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Lottery shortfall n A new report on the amount of revenue the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery will be able to pass on to Arkansas college students this year finds the final tally is near $4 million dollars less than the revenue projection made by lottery director Ernie Passailaigue in late June on the day of the end of the lottery’s fiscal year.

The report, issued July 11 to the Arkansas Lottery Commission Legislative Oversight Committee, shows the amount of revenue that will be transferred to the Arkansas Department of Higher Education for the year stands at $94.2 million dollars. On June 30, the last day of the lottery’s fiscal accounting year, Passailaigue told reporters that the amount was projected to be around $98 million, a figure already downgraded from an original 2011 goal of $105 million. Passailaigue said the downgraded projection was due to customers favoring less profitable scratch-off tickets over more profitable Mega-Millions and Powerball games.

Brandi Hinkle, a spokesperson for the Arkansas Department of Higher Education, said that while the ADHE hasn’t seen the report in question yet, the lowered figure shouldn’t put any scholarships in jeopardy.

“We based the projections on the number of scholarships and the amount of each scholarship that would be awarded on different variables, kind of a best case and a worst case scenario,” Hinkle said. “That amount [$94.2 million] actually comes in about mid-range of what we’d estimated, so it should not impact the number of scholarships or the award amounts of scholarships for this year.”

We couldn’t reach Passailaigue for comment by press time.

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The existing footprint is largely to be retained. It will be branded as a Neighborhood Market, but will be more than 50 percent larger than the usual 40,000-square-foot model. It will have some 20,000 square feet of general merchandise, sort of a mini-Supercenter.

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n Rick Crawford, whose personal financial disrepair was an issue in his election as Republican congressman from the 1st District, is a professed spending hawk. But according to a new report by the transparency website Legistorm, Rep. Crawford’s words don’t match his actions.

Among 94 freshmen congressmen, Crawford’s staff payroll, at more than $216,000 for the first quarter of 2011, was fifth highest. You can see a full list of his staff salaries at arktimes.com/ CRAWFORD: crawfordstaffbudget.

Freshman staff pay is usually lower Hypocrite. than the pay of long-time members with longer-serving staffs. The average congressional staff pay in the first quarter was $246,911, a figure that Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike Ross, another budget hawk, managed to top with $247,545.

Staff pay for the quarter for other Arkansas reps.: Tim Griffin, $192,849; Steve Womack, $177,824.

n Although the federal courthouse at Little Rock has been expanded and renovated in recent years, at considerable expense, Judge Morris S. Arnold of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals continues to rent space in a private office building. Public money pays the rent.

For many years, Judge Arnold and Judge Lavenski Smith, the other appellate federal judge in Little Rock, had offices in the private Metropolitan Bank Building because there was no room for ARNOLD: Says them in the courthouse. Since the courthouse space expansion of the courthouse, Smith dirty, unsuitable. has moved there. So did Arnold for a time, but he said he found the remodeled space assigned to him unsuitable. “The place was in total disrepair,” he said. He said there was so much dust that he developed a respiratory disability, and that both he and a secretary fell down because the new addition didn’t fit properly with the older building.

So Arnold moved back to the bank building. The federal probation office, which had been in private quarters, moved into the space turned down by Arnold, and so, Arnold said, there was no additional rent payment for private space.

Arnold said he didn’t know what the rent for his office is. Neither did the federal General Services Administration, which maintains federal buildings. The office of Chief Judge Bill Riley of the 8th Circuit Court in St. Louis said that the administrative office of the U.S. Courts in Washington paid $68,835 annually for Arnold’s space in the Metropolitan Building, and would have had to pay GSA $76,756 ($8,000 more) for the courthouse space. But payment from one federal agency to another is merely shifting taxpayers’ money from one pocket to another. Public money paid a private vendor is money outof-pocket.

Ironically, the federal courthouse in Little Rock is now named for the late Judge Richard Sheppard Arnold, who was also a member of the Eighth Circuit Court, and the brother of Morris Arnold.

Today’s traveling medicine show n Maybe you’ve seen the flyers for the Get Motivated! Business Seminar, featuring Laura Bush, Bill Cosby, Rudy Giuliani, Lou Holtz, Colin Powell and other muckety-mucks. It’s coming to Verizon Arena on Aug. 30, and it’s only $1.95 per person or $9.95 for an entire office. That’s a steal, right?

It depends on your tolerance for sales pitches. In a typical account, the Indianapolis Star explained last year that celebrities typically speak for 15 to 30 minutes each, while pitches for books, videos, investments or future seminars BUSH: Will speak take up the bulk of the nearly nine hour between sales seminar. “It’s not right,” a man who’d pitches. attended the seminar told the Star. “Wait until next year, and they are going to have the pope and the president, and they are going to be selling Tupperware.”

10 They care

Eight young Arkansans who make a difference in their community. — By David Koon

20 The Arts Center’s new man

Director Todd Herman plans to pay down debt and usher the museum into the future. — By Leslie Newell Peacock

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n Give I your attention: “The victory was the 14th in a row for Klitschko and improved his record to 17-2 in title fights. More important, he captured Haye’s version of the heavyweight title, giving he and his brother, Vitali, all the major heavyweight title belts.”

Coincidentally, I read about Wladimir Klitschko’s success just after receiving an e-mail from Jim von Tungeln: “The assault on the objective case is reaching alarming proportions when Ph.D. friends and Harvard grads say things like ‘They are asking he and I to set up a remedial English program.’ The real shocker came in a Book TV segment when a lady introduced as an honored alum of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism began her speech with 4 JULY 13, 2011 • ARKANSAS TIMES

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‘Thank you for having my sister and I here as guests.’ ” Overrefinement has long caused problems of the sort Mr. von Tungeln mentions. People get the idea that him and me are coarse, so they replace them with he and I even when him and me are correct.

Whether the problem is getting worse, as Mr. von Tungeln suggests, I can’t say, but I wouldn’t be surprised. Pretension and ignorance seem to flourish. n Parker Westbrook writes:

“For some time, I have been concerned about (what I consider) the misplacement of the word only. For instance, ‘It only lasts a few minutes’ should be ‘It lasts only a few minutes.’ ” He has a point, as always, but not all the authorities agree with that point. The usage manual “Success With Words” says “It is a traditional maxim of style that the adverb only is best placed immediately before the word or phrase it qualifies ...” [the Westbrook approach]. But the manual goes on to say, “The placement of only immediately before the element it qualifies is usually a matter of style and preference, not of grammar or correctness. Do it if you like the effect, but don’t feel you have to do it unless a real change in meaning would otherwise occur.”

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FLYING FISH WE E HAV ISH! WF CRA

The Observer took Junior to the first day of his summer program last Monday: UALR’s Summer Laureate University for Youth — SLUFY — now in its 31st year. It’s a two-week, half-day camp for the big-brains of elementary and junior high schools from all over, with courses this year on earthquakes, chemistry, Egyptology and more.

The opening ceremony was held in the gym at a local elementary school, each class clustered around the walls, teachers holding up signs to help gather their respective flocks. Junior found his class and stood with them, while The Observer retreated to the bleachers with the old folks.

The way the classes were ranked spread the whole of childhood around the border of the basketball court: kindergarteners to our right, all the way up to young men and women on the left. We sat and watched our own young man, his hands folded awkwardly together, clutching a reporter’s notebook and pen we’d given him to take notes. He is, like his Old Man, too silent among strangers, and too loud among friends. At 11 years old, he’s taller than his mother, a full three inches taller than his teacher, destined to be too big for a world built for smaller folk. Soon, he’ll be bigger than even his father, if he keeps to the track he’s on. In public, he stoops slightly, desperate to shrink into the crowd and be hidden by it, maybe — yet another way he is like his Old Man. It took The Observer a long time to realize that there’s a lot more joy in being different than there ever was in being just like everyone else. We wish sometimes that we could pluck that thought from our head and put it into his, to keep him from spending years figuring it out and let him know it now, when he can use it most. As with all things, though, it is his to learn.

When the ceremony was dismissed and The Observer was heading out with the herd of other parents, Junior motioned us over and gave us a quick, shamefaced hug. He’ll soon be too old for a public indignity like that, though blessedly not yet.

Across the sweltering parking lot and driving away from him, under the freeway, through the neighborhoods between our boy and downtown, we suddenly found our eyes full of big, stupid

tears that made us cuss in embarrassment, even though we were alone. We missed him, we realized. Not just the him he is now, but all the people he has been since the first moment we saw him, just before Spouse’s dumbass obstetrician kicked us out of the operating room for the infraction of weeping silently with joy at the sight of his face. We always see him as he is and was, and we miss them all: the infant, looking all around, hungry to know everything at once; the toddler, who lined up his toy trains so they could watch cartoons with him; the boy, too smart by half, who was so shocked when he found out the sun is actually a star that it left him quiet and contemplative for days; finally the young man he has become: old soul, writer, trickster, joker and grayeyed philosopher, good with babies and dogs and computers and numbers; our dear friend, always ready to imagine the world as it should be, instead of how it is, he who has taught his father so much, even though The Observer believed a long time ago that we had learned and forgotten everything we ever could or would. We are all wading upstream, you see, time pressing against us for a moment before breaking and flowing around our mortal hearts like a stone. Only when The Observer got to be a father, though, did it make any sense.

Increasingly as the years roll on, we find ourselves so excited to meet who he will be next that we can hardly bear it.

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Five hours later, while The Observer was whipping up dinner, Junior bounded in from SLUFY, all smiles, his unclutched notebook now brimming with flyers and handouts and notes from his class on earthquakes. Oh, the excitement of it all! The joy! What did our progeny learn? What earth-shattering knowledge of the universe was now at his command?

His first story, told in breathless, vivid detail: A new friend’s friend-of-a-friend tale about how a kid he’d heard about once drilled a stealth peephole into the girl’s restroom, but didn’t see anything but a wall.

Yep, that’s our boy. We have no idea why we worry about that child so much, because he’s obviously gonna be OK. For now, chalk it up to the prerogative of a perpetually-nervous father. www.arktimes.com • JULY 13, 2011 5

Letters

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Thanks for publishing the excerpt from Justice Tom Glaze’s book. It was a great read and I can add a couple things to it.

I lived in Malvern, Hot Spring County, in the 1960s and a friend worked at the Trailways Bus Station. She said before each election a package would come in from Little Rock to the same man. It was an open secret that it was voter money and he was the “banker.”

We are still getting tombstone votes. I know this because Bro-Guv Huck said so on national TV, and you know an ex-

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Passive resistance not the path Thank you for the column “Beebe’s place in History” by Ginna Wallace (July 6). As a 48-year-old gay man, I have been called a faggot, been beaten up, been told that the way I feel is not only not normal, it is evil. I was at Gov. Beebe’s “chat” with the Stonewall Democrats last week and to say that I was appalled would truly be an understatement.

When the governor stood there in front of almost 200 GLBT people, friends and family, I wanted to stand and up say, “Governor, just because society tells us something, does NOT make it right.”

I used to agree with the governor that passive resistance is the way to go. To be under that radar was the best for everyone.

That is no longer my thought. If GLBT people do not stand for their rights who will stand for them? The governor who was elected to lead this state? I think not.

Michael Monnikendam (from the web) Little Rock

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While walking back to my car from the fireworks last night I noticed a team of wrecker trucks in the AWCC private car park at Broadway and Fourth Streets, rushing to remove as many parked cars as they could before their owners returned. While it is in the property owner’s right to enforce their parking rules, what sort of pathetic loser is so greedy or hard up for cash as to extort impoundment fees from families going to see the fireworks? It

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On Ellen’s death About a month ago I wrote to this paper calling on the Little Rock Zoo to retire Ellen to a sanctuary, where she could live out her remaining years in peace and comfort. Now, it’s too late: Ellen is dead.

It is unheard of for a zoo to shut down when an animal dies, even an elephant.

Why did the zoo rush to bury Ellen’s body in a secret location? Despite the zoo’s claims that they did so to prevent someone from stealing Ellen’s tusks, female Asian elephants like Ellen do not have tusks. What is the Little Rock Zoo trying to hide?

Ellen had recently been joined by two elephants, Zina and Jewell, from the Ringling Bros. Circus who had both suffered a lifetime of abuse, including routine beatings with bullhooks — heavy batons with a sharp steel hook at the end — and being chained, sometimes for days on end.

Elephants who have suffered physical punishment, deprivation and routine negative reinforcement like the elephants used by the Ringling Bros. Circus are more likely to be aggressive. Zina has a history of aggression and zoo officials expressed concerns about integrating Zina and Ellen.

It is merely a coincidence that Zina arrives, Ellen dies?

At the very least, the zoo owes it to Ellen to conduct a necropsy to find out what really ended the life of this magnificent animal.

Rest in peace, Ellen.

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is hard enough persuading people to visit downtown as it is. I saw families with young kids getting out of those cars on the way down, heaven knows what time they got home.

The car park appears to belong to Cypress Properties, 2200 N. Rodney Parham, according to the phone number on the car park sign. Well maybe the folks at Cypress Properties should show a little more self-respect next year. If they fear the good folk of Little Rock will soil their tarmac they should put up a barrier, and if business is so bad they need the cash they should get it by the honest way as practiced by those who live near the Fairgrounds or War Memorial. You get a lawn chair and a flashlight and charge $10 a car. After all, isn’t this the type of greed and vindictiveness we are celebrating winning our independence from on the 4th of July?

J. Leakey Little Rock

The GOP and the facts Republican hopefuls for the U.S. president have already kicked off their campaign against President Obama with a unified message that says, “Look at this mess we made while George W. Bush was president. And Barack Obama hasn’t cleaned up yet!?”

Why do we put up with these Republican clowns?

Of course Red State Arkansans can get behind this Republican campaign as long as such loyal Republican Arkansans avoid these truths: 1. There is no republic. The last republic in the U.S. was Texas. Sam Houston was its president. It lasted only nine years. The U.S. is a union of federated states. The central federal government is controlled by the democratic will of the masses, making the U.S. a democratic federation. The “Republic” is a bad pipe dream.

2. The only Republican U.S. president to balance his budget was Eisenhower.

All Republican presidents in the last half century have set record budget deficits. This is a sad fact.

3. President Clinton balanced his budget.

This is a sad fact.

4. Republicans actually love socialized health insurance. President Nixon was the architect, and Mitt Romney was the pioneer father of modern socialized health insurance in the U.S. “Romney-care” is one of the most brilliant programs in world history.

5. If re-elected, President Obama will probably balance his budget.

Isn’t it amazing how Arkansans have turned Republican lately? Everybody loves a clown.

Gene Mason Jacksonville Submit letters to The Editor, Arkansas Times, P.O. Box 34010, Little Rock, AR 72203.

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THE STATE BUDGET. Arkansas finished its budget year with more than $90 million in excess of expected revenue. Gov. Beebe wants to devote money to a looming Medicaid financial crisis, while Republican leaders, such as Rep. John Burris, want to cut taxes despite a proven pile of important needs.

BIKERS AND HIKERS. Federal Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood helped dedicate the Two Rivers Bridge, the pedestrian bridge that goes over the Little Maumelle River and connects the River Trail with Two Rivers Park. The bridge will officially open to the public on July 23.

THE UA ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT. The university announced that its RSVP plan, which requires most people who purchase tickets to home football games to make a donation to the Razorback Foundation, has raised $6.5 million for athletics.

Though public employees were used in the ticket efforts, the Razorback Foundation still maintains that its revenues and expenditures shouldn’t be open to public inspection.

JOE BLACK. Gov. Beebe appointed the Newport resident and president of Southern Bancorp Capital Partners to the state Board of Education. That the non-profit arm of Southern Bancorp has pumped money into charter schools in the past might suggest Black’s support for the expansion of charter schools.

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TRANSPARENCY IN THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATURE. The state Senate continues to resist streaming video of its proceedings or committee meetings, even when the meetings take place in rooms already outfitted with the necessary video equipment.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM. The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees announced that its search to replace B. Alan Sugg as president of the UA System has yielded four candidates: banker Frank Oldham of Jonesboro; Marianna farmer and lawyer and former Arkansas Farm Bureau president Stanley Reed; Arkansas native, Rhodes scholar and CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Washington John Churchill, and former dean of the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas and current provost of the University of Texas at Arlington Dr. Donald R. Bobbitt.

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When should the state step in?

In the wake of Yarnell’s abrupt closure, questions about the state’s role in propping the ice cream maker up.

BY MAX BRANTLEY

n The aftertaste of the failure of Yarnell’s Premium Ice Cream has been as bitter as the abrupt closure of the 79-year-old Searcy business June 30, which put more than 200 people out of work.

While hope continues that a buyer might be found for company assets to resume ice cream production, discussions recently have been focused more on the millions spent by the state to prop Yarnell’s up. It closed with more than $3.5 million in state loans outstanding — from an Arkansas Development Finance Authority bond issue and loans from the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission. Those loans are now in default.

In an ironic twist, a number of conservative business people — the sort who’ve been detractors of the Obama administration’s stimulus efforts — have risen to the defense of the state for putting money it may now lose into Yarnell’s to preserve jobs.

The reflexive defense of the state’s effort overlooked, however, the state’s repeated willingness to step up as a lender of last resort to Yarnell’s when no other private lender was willing to take that risk.

Using state subsidies to create new jobs is one thing, using state money to support dying businesses is another.

ADFA, for example, floated bonds for Yarnell’s in 2000 when First Commercial Bank didn’t want to renew a line of credit.

Then, when a balloon payment came due in 2006, ADFA issued new bonds. Again, it justified the action as necessary to preserve jobs.

But by then ADFA knew Yarnell’s was troubled. Blue Bell Ice Cream, which arrived in Arkansas in 1997, had taken a big chunk of the ice cream market away from Yarnell’s. And fitness concerns have been driving down ice cream demand nationwide, even as the cost of cream and sugar and fuel for delivery trucks has rocketed upward.

ADFA also knew that Yarnell’s had reported a negative net worth in 2001 and had lost important production of national label brands for a time in 2004. It had discussed asking suspension of loan payments on a couple of occasions.

AEDC, too, was aware of Yarnell’s difficult position. The company had repaid barely $50,000 on a $1.5 million loan. It hadn’t paid any principal on that loan for a year.

The family-owned company may have other financial concerns — private lines of credit, for example. But company officials have not made themselves available for interviews and have limited remarks to a prepared statement issued after the 2 a.m.

June 30 closing of operations.

“This has been an extremely tough year for the ice cream industry in general, and particularly to regional, independent manufacturers like ourselves,” said Christina Yarnell, chief executive officer of Yarnell’s.

“We have examined many possible avenues to keep the company afloat — actively marketing the company to investors and strategic buyers — the majority of whom are undergoing the same financial distress we are. However, we’ve been unable to ob-

tain additional financing from our lenders or locate a buyer, and have come to the difficult decision that the appropriate course of action is to shut our doors.”

Late last week, ADFA declined to open all documents on the Yarnell loans because it said marketing efforts were ongoing and disclosure of private details could damage the effort competitively. AEDC said the same.

Bryan Scoggins, director of business finance at AEDC, said he had talked within the last week with representatives of potential buyers of the Yarnell’s assets. It is too early to say if a deal is cooking. Scoggins said, “We want to be sure they are solid people with a reasonable chance of making things work.”

Some 230 workers hope so, about 150 of them workers in the Searcy plant. They were thrown out of work without warning or severance, except for a handful kept on for shut-down operations through August.

Lawyers are likely to stay busy. There’s a hazy line of priority on which state agency has first claim on property and equipment assets to be sold to satisfy the state’s debt. At one time, ADFA valued its $1.9 million loan at 73 percent of the value of assets, but the closure has forced a drastic write-down in value. Rogers and Albert Yarnell guaranteed the remainder of the ADFA loan. The AEDC loan is only partially secured by property. ADFA’s potential loss will come from a bond guaranty fund, not direct taxpayer support, but it’s all part of the valuation of a public agency established to grow Arkansas’s economy.

Whatever the eventual loss, an editorial in Arkansas Business called it a “nobrainer” for the state to invest in keeping a troubled business open to preserve jobs. In this market, you have to bet there are many troubled businesses that would be happy to have a low-cost state banker to preserve its jobs. The question unanswered still in the Yarnell’s case is what makes one company more deserving than others.

ADFA’s Gene Eagle could cite only three instances in which the agency had stepped in with financing for job preservation, as opposed to expansion — Yarnell’s, Riverside Furniture and a catfish processing plant critical to continuing processing for state catfish farmers.

Yarnell’s brand-name familiarity undoubtedly helped its case for state help.

Market conditions didn’t, particularly that brawny Texas competitor. A grocer who introduced Yarnell’s into his Southeast Arkansas grocery in the 1960s, pushing aside Borden’s, said Blue Bell now dominated his store sales. “My kids won’t eat anything else,” he said.

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Who cares now?

Eight (more) for the future.

BY DAVID KOON

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ay back in 2006, we ran a cover story called “Who Cares?” that spotlighted eight young Arkansans under 35 who were doing great things for their community. The idea was to offer a kind of antidote to those who see the younger generation as hopeless, apathetic and disconnected.

Fortune’s wheel, as Will Shakespeare was wont to say, is always turning. It’s a whole different world now: gas prices through the roof, a looming deficit crisis and the ongoing Great Recession, with the economy way, way down and unemployment way, way up.

Even in the face of that seeming despair, a good number of young folks in Arkansas are just as motivated and positive as ever about the future. To prove it, we’ve rounded up eight more sub-35-year-olds who are doing extraordinary things for their state and the nation.

What’s that feeling in our chests when we recall our conversations with them? Ah, yes: hope. And they’ve brought enough to share.

AARON REDDIN

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f Jesus comes back, he’s probably not coming to the big church out on the freeway.

More than likely, he’ll be riding shotgun with Aaron Reddin. The owner of The Van — a non-profit that delivers food, clothes and other necessities directly to the homeless — Aaron is an ol’ school Christian of the sort that would likely make that rabble-rousing carpenter from Bethlehem proud.

As a teen-ager, Reddin wound up addicted to meth and living in his car. After getting clean and landing a job at the Union Rescue Mission, Reddin found faith and discovered his calling: bringing comfort to the downtrodden. A few years back, he started a drive among friends to collect used coats for the needy. From there, he started packing his car with donated items — everything from socks to canned food to underwear — and cruising the streets at night, giving freely to anyone who looked like they needed help. All while working his full-time day job at the St. Francis House shelter.

“If someone’s got a need, we’re going to meet it,” he said. “Our slogan is: No rules, no apologies, just help.”

About a year ago, Reddin officially started his non-profit, The One Inc., which operates The Van. The Van got its namesake when Reddin posted on Facebook that he needed a panel truck to haul things. That same day, a car dealer friend from Benton saw his request, and asked a car-dealing colleague if he had a van. He did. “The dude said: ‘Don’t move, I’m coming to get it,’ ” Reddin recalled. “He went over there, bought it from him, dropped it off at my friend’s business and walked back to his car lot ... He refuses to let me tell anybody who he is.”

These days, the simple white van and Reddin’s mission have a loyal following of more than 1,000 fans on Facebook (www.facebook.com/itsthevan). The van itself is a

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BRIAN CHILSON

AGE: 29 WHAT HE CARES ABOUT: The homeless

bit sun-faded, but every surface is covered with the scrawled love of people Reddin has met along the way.

While The Van is technically a faith-based operation, Reddin doesn’t have much nice to say about Christianity in America. He says it’s a travesty that anyone should go hungry while churches costing millions of dollars are being built. “I’m pretty sure that my Jesus, today, would be in prison for arson,” Reddin said, “because he’d probably burn down the big churches.”

Reddin hopes to have another van operating in Memphis by this winter, and is currently building a shower and laundry trailer that he can tow to homeless camps (he needs stackable washer/dryers, pumps and a tankless water heater if anyone wants to help). He is, he says, very proud to be part of a generation that does things instead of talking about them. “We’re sick of the bullshit,” he said. “We’re sick of the bureaucracy.

We’re sick of — especially young people in the church — ‘Well, this committee has to meet. We’ve got $20,000 in the bank to help, but we’ve got to wait until next month’s meeting to discuss it.’ Well, that doesn’t do a whole lot of good for all the frickin’ people in your back yard who need help right now.”

BRIAN CHILSON

CHRISTIAN RUUD

AGE: 34 WHAT HE CARES ABOUT: Abolishing the death penalty.

T

here’s a quote he heard somewhere that sticks with Christian Ruud: It’s better to be rich and guilty than poor and innocent. It’s an idea that’s got quite a bit of import on why Ruud signed on in March 2010 as the first executive director of the Arkansas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.

A native of Wisconsin who lived in Minnesota for 12 years before moving to Little Rock in January 2010, Ruud was an insurance company attorney in his old life.

Minnesota doesn’t have the death penalty, so the issue really wasn’t on his professional radar. After moving to Arkansas, though, he found himself square in the Death Penalty Belt, the Southern states that execute a greater percentage of their population than anywhere else in the country. “It’s kind of like the Bible Belt,” Ruud said. “There’s probably a number of reasons why that is. There’s higher crime in the South. There tends to be areas of greater poverty, so there’s socioeconomic factors. It just seems like whatever reason people want to use the death penalty, there’s a perfect meeting of those reasons in the Southern states.”

Though there are ample inconsistencies with the way the death penalty is applied — more blacks are put to death than whites, more killers of whites are put to death than

killers of blacks, more poor prisoners are put to death than middle-class ones — the ultimate question for Ruud is: Can we be sure we’re not killing an innocent person? He says the answer, borne out by more than 100 exonerations of death row inmates in the past 30 years, is no.

“Although the police are, by and large, doing the best they can in really difficult situations, mistakes just sometimes happen,” he said. “Prosecutors, by and large, do the best they can, but mistakes just happen. And the way the system is set up, there’s just no guarantee that a mistake can’t be made and an innocent person won’t be put to death.”

Ruud points out that Arkansas has a better track record than most adjoining states when it comes to the death penalty. There hasn’t been an execution in five years, and the legislature has been willing to look at the issue in the past, including moving to exempt juveniles from capital punishment before the Supreme Court ruling made it a moot issue. Still, Ruud is working to push the ball forward, spreading the word of the group’s mission through social media and outreach. He said the pendulum is starting to swing against the death penalty, even among conservatives, mostly because it’s expensive and it doesn’t deter crime.

“What’s interesting about this cause, if you want to call it that,” he said, “is that it brings together people from all over the political spectrum who agree on nothing else.

But they can agree on this, because nobody wants to see an innocent person get executed.

Nobody wants that.”

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MIREYA REITH

AGE: 31 WHAT SHE CARES ABOUT: Latino communities in Arkansas

BRIAN CHILSON

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t’s the luck of the draw that Mireya Reith considers herself an Arkansan, and is committed to fighting for the rights of Arkansas Latinos. When she was a girl, her father was looking to move somewhere a bit warmer than Wisconsin, where Reith was born. He found a list somewhere of the top five towns in America. The choice was between Silver City, N.M., and Fayetteville. After one trip, her father fell in love with Northwest Arkansas.

Reith spent summers with her mother’s family in Mexico, but “Arkansas is my home,” she said. “When I was growing up here, it was a very different place, especially in Northwest Arkansas. There really wasn’t much diversity up here in this corner of the state. I think it was always my desire in general to be part of something bigger.”

While Reith ended up going abroad with international groups like the National

IVAN HUDSON AGE: 28 WHAT HE CARES ABOUT: Future black business leaders

BRIAN CHILSON

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t an age when most young men worry about nothing more taxing than which one of their roommates drank the last beer, Ivan Hudson has a lot on his plate.

The president of the Young Black Professionals of Arkansas, Hudson is shepherding in the next generation of black business leaders and opinionmakers in the state and trying to help stop a “brain-drain” that funnels the best and brightest out of the state.

A native of Tulsa with a business degree from the University of Arkansas, Hudson moved to Little Rock in September 2006. For the past two years, he’s served as diversity business enterprise manager with the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery. A member of the YBPA since 2007, he was elected president in March 2010 after serving as vice president of the group for two years.

Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Washington, D.C., working in HIV-AIDS policy development for the United Nations Development Programme and serving as an observer for Global Exchange during Mexico’s 2000 presidential elections, that “something bigger” she was looking for really started to reveal itself during the 2008 election, when Reith signed on with Latinos for Obama. Their work on the ground in Northern Virginia helped flip the state’s election totals from red to blue. “For us, it was an awakening, and I think an inspiration as well,” she said. “In the case of Virginia, we did successfully change how that state voted.” Seeking to harness the momentum from the election, Reith and friends founded The New Latino Movement, a nationwide association of young professionals committed to the civic engagement of Latinos all across the county.

“All of us that were involved in that process felt that we really had our finger on something,” she said. “Maybe there was an opportunity here to introduce some new strategies, especially to those working in the Hispanic community, in terms of supporting and engaging and getting our community informed and involved.”

The non-profit, which counts about 50 active members, was founded in 2006. Its members promote leadership with community service and networking. Since Hudson joined the YBPA, the group has participated in the Black Firefighters Association’s backto-school drives, held voter registration drives and hosted candidates’ forums during the presidential and midterm elections. The average age for members is in the late 20s, he said, though they don’t have a minimum or maximum age limit.

“We say ‘young at heart,’ ” he said. “We’ve got some folks in the 50s and 60s who are active members and support the organization. They also serve as mentors to us. The name implies youth, but it also implies that you’ve got to be of a certain ethnic group, but that’s not really the case.

We have members from various ethnic backgrounds involved and we welcome that membership. We just want to be able to play a vital role in diversifying opportunities as it relates to leadership in Arkansas.” That includes serving as a conduit to funnel black professionals

Since moving back to the state, Reith worked as Hispanic Outreach Director for the Democratic Party of Arkansas, and is credited with helping double the Latino voter turnout between 2008 and 2010. She also was recently appointed by Governor Beebe to serve on the state Board of Education.

Reith founded a New Latino Movement chapter in the state, and is still instrumental in shaping the national direction of the group. In coming months, she will be working to get a new non-profit called The Arkansas United Community Coalition off the ground. The goal, she said, is to have a full-time, fully staffed non-profit open in Springdale by October 2011.

“We’ll be working in general to promote the value of immigrants and their contributions here in Arkansas,” she said, “primarily doing that through a strategy of grassroots organizing and community building — really helping communities, and especially immigrant communities here in Arkansas identify their vision for change. What are their hopes and their aspirations for their community? Helping them prioritize what is the greatest issue for them, and to actually help them commit to taking action.”

to spots on non-profit boards and commissions.

Little Rock has a hard time retaining good minority leadership, Hudson adds, because the quality of life for young, educated African-Americans is seen as better elsewhere. “From a young person’s standpoint, and specifically minorities, there’s a braindrain,” he said. “It’s easy for someone to pick up and get what is perceived as a better quality of life and a better standard of living in Dallas or Houston or somewhere outside of Arkansas, just because of the perceived lack of opportunities here.”

As for Hudson, he’s staying put, and trying through his work with the YBPA to help keep others here as well.

“There’s a huge void that needs to be filled,” he said. “As long as I’m here, I feel like I can bring my resources and bring my know-how to the table to try and just make a difference. It’s not easy, but you celebrate progress even if it’s marginal. I’ve planted some seeds, and I care about nourishing those seeds and I care about seeing them grow.”

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JACK LOFTON AGE: 29 WHAT HE CARES ABOUT: Arkansas film and film-making

BRIAN CHILSON

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rowing up on a farm in tiny Hughes, Ark., film was a kind of magic for young Jack Lofton. After working to get the Little Rock Film Festival off the ground for the last five years and now moving on to found his own online hub for filmmakers around the state, it still is.

Born in Memphis, Lofton was raised in a quiet neighborhood in Dallas until the fourth grade, when his father inherited a working rice farm in Hughes.

Marooned there in The Land that Cable TV Forgot with only his four siblings and a video camera for entertainment, his imagination bubbled to the surface.

“We were very creative,” he said. “We would write plays. We’d use the video camcorder to make films, and that was something I was very passionate about.

It got me into local theater.” His father would often make him sit down and watch classic film marathons, and though the

JESSICA DeLOACH

AGE: 27 WHAT SHE CARES ABOUT: The Democratic Party of Arkansas

BRIAN CHILSON

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s someone who has bled Democrat blue since she was old enough to know who the president was, this year’s Republican sweep during the mid-term elections made Jessica DeLoach nervous.

“I sat up very late that night watching the results come in, thinking: OK, catch your breath,” she said. “This is the pendulum swinging back the other way. This is a first-term president, his first go-round with midterm elections.

We’ve seen this before. ... It’s very easy to be disappointed, but you can’t let that disappointment take the front seat from political knowledge. For those of us who do have that knowledge, it’s important for us to believe.”

The president of the Young Democrats of Arkansas since May 1, DeLoach has been a believer for a long

town had no theater, the video selection at the local mom-and-pop grocery store — run by an Asian owner with a taste for independent film — helped set the cinematic hook early.

Later, Lofton threw himself into acting with the same zeal he’d later bring to his role as executive director of the Little Rock Film Festival. He went to Lyon College on an acting scholarship, and eventually graduated with a double major in theater and political science.

He was at a crossroads: find something to do in Arkansas, or go to Hollywood.

He chose the bright lights, and eventually served as Joaquin Phoenix’s stand-in on “Walk the Line” before realizing that he really wanted to be behind the camera.

“I was weighing the choice of going to the William Morris mailroom, or coming back here [to Arkansas] and getting into law school,” Lofton said. “When I came back here to do that [it] was right after the film festival was founded, and a few months before [school] was about to start. I immediately got plugged in with them.”

Thanks to student loans, Lofton said he was able to work for the LRFF

time. She said the “sweet, funny answer” for why she’s a Democrat would be that her grandmother down in El Dorado raised her that way. The real reason, though, goes deeper even than blood.

“I’m a Democrat because I believe that out of every political party I’ve ever studied, this is a group that — no matter how many people criticize it — there are people in this party who truly believe in improving the lives of other people. …

I’ve found a resting place for the things that I believe in under this party. I think it’s that personal side of it that keeps me here.”

Now finishing up a triple-major bachelor’s degree at UALR — political science, liberal studies and theater — DeLoach said the Democratic Party offers the kind of “mental freedom” that’s often lacking in the modern GOP. “Use the pro-choice issue,” she said.

“There are plenty of Democrats who are pro-choice, and there are plenty who are pro-life. And we all tolerate each other.

The issues are emotional on the surface, but at the core, we can ask what’s best for our society.” DeLoach says that same sense of ideological freedom is

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dirt cheap. He was with the festival for five years, but made the “mutually beneficial” decision to hang up his spurs this year to pursue his own projects. He’s currently finishing up a law degree while simultaneously directing and editing three documentaries, including a doc about former Texas Gov. Ann Richards and another called “God Hates Gaga,” about the Westboro Baptist Church picketing a concert by Lady Gaga during a blizzard. The big news for Lofton, however, is that he is gearing up to launch an online clearing house for www.arkfilm.org, which will deal with “anything and everything” about film and media in Arkansas, including providing a statewide location and crew database. Most of all, he just wants to help film and film making thrive in the state he calls home.

“I’ve planted my roots here, and I’m devoted to the community at this point,” he said. “I’ve been given a lot, and instead of me packing up and working in New York or L.A., which I’m sure I could do, it satisfies me much more to be in the community, to stay where I’m from and make it happen here.”

increasingly being pushed out of the Republican Party. “There are so many smart, talented, true Republicans,” she said. “They are dedicated to community service. They do care. But they’re being shouted down right now by the idiocy and the lies. I’m still shocked that people want to get rid of the EPA. That one just goes right over my head. “ Even though she may never cast a vote for a Republican (she keeps the option open, she said, but never has), DeLoach knows she lives in an increasingly red state. While she acknowledges the outlook for the Democratic Party in Arkansas may not be rosy, she said it’s still not hopeless by a long shot. She said the future of the state — who will lead it, and where — lies in the hands of voters who lean Democrat.

“You have to make a decision,” she said. “I’m going to stay home on Election Day based on my shade of blue, or I’m going to see the bigger picture and see how quickly this state can change if we lose the state legislature.

Yes, it’s becoming more red, but it’s definitely not worth giving up on.”

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SUSANA O’DANIEL

Age: 30 WHAT SHE CARES ABOUT: Underprivileged children and families.

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n her small office in the old Union Station near downtown Little Rock, Susana O’Daniel doesn’t have her master’s or bachelor’s degrees framed and displayed.

Instead, she’s hung the 25-plus-year-old certificate she got as a girl when she graduated from a Head Start pre-K program, and a colored map of Arkansas, showing each county’s average life expectancy. The life expectancy gap between the poorest counties — those in the Delta — and the richest counties in the state is 10 years wide. As a community outreach coordinator and lobbyist for Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a non-profit that does public policy research, outreach and lobbying in favor of social welfare and social legislation issues all over the state, O’Daniel said she keeps her Head Start certificate and the map within sight to remind her of why the work they do there matters.

Born in Denton, Texas (“I don’t bring up Texas in mixed company,” she said; “it doesn’t do me any favors”), O’Daniel was raised in Mena. When she was a girl, O’Daniel’s mother, a library director, often gave her books that profiled social justice heroes like Cesar Chavez and Gandhi. She decided at a young age to try to devote her life to being an advocate for change. “I just knew really early on that there were some injustices in this world,” she said. “I thought: That is wrong, and what can I

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do to change that?”

A political junkie — when she was 11, she gave up Saturday morning cartoons and started watching Saturday morning C-SPAN — O’Daniel’s primary focus is lobbying at the state level on tax and budget issues. While that might sound about as interesting as swatting gnats, O’Daniel’s excitement for her job is infectious, as is her respect for the AACF, which helped push through the ARKids First legislation, and which has lobbied for bills to benefit everything from foster child welfare to the pro-immigrant DREAM Act. In the latest session, O’Daniel was instrumental in securing a fix for an error in a 2007 law that had placed a higher state tax burden on one of Arkansas’s most vulnerable groups. “When that bill was drafted,” O’Daniel said, “there was an error in the writing, and it actually worked to exclude single head of household with two or more dependents.” AACF tried unsuccessfully to change the law in the 2009 session. “We were really thrilled that in this session, we were able to get that fixed.” She’s currently gearing up for the next session, where she will — among other initiatives — help push the idea of an Arkansas earned-income tax credit.

At 30, O’Daniel said she’s happier than she’s ever been. She loves working at the state level, she said, because she knows she’s probably going to be able to see change happen within her lifetime. “I love Arkansas,” she said. “I love the potential here; the people who I meet in my job who are looking around in their communities and seeing what they can do. Maybe it sounds kinda cheesy, but they’re doing stuff!

They’re making things happen.”

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BRYAN BORLAND

AGE: 31 WHAT HE CARES ABOUT: Poetry, publishing, and his gay literary magazine, “Assaracus”

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ddly enough, Bryan Borland knows the exact date he became a poet: Jan. 20, 1993. If that date rings a bell, it’s because it was the day Bill Clinton was inaugurated as president.

“My brother had just died, and I was sort of lost,” Borland said. “He died on December 15th, 1992. That whole time, I was just sort of spiraling around, very vulnerable I guess. And I saw Maya Angelou get onstage and read ‘On the Pulse of the Morning.’ Something about that just blew me away.”

Borland, who came out of the closet at 22, started writing poetry, and has since been nominated twice for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. His 2010 collection, “My Life as Adam,” is still garnering praise from all over the country, and was included on the American Library Association’s first “Over the Rainbow” list of gay and lesbian literature. Borland also finds time to run Sibling Rivalry Press, which publishes marginalized authors (for more info, visit: www.siblingrivalrypress. com). His true baby, though, is “Assaracus.” As far as he knows, it’s the only literary print journal in the country devoted to gay male poets.

“I love that it’s from Arkansas,” he said. “For the longest time I’d say I’m from Little Rock, but I’m actually from Alexander. And I’m very proud to say that the only print journal of gay poetry is from Alexander.”

Several Ivy League universities are subscribers, and the journal has paid for itself so far. The fact that the world seems to want to hear what “Assaracus” has to say gives him hope.

“It says that it’s necessary. It says that it’s valid. It gives people a voice,” Borland said. “I want to give people the microphone, give them the stage, and let them speak. That’s what the journal really is. It’s giving them the stage to be heard, and the fact that Yale, Brown, Stanford and Cornell and all these other places are interested — that’s just cool.”

The title of the journal is a tribute to publisher John Stahle, who designed and launched “My Life as Adam” at the Rainbow Book Fair in New York City in 2010. Stahle’s journal, “Ganymede,” named after a Greek demi-god, was the first place to publish Borland’s poetry. When Stahle died in April 2010, his journal effectively died with him. Borland stepped in to collect work for and publish a tribute issue. In return, he got the contacts and editorial boost he needed to start his own journal. In Greek mythology, Assaracus was Ganymede’s earth-bound brother.

While Sibling Rivalry Press will soon issue some of its books electronically, Borland said he’ll never offer an electronic edition of “Assaracus.” He said he likes the idea of somebody finding a dusty copy in a book store 20 or 30 years from now, opening it up, and finding something that speaks to them. Borland realizes he’s being a little exclusive by publishing only gay authors there. But until they can be published elsewhere, he’ll keep on.

“As long as there is a kid in his dorm room in Kansas who it might, not even to exaggerate, it might save his life to read a poem by one of these authors — as long as that person exists, I think there’s a need for a journal like this.”

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EYE ON ARKANSAS

Editorial n It won’t end the criticism for his recent unsympathetic remarks to a gay political organization, but Gov. Mike Beebe has at least declined to attend or endorse Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s gay-bashing extravaganza, scheduled for Houston next month. Long journeys begin with single small steps.

Perry, a potential Republican presidential candidate, asked his fellow governors to approve the Texas-sized get-together that he is co-sponsoring with the American Family Association, long recognized as a hate group and now officially designated as such by the Southern Poverty Law Center. While Governor Perry has talked mostly about America standing in the need of prayer — good Christian fundamentalist prayer — the president of the AFA, the notorious Tim Wildmon, has acknowledged that one of the purposes of the prayerfest is to end the “increasing acceptance of homosexuality” by American society.

A spokesman for Governor Beebe didn’t remember the exact language used by the governor in declining Perry’s invitation, but he said the governor would definitely be staying away from the Houston affair, or, as the spokesman put it, nicely, “staying out of Governor Perry’s hair.” Until recently, when he stepped on the religious-bigotry gas, Perry, like Donald Trump, was best known for his ’do. “Governor Goodhair,” the late Molly Ivins called him.

Gay-baiting aside, a governor has no business using his office to promote his own religion. Governor Perry can’t stay on his knees long enough to make it right.

Ship him Down Under n We’d thought that Rupert Murdoch, like Satan, was pretty much damage-proof as far as reputation was concerned. After years of unprincipled money-grubbing, of banishing truth from his media outlets, of turning good newspapers into bad ones and making bad ones worse, what could Murdoch do that would lower him even further in the estimation of his fellow man?

Now we know. The Murdoch empire could hack into the voice mail of murdered schoolgirls’ families, misleading these sufferers to believe their beloved might still be alive; tap the telephones of relatives of soldiers killed in Afghanistan, and of the victims of the London transit attack; bribe police officers to divulge confidential information. Disgusted before, the British people are enraged now, and the American people are beginning to notice. A large part of that evil empire is here, after all.

Outside the Tea Party and the Fox News studios, Murdoch defenders are few. Even the Republican Newspaper Publishers Association is reclaiming its Man of the Year awards. (“He wasn’t supposed to get caught,” a distraught board member told us.) Immigration reformers are seeking ways to send Murdoch back to Australia. It’s not quite far enough.

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SWELTERING: Temperatures over 100 were a common sight around Arkansas over the weekend and the early part of the week. Highs for the rest of the week are expected to dip into the mid-90s.

Socialist Arkansas n Evidence mounts that the business community has sold the public on socialism.

The Little Rock Board of Directors Monday night called an election on a penny worth of proposed sales tax increases including a $38 million outlay to subsidize business development, including a research “park” and Little Rock Port expansion. Mayor Mark Stodola says EVERYBODY in Arkansas is moving toward government-subsidized economic development; why shouldn’t Little Rock join the throng?

The economic elites have sold this idea so effectively that polling on the tax increase apparently showed stronger support for government subsidies of private enterprise than it did for a tax to shore up the city’s essential services — police, fire, streets, parks.

Virtually all the public discussion Monday was about the economic development angle, including a carefully orchestrated series of pleas for the money from beneficiaries.

Noteworthy: Hugh McDonald, CEO of Entergy’s Arkansas affiliate and a former board member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said in pleading for government handouts to private business, “We need to help ourselves.”

By “we,” he didn’t mean the business community and economic elites. (How’s this for “we-ness?” Entergy just moved a big chunk of business away from the Southwest Power Pool, a jobs-rich company headquartered in Little Rock.)

The chamber believes that poor people should pay additional pennies in sales taxes on its hamburgers, beans, utility bills, blue jeans and other necessities so that private business and their predominantly white male executives can enjoy a heftier profit margin. In return, the Chamber of Commerce fights: Civil rights laws; laws that provide legal redress to injured people; universal health care; adequate workers compensation coverage; higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations; labor unions; transparency in government; Barack Obama; most Democratic candidates; public schools, and so on.

Stodola disputes the chamber’s influence, never mind its $200,000 unaccountable taxpayer subsidy.

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Really? The city-financed research park would be run by a board on which the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce gets one of seven statutory seats. No independent community group is so favored, be it the AFL-CIO or Junior League. The mayor’s two appointees will be chamber-approved. And I was distressed to learn one of UALR Chancellor Joel Anderson’s appointees would be Bob Johnson, the former state senator who fought against protection of the Lake Maumelle watershed and who championed self-interested pork barrel spending.

Some big-time Little Rock businessmen and chamber members agree with me, if not for attribution.

Said one: “I am very pro-business but I worry about the research park — too much too fast. Why not take one of the city’s large empty buildings and try to grow into that building. I am always skeptical when a private developer gets university and government agencies to sponsor a project without private money. I hope I am wrong and it is a demand-driven project and not a fee-driven project (real estate fees, design, construction, etc). Remember the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System and Victory buildings.”

More succinct was this from another chamber member: “The state is just about the worst judge of a lending opportunity as anyone I could imagine. And I think the same thing about the research park. If it’s so necessary, why doesn’t the private sector do it?”

There’s no proper vote but a yes for the operations portion of the sales tax proposal. There are real needs, too, in the capital portion of the proposal for Sept. 13, but the $38 million field-of-dreams slush fund might prove a deal breaker. Or maybe not. And if so, what’s next, a city of Little Rock-financed socialized shopping mall?

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Remembering Civil Rights battles n As golden jubilees go, the gathering of the ’60s Freedom Riders and lunch-counter demonstrators over the weekend was unexceptional: the usual hugs, mutual compliments, nostalgia and jokes about the ravages of age.

But someone lifted straight from the hot streets of 1961 or 1965 — maybe even Amis Guthridge or Rev. Wesley Pruden, the white supremacists who led the counterdemonstrations — would have to remark how forbearing and tender were these “outside agitators” and “communists,” as even newspaper editors in those days sometimes called them.

Soft and mellow were not qualities anyone would have associated with William W. Hansen Jr., John Curtis Raines, Howard Himmelbaum or any of the others, except perhaps by people who actually knew them, but you could detect no hardness or rancor in the reminiscences of the men and women who had come south and west to provide a cover for young African Americans who were demonstrating for their right to show up where only white people were allowed and to cast a vote and have it counted.

No one could fail to be impressed by John Raines’s affecting accounts of how his first freedom ride and his first destination,

Ernest Dumas the Trailways bus waiting room at Louisiana and Markham Streets, on July 10, 1961, had changed his life. He was a young minister, the son of immense privilege, but vague stirrings of altruism caused him to sign up for a freedom ride. The Congress on Racial Equality figured that to get the attention of the country, including the media, Northerners and Easterners, principally white, should be brought to the civil rights struggles. The media ignored the efforts of black Southerners, even their murders, but they would not ignore the misfortunes of the white students and ministers from the East.

Raines offered no hard words but only gratitude for the city, the cops and the judge who jailed him or the townspeople who jeered him. It seemed heartfelt. People owed him nothing, he said, but he owed everything to Little Rock and the other Southern cities on his journeys and especially the young African Americans who were in real peril for educating him on what the world

Read their lips: No new taxes n I like and admire some Republicans. All four of them know full well how I feel.

But I must rise today in newly invigorated resistance to this prevailing modern extremist Republican assault both on government and our time-honored principle by which the fortunate are taxed to help the less fortunate.

At its benign best, this assault is based on a genuine conservative belief that we’ll all be better off if government is pared and people are left to the natural devices of a market economy. At its malignant worst, it is based on a conspiracy against the idea that we should seek a better society through government via progressive taxation to ensure that basic human needs never go unattended in such a wealthy, powerful and compassionate nation.

I do not presume to say which it is, except that attitudes and purposes surely vary Republican to Republican.

What has happened over the past four of five days in Washington is instructive. What has happened over the last three or four days

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in Little Rock has been unsettling.

In Washington, President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, a left-leaning seeker of compromise and right-leaning dealmaker, apparently were finding common personal ground by which practical solutions to vexing problems seemed to be in sight.

To make budget cuts for the purpose of raising the debt ceiling and avoiding default, Obama would go along with Republicans on some form of means-testing of Medicare and long-term savings in Social Security.

In exchange, Boehner would accept reforms in the tax code by which rich people and some corporations would start paying taxes they are not now paying. Boehner apparently indicated a willingness to let the

was like for people who by mere accident of birth faced far different lives from his own.

What would have surprised those who hated them is that these “outsiders” were scared. Laura Foner, who left school in New York to go to Gould to teach at a freedom school, said she was frightened and naïve.

She was not apt to get much law-enforcement protection. J. Edgar Hoover had the FBI watch her because her father was a labor historian.

But Bill Hansen, the child of a Catholic working couple in Cincinnati, was not so afraid. He had his jaw crushed and ribs broken in a Georgia prison, where he was tossed for demonstrating. Arkansas, which had a smaller reputation for violence, was solace for him.

Before last weekend, the last image Arkansans had of Hansen was a picture on the front page of the Arkansas Gazette on March 12, 1965. It was of a crowd huddled around his crumpled form on a sidewalk outside the state Capitol. He had been whacked by troopers, dragged up the basement steps by his heels and tossed on the concrete outside the southern portal.

A few weeks earlier, Gov. Faubus and the secretary of state, Kelly Bryant, had the cafeteria in the Capitol basement turned into a private club to keep blacks out. White people were automatically members, but a black person could not join.

Hansen, Himmelbaum and a band of students, mostly from Philander Smith College, marched to the Capitol soon after noon on March 11, the last day of the legislative

session, to have lunch and maybe visit the governor.

The governor’s executive secretary told the group they were not members and could not enter. They returned later to try again.

Maj. Mack Thompson of the State Police and a cadre of troopers met the group when they wedged into the hallway outside the cafeteria.

Thompson, recalling the beatings in Montgomery and Selma, told the students: “We don’t want to have no Alabama here and I don’t think you people do, but we propose to have one if we have to.”

Hansen was knocked cold in the melee that followed, Himmelbaum was burned by mustard gas and a newspaper reporter whom the troopers mistook for a demonstrator had to have a few stitches in his chin. A young Gazette reporter whose office policy was to wear a suit and tie went unscathed.

What is not much understood is that the protests worked. The next round of freedom riders were allowed to integrate the waiting room at the Greyhound station. The lunchcounter sit-ins produced secret negotiations with merchants, who quietly agreed to integrate the downtown stores, including the lunch counters, and to hire a few African Americans. One month after the Capitol melee, a Republican federal judge, J. Smith Henley, ruled that the private club was a fraud. The 14th amendment, he said, does not allow the government through any ruse to open its facilities to white people but not to black.

Bush tax cuts on high incomes expire if, but only if, this expiration was accompanied by real reforms in the tax code by which, presumably, all tax rates conceivably could be lowered.

On Saturday night, Boehner notified Obama it was a no-go. His right flank had told him absolutely not.

This extremist flank, now in full control of Republicanism, was led by Eric Cantor, Republican of Virginia.

You remember him. He was last seen saying that poor blown-away people in Joplin shouldn’t get any government help unless we first cut spending elsewhere to pay for whatever we would expend on them.

Let us not ignore the utter clarity in what Cantor and the prevailing Republican contingent are saying. It is that they will let our nation default on its debt, and that they will reduce services to their countrymen in need, before they will go along with higher tax bills on rich people’s luxury jets or on the profits of General Electric or the oil companies.

Whatever they profess to be their supposedly benign or noble motivation neither changes nor mitigates one syllable of that preceding paragraph.

Meantime, back in Little Rock, state government reports that it took in $95 million more in the fiscal year ending June 30

than it had conservatively projected to take in, mostly because of more investment earning taxes than had been expected.

Gov. Mike Beebe says we ought to hold this money to plug in shortfalls in exploding costs of Medicaid for the health care of the poor and disabled. Meantime, he has his human services people hard at work on trying to reform Medicaid to find long-term savings in the way we reimburse providers.

So we have emerging Republican contingents in the legislature who say that, in view of this surplus, we ought to cut taxes.

Meantime, Tea Party people scoff at Beebe’s fuzzy efforts to reform Medicaid, presumably by threatening minor erosion in the wealth of doctors and providers.

The Republicans’ leader in the state House of Representatives, young John Burris of Harrison, went so far the other day as to say we shouldn’t keep paying so many medical bills for so many people on Medicaid.

Presumably his premise is that poor people and disabled people will get richer or be healed if only we would cut everybody’s taxes.

Well, that’s the generous spin.

John Brummett is a columnist and reporter for Stephens Media’s Arkansas News Bureau. www.arktimes.com • JULY 13, 2011 19

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New director to tackle debt, identity crisis at Arts Center.

BY LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK

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hen Dr. Todd Herman, the new director of the Arkansas Arts Center, reported for work last week, the Arts Center’s galleries reflected the past year’s uncertainties.

The major show of French impressionist drawings and paintings gone, the two main galleries were empty, as were the Winthrop Rockefeller and Sam Strauss Sr. galleries. Only the gallery dedicated to the Arts Center’s collection of Paul Signac watercolors and the Jackson T. Stephens Gallery, which features works from the permanent collection, had art on the walls. It was bleak.

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manent collection will open this week and next, but the Townsend Wolfe gallery, the largest, will remain dark until the first week in October. (“It’s called transition,” spokeswoman Heather Haywood explained.)

Not visible but important in their absence nevertheless were the Arts Center’s two curatorial positions, for its works on paper and its contemporary craft collections. They’ve been left empty to meet a pared-down $5.5 million budget for 2012.

So it’s only a slight stretch to say that Herman, who was hired in April by the Arts Center Board of Directors, comes to an Arts Center not too much different

from the one Townsend Wolfe came to in 1968: Underfunded and undergoing somewhat of an identity crisis.

The challenge ahead “I recognized coming in,” Herman, who was hired away from the Columbus Museum of Art in South Carolina, where he was chief curator and curator for European art, told this reporter. But, he added, “The enthusiasm and commitment of the board and foundation was so impressive that I felt the institution could pull through this.” And he realized the importance of the Arts Center to the people of Arkansas, he said, when the morning after his late-afternoon hiring, as he was headed to the airport at 6

a.m., he heard the news of his selection on KUAR radio’s news program. That his hiring was so newsworthy, he said, shows him the Arts Center is “beloved.”

Given the empty curatorial jobs, which Herman described as “critical to the institution,” and the Arts Center’s $2.2 million debt to the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation, Herman’s top priority, he says, is to hire a fund-raiser. The director of development job has been vacant since April 1.

Of equal importance: A “strategic plan to move the institution forward.”

What plans existed are “exhausted at this Continued on page 29

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n This Thursday night, former Razorback and current Chicago Bull Ronnie Brewer hosts a birthday party for promoter Courtney G at Deep Ultra Lounge, with DJ sets by Greyhound and g-force.

The event is also an album release party for Goines, whose newest album, “Something to Lose,” has been earning big-ups on the web.

Everything gets rolling around 10 p.m. n Head to Rock Candy to hear “The Natural State,” the latest from Song+Stories, an audio series that blends documentary tape with original songs. The piece is on Arkansas earthquakes and blends clips of Faulkner County residents discussing their experiences as well as the pros and cons of the natural gas boom with a new song, written for the series, by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy called “Mother Nature Kneels.” Hear the song at arktimes. com/mothernaturekneels. n Aug. 3 would have been Little Rockborn jazz musician Art Porter Jr.’s 50th birthday. The saxophonist died in a boating accident in Thailand in 1996.

To commemorate Porter’s life and work, Art Porter Music Education Inc., a nonprofit that provides scholarships to budding musicians, will present a week’s worth of music and events to celebrate the virtuoso musician’s life, from Aug. 1-6 at venues throughout Little Rock. See the complete schedule at arktimes.com/artporter. n Pretty Lights, the DJ name of Fort Collins, Colorado’s Derek Vincent Smith, is coming to Verizon Arena on Oct. 29. Tickets to the general admission show (a rarity at Verizon) range from $30 to $33 and go on sale on July 15 via Ticketmaster. n Early registration for this year’s Little Rock leg of the 48 Hour Film Project is now open, with early bird teams that sign up before Aug. 1 getting in for only $140 per team. The price jumps by $20 bucks after that. Register via 48hourfilm.com/littlerock. n Batesville’s Ozark Foothills FilmFest is accepting film and screenplay submissions for its 2012 festival, scheduled for March 28-April 1. Submissions must be on DVD, accompanied with a non-refundable $10 entry fee and must be received by Dec. 16.

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JACK’S MANNEQUIN 7 p.m. Revolution. $20.50.

n Back in 2004, Andrew McMahon left the Orange County heart-on-sleeve pop outfit Something Corporate and went out on his own under the moniker of Jack’s Mannequin. His first album, 2005’s “Everything in Transit,” got a lot of early traction, but McMahon was diagnosed with leukemia shortly after it came out, and had to postpone touring. After a bone marrow transplant from his sister, McMahon recovered and began work on 2008’s “The Glass Passenger,” which documented the rough road of recuperation from a lifethreatening illness. McMahon’s tunes call to mind a sort of piano-driven take on the totally earnest confessional-pop bombast of acts like The Get Up Kids and early Ben Kweller, or perhaps a less cheeky Ben Folds. McMahon is nothing if not ambitious: In October, he collaborates with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra for a fullon symphonic production of his songs.

Steel Train, Lady Danville and River James open the show.

THU R SD AY 7/ 14

ROAM, IF YOU WANT TO: But don’t miss out on the nonstop party machine that is Athens, Ga.’s B-52s, playing the Arkansas Music Pavilion in Fayetteville Thursday nigh

THE B-52s

7:30 p.m. Arkansas Music Pavilion. $22-$102.

n As The B-52s enters its fifth decade, it’s easy to forget how odd and out-ofstep with the times the Athens, Ga., band seemed when it first broke out in the late ’70s with its debut self-titled album.

Featuring that timeless new wave hit and perennial ’80s party mainstay “Rock Lobster,” it had a really sparse sound that, coupled with good songwriting, has helped it age much better than many of its peers. In its early days, The B-52s played a sort of kitsch-saturated postpunk that was informed by beach-blanket B-movies and early rock ’n’ roll as much or more than it was by the Talking Heads and Devo. With 1989’s “Cosmic Thing,” The B-52s morphed into a partyanthem colossus. That album spawned two enormous mainstream radio hits — “Love Shack” and “Roam” — which were damn near inescapable at the time and have now become part of the fabric of American pop music. Today, the band enjoys a sort of beloved elder statesmen status among everyone from baby boomers to finicky, graying former college radio DJs. 22 JULY 13, 2011 • ARKANSAS TIMES

ROCK ON THE RIVER: Literally, that is, aboard the Arkansas Queen on Friday night, with music from the genre-nullifying Velvet Kente and power pop ensemble The Evelyns.

F RID AY 7/15

FAT TIRE FESTIVAL

2 p.m. Various locations in Eureka Springs. Prices vary.

n Now in its 14th year, the Eureka Springs Fat Tire Festival, or “Fatty

Fest,” as it’s affectionately known, has become an institution in Northwest Arkansas, with sponsorships from the likes of Timex, Adventure Subaru, and yes, New Belgium Brewing Co., makers of Fat Tire beer. The area’s terrain and topography makes it an obvious draw for mountain bikers and the weekendlong festival attracts thousands of con-

testants and observers for racing, riding, and food and drink. Of course, there’s no shortage of gnarly backwoods riding for the serious knobby-tire fanatics, with cross-country rides, timed and observed trials and downhill racing for those fearless souls who hopefully have excellent dental and medical coverage.

This year’s festival is being billed as the “Year of the Kid,” which seems appropriate given the ample amount of noncompetitive kid- and family-friendly rides and events, such as the costume ride and the Kid Bike Rodeo. Entry fees for the races vary and the festivities take place at a variety of tracks, trails, parks and restaurants all over Eureka Springs and the surrounding area. Check the website for details at fattirefestival. wordpress.com.

VELVET KENTE

9 p.m. Arkansas Queen. $15.

n For the last few years, Velvet Kente, the Little Rock quartet that swept the 2009 Times Musicians Showcase, has played fairly regularly at several venues. But for those that haven’t caught the group live, here’s an excellent opportunity. Velvet Kente doesn’t really fit

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into any musical pigeonhole. Sure, the group’s influenced by a mish-mash of rock, blues, Afro-beat and soul, but it’s still utterly singular. Among Little Rock acts, you won’t find a more compelling singer than Joshua, the front man and guitarist who, as we’ve said before, has the type of commanding stage presence that halts bar chatter and forces everybody to pay attention. Lead guitarist Steve Robinson plays choice licks, while the rhythm section of Tim Anthony and Jamaal Lee is incredible, especially Lee, who’s a ferocious yet hella tight drummer. Little Rock bedroom pop ensemble The Evelyns opens the show.

THURSDAY 7/14

S ATU R D AY 7/ 16

3 DOORS DOWN

ESCATAWPA’S FAVORITE SONS: 3 Doors Down has a new album dropping July 19, but you can bet the band will play mega-hits “Kryptonite” and “Here Without You” along with the new material.

n Gauging a band’s popularity by its number of YouTube views seems like as reliable a metric as any in this fractured, post mainstream-radio, crazy quilt media landscape we find ourselves in these days. By that measure, early ’00s bubblegrunge superstars 3 Doors Down are doing OK here in the future, thank you very much. In their various YouTube iterations, the band’s mega-hits, “Here Without You” and “Kryptonite,” have between them a respectable 95 million or so views. Now, that’s nowhere close to the Mileys and Biebers and GaGas and Shakiras and finger-biting British babies that have racked up between 200 million and 600 million views each, but for a couple of songs that came out roughly a decade ago, it ain’t too shabby. Their newest album, “Time of My Life,” is set to drop three days after this show. While it’s likely the band will play a lot of new material, you can bet it’ll play “Kryponite.” But if you want to hear it, get

there on time. As singer Brad Arnold told American Songwriter recently, “It’s kind of that song we want to play early and get out of the way.”

8 p.m. Magic Springs’ Timberwood Amphitheater. $22.50-$55.

JOHN PAUL KEITH & THE ONE FOUR FIVES 10 p.m. White Water Tavern. $7.

n It’s easy for contemporary bands that traffic in retro sounds to tumble from the cozy confines of the lovingly refashioned into the gaping maw of cornball pastiche.

One wrong step and all you want to do is go back and listen to the original. On his latest album, “The Man That Time Forgot,” Memphian John Paul Keith deftly avoids the everything-old-is-old-again pitfall through a mixture of rock-solid songwriting, tasteful restraint, expert playing and great production. He doesn’t try to come on as some sort of largerthan-life character a la Rev. Horton Heat

VINTAGE ROCK ’N’ ROLL VIBE: Memphis mainstays John Paul Keith and The One Four Fives play the White Water Tavern Saturday night.

or a louche rock ’n’ roll badass like Jon Spencer. Keith just seems like a hardworking, normal dude who knows how to write a good tune and likes to dig around at the intersection between rock ’n’ roll and R&B and country. Think Buddy Holly, early Doug Sahm and Hammonddriven ’70s power pop in the vein of Elvis Costello’s twangier moments. “Dry County” is a rollicking country burner that gives a big nod to Hank Williams, but Keith can go for understated too, especially on “Songs for Sale” and the gentle AM lilt of “Somebody Ought to Write a Song About You.”

‘THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER’

5 p.m. Faulkner County Library. Free.

n Like many masterworks, “The Night of the Hunter” didn’t get its due when it was first released in 1955. The sole film directed by British actor Charles Laughton, it stars Robert Mitchum as the murderous phony itinerant pastor Harry Powell, who, freshly sprung from jail, pursues a tip on some hidden money from a bank robbery. He seduces a widow (played by Shelly Winters) in order to get at her children, one of whom supposedly knows the location of the loot. That might sound like typical ’50s noire thriller fare, but “Hunter” is a far stranger flick than many of its contemporaries. Darkly expressionistic and deeply weird, it was a touchstone for such filmmakers as David Lynch and the Coen brothers, and features some unnervingly psychedelic directorial touches a full 10 years before acid’s impact on the culture. It’s one of Mitchum’s signature roles, and if you’ve never seen it before, you’re in for a real treat. A dark, creepy, nightmarish treat. As if that film wasn’t enough Mitchum-flavored terror, the library will screen the 1962 version of “Cape Fear” afterward. Enjoy.

n Texas troubadour Mark Jungers plays rootsy country rock in the vein of Steve Earle at White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $5, with The Libras – Little Rock’s session-cat-filled cover band – opening. Dallas’ Ty Maefield comes to Vino’s for a night of sugary-sweet indie pop starting at 9 p.m. The Meshugga Klezmer Band, which has been rocking parties, weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs and the like since 1999, takes its broad repertoire to Laman Library at 7 p.m., free. Does Thursday find you in the mood for some laid-back, folk-inspired pop a la Fleet Foxes? Then go see The Wealthy West, led by Rocket Boys singer Brandon Kinder. Bluesy indie rocker David Ramirez opens the show at Maxine’s, 8 p.m. and it’s free.

FRIDAY 7/15

n Community Theater of Little Rock kicks off its production of the contemporary comedy “The Great American Trailer Park Musical” at The Public Theatre, $14-$16. Tracy Ryerson, of Showtime reality series “The Real L Word” hosts “The L Night” at Cajun’s, with live music from The Shannon Boshears Band. VIP tickets are $35 with admission at 8 p.m., otherwise, it’s $5 to get in and things get rolling at 9 p.m. Baton Rouge spazz-rock outfit Human Like Me plays with artdamaged San Francisco weirdos Zoo at Super Happy Fun Land at 9 p.m. If live bluegrass is what you’re jonesing for, Runaway Planet and Hardcore Grass can get you straight at Pizza D’Action at 10 p.m. Rock with your wallet out at a benefit for Dunbar Community Gardens Project, with Glittercore, Iron Tongue and The Wicked Good starting at 9 p.m. at Vino’s, all ages, $5. Tulsa’s Wanda Watson is a good bet for some soulful, hard-rocking blues, 9 p.m. at Denton’s Trotline.

SATURDAY 7/16

n Help raise money for the TreDay. com Scholarship Program benefiting UALR students at the Tre Day Annual Bowling Bash at Millenium Bowl, 3 p.m., $10 suggested donation. The Salty Dogs kick up an old-school C&W storm at the Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. FreeVerse, Tyrannosaurus Chicken and Interstate Buffalo play a Midsummer Night’s Jam at Stickyz, 9 p.m., $7 adv., $10 d.o.s. Party into the wee hours at Discovery, with DJs Jen Lasher, Chaos and VJ g-force, 10 p.m. Soon-to-be-former Miss Arkansas Alyse Eady will pass the crown to a new winner at the Miss Arkansas Finals, 7:30 p.m., Hot Springs Convention Center, $10. www.arktimes.com • JULY 13, 2011 23

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Acoustic Open Mic. The Afterthought, 8 p.m., free.

2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

Alternative Wednesdays. Features alternative bands from Little Rock and the surrounding areas.

This week: That Guy Drew, Rosefire and Mutations of Thursday. Mediums Art Lounge, 6:30 p.m., $5. 521 Center St. 501-374-4495.

Bolly Open Mic Hype Night with Osyrus Bolly and DJ Messiah. All American Wings, 9 p.m. 215 W. Capitol Ave. 501-376-4000. allamericanwings.com.

Darryl Edwards. Cajun’s Wharf, 5 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www. cajunswharf.com.

Jack’s Mannequin, Steel Train, Lady Danville, River Jam. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $20. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com.

Jean Eric, Cucurbits. Super Happy Fun Land, 9 p.m. 608 Main St. Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www. sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

The Jukebox Romantics, Thera. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., Free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com.

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

Karaoke. Hibernia Irish Tavern, 9 p.m. 9700 N Rodney Parham Road. 501-246-4340. www.hiberniairishtavern.com.

Karaoke with Big John Miller. Denton’s Trotline, 8 p.m. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717.

Mayday By Midnight. Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, through Aug. 31: 9 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free.

111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel. com/CBG.

COMEDY

Shane McConaughy. The Loony Bin, through July 15, 8 p.m.; July 15, 10:30 p.m.; July 16, 7, 9 and 11 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road.

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

DANCE

Great Smoky Mountain Cloggers. Ozark Folk Center State Park, July 14-16, 7 p.m., $10 adults, $6 kids 6-12. 1032 Park Ave., Mountain View.

FRIDAY, JULY 15 ACOUSTIC ‘BASTARDS’: Erika Wennerstrom’s band Heartless Bastards has evolved over the last several years from a garage-rooted rock combo into an outfit with a more widescreen sound that weaves in other influences – gentle folk, shoegaze squall – to an impressive effect.

The Austin group plays an all-acoustic set, with support from Elise Davis and Adam Faucett, Tuesday night at Juanita’s, $12 adv. or $15 at the door.

THURSDAY, JULY 14 MUSIC

B-52s. Arkansas Music Pavilion, 7:30 p.m., $22-$102.

4201 N. Shiloh Drive, Fayetteville. www.arkansasmusicpavilion.com.

Big John Miller Band. The Afterthought, 8 p.m., $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

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

Brian Nahlen. Markham Street Grill And Pub, 8 p.m., Free. 11321 W. Markham St. 501-224-2010. www.

markhamst.com.

Daikaiju, Chicken & Whiskey, Poet Fury, Sol Inertia. Super Happy Fun Land, 9 p.m. 608 Main St. FOS Project (headliner), Shannon McClung (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www. cajunswharf.com.

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

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

Lucious Spiller Band. Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-

COMEDY

Shane McConaughy. The Loony Bin, 8 p.m.; July 15, 10:30 p.m.; July 16, 7, 9 and 11 p.m., $7-$10.

10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS

Arkansas Poker Championship. The build-up to the $25,000 Arkansas Poker Tournament began June 13 with the first of 20 qualifying rounds to be held over the course of 10 weeks. Oaklawn Park will host a poker tournament every Monday and Wednesday through Aug. 17. The top 60 qualifiers will go head-to-head in the final set for Wed., Aug. 24. The final will offer $25,000 in guaranteed prize money with at least $10,000 going to the winner.

Oaklawn, through Aug. 17: 5:30 p.m., $60 buy-in amount. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-6234411, ext. 602. www.oaklawn.com.

Now – July 24 Gloria, Bradford and Solomon decide Opal Kronkie really needs plenty of insurance, a rapid demise and three beneficiaries. But Opal has more lives than her cat! Their hilarious attempts are topped only by the fact that soon they love Opal too! A comedy for the whole family.

Special KiDS rate $15 July 26 - September 3 Meredith Willson’s razzle-dazzle musical classic “The Music Man” will lift your spirits with its’ toe-tapping tunes and heart lifting marches. One of Broadway’s best!

FILM

Movies in the Park: “Dirty Dancing.” Riverfest Amphitheatre, 8 p.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 24 JULY 13, 2011 • ARKANSAS TIMES

7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.

Lyle Dudley. Cregeen’s Irish Pub, 8 p.m. 301 Main St., NLR. 501-376-7468. www.cregeens.com.

Mark Jungers, The Libras. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

Melissa Ludwig. Dugan’s Pub, 8:30 p.m., Free. 403 E. 3rd St. 501-244-0542. www.duganspublr.com.

Meshugga Klezmer Band. Laman Library, 7 p.m.

2801 Orange St., NLR. 501-758-1720. www.lamanlibrary.org.

Ol’ Puddin’haid. Thirst n’ Howl, 7:30 p.m., free.

14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-nhowl.com.

Port Arthur Band. Parrot Beach Cafe, 9 p.m. 9611 MacArthur Drive, NLR. 771-2994.

Ronnie Brewer hosts Courtney G’s Birthday Bash. This is also an album release party for Goines’ newest, “Something to Lose” and will include music from DJs Greyhound and g-force. Deep Ultra Lounge, 10 p.m. 322 President Clinton Ave. Sway’s Summer Cure. DJs Sleepy Genius and Silky Slim play pop, electro, house and more, plus drink specials. Sway, 9 p.m., $5. 412 Louisiana. 501-9072582.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free.

111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel. com/CBG. Ty Maefield. Vino’s, 9 p.m. 923 W. 7th St. 501-3758466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

Wealthy West, David Ramirez. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., Free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com.

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MUSIC

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

Benefit for Dunbar Community Gardens Project. Includes live music from The Wicked Good, Iron Tongue and more. Vino’s, 9 p.m., $5. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

Catfish Jackson. Midtown Billiards, 12:30 a.m., $5.

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

Chris Henry. Flying Saucer, 9 p.m., $3. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-7468. www.beerknurd.com/ stores/littlerock.

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

Embrace the Crash. Fox And Hound, 10 p.m., $5.

2800 Lakewood Village, NLR. 501-753-8300. www. foxandhound.com/locations/north-little-rock.aspx.

Glo: Jen Lasher, Chaos, Jacob Reyes, Wolf E Wolf. Downtown Music Hall, 8 p.m., $10. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownshows.homestead. com.

Hip Kitty, Epiphany. The Peabody Little Rock, 8 p.m., $5. 3 Statehouse Plaza. 501-906-4000. www. peabodylittlerock.com.

Human Like Me, Zoo. Super Happy Fun Land, 9 p.m. 608 Main St. Jeff Coleman. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, July 15-16, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-3242999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

John Calvin Brewer Band. Oaklawn, July 15-16, 9 p.m. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-623-4411. www.oaklawn.com.

Katmandu. Capi’s, 8:30 p.m. 11525 Cantrell Suite 917. 501-225-9600. www.capisrestaurant.com.

Randall Shreve & The Sideshow. Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.

Randy Rogers Band. Revolution, 9 p.m., $20. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com.

Rico Donovan. Cregeen’s Irish Pub, 8 p.m., Free. 301 Main St., NLR. 501-376-7468. www.cregeens.com.

Runaway Planet, Hardcore Grass. Pizza D’Action, 10 p.m. 2919 W. Markham St. 501-666-5403.

Se7en Sharp, Malcadence. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 9 p.m. 314 Main St., NLR. 501-374-1782. cstonepub.com.

Sol Definition. Markham Street Grill And Pub, 8

p.m. 11321 W. Markham St. 501-224-2010. www. markhamst.com.

Some Say Leland. Artchurch Studio, 6 p.m., $10.

301 Whittington Ave., Hot Springs. 501-318-6779. www.artchurch.org.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free.

111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel. com/CBG. The Paperboys. Dugan’s Pub, 8:30 p.m., Free. 403 E. 3rd St. 501-244-0542. www.duganspublr.com.

Velvet Kente, The Evelyns. Arkansas Queen, 9 p.m., $15. 100 Riverfront Park Drive, NLR. 501-3725777. arkansasqueen.com.

Volholla!, 3One3, DJ Amish. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $5 adv., $7 door. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com.

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

Weakness For Blondes. The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

COMEDY

Shane McConaughy. The Loony Bin, through July 15, 8 p.m.; July 15, 10:30 p.m.; July 16, 7, 9 and 11 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road.

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

DANCE

Great Smoky Mountain Cloggers. Ozark Folk Center State Park, through July 16, 7 p.m., $10 adults, $6 kids 6-12. 1032 Park Ave., Mountain View.

EVENTS

Designer Clothes & Sushi Rolls. Free admission until 11 p.m., complimentary sushi bar until 10:30 p.m. and music from DJ Massiah. A fashion-forward dress code will be applied. Twelve Modern Lounge, 9 p.m.

1900 W. Third St. Eureka Springs Fat Tire Festival. This yearly celebration of all things bicycle-related includes a raft of races, clinics, games, food, fun and more all over Eureka Springs and the surrounding area. Basin Spring Park, July 15-17, 2 p.m. Downtown Eureka Springs, Eureka Springs. fattirefestival.wordpress.com/.

“The L Night” hosted by Tracy Ryerson. Party with star of Showtime’s “The Real L Word,” limited number of VIP tickets (include a private meet and greet, complimentary beer and wine during the VIP event and free admission to the main event). Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5-$35. 2400 Cantrell Road. 323-244-1250. www.cajunswharf.com.

LGBTQ/SGL Youth and Young Adult Group.

Diverse Youth for Social Change is a group for LGBTQ/ SGL and straight ally youth and young adults age 14 to 23. For more information, call 244-9690 or search “DYSC” on Facebook. 800 Scott St., 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St. Little Rock Fashion Week: Young & Fabulous Experience. Showcase for up-and-coming local designers, hosted by BJ Steed of KTHV. Statehouse Convention Center, 8 p.m., $15. 7 Statehouse Plaza.

SATURDAY, JULY 16 MUSIC

3 Doors Down. Magic Springs’ Timberwood Amphitheater, 7:30 p.m., $5-$10. 1701 E. Grand Ave., Hot Springs.

7 Toed Pete (headliner), Lyle Dudley (happy hour), DJ g-force (between sets). Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com.

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

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

Burn Switch, A Strand of Fate. Vino’s, 9 p.m., $8. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

Chilly Rose Band. West End Smokehouse and Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. 215 N. Shackleford. 501-2247665. www.westendsmokehouse.net.

The Fragile Elite. Cregeen’s Irish Pub, 8 p.m., $5.

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

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

“Inferno” with DJs SilkySlim, Deja Blu, Greyhound. Sway, 10 p.m. 412 Louisiana.

501-907-2582.

Jeff Coleman. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7

p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

Jen Lasher, DJ Chaos, VJ g-force. Performers include Kelexis Davenport, Roxie Starlite and Dominique Sanchez. Discovery Nightclub, 10 p.m.

1021 Jessie Road. 501-664-4784. www.latenightdisco.com.

Joe Pitts. Markham Street Grill And Pub, 8 p.m.

11321 W. Markham St. 501-224-2010. www. markhamst.com.

John Calvin Brewer Band. Oaklawn, 9 p.m.

2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-623-4411. www.oaklawn.com.

John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives.

White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $7. 2500 W. 7th.

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

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

2nd Annual Midsummer Night’s Jam. FreeVerse, Tyrannosaurus Chicken, Interstate Buffalo Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $7 adv., $10 d.o.s. 107 Commerce St. 501-3727707. www.stickyfingerz.com.

Mountains Sprouts, The Only Sons. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $6 adv., $8 door. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxinespub.com.

Porches, Space Ghost Cowboys. Super Happy Fun Land, 9 p.m. 608 Main St. The Salty Dogs. The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7.

2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

Shannon McClung. Flying Saucer, 9 p.m., $3.

323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-7468. www. beerknurd.com/stores/littlerock.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free.

111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel. com/CBG. The Venus Mission. Revolution, 9 p.m. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com.

COMEDY

Shane McConaughy. The Loony Bin, 7, 9 and 11 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road.

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

DANCE

Great Smoky Mountain Cloggers. Ozark Folk Center State Park, 7 p.m., $10 adults, $6 kids 6-12.

1032 Park Ave., Mountain View.

EVENTS

Arkansas Farmers Market. Locally grown produce. Certified Farmers Market, 7 a.m.-12 p.m.

6th and Main, NLR. Eureka Springs Fat Tire Festival. See July 15.

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

Farmer’s Market. River Market Pavilions, through Oct. 31: 7 a.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info.

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

Little Rock Fashion Week: Posh Expression.

Peter Bailey, host of NBC Miami Nitecap, and Ashley Blackstone of KTHV will co-host the final event of LRFW. Statehouse Convention Center, 8 p.m., $30 general, $40 VIP. 7 Statehouse Plaza.

Miss Arkansas Pageant. Hot Springs Convention Center, 10 a.m., $10. 134 Convention Blvd., Hot Springs. 501-321-2027. www.hotsprings.org.

FILM

Two classic Robert Mitchum films. A screening of “Night of the Hunter” starts at 5 p.m., followed by the 1962 version of “Cape Fear.” Faulkner County Library, 5 p.m. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-3277482. www.fcl.org.

SPORTS

Tre Day Annual Bowling Bash. This charity event includes professional bowler Pete Weber and a silent auction, with all proceeds benefiting the TreDay.com Scholarship Program. Millenium Bowl, 3 p.m., $10 suggested donation. 7200 Counts Massie Road, Maumelle. 501-401-0240. www.millenniumbowl.net.

SUNDAY, JULY 17 MUSIC

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

Sunday Jazz Brunch with Ted Ludwig and Joe Cripps. Vieux Carre, 11 a.m. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd.

501-663-1196. www.vieuxcarrecafe.com.

EVENTS

Eureka Springs Fat Tire Festival. See July 15.

MONDAY, JULY 18 MUSIC

Aly Tadros. Cajun’s Wharf, 5 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www. cajunswharf.com.

Disciples of Death Totem, Illustrations. Super Happy Fun Land, 9 p.m. 608 Main St. Karaoke. Thirst n’ Howl, 8:30 p.m. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com.

Tonya Leeks. The Afterthought, 8 p.m. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

Underoath, Times of Grace, Stray From the Path, Letlive. River Market Pavilions, $19 adv., $24 d.o.s. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info.

EVENTS

Arkansas Poker Championship. See July 13.

LECTURES

Preservation Conversations. “Rehabilitation: What to Know Before You Start” is a panel discussion by persons experienced in remodeling historic buildings. Curran Hall, 5 p.m., Free. 615 E. Capitol.

501-370-3290.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Northwest Arkansas Naturals. Dickey-Stephens Park, July 18-21, 7:10 p.m., $6-$12. 400 W Broadway St., NLR. 501-6641555. www.travs.com.

TUESDAY, JULY 19 MUSIC

Brian & Nick. Cajun’s Wharf, 5 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www. cajunswharf.com.

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

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

Drop the Beat 2 Tour with X-Kid. Includes X-Kid, Dank P, M. Harris, Snowman the Don, Roni Poet and MSN 3000. The Poet’s Loft, 8 p.m., $5.

514-B Central Ave., Hot Springs.

Dying Fetus, Powerglove, Fleshgod Apocalypse. Downtown Music Hall, 7:30 p.m., $13 adv, $16 door. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownshows.homestead.com.

Heartless Bastards, Elise Davis, Adam Faucett. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $12 adv., $15 door.

614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com.

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

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

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

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

Karaoke with Big John Miller. Denton’s Trotline, 8 p.m. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717.

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

Talk to Me Tuesday Open Mic with Sidney Moore. Super Happy Fun Land, 9 p.m. 608 Main St. Tuesday Jam Session with Carl Mouton. The Afterthought, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd.

501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

DANCE

“Latin Night.” Revolution, 7 p.m., $5 regular, $7 under 21. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.revroom.com.

EVENTS

Charity Bingo Tuesday. ACAC, 6:30 p.m. 608 Main St. 501-244-2974. acacarkansas.wordpress.com.

Farmer’s Market. River Market Pavilions, through Oct. 31: 7 a.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info.

Tales from the South. Authors tell true stories; get schedule at www.talesfromthesouth.com. Dinner served 5-6:30 p.m., show at 7 p.m. Reserve at 501-372-7976. Starving Artist Cafe, 7 p.m. 411 N. Main St., NLR. 501-372-7976. www.starvingartistcafe.net.

Trivia Bowl. Flying Saucer, 8:30 p.m. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-7468. www.beerknurd.com/

stores/littlerock.

FILM

“Hattie Caraway: The Silent Woman.”

Documentary will be followed by a question and answer session with the filmmakers. ASU Student Union Auditorium, 7 p.m. 101 N. Caraway Road, Jonesboro.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Northwest Arkansas Naturals. Dickey-Stephens Park, through July 21, 7:10 p.m., $6-$12. 400 W Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs.com.

BOOKS

Cookie’s Bookclub. Discussion of Karl Marlantes’ “Matterhorn.” That Bookstore in Blytheville, 7 p.m.

316 W. Main St. Janie and Wyatt Jones. Discussion and book signing from the authors of “Arkansas Curiosities.”

Laman Library, 6:30 p.m. 2801 Orange St., NLR. 501-758-1720. www.lamanlibrary.org.

Jenny Wingfield. The Author of “The Homecoming of Samuel Lake” will discuss her work. That Bookstore in Blytheville, 5:30 p.m. 316 W. Main St.

CLASSES

Beginners Genealogy Workshop. Learn the basics of family history research, including how to fill out pedigree charts, finding sources and searching records. Faulkner County Library, through July 26: 2 p.m., Free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www.fcl.org.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20 MUSIC

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

Alternative Wednesdays. See July 13.

Bolly Open Mic Hype Night with Osyrus Bolly and DJ Messiah. All American Wings, 9 p.m. 215 W. Capitol Ave. 501-376-4000. allamericanwings. com.

CJ Ramone. Downtown Music Hall, 8 p.m., $15 adv., $20 door. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownshows.homestead.com.

Jason Greenlaw, Buddafli, Shea Marie. Sway, through Aug. 10: 6 p.m., $5. 412 Louisiana. 501-9072582.

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

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

Karaoke. Hibernia Irish Tavern, 9 p.m. 9700 N Rodney Parham Road. 501-246-4340. www.hiberniairishtavern.com.

Karaoke with Big John Miller. Denton’s Trotline, 8 p.m. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717.

Mayday By Midnight. Cajun’s Wharf, 5 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com. Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, through Aug. 31: 9 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyfingerz.com.

Sevendust, Adelitas Way, Emphatic, Violence to Vegas. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $21 adv., $25 door. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas. com.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free.

111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel. com/CBG. Movies in the Park: “True Grit” (2010). Riverfest Amphitheatre, 8 p.m. 400 President Clinton Ave.

COMEDY

Paul Hooper. The Loony Bin, July 20-22, 8 p.m.; July 22, 10:30 p.m.; July 23, 7, 9 and 11 p.m., $7-$10.

10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS

Arkansas Poker Championship. See July 13.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Northwest Arkansas Naturals. Dickey-Stephens Park, through July 21, 7:10 p.m., $6-$12. 400 W Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs.com.

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movielistings All theater listings run Friday to Thursday unless otherwise noted.

Complete showtimes for Breckenridge, Chenal 9, Rave and Riverdale were not available by press deadline. Market Street Cinema showtimes at or after 9 p.m. are for Friday and Saturday only.

NEW MOVIES Bill Cunningham’s New York (NR) – This documentary traces the life and work of the iconic and eccentric New York Times fashion photographer. Market Street: 2:15, 4:15, 6:45, 9:00.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II: (PG-13) – The second half of the film adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s final Harry Potter book.

Breckenridge: 12:02 a.m. July 14, 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 (2D), 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 (3D). Chenal 9: 10:00 a.m., 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 (3D). Lakewood 8: 10:30 a.m., 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 (2D), 10:00 a.m., 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 (3D). Rave: 10:00 a.m., 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 (2D), 9:30 a.m., 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 (3D).

Submarine (R) – A 15-year-old boy hatches a complicated plot to save his parents’ marriage in this coming-of-age tale directed by Richard Ayoade. Market Street: 2:00, 4:20, 6:45, 9:15.

Winnie the Pooh (G) – Winnie, Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Owl, Kangaroo and Eeyore are reunited in this animated Walt Disney production. Rave: 10:45 a.m., 12:45, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00.

RETURNING THIS WEEK Bad Teacher (R) – Cameron Diaz plays a bad teacher who suddenly becomes motivated to improve her students’ test scores through the magic of incentive pay. Lakewood 8: 11:15 a.m., 4:25, 9:45.

Cars 2 (G) – A group of animated talking cars travel abroad for the inaugural World Grand Prix in this Pixar sequel. Lakewood 8: 11:00 a.m., 1:35, 4:10, 7:05, 9:40.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (G) — Werner Herzog films some of humanity’s oldest pictorial

creations inside the Chauvet caves in southern France in this documentary. Market Street: 2:15, 4:25, 7:00, 9:00.

Horrible Bosses: (R) A trio of frustrated friends take advice from an ex-con and hatch a plan to permanently rid themselves of their awful bosses.

Lakewood 8: 11:15 a.m., 1:45, 4:15, 7:35, 10:00.

Insidious (PG-13) – A realm called The Further threatens to trap a comatose child. His parents learn to battle something that science can’t explain.

With Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne. Movies 10: 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05.

Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer (PG) — Judy Moody (Jordana Beatty) has planned an awesome summer adventure, but her plans are derailed by a series of small misfortunes in this kid comedy. Movies 10: 12:15, 2:25, 4:35, 7:15, 9:25.

Jumping the Broom (PG-13) – Two AfricanAmerican families from different socioeconomic backgrounds spend a wedding weekend together in Martha’s Vineyard. With Angela Bassett and Laz Alonzo. Movies 10: 12:01, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:25.

Larry Crowne (PG-13) — Tom Hanks stars in this Tom Hanks-directed rom-com as a victim of corporate downsizing who decides to enroll in college, where he meets Julia Roberts. Lakewood 8: 1:50, 7:25.

Madea’s Big Happy Family (PG-13) – This is the fifth Madea movie and the 10th flick Tyler Perry’s made in five years. Five. Years. Directed, written by and starring Tyler Perry. Movies 10: 12:30, 2:55, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15.

Midnight in Paris (PG-13) — Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams hang out with literary heavyweights of the 1920s in Paris. Market Street: 1:45, 4:00, 7:00, 9:15.

Priest (PG-13) – A legendary warrior-priest breaks his religious vows in order to save his niece from a pack of vampires. With Paul Bettany and Cam Gigandet. Movies 10: 1:00, 7:00.

Rango (PG) – A quixotic chameleon has to

succeed at being the daredevil he thinks he is after winding up in an old West town. Movies 10: 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50.

Rejoice and Shout (PG) – This documentary traces the history and evolution of gospel music throughout the decades. Market Street: 2:00, 4:20, 7:15, 9:15.

Rio (G) – A domesticated macaw from suburban Minnesota takes to Rio de Janeiro to find the freewheeling bird of his dreams. Voiced by Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway. Movies 10: 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40.

Soul Surfer (PG) – In spite of losing an arm in a shark attack, a teen-age girl with a passion for surfing returns to the ocean. With AnnaSophia Robb and Helen Hunt. Movies 10: 1:10, 4:10, 7:01, 9:35.

Thor (PG-13) – The comic book hero comes to life as the cocky warrior gets banished to Earth and has to defend humans from impending doom. Directed

by Kenneth Branagh. Movies 10: 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (PG-13) Robots disguised as cars and planes and such try to blow each other up. Again. Lakewood 8: 9:45 (2D), 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:15 (3D).

Water For Elephants (PG-13) – After his parents are killed, a young veterinarian joins a traveling circus to tend its animals. With Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon. Movies 10: 4:00, 9:45.

The Zookeeper (PG) – Kevin James is a zookeeper who is so beloved by his furry charges that they decide to break their longtime code of silence and talk, teaching him the rules of courtship.

Lakewood 8: 11:05 a.m., 1:25, 4:30, 7:15, 9:35.

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

Cinemark Movies 10: 4188 E. McCain Blvd., 9457400, www.cinemark.com.

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

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

Market Street Cinema: 1521 Merrill Drive, 3128900, www.marketstreetcinema.net.

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

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■ moviereview Workmanlike funny ‘Horrible Bosses’ doesn’t dig deep, but that’s OK. n In its wildest dreams, “Horrible Bosses” would have captured a bit more of the “Office Space” spirit also exhibited by decent poetry and memorable stand-up comedy, a sense that someone is articulating a widespread but mostly unacknowledged sentiment, and that we can now describe, as a group, ideas that we’d all been cooking up separately. Of course, “Office Space” tanked in theaters and Mike Judge had to wait until the magic of DVD for it to achieve, slowly, true cult status. By contrast “Horrible Bosses” is unlikely to suffer quite so much at the front end nor bloom so strongly. It’s a solid wad of chuckles now, with just enough to endear it that you might watch it one day when it comes on cable, if there’s nothing else on.

Far from exhibiting the weasel-sleaze of a Lumbergh, the titular antagonists of “Horrible Bosses” are caricatures of stereotypical Bosses From Hell: Kevin Spacey (spitefully lording over Jason Bateman’s Nick) as the Corporate Slimeball; Colin Farrell (scornfully, over Jason Sudeikis’ Kurt) as the Family Company Brat; and, lo, Jennifer Aniston (lasciviously, over Charlie Day’s Kenny) as the Domineering Letch. Between those six, and an appearance by Jamie Foxx as a slick hoodlum with an unprintable name, the cast surpasses the middling source material. Even when you don’t care what’s going to happen, the players are beguiling. Bateman in particular makes comedy look effortless, and Aniston, far from her “37 pieces of flair” days, is a creepy delight as a sex-fiend dentist.

She and the other bosses manage to push their respective employees to the breaking point and beyond, such that the

men convince themselves that it would be not only convenient but morally righteous to whack their bosses. But how to do it?

Nick is a white-collar drone. Kurt is randy as a goat and has all the street smarts of a new puppy. Kenny watches enough “Law & Order” to know not to leave any fluids at a crime scene but is also a twerp.

They aren’t bumbling idiots so much as they are reasonable fellows hopelessly out of their depth. It’s no small feat that even while undertaking highly unlikely acts, the three leads all seem fairly plausible, and director Seth Gordon (“Freakonomics”) mostly skips right along, bothering with nothing that ain’t at least worth a giggle.

If it’s brisk, the film also misses a chance to plumb more deeply into what makes work such a great environment for inspiring homicidal thoughts. One conceit the story makes clear is that these guys are trapped in their stations because the job market is such a sinkhole that none of them could plausibly quit and be able to put beer on the table. Part of what makes Kurt’s plight so acute is that he actually enjoyed his life working under his previous boss. When the cokehead replacement starts demanding that people get fired just for his own jollies, you start doing the math in your head. How many livelihoods is a life worth? If you start melting people’s working lives, how long can you go unpunished? When one of the guys’ friends, a former Lehman Brothers employee, says he could just kill those Lehman Brothers, you squirm a little and wonder how many others have made a similar declaration, not in jest.

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Hammerstein’s TV musical adapted for the stage.

Directed by Duane Jackson with music direction by Dawne Carroll and choreography by Jenny Johnston and Laura Stilwell. Royal Theatre, through July 16, 7 p.m.; Sun., July 17, 2 p.m., $12, $10 seniors, $5 students. 111 S. Market St., Benton. 501-315-5483.

“Everybody Loves Opal.” A comedy about three con artists who attempt to take out a hefty life-insurance policy on wacky recluse Opal Kronkie and then speed her demise, only to be thwarted by her oddball antics. Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, through July 16, 6 p.m.; Wed., July 13, 11 a.m.; Sun., July 17, 5:30 p.m.; through July 23, 6 p.m.; Sun., July 24, 5:30 p.m., $23-$33. 6323 Col. Glenn Road. 501-562-3131. murrysdinnerplayhouse.com.

“The Great American Trailer Park Musical.”

When Pippi, the stripper on the run, comes between the Dr. Phil–loving, agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth collector husband—the storms begin to brew.

The Public Theatre - CTLR, through July 31: Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m., $14-$16. 616 Center St. 501-410-2283. www.ctlr-act.org/.

Opera in the Ozarks: “Die Fledermaus.” Die Fledermaus (The Bat) is an operetta composed

by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée. It will be sung in English.

Inspiration Point, Fri., July 15, 7:30 p.m.; Thu., July 21, 7:30 p.m., $20-$25. 16311 Hwy. 62 W., Eureka Springs.

Opera in the Ozarks: “Le Nozze di Figaro.”

One of Mozart’s most famous operas recounts a single “day of madness” in the palace of the Count Almaviva near Seville, Spain. It will be sung in Italian, with translation presented. Inspiration Point, Thu., July 14, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., July 16, 7:30 p.m.; Wed., July 20, 7:30 p.m., $20-$25. 16311 Hwy. 62 W., Eureka Springs. 479-253-8595. www.opera.org.

Opera in the Ozarks: “Little Women.” Mark Adamo’s Little Women is adapted from American author Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel of a young woman’s understandable but doomed struggle to prevent life from taking her beloved sisters away from her. Arend Arts Center, Sun., July 17, 4 p.m., $20-$25.

1901 S.E. J St., Bentonville. 479-253-8595. www. opera.org. Mark Adamo’s work based on Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel. Inspiration Point, Wed., July 13, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., July 22, 7:30 p.m., $20-$25.

16311 Hwy. 62 W., Eureka Springs. 479-253-8595. www.opera.org.

“Proof.” A troubled young woman who spent years caring for her father, a brilliant but mentally unstable mathematician, must cope with her own volatile emotions after his death. Pocket Community Theater, July 14-16, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., July 17, 2:30 p.m.; July 21-23, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., July 24, 2:30 p.m., $5-$10.

170 Ravine St., Hot Springs.

Dessert Theater presents “R.I.P. Emma Lou Briggs.” The day after Emma Lou Briggs’ funeral, her family gathers to decide what to do with her ‘things.’ As it happens, each of her three daughters (played by Shelly White, Carolyn McNamee, and Suzanne Guymon) has a different opinion of what that means. Center on the Square, July 15-16, 6:30 p.m.; July 16-23, 6:30 p.m., $15 (reservations required 24 hours in advance). 111 W. Arch Ave., Searcy. 501-368-0111. www.centeronthesquare.org.

GALLERIES, MUSEUMS NEW EXHIBITS, EVENTS

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “Building the Collection: Art Acquired in the 1980s,” July 15-Oct. 9; work from the permanent collection, Stephens Gallery and Strauss Gallery (July 19-Sept. 4). 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sun. 372-4000.

CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER, 1200 President Clinton Ave.: “The Elvis Brand,” talk by Scott Williams, vice president for Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc., noon-1 p.m. July 15; “Elvis,” memorabilia from films, including Elvis’ red MG from “Blue Hawaii,” through Aug. 21; “Elvis at 21, Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer,” 56 black and white images taken in 1956 by RCA Victor photojournalist, through Sept. 11; free Super Summer Saturdays, kids’ activities, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. through Aug. 20; 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.

GREG THOMPSON FINE ART, 429 Main St., NLR: “Charles Harrington: A Sense of Place,” reception 5-8 p.m. July 15, Argenta ArtWalk, gallery talk with the artist, 1 p.m. July 16, $10. 6642787.

KETZ GALLERY, 705 Main St., NLR: Recent work

by John Kushmaul, in collaboration with Tara Stickley, also work by Tim Jacob, reception 5-8 p.m. July 15, Argenta ArtWalk. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 529-6330.

GALLERY 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Recent works of photographer John Bridges and painter Baxter Knowlton, July 16-Sept. 10, reception 7-10 p.m. July 16. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 664-8996.

MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, Ninth and Broadway: Summer Camp, 10 a.m.11:30 a.m. Wednesdays, free; “Southern Journeys: African American Artists of the South,” works by 55 African-American artists, through Aug. 11; exhibits on African-Americans in Arkansas, including one on the Ninth Street business district, the Mosaic Templars business and more. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 683–3593.

SALVATION ARMY, 1515 W. 18th St., NLR: Dream Big free art classes for children in grades K-6, 10-11:30 a.m. July 16, 23, 30, parental consent required, sponsored by the Thea Foundation. 3799512.

STARVING ARTIST CAFE, 411 Main St., NLR: Gray Weldon, photographs, through mid-August, reception 6-8 p.m. July 16. 372-7976.

THEA FOUNDATION, 401 Main St., NLR: Abstract and figurative work by V.L. Cox, reception 5:30-8 p.m. July 15, Argenta ArtWalk, also “Ten Years of Thea” history exhibit; Thea’s Art Camp, “Time Travel Adventure,” classes taught by North Little Rock and Pulaski County school district teachers, July 18-21 (9-11 a.m. 3-6th graders, 2-4 p.m. 7-9th graders). $75. 379-9512. n El Dorado SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, 110 E. 5th St.: Annual Juried Art Competition, featuring work by 23 American artists, including Arkansans Karlyn Holloway, Kelly Campbell, Marlene Gremillion, Bryan W. Massey Sr. and Kenna Westerman, reception 6-7:30 p.m. July 15. 870-862-5474. n Fayetteville UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: “Preserving Memories — Sculpting Characters,” work by high school members of the Boys and Girls Club of Benton County, July 11-18, Fine Arts Center. Reception 4-6 p.m. July 14. 1-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 479-575-7987. n Russellville RIVER VALLEY ARTS CENTER, 1001 E. B St.: Pottery by Gus Sprague, woven rugs by members of Booneville Human Development Center, through July 29. 479-968-2452. n Springdale ARTS CENTER OF THE OZARKS, 214 Main St.: “Characters,” paintings by Robert Andes, Golsa Yaghoobi and Kyle McKenzie,” McCuistionMatthews Gallery; “Elizabeth Noble,” paintings, Smith-Kelly Gallery, through July 29, receptions 6-8 p.m. July 14. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Sat. 479-751-5441.

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave.: “Renee Williams: New Works,” acrylic on paper; “The Art of Robin Tucker,” Atrium Gallery; “V.I.T.A.L. (Visual Images that Affect Lives),” work by Melverue Abraham, Rex Deloney, LaToya Hobbs, Ariston Jacks, Kalari Turner and Michael Worsham, Concordia Hall, through Aug. 27; Arkansas Art Educators’ “State Youth Art Show 2011,” through July 30, Main Gallery. 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Mon.-Sat. 320-5791.

CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road: “20th annual Mid-Southern Watercolorists Open Membership Exhibit,” through July 16. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mon.-Sat. 224-1335.

CHRIST CHURCH, 509 Scott St.: Work by students of the Arkansas Arts Center Museum School. 3752342.

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.

HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “Poetry — Works on Canvas and Paper,” charcoal studies and

paintings by Lawrence Finney, through Aug. 15. 3726822.

L&L BECK GALLERY, 5705 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “Pick Your Favorite,” paintings by Louis Beck, through July. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 660-4006.

LAMAN LIBRARY, 2801 Orange St.: “Feelin’ Groovy: Rock and Roll Graphics, 1966-1970,” through Aug. 21. 758-1720.

LOCAL COLOUR GALLERY, 5811 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Art and jewelry by members of artists’ cooperative. 265-0422.

M2GALLERY, 11525 Cantrell Road (Pleasant Ridge Town Center): “Westland: The Life and Art of Tim West,” artwork by West, photographs by Diana Michelle Hausam. 225-6257.

RED DOOR GALLERY, 3715 JFK, NLR: Buddy Whitlock, featured artist, also work by Lola Abellan, Mary Allison, Georges Artaud, Theresa Cates, Caroline’s Closet, Kelly Edwards, Jane Hankins, James Hayes, Amy Hill-Imler, Morris Howard, Jim Johnson, Annette Kagy, Capt. Robert Lumpp, Joe Martin, Pat Matthews and others.10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 753-5227.

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

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

Mon.-Fri. 372-7373.

STATE CAPITOL: “Arkansans in the Korean War,” 32 photographs, lower-level foyer. 7 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sat.-Sun. STEPHANO’S FINE ART, 5501 Kavanaugh Blvd.: New work by Stephano, Thom Bierdz, Tony Dow, Kelley Naylor-Wise, Michael A. Darr, Mike Gaines, G. Peebles, Steven Thomas, Alexis Silk, Paula Wallace and Ron Logan. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m.

Sun. 563-4218.

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: “Advancing Tradition: 20 Years of Printmaking at Flatbed Press,” through Oct. 2, Gallery I, Fine Arts Building. 569-8977.

ONGOING MUSEUM EXHIBITS

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

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.

HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM, 200 E. Third St.: “Playing at War: Children’s Civil War Era Toys,” from the collection of Greg McMahon, through Jan. 10; “Forgotten Places: Rhonda Berry and Diana Michelle Hausam,” photographs, through Aug. 7; “Mid-Southern Watercolorists 41st Annual Exhibition,” through Aug. 13, Trinity Gallery; “Reel to Real: ‘Gone with the Wind’ and the Civil War in Arkansas,” artifacts from the Shaw-Tumblin collection, including costumes and screen tests, along with artifacts from the HAM collection, including slave narratives, uniforms and more; through April 30, 2012. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $2.50 adults, $1.50, $1 children for tours of grounds. 3249351.

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

OLD STATE HOUSE, 300 W. Markham St.: “An Enduring Union,” artifacts documenting the post-war Confederate and Union veteran reunions in the state; “Arkansas/Arkansaw: A State and Its Reputation,” the evolution of the state’s hillbilly image. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9685.

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

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Continued from page 20 point ... their time limit has passed.” It’s time, he said, to look at what new issues the Arts Center faces. (It is past time, he could have said.)

The contrast couldn’t be greater with the soon-to-open Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, a billiondollar project of Alice Walton and the Walton Family Foundation that will feature great American art in a Moshe Safdie-designed complex in the middle of 100 acres and will be endowed to a fare-thee-well.

Herman’s task will be to insure that the Arts Center distinguishes itself from Crystal Bridges by emphasizing its different strengths. While Crystal Bridges will focus on American paintings and sculpture, the Arts Center can boast of a collection of works on paper that is international in scope, he said. The Arts Center must make the public more aware of its “stellar works,” Herman said, from 19th century France and its Old Masters as well as the American works, and it needs to shine a light on its craft holdings, which once had their own space in the Terry Mansion, when it was the Decorative Arts Museum. (The Arts Center has the vision of Townsend Wolfe to thank for the former and of wood sculptor Robyn Horn for the latter.) Herman said the Arts Center must solidify its identity more firmly, at home and nationally.

Though his own background is in painting (his dissertation was on 16th century Venetian work), Herman says he has a “soft spot” for drawing. That’s going to have to go from soft to downright mushy, but it’s clear he’s working on that. He talks about boosting the international aspect of the drawing collection, filling in holes — such as French academic figure drawing, for example, to emphasize the impressionist work, show what Van Gogh and others “were working against.” He wants to add more Old Master drawings, and says they are both available and affordable. The Arts Center’s pockets aren’t deep enough to buy the Old Masters everyone knows — “a Raphael or a Michelangelo or Leonardo, no,” he said. But it is possible to build a collection “that tells the story of the development of drawing, with a variety of media and style, by artists you might know as painters” but who were exemplary craftsmen, and that should be the Arts Center’s niche. The last Old Masters sale at Christie’s auction house in New York, Herman said, “had a few very good works ... in the $45,000 range.”

With its own mission and identity secure, Herman said, the Arts Center can wander into the broader art world for temporary exhibitions without making its patrons fear lost its way, which the longrunning and less popular than expected “World of the Pharaohs” was criticized as doing. (Though it is a joke among mu-

seum professionals, Herman said as an aside, that if you can get a dinosaur making an impressionist painting of Egypt, you’ve hit the jackpot where attendance is concerned.)

Though he is on the job here, Herman is still assisting the Columbia Museum of Art in South Carolina with three shows he curated, and he grew animated talking about them. One, an exhibit of illuminated manuscripts from Southern collectors — who would have thought he’d find such a genre in the South? Another, an exhibit of the 1940s work of Mark Rothko, the figurative work that inspired his later color field work. The third: Monet’s “Mornings on the Seine” series, a group of paintings that Herman said hasn’t been shown in one space since the Galerie Petit exhibition in Paris in 1898. He talked about the exhibits at some length and with great fervor — “I have been known to get very excited and talk on and on,” he said. His excitement, which comes with a healthy and welcome lack of artifice, is catching, and Herman — who accompanied the development staff in its calls on potential donors and collectors — is said to have been markedly successful in both cultivating donors and raising funds for the South Carolina museum.

An infectious passion for art is exactly what Herman will need to stir donors into shelling out, and meeting with collectors and art lovers is something Herman will no doubt be doing right away to get the Arts Center up to speed on its exhibition schedule (he’ll plan three years out, the institutional standard; the current exhibit schedule ends in 2012).

Other goals: Updating the Arts Center’s tired-looking website, which hasn’t changed in ages, hasn’t been regularly updated of late, and needs to be more functionally interactive, he says. Creating traveling exhibitions of work from the Arts Center’s collection, a past practice that has slumped in recent years. And capitalizing on whatever overlap the Arts Center has with Crystal Bridges.

“When Crystal Bridges opens, it’s an opportunity for the entire cultural landscape to change and the state of Arkansas to wave flags and say there are two outstanding arts organizations here. Not many states can say that. And that needs to be brought to the attention of the state,” he said.

Bob Tucker, a member of the Arts Center board, said Herman would be a “good change,” bringing new ideas and “new ways of doing things.”

Herman earned his doctorate from Case Western Reserve in 2002. A native of Pennsylvania, he holds a master’s degree from the University of South Carolina. Before his last position as chief curator, curator of European art at Columbia, he had Kress fellowships at the Cleveland Museum, in its departments of medieval art and prints and drawings.

■ media Behind the demise of Blue Hog Campbell hangs it up after GOP bullying

BY GERARD MATTHEWS

n Matt Campbell and Jeff Woodmansee, creators and coauthors of the progressive blog Blue Hog Report, were making waves.

Big ones. That’s exactly why the state Republican Party tried to shut them down.

The site reported on Secretary of State Mark Martin’s accounting, or lack thereof, of the use of state vehicles. Blue Hog also wrote about Martin’s chief of staff Doug Matayo and his failure to file paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission during his ill-fated congressional run. Seemingly bent on not making any friends in either party, Campbell and company riled many at the Capitol by digging through expense reimbursement records for state legislators, turning up some interesting results for lawmakers in both parties.

But that’s all over now. State Republican Party Executive Director Chase Duggar filed a massive FOI request in an attempt to catch Campbell filing blog reports on state time. Campbell works in the criminal coordinator’s office of the state Supreme Court. A similar request was filed with Woodmansee’s employer, the law library at the Bowen School of Law. Neither request provided the state GOP with the ammunition they were looking for. The goal, however, was accomplished. On May 26, the Blue Hog Report went offline, and will not return any time soon.

I spoke with Campbell about how everything went down, his feelings on the matter now that it’s over and what the future may, or may not, hold.

GM: What was the real motivation behind the FOI requests?

MC: At best it was to scare me, at worst it was to try to get me fired.

GM: Does it make you angry that part of the motivation was to get the site taken down and they’ve succeeded in doing that?

MC: That part is irritating, but what really gets me is the lie they told everybody about it, wanting to make sure the laws were being followed and that nobody was doing this on state time. There wasn’t anything to suggest that I was doing this at work except e-mails that I had sent from my own account and they just put their heads together and said, ‘Well, this proves

everything.’ I had made it clear to Alice [Stewart, former spokesman for Martin’s office]. She would ask when I could pick stuff [material he’d FOI’d] up and I would say, ‘I can be there on my lunch break,’ that kind of thing. She knew that it wasn’t being done on work time but they just ignored all that so they could pretend that it was a big quest they were on. Maybe they believed it.

Nobody would accuse anyone in the secretary of state’s office of being brilliant. But they didn’t care that it was on work time, they thought they could use that to get it shut down, to get me in trouble and to cause me problems.

GM: I see you have a new Twitter account. Do you have any plans to resurrect the blog in some form?

MC: For now I’m out of it. I got the Twitter handle in anticipation of joining up with Roby [Brock] and Jason [Tolbert] to do work for their blog. Then I asked Justice Hannah about it. I wanted to run the new blog by him just so there weren’t any surprises this time. They didn’t tell me that I couldn’t do it, but they told me that it wasn’t something they were really comfortable with a court employee doing right now, so I figured it wasn’t really worth fighting about because I enjoy my job and didn’t want to make it harder on anyone else.

GM: I think a lot of people will miss the blog. What will you miss about it?

MC: I enjoyed doing it. I enjoyed the investigative stuff especially and, coincidentally, that’s what made them want to cause trouble for me. But that was the one thing my blog was doing that other blogs weren’t, to a large extent. That’s what set us apart. My reason for starting it was because of my irritation with reading the DemocratGazette everyday and seeing how superficial the coverage was and seeing how they completely ignored the Tim Griffin stuff.

I wanted to get other news out there that maybe wasn’t being covered. I also think that there’s kind of a sense at the D-G that they’re not going to ride any blog’s coattails. So if anybody beat them to a story then it just wasn’t going to get mentioned.

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n Sushi Cafe will open a second outlet at 11211 Cantrell likely by next summer, according to owner Robert Tju. The new location is just east of the Pleasant Ridge Town Center.

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:

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L Lunch

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LITTLE ROCK/ N. LITTLE ROCK AMERICAN 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. $-$$. 501-244-2622. L daily. D Mon.-Sat. ARGENTA MARKET The Argenta District’s neighborhood grocery store offers a deli featuring a daily selection of big sandwiches along with fresh fish and meats and salads.

Emphasis here is on Arkansas-farmed foods and organic products. 521 N. Main St. NLR. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$.

501-379-9980. BL daily, D Mon.-Sat. 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 The premier fine dining restaurant in Little Rock marries Southern traditionalism and haute cuisine. The menu is often daring and always delicious. 111 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$$-$$$$. 501-374-7474. BLD Mon.-Sat. BR Sun. BELWOOD DINER Traditional breakfasts and plate lunch specials are the norm at this lost-in-time hole in the wall. 3815 MacArthur Drive. NLR. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-753-1012.

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. BURGER MAMA’S Big burgers and oversized onion rings

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New local-foods cafe gets most everything right. n After some three years in the almost the consistency of tender works, Jack and Corri Bristow barbecued brisket. The homeSundell’s Root Cafe is finally made sauerkraut was crunchy open. It was worth the wait. and perfect. This isn’t one of While not everything The Root those piled-high Reubens that serves is from Arkansas (those sweaty hedgehog-looking dudes frosty bottles of Mexican Coke on the Food Network rave about. aren’t, of course), the majority of In fact, if there had been more the menu is made almost entirely beef on the sandwich, it would from locally sourced ingredients. have been fine. But that didn’t reThe bread is baked across the street ally matter, as good as it tasted. at the inestimable Boulevard Bread The toasted curry chicken Co. and the cheeses, meats, fruits salad sandwich ($7.25) was also and veggies come from more than fantastic, with a healthy heaping 30 farms and orchards from across of bright-yellow curried chicken the state. served on a toasted bun. Curry That’s a lot of suppliers, but The can sometimes overwhelm other Root’s menu isn’t as big as that flavors, but the ratio was just right might make you think. That’s fine, with this sandwich. though, because there’s a good The only downside to The deal of variety among the burgers, Root is that the dining area is bratwursts, sandwiches, soups and small and fills up really quickly salads available, and everything we (so get there early). There are tried on two visits was great. only a few tables, along with First off was one of the most some bar-style seating along the buzzed-about of The Root’s ofoutside wall. That said, the overferings: the Spicy Banh Mi ($7), all feel inside is really pleasant, inspired by the legendary No. 82 despite the limited space. Outfrom Pho Vietnam in Fort Smith. If side there are several more tables, any sandwich in this great state of most of them in the shade. Those ours could honestly be said to have will be choice spots on perfect EAT LOCAL: The Root’s Spicy Banh Mi (above) and a cult following, it would be the spring and fall days, for sure. But burger (below).

No. 82. After eating approximately on those truly cold days in winter, one million of Pho Vietnam’s vegThe Root might be taking a lot etarian sandwiches over the last 14 years, more to-go orders. it’s a bit odd to eat one from another resThe cafe’s name could be interpreted in taurant: They’re different, but they’re not. a couple of ways. As a noun, it suggests The Root’s version is served on a slice the building of sustainable communities of Boulevard baguette, which makes it a and the cultivation of solid connections bit chewier than the No. 82’s softer bread. with neighbors, friends and family. As a But that’s not a bad thing at all, because verb, the name represents how many peojust like with people, it’s what’s inside that ple feel about the place. Whether through counts. In this case that would be the tofu, fundraisers, donations, goodwill or just jalapenos, cilantro (if you’re into that sort patronage, a lot of folks have been rooting of thing), mayonnaise, crunchy pickled for The Root, and at this point, it looks like cal ground beef tasted, well, fresher. The carrots and Sriracha and hoisin sauce, and their support has paid off. house-made mayo was excellent. the way all those flavors come together All the sandwiches are served with a into something that tastes unique and delismall side salad of spring mix from Arkancious. In that regard, The Root’s version is sas Natural Produce (Hot Spring County). right on.

The greens are topped with house dress1500 S. Main St. On the Times’ first visit, The Root ing and seasonal fruits and veggies, in this 414-0423 had run out of both ham and corned beef, case sauteed squash and blueberries. For Quick bite which was sort of a bummer, but such are $1.75, you can substitute regular or sweet Don’t deny your sweet tooth at The Root. The lemon shortbread and chocolate chip cookies the perils of serving only locally produced potato fries. You can’t go wrong either ($1.50 each) are excellent. And you know what meats. When you run out, you can’t just way, and in fact, it’s advisable to just order goes surprisingly well with either of those treats? call Sysco or Ben E. Keith and go pick up a side of fries for $3.50.

Fresh-squeezed, homemade ginger-lemonade ($2.50), that’s what. some more before the lunch rush is over.

On our next visit, Root was still out of The hamburger ($7.50) was really ham, but the house-corned beef was availHours good. The meat was tasty, dense and heavable, and the Reuben ($8) was served on 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 8 a.m. at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. ily seasoned. It was cooked well, but still Boulevard rye with spicy mustard and very juicy and in the same way that eggs homemade sauerkraut. It was pound-theOther info CC accepted. from the local farm just taste better, the lotable-top delicious. The beef was tender, BRIAN CHILSON

n Start tweaking your recipes, bakers.

The first annual Cornbread Festival is coming to the Bernice Garden on South Main Street in Little Rock on Nov. 5.

Space is available for 20 amateurs and 20 professionals to compete in either the traditional, nontraditional or sweet category. The entry fee is $75 for professionals and $25 for amateurs. Deadline for entry is Friday, Sept. 2, or when all 40 spaces are claimed, whichever comes first. Contact Liz Sanders, Bernice Garden coordinator, at 617-2511 or bernicegarden@gmail.com to enter.

For more details, visit arktimes.com/ cornbreadfestival.

■ dining Taking Root, at last

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headline the menu at this down home joint. 13216 Interstate 30. 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 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. CAPITAL BAR AND GRILL Big hearty sandwiches, daily lunch specials and fine evening dining all rolled up into one at this landing spot downtown. Surprisingly inexpensive with a great bar staff and a good selection of unique desserts. 111 Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-374-7474. LD daily.

CAPITOL BISTRO Formerly a Sufficient Grounds, now operated by Lisa and Tom Drogo, who moved from Delaware. They offer breakfast and lunch items, including quiche, sandwiches, coffees and the like. 1401 W. Capitol Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-371-9575. BL Mon.-Fri. CATERING TO YOU Painstakingly prepared entrees and great appetizers in this gourmet-to-go location. 8121 Cantrell Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 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 late. 605 N. Beechwood St. Full bar, All CC. $$$-$$$$.

501-603-0238. D Mon.-Sat. CRAZEE’S COOL CAFE Good burgers, daily plate specials and bar food amid pool tables and TVs. 7626 Cantrell Road.

Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-221-9696. LD Mon.-Sat. DIVERSION TAPAS RESTAURANT Hillcrest wine bar with diverse tapas menu. From the people behind Crush. 2611 Kavanaugh Blvd., Suite 200. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-4140409. D Mon.-Sat. DOE’S EAT PLACE A skid-row dive turned power brokers’ watering hole with huge steaks, great tamales and broiled shrimp, and killer burgers at lunch. 1023 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-376-1195. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. DOUBLETREE PLAZA BAR & GRILL The lobby restaurant in the Doubletree is elegantly comfortable, but you’ll find no airs put on at heaping breakfast and lunch buffets. 424 West Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$. 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, Wine, All CC. $-$$.

501-666-3700. LD Mon.-Fri. FIVE GUYS BURGERS & FRIES Nationwide burger chain with emphasis on freshly made fries and patties. 2923 Lakewood Village Dr. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-2465295. LD daily. 13000 Chenal Parkway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-225-1100. LD daily.

FLYING FISH The fried seafood is fresh and crunchy and there are plenty of raw, boiled and grilled offerings, too. The hamburgers are a hit, too. It’s self-service; wander on through the screen door and you’ll find a slick team of cooks and servers doing a creditable job of serving big crowds. 511 President Clinton Ave. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-375-3474.

LD daily.

GRUMPY’S TOO Music venue and sports bar with lots of TVs, pub grub and regular drink specials. 1801 Green Mountain Drive. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-225-9650. LD Mon.-Sat. HOMER’S Great vegetables, huge yeast rolls and killer cobblers. Follow the mobs. 2001 E. Roosevelt Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 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. D daily, BR and L Sat.-Sun. 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. KRAZY MIKE’S Po’Boys, catfish and shrimp and other fishes, fried chicken wings and all the expected sides served up fresh and hot to order on demand. 200 N. Bowman Road.

Beer, All CC. $$. 501-907-6453. LD daily.

LOCA LUNA Grilled meats, seafood and pasta dishes that never stray far from country roots, whether Italian, Spanish or Arkie. “Gourmet plate lunches” are good, as is Sunday brunch.

3519 Old Cantrell Rd. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-4666.

L Sun.-Fri., D daily.

LULAV Comfortably chic downtown bistro. 220 A W. 6th St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-374-5100. BL Mon.-Fri., D daily.

MILFORD TRACK Healthy and tasty are the key words at this deli/grill, 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. 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. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-221-3555. LD daily, BR Sat.-Sun 11602 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-224-4433. LD daily, BR Sat.-Sun. 1419 Higden Ferry Road. Hot Springs. Beer, All CC. $$. 501-625-7999. LD daily, B Sun. SALUT BISTRO This bistro/late-night hangout does upscale Italian for dinner and pub grub until the wee hours. 1501 N. University. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-660-4200. L Mon.-Fri., D Tue.-Sat. SCALLIONS Reliably good food, great desserts, pleasant atmosphere, able servers — a solid lunch spot. 5110 Kavanaugh Blvd. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-6468.

L Mon.-Sat. STAGECOACH GROCERY AND DELI Fine po’ boys and muffalettas — and cheap. 6024 Stagecoach Road. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-455-4157. BL daily. D Mon.-Fri. TERRI-LYNN’S BAR-B-Q AND DELI High-quality meats served on large sandwiches and good tamales served with chili or without (the better bargain). 10102 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-227-6371. LD Tue.-Sat. (10:30 a.m.-6 p.m.).

UNION BISTRO Casual upscale bistro and lounge. Try the chicken and waffles. 3421 Old Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC.

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GINA’S A broad and strong sushi menu along with other Japanese standards. 14524 Cantrell Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-868-7775. LD daily.

HANAROO SUSHI BAR Under its second owner, it’s one of the few spots in downtown Little Rock to serve sushi. With an expansive menu, featuring largely Japanese fare with a bit of Korean mixed in. 205 W. Capitol Ave. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-3017900. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat. PHO THANH MY It says “Vietnamese noodle soup” on the sign out front, and that’s what you should order. The pho comes in outrageously large portions with bean sprouts and fresh herbs. Traditional pork dishes, spring rolls and bubble tea also available. 302 N. Shackleford Road. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-312-7498.

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 Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-221-7070. LD daily.

SHOGUN JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE The chefs will dazzle you, as will the variety of tasty stir-fry combinations and the sushi bar. Usually crowded at night. 2815 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-666-7070. D daily.

WASABI Downtown sushi and Japanese cuisine. For lunch, there’s quick and hearty sushi samplers. 101 Main St. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-374-0777. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat.

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, All CC. $-$$. 501-868-7427. LD daily.

CHIP’S BARBECUE Tasty, if a little pricey, barbecue piled high on sandwiches generously doused with tangy sauce. Better known for the incredible family recipe pies and cheesecakes, which come tall and wide. 9801 W. Markham St. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-225-4346. LD Mon.-Sat. DIXIE PIG Pig salad is tough to beat. It comes with loads of chopped pork atop crisp iceberg, doused with that wonderful vinegar-based sauce. The sandwiches are basic, and the sweet, thick sauce is fine. 900 West 35th St. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$.

501-753-9650. LD Mon.-Sat.

EUROPEAN / ETHNIC ARABICA HOOKAH CAFE This eatery and grocery store offers kebabs and salads along with just about any sort of Middle Eastern fare you might want, along with what might be the best kefte kebab in Central Arkansas. Halal butcher on duty. 3400 S. University Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-379-8011. LD daily.

CREGEEN’S IRISH PUB Irish-themed pub with a large selection of on-tap and bottled British beers and ales, an Irish inspired menu and lots of nooks and crannies to meet in. 301 Main St. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-376-7468. LD daily.

ISTANBUL MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE This Turkish eatery offers decent kebabs and great starters. The red pepper hummus is a winner. So are Cigar Pastries. Possibly the best Turkish coffee in Central Arkansas. 11525 Cantrell Road. No alcohol, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-223-9332. 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. Breakfast offerings are expanded with gyro meat, pitas and triple berry pancakes. 2925 Kavanaugh Blvd. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-7414. BLD daily.

SILVEK’S EUROPEAN BAKERY Fine pastries, chocolate creations, breads and cakes done in the classical European style. Drop by for a whole cake or a slice or any of the dozens of single serving treats in the big case. 1900 Polk St. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-661-9699. BLD daily.

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. ZAFFINO’S BY NORI A high-quality Italian dining experience. Pastas, entrees (don’t miss the veal marsala) and salads are all outstanding, and the desserts don’t miss, either. 2001 E. Kiehl Ave. NLR. Beer, Wine. 501-834-7530. D Tue.-Sat.

MEXICAN CANON GRILL Creative appetizers come in huge quantities, and the varied maincourse menu rarely disappoints, though it’s not as spicy as competitors’. 2811 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-664-2068. LD daily.

CAPI’S The eatery has abandoned its previous small plates format for Nuevo Latino cuisine heavy on tamales, enchiladas and Central American reinterpretation of dishes.

Fortunately, they kept the great desserts. 11525 Cantrell Suite 917. Full bar, All CC. $$.

501-225-9600. LD Tue.-Sun., BR Sat.-Sun. COTIJA’S A branch off the famed La Hacienda family tree downtown, with a massive menu of tasty lunch and dinner specials, the familiar white cheese dip and sweet red and fiery-hot green salsas, and friendly service. 406 S. Louisiana St. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-244-0733. L Mon.-Sat. LA REGIONAL A full-service grocery store catering to SWLR’s Latino community, it’s the small grill tucked away in the back corner that should excite lovers of adventurous cuisine. The menu offers a whirlwind trip through Latin America, with delicacies from all across the Spanish-speaking world (try the El Salvadorian papusas, they’re great).

Bring your Spanish/English dictionary. 7414 Baseline Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$.

501-565-4440. BLD daily. 2630 Pike Ave. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-246-4163.

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.

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SPA TREATMENT If a real spa experience is what you’re after, you’ll want to walk those tiredlooking feet straight to one of these two establishments.

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➥ In the Know(lton). Openings at GALLERY 26 are always not-to-be-missed events. Check out the opening reception, July 16, 7-10 p.m., for an exhibit of recent works by John Bridges and Baxter Knowlton. The show will run until September 10. ➥ Renee redux. While on the subject of Gallery 26, gallery owner Renee Williams’ recent works will be showing at the BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES through October 1. ➥ The sale season continues. Get 30%-75% off summer clothing and accessories at BOX TURTLE. BARBARA GRAVES continues its sale with 40% off select swimwear and leisurewear. ➥ Sales for guys, too. BAUMAN’S final semi-annual sale continues through the 23rd: 30-60% off suits and sportcoats; seasonal sportswear 50% off; shoes, dress shirts, ties and slacks 50% off.

urban oasis feeling relaxed—and with your feet in finer form. Services include: Pedicure, $55 Spa Pedicure, $70 Polish Change (hands or feet), $15 French Polish Change, $20 Nail Repair (each), $5 Foot Paraffin (Add-on), $15 French Polish (Add-on), $5 Rejuvenation Clinic & Day Spa 11125 Arcade Drive, Suite G (501) 228-4545 rejuvenationclinicdayspa.com T-F, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

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➥ Jump on the cattle drive west. Head west for VESTA’S Old Gringo trunk show, July 17-23. Also check out the Tasha and Double D Ranch trunk show, July 20-23. ➥ Toast of the town. Word has it that VALERIE BELL is developing a houseware line, cutely called “Toast.” She’s also working with the gals of the wildly successful Angelcourt Jewelry, Angela Burgess and Courtney Taylor, on a new line. ➥ Outside the box, inside the gallery. M2 GALLERY presents new works by Taylor Shepherd, an outsider artist residing in Little Rock. ➥ Dy-no-tyte! SkinTyte special at REJUVENATION CLINIC extended through July. Buy three get one free! Series of four face/neck, $1200 (value $1600), series of four abdomen, $1350 (value $1800).

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Picture yourself leisurely sipping a complimentary beverage while wrapped in a cozy, luxurious robe and seated in a shiatsu massage chair. You’ve just envisioned the Indulgences

by Body Bronze experience—and your feet will thank you. First, you’ll have your tootsies soaked in a skin-softening bath followed by cuticle and callous removal and leg massage.

Your feet will then enjoy a skin-softening mask and paraffin treatment ending with the polish of your choice. You might even drift off for a bit, which is just fine. If you don’t have time for all that, you’ll love Indulgence’s express service for toes on the go. (It’s kind of like Jiffy Lube for feet, but much nicer.) Airbrush Express involves a quick nail soak, cuticle and nail shaping, polish and dry.

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navy of the past, but more aqua, fitting for this time of year. Ho says that orange is another popular color for these hot months.

Ho recommends the Shellac treatment for beachgoers wanting to lengthen the life of a pedicure. “A lot of people are going to the beach this time of year, and pedicures typically don’t hold up very well in salt water. With Shellac, however, you’ll return home with your feet looking as good as the day you got your pedicure.”

For the uninitiated, the popular Shellac pedicure is a high-shine, gel-based formula that dries instantly and lasts two weeks without a chip. The application involves use of a UV3 light to seal the polish.

Ho also suggests reapplying a clear topcoat a couple of days afterwards to make pedicures last longer.

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THE DRUGSTORE PEDICURE Sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands—and feet. USA Drug has a myriad of products to get your tootsies in topform, including a wide variety of the old standby, Sally Hansen.

Here’s the CUE staff’s recipe for the perfect the do-it-yourself pedi (all products needed can be found at USA Drug): 1. Soak each foot in warm soapy water as you’re working on the other.

2. Shorten nails with nail clippers.

3. Loosen dead cuticles with a metal file and gently remove with tweezers, careful not to cut cuticles.

4. File and polish with clear polish followed up by two coats of color and another coat of clear.

5. Allow polish to dry completely before the next application, a full 15 or 20 minutes.

We also suggest putting a petroleum type antibiotic cream on each cuticle and finger afterwards. It moisturizes and heals cuts and cuticle problems.

To keep feet soft and smooth, use pumice stone every time you bathe.

For polish, a staff favorite is local line LcB Nail Lacquer, carried by Box Turtle and Jeante—great colors that last a long time.

REMEMBER THE FOUR ‘S’s Sanitize: Wash feet daily with an antibacterial soap to fend off odor-causing microbes and refresh with a spritz of Peppermint Cooling Foot Spray from the Body Shop (thebodyshop-

usa.com, $10). Alternating sandals every other day will also give odors time to dissipate.

Soak: Give tired toes a break with a tenminute soak. After soaking, remove dead skin by scrubbing vigorously with a pumice stone.

We love the Crabtree & Evelyn La Source Sea Foam Foot Soak (crabtree-evelyn.com, $15), which is infused with skin-soothing seaweed and algae extract. It smells like summer and is simply divine. La Source bath salts are also excellent. Crabtree & Evelyn in Park Plaza was once our source for La Source, but sadly C&E is no longer there so ordering online is the only option.

Scrub: Just like it exfoliates your face, the Clarisonic Mia (Glo Limited) also scrubs away rough skin on your feet. It provides a thorough cleaning and allows your skin to

absorb skin products more easily.

After exfoliating, use the Ped-Egg Foot File on heels to remove thick, cracked skin (Bed, Bath & Beyond, $10).

Soften: Put on a hydrating lotion like the Dionis goats’ milk vanilla bean lotion (from Heifer Gift Shop) to lock in moisture after removing dead skin. One of our drugstore favorites is Curel; it’s non-greasy and smells heavenly. If you’re willing to splurge a bit, there’s also L’Occtaine’s lovely lavender Relaxing Foot Cream. (Vesta’s carries this line.)

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ong days and scalding heat don’t stop true golfers from playing or the greenskeepers from tending the turf. In fact, the public courses of Central Arkansas may be the greenest place to be this summer, and they welcome all kinds of players. Here’s a list of our very different options, and what it will cost to tee off. See a fuller list at arktimes.com/ golfcourses.

Country Club of Arkansas This is the Cadillac of public courses, but you have to pay for it. The Tifeagle Bermuda greens roll smooth and absorb approach shots like a sponge. Fairways expand and contract giving the player a risk-reward option on nearly every hole. An e-membership gives a nice price break if you plan on playing there enough, but this is not a course for beginners or budget golfers. This is a country club without the white sweater tied around its neck. See website for twilight, super twilight and early bird specials during the week and on weekends. Fees include golf cart rental.

3 Country Club Circle, Maumelle.

851-0095. countryclubofarkansas.com. $22-$42. 7:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 7 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Sat.-Sun. Emerald Park As a kid, did you dream of full-sized Putt-Putt courses? Where you’d drive the ball through windmills 36 JULY 13, 2011 • ARKANSAS TIMES

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Burns Park Championship Course The quintessential public links in the metro area, this is a mature course that places the emphasis on reaching the green rather than putting. The greens are slow with little to no break, soft and receptive to irons (even long ones). The rough is far less punishing than the hard pan skirting some of the holes. The open layout is good for beginners but holds on to a few secrets for the more skilled player to discover.

The atmosphere is laid back with no apparent dress code. No tee times required. 30 Championship Drive, NLR. 758-5800. $29 Mon.-Fri., $31 Sat.-Sun., $10 twilight fees after 4 p.m. Mon.-Fri., $14 twilight fees after 4 p.m. Sat.-Sun. Course open 6 a.m.-9 p.m. daily.

and the layout and condition of the course are all you could ask for from a municipal course, even if it is a bit boring around the greens. Additionally, Rebsamen offers up a short course (not a par-three course) for those still honing their skills who may not want to get out on the big course. Discounts for juniors and seniors available for 18-hole course. 3400 Rebsamen Park Road. 666-7965. 18-hole course: $23 Mon.-Fri., $29 Sat.-Sun., $13 after 3 p.m. daily. Nine-hole course: $10 daily.

7 a.m.-6:30 p.m. daily.

REBSAMEN PARK and chip over an electronic alligator’s jaws? Emerald Park is a close substitution. One green has a stonewall backboard, another hole is lined by an exposed pipeline and others boast right-angle doglegs. The greens are fair and fairways are a little rocky, but this nine-hole course has charm in spades. There are multiple nine-hole tournaments every week at the end of which you get a free hot dog, straight off the grill. The mostly volunteer staff is friendly and will help in any way.

Discounts available for seniors and veterans. 2200 Fort Roots Drive, NLR. 244-8500. emeraldparkgolfacademy. com. $8 7 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Fri., $9 7 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat.-Sun. and holidays, $5 4 p.m.-dark daily. 7 a.m.-dark.

First Tee of Arkansas Though designed and promoted as a golf school Mecca for Central Arkansas kids, First Tee also offers the finest nine holes of golf available to the public in Little Rock. Well groomed and classically designed, the long nine, the Chairman’s Course, offers a true test of skill without the distraction or comfort (depending on how you look at it) of a golf cart.

The short nine, the Honors Course, is a great place to play a round with kids or work on your short game. Both are in spectacular condition. 1 First Tee Way. 562-4653. thefirstteelittlerock.org.

Chairman’s Course: $13-$15; Honors Course: $9-$10. 8 a.m.-dark Mon.-Sat.,

noon-dark Sun. Greens at North Hills Immediately you can tell that this is not your average Central Arkansas muni course by the attendant who greets you and carries your bag to your golf cart. The once-private country club in Sherwood now welcomes one and all as kindly as if you played there everyday. The course is situated on rolling hills, so you rarely enjoy a flat lie, even from the fairway. The greens run very fast.

So fast in fact, that a well struck wedge can easily escape off the front or back of the large greens. The cart paths are not fit for a burro, and the grass still needs to mature, but all the components are there for a top-shelf public course. Annual fees are available as are discounts for juniors and seniors. 7400 Hwy. 107, Sherwood. 501-833-3790. thegreensatnorthhills.net. $19 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Mon.-Thu., $10 2 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

Mon.-Thu., $25 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Fri.-Sun. and holidays, $16 2 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Fri.Sun and holidays. Tee times: noon-6:30 p.m. Mon., 7:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Tue.Thu., 7 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Fri.-Sun. Rebsamen Golf Course With the river butting up against the fairways and a view of downtown Little Rock in the distance, Rebsamen offers a scenic and open golf course for the public.

The wide fairways lend themselves to a variety of golfing styles and skill levels,

Stonelinks The only true links experience in Central Arkansas, Stonelinks is a course of extremes. Seven thousand yards of wide-open fairways give way to impeccable greens, both of which miraculously seem to be at their best in the height of summer and the dead of winter. The open layout allows for a variety of skill and style of play. Discounts available for juniors and seniors.

Greens fees include cart rental. 110 Hwy. 391 N, NLR. 945-0945. stonelinks. net. $30 7 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Fri., $25 4 p.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri., $35 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat.-Sun., $25 4 p.m.-6 p.m. Sat.Sun. 7 a.m.-6 p.m. daily.

War Memorial Golf Course You’d be hard-pressed to name another golf course that sets par at 64 and doubles as one of the Southeast Conference’s finest tailgate spots. It’s versatile, convenient, fun and downright iconic.

The first five holes are crammed into the northwest corner of the park and include three par threes and nowhere to use a driver. The last 13 holes are easy and fun holes with drivable par fours, blind drives to elevated fairways and elevated tees to sunken greens.

Plus, if you can hit a ball into War Memorial from number 17-tee box your Razorback-wish will come true! Watch out on 18 that you don’t slice one into oncoming Markham traffic. Discounts for juniors and seniors available. 5511 W. Markham St. 663-0854. $16 7 a.m.3 p.m. Mon.-Fri., $12 3 p.m.-7 p.m.

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Vacation notes n Avoid Bryant, where deadly Sydney Funnel Web spiders have been reported.

If fishing is on the agenda, buy your live bait at a bait shop rather than trying to seine it yourself in a barpit.

The people who run the facility where you’re lodging mean it literally these days, and have their fingers crossed, when they tell you to sleep tight and don’t let the bedbugs bite.

Lots of people in these latitudes used to vacation in New Orleans but I don’t think it’s there anymore.

Summer reading is so 20th century.

America today is about narrowing your mind rather than expanding it. So leave the books, take along your cell.

If you drink spring water or stream water or ground water of any other description in areas where fracking has occurred, you’re pretty well fracked yourself.

If Grandma dies before you get there, don’t tie her on top of the car and leave her up there until you get back home. This happens without consequences only in the movies.

Take the scenic route. Unless it’s through Kansas, and then it doesn’t matter.

I used to suppose the Grand Canyon was almost as old as time itself, but it was explained to me by a creationist that the thing doesn’t even predate the Ponderosa.

Bob L ancaster Don’t ride anything that goes fast enough or high enough for you to have to worry about a cable breaking.

Just cancel your scheduled wild-river float trip if, as you’re about to shove off, you hear what sounds like pigs squealing and see a simple-minded boy picking banjo on the swinging bridge overhead.

Deadwood was never the same after the saloon went sarsaparilla and the bordello closed. It’s not even ghosty now.

Roswell just wants to sell you shirts.

I thought cruises might be the ticket — until I learned that most of them are just mass visitations on the closely confined by the Aztec Two-Step.

The authorities won’t see the humor if you try to make off from Rushmore with a chiseled-off presidential appendage.

Wonder what happened to the old Cody vacation package that included shooting buffaloes from a moving train. No bag limit, the supply being thought inexhaustible.

Left to rot. Even the tongues. Buffalo Bill himself often hosted.

I had also hoped sooner or later to get out to Arlen, Texas, for their annual Propane and Propane Accessories Summer Festival.

Guess it’s too late now.

The little redbug circuses that are the main attraction of the annual Chigger Festival at Fordyce aren’t even visible to the naked eye. And microscopic festivities just don’t get the job done.

You can cross Dogpatch off your list.

If you vacation in Hot Springs, and go out to Oaklawn, keep in mind with regard to their motto “Somebody’s Gonna Win!” that they’re not talking about you.

And when the Lone Star tourism people invite you to Remember the Alamo, they’re not talking about Tony.

No matter how perfectly restored the battlefield, how it looks to us now is worlds different from how it looked to them then.

You can use up an entire two-week vacation in one night at Branson.

If you go over to the Brinkley area to see the ivory-billed woodpecker in its native habitat, you might want to work up an Activity Plan B. One vacation I detoured over to Gurdon to go in search of the mythical Hoo Hoo. Didn’t see one — thought I heard one, but they said it was probably just Gomer out there doing his loon trick.

You can search for real diamonds, and keep any you find, at the Glutton For Punishment State Park near Murfreesboro. I was there once in July, and survived, if only

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as a kind of ambulatory jerky, so I know it can be done.

If your car breaks down leaving you stranded off-road in the summertime Cimmaron, it becomes clear why so many of them took to the firewater.

Remember me to the Crescent spooks at Eureeky.

Mammoth Spring is pretty big, all right, but doesn’t have any mammoths in it.

Vacationing in the postbellum hard times meant wagoning off to camp meeting for two or three weeks. A vacation in the purest sense, getting away to a different place to revive one’s spirit, restore one’s soul. This wasn’t a paid vacation either. But The Lord, having bade them come, was grateful to them for coming, and promised much finer accommodations in the sweet by and by.

Not many genuine five-star money-isno-object vacations originate here. Most of them are just the Little Rock Airport Commission and its director attending their regular meetings.

Wade off into the franchise Ole Swimmin’ Hole nearest you, with the mud bottom and the snaky-looking underwater brush piles, and don’t give a second thought to moccasins that might be lurking there the size of a pulpwood billet. If you step on one, it can’t bite you while it’s under water — at least not fatally, probably not even seriously enough to require an amputation. Anyhow that’s what they say in their brochure.

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Employment

Child Psychiatrist The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, AR, is seeking a full-time faculty member at the level of Assistant Professor in Psychiatry. This position will include direct clinical service in a medical college setting and instructing resident fellows and medical students at the Child Study Center. Candidates should be Board Certified/Eligible in Psychiatry and trained in child and adolescent psychiatry. Send letter of application and CV to: Human Resource Coordinator, Diane Rodtnick, 4301 W. Markham, slot 554, Little Rock, AR. UAMS is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer.

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Public Notice In accordance with Federal Register, Volume 76, No. 130, the Department of Agriculture, Rural Housing Service, Rural Development, notice is hereby given that applications for Housing Preservation Grants will be accepted until August 22, 2011 5:00 pm local time, from qualified public agencies, private nonprofit organizations and other eligible entities for grants to provide repairs and rehabilitation assistance to owners of single family houses, rental properties, or cooperative housing projects. The application closing deadline isfirm as to date and hour. Rural Development will not consider any application that is recieved after the closing deadline. Only qualified public agencies, private nonprofit organizations and other eligible entities may apply. Interested public and private agencies, nonprofit organizations and other eligible entities may request additional information and a pre-application package from the Area Specialist, Ms. Inez Shackelford. Telephone number 870-633-3055 ext. 121.

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