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The State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, founded100 years ago, is no more. But TB lingers. by david koon page 10

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Dog gone n Our Arkansas Blog last week confirmed that there’d been a movement of Riverfront Park statuary on account of a disagreement on interpretation of the sculpture. Mark Webre, deputy Little Rock parks director, said that a sculpture of a crouching Labrador retriever, poised to spring into water in pursuit of waterfowl, had been moved farther from the rear of the Peabody Hotel. In its original location, the dog often found itself amid wedding and other parties with snapping cameras. The problem: Too many people took the dog’s pose to be that of an animal preparing to deposit something, not retrieve. See photo. “The Peabody Hotel and a lot of people who were doing wedding parties down there thought the dog was doing something else,” Webre said. “Labrador guys with dogs who retrieve were all really impressed and inspired by that sculpture. But those who didn’t understand the retrieving aspects of a Labrador saw it another way.”

Leadership rumors

n State Rep. Robert Moore won’t take his place as House speaker until the 2011 session, but we hear that he’s at work figuring who he’ll tap for committee chairmanships, the big prize of the speaker’s power. Here’s one interesting report: State Rep. Kathy Webb of Little Rock, who’ll be in her final term in the House, is said to be in line to be the House co-chair of the powerful Joint Budget Committee.

Fighting words

n Republican gubernatorial nominee Jim Keet ruffled some feathers during last Saturday’s Pink Tomato Festival in Warren. Come time for the annual tomatoeating contest, Keet introduced himself by saying, according to state Sen. Jimmy Jeffress, that he was the only gubernatorial candidate with the guts to show up. Gov. Mike Beebe had participated in the parade earlier and had planned to spend the day in Warren, but the flash flooding and deaths on the Little Missouri River forced Continued on page 15

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Smart talk

Contents

8 A minority report

Looking for a home n Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was among the first to pile on long-time White House correspondent and columnist Helen Thomas, 89, who was widely criticized and ultimately retired for saying Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine.” Huckabee said Thomas’ remark was “outrageous, anti-Semitic, racist, indefensible” and told Thomas, “maybe it’s time for you to go home.” He cited the Bible as authority for Jewish settlements in Palestine. The U.S. and Israel endorse a two-state solution to the competing interests. But Huckabee says the Palestinians “can create their homeland in many other places in the Middle East.” Get the hell RETIRE THEM BOTH: out of Israel, in other words. So Helen Thomas and Mike far, there hasn’t been a similar Huckabee. outcry for the Fox News analyst to retire. Think Progress noted that Huckabee’s Biblical citation on Jewish rights in the Middle East could mean expanding Israel to the entire area God promised to Abraham. That would include much of Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Maybe it’s time for you to go home to your tax haven in Florida, Huck.

Joyce Elliott isn’t the firstAfrican-American candidate for Congress, but it will be noted in her race this fall for Second District. An earlier minority trailblazer, Thedford Collins, remembers his own run in 1984. — By Doug Smith

10 The plague on the hill

An abandoned sanatorium in Booneville stands as an eerie reminder of the day before antibiotics when institutional treatment was the order of the day for tuberculosis patients. TB is still with us, if the institution is not. — By David Koon

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Rubella makes a rare appearance n When a foreign visitor to the Walmart shareholders meeting in Fayetteville June 3 exhibited measles symptoms, health officials gave vaccinations to 142 people, mostly foreigners, as a precaution. It wasn’t considered a serious health threat because high vaccination rates make the disease rare in the U.S. Last week, tests were completed and the Health Department announced that the foreign visitor had rubella and has recovered. No one else has been reported ill. Rubella is covered by the same vaccination that prevents mumps and measles. It has become so rare (only 16 cases in the U.S. in 2009) that it was the first known case in Arkansas in 10 years.

n A new Pew Research Center poll found that 14.6 percent of all new marriages in 2008 were between spouses of a different race. That’s up from 6.7 percent in 1980. In Arkansas, that figure was slightly lower. Only 8 percent of newlyweds married a person of a different race or ethnicity. That’s more than Mississippi (at 5 percent) but less than a state like Oregon (24 percent). Researchers found education and location to be factors in “marrying out.” The more educated you are, the more likely you are to marry someone outside of your race, although the differences are slight. About one in five of all newlyweds in Western states married someone of a different race in 2008. In the South, that figure was closer to one in eight.

Departments 3 The Insider 4 Smart Talk 5 The Observer 6 Letters 7 Orval 8-15 News 16 Opinion 19 Arts & Entertainment 31 Dining 37 Crossword/ Tom Tomorrow 38 Lancaster

Words VOLUME 36, NUMBER 41

n Candy is dandy, but E.T. never misses: “The scene in E.T. where Elliot and E.T. are in quarantine and Elliott thinks E.T. is dead makes me ball every time. I think it’s the very basic and unconditional love they have for each other that makes it so moving.” n Very basic baseball: “Sourdine just pitched lights out. He bared down and got the job done.” Some years back, there was a major-league pitcher who was married to a stripper. He let her do all the baring. n Beau Dayshus writes: “In a Vanity Fair article about Martin Amis, his friend comments that Amis once remarked that the title of Dickens’ ‘Our Mutual Friend’ contains a solecism, 4 june 17, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES

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that one can have common friends but not mutual ones. I checked Webster’s to make certain I knew what a solecism was, but I’m still muddle-headed about the distinction between ‘mutual’ and ‘common.’ ” The Cambridge Guide to English Usage says: “Common has numerous meanings, but it contrasts with mutual in emphasizing sharing rather than reciprocation in a relationship, as in common origin or common interest. Mutual involves reciprocity. Mutual satisfaction implies the satisfaction

which two people give to each other, and mutual agreement emphasizes the fact that something is agreed to by both parties. … Mutual has also long been used to refer to a reciprocal relationship which is enjoyed by more than one person, as in the title of Charles Dickens’s ‘Our Mutual Friend,’ published in 1865. Yet for some reason this usage was censured in the later 19th Century, as the Oxford Dictionary notes. The dictionary also noted that mutual was the only possible word in expressions like Dickens’s title. (When class distinctions were so important, who would take the risk of referring to ‘our common friend’!)” Even in America today, our common friend could easily be misunderstood as derogatory. Don’t stew over the distinction between mutual and common, Beau. Chuck Dickens knew what he was doing.

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The Observer is not a poet,

and certainly not a philosopher, but we do have a tender spot for such lines as “I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree.” We most recently saw these words, written by the American poet Joyce Kilmer, at a small memorial for a tree that had been removed from in front of the property at 217 Johnson St., in Stifft’s Station. For those who live in neighborhoods too new to have ancient trees outside their front door, it may seem a bit overly sentimental to get upset about the loss of an old oak — a tree is a tree is a tree. But for Cindy Brown and her daughter Emily, who had lived under what they believed to be the bicentennial shade of the oak they fondly referred to as Mr. Nelson for 20 years, having the tree removed was bittersweet. Their neighbors thought so too, and once Mr. Nelson had been felled, on June 4th, a small notebook was placed on the stump where memories and goodbyes could be written. Visiting the stump and flipping through the notebook, we were reminded of one of the nicest things that trees — Mr. Nelson no exception — provide for us: shade. It was a hot day and before too long sweat was beaded on our forehead. There is another tree closer to the Browns’ house, but the front yard and sidewalk are now in the direct sunlight. But why else should a tree be commemorated? we pondered. Emily, who had lived with Mr. Nelson since she was 3 years old, recalled sitting in the nook of its roots, where she would watch the sky and read books. Shel Silverstein, anyone? She said that even with the large window in front of their house, Mr. Nelson was so large as to block the view of the street. The front page of the memorial notebook explains that there used to be many huge oaks of a similar age up and down the street, and that gradually they were all removed until Mr. Nelson was the only one remaining. The city had warned the Browns that eventually the tree would have to go, especially after damage it sustained during the ice storm 10 years ago. Looking at the stump, we could see where one side

had begun to rot. Although the Browns didn’t want to see Mr. Nelson go, they understood the risk that a tree — speculated to be over 50 feet tall — posed to the houses around it. Perhaps the special attention paid to Mr. Nelson can be best understood as an acceptance of our mortality and our lingering ties to the environment. Emily told us that she thought of the tree as grounding, something to remind her, even in the middle of the city, that she was living in nature. Mr. Kilmer may have said it best: “Poem’s are made by fools like me/But only God can make a tree.”

On the Outer Banks in North

Carolina, where this old cork spent several days bobbing in the waves in the week just past, is a metal spaceship. In years past, the spaceship, in Frisco, just above Hatteras, was called Out of This World Hot Dogs. Alien faces peered from the oval windows that ringed the ship. Today the disk sits on a pile of rocks next to what appears to be a backhoe business, but it is shinier than ever, so perhaps it is due for another launch on another mission. We took our child to Out of This World Hot Dogs when she was small, helping her up the ramp that led to the saucer hovering above the sand and shrubs, and ordered up hotdogs. As we ate our dogs, we asked the captain about the metal disk. What was it really built for? Where did it come from? And, as The Observer finds in so many out of the way places in this world, the answer was that it came from Arkansas. Apparently, in years past its inventor thought to make a go of it in the mobile home business (as we recall) with his new, aerodynamic design. It didn’t take off, however, and somehow this model landed on the Outer Banks, destined to Serve Man. It seems that no matter where we go, we find a little bit of unorthodox Arkansas waiting for us. Like the rattlesnake purveyor in Arizona. Another story. While the hot dog place eventually flopped as well, the spaceship is more at home there in Frisco, on the Outer Banks.

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Film Fest complaint Have you ever bought a ticket to an event you really wanted to attend and been turned away at the door because the seller arbitrarily decided not to honor your ticket? Did you then look at the ticket and try in vain to find the small print somewhere on it saying it would be invalid under unforeseen circumstances? I doubt this has happened to any of you unless you paid up to $50 to attend the 4th annual Little Rock Film Festival. I am a film lover. I’ve gone every year. I thought it was a great festival this year. It had a better variety of films, of better quality, and it had more directors, cast, and crew members in attendance than I have seen in any of the previous years. But I also saw the majority of people who’d bought the $30 “Festival Passes” that “guaranteed entry” turned away from the Wednesday night premiere. My $50 “Party Pass” guaranteed admission to all movies and also to the festival parties. Guaranteed, that is, until Saturday night when the Festival booked a party venue that was too small to allow anyone other than sponsors and VIP ticket holders although it was advertised for anyone

with a $50 ticket and up. All day long on Saturday, one board member after another addressed the audiences of each film I saw, enthusiastically inviting all of us to that night’s party. I looked forward to it all day long. On arrival, all Party Pass holders were first told we’d have to wait a half hour until all the VIPs and sponsors were admitted first, but 30 minutes later we were told, “Sorry, we have reached the lawful limit, we can’t let you Party Passes in.” Surely they had known, based on the number of VIPs and sponsors invited, that there would not be enough room for everyone. I wondered why they hadn’t chosen to fix the problem by finding an alternative venue. I wondered why they had continued to invite us all day long to this over-booked party instead of just announcing in the theater that due to a planning problem it would have to be for VIPs and sponsors only. They allowed it to become a public relations fiasco that was a bad ending to what had been a great day of movie going. I hope that the numerous sponsors of this festival, generous people who had nothing to do with planning that party, will become aware that while they were inside enjoying themselves, dozens of disappointed people like me who had supported the film festival by purchasing $50 tickets were going home feeling rejected and angry and wondering if they would even bother to attend next year, at any price. All I know for certain today is

that I was already foolish enough once to purchase an expensive ticket for a festival that proved it makes promises it won’t keep. It may take some healing before I’m foolish enough to give them a second chance. I hope enough festival sponsors will read this and then will communicate to the festival’s board members that they cannot continue to treat their audience in this manner or eventually, they will no longer have one. John Matlock Little Rock

Tribute to JP

Quorum Court member Pat Dicker spoke May 27 to the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission, and urged them to adopt — as they did — an amendment to Reg. 6 that would prohibit surface discharges of wastewater into the Maumelle Watershed. We must protect our drinking water, she said — as she has said for years. Ms. Dicker has supported protections for our drinking water from the first, and, year after year, she has faithfully attended all the meetings, all the lobbying sessions, all the special workshops and all the government meetings addressing policy over Lake Maumelle, and its watershed. Never has she wavered from insisting that strong measures must be enacted at all levels of government to keep pollu-

tion from excess development out of our drinking water. Her health became poor, but she persevered — even coming to meetings in a wheelchair. She ran for re-election again this spring, and last week, she was defeated in the Democratic primary by Teresa Coney. This did not deter Ms. Dicker from getting up early this morning, and getting across town in time to appeal to state officials to protect her district, and our community, against the worst known threat to our water — sewage runoff into the lake from surrounding property, as it becomes developed. We are all the poorer for her departure from elected office. Kathy Wells Little Rock

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I am declaring this week Hooray I Got a Fan Made in the USA Week! A hardware store sent a flyer in my local paper with a box fan on the front page. I asked my daughter to get one for me. When she came in with the box, she must have thought I had really lost my cool with the yell I gave. It just did my old heart good to see Made in the USA stamped on the box. Perhaps there is still hope for those of us who are tired of imported junk. Peggy Wolfe Heber Springs

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The WEEK THAT was June 8-15, 2010 It was a good week for …

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SEN. BLANCHE LINCOLN. She surprised national pundits with a decisive victory over Lt. Gov. Bill Halter in the runoff for the Democratic nomination for Senate. She immediately began distancing herself from President Obama and dancing around her vote for health reform legislation. SEN. JOYCE ELLIOTT. A black woman is the Democratic nominee for 2nd District Congress, a step toward a potentially historic election. I t wa s a b a d w e e k f o r …

FLOODING. A torrential rain caused a 20-foot rise in the Little Missouri River and the rampaging river tore through the Forest Service’s Albert Pike Recreation Area, killing 20 campers caught unaware during the night. LT. GOV. BILL HALTER. Leading in the polls, he had to be surprised by Tuesday’s loss, which abruptly ended his political career in Arkansas. He did little to exit with good feeling when he withheld a perfunctory promise of support for the Democratic nominee. The CITY OF LITTLE ROCK. It can’t afford to give police and firefighters promised pay raises. City leaders hope to work something out with unions on finding new revenue and cutting unnecessary expenses. The LITTLE ROCK ZOO. Its leaders snubbed Mayor Mark Stodola and declined to establish a no-smoking policy. Its Board opted instead to set up three smoking areas and decreed that it doesn’t intend to discuss the subject further for a year. A SOUTHWEST AIRLINES freight handler. He opened a mislabeled box and discovered 40 to 60 whole and partial human heads inside, en route to a medical company in Texas. The OSAGE BAPTIST CHURCH. Somebody put a bomb on a desk in the church, near Alpena, while the church was being used as a polling place. It didn’t detonate. 8 june 17, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES

AIMING FOR HISTORY: Joyce Elliott hopes to become the first black Arkansan elected to Congress.

Race and politics in the Second District Black candidate of 1984 sees less division today. By Doug Smith

n Both Joyce Elliott, who is black, and Tim Griffin, who is white, have said they don’t expect race to be an issue in their contest for the Second Congressional District seat. Race was an issue when Thedford Collins sought the Second District seat in 1984, according to Collins. Like Elliott today, he hoped to become the first black Arkansan elected to Congress. Twenty-six years later, Elliott has at least gotten nearer that goal, winning the Democratic nomination this month. She’ll oppose Griffin, the Republican nominee, in the November general election. Collins finished fourth in a field of five in the first Democratic primary of 1984. “It was a time when we as a society had not made many of the strides that we have now made,” Collins said. “I think it’s correct that race will not have as great an effect this year.” There was no President Barack Obama in 1984, for example. (Although, if the rest of the country had voted like Arkansas, there’d be no President Obama in 2010, either.) Now 62 and living in Washington, Collins gets back to Arkansas a couple of times a year, and still follows Arkansas politics. He worked for the big timber company, Weyerhaeuser, for years, and was the company’s top lobbyist in Washington until he retired. He said he still does consulting work. Collins grew up in Monticello and graduated from the University of Arkansas

Robinson, Secretary of State Paul Riviere and state Sen. Stanley Russ of Conway. The other candidate was Dale Cowling, a well-known Baptist preacher who’d run for Congress once before. Republicans likely won’t talk about Elliott’s race — that’s unfashionable — but they’re already calling her the most liberal member of the legislature, just as the moderate Obama is accused of socialism. One need not be very liberal to be the most liberal member of the Arkansas legislature. It’s a conservative body, most of its members elected with corporate money. Ask Elliott if the charge of liberalism is true, and she says, “It depends on what they mean by liberal. I’ve been very progressive on issues of education and families.” Speaking of charges, will Elliott point out that Griffin studied morals under Karl Rove? “Only in a proper context,” she said. “It’s not in the front of my head as a campaign strategy.” It’s possible that gender could be more important than race in the Second District. Some pundits profess to see a political “Year of the Woman,” and Elliott will need a big women’s vote to win. In that regard, it would help if the Arkansas Education Association went all-out for her. Most of the state’s schoolteachers are women, and Elliott is a former teacher herself. But the AEA seems to still be nursing a grudge over Elliott’s long-ago effort to organize a rival teachers union. It backed Robbie Wills in the Democratic primary.

at Monticello. With politics in mind, and knowing that race counted, he “did all the mainstream kind of things,” hoping to reduce resistance. By the time he ran for Congress, he’d been a stockbroker and a banker and had worked for two of the state’s most prominent politicians, David Pryor and Jim Guy Tucker. But in 1984, “Busing was still a big issue,” Collins said. “We weren’t that far from ‘Separate but Equal.’ ” And one of Collins’ opponents was the inflammatory sheriff of Pulaski C o u n t y, To m m y Robinson. “Tommy ran ads about a child at a bus stop at 7:15 in the morning.” Tommy Thedford Collins: Says Elliott’s public record is a won the election, benefit to her campaign. too. He eventually switched parties, finding more in common with the Republicans. “You don’t have those kinds of [racially] n In last week’s cover story about the divisive issues any more,” Collins said. Arkansas Arts Center, a caption gave “Now you have health care, unemployan incorrect first name for Bob Birch, a ment, things that affect all people.” member of the Arts Center Board. Also, Collins said Elliott benefits from the article gave an incorrect ending date having something he didn’t — a public for the “World of the Pharaohs” exhibit. record to run on. Never having held office It ends July 5, not July 7. himself, Collins faced three incumbents —

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528 feet: The Nyberg Building.

‘every day was a tuesday’ A visit to the Arkansas State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, a place built on The White Plague. By David Koon

he buildings are mostly abandoned now. Thank God. Thank God. The long roof of the nurse’s dormitory is pocked with gaping holes. The old dairy barns and pig barns that fed the pale multitudes have long since fallen into ruin. The main hospital — the Nyberg Building, a tenth of a mile long, six stories high; an Art Deco colossus capable of housing over a thousand souls — has been largely given over to dust and the occasional pigeon. There is a sadness there. It’s palpable. It makes you believe crackpot theories about how buildings become batteries, charged with misery. In the upper floors of the Nyberg — empty room stacked upon empty room — the sorrow cooks out of the walls like dark heat. There is a constant feeling there: that the doorways are filled with eyes. One hundred years ago this year, the Arkansas State Tuberculosis Sanatorium near the sleepy hamlet of Booneville began accepting patients. The place eventually grew into a self-contained city, with its own farms and fire station, orchards and laundry, school and newspaper. It was a place where those with the deadly and contagious disease could be segregated and — to the extent which they could before the sacrament of antibiotics were visited on us all — treated. In a very real sense, it was built to be a place where those who lived there never had to leave. Uncounted thousands of them never did. 10 june 17, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES

On Sept. 18, the city will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the sanatorium by opening a new museum full of artifacts from there. For Logan County, the sanatorium was a place of community prosperity — a recession-proof industry for over 60 years. For the few remaining old timers who lived there as patients, however, it’s a place of conflicted memories.

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The last stop: The old morgue in the main hospital.

Even now, Booneville is hard to get to, which is probably why it was selected as the site for the sanatorium in the first place. Back before the interstates, it was a long, quiet, dusty drive to the sanatorium from little towns all over Arkansas. Today, you leave I-40 at Ozark and drive south for another 45 minutes, down a winding two-laner that descends through fields and forest land. The Sanatorium — still called The Hill by locals — is on the outskirts of town. You see the water towers first, then the tall smokestack. A switchback road brings you to the main gate. Soon enough, the massive, blonde-brick Nyberg Building looms out of the pines. Now the site of the Booneville Human Development Center, which houses developmentally disabled adults, the sanatorium grounds are a faded ghost of their former self, with only a few of the buildings occupied and used today. Act 378, which approved the establishment of an Arkansas State TB sanatorium, was signed by Gov. George Donaghey in the spring of 1909 and allotted $50,000 for building the sanatorium and another $30,000 for upkeep. The city of Booneville, then a farming community in Logan County, offered to donate 970 acres on nearby Pott’s Ridge for the project, and the decision was made to locate the sanatorium there. Though the original group of buildings at the sanatorium was modest, the compound grew with the disease. In 1913, the state appropriated funds for a 24-bed hospital, and the next 30 years saw construction rarely

stop on The Hill, including a state of the art dairy with electric milking machines, employee cottages, a guinea pig nursery to supply research and testing animals for the hospital, a water treatment facility and housing for children with TB paid for by the Masonic Lodge. By the late 1930s, with tuberculosis reaching epidemic proportions and no cure or preventative in sight, it was clear that a much larger facility was needed. State Sen. Leo F. Nyberg of Helena — a TB sufferer who would eventually die at the sanatorium — worked to pass funding for a new main hospital and other buildings on the site. The state eventually appropriated $1.2 million for the project, with the federal Public Works Administration kicking in another $950,000. The 140,000-square-foot main hospital opened in 1940, and increased the number of beds at the sanatorium to more than 1,100. Nyberg didn’t live to see the building that bears his name completed. A bas relief plaque honoring him hangs in the lobby. In the Victorian era, the classic treatment for tuberculosis had been bed rest and fresh air. With the advent of more adventurous surgery techniques in the 1920s and ’30s however, tactics for fighting TB took a turn to the horrific. With doctors believing that the lungs should be allowed to rest in order to heal, surgeries then in vogue included clipping and pulling out the phrenic nerve — the long, spaghetti-like cord that connects the spinal column to the diaphragm, usually while the patient was awake so he could tell the surContinued on page 12

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geon whether he was prodding at the right nerve. Other treatments had doctors collapsing the lung and temporarily filling the chest cavity with sterilized ping pong balls in order to keep the lung deflated, and thoracoplasty, in which a large chunk of the ribs and muscles of the chest were removed to make the afflicted lung collapse. Many of these treatments — such as they were — were pioneered or refined at the Arkansas State TB Sanatorium, which quickly became a model facility copied around the U.S. and the world. That was all coming to an end by the 1950s, however, with the advent of antibiotic treatments to fight TB. By 1960, the number of patients had dwindled to a fraction of what had been seen only 10 years before. The last patients were discharged in 1972, and the Sanatorium was officially closed in 1973, reopening first as the Arkansas Children’s Colony and then as the Booneville Human Development Center. Today, offices of the BHDC occupy a portion of the first floor of the Nyberg. The rest of the building is gone to ruin. Inside, the patient rooms — row upon row — are all empty, and the once spic and span floors are hazed with dust. In the old operating suites, the ceilings have collapsed. A local high school has staged a haunted house in the basement during Halloween for the past couple of years, and 12 june 17, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES

obsolete. One room holds nothing but busted cases of Aqua Velva and Ace combs. Upstairs, there is the smell of age and decay, and birds nest in the elevator well. On either end of the sixth floor, there is a small open sun deck, surrounded by a rail. On the roof at night, the Nyberg Building is far enough from the city that the stars are like pinpricks in black velvet. It is easy to imagine some dying man there; slipped away from his keepers long after midnight to see the sky. The wind there is clear and pure, with the Milky Way a dim smear across the heavens, and the lights of Booneville scattered on the horizon like a dream.

the walls there are festooned with fake blood and horror show bric-a-brac. It is the work of a generation that has been blessedly divorced from death, and never known the word epidemic. In the old morgue downstairs, near the ramp where the hearses once idled under a covered walkway so they couldn’t be seen from the patients’ windows, the great doors of the body coolers stand ajar. Nearby is the flotsam and jetsam of 70 years of life and death on The Hill: jumbles of file cabinets, beds, old bicycles, plaster molds, barber chairs, slides and random medical equipment long since

Richard Myers is one of the last alive who called the sanatorium home. He’s 73 now, and still lives in Booneville. A few days after the Allies declared victory over Germany in Europe, a big black car pulled up to his parents’ sharecropper shack on Ditch 40 between Kaiser and Osceola and took him away to live on The Hill. Though he had no symptoms, he had contracted TB of the left lung. He was seven years old. He wouldn’t see his family again for four years. Though he was eventually moved to the Masonic Building where other children with TB were kept, for the first years of his stay at the sanatorium Myers lived alone in a room Continued on page 14

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reminders: Above, a window in the sanatorium chapel; below, a gurney sits in a hallway in Nyberg.

he tuberculosis bacilli is a sneaky bug. It can go dormant and hide. It can spread through the air like the flu. A person can be infected for years, passing the germ on to others, and not know they’re infected. Dr. Manish Joshi is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. An expert on tuberculosis, Joshi said that while America has made great strides in the containment and treatment of the disease, it’s still advancing in developing countries, where shoddy or non-existent treatment is siring drug-resistant strains. Joshi said that while TB has been with us since the beginnings of human society, it really took off with the Industrial Revolution, which brought great masses of people in close proximity. There was a time, he said, when nearly 100 percent of the population of Europe was infected, with 25 percent eventually dying from the disease. Unlike diseases with external symptoms like smallpox, TB can be hard or impossible to spot in a casual examination. It makes fighting TB a challenge. “You can’t tell by looking at a person that they have TB — versus smallpox, where you see all kinds of lesions,” Joshi said. “(Smallpox is) easy to diagnose, and once you have a case you try to act early. But with TB, it could be months or maybe sometimes years. People die, and then we know what’s wrong with them.” Joshi said that even though there were no medicines to treat TB until the 1940s, the policy of quarantining victims of the disease in places like the Arkansas State Tuberculosis Sanatorium had already started to bring the number of cases down. “What it tells us is yes, it’s a disease, we need

medicines for that,” Joshi said. “But what we need is good public health initiatives and a good social structure.” Joshi said that though there has only been one other TB-fighting drug discovered since the 1940s, the disease has been in constant decline over the years, going from 52.5 cases per 100,000 people in the U.S. in 1953 to 4.2 cases per 100,000 in 2008. That’s far from the case in Asia and Africa, where some countries still have a rate of up to 200 cases per 100,000 — with up to 15 percent of those cases showing resistance to the drugs used to fight TB. Spotty treatment — patients not finishing their anti-TB drug regimen, which can take up to six months to complete — has even led to rare cases of what’s called XDR-TB: extensively drug resistant tuberculosis. XDR-TB is the worst case scenario; a strain that dodges three or even four of the mainline drugs. “The good news is that in 2008 there were only four cases in the whole US that were diagnosed with XTR-TB,” Joshi said. “Most of them are on the coasts, East or West. There’s more people there that go in and out [of the United States].” While a new blood test is making it easier to diagnose the disease, Joshi said that the eradication of TB will take a global effort much like the one used to defeat smallpox. “What we need is more resources to combat the social structure,” Joshi said. “You can do a lot better, not by testing but by just providing a social structure to treat cases. If there are cases and you don’t have a treatment or resources to treat them, it will keep spreading.” www.arktimes.com • june 17, 2010 13

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on the third floor of the Nyberg Building. He doesn’t know exactly how long he was there. He said the tedium of life at the sanatorium, where most of his days were spent confined to a bed, sapped him of all concept of time. “I’ve often said that every day in our lives was a Tuesday,” Myers said, “because nothing ever happens on a Tuesday.” For a poor boy from the Delta who had never lived in a house with electricity or running water, Myers said his life at the Sanatorium was the best of times, and the worst of times. He had all the good food he could eat, but the boredom gnawed at him. With day after day spent staring at the same thing — same wall, same door, same rectangle of sky through the window — he said most of his childhood memories are focused on sound. “It’s really strange thinking back on it,” Myers said. “I suppose the worst part was the dying. That was a part of your existence.

People died almost daily. I can remember laying there in bed at night, listening to people down the hall. It always began with a long coughing spell, then it would turn into a kind of gurgling, raspy sound. Then it would get deathly quiet. You knew what had happened.” Myers came to know the routine of death at the Sanatorium. When someone died, the nurses began closing the big oak doors of the patient rooms, one after another, their closing sending a deep and ominous drumbeat up the echoing hallways. Myers said he would wait until his door was closed, then he would jump out of bed, lie on the floor, and put his eye to the crack under the sill. “When that stillness came at the end of that, they’d push those gurneys down the hallway and of course the wheels would wobble,” he said. “You could see those wheels go by making that wobbling, squeaking sound. It would be gone for a moment, and when it came back with a body on it,

back to Booneville and went to work at what was by then the former sanatorium. “I was home,” Myers said. “I came home. I know it sounds strange, and I can’t explain it, but that place had such a hold on me. That’s all I knew. There was really no difference in being in the Masonic and being in the Air Force. I was totally institutionalized by the time I was 14 years old.” Myers retired from the BHDC in 2002. He said he still goes up and drives the old roads sometimes. The building and grounds were groomed and immaculate when he lived there — a pristine, perfect world, he said. The decay he sees makes him sad. Back when local preservationists began talking about building a museum at the sanatorium some years ago, Myers went to one of their first meetings. He said he was the only patient there that night. He hasn’t been back. His feelings about The

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At the Pink Tomato luncheon later, Jeffress said, “I gave greetings on behalf of the governor. I wanted everybody to know the governor was off doing the business of the state of Arkansas and everyone thought it was the right thing for him to do. I said when he’s re-elected he’ll be at the tomato eating contest next year.”

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it was loaded and the wheels would run straight. It didn’t make the sound.” Spared the more horrific measures taken against TB (his treatment consisted solely of good food and bed rest) Myers was transferred to the children’s unit at the Masonic Building. He and the other children — with the boys and girls strictly divided except during the four hours of school every day — almost never left the building. “It was a very small world,” he said. “You could walk across it in two minutes. You didn’t go off the grounds. The only time we left was on Friday night, when we’d walk up to the commons building and see a movie. Everything was there: you ate there, you went to school there. You never left that place.” Discharged from the sanatorium when he was 14, Myers eventually served 22 years in the Air Force. When he retired, he moved

Hill, he said, are conflicted. He thinks of it as home. But he also believes it should be leveled, stone by stone; returned to the windswept mountaintop it was a hundred years ago. “To me, I think the place should be torn

down and forgotten,” he said. “It was a terrible place. I don’t know why you would want to remember that much suffering and death and devastation — why you would make a monument out of that. It destroyed thousands and thousands of lives.”

marriage of Mark Henry and Arkansas Court of Appeals Judge Courtney Henry, recently elected to the Arkansas Supreme Court. Mark Henry is the plaintiff in the divorce suit. I don’t have a copy of the filing, but the judge said it cites the boilerplate general indignities language often used in divorce suits. Judge Henry said all issues in the case had been worked out. She said the agreement, yet to be ratified in court, is that she and Mark Henry will have joint custody of their three children,

aged 5 to 10. She will maintain a residence in Fayetteville. Judge Henry won her Supreme Court in part on the strength of a TV advertising campaign that mentioned her adoption by the man her divorced mother married. She said Tuesday, “It’s unfortunate, but so many Arkansas families suffer from broken homes and none of us are immune from that.” She added, “It’s a trying time.” The case was assigned to Judge Mark Lindsey.

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Editorial n Not until the national pundits told us, after the election, did we know that the conventional wisdom had been that Sen. Blanche Lincoln would lose to Bill Halter, what with him having all that labor support. Whoever heard of a laborbacked candidate losing in Arkansas? Really, everybody who lives here has heard of it, though some seemed to forget, or pretend to forget, in their eagerness to present a big-money, big-business incumbent senator as an underdog against a lieutenant governor relying on the janitors’ union to lift him into higher office. Besides the intangible advantages of incumbency, Lincoln was the candidate who had more money and more “outside” money — raking it in from agribusiness, industrial polluters, and the like. The towering gullibility of some Arkansas voters causes them to see these corporate interests as friendlier than their neighbors down the street who’ve joined a union, or thought about it. Corporations and the politicians they elect promote this fiction, and have succeeded in keeping Arkansas workers underpaid and demoralized, believing they dare not associate with organized labor lest bad go to worse. Arkansas politicians understand. Bill Clinton saw that the sure way to help Lincoln was to belabor labor. David Pryor lost a U.S. Senate race with labor support, and won after he became a labor baiter. If there’s a next time for Bill Halter, he’ll be warning us against out-of-state union bosses. Out-of-state pundits do not have a monopoly on political error. Native sages cherish the belief that Arkansas is a populist state, despite its right-to-work-law, its regressive tax system, its unelected regulators and its virtually spotless record of kicking the butts of such populist-type candidates and populist-type issues as come before it, Halter being the latest. Arkansas never had a Huey Long. We’ve had politicians who talked about defending the common man from the elite, Jeff Davises and Orval Faubuses and Jim Johnsons, but their real game was racism, not populism. Now, the Senate race offers the usual range of selection. No populist or union-friendly candidates here, just Lincoln, a sometimes well-intentioned middle-of-the-roader, and John Boozman, way to the right and shockingly partisan, but also so dull that even his fellow reactionaries might not turn out on election day. That’s probably Lincoln’s best hope. The choice is even starker in the Second District congressional race, where it’s pretty much Van Helsing vs. Dracula. Joyce Elliott would be a fit successor to Vic Snyder, and Tim Griffin would be a fit agent of Karl Rove. Griffin is alleged to have worked in the George Bush campaign to keep black people from even voting. To find one running against him must be deeply painful, poor fellow.

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VICTORY: Sen. Blanche Lincoln celebrates her runoff win over Lt. Gov. Bill Halter on June 8.

An Arkansas surprise n The morning after Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s runoff victory over Lt. Gov. Bill Halter for the Democratic nomination for Senate, I received an e-mail from Frank Wallis, a Mountain Home newspaperman. He had a one-word comment on a statement by MoveOn.org, the liberal group that had raised money and volunteers for Halter’s campaign. The group tried to put a good face on the defeat saying, among others, that the lieutenant governor “was virtually unknown three months ago.” Wallis’ comment: “Really?” Good point. Halter has been lieutenant governor for almost four years and achieved that office only after surviving a runoff and general election opponent. He is the generally acknowledged father of a very popular state lottery that is just about to pour millions on thousands of Arkansas college students. He had less money than Blanche Lincoln, but he had millions to spend on TV. You’d be hard-pressed to find an Arkansas TV owner who couldn’t tell you of Halter’s days as a Catholic Rocket halfback or a Kroger grocery sacker. But, of course, Halter wasn’t well-known until recently by the people whose world ends at the beltways that ring Washington, D.C. This includes the small media herd that flocks in packs to the story line of the day, as determined by Politico or Fox News or one or another of the bellcows. It’s an echo chamber. In this race, the labor/liberal megaphones in the echo chamber for once dominated. They produced commentary, polls and narrative that Halter was going to march to victory Tuesday over another tired incumbent and wave the liberal banner high. After I appeared on an MSNBC show Tuesday night, a producer asked me, “So do you think Halter will win by 5 or 7?” Oops. Halter lost by four. So much for Beltway wisdom. What’s more, the two most liberal counties in Arkansas, despite massive mobilization, went heavily

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for Lincoln. I confess. I bought into the groupthink, too, with some, but insufficient, doubts. Arkansas voters made their own call, as they always do. There are many different reasons. One thing for sure though. It wasn’t because Bill Halter was a Johnny Come Lately whom the voters barely knew. It might be voters knew him too well. Maybe they simply decided, finally, that they liked Blanche Lincoln better. With the clarity of hindsight, I see now that Halter’s main theme — he was not Blanche Lincoln — might not have been sufficient for voters more sophisticated than Washington pundits often think. Maybe voters do want more specifics — like Lincoln’s advocacy for farmers, her late and tortured but ultimately welcome vote for health reform, and her opportunistic but useful blow for Wall Street regulation. And, yes, she did oppose card check and clean air legislation, hot buttons for many. I’d love to see exit polling on the gender gap. Lincoln was a target of opportunity for labor and liberal groups. She was vulnerable and they piled on to make a point on their national agendas. I know women who believe a male incumbent wouldn’t have come in for the same rough handling. This has been a good year for female candidates. Look at managerial ranks and board rooms all over Arkansas. Women, overwhelmingly, remain outsiders. Even long-time insiders like Blanche Lincoln benefit from this dynamic in a year like 2010. Sneer at women and diminish them with titles like Miz Blanche if you must; just don’t think their sisters don’t get it. (Note: I wrote a slightly different version of this column first for our Arkansas Blog.)

South Carolina and us n Arkansas followed South Carolina out of the union 150 years ago in a fit of sympathy over the attack at Fort Sumter and we have been yoked to the Palmetto State ever since. After South Carolina’s political behavior the past year, especially in the primaries that we shared with the state last week, it is time that Arkansas re-examined the relationship. At a minimum, the Legislative Council should do a study. Arkansas reveled in the careers and escapades of Bill Clinton, Wilbur Mills and Tim Hutchinson, so sex has not been absent from our politics. Neither has random ignorance. But South Carolina has taken them beyond where Arkansas needs to follow. For much of our shared history, where South Carolina went Arkansas was sure to follow: out of the union although with some reluctance and tardiness, into the Southeastern Conference. Jim Johnson lifted from John C. Calhoun of South Carolina the idea of interposing the state government to stop the United States from integrating our schools and Arkansas voters, to their regret, ratified it. Whenever South Carolina comes up with an economic-development model Arkansas imitates it. Arkansas stole the idea of having a lottery for college scholarships from South Carolina, copied its lottery law and finally just lifted its overpaid lottery executives and paid them lots more. We will be lucky if we do not imitate its results: 12 percent unemployment and a declining college-going rate.

Ernest Dumas Arkansawyers have always fared better when we eschewed the South Carolina example such as in 1948, when young Sid McMath persuaded us to shun Governor Ben T. Laney’s love affair with South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond and vote big instead for Harry S. Truman, or a dozen years earlier when our own Joe T. Robinson, the majority leader of the U. S. Senate and the chairman of the Democratic National Convention, called a black preacher to the podium at Philadelphia to give the invocation, in defiance of South Carolina. Cotton Ed Smith, the state’s great race-baiting senator, stomped out of the hall just as the preacher started intoning. How much better off would we — and everyone else — have been had we listened to James L. Petigru, the former South Carolina attorney general, who mourned after his state seceded from the United States that South Carolina was too small for a country but too big for an insane asylum. Petigru’s wisdom has been tested the past year by the escapades of South Carolina politicians and voters. Exactly what is the optimum size for an insane asylum? First there was Governor Mark Sanford’s

Lincoln tells truth on herself n U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln stands accused on health care of flip-flopping, waffling and lying, none of which strikes me as exactly right. Flip-flopping is close, but imprecise. What she stands guilty of is overfinessing policy issues for her political expediency, then varying her points of policy emphasis in her electoral politics depending on the circumstance. The contradictory political things she says are all true because she has done contradictory things in her policy history, committed as she is not to any abiding policy principle but to a political principle of self-preservation that has her tailoring her policy positions to the conveniences of the time and the situation. Yeah, that’s precisely it, if I do say so myself. Copy those two preceding paragraphs and put them on your refrigerator door. She does this kind of thing generally, running against President Obama for a while when it suits her, because she has indeed been against him, and running arm-in-arm with him when that suits her, because she

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has indeed been with him. She’s chummy with the Wall Streeters one season. She’s their public enemy number one the next, trying to take billions out from under them. The difference is the political circumstance. This is all made abundantly clear by this dust-up over Lincoln’s comical double-talk on health care. Let’s take the contradictory things she said first. Then let’s take the contradictory things she had done on which she based the contradictory things she said. Then let’s come to understand that she’s not lying. She’s just, well, so all over the map on policy that she can politically claim just about any spot on that map as her home. Late in her primary and runoff, she found it advisable to tack toward standard Democratic liberals. So she put her arm around Obama and did a TV commercial

lie that he was hiking on theAppalachian Trail when he actually was on another tryst with his Latin lover in Buenos Aires on the taxpayers’ tab. Sanford, who was going to be the familyvalues and limited-government candidate for president in 2012, resisted impeachment and his Republican colleagues let him off the hook. Then there was Rep. Joe Wilson who broke 200 years of decorum and shouted “You lie” when President Obama was saying something truthful (his health-care reforms wouldn’t include illegal immigrants) in his address to Congress in September. The national pundits were breathless last week over the victories of women in the big races in Arkansas, South Carolina and a couple of other states. They equated the triumphs of Arkansas’s prosy and circumspect senator, Blanche Lincoln, and Nikki Haley, South Carolina’s tawdry Republican star. Haley, the beautiful daughter of Punjabi immigrants, fell just shy of the votes to win the Republican nomination for governor over a bunch of opponents. She overwhelmed the field in spite of confessions by two GOP political operatives that they had recent affairs with the wife and mother, and Republican attacks upon her ethnicity and Sikh religion. (She says she attends both Sikh and Methodist services.) One Republican colleague in the legislature said both she and President Obama were “ragheads.” Haley, who is a protege of Governor Sanford along with one of the confessed adulterers, denied the affairs and said the accusations were just more Republican dirty tricks of the kind that

she and Governor Sanford had been trying to expurgate. On the same day, South Carolina Democratic voters looking for someone to run for the Senate against the extremist Jim DeMint, nominated an unemployed man facing a criminal indictment on sex charges. Al Greene spent no money on the campaign except his $10,400 filing fee, which someone apparently sneaked to him illegally. He had signed an affidavit as a pauper to get a public defender for his trial. In post-election interviews, which was the first time most people heard or saw him, Greene’s replies consisted almost entirely of the words “no,” “yes” and “no comment.” The suspicion is that Republicans put him in the race in hopes that African-American voters, who make up half the vote in Democratic primaries, would confuse him with Al Green, the legendary soul musician from Forrest City, Ark., where he started a popular blues band. They apparently did, although the returns indicated there were other problems. In many precincts Greene got far more votes than people who actually went to the polls. The loser has asked the South Carolina Democratic State Committee to hold a new primary. The Federal Election Commission is investigating Greene’s nimble financing. We can appreciate South Carolina’s honoring an Arkansas legend because we typically disdain the great African-American icons from the Delta. We should recognize South Carolina’s greater cultural sensitivity but let’s keep everything else separate.

saying plainly that she “cast the deciding vote” on health care reform. But on Wednesday, the day after she survived that runoff, and as she confronted a Republican opponent in the fall who will try to damage her by tying that health care reform vote around her neck in a state where the overall voting pool opposes that vote, she said just as plainly in a newspaper interview that she “did not cast the deciding vote.” True both times, with “not” and without. The Senate bill that eventually became law could not even have moved to the floor for debate if she had not agreed to give Majority Leader Harry Reid the essential No. 60 vote to end the Republican filibuster. She purposely made herself the last, deciding vote for cloture. But first she got the public option taken out. But, then, when the Senate convened to consider the revised version of the bill via the budget reconciliation process requiring a simple majority of only 51 votes, meaning her vote was not vital, she voted “no.” This was the version that went to the president. It was the operative, relevant, decisive version. She opposed it. She did not cast the deciding vote. She explained at the time that this budget reconciliation process lacked transparency, which was nonsense. What lacked transparency was the first bill she’d cast the deciding vote for, including as

it did that last-minute sop of millions in taxpayer debt to Nebraska’s Medicaid reimbursements to get Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson’s vote — a sop that was taken out in this budget reconciliation version that she voted against. She may have been for and against health care. But the one consistency is that she was unflinchingly in favor of extra money for Nebraska. So to try to explain Lincoln’s two wholly opposite statements on being decisive one day and not decisive the next, her press secretary put out this mumbo and jumbo: “Senator Lincoln voted for the health care bill that became law because while shaping the final bill she was able to keep government controlled health care out and was able to add important provisions that add to Medicare’s solvency and specifically benefit Arkansas patients, providers and particularly small businesses. She has no regrets working hard to produce the best bill for Arkansas and being the deciding vote as part of a handful of senators who sought improvements.” I don’t see any need to copy and save that. John Brummett is a columnist and reporter for Stephens Media’s Arkansas News Bureau. You can read additional Brummett columns in The Times of North Little Rock. www.arktimes.com • june 17, 2010 17

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The Arkansas Shakespeare Festival returns to UCA.

By Werner Trieschmann

ow in its fourth year, the Arkansas Shakespeare Festival has settled into a pattern of staging a children’s show and a modern commercial piece alongside a couple of works by the festival’s namesake. Producing artistic director Matt Chiorini notes that besides “Henry V” and “Comedy of Errors” that “Alice in Wonderland” and “Dracula” “are there if you have no interest in Shakespeare.” Chiorini also notes that “Dracula” isn’t necessarily on the schedule in order to capitalize on the vampire craze that’s taken hold in American culture. “But that didn’t hurt in the selection,” quips Chiorini. “We’ve always done one big commercial show. This year I wanted to do a straight play. Somebody said the three plays that will always have an audience are ‘Christmas Carol,’ ‘Dracula’ and ‘Annie.’ The other thing is that last year our production of ‘Macbeth’ was dark and moody and people really seemed to like it. They liked to go from the heat to sit down and experience something dark and moody.” Even though this year’s Shakespeare Festival takes place in an economic environment that appears to be recovering, Chiorini acknowledges that his company of players, which numbers over 50 and includes actors, designers and directors, had to do more with less this go-round. “We have a year to look ahead when planning the festival and we knew we were going to have to batten down the hatches. Yeah, it’s tougher this year. You know, there’s a quote from a John Lennon song, ‘Give me a tuba and I’ll make something come out of it.’ We’ll find a way every year.” Chiorini is directing the history play “Henry V,” which he says has been a favorite of his for 20 years. His approach is a stripped-down one, a way of staging necessitated not by the times but by the play itself. “It’s an unusual play,” he notes. “Right from the first sentence the play is telling the audience there is no way we can have a thousand people for a battle and we are actors on a stage and we’re doing the best we can. That is unusual in any play. It gives us life to stage it in a way that’s simpler. Our audiences are going to get a really intimate, black box production of a really remarkable play.

Once they accept that a black box is a throne then they’ll focus on the characters and the beautiful words.” For this festival, Chiorini estimates that about a third of his company comes from outside the state and many of those have local ties. He doesn’t want the productions to feel like they’ve been imported from somewhere else. “We hired a few more locals this year,” says Chiorini. “It was really important to us that the Arkansas Shakespeare Festival feels like Arkansas.” The company is fortified with a healthy dose of young blood with interns filing out roles on stage and working behind the scenes. What they do every day is remind the quote unquote professionals what it’s all about, says Chiorini. “There’s no cynicism for them. We all know that nobody makes any money doing this. You have to do it because you love it or do something else.”

FORTUNE MADE HIS SWORD: “Henry V” will be featured along with “Comedy of Errors,” “Dracula” and “Alice in Wonderland” at the Arkansas Shakespeare Festival.

Arkansas Shakespeare Festival “Comedy of Errors,” “Henry V,” “Dracula,” “Alice in Wonderland” Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, Conway June 16-July 3 Tickets: $20 adults, $15 seniors/UCA community, $10 children/ students for all performances/seats for “Comedy of Errors,” “Henry V” and “Dracula”; $10 adults and children for “Alice in Wonderland”; Sundays are pay what you can 501-450-3265 www.arkshakes.com

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decades-old NOLA staple and one heck of an odd party band. They integrate zydeco accordion into ’60s soul-garage covers, James Brown brass into washboard porch stompers and Austin roots-rock into a traditional Spanish palette for a seamless sonic potpourri perfect for the ol’ drink and shimmy. And with multiple members sporting histories with Alex Chilton as well as Panther Burns, they bring along a fair bit of Arkansas cred to Little Rock. Also in the cred department, David Simon and Eric Overmyer count themselves as fans of the band, squeezing “Boom Boom Boom,” their signature song, into an episode of “Homicide: Life on the Streets” and “Flame On” into the pilot of “Treme.” JT.

By Lindsey Millar and John Tarpley

TH U R S D AY 6 / 1 7

JUNETEENTH

7 p.m., UALR University Theatre. Free.

n The Central High National Historic Site and Power 92 join together to present the first of several Juneteenth events on Thursday. The celebration, as AfricanAmerican history students should know, harkens back to 1865, when Union soldiers landed in Galveston, Texas, with word that the war was over and those enslaved could go free. Fittingly, the event on Thursday promises to trace the African-American struggle to gain freedom and respect. The centerpiece of the program, a dance piece called “Invisible Chains” by choreographer Aeren J. Bates, traces the “lineage of the African Diaspora.” Other featured performers include poets A.P.O.L.L.O. and Krysis, actor Sean Freeman, and musicians Q Note & Griff and Authur C. Smith Jr. On Saturday, the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP offers its own Juneteenth celebration, from noon until 10 p.m., with music —gospel, jazz, hip-hop, blues and R&B are all promised — a fashion show, food booths, speakers and kids’ activities. Ninth Street, west of Broadway, will be blocked off for the event. Meanwhile, also on Saturday, in the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, there’ll be music and film workshops, from 10 a.m. to noon, and a screening of the great Stax-in-LAconcert-documentary “Wattstax” and other films from noon to 5 p.m. Following the screening of “Wattstax,” Arkansas native and former Stax Records head Al Bell, who organized the legendary concert, will discuss “the power of music as a unifier of all people.” LM.

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OPERA IN THE OZARKS

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MEWITHOUTYOU/ DAVID BAZAN

9 p.m., Juanita’s. $13 adv., $15 d.o.s.

STAX LEGEND: Al Bell speaks at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center as part of Juneteenth celebrations. of Italy and the sociopolitical changes that followed. It’s a great opportunity to get off the beaten path and visit one of Arkansas’s most proudly quirked-out towns. The series runs through June 16, with an anniversary gala at the historic Eureka Springs Auditorium on June 17. JT.

THE IGUANAS

9 p.m., Sticky Fingerz. $10.

n A polycultural mish-mash of Latin and Caribbean instrumentation and New Orleans soul and R&B, The Iguanas are a

7:15 p.m., Inspiration Point, near Eureka Springs. $20-$25.

n Now going into its 60th (!) season, Opera in the Ozarks is back again to fill the hills and cobblestones of Eureka Springs with soaring, gymnastic vocals from up-andcoming singers from around the country. Described as an “opera boot camp,” the performers undergo six weeks of intensive rehearsal before performing three operas over the course of a month. This year, the nationally renowned program presents three familiar pieces in Bizet’s “Carmen,” the staple that legitimized comic operas; Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” long considered one of the greatest pieces of music ever, period, and Puccini’s “Tosca,” a musical account of Napoleon’s invasion 20 june 17, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES

n “Can’t you see you’re not making Christianity any better? You’re just making rock music worse.” That’s one of the greatest lines ever spoken by wise old Hank Hill, the ever-frustrated protagonist of “King of the Hill,” the greatest and most sublime primetime cartoon ever. The bulk of Christian rock since the advent of the distortion pedal has been bloated with indistinguishable takes on easily digestible theology and triumphant but corny praise tracks: garish punk interpretations of Psalms and, as a minister friend calls them, “Jesus is my girlfriend” songs. Then you have mewithoutYou: two sons of a Jewish father and Episcopal mother who converted and raised their family in a Sufi Muslim household. They grew up to be freegans (dumpster divers) and post-punk experimental musicians who juggle references to Song of Songs, John Donne and Kurt Vonnegut behind a twitchy, driving assault of guitar and drums that transcends any religious label. Sonically and thematically, they’re miles more dangerous than the bulk of their ready-made ilk both at Christian rock festivals and on MTV. Rubik, a synth-pop act from Helsinki that dominates Finnish charts, opens. David Bazan, the controversial singer who used to be the de facto head of faith-based indierock until his recent turn to agnosticism, co-headlines. (See our profile on Bazan on page 26.) JT.

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“¡CELEBRATE!”

Noon, North Shore Riverwalk, North Little Rock. $10 adv., $15 d.o.e.

SUFI STRUM SQUAD: Eccentric post-punkers mewithoutYou co-headline Juanita’s this Saturday alongside David Bazan (A.K.A. Pedro the Lion).

n If you’ve fallen into a Father’s Day rut of skipping church with your dad to go fishing/golfing/all-you-can-eat-buffeting, how ’bout a little international music and culture to change the pace. That’s what the organizers of “¡Celebrate!”

HONKY TONK HENDRIX: The mind-blowing country guitarist Junior Brown visits Juanita’s on Father’s Day. promise — with two exclamation points no less — in this second annual event in North Little Rock. The music line-up includes locals Malcadence, Fayetteville party band Groovement, Texas teen allgirl band Atomic Pink and Latino artists Sangre Michoacana, Cadetes-de-Linares and Las Kponeras. There’s a motorcycle show, where you can register to win a new custom bike; a Latin dance contest that features more $1,000 in cash and prizes; food and drink vendors and a carnival that opens on Saturday at 6 p.m. Children under 13 get in for free. Get more info at myspace.com/celebratearkansas. LM.

JUNIOR BROWN 7:30 p.m., Juanita’s. $15.

n In the country music universe, Junior Brown is a planet unto himself, light years away from alt-country, outlaw troubadours, watered-down twang-pop and Texas roots rockers. On one hand, he’s a country and western traditionalist under a 10-gallon hat and nudie suit, supported on stage

by a minimal snare drum, acoustic guitar and stand-up bass. Yet the man himself is a head-scratching, jaw-dropping, honkytonk Hendrix, fusing together the hee-haw of Chet Atkins with the surf-rock of Dick Dale and the proto-shred of Chuck Berry. Junior’s weapon of choice is his signature guit-steel dubbed “Big Red,” a gorgeous mutant contraption that fuses a classic six-string electric to a lap steel guitar and, alongside its operator and his wife, made its way into one of Gap’s “this is easy” advertisements in the late-’90s. Brown’s a sight to behold, fingers jumping about the frets with gymnastic ease, updating the bluegrass standard “Sugar Foot Rag” one minute and taking “Voodoo Chile” to the barn the next. JT.

M O N D AY 6 /2 1

‘THE WIZARD OF OZ’

7:30 p.m., Robinson Center Music Hall. $27-$52.

n Has there ever been a family film

more ingrained into the popular Western consciousness than “The Wizard of Oz?” Clicking shoes, the Wicked Witch of the West, the golden road: It’s all become part of our day-to-day imagery. So, naturally, when a theater troupe attempts to take the classic to stage, it has to do it faithfully and with all the attention to detail and devotion of, say, “Hamlet.” Based on early reviews, it looks like this national tour has pulled it off: the gorgeous emerald and gold palette, the costumes, the songs, the whole feel of the original appear to be painstakingly faithful to the 1939 classic. (Maybe a bit too much for this writer, who has an all-too-real, deepseated and borderline-incapacitating fear of those damn flying monkeys.) Oz by way of Kansas comes to Little Rock’s Robinson Center Music Hall for a limited engagement that should pack the house through its four-day run, ending June 24. JT.

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JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT

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

n What a week to be a Drive-By Truckers fan, huh? The alt-country mega act plays Revolution’s anniversary show on Friday and the Wednesday before sees Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, another beloved outfit fronted by a former Trucker who wrote and played along with the guys for six years and on three near-universally acclaimed albums. Hailing from one of America’s greatest unsung musical hubs, Muscle Shoals, Ala., Isbell and his Unit work in a mural of country-soul, replete with broken-heart-on-beer-soaked-sleeve lyrics and masculine melancholy in a paced, but driving, update on the most lovelorn moments of classic country. If you’ve ever wanted to see someone hide the tears in his eyes with his cowboy hat, here’s your chance. JT.

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THURSDAY, 6/17

n Local music producer and event planner J-One kicks off “Forever Young,” a three-day birthday party, tonight at Deep Ultra Lounge, 9 p.m. The Ted Ludwig Trio doubles up its already busy gig duties tonight: The trio plays Capitol Bar & Grill at 5 p.m., free, before taking its guitar jazz to The Afterthought, 8 p.m., $5. Camden native and blues warrior Michael Burks heads to Benton’s new hub for bar band action, Denton’s Trotline, 9 p.m. Classic rock radio staples and masters of the power ballad, R.E.O. Speedwagon, play Magic Springs’ Timberwood Amphitheater, $22.99-$44.99. The Rep plays on with “Smokey Joe’s Cafe,” the Tony-award winning musical revue celebrating the greatest hits from songwriting duo Lieber and Stoller, 8 p.m., $20-$40.

FRIDAY, 6/18

n Those missing the glory days of raves, direct your attention to The Village. Promoters Cybertribe present “Wicked” with DJs Datsik, Reid Speed, Justin Sane, Sleek, Sleepy Genius and a whole mess of others, 9 p.m., $15-$25. Vocal jazz act Cody Belew & Co. croon the standards at The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. Hot Springs gets two of Little Rock’s most respected, beloved acts with the smart guitar pop of Love Ghost and the blues rock of Greg Spradlin Outfit; they’ll be at Maxine’s Pub, 9 p.m., $5. Mojo Depot, the shuffling country act, celebrates its 25th anniversary at White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m., $5. New hard rockers Afternoon Delight and Siversa join long-tenured experimental modern rock act Underclaire at Juanita’s, 10 p.m., $5. The musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” continues at the Weekend Theater, $14-$18.

SATURDAY, 6/19

n Verizon Arena gets a night of big names in Christian music with singersongwriter Chris Tomlin and former DC Talk member TobyMac, 7 p.m., $26.75-$36.75. Local folk-rock songsmith Jonathan Wilkins plays a solo gig at Town Pump, 10 p.m., $3. White Water Tavern throws a summer dance party with two of Little Rock’s best, DJs g-force and Cameron Holifield, 9:30 p.m., $3. Off the heels of a new album, “Blackwater Sessions,” pop-punkers Embrace the Crash head to Bill St. Grill and Pub, 10 p.m., $5. Ambient, industrial, definitely experimental act Medicide trucks to Hot Springs to celebrate the release of its debut album, “Hazardous Garbage,” at Maxine’s Pub; the band’s joined by Southern Goths What Army and the chill, freeform electronica of Chitinous Reflex/ Circadian Drone, 9:30 p.m., $5. “OFF TO SEE …”: “The Wizard of Oz” comes to Little Rock for a four-day limited engagement. www.arktimes.com • june 17, 2010 21

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Bowling for Rhinos. A benefit for rhinoceros preservation by the Little Rock Zoo chapter of the American Association of Zookeepers. Millenium Bowl, 6 PM, $20. 7200 Counts Massie Road, Maumelle. www.littlerockzoo.com.

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Untamed Shrews. The Loony Bin, 8 PM, $7-$12. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. www. loonybincomedy.com.

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“We Feed the World.” Urban Garden Association and CAAH (Conserving Arkansas’ Agricultural Heritage) screen film about globalization, agriculture, food production and distribution. Faulkner County Library, 6:30 PM, free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www.fcl.org.

Nature Explorers Day Camp. This “nature detective” camp with five days of hikes, visits with live animals, nature programs, and more is designed for kids ages 7-9. Preregistration and payment required. Pinnacle Mountain State Park, Through 6/18, $85. 11901 Pinnacle Valley Road. 501-868-5806. www.ArkansasStateParks.com/ PinnacleMountain.

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“Forever Young,” J-One Birthday Bash Weekend. Deep Ultra Lounge, 9 PM. 322 President Clinton Blvd. Brian Martin. Maxine’s, 10 PM, free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. Brian Ramsey. Town Pump, 10 PM, $3. 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 501-663-9802. Brown, Black and Red. Gusano’s, 9 PM, $5. 2915 Dave Ward Drive, Conway. 501-329-1100. www.gusanospizza.com. House Arrest. Electric Cowboy, 10 PM. 9515 Interstate 30. 501-562-6000. www.electriccowboy.com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 PM. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Kevin Gordon. White Water Tavern, 10 PM, $5. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.myspace. com/whitewatertavern. Lovedrug, Bear Colony, All the Day Holiday. Juanita’s, 9 PM, $10 adv., $12 d.o.s. 1300 S. Main St. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas. com. Michael Burks. Denton’s Trotline, 9 PM. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717. The Panic Switch. West End Smokehouse and Tavern, 10 PM, $5. 215 N. Shackleford. 501-224-7665. www.westendsmokehouse.net. R . E . O . S p e e d w a g o n . Magic SpringsTimberwood Amphitheater, 8 PM, $29.99-$44.99. 1701 E. Grand Ave., Hot Springs. Ryan Couron. Grumpy’s Too, 9 PM, free. 1801 Green Mountain Drive. 501-225-9650. Ted Ludwig Trio. The Afterthought, 8 PM, $5. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 PM. 111 W. President Clinton Ave. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Thirsty Thursdays. 21 and up. Juanita’s, 8 PM. 1300 S. Main St. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com. Tragikly White (headliner), Rob & Tyndall (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 PM, $5 after 8:30pm. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-3755351. www.cajunswharf.com.

Reservations required. Clinton Presidential Center, 7 PM, $27.95. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 370-8000. “Invisible Chains: A Juneteenth Celebration of True Independence.” With poets, musicians and dancers, including A.P.O.L.L.O, Krysis, Sean Freeman, Q Note and Griff and Authur C. Smith, Jr. UALR University Theatre, 7 PM, free. 2801 South Unversity Ave.

WE CAN’T FIGHT THE FEELING: That REO Speedwagon, which returns to Central Arkansas on Thursday after providing the soundtrack to ice skaters at Verizon late last year, should be the house band for Magic Springs. Their songs sound like they were made to be played during slo-mo roller coaster rides and water slides. Lather them with sunscreen, give them giant sun hats, build a ride and name it for Kevin Cronin (“The Cronin” actually sounds scarier than “The Lightning Bolt.”, — Let’s make this happen, Magic Springs. The concert starts at 8 p.m. Admission to Magic Springs, which runs from $29.99 to $39.99, gets you into the concert. For $5 or $10 more, you can buy a reserved seat.

1 Oz. Jig. Midtown Billiards, 6/19, 12:30 AM, $5 non-members. 1316 Main Street. 501-372-9990‚ midtownar.com. Afternoon Delight, Siversa, Underclaire. All ages. Juanita’s, 10 PM, $5. 1300 S. Main St. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com. Apple Kahler & The Hoodoo Goddess. Town Pump, 10 PM, $3. 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 501-663-9802. Chris Henry. Flying Saucer, 9 PM, $3. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-7468. www. beerknurd.com/stores/littlerock. Cody Belew & Co.. The Afterthought, 9 PM, $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com. Crash Meadows. Gusano’s, 9 PM, $5. 2915 Dave Ward Drive, Conway. 501-329-1100. www. gusanospizza.com. Crooked Ways, Life Won’t Wait, Octaves, Hollywood Homicide, Dead Beat. Soundstage, 8 PM, $7. 1008 Oak St., Conway. Cybertribe presents “Wicked” with DJs Datsik, Reid Speed, Justin Sane, Sleek, Sleepy Genius and more. The Village, 9 PM, $15-$25. 3915 S. University Ave. 501-570-0300. www.thevillagelive.com. Donna Massey & The Blue Eyed Soul (headliner), Carl & Mia (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 PM, $5 after 8:30pm. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com. “Forever Young,” J-One Birthday Bash Weekend. Bill St. Grill and Pub, 9 PM. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-353-1724. The Iguanas. Sticky Fingerz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8 PM, $10. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com. Jeff Coleman. Cregeen’s Irish Pub, 8 PM, free. 301 Main St., NLR. 501-376-7468. www. cregeens.com. John and Kenny. Capi’s, 8 PM, free. 11525 Cantrell Suite 917. 501-225-9600. www.capisrestaurant.com. Lance Lopez. Denton’s Trotline, 9 PM, $5. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717. Love Ghost, Greg Spradlin Outfit. Maxine’s, 9:30 PM, $5. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. Mojo Depot 25th Anniversary Show. White Water Tavern, 10 PM, $5. White Water Tavern, 9 PM, $5. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.myspace.com/whitewatertavern. North Little Rock Community Band. Lakewood Village Amphitheatre, 7 PM, free. Lakewood Village, NLR. Out of Ashes. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 9 PM, $5. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782.

Upcoming events Concert tickets through Ticketmaster by phone at 975-7575 or online at www.ticketmaster.com unless otherwise noted. JUNE 16-JULY 3: Arkansas Shakespeare Festival. The annual festival presents “Comedy of Errors,” “Henry V,” “Dracula” and “Alice in Wonderland.” $20. UCA, Conway. 501-269-4815, arkshakes.com. JULY 15: Robert Plant and Band of Joy. 8 p.m., $65-$85. Robinson Center Music Hall, 7 Statehouse Plaza. 666-1761, ticketmaster. com. JULY 29: Justin Bieber, Sean Kingston. 7 p.m., $31-$51. Verizon Arena, NLR. 800-7453000, www.ticketmaster.com. JUNE 21-23: “The Wizard of Oz.” Dorothy and friends hit the stage in this adaptation of the movie classic. 7:30 p.m., $27-$52. Robinson Center Music Hall, 7 Statehouse Plaza. 244-8800, celebrityattractions.com JULY 20: WWE Smackdown. 6:30 p.m., $17-$62. Verizon Arena. 800-745-3000, verizonarena.com. AUG. 10: Built to Spill. 8:30 p.m. The Village, 3915 S. University. 570-0300, thevillagelive.com. SEPT. 30: Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato. 7 p.m., $40-$93, V.I.P. Verizon Arena, NLR. 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com. OCT. 7-9: Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival. B.B. King, Dr. John, Taj Mahal and many more. $25. Downtown Helena. bluesandheritagefest.com. cstonepub.com. The Panic Switch. West End Smokehouse and Tavern, 6/17, 10 PM, $5. 215 N. Shackleford. 501-224-7665. www.westendsmokehouse.net. R i v e r To p P a r t y : “ T h e Yo u n g a n d Freshest” featuring Tawanna Campbell, DJ Kookieman, DJ Tre’Day. The Peabody Little Rock, 8 PM, $5. 3 Statehouse Plaza. 501-975-7276. www.rivertopparty.com. Rockin’ Johnson. Reno’s Argenta Cafe, 9 PM, free. 312 N. Main St., NLR. 501-376-2900. www. renosargentacafe.com. St. Louis Irish Arts. Ozark Folk Center State Park, 7 PM, $6-$10. 1032 Park Ave., Mountain View. Sychosis, Dirtyfinger, Livid. Downtown Music Hall, 8 PM, $7. 215 W. Capitol. 501-3761819. downtownshows.homestead.com. Thomas East. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 PM, free. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-3242999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Tim Meitzen. Grumpy’s Too, 9 PM, free. 1801 Green Mountain Drive. 501-225-9650. Tonya Leeks & Co. Markham Street Grill and Pub, 9 PM, free. 11321 W. Markham St. 501-2242010. www.markhamst.com.

Comedy

Untamed Shrews. The Loony Bin, 8 PM, $7-$12. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. www. loonybincomedy.com.

LeCtures

James Lee Witt. The former FEMA deirector offers the keynote address at the opening of the Clinton Center’s new exhibit, “Nature Unleashed: Earthquakes & Hurricanes.” Clinton Presidential Center, 6:30 PM, free. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 370-8000.

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Nature Explorers Day Camp. See June 17.

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Arkansas River Blues Society presents Gil Franklin. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 9 PM, $5. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub. com. Brothers With Different Mothers. Sticky Fingerz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 PM, $5 early admission. 107 Commerce St. 501-3727707. www.stickyfingerz.com. Brown Sole Shoes. Gusano’s, 9 PM, $5. 2915 Dave Ward Drive, Conway. 501-329-1100. www.

gusanospizza.com. Bushdog. Fox And Hound, 10 PM, $5. 2800 Lakewood Village, NLR. 501-753-8300. Chris Tomlin and TobyMac, “Hello Tonight Summer Tour 2010.” All ages. Verizon Arena, 7 PM, $26.75-$36.75. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 800-745-3000. Cody Mcgill and John Williams, Tate Smith and Matt Paul, Keyton Gill. Soundstage, 8 PM, $6. 1008 Oak St., Conway. DJ g-force, Cameron Holifield. White Water Tavern, 10 PM, $3. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.myspace.com/whitewatertavern. DJ Michael Tank (disco), Brandon Peck (lobby). Discovery Nightclub, 9 PM, $10. 1021 Jessie Road. 501-664-4784. www.latenightdisco. com. Embrace the Crash. Bill St. Grill and Pub, 10 PM, $5. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-3531724. The Gettys. Denton’s Trotline, 9 PM, $5. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717. Grayson Shelton. Reno’s Argenta Cafe, 9 PM, free. 312 N. Main St., NLR. 501-376-2900. www. renosargentacafe.com. Integrity. The Afterthought, 9 PM, $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com. Jonathan Wilkins. Town Pump, 10 PM, $3. 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 501-663-9802. Kingsdown, EKG, Benjamin del Shreve. Revolution, 8:30 PM, $7-$10. 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090. revroom.com. Medicide, What Army, Chitinous Reflex/ Circadian Drone. Maxine’s, 9:30 PM, $5. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. mewithoutYou, David Bazan, Rubik. 18 plus. Juanita’s, 9 PM, $13 adv., $15 d.o.s. 1300 S. Main St. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com. Pope County Bootleggers. Midtown Billiards, 12:30 AM, $5 non-members. 1316 Main St. 501-372-9990. midtownar.com. Shannon Boshears (headliner), Jim Mills (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 PM, $5 after 8:30pm. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-3755351. www.cajunswharf.com. S k i l l e t . Magic Springs-Timberwood Amphitheater, $29.99-$44.99. 1701 E. Grand Ave., Hot Springs. S o n s o f To n a t i u h , W i t c h ’s T i t , Buzzardstein, Pallbearer. Downtown Music Hall, 8 PM, $7. 215 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownshows.homestead.com. St. Louis Irish Arts. Ozark Folk Center State Park, 7 PM, $6-$10. 1032 Park Avenue, Mountain View. Taylor Made. West End Smokehouse And Tavern, 10 PM, $5. 215 N. Shackleford. 501-2247665. www.westendsmokehouse.net. Texas in July, An Early Ending. The Village, 7 PM. 3915 S. University Ave. 501-570-0300. www.thevillagelive.com. Thomas East. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 PM, free. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-3242999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Tim Meitzen. Grumpy’s Too, 9 PM, free. 1801 Green Mountain Drive. 501-225-9650. Trustees. Markham Street Grill and Pub, 9 PM, free. 11321 W. Markham St. 501-224-2010. www.markhamst.com.

Comedy

Untamed Shrews. The Loony Bin, 8 PM, $7-$12. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. www. loonybincomedy.com.

events

Certified Arkansas Farmers Market. A weekly outdoor market featuring produce, meats and other foods from Arkansas farmers. Argenta Market, Through 10/17: 7 AM, free. 521 N. Main St., NLR. 501-379-9980. www.argentamarket. com/. Farmers Market. River Market Pavilions, 7 AM. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www. rivermarket.info. J-One presents: Grown Folks Game Night. Cotham’s In The City, 9 PM, $10. 1401 W. 3rd St. 501-370-9177. www.cothamsinthecity. com. Juneteenth Celebration. Al Bell, the local record industry legend, presides over the event, featuring film and music workshops and a screening of “Wattstax.” Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 10 AM, free. 501 W. 9th St.

501-376-4602. www.mosaictemplarscenter. com. Juneteenth Family Festival. NAACP’s yearly unity celebration with live music, vendors, fashion shows, food, activities and more. 9th and Arch St., noon, free. 9th and Arch St. Little Rock Multitap gaming night. A bi-monthly video competition night. ACAC, Third Saturday of every month, 6:30 PM; first Thursday of every month, 6:30 PM, $5 membership fee. 900 S. Rodney Parham Road. 244-2974. www. littlerockmultitap.com. Super Summer Saturdays. Programs and activities related to the center’s Summer exhibit, “Nature Unleashed.” Clinton Presidential Center, 10 AM, free. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 370-8000.

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Cinema Under the Stars: “All Dogs Go to Heaven.” Hot Springs National Park Memorial Field Airport, 8 PM, free. 525 Airport Road, Hot Springs.

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sUnDAY, JUne 20 musiC

The Bad Choices open blues jam. Fox And Hound, 4 PM. 2800 Lakewood Village, NLR. free. An Elegant Evening of Jazz with the Dave Rogers Trio and Genine LaTrice Perez. UALR University Theatre, 5:30 PM. 2801 S. Unversity Ave. Haste The Day, Mychildren Mybride, Upon A Burning Body, Something To Stand For. The Village, 7 PM, $13-$15. 3915 S. University Ave. 501-570-0300. www.thevillagelive.com. Hi-Five City, Lasting Era, Close Your Eyes, It Prevails. Soundstage, 8 PM, $6. 1008 Oak St., Conway. Junior Brown, Elise Davis Band. 18 plus. Juanita’s, 7:30 PM, $15. 1300 S. Main St. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com. Shannon McClung. Flying Saucer, 9 PM, $3. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-7468. www. beerknurd.com/stores/littlerock. Successful Sundays with One Stone Reggae Crew, Tawanna Campbell, Tricia Reed. Ernie Biggs, 8 PM, $10 early admission. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com/. Sunday Jazz Brunch with Ted Ludwig and Joe Cripps. Vieux Carre, 11 AM. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.vieuxcarrecafe.com/.

events

“!Celebrate!” an International Music and Culture Festival. The second annual day celebration of culture, food, music and dance. Carnival rides and games open at 6 p.m. North Shore Riverwalk, noon, $10 adv., $15 d.o.e. Riverwalk Drive, NLR. www.northlittlerock.org.

monDAY, JUne 21 musiC

Monday Night Jazz with the Dr. Rex Bell Jazz Trio. The Afterthought, 8 PM, $5. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com. Moose, L.A. Wildfires, Still Reign, Crankbait. Soundstage, 8 PM, $6. 1008 Oak St., Conway. Richie Johnson. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 PM, $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-3755351. www.cajunswharf.com.

sports

Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield Cardinals. Dickey-Stephens Park, 7:10 PM, $6-$12. 400 W Broadway St., NLR. 501-6641555. www.travs.com. Y-Flyer 2010 National Championship. A five-day sailing festival with junior and senior regattas, races, parties and seminars. Grande Maumelle Sailing Club. 12000 Maumelle Harbor Rd.

Camps

“Summer Arts Blast.” Campers in rising grades 1-5 will experience literary, culinary,

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A&E News

New on Rock Candy n Samantha Allen, 28, long a presence in local music promotion, has purchased Downtown Music, 211 W. Capitol, from founding owner Alan Wells, who’ll continue booking shows in the venue through June. On July 2, Allen celebrates the changeover with music from Fallen Empire, Iron Tongue, A Darkened Era and Microcosm. Allen brings a wealth of experience in booking. She started at Vino’s as a teen, working for the street team before graduating to become the venue’s chief booking agent, which she kept up for

ALLEN: Taking over Downtown Music.

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Continued from page 23 visual, musical, theater and horticultural arts in a natural setting. Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, 9 AM, $100. 20919 Denny Road. 501-8217275. www.wildwoodpark.org.

TUESDAY, JUNE 22 Music

Brian & Nick. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 PM, $5 after 8:30pm. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www. cajunswharf.com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 PM. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Josh the Devil & the Sinners, Shoplift, Spector 45. The Enjoy Life, 9 PM, $6. 805 W. 4th St., NLR. 501-414-0195. thenjoylife.com. Karaoke Tuesday. The Prost, 8 PM, free. 120 Ottenheimer. 501-244-9550. Karaoke with Big John Miller. Denton’s Trotline, 8 PM. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717. Rockstar Karaoke. Maxine’s, 10 PM, free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. Spero, Vanhoose, Quin & Dodson; Echo Canyon. White Water Tavern, 9 PM, donations. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.myspace.com/ whitewatertavern. Taproot, Ice Nine Kills, Destrphy, Sychosys, The Last Shade. The Village, 8 PM, $14-$17. 3915 S. University Ave. 501-570-0300. www.thevillagelive.com. Tuesday Jam Session with Carl Mouton. The Afterthought, 9 PM, free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

Dance

“Latin Night!.” Revolution, 7 PM, $5 regular, $7 under 21. 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090. www.revroom.com.

Events

Certified Arkansas Farmers Market. See 24 june 17, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES

four years. For the last year, she’s helped manage The Village. Allen says that she plans on keeping Downtown a “heavy” venue, but will also appeal to a broader audience by booking everything from “country to death metal.” Her main adjustment, she says, will be to expand the club’s hours. Initially, she plans to open 5 p.m. until close Wednesday through Saturday, with occasional Sunday, Monday or Tuesday shows. By opening earlier in the evening, she says she hopes to cultivate a bar crowd. And by mid-July or August, she plans to operate as restaurant, serving soups, gumbos, sandwiches and salads from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday, Wells was not available for comment, but Allen said that she and he had been friends for years and that he approached her about purchasing the club and thought she had a vision consonant with his original idea for Downtown. n Doron Ofir Casting, the reality show agency who wrangled up characters for “Survivor,” “Wife Swap,” “Tool Academy” and the single most important cultural landmark of this century, “Jersey Shore,” is out to find a few good

June 19. Farmers Market. River Market Pavilions, 7 AM PM. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www. rivermarket.info. Science Cafe. The regular gathering of scientists and science hobbyists discusses, this week, “Allergies: Nothing to Sneeze About.” The Afterthought, 7 PM, free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

Sports

Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield Cardinals. Dickey-Stephens Park, 7:10 PM, $6-$12. 400 W Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs. com. Y-Flyer 2010 National Championship. See June 21.

Books

Meet the Author: Mara Leveritt. Best known for her ongoing coverage of the West Memphis 3, Leveritt speaks at William F. Laman Library, 6:30 PM, free. 2801 Orange St., NLR. 758-1720.

Camps

“Summer Arts Blast.” See June 21.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23 Music

Brian Martin. Maxine’s, 9:30 PM, free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com. The Coathangers, Predator. The Exchange, 10 PM, $5. 100 Exchange St., Hot Springs. www. myspace.com/theexchangevenue. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit. Revolution, 8:30 PM, $10. 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090. revroom.com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 PM. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Karaoke with Big John Miller. Denton’s Trotline, 8 PM. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717. Lucious Spiller Band. Sticky Fingerz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 PM, $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.

partydownsouth.com. And check Rock Candy to read John Tarpley’s preview of season one.

NEW GOOD FEAR: From Oaklandbased label. Southern Snookies and redneck Ronnies for a hillbilly twist on the MTV sensation. Tentatively titled “Party Down South,” the show, according to a press release from Doron Ofir, is looking for “the hottest and proudest Southerners ... who can prove that the party down South will rise again!” The casting company plans to take a casting RV through eight states — including Arkansas — to find a whole mess of yokels attractive enough to gawk at and just dumb enough not to realize that they’ll be mocked for an entire summer. If you’re one of those yokels, apply via

Real Live Tigers, The Horse Museum, Megamatt. The Enjoy Life, 9 PM, $6. 805 W. 4th St., NLR. 501-414-0195. thenjoylife.com. Reviver, Caravels, For the Record, Virtues. Soundstage, 8 PM, $6. 1008 Oak St., Conway. Rob & Tyndall. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 PM, $5 after 8:30pm. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www. cajunswharf.com. Tiffany Christopher. The Afterthought, 8 PM, $5. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com.

Comedy

The Sandman. The Loony Bin, 8 PM, $7-$12. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. www.loonybincomedy.com.

Events

Ya Ya’s “Sous Chef Showdown.” Chefs Nathan Miller and Derek Jones pit their culinary skills against each other for a beer-paired five-course meal. Reservations required. Ya Ya’s Euro Bistro, 7 PM, $50. 17711 Chenal Parkway. 501-821-1144. www.yiayias.com/littlerock/index.htm.

Film

Movies in the Park — “Kung Fu Panda.” Park opens at 6:30 p.m. Riverfront Park, Free. 400 President Clinton Avenue. www.moviesintheparklr. net.

Sports

Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield Cardinals. Dickey-Stephens Park, 6/21, 7:10 PM, $6-$12. 400 W Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs. com. Y-Flyer 2010 National Championship. See June 21.

Camps

“Summer Arts Blast.” See June 21.

THURSDAY, JUNE 24 Music

4 Elements (headliner), Darryl Edwards (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 PM, $5 after 8:30pm. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351.

n Gold Robot Records, an Oaklandbased limited edition vinyl label run by Rogers native Hunter Mack, announced last week the forthcoming release of a split 7” featuring Fayetteville/Little Rock favorite The Good Fear and Oakland act Colossal Yes. If you pre-order the split, due July 13, you immediately get a link to download mp3s. And you can stream both tracks now. n Matt Besser, Hogs fanatic and Little Rock’s ambassador to the shadowy, global organization known as the Upright Citizens Brigade, has done a hilarious, sports-centric, four-part interview with Razorback website, Arkansas Expats. Find it at http://www.arkansasexpats. com. n Ear Fear, the power duo featuring Tillman brothers 607 and Bobby, is back with not one, but two new albums: “Altar Call,” which 607 describes as “calm,” and “The Ignit Truth,” which he calls more “aggressive.” You can stream both via earfear.bandcamp.com.

www.cajunswharf.com. AETN Presents “Front Row with Wayland Holyfiend and Friends.” Public taping for AETN’s music series. RSVP to aetn.org/rsvp. University of Central Arkansas, 6:30 PM, free. 350 S. Donaghey, Conway. American Aquarium. White Water Tavern, 9 PM, $7. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.myspace. com/whitewatertavern. Band of Heathens, Matt Stell & The Crashers. 21 plus. Revolution, 9 PM, $7. 300 President Clinton Ave. 823-0090. revroom.com. Dave Williams & Co.. The Afterthought, 8 PM, $5. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com. Eisley, Lion & The Sail, Christie Dupree. The Village, 8 PM, $13-$16. 3915 S. University Ave. 501-570-0300. www.thevillagelive.com. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 PM. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com. Notion, Flash LaRue, Catskill Kids. Juanita’s, 9 PM, $5. 1300 S. Main St. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com. Pop Pistol, Secret Cities. Maxine’s, 9:30 PM, free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub. com. Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 PM. 111 W. President Clinton Ave. 501-374-7474. www. capitalhotel.com/CBG. Thirsty Thursdays. 21 and up. Juanita’s, 8 PM. 1300 S. Main St. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas. com.

Comedy

The Sandman. The Loony Bin, 6/23, 8 PM, $7-$12. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. www. loonybincomedy.com.

Events

Jim Wand. Considered one of the best hypnotists in the world, the psychology Ph.D performs. Oaklawn, 7:30 PM, $15. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-623-4411. www.oaklawn.com. “Pharewell to the Pharaohs.” A farewell party for the “World of the Pharaohs” exhibit. Arkansas

Arts Center, 6:30 PM, free for members, $35 nonmembers. MacArthur Park.

Poetry

inVerse. A bi-monthly poetry read and meet for local and area slam poets. ACAC, 7:30 PM, $5. 900 S. Rodney Parham Road. 244-2974.

SPortS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield Cardinals. Dickey-Stephens Park, 7:10 PM, $6-$12. 400 W Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs. com. Y-Flyer 2010 National Championship. See June 21.

CamPS

“Summer Arts Blast.” See June 21. Travelers Youth Baseball Camp. The youth baseball camp has Travelers coaching staff and players work with your child on hitting, throwing, catching and running. Dickey-Stephens Park, 9:30 AM, $120. 400 W Broadway St., NLR. 501-6641555. www.travs.com.

Michael Worsham, through Aug. 28. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000. ARKANSAS STUDIES INSTITUTE, 401 President Clinton Ave.: “Book Arts,” books transformed into art, through June. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 320-5792. ARGENTA ART MARKET, 510 Main St., NLR: Outdoor artists and crafters market, 8 a.m. to noon every Sat. BOSWELL-MOUROT FINE ART, 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Diana Ashley, sculpture; Anne Haley, watercolor and block prints; Judith Hudson, pastels and oils, through June 26. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 664-0030. CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road: “Let’s Eat!” paintings of the top chefs and restaurants in Little Rock by Carole Katchen, through June 19. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 224-1335. CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 509 Scott St.: “Passing on Our Gifts,” work by Melverue Abraham, Mary Shelton, LaToya Hobbs, Delita

Martin, Austin Grimes, David Mann, Sofia Calvert, Kathryn Grace Crawford, Aaron Izaquirre Dusek and Rebecca Alderfer. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 9 a.m.-noon Sun. 375-2342. CHROMA GALLERY, 5707 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Work by Robert Reep and other Arkansas artists. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 664-0880. GALLERY 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “A Couple of Cut-Ups,” recent works by Amy Edgington and Byron Werner, through July 10. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 664-8996. GREG THOMPSON FINE ART, 429 Main St., NLR: Matt McLeod, paintings, through July 10. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sat. 664-2787. HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “Collaborations,” paintings and sculpture by Kevin Cole, Benny Andrews, Kennith Humphrey, Tonia Mitchell, Marjorie Williams-Smith, photographs by Ernest C. Withers, and other work. 372-6822. HEIGHTS GALLERY, 5801 Kavanaugh Blvd.:

Arkansas artists. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 664-2772. KETZ GALLERY, 705 Main St., NLR: “Creative Expressions,” paintings by Dan Thornhill. 529-6330. LOCAL COLOUR GALLERY, 5811 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Work by artists in cooperative. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 265-0422. M2 GALLERY, 11525 Cantrell Road: Work by new artists Danny Broadway, Todd Williams, David Walker, Char Demoro and Morgan McMurry. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 225-5257. OLD STATE HOUSE, 300 W. Markham St.: “Arkansas/Arkansaw: A State and Its Reputation,” the evolution of the state’s hillbilly image; “Badges, Bandits & Bars: Arkansas Law & Justice,” state’s history of crime and punishment, through March 2011. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9685. RED DOOR GALLERY, 3715 JFK, NLR: Work by

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THIS WEEK IN THEATER “Jesus Christ Superstar.” Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s first Broadway collaboration uses rock opera to follow the last seven days in Christ’s life. The Weekend Theater, Through 7/3: Fridays, 7:30 PM; Saturdays, 7:30 PM; Sundays, 2:30 PM, $18. 1001 W. 7th St.. 501-374-3761. www.weekendtheater.org/. “Smokey Joe’s Cafe.” A Tony award-winning musical revue, celebrating the ’50s pop classics of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, through June 27. 8 p.m. Thu.-Sat.; 2 p.m., 7 p.m. Sun., 7 p.m. $20-40. Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St. 378-0405, therep.org Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Through 6/27. 601 Main Street. 378-0405. www. therep.org/. “Squabbles.” A happy, successful couple, Jerry and Alice, find themselves in a madhouse after taking in Alice’s cranky father, Abe, and Jerry’s mother, Mildred. Harding University, Thu 6/10, 6:15 PM, $25. 900 East Center Avenue. 501-279-4580. www.hardingtickets.com.

GALLERIES, MUSEUMS New exhibits, upcoming events ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “World of the Pharaohs: Treasures of Egypt Revealed,” artifacts from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through July 5, $14 on “Matinee Mondays” 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon. and also 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Tue.-Fri., otherwise $22 adults, $14 students, $5 off coupon at arkarts.com; “The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf,” through Aug. 22; “Currents in Contemporary Art,” “Masterworks,” “Paul Signac Watercolors and Drawings,” ongoing. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000. HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM, 200 E. Third St.: “You Fit into Me: Works by David Carpenter and Lindsey Maestri,” through Sept. 5; “Unprivate Mail: Arkansas Postcards and Cryptic Messages,” through Sept. 26; “John Chiaromonte and Maribeth Anders: The Responsibility of Internal Forces,” through Aug. 8. 324-9351. n Morrilton RAILROAD DEPOT AND MUSEUM: “5th annual Sculpture Invitational,” work by members of Arkansas Sculptors Guild, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. June 19, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. June 20, $5. 501-9913886.

GaLLerIeS, onGoInG exhIbItS.

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf,” through Aug. 22; “World of the Pharaohs: Treasures of Egypt Revealed,” artifacts from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through July 7, $22 adults, $14 students; “Currents in Contemporary Art,” “Masterworks,” “Paul Signac Watercolors and Drawings,” ongoing. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000. ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER COMMUNITY GALLERY, Terry House, 7th and Rock Sts.: “V.I.T.A.L. Artists Collective Inaugural Exhibit,” work by Melverue Abraham, Rex Deloney, LaToya Hobbs, Ariston Jacks, Kalari Turner and www.arktimes.com • june 17, 2010 25

The Gospel according to David Bazan

Former Christian rock hero captures in song a rocky fall from faith. by John Tarpley

n With an upbringing in the Assembly of God church, a degree in religion and philosophy from an affiliated Bible college and ears innocent of secular music until the age of 15, David Bazan’s path as a distinguished, celebrated singer-songwriter has defied any semblance of reasonable expectation. For 11 years, Bazan was the core member and principal songwriter of Pedro the Lion, a gentle, melancholic project carried by his soft baritone vocals and literate takes on Biblical morality. Since its inception in 1995, he released four full-length albums and five EPs, all largely admired by both critical circles and Christian rock contingents — an infrequent consensus to say the least. Dismissing any label of “Christian rock,” Bazan avoided anything resembling musical proselytizing, instead exploring complex themes of social justice and political hypocrisy as viewed through his ever-present, seemingly unshakeable spiritual lens. Yet as his music progressed, it began to reflect — with often uncomfortable intimacy —an increasingly tumultuous relationship to his religion and an outwardly

vitriolic attitude towards many in the mainstream Christian culture that embraced him. The songs became musical Cleansings of the Temple: frustrated and exhausted with moments of explicit anger, not to mention hints of his major disillusion to come. Before long, the beloved, de facto head of religious indie rock now was tearing into crowds with songs like 2004’s “Foregone Conclusion,” in which he sings “you were too busy steering the conversation toward the Lord/to hear the voice of the Spirit begging you to shut the fuck up.” As his spiritual confusion grew, so did his notoriously erratic behavior. While unapologetic for his filthy mouth and his tendency toward the bottle, Bazan found himself a legend in indie rock lore when security at the 2005 Cornerstone Festival (a stringently booze-free Christian music event) bounced their own headliner in for stumbling about the grounds shit-faced, slugging vodka from a milk jug. Months after, Pedro the Lion disbanded. Four years later, the provocateur is back and, for many of his religious fans who spent years as devotees, the news

eye opener: David Bazan’s latest album is in stark contrast to his earlier work. isn’t good. His newest album, “Curse Your Branches” is a harrowing account of a lifelong believer’s loss of faith and a formal surrender of a hard-fought battle against atheism and agnosticism. It’s an existential divorce album, heartbreaking regardless of one’s religious belief. With it, the more disillusioned of his fanbase now view him as an apostate at best and a heretic at worst. In “When We Fell,” he addresses salvation, damnation and the “threat of Hell … over [his] head,” directly presenting God with questions like “What am I afraid of/whom did I betray/in what medieval

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MEMPHIS BEAT TNT, Tuesdays 9 p.m. n Did you think, with the debut this year of shows like “Treme” and “Justified,” that maybe TV, in its newly ascendant position as a better source of entertainment than the cineplex, might finally have moved beyond treating the South as a giant cliche? No dice, thanks to “Memphis Beat,” a new series that debuts on Tuesday on TNT. As cartoon portrayals of Memphis culture and people go, this one seems to take fewer cues from “Walk the Line” than “Walk Hard,” the parody that followed. Jason Lee, worlds removed from the cantankerous culture geek of Kevin Smith films, plays Dwight Hendricks, a Memphis police detective who wears all black, drives a vintage GTO (mostly up and down Beale Street), solves crimes with his instincts and rallies the troops with lines like “Memphis is sacred ground.” His partner, Whiteside 26 june 17, 2010 • ARKANSAS TIMES

‘MEMPHIS BEAT’: Jason Lee stars, painfully. (Sam Hennings, looking like a refugee from “Spencer for Hire”), offers comic relief with lines like, “You ever try one of them vegan-tofu whatchamacallits? The dadgum thing made me hungrier than I was before I ate it.” And Alfre Woodard, slumming big time, plays a new lieutenant whose by-thebook nature provides a foil for Hendricks — but maybe not for long, according to the “Memphis Beat” press release: “Dwight may eventually win her over to a Memphis state of mind, especially when he takes the stage at his favorite hangout to perform a legendary song or two.” Apologies if you just threw up in your mouth a little. Even worse knowing that, for all the Memphis lore it tries, but fails, to wrap the narrative in, aside from some B-roll footage, “Memphis Beat” is filmed in New Orleans! Moreover,

the show’s mix of comedy and drama is as tone deaf as I’ve ever seen. The first scene in the first episode opens with a shot of a grisly gunshot wound to the head, and ends with the perp’s pants falling down in “hilarious” fashion. Not so bad it’s good; just bad, bad, bad. WORLD CUP ESPN and ABC, daily 6 a.m.-3 p.m.-ish. n I know little about soccer, but love watching. Even with the vuvuzelas, the tiny plastic horns that seemingly everyone in the stadium blows that sound like a giant swarm of bees, I find it super lulling, exactly the kind of respite from the summer heat I often look for my TV to provide. And, of course, occasionally, it’s the most exciting

kingdom does justice work this way?” It’s the sound of desperation, a man grasping for straws, unwilling to let a lifetime of belief and years invested into the study of faith and religion go to waste, all the while aware of the futility in his attempts to keep it alive. He even splays open his last few years at home in song, wrestling with a drinking problem only exacerbated by his spiritual devastation. This, all the while trying to act as a husband to his still-religious wife and as a dedicated father to a young daughter, whom he foresees, terrifyingly, as a drunk 23-year old, behind a wheel, killing herself and someone’s mother in “Please, Baby, Please.” It’s stark, unflinching stuff, but deftly carves a line between gorgeous, catchy and gut-wrenching. Regardless, it’s the best thing David Bazan’s ever done and certainly the bravest. “Curse Your Branches” is a hugely important landmark in the ongoing discussion of religion in music. Bob Dylan, Jeremy Enigk and other songwriters have lucidly employed their conversions to Christianity in triumphant song, but this, Bazan’s unfiltered, defeated document of a slow conversion away, is mournful, but important and, truly, one of a kind. David Bazan appears at Juanita’s this Saturday, June 19, alongside mewithoutYou and Rubik.

thing ever. But since I’m mostly ignorant, I called the Times world sports correspondent, Stephen “The Finger” Boyd, a man so wrapped up in soccer he has a fantasy team in Italian league soccer, for what-towatch tidbits. Here’s what I got: The best match on Thursday should be Greece vs. Nigeria (9 a.m.). The Nigerians have a defender named Danny Shittu, a name that, when pronounced by a British commentator, should definitely be sampled by some enterprising, juvenile-minded DJ. Friday, the big game is obviously USA vs. Slovenia (9 a.m.). Because Slovenia beat Algeria in game one, the Central European country is atop the group, so it will be looking to defend and play the USA to a nil-nil draw, while the US, in rare form, will be constantly moving forward trying to score as much as possible. Considering that England is likely to beat Algeria and Slovenia, the US really needs to win this game, ideally by a large margin. Saturday, Finger says Netherlands versus Japan (6:30 a.m.) is the game to watch and suggests that we keep an eye on Dirk Kuyt, of the Netherlands, who he says looks like “surfer Quasimodo.” Sunday, in the so-called Group of Death, powerhouse Brazil takes on Ivory Coast, who our man thinks is Africa’s one shot at glory in the World Cup. The team features bad haircuts and the world’s best goal scorer Didier Drogba, who’ll play despite breaking his arm last week. — Lindsey Millar

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Continued from page 25 Twin, Robin Steves, Brady Taylor, Georges Artaud, Lola, Jim Johnson, Amy Hill-Imler, James Hayes and Theresa Cates. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 753-5227. SHOWROOM, 2313 Cantrell Road. Work by area artists, including Sandy Hubler. 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 372-7373. STEPHANO’S FINE ART GALLERY, 5501 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “The North/South Show,” work by Matt Gore, Jim Jolly, Stephano, Mary Anne Erickson, Alexis Silk and G. Peebles. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 563-4218. THEA FOUNDATION, 401 Main St.: “Through Our Eyes,” student photography exhibit. TOBY FAIRLEY FINE ART, 5507 Ranch Drive, Suite 103: Contemporary Arkansas artists. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Fri. or by appointment. 868-9882. UALR BOWEN SCHOOL OF LAW: “Law in a Land Without Justice: Nazi Germany 1933-1945,” World War II artifacts, through July. 7 a.m.-11 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Fri., 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Sun. n Benton DIANNE ROBERTS ART STUDIO AND GALLERY, 110 N. Market St.: Area artists. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 860-7467. n Bentonville CRYSTAL BRIDGES AT THE MASSEY, 125 W. Central: “Transforming Tradition: Pottery from Mata Ortiz,” Field Museum exhibit, through Aug. 29. 479-418-5700. n Fayetteville FAYETTEVILLE UNDERGROUND, 1 E. Center St.: “Django,” paintings by Leilani, Revolver Gallery; “We’ve Been Holding This Moment for You,” photographs by Sabine Schmidt, Hive Gallery; Ed Pennebaker, glass, E Street Gallery; Chris Mostyn, drawings, Vault Gallery. 479-387-1534. n Hot Springs ALISON PARSONS GALLERY, 802 Central Ave.: Paintings by Parsons. 501-625-3001. ARTISTS WORKSHOP GALLERY, 810 Central Ave.: 501-623-6401. AMERICAN ART GALLERY, 724 Central Ave.: Jimmy Leach, Jamie Carter, Govinder, Marlene Gremillion, Margaret Kipp and others. 501-6240550. ATTRACTION CENTRAL GALLERY, 264 Central Ave.: Work in all media by Hot Springs artists. 501-463-4932. BLUE MOON, 718 Central Ave.: Cassie Edmonds, mosaics, stained glass, through June. 501-3182787. CAROLE KATCHEN ART GALLERY, 618 W. Grand Ave.: Paintings, pastels, sculpture by Katchen. 501-617-4494. FINE ARTS CENTER, 626 Central Ave.: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 501-624-0489. FOX PASS POTTERY, 379 Fox Pass Cut-off: Pottery by Jim and Barbara Larkin. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 501-623-9906. GALLERY 726, 726 Central Ave.: Emily Wood, paintings; Ken Vonk, turned wood, through June. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 501-624-7726. GALLERY CENTRAL, 800 Central Ave.: Sandy Hubler, paintings, and work by other Hot Springs artists. 501-318-4278. HOT SPRINGS CONVENTION CENTER: “Hot Springs: Baseball’s First Spring Training Town,” 24 photos from the early part of the 20th century. JUSTUS FINE ART, 827 A Central Ave.: Michael Ashley and Dolores Justus. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 501-321-2335. LINDA PALMER GALLERY, 800 B Central Ave.: Linda Palmer, Doyle Young, Ellen Alderson, Peter Lippincott, Sara Tole and Jan Leek. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 501-620-3063. RICIANO ART GALLERY, 833 Central Ave.: Riciano, Lacey Riciano and other artists. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. daily. 501-339-3751. TAYLOR’S CONTEMPORANEA, 204 Exchange St.: Area and regional artists. 624-0516. n Yellville P.A.L. FINE ART GALLERY, 300 Hwy. 62: Keith R. Probert, photographs, through June. 870-4056316. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Sat.

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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.: 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. MacARTHUR MUSEUM OF ARKANSAS MILITARY HISTORY, MacArthur Park: “Warrior: Vietnam Portraits by Two Guys from Hall,” photos by Jim Guy Tucker and Bruce Wesson, through November; 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: Exhibits on African-Americans in Arkansas, including one on the Ninth Street business district, Dunbar High School, entrepreneurs, the Mosaic Templars business and more. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 683–3593. MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY, 500 President Clinton Ave.: “Alice’s Wonderland,” hands-on science, math exhibit featuring characters from Lewis Carroll’s story, for ages 3 to 10, through Sept. 15; interactive science exhibits. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. Admission: $8 adults, $7 children ages 1-12 and seniors 65 and up, children under 1 free, “Pay What You Can” second Sunday of every month. 396-7050. www.museumofdiscovery.org. WITT STEPHENS JR. CENTRAL ARKANSAS NATURE CENTER, Riverfront Park: Exhibits on wildlife and the state Game and Fish Commission. n Calico Rock CALICO ROCK MUSEUM, Main Street: Displays on Native American cultures, steamboats, the railroad, and local history. www.calicorockmuseum. com. n England TOLTEC MOUNDS STATE PARK, State Hwy. 165: Major prehistoric Indian site with visitors’ center and museum. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun., closed Mon. $3 for adults, $2 for ages 6-12. 961-9442. n Hot Springs MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, 425 Central Ave.: “Just a Way Out,” new photographs by Thomas Petillo, through Aug. 1, photographs by Ansel Adams, through Aug. 1. $5. $5, $4 for seniors. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thu.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. 501-609-9955. n Jacksonville JACKSONVILLE MUSEUM OF MILITARY HISTORY, 100 Veterans Circle: Exhibits on D-Day; F-105, Vietnam era plane (“The Thud”); the Civil War Battle of Reed’s Bridge, Arkansas Ordnance Plant (AOP) and other military history. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $3 adults; $2 seniors, military; $1 students. 501-241-1943. n Morrilton MUSEUM OF AUTOMOBILES, Petit Jean Mountain: Permanent exhibit of more than 50 cars from 1904-1967 depicting the evolution of the automobile. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 7 days. 501-727-5427. n Rogers ROGERS HISTORICAL MUSEUM, 322 S. 2nd St.: “Buried Dreams: “Coin Harvey and Monte Ne,” photographs; “Rogers Auto-Biography: An Automotive History of Rogers,” through 2011; “Of Promise and Pain: Life Between the Wars,” through June. 479-621-1154. n Scott PLANTATION AGRICULTURE MUSEUM, U.S. 165 S and Hwy. 161: Artifacts and interactive exhibits on farming in the Arkansas Delta. $3 adults, $2 ages 6-12. Open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 501-961-1409. SCOTT PLANTATION SETTLEMENT: 1840s log cabin, one-room school house, tenant houses, smokehouse and artifacts on plantation life. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thu.-Sat. 351-0300. www.scottconnections.org. n Springdale SHILOH MUSEUM OF OZARK HISTORY, 118 W. Johnson Ave.: “Answering the Call,” history of the Springdale Fire Department, through Sept. 18; “Carl Smith’s Fayetteville,” photographs from the 1910s-1950s, through Aug. 21; “All Dressed Up,” men’s, women’s and children’s fancy clothing, through January 2011. 479-750-8165.

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The Good, The Bad, The Weird (R) — In 1940s Manchuria, three Korean outlaws race to find a treasure map while keeping the Japanese army at bay. Market Street: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20. Jonah Hex (PG-13) — A bounty hunter on the lam is hired by the government to stop a terrorist bent on world destruction. Breckenridge: 12:00, 2:10, 4:30, 7:35, 9:45. Rave: 10:50, 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:30. Please Give (R) — A family in a Manhattan apartment complex try to bond with their stubborn, elderly next door neighbor. Market Street: 2:15, 4:20, 7:15, 9:20. Toy Story 3 (G) — Donated to a daycare center after their owner leaves for college, the beloved gang of toys rally together for one last escape. Breckenridge: 11:40, 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55. Rave: 10:45, 11:15, 1:0, 1:30, 2:00, 3:45, 4:15, 4:45, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 9:15, 9:45, 10:15 (3D); 12:00, 2:45, 5:30, 8:15, 10:45 (2D) RETURNING THIS WEEK The A-Team (PG-13) — Four former Special Forces soldiers look to clear their name with the U.S. military after finding themselves framed and on the lam. Breckenridge: 4:15, 7:10, 9:50. Rave: 12:25, 12:55, 1:25, 3:25, 3:55, 4:25, 6:25, 7:05, 7:55, 9:25, 9:55, 10:55. Alice in Wonderland (PG) — Tim Burton’s 3D sequel to the Carroll classic finds Alice back in the rabbit hole as a rebellious 19-year-old. Movies 10: 12:0, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00. Animalopolis (NR) — A half-hour film of goofy animals being goofy in enormous 3D. Aerospace IMAX: 11:00, 7:00 Fri.; 1:00, 3:00, 7:00 Sat. The Back-Up Plan (PG-13) — Jennifer Lopez stars as a single woman who meets the man of her dreams hours after artificially conceiving twins. Movies 10: 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20. The Bounty Hunter (PG-13) — A down-andout bounty hunter lands a dream job when he’s assigned to track down his ex-wife, a bail-hopping crime reporter. Movies 10: 7:25, 9:55. Clash of the Titans (PG-13) — Perseus, son of Zeus, leads a band of warriors into uncharted dimensions while attempting to defeat the evil Hades, God of the Underworld. Movies 10: 12:25, 2:50, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15. Death at a Funeral (PG-13) — A funeral for a family patriarch goes haywire, being constantly disrupted by a series of accidents, missteps, idiocy and blackmail. Movies 10: 1:00, 3:10, 5:35, 7:45, 10:25.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (PG) — Greg, a 6th-grade runt, can’t stand the ceaseless bullying, wedgies and swirlies he puts up with at school, so he retreats to his journal and his imagination. Movies 10: 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35. Furry Vengeance (PG) — An Oregon real estate developer’s plans to erect a subdivision go awry when forest creatures take to action. Movies 10: 12:45, 2:55, 5:15. Get Him to the Greek (R) — A dopey record company intern finds himself caught in a drugand-sex-fueled caper as he tries to bring an unruly British rock star to America. Breckenridge: 11:50, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:15. Rave: 11:40, 2:20, 5:20, 8:10, 10:50. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (R) — When a shabby pair of investigators look into a decades-old missing person case, they discover grotesque family secrets. Market Street: 1:30, 4:15, 7:00. Harry Brown (R) — A Marine veteran and modest Brit seeks vengeance after his best friend is murdered by a pack of thugs. Market Street: 2:00, 4:20, 7:15, 9:20. Hot Tub Time Machine (R) — Four best friends, bored with adult life, take a ski vacation only to find themselves transported back to 1986. Movies 10: 10:15. Iron Man 2 (PG-13) — The libertine superhero returns, facing off with an evil Russian copycat, an old rival and the government. Breckenridge: 4:10, 10:10. Rave: 12:50, 4:10, 7:20, 10:40. The Karate Kid (PG) — A reboot of the 1985 classic sees the Kid as a Detroit-transplant in China, learning kung fu from the hand of his apartment maintenance man. Breckenridge: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00. Rave: 12:10, 12:40, 1:10, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30, 6:50, 7:20, 7:50, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00. Kick-Ass (R) — Teen-age wannabe superheroes turn their aspirations into reality and take to the streets in spite of having absolutely no superpowers. Movies 10: 2:40, 7:35. Killers (PG-13) — Years after an undercover assassin settles down in the suburbs, he and his wife discover a plot to kill him. Breckenridge: 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 9:40. Rave: 11:55, 2:25, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10. The Last Song (PG) — Miley Cyrus and Greg Kinnear star in this father/daughter tale in which an alienated teen is forced to spend a summer in Georgia with her pianist father. Movies 10: 12:10, 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10. Letters to Juliet (PG) — An American in Italy takes it upon herself to help a number of anonymous, lovelorn women who left letters at the fictional Capulet courtyard in Verona. Breckenridge: 1:45, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10. The Losers (PG-13) — After escaping an assassination attempt in the Bolivian jungle, elite U.S. agents vie for revenge. Movies 10: 12:20, 5:20, 10:05.

Marmaduke (PG) — The funny pages’ Great Dane turns his family’s cross-country move into a never-ending series of disasters. Breckenridge: 11:55, 2:05, 4:35, 6:50, 9:15. Rave: 12:30, 2:50, 5:05, 7:25. MacGruber (R) — A bumbling special operative is asked to return to the job to track down a warhead stolen by his dirty-named arch nemesis. Movies 10: 12:15, 2:25, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40. A Nightmare on Elm Street (R) — Remake of the 1984 horror classic in which a murderer uses the dream world to take revenge on the children of the lynch mob that killed him. Movies 10: 12:05, 2:20, 4:45, 7:00, 9:45. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (PG-13) — A prince must band with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a deadly, magical sandstorm. Rave: 1:40, 4:35, 7:35, 10:25. Robin Hood (PG-13) — The legendary marksman and people’s hero leads a gang of marauders against corrupt governmental heads. Breckenridge: 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05. Rave: 9:50. The Secret in Their Eyes (R) – A federal justice agent finds himself rapt by a missing person case from the 1970s in this, the Oscar winner for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film. Market Street: 1:45, 4:00, 6:45, 9:00. Sex and the City 2 (R) — The four feisty Manhattanites take to Abu Dhabi to ward off midlife crises. Breckenridge: 12:55, 6:55. Rave: 12:20, 3:40, 7:10. Shrek Forever After (PG) — The final movie of the series has the ogre stuck in Far Far Away, in which ogres are hunted and Rumpelstiltskin is king. Breckenridge: 11:45, 2:00, 4:25, 7:15, 9:30. Rave: 11:20, 1:50, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40. Splice (R) — Ignoring ethical boundaries, two young scientists create a monster by splicing together human and animal DNA. Rave: 10:35. Wildfire: Feel the Heat (NR) — Discover how firefighters all over the planet fight the biggest, hottest fires on the planet. Aerospace IMAX: 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 8:00 (Sat.). 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. IMAX Theater: Aerospace Education Center, 376-4629, www.aerospaced.org. 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. Dickinson Theaters Lakewood 8: Lakewood Village, 758-5354, www.fandango.com.

‘THE A-TEAM’: Bradley Cooper, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Sharlto Copley and Liam Neeson star.

n moviereview A for explosions ‘A-Team’ is big, dumb fun. n If you were a pre-teen boy in the 1980s, there’s a good chance you can still hum the theme song from the TV show “The A-Team.” I know I still can. The A-Team was must-see-TV around my household, along with “The Dukes of Hazzard.” Mr. T, a tricked-out van, and lots of explosions and automatic gunfire every week? What’s not to love? One of a crop of action-packed hour long comedy-drama that sprung up back then, “The A-Team”

was tailor made for both merchandising and its audience: big, bold, loud and obnoxiously fun. Now comes the bigscreen treatment of “The A-Team.” It’s got a lot in common with the TV show, even beyond its made-for-a-lunch-box cast of characters. To wit: Though it ain’t Masterpiece Theater, the fun factor is high, with plenty of stuff going boom to keep you diving for the bottom of the popcorn bucket.

The movie revolves around a crack unit known for pulling off impossible jobs in hell-holes around the world. It opens with a kind of prologue in which we see how the members of the A-Team met while trying to take down a dastardly Mexican general. Heading the team is Col. Hannibal Smith (Liam Neeson), along with fellow Army Rangers B.A. Barracus (Quinton Jackson, in the role Mr. T made famous), Templeton “Faceman” Peck (Bradley Cooper) and chopper pilot Murdock (Sharlto Copley). After some daring do in the Mexican desert, we fastforward to the Iraq War, with Hannibal and his team a well-oiled machine. The plot kicks into high gear when Smith’s superior approaches him with yet another

hush-hush covert job: to get back some purloined printing plates from the U.S. Mint, which loyalists to Saddamn Hussein plan to use to start cranking out their own currency. Also seeking to get his hands on the plates is a crooked CIA agent named Lynch (Patrick Wilson), and his gang of thugs who work for a hired mercenary outfit known as Black Forest (shades of the infamous Blackwater, the hired-gun security firm that landed in hot water more than once in the real Iraq War). The problem is the CIA wants the plates for themselves. When things go south, with a couple hundred million in counterfeit currency and Smith’s superior Gen. Morrison going up in flames, the A-Team is brought up on charges of disobeying orders and sentenced to 10 years in prison. As with the intro to the TV show, however, they promptly escape and set about trying to clear their names, all the while pursued by Faceman’s old girlfriend Capt. Charisa Sosa (Jessica Biel), a by-the-book army investigator who is intent on bringing them down. “The A-Team” is like a lot of summer blockbusters, thin on plot but big on action. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. The four leads and Biel seem to be having a great time with their roles, gleefully chewing the scenery. Copley is excellent as the off-his-rocker chopper pilot Murdock, and even Neeson — whose casting in the role made famous by the late George Peppard set off a spate of fanboy head-scratching — does a good job here, though he never quite plays the character with the happy-go-lucky glee of the Hannibal from the TV show. Also noticeably different is Quinton Jackson’s portrayal of B.A., who comes across a good bit kinder and gentler than the way Mr. T played him on the show. By the end of the flick, the four main characters have really managed to gel quite nicely. — David Koon

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n The handmade candy and confection shop Sweet! has opened in the River Market. Its hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Arbie and Tim Anthony are the owners. A website, arsweet.com, is still under construction. The phone number is 244-0252. n For those provoked by the assertion that Little Rock’s culinary culture is defined by cheese dip, made in last week’s Times by John Brummett and in Nick Rogers’ short documentary “In Queso Fever,” make sure and visit the Eat Arkansas blog, where you can find, along with the documentary and a link to Brummett’s column, an essay on the origins of cheese dip, in Little Rock and elsewhere, by restaurateur Mark Abernathy, who’s long been famous for his cheese dip.

Restaurant capsules Every effort is made to keep this listing of some of the state’s more notable restaurants current, but we urge readers to call ahead to check on changes on days of operation, hours and special offerings. What follows, because of space limitations, is a partial listing of restaurants reviewed by our staff. Information herein reflects the opinions of the newspaper staff and its reviewers. The newspaper accepts no advertising or other considerations in exchange for reviews, which are conducted anonymously. We invite the opinions of readers who think we are in error. Restaurants are listed in alphabetical order by city; Little Rock-area restaurants are divided by food category. Other review symbols are: B Breakfast L Lunch D Dinner $ Inexpensive (under $8/person) $$ Moderate ($8-$20/person) $$$ Expensive (over $20/person) CC Accepts credit cards

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4 SQUARE 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. $-$$. 501-291-1796. L Mon.-Sat. D Mon.-Fri. ARKANSAS BURGER CO. Good burgers, fries and shakes, plus salads and other entrees. Try the cheese dip. 7410 Cantrell Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-0600. LD Tue.-Sat. ASHLEY’S Little Rock’s premier fine dining restaurant. 111 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$$-$$$$. 501-374-7474. BLD Mon.-Sat. BR Sun. BONEFISH GRILL A half-dozen or more types of fresh fish filets are offered daily at this upscale chain. 11525 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-228-0356. D daily. BRAVE NEW RESTAURANT The food’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. It’s great fun, and the fish is special. 2300 Cottondale Lane. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-2677. LD Mon.-Fri. D Sat. 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. $$. 501-868-5279. LD daily. BURGER MAMA’S Big burgers and oversized onion rings headline the menu at this down home joint. Huge $5 margaritas during happy hour. 10721 Kanis Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-225-2495. LD daily. BY THE GLASS A broad but not ridiculously large list is studded with interesting, diverse selections, and prices are

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■ dining Tres magnifique! Terry’s new French bistro gets it right. n Many equate “French cuisine” with overthe-top desserts and complex sauces. But at its heart, that country’s cooking focuses on simple foods prepared straightforwardly, with a focus on quality ingredients and, more often than not, plenty of butter. French cafes and bistros have a “blueplate special” feel to their menus. Step into any of the hundreds that dot most Paris streets and you can count on a hearty “plat du jour” and a menu with roasted chicken, steak frites (usually a pedestrian cut of beef with a mound of accompanying fries) and a simple ham-and-cheese sandwich, often with butter as the only condiment. And a reasonably priced glass of wine. Comfort food in low-key, comfortable surroundings — that’s the unifying theme in French cafes. And that’s exactly what has been recreated at the restaurant that is a literal and figurative offshoot of Terry’s Finer Foods, the venerable boutique grocery in the Heights. Ellen and Lex Golden, noted local Francophiles and relatively new owners of Terry’s, have even provided the traditional look of a French bistro by importing the trademark tables and chairs seen everywhere you look on Parisian boulevards. They also ensured a quality dining experience by hiring veteran chef Patrick Herron, who built his reputation at La Scala, among other places. Six weeks in, the restaurant at Terry’s is a bona fide hit. We walked in at 6:15 p.m. on a Tuesday and, without reservations, were “relegated” to one of the handful of tables strategically placed at the end of grocery aisles in Terry’s itself. Eating aside the glow of the meat case, with stacks of Rotel standing watch on a nearby shelf was unique and delightful. Reservations or not, we will request in-store seating on return visits. The main dining area is a comfy, rectangular dining room at the southern end of the complex, where Sue’s Pie Shop lived. Early word of mouth and Facebookgenerated feedback centered on the onion soup ($5.25), about as French as it gets, and Herron’s was about as good as it gets. Sweet onions swimming en masse in a rich beef broth, topped with a thick, sliced-to-fit hunk of crusty bread and a layer of gooey cheese. Vichyssoise was the soup du jour, and it too was perfect — served cold, rich cream providing the dominant taste and texture but not overwhelming the potatoes and leeks. It should become a regular menu choice. Boeuf bourguignon, another French classic, was the plat du jour ($21.95), and carried forward the perfection theme.

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IT’S GOT THE LOOK: The dining room at The Restaurant at Terry’s Finer Foods mimics a French bistro perfectly. Essentially a French-style pot roast, complete with carrots, potatoes and onions, it was fork-tender and accented by the red wine reduction that distinguishes the dish. “Confit de Canard Maison,” ($17.95) or duck confit as most know it, is another French staple, a leg/thigh cooked slow in duck fat. It’s a tasty, greasy, almost too-rich treat; in our case we must have gotten the runt of that particular flock, making the price tag seem more than a bit steep for a single, scrawny piece of duck and five asparagus stalks. (Not that we left hungry or anything.) The menu options include three cuts of steak, two veal chops, two fishes (salmon and sole) and the ubiquitous roast chicken. Each plate comes with a choice of one side item and others can be ordered a la carte for $5. Four of the seven choices are potatobased, including one do-not-dare-miss dish generically called “potato cake.” It’s $10, and the menu isn’t lying when it says it serves four. The cake is simple, butter-laden wonderfulness: potatoes sliced half-an-inch thick, layered in a pan, cooked till crispy on the outside and creamy-soft inside. It’s turned out onto a plate with the crusty bottom now the top and butter oozing out of every forkful. Do not miss it. Seriously. A generous slab of homemade, rustic vanilla bean cheesecake ($5.25) accompanied by blueberries in their own syrup was gratuitous, considering how full we were, but it was fully snarfed. As we usually do when in France, we also opted for the assorted cheese plate ($9.95) as our other dessert. Three plus-size cheese wedges (a creamy bleu, Drunken Goat, and one

hard, mild yellow cheese we couldn’t name) were served with more slices of the baguette that had accompanied the meal. Most of that went home with us. Our only off-theme choice of the evening was a bottle of Rombauer chardonnay ($45) from the Carneros region of California. It is buttery and luscious, more fully flavored than austere French whites. (Yes, our main courses screamed “RED!” but convention sometimes goes out the window when you dine with a chardonnay lover.) Little Rock foodies have fallen for the restaurant at Terry’s, and with good reason. Everything about it generates lip-licking, deja vu moments for those lucky enough to have visited France — and a window into the world of classic, everyday French dining for those who haven’t ... yet.

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Restaurant capsules Continued from page 31 uniformly reasonable. The food focus is on high-end items that pair well with wine – olives, hummus, cheese, bread, and some meats and sausages. 5713 Kavanaugh Blvd. Beer, Wine, All CC. 501-663-9463. D Mon.-Sat. CAFE HEIFER Paninis, salads, soups and such in the Heifer Village. With one of the nicest patios in town. 1 World Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-907-8801. BL Mon.-Fri., L Sat. CAPI’S Sophisticated yet friendly, the latest offering from the folks who created Trio’s features easy to share small bites in larger than expected portions. 11525 Cantrell Suite #917. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-225-9600. LD Tue.-Sun. 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 W. President Clinton Ave. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-3747474. 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. $-$$. 501-371-9575. BL Mon.-Fri. CATERING TO YOU Painstakingly prepared entrees and great appetizers in this gourmet-to-go location. 8121 Cantrell Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-664-0627. L Mon.-Sat. CATFISH HOLE Downhome place for well-cooked 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 2 a.m. nightly. 605 N. Beechwood St. Full bar, All CC. $$$-$$$$. 501-603-0238. D Mon.-Sat. COCK OF THE WALK Yes, the chicken and shrimp are great, but go for the unbeatable catfish. Plus, we say the slaw is the world’s best, 7051 Cock of the Walk Lane. Maumelle. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-758-7182. D daily. L Sun. CRAZEE’S COOL CAFE Good burgers, daily plate specials and bar food amid pool tables and TVs. 7626 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. (501) 221-9696. LD Mon.-Sat. CUPCAKES ON KAVANAUGH Gourmet cupcakes and coffee make this Heights bakery a great spot to sit and sip on a relaxing afternoon. 5625 Kavanaugh Blvd. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-664-2253. L Mon.-Sat. DIVERSION Hillcrest wine bar with diverse tapas menu. From the people behind Crush and Bill St. 2611 Kavanaugh Blvd., Suite 200. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-414-0409. D Mon.-Sat. DOE’S EAT PLACE A skid-row dive turned power brokers’ watering hole with huge steaks, great tamales and broiled shrimp, and killer burgers at lunch. 1023 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-376-1195. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. DOUBLETREE PLAZA BAR & GRILL The lobby restaurant in the Doubletree is elegantly comfortable, but you’ll find no airs put on at heaping breakfast and lunch buffets. 424 West Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-372-4311. BLD daily. DOWNTOWN DELI A locally owned eatery, with bigger sandwiches and lower prices than most downtown chain competitors. Also huge, loaded baked potatoes, soups and salads. 323 Center St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-3723696. BL Mon.-Fri. DUB’S HAMBURGER HEAVEN A standout dairy bar. The hamburger, onion rings and strawberry milkshake make a meal fit for kings. 6230 Baucum Pike. NLR. No alcohol, No CC. $-$$. 501-955-2580. BLD daily. EJ’S EATS AND DRINKS The friendly neighborhood hoagie shop downtown serves at a handful of tables and by delivery. The sandwiches are generous, the soup homemade and the salads cold. Vegetarians can craft any number of acceptable meals from the flexible menu. The housemade potato chips are da bomb. 523 Center St. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-3700. LD Mon.-Fri. THE FINISH LINE CAFE Great breakfasts and a widely varied lunch selection including daily plate lunches, sandwiches, pizzas and whatever the students at the Arkansas Culinary School at Pulaski Tech come up with on any particular day. Great way to eat gourmet food cheap. 13000 S. Interstate 30. Alexander. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-8312433. BL Mon.-Fri. FIVE GUYS BURGERS & FRIES Nationwide burger chain with emphasis on freshly made fries and patties. 2923 Lakewood Village Dr. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-2465295. 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. FRONTIER GRILL The well-attended all-you-can-eat buffet includes American, Mexican and Chinese food. 2924

University Ave. $-$$. 501-568-7776. LD. GRUMPY’S TOO Music venue and sports bar with lots of TVs, pub grub and regular drink specials. 1801 Green Mountain Drive. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-225-9650. LD Mon.-Sat. HOMER’S Great vegetables, huge yeast rolls and killer cobblers. Follow the mobs. 2001 E. Roosevelt Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-374-1400. BL Mon.-Fri. THE HOUSE A comfortable gastropub in Hillcrest, where you’ll find traditional fare like burgers and fish and chips alongside Thai green curry and gumbo. 722 N. Palm St. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-4501. LD daily. JIMMY’S SERIOUS SANDWICHES Consistently fine sandwiches, side orders and desserts. Chicken salad’s among the best in town. Get there early for lunch. 5116 W. Markham St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-3354. L Mon.-Sat. LOCA LUNA Grilled meats, seafood and pasta dishes that never stray far from country roots, whether Italian, Spanish or Arkie. “Gourmet plate lunches” are good, as is Sunday brunch. 3519 Old Cantrell Rd. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-4666. L Sun.-Fri., D daily. LULAV A Mediterranean-California fusion eatery, and the delicious flavors are like none you’ll experience anywhere in the city. Good fish, veal, daring salads and much more. Plus, a hot bar to see and be seen. 220 A W. 6th St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-374-5100. L Mon.-Fri., D Tue.-Sat. MILFORD TRACK Healthy and tasty are the key words at this deli/grill, featuring hot entrees, soups, sandwiches, salads and killer desserts. 10809 Executive Center Drive, Searcy Building. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-223-2257. BL Mon.-Sat. NEW GREEN MILL CAFE A small workingman’s lunch joint, with a dependable daily meat-and-three and credible corn bread for cheap, plus sweet tea. Homemade tamales and chili on Tuesdays. 8609-C W. Markham St. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-225-9907. L Mon.-Sat. OYSTER BAR Gumbo, red beans and rice (all you can eat on Mondays), peel-and-eat shrimp, oysters on the half shell, addictive po’ boys. 3003 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-7100. LD Mon.-Sat. OZARK COUNTRY KITCHEN Football-sized omelets filled with the same marvelous smoked meats and cheeses that are heaped on sandwiches at lunch. Great biscuits and gravy, bacon, homestyle potatoes and a daily plate lunch special to boot. 202 Keightley Drive. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-6637319. BL Mon.-Fri., B Sat.-Sun. PERCIFUL’S FAMOUS HOT DOGS If you’re a lover of chilidogs, this might just be your Mecca; a humble, stripmall storefront out in East End that serves some of the best around. The latest incarnation of a LR joint that dates to the 1940s, longdogs are pretty much all they do, and they do them exceedingly well, with scratch-made chili and slaw. Our fave: The Polish cheese royal, add onions. 20400 Arch St. No alcohol, All CC. $. 501-261-1364. LD Tue.-Sat. PURPLE COW DINER 1950s fare — cheeseburgers, chili dogs, thick milk shakes — in a ’50s setting at today’s prices. Also at 11602 Chenal Parkway. 8026 Cantrell Road. Beer, All CC. $$. 501-221-3555. LD daily, B Sat.-Sun 11602 Chenal Parkway. Beer, All CC. $$. 501-224-4433. LD daily, B Sun. 1419 Higden Ferry Road. Hot Springs. Beer, All CC. $$. 501-625-7999. LD daily, B Sun. SALUT! Elevated pub grub that’s served late Wed.-Sat. With a great patio. 1501 N. University. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-660-4200. L Mon.-Fri., D Tue.-Sat. SCALLION’S 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 1475 Hogan Lane. Conway. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-764-0604. LD daily. SONNY WILLIAMS’ STEAK ROOM Steaks, chicken and seafood in a wonderful setting in the River Market. Steak gets pricey, but the lump crab meat au gratin appetizer is outstanding. Give the turtle soup a try. 500 President Clinton Ave. Full bar, All CC. $$$. 501-324-2999. D Mon.-Sat. STAGECOACH GROCERY AND DELI Fine po’ boys and muffalettas — and cheap. 6024 Stagecoach Road. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-455-4157. BL daily. D Mon.-Fri. STOUT’S DINER American style diner featuring big breakfasts, burgers, catfish and monster fried pies. 26606 Highway 107. Jacksonville. No alcohol, All CC. $. 501-983-0163. BL daily, D Mon.-Sat. TERRI-LYNN’S BAR-B-Q AND DELI High-quality meats served on large sandwiches and good tamales served with chili or without (the better bargain). 10102 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-227-6371. LD Tue.-Sat. (10:30 a.m.-6 p.m.). 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.

AsiAn ASIA BUFFET Massive Chinese buffet. 801 S. Bowman Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-225-0095. LD daily.

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. $-$$. 501-771-2288. LD daily. FORBIDDEN CITY The Park Plaza staple has fast and friendly service, offering up good lomein at lunch and Cantonese and Hunan dishes. 6000 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-9099. LD daily. FU XING Chinese buffet. 9120 N. Rodney Parham Road. All CC. $-$$. 501-223-0888. LD daily. GINA’S CHINESE KITCHEN AND SUSHI BAR A broad and strong sushi menu with a manageable and delectable selection of Chinese standards. 14524 Cantrell Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-868-7775. LD daily. KOTO Sushi and upscale Japanese cuisine. 17200 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-821-7200. LD daily. ROYAL BUFFET A big buffet of Chinese fare, with other Asian tastes as well. 109 E. Pershing. NLR. 501-753-8885. LD daily. SEKISUI Fresh-tasting sushi, traditional Japanese, the fun hibachi style of Japanese, and an overwhelming assortment of entrees. Nice wine selection, sake, specialty drinks. 219 N. Shackleford,. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-221-7070. LD daily. SHOGUN JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE The chefs will dazzle you, as will the variety of tasty stir-fry combinations and the sushi bar. Usually crowded at night. 2815 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. 501-666-7070. D daily. WASABI Downtown sushi and Japanese cuisine. For lunch, there’s quick and hearty Sushi samplers. 101 Main St. Full bar. $-$$. 501-374-0777. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat.

BArBecue BARE BONES PIT BAR-B-Q A carefully controlled gas oven, with wood chips added for flavor, guarantees moist and sweet pork, both pulled from the shoulder and back ribs. The side orders, particularly the baked potato salad, are excellent. 5501 Ranch Drive, Suite 4. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-868-7427. LD daily. DIXIE PIG Pig salad is tough to beat — loads of chopped pork atop crisp iceberg, doused with that wonderful vinegarbased sauce. The sandwiches are basic, and the sweet, thick sauce is fine. 900 West 35th St. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-753-9650. LD Mon.-Sat. KENT’S DOWNTOWN Big sandwiches, barbecue and plate lunches served up at the River Market’s Oppenheimer Hall. Affiliated with Kent Berry’s other operation, The Meat Shoppe in Gravel Ridge. 400 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-325-1900. L Mon.-Sat.

europeAn / ethnic ALI BABA’S 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. $-$$. 501-379-8011. LD daily. CREGEEN’S IRISH PUB Irish-themed pub with a large selection of on-tap and bottled British beers and ales, an Irish inspired menu and lots of nooks and crannies to meet in. 301 Main St. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 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 Rd. Beer, Wine, All CC. 501-223-9332. LD daily. LEO’S GREEK CASTLE Wonderful Mediterranean food — gyro sandwiches or platters, falafel and tabouleh — plus dependable hamburgers, ham sandwiches, steak platters and BLTs. 2925 Kavanaugh Blvd. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-7414. BLD Mon.-Sat. SILVEK’S EUROPEAN BAKERY Fine pastries, chocolate creations, breads and cakes done in the classical European style. Drop by for a whole cake or a slice or any of the dozens of single serving treats in the big case. 1900 Polk St. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-661-9699. BLD daily.

itAliAn CAFE PREGO Dependable entrees of pasta, pork and the like, plus great sauces, fresh mixed greens and delicious dressings, crisp-crunchy-cold gazpacho and tempting desserts in a comfy bistro setting. 5510 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-5355. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. CIAO Don’t forget about this casual yet elegant bistro tucked into a downtown storefront. The fine pasta and seafood dishes, ambiance and overall charm combine to make it a relaxing, enjoyable, affordable choice. 405 W. Seventh St. Full bar, All CC. $$. (501) 372-0238. L Mon.-Fri., D Thu.-Sat. GRADY’S PIZZAS AND SUBS Pizza features a pleasing blend of cheeses rather than straight mozzarella. The grinder is a classic, the chef’s salad huge and tasty. 6801 W. 12th St., Suite C. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-1918. LD daily. IRIANA’S PIZZA Unbelievably generous thick-crust pizza with unmatched zest. Good salads, too; grinders are great, particularly the Italian sausage. 103 W. Markham St. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-374-3656. LD Mon.-Sat. OW PIZZA Good pizzas in a variety of ways, sandwiches, big salads and now offer various pastas and appetizer breads. 8201 Ranch Blvd. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 868-1100. LD Mon.-Fri. 1706 W. Markham St. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. LD Mon.-Fri. (closes at 7 p.m.). U.S. PIZZA Crispy thin-crust pizzas, frosty beers and heaping salads drowned in creamy dressing. Multiple locations: 4001 McCain Park, NLR, 753-2900; 3324 Pike Ave.,

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Mexican BROWNINGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MEXICAN FOOD For a blast-from-thepast approach to Tex-Mex, this is it. You definitely wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave hungry. 5805 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-9956. LD Mon.-Sat., B Thu.-Sat. CANON GRILL Creative appetizers come in huge quantities, and the varied main-course menu rarely disappoints, though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not as spicy as competitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. 2811 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-664-2068. LD Mon.-Sat. COTIJAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 fiery-hot green salsas, and friendly service. 406 S. Louisiana St. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-244-0733. L Mon.-Sat. TAQUERIA KARINA AND CAFE A real Mexican neighborhood cantina from the owners, to freshly baked pan dulce, to Mexican-bottled Cokes, to first-rate guacamole, to inexpensive tacos, burritos, quesadillas and a broad selection of Mexican-style seafood. 5309 W. 65th St. $. 501-562-3951. LD Tue.-Thu. TAQUERIA LAS ISABELES Mobile taco stand with great authentic tacos, Hawaiian hamburguesas (burgers topped with pineapple and avocado) and more. 7100 Colonel Glen Road. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-563-4801. L Mon.-Sat., D Sat.

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AMERICA 13-50 An American restaurant specializing in the cuisine of the first 13 colonies as well as regional foods from across the country. Brunch on Sunday. 1020 Garland. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-327-5050. L Tue.-Fri., Sun.; D Tue.-Sat. BEARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DEN PIZZA Pizza, calzones and salads at UCA hangout. 235 Farris Road. Conway. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-328-5556. LD Mon.-Sat. BLACKWOODâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GYROS AND GRILL A wide variety of salads, sandwiches, gyros and burgers dot the menu at this quarter-century veteran of Conwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downtown district. 803 Harkrider Ave. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. 501-329-3924. LD Mon.-Sat. BOBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GRILL Cafeteria style breakfast and lunch dining in downtown Conway with made-to-order breakfasts. 1112 W. Oak St. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-379-9760. BL Mon.-Sat. FABYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RESTAURANT Unheralded Mexican-Continental fusion focuses on handmade sauces and tortillas. 1023 Front Street. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-513-1199. L daily, D Mon.-Sat. 2915 Dave Ward. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-329-5151. FU LIN RESTAURANT Japanese steakhouse, seafood and sushi. Good variety, including items such as yam tempura, Karashi conch, Uzuzukuri and a nice selection of udon. 195 Farris. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-329-1415. LD. LA HACIENDA Creative, fresh-tasting entrees and traditional favorites, all painstakingly prepared in a festive atmosphere. Great taco salad, nachos, and maybe the best fajitas around. Multiple locations throughout Central Arkansas. 200 Highway 65 N. Conway. All CC. $$. 501-327-6077. LD daily. LOS 3 POTRILLOS A big menu and lots of reasonably priced choices set this Mexican restaurant apart. The cheese dip is white, the servings are large, and the frozen margaritas are sweet. Try the Enchiladas Mexicanas, three different enchiladas in three different sauces. 1090 Skyline Dr. Conway. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-327-1144. LD. MICHAELANGELOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ITALIAN RISTORANTE Fine Italian dining in downtown Conway. Menu features brick oven pizzas, handmade sauces and pasta, salads, fish and

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Benton DENTONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TROTLINE Saline county-ites love the buffet dining that, besides great catfish, offers shrimp, chicken, gumbos and snow crab legs. 2150 Congo Road. Benton. 315-1717. D. ED AND KAYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Real iced tea, fresh vegetables and great pies. 15228 Interstate 30. Benton. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. (501) 778-6283. BLD. TOUCHDOWN SALLYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S A family oriented sports bar and pizzaria with an emphasis on â&#x20AC;&#x153;manfoodâ&#x20AC;? like appetizers, wings and seafood. 17332 I-30 North. Benton. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-778-9444. LD daily.

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Cajun’s Wharf

Food and fun for everyone when you pair Cajun’s Wharf’s succulent seafood and steak with the ever-evolving live entertainment. Enjoy the fabulous fresh seafood or aged Angus beef while listening to the rolling Arkansas River on the famously fantastic deck! They also boast an award-winning wine list.

Denton’s Trotline

Attention: Members and Guests. Denton’s Trotline is known for their award winning catfish and seafood buffet. Outstanding appetizer menu. Family owned, featuring a newly remodeled building with live music. Full service catering available.

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FROM: TO: CO.: Arkansas Times CO.: Prime aged beef and Fresh seafood specials every week. PH: (501) 375-2985 ext. scrumptious dishes. Wine Spectator Award of Excellence, FAX: over 30 wines by the glass and largest vodka selection FAX: (501) 375-9565 downtown. Regular and late night happy hour, Wednesday AT to check 10/26 PUBLICATION:______________________ ISSUE DATE:____________ wine flights and Thursday is Ladies Night. Be sure out the Bistro Burger during lunch. ES ARTIST:________

Ya Ya’s is both sophisticated and whimsical. Mosaic tile floors, stone columns and fabric covered wall panels while heavy beamed ceilings, hand blown chandeliers and curvy wroughtiron railings add a whimsical flair. The menu is inspired by a combination of Italian, French, Spanish and Greek cuisines. Mediterranean Euro Delights share the menu with pizzas from our wood-burning oven, rich creative pastas and an array of the freshest of seafood dishes and innovative meat entrees. Live music resumes on the patio this spring. Join us for live, local music through the week. Don’t forget our Sunday Brunch ($16.95 & only $13.95 for the early bird special, 10 am to 11 am). Reservations are preferred.

Casa Manana Taqueria

400 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-6637 6820 Cantrell Road • 501-280-9888 18321 Cantrell Road • 501-868-8822

Ump’s Pub & Grill

Whether the Travs are at home or on the road, come enjoy the unique Dickey-Stephens Park Atmosphere at Ump’s, an upscale sports pub and restaurant, featuring sandwiches, salads, steaks, seafood, good times and more! Come treat yourself to a meal prepared by Chef’s Ball award winning sous chef Richard Lindsey. Open 6 days a week for lunch, 11am-2pm. Open nightly for all Travellers home games. Regular dinner hours Friday and Saturday only.

Capers Restaurant

Indulge in the culinary creations and intimate environment that define Capers Restaurant. Food and wine enthusiasts agree Capers’ sophisticated approach to dining is key to it’s many accolades including receiving the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for six years running.

Copper Grill & Grocery

An endless array of delicious dishes available in the Grill or grab your Gourmet-to-Go from the Grocery. Offering products by French Farm, Bella Cucina & Bittersweet Herb that promise to turn any recipe into a memorable masterpiece Copper Grill & Grocery is a wonderland for the gourmand.

Gadwall’s Grill

Still serving up high-quality burgers and home-made fries. Enjoy good food in a relaxed setting. Now offering outdoor seating on the deck. Serving cheese dip, nachos, platter meals, sandwiches and fried pies. Happy hour domestic draft beer from 3-6pm.

This is a first class establishment. SO has some of the best steaks and seafood in the city, including oysters from the east and west coasts. Their menu has been updated and features a fantastic selection of cheeses like port salut, stilton, murcia and pecorino. Don’t forget to check out the extensive wine list.

Butcher Shop

Tremendous steaks, excellent service, fair prices and a comfortable atmosphere make The Butcher Shop the prime choice for your evening out. In addition to tender and juicy steaks, The Butcher Shop offers fresh fish, pork chop, 24 hour slow roasted Prime Rib, char grilled marinated chicken and fresh pasta. Ideal for private parties, business meetings, and rehearsal dinners. Rooms accommodate up to 50-60 people.

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For the salad lover, Dizzy’s is an absolute paradise. Its list of eleven “Ridiculously Large Entrée Salads” runs the gamut of what you can do with greens and dressing. For example Zilpphia’s Persian Lime Salad, featuring grilled Gadwall's Grill West 14710 Cantrell Road, Suite 1A turkey breast, tomato, cucumber, onion, lime and buffalo Little Rock, AR • 868-4746 mozzarella over romaine. For another: Mary Ann’s Dream, with grilled chicken breast, baby spinach, sun-dried Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. • Friday-Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. tomatoes, cranberries, mandarin oranges, bourbon pecans and bleu cheese. Don’t that sound good?

Sharing good things with good friends is the motto at Fantastic China. A Central Arkansas favorite offering the Freshest Chinese Food in town. It’s made to order with 100% Vegetable Oil. The presentation is beautiful, the menu distinctive, and the service perfect. Fantastic China is one of the heights most reliable and satisfying restaurants and a local favorite. Full bar. THIS AD HAS INCURRED PRODUCTION CHARGES

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Look no further…voted Best Asian again by the Arkansas Times readers. Lilly’s serves up extraordinary dishes made from the freshest, premium local and organic ingredients. Also enjoy warm and inviting ambiance as you dine on any one of the tasty house specialties. Sundays are wine day: all wine by the bottle, half off.

Super King Buffet

One of central Arkansas’s largest Chinese buffets, we offer all your favorites with our sushi bar and Mongolian Grill included for one low price. Our dinner and all-day Sunday buffet include your lunch favorites as well as all-you-can eat crab legs, whole steamed fish, barbecue spare ribs, crispy jumbo shrimp and grilled steaks. Take-out buffet and menu available.

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Authentic North Indian Cuisine at its very best! Vegetable and Non-vegetable Buffet daily with Special. Saturday and Sunday Brunch. Mention this ad for a complimentary Indian Mango Drink.

Enjoy regional specialties such as Lentil soup, a huge serving of yummy Hummus, Baba Ghannnouj or Tabbouleh. And don’t forget about the Gyros, they’re sure to be heroes in your book!

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Sonny Williams

If you have not been to Sonny Williams lately, get there immediately and check out the martini/wine bar. Now you can enjoy 35 wines by the glass, 335 selections of wine, 6 single barrel bourbons and all different kinds of Scotch from the many regions of Scotland. Of course, don’t miss out on the nightly entertainment by Jeff at the piano. Sonny’s is a River Market mainstay and perfect for intimate private parties; free valet parking! As always, Sonny Williams has the best steaks in town along with fresh seafood and game. No Skinny Steaks… Call ahead for reservations (501) 324-2999

Faded Rose

Featuring the Best Steaks in town with a New Orleans flair from a New Orleans native. Also featuring Seafood and Creole Specialties. As Rachel Ray says “This place is one of my best finds ever.” Back by popular demand…Soft Shell Crab and New Orleans Roast Beef Po-Boys.

500 President Clinton Avenue Suite 100 (In the River Market District) 501-324-2999 DINNER MON - SAT 5:00 - 11:00 pm PIANO BAR TUES - THU 7:00 - 11:00 pm FRI & SAT 7:00 - Late

400 N. Bowman 501-224-3377 1619 Rebsamen 501-663-9734 Open Sunday

brew pub Vino’s Pizza•Pub•Brewery 923 West 7th Street 501/375-VINO (8466)

Beer, pizza and more! Drop in to Vino’s, Little Rock’s Original Brewpub! and enjoy great New York-style pizza (whole or by-the-slice) washed down with your choice of award-winning ales or lagers brewed right on site. Or try a huge calzone, our new Muffaletta sandwich or just a salad and a slice with our homemade root beer. The deck’s always open, you don’t have to dress up and the kids are always welcome (or not). Vino’s is open 7 days, lunch and dinner. You can call ahead for carry-out and even take a gal. growler of beer to-go. And guess what?? The bathrooms have just been re-done!

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Updated WLR home is great space buy

This home at 11818 St. Charles is the perfect space to call home. It has been completely updated and a new roof with architectural shingles was installed approximately two months ago. The home is one-level and features three bedrooms and two bathrooms. A side-load garage gives the house a nice look from the street. Inside, the home has been repainted with designer colors and beautiful laminate flooring was installed in all the common living spaces and kitchen in 2009. The greatroom features a fireplace with gas logs and the kitchen is spacious with lots of cabinets and counter space. Plus, all the appliances have been updated. The eat-in kitchen is light-filled and overlooks the wooded backyard. There is also a separate

The kitchen has beautiful cabinetry.

Entertain in the formal dining room.

dining area for more formal gatherings. All the bedrooms are carpeted and each bathroom is tiled. The over-sized master suite has a large closet and a wonderfully appointed bathroom with his-and-hers sinks. The other bedrooms are spacious and share a full bathroom. Enjoy spending time with family and friends on the wonderful deck. It overlooks the large level lot and has plenty of privacy among the shade trees. This property is one of the best space buys in this price range. It is offered for $199,900 and is listed with Melissa Bond of the Charlotte John Company. Call Melissa for more information or a private showing at 501-960-0665.

The great room is spacious.

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REAL ESTATE by neighborhood TO ADVERTISE, CALL TIFFANY HOLLAND AT 375-2985 You Must See to Appreciate!

Land LOTS FOR SALE - Greenbrier. 1/3-1/2 acres starting at $23K. Trees, all utilities. Just 8 miles from Conway. 501-472-5807

Downtown 5421 Hawthorne - $800,000

515 E. CAPITOL - Rainwater Flats! Unit 202 is 1BR/1BA and features an open floor plan, 9’ ceilings, hardwood flooring and plantation shutters. Open a set of French doors in the great room and look over beautiful River Market views! Listed with Melissa Bond of the Charlotte John Company. 9600665 QUAPAW TOWER Condo with architectural design, modern features and fabulous features. Shojistyle doors are a fantastic feature of the unit. Listed with Gold Star Realty. Call Gerald White at 501680-3640 or Mary Johnson at 501-952-4318 for pricing or more info.

2416 Lawson Oaks Road - $199,900

Call Melissa Today! 501.960.0665

Capitol View/ Stiffts Station

Hillcrest

123 N. SUMMIT - Rare find close to ACH, UAMS, & Hillcrest. 2 BRs and a separate office, 2050 SF. Totally updated including cherry wood laminate flooring throughout, all new plumbing & electrical wiring, new kitchen counters, sink & dishwasher, new tank-less H2’ 0 heater, wired for computer network, audio/video and IR remote, a deck, fenced yard and oversized 2 car garage. A 21X17.6 ft sunroom w/vaulted ceiling, tile floor, water proof walls, lots of windows and sunken Jacuzzi hot tub. Located in Union Depot next to AR School for the Blind. Call Clyde Butler of CBRPM at 240-4300.

Enter MLS# for more info and photos www.PulaskiHeightsRealty.com MLS#

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$149,900 $153,750 $169,500 $179,900 $229,000 $339,500 $475,000 $550,000

RARE FIND CLOSE TO UAMS & HILLCREST!

17 WESTGLEN COVE - 3BR/2.5BA in Cherry Creek subdivision. Two-story home on quiet cul-de-sac. Movein condition, motivated seller! New floors, appliances, air & hardwood floors. Call Cornelia Rossi, Coldwell Banker RPM, 501-231-4226. 4924 HILLCREST AVE - $475,000. 3BR/3BA plus 3-car garage. 2600 SF. Recently renovated home on large corner lot. Call John Selva at Pulaski Heights Realty at 501993-5442.

16 RIDING RD - Wonderful family home 5/6BR, in-law/nanny quarters. Walk to the Racquet Club - Jefferson Schools. K. Rector, CBRPM, 519-4439

Hillcrest

4214 C STREET - $149,900. 2BR/1BA starter home, 1166 SF. Walk to UAMS or shopping on Kavanaugh. Call John Selva at Pulaski Heights Realty at 501993-5442.

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DUPLEX - $179,900. Over 2700 total SF. Buy now & have renter offset your mortgage payment. Main level is 2BR/2BA, 1500 SF. Upstairs studio rental is approx 550 SF ($525/mo.) Also, has 700+SF walkout basement. New Paint! Owner is licensed agent. Call John, Pulaski Heights Realty, at 993-5442 for more info. 4101 C ST - $229,000. 3BR/2BA, 1836SF. Recently renovated! Enter MLS# 10255320 on www. PulaskiHeightsRealty.com for more photos. John Selva, Pulaski Heights Realty, 993-5442

UALR Area/ Broadmoor

7001 BURTON DR - 3BR/1.5BA, one level brick w/open floor plan & beautiful hardwoods. Big backyard! Priced mid $90’s. P. Raney, CBRPM, 831-7267

West Little Rock 12 KINGS COURT - Tri-level on cul-de-sac street, 3BR/2.5BA, den w/FP, office, pool w/lots of decking - $150’s. Call today! K. Rector, CBRPM, 519-4439

DOWNTOWN CONDO

123 N. SUMMIT STREET Totally updated!! 2050 sq ft, 2 BRs + Office, 21X17.6 ft Sunroom with sunken hot tub, cherry wood laminate flooring, all new plumbing & electrical wiring, new kitchen counters, sink & dishwasher, new tank-less H2’0 heater, wired for computer network, audio/video and IR remote. Located in Union Depot next to AR School for the Blind.

CLYDE A. BUTLER Associate Broker

501.240.4300

www.clydebutler.com

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4006 SIERRA FOREST - $160’s. Immaculate one owner home. New appliances! 3BR/2.5BA, sep. LR, DR plus big den w/FP. D. Hastings, CBRPM, 680-5340 4403 STONE CREEK COVE $260K. Custom built 2007 on 3.52 beautiful acres. 28’x24’ den! Colonial Glenn to Lawson Rd. South approx. 6 mi. D. Hastings, CBRPM, 680-5340

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13518 CHRISTOPHER DR - $370’s. What a deal! 4BR/3BA + 2 half baths. Lives like a one-level w/media room up, 3-car garage, 3-level deck, beautiful yard! P. Raney, CBRPM, 831-7267

Pleasant Valley 7 COLUMBINE COURT - Beautiful home on a cul-de-sac! 4BR, bonus room, remodeled kitchen, two living rooms & two-level decking on back. Many great neighborhood amenities! Call Stacy Johnson of Pulaski Heights Realty at 786-0024.

Conway 1313 SUNSET - $92,000. Well kept and close to schools. Surprisingly huge backyard. Beautiful garden, covered patio. MLS# 10257183 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-730-1100 or 501-679-1103. 1440 BYRON - $219,000. Spotless! 4BR/2BA, large family room, lots of counter space & cabinets. Awesome backsplash, gorgeous landscaping. MLS# 10252436 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501-730-1100 or 501-679-1103. 730 SLOPE - $279,000. New - Must See! 4BR/3BA, gameroom, computer area, custom tile shower, granite countertops, wood & tile. MLS# 10251178 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501730-1100 or 501-679-1103.

Greenbrier $212,000 Architectural design • Modern features • 12th Floor Skyline View Featured 4 times in At Home in Arkansas!

Call Gerald White, 680-3640 or Mary Johnson, 952-4318. Visit www.LRCONDO.com for more pictures & info. Gold Star Realty

5 COUNTRY COVE - $375,000. 5BR/4.5BA country estate. Perfect for horses! Den w/FP, granite counters in kitchen. More land available. MLS# 10238516 Linda Roster White Real Estate, 501730-1100 or 501-679-1103.

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Linda Hendricks, 527 Clayton Oaks Dr., Benton, $256,000. Denis Winter, Linda Winter to Marc S. Berridge, Catherine E. Berridge, 29 Perdido Cir., $250,000. Stephen J. Stoyanov, Amy D. Stoyanov to Becky A. Dole, 14901 Chambery Dr., $249,000. DCI Construction, Inc. to Albert G. Hudson, Jr., Amber N. Hudson, 7 Trafalgar Cove, $248,000. David R. Bachman, Gretchen L. Bachman to Zhong Liu, Hongyu Li, 2216 Huntleigh Ct., $244,000. Ty A. Landreth, Debra J. Landreth to George P. Ritter, Bilenda Harrisritter, 103 Hibiscus Dr., Maumelle, $240,000. Dennis R. Zweigle, Tammy A. Zweigle to Debra K. Nelson, 7370 West Ridge Cir., Sherwood, $238,000. Linda M. Vaughan, Edward C. Vaughan to Matthew B. Karpoff, Shannon K. Karpoff, 14016 Stonewood Ct., Roland, $236,333. Marilyn M. Kline to Gary D. Eddy, Randall A. McCain, Jr., 6012 Buffalo River Rd., NLR, $235,000. Thomas O. Deichmann, Brittany L. Deichmann to Lois B. Dockery, 153 Maumelle Valley Dr., Maumelle, $234,000. Matthew T. Noe to John & Nancy Butler LLC, 19901 Rocky Pine Ct., Roland, $233,000. Mark E. Morgan, Kimberly A. Morgan to Prudential Relocation Inc., 117 Auriel Cir., Maumelle, $232,000. Prudential Relocation Inc. to Naveen K. Bhukya, Tammy E. Bhukya, 117 Auriel Cir., Maumelle, $232,000. Jerry B. Prewit, Mary J. Prewit to Stephen K. Morrison, Debra K. Morrison, Ls16 & 22, Midwood Manor, $230,000. Steve K. Brandon to Mark E. Aderholt, Kristie A. Aderholt, 14003 Napoleon Rd., $230,000. Carla J. Anderson to Andrew Rausch, 5914 Stonewall Rd., $227,000. Nuage Residential Contractors LLC to Nicole L. Brown, 12601 Faulkner Lake Rd., NLR, $225,000. Regions Bank to Belew Family Trust No.1, Thomas L. Belew, Lorrie Belew, 521 President Clinton Ave., #1302, $225,000. Deborah A. Staples, Stephen B. Staples to Jerry S. Calabough, 14 Zibilla Ct., $220,000. Brent Dather, Patricia Dather to Alan Rainey, Jennifer Rainey, 10 Snow Mass Cove, Maumelle, $220,000. Monica D. Landrum, Jeremy D. Landrum to Frank Garlett, Debbie Garlett, L136, Austin Lakes On The Bay, $219,000. Noland P. Murray, Noland Patrick Murray Revocable Trust to Matthew Noernberg, Ivy Noernberg, 4021 Wesley Dr., $215,000. Accountable Property Management & Realty to Kenneth B. Delclos, Karen M. Delclos, 28 Pennsylvania St., $215,000. Timothy E. Daters, Gretchen Gray to Sean E. Thomas, Emily K. Thomas, 205 Ash St., $214,000. Accountable Property Management & Realty to Harold Pickens, Mirasol A. Pickens, L5, Governor’s Manor PRDCapitol Lakes Estates, $210,000. Derrick B. Gelzer, Sr., Tina Gelzer to Secretary Of Veterans Affairs, 878 Jamestown Cir., Jacksonville, $207,987. Judith R. Fendley to Richard L. King, Jordan E. King, 3501 Lakeview Rd., NLR, $203,000. Rebecca Bowden, Rebecca L. Richardson, Steven Bowden to Lyle Burdine, Marie Burdine, Kenneth Schluterman, Cynthia J. Schluterman, 12700 Misty Creek Dr., $200,000. Carter E. Lambert, Rebecca Lambert to Jerry W. Jones, Teresa A. Jones, 15908 Patriot Dr., $200,000. Bradley E. Agin, Martha J. Agin to N. P. Dodge, Jr., National Equity Inc., 100 Tenkiller Dr., Sherwood, $198,000. Stephen W. Stout, Jane Stout to Christopher T. Parks, Susan H. Wells, 517 Midland St., $197,000.

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Dave Mullenax, Julie Mullenax to Daniel A. Newton, III, Margaret A. Newton, L18 B118, Chenal Valley, $604,000. Mike F. Kuhn, Jamie R. Kuhn to Sergio Atilano, 115 Courts Ln., $557,000. Billy Hartness Construction Company, Inc. to Ronald C. Sanders, Jr., Rosana M. Diokno, 133 Sezanne Ct., $525,000. Richard Jones, Rebecca Jones to Edward K. Gardner, Nancy B. Gardner, 12 Bellegarde Dr., $515,000. Jett V. Ricks, Robin M. Ricks to Christopher C. Stratton, Naomi M. Stratton, 47 River Ridge Rd., $510,000. Cleveland Home Properties, Inc. to I. T. Gray, Angela Gray, 13813 Fern Valley Ln., $499,000. Mike Kuhn Construction, Inc. to Sean P. Flannery, Christina Flannery, 14 Catlett Ln., $445,000. Thomas H. McGowan, Mary S. McGowan to Cassandra L. Toro, Ls7-9 B3, Weldon E. Wright, $405,000. Christopher M. Minor, April Minor to Brian J. Huster, Lauren P. Huster, 13318 Foxfield Ln., $354,000. Robert C. White, Claudia C. White to Oscar Martinez, Cynthia Martinez, 13800 Fox Field Ln., $350,000. HCB, LLLP to Mary Garner, 801 Pleasant Valley Dr., $340,000. Christi Wilson, Vernoica Battaglia to John B. Collins, Kimberly A. Collins, 34 Winterfern Cove, $332,000. Lewis Home Builders, Inc. to Don M. Stalls, Jennifer M. Stalls, 13804 Fern Valley Ln., $330,000. Scott R. Keith, Lanelle K. Keith to Bank Of New York Mellon Trust Company, Protium Master Grantor Trust, L3, Seventh Heaven Phase I, $321,392. Michael B. Powell, Kimberly A. Powell to Myron W. McWherter, Clarissa McWherter, 12 Commentry Dr., $316,000. Seon Kim, Sanghi Kim to Larry J. Powell, Megan M. Powell, 10 Chalamont Ct., $310,000. Jon Carnahan, Kelly Carnahan to Richard G. Renner, Barbara A. Renner, L4 B24, Chenal Valley, $310,000. Woodhaven Homes, Inc. to Kevin E. Price, Misti L. Price, 6 Tm Fly Way, NLR, $306,000. Richard D. Johns, Kellie E. Johns to Brian D. Provencher, Amy Provencher, 48 Aberdeen Dr., $299,000. Woodcrest Company LLP to Freeway Park Properties LLC, L7 B4, Springhill, $297,000. Raymond E. Stockley to Jeanine M. Pittman, 10 Eagle Glenn Cove, $287,000. Don Stalls, Jennifer Stalls to Roy Morello, Duk Soon Olivieri, 28 Montvale Dr., $285,000. William A. Steele, III, Mary M. Steele to Andrew Youngbauer, Abby Youngbauer, 14801 Chambery Dr., $278,000. Samuel Nicorici to Federal National Mortgage Association, 300 E. 3rd St. #1109, $272,494. Brian Allen, Sharon Allen to Ann M. Rankin, Richard K. Rankin, 41 Masters Place Dr., Maumelle, $270,000. Brad Renick, Sarah Renick to Sean Darragh, Marlene Darragh, L1207, The Quarters Phase XX Country Club Of Arkansas PRD, $265,000. Kenneth B. Delclos, Karen M. Delclos to Jason E. Coggins, Dawnmarie E. Coggins, 12607 Meadows Edge Ln., $265,000. Karl Liss, Izumi Liss to Carol A. Borkowski Revocable Trust, Carol A. Borkowski, L803, St Charles, $260,000. Kevin B. Edens, Jacqueline R. Edens to Mike Berg, Larita Berg, 160 Stonehill Dr., Sherwood, $260,000. Elliot Carman, Shelley A. Carman to Norma M. Huck, 71 Wellington Colony Dr., $260,000. Karen Shelton Bell Inc., Shelton Bell Custom Built Homes, Shelton Bell Custom Homes to Michael J. Westbrook, April M. Westbrook, 2617 Whitewood Dr., Sherwood, $260,000. Dewayne Bragg, Shirley Bragg to

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Booting booties n If President Obama is still unsure whose ass he needs to be kicking, I’ve got some nominations. Here are a few hundred he might warm up with. Not all bad people (or non-people in some cases); some maybe just needing one swiftie, not even hard, barely more than one of Frank’s pooch jobs, to encourage them to straighten up and fly right. First ass on the list, for example, is Sir Elton John’s, for having asked a mere $1 million to sing at some vile fatass dope fiend’s wedding. Why not $25 million? Why not $50 million? — as if the amount would make any difference to either one of these honky cats? Better a sign around the neck saying, “For the right dough, anything for anybody.” (Second ass on the list, insofar as these icky nuptials, would of course be the blushing bride’s.) Off the top of my head, other notable booties that could use a boot: Mike Huckabee’s (for Wayne Dumond and Maurice Clemmons). Bart the Bear’s (for selling out his artistic integrity by appearing in “The Edge.”) Jimmy Carter’s (just because). Mine. Kobe Bryant’s. Oprah’s. Turdblossom’s. Phil Hellmuth Jr.’s. Lindsay Lohan’s. Christopher Hitchens’. Benedict XVI’s. Jerry Jones’. Algonquin J. Calhoun’s. Dennis Miller’s. Daddy Joe Jackson’s. Jon Lord’s. The K Street regulars’. The C Street Family’s. Sally Quinn’s. Robert Henderson’s.Yours,

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