and ordered the chief to apologize to the Sun; instead, Yates resigned last week (sans apology). Crump returned to work soon after. The National Bar Association, a group of black lawyers and judges, is targeting Little Rock and 24 other cities around the

country in search of evidence of disproportionate use of force against unarmed black and Latino individuals. The group is requesting police records of misconduct and brutality, and will submit its findings to the U.S. Justice Department.

in 2010 and 2012. Over the weekend, however, a couple out for a walk by the river found the sculptures lying in bags in the park. Was their return prompted by a guilty conscience? An unexpectedly disinterested pawnbroker? Or was the whole thing a piece of subtly incisive aesthetic commentary? We’ll never know.

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This is why we can’t have nice things The sculpture garden in Riverfront Park was ripped off yet again, with $30,000 worth of art stolen by thieves — including a portion of one bronze piece called “Conversation With Myself” that’s been taken twice before

Last Friday, anti-abortion activists held a rally at the state Capitol to pressure U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor into supporting a federal law to prohibit abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy. Arkansas passed a 20-week ban in 2013, over the objections of Gov. Mike Beebe, who pointed out (rightly) that the bill runs afoul of the U.S. Supreme Court. As a Christian and a Southern Democrat in a neck-and-neck race, the abortion issue puts Pryor in an especially tough position — but it’s a moot point, as the federal bill is going nowhere.

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ate last week, the secretary of state certified the signatures on a proposed constitutional amendment to permit alcohol sales in all 75 counties. For years, an unholy alliance of church lobbyists and liquor retailers combined to make it hard for working class people to buy a drink in the majority of counties in Arkansas. When I say liquor retailers, I refer primarily to the “county line liquor stores” that sit in wet counties on the outskirts of dry populous areas, such as Faulkner, Saline and Craighead counties. To keep the preachers and the county line monopolists happy, the legislature kept making it harder to petition for a local option election to go wet. A 1993 law moved the standard to 38 percent of registered voters. It didn’t stop some determined tipplers and retailers, including in Benton County and Clark County. Walmart put a million bucks into petition drives in Faulkner, Craighead and Saline this year and made the cut in only

one — Saline, and then barely. But a Little Rock lawyer, David Couch, had a bright idea. With all these paid canvassers in the field, why max not take a shot at brantley maxbrantley@arktimes.com bypassing the local option and going statewide? A grocery chain and several convenience store chains liked his plan. Where 66,000 signatures were needed to qualify local option votes in the three targeted counties, Couch’s statewide committee needed only 78,133 to get the whole state on the ballot and end dry precincts once and for all. Backers spent $200,000 to get this far, less than county line liquor stores spent trying to beat the Faulkner County petitions. I can’t recall a losing “wet” election. Prohibitionists long ago lost the hearts and minds of America.

Wage theft and the American worker

omething in the boilerplate news every Labor Day stirs memories of my father, a trucker and woodsman who toiled harder and longer and with more passion than anyone I have known, right up to his final heart attack at the age of 66. This Labor Day’s memory is triggered by the story about the great growth of wage theft across the United States and a court ruling in California that FedEx could not dodge wage-and-hour laws any longer by calling its drivers independent contractors. During the oil boom of the 1920s that made many millionaires in South Arkansas, my father, the eldest son of a dirt farmer and carpenter, landed a job hauling oil for one of the 90 or so operators exploiting the Union County fields. It was a sunup-sundown job for a few furious months but my father and the other two or three haulers never got a single payday. It was a cash-flow problem, the owner always said. Maybe next month. One of the men finally got the bright idea of suing. They did and, while they lost their jobs, they won an order from the Union County Circuit Court that the operator had to pay them. But their lawyer kept the whole piddling judgment, explaining that his fees for the lawsuit exceeded it. The haulers still owed him. My father never mentioned the incident to his boys — our mother later did — but he told us we could do whatever we

wanted with our lives except be lawyers. On our own we decided not to be millionaire oilmen. ERNEST This is called DUMaS wage theft now and it seems to be as prevalent as it was in the 1920s, in spite of the expansion of both federal and state wage laws in the ’30s and ’40s. Hispanic immigrants in Arkansas are very familiar with it. Missing paydays are common, and neither the courts nor watchdog agencies offer a remedy if the boss knows you don’t dare risk reporting it. More often it involves employers ignoring overtime rules or keeping tips. The practice always grows in slack labor markets, like my dad’s and today’s, where many are eager to step into your low-wage job, whatever its liabilities, if you give it up. Government got more aggressive in a few places in the aftermath of lawsuits that exposed the practice of many big employers, including Walmart, of putting many hours of their employees’ work “off the clock.” Business groups claim the stepped-up enforcement is just the government currying favor with the infernal labor unions, which everyone hates. The difference between the wage theft of my dad’s time and today is that people much higher up the ladder get taken. Lawsuits this spring disclosed that some of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley con-

Indeed, drinks are already available statewide, if sometimes only at “private clubs.” A 2003 law by Conway Rep. Betty Pickett loosened rules to sham status for private clubs in the name of economic development. I’m for statewide availability of a sixpack at the grocery store. I’m confident voters will approve it if a legal challenge doesn’t disqualify the measure. Meanwhile, could this proposal affect other races? Republicans think any issue with proven appeal among conservative churchgoers is a plus for their side. But will a booze sale proposition draw people who otherwise wouldn’t have voted? I’m skeptical. I’d guess retail sales might just as readily encourage beer-swilling slackers to exercise the franchise for once. It’s a good time to mention that I’m also skeptical of the minimum wage referendum as a get-out-the-vote tool. But it’s still a strong popular issue for Democrats against Republicans, who oppose it. What about booze sales? I think it would be a good voter issue, too, but I

doubt few politicians will use it. Here’s the worst argument against an end to crazy-quilt alcohol prohibition — a supposed injustice in depriving select jurisdictions of their ability to impose their religion on others. The legislature long ago took away home rule on gun laws. Would it allow select Catholic precincts to outlaw abortion and capital punishment for crimes committed within their borders? I hope not. I grant you it’s fun to dream of the free state of Hillcrest. In my liberal neighborhood, with fully realized local option, you could buy a jug of Rhone wine on Sunday. We would not fear open carry of AR-15s. Abortion would be safe, legal and rare because our schools would be required to teach comprehensive sex education and our pharmacies would provide overthe-counter morning-after pills as well as a full-range of contraceptives. Same-sex couples could marry and they could not be discriminated against in employment. If you really believe in local option, why stop at alcohol?

nived to suppress the lawful pay of their computer engineers by some $3 billion. When oil hauling didn’t pan out, my father acquired an old International truck and a pair of mules and for the rest of their lives he and Dock Davis, a black neighbor, cut and hauled logs and pulpwood at whatever scale the sawmills gave them. My father found the lumbermen, if not more generous, at least more scrupulous than oilmen. He was an independent contractor and for 35 years he split the meager proceeds from each week’s toil with Dock, who tended the mules and the other end of a crosscut saw. My dad’s independent-contractor arrangement with the mills would become a model for many industries, notably in transportation and even in my own trade, news. It saves a company lots of money and bother with the meddlesome wage-and-hour nannies. But now the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California has given latterday “contractors” like my dad wan hope. It held that FedEx drivers in California were employees and entitled to the protection of the state’s wage-and-hour rules. But wage theft and avoidance through schemes like independent contractors are only echoes in a much larger quandary that now besets not just the marginal poor but most of America. For at least 35 years, the whole pool of labor, now some 160 million men and women, has enjoyed a steadily shrinking part of the national wealth. A statistic: After-tax profits for corporations last year tied 1965 for the highest share of the U.S. economy on record while compensation

for workers was the smallest share of the economy since 1948, when the great postwar growth of unions and worker pay began. People argue about the reasons, but one must be that after the tumultuous Jimmy Hoffa labor-racketeering hearings, the succeeding campaign to vilify unions as destroyers of initiative and freedom, and the simultaneous perfection of a management strategy for thwarting union elections, organized labor gradually vanished as a factor in the economy. It survives as a marginal political influence. Worker sympathy was replaced in the 1980s by a new doctrine, which is that the key to broad prosperity is not raising wages and benefits, but liberating investors by cutting their taxes and regulatory restraints, so that in their search for greater profits they will create millions of jobs and “lift all ships.” Recurring failures of the philosophy only goads the believers and politicians to greater striving. There is a little progress at the margins in halting the growing inequality. Over the past year and a half, according to the Economic Policy Institute, hourly pay for nearly all Americans, adjusted for inflation, continued to fall. But an exception was a small average gain for the bottom 10 percent of workers. Thirteen states raised their long-stagnant minimum wage, which accounted for the small improvement. If the secretary of state lets the Arkansas minimum wage initiative on the ballot, we will get a little jolt of prosperity. It’s too bad it won’t help independent contractors or the victims of wage theft. www.arktimes.com

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lmost the only heartening news out of Ferguson, Mo., came in a Washington Post report headlined “Nearly 6 in 10 African Americans say Michael Brown shooting was ‘unjustified.’ ” According to the Post, while an opinion poll found that “64 percent of Americans overall said they didn’t have enough information” to form a strong opinion about the 18-year-old’s death, “when it comes to African Americans, the verdict is basically in.” That is, in cartoon-speak, that Brown was murdered by a rogue cop. Except that’s not really what the poll reported. The actual numbers are that 57 percent of African-Americans lean that way, while 43 percent do not. Amajority,yes,butveryfarfromunanimity. Andthat’sthegoodnewsinanotherwiseappallingsituation.Becauseatthispointnobodyreally knowsexactlywhathappened.Anybodywho expressescertaintyisfaraheadoftheavailable evidence,andisnobody’sfriendofanyethnicity. Are black Americans justified in being suspicious? It would be astonishing if most were not. As seemingly every professor of AfricanAmerican Studies in the United States has recently reminded us, it hasn’t been so long since a tragedy like Brown’s death might have been shrugged off as just another random killing in “Niggertown.” Responding to events in Ferguson, Hillary Clintonaskedawell-heeledwhiteaudienceto consider the black experience: “Imaginewhatwewouldfeelandwhat we woulddo,”shesaid“ifwhitedriverswerethree timesaslikelytobesearchedbypoliceduringa trafficstopasblackdrivers.Insteadoftheother wayaround;ifwhiteoffendersreceivedprison sentences 10 percent longer than black offendersforthesamecrimes;ifathirdofallwhitemen … went to prison during their lifetime. Imagine that. That is the reality in the lives of so many of our fellow Americans and so many of the communities in which they live.” Yes, imagine. One especially militant pundit, however, denounced Clinton’s remarks as “a Tefloncoated study in playing it safe.” Apparently because, like that notorious racial sellout PresidentObama,shehadfailedtopronounceupon FergusonpolicemanDarrenWilson’sguiltand call for his immediate arrest. ObamahimselfgotscoldedintheWashington Post by Georgetown University professor (andMSNBCtalkinghead)MichaelEricDyson as “tone deaf and disappointing” for the same sin. Also for not rushing to Ferguson as he’d hurried to Newtown, Conn., and “communities ravaged by Hurricane Sandy” — almost as if the professor didn’t recognize the inherent problem of the president’s involving himself in an ongoing criminal investigation. Elsewhere, the professoriate was well represented. The University of Connecticut’s

Jelani Brown wrote feelingly in the New Yorker about the “damnable, tiresome burden of racism.” Emory University’s GENE Carol Anderson LYONS informed Washington Post readers that Ferguson makes sense only as an explosion of “white rage.” In Salon, Rutgers professor Brittney Cooper announced herself “appalled” at efforts to protect Wilson and his family from reprisal. After Time’s Joe Klein pointed out that Brown’s death might not turn out to be a perfectparableofracialinjustice,WakeForestprofessor(andMSNBC’sone-trickpony)Melissa Harris-Perrybroughthimupshortwithabrisk summary of allowable information: “Officer Wilson was armed,” she wrote. “Michael Brown was not. Officer Wilson shot Michael Brown. Michael Brown is dead. Officer Wilson has not been arrested. … Those are the facts.” The Daily Howler’s ever-skeptical Bob Somerby responds: “Those are the facts? Actually, no — those are some of the facts! More specifically, those are the facts which help Harris-Perry keep her narration a bit of a ‘perfect metaphor’ — a simplistic story with no moral ambiguity or factual uncertainty.” To campus intellectuals adept at decoding the symbolic meaning of events, Michael Brown has been transmogrified into Emmett Till — the 14-year-old Chicago boy foully murdered in Mississippi in 1955 for flirting with a white woman, an episode that shocked the nation’s conscience. So what could that skeptical 43 percent of African-AmericansunconvincedofPatrolman DarrenWilson’sguiltbethinking?Maybethat thereareyoungmenverylikeMichaelBrown walking down the middle of the street in their neighborhoods — some definitely no angels. Possibly that the fellow seen menacing a convenience store clerk five minutes before the fateful encounter might have imagined he could assault a cop with impunity. Maybe that hewantedthecigarstomake“blunts”filledwith pot and other drugs. Maybe he’d succumbed to drug induced psychosis. Perhaps they doubt that Wilson called the play; that a racist cop with homicidal i`mpulses wouldn’t have chosen high noon in a black apartment complex for a showdown. Maybe they wonder if an officer suddenly catapulted into life-and-death struggle with a man twice his size had a real choice. Could be, Wilson just panicked. Maybe too, some African-Americans have seen enough mob justice to await the results of a proper federal investigation.

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hen Auburn clanked a field goal attempt off the upright going into halftime, Bret Bielema’s fist plunged skyward and Arkansas headed to halftime all square at 21. The game plan was working. Gashed early, the defense was settling in to make some stops here and there, and the offensive machine was humming. About four hours later, courtesy of an extended lightning delay, Auburn had a 45-21 win and Arkansas had the first double-digit losing streak in program history. How the hell did that happen?! Armchair quarterbacks like myself can posit any theory possible, from the sublime (bewildering abandonment of the running game) to the obtuse (half of the Arkansas staff got stuck in Jordan-Hare’s pressbox elevator), and none of it really matters much. The Hogs were a sieve against Jeremy Johnson’s throws in the first half and helpless to thwart Nick Marshall’s operation of the read option after the break. It was another defensive showing like the ones we’ve seen for quite a while now: commendable effort now and then, but bad technique and gaping holes marred it in the end. Most frustrating of all? Brandon Allen looked confident and steady, but the game once again turned on a pick-six. This one wasn’t his fault, to be sure, but when the junior quarterback got decked in his windup by Robenson Therezie and the ball fluttered right into Jermaine Whitehead’s waiting arms, the margin ballooned to 35-21 in the third quarter and the Tigers’ already-burgeoning momentum simply exploded from there. Months earlier, we made the base observation that Arkansas could not afford crippling mistakes or substantial time-of-possession deficits, least of all against teams like Auburn. The Tigers beat the Hogs by a good five-and-a-half minutes in the latter category, and a big part of that was wrought from a spectacular third-down conversion ratio (9 of 14, compared to a paltry 2 of 11 by Arkansas). Gus Malzahn got what he needed from Johnson, starting thanks to Marshall’s suspension for a summer arrest, and then it was curtains after halftime when Cameron Artis-Payne and Corey Grant started consuming turf. When the Whitehead pick happened, the old scabs started getting picked, too. Penalties, dropped passes, generally

playing behind the chains, as they say. It was a far more familiar scene than, say, the one where Bielema BEAU was triumphantly WILCOX pumping his fist after the Hogs had weathered an early 14-point deficit. The Southland Conference gives the Hogs immediate hope. First, there’s a bout with lightweight Nicholls State for a home opener this Saturday, and those Colonels got plowed by 28 by Air Force thanks to the Falcons amassing 539 rushing yards. That bodes well for the trio of Alex Collins, Jonathan Williams and Korliss Marshall, which went mute against the Tigers after a big aggregate output in the first half. Perhaps the more compelling result for Arkansas’s sake, though, was Central Arkansas pushing Texas Tech to the brink of a disastrous loss in Lubbock, Texas. The Bears fought gamely for all four quarters of a 42-35 loss, pinning a nine-point deficit on the Red Raiders early and never trailing by more than two scores. Considering that this was the first game of the Steve Campbell coaching era, in hostile territory, and with a new starting quarterback at the helm, it was a gutsy and noble showing. Of course, the Red Raiders also rolled up their fairly standard 600plus yards and picked the Bears’ secondary apart, which is exactly why Hog fans dread this one. Auburn’s two quarterbacks shredded the flaccid underbelly of the Arkansas defense and it remains to be seen whether Robb Smith will try to institute immediate personnel changes in anticipation of Kliff Kingsbury’s system in two weeks. That is the storyline to take note of this weekend against the Colonels as Arkansas is heavily favored to finally snuff out nearly a full year’s worth of losing. The last time the Hogs had a genuine openinggame challenge, in 2006, USC hammered them 50-14 in Fayetteville and Arkansas quietly and deliberately set forth from there with a 10-game winning streak and an SEC West championship. We’ll not expect a repetition of history in that regard, but there’s clearly something to be gained from an early humbling.

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very morning of the workweek, The Observer walks by the tidy blacksmith shop at the Historic Arkansas Museum. We relish those mornings when the doors are open, white smoke curling from the brick chimney, the sharp tak-tak-tak of hammer on anvil issuing from the dim maw of the double doors. Even in the summer, it puts us in mind of the fall, probably because The Observer’s Ma and Pa always put off our annual trip to Old Washington State Park over near Hope until the fall of the year. Pa loved to haunt the blacksmith shop there, a log hut hung with crusty old tools, a fire pit, anvil and leather bellows in the middle, worked at all times by an overall-clad Hephaestus. Walking past the shop at HAM some mornings, we’ve been moved many times to chuck work for an hour and go into that dark cave, where sooted men hammer orange steel. While we haven’t quite worked up a good enough excuse to go inside to the fire — if there’s one thing we hate more than being lost, it’s feeling like a tourist — we may yet. We may yet. There’s an attraction there, equal parts manly-man curiosity and jealousy. We get a melancholy feeling sometimes: the little voice that says precious few of the things we’ve devoted our life to so far are going to stay. Iron, my friend, stays. It will stay until the rust worms gnaw it to pits and flaking red, or stay forever if you and your daughter and your daughter’s son and your daughter’s son’s son keep it slathered down with Marvel Mystery Oil. Words, meanwhile, only stay sometimes, so rarely as to be within elbowing distance of never. But, still, we keep on walking by, on our daily way to this desk, to this office overlooking the street, to this rubbed-shiny keyboard, then home after work to our bare huddle of books and papers in the corner. These are the places where we make our continual attempts at roping the moon. We may never get a leash on it. But as Sir Galahad and many a good English prof has said: The quest, young squire, is always the point of the quest. Speaking of moons, for over 100 years, students at Hendrix College have marched, sung or danced — or have performed some combination of the three — in little more than underwear and ties. These days they call it Shirttails, a nondescript name for what is perhaps the best-attended spectacle of

underdressed young people south of the Mason-Dixon line. You might better appreciate the tradition’s age by making note of the football victory that sparked it. Hendrix topped Ole Miss 8-6 on Nov. 7, 1913, leading a few hundred young men to march over to what was then the Arkansas State Normal School — now the University of Central Arkansas — and present-day Central Baptist College “seeking praise from administrators and professors at the schools,” according to Hendrix’s Shirttails web page. “By the 1920s, the parade had been reenacted a few times and morphed into a ‘Pajama Parade’ where male students traveled to the all-female Central College to serenade their lady friends.” This became unnecessary after Hendrix constructed its first female dorm, Galloway Hall, in the 1930s. Women joined the serenades themselves for the first time in 1984, dubbing their own version, “Long Shirts, Short Shorts.” Over the course of the last 30 years, a Saturday night dance competition in Hendrix’s brick pit has come to supplement the Wednesday night dorm-patio ditties, and last weekend it drew Yours Truly out from The Observatory and into a half-light of half-naked ebullience. Over the course of the week leading up to Saturday night, each dorm’s worth of freshmen rehearsed a dance choreographed by an upperclassman for two hours every day. Then, when night fell on Aug. 30, the dorms competed against one another, dressed in nothing but well-pressed button-downs and underpants. Before a crowd of their upperclassmen peers, a few bold (or perhaps naïve) parents and occasional randos like Yours Truly, they crawled, rolled, flipped and twerked, egged on by roars of pleasure and applause from the crowd. At the end of the night, the judges determined the men’s dorm Hardin and the women’s dorm Raney had done it the best and awarded them their respective golden Shirttails trophies, now displayed in the school’s Student Life and Technology Center. Boy, it’s fun to be a kid, and if Shirttails is any indicator, it has been for some time. Regardless of how near or distant you find your own college years, The Observer encourages you, Reader, to check out the 102ndannualShirttailssometimenextAugust. Recommended dress is extremely casual.

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Spending beyond old cap In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that removed the cap on individual political contributions, more than 300 donors have written checks to political campaigns that have surpassed the old total limit of $123,200 for this election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group. The fat cats include Ron Cameron, the North Little Rock poultry magnate and honored player in the Koch network of political influence machines. He’s 24th-ranked on the data compiled by the Center, with $229,000 in giving, all to Republican candidates. Curt Bradbury, the Stephens Inc. executive, and Warren Stephens, the CEO of the company, also make the list, with $150,800 and $146,200 in contributions, respectively, all to Republicans. They ranked 141st and 161st on the list. These givers trend heavily Republican overall, accounting for $33 million going to Republicans and $15.6 million to Democrats. The Republican fat-cat tilt is especially good news for Rep. Tom Cotton, who’s received $381,000 from these mega-donors, which makes him the third largest recipient after Republican House Speaker John Boehner and U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts.

Bielema worth it? Nice timing for an article in the New York Times on the mega-pay of college football coaches, a story that leads with the Razorbacks’ Bret Bielema and his $3.2 million annual contract, fresh off yet another Hog loss. Generally speaking, if not always specifically, the article said high pay is justified: “[A]ccording to a new study by researchers at Vanderbilt, coaches like Bielema who command what are widely seen as robust salaries are worth the money because of the value they bring to their universities. The Vanderbilt study, which included 947 contracts from 2005 to 2013, benchmarked coaching salaries against those of chief executive officers at public companies — another group that is often accused of being paid too much.” The story goes back to Bielema to close (without a reference to the Hog loss Saturday at Auburn, the team’s 10th loss in a row): “When Bielema was courted by Arkansas, the job opening was seen as one of the most challenging and intriguing. The incoming coach would be the third in three years and would inherit a team coming off a four-win season, but he would also be at the helm of a program competing with the best teams in 12

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Heights race could determine control of House Hurst (R) v. Tucker (D) in District 35. By DaviD Ramsey

rkansas is a red state, likely getwas passed with bipartisan support and ting redder, but there are still championed by a number of prominent patches of true blue here and Republicans in the state. Compared with Hurst, Democratic there. House District 35, currently represented by term-limited Rep. John Edopponent Clarke Tucker is a newcomer wards, a Democrat, is one of the most to the political scene, but his name is heavily Democratic areas in the state. well known in Little Rock. His father The district includes the Heights area, is prominent real estate developer and property manager Rett Tucker. and also sprawls west beyond Pinnacle Mountain and dips deeply to south of Markham Street in a corridor along the east side of Interstate 430. It was drawn to add some Democratic neighborhoods to the historically Democrat-leaning territory. To give you an idea: President Obama may be persona non grata in Arkansas, but he carried District 35 in 2012. So you might think that the seat was a lock for the D column. But Little Rock City Director Stacy Hurst, who has served on the City Board since 2002, is aiming to defy partisan expectations, running as RECOGNIZABLE NAME: Clarke Tucker seeks pivotal a self-described “very moderate House seat. Republican.” If the GOP can pick up the seat, it could be the difference in Tucker, an associate in the Quattlewhich party controls the state House baum, Grooms, Tull and Burrow law in 2015. firm, was student president of the InstiHurst, marketing director at her hustute of Politics at Harvard University’s band’s Little Rock flower shop Tipton John F. Kennedy School of Government & Hurst, has argued that the legislature and editor-in-chief of the University of could benefit from having more moderArkansas Law Review while at the UA law school in Fayetteville. ate Republicans. She has focused on her “One of the wonderful things about support for increasing access to public pre-K, raising the minimum wage and Arkansas politics is that a lot of times supporting the private option — the there’s no rhyme or reason to the party of the candidate that people state’s unique policy using Medicaid will vote for,” Tucker said. “I think funds available via Obamacare to purchase health insurance for low-income the voters tend to vote for who they Arkansans. The private option in parthink the best candidate for the job ticular is a sweet spot for Hurst since it is regardless of their party affiliation.”

That said, Tucker said Democratic voters on the campaign trail have questioned whether the district is a fit for a Republican. “It is something that’s coming up,” he said. “I do think that party affiliation is an issue because the majority in the House of Representatives is up for grabs this year, and the party that’s in the majority makes a big difference for the state. The people in this district know that. There have been some great Republicans in the legislature recently. But I think that Republicans being in power empowers people like [Conway Sen.] Jason Rapert and [Mena Rep.] Nate Bell. And some people in the district have expressed that concern to me.” With so little differentiating the candidates on policy, the race has gotten personal. The state Republican Party, on behalf of the Hurst campaign, made a Freedom of Information request to the Little Rock School District for documents related to the pre-K placement of Tucker’s 4-year-old son. Hurst said that the FOI requests were initiated because of “rumors” she had heard “in social circles and cocktail party conversations.” When Tucker later issued a mailer arguing for increased access to pre-K and telling his own story of receiving a letter from the Little Rock School District that said there were no pre-K slots available for his 4-year-old son, Hurst campaign consultant Clint Reed took to social media and insinuated that the mailer was inaccurate. The mailer is factually accurate, strictly speaking, stating that the Tuckers received a letter from the LRSD stating that the district “was not able to place [him] in a pre-K program due to limited space.” But the Tuckers were offered a pre-K slot after the denial, and the dispute arises over when the Tuckers were offered a pre-K slot after they received the initial letter. Tucker responded with a furious press conference with his wife, Toni, crying by his side. “This goes beyond mere fact-checking of a political ad,” Tucker said. “It’s investigating the educational records of a 4-year-old child in order to manufacture an attack using that child against his father.” He called CoNTINuEd oN pAgE 19

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: i recently received a letter from the Student Loan Guarantee Foundation of Arkansas telling me that effective oct. 1 my student loan would be transferred to something called Great Lakes Guaranty Corporation. When i called the Student Loan Guarantee Foundation of Arkansas, the person i talked to blamed obamacare. What’s this mean?

Ah, student loans. What undergraduate doesn’t dream of that special day six months post-graduation when she receives a letter in the mail from some faceless financial services entity establishing the monthly terms of her indentured servitude for the next decade or two (or more)? We empathize with the questioner. If you’re one of the 37 million Americans saddled with student debt, receiving unexpected correspondence about your loans immediately raises your heart rate. It’s similar to how a court-protected witness might feel about getting an unmarked package in the mail. So what exactly is the Student Loan Guarantee Foundation of Arkansas, and how is it remotely related to the health care overhaul? Answering that requires some explanation of how federal student lending works and what has recently changed. For decades, there were two distinct ways the government provided student loans: direct lending and the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program. Direct loans, as the name implies, flow directly from the government to students. FFEL loans are originated by private lenders — such as banks or Sallie Mae — but are guaranteed by the government. That means the feds act as a behind-the-scenes cosigner of sorts for students, agreeing to take over the loan in the event a borrower defaults on her debt. The FFEL program also gave subsidies to private lenders to keep interest rates below certain levels and cover some expenses. In 2010, federal government eliminated the FFEL program in favor of doing all of its lending directly. Why should the public essentially hire banks as financial middlemen — and also eat their risk by insuring them against defaults — when we could simply provide students with direct loans? Removing banks from the federal student loan business is expected to save $68.7 billion over the next 10 years. (Banks can still lend to students without the FFEL program, of course, but now that the government guarantee gravy train is over, they’re much less likely to do so.) The Student Loan Guarantee Foundation of Arkansas is a nonprofit that was established to administer the FFEL program in this state. If our questioner defaulted on her loan today, SLGFA is the party that would inherit the bad debt from whatever bank had originated it. But eliminating FFEL renders organizations like SLGFA somewhat obsolete, and its board has made the decision to get out of the debt-management business and

transfer its remaining portfolio of loans to Great Lakes, a similar organization that services loans primarily in the upper Midwest. There are 35 such non-federal “guaranty agencies” across the country, and as the FFEL Program winds down in favor of direct lending, their future is unclear. “We’ll still show up as guarantor until October 1st,”said Becky Collins, chief compliance officer at SLGFA. “Borrowers really shouldn’t see any difference in their servicing if they’re not defaulted. If they do default, that collection would move over to Great Lakes.” She wouldn’t say for certain what would happen to SLGFA itself after its portfolio is transferred. “That’s a decision for our board,” she explained. Some readers may wonder why they don’t recall hearing about such a massive overhaul to a program that affects millions of Americans. Well, if you think back to 2010, the political conversation was exclusively focused on another, even more massive overhaul: Obamacare. The elimination of the FFEL program was actually a part of the Affordable Care Act, which draws a small portion of its overall budget from the savings created by student loan reform. Out of the $68.7 billion (again, over a 10-year period) that the government is saving by removing banks from the system, about $36 billion will go right back into higher education in the form of more Pell Grants. $3 billion is slated for aid to historically black colleges. A little over $10 billion will be used for deficit reduction. And $8.7 billion will go toward health care reform. So did Obamacare kill the Student Loan Guarantee Foundation of Arkansas? In a sense. Bundling student loan reform into the ACA was a matter of convenient timing for Democrats; the elimination of the FFEL program was probably due to happen anyway. But unless you work for a bank or a guarantee agency, it’s hard to see the end of the FFEL program as anything but a net positive for the public. For those with student debt currently, the change makes no difference. Collins adds that anyone with student debt can check on the status of his or her loan — who originated it, who services it, etc. — with the National Student Loan Data System, at nslds.ed.gov. Support for education reporting provided by the Arkansas Public Policy Panel.

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iNSider, CoNT. the SEC. That was all factored into the compensation package that Arkansas offered Bielema, who was leaving a high-profile job at Wisconsin, where he coached the Badgers to three straight Rose Bowl appearances. “As Bielema begins his second season on the job, Arkansas fans will be keeping a close eye on him, looking to how the university’s investment is paying off. “To Bielema’s supporters, progress is already being made. “ ‘It’s already been a good investment because he has stabilized the ship,’ [Bielema’s agent Neil] Cornrich said.” Fans? Agree with the coach’s agent?

Seeking political dynasties At least a couple of Republican politicians in state office have wives seeking to rise into office at the local level. Secretary of State Mark Martin’s wife, Sharon Martin, is running for mayor of Prairie Grove against incumbent Sonny Hudson. Mena State Rep. Nate Bell’s wife, Phyllis, is running for Polk County assessor against Jovan Thomas, a 17-year deputy to the retiring assessor. Bell tried and failed to get Thomas disqualified by challenging signatures on her candidacy petitions. The Election Commission found, contrary to Bell’s contention, that they were registered voters.

Pride parade and fest coming up The 2nd annual Central Arkansas Pride Parade is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 5. The parade will begin at 2 p.m. at Third Street and World Avenue (at Heifer International headquarters), travel through downtown and return to the Clinton Presidential Center and Park for a festival that will last until 8 p.m. The Arkansas Times is a sponsor. Such marches in support of LGBT rights have become big deals in other cities. No reason it can’t grow in Little Rock into a strong public expression. Can we dream of Little Rock city leaders joining the parade and emulating Fayetteville with a strong official expression of nondiscrimination in the capital city?

Corrections In last week’s cover story, “Visionaries 2014,” we mistakenly reported that Mark Thiedeman graduated from Catholic High School. He graduated from Parkview Arts/ Science Magnet High School. In last week’s guest column, “Racial bias in police shootings,” Donald Rickard and Kelly Allen were listed among the names of unarmed African-Americans killed by police. They were white. www.arktimes.com

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The long shadow of Carnell russ’ death In 1971, a white Arkansas state trooper shot an unarmed black man over a $23 speeding ticket. By John A. KirK

h i s s u m m e r ’s news headlines have contained numerous stories about white policing in African-American communities. Eric Garner in New York died after being placed in a chokehold by white New York Police Department officers. Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., was shot dead by a white police officer, allegedly while his hands were held up in the air. Closer to home, there was the dismissal of the case against Josh Hastings, a white Little Rock Police Department officer, who killed 15-year-old Bobby Moore in 2012. Such incidents are just the latest episodes in an all-too-familiar story of conflict

between white officers and AfricanAmerican men that have proved highly contentious flashpoints in the ongoing struggle for racial justice. A historic case in Arkansas helps inform and contextualize contemporary events. The story begins on Memorial Day afternoon, May 31, 1971, when 24-year-old Carnell Russ was driving back to his hometown of Monticello after visiting his inlaws in Benton. In the vehicle with him was his wife, Clementine, six of their nine children, and Clementine’s cousin Denton Lambert. Around 5:45 p.m., as they were traveling on Highway 81 (now U.S. Highway 425) through Yorktown, six miles north of Star City, Arkansas State Trooper Jerry Green pulled Russ over for allegedly driving 75 miles per hour in a 60-miles-perhour speed zone. In a routine stop, Russ halted the car and tendered his license. Green told Russ to follow him to the Star City Jail to post bond. Green radioed ahead, and Charles Ratliff and Norman Draper met them at the jailhouse. Ratliff was a Star City policeman recently arrived from Shannon, Miss., and had been on the job for just four months.

Draper was preparing to begin his job as a city policeman the following day. At the jail, Russ was advised that his required bond was $23. He asked if he could be released on his own recognizance, since his father knew Lincoln County Sheriff Billy Bert French. Ratliff unsuccessfully attempted to contact French. Russ was unable to reach his father. Ratliff told Russ he could not leave without posting bond. Russ asked if he could pay by check. Ratliff said he needed cash. Russ then went out to the car and Clementine gave him the bond money. Back inside, Russ asked if he could have a copy of the speeding ticket. Green told him no, that the ticket would be retained for the local court. Ratliff said he would issue him a receipt. Russ insisted that he would not hand over the bond money until he had a copy of the ticket, which he was entitled to under state law. Ratliff told Russ that he was going to lock him up for refusing to pay. He placed his hand on Russ’ left elbow. Russ drew back and assumed a fighting posture. Exactly what happened next elicContinued on page 16 www.arktimes.com

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ited different accounts from the survivors. According to Ratliff, Russ exchanged a number of blows with him. Then, Ratliff said, “I didn’t have a slapper and didn’t have no gas, and I wasn’t paid to stand and fist fight nobody so I used my gun as a slapper.” Ratliff said that he hit Russ in the head with his gun and that it accidentally discharged in the process, shooting Russ in the forehead. Draper told a similar story, though he claimed it was all over in “a very few seconds.” State Trooper Green testified that “no licks” had been exchanged and that Ratliff had extended his arm and had shot Russ in the head. Green left the building to contact his superior officer. Ratliff phoned for a doctor and an ambulance. Russ’ wife, children and cousin watched Green pull away in his police vehicle but thought nothing of it. It was not until around 35 minutes later when an ambulance pulled up that they were first aware that something was wrong. Green, who had also just driven back, told them that Russ “had been killed.” But Russ was not dead. Barely hanging on to life, an ambulance took him to University Hospital in Little Rock. No one told Clementine that her husband was still alive until several hours later. She immediately rushed to Little Rock where she was able to see him, albeit still comatose (he never recovered consciousness after the shoot-

ing), for a short time. He was pronounced dead at 2:20 a.m. As news of the shooting spread through the local African-American community in Star City on Monday evening, around 50 to 60 blacks congregated on the courthouse lawn to express their concern to Sheriff Billy Bert French. They dispersed around 9 p.m. after French assured them that “justice would be done.” On June 3, a 16-member Lincoln County grand jury comprised of 14 whites and two elderly blacks convened. Around 100 local African Americans kept a vigil in the courtroom. Others sat on the courthouse steps or leaned against their vehicles in the parking lot waiting to hear the decision. One told a reporter, “We’re just waiting to see what the grand jury does. We want dignity and justice; we don’t want no violence. We pay taxes and live here, too, you know.” At 3:15 p.m., the jury returned a

Arkansas NAACP state president Dr. Jerry Jewell sent a telegram to the U.S. Justice Department asking for a federal investigation of the shooting, insisting that, “The state NAACP feels this manner of handling violent action shows complete disrespect for the man’s family … and rights.” No directive to the local FBI to investigate was forthcoming. Jewell later wrote to U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell requesting a federal investigation. “Our information suggests that Mr. Russ was the victim of police violence,” Jewell said. “It is imperative that there be a prompt investigation of this tragedy by the Department of Justice and the guilty parties prosecuted.” Again, federal authorities took no action. In January 1972, it took an all-white jury less than eight minutes to return a verdict of “not guilty” against Ratliff. On the second anniversary of Russ’ death, May 31, 1973, his

Carnell Russ’ case vividly illustrates the reasons why many African Americans today are skeptical that color blind justice can exist in the United States. true bill of voluntary manslaughter. Ratcliff stuck to his story that Russ “attacked me” and that it was “a complete accident all the way.” NAACP officials, whose help in the case had been requested by the Russ family, were disappointed. Arkansas NAACP legal counsel George Howard said, “The thinking is here that it was an under-indictment. It should have been murder.” Howard further pointed out, “In a county where the population is 50-50 black and white, there should have been more black people on the grand jury.”

widow and her nine children began a “wrongful death” civil lawsuit seeking damages totaling $1 million. The suit alleged that Ratliff had denied Carnell Russ his civil rights by shooting him and that Draper and Green “took no steps” to prevent the “violent conduct resulting in his death,” even though both had been “present at all times and in the immediate presence and vicinity of Russ.” It accused the mayor and aldermen of being “negligent and careless” in hiring Ratliff in the first place, an officer who, it was alleged,

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had “established a record and reputation for … violence and maltreatment of persons arrested by him.” The presiding judge, Oren Harris, was not the most sympathetic for a civil rights trial. After serving as an Arkansas congressman for a quarter of a century, Harris was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson for a federal judgeship in 1965. While in Congress, Harris had signed the Southern Manifesto against the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown U. Topeka Board of Education school desegregation decision and had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “He was not considered a strong supporter of civil rights,” notes his entry in the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture. The trial began at 9:35 a.m. on Oct. 14, 1975, when an all-white jury of seven women and five men were selected to hear the case. This was after seven African Americans were discharged from the jury because of preemptory challenges from the defendant’s attorneys. Three days into the trial, Judge Harris ordered a directed verdict from the jury to drop the mayor, the six aldermen, and Norman Draper from the case. He ruled Continued on page 18 www.arktimes.com

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The long s h a dow of Ca rnell ru s s ’ dea Th , C onT . that they were not responsible “in any way” for Russ’ death. The mayor and aldermen had not been present when Russ was killed, and Draper was still a trainee at the time of the shooting. On the fourth and final day of the trial, the jury deliberated for three hours before acquitting Ratliff and Green on all charges. NAACP lawyers took the case to the 8th Circuit Appeals Court, which upheld the dismissal of the mayor, the aldermen and Draper, and the verdict acquitting Green. It did, however,

order a new trial for Ratliff on the grounds that, “under any version of the incident [Ratliff] must be held to have used excessive force on his prisoner.” In April 1979, almost eight years after Carnell Russ’ death, a jury awarded the Russ family a total of $288,000 in damages. It had little practical effect. Ratliff had since absconded from Arkansas and, even if found, had little prospect of ever paying out. In July 1980, Clementine Russ filed a $330,000 wrongful death claim

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against the state of Arkansas. She maintained that it was liable for her husband’s death since, “As a result of the policies of the state of Arkansas, a black American citizen was shot and killed, wantonly, recklessly and intentionally by a law enforcement officer of a municipality created by the state of Arkansas.” The claim came to nothing. From blatantly hostile and aggressive policing, to skewed all or mostly white juries, to the lack of black police and black jurors in heavily black areas, to less than impartial judges, to unconcerned federal agencies, to the procedural intricacies and bureaucracy of the criminal justice system that seem designed to block rather than to ensure equity, Carnell Russ’ case vividly illustrates the reasons why many African Americans today are skeptical that color-blind justice can exist in the United States. Although some problems have been fixed in some places, many of the themes in Russ’ case still remain painfully evident today, over 40 years later. The Russ family has never given up its fight for justice and has never forgotten Carnell Russ’ tragically short life. Through their efforts, the Lincoln County NAACP branch was renamed the Carnell Russ branch, the only one in the state named after an individual. Four years ago, Leatrice Russ-Glenns, Carnell Russ’ sister, successfully helped to establish Carnell Russ Day Community Unity Festival in Star City. Supported by the office of the mayor, the day offers a series of events to bring together the black and white communities. It is underpinned by Russ-Glenns’ conviction that an honest reckoning with the past can provide a valuable lesson for today, and help to lay the groundwork for community reconciliation and the hope of a brighter future. If that can happen, she believes, there may yet still be a positive legacy for her brother’s death. Carnell Russ Day Community Unity Festival will be held on Saturday, Oct. 11, at the Star City Civic Center, 201 Lincoln Ave., from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. It’s free and open to the public. John A. Kirk is George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His new book, an edited collection of essays, “Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas: New Perspectives,” will be published by the University of Arkansas Press in December.

He i g Hts ra ce cou ld det ermine cont rol of H ou s e, co nt . it “unacceptable” and “reprehensible” and called on Hurst to apologize. Hurst said she had nothing to apologize for and that the FOI requests were part of the normal “vetting” process. The Hurst camp maintains that the emails received through FOI reveal that Tucker made inaccurate statements. The Tuckers say their accounts have been truthful. The details are convoluted and the available information is inconclusive. “At the end of the day the most important thing here is that there were nearly 200 more slots for applications in pre-K programs in the Little Rock School District than there were openings for pre-K slots in the Little Rock School District,” Tucker said. “We obviously had a difficult time in our family this summer with that process, and that reinforced to me the importance of making sure that every 4-year-old child in Arkansas has access to a quality pre-K education program, and that was the purpose of sending that mail piece.” Hurst responded, “This has really gotten off track. This is not about a 4-year-old whom we all want to have a great education, just like we do for all of our children. This is about the misrepresentation of facts by Clarke Tucker.

The emails directly contradict Clarke Tucker’s statements.” Hurst spoke to the Times regarding the FOI dustup but declined to be interviewed by telephone for this article. Her Facebook page and press releases suggest many similar policy stances to Tucker. That still might leave some questions for Democrats. Does her support for increased pre-K access mean supporting Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross’ plan to offer a pre-K slot to every 4-year-old in Arkansas? Does support for a minimum wage increase mean she supports the ballot initiative to raise it to $8.50? Would she vote against her party on, say, a veto override of an unconstitutional abortion ban, or a resolution against gay marriage? Another issue likely to pop up in the campaign is Hurst’s vote on the City Board to approve a Murphy Oil gas station and convenience store at the intersection of 12th Street and South University Avenue. “Every neighborhood association that has a vested interest in that area of Little Rock was unanimously opposed to the placement of that super-gas station there and the city Planning Commission recommended against it,” Tucker said. “I think that was an unfortunate vote for the future development of that

part of town, especially for the people who have worked for so long to make that a stable neighborhood for families in Little Rock.” Hurst has expressed anger that she was described as the deciding vote. She voted to allow the Murphy store, leading to a 5-5 tie; Mayor Mark Stodola then voted for it, breaking the tie. “If you want to get really technical about it, I’m the vote that caused the tie,” Hurst told the Times in an earlier interview. “That’s another misrepresentation.” Money is pouring in to the race. At the time of their last disclosure filings on Aug. 15, Tucker had raised around $154,000 and Hurst has raised around $244,000. Among Hurst’s donors are billionaire investment banker Warren Stephens and his wife, Harriet; multiple sources told the Times that Hurst ran as a Republican at Stephens’ behest. The race has stakes beyond District 35. Republicans currently control the House 51-49 (one Green Party representative caucuses with the Democrats). Democrats believe they have a chance to retake it in 2015. “My gut feeling is it’s going to be really close and I would not want to put money on it either way,” said Rep. Joe Jett (D-Success), who was the

minority whip in the last session. The Hurst-Tucker race is “vital, extremely important,” he said — both because every closely contested race could be the difference in shifting the balance of power and because of the district’s location in Pulaski County. “It’s kind of in the center of the storm, if you will,” Jett said. “My vote has as much meaning as Clarke or Stacy’s, but at the end of the day, that’s the seat in Little Rock — a lot of times, it seems to me, it draws more attention.” Jett said that the bigger picture — control of the House — might influence Democratic voters in District 35. “I can’t speak for everybody that lives there but if I lived there, I certainly would [take into consideration control of the House] because when you get inside of a caucus meeting, you don’t really know how the dynamics will play out. That alone would give me pause. If the private option was near and dear to my heart, which it is, if I lived in that district, that would give me pause and concern.” The speaker of the House, Jett pointed out, plays a big role in setting the legislative strategy. “There’s strategy that’s being set up and played out before things even start rolling,” he said. “We’re either going to have a Democrat or a Republican setting that strategy.”

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‘Memphis’ explores discrimination through early rock ’n’ roll Rep musical debuts Sept. 5.

SOUNDS OF ‘MEMPHIS’: Jasmin Richardson (left) plays the lead female character Felicia in the Rep’s musical opening Friday.

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hope for reconciliation independent of the mid-20th-century African-American struggles for equality. “If a show could have a color scheme — pun intended — [‘Memphis’] touches every palette,” DiRoma said. “Everyone’s experienced in some way, shape or form being put down. Everyone has experienced in some way, shape or form the joy in music. And you relate to all these experiences, this whirlwind of realness.” Joe DiPietro and Bon Jovi’s keyboard player, David Bryan, co-wrote the musical in 2001. It opened on Broadway in October 2009 and won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2010. Bryan told Broadway.com in a 2009 interview that the first song he wrote was “Music of My Soul,” which DiPietro called an “I want” song, wherein the character tells everyone what he yearns for. Huey sings the number to tell the black clubgoers, who eye him suspiciously, that he embraces the soul music of W.C. Handy, Ray Charles and B.B. King, in contrast to what his father taught him, that “white should stay with white.” In fact, a legacy of improvisation, of “playing from the soul,” as it were, is tied up in the musicality of so many of Huey’s influences that he champions it himself. One day, when asked to read a beer advertisement over the airwaves, Huey, who can’t read, improvises the commercial and caps it with his nowfamous cry, “Hockadoo!”

ack in the late ’40s, when a talented young blues guitarist named Riley B. King began playing on Memphis radio station WDIA, he became so popular so quickly that it was decided he needed a new radio name. So he adopted one from an almost two-mile avenue, then an incubator of some of the best blues music around — sounds that inspired his own. Before the name was shortened to “B.B.,” they called him the Beale Street Blues Boy. To kick off its 2014-15 season, the Arkansas Repertory Theater will resurrect part of the storied rock ’n’ roll legacy of that street and that city with its production of the musical “Memphis,” opening Friday, Sept. 5. The show tells a story of forbidden love between Felicia, a talented black club singer played by Jasmin Richardson, and Huey, the first white disc jockey to spin black records for a mainstream white audience, played by Brent DiRoma. Huey’s character is loosely based on “Daddy-O” Dewey Phillips, known for airing a mix of white and black music on Memphis radio station WHBQ throughout the 1950s, as the African-American civil rights movement began taking strides toward legal equality in streets, in schools and in the Supreme Court. The show’s no biopic, but for the cast, the truths of history — and the present day for that matter — can’t be separated from the fiction of a musical. 20

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“My mother was two years older than Emmett Till when he died,” said Tony Perry, who plays Felicia’s brother Delray. “I grew up hearing his story. I heard stories of [my parents] being in situations where they were in the wrong neighborhood and were told about it, or whatever. “You find these stories that you can understand, and then you relate them to what the character’s struggle is so that you can bring some life to it — because those are real things.” Director Lynne Kurdziel-Formato, who also teaches as an associate professor of performing arts at Elon University, pointed to examples like the treatment of women in areas in the Middle East and the treatment of Muslims in American airports after 9/11. “Ferguson,” she said. “This [show] finishes in ’58, so from ’58 to 2014 there have been happenings all along the way. “There are still many, many places where folks teach and continue to pass along what I would call ancient beliefs that are wrong,” she said. “And as soon as something happens where fear strikes in any way, shape or form, people are quick to form opinions and shut themselves off from reproachment.” Indeed, while the show retains a heavy emphasis on the relationship between black and white communities in Memphis in the ’50s, it also speaks to broader discrimination and, likewise,

“‘Hockadoo’ is the embodiment of joy in music, the joy that Huey particularly finds in music,” DiRoma said. “It’s not a word. I don’t think it means anything, but I think it stands for everything — the ability to go, ‘What the hell, let’s go throw our hands up and just listen’ — tune in and tune out at the same time.” But perhaps most importantly, “Memphis” tells the story of people tuning in together, regardless of the barriers that divided them in the past. “Art makes you, whether it’s theater, pure music, painting, whatever it is — you begin to connect on a different level,” Kurdziel-Formato said. “It also helped to forward civil rights because people were able to understand one another on a higher plane as opposed to looking at somebody externally and being afraid because they were born, quote, ‘different.’ The music speaks to everybody.” “Memphis” runs from Sept. 5 through Sept. 28. Performances are at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Single-ticket prices range from $30 to $65. The Rep’s Producing Artistic Director Bob Hupp will lead a panel discussion with “Memphis” cast members at noon on Thursday, Sept. 4 at the Clinton School of Public Service. The performance on Wednesday, Sept. 17 will be interpreted for the hearing impaired.

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POPULAR: Goose musicians Kevin Jones (left) and Austin Jewell (right) raised $10,000 to record a new album.

Goose finds its sound Fayetteville champions of ‘Americana partyfolk’ bring banjos and harmonicas to the indie pop scene. By Clayton Gentry

n the evening of May 23, singer-songwriter Austin Jewell sent out a tweet about the fact that, as the lead vocalist for his band, Goose, he would soon fulfill a dream he and co-frontman Kevin Jones, both 25, had harbored since the days of their high school garage band almost a decade prior. “Attempting to look calm but am terribly nervous right meow,” the feline tweet read. “Let’s do this Riverfest.” A picture alongside the message showed Jewell propped against a loading ramp in a psychedelic button-down. An anxious mien beneath 22

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sepia shades revealed what seemed a weighted understanding that, far from the empty-garage womb of his and Jones’ fledgling high school band, Wayside, Goose had arrived. They went on at 6:30 p.m., opening Riverfest for one of the most prolific rock ’n’ roll bands of the 1970s and ’80s, Chicago. What the photo didn’t show was that Jewell did it barefoot. “I like to play barefoot,” Jewell said. “It just makes me feel like I’m playing in my own house.” But in front of the early crowd at Riverfest, Jewell couldn’t deny that Goose had made it out of the living room and onto the Coors

record that also includes a resonant piano love song, “If She’s Not You,” and a few rips on an electric guitar in “Soul Searching.” Goose producers Kyle Reeves and Joe Kane pushed for a more consistent sound on the follow up, “Champagne and Wine,” and together in the studio, Jones and Jewell worked out a mode that Jewell calls “Americana partyfolk.” “R&B,” he said. “Rhythm and banjo.” The music featured in “Champagne and Wine” generally flows lightly and loosely, laying a folk feeling over sounds inspired by singersongwriters like Jack Johnson and Jason Isbell, as well as groups like Guster and Dave Matthews Band. “What Am I Running From,” features a tambourine, a harmonica and, of course, a banjo. “Champagne and Wine,” the album’s namesake, uses an acoustic guitar and a bluesy harmonica beneath lyrics about a beautiful woman with “hair like champagne, lips like wine.” “Very rarely do I write a song with a purpose in mind … or something I’m drawing from,” Jewell said. “Usually it’s just me creating a story. There were songs in high school — one song called ‘Lazy Fish,’ and it was just a song about a fish, kind of the same thing. “The way I write songs is I’ll just start playing music and singing jibberish and the first line will just pop up and that’ll be the theme.” Jewell said people told him that, in contrast to “Bad Idea,” the partyfolk sound of “Champagne and Wine” “sounded more like me.” But at the same time, Jones and Jewell both said, the new album will feature a range of different sounds, though all anchored to the musical theme developed in the production of their second album. “We just bring all of our influences, so that could be Aretha Franklin or Mariah Carey or it could be DMB or Jack Johnson and Stevie Wonder,” Jones said. “Maybe you think dance music, but then Austin writes some of the greatest love songs. We’re just kind of our own thing.” For Goose, it seems authenticity is multiplicity. “Our own thing” can mean a lot of things: humor, psychedelic clothing, spontaneous dancing (featured in their Kickstarter promo video) and, increasingly, the sounds of banjos, harmonicas and acoustic guitars. And sometimes “our own thing” means bare feet.

Light stage, deservingly. The band’s resume lists venues like George’s Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville and Juanita’s in Little Rock, as well as a loyal and far-flung fan base comprised of children and young adults alike, including many students from the University of Arkansas, where Jewell and Jones attended college. But, in spite of its success, the band remains a small-scale, independent operation with no record label and a strapped budget. So when they needed money to produce their third album, they turned to the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. They finished the fundraiser in August, amassing more than $10,000 for the record, set for release this coming winter. The new album, as yet unnamed, will blend the mixed sounds of Goose’s first album, “Bad Idea,” (2010) and the more cohesive folksiness of “Champagne and Wine” (2012). Jewell wrote the music for “Bad Idea” over the course of his high school and college years, and the album’s thematic diversity reflects this. An environmentalist plea in “If You Won’t Then I Will” kicks off a

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THURSDAY 9/4

CORY BRANAN

9:30 p.m. White Water Tavern. $10.

On “The No-Hit Wonder,” his fourth record since his 2002 debut, “The Hell You Say,” Nashville’s Cory Branan tries out an accordion, a ukulele and a stable of guest vocalists: Jason Isbell, Caitlin Rose, The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn and Steve Selvidge, and

SATURDAY 9/6 fellow White Water Tavern staples Austin Lucas and Tim Easton. It’s upbeat, smirking country rock — cow-punk with an emphasis on the cow. He sings about highways, shadows, “a red dog standing in a halo of kudzu.” He sings things probably meant to sound romantic, like “When I get lonely, sure, she’ll do/But you’re the only you.” On

the title track, “The No-Hit Wonder,” which not coincidentally sounds closer to a hit than anything else on the album, Branan sings about “years of living hand-to-mouth,” and offers an ambivalent tribute to life on the road in the shadow of Nashville. It closes with a repeated chorus that sums up Branan’s perspective, “It is what it is.” WS

TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT: KABF FM 88.3 will celebrate its 30th anniversary 7 p.m. Saturday.

SATURDAY 9/6

KABF 30th BIRTHDAY FIESTA 7 p.m. South on Main. $10.

One thing I’ve long admired about Neil Young is that unlike most of his early contemporaries (Crosby, Stills, Nash and the rest of them), he always remained interested and engaged in the shifting currents of pop music, was always more than willing to abandon everything about his persona and, say, jam with Devo (in his 1982 film “Human Highway”), sing through a vocoder (on “Trans”), go rockabilly or trad-country or proto-grunge. He’s an authentically strange guy — an epilep24

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tic, ’50s car-obsessive who once collaborated with Phish and Jim Jarmusch in the same year. “Powderfinger” is one of my favorite songs ever, and I don’t even know what it’s about. This is all to explain why I think it’s perfectly fitting that community radio station KABF FM, 88.3 has chosen to host a Neil Young tribute concert for its 30th anniversary fiesta. Like Young, KABF is and has always been weird, and has adapted to the times better than anyone. How do you pin it down? The station is filled with stalwart LGBT activists, champions of obscure jazz, ridiculously unprofessional talk show

hosts, tireless advocates for local music, experimental music, great music. What does “Rural War Room” have to do with “The Real Underground Show” or “The Big Gay Radio Show”? Nothing. The concert, called “Never Too Young,” will feature birthday cake (natch), commemorative posters, raffle tickets and performances of Young songs by local favorites like Good Time Ramblers, Adam Faucett, Amy Garland, Isaac Alexander, Aaron Sarlo, Spero, Fret and Worry (RJ Looney and Joe Meazle), Mark Currey, the Stephen Compton Band and plenty of others. WS

INTERNATIONAL OBSERVE THE MOON NIGHT 7 p.m. 6th and Main streets, Argenta. Free.

Under the terms of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, otherwise known as the “Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies,” the moon is and will always remain free to all nations and persons for exploration and any nonmilitary use. This is only fair: The most commonly accepted and poetic of all the countless scientific explanations for the moon’s existence states that the Earth’s only natural satellite, the body singlehandedly responsible for the ocean’s tides, was formed from a chunk of the Earth itself after some mysterious and ancient space collision. Like Adam’s rib, this discharged wreckage was, according to the “giant impact hypothesis,” shaped into its own distinct being, the second brightest object in the sky after the Sun. The earliest portrait of the moon was carved into a rock in Ireland 5,000 years ago, and since then 12 old white men have even walked on its surface. Saturday night, thanks to the Central Arkansas Astronomical Society, the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub and the UALR Physics and Astronomy Departments (I don’t know why it requires this many hosts), we can all watch the moon together with telescopes and food trucks. WS

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THURSDAY 9/4 Dr. Charles Kimball, author of “when Religion Becomes Lethal,” will hold a lecture and booksigning at the Ron Robinson theater, 6:30 p.m. Local bluegrass group Big Steel River will be at the Joint, 9:30 p.m. the Loony Bin will host a triple feature, with comedians Mark Matusoff, Jersey and David Graham, through saturday, 7:30 p.m. thursday, 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday and saturday, $7-$10.

FRIDAY 9/5

LOVE AND GHOSTS: Splice Microcinema will screen “Ugetsu” at 8 p.m. Wednesday, $5 suggested donation.

WEDNESDAY 9/10

‘UGETSU’

8 p.m. Few. $5 suggested donation.

“Ugetsu,” a soft and sinister film by an arthritic former actor named Kenji Mizoguchi, won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1953, signaling (along with Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon,” released a couple of years before) the international emergence of Japanese cinema — even if, in Japan, Mizoguchi and his film weren’t particularly well liked. “It’s hard work,” the critic and curator Dave Kehr

once wrote, “but learning to watch a Kenji Mizoguchi film affords one of the great pleasures of the cinema.” He also admitted helpfully, “Before a Mizoguchi film, I always try to sneak a cup of coffee. It may not be a substitute for a degree in Japanese Studies, but it helps.” Kehr works at MoMA; there’s no shame in coffee. There’s no contradiction there either: “Ugetsu” is brilliant, and it is slow. Like a spiritual successor to F. W. Murnau’s “Sunrise,” it’s a film about love and ambition

and betrayal told in lengthy, dreamlike tracking shots. The long, creeping takes — often one per scene — are always mentioned in discussions of the film, and for good reason: They add a beautiful and scary physicality to a story steeped in ghosts and lust, everyday horror in real time. “Mizoguchi’s camera could move through space and time,” Geoffrey O’Brien has written, “insinuating a passageway between their seams and reversing them, like a pocket turned inside out.” WS

the Sequoyah Center by educators Arlene Hirschfelder and Paulette Molin. There will be a reception at the opening of the exhibit at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5 in the gallery of the University Plaza on the south end of campus. In conjunction with the exhibit “Piranesi and Perspectives of Rome” in the main gallery of the Fine Arts Center, three historians will give talks throughout September about ancient Rome and the ways in which the etchings of 18th century artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi formed the way the Western world envisions the period. Dr. Heather Hyde Minor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne talks at 3 p.m. Sept. 7 on “Piranesi’s Afterlife” in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall; on Sept. 25, Dr. Carol Mattusch, pro-

fessor emerita from George Mason University, will give the talk “Pompeiian Dreams: Myths and Realities about the Ancient Romans” and Dr. Richard S. Mason of the University of Maryland will lecture on “Rediscovering Herculaneum and Pompeii.” The Piranesi exhibition includes UALR’s Thompson-Cromwell Portfolio, etchings printed in the Vatican in the first half of the 20th century from plates engraved in the 1700s. The perspective and mood of the complex linear etchings of Roman buildings and interiors portray a dark and somber majesty. The late architect Edwin Cromwell found the works in the attic of his fatherin-law, Charles Thompson, also an architect; Cromwell’s daughters donated them to UALR. LNP

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UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK

Exhibits and accompanying lectures at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock grapple with how art and artifacts can influence how we perceive unfamiliar cultures, sometimes dramatizing them, other times degrading them. The artifacts and documents on exhibit in the J.W. Wiggins Gallery of the Sequoyah National Research Center — “Toy Tipis and Totem Poles: Native American Stereotypes in the Lives of Children” — portrays the ways American material culture has influenced a generation’s idealization of native life, from big-nosed rubber Indians with tomahawks to sports memorabilia. There are 1,500 objects in the collection, donated to

argenta community theater will host “Opera in the Rock,” a night of one-act operas, 7:30 p.m. Friday and saturday, $35. comedy troupe the Main thing will open the new production “Whatshisname?” at the Joint (running through oct. 25), 8 p.m., $20. R&B singer Anthony David, known for his Grammy-nominated india. arie collaboration “words,” will be at club trois, 8 p.m., $20-$40. Local metal groups Burning Addison, Vail, Enchiridion and Legions Await will be at Revolution, 9 p.m., $7. John McAteer and Gentlemen Firesnakes will be at Vino’s with Pockets and Glittercore, 9 p.m., $5. kansas indie rock group Middle Twin will be at the white water tavern with locals Whale Fire, 10 p.m.

SATURDAY 9/6 centro-Matic and south san Gabriel singer Will Johnson will be at the Undercroft at christ church, 8 p.m., $15. More Cowbell and Four on the Floor will play a benefit for Rick skinner at Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $5. Bobby Bare Jr. will return to the white water tavern, 9:30 p.m. Tomten will be at the Lightbulb club in Fayetteville with High Lonesome and Doctor Nod, 10 p.m.

MONDAY 9/8 indie rock group Delta Spirit will be at Juanita’s with Little Rock favorites Amasa Hines, 8 p.m., $14 adv., $16 day of. Pennsylvania metal group Full of Hell will be at Revolution with Noisem and Ozark Shaman, 9 p.m., $7.

TUESDAY 9/9 the Jazz Eureka Festival, featuring the Fayetteville Jazz Collective, Ellis and Delfeayo Marsalis, Rodney Block and more, will be held in downtown eureka springs through sept. 14. the clinton school for Public service will host a presentation by Jeremy Rogoff, “how do we keep the Best teachers in the delta? coach ‘em up,” at 6 p.m. Kevin Kerby will be at the white water tavern with Mark Edgar Stuart, 9 p.m., $5. www.arktimes.com

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THURSDAY, SepT. 4

Music

Big Steel River. the Joint, 9:30 p.m. 301 main St. No. 102, NLr. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com. Cory Branan. White Water tavern, 9:30 p.m., $10. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com. “Inferno.” DJs play pop, electro, house and more, plus drink specials and $1 cover before 11 p.m. Sway, 9 p.m. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak room, 7 p.m. 500 president Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Karaoke. Zack’s place, 8 p.m., free. 1400 S. University Ave. 501-664-6444. Krush Thursdays with DJ Kavaleer. Club Climax, free before 11 p.m. 824 W. Capitol. 501-554-3437. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-tue. and thu. ernie biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Marquis Hunt. music and meditation thursdays. Christ episcopal Church, 12 and 5 p.m., free. 509 Scott St. 501-375-2342. Michael Eubanks. Newk’s express Cafe, 6:30 p.m. 4317 Warden road, NLr. 501-753-8559. newks.com. Open Jam. thirst n’ Howl, 8 p.m. 14710 Cantrell road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com. Open jam with The Port Arthur Band. parrot beach Cafe, 9 p.m. 9611 macArthur Drive, NLr. 771-2994. RockUsaurus. Senor tequila, 7-9 p.m. 10300 N. rodney parham road. 501-224-5505. www. senor-tequila.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital bar and Grill, 7:30 p.m., free. 111 markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CbG.

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Mark Matusoff, Jersey, David Graham. the Loony bin, through Sept. 6, 7:30 p.m.; through Sept. 6, 10 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. rodney parham road. 501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

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THREE CHORDS AND THE TRUTH: Anthony David will be at Club Trois 8 p.m. Friday, $20-$40.

events

CANstruction 2014. A design competition and charity benefiting the Arkansas Foodbank. Statehouse Convention Center, through Sept. 5. 7 Statehouse plaza. Geocaching. the Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 8:30 a.m. 602 president Clinton Ave. 501-907-0636. www.centralarkansasnaturecenter.com. Hillcrest Shop & Sip. Shops and restaurants offer discounts, later hours, and live music. Hillcrest, first thursday of every month, 5 p.m. p.O.box 251522. 501-666-3600. www.hillcrestmerchants. com. Vision Board Workshop. the Green Corner Store, 6:30 p.m., $30. 1423 main St. 501-3741111. www.thegreencornerstore.com.

Lectures

Charles Kimball. Lecture and book signing by the author of “When religion becomes Lethal.” ron robinson theater, 6:30 p.m., free. 1 pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals.lib.ar.us/ron-robinson-theater.aspx. “Memphis: The Musical,” a panel discussion.

With members of the rep’s creative team. Clinton School of public Service, 12 p.m. 1200 president Clinton Ave. 501-683-5239. www.clintonschool.uasys.edu.

Books

Rabbi Barry Block. book signing. WordsWorth books & Co., 5:30 p.m., free. 5920 r St. 501-6639198. www.wordsworthbooks.org.

FRIDAY, SepT. 5

Music

Anthony David. Club trois, 8 p.m., $20-$40. 4314 Asher Ave. 501-663-7803. Burning Addison, Vail, Enchiridion, Legions Await. revolution, 9 p.m., $7. 300 president Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com. Club Nights at 1620 Savoy. Dance night, with DJs, drink specials and bar menu, until 2 a.m. 1620 Savoy, 10 p.m. 1620 market St. 501-2211620. www.1620savoy.com. Cypress Creek Park Southern Gospel Singin. Cypress Creek park, through Sept. 6. Cypress Creek Avenue, Adona. 501-662-4918. www.

cypresscreekpark.com/. The Floozies, Late Night Radio, Dalton Richmond. George’s majestic Lounge, 9:30 p.m., $15. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479442-4226. Goodtime Ramblers. Afterthought bistro & bar. 2721 Kavanaugh blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com. John McAteer and Gentlemen Firesnakes, Pockets, Glittercore. Vino’s, 9 p.m., $5. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-tue. and thu. ernie biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Middle Twin, Whale Fire. White Water tavern, 10 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com. Nato, Fiscal Spliff, Grim Creeper. the Lightbulb Club, 10 p.m. 21 N. block Ave., Fayetteville. 479-444-6100. “Opera In The Rock.” A night of one-act operas. Argenta Community theater, Sept. 5-6, 7:30 p.m., $35. 405 main St., NLr. 501-353-1443. argentacommunitytheater.org. Randall Shreve and The Sideshow. Stickyz rock ‘n’ roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $6. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com. Route 66. Agora Conference and Special event Center, 6:30 p.m., $5. 705 e. Siebenmorgan, Conway. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CbG.

coMedy

The Main Thing’s “Whatshisname?”. the Joint, through Oct. 25: 8 p.m., $20. 301 main St. No. 102, NLr. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com. Mark Matusoff, Jersey, David Graham. the Loony bin, through Sept. 6, 7:30 p.m.; through Sept. 6, 10 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. rodney parham road. 501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

dance

Ballroom Dancing. Free lessons begin at 7 p.m. bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 8-11 p.m., $7-$13. 12th & Cleveland streets. 501-2217568. www.blsdance.org. Contra Dance. park Hill presbyterian Church, first and third Friday of every month, 7:30 p.m.; Fourth Friday of every month, 7:30 p.m., $5. 3520 JFK blvd., NLr. arkansascountrydance.org. “Salsa Night.” begins with a one-hour salsa lesson. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $8. 614 president Clinton

Ave. 501-372-1228. www.littlerocksalsa.com.

EvEnts

CANstruction 2014. A design competition and charity benefiting the Arkansas Foodbank. Statehouse Convention Center, through. 7 Statehouse plaza. Geocaching. the Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 8:30 a.m. 602 president Clinton Ave. 501-907-0636. www.centralarkansasnaturecenter.com. LGBTQ/SGL weekly meeting. Diverse Youth for Social Change is a group for LGbtQ/SGL and straight ally youth and young adults age 14 to 23. For more information, call 244-9690 or search “DYSC” on Facebook. LGbtQ/SGL Youth and Young Adult Group, 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St.

sports

Arkansas Travelers vs. Tulsa. Dickey-Stephens park, Sept. 5-6, 7:10 p.m.; Sept. 7, 2:10 p.m., $6-$12. 400 W. broadway St., NLr. 501-6641555. www.travs.com.

SATURDAY, SepT. 6

Music

The Big Dam Horns. Stickyz rock ‘n’ roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-3727707. www.stickyz.com. Bobby Bare Jr.. White Water tavern, 9:30 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com. Club Nights at 1620 Savoy. See Sep. 5. Cypress Creek Park Southern Gospel Singin. Cypress Creek park, through. Cypress Creek Avenue, Adona. 501-662-4918. www.cypresscreekpark.com/. The Floozies, Exmag, Fractal Sky. George’s majestic Lounge, 9 p.m., $15. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226. Jam Rock Saturday. twelve modern Lounge, first Saturday of every month, 9 p.m. 1900 W. third St. 501-301-1200. Karaoke at Khalil’s. Khalil’s pub, 7 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com. KABF 30th Birthday Fiesta. “Never too Young,” A tribute to Neil Young. South on main, 7 p.m., $10. 1304 main St. 501-244-9660. southonmain. com. Karaoke. Casa mexicana, 7 p.m. 6929 JFK blvd., NLr. 501-835-7876. Zack’s place, 8 p.m., free. 1400 S. University Ave. 501-664-6444. Karaoke with Kevin & Cara. All-ages, on the restaurant side. revolution, 9 p.m.-12:45 a.m., free. 300 president Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com. K.I.S.S. Saturdays. Featuring DJ Silky Slim. Dress code enforced. Sway, 10 p.m. 412 Louisiana. 501-492-9802. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-tue. and thu. ernie biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. More Cowbell, Four On The Floor. A benefit for rick Skinner. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $5. 614 president Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com. New Era Saturdays. 21-and-older. twelve modern Lounge, first Saturday of every month, 9 p.m., $5 cover until 11 p.m. 1900 W. third St. 501-301-1200. “Opera In The Rock.” A night of one-act operas. Argenta Community theater, 7:30 p.m., $35. 405 main St., NLr. 501-353-1443. argentacom-

munitytheater.org. Pickin’ Porch. bring your instrument. All ages welcome. Faulkner County Library, 9:30 a.m. 1900 tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www. fcl.org. Singer/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. Tomten, High Lonesome, Doctor Nod. the Lightbulb Club, 10 p.m. 21 N. block Ave., Fayetteville. 479-444-6100. White Noise, Lucid, Taliband, Our Dearly Departed. Vino’s, 9 p.m., $5. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com. Will Johnson. the Undercroft. Christ episcopal Church, 8 p.m., $15. 509 Scott St. 501-375-2342.

coMEdy

The Main Thing’s “Whatshisname?”. the Joint, through Oct. 25: 8 p.m., $20. 301 main St. No. 102, NLr. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com. Mark Matusoff, Jersey, David Graham. the Loony bin, 7:30 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. rodney parham road. 501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

dancE

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

EvEnts

22nd Annual Antique Tractor & Engine Show. plantation Agriculture museum, 9 a.m., free. 4815 Hwy. 161 S., Scott. 961-1409. www.arkansasstateparks.com/plantationagriculturemuseum. 40th Annual Little Rock Farmers’ Market. river market pavilions, through Oct. 25: 7 a.m. 400 president Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info. Argenta Farmers Market. Argenta Farmers market, 7 a.m. 6th and main St., NLr. 501-8317881. www.argentaartsdistrict.org/argenta-farmers-market/. Falun Gong meditation. Allsopp park, 9 a.m., free. Cantrell & Cedar Hill roads. Full Out Freestyle Culture Fashion Show. University of Arkansas at Little rock, 6 p.m., $15. 2801 S. University. ualr.edu. Geocaching. the Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 8:30 a.m. 602 president Clinton Ave. 501-907-0636. www.centralarkansasnaturecenter.com. Greyhound 100 Year Mobile Tour. mcCain mall Shopping Center, 10 a.m., Free. 3929 mcCain blvd., NLr. Hillcrest Farmers Market. pulaski Heights baptist Church, 7 a.m.-2 p.m. 2200 Kavanaugh blvd. Historic Neighborhoods Tour. bike tour of historic neighborhoods includes bike, guide, helmets and maps. bobby’s bike Hike, 9 a.m., $8-$28. 400 president Clinton Ave. 501-613-7001. International Observe the Moon Night. Hosted by the Central Arkansas Astronomical Society. Argenta Farmers market, 7 p.m., free. 6th and main St., NLr. 501-831-7881. www.argentaartsdistrict.org/argenta-farmers-market/. Pork & Bourbon Tour. bike tour includes bicycle, Continued on page 29

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s Above, So Below” is a re- — “As Above, So Below” wedges you, the lentlessly stressful horror viewer, into ever-tighter, ever-freakier flick in the model of a clas- holes and crannies. Once the sympasic haunted house B-movie, with a thetic claustrophobia kicks in, virtually twist. A ragtag group of explorers, anything that happens is scary as all led by an obsessive young archaeolo- get-out. It’s a cheap thrill, yes, but a gist named Scarlett (Perdita Weeks), thrill all the same. is spelunking into the recesses of the Director John Erick Dowdle and his catacombs beneath Paris, searching for brother, Drew Dowdle, also wrote the a magical doodad. The further down screenplay. They relied heavily on lines they get, the more obvious it becomes like “We just have to keep going,” and that they’re descending into hell it- slight variations. The trick is building self. This begets predicament. Shot a lead so monomaniacal that Scarlett by cameras carried and worn by the will persevere even when, say, tunplayers — they’re making a documen- nels of bones collapse around them, tary, so the found-footage gimmick so or when everyone seems to be sharing popular in schlocky, low-budget horror grisly hallucinations. The others in the movies at least makes some sense here makeshift treasure-hunting party — a

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boyfriendy translator, a documentar- bit hole. Momentum alone can make up ian and three hired Parisian under- for a fair heaping of jibberish. The tight confines and the hopelessworld Sherpas — ought to know better than to continue following. Yet this ness of burrowing further into shrinkis a mousetrap of clever construction. ing caverns recalls another tight little This labyrinth filled with generations horror movie of recent vintage, “The of French corpses keeps contorting Descent.” Unlike that spectacle, “As and closing up behind our travelers. Above, So Below” doesn’t belabor the Offered the choice between quitting physical torment of its characters; gore and continuing deeper into an escalat- stays to a minimum, befitting such obviing black maze of creepy awfulness, the ous influences as the Indiana Jones only logical choice, as stupefying as it canon and “The Blair Witch Project.” often seems, turns out to be the latter. Dowdle knows that in the pitch dark, Dowdle does a serviceable job coax- visuals are often less frightening than ing naturalistic performances out of his mere imagination, which he feeds amply cast, all relative no-names whose act- with some of the best sound effects ing credits include a lot of television, if you’ll come across in this genre. The that. The pace doesn’t slack, even during sound of a ringing phone, eerie singing, stretches that could mostly be deemed the low rumble of earth and of — are “slow,” if in fact six people weren’t con- those human voices? Perhaps livestock? tinuing to traipse further into an end- — other faraway noises, thrumming up less cave. Speed helps us move past the through the ground, adds to the sense of spotty logic. Why the hell did they just doom constricting our terrified explordo that? Oh, who cares, because they’re ers. Horror purists aren’t likely to care already onto something else. Even the much for the ending, but as they stagmystical Christianity that propels much ger back out into the light of day, they of the quasi-supernatural scares starts will feel a sense of relief that at least to make more sense as the movie trips they’re not lost 400 feet beneath Paris further down the world’s nastiest rab- anymore.

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SportS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Tulsa. Dickey-Stephens park, through Sept. 6, 7:10 p.m.; Sept. 7, 2:10 p.m., $6-$12. 400 W. broadway St., NLr. 501664-1555. www.travs.com.

BenefitS

Bike MS: Rock’n Hot Ride. A cycling event that raises funds and awareness for the National multiple Sclerosis Society. Garver LLC, Sept. 6-7. 4701 Northshore Drive, NLr. bikemSarkansas.org.

BookS

John D. Mimms. book-signing by the ghost hunter and author of “the tesla Gata.” Hastings, 1 p.m. 1360 Old morrilton Hwy., Conway. 501329-1108.

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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. Organist John Churchwell. Afternoon at the movies. First United methodist Church, 3 p.m. 723 Center St. Joseph Israel. George’s majestic Lounge, 9 p.m., $10. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-4424226. Karaoke. Shorty Small’s, 6-9 p.m. 1475 Hogan Lane, Conway. 501-764-0604. www.shortysmalls.com. Karaoke with DJ Sara. Hardrider bar & Grill, 7 p.m., free. 6613 John Harden Drive, Cabot. 501-982-1939 ‎. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-tue. and thu. ernie biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Michael Eubanks. Lone Star Steakhouse and Saloon, 7 p.m. 10901 N. rodney parham road. 501-227-8898. www.lonestarsteakhouse.com. Saracen Sunday. With live music by Gary Wilson and the Untouchables and Dave Sadler. Saracen Landing, 4 p.m., $5. 200 Lake Saracen Drive, pine bluff.

eventS

Bernice Garden Farmer’s Market. bernice Garden, 10 a.m. 1401 S. main St. www.thebernicegarden.org. Geocaching. the Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 8:30 a.m. 602 president Clinton Ave. 501-907-0636. www.centralarkansasnaturecenter.com. “Live from the Back Room.” Spoken word event. Vino’s, 7 p.m. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www. vinosbrewpub.com.

LectureS

“Christian Faith And Modern Science.” trinity episcopal Cathedral, 10:15 a.m., free. 310 W. 17th St.

SportS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Tulsa. Dickey-Stephens park, 2:10 p.m., $6-$12. 400 W. broadway St., NLr. 501-664-1555. www.travs.com.

BenefitS

Bike MS: Rock’n Hot Ride. See Sep. 6.

MONDAY, Sept. 8

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Delta Spirit, Amasa Hines. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $14 adv., $16 day of. 614 president Clinton Ave. 501372-1228. www.juanitas.com. Full of Hell, Noisem, Ozark Shaman. revolution, 9 p.m., $7. 300 president Clinton Ave. 501-8230090. revroom.com. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-tue. and thu. ernie biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Monday Night Jazz. Afterthought bistro & bar, 8 p.m., $5. 2721 Kavanaugh blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com. Richie Johnson. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf. com.

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Finding Family Facts. rhonda Stewart’s genealogy research class for beginners. Arkansas Studies Institute, second monday of every month, 3:30 p.m. 401 president Clinton Ave. 501-320-5700 ‎. www.butlercenter.org.

tUeSDAY, Sept. 9

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Brian and Nick. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf. com. Irish Traditional Music Sessions. Hibernia Irish tavern, second and Fourth tuesday of every month, 7-9 p.m. 9700 N. rodney parham road. 501-246-4340. www.hiberniairishtavern.com. Jazz Eureka Festival. Featuring the Fayetteville Jazz Collective, ellis and Delfeayo marsalis, rodney block and more. Downtown eureka Springs, Sept. 9-14. Downtown eureka Springs, eureka Springs. Jeff Ling. Khalil’s pub, 6 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak room, 7 p.m. 500 president Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Karaoke Tuesday. prost, 8 p.m., free. 322 president Clinton blvd. 501-244-9550. Karaoke Tuesdays. On the patio. Stickyz rock ‘n’ roll Chicken Shack, 7:30 p.m., free. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz. com. Kevin Kerby, Mark Edgar Stuart. White Water tavern, 9 p.m., $5. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-tue. and thu. ernie biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Music Jam. Hosted by elliott Griffen and Joseph Fuller. the Joint, 8-11 p.m., free. 301 main St. No. 102, NLr. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com. Tuesday Jam Session with Carl Mouton. Afterthought bistro & bar, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

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dance

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EvEnts

G e o c a c h i n g . t h e W i t t S t e p h e n s J r. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 8:30 a.m. 602 president Clinton Ave. 501907-0636. www.centralarkansasnaturecenter.com. “ I t ’s i n t h e B a g : L u n c h ‘ n L e a r n S e r i e s . ” W i t h K A b F ’s J o h n C a i n , UALr’s Dr. John Kirk and live music by Off the Cuff. mosaic templars Cultural Center, 11:30 a.m., free. 501 W. 9th S t . 5 0 1 - 6 8 3 - 3 5 9 3 . w w w. m o s a i c t e m plarscenter.com. Little Rock Green Drinks. Informal

networking session for people who work in the environmental field. Ciao baci, 5:30-7 p.m. 605 N. beechwood St. 501-603-0238. www.greendrinks. org. Ozark Storytellers Story Swap. Ozark Folk Center State park, 6:30 p.m. 1032 park Ave., mountain View. Trivia Bowl. Flying Saucer, 8:30 p.m. 323 president Clinton Ave. 501-3728 0 3 2 . w w w. b e e r k n u rd . c o m / s t o re s / littlerock.

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“How Do We Keep the Best Teachers in The Delta? Coach ‘em up”. A presentation by Jeremy rogoff. Sturgis

Hall, 6 p.m. 1200 president Clinton Ave. 501-683-5200. clintonschool.uasys.edu.

Books

Eric Shonkwiler, Rodney Wilhite, Kody Ford, Kara Bibb, Benjamin Del Shreve. Nightbird books, 7 p.m. 205 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-2080. www. nightbirdbooks.com.

WEDNESDAY, SEpt. 10

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Chris Michaels and The Cranks. South on main, 7:30 p.m., free. 1304 main St. 501-244-9660. southonmain.com. Jazz Eureka Festival. See Sep. 9. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak room, 7 p.m. 500 president Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Julia Buckingham Group. riverfront park, 6 p.m., Free. riverfront park, 6 p.m., free. 400 president Clinton Avenue. Karaoke at Khalil’s. Khalil’s pub, 7 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com. Karaoke. mUSe Ultra Lounge, 8:30 p.m., free. 2611 Kavanaugh blvd. 501-663-6398. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-tue. and thu. ernie biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com. Open Mic Nite with Deuce. thirst n’ Howl, 7:30 p.m., free. 14710 Cantrell road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com. Shane Lee. Stickyz rock ‘n’ roll Chicken Shack, 8 p.m., $8 adv., $10 day of. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital bar and Grill, 7:30 p.m., free. 111 markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CbG.

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The Joint Venture. Improv comedy group. the Joint, 8 p.m., $7. 301 main St. No. 102, NLr. 501372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com. Todd Rexx. the Loony bin, Sept. 10-13, 7:30 p.m.; Sept. 12-13, 10 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. rodney parham road. 501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

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Jasmin Richardson, Courtney Blackmun, J Nycole Ralph, Tatiana H. Green in The Rep’s production of Memphis the Musical.

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Little Rock Bop Club. beginning dance lessons for ages 10 and older. Singles welcome. bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 7 p.m., $4 for members, $7 for guests. 12th & Cleveland streets. 501-350-4712. www.littlerockbopclub.

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Geocaching. the Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 8:30 a.m. 602 president Clinton Ave. 501-907-0636. www.centralarkansasnaturecenter.com.

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“Ugetsu.” Splice microcinema. Few, 8 p.m., donations. 220 W. 6th St., Suite A. 501-628-9270.

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“The Arkansas River Trail.” brown bag Lunch Lecture. Old State House museum, 12 p.m., free. 500 Clinton Ave. 501-3249685. www.oldstatehouse.com. “The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election..” Sturgis Hall, 12 p.m., free. 1200 president Clinton Ave. 501-683-5200. clintonschool.uasys.edu. Peter Rollins. First United methodist Church, 9 a.m., 12 and 5 p.m., free. 723 Center St.

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Wednesday Night Poetry. 21-and-older show. maxine’s, 7 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-321-0909. maxineslive.com/shows.html.

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ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, macArthur park: “Poet in Copper: Engravings by Evan Lindquist,” Sept. 5-Oct. 26; “12th national Drawing Invitational: Outside the Lines,” through Oct. 5; “Inspiration to Illumination: recent Work by museum School photography Instructors,” through

El Dorado SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, 110 e. Fifth St.: “Clementine Hunter: the Nolan Collections,” Sept. 5-Oct. 31, opening reception 6-8 p.m. Sept. 5. Hot Springs ALISON PARSONS GALLERY, 802 Central Ave.: Work by Kevin Chrislip, through September, open 5-9 p.m. Sept. 5 for Gallery Walk. 501-655-0604. ARTISTS WORKSHOP GALLERY, 610 A Central Ave.: paintings by Nina Louton and Millie Steveken, through September, open 5-9 p.m. Sept. 5 for Gallery Walk. 50-623-6401. BLUE MOON GALLERY, 718 Central Ave.: Final exhibit: “Eve,” mixed media by Thad Flenniken, through September, open 5-9 p.m. Sept. 5 for Gallery Walk. 501-318-2787. FINE ARTS CENTER, 626 Central Ave. and prospect: “Form, Color, Line,” contemporary abstraction, through Oct. 25, open 5-9 p.m. Sept. 5 for Gallery Walk. 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. tue.-Sat. 501-624-0489. JUSTUS FINE ART, 827 Central Ave.: mixed media paintings by V. Noe, through September, open 5-9 p.m. Sept. 5 for Gallery Walk. 501-321-2335. Fayetteville BOTTLE ROCKET GALLERY, 1495 Finger road: Ceramics by Ginny Sims, through Sept. 30. 479-466-3823. Jonesboro A R K A N S A S S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y : “Legacy: evan Lindquist,” etchings by the professor emeritus and Arkansas’s artist laureate; “Selections: From the Delta National Small prints exhibition,” through Oct. 1, gallery talk 5:30 p.m. Sept. 5, bradbury Gallery. 870-9722567.

CONTINUING ART EXHIBITS (CENTRAL ARkANSAS) ARKANSAS CAPITAL CORP. GROUP, 200 river market Ave., Suite 400: “bold Contrasts: Works by tod Switch, matt mcLeod and robert bean.” 374-9247. ARKANSAS INLAND MARITIME MUSEUM, North Little rock: 371-8320. ARKANSAS SPORTS HALL OF FAME MUSEUM, Verizon Arena, NLr: 10 a.m.4:30 p.m. mon.-Sat. 663-4328. BOSWELL MOUROT, 5815 Kavanaugh blvd.: Grace ramsey, paintings. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 664-0030. THE BURGUNDY HOTEL, 1501 merrill Drive: “the Shape of Life,” paintings by Dan thornhill and matthew Gore in the atrium of the renovated Governors Suites. 960-9524. BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 president Clinton Ave.: “Quapaw Quarter: Where Little rock History Lives,” blueprints and photographs; “Home Demonstration Clubs or How Women Saved the South,” paintings by Katherine Strause, through Sept. 11. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. mon.-Sat. 320-5790. CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell road: “Arkansas traveler,” new paintings by John Deering, through Oct. 18. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. mon.-Sat. 224-1335. CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER, 1200 president Clinton Ave.: “Chihuly,” studio glass, through Jan. 5, 2015; permanent exhibits on the Clinton administration. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. mon.Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $7 adults; $5 college students, seniors, retired military; $3 ages 6-17. 370-8000. CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 509 Scott St.: paintings by members of the Co-Op Art Group. 375-2342. CHROMA GALLERY, 5707 Kavanaugh blvd.: Work by robert reep and other Arkansas artists. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. mon.Fri., 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 664-0880.

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StudioMAIN is taking applications from artists for sculpture to be placed in three areas of main Street between 12th and 17th streets. For more information contact James meyer, southmainpublicart@ gmail.com or 374-5300, or go to www. southmainpublicart.com. proposals are due by Dec. 15.

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the Conway Alliance for the Arts is seeking volunteers for its 8th annual ArtsFest set for Sept. 26-Oct. 5. there will be a public meeting at 2 p.m. Sept. 7 at the Faulkner County Library to talk about the event and identify needs. For more information, go to artsinconway.org or call beth Norwood, 501-4725037 or Shawn Goicoechea, 509-910-5339. ArtsFest is also taking applications for booths for the “Art in the Park” event set for Oct. 4 in Conway’s Simon park. prizes will be awarded to non-student and student artists. For more information, contact kathrynoneal@gmail.com.

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Conway UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS: Illustrations on paper by Fay Ku, photographs by Kathleen Robbins, paintings by Theresa Pfarr, opens with reception 4 p.m. Sept. 4, shows through Oct. 24, baum Gallery. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. mon.-Fri., to 7 p.m. thu.

Russellville THE FRAME SHOP AND GALLERY, 311 W. C St.: Dog portraiture by beth Whitlow, through Sept. 26. 479-445-3525.

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Oct. 26, museum School Gallery; 56th annual “Delta exhibition,” works by 65 artists from Arkansas and surrounding states, through Sept. 28, “Susan paulsen: Wilmot,” photographs, through Sept. 28. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000. SEQUOYAH NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER: “Toy Tipis and Totem Poles: Native American Stereotypes in the Lives of Children,” more than 1,500 objects and documents from the Hirschfelder-molin collection, opens with reception 5:30 p.m. Sept. 5, show through Dec. 19. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. mon.-Fri. 569-8336. UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: “piranesi and perspectives of rome,” Gallery I, through Oct. 5; “Piranesi’s Afterlife,” lecture by Dr. Heather Hyde minor, 3 p.m. Sept. 7, Stella boyle Smith Concert Hall; “teaching a Canary to Sing,” sculptural installation by Catherine Siri Nugent, through Sept. 28; “Small Works on paper,” Gallery III, through Sept. 26. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat., 2-5 p.m. Sun. 569-8977.

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4 SQuARE cAFE ANd gIFTS Vegetarian salads, soups, wraps and paninis and a broad selection of smoothies in an Arkansas products gift shop. 405 president Clinton Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-244-2622. bLD daily. ApplE SpIcE JuNcTIoN A chain sandwich and salad spot with sit-down lunch space and a vibrant box lunch catering business. With a wide range of options and quick service. Order online via applespice.com. 2000 S. University Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-663-7008. L mon.-Fri. (10 a.m.-3 p.m.). ARKANSAS BuRgER co. Good burgers, fries and shakes, plus salads and other entrees. try the cheese dip. 7410 Cantrell road. beer and wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-0600. LD tue.-Sat. BEllWood dINER traditional breakfasts and plate lunch specials are the norm at this lostin-time hole in the wall. 3815 macArthur Drive. NLr. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-753-1012. bL mon.-Fri. ThE BlINd pIg tasty bar food, including Zweigle’s brand hot dogs. 6015 Chenonceau blvd. Full bar, CC. $-$$. 501-868-8194. D. tue.-Sun., L Sat.-Sun. BoNEFISh gRIll A half-dozen or more types of fresh fish filets are offered daily at this upscale chain. 11525 Cantrell road. Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-228-0356. D mon.-Sat., LD Sun. BRAVE NEW RESTAuRANT Chef/owner peter brave was doing “farm to table” before most of us knew the term. His focus is on fresh, highquality ingredients prepared elegantly but simply. Ordering the fish special is never a bad choice. His chocolate creme brulee sets the pace. 2300 Cottondale Lane. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-2677. LD mon.-Fri. D Sat. BRAY gouRMET dElI ANd cATERINg turkey spreads in four flavors — original, jalapeno, Cajun and dill — and the homemade pimiento cheese are the signature items at Chris bray’s delicatessen, which serves sandwiches, wraps, soups, stuffed potatoes and salads and sells the turkey spreads to go. 323 Center St. Suite 150. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-353-1045. bL mon.-Fri. BuFFAlo WIld WINgS A sports bar on steroids with numerous humongous tVs and a menu full of thirst-inducing items. the wings, 34

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Middle Eastern delight Ali Baba worth seeking out.

ood lovers craving variety would do well to spend some time in South Little Rock. Soul food, taco trucks, great Chinese and Vietnamese — there’s a lot of different, delicious things going on south of 12th Street. One of our favorites is Ali Baba, a little grocery store with a small restaurant tucked in behind Subway right across from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The setup of the shopping center where Ali Baba is located is an odd one, with strip centers coming from seemingly random directions to form a maze of a parking lot. The big chains — Burger King, Little Caesars, the aforementioned Subway — get all the road-facing storefronts, but digging a little deeper has its rewards, in this case fresh gyros, kebabs and other Middle Eastern delights. For appetizers, we recommend the hummus ($3.99), a tangy chickpea puree served in an artistic swirl on a small plate and topped by really good olive oil and just a touch of spice. For something a little more unique, get an order of halloumi (shown on the menu as “fried cheese,” $3.99). This is a wonderful appetizer made from cheese with such a high melting point that it can be seared on the grill. The result is a plate of tangy, salty bites of cheese. It’s a shame that each plate only comes with four squares of cheese, because this is a dish we could eat quite a lot of. Diners on the go will be drawn to the gyro and chicken shawarma sandwiches ($5.99), and while we’ve always considered Layla’s on Rodney Parham our favorite gyro, the edge for chicken shawarma swings decidedly to Ali Baba. Richly seasoned chicken is sliced from the rotating roaster, then given just a touch of sear on the grill, wrapped in pita and topped with lettuce, tomato, onions,

and some of the best yogurt sauce we’ve ever tried. Best of all, the sandwiches are wrapped in foil for easy travel, making it fast food that tastes gourmet. When we have some time to sit and enjoy a plate of food, though, it’s

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the combination platter ($12.95) we must have. Chicken shawarma, beef shawarma, and lamb kebab are all piled together in a massive mound of protein goodness and served with a fresh, crisp salad of cucumbers and tomatoes and a small portion of hummus. The chicken and beef are fantastic, just as they are in the shawarma sandwich, but it’s the lamb kebabs that really make this plate shine. It’s truly a feast, and while each of these items can be ordered separately, what better way to hit all the high points of a restaurant’s menu than to order them all together? They do things a little differently at Ali Baba. Sure, you might

have to flag down somebody behind the counter to put your order in, and yes, it’s confusing at first about where you pay your check (up front where the grocery checkout is). And granted, if you want a drink, you’ll have to head back to the back of the store where the coolers are filled with everything from Middle Eastern fruit and coffee drinks to American sodas. Don’t let the differences deter you. Head in, go with the flow, and just enjoy one of Little Rock’s greatest ethnic dining experiences — in a part of town that is full of them. Just try to control yourself when it comes to that fried cheese .

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spreads to go. 323 Center St. Suite 150. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-353-1045. bL mon.-Fri. BUFFALO WILD WINGS A sports bar on steroids with numerous humongous tVs and a menu full of thirst-inducing items. the wings, which can be slathered with one of 14 sauces, are the starring attraction and will undoubtedly have fans. 14800 Cantrell road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-868-5279. LD daily. BY THE GLASS A broad but not ridiculously large wine list is studded with interesting, diverse selections, and prices are uniformly reasonable. the food focus is on high-end items that pair well with wine -- olives, hummus, cheese, bread, and some meats and sausages. Happy hour daily from 4-6 p.m. 5713 Kavanaugh blvd. beer and wine, All CC. $$. 501-663-9463. D mon.-Sat. CAFE@HEIFER Serving fresh pastries, omelets, soups, salads, sandwiches and pizzas. Located inside Heifer Village. 1 World Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $. 501-907-8801. bL mon.-Fri. CAPITAL BAR AND GRILL big hearty sandwiches, daily lunch specials and fine evening dining all rolled up into one at this landing spot downtown. Surprisingly inexpensive with a great bar staff and a good selection of unique desserts. 111 markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-374-7474. LD daily. CAPITOL BISTRO Serving breakfast and lunch items, including quiche, sandwiches, coffees and the like. 1401 W. Capitol Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-371-9575. bL mon.-Fri. CATERING TO YOU painstakingly prepared entrees and great appetizers in this gourmetto-go location, attached to a gift shop. Caters everything from family dinners to weddings and large corporate events. 8121 Cantrell road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-614-9030. Serving meals to go: LD mon.-Sat. CATFISH HOLE Downhome place for wellcooked catfish and tasty hushpuppies. 603 e. Spriggs. NLr. beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-758-3516. D tue.-Sat. CIAO BACI the focus is on fine dining in this casually elegant Hillcrest bungalow, though excellent tapas are out of this world. the tree-shaded, light-strung deck is a popular destination. 605 N. beechwood St. Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-603-0238. D mon.-Sat. CRAZEE’S COOL CAFE Good burgers, daily plate specials and bar food amid pool tables and tVs. 7626 Cantrell road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-221-9696. LD mon.-Sat. CUPCAKES ON KAVANAUGH Gourmet cupcakes and coffee, indoor seating. 5625 Kavanaugh blvd. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-664-2253. LD mon.-Sat. DEMPSEY BAKERY bakery with sit down area, serving coffee and specializing in gluten-, nut- and soy-free baked goods. 323 Cross St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-375-2257. Serving bL tue.-Sat. DIXON ROAD BLUES CAFE Sandwiches, burgers and salads. 1505 W. Dixon road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-888-2233. D Fri.-Sat. DOE’S EAT PLACE A skid-row dive

turned power brokers’ watering hole with huge steaks, great tamales and broiled shrimp, and killer burgers at lunch. 1023 W. markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-376-1195. LD mon.-Fri., D Sat. DOUBLETREE PLAZA BAR & GRILL the lobby restaurant in the Doubletree is elegantly comfortable, but you’ll find no airs put on at heaping breakfast and lunch buffets. 424 West markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-372-4371. bLD daily. EJ’S EATS AND DRINKS the friendly neighborhood hoagie shop downtown serves at a handful of tables and by delivery. the sandwiches are generous, the soup homemade and the salads cold. Vegetarians can craft any number of acceptable meals from the flexible menu. the housemade potato chips are da bomb. 523 Center St. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-3700. LD mon.-Fri. FILIBUSTER’S BISTRO & LOUNGE Sandwiches, salads in the Legacy Hotel. 625 W. Capitol Ave. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-374-0100. D mon.-Fri. FIVE GUYS BURGERS & FRIES Nationwide burger chain with emphasis on freshly made fries and patties. 2923 Lakewood Village Drive. NLr. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-246-5295. LD daily. 13000 Chenal parkway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-2251100. LD daily. FLYING FISH the fried seafood is fresh and crunchy and there are plenty of raw, boiled and grilled offerings, too. the hamburgers are a hit, too. It’s counter service; wander on through the screen door and you’ll find a slick team of cooks and servers doing a creditable job of serving big crowds. 511 president Clinton Ave. beer and wine, All CC. $$. 501-375-3474. LD daily. GINO’S PIZZA AND PHILLY STEAK 8000 Geyer Springs road. 501-562-0152. LD daily. THE GRAND CAFE typical hotel restaurant fare from this Hilton cafe. 925 South University Ave. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-664-5020. bLD daily. GRUMPY’S TOO music venue and sports bar with lots of tVs, pub grub and regular drink specials. 1801 Green mountain Drive. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-225-3768. LD mon.-Sat. G U S ’ S W O R L D FA M O U S F R I E D CHICKEN the best fried chicken in town can now be had in West Little rock. 400 N. bowman. beer. LD daily. G U S ’ S W O R L D FA M O U S F R I E D CHICKEN the best fried chicken in town. Go for chicken and waffles on Sundays. 300 president Clinton Ave. beer, CC. $-$$. 501-372-2211. LD daily.; 400 N. bowman. beer. LD daily. HOMER’S Great vegetables, huge yeast rolls and killer cobblers. Follow the mobs. 2001 e. roosevelt road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-374-1400. bL mon.-Fri. 9700 N rodney parham. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-224-6637. LD mon.-Sat. IRONHORSE SALOON bar and grill offering juicy hamburgers and cheese-

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burgers. 9125 mann road. Full bar, All CC. $. 501-562-4464. LD daily. J. GUMBO’S Fast-casual Cajun fare served, primarily, in a bowl. better than expected. 12911 Cantrell road. beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-916-9635. LD daily. JIMMY’S SERIOUS SANDWICHES Consistently fine sandwiches, side orders and desserts for 30 years. Chicken salad’s among the best in town, and there are fun specialty sandwiches such as thai One On and the Garden. Get there early for lunch. 5116 W. markham St. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. 501-666-3354. L mon.-Sat., D mon.-Sat. (drive-through only). K. HALL AND SONS Neighborhood grocery store with excellent lunch counter. the cheeseburger is hard to beat. 1900 Wright Avenue. No alcohol, CC. $. 501-372-1513. bLD mon.-Sat. (closes at 6 p.m.), bL Sun. KRAZY MIKE’S po’boys, catfish and shrimp and other fishes, fried chicken wings and all the expected sides served up fresh and hot to order on demand. 200 N. bowman road. beer, All CC. $$. 501-907-6453. LD mon.-Sat. LOCA LUNA Grilled meats, seafood and pasta dishes that never stray far from country roots, whether Italian, Spanish or Arkie. “Gourmet plate lunches” are good, as is Sunday brunch. 3519 Old Cantrell road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-6634666. br Sun., LD mon.-Fri., D Sat. THE MAIN CHEESE A restaurant devoted to grilled cheese. 14524 Cantrell road. beer and wine. $-$$. 501-367-8082. LD mon.-Sat. MILFORD TRACK Healthy and tasty are the key words at this deli/grill that serves breakfast and lunch. Hot entrees change daily and there are soups, sandwiches, salads and killer desserts. bread is baked in-house, and there are several veggie options. 10809 executive Center Dr., Searcy building. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-223-2257. bL mon.-Fri., L Sat. NATCHEZ RESTAURANT Smart, elegant takes on Southern classics. 323 Center St. beer and wine, CC. $$-$$$. 501-372-1167. L tue.-Fri., D Wed.-Sat. OYSTER BAR Gumbo, red beans and rice (all you can eat on mondays), peeland-eat shrimp, oysters on the half shell, addictive po’ boys. Killer jukebox. 3003 W. markham St. beer and wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-7100. LD mon.-Sat. OZARK COUNTRY RESTAURANT A long-standing favorite with many Little rock residents, the eatery specializes in big country breakfasts and pancakes plus sandwiches and several meat-andtwo options for lunch and dinner. try the pancakes and don’t leave without some sort of smoked meat. 202 Keightley Drive. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-7319. bL daily. PA N C E T TA R E G I O N A L K I T C H E N Upscale hotel food. 3 Statehouse plaza. Full bar, CC. $$-$$$. 501-399-8000. LD daily. PANERA BREAD this bakery/cafe serves freshly-baked breads, bagels and pastries every morning as well as a full line of espresso beverages. panera also offers a full menu of sandwiches, hand-tossed salads and hearty soups. 314 S. University. 501-664-6878. bLD. PA N E R A B R E A D t h i s b a k e r y / c a f e

serves freshly baked breads, bagels and pastries every morning as well as a full line of espresso beverages. panera also offers a full menu of sandwiches, handtossed salads and hearty soups. 11525 Cantrell road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-227-0222. bLD daily.; 314 S. University. 501-664-6878. bLD. PLAYTIME PIZZA tons of fun isn’t rained out by lackluster eats at the new playtime pizza, the $11 million, 65,000-square-foot kidtopia near the rave theater. While the buffet is only so-so, features like indoor mini-golf, laser tag, go karts, arcade games and bumper cars make it a winner for both kids and adults. 600 Colonel Glenn plaza Loop. All CC. $-$$. 501-2277529. D mon.-Wed., LD thu.-Sun. P U R P L E C O W D I N E R 1950s fare -cheeseburgers, chili dogs, thick milk shakes -- in a ‘50s setting at today’s prices. 8026 Cantrell road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-221-3555. LD daily, br Sat.-Sun. 11602 Chenal pkwy. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-224-4433. LD daily, br Sat.-Sun. 1419 Higden Ferry road. Hot Springs. beer, All CC. $$. 501-625-7999. LD daily, b Sun. THE RELAY STATION this grill offers a short menu, which includes chicken strips, French fries, hamburgers, jalapeno poppers and cheese sticks. 12225 Stagecoach road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-455-9919. LD daily. THE ROOT CAFE Homey, local foodsfocused cafe. With tasty burgers, homemade bratwurst, banh mi and a number of vegan and veggie options. breakfast and Sunday brunch, too. 1500 S. main St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-414-0423. bL tue.-Sat., br Sun. SALUT BISTRO this bistro/late-night hangout does upscale tapas. 1501 N. University. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-660-4200. L mon.-Fri., D tue.-Sat. SANDY’S HOMEPLACE CAFE Specializing in home style buffet, with two meats and seven vegetables to choose from. It’s all-you-can-eat. 1710 e 15th St. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-375-3216. L mon.-Fri. SCALLIONS reliably good food, great desserts, pleasant atmosphere, able servers -- a solid lunch spot. 5110 Kavanaugh blvd. beer and wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-6468. L mon.-Sat. SCOOP DOG 5508 John F. Kennedy blvd. NLr. No alcohol, No CC. 501-753-5407. LD daily. SHAKE’S FROZEN CUSTARD Frozen custards, concretes, sundaes. 12011 Westhaven Dr. No alcohol, All CC. $. 501-224-0150. LD daily. SHIPLEY DO-NUTS With locations just about everywhere in Central Arkansas, it’s hard to miss Shipley’s. their signature smooth glazed doughnuts and dozen or so varieties of fills are well known. 7514 Cantrell rd. No alcohol, All CC. $. 501-664-5353. b daily. SHORTY SMALL’S Land of big, juicy burgers, massive cheese logs, smoky barbecue platters and the signature onion loaf. 1100 N. rodney parham road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-224-3344. LD daily. SLIM CHICKENS Chicken tenders and wings served fast. b etter than the Colonel. 4500 W. markham. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-907-0111. LD daily. SONNY WILLIAMS’ STEAK ROOM

Steaks, chicken and seafood in a wonderful setting in the river market. Steak gets pricey, though. menu is seasonal, changes every few months. 500 president Clinton Ave. Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-324-2999. D mon.-Sat. SOUTH ON MAIN Fine, innovative takes on Southern fare in a casual, but wellappointed setting. 1304 main St. Full bar, CC. $-$$. 501-244-9660. L mon.-Fri., D tue.-Sat. STAGECOACH GROCERY AND DELI Fine po’ boys and muffalettas -- and cheap. 6024 Stagecoach road. beer and wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-455-7676. bLD mon.-Fri., bL Sat.-Sun. TABLE 28 excellent fine dining with lots of creative flourishes. branch out and try the Crispy Squid Filet and Quail bird Lollipops. 1501 merrill Drive. Full bar, CC. $$$-$$$$. 224-2828. D mon.-Sat. T E R R I - LY N N ’ S BBQ AND DELICATESSEN High-quality meats served on large sandwiches and good tamales served with chili or without (the better bargain). 10102 N. rodney parham road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-227-6371. L tue.-Fri., LD Sat. (close at 5pm). WEST END SMOKEHOUSE AND TAVERN Its primary focus is a sports bar with 50-plus tVs, but the dinner entrees (grilled chicken, steaks and such) are plentiful and the bar food is upper quality. 215 N. Shackleford. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-224-7665. L Fri.-Sun., D daily. WING LOVERS 4411 W 12th St. 501-6633166. LD mon.-Sat. WING SHACK 6323 Colonel Glenn road. No alcohol. 501-562-0010. WINGSTOP It’s all about wings. the joint features 10 flavors of chicken flappers for almost any palate, including mild, hot, Cajun and atomic, as well as specialty flavors like lemon pepper, teriyaki, Garlic parmesan and Hawaiian. 11321 West markham St. beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-2249464. LD daily.

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A.W. LIN’S ASIAN CUISINE excellent panAsian with wonderful service. 17717 Chenal parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-8215398. LD daily. CHINA PLUS BUFFET Large Chinese buffet. 6211 Colonel Glenn road. beer and wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-562-1688. LD daily. CHINESE KITCHEN Good Chinese takeout. try the Cantonese press duck. 11401 N. rodney parham road. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. 501-224-2100. LD tue.-Sun. HANAROO SUSHI BAR One of the few spots in downtown Little rock to serve sushi. With an expansive menu, featuring largely Japanese fare. try the popular tuna tatari bento box. 205 W. Capitol Ave. beer and wine, All CC. $$. 501-301-7900. L mon.-Fri., D mon.-Sat. LEMONGRASS ASIA BISTRO Fairly solid thai bistro. try the tom Kha Kai and white wine alligator. they don’t have a full bar, but you can order beer, wine and sake. 4629 e. mcCain blvd. NLr. beer and wine, All CC. 501-945-4638. LD daily. MIKE’S CAFE VIETNAMESE Cheap Vietnamese that could use some more spice, typically. the pho is good. 5501 Asher Ave. beer, CC. $-$$. 501-562-1515. LD daily.

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