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APRIL 25, 2013

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Open letters to Nate Bell I read your comments about Boston yesterday. YOU ARE A MORON. I’m a gun owning conservative. That did not spare me when the bombs went off in Copley Square. I wasn’t home cowering when I read your comments. I was in a hospital bed at Mass General. Bombs and jihadists don’t select political parties to attack. They bomb Americans. If you had a brain you would know this. As I worried about family members in Newton and Wellesley during the lockdown I didn’t consider their politics. I’m glad you don’t represent me. You’re insensitive to tragedy. You have oatmeal between your ears. Warren Merrill Boston Dear Rep. Bell, I am a 61 year old lifetime resident of the Great State of Arkansas. For almost 15 years, I had the privilege of serving as an elected Circuit Judge in the Second Judicial Circuit in Arkansas, and now sit as a Retired Circuit Judge as assigned by the Arkansas Supreme Court. I have never been as appalled by a statement made by an Arkansas elected official as the one you made today. You have caused untold scorn to be heaped upon this wonderful state. I certainly understand your rights under the First Amendment. However, your shallow attempt to then try and make an apology falls far short of what I would expect from an elected state representative under these circumstances. At this point, the only course of conduct I feel you can take in order to rectify your callous and cavalier behavior is to immediately resign your position. Prove to the citizens of Arkansas you have the ability to do the right thing! David Goodson Circuit Judge (Retired) Paragould I am a 2000 graduate of the University of Arkansas School of Law. My wife is an Arkansas native who was raised in Monticello and graduated from UCA. We know that Mr. Bell’s views don’t reflect those of his constituents or the people of Arkansas. Bell’s comments are deeply offensive to those of us who live in the Greater Boston area. We have family members and friends who are being terrorized by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The people of Boston have shown remarkable courage, patience and humanity during a time of tragedy. To see an elected official use the pain and suffering of our neighbors turned into an opportunity for partisan grandstanding is beyond 4

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insensitive, it is barbaric. Rep. Bell should do the right thing and consider resigning his seat. Rep. Peter Sullivan New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough County District 10 Manchester, New Hampshire

Mad about Pryor I am disappointed, ashamed

and embarrassed over Senator Mark Pryor’s vote and his failure to support a very modest extension of the national background check system for gun purchases. As a student of political science and active participant in our political processes, I am disappointed to find that Mr. Pryor places politics over people. His vote of “no” on the bipartisan Manchin-Toomey amendment clearly proves to me that Mr. Pryor is owned by the National Rifle Association lobby. He needs their money,

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he voted their way. I am ashamed at his lack of understanding of the Second Amendment to the Constitution. The Manchin-Toomey amendment which Sen. Pryor, a Democrat from our great state of Arkansas, voted against, had nothing to do with our Second Amendment Constitutional right to bear arms. Absolutely nothing. Rather, it had everything to do with the exercise of that right by legal, and mentally capable, United States citizens. The gun bill would have simply expanded background checks on those seeking to lawfully purchase a gun. It would assure us that those who sought to obtain any legal firearm in the United States were U.S. citizens and enjoyed the full rights of citizenship. Senator Pryor failed to make that distinction and fell for the lies and misinformation of the NRA. Many felons and people declared mentally incompetent do not enjoy the full exercise to their rights granted under the Constitution. The bill simply would have allowed a gun seller to look up the “citizenship status,” if you will, of the person seeking to acquire a firearm. Is the purchaser of a firearm a “good citizen?” I think we all have a right to know, but I guess Senator Pryor didn’t see it that way. Finally, I am embarrassed to have to defend the honor of our great state to our neighbors in Iowa, where I was elected at the State Democratic Convention in 2012 as a National Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. The people of Iowa are outdoor-loving, farmer friendly and hunting enthusiasts, just like my family and friends in Eastern Arkansas. But, they don’t use AR-15s and Bushmasters to mow down the deer herd. Because of Pryor’s vote, they may think people in Arkansas do. I knew Mark in the early 1980s and hung out with him some in Georgetown. I guess the boy I knew changed into a man I do not recognize. He no longer gets my vote or my support for a seat in the US Senate. If I move back to Arkansas before his next election, I will vote the same way for him as he voted for the Manchin-Toomey amendment on April 17, 2013. Marty Parrish Earle

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ne can easily sympathize with the members of the state House of Representatives who’d like to eject Nate Bell from the chamber. Indeed, it would be hard for fair-minded people to do otherwise, so atrocious were Bell’s comments about the murders in Boston, and so harmful to his fellow Arkansans, held accountable for the sins of one of their legislators. “Bell must go!” is the cry heard across Arkansas today. And yet, is expulsion really the best way? We’d prefer to see Bell resign from the House voluntarily, to be given and to accept the opportunity to do something far, far better than he has ever done before. (As one veteran legislative observer says, “He was a p..s-poor rep even before this Boston business.”) He could show by his action that even the worst of Arkansans are capable of repentance. The example would be especially striking if he then devotes the rest of his life to making up for the evil he’s done. There are no monasteries around Mena that we know of, but he could build a cabin in the woods, and retire there to reflect and read (he might need assistance), emerging only to sweep the streets and perform other civic chores. Not immediately, but within a few years, we’ll bet, his former constituents would stop spitting on him. APRIL 25, 2013

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t one point in the legislative session, it appeared that the lawmakers would not only reject federal money to provide health care to the poor, they might fine the poor for getting sick. Better judgment prevailed at last and the legislature approved a plan for accepting federal dollars to extend health care to the underprivileged. It’s complicated, but some complications were needed to overcome the opposition of those legislators whose hatred for President Obama and “Obamacare” far exceeds their concern for low-income Arkansans. The Beebe administration deserves much credit for getting the legislation through. Except for the health-care bill, the session was a disaster, much as we expected from the first majorityRepublican General Assembly since the 19th century. The lawmakers waged war on women, competing among themselves for sponsorship of the cruelest antiabortion bill. They approved a bundle of tax cuts for corporations and the very richest individuals, while rejecting cuts that would be of more benefit to lowand middle-income Arkansans. Although history has proved them wrong repeatedly, Republicans at the state and national levels continue to argue that pampering the rich somehow creates jobs for the poor. A few may actually believe this to be true. Also approved were bills intended to discourage voting by the elderly, the poor and minorities — groups likely to vote Democratic if allowed in the booth — and to increase Republican influence over the election process. The legislators showed their customary allegiance to the NRA and their new-found allegiance to the Koch brothers, possibly even more pernicious than the gun group because of their wider interests. The lights have just about gone out in Arkansas government. Add a Republican governor, and another Republican U.S. senator in Washington and total darkness will descend. Soul-trying times, indeed.

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ecent events recommend former U.S. Rep. Mike Ross’ plan to emulate Gov. Mike Beebe as a middle-of-the-road Democrat. Moderation is appealing. Examples of why: • Republican Rep. Nate Bell of Mena made an illadvised attempt to capitalize politically on the Boston manhunt for marathon bombing suspects. “I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hicapacity magazine,” Bell, a notorious gun nut, wrote on Twitter. A furious national backlash against Bell earned a non-apology from Bell, not for the content of his remark but for its timing. • Chris Nogy, a member of the Benton County Republican Committee, set off another furor with his published letter in the county GOP’s newsletter expressing outrage at Republican legislators who’d voted to implement Obamacare in Arkansas. Excerpt: “The 2nd amendment means nothing unless those in power believe you would have no problem simply walking up and shooting them if they got too far out of line and stopped responding as representatives.” He and his wife, secretary of the county committee, did much more explaining, but little by way of pure apology. He “most likely” wouldn’t shoot anyone, Nogy said in one clarification. His wife blamed the press for taking things out of context. • You could write these incidents off as social media misjudgments by misfits. But one is a state legislator of some effectiveness. Another is a party official. They follow the well-publicized ranting last year of two thenRepublican legislators, Rep. Jon Hubbard and Rep. Loy Mauch, and a former legislator, Charlie Fuqua. All barely lost races for the legislature after exposure for angry, extremist rhetoric. The real news is the Republican Party’s reluctance to blast such extremists. Typical was Rep. Charlie Collins who said that while he disagreed with Chris Nogy, he defended his First Amendment right to say what was on his mind. This sort of attitude takes you straight to a First Amendment defense for Hitler, Stalin and

any number of other dangerous blowhards. Some things demand unalloyed repudiation. The reason for timidity by party leaders is simple. Extremists are a significant part of the MAX Republican base. Anger them BRANTLEY maxbrantley@arktimes.com and you might jeopardize your new legislative majority. The Republican majority legislature has reflected that extremism. Implementation of Obamacare — even in a very Republican-friendly fashion — was an exception, though it cloaked a plan to decimate traditional Medicaid. In everything else of substance, the political fringe ruled. Republicans moved to make it harder for people to vote. They made it harder to circulate petitions to address government. While such essential constitutional rights were being abridged, the gun was being elevated to holiness. Failure of an open-carry bill was a rare defeat for the gun lobby. Taxes were cut for the very richest of Arkansans. Poor working people got barely a sop, plus they face new indignities such as drug testing if they find themselves in need of unemployment insurance or government medical help. Women lost medical rights. Sexual minorities were trashed. Environmental and land use regulation was under constant assault. Arkansas law already tilted heavily in favor of these conservative preferences. Maintaining the status quo — which Gov. Mike Beebe clearly would have preferred if he only had the votes — would hardly have been liberal. Mike Ross’ promise to take a similar outlook — and to try to elect some Democratic representatives who agree with him — is hopeful. Is Ross’ political antenna well-tuned to the electorate’s presumed moderation? What if Republican leaders reluctant to repudiate the most unhinged in their ranks are right? What if the fringe is actually Arkansas mainstream? A lot of us might need bullet-proof vests.

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Obamacare prevailed did not vow support for discrimination against blacks. Or did it even eclipse the legislatures of the 1880s ERNEST and early 1890s, DUMAS which set out to nullify the 13th and 14th amendments and restore apartheid in Arkansas society? This legislature, after all, did pass a law to erect hurdles to voting for minorities, the aged and the disabled because they voted for Democrats more often than for Republicans. In lame defense of the 2013 assembly, much of the backward law will be struck down by the courts because the acts patently violate either the U.S. or Arkansas Constitution: acts to outlaw abortions before 24 weeks, the vote-suppression law, and myriad others. So, on the record of the Obamacare alone, has it not been a modernistic lawmaking body? Over the course of history, no state has a more abysmal history of scorning the health and welfare of its people than Arkansas. Historian Tom Dillard’s column Sunday in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette gave a good account of that history. Such efforts as the state made were the county poor farms where destitute women and children and blind and severely disabled men were sent

to harvest crops for contractors. When the governor and the legislature slashed taxes and spending in the Depression so that the federal government would keep sending commodities to keep the populace alive and pay teachers so that the state would have a few schools, Washington got fed up with Arkansas and stopped all the aid. Fearing mobs, the governor summoned the legislature, created a welfare office and imposed a sales tax and a few liquor taxes to show that the government had some compassion. Carrying out Obamacare’s mandate to insure the health of the working poor must also be viewed against its impossible odds. Republicans throughout the state in the last two elections ran against the “socialized medicine” being imposed by the hated black man in the White House. They blocked the establishment of a state insurance market, where people could buy affordable insurance, forcing Washington to establish the Arkansas exchange. As people learned what Obamacare really did, it became clear that it was an unalloyed good thing. Not only would it improve the health of a quarter-million people, it would be a bonanza for doctors, hospitals and other providers, infuse hundreds of millions of dollars into the business economy, reduce state spending for a few years and leave room for Republicans to lighten the yoke of taxes on corporations and millionaires. But they had to scramble for a way to justify voting to implement Obamacare. They suggested requiring all

poor workers to buy plans from insurance companies through the Obamacare market, with 100 percent government assistance, rather than insure their care through regular Medicaid. Of course, that was an option under Obamacare, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had published rules in January for states to do exactly that. When Governor Beebe approached Washington about doing it “the Republican way,” the reply was “of course.” But Republicans could claim to have fixed Obamacare. That is just good politics. Republicans still had to appease the tea-party flank, which tends to control GOP primaries. More than half the Republicans in both houses had to vote for Obamacare in spite of withering attacks from Americans for Prosperity and other groups that had helped finance their elections. Governor Beebe brokered a hallway pact between Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson and Rep. Ann Clemmer, opponents in next year’s GOP primary in Little Rock, both of whom feared that the other would switch and vote against Obamacare and cinch all the votes of angry tea partiers. In the northwest corner, a few voted to help the poor although the Republican newsletter in Benton County carried thinly veiled threats that under the cover of the Second Amendment they could rightfully, though perhaps not legally, be shot for their apostasy. We didn’t expect such profiles in courage from that quarter.

hile most of the headlines about islative branch. the recently concluded ArkanMost troubling sas General Assembly have fo- was the effort to cused on expansion of access to health usurp rulemakcare, new limits on abortion and a flurry ing authority of of tax cuts, perhaps the most dominant the state Supreme JAY theme of the recently recessed legislative Court in the name of BARTH session was the legislature’s efforts to limit “tort reform.” SJR5, the power of the executive and judicial which surprisingly failed on a tie vote in branches of government in Arkansas and committee, would have granted the Gento expand its own power. If all the changes eral Assembly the ongoing power to superproposed are ultimately adopted, it would sede judicial rules regarding the operation signal a troubling erosion of that grandest of all courts in the state, a fundamental of constitutional principles — separation power of the judicial branch under the of powers. concept of separation of powers. Despite Across the weeks of the legislative ses- its failure in committee, the pro-tort reform sion, proposed legislation threatened the advocates appear primed for another push state’s executive and judicial powers as to weaken the courts’ self-regulation in well as the voters’ ability to use the initia- favor of the legislature through an initiated tive process (a practice that ratchets up the constitutional amendment. checks and balances of the federal model Several efforts were made to limit one of by giving voters this paramount power). the governor’s most important formal powThe forces pushing these changes were ers — to appoint members of state boards complex — with interest groups in the lead and commissions. While these efforts also on the most important ones. No matter, if failed, the legislature did accept as one its ultimately successful, these forces threaten three proposed constitutional amendments to fundamentally alter Arkansas’s state a measure that would require the approval government by shifting power to the leg- of any executive branch regulation by a

legislative committee. While the legislature currently has de facto power over such rules through pre-implementation review and has the ultimate power to trump rules through legislation, this amendment would intrude into the “execution” of the laws by the branch given that responsibility by the Arkansas Constitution. The legislature successfully limited the power of the people to create laws through the passage of SB821 that will complicate the petition process by sharply heightened scrutiny of signature gathering at all stages of the process. But this legislation is less of a threat to direct Arkansas democracy than a proposed constitutional amendment making it harder for citizens to secure sufficient time to gather signatures, a tool that has been essential to most recent initiative efforts. As the General Assembly worked to limit the powers of other branches of government and the people, it was taking steps to expand its own relative power through extending term limits to 16 years and through a pay increase plan (in a constitutional amendment including this and other power-enhancing reforms under the umbrella of “ethics”). While the term limits and pay measures are justified as a means of professionalizing the General Assembly,

they appear less healthy to state governance in the context of a general effort to shift the governmental balance of power. In the late 1700s, advocates for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution emphatically promoted separation of powers as a unique, stabilizing force in the American experiment of governance. “If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary,” James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 51. But “[i]n framing a government which is to be administered by men over men,” Madison wrote, “the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” The General Assembly got only partway in its efforts to tilt the balance of power toward itself and away from the executive and judicial branches and the people themselves. But the Arkansas electorate could still accomplish much of what the legislature did not if it passes an array of constitutional amendments before them in the fall of 2014. We have yet to see how far Arkansas may wander from the core principles of separation of powers passed down by the country’s founders, and how much it may limit the power left to the people themselves.

o backward-looking was the Arkansas legislature all winter that you wanted to search the rest of the paper every day for the latest news on the hookworm epidemic and yesterday’s lynchings, but then it did something truly progressive. Implementing Obamacare, which Republicans had sworn oaths to fight, must go down as one of the great modern achievements of the General Assembly. Never mind that it would have been done without the legislature, and more cheaply, if the U.S. Supreme Court had not given states a veto of health insurance for the poorest working people. Virtually alone among Southern and other solidly red states, the Arkansas legislature voted overwhelmingly to subsidize health insurance for everyone in the state whose incomes fall below 138 percent of the poverty line, which may be as many as 250,000 people. Lest we carry this too far, let it be noted that for 100 days, in one of the longest and most fruitless sessions of modern times, the newly minted Republican legislature did nothing to make a lasting improvement in the lives of Arkansans. Historians were beginning to debate whether the 2013 session was worse than the 1958 legislature, which empowered the governor to close schools to prevent black children from going to white schools and to punish teachers and government workers if they

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“Opponents complained that most of the critical testimony was silenced when a member of the committee motioned for immediate consideration, a nondebatable procedural maneuver that brought public input on the bill to a halt.” … “State Rep. Mac Adamia, R-Loontown, motions for the House of Representatives to adjourn Monday … ” This use of motion is new to me, but I’ve seen it a couple of times in reports on the recent legislative session. In standard legislative usage, motion is a noun (“a proposal formally made to a deliberative assembly”), not a verb. A legislator can move to adjourn, or move for immediate consideration, or he can make a motion to do such things, but he doesn’t motion for them like he was trying to hitch a ride. Informally, I suppose, a majority leader wanting to break for a three-martini lunch could point to the clock and then simulate drinking. That sort of motion might explain some of the lateafternoon actions of this year’s assembly. Political speech: Opposing factions try to control the terminology of their debates. Pro-life v. prochoice is pretty much a standoff now, both terms misleading and avoided by all but the most partisan. And although right-wingers have worked very hard, they haven’t been

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It was a good week for ... THE END. The 89th Arkansas General Assembly came to a close. In 100 days, it passed much perniciousness into law — though legal challenges to many of the worst new laws should abound. But it’s expansion of health coverage to lowincome Arkansans for which this legislature is likely to be remembered. SEN. JONATHAN DISMANG. The Beebe Republican, one of the architects of the so-called “private option” to expand health coverage, was elected to be president pro tem of the Senate in 2015. BRIDGE LIGHTS. To celebrate its 100th anniversary, Entergy is donating $2 million towards a lighting project for the Clinton Presidential Bridge, the Main Street Bridge and the Junction Bridge. PLANNED PARENTHOOD. Amazingly, considering the other legislation that made it through the Arkansas legislature, a Senate bill aimed at cutting off money to Planned Parenthood failed in a House committee.

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entirely successful in selling death tax. Most people understand that it’s really an inheritance tax. As such, it’s paid by DOUG very few, unlike a SMITH dougsmith@arktimes.com death tax, which would be paid by everybody. But the right-wingers have done better with entitlements. Even people who don’t share the Republican opposition to Social Security and Medicare sometimes use the word to describe the benefits of social-welfare programs, apparently not recognizing that the sneering use of “entitlements” is intended to inflame. Writing in The New Yorker, Hendrik Hertzberg says that “entitlements” was made popular during the Reagan Administration by the Great Communicator himself, who pined for the end of Social Security. “A so-called entitlement is a benefit extended to those who meet the lawful requirements, without the need for a specific appropriation,” Hertzberg writes. “But ‘acting entitled’ or having ‘a sense of entitlement’ is something no one yearns to be accused of.” People who recognize the need for Social Security and Medicare shouldn’t go along with the use of “entitlements,” he says.

A CAMPAIGN KICK-OFF. Former U.S. Congressman Mike Ross made a pitch for the moderate vote in his official campaign announcement, contrasting himself with state Republicans. “[S]ome misguided

politicians have taken over the state legislature and have made divisive issues of the past their top priority — instead of working to create jobs, improve education and strengthen the economy,” he said in his kick-off speech.

It was a bad week for ... SEN. MARK PRYOR. Same song, new verse: Pryor was one of only five Democrats who voted with Republicans against a bi-partisan gun control measure, which would have expanded background checks for gun buyers was one of only five Democrats who voted with Republicans against the measure, which would have expanded background checks for gun buyers, when it came to the floor. ARKANSAS. Rep. Nate Bell’s stupid and insensitive tweet about liberal Bostonians “cowering” in their homes wishing they had assault rifles with hi-capacity magazines went viral, provoking many to conflate Bell’s idiocy with Arkansans generally. National reports about a letter from Benton County Republican Chris Nogy — which included lines such as, “The 2nd amendment means nothing unless those in power believe you would have no problem simply walking up and shooting them if they got too far out of line and stopped responding as representatives” — didn’t help matters much either.

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LAST WEEKEND DURING THE ARKANSAS LITERARY FESTIVAL, The Observer served as emcee for the Arkansas Times’ “Pub or Perish” readings event once again, our 10th year. Yours Truly was looking back at some photos from that first year recently, and felt again — for the umpteenth moment in our life — like a time traveler who blinked and woke up here. This year was a particularly good edition of Pub or Perish, and if you missed it, you missed out. There’s just something beautiful about a roomful of people sitting in rapt attention as a writer reads his or her work, especially after the week we’d all had. As The Observer told the audience at Stickyz in the River Market on Saturday night: We’re a worrier, and when it comes to Pub or Perish over the past 10 years, we’ve worried a lot. We’ve worried that it will rain, or that one of our readers will get lost on the way to the venue. We’ve worried that someone will trip over the microphone cord on the way to the lectern, or that our space will be invaded by noisy idiots who are too stupid or drunk to shut up and let the words wash over them. This year, we had a new worry: that at the tail end of a seven-day span full of bombs and death and shootouts and cop killings and manhunts and finally a capture, nobody would have room in their hearts to give a damn about poetry. A relief then — a deep exhale — when they did. They came. Over a hundred. They even sang. Urged on by the Kentucky poet Frank X. Walker, we muddled our way through the first verse of the old spiritual “Amazing Grace,” a moment lovely enough that it nearly brought The Observer to tears, especially given the week we’d all had. Below is another thing we told the crowd on Saturday night to close the evening, after all the readings and singing were done. We’d written a version of it earlier in the week, a digest and prettification of some of the things The Observer said to our

creative writing classes on Tuesday and Wednesday night while trying to convince them that, even in the aftermath of terrible things, art matters: “Here is what writing — what reading and books and loving writers — can give you, if you want it: In order to write well or read well, you must force yourself to see people not as puppets tied hand and foot to the wheel of fortune, or sinners trapped in mortal husks and waiting patiently for death and Paradise, but as thinking human beings making choices, which lead to consequences and other choices, which lead to consequences and other choices, and so on, unto the moment of their death. Thereby, you must force yourself to see everyone, from yourself to your Dutch uncle to the worst villain you can name, as someone with the capacity to choose. Someone rounded. Someone with desires. Someone with dreams. Someone who has people who love them and wish the best for them, who hope they do well and don’t die in pain and despair. The men who put a pressure cooker full of nails, ball bearings and explosives in a trashcan in Boston, set a timer and then walked away couldn’t see those things. They made their own choice: to see anyone who disagrees with their ideas about the world as flat and worthless, so that people became nothing more to them than paper targets. Being a writer or reader can insulate you from that kind of simplistic thinking. It can help you see that even if you don’t agree with someone’s choices, they came to those choices the same way you came to yours: which is, of course, with the tools they have, and the best way they know how.” A warm thank you to all who came out for the readings and speechifying at the Arkansas Literary Festival, and especially those who came to Pub or Perish. Just by being there, you were making one of the most powerful statements a person can say — which is, of course: rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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Brown to Friday Firm Talk Business reports that retired Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Robert Brown is taking an “of counsel” role with the powerful Friday Law Firm. “It is a great opportunity for me to be Of Counsel with this quality law firm,” Justice Brown said. “It is a perfect way for me to work at my own pace and share my experience with the firm, its associates, and its interns. I look forward to the transition. Any appeal that was before the Supreme Court while I was a justice will be off limits for me in my new role at the firm, and I will not be involved” he added. Among others, the Friday Firm was at the forefront of the fight this session to amend the Constitution to reverse Supreme Court decisions that set back business lobby laws intend to make damage lawsuits harder to win. That tort reform amendment effort failed in the face of opposition from both plaintiffs’ lawyers and the Arkansas Bar Association.

Buffalo bathroom problems Several years of flat federal budgets have led to a reduction in many federal services, including operations. A number of National Park Service restrooms along the Buffalo River have been closed, several at popular canoe launch spots, including Ponca and Pruitt. Mike Mills of Buffalo Outdoor Center has been circulating word of unhappiness at what he’s found at launch spots on account of closed restrooms. If effluent from hogs is a concern from a newly built hog farm in the Buffalo watershed, so is effluent from humans. Kevin Cheri, superintendent of the river, has heard roundabout about Mills’ complaint and says CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 12

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arly last Friday morning, as the people of Boston mourned their dead and tended those maimed in the terrorist attack on their city, Republican state Rep. Nate Bell of Mena decided to boost the image of Arkansans as backward, ill-bred and mean by tweeting: “I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine? #2A” It was the tweet heard ’round the world, as the Times’ Arkansas Blog put it, and thousands fired back with expressions of outrage at Bell, among them the editor of Esquire Digital, Joe Keohane, who tweeted “Might want to take a flight up north and try saying that in person, you waterheaded little-dick hillbilly asshole.” There were dozens in that vein, if not with the same cadence, from people weighing in on Bell’s Facebook page, a Huffington Post’s story and other blogs. By noon Friday, Republican Speaker of the House Davy Carter had issued an apology on behalf of the rest of the House and the state, writing, “I want to extend my deepest apologies to the people of the City of Boston and the state of Massachusetts for the inappropriate and insensitive comment made this morning by an Arkansas House member.” About 15 minutes later, Bell added insult to injury, apologizing for the “poor timing” of his tweet, but not the tweet itself, and made himself unavailable to

the press, though he told a reporter for the Associated Press, “I really didn’t think about [the tweet] going to Boston and was generally expressing my personal view of how I would have felt in that situation myself.” By the afternoon, a New Hampshire state legislator who graduated from the University of Arkansas School of Law called for Bell’s removal from office. Early Monday, the number of comments on Bell’s Facebook page was 10,035, some of them defending his remarks. And as the bullets flew in Watertown during the police capture of a man suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon, there was further yearning at home to pull a trigger. KFSM/ KXNW television news reported Saturday on Benton County Republican Chris Nogy’s letter on the county GOP website expressing regret that that opponents of Medicaid expansion can’t shoot the Republican legislators who voted for it after saying they would not. The Lowell resident described those legislators as “bullet backstops,” and wrote, “The 2nd amendment means nothing unless those in power believe you would have no problem simply walking up and shooting them if they got too far out of line and stopped responding as representatives. … If we can’t shoot them, we have to at least be firm in our threat to take immediate action against them politically, socially, and civically if they screw up on some-

thing this big. Personally, I think a gun is quicker and more merciful, but hey, we can’t.” On Sunday, Nogy posted a “clarification” comment on the TV station’s website, writing that he “most likely won’t try to kill them [legislators] or harm their families.” Nogy, like Bell, got Republican blowback, though it was more like a pillow fight, the station reported: The head of Conservative Arkansas objected that the letter went out in an official party newsletter. Rep. Charlie Collins, R-Fayetteville, said the threats weren’t “wise” or an “appropriate part of policy debate.” Nogy’s wife, the county party secretary, said she “didn’t even begin to think about the possibility of the media taking it out of context.” Tim Summers, the chair of the county Republican committee, said the letter had not been “approved” and would be discussed at a meeting, though on Monday he disavowed the sentiment expressed in a somewhat mealymouthed post on the online newsletter, saying he “personally rejects” the notion of shooting legislators you disagree with. The State Police, however, took Nogy’s letter more seriously, calling on Republic legislators. State Rep. Sue Scott, R-Rogers, who voted for the “private option” to expand health care coverage that so angered Nogy, confirmed Monday she’d been contacted by State Police and Rogers police. The State Police later issued a statement saying they found no evidence to investigate further. Finally, an unknown person, seanonymous, tweeted “@davycarter is a very persuasive gun advocate. I’d like to buy a gun and shoot him with it.” He apparently had confused Carter with Bell. The Twitter account came not from Arkansas, fortunately, but California. It was not the first time that politics got the better of Bell. In July 2011, he posted an arcane and conspiracyminded status on his Facebook page, “ ‘As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.’ — Mein Kampf, Adolph Hitler.” Bell was, not surprisingly, misinformed. Hitler never wrote those words. He did, however, have lots of guns and “hi-capacity” magazines.

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Kinda like rock paper scissors. AR-15 does not beat explosive devices sir. Dustin Mabbitt on Facebook.

Do you think you know what Boston is like from your redneck stereotypes of overly educated Cambridge elites with their heads in the clouds? These are fairy tales created by out of touch rural conservatives to make you all feel better about your political and intellectual impotence. Try going to an Ironworkers Union meeting in South Boston and shoot your mouth off there. You’ll find a room full of Democrats who have more in common with Whitey Bulger than Elizabeth Warren. From a letter to the Times from Liam Clancy of Boston.

My dad is a cop in Boston, just ended a 21-hour shift, risking his life to protect the people there. Go to hell, Nate Bell. Lanna Cauley-Jones on Facebook.

Dear God, Please smite Nate Bell with the butt of an AR15, for he knows not how ignorant he is. Let that strike knock some sense into him. Hennysmom in a comment on the Arkansas Blog.

A meathead to infinity. Tom Miller on Facebook. @NateBell4AR You are a moron. Tweet from Boston city conuncilor Matt O’Malley.

Hey, @natebell4ar, I was a sgt in the USArmy, Hawkeye, and Boston liberal. Go to hell, you ignorant douche. ElizabetPowell (@sargep) on Twitter.

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INSIDER, CONT. he wished Mills had talked to him. He says the National River has lost more than 60 percent of maintenance staff as a result of flat budgeting and the rise in fixed costs, such as utilities. Despite that, he thinks the staff has done a good job of keeping up, through strategic closures and other means. But he says that everyone needs to pitch in, including through concession operators letting their customers know about closures and making preparations, such as restroom stops before heading to launch spots. Both Pruitt and Ponca are near still-operating restrooms, for example, Cheri said. Cheri also said the Park Service was working with some private groups to provide volunteer help, such as the adopt-a-highway litter cleanup programs. “We’re doing our best with what we have,” Cheri said, “but we’re asking users too to be more sensitive.”

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I respond as a native Arkansan who has lived in Boston for twenty years. The answer to your question Sir, is ZERO — I assume you can count. Your statement disgraces the entire nation and is a grievous insult to the citizens of Massachusetts, of which I am proud to be one. Keri Dawn Jones on Facebook Bell is the kind of guy that gives idiocy a bad name. Mike Gundolf on Facebook. Well geez, Nate... thanks once again for bringing national embarrassment to the Natural State. E.W. Swan on Facebook

Really? Political posturing at a time like this? Didn’t your mama teach you to think before you speak? Neil Kelly on Facebook

Another example of how we here in Arkansas put some of the most evil spirited, ignorant, intolerant “people” in office. Lori Adkins on Facebook

Social media accounts give us our best chance to look into the souls of people like Nate Bell. They reveal their innermost thoughts without thinking, because they don’t have a capacity to really ‘think’. Thanks Nate for sharing with us who you really are. Now nobody can say they don’t know what Bell stands for. Offensive doesn’t begin to describe him. Sound Policy in a comment on the Arkansas Blog. Absolutely disgusting. As a Boston resident, I find this statement incredible offensive, ignorant, and disrespectful to our entire nation, not only our city. To imply that any of YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS were “cowering in their homes” at a time when you should have been praying for their safety shows your lack of intelligence and compassion, but perhaps most importantly, your utter lack of patriotism. Shame on you, you are not an American. Lauren Brownell on Facebook

May 5 will mark the 20th anniversary of the slayings of three Arkansas children in what would come to be known internationally as the West Memphis Three case. The “three” refers to the defendants convicted — wrongly, many now agree — in the slayings of three 8-year-olds, Steve Branch, Chris Byers and Michael Moore. There’s a memorial to the victims at their school, Weaver Elementary in West Memphis, that includes a gazebo, benches and a memorial stone. The principal there, Sheila Grissom, is trying to raise money to refurbish the memorial. Those interested in donating or seeking more information can contact Grissom at sgrissom@ wmsd.net or 870-735-7670, or send a donation to Weaver Elementary Reading Grove/Playground Fund, 1280 East Barton Ave., West Memphis, AR 72301.

CORRECTIONS In last week’s cover story “Pig out,” we misidentified Reno’s Louis France, a member of the Reno’s Pit Crew team in the Arkansas Times Heritage Hog Roast, as Lewis Franks. The story also said that Falling Sky Farm would provide all of the hogs for the hog roast. Freckle Face Farm will also provide heritagebreed hogs.

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rom a very young age, Jace Bradshaw has pushed himself to excel academically. His mother, Julie Bradshaw, said that even as a small child, Jace was goal-oriented and loved to undertake new challenges. “Part of it is personality,” Julie Bradshaw said. “The other part, I think, is that his dad and I have always JACE BRADSHAW stressed to do your best, and in doing your best, always AGE: 18 learn. Every day should be a chance to learn.” It’s a lesHOMETOWN: Arkadelphia son Jace has taken to heart. Currently ranked No. 2 in HIGH SCHOOL: Arkadelphia his class of 132, Jace has a 4.22 GPA in a course load that High School has included eight advanced placement classes. Jace PARENTS: Julie and Joseph said that he plans to become a doctor and help people Bradshaw in impoverished countries overseas. He’s already got a COLLEGE PLANS: Considering jump on that goal, having been part of an engineering Baylor, Rice and Washington design and development team that built a prototype for University in St. Louis a condenser that can pull water from air. “After three months of constant work on the prototype and constant refinement of the design,” Jace wrote in his Academic All-Stars essay, “my group produced a highly mobile, working prototype that produced clean, drinkable water from the air. ... The prototype worked so well that I have been in contact with a vendor from Walmart.” Asked why he pushes himself so hard in school while others are content to coast, Jace said he likes to set goals and achieve them through persistence. “I will not accept failure,” he said. “I am always open to new experiences that will enrich my life, and I have pursued them throughout high school.”

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t’s time again to meet our choices for Arkansas’s top 20 high school seniors. The class of 2013, our 19th, is full of athletes, musicians, quiz bowlers, scientists and Jeopardy champions. There’s rarely a B on the transcripts of these students — in not just this, their senior year, but in any year of their high school careers. They have busy lives outside school, too, with extracurricular activities, volunteer work, mission activities and more. They’ll be honored this week at a ceremony at UALR with HELEN HATHAWAY plaques and $250 cash awards. AETN will feature some of them in a series of short videos that will appear periodically on the state’s public television network. The final deadline for college decisions has not yet arrived. College plans listed are, therefore, not set in stone. 14

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or a math whiz like Central High’s David Chen (by his junior year, he’d exhausted all but one of the comprehensive list of math classes offered at the school), numbers seem as good a place as any to start. He’s No. 1 in a class of almost 500 students at one of the state’s most competitive high schools. His composite ACT and SAT scores were just shy of perfect. He’s DAVID CHEN AGE: 17 scored a 5, the best possible score, on nine Advanced HOMETOWN: Little Rock Placement tests. His transcript is a perfect parade of A HIGH SCHOOL: Central High marks (4+) in demanding courses such as calculus and School AP English, chemistry, physics, U.S. History and psyPARENTS: Tao and Ying Chen chology this term. COLLEGE PLANS: Considering David, a National Merit scholarship program honoree, a variety of options, including hasn’t been pinned in by Central High boundaries. He’s Stanford and University of studied game theory at Duke’s TIP program and been Chicago. a winner in the Math Counts and science fair competitions. He attended Governor’s School. He’s done independent research at UAMS and NCTR. He competes on the swim team and led a state championship team in a Future Business Leaders economic competition, though he’d never taken a business or marketing class. He created a chess team at Central High, an outgrowth of his passion for a game he was taught by his father as a first-grader. It’s one of his proudest achievements. It included persuading a statistics teacher who didn’t play chess to be a sponsor, recruiting enough members to field a team and winning a school grant to support the program. He also lined up a coach from Little Rock Air Force Base. Results: 30 members and a fifth-place statewide finish. He thinks he’s established a base that guarantees its continuation. Though his strongest subject is math (“I never have to study,” he says), he’s leaning toward concentrating on business in college. He might be particularly well-placed to put new skills to use with one of the world’s fastest growing economies: He learned as a child to speak Chinese from his immigrant parents.

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native of China who came to the United States when she was 6 years old, Sigan Chen wasted no time rising to the top academically. A National Merit Scholarship semi-finalist, Sigan is ranked first in her class of 572. Her transcript is impressive: Sigan is finishing up her high school career with a 4.45 GPA and SIGAN CHEN 14 advanced placement classes. She will graduate at only AGE: 16 16, having skipped the 8th grade. Though she said she HOMETOWN: Conway likes almost every class, her favorite subject is calculus. HIGH SCHOOL: Conway High “I just really like calculus because of the challenge each School problem presents,” she said. “There’s so many differPARENTS: Xiaowei and Zhirong ent ways to approach a problem but still end up with Chen the same answer. I just really like the puzzle aspect of COLLEGE PLANS: Dartmouth it.” A Quiz Bowl competitor since 7th grade, Sigan was College, economics and math named MVP at this year’s Quiz Bowl regionals. Starting last year, she went out for track. Even though she knew she likely wouldn’t be the best out of the blocks, it was trying that counts for her. “I knew I was probably going to be the last,” she said. “Turns out I wasn’t the very last, even though I never won any meets or anything. But I enjoyed doing it. In a way, I kind of failed at track, but doing it was an achievement.” At Dartmouth, her “preliminary plan” is a double-major in economics and mathematics. Her drive to excel, she said, comes largely from her parents. She said that from a young age, they told her “success stories” about people who grew up in poverty in China, followed their dreams to America, and wound up being successful. “They’ve told me that if those people can succeed under those conditions,” she said, “then what is my excuse for not seizing the opportunities that I have?”

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eonard Cooper is already a star, but we have a feeling we’ll be hearing even more from him in the coming years. Leonard became a local celebrity this year after winning Teen Jeopardy. He topped 15 other competitors to win the big prize (more than 10,000 tried out for the show). His wide range of knowledge and cool under pressure stood out on the show, as LEONARD COOPER AGE: 17 did his sense of humor. The national media took note of HOMETOWN: Little Rock his charm and ease in front of the camera, particularly HIGH SCHOOL: eSTEM High when his answer in Final Jeopardy went viral — with a School big lead, Leonard wrote this response to a World War PARENT: Judy Cooper II question: “Who is some guy in Normandy? But I just COLLEGE PLANS: Brown won $75,000!” Leonard had always watched the show University, pre-med growing up, playing along at home, but says that actually being on the show was full of surprises, from the studio — much bigger than it looks on television and with a row of 10 fact checkers staring down the contestants — to the timed buzzer system, which took Leonard a few games to master. The hardest part? After he won, under the terms of his contract, Leonard couldn’t tell anyone the result until the show aired almost three months later. For four days, the senior class watched the competition during lunch at Gusano’s Pizza, finally exploding in cheers when Leonard took first place. When he’s not busy taking YouTube by storm, Leonard plays left field on the baseball team and is captain of the Quiz Bowl team, natch. The National Achievement Scholarship finalist ranks ninth in his class with a GPA of 4.16. He’s heading to Brown University this fall, where he is interested in pursuing pre-med classes (Jeopardy watchers will know that Leonard already can point to where the collarbone is).

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ou probably have to have experienced the chaotic roadways of India to appreciate Arhita Dasgupta’s greatest accomplishment: “Learning to ride ARHITA DASGUPTA a motorcycle in India!” Her AGE: 17 counselor, Leslie Kearney, HOMETOWN: Little Rock says it’s a good indicator of HIGH SCHOOL: Central High Arhita’s spirit and “wide-eyed School wonder.” Born in Ranchi, India, PARENTS: Tonmoy and Shree Arhita has lived in the United Dasgupta States since she was a small COLLEGE PLANS: University of child, but the family returns Arkansas, pre-med frequently and it was on one of those occasions when her father suggested they “figure out this motorcycle,” one long unused at a relative’s house. It was terrifying, she recalls. But before long she was driving along dirt roads and then finally, driving on her own with her father on the back, to a neighborhood sweet shop amid the swirl of rickshaw, car, truck and animal traffic. Though pre-med’s in her future, she also hopes to add Spanish to English, Bengali and Hindi as languages she speaks fluently. She anticipates that if she accepts the Sturgis Fellowship offered by the University of Arkansas she’ll eventually study abroad and build that communication skill. Second-ranked in Central’s class of almost 500 students and a National Merit scholarship program honoree, Arhita began making her mark early. As a freshman, she won a bronze medal in the International Science Fair Olympiad for work involving solid state physics, semi-conductors and quantum theory. Counselor Kearney sees Arhita as a real-life example of a character in her favorite Indian movie, “Three Idiots,” about a brilliant med student who also has more fun than his peers. “Arhita’s exuberant dedication to not miss out on the social aspects of high school is equal to her passion to achieve academically.” Those achievements include her 4.4 GPA and a slate of solid AP courses. But she also comes to school an hour early every day to play violin in the orchestra, a class that gets no grade weighting as AP classes do and thus counts against her slightly in her overall GPA. But, says Kearney, “She is adamant about pursuing what she loves and is not caught up in the GPA rat race.” Still, she is competitive, Kearney said. “I asked her once why she was so competitive and she tearfully explained how her grandfather would not hold her as an infant because she was a female first born. While Arhita recognizes the traditions of her heritage, and in fact has learned two Indian dialects, she is not about to let those traditions hold her back.”

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ur Arkansas Times Academic AllStars often come across as a serious lot in their applications, so full of hard facts about their LAUREN DICKINSON achievements and struggles. AGE: 18 So it was a bit of a breath of HOMETOWN: Siloam Springs fresh air to laugh out loud HIGH SCHOOL: Siloam Springs while reading the essay subHigh School mitted by Lauren Dickinson PARENTS: Gary and Dena of Siloam Springs, in which Dickinson she admits she is “the farm COLLEGE PLANS: Currently girl who hates ponies (long, deciding, but leaning toward traumatic story, trust me)” Hendrix College, international and who still sprints from studies her car to her door at night in fear of the bogeyman. Her sense of humor aside, Lauren is all business when it comes to her studies — a National Merit Scholarship finalist whose 4.17 GPA ranks her No. 1 in her class of 263. A varsity tennis player, Lauren’s favorite subject is calculus, thanks in part to her math teacher Ms. Bennett, who she says is “always telling us the wonderful things we can do with our lives, as well as teaching us the actual calculus.” While Lauren said she is undecided on what she wants to do in college “because I love parts of everything,” she’s interested in international relations, and may wind up going into that field. She’s also considering going to medical school, though she admits her queasiness may keep her on the research side of things if she goes that route. Lauren said that while her parents were never pushy about her grades, they were a big part of her academic success. “They never told me that I had to get As,” she said. “They said they’d always be proud of me, so I always wanted to make them proud.” Lauren said she studies so hard because she believes it will all pay off in the end. “I think the harder I work right now, the easier it will be later,” she said. “Also, I just enjoy the feeling of getting an A.”

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eter Du’s desire to become a medical researcher comes not only from his upbringPETER DU ing — his parents are both AGE: 18 researchers — but also HOMETOWN: Fayetteville from an even more perHIGH SCHOOL: Fayetteville High sonal place. “My dad is School a cancer survivor, so I’d PARENTS: Yuchun Du and really like to get involved Jianhong Zhou in cancer research,” Du COLLEGE PLANS: Princeton said. To that end, Du will University, biochemistry start at Princeton University this fall, most likely majoring in biochemistry. He also considered Johns Hopkins, Duke, Yale and Berkeley, but said the offer from Princeton was the best. Du said several teachers at Fayetteville High School were particularly important in his education, including Rita S. Caver, Erin Johnson, George Spencer, Nate Magre and Neil Norberg. Caver and Johnson teach a block AP U.S. History and English course that Du took in 10th grade; it “was the first really rigorous course that I’d taken in high school,” he said. “It really got me prepared for what high school was going to be like.” Swimming is also one of Du’s enduring interests. “I’ve been a swimmer for a long time,” he said. “It’s really been such a big part of my life. It really disciplined me, taught about camaraderie and teamwork and the resolve to go past hardships.” As for what motivates him to work so hard, Du said his family has always stressed education as one of the most, if not the most, important pursuits. Plus, “I’m a competitive guy to begin with,” he said. “I like to compete.” He’s also a longtime student of piano, having attended Suzuki Music School of Arkansas since he was in 7th grade. Some of Du’s academic accolades and accomplishments include AP Scholar with Distinction, National AP Scholar and National Merit semifinalist.

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his fall, Cody Dykes will leave tiny Tulip, Ark., bound for Music City USA and a CODY DYKES degree in chemical engiAGE: 18 neering at Vanderbilt HOMETOWN: Tulip University. Dykes is no HIGH SCHOOL: Poyen High stranger to that campus, School however, having attended PARENTS: Tricia and Jerry the Aspirnaut Summer Dykes Research Internship proCOLLEGE PLANS: Vanderbilt gram there for the past University, chemical three years. As for what engineering kindled his interest in chemical engineering, Dykes said, “I’ve always liked math and science, and when I was in 7th grade wrote an essay on engineering.” Another inspiration was Poyen High School teacher Amanda Jones, who taught Dykes biology, physics and chemistry. “She played a huge role in me getting accepted to Vanderbilt and getting a scholarship,” he said. Last year, Dykes conducted the Pennies for Patients Service Project, raising more than $1,000 for leukemia research. In addition to being the Class of 2013 valedictorian, he’s also an athlete, playing football and basketball, and is active in the Beta Club, Future Business Leaders of America and the Student Council. Dykes said he is considering pursuing a graduate degree from Vanderbilt as well. So what motivates him to work so hard? “Knowing that I’ve got to be successful in life to have an enjoyable life,” he said. “And to start a family, I have to work hard and get an education and it will pay off later.”

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he time Helen Hathaway describes as “probably the most enjoyable months of high school” didn’t actually take place in high school. In HELEN HATHAWAY 2011, she spent four months AGE: 18 in Washington, during the HOMETOWN: Little Rock school year, working as a HIGH SCHOOL: Mount St. Mary page for Sen. Mark Pryor. Academy She loved it even though PARENTS: Laura and Jeff she had to wake up at 5 Hathaway a.m. every morning, often COLLEGE PLANS: Considering wasn’t relieved from her University of Notre Dame and page duties until well into Davidson College the evening and still had to fit in time for school and homework. Helen said she learned something new every day, even if her job didn’t impact the political process: “We do work that a college graduate would not want to do.” In return, she got to witness history first hand: She heard the Senate debate the U.S. government’s use of drones, in the wake of the killing of Anwar al-Awalaki, and she got to sit in the House chamber during a State of the Union address and shake the president’s hand. But don’t look for Helen to hit the campaign trail in the future. “I don’t think I would like it as a career. But it piqued my interest in politics. I like to keep up with what’s happening because of it.” Spanish, not politics, is a more likely college focus. The summer after her sophomore year, Helen spent a month in Argentina in a small town just outside of Buenos Aires, as part of an exchange program with an Argentine school that, like Mount St. Mary, is run by the Sisters of Mercy. But who knows? “I’m a very curious person,” Helen said. It’s that impulse that’s led her explore folk music on the violin after years of playing only classical (“I love the relaxed style that lends itself to improvisation,” she said) and to be a part of the Mount St. Mary newspaper staff since 9th grade. “Obviously, it’s a way for me to stay informed,” she said of being a part of the newspaper staff. “But also I want to make sure all the girls at my school are aware of the interesting and fun things happening with their classmates and friends. I don’t want things to go unnoticed.” One thing seems certain in her future: Helen will not go unnoticed.

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here probably aren’t too many high school seniors who say they’re looking forward ANDREA KATHOL to sitting in on corporate AGE: 18 quarterly earnings report HOMETOWN: Fayetteville calls. But Andrea Kathol HIGH SCHOOL: Fayetteville High comes by this rare attriSchool bute honestly: Her father PARENTS: Marcia and Jon is vice president of investor Kathol relations for Tyson Foods COLLEGE PLANS: University of Inc. “I’m definitely trying Arkansas, business to follow in his footsteps,” she said. This fall, Kathol will attend the University of Arkansas, where she’s enrolled in the Walton College of Business. “I haven’t declared a major yet, but I’m thinking about a double major in economics and marketing,” she said. Why a double major? “Economics uses the math side and organizational side of learning that I really like, and marketing ties in the communication skills and social skills that I have,” Kathol said. “I feel like getting a double major will allow me to get a job that synthesizes my personal skills and also my academic skills.” She said an AP economics class at FHS was inspiring for her, and taught her how the study of economics ties many different disciplines together into a fascinating whole. Kathol has a scholarship to the UA that will pretty much cover everything. “When it came time to make a college decision, I just couldn’t imagine going anywhere else,” she said. “Because of the in-state opportunities, and I’ve already laid so many roots and business connections here, and with Arkansas’s amazing business school, it just seemed like the right fit for me.”

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ustin Klucher had a rough go of it in middle school. When he entered high school, he remembers, he was reserved and lacked conJUSTIN KLUCHER fidence in himself. Things AGE: 18 turned around for him on a HOMETOWN: North Little Rock church mission trip to ChiHIGH SCHOOL: North Little cago the summer before Rock High School his 10th grade year. SomePARENTS: Christy and Michael thing about getting away Klucher from home and out of his COLLEGE PLANS: Leaning comfort zone allowed him toward University of Arkansas to finally shed his selfat Fayetteville, biomedical doubt and be himself. “I engineering had a spiritual and emotional rebirth,” he says. “I can’t even begin to explain what caused it. Since then I’ve bloomed.” Justin has always been a good student — he is ranked third in his class with a GPA of 4.32. But after Chicago, he started making new friends, joining clubs, and being more active in school. He took on a leadership role in Student Council and he’s now been president for two years running. He was also elected auditor of state at Arkansas Boys State in 2012. Justin’s leadership and success in the classroom aren’t the only way he’s come into his own: After previously working behind the scenes on technical stagecraft, last year he made the leap to acting on stage, taking the role of Eugene in “Grease.” This year he was Ebenezer Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol.” “Before the curtain goes up every show, I get that same feeling of butterflies in your stomach, but then the minute you walk out, it’s great,” he says. Justin will most likely be heading for UA, where he’s interested in studying biomedical engineering. He says that having parents as teachers helped him understand early on the importance of academic success. “At the same time,” he says, “I feel like there’s just a part of me that strives to work hard.” Even as a lot of his fellow classmates begin to coast in their senior year, Justin remains as motivated as ever: “I can’t even let a homework assignment go. Something in me stops me.”

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hen Jonathon Lance was just 5 months old, he contracted spinal menJONATHON LANCE ingitis. He was in and out AGE: 19 of the hospital for the next HOMETOWN: Nashville two years and had seizures HIGH SCHOOL: Nashville High until he was 5, delaying his School entry into kindergarten by PARENTS: Glenn and Cynthia a year. Throughout this Lance ordeal, his parents conCOLLEGE PLANS: Harding or the stantly read to him, which University of Central Arkansas, Jonathan says is the root of English, history, journalism a passion for learning and books that remains with him to this day. In the 4th grade, Jonathan started competing in Quiz Bowl, and found that as an avid reader, he had a base of general knowledge that gave him a leg up. “I just instantly fell in love with it,” he says. He was state and national MVP in junior high, leading his team to a national championship in the Junior High Quiz Bowl tournament in New Orleans in 2010. He followed that up with an equally outstanding career in high school, winning the state MVP and leading the team to a state championship last year. The National Merit finalist is first in his class with a 4.12 cumulative GPA and has been active in community service projects through 4-H. Jonathan served as a state officer in 4-H and as a class representative of the Student Council at Nashville High. He is deciding between Harding and UCA for college, where he plans to take a wide range of courses before making up his mind about what to pursue. He is particularly interested in English, history and journalism, and is hoping to continue studying Spanish. Jonathan says he believes that hard work has led him to success but also feels fortunate just to have these opportunities after his early health troubles. “Who knows if things had gone differently where I’d be,” he said. “I’ve been blessed to be able to do this.”

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ylie McClanahan describes a discipline uncommon in young people. She KYLIE MCCLANAHAN resolved after reading a fitAGE: 18 ness blog to live healthier, HOMETOWN: Maumelle in part in hopes it would HIGH SCHOOL: Central help her cope with a famArkansas Christian ily curse of migraine headPARENTS: Robert and Michelle aches. That started with a McClanahan balanced diet. She gave up COLLEGE PLANS: University soda pop. She began avoidof Arkansas at Fayetteville, ing processed foods. She physics did much of her own cooking from scratch. She began a daily workout regimen. She succeeded: She says her physical and mental health improved. She changed fat to muscle and she gained confidence. And she hasn’t had a migraine since last summer. In all, it made her better prepared for a busy senior year. The National Merit scholarship program honoree has made the most of it. Her 4.3 GPA puts her No. 1 in a class of 91 at CAC. She hasn’t taken the easy path to those grades. Her senior classes include AP government, calculus and chemistry, economics, Greek 2 and an ensemble drama class. Counselor Jan Penrod says Kylie stands out not only for her achievements but her smile and her kindness. She’s a regular in school mission activities, with trips to Chicago, Oklahoma City, Birmingham and Haiti over the last 10 years. She shoveled bags full of dirt as part of a school building project in Haiti and plans a trip to the Dominican Republic this summer. She’s the “mom” to CAC stage productions, Penrod says, working as stage manager. “I was never as good at acting as at managing,” she says. She does costume and stage design and lighting. She found understanding the “whole picture” was easier for her than focusing on a character. She also leads a campus big brother/big sister program. Kylie has been chosen as a fellow in the UA Honors College program. She thinks she’ll follow her father into the IT field and hopes to concentrate on physics and computers. “The whole way society is interconnected and the way technology is progressing is fascinating,” she says.

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hen he was a sophomore, Patrick McKenzie founded the Searcy High School engineering team so students could enter a NASA competition. His fledgling team was ultimately one of four chosen from around the country to design a payload to fly below a high altitude weather balloon. Over the course of just a few months, his team designed and built PATRICK MCKENZIE AGE: 17 a mini-spectrometer that measures “gas concentrations HOMETOWN: Ward in the atmosphere as a function of altitude.” In Cleveland, HIGH SCHOOL: Searcy High where they got to attach it to the balloon that took it up School 111,000 feet, the device itself functioned properly, but a PARENTS: Sheryl and Don programming error kept any of the data it captured from McKenzie being recorded in the micro-computer. The engineering COLLEGE PLANS: University of team was disappointed, but generally undeterred. They Tennessee, pre-med know there are several balloon teams active in Arkansas; they’re hoping to hook up with one of them to give the spectrometer another whirl. Team members also recently traveled to Memphis to get their Level 1 highpowered rocket certification. What’s that mean? “I can fly bigger rockets — every boy’s dream,” Patrick said, laughing. “I’m at the level now that you have to call the airport before you launch one.” Like other All-Stars, Patrick’s academic resume is sterling. He’s a National Merit finalist and on pace to be valedictorian of Searcy High School with a 4.2 grade point average. But it is his extracurricular involvement that really stands out. Not only did he co-found the engineering team, he’s on the Quiz Bowl team, an all-region euphonium player in the SHS band, a member of Harding University’s jazz band, editor of the SHS yearbook and student class president. Asked how he’s managed to transcend social cliques to be involved in such wide ranging pursuits, Patrick said he tries to avoid “tunnel vision.” “Academics are definitely my priority, but I try to take a larger view of things and realize that being social and having friends are important too. I try to live in a way that I don’t ever have anyone mad at me.”

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everal years ago, Celina Miranda saw a post on Facebook about symptoms of an eating disorder. She recognized some in herself, told her mom, went to see a doctor and received treatment for a year. It’s probably safe to say that most teen-age sufferers of psychological illness — particularly one as stigmatized as an eating disCELINA MIRANDA order — don’t become outspoken advocates for awareness AGE: 17 about the illness as part of their recovery. But, as Cabot HOMETOWN: Cabot High principal Henry Hawkins wrote in an essay nomiHIGH SCHOOL: Cabot High nating Celina as an Academic All-Star, Celina has a certain School “ferocity” about her (also, per Hawkins, charm, wit, insight PARENTS: Carla and Vince and brilliance). As a junior, she started National Eating Miranda Disorders Week at Cabot High, and spoke in classrooms COLLEGE PLANS: Vanderbilt throughout the school about the myths and health concerns University, pre-med surrounding eating disorders and the best methods to talk to someone who might be at risk. Talking openly with her peers is important to Celina. After she attended Governor’s School over the summer, where coursework promoted critical thinking, logic and philosophy, she and a friend persuaded a teacher to sponsor the creation of a philosophy club. Now once a week after school, 30 students gather to talk about controversial issues — belief in a deity, the prison system, women’s rights, gay rights. No one has objected to the club yet, Celina said. “Part of why we haven’t gotten pushback is that we made it really clear that we wanted it to be open and safe.” Celina is a National Merit finalist, on track to graduate first in a senior class of 675. She plans to attend Vanderbilt, where she’ll likely major in biology or chemistry, en route to going to medical school. Or maybe she’ll make it big as a songwriter. She said she partly chose a college in Nashville in hopes of pursuing her country-pop songwriting. She’s a seasoned singer, who gives elementary students piano and guitar lessons. But it’s the songwriting part that she especially finds gratifying. “I don’t keep a diary or anything, but I do write songs to figure things out for myself,” she said.

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uis Ruano-Avens is headed to the U of A Honors College on a Phyllis Hunt scholLUIS E. RUANO-AVENS arship of $8,000 a year. AGE: 18 On the day we talked to HOMETOWN: Fort Smith the native of Guatemala, HIGH SCHOOL: Southside High he was headed out to celSchool ebrate his 18th birthday PARENTS: Veronica Avens and with his family and later Ernesto Ruano with friends, and probCOLLEGE PLANS: University ably dressed to the nines. of Arkansas at Fayetteville, “I love dressing up. … Just chemical engineering the feeling you get when you know you look good,” he explained. Life is good for this tuba-playing Ultimate Frisbee fan, and he’s earned it: With his 4.2 grade point average, he’s 4th in his class. He can also thank his mother: Ten years ago she moved him to Fort Smith from Guatemala City after men armed with machine guns and handguns stopped her car, broke out the windows and threatened to kill her before stealing the car and all her money. Luis’ mother decided she didn’t want her children growing up around such crime; since her sister lived in Fort Smith, that’s where she moved Luis, his two brothers and a sister. Luis is working on getting full permanent residency; he does have status to allow him to attend college on the Hunt scholarship. He’s grateful to have the opportunity; he said he had a lot of Hispanic friends who’d graduated a few years ahead of him who were “really smart” but, anticipating problems getting a college degree, went into construction work right after high school. Luis plans to major in chemical engineering but expects to go on to earn a master’s in business administration or accounting. His AP English Literature teacher, Karen Davis, has no doubt he’ll achieve his goals. “I am confident, based on the work ethic he has demonstrated in class, that he will realize them all.”

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e get record-settling Academic All-Stars fairly often — highest GPA, perTHOMAS SELIG fect ACT or SAT score, and AGE: 18 others — but Thomas Selig HOMETOWN: Hot Springs is definitely one for the HIGH SCHOOL: Lakeside High books. Selig, who attends School Lakeside High near Hot PARENTS: Mary Jo and Paul Springs, managed to set the Selig record for most advanced COLLEGE PLANS: University of placement classes in his Arkansas school’s history, acing 11 while holding down a 4.34 G.P.A. It’s a drive to excel that’s been with him a long time, even though he always hasn’t been sure of what he wanted to do with his life. At 6, he said, he was sure he wanted to be a Catholic priest. By middle school, he’d settled on being a radiologist. Now that he’s about to graduate from high school, he is considering the field of medicine or possibly majoring in political science and economics, a path that might lead him to law school. “I’ve always been interested in a lot of different things,” he said, “so I’m excited to go to college. But at the same time, I’m a little scared, because I’ll have to make a decision as to what I’d like to do.” Undecided or not, the future looks rosy for Thomas, a National Merit Scholarship finalist. He said he’s always loved the feeling of learning new things. “When you start a chapter, you look at the problems and you think: There’s no way I’ll ever be able to solve these, because they look ridiculously complicated. Then you read the chapter and you understand it.” What drives him is his “extremely competitive mentality,” he said, though he admits he winds up competing mostly with himself. “If I do something, I like to do it as well as I can,” he said. “I would rather do something difficult and then either fail or not meet my goal than just sort of coast by and easily accomplish my goals, but know I could have done something more. I’d rather challenge myself.”

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livia Sims has accumulated all sorts of honors in her high school career. OLIVIA SIMS She’s a National Merit AGE: 18 finalist, the vice president HOMETOWN: North Little Rock of NLRH Student CounHIGH SCHOOL: North Little cil and on track to be valeRock High School dictorian in a senior class PARENTS: Suzanne and Barry of 549. But she said perSims haps her most significant COLLEGE PLANS: Hendrix achievement has been her College, pre-med work with her school’s drama department. Olivia has always worked behind the scenes. “I’ve never been one to like a lot of attention. I have no desire to be onstage whatsoever,” she said. As a senior, she’s served as student technical director, calling the shots during stage productions — telling crew when to move sets, bring up lights and raise the curtain. The fall show, “A Christmas Carol,” was especially challenging, she said. One scene involved a 20-foot “phantom” that the crew had to raise up, in sync with actors, curtains, lights, smoke and a spinning bed. The part of Olivia’s brain that allows her to manage a number of moving parts onstage might also make her a successful doctor. She said she’s long been interested in human biology, which she plans to study at Hendrix. “I find it fascinating that you can go in and alter it and heal people,” she said. Olivia’s counselor, Gwen Leger, offered further speculation about Olivia’s brain: “With respect to those scientists who say that teen brains are not capable of forward-thinking and evaluating consequences, I offer Olivia Sims. Yes, she will continue to mature, and eventually this old soul will become an even more empathetic and giving woman inclined to quietly lend a hand, share a novel and leave her mark in ways too numerous to count.”

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ALTHEIMER NICHOLAS MANNING Dollarway High School

DARDANELLE MCKENZIE KIST Dardanelle High School

ARKADELPHIA JACE BRADSHAW Arkadelphia High School

HUNTER RAMEY Dardanelle High School

ELIZABETH TEED Arkadelphia High School

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ATKINS HAILEY ROBERSON Atkins High School

TORRENCE BARBER De Queen High School

BEEBE ERIN LANGLEY Beebe High School BELLA VISTA MONICA WHITE Gravette High School BELLEVILLE SAMANTHA GILLESPIE Western Yell County High School BENTON ABBY HERZFELD Benton High School ANTHONY SHANK Benton High School BRYANT TAYLOR BISHOP Bauxite High School CABOT MATT CALHOUN Cabot High School CELINA MIRANDA Cabot High School CAMDEN LINDSEY COLLINS Camden Fairview High School BRETT JAMES Harmony Grove High School EVAN WHEATLEY Camden Fairview High School CENTER RIDGE LAUREN ANDERSON Nemo Vista High School CONCORD CAMERON REESOR Concord High School CONWAY SIGAN CHEN Conway High School JACOB LINNA Conway High School BROOKE RITTMAN St. Joseph High School CRAIG YRLE St. Joseph High School

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6. CONLEY HURST Episcopal Collegiate School 7. BRIANNA LAFERNEY Harding Academy 8. NICHOLAS MULCAHY Rogers High School 9. PRATHEEPA RAVIKUMAR Rogers Heritage High School 10. CHRISTIAN SHEWMAKE Little Rock Christian Academy

EL DORADO VICTORIA DAVIS El Dorado High School CORDELL GRIFFIN El Dorado High School ELKINS DESTINY SKAGG Elkins High School ENOLA KATIE MCNINCH Mount Vernon-Enola High School FARMINGTON JOHN DAVID BLEW Farmington High School FAYETTEVILLE CALLIE ACUFF Shiloh Christian School PETER DU Fayetteville High School ANDREA KATHOL Fayetteville High School FORREST CITY ARDRAYA MCCOY Forrest City High School DOMINIC WILLIAMS Forrest City High School FORT SMITH JACK BIEKER JR. Union Christian Academy JONI FIELDS-ADAMS Union Christian Academy RACHEL DAVIS Southside High School LUIS E. RUANO-ARENS Southside High School

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ARHITA DASGUPTA Central High School KAYLA DAVIE J.A. Fair High School SARA FRANKOWSKI Little Rock Christian Academy ALIHAY GLOVER Parkview High School HELEN HATHAWAY Mount St. Mary Academy

HOT SPRINGS ALI KINSEY Lakeside High School

KATIE MATNEY LISA Academy

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BRETT MCCLAIN Pulaski Academy

DENISHA SCOTT Hot Springs High School

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THOMAS SELIG Lakeside High School

DAVID TERRELL Parkview High School

HUNTSVILLE HOPE WOODS Huntsville High School

LOCUST GROVE COLBY WOLFE Southside High School

JONESBORO HALEY ELIZABETH BURDEN Ridgefield Christian School

LONOKE MADISON JAMES Lonoke High School

JOSHUA CARTER Ridgefield Christian School

MADISON STATON Lonoke High School

HAVEN HOGAN Nettleton High School

LOWELL LUKE BURTON Har-Ber High School

ALSTON SLATTON Valley View High School

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ALEXANDRIA MCLEOD Benton County School of the Arts MABELVALE KEVIN CHAMBERLAIN Bauxite High School

JUDSONIA ALICIA COOK Riverview High School

MAUMELLE KATIE DOBBINS Mount St. Mary Academy

JOHN HALE Riverview High School

KYLIE MCCLANAHAN Central Arkansas Christian

LAKE CITY SHELBY LYNCH Bay High School

MCRAE KASEY EUBANKS Beebe High School

MONETTE CASSIDY QUALLS Buffalo Island Central High School CLAY TURNER Buffalo Island Central High School NASHVILLE JONATHAN LANCE Nashville High School NORTH LITTLE ROCK JENNIFER FRANCE Maumelle High School ELIZABETH ANN HALL Arkansas Baptist High School JUSTIN KLUCHER North Little Rock High School KASI KREADY eStem High School OLIVIA SIMS North Little Rock High School

SONIA PASCALE Episcopal Collegiate School POWHATAN WHITNEY MEEKS Black Rock High School ROGERS HARLAND BARKER Benton County School of the Arts DRAX GEIGER Shiloh Christian School AUBRIE HANSON Rogers High School NICHOLAS MULCAHY Rogers High School PRATHEEPA RAVIKUMAR Rogers Heritage High School DIEGO RIOS Rogers Heritage High School

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Arkansas Teen College Classes • Video Game Design – Learn the basics of designing and coding your own video game! • Silk-screening – Learn to turn your designs into stencils and print them. • Digital Media – Get hands-on experience with digital cinematography, editing, graphics and sound. • Life of Billie Holiday – Discover Billie Holiday through creative writing, dramatization and her music. • Puppetry – Explore the dramatic experience of puppetry, storytelling and set designing. • Journey Journ into Writing - Students will use their writing skills to publish and present their poetry, fiction and non-fiction work. • Playwriting, From Page to Stage – Learn the creative writing process and performance of play-scripts. • So You Want to be a Star – Learn the basics of acting and performing with voice, body and mind. • Dance Your Way to Broadway! – Learn dance moves from all genres. Beginners welcome. • Digital Photography – Learn how to compose images in the camera using elements of art and design.

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APRIL 25, 2013

Arts Entertainment AND

‘DEATH OF A SALESMAN’: Robert Walden and Carolyn Mignini (on the sofa) star along with Craig Maravich and Avery Clark star in Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s production.

CLASSIC ‘Death of a Salesman’ at Arkansas Repertory Theatre.

BY ROBERT BELL

APRIL 25, 2013

ARKANSAS TIMES

JOHN DAVID PITTMAN

AMERICAN

ew other American plays carry the sort of weight and reputation that Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” does. It won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. Its numerous Broadway revivals have been hailed as well, including last year’s highly acclaimed production directed by Mike Nichols, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Linda Emond and Andrew Garfield. “This play has a huge and accomplished artistic footprint,” said Robert Hupp, producing artistic director at Arkansas Repertory Theatre and the director of the show. However, he said, “You can’t go into the rehearsal process looking to the past. You go into the rehearsal process looking to the future and what this group of artists is going to create.” This is the first time in The Rep’s 38-year history that the organization has produced “Death of a Salesman,” and only the second time to tackle a work by Miller. “You can’t be intimidated by the past or what others have said about the production,” Hupp said. “It’s our job to breath life into this production at this time in this place.” The Rep has put together quite a team to do just that, including stage and screen actor Robert Walden, who plays the iconic role of Willy Loman; Broadway performer and acclaimed singer Carolyn Mignini as Linda Loman; Rep veteran Avery Clark as Biff Loman; and Craig Maravich as Happy Loman. All four actors sat down with the Times to discuss the play. The story is probably familiar to most theatergoers: Traveling salesman Willy Loman is adrift in a changing economy. His life and mind are unraveling after he loses his job. His sons haven’t lived up to his hopes and expectations for them. Rather than facing reality, Willy dwells on the past. In looking back on the history of the play and its four major revivals, all of them occurred during or within a year or two of a recession. So do the prevailing economic conditions come to bear on this production? “Of course we bring current events and we bring our lives with us whenever we come to experience a play,” Hupp said. But “the particular situations of this play transcend any par-

ticular point in time, and that’s what makes a play a classic is it is both timely and timeless.” It’s much more about the love and struggle of a family than any sort of economic conditions, Walden said. “I think at the core, it’s an unrequited love story — love of family, love of country, love of self — all of it falling short, all of it not fulfilled,” he said. “And it’s a cacophony of thoughts and needs and frustrations and emotions, where the unconscious and the conscious start to surface and intermingle. It’s also a study of the crumbling of the human psyche under pressure. It’s an extraordinary piece of work.” Clark echoed that assessment: “The more and more you work on it, the more you’re like, this is a brilliant piece of writing, and it’s so layered and much more difficult than I thought it would be,” he said. “Your best work is always when you’re challenged, and I find this incredibly challenging.” So has the rehearsal process been emotionally draining? The question prompted laughter from the four actors. “Look into our eyes,” Mignini said. “I wouldn’t call it exhausting as in draining energy, though. It really produces a kind of energy,” she said. “But it’s a lot to go through. It’s an event.” “It’s a remarkable play. It really feels like a privilege to be able to work on it,” Maravich said, adding that “Death of a Salesman” has been at the top of the list of plays he’s wanted to work in since he first read it as a teenager. “Every character is so rich in the play. Even the character with the smallest amount of stage time has such a full life.” Despite the heartbreak and family dysfunction at the core of “Death of a Salesman,” Hupp said he believes it is “an incredibly optimistic play.” “It gives us a fascinating way to think about and talk about our own families,” he said. “That’s why you should come see ‘Death of a Salesman.’ ”

The Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s production of “Death of a Salesman” opens Friday at 8 p.m. It runs through May 12, with performances at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. on Sundays. Tickets are $25-$40.

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A&E NEWS THE LITTLE ROCK FILM FESTIVAL, scheduled for May 15-19, has announced most of the line-up, and it’s a doozy. Director Destin Daniel Cretton’s “Short Term 12,” which won the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s SXSW, will open this year’s Little Rock Film Festival on May 15 with screenings on both sides of the river. The film, about a supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers, will screen at 6:30 p.m. at the Argenta Community Theater in North Little Rock and 7:30 p.m. at The Rep. Bonnie Montgomery will open the Rep show with a solo performance and perform a full band show after the screening as part of a new music/film program White Water Tavern and the LRFF are collaborating on. Reserve tickets via littlerockfilmfestival.org. Other highlights: “Ain’t in It for My Health,” dir. Jacob Haltey. A much anticipated documentary about the late Levon Helm, of Turkey Scratch. “Bayou Maharajah,” dir Lily Keber. A profile of New Orleans piano great James Booker. “Blood Brother,” dir. Steve Hoover. The winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance tells the story of a young American who travels to an AIDS orphanage in India. “Burma,” dir. Carlos Puga. Chris Abbott (“Girls”) stars as the son of a man who abandoned his dying wife and three children only to return nine years later on the eve of an annual family reunion. The cast of the film won a special jury prize for acting at SXSW. “The Discoverers,” dir. Justin Schwarz. Griffin Dunne stars as a history professor leading his teen-age kids on a road trip. “Our Nixon,” dir. Penny Lane and Brian L. Frye. An all-archival footage doc portrait of Nixon culled from footage shot by H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Dwight Chapin, which was seized during Watergate and forgotten for nearly four decades. “Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer,” dir Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin. The winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award at Sundance tells the story of the famed feminist art collective, whose controversial arrest in Russia has captured the attention of the world. “We Always Lie to Strangers,” dir. AJ Schnack and David Wilson. A portrait of Branson and what it’s like to live there that won the Special Jury Prize for Directing at SXSW. “Zero Charisma,” dir. Katie Graham and Andrew Matthews. The story of a role-playing gamer caught in an existential crisis that won a narrative spotlight award at SXSW.

Friday, april 26

Paleface (North Carolina / NYC) w/ Prizehog (San Francisco) & Iron Tongue

saTurday, april 27 Mulehead w/ Jonathan Wilkins

Monday, april 29 Bill Callahan w/ Flat Foot

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APRIL 25, 2013

THE TO-DO

LIST

BY ROBERT BELL

FRIDAY 4/26

J. RODDY WALSTON & THE BUSINESS

J. Roddy Walston & The Business probably don’t need much introduction for the discerning fan of goodtime rock ’n’ roll living in Central Arkansas. Dudes have played here multiple times over the last six years or so. But if you still haven’t heard them yet, I’d give it a go. J. Rod himself is the main-man of the band, tickling the ivories and strumming the guit-box. They make a kind of Southern rock/power pop hybrid that’s pure, beerswilling recreation music. This is not the band that you’re gonna put on so you can sit around your bedroom in the dark wal-

GLYNNIS MCDARIS

9 p.m. Stickyz. $10 adv., $12 day of.

ROWDY RODDY: J. Roddy Walston and The Business play at Stickyz Friday.

lering in self-pity and overanalyzing all the places your life went off track and who’s done you wrongly. I was going tell you they’re kind of a hybrid of Thin Lizzy energy and Skynyrd-y swagger. Then I looked back in our archives and Times

Editor Lindsey Millar has already pretty much said the same thing: “Think Thin Lizzy channeling Jerry Lee Lewis.” So there’s that. They just signed to ATO Records and have recently been recording down in Georgia, so some newer songs

will probably be on tap. Also on the bill at this 18-and-older show is the very, very good Nashville rocker Pujol. He’s been through town a couple times as well and has a crackerjack album out, “The United States of Being.”

SATURDAY 4/27SUNDAY 4/28

‘RODEO IN THE ROCK’

9 a.m. Arkansas State Fairgrounds. $15 per day or $24 for both.

alcohol … and have names like St. Jimmy and Whatsername … which would become hugely popular and go on to gross millions of dollars and win a Grammy and two Tony Awards among others … . Sure, there’s nothing wrong with any of that. But man, it still seems kinda weird. Showtimes are 8 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.

day fun into one long, never-ending celebration. Anyways, Jenna Jameson is a famous actress who has starred in lots and lots and lots of movies with other actors and actresses and apparently she also likes to dance around in front of people. She’s also wealthy, or anyway that’s what she implied when she endorsed Mitt Romney when he was

running for President of the U.S.A. “I’m very looking forward to a Republican being back in office,” she told a reporter from CBS San Francisco, apparently while she was drinking champagne in a club there. “When you’re rich, you want a Republican in office.” Don’t mind Jenna y’all, she’s just truthin’. In addition to watching Jenna celebrate

her 39th birthday, you can also catch some bands and comedians performing as well, including The Revolutioners, Angry Patrick, Roger Scott, Pool Boy, Bright, Paul Prater Sideshow, Electroniq and Linwood Polk. If you opt for the $50 VIP ticket, you get reserved seating, a private meet-and-greet with Jenna, a photo and autograph.

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made a Broadway musical. Sure, the band has been enormously famous for the better part of two decades now, so there’s certainly a case to be made for telling those sorts of folks to just get over it, you know? And it’s not that there’s anything wrong with making a Broadway musical … with a pop-punk soundtrack … about a bunch of bored suburban kids who turn to drugs and

All right, rodeo fans, it’s time for “Rodeo in the Rock,” presented by the Diamond State Rodeo Association. The event, sanctioned by the International Gay Rodeo Association, is three days of ropin’ and ridin’ and racin’ and all-around good times. On Thursday night, Miss Kitty’s Saloon hosts “A Loyal Royal Welcome” for all the out-oftowners and on Friday night, they’ll host “A Rodeo Royal Night” after registration at the Arkansas State Fairgrounds. Also on Friday, Trax in North Little Rock hosts a Homorodeo.com meet-and-greet and will be firing up the grill to provide the rodeo fans with burgers and fixings, starting at 5:30 p.m. The rodeo competitions start up Saturday and Sunday at 9 a.m. and there’s lots of other activities throughout the day. There’s a cookout at 6 p.m. and a dance party at 8 p.m. on Saturday. The awards ceremony will be Sunday at 6 p.m.

PUNK OPERA: “American Idiot” comes to the Walton Arts Center this weekend, with Alex Nee and Trent Saunders.

FRIDAY 4/26-SUNDAY 4/28

‘AMERICAN IDIOT’

Various times. Walton Arts Center. $53-$79.

For a certain species of crusty old punker — maybe, say, the sort of miscreant who grew up worshipping Cometbus and once dubbed all of Sewer Trout’s records onto one handy cassette — it’s still really weird on some level that Green Day

SATURDAY 4/27

JENNA JAMESON’S 39TH BIRTHDAY BASH

9 p.m. Juanita’s. $20-$50.

Huh. This event is called Jenna Jameson’s 39th Birthday Bash, but according to the ol’ Wikipedia, her actual birthday is technically April 9. Maybe she’s just extending the birth42

APRIL 25, 2013

ARKANSAS TIMES

GLYNNIS MCDARIS

IN BRIEF

THURSDAY 4/25

SATURDAY 4/27

ETSY INDIE ARTS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL

11 a.m. Shoppes on Woodlawn.

For all of you artsy, craftsy, DIY-y, food-y, music-y types residing in Central Arkansas or hereabouts, this here is a must-do for your Saturday: The 3rd Annual Indie Arts & Music Festival, presented by Etsy Little Rock. I imagine most folks have some familiarity with Etsy, the e-commerce hub for all things arts, crafts, handmade and vintage. Roughly three dozen local

Etsy vendors will be there to vend their wares. Do you require hand-crafted soaps? Vintage clothing? Handmade jewelry? Tote bags with animals on them? This will be the place where you can find and purchase such items all without cracking open the laptop. I would predict that most of these folks will have those little card swipe-y things that plug into a smartphone, but maybe bring some cash just in case. Starting at noon, there will also be live music from the following acts, in order of appearance: Michael Leonard Witham, Isaac

Alexander, Mike Mullins, Ming Donkey, Bombay Harambee, Reed Balentine, The Winston Family Orchestra and Booyah! Dad. Of course, you’ll likely require food at some point to satisfy your music listening- and shoppinginduced famishment. As such, there will be food trucks on site to provide you with some nosh. You can choose from kBird, Loblolly Creamery, Palette Catering and Event Planning, Philly’s To Go, The Southern Gourmasian and Sugar Shack Sweets & Treats.

SATURDAY 4/27-SUNDAY 4/28

GLOBAL KIDS ARKANSAS FUNDRAISERS

Various times and venues.

You might recall a few weeks back, the Times caught up with Chane Morrow, known to most everybody as Big Piph, about his upcoming fundraiser to help establish the Global Kids program

in Arkansas. Piph and a bunch of other folks are seeking to raise $100,000 by April 29. Rock Candy has been posting exclusive $1 song downloads from a variety of Arkansas artists all week, with the proceeds going toward the fundraiser. You can donate directly at Arktimes. com/globalkids. And there are also several events, including a three-on-three

basketball tournament and an open mic night Saturday (details are still being fleshed out, check Globalkidsar.org for updates) and a concert on Sunday at Revolution. The concert starts at 8 p.m., with Amasa Hines, Collin vs. Adam and Big Piph & Tomorrow Maybe. It’s hosted by Cheyenne Matthews and Bryan Frazier and Poebot will DJ.

Electro-pop fans, don’t miss buzzedover L.A. outfit Mansions on the Moon, playing an 18-and-older show at Stickyz with Carousel, 9 p.m., $10. The 11th Annual Empty Bowls Dinner and Auction benefits Arkansas Foodbank, with live and silent auctions, food from several area restaurants and more, Arkansas Foodbank, 6 p.m., $65-$250. The Open Book Celebration benefit features NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and is presented by The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts, Clinton Presidential Center, 6-9:30 p.m., $150.

FRIDAY 4/26

Country singer (and DeQueen native) Collin Raye plays at Juanita’s, with Big Shane Thornton and Brandi Shae, 9:30 p.m., $17 adv., $20 day of. Galactic Empire Ep. 3 is an all-ages dance party featuring Ed Crunk, Downtown Music Hall, 6 p.m., $6 adv., $10 door. Dallas-based Southern rock stalwarts Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights play an 18-and-older show at Revolution with Jonesboro rockers Starroy, 9 p.m., $10 adv., $12 day of. It’s the last weekend for The Main Thing’s “The Last Night at Orabella’s,” a two-act comedic play about the residents of tiny, fictional Dumpster, Ark., 8 p.m., $20. Ballet Arkansas presents “Turning Pointe,” including a dance performance, dinner and presentation of the Above the Barre award honoring Chelsea Clinton. Cocktail attire is requested. Supermarine of Little Rock, 6:30 p.m., $100-$500.

SATURDAY 4/27 MONDAY 4/29

BILL CALLAHAN

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

KNOCK KNOCK: Bill Callahan will perform at White Water Tavern Monday.

Bill Callahan is a singer/ songwriter who lives in Austin, Texas, and recorded for many years under the name of Smog. He’s released many albums of very high quality over the course of a couple of decades, mostly on the Drag City label out of Chicago. He sings in an even and unfussy baritone, his words mostly clipped and clear. I really dig Callahan’s “Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle” from 2009 and “Apocalypse” from 2011. He played a lastminute show at White Water Tavern in 2011, and I suspect there was a great deal of forehead slapping done by the folks who found out about it the next day. So no excuses this time! Opening for Callahan will be Cass Roberts, performing solo tap dancing.

Arkansas Modified Dolls presents “A Night of Music and Fun,” with Ace Spade, Broken Autopilot, Calcabrina and The Flameing Daeth Fearies, Vino’s, 7:30 p.m., $5. Troubadour Eric Sommer returns to Midtown, 12:30 a.m., $5. Down in the Spa City, Maxine’s hosts John Paul Keith & The One Four Fives and Bobby Bare Jr., 8 p.m., $5 adv., $7 door. Arkansas country-rocker Matt Stell plays an album release show at Revolution, with Swampbird, 8:30 p.m., $8 adv., $10 day of.

MONDAY 4/29

Up at the University of Arkansas, check out “An Evening with John Legend” at Barnhill Arena. The musician and activist will speak and play a few songs, 7 p.m., free.

TUESDAY 4/30

Verizon Arena is bringing in Brit Floyd, one of top Pink Floyd tribute acts in the world, performing five full albums, 8 p.m., $55. Juanita’s hosts chainsawwielding ’80s rockers Jackyl, with Syn City Cowboys, Obsidian and Sychosys, 9 p.m., $15.

WEDNESDAY 5/1

WordsWorth Books & Co. hosts UALR graduate Aaron Hartzler, who’ll read from and sign copies of his new book “Rapture Practice,” about growing up in a fundamentalist Christian environment, 5 p.m., free. www.arktimes.com

APRIL 25, 2013

AFTER DARK All events are in the Greater Little Rock area unless otherwise noted. To place an event in the Arkansas Times calendar, please e-mail the listing and all pertinent information, including date, time, location, price and contact information, to calendar@ arktimes.com.

THURSDAY, APRIL 25

MUSIC

Adam Faucett, Dillon Hodges. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m., $6. 2500 W 7th St. 501-3758400. www.whitewatertavern.com. Almost InFamous. Ya Ya’s Euro Bistro, 7-10 p.m., free. 17711 Chenal Parkway. 501-821-1144. www. yiayias.com/littlerock. Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. Short, accessible pieces, with commentary from the musicians. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Ben Robbins. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. www.maxinespub.com. Bombay Harambee, Mad Nomad. The Joint, 9:30 p.m., $5. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com. Cadaver Dogs. Downtown Music Hall, 8 p.m., $5. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownmusichall.com. Escape the Fate. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $15. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.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. 7 p.m. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www. sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Jocko Deal. Denton’s Trotline, 8 p.m., free. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717. Krush Thursdays with DJ Kavaleer. Club Climax, free before 11 p.m. 824 W. Capitol. 501-554-3437. Mansions on the Moon, Carousel. 18-and-older. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $8 adv., $10 day of. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com. Mayday By Midnight (headliner), Brian Ramsey (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www. cajunswharf.com. Michael Eubanks. Newk’s Express Cafe, 6:30 p.m. 4317 Warden Road, NLR. 501-753-8826. newks.com. Natural Outlaw. Town Pump. 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 501-663-9802. New Music Test: Through the Trees, The Ronald Rayguns. Revolution, 9 p.m., $5 21 and older, $10 18-20. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com. Open jam with The Port Arthur Band. Parrot Beach Cafe, 9 p.m. 9611 MacArthur Drive, NLR. 771-2994. Rusty White. Thirst n’ Howl, 8:30 p.m., free. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Trey Johnson. The Tavern Sports Grill, 7 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. www.thetavernsportsgrill.com.

COMEDY

Steve Hirst. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS

11th Annual “Empty Bowls” Dinner and Auction.

APRIL 25, 2013

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‘THE GOSPEL ACCORDION 2’: Best get your Sunday hangover recovery plan ready, because country-rockers Mulehead perform at White Water Tavern Saturday, with Jonathan Wilkins, 10 p.m. Benefit for Arkansas Foodbank, with live and silent auctions, food from several area restaurants and more. Arkansas Foodbank, 6 p.m., $65-$250. 4301 W. 65th St. 501-565-8121. www.arkansasfoodbank.org. 23rd Annual Victim Services Recognition Ceremony. Presented by Crime Victims Assistance Association of Arkansas. Clinton Presidential Center, 10 a.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 370-8000. www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org. Business After Hours. North Little Rock Chamber of Commerce networking event, with food, drinks, live music from Funkanites and more. LaVada’s, 5-7 p.m., $10-$15. 2005 Main St., NLR. 501-7719099. www.lavadas.com. Candlelight Vigil Ceremony. Presented by Crime Victims Assistance Association of Arkansas. Clinton Presidential Center, 7 p.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 370-8000. www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org. Disney on Ice: Dare to Dream. Verizon Arena, 7 p.m., $13-$46. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 501-9759001. verizonarena.com. Get Psyched for PCA! Third Annual Fundraiser for Professional Counseling Associates, with guest speaker Mark Abernathy. Hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be served. Professional Counseling Associates Administration Building, 6 p.m., $75. 3601 Richards Road, NLR. 501-221-1843. www. pca-ar.org. The Open Book Celebration featuring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Presented by The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts. Clinton Presidential Center, 6-9:30 p.m., $150. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-622-5110. www. asmsa.org.

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Woodlawn Farmer’s Market. Shoppes on Woodlawn, 4:30 p.m. 4523 Woodlawn. 501-6663600. woodlawnshoppes.blogspot.com. Worker Justice’s “Memorial Luncheon for Workers.” Luncheon to honor those who have been killed on the job in the last year. First Presbyterian Church, 11:30 a.m., $10. 800 Scott St.

LECTURES

Bill Simon. Harding University, 7:30 p.m. 900 E. Center Ave., Searcy. Dan Raviv. The foreign affairs expert will discuss the relationship between the U.S. and Israel. A bus will depart from Little Rock for the event at 5 p.m. Call for details. Hendrix College, 5:30 p.m. 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. 501-450-4598. www.hendrix.edu. Paul Masamba Sita Nsimba. The Fulbright Scholar presents a lecture titled “Culture, Society and Restorative Justice: Sub-Saharan Africa.” Clinton School of Public Service, 6 p.m., free. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5239. www. clintonschool.uasys.edu.

FRIDAY, APRIL 26

MUSIC

American Guild of Organists recital. Cathedral of St. Andrew, 8 p.m., free. 617 Louisiana St. 501 374-2794. cathedralsaintandrew.org. Arkansas Choral Society/University of Arkansas at Monticello Mozart Montage Spring Concert. Christ the King Catholic Church, 7:30 p.m. 4000 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-225-6774. www. ctklr.com. Arkansas Jazz Experience: Les Pack. Quapaw

Bathhouse, 6 p.m., $10-$15. 413 Central Ave., Hot Springs. Brown Soul Shoes. W.T. Bubba’s Country Tavern, 9 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-244-2528. 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. 501-221-1620. www.1620savoy.com. Collin Raye, Big Shane Thornton, Brandi Shae. Juanita’s, 9:30 p.m., $17 adv., $20 day of. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com. Drew Mitchell. The Tavern Sports Grill, 7 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. www. thetavernsportsgrill.com. Galactic Empire Ep. 3. All-ages, with Ed Crunk. Downtown Music Hall, 6 p.m., $6 adv., $10 door. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownmusichall.com. Handmade Moments (album release). The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com. The Hollywood Kills, Bravo Max!, Leopold & His Fiction. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $5 adv., $7 door. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. www.maxinespub.com. Hoodstock Music & Performing Arts Festival. Camping and music festival featuring Natural Outlaw, The Hollywood Kills, Crash Meadows and many more. Bald Mountain Park, April 26, 6 p.m.; April 27, 1 p.m.; April 28, 1 p.m., $5 per day. 300 Bald Mountain Road, Hot Springs. 501-620-0544. Hourglass, Tides of Anareta, Calcabrina. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 7 p.m. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub.com. J. Roddy Walston & The Business, Pujol. 18-andolder. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $10 adv., $12 day of. 107 Commerce St. 501-3727707. www.stickyz.com. Jason Burnett. Flying Saucer, 9 p.m., $3. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-8032. www.beerknurd.com/stores/littlerock. Jason Greenlaw and The Groove. West End Smokehouse and Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. 215 N. Shackleford. 501-224-7665. www.westendsmokehouse.net. Jeff Coleman. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, April 26-27, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-3242999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Jet 420 (headliner), Richie Johnson (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com. Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights, Starroy. 18-and-older. Revolution, 9 p.m., $10 adv., $12 day of. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com. The Michael Goodrich Band. Vino’s, 9 p.m., $5. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com. Moccasin Creek. Denton’s Trotline, 9:30 p.m., $10. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717. Paleface, Graham Wilkinson. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m., $6. 2500 W 7th St. 501-375-8400. www. whitewatertavern.com. Pat Anderson. Cregeen’s Irish Pub, 8 p.m. 301 Main St., NLR. 501-376-7468. www.cregeens.com. Stiff Necked Fools. Midtown Billiards, 12:30 a.m., $5. 1316 Main St. 501-372-9990. midtownar.com. Synergy, DJ Sleepy Genius. Montego Cafe, 8:30 p.m. 315 Main St. 501-372-1555. www.montegocafe.com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Thread. Thirst n’ Howl, 8:30 p.m., free. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com. “YOLO.” Featuring four DJs and beach volleyball, 18-and-older. Flying DD, $5. 4601 S. University.

DANCE

Ballet Arkansas: “Turning Pointe.” Performance, dinner and presentation of the Above the Barre award honoring Chelsea Clinton. Cocktail attire. Supermarine of Little Rock, 6:30 p.m., $100-$500. 2201 Bond St. 501-374-6582. supermarine.com. 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. Salsa Night. Begins with 30-40 minute salsa lesson. Juanita’s, 9:30 p.m. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.littlerocksalsa.com.

EVENTS

2013 Fight for Air Climb. Presented by the American Lung Association and YMCZ Little Rock. War Memorial Stadium, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 1 Stadium Drive. 501-975-0758 ext. 200. Arkansas Coalition Against Domestic Violence membership meeting. With Sen. Mark Pryor and State Rep Charlene Fite. Main Library, noon. 100 S. Rock St. 501-907-5612. www.cals.lib.ar.us. Disney on Ice: Dare to Dream. Verizon Arena, 7 p.m., $13-$46. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 501-9759001. verizonarena.com. Food & Foam Fest. Sample food, beer and wine. Dickey-Stephens Park, 6-9 p.m., $40-$65. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.foamfest.org. Gay Pride Party Tour. Club Xclusive, 10 p.m., $15. 1400 145th St. www.xclusivenight.com. LGBTQ/SGL Youth and Young Adult Group. Diverse Youth for Social Change is a group for LGBTQ/SGL and straight ally youth and young adults age 14 to 23. For more information, call 244-9690 or search “DYSC” on Facebook. 800 Scott St., 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St. Little Rock Re-Entry: A Community Conversation. Presentation on ex-offender re-entry issues by Clinton School students, Project Return, LewisBurnett Employment Finders, and the City of Little Rock. Clinton School of Public Service, 6-8 p.m., free. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-6835239. www.clintonschool.uasys.edu. Main Street Food Truck Fridays. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Fifth and Main. Rev. Fletcher Harper. The executive director of GreenFaith presents “GreenFaith – The Growing Religious Environmental Movement.” Clinton School of Public Service, noon, free. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5239. www.clintonschool.uasys.edu. Rodeo in the Rock. Presented by Diamond State Rodeo Association. Arkansas State Fairgrounds, April 26-28, 5 p.m., $15-$25. 2600 Howard St. 501372-8341 ext. 8206. www.arkansasstatefair.com.

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UCA Film Festival. Featuring films by undergraduate students in digital filmmaking. Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA, 5:30 p.m., free. 350 S. Donaghey, Conway. 501-852-2377.

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COMEDY

The Main Thing: “The Last Night at Orabella’s.” Original two-act comedic play about the residents of tiny, fictional Dumpster, Ark. The Joint, 8 p.m., $20. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com. Steve Hirst. The Loony Bin, through April 27, 7:30 and 10 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

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