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Thanks for 20 years and more Thank you. Thank you for your “In your face for 20 years” issue (May 9) and the last 20 years. Thank you for the last 38 years. I remember the Union Station Times.

Thank you for recent columns from Ernie Dumas and Jay Barth.

Pithy. Insightful. Thank you for Max’s column. Thank you for the number of times I laughed reading Lancaster.

Thank you for the wonderful history of Arkansas politics contained in your fine highlights of these 20 years.

Enlightening even for those of us who are political history junkies.

Thank you for bringing a light of reason and balance into the coverage of news and opinion in Arkansas.

Thank you for uncovering stories that needed to see the light.

We as a state are better for your publishing — in paper and online.

Keep up the good work.

Robert Johnston Little Rock

working class to do their dirty work.

Please understand that the better working conditions achieved by the union were not the cause of the Pulaski County School District financial woes, but rather the money troubles resulted from abuse and poor management of the administration. Much of this wrongful mismanagement was described in newspapers and on television news because concerned citizens and the union brought it out in the open. It is doubtful that all the wrongs have been made public. Watch for the budget reports of the Pulaski

County School District because there is a good reason to believe that it will end the year with millions in surplus.

If that happens, then the teachers will have lost their right to fairly bargain because of a ruse tactfully planted by the powerful few.

Teachers will now work in deplorable conditions, but most will continue to do their best because that is the nature of a teacher. It is a shame there is no way for the powerful few to spend a few weeks in the classroom because if that happened, their adversarial attitude would assuredly change, or

Save Your Money.

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Unjust union busting Some powerful people busted PACT, one of the state’s largest education unions. The union drew the ire of a fundamental few for offering teachers a defense against arbitrary dismissal, and fighting for such things as pay for extra duty, livable salaries, safe, clean working conditions, flexible leave, competitive insurance coverage and a host of other things. All the good that the union achieved through expensive struggles will be taken away at the whim of the powerful few.

The expenses of the union in the fight for better conditions were paid from the pockets of teachers. The administration used tax money by the buckets to fight the union and keep teachers in their submissive places.

The current action against teachers is taken under the guise of fixing a district in financial distress.

The deadly blow to most of the teachers in Pulaski County has the backing of the state Education Department and minions of singleminded supporters. The reason “most” instead of “all” was used in the previous sentence is that the other side has enlisted some teachers as rubber stamps. Those teachers form a committee that interacts with the administration in decisions affecting the district. They were selected in a contrived election about as fair as what takes place in some third-world communist countries. Just like those countries, the powerful few delight in using unsuspecting members of the 4

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at least they would be considerably more charitable. Do not believe them qualified to care if some reminisce about previous classroom experience.

They have not been in a current classroom for any length of time and most could not tolerate the present conditions because they are not teachers.

Richard Emmel Little Rock

Bell’s bureaucratic plan Rep. Nate Bell currently serves as my state representative.

Mr. Bell’s recent comments regarding his legislative inclination to convert Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarships (lottery scholarships) to loans if a student fails to complete a degree appears to be another attention-getting device and it would penalize kids for trying to get a college education.

There are many successful business people and others who have benefited from, but did not complete, college.

And it seems inconsistent for a small government conservative like Mr. Bell to want to create a state bureaucracy to serve as bill collectors for scholarships.

However, if he wants to be consistent, Mr. Bell could take his idea a step further and propose converting elected officials’ annual salaries and benefits into loans if they are unsuccessful in representing their constituents.

Instead of picking on kids for trying to get an education, Mr. Bell may learn something by visiting the families in his district to find out why so many young adults have already left Polk County.

Joseph P. Corcoran Mena

Disgusted Your cover on the April 18 issue was the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen. I am a retired English and social studies teacher, and I sponsored 28 high school year books. I taught my students better than that. A picture of Petrino with his pants down! Awful!

Whoever okayed that needs to be fired.

Beverly Billingsley Little Rock

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The Arkansas Times recommends these candidates in the elections now underway: SEN. JOYCE ELLIOTT, state Senate District 31, Democratic primary.

WARWICK SABIN, state House of Representatives District 33, Democratic primary.

JUDGE RAYMOND ABRAMSON, Arkansas Supreme Court Position 4, nonpartisan.

Early voting continues through May 21. Election Day is May 22.

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hen President Obama suggested that Mitt Romney as president mightn’t have ordered the removal of Osama bin Laden, Romney replied testily that he would too. Why, even Jimmy Carter would have given that order, he sneered.

Some thought it odd that Mitt Romney would mock Jimmy Carter’s courage and patriotism. Romney purposefully dodged service in his country’s armed forces, focusing instead on his college studies, missionary work, and probably the occasional fraternity party.

Carter attended the United States Naval Academy, accepted an officer’s commission on graduation, went down to the sea in submarines, and served six years on active duty. Who is entitled to patronize whom?

But now we learned that Romney has his own tale of valor — leaked to the press by Republican agents, no doubt — though his occurred not at sea but on the campus of one of those chichi prep schools that rich kids attend.

Witnesses have confirmed that Romney in 1965 led a prep-school posse in pursuit of one of their classmates, who was known to wear bleached-blond hair draped over one eye, and was suspected of homosexuality. The vigilantes tackled the offender and held him to the ground while a wrathful Romney cut off his hair with scissors. One of the gang encountered the victim years later, and apologized for his part in the assault. The victim said the incident was “horrible,” that he’d been unable to put it out of his mind.

The Republican Party used to offer war heroes as candidates — Grant, Eisenhower et al — and now it makes fun of them, as the Benton County divine and political operative Ronnie Floyd did with John Kerry, when that decorated Vietnam veteran was running for president. The ideal for today’s Republicans is the chicken hawk, the politician who talks a bold game, but carefully avoids combat. Here are the Dick Cheneys, the Newt Gingriches, the Rush Limbaughs.

Long committed to the view that only little people pay taxes, today’s Republican leaders now believe that only little people wear their country’s uniform too. “I will not apologize for being successful,” Romney has said, and he’s been highly successful in avoiding war zones.

To his credit, he’s no longer so quick to use scissors on offending haircuts. When an openly gay campaign staff member resigned because of attacks from anti-gay critics, Romney did not join in the attacks, nor did he disassociate himself from kind remarks about the departing staffer that were made by other campaigners. A newish Romney, perhaps, though not new enough.

LIGHT UP THE NIGHT: Kristi Moody and her daugher Ella, 11, release a lantern during Illuminate the Cure on Sunday at the Big Dam Bridge. Proceeds collected from the sale of lanterns were donated to the Arkansas affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation.

Where’s the love?

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ill Clinton not only told people he felt their pain, he made people believe he was sincere. Such empathy is in short supply nowadays.

Take Mitt Romney, the likely Republican nominee for president. We’ve learned recently that he assaulted a prep school classmate and cut his hair because it didn’t conform to Romney’s view of proper appearance. He played cruel tricks on a nearly blind teacher.

He threw rocks at his future wife’s horse. He donned costumes to frighten others. Think those were youthful indiscretions? What about the man who likes to fire people? Who thinks every college student has a parent at home with money to loan for a business startup?

Barack Obama demonstrated a bit of empathy last week by saying the example of friends and co-workers had persuaded him to change his mind about same-sex marriage. Most voters took it as a calculated political ploy. (That’s laughable given that Republicans are rubbing their hands to make hay among anti-gay voters. A local poll found only 6 percent of 4th District of Arkansas Republican voters in support of equal treatment under the law for same-sex domestic partners. Six percent!)

Romney’s coldness didn’t electrify Republican primary voters, but his money prevailed against the odd lot of opponents. Conformity seems to be the order of the day. And you’ll get Republican conformity from Romney — against rights for women and sexual minorities, against welfare, for low taxes for the wealthy. Whatever tenderness he lacks, Romney empathizes with rich men.

We find the urge for conformity in places other than presidential politics. Occupy Little Rock, a small but spunky group demonstrating now for six months as part of a global movement against the influence of big money on public policy, has exasperated city government. Lance Hines, a city director from western Little Rock, finally had all he could take of the site

of their tent camp and started the conversation that led to an eviction notice. The very sight of this group irritates the establishment as much as long hair irritated Mitt Romney in the MAX 1960s.

BRANTLEY maxbrantley@arktimes.com Conformity is really big in Lance Hines’ western Little Rock, a Republican enclave. To live in a home in a major portion of it — Chenal Valley, controlled by powerful Deltic Timber — you have to agree to a 17-page list of rules on everything from roof pitch to shrubbery.

You see conformity, too, in the push by the business community to bulldoze a residential neighborhood between UAMS and UALR to build a “technology park” — a taxpayer-financed spec office building in a well-groomed park that is supposed to be the region’s ticket to prosperity, a magnet for the next Apple.

The mostly low-income black people who live in the targeted neighborhood include more than a few who value their homes for more than the “fair market value” condemnation likely would bring them. That “fair value” won’t be enough to buy them much anywhere else.

Businessmen from Chenal Valley and similar environs don’t care a fig. They look at this neighborhood and see blight well-removed from their vision. What better replacement than a soulless office building subsidized by a regressive sales tax that was opposed by those targeted for removal.

The people who live in the neighborhood see yards where their kids played, houses where they celebrated Christmas, the neighbors they’ve long known. In Mitt Romney’s world, they’re just a parental loan away from prosperity and Chenal Valley. Comfortably rich, they then could join Lance Hines in railing about scruffy hippies in need of haircuts and their unsightly tents.

OPINION

Principle above politics

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olitical analysts are explaining why President Obama may somehow have helped his re-election prospects, or at least not hurt them, by saying he supported a right of gay people to marry.

It is a fanciful exercise even in this climate in which farce is the normal medium, for nothing is more obvious than that it did not help him and may well end his presidency but also that Obama’s personal belief will fairly soon stand as a universally accepted definition of American freedom.

As messy as was the way it came about — forced by his vice president’s guileless admission in a TV interview that he had “no problem” with gay marriage — the president’s simple statement that he believed that marriage ought to be a right accorded to people who loved each other regardless of their sexual attractions will rank alongside Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the Civil Rights Act as modern examples of putting principle above politics.

Johnson knew that giving away the Solid South once the act was enforced would imperil his re-election if he ran again and

that it doomed the Democratic Party in what had been since the Civil War its stronghold.

“Well, what the ERNEST hell’s the presiDUMAS dency for?” Johnson famously asked after he put down the pen. He didn’t run again and the South turned dependably Republican.

The question is, what is fairly soon?

The social and moral conventions about gay rights and even marriage are changing faster than anything comparable in history, but not so fast that it will be achieved by November. A generation perhaps, but not much more.

My standard for the extremity of acceptance of social change was Justice Jim Johnson, the arch segregationist whose rare political gifts were foiled over and over because he failed to detect changes in the mores of people in his state.

His career was a testament to poor timing.

But in my last conversation with him

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ow that the exultation over President Obama’s symbolic gesture in favor of gay marriage has subsided, is it possible to ask exactly what he’s done? Politically speaking, I mean. He’s a politician, after all, not a moral philosopher.

As I understand it, the president has proposed no legislation nor promised any. Indeed, he’s said that the question of whether same gender couples can legally marry is up to the states, in which case nothing’s apt to change in the foreseeable future.

It’s interesting to speculate if any Southern state would have voted to allow interracial marriages like that of Obama’s parents had the Supreme Court not decided the issue in Loving vs. Virginia. Probably not.

So for this Newsweek sanctifies Obama as “America’s First Gay President” in a cover portrait with a multi-colored halo?

(Never mind that historians suspect that James Buchanan, a lifelong bachelor whose close relationship with an Alabama Senator prompted Andrew Jackson to call him “Aunt Fancy,” preceded him by 156 years.) Is the magazine trying to make Obama look like a self-regarding fop?

On MSNBC’s “Chris Matthews Show,” Andrew Sullivan, the Newsweek article’s

author, spoke of weeping when he heard Obama say, in effect, “I am his equal.” The ubiquitous BritishGENE American pundit LYONS who has long crusaded for gay rights (and who idolized George W. Bush in his flight suit incarnation) explained that “to hear the president who is in some ways a father figure speak to that — the tears came down like with many in our families.”

Up to a point, I can empathize.

It’s an emotional issue, acceptance.

Like Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, however, I do find it a bit thick coming from a pundit who had previously written that “the desperate desire among some gays for some kind of affirmation from one man is a little sad.” But then Obama’s not a father figure to me unless Bush was — or Bill Clinton. Some people’s need to make him one strikes me as a little creepy.

So back to the politics of the thing. The president’s change of heart, or “evolution,” if you prefer, came the day after North Carolina — a state he’d won narrowly in the 2008 election — voted to forbid same

before his death, he mused about the revolution in attitudes about homosexuality. It was the most effective social movement he had ever witnessed.

“You know, Ernie, I’ve got to say they have made a helluva convincing case that gays have a right to get married just like anyone else, and I wouldn’t have said that even a year ago,” Johnson said.

He referred to the strategy developed in the 1980s to confess your homosexuality and live openly and, by those on the extremity of the movement, to “out” people in public life, especially hypocritical conservative leaders like Terry Dolan, who founded the powerhouse National Conservative Political Action Committee that helped elect so many conservatives in the Reagan era. Dolan, who had begun the “family values” movement and condemned homosexuality, died of AIDS in 1986.

People everywhere discovered that their children, their perfect nieces and nephews, their neighbors and their coworkers were gay. To millions every year, homosexuality lost its mystery and its shame.

Vice President Dick Cheney, the foremost conservative in America the past decade, was the first major national politician to declare gay marriage a moral and constitutional right.

“Well, I think that freedom means freedom for everyone,” Cheney said at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation journalism awards banquet in 2009. “As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something that, uh, we have lived with for a long time, in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish.”

His mate, President George W. Bush, came around to the idea that gays had a right to be united in a “civil union” — marriage without the name — which polls last week suggest is now favored by a majority of American voters, though not in the South.

Anyone who reads Arkansas or Southern history finds it not just curious but appalling that their forebears devoutly believed slavery to be divinely ordained, that the marriage of black couples was not recognized by church or by the law and that, in our own memory, marriage between people of different races was deemed to be against both God’s and man’s law and punishable by prison.

Another generation will read our contributions to history — pronouncements like those of Jerry Cox and Republican state representatives last week — with the same baffled observation. You’ve got to be kidding me! We were that obtuse, and that mean?

sex marriages and even “civil unions” by a thunderous majority. If Obama hopes to carry North Carolina in 2012, he would appear to be going about it in the oddest possible way.

Not to mention Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and several other states Obama needs to be re-elected. Some 31 states have rejected gay marriage at the ballot box, and doubtless more will follow if given the chance. So when 67 percent of voters asked in a recent CBS News/New York Times poll say they think Obama changed his stance “mostly for political reasons,” I’m inclined to say “Really? I thought the man could count.”

Of course not everybody’s as obsessed with the issue, as, say, Rick Santorum, who has expressed fears that letting Uncle Ted make an honest man of his special friend Arnold would lead to men marrying dogs. It’s certainly not necessary to credit the 52 percent of Republicans who say Obama’s new position makes them less likely to vote for him. As if.

Nor do I believe that very many African-American voters will support Mitt Romney because of some Bronze Age dictate their preacher drags out of Deuteronomy. So there’s no telling how the issue will play come November, although my instinct is to say that for once, former GOP presidential candidate Gary Bauer could be right.

“I think the president this past week

took six or seven states he carried in 2008, and put them in play with this one ill-conceived position that he’s taken,” Bauer said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

This makes it all the more puzzling why proponents, emphatically including the White House, have failed to frame gay marriage primarily as an issue of equal justice under law.

Marriage can be two things in our society: a religious ceremony and a legal contract between two people to share their lives. Nobody thinks churches can or should be made to recognize unions contrary to their teachings — although you’d be amazed how many people are confused on this point.

Neither, however, do Catholic churches, for example, get (or seek) to invalidate Jewish weddings on theological grounds. So why should they get to determine how Uncle Ted and Arnold choose to live their lives? How is that their business? Or yours?

“It’s time to say what is at stake here,” writes Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick “true equality, full citizenship for everyone, basic human dignity and, yes, a fundamental right.”

Alas, it’s characteristic of President Obama to split every difference — expressing high ideals so cautiously as to arouse fierce opposition while leaving his allies holding the bag.

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Smith the disciplinarian?

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eing an attorney by trade who happens to moonlight as a columnist (I do NOT drive a taco truck, contrary to a rumor I just started), I am generally reluctant to presume the guilt of a college athlete who has been pinched for some sort of silly offense. That may be utter naivete more than a function of my career training, admittedly.

The Arkansas football program has had enough surreal goings-on lately that any further misfortune borders on masochism, but go figure, the coaching upheaval at center stage has been flanked by a slew of mild legal issues afflicting mostly ancillary players. The six Razorback players arrested in the past several weeks have ranged from likely starters to marginal contributors. Jason Peacock and Marquel Wade played prominent roles in 2011 and were expected to be significant cogs in the 2012 offensive machine as well; on the other hand, Kane Whitehurst and Andrew Peterson probably weren’t going to blossom into All-SEC types this year.

At this point, if your preferred team survives an offseason without a hint of alleged or conclusively found criminal conduct, it is nothing short of miraculous.

And it also borders on being irrelevant, at least if you covet wins and nothing else.

Urban Meyer’s six-season run in Gainesville, Fla., had all the earmarks of prosperity and corruption at once: 65 wins, two national titles, and more than 30 players arrested for various missteps. The Gators, of course, can afford attrition because of their abundant recruiting base. Also, Meyer’s own leniency was patently obvious: he suspended Carlos Dunlap for the SEC championship game but brought him back for the BCS title game after a lateseason DWI, and made Brandon Spikes sit out a measly half for trying to gouge the eyes of a Georgia running back.

John L. Smith did not inherit anything resembling a lawless program. To Bobby Petrino’s credit, his four years were generally bereft of player drama, and when certain talented individuals (Lance Ray and Anthony Oden, to name a couple) ran afoul of the law, their dismissals came swiftly. But Smith does tote a “player’s coach” reputation around, something Petrino could hardly be regarded as, so there has to be a measure of trepidation about how he will handle these incidents, especially in the context of what looks to be short-term employment.

What causes concern about player transgressions more than anything else is usually the accompanying police reports

and the sensationalized (perhaps unintentionally so) recapitulation of them. We read about Jason BEAU Peacock allegedly WILCOX taking a debit card and swiping it at the gas pumps and shake our collective heads in bewilderment. We hear that Wade, Peterson and Maudrecus Humphrey were just casually entering dorm rooms and grabbing swag, and we marvel at the audacity and/or stupidity.

It bothers us that young men who have been given such opportunity make such incomprehensible decisions.

Then those instincts recede and we consider the obtuse nature of the NCAA, the organization that once suspended a Mississippi State quarterback for borrowing money to put tires on his vehicle.

We have some ancillary awareness of the impediments that college athletes face in terms of finances, and it does give us a measure of empathy or understanding on some occasions (violent offenses obviously excluded).

The purely local perspective is that Arkansas is not a program fraught with disciplinary issues; globally, I’m not sure anyone really cares because the Hogs are still not the kind of powerhouse that inspires both envy and resentment across the country. In the 1980s, and even still today, most casual fans despise the culture of Miami football due to its renegade image, but mostly due to its success. Selfishly, most of us in Arkansas cringed at Auburn winning its national title in 2011 because it had an ill-gotten veneer, but mostly because...well, damn it, why can’t we have one of those crystal footballs?

This is a digression, though. The six arrested Razorbacks will certainly meet some form of punishment, and Smith seems to have integrity in spades, so he will hopefully ensure that these problems do not fester and overwhelm a team that is already under a microscope. But pay careful attention to how he addresses each particular case, because there’s a subtext looming beneath each suspension or dismissal. Smith sees the 2012 season much differently than most on the outside see it; what we view as an understudy role is what Smith presumably perceives as an audition. If he is able to demonstrate a commitment to character this summer and win big this fall, then the postseason promises to be as adventurous and divisive as the spring has been.

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The Perfect Gift for Father’s Day (Not another tie.)

This year, honor your father or another man who is important in your life, and see his name in Arkansas Business. It really is The Perfect Gift.

When you make a contribution of $50 or more to Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Pulaski County, your name and your honoree’s name will appear in the June 11th edition of Arkansas Business.

“When you bring single parents out of poverty, they bring their children with them.”

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Whiff, batter “Two of the four arcing, underhand pitches thrown to Harper by Steven Marcus were off-target. So was Harper’s first cut, which was an awkward whiff.”

I recall that in the old days, before designated hitters and steroids, it took three cuts to make a whiff. The Dickson Baseball Dictionary says that the noun whiff is “a strikeout,” and the verb whiff is, first, “For a pitcher to strike out a batter” (Koufax whiffed Mantle) and, second, “For a batter to strike out” (Casey whiffed in the ninth with men on base). But at the bottom of the entry, Dickson says the verb whiff can also mean “to swing at a pitch without touching the ball.” Maybe this use, once rare, is becoming predominant.

Smithsonian magazine’s list of the best small towns in America includes, at No. 14, “Siloam Springs, AK — pop. 15,200. An Ozark setting, a preserved Main Street, performing arts aplenty.” Gets a little nippy in the winter, though.

“John Edwards’ first reaction when he learned his mistress may be pregnant was to downplay the chances he was the father … ” A more formal term is sequence of tenses, but in the city rooms of yesteryear,

it was called the “said-would rule,” and newcomers were expected to learn it, to write “He said he would DOUG be exonerated,” SMITH dougsmith@arktimes.com not “He said he will be exonerated.” If one insists on using the present tense, make it present all the way: “He says he will be exonerated.”

In the case of Edwards, he learned (past tense) in 2007 that his mistress might (past tense) be pregnant. That’s the basic rule. The usage can get more complicated at times. Garner’s Modern American Usage refers to the “ongoingtruth exception”: He said yesterday that he is Jewish, not He said yesterday that he was Jewish.

There’s no exception for the kind of thing that’s seen regularly in the daily paper’s “Police beat”: “A man was arrested late Wednesday night after police say he fired a shotgun at his brother and hid in his house for three hours until he was removed by the Little Rock police SWAT team.” What’s that present-tense say doing in the middle of all those pasttense verbs? And after after, to boot?

WEEK THAT WAS

It was a good week for…

ETHICS REFORM. A bipartisan committee called Better Ethics Now formed to help reach the ballot the Regnat Populus 2012 initiative to strengthen Arkansas ethics law. Taking the lead in the committee are Brent Bumpers, son of former U.S. Sen. Dale Bumpers and now looking for ways to put fruits of the sale of his Brent and Sam’s cookie empire to public-spirited use; Jim Keet, the restaurateur/entrepreneur and former Republican state senator and gubernatorial nominee, and Baker Kurrus, the Little Rock lawyer and former school board member who manages business interests of the late Lt. Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller.

A NEW BRIDGE PLAN. The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department floated a surprise new proposal for replacement of the Broadway Bridge. It would preserve the old bridge while building a new bridge along the west side. The old bridge then could be converted to a pedestrian/bike path.

The plan would avoid the problem of closing the bridge for construction for up to two years.

U.S. REP. MIKE ROSS. After opting not to seek another term in Congress, he was widely expected to run for governor in 2014. Not going to happen. Instead, Ross

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will be a lobbyist for the Southwest Power Pool, the energy distribution agency based in Little Rock that’s in a huge battle to keep from losing Entergy’s business to another power wheeling agency.

It was a bad week for…

DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN AFFAIRS DIRECTOR DAVE FLETCHER. After meeting with Governor Beebe on Monday, Fletcher announced that he would retire immediately. The department has been mired in a mess over overcharges to veterans in the residential facility it operates in Little Rock.

THE ARKANSAS LOTTERY. Michael Hyde, the Arkansas Lottery’s internal auditor, informed the Lottery Commission of his intention to resign.

Hyde had irked some members of the commission with persistent findings of questionable activities during the Ernie Passailaigue era and, more recently, with continuing questions about the legality of a contract change that benefited lottery vendor Scientific Games.

Commissioner Bruce Engstrom, who’s been a minority critic on the commission of the Scientific Games deal, said he thought the Scientific Games controversy was the tipping point for Hyde.

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Chickenness THE OBSERVER MADE IT over to

Memphis last weekend, that big, muchadmired city of our weekend jaunts and Beale Street haunts. Part of the reason we head that way from time to time is the food, usually ­barbecue (they seem to have a nice crop of that), but sometimes just a burger at one of the old-line joints tucked back in the city.

We love Memphis’s dives, too — quirky little joints that would wither and die long before catching on and becoming enough of a favorite to survive in Little Rock.

We’ve been driving past Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken for years during our Memphis sojourns, debating over whether to drop over to the curb when we see their small yellow sign and brick building there on Front Street near the Mighty Miss, but we always quickly forget about the place once it has dropped away in the rearview. This last weekend, at the suggestion of Junior (who was along for the ride with his Old Man, and who loves a plate of fried chicken like Repubs love Reagan), we stopped in.

What occurred then, fellow parishioners, was one of the singularly memorable meals of The Observer’s grease-stained life: a plate of fried yardbird that was, we believe, the Chicken of Chickenness, maybe even in the whole of the Known Universe.

Moist and flavorful throughout, it was, with the pieces cradled in dark, crispy breading so well seasoned and spicy that it made our nose run a bit. Each bite (even the white meat, which we usually find about as tasty as biscuit dough) sang on the tongue, with the spice extending through the flesh, all the way down to the bone. Best of all, we had our not-so-little-anymore pardner there to share it. Afterward, while toweling the shine off our fingers, both of us agreed that if Gus’s was in Little Rock, we’d eat there every day until we were dang nigh sick of it. Oh God, how do we love that kind of moment: stopping in a place in some city not our own, with a friend, and finding that manna has been set before us? Unforgettable.

Grub has always been a touchstone in

The Observer’s life, and yes, our waistline shows it in spades. We can’t eat like that all the time anymore, and it’s taking more exercise to keep us in our weight class even though we’ve laid off the sweets in recent years, but we do love it so — to dig into a plate that’s so good it makes us forget, for awhile, about cholesterol, calories, fat content and mortality.

Then again, Your Ol’ Pal has always believed in quality over quantity. Damn the torpedoes and pass the hot sauce.

DESCENDING PARK HILL in Norte Little

Rock on Sunday, we saw it: two souls astride a two-wheeled monstrosity.

Before we flashed past them, we counted five cranks and five seats at least — a five-seater bicycle, bright red, with an American flag flying at the top of a whip attached to the back fender.

As you know if you’ve been reading this column for awhile, The Observer is the proud owner of a bicycle now, which we try to get out and pilot at least once a week on the River Trail.

That’s a solitary and completely selfish act, however. Just how, we wondered, would we ever convince four other people to go very slowly in a straight line to the same place? Then again, maybe the five-seater is a custom job for that Mormon guy with four wives on reality TV. He might be the only person in the world for whom a five-seater is practical, both because of his pentamarriage, and because they’re one of the few families who own a vehicle with a roof-rack big enough to haul it. That baby wasn’t fitting on a standard, trunk-mount bike rack, pal­­— not unless you want to mow down pedestrians on the sidewalk with the protruding back tire.

As we said, though, on the Park Hill outing we witnessed, the red menace was bearing only two riders, a man and a woman. All those empty seats were, we think, the saddest thing we’ve ever seen involving a bicycle: the perfect metaphor for something, though we can’t decide quite what. It was almost enough to make us stop and offer our services. Back seat, please. Nobody can see we’re not really pedaling if we sit there.

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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has decided to shut down its Community School of the Arts, a yearround, 33-year-old institution bringing high-level instruction to students of all ages in the visual and performing arts, Kindermusik and Chinese language instruction.

Director Leslie J. Mangiamele, who is also an adjunct professor of visual art in UALR’s art department, said the program will end Aug. 15, after its Summer Arts Camp and Summer String Camp end.

Deborah Baldwin, dean of UALR’s college of arts, humanities and social sciences, considers the closing of the school as temporary. She said the university will study a consultant’s report made in March on how to make the program self-sufficient and present a proposal to the provost in July 2013.

About 1,000 children and adults are enrolled in the program, which has seen growth over the years. Tuition pays for faculty, operating costs and reimburses UALR for facilities’ use. It does not pay the salaries for the director and her assistant. Baldwin said the school “has regularly been $75,000 to $85,000 in the red” and UALR would like the program to be entirely selfsupporting.

The school was opened, Mangiamele said, “to make these wonderful professors [at UALR] in the arts accessible to people in the community.” Besides UALR instructors, arts professionals teach the once-a-week classes.

The faculty includes four art instructors (including Mangiamele), 12 music instructors, a dance instructor and a language instructor. A string instructor, the language instructor, an art instructor and three piano teachers will lose their only employment, Mangiamele said.

“The problem is the bottom line,” Mangiamele said. “The dean could not see a way around not cutting our salaries.”

“I’m sorry we’re in this position,” Dean Baldwin said. “We would love to be able to continue … we just have to figure out how to make this work.”

Ironically, the school was created because of cutbacks in the arts in the public schools. The Community School’s website includes this statement: “When considering the education of the children in our community, we discover that for a variety of reasons our schools have been unable to provide consistent and varied arts instruction. Sadly, music and visual art classes are the first to be cut when money is short. To address this, the UALR Community School of the Arts, initiated in 1979, was created.”

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Community School to close

EL MAESTRO: Hallie Shoffner speaks with student Hugo Bran.

Mi casa es su casa A place for Latinos in Levy.

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his week’s cover story gives one example of how life in the United States can be hard for undocumented Hispanics. Over in Levy, though, where the Hispanic population has spiked in recent years, there’s a young Clinton School of Public Service grad working to make things a little better.

Hallie Shoffner runs the non-profit Seis Puentes center on Camp Robinson Road.

The non-profit, originally known as Butterfly Ministries, was started at First United Methodist Church in North Little Rock in the 1990s to serve the needs of the African-American community there.

“In 2007,” Shoffner said, “they felt like the community had a sustainable program there, and the mayor [Patrick Hays] asked if Butterfly, which is what it was called then, would start serving the Latino community.” The center was renamed Seis Puentes — which means “Six Bridges,” a nod to both the bridges between North Little Rock and Little Rock, and the desire to build bridges between communities — in September 2011, one month after Shoffner was hired.

Situated in a nondescript strip mall space beside a Subway restaurant, Seis Puentes doesn’t look like much from the outside. Inside, a large room is lined with new computers. Open since Feb. 1 of this year, the center serves about 50 students who come each week for

night classes. Seis Puentes is funded by grants from the city of North Little Rock, the state, and donations by private and corporate donors. For the local Latino community, the skills taught there — English, GED preparation and basic computer skills — are the stuff American Dreams are made of.

“It’s a community center,” Shoffner said. “It’s a place where we want the Latino community to feel comfortable coming and bringing their ideas. Any ideas they have to improve their community, they can come here and use our resources. They can use me to get in contact with the people they need.”

Shoffner, 24, who graduated from the Clinton School last year, grew up on a farm in Newport. As a girl, she became interested in helping the Latino community after befriending the children of Mexican migrant workers. At Vanderbilt University, she majored in Spanish.

While in college, a friend invited her on a trip to Calcutta, India. The experience, she said, “totally changed my life,” and made her want to commit herself to public service. As a student at the Clinton School, she worked with the Latino community in Northeast Arkansas, teaching a youth program for Mexican-American kids at a church in her hometown, where she said she often saw police and others harass undocumented workers. After graduating from the Clinton School, Shoffner saw an ad

searching for a director for a non-profit to help Latinos and applied.

In addition to classes, Shoffner said the center brings in guest speakers, including local political leaders, to help Hispanics feel part of the larger community. In some cases, she said, undocumented Hispanics don’t even feel comfortable going to the public library, because they think of it as a government institution.

“They come to the United States and nobody makes an effort to tell them how systems work here ... these hidden codes that we automatically know and just assume they should follow when we make no effort to actually engage them in the process,” Shoffner said.

“That what we’re doing here. We’re trying to engage them in the process.”

Shoffner said it took a lot of work to get the center open, but since February, things have gained momentum. The center is renting space at a local community garden, and Shoffner is thinking about securing a partnership with a law firm that could teach basic contract law to undocumented workers to help them avoid being scammed by unscrupulous contractors. The eventual goal, Shoffner said, is to turn over direction of the center to a few of those who have graduated from classes there.

Hugo Bran has been a student in the English courses at Seis Puentes for two months. Originally an accountant in Guatemala, Bran came to the United States in 1990 and has since secured legal residency. He’s worked in restaurants, apartment maintenance and at a local Spanish-language newspaper, but he hopes a better grasp of English will help him finally realize his goals.

“Right now, I have two goals,” he said.

“The first one is I want to be a Spanish teacher. The second one is to try and work in my career. I am in accounting in my country ... I don’t practice my career for 20-something years, but the numbers never change.”

While Bran says that life is difficult and full of fear for undocumented Hispanics, he hopes others can follow his example and “don’t make the same mistakes I did,” like holding off on taking English classes for 20 years.

“Some people came in very bad condition to here,” Bran said. “It’s a sad story. But this [is the] American Dream — we are here. I am working on my dream.”

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Mostly dry for many years, Arkansas grows steadily wetter. At the 2010 general election, two more counties (Boone and Clark) approved the sale of alcoholic beverages, and petition drives to put the wet-dry issue on the ballot this year are currently underway in two more counties (Benton and Madison). If backers in both counties succeed in bringing wet-dry to a vote, and voters in both counties vote “yes,” wet counties and dry counties will be virtually equal in number, the drys still one county ahead. Older Arkansans can easily remember when only a handful of counties were legally wet, and trips on the poor roads of the day were sometimes planned with that in mind. Benton County, which has been called “the wettest dry county in America,” is the one most likely to go wet this year. Benton County last voted on the sale of alcohol in 1944, when many of the men were off at war. There’ve been efforts since then to put the matter on the ballot by petition, but they all failed to get enough voter signatures. This year, wealthy members of the Walton family are financing the campaign and have hired a professional group to gather signatures. That their family business, Wal-Mart, has its headquarters in Bentonville has attracted large numbers of non-native voters who are considered likely to vote wet. Not that the county is bone-dry even now. Arkansas law allows so-called “private clubs” to serve drinks even in counties that are legally dry, and all but eight of the state’s dry counties have private clubs. Benton County has 128 of them, thus its nickname. But it has no package stores, no beer sold in grocery stores, and liquor prices are higher in private clubs than in public bars. And legal sales of alcohol would supposedly stimulate the economy, producing more jobs and more tax revenue.

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Who is Stop Casinos Now? A friend of the Arkansas Times recently received a mailer from a group called Stop Casinos Now urging people not to sign petitions being circulated by Las Vegas consultant Nancy Todd to amend the Arkansas Constitution to allow her to open “poker palaces” and casinos in Pulaski, Miller, Crittenden and Franklin counties. The mailer talks about the pernicious toll of gambling, how it will prey on Arkies and create an “unregulated gambling monopoly.”

Who is Stop Casinos Now? A “broad coalition” of elected officials, faith-based groups and law enforcement from all over “who have a problem with what [Todd is] trying to do, according to Robert McLarty of the Markham Group, a political consulting firm. Delaware North, owner of Southland Greyhound Park in Crittendon County, will be a major financial contributor to the committee, McLarty said. A luncheon is scheduled Thursday at the Capitol to outline the group’s objectives.

A little irony, we suggested, in the state’s largest casino based on receipts paying to send a mailer about the predatory effects of casino gambling. McLarty counters that the casinos in Arkansas have been longtime state businesses heavily regulated in a process that evolved through the legislature. Todd and a Texas investor have proposed unregulated businesses with out-of-state investors they’d place in counties where voters might not want them, McLarty said.

In the May 9 Natives Guide on vintage and thrift stores, we mistakenly called Mid-Towne Antique Mall Midsouth Antiques Mall.

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In the media column “DemocratGazette’s Smith calls it quits” (May 2), we mistakenly said that former Arkansas Democrat-Gazette editor Griffin Smith’s father was an Arkansas Supreme Court justice when, in fact, his grandfather served on the court.

In a photo caption in the article “Cold nostalgia” (May 2), Loblolly Creamery’s Larnie Campbell’s name was misspelled.

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TREACHEROUS INTERSECTIONS E For undocumented Latinos

in Saline County, the consequences of a traffic stop can be dire —

including deportation. Many of them say they’re being pulled over for flimsy reasons and then taken to jail.

We look at the numbers.

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ven those among us who take the hardest line on illegal immigration, those who genuinely wish they could snap their fingers and send everyone illegally within the borders of the U.S. back where they came from, probably wouldn’t be so bold or blinded as to tell you that they believe undocumented immigrants have it easy. Many Hispanics in this country illegally wind up working the hard, dirty, sweaty, thankless jobs that nobody else wants to do — construction, landscaping, kitchen work, roofing, farm labor and the like — and often for wages that anyone with other options would laugh at. Pile on the fact that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) roundup or simple arrest could take away everything they’ve worked for in a hot second, and it’s easy to start asking your self why they come here in the first place.

The answer, as many undocumented immigrants will tell you, is simple: It’s much worse back home, with poverty that’s nearly unbelievable to a person born and raised in America, and even with the trials and tribulations of living undocumented, this is still a land of opportunity for those willing to work hard.

Talking with undocumented immigrants and the peo-

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ple who work with them in Central Arkansas, though, there’s a common refrain: be careful while driving in Saline County.

According to documents provided by the Saline County Sheriff’s Office, at least 19 Hispanics, most of them stopped for simple traffic violations, were placed in what are called ICE holds at the Saline County Detention Center in 2011. An ICE hold allows law enforcement to detain persons who are suspected of being illegally in the country for an additional 48 hours (with the clock stopping on weekends and federal holidays) without bail, to give federal officials time to assess that person’s immigration status and potentially take over custody.

Charges against those detained on ICE holds in Saline County in 2011 included driving while intoxicated (four), public intoxication (two), no driver’s license, no seatbelt, making a U-turn, no insurance, and other misdemeanor traffic violations (10), firstdegree battery (one), criminal impersonation second degree (one) and on a parole violation (one).

It is standard operating procedure for Benton police, Chief Kirk Lane told us, to contact ICE any time officers come into contact with someone they believe to be in this country ille-

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gally — a policy which sets the Benton PD apart from the Little Rock Police Department, for example, which generally doesn’t contact ICE on minor offenses involving undocumented residents (or, as LRPD spokesman Lt. Terry Hastings has said: “We don’t care about immigration, we don’t enforce immigration.”)

Lane said Benton police have no authority over what happens to the driver after that notification is made.

If his department finds out that a person isn’t in the country legally in the normal course of a traffic stop, “The only avenue we have is to contact ICE. We don’t take that into our own authority unless they’ve violated some type of state law. We notify ICE and then they give us direction on how to handle that. They may say to release them. They may say they need to talk to them.”

We were not able to determine the eventual fate of any of the people held in Saline County on ICE holds in 2011 by press time.

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ome we spoke with say they were stopped by police on what they see as questionable probable cause and suggest that police in Saline County are using racial profiling to make their stops. In 2010, the Saline County community of Alexander was sued in federal court by five Latino plaintiffs for racial profiling of drivers and lost. Reggie Koch, the Little Rock attorney who won that judgment against Alexander for a group of five Latino plaintiffs, said he gets more complaints about Saline County stops than he does from the rest of the state combined.

Maria is an undocumented immigrant living in Saline County who is facing deportation after being stopped by a Bryant police officer last May.

KOCH: Won a discrimination lawsuit against Alexander.

ton, where she worked, on May 3, 2011 with her four-year-old daughter when she noticed a police car behind her.

“He was behind me the whole time,” she said, “but without putting any kind of signal on, no lights, no siren, no nothing.”

Maria said the car followed her to her normal exit to go home. When she got off the freeway, the officer

for not having a driver’s license (DL) and then released.

“As soon as my niece got there, her being a young woman and very sassy, she asked the officer why he stopped me,” Maria said. “He said: ‘Because she was driving too slow on the freeway and she has a crack in her front windshield.’ ” While Maria acknowledges her

“I understand and I’m willing to accept them issuing a ticket to me or anybody in my position, that doesn’t have a driver’s license. But the thing I just can’t understand or accept is: why do they stop you without justification, and why do they very quickly get Immigration involved?”

She asked that her last name not be used. Maria has lived in the United States for 12 years. She has three daughters, all born in America, and lives with her husband and children near the Saline County line.

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got off behind her, turned on his blue lights, and pulled her over. When the officer came to the window, she told him she had no license. The officer returned to his car, and Maria called her niece, believing that she and her daughter would have to have a ride home because she would be ticketed

windshield was cracked, she contends there was no way the officer could have seen that until he walked up to her car during the stop. She also discounts the idea that she was driving too slow.

After telling her to step out of the car, the officer handcuffed her and

placed her in the back of his patrol car.

“He said that I should have known clearly from the start that he was going to arrest me whether my niece showed up or not,” Maria said.

Maria’s niece took her daughter, and Maria was transported to the jail in Benton, where jail records show she was booked on the single charge of having no driver’s license.

It was the first time she’d ever been in jail, Maria said. After waiting in a holding cell for several hours, she was given an orange jail jumpsuit and put in with other female prisoners.

That was Tuesday. She didn’t get out until Thursday morning, after visiting with an ICE agent, who asked if she had children living in the country.

Once in ICE custody, she was transported to the Little Rock ICE office by van, where she was fingerprinted and photographed, then released on her own recognizance. ICE began the deportation process, which is ongoing.

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NO RACIAL PROFILING: According to Bryant’s Sgt. Todd Crowson.

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olice agencies in Saline County deny claims they are racially profiling, but a survey of 2011 jail records seems to indicate otherwise. In Bryant in 2011, drivers with Hispanic surnames were two and a half times more likely to go to jail than non-Hispanic drivers after being cited for charges that included no driver’s license (DL). The numbers were slightly better for Latinos in Benton in 2011, when drivers with Hispanic surnames were over twice as likely to go to jail as everyone else after being cited for charges that included no DL. To be sure, departments in Saline County often cast a wide net, and not just for undocumented drivers. The police department in Benton (population 30,681) issued citations for 3,102 separate traffic offenses in 2011, and the department in Bryant (population 16,688) issued 4,913. While most born-and-raised Americans would drive away with a citation from a minor traffic stop in Saline County for no seat belt, a broken taillight or speeding, for undocumented immigrants, it’s different.

Because undocumented immigrants can’t obtain a valid driver’s license legally in most cases, the Times looked at all drivers ticketed for charges including having no DL in 2011 made by the Benton and Bryant departments. The Times also examined the jail roster of those booked into the Saline County Detention Center in 2011 for charges including no DL. Bryant and Benton police citations do not note whether a driver is Hispanic. Given that, in our examination of those documents, we used the presence of a Hispanic surname and/or first name — names like Juan Frausto-Valadez, Pedro Garcia-

Rozendez, and Leonico Ochoa-Rodriguez for example — as an indication the driver was Hispanic.

We were able to confirm the race of most of the drivers who went to jail because the Saline County Detention Center does mark “H” for Hispanic.

Judge Curtis Rickard, the traffic judge in Bryant, said there is a directive that officers within the county are to take to jail drivers who are found during traffic stops to have no license or a suspended license. The directive, developed by county law enforcement and judicial officers to combat what Rickard characterized as a “real problem” with drivers cited for driving without a license or with a suspended license failing to appear in court, is not ironclad, however. “The police officers have their own discretion,” Rickard said. “Nobody issued a direct order to tell a police officer he had to take them to jail. He’s not going to do that if he doesn’t want to. If he’s got somebody there that can drive the car off, then he’ll let that person do that most of the time.”

Benton Police Chief Kirk Lane said that when a driver is stopped by the Benton PD and found to have no driver’s license in his possession, officers run the driver’s name through the Arkansas Crime Information database, which includes the names of all those with valid driver’s licenses in the U.S. He said those drivers found to have a valid driver’s license but who don’t have it in their possession at the time of the stop would not be cited for no DL. In 2011, the Benton Police Department issued 165 total citations for the offense of no DL. Eightythree were written to probable Hispanics, based on their surnames. Eighty-two were written to people who were probably non-Hispanic.

Forty drivers (24 percent of those cited for charges including no DL) were sent to jail on charges that included no DL, including 12 non-Hispanics, and 28 Hispanics. That means 34 percent of those with Hispanic surnames who were cited for charges including no DL went to jail, while 15 percent of probable non-Hispanics cited for charges including no DL went to jail.

Ten of the 28 Hispanic drivers and six of the 12 non-Hispanic drivers who were transported to jail in Benton on charges that included no DL were also charged with driving while intoxicated (DWI). Of the drivers transported to jail on charges including no DL but not DWI, 18 were Hispanic. None of the 18 Hispanics who were not charged with a DWI who went to jail after being cited for no DL were eventually charged with anything more serious than no DL and minor traffic charges like no seat belt, no proof of insurance, loud muffler or broken taillight.

In 2011, the Bryant Police Department wrote 156 total citations for the offense of no DL in 2011.

Ninety-eight were written to those with Hispanic surnames, while 58 citations were written to nonHispanics. Seventy-three drivers (47 percent of those ticketed for charges including no DL) went to jail, including 14 non-Hispanics and 59 Hispanics.

Therefore, 60 percent of those with Hispanic surnames who were cited for charges including no DL went to jail, while only 24 percent of non-Hispanics cited for charges including no DL went to jail.

Twenty-two of the 59 Hispanics who went to jail in Bryant in 2011 on charges that included no DL were also charged with DWI, while none of the 14 non-Hispanics who went to jail received a DWI. Of the 37 Hispanic drivers ticketed who were not charged with a DWI, but were cited for no DL in 2011, all but two — one booked for shoplifting, and another jailed on a warrant for failure to pay a previous fine — were incarcerated on fairly minor charges like broken taillight, no insurance, no seat belt, speeding, or “careless and prohibited” driving.

“We are not actively out there stopping people because of their race,” Benton Police Chief Kirk Lane said. “We actively stop people because of traffic violations or suspicious activity that we believe they may be [involved] in. We make sure of that.” His department trains yearly on issues involving racial profiling, Lane said.

Sgt. Todd Crowson, the public information officer for the Bryant Police Department, also denied that his department engages in any kind of racial profiling of Hispanic drivers. “Bryant has always had a reputation for writing a lot of tickets,” he said.

“We do. And we get that. Does it hurt our feelings when people say that? No. It is what it is ... But if any of our officers were out here racial profiling, our supervisor — and we’ve got some good supervisors on the street, and excellent lieutenants over the patrol division — if they see that happening, I can guarantee you they’ll put a stop to it.”

When asked why Saline County, and maybe Bryant in particular, has a reputation for being harder on Hispanic drivers, he said: “I’m sorry they feel that way. I truly am. I hate that. You don’t want to have a bad relationship between law enforcement and any race, whoever it might be.”

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10 years and has U.S.-born children.

In a way, Maria is lucky. We talked to one young undocumented man named Cesar Ramon De Jesus who was stopped just before Thanksgiving 2010 in the Saline County town of Shannon Hills and ticketed for speeding and no DL. After spending Thanksgiving in jail on an ICE hold he was turned over to Immigration, which transported him to Louisiana and told him he’d have to wait there two months for a court date.

His relatives were eventually able to get together his $7,500 bond to get him out. Since then, he said, he has spent over $4,000 from savings he planned to use to return to Mexico in December 2010 on expenses associated with the case. Since he bonded out, he told us, his case has been postponed five times over the course of a year and a half, and was transferred from Louisiana to Memphis. After speaking with an attorney about his options, he finally requested voluntary removal from the country just so the relatives who put up his bond could get their money back. He has to present an Immigration-provided form bearing his fingerprints at a U.S. Embassy in Mexico before May 23 or he forfeits the bond. If he makes the deadline, he said, he has been told his relatives should get a refund of the bond money in four to six months.

Stories like De Jesus’ are common in the undocumented community. Maria said she just thanks God she wasn’t one of those who received a high bond. “I still get angry when I remember [the arrest], because of everything that happened,” Maria said. “But I’m most angry for my daughters. They had to spend two nights without me. It was very painful to think about that, and of course my daughter who was with me, who saw me getting handcuffed and put in a patrol car.” She has heard other undocumented immigrants who live in her neighborhood talk about people they know who have been stopped and arrested because they don’t have a driver’s license. Maria said she believes many of those stops were racially motivated.

“I understand and I’m willing to accept them issuing a ticket to me or anybody in my position, that doesn’t have a driver’s license,” she said. “But the thing I just can’t understand or accept is: why do they stop you without justification, and why do they very quickly get Immigration involved?”

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ittle Rock’s Monterrey & Tellez Law Firm — where attorney Leo Monterrey works with his wife and fellow attorney Cristina Monterrey — represents Maria, and caters almost exclusively to Hispanic clients. Leo and Cristina Monterrey say they see a lot of cases out of Saline County where clients claim questionable probable cause.

“We do Pulaski, we do Faulkner, we do Saline and all the surrounding counties,” Leo Monterrey said, “and we’re getting calls every week to go represent someone who has got an ICE hold over there [in Saline County]. If it wasn’t for that, I would tell you they’re just like every other county, but for some reason, it doesn’t happen in every other county.”

The issues surrounding the federal ICE holds Monterrey speaks of are complex. Though local police officers aren’t supposed to inquire about legal status during traffic stops, the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 granted

of deporting criminal aliens while driving wedges between local police and undocumented immigrant communities — announced that in cases where undocumented immigrants are arrested for traffic violations and don’t have a prior criminal record, ICE will only place an immigration hold on drivers if or when they are convicted of their charges. Those arrested solely because of traffic issues like No DL or a broken taillight will no longer be held without bail for 48 hours for investigation and possible collection by ICE, hopefully with the inevitable result that fewer drivers stopped for speeding and no seat belt will head down the rabbit hole of deportation.

Under the current law, those detained solely on ICE holds are supposed to be released — or at least able to bond out on their original charges — after 48 hours. That doesn’t always happen. Leo and Cristina Monterrey, for example, say that the lon-

“The majority of [undocumented immigrants] are going to get a ticket, go pay it in cash, and just walk away,” he said.

“They want to be done. They live a life like a fugitive. They’re afraid to report crimes. If they’re the victim of a crime, they generally won’t report it, because they’re afraid they’ll be deported.” police agencies the authority to contact federal Immigration offices (then INS, though now known as ICE) on the suspicion they had an undocumented immigrant in their custody.

An ICE hold — also known as an I-247 Detainer — was originally conceived to troll for convicted felons and undocumented immigrants involved in the drug trade, but has been widely used to detain and often deport those arrested for fairly minor offenses, drawing the ire of civil rights groups all over the country.

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he backlash against ICE holds issued for those arrested on minor charges appears to be drawing their use in those cases to a close. In April, the Department of Homeland Security — responding to a scathing September 2011 Homeland Security Advisory Council report that said deportations for minor traffic offenses took resources away from the goal

gest they have seen a driver held on an ICE hold was an undocumented man who was arrested in Faulkner County and held without charges for 30 days, with jailers telling him the whole time that ICE would be there soon to pick him up.

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onterrey & Tellez partner Robert Tellez said that while things have gotten better at the Saline County Detention Center with regard to clients being improperly held on ICE holds for more than 48 hours, for the first 2½ years he worked at the firm he was heading to Saline County to help clients on that issue all the time.

“We’re getting fewer calls out there for the 48 hours,” he said. “But, you know, we’ve fought a lot of battles.

Leo and I were out there constantly.

I don’t know it if was the work we did, or if there’s been a policy change from Washington.”

Tellez said that in the last few

months, they’ve noticed ICE putting fewer suspected undocumented immigrants into deportation proceedings, or releasing them on “own recognizance” bonds. “That has been an administration change, I think,” Tellez said, “because we’re getting close to the election. There has been a change on that front.”

Reggie Koch, the Little Rock attorney who successfully sued on behalf of Hispanic drivers who were being illegally profiled in Alexander in 2010, has heard his clients complain about ongoing issues in Saline County as well. “I don’t think they learned anything from [the Alexander lawsuit],” he said. “Bryant, Bauxite, Alexander and Saline County — I get more complaints against those agencies than the whole rest of the state. No exaggeration.”

Koch said that while some of the issues he sees regarding undocumented drivers and questionable stops undoubtedly stem from bad training, he said he believes more of them come from the fact that, in Arkansas and most of the country, cracking down on undocumented immigrants is an issue that can always fire up the conservative electorate.

“If you want to make a lot of noise, and have a lot of people root for you and support you,” he said, “if you go out against this undocumented influx of people, you will have a huge following. It’s just low-hanging political fruit.”

Koch said he wouldn’t even want to guess how much money local governments in Saline County are making from stops involving illegal immigrants. As pointed out in the Department of Homeland Security advisory committee report referenced above, aggressive enforcement puts up walls between the police and undocumented people in the community.

“The majority of [undocumented immigrants] are going to get a ticket, go pay it in cash, and just walk away,” he said. “They want to be done. They live a life like a fugitive. They’re afraid to report crimes. If they’re the victim of a crime, they generally won’t report it, because they’re afraid they’ll be deported.”

Like Koch, Little Rock attorney Guillermo Hernandez said that most of the no driver’s license charges after stops made on questionable probable cause come out of Saline County.

“You might not believe one or two persons who come to me and tell me, ‘Well, I wasn’t really veering out of my lane,’ ” he said. “But when it’s all of

them, that tells you that they’re using that as an excuse at some point. Of course, this is unverified ... it’s hard to prove.” Hernandez said that in most of the stops he’s dealt with in Little Rock, if the driver has insurance, registration and some form of ID, officers usually write them a ticket and send the driver on their way.

“The difference is that in Saline County, if you don’t have a license ... they arrest you for not having an ID — which is a valid reason,” Hernandez said.

hen we spoke to her at her home near the Saline/Pulaski County Line in April, Maria — the driver stopped last May and placed in federal deportation proceedings — was still angry, and still afraid. She doesn’t like to go out much these days, she said.

“I’ve gotten a little scared of going out because of what happened,” she said. “How do I know if I’m going to come back? How do I know if they’re going to stop me and take me to jail?” She’s even more worried for her husband, who has to drive to get to work. If her husband were to get arrested and put into deportation proceedings on the way to or from work, a high bond and the loss of his ability to work could devastate their family.

If she could legally get a license, Maria said, she would get one immediately. She doesn’t want to break the law, but — like most undocumented people — she literally has no other choice if she wants to drive. She said Leo Monterrey is working with her to try and get some kind of permit so she can eventually get her license, but that’s in the future, and there’s still her Immigration hearing in August to attend to. Her attorneys are being encouraging about her prospects, but she’s clearly worried.

As we spoke, the school bus came and went, discharging a flood of Hispanic kids with their sweaters and backpacks into the trailer park.

Maria’s daughters tromped in from school — American girls, born and raised here. Time and love, if nothing else, will assure that things can’t always be this way for Hispanics in Saline County.

“Maybe we’re in the wrong,” Maria said. “If we don’t have licenses, it’s because we can’t get any. And maybe that’s a mistake on our part. But we’re only here because we wanted a better life for ourselves and our children.

That’s the only reason we’re here.”

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MESMERIZING: Sarah Catherine and Jorge Guiterrez, founders of Team Salsa.

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s I entered Browning’s Mexican Grill on a Friday night I was so enveloped by the conga-drum driven music that my entire rib cage seemed to be vibrating.

On the floor, 50 or 60 people were dancing to the six-beat rhythms of salsa, spinning and smiling, continually bathed in the ever-changing hues of red, green, yellow and blue twirling lights and bright, blinking strobes.

It was the twice-weekly Little Rock Salsa Team event that had me mesmerized.

For the life of me I couldn’t seem to comprehend how these couples held hands while spinning in myriad ways: facing each other, with their backs to each other, sideways, over the shoulder, etc., etc.

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Salsa is the kind of rhythm that, as soon as you hear the music, you almost automatically feel like dancing. This pulsating music and its rapid, syncopated, ever-driving beat, coupled with the sound of horns, drums, flutes and congas, just makes you want to move.

Indeed, most of the other people standing along the railing and watching the dancers were moving their feet to the beat of the music.

The couples on the dance floor encompassed a wide range of ages: from couples in their 60s all the way down to teen-agers. As soon as every song ended, people began shouting and whooping it up.

The warmth, the feeling of instant friendship, good times and inclusiveness of salsa is undeniable. It’s the type of music that makes you feel like you’re part of

something wonderful, upbeat and fraternal. The pulsing, blinking multicolored lights somehow add to this festive, bubbly mood. And although the atmosphere was civilized and courteous, it was also quite loose and free-form.

While at Browning’s, I heard songs from Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico and practically every other country in Latin America. With every song, I began to notice new, different instruments.

I began experiencing a variety of emotions, from effervescent joy to romantic contentment, depending on how fast or slow each song was. Then I suddenly realized that I wasn’t even paying attention to the lyrics. And even though I’m fluent in Spanish, the truth CONTINUED ON PAGE 47

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A&E NEWS SO BONNAROO IS COMING UP SOON (June 7-10, to be precise) in beautiful Manchester, Tenn., and the Arkansas Times has four pairs of passes to the gigantic music festival to give away to you, our loyal readers. “But how can I win one of these pairs of passes?” you’re probably wondering. Glad you asked.

All you have to do is write us an essay of 250 words or fewer about your craziest, funniest, most awful or hilarious or heartwarming or hair-raising concert experience and you’ll be entered in the contest. While that might sound like homework, just consider these two things: 1) 250 words is not that many; and 2) you’ll get the chance to see Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish, The Beach Boys, The Roots, Alice Cooper, Feist, Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings, Tune-Yards, St. Vincent, The Shins, Skrillex, Kenny Rogers (!), Bad Brains (!!), Garfunkel & Oates (!!!), GZA, Kurt Vile, Alabama Shakes, Flying Lotus and literally dozens more.

We’ll pick the four essays that we find to be the craziest, funniest, most awful or hilarious or heartwarming or hair-raising of the bunch, and each winner will receive two passes. It’s that simple.

Now the caveats and whatnot: the contest isn’t open to any current or former Times employees or their kinfolk (sorry ya’ll!); you should only enter if you actually plan on going to the festival (no scalping!); 250 words or fewer, seriously (brevity is the soul of wit!); and only one entry per person. The contest closes May 22 at 9 a.m.; e-mail your name, phone number and essay (as well as any questions you might have) to robertbell@arktimes.com. So get to writing!

It’ll be fun. We’ll publish the winners on Rock Candy.

THE JOINT, A NEW COFFEEHOUSE AND COMEDY CLUB in Argenta, has finally announced its grand opening.

We’ve been talking about The Joint since January, and now there are actual dates — the coffee shop opened May 14. In the comedy venue, the first performance is scheduled for June 2. The debut performance will be “Little Rock and a Hard Place,” an original two-act play about a man who dies in a car wreck and is banished at the Pearly Gates, sent back to Little Rock to help the city and earn his wings. The Joint is owned and operated by Vicky and Steve Farrell, a veteran comedy team, whose work has been featured on Saturday Night Live and NPR’s All Things Considered.

The cafe, which has Wi-Fi, will serve coffee, sandwiches, craft beers and wine, and the live venue will feature a full slate of entertainment. Wednesday nights will be improv, Thursdays will be music, Fridays and Saturdays will be comedic plays. “Little Rock & a Hard Place” runs all summer. In the fall it will be replaced by “Electile Dsyfunction,” about the upcoming election.

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ALMOST A CENTURY OF SERVICE For almost a century, the women of the Junior League of Little Rock have made a lasting impression on Little Rock – touching people on a personal level, a community level and shaping the persona of the city itself.

In 1914 as part of United Charities, today’s United Way, a group of young women identified a need and created a program to provide awareness of basic medical services including immunizations throughout our community.

Six years later these women formed Junior League of Little Rock and joined the Association of Junior Leagues of America. This Junior League program, initially called the Baby Welfare Station, evolved to meet the needs of the entire family and established the Visiting Nurses Association. This association continues today under the direction of St. Vincent Health System.

Our fundraising projects along with grants, sponsorships, and member dues raise over $400,000 annually that allows the Junior League of Little Rock to invest time, volunteers, and revenue into our beloved city.

Cover: Vintage JLLR uniform Right: 1930’s JLLR Cultural Program, Members produced plays for LRSD schools

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mission statement The JLLR, Inc. is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.

“I commend the Junior League of Little Rock’s efforts to make us a stronger community by setting a powerful example of leadership and compassion to which we can all aspire.”

Gov. Mike Beebe

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“Little Rock has seen the effects of the Junior League of Little Rock from the many charitable projects they have established and the amazing women who have risen from the League to become true leaders.”

First Lady Ginger Beebe

The cit y In support of downtown revitalization, the JLLR purchased and renovated the historic Woman’s City Club located at 4th and Scott Streets. Today, the Second Renaissance Revival style building serves as the JLLR headquarters and a rental venue for special events and business meetings. It is an historic landmark preserved and promoted by the JLLR. Just blocks away from the JLLR headquarters stands one of the most ambitious JLLR initiatives. In the late 195o’s, the JLLR membership approved formation of a community center for Arts & Sciences. Today, the Arkansas Arts Center and its related traveling exhibits reach across the state and enrich the lives of all Arkansans.

The JLLR’s commitment to education and child advocacy spans the decades as well. In an effort to promote organized voluntarism and support public education within the Little Rock School District, Volunteers in Public Schools (ViPS) was established and is forty years strong. It remains a focus for the JLLR. Another icon in Arkansas culture and tradition takes place each Memorial Day and welcomes over 250,000 visitors annually. Known and beloved today as Riverfest, this event hosts world renowned musicians and artisans. Its JLLR roots date back 35 years.

The JLLR headquarters, Riverfest, The Arkansas Arts Center, and ViPS exemplify the lasting impression the JLLR leaves in the culture and community of our city — the women of JLLR continue to enrich the lives of women and children in central Arkansas.

Riverfest

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O U R G R AT I T U D E RUNS DEEP.

Thank you, Junior League of Little Rock, for your 90 years of dedication to our great city and for your leadership in founding and serving Riverfest for 35 years. You truly are in a League of your own.

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The COMMUNIT Y JLLR volunteers alter the landscape of our community. They bring focus to ordinary, often overlooked, needs and create extraordinary solutions.

Fulfilling Today’s Needs Over the past decade the JLLR has continued to identify issues and provide service programs with measurable results.

The Arkansas Arts Center

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Issue - School Preparedness

Issue - Health and Wellness

(Families & Community Together)

(Senior citizens active today)

Purpose

Purpose

Issue - Health and Wellness

Provide the required school supplies to children enrolled at target schools

Offers families a free day of safety awareness & healthy living education. Provides free immunizations as well as dental, vision, hearing screenings and car seat safety checks

Issue - Health and Wellness, School Preparedness Purpose

Provide dinners, recreational and motivational activities that improve the welfare of senior citizens

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Results

2,500+ students in 6 LRSD elementary schools are served annually

Kota camp

Results

Issue - Health and Wellness

1,100+ attendees annually, 75+ car seat installations, checked with misuse rate of 82%, 115+ health screenings performed, 65+ immunizations provided

Purpose

Fund and support an inclusive camp at Camp Aldersgate for children with and without medical conditions or disabilities Results

160 campers attend annually

Nightingales Issue - Health and Wellness Purpose

Provide weekly emotional support at Arkansas Childrens Hospital and UAMS Family Home for families while children are hospitalized

Pregnant and parenting teen training Results

25 families are served monthly through Centers for Youth and Families’ Parent Center

Purpose

Results

100 residents attend twice a month

“The Arkansas Arts Center would not grow

exist today as it does had the Junior

(Girls Realizing Opportunity Within)

League not accepted the challenge.”

Issue - Health and Wellness, School Preparedness

Jeane Hamilton Past JLLR President (1964-1965)

Purpose

Support, encourage, and mentor adolescent (middle school age) girls Results

60 girls from 8 middle schools attend annually

Results

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legacy

Through our service and commitment the women of the Junior League of Little Rock continue to impact lives.

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1930

Baby Welfare Station Child Advocacy Program

Visiting Nurses - Child Advocacy Program

"The Junior League of Little Rock is a living testament to the power of women committed to serving and nurturing the future of our community through the education, care and inspiration of our children and families."

Marionettes Performance Arts in Education

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J. Mark Davis ­â&#x20AC;&#x201D; JLLR Community Advisory Committee member

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War Bond Carnival JLLR Kissing Booth Fundraising Event

“After Jacob was born, our doctor came out and told us something was wrong with his heart. He asked where we wanted to go.

We told him to get us to Children’s.”

Junior League Charity Horse Show Fundraising event

1940

Shari & Jeffery Wells with 10-year-old son, Jacob

Speech Correction School Child Advocacy Program

IF YOUR BABY IS BORN WITH A PROBLEM WITH HIS HEART,

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Angel One™ • NICU • Heart Center Junior League Follies Chorus Fundraising Event

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1970’s Little Rock Cooks cookbook

In-School Reading Day Enrichment Program

Volunteers in Public Schools (ViPS) Enrichment Program

1960

1970 JLLR Summer Arts Festival Today known as Riverfest

Beaux Arts Bal Arkansas Arts Center Fundraising Event

Arkansas Arts Center Dedication

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Founded 1978 Then known as the Summer Arts Festival

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Founded 1963 Established by JLLR + Museum of Fine Arts Accredited by the American Association of Museums Library is named in honor of the Association of Junior League of America President, Elizabeth Prewitt Taylor (also a JLLR member) Today – AAC hosts on average 250,000 visitors annually, including national and international visitors

JLLR guided the festival through its first 20 years and continues to serve in a variety of roles

The Arkansas Arts Center is an art museum with a children’s theatre and a studio school. Founded in 1960, its mission is to ensure that learning, inspiration and creative expression in the arts flourish throughout Arkansas, for people of all ages and backgrounds. The AAC realizes this mission by developing, preserving and exhibiting its outstanding permanent collection, offering a rich variety of art from other collections and presenting programs for the education and cultural benefit of the public.

3,000 volunteers, 250 committee members, 1 fulltime and 1 part time employee Welcomes 250,000+ visitors annually Largest event in the state Has resulted in almost $1M in contributions

The mission of Riverfest is to produce a quality, recreational, cultural, educational, family-oriented celebration of the visual and performing arts for the benefit of the community. Riverfest and quality will always be synonymous. From offering an outstanding children’s area where every activity is free, to an area focusing on young teens, to ArtZone where art classes are offered to the young (and young at heart), to the International Village where festival-goers can travel the world, to numerous special attractions, events and family oriented activities — there is something for everyone.

“Through the training that the Junior League of Little Rock provided I was able to strengthen my leadership and skills

The ArtMobile, AAC’s travelling arts exhibits, started in 1963 and still services the rural areas of Arkansas with arts enrichment

learn the importance of volunteerism. As a result I chaired Riverfest in 1989 and received more on-the-job training.”

Today – Museum School, Children’s Theatre, permanent + special AAC exhibits

Shelia Vaught – JLLR Board Member & Past Riverfest Chairman

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Holiday House Fundraising Event

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traditions cookbook Museum of Discovery Partnership Bargain Barn Fundraising Event

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little rock school district

Creating excellence for tomorrow holiday house

JLLR’s rich history spans 6 decades with the school district including Art Awareness Program, Artreach, Arts & Education, Bucket Brigade, Buckle Up & Be Safe.

As the primary fundraiser for the Junior League of Little Rock, Holiday House supports community programs.

Volunteers in Public Schools (1972) ViPS was founded in 1972 to provide assistance to teachers and other staff members of the Little Rock School District by promoting school voluntarism. ViPS serves as a link between the District and the community while providing patrons and citizens an opportunity to be significantly involved in the education of children.

15,000+ shoppers attend annually 150+ merchants from across the country $300,000+ raised in 2011 to support JLLR programs

Save the dates

Stuff the Bus (2006) Provides school supplies essential for learning to 2,500+ students in 6 elementary schools

November 7th-10th cookbooks

GROW (2003)

The most delicious and well-recognized fundraiser is our family of cookbooks that span the decades and celebrate the art of entertaining and family tradition.

G ir l s R e alizin g O pp ortu nitie s Within

Serves 60 girls annually from 8 middle schools

I liked the trips that they took us on. We went to the Brown Sugar Bakeshop, where I had a red velvet cupcake and Wildwood Park, where we learned how to improvise and walked through the beautiful gardens. We also learned about

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managing our money and cooking healthy meals. While I am

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looking forward to our graduation celebration in May, I am sorry that the program is going to end.

J LLR Bu ilding

2012 GROW Participant from Forest Heights Middle School

Fo r m e r ly known as th e WomAn ’ s Cit y Clu b ( 191 0)

Over 10 years ago, the JLLR contributed to the revitalization of downtown Little Rock by purchasing and renovating the Woman’s City Club.

Today, the Second Renaissance Revival style building serves as the JLLR headquarters and a rental venue for special events and business meetings.

It is an historic landmark preserved and promoted by the JLLR. Meeting space includes AV equipment, Wi-Fi, daytime parking, and a commercial kitchen.

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LEADERSHIP With a membership of over 1,200 women,

JLLR by the numbers Jllr

the JLLR continues the legacy of community support and leadership.

TOTAL

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47,667 VOLUNTEER HOURS, $1. 5M VALUE ANNUALLY

Our community embraces the JLLR spirit of voluntarism. Our members

Volunteer Impact

create lasting impressions through the League’s leadership training. A

Direct Service

JLLR member is often identified by her “can do attitude”. Her prompt,

429 volunteers = 13,462 hours = $287, 548 . 32

organized nature, coupled by her ability to roll up her sleeves and make a

In-direct Service

positive difference in the world around her. It’s not uncommon to hear a

429 volunteers = 27,935 hours = $596,691.60

Junior League member say, “I learned it in the League”.

Leadership

26 volunteers = 6, 270 hours = $627,000 Figures based on DHS - Division of Community Service and Nonprofit Support

Top: 2012 JLLR membership meeting Bottom (left to right): Cornerstone Youth Volunteer Training, Arts Awareness Program in LRSD schools, Senior Citizens Active Today Program, Arkansas Children’s Hospital Kids TV Program, JLLR member volunteering in LRSD elementary school Next page: JLLR Headquarters www.jllr.org

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future Junior League of Little Rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission, to

The JLLR depends on donors, corporations, nonprofit organizations, commu-

develop the potential of women and improve the

nity partners and friends to further its mission of building a better community.

community through the effective leadership and

To remain successful for the next 90 years we

the development of trained volunteers, continues

asked ourselves: How is the Junior League of Lit-

to be exclusively educational and charitable.

tle Rock relevant today? And, how can the Junior League of Little Rock be relevant tomorrow?

In addition, JLLR remains inclusive to women of all races, religions and national origins with a demonstrated interest in civic voluntarism.

After diligent research and strategic planning, we have develtoped two new areas of community service focus - School Preparedness and Health & Wellness.

JLLR provides members with enriching volunteer opportunities. More than 1,200 women contribute over 47,000 hours annually â&#x20AC;&#x201C; along with time, talent and energy towards this mission. Through this process, of training and effective voluntarism, members create a lasting impression on the community and develop knowledge to become civic leaders.

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Almost

a century of service

For almost a century, the women of the Junior League of Little Rock have made a lasting impression on Little Rock - touching people on a personal level, a community level and shaping the persona of the city itself. Through our service and commitment, the women of the Junior League of Little Rock continue to improve the lives of women and children in our community by leaving impressions on the past, present & future.

MISSION STATEMENT: The JLLR, Inc. is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.

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7 p.m. Oxford American. $7 per reading, $20 full pass.

This marks the second year that The Arkansas Repertory Theatre has teamed up with TheatreSquared of Fayetteville to host a Central Arkansas production of The Arkansas New Play Fest (the Northwest Arkansas dates for the festival are May 18-20 at Nadine Baum Studios). “The collaboration is designed to introduce promising new works for the stage to audiences in Northwest and Central Arkansas and to encourage conversation about the themes of these new plays,” according

to TheatreSquared. This year’s lineup includes readings of “Uprooted,” a family drama by Clinnesha Dillon Sibley about a successful actress returning to her small hometown for her mother’s funeral; “The Football Project,” the story of a high school football team that becomes enmeshed in controversy and the reaction of the team’s hometown, by Samuel Brett Williams; Robert Ford’s “The Spiritualist,” about a school cafeteria cook and self-proclaimed psychic who communes with dead composers; and “The Ballad of Rusty and Roy,” the tale of two brothers — both musicians — whose careers follow different paths after they move to New York City, by Troy and Jonny Schremmer.

COUNTRY CHARMER: Elizabeth Cook performs at Revolution Wednesday night.

WEDNESDAY 5/16

ELIZABETH COOK

9 p.m. Stickyz. $13.

Before a few days ago, I didn’t know anything about Elizabeth Cook, but I do now and I’m here to tell you, this gal is a genu-wine country charmer and a fine singer and songwriter as well. She hails from the Sunshine State, but not from the Real Housewife-and Lamborghiniinfested climes of Miami. No, she’s from Wildwood, a “total pit cow-town; it’s not like Disney World,” she told Craig Ferguson. She got started playing music young, accompanying her parents. Her mother was a West Virginia native and a mandolin picker and guitarist and her daddy a musician and a welder by trade, one he learned while incarcerated for running moonshine. Her folks met after he’d served eight years. Cook moved to Nashville after college and wasted no time at all, releasing five albums, making 42

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hundreds of appearances on the Grand Ole Opry and hosting her own radio show, “Elizabeth Cook’s Apron Strings,” on SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country channel.

Her 2007 album “Balls” was a welcome shot of real country, sure to please everyone who prefers Dolly and Loretta over So-and-So or Whatshername or whoever’s on top in the pop-oriented world of mainstream country. Those two legendary country ladies are namechecked in Cook’s paean to working women, “Sometimes It Takes Balls to be a Woman” (which, as certain Internet pundits have conjectured, is sure to be immortalized as a drag-show standard).

Her latest long-player, 2010’s “Welder,” includes the playful “Snake in the Bed,” and “Yes to Booty,” but also takes some heart-wrenching turns with “Mama’s Funeral,” a tribute to her mother, and the lilting tale of “Heroin Addict Sister.”

ROCKABILLY QUEEN: The legendary Wanda Jackson comes back to town for a show at Revolution Friday night.

FRIDAY 5/18

WANDA JACKSON

8:30 p.m. Revolution. $15 adv., $20 d.o.s.

Back in 1954, when Hank Thompson heard that girl’s singing coming over the radio there in Oklahoma, what must he have thought of that sassy voice, springing out of a singer who wasn’t yet out of high school? What must the young men of the era have thought of the stunningly gorgeous belle who shook her hips and strummed a

guitar, fringe and frills flailing, singing in that hiccupping, early rock ’n’ roll style, “Don’t stop, honey bop.” Lord, have mercy. And then she went country.

And then Christian. And then rockabilly revival. And then Jack White. And it was all good. What a career Wanda Jackson has had. Don’t squander this opportunity to see a for-real living legend, one who still has it and is making good music now, more than five decades after getting her start.

IN BRIEF

THURSDAY 5/17

SATURDAY 5/19

8TH ANNUAL BUZZ-B-Q

10 a.m. North Little Rock RV Park. $10.

EXTREME BEHAVIOR: Oklahoma rockers Hinder play a huge show Friday night at Juanita’s, with Trapt and The Dreaming.

FRIDAY 5/18

HINDER, TRAPT, THE DREAMING

9 p.m. Juanita’s. $25 adv., $30 d.o.s.

SEPT. 12, 2057, NORMAN, OKLA.: Despite multiple hip replacements, twoand-a-half liver transplants, full-scalp hair plugs and innumerable facelifts and paunch-abatements, Austin Winkler is as devastatingly studly as ever. The Hinder frontman still cuts an intimidating figure, even at age 81 and even though he is swathed in what can only be described as a huge-ass pile of scarves. He sits at the bar of O’McFlannagin’s Irish College Pub on a quiet weekday afternoon, stirring his drink with a bejeweled pinky finger. “You know these guys used to sponsor us,” he says, referring to his Jägermeister and Kombucha spritzer. Winkler is feeling reflective, sharing anecdotes from his many decades as a rock ’n’ roll wildman.

“Our first album was called ‘Extreme Behavior,’ ” he says. “But were we really that extreme?” He pauses, lost in thought, as the fading afternoon light from the window glints off of one of his five pairs of sunglasses. A slow half-smile creeps across his unnaturally taut visage as he begins to answer that rhetorical query.

“I once had a 43-way. It’s like a three-

way, only with 43 people instead of just three. It’s like, 40 times more awesome.”

More tales of tour debauchery followed at some length, including an episode at a “Malaysian albino colony” that left this reporter both dumbfounded and deeply shaken. But the fast times caught up with him eventually. There were the normal inner conflicts and ego clashes, sure, but there were also hang-gliding mishaps, boating disasters, international incidents of various sorts. So in the end, was it all worth it? Winkler takes a deep breath, a faraway look in his eye. Suddenly the door swings open and a bleached-blonde, black-leather-clad crone walks in and sidles up to the bar, a few seats down from Winkler. He eyes her discreetly, then whispers to the bartender: “Skyler, hey, Skyler!” The barkeep looks up, Winkler nods to him and then he fiddles with the stereo. A moment later, the Hinder classic “Lips of an Angel,” comes on over the speakers. The wizened old hag begins to sway, her lips mouthing the words to the bombastic power ballad hit: “I gotta whisper / ’cause I can’t be too loud.”

Winkler sees his opening. “Was it worth it?” he chortles, getting up to take a seat next to the geriatric enchantress. “You tell me.”

FRIDAY 5/18

GLOSSARY, AUSTIN LUCAS

9 p.m. White Water Tavern.

This is probably the archetypal White Water Tavern show. Glossary and Austin Lucas have an intimate connection with the storied venue and with Travis Hill’s Last Chance Records, which has issued several releases from both acts, including Lucas’s “Live at the White Water Tavern.”

Glossary’s latest, “Long Live All of Us,” is the band’s seventh full-length album, and boasts fantastic playing, with warmsounding horns and jazzy piano touches.

Lucas was recently in town for a house show that Times reviewer Joe Meazle

wrote up. “Lucas sings with a great set of finely-tuned pipes that have that highlonesome sound in spades,” Meazle wrote, “and his lyrics are full of piss, vinegar and adolescent angst.” Also playing this show is Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, out of Birmingham, Ala. The band just released a full-length called “There is a Bomb in Gilead.” The group’s bio describes them as being “as much Wilson Pickett as Fugazi, as much the Stooges as the Allman Brothers,” and that sounds like a right-on description to these ears. All three acts will also play the Lucero Family Picnic on Saturday (see page 49).

How could you make tender, delicious smoky, barbecue any better? How about by combining it with a bunch of live entertainment and it’s all to support a good cause? Because that’s what’s in store at the 8th Annual Buzz-B-Q, where 90 teams — roughly split between pro and amateur — will compete in several categories to see who has the best, most delicious, tender, smokiest, fallin’-offthe-bone-est chicken, pork and beef.

And get this: it’s only $10 to get in (or $10 for two tickets if you buy them before Saturday), you’ll sample all kinds of ’cue and hear music from a ton of local bands (including Jeff Coleman and The Feeders and Jeff Green) and hear commentary from 103.7 The Buzz personalities and the proceeds benefit Camp Sunshine, a fourday retreat especially for pediatric burn survivors that’s funded by The Arkansas Professional Firefighters and is hosted at Camp Aldersgate every year. This is definitely a To-Do.

SATURDAY 5/19

REAL COWBOY ASSOCIATION RODEO

7 p.m. Arkansas State Fairgrounds. $24.

I suppose that this needs to be said, because there are probably still a lot of folks who aren’t in the know: Yes, there are black cowboys and black rodeos.

Black folks have a long history of riding and roping going all the way back to the legendary cowboy Bill Pickett, who literally took the bull by the horns and invented the bulldogging technique of bringing down a steer. It’s just one of the many, many parts of the AfricanAmerican story that gets overlooked in history class. The Real Cowboy Association is one of the premier black rodeo organizations and comes to town on its “Baddest Show on Dirt” tour. In addition to all the calf roping, bull riding, barrel racing and all the rest, there will be a tailgate party starting at 3 p.m. outside the fairgrounds, as well as live music from Lafayette, La., R&B singer Cupid (known for the hit song “Cupid Shuffle” and the dance of the same name) and Michael Cooper, co-founder of the funk legends Con Funk Shun.

Rising country act The Josh Abbott Band comes to town, with Rob Baird opening. Abbott captures small-town Texas life via image-rich tunes, like “Idalou,” “Flatland Farmer” and the humorous sketch “FFA,” all from his latest album, “Small Town Family Dream.” The all-ages show starts at 9 p.m., $12 adv., $15 d.o.s.

Memphis garage-rockers Tiger High play White Water Tavern with Booyah! Dad and The Foul Play Cabaret, 10 p.m. All three also perform at Maxine’s in Hot Springs on Friday, 8 p.m., $10 adv., $12 door. Beer-lovers take note: The American Craft Brew Week Beer Dinner includes craft beer and food from Vino’s and Bosco’s, with additional beers from New Belgium and Boulevard Brewing, Vino’s, 6:30 p.m., $35.

FRIDAY 5/18

Exhale at RiverTop is back at The Peabody, featuring DJs Brandon Peck and Durden, 9 p.m., $8. Fans of high-octane blues rock and over-the-top instrumental virtuosity should not miss Joey Farr & The Fuggins Wheat Band, who play a two-night stand at Midtown starting Friday at 12:30 a.m., $5. Singer Gina Gee hosts an album release party for her “Evolution of a Woman,” with performances from Justin Paul, Da Saw Squad and DJ KP, Big Whiskey’s, 8 p.m., $5. The International Greek Food Festival returns with an array of Greek and Mediterranean favorites to benefit several area nonprofits, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. May 18-19 and noon-6 p.m. May 20, $10. The Arkansas Festival Ballet’s “Aladdin” is a storybook ballet version of the classic tale, Arkansas Arts Center, 7:30 p.m., also 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, $15$25. The Arkansas Travelers take on their in-state rivals, the Northwest Arkansas Naturals, DickeyStephens Park, 7:10 p.m., also 7:10 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday and 11 a.m. Monday, $6-$12.

SATURDAY 5/19

Fayetteville stalwarts Earl & Them with Earl Cate play a show at Denton’s Trotline, 9 p.m. It’s time once more for Music in the Garden, with barroom songstress Bonnie Montgomery, as well as educational events about gardening, activities for kids, food from local restaurants and more, Dunbar Community Garden, 3 p.m., $3-$5.

Banjo-pickin’ ramblin’ troubadour Joe Sundell is back in town for a show at Pizza D’Action, 9 p.m., $3.

Vino’s has The Tricks, Ezra Lbs. and Indie Bullshit, 8 p.m., $8

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EVENTS

American Craft Brew Week Beer Dinner.

Craft beer and food from Vino’s and Bosco’s, with additional beers from New Belgium and Boulevard Brewing. Vino’s, 6:30 p.m., $35. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub. com.

Antique/Boutique Walk. Shopping and live entertainment. Downtown Hot Springs, third Thursday of every month, 4-8 p.m., free. 100 Central Ave., Hot Springs.

Wine Tasting with Bruce Cochran. The Afterthought, 5:30 p.m., $10. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16

MUSIC

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

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

521 Center St. 501-374-4495.

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

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

Chris Henry. The Tavern Sports Grill, 7 p.m., free.

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

Elizabeth Cook. 18-and-older. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.

Grim Muzik presents Way Back Wednesdays.

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

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

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

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

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

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

RockUsaurus. Senor Tequila (Maumelle Blvd.), 6 p.m., free. 9847 Maumelle Blvd., NLR. 501758-4432.

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

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Velcro Pygmies with Horn. West End Smokehouse and Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. 215 N. Shackleford. 501-224-7665. www.westendsmokehouse.net.

COMEDY

Warren B. Hall, Ragan Dalby. The Loony Bin, 8 p.m., $8. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS

American Culinary Federation-sanctioned competition. Hot Springs Convention Center, 10 a.m. p.m., free. 134 Convention Blvd., Hot Springs. 501-321-2027. www.hotsprings.org.

Making Nutritious Delicious: Poultry. Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, 10 a.m. p.m., $35. 1 Rockefeller Drive, Morrilton. 727-5435. www. uawri.org.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield Cardinals.

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Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield Cardinals.

Dickey-Stephens Park, 7:10 p.m. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs. com.

HONKY TONK CROWD: Country singer John Anderson headlines “Stars & Stripes 2012,” a tribute concert to the armed forces at The Ford Theater in Conway at 7 p.m.

Saturday. Openers include Luke Winslow-King and Drew Smith. Tickets are $35-$50.

Dickey-Stephens Park, 7:10 p.m.; May 17, 7:10 p.m. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs.com.

Gus Malzahn speaking tour. War Memorial Stadium, 7 p.m., free. 1 Stadium Drive. 501663-0775.

THURSDAY, MAY 17

MUSIC

4 Elementz (headliner), Mayday by Midnight (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-3755351. www.cajunswharf.com.

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

Alex Summerlin. Denton’s Trotline, 7 p.m. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717.

Bluesboy Jag Band. The Afterthought, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com.

Bonnie Montgomery, Amanda Avery. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com.

Break the Silence, This Chaos Inside. Downtown Music Hall, 8 p.m., $6. 211 W. Capitol. 501-3761819. downtownmusichall.com.

Canvas. The Tavern Sports Grill, May 17, 8 p.m.; May 31, 8 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway.

501-830-2100. www.thetavernsportsgrill.com.

“Inferno.” DJs play pop, electro, house and more, plus drink specials and $1 cover before 11 p.m. Sway, 9 p.m. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582.

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

Josh Abbott Band, Rob Baird. All-ages show.

Revolution, 9 p.m., $12 adv., $15 d.o.s. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom. com.

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

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

9611 MacArthur Drive, NLR. 771-2994.

Puddin’head. Thirst n’ Howl, 8 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. Tiger High, Booyah! Dad, Foul Play Cabaret.

White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. 2500 W. 7th. 501375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

COMEDY

Rajun Cajun, Warren B. Hall. The Loony Bin, May 17, 8 p.m.; May 18, 8 and 10:30 p.m.; May 19, 7, 9 and 11 p.m., $8-$13. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

BOOKS

Jane Hankins. The artist and author will sign copies of her new book, “Madge’s Mobile Home Park.” WordsWorth Books & Co., 5 p.m. 5920 R St. 501-663-9198. www.wordsworthbooks.org.

Poet Luck at Writers’ Colony. Featuring readings from writers and poets. The Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow, 6 p.m. 515 Spring St., Eureka Springs. 479-253-7444.

FRIDAY, MAY 18

MUSIC

Bluesboy Jag and His Cigar Box Guitars.

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

6725 John F. Kennedy Blvd., NLR. 501-833-3850. www.facebook.com/pages/Dogtown-Coffeeand-Cookery/221280641229600.

Bluesboy Jag Band. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 8 p.m. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub.com.

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

Exhale at RiverTop. Featuring DJs Brandon Peck and Durden. The Peabody Little Rock, 9 p.m., $8. 3 Statehouse Plaza. 501-906-4000. www.peabodylittlerock.com.

“The Flow Fridays.” Twelve Modern Lounge, 8 p.m. 1900 W. Third St. Glossary, Austin Lucas, Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires. White Water Tavern. 2500 W. 7th.

501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

Hinder, Trapt, The Dreaming. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $25 adv., $30 d.o.s. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

Jet 420. West End Smokehouse and Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. 215 N. Shackleford. 501-224-7665. www.westendsmokehouse.net.

Joey Farr and The Fuggins Wheat Band.

Midtown Billiards, May 18-19, 12:30 a.m., $5.

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

LA Roxx. Shooter’s Sports Bar & Grill, 9 p.m., $5. 9500 I-30. 501-565-4003. www.shooterslittlerock.com.

Moonshine Mafia (headliner), RockUsaurus (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-3755351. www.cajunswharf.com.

Rodge Arnold. The Tavern Sports Grill, May 18, 8 p.m.; May 26, 8 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. www.thetavernsportsgrill.com.

Shannon Boshears Band. The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196.

www.afterthoughtbar.com.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www. capitalhotel.com/CBG. Thomas East. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, May 18-19, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

Thread. Fox And Hound, 10 p.m., $5. 2800 Lakewood Village, NLR. 501-753-8300. www. foxandhound.com/locations/north-little-rock. aspx.

Tiffany Christopher Band. Dugan’s Pub, 8:30 p.m., free. 403 E. 3rd St. 501-244-0542. www. duganspublr.com.

Tiger High, Booyah! Dad, Foul Play Cabaret.

Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $10 adv., $12 door. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com.

Tragikly White. Denton’s Trotline, 9 p.m. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717.

Wanda Jackson. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $15 adv., $20 d.o.s. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-8230090. revroom.com.

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

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

COMEDY

Rajun Cajun, Warren B. Hall. The Loony Bin, May 18, 8 and 10:30 p.m.; May 19, 7, 9 and 11 p.m., $8-$13. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road.

501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS

“Antiques: Trash or Treasure.” Antique expert, Nancy Dunning will discuss the basics of antiquing. This is not an appraisal program. Laman Library, Argenta branch, 6 p.m., free. 506 Main St., NLR. 501-687-1061. www.lamanlibrary.org.

Christian Motor Cycle Rally. Cypress Creek Park.

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

Cruisin’ in the Rock. River Market Pavilions, 6 p.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www. cruisinlittlerock.com.

“Evening in May Courtyard Dedication”.

Music, wine, hors d’oeuvres and more commemorating the life of journalist and environmentalist Carol Griffee. Premier Health & Rehabilitation, 4 p.m. 3600 Richards Road, NLR. 501-353-8095.

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

Fort Smith Regional Art Museum fundraiser.

Attire is white casual chic. Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, 7 p.m., $150. 701 Rogers Ave., Fort Smith. 479-784-2787. www.fsram.org.

International Greek Food Festival. Featuring a wide array of Greek and Mediterranean favorites to benefit several area nonprofits.

Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, May 18-19, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; May 20, noon-6 p.m., $10. 1100 Napa Valley Drive. 501-221-5300. www.greekfoodfest.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. “Listening Party...The Return of Real R&B.” Album release party for Gina Gee’s “Evolution of a Woman” includes performances from

Justin Paul, Da Saw Squad and DJ KP. Big Whiskey’s American Bar and Grill, 8 p.m., $5.

225 E. Markham. 501-324-2449.

Table for Two. Culinary class includes demonstration, four-course dinner, one night lodging and continental breakfast. Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, 5 p.m., $200 (couple). 1 Rockefeller Drive, Morrilton. 727-5435. www.uawri.org.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Northwest Arkansas Naturals. Dickey-Stephens Park, May 18-19, 7:10 p.m.; May 20, 2 p.m.; May 21, 11 a.m., $6-$12. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-6641555. www.travs.com.

SATURDAY, MAY 19

MUSIC

The Air I Breathe, My Ticket Home, Hands Like Houses, Palisades. Downtown Music Hall, 7 p.m., $12. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownmusichall.com.

Arkansas River Blues Society Blues Jam fundraiser. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 8 p.m. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub.com.

Big Stack. Shooter’s Sports Bar & Grill, 9 p.m., $5. 9500 I-30. 501-565-4003. www.shooterslittlerock.com.

Chash Meadows (headliner), Tiffany Christopher (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.

Dax Riggs. 18-and-older show. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $10. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.

Earl & Them with Earl Cate. Denton’s Trotline, 9 p.m. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717.

Elise Davis Band. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m.

2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

Jack Fancy. Fox And Hound, 10 p.m., $5. 2800 Lakewood Village, NLR. 501-753-8300. www. foxandhound.com/locations/north-little-rock. aspx.

Joe Sundell. Pizza D’Action, 9:30 p.m., $3. 2919 W. Markham St. 501-666-5403.

Joey Farr and The Fuggins Wheat Band.

Midtown Billiards, 12:30 a.m., $5. 1316 Main St. 501-372-9990. midtownar.com.

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

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

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

14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirstn-howl.com.

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

412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582.

Lucero Family Picnic. Featuring Lucero, Shooter Jennings, Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires and more. Riverside Park. Chaney Drive, Batesville.

Mandy McBryde & The Unholy Ghost, Ben Franks and The Bible Belt Boys. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $5. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com.

Music in the Garden: Bonnie Montgomery.

Includes educational events about gardening, activities for kids, food from local restaurants and more. Dunbar Community Garden, 3 p.m., $3-$5. 1800 S. Chester.

RockUsaurus. The Tavern Sports Grill, 8 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100.

www.thetavernsportsgrill.com.

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

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

Sister Rock. Cregeen’s Irish Pub, 8 p.m., free.

301 Main St., NLR. 501-376-7468. www.cregeens.com.

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

The Swingin’ Franks. Browning’s Mexican Food, free. 5805 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-9956. www. browningsmexicangrill.com.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www. capitalhotel.com/CBG. Thomas East. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

A Tribute to American Armed Forces Stars & Stripes 2012. Featuring John Anderson, Drew Smith and Luke Winslow-King. The Ford Theater, 7 p.m., $40-$50. 1020 Front St., Conway. 501-358-1755. thefordtheater.com.

The Tricks, Ezra Lbs., Indie Bullshit. Vino’s, 8 p.m., $8. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www. vinosbrewpub.com.

COMEDY

Rajun Cajun, Warren B. Hall. The Loony Bin, 7, 9 and 11 p.m., $8-$13. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS

13th Annual Dino Dash. Includes 5k run/ walk and 1k family fun run/walk. Museum of Discovery, 8 a.m., $15-$30. 500 Clinton Ave. 396-7050, 1-800-880-6475. www.amod.org.

The 8th Annual Buzz-B-Q. Hosted by KABZ 103.7 The Buzz, including more than 90 barbecue teams competing in several categories, live music and more. North Little Rock RV Park, 10 a.m. p.m., $10. 250 S. Locust St., NLR. www.1037thebuzz.com.

Argenta Farmers Market. Argenta, 7 a.m.-12 p.m. Main Street, NLR. Diamond Dames Burly-Q Revue: Star Spangled Glamour. 18-and-older performance, with $2 military discount (with ID).

Juanita’s, 10 p.m., $10 adv., $12 d.o.s. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com.

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

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

International Greek Food Festival. See May. 18.

James Hayes Art Glass Company Spring Open House. James Hayes Art Glass Co., 10 a.m. p.m., free. 2900 Ridgway Road, Pine Bluff. 870543-9792. hayesartglass.com.

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

“Off the Beaten Path.” Garden tour, including demonstrations and speaker. Basin Spring Park, 10 a.m. p.m., $15. Downtown Eureka Springs, Eureka Springs. 479-253-7078.

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couple of recent No. 1 hits go a long way toward illustrating Dierks Bentley’s range and versatility as both a singer and a songwriter. He showcased them both Saturday night when he brought his Country & Cold Cans Tour to Verizon Arena in North Little Rock.

Bentley shines on fast-paced songs about partying and drinking, and they’ve long made up a large part of his signature energetic, hard-driving shows. The latest, “Am I the Only One,” is the handsome, curly-haired singer at his best as he asks in that slightly gravelly, mostly traditional country voice “is there anybody out there wants to have a cold beer, kick it ’til the morning light.” It’s good-times country, fun and a bit rowdy, which may also serve as an apt description of the Vanderbilt graduate who’s been a staple on the country charts for almost 10 years now.

On the other end of the spectrum — and near the end of his spirited performance before 3,432 fans — Bentley is thoughtful, reflective and appreciative on “Home,” his tribute to America and the American spirit. It’s patriotic, to be sure, but it hits the spot without going overboard.

Bentley is a co-writer on both of those hits, which are on his latest album, “Home.” They’re great additions to what over the years has become a nice dis-

cography for the country star who is no stranger to Central Arkansas. He’s performed here a number of times before and was scheduled to play the Riverfest Amphitheatre before inclement weather caused the move to what he termed “big, fancy Verizon Arena.” It’s his style to make any venue feel a bit intimate, so he added “if it’s all right with you, we’ll just pretend we’re at the Electric Cowboy.”

Inside or outside, large arena or small club, it doesn’t really matter. Bentley’s shows are just plain fun and that was the case Saturday night. Other crowdpleasers included “Lot of Leavin’ Left to Do,” “Every Mile a Memory,” “How Am I Doin’ ” and, of course, the “little white tank top song” — “What Was I Thinkin’ ” — which he used in an encore to close out the evening.

The Cadillac Black opened the show with a six-song set that mixed a little country with a lot of Southern rock on listenable numbers like “Tennessee Mojo,” “Get Your Buzz On” and “Down to the River.” Next up was The Eli Young Band, a group of guys who got together as students at the University of North Texas 11 years ago. If the band keeps delivering hits like the terrific “Crazy Girl” — named Song of the Year by the Academy of Country Music earlier this year — it just may be headlining the next time it’s in town. Lead singer Mike Eli and the guys blend rock and country and found plenty of love from the crowd on engaging songs like “Always the Love Songs,” “Guinevere” and “When It Rains.”

is that much of the time I couldn’t even understand the words being sung, because they used different Caribbean and/or South American accents, depending on where the singer was from. That was when it dawned on me: All the emotions that were coming up and flowing out of me were completely in response to the music alone, not the lyrics. That’s probably one the greatest things about salsa music: that even if you can’t understand what the singer is saying, you can feel it.

And it is exactly the same when you’re dancing salsa: What counts most is the explosive joy, the contented happiness or the love you feel. The steps or moves themselves come in a very distant second. The flexibility for improvisation and the transcendental nature of salsa for all those who dance it is impressive. Salsa is an energetic, freeflowing dance. Watching it can almost lull you into a trance as the dancers and colors and music blend into a unique piece of art. For many people, watching salsa can almost feel like dancing it.

Little Rock native Sarah Catherine Gutierrez, along with a tight-knit circle of friends, started LRST five years ago.

Gutierrez serves as both salsa instructor and DJ, as does her husband Jorge, a native of Bogota, Colombia.

She first got involved with the music in January 2001, while studying abroad in London. “I stumbled upon, quite unexpectedly, a salsa nightclub in downtown London. I had never seen salsa dancing before and had never been exposed to Latin music,” she said. “As I was passing this nightclub while walking, I was first attracted by the music, and then, once inside, I was fascinated by the dancing. I sat down at a table and literally watched people dancing salsa the entire night until closing time. As I was walking out, I thought: ‘This is really cool.’”

Since that moment, salsa has been magical for her.

Little Rock Salsa Team (LRST) gathers every Tuesday at Revolution and every Friday at Browning’s. The team has grown substantially: LRST went from five to 10 people per session in 2007, to around 80 people on Tuesdays and 150-200 on Fridays today, Gutierrez said.

Allison Pierce has danced with LRST for a year and a half. “For me, Little Rock Salsa Team is like a family,” Pierce said. “It’s a very welcoming group. Salsa is very special to me. The Latin rhythms, in general, are my favorites. And salsa is, in my opinion, the best one. I like the soul of it. Dancing salsa is a blast. It’s so much fun. It’s freedom, in the sense that for those three minutes that you’re dancing a particular song, you don’t have to think about work, or school,

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or the things in life that are stressful.

You just feel the music, and you are transported.”

Craig Kulesa, a Connecticut native who’s lived in Hot Springs for the past 15 years, has been participating in LRST for two years, commuting from Hot Springs every Tuesday and Friday to attend the salsa lessons and dance. “For me, when I’m out there on the dance floor, I just forget about everything else,” Kulesa said. “It’s like an art form, in the sense that when you’re creating something, you forget about time. It’s like time stops. Afterwards, I always feel very energetic, invigorated, energized.”

Gutierrez said that one of the great things about salsa is that there is no one “right” way to dance it; everyone creates his or her own style. “You can build upon the basic moves to make them more complex, or more unique, or more stylized, whatever you prefer.

Salsa is continually evolving, and that is just one more of the many aspects of its greatness. It all depends on just how far you want to take it,” she said.

“We have some participants who want to learn just enough to have a little bit of fun and dance a while, and then we have some participants who want to learn as much as possible and get as

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illiam “Willie” Cosme was born in 1953 in the lower east side of Manhattan.

Both his parents were Puerto Rican immigrants. Cosme is known locally as “the Dean of Salsa Music” in Arkansas. He introduced salsa music to Arkansas in 1987, while guest-hosting a Spanish-language music show called “Mundo Latino” on KABF 88.3 FM. “When my friend Lucho Reyes asked me to substitute for him as DJ of ‘Mundo Latino’ on 88.3 while he went on vacation, I brought in to

KABF my large music collection. Salsa music was the largest portion of that collection, because that’s the kind of music I grew up listening to,” Cosme said.

When Reyes returned from vacation, he asked Cosme to come on board at KABF, and the rest is history.

Cosme now hosts “Salsa: From A to Z,” which is “a pure salsa show” on KABF on Wednesdays from 1-3 p.m. and on Saturdays, a salsa-and-othergenres show called “Sabor Latino,” from 3-6 p.m.

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cha cha until midnight. On Fridays at Browning’s Mexican Grill, lessons are offered from 9:30-10:00 p.m., followed by open dancing until about 1:30 a.m.

Most nights, the music is provided by DJs, but the award-winning salsa group Calle Soul does play live from time to time. The band will be at Browning’s on May 18 and the cover is $10.

For more information, call 602-5704226.

Little Rock Salsa Team hosts two dance nights per week, with both open dancing and lessons from Sarah Catherine and Jorge Gutierrez and professional instructor Leah Patterson. On Tuesdays at the Rev Room, basic and intermediate lessons are offered from 7:30-8:30 p.m., followed by open dancing to salsa, bachata, merengue, cumbia and

good at salsa-dancing as they possibly can,” Gutierrez said. “And we encourage both groups equally, by teaching the basics to the first group and point-

ing out to the second group the salsa events and resources they can go to in order to further their knowledge of salsa dancing.” www.arktimes.com

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AFTER DARK, CONT. RCA Rodeo — Baddest Show on Dirt.

Arkansas State Fairgrounds, 7 p.m., $24. 2600 Howard St. 501-372-8341 ext. 8206. www.arkansasstatefair.com.

Re-Cycle Adopt A Pug Motorcycle Ride & Fundraiser. Ride to Hot Springs to benefit Pugs and Kisses Dog Rescue. Landers HarleyDavidson, 11 a.m., $25. 10210 Interstate 30.

501-568-3160. landersharley.com.

“Vacationing in Arkansas.” Featuring Donna Perrin of Arkansas Parks and Tourism. Laman Library, Argenta branch, 10:30 a.m., free. 506 Main St., NLR. 501-687-1061. www.lamanlibrary.org.

SPORTS

17th Annual Norma Lampert Memorial Lupus Springers 5K Race. Includes non-competitive Walk for Lupus Now. Mid-America Science Museum, 8 a.m. 500 Mid-America Blvd., Hot Springs. 501-525-9380. www.midamericamuseum.org.

Arkansas Travelers vs. Northwest Arkansas Naturals. Dickey-Stephens Park, through May 19, 7:10 p.m.; May 20, 2 p.m.; May 21, 11 a.m., $6-$12. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-6641555. www.travs.com.

Central Arkansas Roller Derby’s Rock-nRenegades vs. River Valley Roller Girls.

Skate World, 7 p.m., $10, free for kids 10 and younger. 6512 Mabelvale Cut Off.

BENEFITS

The Hat Club Crawfish Salute. Benefit for UAMS neo-natal intensive care unit, with crawfish, live music from Chris Henry, silent auction, raffle, live crawfish race and more. River Market Pavilions, $30 adv., $40 day of. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.lrhatclub.com.

Simply Red 2012. Dinner, silent auction, entertainment and cash bar, with casual dress.

Benefits The Arkansas AIDS Foundation. Dizzy’s Gypsy Bistro, 6 p.m., $60. 200 River Market Ave. 501-376-6299. www.dizzysgrill.com.

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MUSIC

Irish Traditional Music Session. Hibernia Irish Tavern, first and third Sunday of every month, 2:30 p.m. 9700 N Rodney Parham Road. 501246-4340. www.hiberniairishtavern.com.

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

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

501-982-1939 .

Le’Andria Johnson. Magic Springs’ Timberwood Amphitheater, 6 p.m., $30-$65.

1701 E. Grand Ave., Hot Springs.

Righteous Vendetta, Not One is Upright.

Vino’s, 6 p.m., $8. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

Sunday Jazz Brunch with Ted Ludwig and Joe Cripps. Vieux Carre, 11 a.m. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.vieuxcarrecafe.com.

COMEDY

Gabriel Iglesias. Robinson Center Music Hall, 7 p.m., $48. Markham and Broadway. www.littlerockmeetings.com/conv-centers/robinson.

LaVantor. UARK Bowl, 7:30 p.m., $7. 644 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-301-2030. www. uarkballroom.com.

EVENTS

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

International Greek Food Festival. See May. 18.

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Little Rock Fashion Week 2012 Model Search.

Model casting call for males and females of all ages and sizes. Wear a plain white T-shirt, jeans, no makeup and no accessories. Holiday Inn Presidential, May 20, 1-5 p.m.; May 27, 1-5 p.m. 600 I-30. 501-256-3784. www.littlerockfashionweek.com.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Northwest Arkansas Naturals. Dickey-Stephens Park, May 20, 2 p.m.; May 21, 11 a.m., $6-$12. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs.com.

WWE Over the Limit Watch Party. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 7:30 p.m., free.

107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.

BOOKS

Books in Bloom. Includes authors Crescent Dragonwagon, Phillip Margolin, CJ Box, Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Kristin Kauffman, Kevin Brockmeier and more than a dozen others.

Crescent Hotel and Spa, 12 p.m., free. 75 Prospect Ave., Eureka Springs. 870-423-5300. www.booksinbloom.org.

MONDAY, MAY 21

MUSIC

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

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

Red Morning Voyage, Truly Truly, Bayfield.

Vino’s, 7 p.m., $8. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

Reggae Nites. Featuring DJ Hy-C playing roots, reggae and dancehall. Pleazures Martini and Grill Lounge, 6 p.m., $7-$10. 1318 Main St. 501-376-7777. www.facebook.com/pleazures. bargrill.

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

Taproot, 9 Left Dead. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $10 adv., $12 d.o.s. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

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

COMEDY

Gabriel Iglesias. Walton Arts Center, 7 p.m., $42. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-4435600.

EVENTS

Barcade Edition Fighting Game Tournament.

Downtown Music Hall, 6 p.m., $5, plus $5 registration fee for each game. 211 W. Capitol.

501-376-1819. downtownmusichall.com.

Fine Arts Club of Arkansas Program: The Art of Interior Design. Interior designer Barry Dixon will present at this fundraising luncheon.

Arkansas Arts Center, 11 a.m., $75. 501 E. 9th St. 501-396-0322. www.arkarts.com.

Preservation Conversations. Callie Williams presents a closer look at The Quapaw Quarter Association’s Spring Tour houses. Curran Hall, 5 p.m., free. 615 E. Capitol. 501-370-3290.

LECTURES

Tharcisse Karugarama. The Rwandan Minister of Justice presents “Rwanda: Demystifying Justice and Facing the Biggest Judicial Challenge in Legal History.” Clinton School of Public Service, 12 p.m., free. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5239. www.clintonschool. uasys.edu.

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WILCO: Flawless in Fayetteville.

Wilco

May 10, Arkansas Music Pavilion

BY CHEREE FRANCO

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ast Thursday at Fayetteville’s Arkansas Music Pavilion, the members of Wilco took the stage like they have something to prove. And perhaps they do. In the past year the band’s new album, “The Whole Love,” has been both critically acclaimed and panned as “dad rock.” Five months after its release, critic Nitsuh Abebe called Wilco “new adult contemporary” and “NPR Muzak” in New York magazine, maybe because a month earlier, NPR dubbed Wilco “perhaps America’s best band.”

I don’t own a Wilco album past “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,” and I haven’t listened to “The Whole Love” beyond online samples. But after last night, I think I’ll buy everything the band has ever put out. The show was more than solid — it was fresh, throbbing, expansive and experimental.

Wilco gave a seamless performance, befitting a band that pioneered alt-country and then continued to exorcise its discontent, culling from the groups it’s played with (Sonic Youth, Radiohead) and the music members were brought up on (the entire canon of American and British post-invasion rock). Wilco has come through the honky-tonk trainwreck of too many hotel rooms and too many pills and delivered something akin to hope — power-pop dosed with the bleeps, blips and textural effects of urban decay, filtered through the orchestral soundscapes of musical maestros. The live performance managed surprises and immediacy, without sacrificing the albums’ studio effects.

Jeff Tweedy and John Stirratt are the core of Wilco. They’re the only original members, and Thursday night, Stirratt’s backing vocals came through nearly as strong as Tweedy’s lead. They opened with “Misunderstood,” from 1996’s “Being There.” It’s pretty, sentimental and melancholic — “thank you all for nothing, nothing at all,” Tweedy crooned. It was a confounding beginning until it hit a stunning, discordant break — a mid-song boulder of screaming, pounding instruments and clashing lasers. Then, there

was a quiet return, a sigh and a reining-in.

This was to become the trademark of the show — art rock as yoga, where everything is about breath and the explosive revelation that comes after contemplation. Singly and as a whole, these songs and this set contracted and expanded, spacing out and speeding up, rendering the studied unexpected.

Tweedy seemed relaxed but focused — he wasn’t in the mood to chat or noodle. Pat Sansone was playful and entertaining, hopping from guitar to keyboard to maracas, whirlwind arm and classic stances on display, while guitarist Nels Cline, keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen and drummer Glenn Kotche were straight up noise contortionists, constructing elaborate architecture around familiar melodies. Wilco plays as a collective rather than a collection of musicians, and this was an avant-garde mission rather than a recital. Wilco has a nine-album catalogue of songs, and it pulled from all of it and never stopped pushing. Over two hours (a set and two encores), the sounds and the performance increased in swagger and intensity.

The crowd was older — more middle-aged singer-songwriter types than traditional college students — and they seemed largely appreciative. The “Summerteeth” track off “A Shot in the Arm” and anything off “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” were obvious hits. They played the gorgeously tragic “Jesus, Etc.” and the nostalgic “Heavy Metal Drummer,” which highlighted Stirratt’s earnest vocals and showcased the crowd’s penchant for sing-alongs.

When everything is flawlessly executed, it’s hard to name standouts, but I’d go with “Via Chicago.” The song itself is hypnotically beautiful, which made what came next — the hailstorm of strobes and sound courtesy of Cline, Jorgensen, Kotche and Sansone — all the more startling. But the best part was that underneath and throughout the anomalous chaos, Tweedy and Stirratt held fast to the fragile melody, coming out of the other side of the noise all the more impressive, exquisite and reassuring because of it. It was kind of a metaphor for Wilco itself.

The boys are back in town No rest for the weary as Lucero stage third ‘family picnic’ in Batesville.

BY GERARD MATTHEWS

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sk anyone who knows the band Lucero and they’ll tell you the same thing: This band is like a family. You can see it in the way they act on stage, getting along after 14 years of traveling the country and playing an almost-unheard-of number of shows each year. You can hear it in their songs, whose protagonists are picked off the branches of front man and Little Rock native Ben Nichols’ family tree (from “Raisin’ Hell,” to “Joinin’ the Army” to “Mom”).

But most of all, you can see it in the way their fans feel about one of their favorite bands. Keeping a tireless touring schedule has allowed Lucero to build a fan base that would follow the Memphis-based octet (formerly quartet) to the end of world, or at least to Batesville, Ark. This Saturday, at Batesville’s Riverside Park, the band will throw its third “annual” family picnic. The picnic tradition started in 2007, with a stellar follow-up in 2008 (with a lineup that included Justin Townes Earle, Jason Isbell, Cory Branan and the sadly defunct The Good Fear). But Lucero’s touring schedule and plans for their next records proved to be too much of an obstacle to keep the tradition going.

Nichols said during the last tour (a two-month stint in support of the new record, “Women and Work”) he was approached all the time, from fans all around the country, about reviving the picnic to give the band’s fans a destina-

Lucero Family Picnic 2 p.m. Saturday, May 19 Riverside Park, Batesville $22-$40

tion vacation to the Natural State.

“We’d run into people from Chicago or Minneapolis or New York City or even out West,” Nichols said, and “a lot of folks said they wanted to travel to Arkansas to hang out with us. That’s really cool that people are willing to travel to the picnic. It’s not accessible like Bonnaroo or Coachella, but it’s like our own little festival.”

One fan in Batesville is particularly happy to see the band return. Michael Gross started the “Bring Back the Lucero Family Picnic” fan page after the band skipped a couple of years. The page has a modest following but Gross said he’s surprised by the geographical diversity of the “likes.”

“It’s been from people from as far off as you can imagine: New York and all kinds of places,” Gross says. “I know Steve [Thomas, a local promoter] was selling tickets to people in Boston. A guy on the page the other day said he was coming from North Carolina, I believe it was. People load up and travel to come to a little bitty town to see this show, so it’s a special deal.”

Local business owners are happy too. According to Gross, the last 2008 picnic filled every motel in town and restaurants were running out of food.

LUCERO: Octet says Batesville is “home away from home.”

For the music lover, it’s a perfect place for an all-day music event. The stage at Riverside Park is big, giving the bands plenty of room to play. There’s a cool breeze off the White River every now and then that makes a late-spring day bearable and there’s plenty of room to throw down a blanket.

This year’s lineup is a strong one: Birmingham’s Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, Memphis-favorites John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives, badass songwriter Austin Lucas (who you might have caught at a house show or two around Little Rock), Murfreesboro, Tenn., stalwarts Glossary, Shooter Jennings and, of course, Lucero.

Nichols said inviting their friends along is one of the best things about putting on the event. “It started off with the idea of inviting friends’ bands and bands we’d been on tour with to come to town and hang out and play. It’s a real friendly kind of event,” Nichols said.

Although Gross took the best stab he could at getting the band back to town, he said it was the work of local promoters that got the picnic back on track. He’s just happy to see one of his favorite bands back in Batesville.

“There’s a lot of people that have been wanting this back and it just never seemed to line up and we’ve been waiting and waiting and now we’re going to have a really good one,” he says.

This year’s show will be a bit different, featuring a good old-fashioned Memphis wrestling match at 5 p.m.

The doors will open at 2 p.m. and the bands will start playing at 6 p.m. General admission tickets are $22 or $40 for a VIP ticket, which includes a chance to win a guitar autographed by the band.

Lucero has not rested since coming off of their recent tour. Shortly after returning to Memphis, the band played with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, as well as other shows in Memphis and Nashville and they recorded a live session at Sun Studios. Nichols said they’re just looking forward to a get-together with friends.

“It’s going to be a good time,” he says.

“Batesville’s always been extremely welcoming to Lucero. It’s kind of a home away from home for the band.

Actually all of Arkansas is a home away from home for Lucero. It’s going to be nice to be back home and hang out for the day.”

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MOVIE LISTINGS

MAY 18-19

BE FOREWARNED: “Last Days Here” is a documentary about Bobby Liebling — frontman of the legendary doom metal band Pentagram — who finds redemption after decades of obscurity and severe drug abuse.

Market Street Cinema times at or after 9 p.m. are for Friday and Saturday only. Rave showtimes are valid for Friday and Saturday only.

Breckenridge showings were not available as of press deadline. Find up-to-date listings at arktimes.com.

NEW MOVIES Battleship (PG-13) – Action adventure film starring Rihanna, whose Battleship many people would no doubt like to sink. Chenal 9: 11:00 a.m., 2:00, 4:30, 5:00, 7:30, 8:00, 10:30, 11:00.

Lakewood 8: 11:00 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00.

Rave: 10:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 12:15, 1:15, 2:15, 3:45, 4:45, 5;45, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:15, 11:15, midnight. Riverdale: 11:40 a.m., 2:55, 6:30, 9:30.

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

The Dictator (R) – Sacha Baron Cohen is a dictator from a fictional foreign country and he has a funny accent and so forth. Chenal 9: 11:05 a.m., 1:55, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20. Lakewood 8: 11:30 a.m., 1:55, 4:50, 7:40, 9:40. Rave: 10:20 a.m., 11:40 a.m., 12:40, 2:10, 3:15, 4:40, 5:40, 7:20, 8:20, 9:45, 10:45, midnight. Riverdale: 11:30 a.m., 1:40, 3:50, 5:50, 7:50, 9:50.

Last Days Here (NR) – Documentary about the mercurial and troubled front man for the legendary doom metal band Pentagram. Market Street: 1:45, 4:00, 6:45, 9:00.

What to Expect When You’re Expecting (PG13) – Film mines bestselling pregnancy book for attempt at comedy. If that’s what you were expecting, you were right. Chenal 9: 11:30 a.m., 2:05, 4:40, 7:30, 10:30. Lakewood 8: 11:15 a.m., 1:40, 4:10, 7:25, 9:50. Rave: 10:25 a.m., 11:25 a.m., 1:25, 2:25, 4:25, 5:25, 7:25, 8:25, 10:25, 11:25. Riverdale: 11:35 a.m., 1:40, 3:45, 5:50, 8:00, 10:10.

Woman Thou Art Loosed!: On The 7th Day (PG-13) – A kidnapping leads to dark family secrets coming to the surface in this drama.

Riverdale: 11:25 a.m., 1:50, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10.

RETURNING THIS WEEK Avengers (PG-13) – Based on the Marvel Comics superhero series. Chenal 9: noon, 3:05, 6:01, 9:15 (2D), 11:30 a.m., 2:35, 5:40, 8:45 (3D), 11:00 a.m., 2:05, 7:50 (IMAX). Lakewood 8: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 (2D), 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 (3D). Rave: 9:45 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 6:15, 7:45, 8:45, 9:30, 11:00 (2D), 10:15 a.m., 10:45,

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12:30, 1:30, 4:00, 5:00, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 10:30, 11:30, midnight (3D). Riverdale: 11:15 a.m., 2:50, 6:15, 9:45.

Bully (PG-13) – This is probably a good documentary about bullying and all, but you’d be wise to go see it just in case you bump into Harvey Weinstein and he starts asking you about it.

Market Street: 2:00, 4:20, 7:15, 9:15.

Chimpanzee (G) – Beautifully shot documentary footage of majestic primates, but it’s narrated

by Tim Allen. Chenal 9: 11:15 a.m., 1:45. Rave: 9:50 a.m., 12:25, 2:40, 4:55.

Dark Shadows (PG-13) – Kinda like Dracula goes to “Austin Powers,” starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, directed by Tim Burton. Nah, baby. Chenal 9: 11:20 a.m., 2:00, 4:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25, 10:55. Lakewood 8: 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:10. Rave: 10:10 a.m., 1:10, 2:20, 4:15, 5:15, 7:30, 8:30, 10:40, 10:50, 11:45. Riverdale: 11:10 a.m., 1:35, 4:05, 6:35, 9:05.

Footnote (PG) – An Israeli drama about a father and son, both scholars vying for professional recognition. Market Street: 1:45, 4:15, 7:00, 9:15.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (PG-13) – Starring Nicolas Cage in a reprisal of his role as Marvel’s Ghost Rider. Also starring Idris “Stringer Bell” Elba. Movies 10: 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30.

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

Chenal 9: 11:45 a.m., 2:55, 6:05, 9:15. Lakewood 8: 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05. Rave: 12:20, 3:35, 7:05, 10:20. Riverdale: 11:00 a.m., 2:05, 5:35, 9:00.

Jeff, Who Lives at Home (R) – Jason Segel is a 30-year-old stoner who still lives in his mom’s basement, from directors Jay and Mark Duplass (“Cyrus”). Movies 10: 9:55 p.m.

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) – When you were watching “Land of the Lost,” did you find yourself wishing they’d cast The Rock instead of Will Farrell? Well, here you go. Movies 10: 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10.

The Kid with a Bike (PG-13) – French drama about a boy trying desperately to reconnect with the father who abandoned him. Market Street: 2:15, 4:25, 6:45, 9:00.

Lockout (PG-13) – With the president’s daughter trapped on a prison space station, there’s only one man for the job: a ruggedly handsome loose cannon falsely convicted ex-government agent. Movies 10: 12:30, 2:45, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15.

The Lorax (PG) – A 3D CGI adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ classic tale. Movies 10: 1:35, 2:50, 5:00, 7:20, 9:35 (2D), 12:15, 2:40, 4:45 (3D).

The Lucky One (PG-13) – Zac Efron as an Iraq war vet who becomes infatuated with a stranger.

Rave: 7:10, 10:00.

Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) – Hugh Grant’s voice stars as an animated pirate captain, also starring Brendan Gleeson as “The Pirate with Gout.”

Lakewood 8: 11:00 a.m. Rave: 9:55 a.m. (3D).

Riverdale: 11:05 a.m., 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:05, 9:05.

Safe House (R) – A.k.a., “Doesn’t Denzel Washington Make a Scary Bad Guy?” Movies 10: 12:45, 4:00, 7:15, 9:50.

Think Like a Man (PG-13) – Based on Steve Harvey’s best-selling book. Lakewood 8: 11:10 a.m., 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45. Rave: 10:40 a.m., 1:40, 4:35, 7:40, 10:35. Riverdale: 11:00 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00.

A Thousand Words (PG-13) – Eddie Murphy becomes magically connected to a tree that loses one leaf for every word he says, and they’ll both die if all the leaves fall off, so he has to not talk. Movies 10: 12:25, 2:50, 5:00, 7:20, 9:35.

The Three Stooges (PG) – Yup, starring three guys you’ve never heard of. Riverdale: 11:10 a.m., 1:20, 3:30, 5:45, 7:55, 10:05.

Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (PG-13) – Worlds collide for a successful businessman, who meets a down-on-her-luck single mom who cleans the office building where he works. Movies 10: 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05.

The Vow (PG-13) – Something sad and beautiful and sadly beautiful happens to the sad, beautiful Rachel McAdams and the former male stripper Channing Tatum. Movies 10: noon, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25.

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

Starring Liam Neeson as Zeus, because duh.

Movies 10: 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 (2D), 7:00, 9:20 (3D).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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hat to make of poor Barnabas Collins, the protagonist of “Dark Shadows”? Born in England in the mid-1700s, he migrates to the New World with his fishing-magnate family and manages to spurn a lover, Angelique, who turns out to be a witch. She offs his parents, compels his true love, Josette, to take a long walk off a short cliff and curses Barnabas with vampirism before leading a torch-and-rake mob to bury him alive (or at least undead) inside a chain-swaddled coffin in the Maine woods. By the time he’s accidentally excavated 200 years later, he’s parched and irate, and his family — the only true wealth, his father used to tell him — is in straits, as their fishing empire limps along.

Love, power, wealth, revenge, status — all the elements of a classic soap opera — converge in the “Dark Shadows” universe. This campy, vampy adaptation, directed by Tim Burton, sorts through the remains of the original ABC series that ran for more than 1,200 episodes in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Even with a very game Johnny Depp playing Barnabas as an anachronistic straight man, this “Dark Shadows” stumbles over the weight of its own ambition. It’s too funny to feel quite gothic, too cruel to feel sexy, too cluttered to invite real empathy, even as it reaches for all of the above.

Not that “Dark Shadows” doesn’t have its moments. Depp’s Barnabas may have a soft spot for his distant relatives, and carry himself with the out-of-time bewilderment of an erudite Encino Man, but he remains, after all, a vampire, forced to sup on blood but gentlemanly enough to apologize to his innocent victims before gorging on their claret. An amorous encounter between him and the equally immortal Angelique (the alluring Eva Green) should go down among the most slapstick vam-

pire sex-scenes ever committed in cinema. Bella Heathcote is cast perfectly as Victoria Winters, the young nanny who is drawn to the Collins family. Burton’s wife and favored ingénue Helena Bonham Carter has a nice turn as the pill-swilling psychiatrist who takes a shine to Barnabas’ unique properties as a medical specimen.

The doctor and Barnabas eventually get crossways when she gets too curious about his immortality. But who wouldn’t — Depp, nearly 50, looks decades younger under a pixie haircut and sunken-eyed makeup, a 200-something-year-old vampire going on 30. You can tell a lot about a movie’s intentions by the hue and shade it assigns to blood.

In the doctor’s phlebotomic experiments, and in Barnabas’ sloppy-chinned meals, the blood practically glows as an electric, lusty red that signals the audience not to take it too seriously. That much comes across, even if too little else in “Dark Shadows” does.

In its emotional disarray “Dark Shadows” fits a pattern of recent Burton flicks.

Since reprising “Planet of the Apes” in 2001, the director has reheated “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Sweeney Todd” and “Alice in Wonderland,” all with Depp in lead roles. Aside from the genuinely affecting “Big Fish” in 2003, and his own heartfelt animation “Corpse Bride” in 2005, this has been a lost decade for Burton’s directorial talents, which have proven too bankable as Hot Topic-grade goth credibility to venture into territory truly bizarre or unsettling. Increasingly his films unspool like paint-by-numbers ventures, with a palette arrayed only in black, silver and purple. At this point a Burton movie that moves audiences to true revulsion, rather than more shrugging acquiescence, would be the only Burton movie worth paying to see.

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SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Northwest Arkansas Naturals. Dickey-Stephens Park, 11 a.m., $6-$12. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-6641555. www.travs.com.

TUESDAY, MAY 22

MUSIC

Behold the Brave. Downtown Music Hall, 7 p.m., $7. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownmusichall.com.

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

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

Framing Hanley. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $12. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mayday By Midnight. Fox And Hound, 10 p.m., $5. 2800 Lakewood Village, NLR. 501-753-8300. www.foxandhound.com/locations/north-littlerock.aspx.

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

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

DANCE

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

EVENTS

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

Science Cafe. “Energize Me: Alternate Energy in Arkansas” is the theme. The Afterthought, 7 p.m. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

Tales from the South. Authors tell true stories; schedule available on website. Dinner served 5-6:30 p.m., show at 7 p.m. Call for reservations.

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

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

Wiggle Worms: “Play a Rainbow.” Weekly program designed specifically for pre-K children. Museum of Discovery, 10 a.m., $8-$10,

THIS WEEK IN THEATER

Arkansas Festival Ballet: “Aladdin.” A storybook ballet of the classic tale of Aladdin.

Arkansas Arts Center, Fri., May 18, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., May 19, 2 and 7:30 p.m.; Sun., May 20, 2 p.m., $15-$25. 501 E. 9th St. 501-227-5320. www. arkansasdance.org.

Arkansas New Play Fest 2012. Presented

by Arkansas Repertory Theatre and TheatreSquared, featuring new plays by Clinnesha Dillon Sibley, Samuel Brett Williams, Robert Ford and Troy and Jonny Schremmer.

Oxford American, May 17-18, 7 p.m., $7 per show, $20 (pass for all shows). 1300 Main St. Auditions for “The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (Abridged).” Pocket Community Theater, Sun., May 20, 2 p.m.; Mon., May 21, 7 p.m. 170 Ravine St., Hot Springs.

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

501-562-3131. murrysdinnerplayhouse.com.

“Murder at the Howard Johnson’s.” Starring director Glen Gilbert in a comedic tale of a love triangle gone wrong. Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, through May 20: Tue.-Sat., 6 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., $15-$33. 6323 Col. Glenn Road.

501-562-3131. murrysdinnerplayhouse.com.

“A ... My Name is Alice.” A musical comedy that focuses on the relationships between several groups of women over the course of their lifetimes. The Weekend Theater, through May 19, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., May 20, 2:30 p.m., $12-$16.

1001 W. 7th St. 501-374-3761. www.weekendtheater.org.

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

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

GALLERIES, MUSEUMS

NEW EXHIBITS, ART EVENTS

ARGENTA HEALING ARTS, 419 Main St., NLR: Erin Lorenzen, Vince Griffin, 5-8 p.m. May 18, Argenta ArtWalk. 244-0447.

ARGENTA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 421 Main St., NLR: Gabriel Griffith, paintings, 5-8 p.m. May 18, Argenta ArtWalk.

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER: “The Art of Interior Design,” Fine Arts Club lecture

by Barry Dixon, 11:15 a.m. May 21, booksigning and luncheon to benefit the Fine Arts Club to follow ($75, reserve by May 16); “11th National Drawing Invitational: New York, Singular Drawings,” through Sept. 9, curated

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

Nonprofits paying reporters It’s a new news game.

BY DOUG SMITH

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here’s a growing body of news about news, and much of it is bad.

Large questions are raised about how much and what sort of news media will survive here in the age of the Internet.

Newspaper folks feel a chill.

Under the circumstances, it is surely good news that certain nonprofit groups have been paying for certain local Arkansas newspapers to hire additional local reporters. Arkansans need to know what’s going on in their own backyards, and the information isn’t available on Yahoo. But it’s bad news that the program ends next month, and the once-struggling papers will return to the struggle.

The Arkansas Community Foundation is a 35-year-old nonprofit group headquartered in Little Rock. A couple of years ago, ARCF was approached by a national non-profit, the Knight Foundation, about ways to help local papers.

The Knight Foundation is a spinoff of the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain. ARCF enlisted the help of the Arkansas Press Association in providing reporters for local papers. “They were very excited,” Sarah Kinser, communication director for ARCF, says. “They said we could really make an impact on the reporting of local news.” The idea was similar to that of the national Teach for America program.

ARCF received a two-year $252,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, and matched that with $252,000 of its own, contributed by supporters. Five reporters were hired: Richard Irby in Salem for Areawide Media, which publishes weekly newspapers in Sharp, Fulton and Izard Counties; Sarah Morris at the Stuttgart Daily Leader; Eric Nicholson at the Texarkana Gazette; Matt Shelnutt at the Madison County Record; and Heather Sprinkle at The Courier in Russellville.

They produced stories on an animalcruelty case that drew national volunteers to North Arkansas; on De Queen’s becoming a majority-Hispanic city; on lifelong friends who get together to clean up local cemeteries.

But the grant money is running out.

Two of the five reporters, Irby and Shellnutt, will continue at their respective papers under different financial arrangements, both having been promoted to editor. Kinser said she believed that arrangements had been made also for Morris and Sprinkle to continue reporting at their papers. Nicholson is going to Dallas, as a blogger for the Morning News.

Kinser said ARCF was keeping its eyes open for new funds for a localreporter project. “We know how to do it now,” she said.

a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000.

BLAKE’S FURNITURE, 321 Main St.: Peg Roberson, paintings, 5-8 p.m. May 18, Argenta Artwalk. 375-2417.

CHOP SALON, 322 Main St., NLR: Steve Spencer, paintings, 5-8 p.m. May 18, Argenta ArtWalk. 375-5555.

GALLERY 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Katherine Strause, Jason Smith, paintings, opens with reception 7-10 p.m. May 19, show through July 14. 664-8996.

GREG THOMPSON FINE ART, 429 Main St.: Women’s luncheon with Dr. Betsy Bradley, Mississippi Museum of Art, noon May 18, $30; “Best of the South,” works by regional artists including Carroll Cloar, Theora Hamblett, Walter Anderson, William Hollingsworth,

Noel Rockmore, William Dunlap, Philip Morsberger, Donald Roller Wilson, Gary Bolding, Robert Rector and others, opens with reception 5-8 p.m. May 18, Argenta ArtWalk; panel discussion “What’s Hot in Southern Regionalism: Past, Present and Future,” 1 p.m. May 19, with Dunlap, Pinkney Herbert, Robert Rector, Ed McGowin and Bradley, $10. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Sat. 664-2787.

KETZ GALLERY, 705 Main St., NLR: “A Worn Path: Southern Reflections,” ceiling tin and canvas paintings by Cheri Peden, opens with reception 5-8 p.m. May 18, Argenta ArtWalk, show through June 9. 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.Fri., 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 529-6330.

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THEA FOUNDATION, 401 Main St., NLR: Artwork by students at King Elementary School, through May 23. Open 5-8 p.m. May 18, Argenta ArtWalk, with music by the King Elementary jazz band and orchestra. 379-9512.

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: Faculty exhibition, May 21-June 19, closing reception 4-5:30 p.m. June 28. Noon-4 p.m.

Tue.-Fri. 479-575-7987.

BAXTER AND MARION COUNTIES THE ART ODYSSEY, Cotter, Flippin, Mountain Home, Norfork, Yellville area: 2nd annual tour of 31 artists studios, including sculptors, potters, photographers, painters, fiber artists, mosaic artists, woodworkers, jewelers, glass artists, May 18-20. Map available at www.theartodyssey.com.

BENTONVILLE CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, 600 Museum Way: “American Encounters: Thomas Cole and the Narrative Landscape,” six paintings, including two from the Louvre Museum, through Aug. 13; Great Hall Lecture Series: Robert Tannen and Patrick Dougherty, “Looking at Nature: As Art, as Object, as Community,” 2-3 p.m. May 19, free but seating reserved; “The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision,” 45 paintings from the New-York Historical Society, through Sept. 3, American masterworks spanning four centuries. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon., Thu., Sat.-Sun.; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed.-Fri. Tickets free but timed; reserve at 479-418-5700.

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

ART PARK UNVEILING, 1 N. Main Parking Lot (previously home of The Artery): “The Spirit of the Ozarks” themed exhibit in new park, works by 27 artists including Larry Mansker, Jim Nelson, Zeek Taylor, Jeremy McGraw and others, 1:30-3 p.m. May 19.

CRESCENT HOTEL, 75 Prospect Ave.: “Books in Bloom 2012 Literary Festival,” with authors Kevin Brockmeier, Janet Carson, Ernie Dumas, Crescent Dragonwagon, Phillip Margolin, Shin Yu Pai, Vivienne Schiffer and others noon-5 p.m. May 20.

COTTAGE INN RESTAURANT, 50 W. Van Buren: 479-253-5282.

EUREKA THYME, 19 Spring St.: Denise Ryan, portraits and still lifes, 6-9 p.m. May 19. 479353-9600.

OUT ON MAIN GALLERY, 1 Basin Spring Ave.: Barbara Loftin, paintings, 5-9 p.m. May 19.

479-253-8449.

THE SPACE, 2 Pine St.: “Finding Nature—Art in the Landscape,” work by 23 artists, including several site installations in Carroll County, opening reception 5-9 p.m. May 19, closing ceremony and sculpture burning 5-10 p.m.

May 27, exhibit through May 26. facebook. com/findingnature for map.

SPRING GARDEN TOUR: Tour of 12 gardens on the Historic Loop, with speakers and refreshments, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. May 19, $20, call 479253-8737 or 479-253-9417 for tickets.

WHITE STREET STUDIO WALK, White Street: 22nd annual tour of studios of Eleanor Lux, Zeek Taylor, Mary Springer and dozens more, 4-10 p.m. May 18. Turquoise flags will mark artist locations.

CONTINUING EXHIBITS

THE ART LOFT, 1525 Merrill Drive: Work by

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

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

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

Mon.-Sat. 320-5790.

CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road: 21st annual “Mid-Southern Watercolor Open Membership Exhibit,” through June 23. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 224-1335.

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

Sat. 664-0880.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SHOWROOM, 2313 Cantrell Road: Work by area artists, including Sandy Hubler. 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 372-7373.

STATE CAPITOL: “Arkansans in the Korean War,” 32 photographs, lower-level foyer. 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sat.-Sun. STUDIOMAIN, 1423 S. Main St.: “Student Perception,” UACDC architecture students re-envision South Main Street. info@studiomain.org.

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

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

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ART NOTES

Powell, Powers, Wood, Imhauser Four talents at HAM.

BY LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK

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he Trinity contemporary art gallery of the Historic Arkansas Museum and the hallways outside are hung with art by four artists who know their media and their minds. Nate Powell, a master of the pen and ink graphic novel, whose original sketches for his books are on exhibit in the hallway, shows a sure and unique hand. “Creating the Elements of Discovery: Tim Imhauser, Jason Powers, Emily Wood” features work on paper, plywood and turned wood by the three.

Wood uses plywood as a metaphor for her subject matter — scenes of family relaxing in the country — and as a clever way to add atmosphere and texture to her sketchy acrylic and graphite portraits.

Powers has perfected the use of graphite and airbrushed ink and acrylic so that he can get right to the point in his work, some of it so detailed and abstract that it would be right at home in the Arkansas Arts Center’s drawing invitational, “Singular Drawings,” works that feature an obsessive line. Imhauser knows exactly what he’s doing with his wood, though of the four he is the only one who is all over the place in style, with neatly turned vessels, bowls with metal inlays and barely worked chunks of wood that have been carved and painted. They have all reached a point in their careers where their footing feels sure, if not rooted in one spot.

Much has been written about the multi-talented Powell in the Arkansas Times: The N.Y. School of the Visual Arts graduate and Soophie Nun Squad veteran has won several awards for his graphic novels, including “Swallow Me Whole,” winner of the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Novel, “Any Empire,” and the soon to be released “Year of the Beasts.” His HAM exhibit, “Nate Powell: Cross Sections,” features work from a dozen different projects drawn over a 14-year period. Powell’s figures are often offset by black shadows, adding a certain amount of gravitas to the story line. The individual drawings, as parts of larger storylines, have to stand on Powell’s artwork alone, since they can only suggest what’s happening in the novel (though some of them, like the young lovers interrupted by returning adults, don’t need much explanation).

Powers’ “The Ritual” — one of the obsessive works — uses abstracted images of animal forms that come from

the creepy-crawly world of herps and weird animals: frogs and fins and spikes and eyeballs and articulated tails and scales, things that are drawn beautifully and deeply uncomfortable to look at. In his portraiture, Powers uses a soft line (sometimes airbrushed) to create dimension, so that while we don’t have the satisfaction of seeing the individual strokes the way we would in, say, Chuck Close, there is a sculptural effect. It verges on the superficial at times but is still finely done. (He says they were inspired by going to work at a factory where coworkers looked grim.)

Wood on wood: people among friends, the sketchy pretty opposite of Powers’ nightmarish and tightly drawn figures.

In “Family Reunion,” a painting of two men, the plywood’s color and texture adds complexity to the otherwise sketchy faces.

An Imhauser piece that successfully combines iron with wood is “Tribute to Elizabeth,” as in blacksmith Elizabeth Brim, whose work was exhibited at UALR in the 2009 exhibit “Form Follows Function, Or Does It?” Imhauser has added a forged iron knob and legs to a lidded bowl of spalted ash. Less successful is a bowl with pewter inlay, though the wood of the bowl itself is beautiful.

The pewter inlay, however, is a little ragged on the edges. He can no doubt work that out.

ARGENTA ARTWALK is 5-8 p.m. Fri-

day, May 18, and several new venues on Main Street have been added: Argenta Healing Arts (Erin Lorenzen, Vince Griffin), Argenta United Methodist Church (Gabriel Griffith), Blake’s Furniture (Peg Roberson) and Chop Salon (Steve Spencer). Long-time venue Greg Thompson Fine Art features his annual “Best of the South” show with many artists of some renown, including Carroll Cloar, Walter Anderson, William Dunlap and others; a panel discussion on “What’s Hot in Southern Regionalism: Past, Present and Future” will be held at the gallery at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 19, with artists and Dr. Betsy Bradley of the Mississippi Museum of Art. Ketz Gallery is showing work by Cheri Peden and Laman Library’s Argenta Branch hosts Shaker box maker Roger Bartz and painter Martha Bartz. www.arktimes.com

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

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

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

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

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

479-363-9209.

FAYETTEVILLE WALTON ARTS CENTER: Installation by stickwork artist Patrick Dougherty at Tyson Plaza near West Street, through May 28; “Structuring Nature,” exhibit of work by Orit Hofshi, Andrew Moore, Serena Perrone, Ben Peterson and Randall Exon, Joy Pratt Markham Gallery, through June 23. 479-443-5600

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

HARRISON ARTISTS OF THE OZARKS, 124 ½ N. Willow St.: Work by Amelia Renkel, Ann Graffy, Christy Dillard, Helen McAllister, Sandy Williams and D. Savannah George. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thu.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun. 870-429-1683.

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

870-338-4350.

HOT SPRINGS ALISON PARSONS GALLERY, 802 Central Ave.: Paintings by Alison Parsons. 501-6253001.

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

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

BLUE MOON, 718 Central Ave.: Celebrating its 15th year in business with 15 percent discounts on all work throughout the month of May and an exhibit of work by Suzi Dennis, H. James Hoff, Steve Lawnick, David Rackley, Jeanne Teague and Bart Soutendijk. 501-318-2787.

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

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

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

TAYLOR’S CONTEMPORANEA, 204 Exchange St.: Still lifes by Daniel Mark Cassity. 501-6240516.

PERRYVILLE SUDS GALLERY, Courthouse Square: Paintings

by Dottie Morrissey, Alma Gipson, Al Garrett Jr., Phyllis Loftin, Alene Otts, Mauretta Frantz, Raylene Finkbeiner, Kathy Williams and Evelyn Garrett. Noon-6 p.m. Wed.-Fri, noon-4 p.m.

Sat. 501-766-7584.

PINE BLUFF ARTS AND SCIENCE CENTER: “Jazz with Class: Pine Bluff High School Annual Art Exhibition.”

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 1-4 p.m. Sat. 870536-3375.

VAN BUREN CENTER FOR ART AND EDUCATION, 104 N. 13th St.: “Relative Connections,” abstract paintings by Karen Hutcheson, sculpture and drawings by Robyn Hutcheson Horn and oils by their mother, Dede Hutcheson. 479-474-7767.

ONGOING MUSEUM EXHIBITS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tue.-Sat. 683—3593.

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

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

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

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

Natives Guide

BRIAN CHILSON

HILLCREST GERMAN AUTO Having a fine, German-made auto like a vintage BMW or Mercedes Benz is great, until it comes time for service or repair. Then you’d better hope you can sell a lung on the black market, especially if you’re considering taking it back to the dealership. That’s where a great, local place like Hillcrest German Auto comes in. It’s not in Hillcrest anymore, but it is located conveniently near downtown, where many of the Deutsch autobesitzer tend to congregate. They’ve built a sterling local reputation over the years. If you’ve got a Panzerwagen that’s getting a little long in the tooth, write their phone number and address on the sunvisor in permanent marker. It might come in handy someday. 714 S. Arch St. 376-8300. 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Mon.-Fri.

JETT’S SERVICE STATION: Rickie Cox takes a look under the hood.

Garages

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hen you’ve got enough scratch to afford a new ride, having a car is easy. If your motorvator coughs, sputters, quits or even smells funny within six years or 60,000 miles (whichever comes first) just take that metal-flake dream machine back to the dealership and get it fixed — in and out, no muss, no fuss, no credit card required. For the rest of us who have cruised out from under the umbrella of the factory warranty, though, car trouble can be a real pain in the tailpipe. Where do you take it?

How much will it cost? Which shop will give you a deal as supple as fine Corinthian leather, and who will give you the ungreased driveshaft?

Here, in no particular order, is a list featuring some of the fine local chapels erected to the care, rehabilitation, and

local reputation — and it’s strictly a first-come-first-served operation. 409 W. Eighth St. 371-9535. 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri. worship of the Great God Auto. When your ride takes ill, these will fit the bill.

FOSTER’S GARAGE Located in what

might be the most classic garage in Little Rock (service lifts? Those are for amateurs!), Foster’s Garage has been on Eighth Street for decades. This writer has been taking his own heaps there for years, and Foster’s never fails to fix what’s broken promptly and get me out the door for a lot less dough than I expected. They’re my go-to guys for everything from major issues (like the time my Ford’s gas tank mysteriously started puking petrol out the fill hole) to routine maintenance like brakes and oil changes. A word of warning, though: They open at 7 a.m., and you should get there around then.

They fill up fast — a testament to their

HELMICH AUTO SERVICE Yet another very small, very well-regarded garage buried back in the darkest heart of Hillcrest, folks have been taking their cars to Helmich’s for years, with those I talked to having nothing but praise for Helmich’s straight-shooting honesty and the quality of their work. It’s a two-man operation — a pair of brothers — and they do everything from oil changes to the automotive equivalent of the heart/lung transplant. Never had anything fixed there myself, but if their name being mentioned as one of the best and most reasonable garages in town a half-dozen times in my informal Facebook peep-survey bears any weight, maybe I should reconsider.

2712 Kavanaugh Blvd. 663-9988. 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mon.-Fri.

JETT’S SERVICE STATION George Jett’s two-bay operation on Markham has been helping Little Rock drivers solve their automotive maladies for years, and lots of folks in Hillcrest, Stifft Station and Capitol View swear by their honesty and know-how. It’s just the kind of place you don’t see anymore: a friendly, local garage that can do everything from rotate tires to change a battery to swap out a bleeding rack-and-pinion. They can handle most routine automotive problems, and if it’s too complicated for them to fix in house, they can make recommendations on a trusted mechanic who can. 3101 W. Markham St. 664-4485. 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mon.-Fri. KITTLE’S GARAGE Another of the oldline garages that’s survived mostly on service, honesty and word-of-mouth, Kittle’s Garage has been in North Little Rock since all the way back in 1952.

Cars have changed quite a bit since the Truman administration, but the folks we spoke with at Kittle’s said their staff often travels out of state to stay up on training so they’ll be ready to repair the newest automotive gadgets, gizmos and computer brains. They do everything there except bodywork and refurbishment of automatic transmissions. The garage takes appointments for service on a first-call basis every morning. 1300 N. Poplar Street, NLR. 376-1519. 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mon.Thu., 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Fri. www.arktimes.com

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Dining WHAT’S COOKIN’

Pub, located in the River Market District at the corner of Third and Rock Street, plans to open a convenience store in the space next door on Memorial Day weekend.

The convenience store, called Stratton’s Market at Dugan’s Pub, will be open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 7 a.m. until 9 p.m. on the weekends.

The convenience store will stock milk, bread, eggs, toilet paper, paper towels and other necessities. Cold sandwiches will also be available.

Dugan also plans to sell beer and wine. Little Rock’s new conditional use ordinance will require a public hearing on the permit. Even if he fails to get a permit to sell alcohol, Dugan said there will still be a market. “There’s still a need for that,” he said.

The new space also includes a party room that Dugan plans to rent out. Marketing it for events and Dugan’s for catering are current focuses, he said.

DINING CAPSULES

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4 SQUARE CAFE AND GIFTS Vegetarian salads, soups, wraps and paninis and a daily selection of desserts in an Arkansas products gift shop. 405 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-2442622. L daily. D Mon.-Sat. APPLE SPICE JUNCTION A chain sandwich and salad spot with sit-down lunch space and a vibrant box lunch catering business. With a wide range of options and quick service. Order online via applespice.com. 2000 S. University Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-663-7008.

ARGENTA MARKET The Argenta District’s neighborhood grocery store offers a deli featuring a daily selection of big sandwiches along with fresh fish and meats and salads. Emphasis here is on Arkansas-farmed foods and organic products. 521 N. Main St. NLR. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-379-9980. L daily, D Mon.-Sat., B Sat., BR Sun. ARKANSAS BURGER CO. Good burgers, fries and shakes, plus salads and other entrees. Try the cheese dip. 7410 Cantrell Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-6630600. LD Tue.-Sat. ASHLEY’S The premier fine dining restaurant in Little Rock marries Southern traditionalism and haute cuisine. The menu is often daring and always delicious. 111 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-3747474. BLD Mon.-Sat. BR Sun. CONTINUED ON PAGE 57 56

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BRIAN CHILSON

DON DUGAN, owner of Dugan’s

BUMPIN’: The surf ’n’ turf combo at Bumpy’s Tex-Mex Grill and Cantina.

Not the same ol’ Tex-Mex Bumpy’s ‘tries harder,’ and it shows.

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he news a Mexican restaurant was moving into the space Faded Rose vacated on Bowman Road didn’t exactly red-line our excitement meter. The proliferation of decent-buttaste-the-same Mexican spots has been rabbit-like over the last decade. So did we need one more?

A glance at Bumpy’s menu online suggested something different might be going on there, and two recent visits proved that’s the case. From a look-andfeel perspective, Bumpy’s isn’t much different from the Faded Rose. If you’re seated in the bar area checking out NBA playoff games, you might think you’re in a decent sports bar. The sound system pipes country radio giant KSSN-FM. Nothing visually or audibly screams “Mexican.”

The menu isn’t cookie-cutter Mex either. Yes, you can get cheese dip (natch), quesadillas, fajitas, tacos, enchiladas and chimichangas, but you also can choose baby back ribs, fried fish, a half-pound burger and a grilled

chicken salad. Vegetables include some expected choices, but also hand-cut wedge fries, garlic mashed potatoes and two of our favorite “veggies”: a cup of chili or cheese potato soup.

Another difference at Bumpy’s — and not just compared to other Mexican restaurants — is that owner Wade Greenough has instilled a “we try harder” mentality in his kitchen and staff. Hosts, waiters and bartenders are peppy, outgoing, attentive and friendly. Also a nice touch — go to the Bumpy’s Facebook page, and ask for an e-mailed voucher for a free appetizer. Happy hour specials (3 to 7 p.m. seven days a week) include a frosty draft beer (including Dos Equis) for $1.50 and $2.50 for 12-ounce and 20-ounce schooners, a very respectable margarita for only $2.50, and top-flight, cumin-laced traditional cheese dip at half-price ($2 for a cup and $2.50 for a bowl).

Clearly, Greenough wants to give people reasons to come to Bumpy’s and hopes the service and food will bring

Bumpy’s Tex-Mex Grill and Cantina

400 N. Bowman Road, Suite A28 Little Rock 379-8327 QUICK BITE Bumpy’s now has a Sunday brunch.

From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., there’s an all-you-can-eat buffet ($13.99) featuring cooked-to-order eggs, egg casseroles, pancakes, waffles and other breakfast standards. Some lunch items are also featured (including turkey, ham and dressing the first week, we’re told), and guests can also order off the regular menu. Oh yeah, don’t forget the $2 mimosas and Bloody Marys.

HOURS 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday.

OTHER INFO Full bar, CC accepted.

them back. It worked for us.

Again, we really dug — and dug into — the queso, which our waiter told us management had been working hard to perfect. The salsa is fairly standard and not chunky with just a hint of zing.

Our waiter later offered salsa verde.

The green blend is crisp, smoky and a bit vinegary with a kick that comes on late — addictive. Ask for it.

We used our free appetizer voucher

BRIAN CHILSON

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for the Bumpyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sampler ($7.99), a combination of TexMex eggrolls, taquitos and cheese fries. The taquitos were the star here â&#x20AC;&#x201D; crisp, not greasy, filled with excellent white, shredded chicken. We learned the tortillas are housemade, a nice touch. Bumpyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website reinforces the commitment: â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of our products are fresh, local products, never canned or frozen. All items are made fresh from scratch daily.â&#x20AC;?

The taquitos are also available solo â&#x20AC;&#x201D; eight to an order with good, chunky guacamole, queso, sour cream and jalapenos on the side ($5.29 for beef or chicken; $7.49 for shrimp or crawfish). The appetizer is enough to make a meal.

The baby backs were tender but seemed more parboiled than smoked, coated with standard-issue, thickish barbecue sauce. You can get a whole or half rack ($10.99/$15.99) or in a surf â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; turf combo for $15.99 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a half-rack served with four Shrimp Perfectos, large shrimp stuffed with jack cheese and jalapeno, wrapped in bacon and broiled. A suggestion to the kitchen: cook the bacon a bit first so the shrimp comes out perfect, as it did, but the bacon will be crisp, which it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

The accompanying garlic mashed potatoes were chunky, clearly homemade and tasty. The black beans were a bit soupy but flavorful; the rice was well herbed and not sticky â&#x20AC;&#x201D; good stuff. A full order of eight Shrimp Perfectos is $13.99.

The Cancun ($12.99) features two enchiladas stuffed with a generous portion of sauteed shrimp and crawfish melded with gooey white cheese and smothered in a white wine cream sauce. These are creamy, dreamy enchiladas that are tasty, luscious and decadent. We went for the chili as a side item and found it serviceable but not over-the-top outstanding. The chicken enchiladas were stuffed with that same excellent shredded chicken and topped with a sour cream sauce and cheese. At $7.49 with two sides, they are filling and a bargain.

There will be a next time for us at Bumpyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, and it likely will include one of their two flatbread pizzas ($6.99), fajitas or tacos, which come hard or soft and stuffed with ground beef, steak, chicken, grilled shrimp or fried fish. And you can bet weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be there between 3 and 7 p.m.!

BELLY UP

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BELWOOD DINER Traditional breakfasts and plate lunch specials are the norm at this lostin-time hole in the wall. 3815 MacArthur Drive.

NLR. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-753-1012. BL Mon.-Fri. BONEFISH GRILL A half-dozen or more types of fresh fish filets are offered daily at this upscale chain. 11525 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-228-0356. D daily.

BRAVE NEW RESTAURANT The foodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great, portions huge, prices reasonable. Diners can look into the open kitchen and watch the culinary geniuses at work slicing and dicing and sauteeing. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great fun, and the fish is special.

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BUFFALO WILD WINGS A sports bar on steroids with numerous humongous TVs and a menu full of thirst-inducing items. The wings, which can be slathered with one of 14 sauces, are the staring attraction and will undoubtedly have fans. 14800 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-868-5279. LD daily.

BURGER MAMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Big burgers and oversized onion rings headline the menu at this downhome joint. 7710 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-225-2495. LD daily.

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501-663-9463. D Mon.-Sat. CAFE HEIFER Philly cheesesteak, turkey clubs, pizza and other American fare in the Heifer Village. With one of the nicest patios in town.

1 World Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-9078801. BL Mon.-Fri., L Sat. CAPITAL BAR AND GRILL Big hearty sandwiches, daily lunch specials and fine evening dining all rolled up into one at this landing spot downtown. Surprisingly inexpensive with a great bar staff and a good selection of unique desserts. 111 Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-374-7474. LD daily.

CAPITOL BISTRO Formerly a Sufficient Grounds, now operated by Lisa and Tom Drogo, who moved from Delaware. They offer breakfast and lunch items, including quiche, sandwiches, coffees and the like. 1401 W. Capitol Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-3719575. BL Mon.-Fri. CATERING TO YOU Painstakingly prepared entrees and great appetizers in this gourmetto-go location, attached to a gift shop. Caters everything from family dinners to weddings and large corporate events. 8121 Cantrell Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-664-0627.

L Mon.-Sat. CATFISH HOLE Downhome place for wellcooked catfish and tasty hushpuppies. 603 E. Spriggs. NLR. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-758-3516.

D Tue.-Sat. CHEEBURGER CHEEBURGER Premium black Angus cheeseburgers, with five different sizes, ranging from the Classic (5.5 ounces) to the pounder (20 ounces), and nine cheese options.

For sides, milkshakes and golden-fried onion rings are the way to go. 11525 Cantrell Rd. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-490-2433. LD daily.

CIAO BACI The focus is on fine dining in this casually elegant Hillcrest bungalow, though tapas are also available, and many come for the comfortable lounge that serves specialty drinks until late. Happy hour all night Wednesday.

605 N. Beechwood St. Full bar, All CC. $$$.

501-603-0238. D Mon.-Sat. CRAZEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COOL CAFE Good burgers, daily plate specials and bar food amid pool tables and TVs. 7626 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-221-9696. LD Mon.-Sat. CUPCAKES ON KAVANAUGH Gourmet cupcakes and coffee, indoor seating. 5625 Kavanaugh Blvd. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$.

501-664-2253. LD Tue.-Sat. 11525 Cantrell Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-224-2253.

LD Tue.-Sat. DEMPSEY BAKERY Bakery with sit down area, serving coffee and specializing in gluten-, nutand soy-free baked goods. 323 Cross St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-375-2257.

DIVERSION TAPAS RESTAURANT Hillcrest wine bar with diverse tapas menu. From the people behind Crush. 2611 Kavanaugh Blvd., Suite 200. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-4140409. D Mon.-Sat. DOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S EAT PLACE A skid-row dive turned power brokersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; watering hole with huge steaks, great tamales and broiled shrimp, and killer burgers at lunch. 1023 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-376-1195. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. CONTINUED ON PAGE 58

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EJ’S EATS AND DRINKS The friendly neighborhood hoagie shop downtown serves at a handful of tables and by delivery. The sandwiches are generous, the soup homemade and the salads cold. Vegetarians can craft any number of acceptable meals from the flexible menu. The housemade potato chips are da bomb. 523 Center St. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-6663700. LD Mon.-Fri. FIVE GUYS BURGERS & FRIES Nationwide burger chain with emphasis on freshly made fries and patties. 2923 Lakewood Village Dr. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-246-5295. LD daily. 13000 Chenal Parkway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-225-1100. LD daily.

FLYING FISH The fried seafood is fresh and crunchy and there are plenty of raw, boiled and grilled offerings, too. The hamburgers are a hit, too.

It’s self-service; wander on through the screen door and you’ll find a slick team of cooks and servers doing a creditable job of serving big crowds.

511 President Clinton Ave. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-375-3474. LD daily.

GRUMPY’S TOO Music venue and sports bar with lots of TVs, pub grub and regular drink specials. 1801 Green Mountain Drive. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-225-3768. LD Mon.-Sat. HOMER’S Great vegetables, huge yeast rolls and killer cobblers. Follow the mobs. 2001 E. Roosevelt Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-3741400. BL Mon.-Fri. THE HOUSE A comfortable gastropub in Hillcrest, where you’ll find traditional fare like burgers and fish and chips alongside Thai green curry and gumbo. 722 N. Palm St. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-4501. D daily, BR and L Sat.-Sun. JIMMY’S SERIOUS SANDWICHES Consistently fine sandwiches, side orders and desserts for 30 years. Chicken salad’s among the best in town, and there are fun specialty sandwiches such as Thai One On and The. Garden Get there early for lunch. 5116 W. Markham St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-3354. L Mon.-Sat. KRAZY MIKE’S Po’Boys, catfish and shrimp and other fishes, fried chicken wings and all the expected sides served up fresh and hot to order on demand. 200 N. Bowman Road. Beer, All CC. $$. 501-907-6453. LD daily.

LOCA LUNA Grilled meats, seafood and pasta dishes that never stray far from country roots, whether Italian, Spanish or Arkie. “Gourmet plate lunches” are good, as is Sunday brunch. 3519 Old Cantrell Rd. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-4666. L Sun.-Fri., D daily.

LULAV Comfortably chic downtown bistro with continental and Asian fare.

220 A W. 6th St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-374-5100. BL Mon.-Fri., D daily.

MILFORD TRACK Healthy and tasty are the key words at this deli/grill that serves breakfast and lunch. Hot entrees change daily and there are soups, sandwiches, salads and killer desserts. Bread is baked in-house, and there are several veggie options. 10809 Executive Center Drive, Searcy Building.

No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-223-2257. BL Mon.-Sat. OYSTER BAR Gumbo, red beans and rice (all you can eat on Mondays), peel-and-eat shrimp, oysters on the half shell, addictive po’ boys. Killer jukebox. 3003 W. Markham St. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-7100.

LD Mon.-Sat. OZARK COUNTRY RESTAURANT A long-standing favorite with many Little Rock residents, the eatery specializes in big country breakfasts and pancakes plus sandwiches and several meat-and-two options for lunch and dinner. Try the pancakes and don’t leave without some sort of smoked meat. 202 Keightley Drive. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-7319. B daily, L Mon.-Fri., D Thu.-Sat. PURPLE COW DINER 1950s fare — cheeseburgers, chili dogs, thick milk shakes — in a ‘50s setting at today’s prices. Also at 11602 Chenal Parkway. 8026 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-221-3555. LD daily, BR Sat.-Sun 11602 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-224-4433. LD daily, BR Sat.-Sun. 1419 Higden Ferry Road. Hot Springs. Beer, All CC. $$. 501-625-7999. LD daily, B Sun. SALUT BISTRO This bistro/late-night hangout does upscale Italian for dinner and pub grub until the wee hours. But there’s no late-night food on Wednesday! 1501 N. University. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-660-4200.

L Mon.-Fri., D Tue.-Sat. SBIP’S RESTAURANT Casual fine dining with sandwich and salads on its lunch menu. Sunday brunch, too. Try the Cro Que Monsieur sandwich or the weekend prime ribs. 700 E. Ninth St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-3727247. LD Mon.-Sat. BR Sun. SCALLIONS Reliably good food, great desserts, pleasant atmosphere, able servers — a solid lunch spot. 5110 Kavanaugh Blvd. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-6468. L Mon.-Sat. SHIPLEY DO-NUTS With locations just about everywhere in Central Arkansas, it’s hard to miss Shipley’s. Their signature smooth glazed doughnuts and dozen or so varieties of fills are well known. 7514 Cantrell Rd. No alcohol, All CC. $. 501-664-5353. B daily.

SHORTY SMALL’S Land of big, juicy burgers, massive cheese logs, smoky barbecue platters and the signature onion loaf. 1100 N. Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-224-3344. LD daily.

SONNY WILLIAMS’ STEAK ROOM Steaks, chicken and seafood in a wonderful setting in the River Market. Steak gets pricey, though. Menu is seasonal, changes every few months. 500 President Clinton Ave. Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-324-2999. D Mon.-Sat.

DINING CAPSULES, CONT. STAGECOACH GROCERY AND DELI Fine po’ boys and muffalettas — and cheap. 6024 Stagecoach Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$.

501-455-4157. BL daily. D Mon.-Fri. TERRI-LYNN’S BAR-B-Q AND DELI Highquality meats served on large sandwiches and good tamales served with chili or without (the better bargain). 10102 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-227-6371.

LD Tue.-Sat. (10:30 a.m.-6 p.m.).

UNION BISTRO Casual upscale bistro and lounge with a new American menu of tapas and entrees. Try the chicken and waffles.

3421 Old Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$$.

501-353-0360.

WEST END SMOKEHOUSE AND TAVERN Its primary focus is a sports bar with 50-plus TVs, but the dinner entrees (grilled chicken, steaks and such) are plentiful and the bar food is upper quality. 215 N. Shackleford. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-224-7665. L Fri.-Sun., D daily.

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CHINA INN Massive Chinese buffet overflows with meaty and fresh dishes, augmented at dinner by boiled shrimp, oysters on the half shell and snow crab legs, all you want cheap.

2629 Lakewood Village Place. NLR. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-771-2288. LD daily.

CURRY IN A HURRY Home-style Indian food with a focus on fresh ingredients and spices.

11121 North Rodney Parham. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-224-4567. LD Tue.-Sat. FU XING Chinese buffet. 9120 N. Rodney Parham Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$.

501-223-0888. LD daily.

HANAROO SUSHI BAR Under its second owner, it’s one of the few spots in downtown Little Rock to serve sushi. With an expansive menu, featuring largely Japanese fare. 205 W. Capitol Ave. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-3017900. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat. LEMONGRASS ASIA BISTRO Fairly solid Thai bistro. Try the Tom Kha Kai and white wine alligator. They don’t have a full bar, but you can order beer, wine and sake. 4629 E. McCain Blvd. NLR. Beer, Wine, All CC. 501-945-4638.

LD Mon.-Sun. NEW CHINA A burgeoning line of massive buffets, with hibachi grill, sushi, mounds of Chinese food and soft serve ice cream. 4617 John F. Kennedy Blvd. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-753-8988. LD daily. 2104 Harkrider.

Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-7641888. LD Mon.-Sun. PHO THANH MY It says “Vietnamese noodle soup” on the sign out front, and that’s what you should order. The pho comes in outrageously large portions with bean sprouts and fresh herbs. Traditional pork dishes, spring rolls and bubble tea also available. 302 N. Shackleford Road. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-312-7498.

ROYAL BUFFET A big buffet of Chinese fare, with other Asian tastes as well. 109 E. Pershing.

NLR. Beer, All CC. 501-753-8885. LD daily.

SEKISUI Fresh-tasting sushi chain with fun hibachi grill and an overwhelming assortment of traditional entrees. Nice wine selection, also serves sake and specialty drinks. 219 N. Shackleford Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$.

501-221-7070. LD daily.

SHOGUN JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE The chefs will dazzle you, as will the variety of tasty stir-fry combinations and the sushi bar. Usually crowded at night. 2815 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-666-7070. D daily.

TOKYO HOUSE Defying stereotypes, this Japanese buffet serves up a broad range of fresh, slightly exotic fare — grilled calamari, octopus salad, dozens of varieties of fresh sushi — as well as more standard shrimp and steak options. 11 Shackleford Drive. Beer, Wine, All

CC. $$-$$$. 501-219-4286. LD daily.

WASABI Downtown sushi and Japanese cuisine. For lunch, there’s quick and hearty sushi samplers. 101 Main St. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-374-0777. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat.

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CHIP’S BARBECUE Tasty, if a little pricey, barbecue piled high on sandwiches generously doused with the original tangy sauce or one of five other sauces. Better known for the incredible family recipe pies and cheesecakes, which come tall and wide. 9801 W. Markham St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-225-4346. LD Mon.-Sat. DIXIE PIG Pig salad is tough to beat. It comes with loads of chopped pork atop crisp iceberg, doused with that wonderful vinegar-based sauce. The sandwiches are basic, and the sweet, thick sauce is fine. Serving Little Rock since 1923. 900 West 35th St. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-753-9650. LD Mon.-Sat.

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ARABICA HOOKAH CAFE This eatery and grocery store offers kebabs and salads along with just about any sort of Middle Eastern fare you might want, along with what might be the best kefte kebab in Central Arkansas. Halal butcher on duty. 3400 S. University Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-379-8011. LD daily.

CREGEEN’S IRISH PUB Irish-themed pub with a large selection of on-tap and bottled British beers and ales, an Irish inspired menu and lots of nooks and crannies to meet in. Specialties include fish ‘n’ chips and Guinness beef stew.

Live music on weekends and $5 cover on Saturdays. 301 Main St. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-376-7468. LD daily.

ISTANBUL MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE This Turkish eatery offers decent kebabs and great starters. The red pepper hummus is a winner.

So are Cigar Pastries. Possibly the best Turkish coffee in Central Arkansas. 11525 Cantrell Road. No alcohol, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-2239332. LD daily.

L E O ’ S G R E E K C A S T L E Wonderful Mediterranean food — gyro sandwiches or platters, falafel and tabouleh — plus dependable hamburgers, ham sandwiches, steak platters and BLTs. Breakfast offerings are expanded with gyro meat, pitas and triple berry pancakes.

2925 Kavanaugh Blvd. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$.

501-666-7414. BLD daily.

SILVEK’S EUROPEAN BAKERY Fine pastries, chocolate creations, breads and cakes done in the classical European style. Drop by for a whole cake or a slice or any of the dozens of single serving treats in the big case. 1900 Polk St. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-661-9699. BLD daily.

ZOGI’S EURO ASIAN BISTRO From the part of the world “where Europe meets Asia,” the menu says, and adventurous if not widely traveled diners will want to find out for themselves whether they like this fare or not. Our reviewers were impressed by soups, including the borscht (beets, beef, carrots, sour cream), and some of the main courses, including the Tsuivan — steamed wheat noodles stir-fried with beef, fried potatoes and veggies. Well worth a visit. 11321 W. Markham St. All CC. $-$$. 501-246-4597. LD Mon.-Sat., L Sun.

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CAFE PREGO Dependable entrees of pasta, pork, seafood, steak and the like, plus great sauces, fresh mixed greens and delicious dressings, crisp-crunchy-cold gazpacho and tempting desserts in a comfy bistro setting.

Little Rock standard for 18 years. 5510 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$.

501-663-5355. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. CIAO Don’t forget about this casual yet elegant bistro tucked into a downtown storefront.

The fine pasta and seafood dishes, ambiance and overall charm combine to make it a relaxing, enjoyable, affordable choice. 405 W. Seventh St. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-372-0238.

L Mon.-Fri., D Thu.-Sat. GRADY’S PIZZAS AND SUBS Pizza features a pleasing blend of cheeses rather than straight mozzarella. The grinder is a classic, the chef’s salad huge and tasty. 6801 W. 12th St., Suite C. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-1918. LD daily.

IRIANA’S PIZZA Unbelievably generous handtossed New York style pizza with unmatched zest. Good salads, too; grinders are great, particularly the Italian sausage. 201 E. Markham St. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-374-3656. LD Mon.-Sat. PIERRE’S GOURMET PIZZA CO. EXPRESS KITCHEN Chef/owner Michael Ayers has reinvented his pizzeria, once located on JFK in North Little Rock, as the first RV entry into mobile food truck scene. With a broad menu of pizza, calzones, salads and subs. 760 C Edgewood Drive. No alcohol, No CC. $$.

501-410-0377. L Mon.-Fri. U.S. PIZZA Crispy thin-crust pizzas, frosty beers and heaping salads drowned in creamy dressing. Count on being here for awhile. It takes half an hour to get your pizza, since it’s cooked in an old fashioned stone hearth oven.

2710 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$.

501-663-2198. LD daily. 5524 Kavanaugh Blvd.

Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-664-7071. LD daily.

9300 North Rodney Parham Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-224-6300. LD daily. 3307 Fair Park Blvd. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$.

501-565-6580 ý. LD daily. 650 Edgewood Dr. Maumelle. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-8510880. LD daily. 3324 Pike Avenue. NLR. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-758-5997. LD daily.

4001 McCain Park Drive. NLR. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-753-2900. LD daily. 5524 John F Kennedy Blvd. NLR. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-975-5524 ý. LD daily.

ZAFFINO’S BY NORI A high-quality Italian dining experience. Pastas, entrees (don’t miss the veal marsala) and salads are all outstanding.

2001 E. Kiehl Ave. NLR. Beer, Wine, All CC. 501-834-7530. D Tue.-Sat.

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BROWNING’S MEXICAN FOOD New rendition of a 65-year institution in Little Rock is a totally different experience. Large, renovated space is a Heights hangout with a huge bar, sports on TV and live music on weekends.

Some holdover items in name only but recast fresher and tastier. Large menu with some hits and some misses. 5805 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-9956. LD daily.

CANON GRILL Tex-Mex, pasta, sandwiches and salads. Creative appetizers come in huge quantities, and the varied main-course menu rarely disappoints, though it’s not as spicy as competitors’. Happy hour from 3 p.m.-6 p.m. on weekdays and all day on Sat. and Sun. 2811 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-6642068. LD daily.

CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL Burritos, burrito bowls, tacos and salads are the four main courses of choice — and there are four meats and several other options for filling them. Sizes are uniformly massive, quality is uniformly strong, and prices are uniformly low. 11525 Cantrell Road. All CC. $-$$. 501-221-0018. LD daily.

COTIJA’S A branch off the famed La Hacienda family tree downtown, with a massive menu of tasty lunch and dinner specials, the familiar

white cheese dip and sweet red and fieryhot green salsas, and friendly service. 406 S. Louisiana St. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-244-0733.

L Mon.-Sat. EL JALAPENO 9203 Chicot Road. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-772-7471. LD Mon.-Fri. EL JALAPENO TEX-MEX GRILL Tex-Mex, with a lunch buffet 220 W 4th St. 501-244-0001.

LAS MARGARITAS Sparse offerings at this taco truck. No chicken, for instance. Try the veggie quesadilla. 7308 Baseline Road. No alcohol, No CC. $. LD Tue.-Thu. LA REGIONAL A full-service grocery store catering to SWLR’s Latino community, it’s the small grill tucked away in the back corner that should excite lovers of adventurous cuisine.

The menu offers a whirlwind trip through Latin America, with delicacies from all across the Spanish-speaking world (try the El Salvadorian papusas, they’re great). Bring your Spanish/ English dictionary. 7414 Baseline Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-565-4440. BLD daily.

TAQUERIA KARINA AND CAFE A real Mexican neighborhood cantina from the owners, to freshly baked pan dulce, to Mexicanbottled Cokes, to first-rate guacamole, to inexpensive tacos, burritos, quesadillas and a broad selection of Mexican-style seafood.

5309 W. 65th St. Beer, No CC. $. 501-562-3951.

LD Tue.-Thu. TAQUERIA SAMANTHA II Stand out taco truck fare, with meat options standard and exotic. 7521 Geyer Springs Road. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-744-0680. LD Tue.-Sun.

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DOMOYAKI Hibachi grill and sushi bar near the interstate. Now serving bubble tea. 505 E. Dave Ward Drive. Conway. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-764-0074. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat. THE FISH HOUSE The other entrees and the many side orders are decent, but this place is all about catfish. 116 S. Harkrider. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. 501-327-9901. LD Mon.-Sun. GUSANO’S They make the tomatoey Chicagostyle deep-dish pizza the way it’s done in the Windy City. It takes a little longer to come out of the oven, but it’s worth the wait. 2915 Dave Ward Drive. Conway. Full bar, All CC. $$.

501-329-1100. LD daily.

HART’S SEAFOOD Southern fried fish and seafood buffet over the weekend. 2125 Harkrider. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $$.

501-329-8586. D Thu.-Sat., L Sun. JADE CHINA Traditional Chinese fare, some with a surprising application of ham. 559 Harkrider. Conway. No alcohol, No CC. $-$$.

501-329-5121. LD Mon.-Sat. LAS PALMAS IV “Authentic” Mexican chain with a massive menu of choices. 786 Elsinger Boulevard. Conway. Full bar, All CC. $$.

501-329-5010. LD Mon-Sat. SHORTY’S Burgers, dogs and shake joint. 1101 Harkrider. Conway. No alcohol, No CC. $-$$.

501-329-9213. LD Mon.-Sat. STOBY’S Great homemade cheese dip and big, sloppy Stoby sandwiches with umpteen choices of meats, cheeses and breads. 805 Donaghey. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $$.

501-327-5447. BLD Mon.-Sat. 405 W. Parkway.

Russellville. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-9683816. BLD Mon.-Sat. TOKYO JAPANESE RESTAURANT Besides the hibachi offerings, Tokyo also has tempura, teriyaki and a great seaweed salad. Their combination platters are a great value; besides an entree, also comes with soup, salad, harumaki (spring rolls) and vegetable tempura. No sushi, though. 716 Oak St. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-327-6868. BL daily.

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hearsay ➥ This weekend, be sure to attend the RECYCLE MOTORCYCLE RALLY for the Pugs and Kisses Dog Rescue. Featuring live music, food and beverages, this rally be held at Landers Harley, 10210 Interstate 30, Little Rock to Hot Springs starting at 11 a.m. Saturday (May 19). Entry fee is $25 per bike, which includes a T-shirt and a chance to win door prizes. For more information, visit www.pugsandkissesrescue.com or call (501) 229-3246. ➥ For a little pet pampering, be sure to stop by “YAPPY HOUR IN THE HEIGHTS” Thursday May 17, 5 p.m. – till? CARE for animals will be pet microchipping for $25 by Dr. Kim Miller, DVM and professional nail trimming by the Happy Hound of Little Rock for $10. ➥ BOSWELL MOUROT FINE ART is showing works by Astrid Sohn and Robin Hazard-Bishop from now thru June 2.

Boswell Mourot is located at 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd. in Little Rock. ➥ There’s a new coffee shop and bar in the Argenta District, and you’ll have to see it to believe it. THE JOINT, which opened Monday features a full range of craft beers, premium bottled beers, wine, champagne, imported coffees, desserts, snacks and sandwiches. Enjoy their free Wi-Fi while relaxing with friends or a cool brew, and be sure to check out their night-time entertainment, which begins June 2 with the premiere performance of Little Rock & A Hard Place, an original two-act comedy about a man who dies in a car accident while driving through Little Rock. Admission will be $20 per person.

The show will run through the summer. For reservations call (501) 372-0205. ➥ GALLERY 26 presents the recent works of Jason Smith and Katherine Strause. Join them at the opening reception Saturday, May 19, from 7-10 p.m. for a preview and live music.

Gallery 26 is located at 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd. in the Heights. ➥ If you’re planning on attending the LITTLE ROCK FILM FESTIVAL in June, you won’t want to miss the LRFF Preview Luncheon at LOCA LUNA on Thursday, May 17, from 11:30 a.m.–1 pm. Hosted by Brent and Craig Renaud, co-directors of the Festival, this event will discuss planning and marketing a large event. Admission is free for American Advertising Federation members and $25 for guests. E-mail info@aaflittlerock.org for more information. ➥ Visit all the indoor galleries, along with artists on Main Street for ARGENTA ARTWALK on Friday, May 18, from 5-9 p.m. Enjoy live music, great art, and great food! Recently added venues include Blake’s Furniture, Chop Salon, Argenta Healing Arts, Argenta United Methhodist Church, and Crush Wine Bar. Blake’s Furniture will host art by Peggy Roberson. Arkansas artist Steve Spencer will be showing in Chop Salon, works by Erin Lorenzen and Vince Griffin will be on display in Argenta Healing Arts. Listen to live music in front of the U.S. Post Office on 5th & Main

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n whooping him for vice president in the National Review last week Ralph Reed (remember him?, stayed out of jail somehow) called Mike Huckabee, the former bro. former gov. former Arkie now bigtime media gabbler “winsome.”

Swear. “Winsome.”

It’s one of those words I don’t use often enough to be confident that I remember the exact meaning of it so I wind up eschewing it pretty much altogether. I wouldn’t want to be saying, “That’s a mighty winsome stand of tomaters you got there, Elbert” or “I seen a pretty winsome feral hog down along the crick this morning” only to find out later that “winsome” means something totally untomatolike or unswinelike. Same reason I don’t call grapes phlegmatic or Baptists glabrous.

So “winsome” collects dust back there in the place where my seldom-used stuff is stored. Flecks of rust grow on it. Mice nibble and poop on it.

I remember when the hippies called such ruminations as this one might turn out to be “heavy.” That brand of “heavy” is back there behind the closed door, too. Along with the “heavy” that was a way of trying to avoid hurt feelings when referring to a fat loved one’s obesity. Nobody wants to be called obese. Or corpulent, either.

So those heavies and the winsome languish in that dim place of relics and discards. Rarely called upon. Along BOB with the orange LANCASTER chair, the stereo, the paint cans that couldn’t be thrown away because I might want to match the color sometime in the 2040s. Good manners.

Good grooming. Neighborliness. Respect for them what have a different point of view.

Some relatively recent stuff in amongst the clutter. The bus that everybody was constantly throwing somebody under just a while back. The land line.

I rummaged around back there for a time looking for a remembered definition of winsome. Rummaging through the possibilities: • In the context, it seemed most likely to be a slime weasel’s coy way of saying, “I’d like to bleeb this guy’s bleep.”

Except what is “coy” exactly? From Mrs. Callaway’s long-ago English class, I remember a little of the Andrew Marvell poem “To His Coy Mistress” — it was too subtle for me to figure out why 300 years ago it was considered smutty — but was the narrator complaining about his girlfriend’s coyness or praising it? Or maybe her name was Coy.

I’ve known both men (Coy Jordan) and women (Coy Easterly) named Coy, so it might be a synonym for androgynous, and Huckabee wouldn’t want to be associated with any word that comes that close to intimating a whimsical attitude toward the gay life, especially one that might be cloaking a wispy suggestion of the participatory, the ejaculation “eeuuww!!” being the nearest he’s let himself get to addressing the topic or recognizing its existence.

• Winsome might be a good word in describing the former bro. former gov. former Arkie, though, if it turned out to mean importunate. Said of someone who always has his hand out. Someone who thinks he’s owed largesse. A true-blue lifelong believer in entitlements. But entitlements not for the many and not for the few. Maybe not for him alone, but… well, maybe so. Not because of anything he’s done to earn it, but just because. So have your winsome love offering, your winsome PAC contribution, ready.

• And winsome would be the perfect descriptive if it meant forgiving. Forgiving in the very narrow sense of wanting to turn loose criminals likely to go back into society and become mass murderers.

• Or winsome would be an inspired choice here if it chanced to refer to one who writes shallow, self-serving, platitudinous books. Books that contain no real thoughts but only empty peanut hulls. Books that are really only a Colton’s floor in folio mas-

querade. Words as husks. Greasy husks, somehow, but husks. Books that I would almost guarantee have never been read start to finish by anyone unobliged, even the Ralph Reeds and Tom Delays and Newt Gingriches and their miserable ilk, who didn’t have a gun to his or her head.

• Or winsome might just mean mad for Velveeta. In which case it would always be apt in any treatment of Huckabism.

• Even uncertain of the definition, I’m a right smart confident that there was nothing winsome about crushing all those hard drives to allow the gubernatorial cohort to disperse untroubled by looming hoosegow anxieties, nor anything winsome about trying to force motherhood on an indigent retarded child pregnant from having being raped by her father. Ralph Reed might see that last as winsome, and National Review surely would, and collared perv clergy requiring a constant replenishment of little vics to diddle. But common decency would seek its winsome elsewhere. Left to shake its head.

Or winsome might not even be a word, merely the first half of the common expression “winsome, losesome.”

I finally looked it up in my Funk & Wagnalls — it’s unsporting to do that, I know, takes all the fun out, eliminates the Wallyrisk of penning howlers — and sure enough, my first shot had been closest to the mark. Subliminal weasel mooncalfing about bleeping the Huckleberry bleep.

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